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oot about six inches, touching mine toe to heel. now, extend your right hand as if to grip mine, but miss it intentionally. again, extend it and seize mine by the fingers only, allowing the tips of the thumbs to touch. it alludes to seeking for guidance in the darkness. although this grip is lesser used, the hand shake of this order is as follows (shows it) it alludes to the symbol of infinity in the eternal light of our order and the four lettered name of god. the grand word is har-par-krat and is whispered by alternate syllables from mouth to ear. it is the title of the egyptian god of silence and should ever remind you of the strict silence you have sworn to maintain. the password is_ which will be periodically changed at each equinox so that a member who has resigned, demitted, or been

ated things are the pillars of hermes and solomon. they are the door posts of the gateways of hidden wisdom. like yin and yang, they are symbols of opposite twin powers. on these are painted certain hieroglyphics from the 17th and the 125th chapters of the book of the dead. they are the symbols of the two powers of day and night, love and hate, work and rest, the subtle force of the lodestone and the eternal out-pouring and in-pouring of the heart of god. the lamps that burn, though with a veiled light upon their summits, show the pathway to hidden knowledge, unlike the pathway of nature which is a continual undulation, the winding to and fro of the serpent which is the straight and narrow way between them. it was because of this that i passed between them, when you came to the light, and

he golden dawn by israel regardie, lewellyn publications "the base of the two pillars are respectively in netzach and in hod, the white pillar being in netzach and the black pillar in hod. they represent the two pillars of mercy and severity. the bases are cubical and black to represent the earth element in malkuth. the columns are respectively in black and white to represent the manifestation of the eternal balance of the scales of justice. upon them should be represented in counter-charged color any appropriate egyptian designs and emblematic of the soul "the scarlet tetrahedronal capitals represent the fire of test and trial, and between the pillars is the doorway of the region immeasurable. the twin lights which burn upon their summits are 'the declarers of the eternal truth' the base

symbols of the 0=0 degree of neophyte, your attention has been directed to the general mystical meaning of the juxtaposition of the two pillars, and therefore i will only beg of you to notice that the hieroglyphics of one are painted in black upon a white ground, and those of the other in the same colours but reversed, the better to express the interchange and reconcilement of opposing forces in the eternal balance of light and darkness, which gives form to the visible universe. the black square bases represent darkness and matter wherein the spirit, the ruach elohim, formulate the eternal pronunciation of the ineffable name: that name which the rabbins of old have said rusheth through the universe; that name before which rolled back the darkness at the birth of the morning of time. the f

e rising sun, i have passed from the gate of death unto life. the sun's power beginneth again, after he hath set he riseth again (so doth the justified spirit of man) i am the great god, begotten of himself. i can never be turned back by the elementary powers: i am the morning, i know the gate (i ever rise again into existence; i know the pathway through death unto life) the father of the spirit, the eternal soul of the sun, he hath examined and he hath proved me; he hath found that i fought on earth the battle of the good gods as he, my father, lord of the invisible world, hath ordered me to do. i know the great god who existeth in the invisible. i am the great phoenix which is in annu, the former of my life and my being am i. the symbols on the columns, beginning at the top of the one wi

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ignify the same form of light as that symbolized by the staff of the kerux. east of the double cubical altar of created things, art the pillars of hermes and of solomon. on these are painted certain hieroglyphics from the 17th and the 125th chapters of the book of the dead. they are the symbols of the two powers of day and night, love and hate, work and rest, the subtle force of the lodestone and the eternal out-pouring and in-pouring of the heart of god. the lamps that burn, though with a veiled light, upon their summits show that the pathway to hidden knowledge, unlike the pathway of nature- which is a continual undulation, the winding hither and thither of the serpent- is the straight and narrow way between them. it was because of this that i passed between them, when you came to the li

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ch is referred to that particular sign, while in the opposite side of it is the name of one of the 12 tribes which is also attributed to it. now the 22 sounds and letters of the hebrew alphabet are the foundation of all things. three mothers, seven double and twelve singles. the twelve single letters are allotted to the 12 directions in space, and those diverge to infinity, and are in the arms of the eternal. these twelve letters he designed and combined, and fortified with them the twelve celestial constellations of the zodiac. they are over the universe as a king upon his throne, and they are in the revolution of the year as a king traversing his dominions, and they are in the heart of man as a king in warfare. and the twelve leaves are the images of those ideas, and are the outer petals

bility and motion! o darkness veiled in brilliance! o day clothed in night! o master who never dost withhold the wages of thy workmen! o silver whiteness- o golden splendor! o crown of living and harmonious diamond! thou who wearest the heavens on thy finger like a ring of sapphire! thou who hidest beneath the earth in the kingdom of gems, the marvellous seed of the stars! lire, reign and be thou the eternal dispenser of the treasures whereof thou hast made us the guardians. depart ye in peace unto your abodes and habitations. may the blessing of adonai ha-aretz be upon you. hiero: makes banishing pentagram of earth. hiero: be there peace between us and you, and be ye ready to come when ye are called. all return to their places and face east. hiero: in the name of adonai melekh, i declare

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either side of which was the tree of life bearing 12 manner of fruit. and thus do the rivers of eden form the cross, and on that cross the great adam the son who was to rule the nations with a rod of iron is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to gedulah and geburah, and in malkuth is eve, the completion of all, the mother of all, and above the universe she supporteth with her hands the eternal pillars of the sephiroth. as it was said to you in the 30th path. and above the shoulders of that great goddess is nature in her vastness exalted. the grade of practicus is referred to the sephira hod, and the 30th and 31st paths which are those of resh and shin are bound thereto. the sign of this grade is thus given; stand with the heels together, raise the arms till the elbows are le

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s of vacancy, the spirit moved, and the light-bearers existed for a space. i have said darkness of darkness; are not the countenances of darkness fallen with the kings? do the sons of the night of time last forever? and have they not passed away? before all things are the waters, and the darkness, and the gates of the land of night. and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form, and the face of the eternal arose. before the glory of that countenance the night rolled back and the darkness hasted away. in the waters beneath was that face reflected, in the formless abyss of the void. from those eyes darted rays of terrible splendor which crossed with the currents reflected. that brow and those eyes formed the triangle of the measureless heavens, and their reflection formed the triangle of t

ntenance the night rolled back and the darkness hasted away. in the waters beneath was that face reflected, in the formless abyss of the void. from those eyes darted rays of terrible splendor which crossed with the currents reflected. that brow and those eyes formed the triangle of the measureless heavens, and their reflection formed the triangle of the measureless waters. and thus was formulated the eternal hexad, the number of the dawning creation. heg: turns up the lights and then conducts the practicus to the foot of hierophant's throne, handing practicus the calvary cross of 12 squares. hiero: the calvary cross of 12 squares fitly represents the zodiac, which embraces the waters of nu, as the ancient egyptians called the heavens; the waters which be above the firmament. it also allude

ternal hexad, the number of the dawning creation. heg: turns up the lights and then conducts the practicus to the foot of hierophant's throne, handing practicus the calvary cross of 12 squares. hiero: the calvary cross of 12 squares fitly represents the zodiac, which embraces the waters of nu, as the ancient egyptians called the heavens; the waters which be above the firmament. it also alludes to the eternal river of eden divided into four heads which finds their correlatives in the four triplicities of the zodiac (places cross aside) the 29th path of the sepher yetzirah which answereth to the letter qoph, is called the corporeal intelligence, and it is so called because it formeth every body which is formed beneath the whole order of worlds, and the increment of them. it is there, the ref

ed the duad, and both glittereth with intellectual sections, also to govern all things and to order everything not ordered. for in the whole universe shineth the triad, over which the monad ruleth. this order is the beginning of all sections. hiereus: for the mind of the father said, that all things should be cut into three whose will assented, and then all things were so divided. for the mind of the eternal father said into three, governing all things by mind. and there appeared in it the triad, virtue, and wisdom and multiscient truth. hiereus: thus floweth forth the form of the triad being preexistent- not the first essence, but that whereby all things are measured. heg: for thou must know that all things bow before the three supernals. the first course is sacred, but in the midst there

iero: monokeris de astris, the path now open to you is the 27th which leads from the grade of practicus to the grade of philosophus. take in your right hand the calvary cross of 10 squares, and follow your guide through the path of mars. heg: the lord is a man of war, the lord of armies is his name. heg: leads practicus round to foot of the dais. hiero: rises with red lamp in his hand. hiero: ere the eternal instituted the formation, beginning and end existed not. therefore, before him, he expanded a certain veil, and therein has instituted the primal kings. and these are the kings who reigned in edom before there reigned a king over israel but they subsisted not. when the earth was formless and void; behold this is the reign of edom; and when creation was established, lo this is the reign

ABRAMELIN2

ce to exercise your power, as shall be hereafter said (1) take heed before all things to perform no magical operation soever, or invocations of the spirits on the sabbath day, during the whole period of your life, seeing that that day is consecrated unto god, and is the day on which you should repose and sanctify yourself, and you should solemnise it by prayers (2) keep yourself as you would from the eternal fire, from manifesting unto any living being that which your guardian angel shall have confided unto you; excepting unto him who hath given unto you the operation, unto whom you have as it were a greater obligation than unto your own father (3) as far as lieth in your power take heed in no way to make use of this art against your neighbour; except for a just vengeance; although i couns

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do no otherwise than become his slave, together with all his pestiferous generation. however i pray the true god who governeth, ruleth over, and maintaineth all that he hath created; that thou, o lamech, my son, or whomsoever he may be unto whom thou shalt have granted this sacred operation, mayest work it out, having always before thee the fear of god, and in no way use it for evil, because god the eternal hath wished herein to leave us our free will, but woe unto him who shall abuse his divine grace. yet i say not but that if an enemy should attempt thy life, that it is permissible unto thee if necessary to destroy him; but in any other case lay not thine hand unto the sword, but use gentler methods. be kind and affable unto every one. one may also serve a friend without harm unto onese

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

ed by the door of the planet c, whose symbol includes the whole ten sephiroth of the tree of life. each wall of the tomb is said mystically to be in breadth five feet and in height eight feet, thus yielding forty squares, of which ten are marked and salient, representing the ten sephiroth in the form of the tree of life, acting throughout the planet. the remaining squares represent the \ybwrk and the eternal m, the three alchemical principles, the three elements, the seven planets, and the twelve signs, all operating in and differentiating the rays of each planet. note that in all, the 31 central upper square alone remains white and unchanged, representing the changeless essence of the divine spirit, thus developing all from the one, through the many under the government of one "the colors

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

he daughter (in writing she is sometimes distinguished from her mother by inserting a small point in the letter) this is also a reference to the elements, fire, water, air, earth. i may go further, and say that all possible existing things are to be classed as related to one or more of these elements for convenience in certain operations. but these four letters, though in one sense they represent the eternal framework, are not, so to speak, original. for instance, when we place tetragrammaton on the tree of life, the ten sephiroth or numbers, we do not include the first sephira. yod is referred to the second, he to the third, vau to the group from 4 to 9, and he' final to the tenth. no. 1 is said to be symbolised by the top point of the yod. it is only in no. 10 that we get the manifested

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

level of good looks. most american women spoil what little beauty they may have by overdressing. here there is nothing extravagant, nothing vulgar, none of the near-paris-gown and the lust-off-bond-street hat. nor is there a single dress to which a quaker could object. there is neither the mediocrity nor the immodesty of the new york woman, who is tailored or millinered on a garish pattern, with the eternal chorus girl as the ideal--an ideal which she always attains, though (heaven knows) in "society" there are few "front row" types. on the other side of me a splendid stalwart maid, modern in muscle, old only in the subtle and modest fascination of her manner, her face proud, cruel and amorous, shakes her wild tresses of gold in pagan laughter. her mood is universal as the wind. what can

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

am asar triumphant, even asar un-nefer the justified one! i am her who is clothed with the body of flesh, yet in whom is the spirit of the mighty gods. i am he lord of life, triumphant over death; he who partaketh with me shall page 18 gulf.txt arise with me. i am the manifestor in matter of those whose abode is in the invisible. i am purified: i stand upon the universe: i am its reconciler with the eternal gods: i am the perfector of matter; and without me the universe is not" all this he said, and displayed the sacraments of osiris before them all; and in a certain mystical manner did we all symbolically partake of them. but for me! in the scent of the dying rose i beheld rather the perfection of the love of my lady the veiled one, whom i had won, and slain in the winning! now, however

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

akes a fourth, in a life-and-death game of cosmic bridge. they are all voices crying in that wilderness of madness that men call society, and as such were ostracised, stoned, and deemed mentally unfit for life. but, for them, justice will come when we have realised that the ship of state and the ship of st peter have become mere ships of fools- with captains who course the seas by stars, ignoring the eternal ocean- and then, we will have to look to the prisoners in the hold for navigational guidance. it is there, always, and cthulhu calls. dedication on the one hundredth anniversary of the nativity of the poet aleister crowley 1875-1975 ad meiomrum cthulhi gloriam acknowledgements the editor would like to thank all of the people whose cooperation and dedication to unspeakable horrors has m

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

outh with winged helment and heels, equipped as a magician, displays his art* 13 the priestess of the silver star. a crowned priestess sits before the veil of isis between the pillars of seth* 14 the daughter of the mighty ones. crowned with stars, a winged goddess stands upon the moon* 15 the son of the morning, chief among the mighty. a flame-clad god bearing equivalent symbols* 16 the magus of the eternal. between the pillars sits an ancient* 17 the children of the voice: the oracle of the mighty gods. a prophet, young, and in the sign of osiris risen* 18 the child of the powers of the waters: the lord of the triumph of light. a young and holy king under the starry canopy* 19 the daughter of the flaming sword. a smiling woman holds the open jaws of a fierce and powerful lion 20 the prop

rnal. between the pillars sits an ancient* 17 the children of the voice: the oracle of the mighty gods. a prophet, young, and in the sign of osiris risen* 18 the child of the powers of the waters: the lord of the triumph of light. a young and holy king under the starry canopy* 19 the daughter of the flaming sword. a smiling woman holds the open jaws of a fierce and powerful lion 20 the prophet of the eternal, the magus of the voice of power. wrapped in a cloke and cowl, an ancient walketh, bearing a lamp and staff* 21 the lord of the forces of life. a wheel of six shafts, whereon revolve the triad of hermanubis, sphinx, and typhon* 22 the daughter of the lords of truth. the ruler of the balance. a conventional figure of justice with scales and balances 23 the spirit of the mighty waters. t

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ted before the time of the work. e.g. i work to-night to make x in paris write to me. i get the letter the next morning, so that it must have been written before the work. does this deny that the work caused the effect "if i strike a billiard-ball and it moves, both my will and its motion are due to causes long antecedent to the act. i may consider both my work and its reaction as twin effects of the eternal universe. the moved arm and ball are parts of a state of the cosmos which resulted necessarily from its momentarily previous state, and so, back for ever "thus, my magical work is only one of the cause-effects necessarily concomitant with the case-effects which set the ball in motion. i may therefore regard the act of striking as a cause-effect of my original will to move the ball, tho

en described in detail and without concealment "somewhere" in the published writings of the master therion. but he has told no one where. it is reserved for the highest initiates, and is synonymous with the accomplished work on the 179 material plane. it is the medicine of metals, the stone of the wise, the potable gold, the elixir of life that is consumed therein. the altar is the bosom of isis, the eternal mother; the chalice is in effect the cup of our lady babalon herself; the wand is that which was and is and is to come. the eucharist of "two" elements has its matter of the passives. the wafer (pantacle) is of corn, typical of earth; the wine (cup) represents water (there are certain other attributions. the wafer is the sun, for instance: and the wine is appropriate to bacchus. the wa

satan or hadit of our particular unit of the starry universe. this serpent, satan, is not the enemy of man, but he who made gods of our race, knowing good and evil; he bade "know thyself" and taught initiation. he is "the devil" of the book of thoth, and his emblem is baphomet, the androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection. the number of his atu is xv, which is yod he, the monogram of the eternal, the father one with the mother, the virgin seed one with all-containing space. he is therefore life, and love. but moreover his letter is ayin, the eye; he is light, and his zodiacal image is capricornus, that leaping goat whose attribute is liberty (note that the "jehovah" of the hebrews is etymologically connected with these. the classical example of such antinomy, one which has led

:31 "bis :shin: 300: spirit: note "ch" like "ch" in "loch: weh note: the english value in row 27 has been corrected, original had o -323- table i: clxxx :key scale: titles of tarot trumps :11 :the spirit of 'gr:alpha-iota-theta-eta-rho: 12 :the magus of power: 13 :the priestess of the silver star: 14 :the daughter of the mighty ones: 15:sun of the morning, chief among the mighty: 16:the magus of the eternal: 17:the children of the voice: the oracle of the mighty gods: 18:the child of the powers of the waters: the lord of the: triumph of light: 19:the daughter of the flaming sword: 20:the prophet of the eternal, the magus of the voice of: power: 21 :the lord of the forces of life: 22:the daughter of the lords of truth; the ruler of the: balance :23 :the spirit of the mighty waters: 24:the

dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run, to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus: men. glory to thee from gilded tomb. second semichorus: women. glory to thee from waiting womb. men. glory to thee from earth unploughed! women. glory to thee from virgin vowed! men. glory to thee, true unity of the eternal trinity! women. glory to thee, thou sire and dam and self of i am that i am! 358 men. glory to thee, eternal sun, thou one in three, thou three in one! chorus. glory and worship unto thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree "these words are to form the substance of the anthem; but the whole or any part thereof shall be set to music, which may be as elaborate as art can. but even should

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ng, entirely apart from all such questions. we can hardly imagine it sufficiently interested in any events soever to react aggressively. it feels strong enough to deal satisfactorily with anything that may turn up: and generally speaking, it feels that any conceivable action on its part would be likely to increase rather than to diminish the mischief. it remains somewhat contemptuously aloof from the eternal conflict of the black school with the white. at the same time, there is a certain feeling among the yellow adepts that should either of these schools become annihilated, the result might well be that the victor would sooner or later turn his released energy against themselves. in accordance, therefore, with their general plan of nonaction, as expressed in the tao teh king, of dealing w

ng simple elementary questions which require half a dozen treatises to answer: so, take this, with my blessing! love is the law, love under will. yours fraternally, 666 p.s. one further reflection. with all these "sore spots" is closely linked the idea of cruelty. i need not touch upon the relation of cruelty to sex; the theme has been worn threadbare. but in religion, note the bottomless pit and the eternal flame; in buddhism, the eighteen hot and eighteen cold hells, with many another beneath. hindu eschatology has countless hells; even pedestrian, precise islam, and the calculating qabalists, each hoast of seven. again with drugs as with insanity, we are confronted constantly with nameless terrors; the idea of formlessness, of infinity pervades them alike. consider the man who takes eve

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

crates; but also the symbolism of the rosy cross. 4. gives the cycle of creation. peace manifesting as power, power dissolving in peace. 5. god. it adds to 66, the sum of the first 11 numbers. 6. he is god, and there is no other god than he. 7. o! let us strictly meditate on the adorable light of that divine savitri (the interior sun, etc. may she enlighten our minds! 8. say: he is god alone! god the eternal! he begets not and is not begotten! nor is there like unto him any one! 9. unity uttermost showed! i adore the might of thy breath, supreme and terrible god, who makest the gods and death to tremble before thee- i, i adore thee> there are many other mantras. sri sabapaty swami gives a particular one for each of the cakkras. but let the student select one mantra and master it thoroughly

the plumes of truth. but into the symbolism of these it is not necessary to go, for all this and more is in the crown first described. the crimson cap implies concealment, and is also symbolical of the flood of glory that pours upon the magician from above. it is of velvet for the softness of that divine kiss, and crimson for that it is the very blood of god which is its life. the band of gold is the eternal circle of perfection. the three pentagrams symbolize the father, the son, and the holy spirit, while the hexagram represents the magician himself. ordinarily, pentagrams represent the microcosm, hexagrams the macrocosm; but here the reverse is the case, because in this crown of perfection, that which is below has become that which is above, and that which is above had become that which

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

gam" the unity or male principle. but these have many symbols "e.g" sometimes yoni is 0 or 3 and lingam 2 "lingam-yoni" a form of the rosy cross "macrocosmchsacrifice; altar (ar) xbd love, beloved; david dwd give, give (see 17, bhy) bh bh to grind, direct, stretch out hdh gold bhz hand (cf. 20) dy sufficiency, plenty yd valley )yg 15 the mystic number of geburah hod: splendour dwh the monogram of the eternal: the divine name of chokmah hy spring byb) steam, vapour dy) pride; a carrying out; exaltation hw)g overflowing, abounding bwz he who impels; to force xz to hide hbx lamentation yh 16 hyssop bwz) he seized, cleaved to zx) elevated, exalted, high hwbg injury, war, lust; fell hwh she )yh alas. woe yw like, equal to gwz hook, brooch, ring xx 17 capricorn: a kid, young goat ydg nuts zwg) a

wl) perished, grew old hlb to grow great ldg standard, banner lgd tenuity, breath, vanity; in vain; abel (i.z.q: gthe supernal breathers h) lbh profession lz yechidah: the soul in kether hdyxy flame bhl to stray, turn aside zl 38 he departed lz) innocent y)kz the palate kyx to make a hole, hollow; to violate; bulwark, wall, rampart; profane lx moist, fresh, green xl 39 to abide, dwell lbz dew l+ the eternal is one dx) hwhy he cursed; laudanum +l 40 liberator: a title of yesod l)wg to cut off lzg a rope; ruin; to bind lbx milk blx the hand of the eternal hwhy dy to me, to mine yl 41 fecundity blx) ram; force (hence ga hero h; hart, a title of malkuth ly) my god yl) mother m) to fail, cease l+b divine majesty l)w)g terminus lwbg to burn lxg terror lwh to go round in a circle lgx a name of g

oak; hardness nswx pleasure, delight: eden nd( 125) thine hand (ps. 139:5; see s.d. 5:16) hkpk 126 a window hnml) darkness hlyp) a name of god )lg) ynd) hwhy hospitality nwlm horse sws on: a name of god (cf. 120; penalty of iniquity: gbeing taken away h nw( humble, afflicted wn( 127 material, natural (ar (b+wm 128 to withdraw, rescue, deliver; to equip for war clx goodly strength; proof nysx god the eternal one wnyhl) hwhy 129 pleasure (gn. 18:12) hnd( delight, pleasure gnw( the standing prayer (from vb. to stand) hdym( palace of serenity (referred to hod) hnwg lkyh 130 ayin: an eye ny( deliverance hlch the angel of redemption l)gh k)lm decrees, prophetic sayings nylm the pillars (cf. 164) ydwm( destitute yn( a staircase, ladder mls chaff cm lest np swift lq 131 he was angry pn) nose myp)

(ch) nynz)m eternal, perpetual, enduring yxcn 159 surpassing whiteness (see 934 )nycwb point hdqn 160 thine eyes (pl; gnot h written; see 150& i.r.q. 652) kyny( silver psk fell down lpn a rock, stone (ls a tree c( thy face (ez. 3:8) kynp image mlc cain nyq to be lovely, pleasant m(n existing, stable myyq 161 the heavenly man (lit. the gprimordial h or gexalted h man) h)ly( md) the congregation of the eternal hwhy lhq 162 the sum of the letters of the lesser beard, if n= 14, etc (see 1350) son of the right hand nymynb colour (bc 163 he, the lord god ynd) myhl )wh woman, wife hbqwn 164 the pillars (see 79) mydm( ye shall cleave myqbdx outer; civil (as opposed to sacred) nwcyx 165 strength (ez.3:8) myqzx to make them know (ps. 25:4) m(ydwhl nemo (name of magister templi) hymm( an assembly hc(

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

veth, branding this sign upon them: do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. aves. now the whole air is thrilled by the voices of birds: a swan, a phoenix, a raven, a hawk, a pelican, a dove, an ibis and a vulture: in his turn each one sang praises, even as it was given unto him to understand one part of the spirit of the master. the voice of the swan. aumgn: through the bornless, through the eternal, the thought of the master goeth, afloat in the aethyr. the voice of the phoenix. al: not to be burned, not to be quenched, the soul of the the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 7 master bathes in the fire of nature, and is refreshed. the voice of the raven. amen: the past and the future are parts of the present, in the eye of the master, that seeth the secret

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

he sea rushed unto the void of the column and in a thousand earthquakes atlas 'houses' and plains together were overwhelmed forever in the ocean. tidal waves rolled round the world; everywhere great floods carried away villages and towns; earthquakes rocked and tempests roared; tumult was triumphant. for years after the catastrophe the dying tremors of the event still shook mankind with fear* and the eternal waves of the great mother rolled over atlas, save where earth in her agony thrust up gaunt pinnacles, bare masts of wreckage to mark the vanished continent. save for its heirs, of whose successors it is my highest honour to be the youngest and the least worthy, oblivion fell, like one last night in which the sun should be forever extinct, upon the land of atlas and its people. shall su

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

er-thrust is caused by a wound as vice versa. lewis carroll has an amusing parable to this effect in "through the looking-glass, which work, by the way, with its predecessor, is packed with examples of philosophical paradox<twin effects of the eternal universe. the moved arm and ball are part of a state of the cosmos which resulted necessarily from its momentarily previous state, and so, back for ever. thus, my magical work is only on of the cause-effects necessarily concomitant with the cause-effects which set the ball in motion. i may therefore regard the act of striking as a cause-effect of my original will to move the ball, thou

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dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to thee from waiting womb! men: glory to thee from earth unploughed! women: glory to thee from virgin vowed! men: glory to thee, true unity of the eternal trinity! women: glory to thee, thou sire and dam and self of i am that i am! men: glory to thee, beyond all term, thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ! women: glory to thee, eternal sun, thou one in three, thou three in one! chorus: glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree (these words are to form the substance of the anthem; but the whole or any part thereof s

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science, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods! 2. notariqon. the absurdity of this method needs little indication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers jew, converted by the notariqons of berashith. true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbits fecit ignavus animam terrae,35 or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol! ihvh, thora?36 why not take the sacred 'icquj of the christian who thought it meant ihsouj cristoj qeou 'uioj swthr37 and make him a pagan with

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ld expand its scope, 560 extend, or bend, or spread, or straighten so far as to encompass satan or even poor iscariot. yet god created (did he not) both these. omnisciently, we know! 565 benevolently? even so! created from himself distinct (note that! it is not meet for you to plead me schelling and his crew) these souls, foreknowing how were linked 570 the chains in either s destiny. you pose me the eternal why? not i? again, who asks doth err. but this one thing i say. perhance there lies a purpose in advance. 575 the sword of song 20 heaven suffers hell s pangs, owing to reproaches of bard. ethical and eloquent denunciation of christian cosmogony. tending to final bliss to stir some life to better life, this pain is needful: that i grant again. did they at last in glory live, satan and

2 ay, and each being we may guess now that the very crystals feel! 620 for them no harp-reasounding court, no palm, no crown, but none the less a cross, be sure! the worst man s thought in hell itself, bereft of bliss, were less unmerciful than this! 625 no! for material things, i hear, will burn away, and cease to be (nibbanna! ah! thou shoreless sea) man, man alone, is doomed to fear, to suffer the eternal woe, 630 or else, to meet man s subtle foe, god and oh! infamy of terror! be like him like him! and for ever! at least i make not such an error: my soul must utterly dissever 635 its very silliest thought, belief, from such a god as possible, its vilest from his worship. never! avaunt, abominable chief of hate s grim legions; let me well 640 gird up my loins and make endeavour, and see

ath become more and more an obsession, and he is flung headlong into sadism, necrophilia, notes 59 all the maddest, fiercest vices that the mind of fiends ever brought up from the pit. but always to the very end his power is unexhausted, immense, terrible. his delerium does not amuse; it appals! a man who could conceive as he did must himself have had some glorious chord in his heart vibrating to the eternal principle of boundless love. that this love was wrecked is for me, in some sort a relative of his, a real and bitter sorrow. he might have been so great! he missed heaven! think kindly of him! 169. correctly rhymes.41 such lines, however noble in sentiment, as: bas les anglais! the irish up! will not be admitted to the competition. irish is accented on the penultimate bad cess ot the b

cowherd, i kiss your worshipful trilbies :1 i prostrate myself before your eminent respectability. sir, said the holy man, none other than our lord himself! thou seekest illumination! mahabrahma smirked and admitted it. from negative to positive, explained the thrice-honoured one, through potential existence eternally vibrates the divine absolute of the hidden unity of processional form masked in the eternal abyss of the unknowable, the synthetic hieroglyph of an illimitable, pastless, futureless present. to the uttermost bounds of space rushes the voice of ages unheard of save in the concentrated unity of the thought-formulated abstract; and eternally that voice formulates a word which is glyphed in the vast ocean of limitless life.2 do i make myself clear? perfectly. who would have thoug

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god or no-god- so let it be! still the sun rises and sets, and the night-breeze blows the red flames of our tourches athwart the palm-trees, to the discomfiture of the stars. look- in the distance between the mighty paws of the silent sphinx rests a cubical temple whose god has been called ra harmakhis, the great god, the lord of the heaven, but who in truth is nameless and beyond name, for he is the eternal spirit of life. hush- the sistrum sounds from across the banks of the dark waters. the moon rises, and all is as silver and mother-of-pearl. a shepherd's pipe shrills in the distance- a kid has strayed from the fold. o stillness. o mystery of god. how soft is thy skin. how fragrant is thy breath! life as a strong wine flames through me. the 182 frenzy of resistance, the rapture of the

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ce, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods! 2. notariqon. the absurdity of this method needs little indication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers' jew, converted by the notariqons of "berashith" true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; 91 showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbids fecit ignavus animan terrae, or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol- ihvh, thora? why not take the sacred 'iota chi theta upsilon sigma of the christian who thought it meant 'iota eta sigma omicron upsilon sigma ch

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n courses of thy soul. and thou shalt sharpen its edge seven times by the seven ordeals (one keeps on looking round to try to find something else because of the terror of it. but nothing changes at all. nothing but the empty throne, and the eyes, and the avenue of pillars) and i said to him: o thou that art the first countenance before time; thou of whom it is written that "he, god, is one; he is the eternal one, without equal, son or companion. nothing shall stand before his face; all we have heard of thine infinite glory and holiness, of thy beauty and majesty, and behold! there is nothing but this abomination of desolation. he speaks; i cannot hear a word; something about the book of the law. the answer is written in the book of the law, or something of that sort. this is a long speech;

n and my ships of war. by sea and land shall my armies and my navies encompass it, and i will encamp round about it, and besiege it, and by the flame thereof shall i be utterly devoured. many lying spirits have i sent into the world that my aeon might be established, and they shall be all overthrown. great is the beast that cometh forth like a lion, the servant of the star and of the snake. he is the eternal one; he is the almighty one. blessed are they upon whom he shall look with favour, for nothing shall stand before his face. accursed are they upon whom he shall look with derision, for nothing shall stand before his face. and every mystery that hath not been revealed from the 62 foundation of the world he shall reveal unto his chosen. and they shall have power over every spirit of the

setteth down that which it doth not understand. for the rational mind indeed reasoneth, but never attaineth unto understanding; but the seer is of them that understand. and the angel saith: behold, he hath established his mercy and his might, and unto his might is added victory, and unto his mercy is added splendour. and all these things hath he ordered in beauty, and he hath set them firmly upon the eternal rock, and therefrom he hath suspended his kingdom as one pearl that 90 is set in a jewel of threescore pearls and twelve. and he hath garnished it with the four holy living creatures for guardians, and he hath graven therein the seal of righteousness,14 and he hath burnished it with the fire of his angel, and the blush of his loveliness informeth it, and with delight and with wit hath

is strangely human. and the voice says: these are they that grasped love and clung thereto, praying ever at the knees of the great goddess. these are they that have shut themselves up in fortresses of love. each plume of the peacock is full of eyes, that are at the same time 4 x 7. and for this is the number 28 reflected down into netzach; and that 28 is kaph cheth (kach, power. for she is sakti, the eternal energy of the concealed one. and it is her eternal energy that hath made this eternal change. and this explaineth the call of the aethyrs, the curse that was pronounced in the beginning being but the creation of sakti. and this mystery is reflected in the legend of the 119 creation, where adam represents the concealed one, for adam is temurah of mad, the enochian word for god, and eve

hold, the volatile is become fixed; and in the heart of eternal motion is eternal rest. so is the peace beneath the sea that rageth with her storms; so is the changeful moon, the dead planet that revolveth no more. so the far-seeing, the far-darting hawk is poised passionless in the blue; so also the ibis that is long of limb meditateth solitary in the sign of sulphur. behold, i stand ever before the eternal one in the sign of the enterer. and by virtue of my speech is he wrapped about in silence, and he is wrapped in mystery by me, who am the unveiler of the mysteries. and although i be truth, yet do they call me rightly the god of lies, for speech is two-fold, and truth is one. yet i stand at the centre of the spider's web, whereof the golden filaments reach to infinity. but thou that ar

168 yet a third time am i led to him, prostrating myself seven times at every step. there is a perfume in the air, reflected down even to the body of the seer. that perfume thrills his body with an ecstasy that is like love, like sleep. and this is the song: i am the child of all who am the father of all, for from me come forth all things, that i might be. i am the fountain in the snows, and i am the eternal sea. i am the lover, and i am the beloved, and i am the first-fruits of their love. i am the first faint shuddering of the light, and i am the loom wherein night weaveth her impenetrable veil. i am the captain of the hosts of eternity; of the swordsmen and the spearmen and the bowmen and the charioteers. i have led the armies of the east against the armies of the west, and the armies o

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ants a solemn hymn of praise to that glory which is at the apex, and who invisibly rules and governs the whole pyramid. now then that darkling wight is lifted by the officers and brought to the altar in the centre; and there the hiereus accuses him of the two and twenty basenesses, while the hegemon lifting up his chained arms cries again and again against his enemy that he is under the shadow of the eternal wings of the holy one. yet at the end, at the supreme accusation, the hiereus smites him into death. the same answer avails him, and in its strength he is uplifted by his aspiration and now he stands upright. now then he makes a journey in his new house, and perceives at stated times, each time preceded by a new ordeal and equilibration, the forces that surround him. death he sees, an

he stone of the philosophers! an ixion bound to the wheel of destiny and of the samsara, unable to reach the centre, where is rest. he must add to the entry 1.13 that the "telephone-cross" voices came as he composed himself to sleep, in the will to adonai. this time he detached a body of cavalry to chase them to oblivion. perhaps an unwise division of his forces; yet he was so justly indignant at the eternal illusions that he may be excused. excused! to whom? thou must succeed or fail! o batsman, with thy frail fortress of three-in-one, the umpire cries "out" and thou explainest to thy friends 113 in the pavilion. but thy friends have heard that story before, and thy explanation will not appear in the score."mr. j. st. john, b. maya, 0, they will read in the local newspaper. there is no ge

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be renewed. for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris the justified. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh: yet in whom is the spirit of the mighty gods. i am the lord of life triumphant over death. he who partaketh with me shall rise with me. i am the manifester in matter of those whose abode is in the invisible. i am purified; i stand upon the universe: i am the reconciler with the eternal gods: i am the perfecter of matter: and without me the universe is not "may what we have this day partaken of, sustain us in our search for the quintessence; the stone of the philosophers; the true wisdom and perfect happiness, and the summum bonum" all then disrobe and disperse. undoubtedly the passing through the ritual of the neophyte had an important influence on p.'s mind, and on

9 ritual. similarly the zelator passes the lion, the eagle, and the bull. the "hierophant" then explains to the zelator the symbolism of the cubical cross, as follows "the cubical cross is a fitting emblem of the equilibrated and balanced forces of the elements. it is composed of twenty-two squares externally, which refer to the twenty-two letters placed thereon. twenty and two are the letters of the eternal voice in the vault of heaven; in the depths of the earth; in the abyss of the waters, and in the all-presence of fire: heaven cannot speak their fulness, earth cannot utter it. yet hath the creator bound them in all things. he hath mingled them through water: he hath whirled them aloft in fire: he hath sealed them in the air of heaven: he hath distributed them through the planets: he h

pent of wisdom, and the sephiroth the flaming sword "the two pillars right and left of the tree are the symbols of the active and passive, male and female- adam and eve. the pillars further represent the two kerubim of the ark; the right, male- metatron; and the left, female- sandalphon. above them ever burn the lamps of their spiritual essence, the higher life, of which they are the partakers in the eternal uncreated one" illustration on page 269 described "diagram 24. the caduceus of hermes" this is composed of two figures, side by side. on the left is a variation on the caduceus: a winged sun disk (ba-hadit) atop a stick. two serpents twine the stick in stylized fashion with open loops. the serpents face each other at top, with the stick between. their bodies intersect three times over

the spirit moved; and the light-bearers were for a space "i have said: darkness of the darkness; are not the countenances of darkness fallen with the kings that were? do the sons of the night of time endure for ever? not yet are they passed away "before all things are the waters; and the darkness and the gates of the land of night "and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form, and the face of the eternal arose "and before the glory of that countenance the night rolled back, and the darkness hasted away "in the waters beneath was that face reflected in the formless abyss of the void "forth from those eyes darted rays of terrible splendour which crossed with the currents reflected "that brow and those eyes formed the triangle of the measureless heavens, and their reflection formed the tr

the external hexad; and this is the number of the dawning creation" the hegemon having illuminated the temple, the "hierophant" then explains to the practicus the calvary cross of twelve squares "the calvary cross of twelve squares fitly represents the zodiac; which embraces the waters of nu, as the ancient egyptians termed the heavens, the waters which be above the firmament. it also alludes to the eternal river of eden, divided into four heads, which find their correlation in the four triplicities of the zodiac" illustration on page 277 approximated below_ hb:shin hb:taw hb:qof_ salt/ lamp air tablet salt brass_ serpent_ banner of east/ heiroph. hegemon. lamp ant_ black/ white) incense_ incense_ spirit 18th key dee tablet/ lamp of tarot lamp/ tablet of earth of fire/ geomant_ ic tal- a

s the hierophant's lamen and the banner of the east, thus completing his knowledge of the emblems appropriate to the officers of a temple of the first order. the diagram of the paths is then explained to the candidate, after which the hierophant inductor says "before you in the east are represented the five portals of the 21st, 24th, 25th, 26th and 23rd paths; thus shadowing forth by their number the eternal symbol of the pentagram; for five will divide without remainder the number of the letter of each of these paths, that is, its numerical value, as it will those of all the paths from hb:yod, the 20th, to hb:taw, the 32nd, inclusive; and also the sum of their numbers. 285 "regarding these five paths, i will now ask you to observe that the tarot keys attached to four of them, viz, the whe

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supernal dew, unto that black unutterable sea most still. xiii "from the cavities of the earth leap forth the terrestrial dog-faced demons, showing no true sign unto mortal man "go not forth when the lictor passeth by "direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the earth; for the plant of truth grows not upon the ground. nor measure the motions of the sun, collecting rules, for he is carried by the eternal will of the father, and not for your sake alone. dismiss (from your mind) the impetuous course of the moon, for she moveth always by the power of necessity. the progression of the stars was not generated for your sake. the wide aerial flight of birds gives not true knowledge, nor the dissection of the entrails of victims; they are all mere toys, the basis of mercenary fraud; flee from

operated to- to what? even conjecture paled "but magic somewhere there must be, and eliphaz levi was the most famous adept in paris at the time "i told my story, just as i have told it to you, but with strong passion "there is an illusion, master' i ended 'put forth the power and destroy it"'were i to destroy the illusion' returned the magus 'thinkest thou to see a virgin with gold hair? nay, but the eternal virgin, and a gold that is not gold"'is nothing to be done"'nothing' he replied, with a strange light in his eyes 'yet, in order to be able to do nothing, thou must first accomplish everything"'one day' he smiled, seeing my bewilderment 'thou wilt be angry with the fool who proffers such a platitude "i asked him to accept me as a pupil"'i require pay' he answered 'and and oath' 127"'sp

will be shown to approved students by special authority from v.v.v.v.v. or his deligates] 137 a. a. publication in class b. issued by order: d.d.s. 7 degree= 4 square o.s.v. 6 degree= 5 square n.s.f. 5 degree= 6 square "direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the earth; for the plant of truth grows not upon the ground. nor measure the motions of the sun, collecting rules, for he is carried by the eternal will of the father, and not for your sake alone. dismiss from your mind the impetuous course of the moon, for she moveth always by the power of necessity. the progression of the stars was not generated for your sake. the wide aerial flight of birds gives no true knowledge, nor the dissection of the entrails of victims; they are all mere toys, the basis of mercenary fraud: flee from the

all things were so divided. for the mind of the father said "into three" governing all things by mind. and there appeared in it the triad, virtue and wisdom and multiscient truth" thus floweth forth the form of the triad<<ritual of the path of the daughter of the firmament> thus is formulated the creative trinity which is, as it were, the essential preliminary to manifestation. this mystic son of the eternal parents, having for his number 3, is typified in all the sacred scripts by that number. thus it is written of the manifestation of the son of god upon the earth "shiloh shall come (the initial of which mystery-name is hb:shin= 300. and in the grecian tongue it is written "in the beginning was the word &c, which is lambda omicron gamma omicron sigma (lambda= 30. but the best of all the

x\ 4/ x x. 1- 2. 7. fig. iii- third symbol. by producing the paths whereby the forces of the three("see" second symbol) were concentred into four, we find they 173 read 1+ 4= 5, 2+ 4= 6, 3+ 4= 7. and thus is revealed the second triangle of the hexagram of creation<child of the sons of the mighty "and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form and the face of the eternal arose. that brow and those eyes formed the upright-fire-triangle of the measureless heavens: and their reflection formed the inverted-water-triangle of the measureless waters. and thus was formulated one eternal hexad: and this is the number of the dawning creation> further, this reflected triangle showeth forth the evolution of the four worlds and their consolidation: for 1+ 2+ 3+ 4=

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i. the hall is first purified by the banishing rituals of pentagram and hexagram. next by fire and by water. 190 the general exordium follows; then, the exordium. i, p, with the help of q.f.d.r. and t.t.e.g, am come hither to consecrate a talisman of the eagle kerub of jupiter that it may be powerful to heal the sick, to alleviate pain, to give health and strength. and i swear, in the presence of the eternal gods, that, as liveth the lord of the universe and my own higher soul, i will so create a dweller for this talisman that it shall be irresistible to heal the sick, to alleviate pain, to give health and strength: to the welfare of mankind and the glory of god [i invoke the higher by the first prayer in 5= 6, and make the sign of the cross on the talisman. purify talisman, fire and water

operation of thy divine wisdom! grant that this eagle kerub in the sphere of jupiter may be indeed mighty on the earth! to heal the sick, to strengthen the infirm, to quiet the pain of mortal men! grant that this work be unto it for a salvation, and a very invocation of thy light divine, and a very link with the immortal soul of man! let it be pure and strong, that at last it may attain even unto the eternal godhead in the veritable khabs am pekht! konx om pax! light in extension! amen. and for ourselves we pray, that this work of mercy that we have wrought to-night be for us a link with thy divine mercy, that we may be merciful, even as thou art merciful, o our father which art in heaven! that the benignant eye of the most holy and concealed, the ancient one of days, may open upon us, unt

us, my master, my guide, my lord and king! the result of these magical experiments was twofold. first, by degrees p. was accumulating against himself a power of evil which was only awaiting a favourable moment to turn and destroy him.21 this is the natural effect of all that class of magic which consists in making a circle, and thus setting the within against the without, and formulating duality, the eternal curse. any idea in the mind is of little importance while it stays there, but to select it, to consecrate it, to evoke it to visible appearance, that is indeed dangerous. 205 for as he advanced from grade to grade, penetrating further and further into the mysteries of occult 21 whilst deep in these magical practices his house in london became charged with such an aura of evil that it w

y- nine petals "but the whiteness above shineth the brighter for the blackness which is beneath, and thus mayest thou at length comprehend that even the evil helpeth forward the good "and between that light and that darkness vibrate the seven colours of the rainbow" which are shown forth in the seven walls, each of which consists of forty squares representing the ten sephiroth; the four cherubim; the eternal spirit; the three alchemic principles; the three elements; the seven planets, and the twelve signs. upon the altar is placed the black calvary cross charged with a rose of twenty-five petals representing the counterchanged action of the spirit and the four elements [all quit vault] illustration on page 222 described "diagram 75. the wall of the vault" this is a rectangular grid of squa

y godhead in thy midst: by the lord harpocrates, the god of this mine operation: that thou leave thine abodes and habitations, to concentrate about me, invisible, intangible, as a shroud of darkness; a formula of defence: that i may become invisible, so that seeing me men see not, nor understand the thing that they behold! come unto me, o ma, goddess of truth and justice! thou that presidest over the eternal balance. auramooth, come unto me, lady of the water! thoum-aesh-neith, come unto me, lady of the fire! purify me and consecrate, for i am aeshoori the justified. for the twelve stars of light are on my brow: wisdom and understanding are balanced in my thought! wrath in my right hand and the thunderbolts; mercy in my left hand and the fountains of delight! in my heart is aeshoori and th

cle of the sky. i change but i cannot die! o ye! the bennu birds of resurrection, who are the hope of men's mortality! back, crocodile mako, son of set! depart from me, ye workers of iniquity! behold he is in me and i in him! mine is the lotus, as i rose from the firmament of waters; my throne is set on high; my light is in the firmament of nu! i am the centre and the shrine: i am the silence and the eternal light: beneath my feet they rage, the angry crocodiles; the dragons of death; the eaters of the wicked. but i repress their wrath: for i am hoor-po-krat-ist, the lotus-throned lord of silence. if i said: come up upon the mountains, the celestial waters would flow at my word and the celestial fires flame forth. for i am r enshrouded: khephra unmanifest to men; i am my father hoor, the m

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n a lonely marsh in the flat country and constantly slipped and sat down with a splash in a puddle. these be ignoble images, my masters! the fact is that you are both myopic and tone-deaf. you peer into the darkly splendid world, the abyss of light_ for it is light, to the seer_ and you see but "unintelligible images, unluminous, formless, and void" then you return and pose as one who has trodden the eternal snows. you are like a man who puts a penny into a mutoscope that is out of order; and, rather than admit that he has been swindled, pretends to have enjoyed it. you are like a parvenu with an ill-cooked chop at a swagger restaurant who eats it rather than incur the frown of the waiter. better abandon mysticism outright than this. but we suppose it is impossible; you must trim, and comp

25 pranceth in a shining wilderness of steel; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may paw one flashing spark from thy splendour, and be welded into the glory of thy might: o thou god my god! 6. o thou mighty god, make me as the sapphirine waves that cling to the shimmering limbs of the green rocks; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may chant in foaming music thy glory, and roll forth the eternal rapture of thy name: o thou god my god! 7. o thou mighty god, make me as a silver fish darting through the vast depths of the dim-peopled waters; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may swim through the vastness of thine abyss, and sink beneath the waveless depths of thy glory: o thou god my god! 8. o thou mighty god, make me as a white ram that is athirst in a sun- scorched deser

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gles to points and roughnesses; the candelabra of "salons" the wax candles that people burn in may, the rosy avalanches of sunset. it seems that the miserable chandelier spread a light far too insignificant to quench this insatiable thirst of brilliance. i thought, as i told you, that i was entering a world of shadows, which, moreover, grew gradually thicker, while i dreamt of the polar night and the eternal winter. as to the stage, it was a stage consecrated to the comic muse; that alone was luminous; infinitely small and far off, very far, like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope. i will not tell you that i listened to the actors; you know that that is impossible. from time to time my thoughts snapped up on the wing a fragment of a phrase, and like a clever dancing-girl

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preme serene crowning the dagoba, what destined die rings on the table, what resistless dart strike me i love you; can you satisfy the hunger of my heart! nay; not in love, or faith, or hope is hidden the drug that heals my life; i know too well how all things lawful, and all things forbidden alike disclose no pearl upon the midden, offer no key to unlock the gate of hell. there is no escape from the eternal round, no hope in love, or victory, or art. there is no plumb-line long enough to sound the abysses of my heart! 272 there no dawn breaks; no sunlight penetrates its blackness; no moon shines, nor any star. for its own horror of itself creates malignant fate from all benignant fates, of its own spite drives its own angel afar. nay; this is the great import of the curse that the whole w

of his voice, and with his fingers kneading unseen shapes in the air. ii "the boy comes in later. i want you to realize how beautiful was the little girl. like a thick thread of scarlet were her lips, comely was her countenance, most pleasing to the sight was her earthly body, a temptation to the angels her soul. her eyes expressed the infinite sweetness, the love merciful; the pure innocence of the eternal equi-balanced. they were like crystalline drops of dew falling on a perfect rock of carrara marble; eyes that looked upon you and created you holy; eyes clearer than the clearest rivulet, more beautiful than the most royal amethyst; eyes that illuminated the darkest corner of hell; eyes that set the fashion to the stars of the celestial vault of heaven; eyes that were but the imperfect

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the saracen knight; and of his following of the questing beast i sir palamede the saracen rode by the marge of many a sea: he had slain a thousand evil men and set a thousand ladies free. armed to the teeth, the glittering kinght galloped along the sounding shore, his silver arms one lake of light, their clash one symphony of war. how still the blue enamoured sea lay in the blaze of syria's noon! the eternal roll eternally beat out its monotonic tune. sir palamede the saracen a dreadful vision here espied, a sight abhorred of gods and men, between the limit of the tide. the dead man's tongue was torn away; the dead man's throat was slit across; there flapped upon the putrid prey a carrion, screaming albatross. 3 so halted he his horse, and bent to catch remembrance from the eyes that stare

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invalid" the invalid's alter ego. the evolution of a thief: the honest man. the evolution of a liar: the truthful man. the evolution of a miser; the benefactor. the evolution of an egotist; the self- forgetful man. the evolution of a drunkard; the self-possessed man. the evolution of a libertine; the strong man. the evolution of a flirt; the divine womanly. part iii "stilling the tempest" live in the eternal, not in time. affirmation of being. affirmation for the morning. affirmation for the evening. affirmation for fear of heredity. affirmation for fear of death. every man a king, or might in mind mastery. by orison swett marden. this very popular american handbook on the subject of the practical conduct of life, is now offered to the british public as a new volume of the "new thought lib

themselves will pass as great ascetics who have out-soared the bestial passions of life, whilst in fact they are running harems in boulogne or making indecent proposals to flower-girls in south audley street. these latter ones generally trade under the exalted names of "the" mahatmas; who, 79 coming straight from the sh m bazzaar, retail their wretched "b k b k" to their sheep-headed followers as the eternal word of brahman "the shower from the highest" and, not infrequently, end in silent meditation within the illusive walls of wormwood scrubbs. the east like the west, has for long lain under the spell of that potent but middle-class magician- st. shamefaced sex; and the whole of its literature swings between the two extremes of paederasty and brahmach rya. even the great science of yoga

is situated between the two eyebrows, in the place of the pineal gland. it is the seat of the mano tatwa, and consists of two petals. within this lotus are sometimes placed the three mystical principles of vindu, nadi and shakti.90 "its presiding adept is called sukla-mahakala (the white great time; also adhanari 'adonai) its presiding goddess is called hakini."91 97. within that petal, there is the eternal seed, brilliant as he autumnal moon. the wise anchorite by knowing this is never destroyed. 98. this is the great light held secret in all the tantras; by contemplating on this, one obtains the greatest psychic powers, there is no doubt in it. 99. i am the giver of salvation, i am the third linga in the turya (the state of ecstasy, also the name of the thousand petalled lotus.92 by con

hen sleep vanishes this separateness vanishes with it, things assume their correct proportion and may be equated to a state of bliss or non-sorrow. thus we find that nirvana and nibb na are the same216 in 134 fact as in 213 "ibid, iii, 5, 6. 214 "ibid, iii, 4, 4. 215 compare "m nd kya upanishad" 1, 16. in the infinite illusion of the universe the soul sleeps; when it awakes then there wakes in it the eternal, free from time and sleep and dreams. 216 most buddhists will raise a terrific howl when they read this; but, in spite of their statement that the hindu nirvana, the absorption into brahman, corresponds not with their nibb na, but with their fourth ar pa-vimokha, we nevertheless maintain, that in essence nirvana and nibb na are the same, or in detail, if logic is necessary in so illogi

the aspirant begins to see things not as they are but in their right proportions. his views become balanced, he enters tiphareth, the solar plexus "he sees naked facts behind the garments of hypotheses in which men have clothed them, and by which they have become obscured; and he perceives that behind the changing and conflicting opinions of men there are 144 permanent principles which constitute the eternal reality in the cosmic order."228 in tiphareth the aspirant attains to no less a state than that of conversation with his holy guardian angel, his jechidah "the permanent principle behind the conflicting opinions" once right comprehension has been attained to, he has discovered a master who will never desert him until he become one with him. ii "right resolutions or right aspirations" h

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fficers mercury "violet robe" fr "and" sor. gemini "white dancing robe and black robe" virgo "green robe" four probationers "mercury is throned between the twins. at the west of the altar is virgo, and his four attendants" 95 the rite of mercury i mercury. 22-333-333["full light" the speech in the silence. the words against the son of night. the voice of mercury in the universe in the presence of the eternal gods. the formulas of knowledge. the wisdom of breath. the radix of vibration. the shaking of the invisible. the rolling asunder of the darkness. the becoming visible of matter. the piercing of the coils of the stooping dragon. the breaking forth of the light["all being seated, the" four probationers "rise from among the other" probationers "and march to the altar] first probationer. 3

invalid" the invalid's alter ego. the evolution of a thief; the honest man. the evolution of a liar; the truthful man. the evolution of a miser; the benefactor. the evolution of an egotist; the self- forgetful man. the evolution of a drunkard; the self-possessed man. the evolution of a libertine; the strong man. the evolution of a flirt; the divine womanly. part iii "stilling the tempest" live in the eternal, not in time. affirmation of being. affirmation for the morning. affirmation for the evening. affirmation for fear of heredity. affirmation for fear of death. every man a king; or, might in mind mastery. by orison swett marden. price 3"s" 6"d" net "happily written, with knowledge and insight as well as gaiety and charm "light "admirable! it is a long time since we read a book on the fa

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dours of that to which they have attained. little by little, as your eyes grow stronger, will we unveil to you the ineffable glory of the path of the adepts, and its nameless goal. 15. even as a man ascending a steep mountain is lost to sight of his friends in the valley, so must the adept seem. they shall say: he is lost in the clouds. but he shall rejoice in the sunlight above them, and come to the eternal snows. 16. or as a scholar may learn some secret language of the ancients, his friends shall say "look! he pretends to read this book. but it is unintelligible- it is nonsense" yet he delights in the odyssey, while they read vain and vulgar things. 17. we shall bring you to absolute truth, absolute light, absolute bliss. 6 18. many adepts throughout the ages have sought to do this; but

o herself "i see! i see! that is how god must see the universe, or he could never tolerate such cruelty, such idiotcy, ineptitude "exactly. suppose now that the world is only symbol- i had rather say sacrament- suppose for example that all these stars swimming in boundless aether are but corpuscles in the blood of some toy terrier of the creator "you frighten me. i don't want to suppose "think of the eternal battles of haemoglobin, oxyhaemoglobin, carboxyhaemoglobin in our blood. it is the same idea. do we express sympathy for the fallen? have we a stop-the-war party? on the contrary, we take good care that these 123 murderous conflicts shall go on. so when you call the god to whom you aspire 'the compassionate 'the merciful' pray be very careful as to exactly what you mean "i am cold. i a

mned man walks to the gallows. she had passed through anticipation; she was content to await what might be. at the door she whispered, hushed in awe of the real silence of the room with its monotonous hiss, in his ear "you have the lamp. i almost begin to wonder if you have not the ring"'this is a secret sign" he quoted"'and thou shalt not disclose it unto the profane' to-night yours be the ring- the eternal ring, the serpent to twine about my heart "ah! could i crush it" he closed the door. like a priest celebrating his first high mass he led her through paris. neither spoke. only as they mounted the steps of the cafe he took her arm and said, sharply and sternly "attention! from this moment i am edgar rolles, and you are ida pendragon. no more: not a thought of our real relation. man and

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e vote or voice of the life entities. 4. the life entities build according to a plan. if a part of the life organism be mutilated, they rebuild exactly as before. 5. science admits the difficulty of drawing the line between the inanimate and the animate; perhaps the life entities extend their activities to crystals and chemicals. 6. the life entities live for ever; so that to this extent at least the eternal life which many of us hope for is a reality. in an address given by sir clifford allbut, president of the british medical association, as reported in the literary digest of february 26th, 1921, he speaks of the ability of the microbe to select and reject, and in the course of his remarks he says "when the microbe finds itself in the host's body it may be wholly out of tune, or wholly i

trol the mind. most of us are controlled by our desires, and by our thoughts. but the time is coming when we shall consciously control our threefold lower nature. time will then not exist for us at all. we shall have that continuity of consciousness upon the three planes of being physical, emotional, and mental which will enable us to live as does the logos, in that very metaphysical abstraction, the eternal now. another power of the soul is psychometry. now what is psychometry? it might be defined as the ability to take a tangible something, belonging perhaps to an individual, and through the medium of that, to put oneself en rapport with that individual, or with a group of individuals. psychometry is the law of association of ideas applied to the vibratory quality of force for the purpos

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nsciousness of god's plans for the world, and an increased ability to enter into those plans and to further them. it is the effort in the abstract mind to pass an examination. it is the honour class in the master's school, and is within the attainment of those souls whose karma permits and whose efforts suffice to fulfil the aim. initiation leads to the mount whence vision can be had, a vision of the eternal now, wherein past, present, and future exist as one; a vision of the pageant of the races with the golden thread of pedigree carried through the many types; a vision of the golden sphere that holds in unison all the many evolutions of our system, deva, human, animal, vegetable, mineral, and elemental, and through which the pulsating life can be clearly seen beating in regular rhythm; a

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

came down and a lesser wheel revolved. seven times the revolution, and seven times great the heat. more solid grew the formless mass, and deeper sank the stone. to the heart of inmost fire the sacred stone went down. this time the work was better done, and the product more perfected. at the seventh revolution, the third wheel rendered back the stone. triple the form, rosy the light, and sevenfold the eternal principle. from out the greater wheel, down from the vault of heaven, came into light the lesser wheel that counted as the fourth. the eternal lhas looked down, and the sons of god reached forth. down to the inmost point of death they flung the sacred stone. the plaudits of the chohans rose. the work had turned a point. from the pit of outer darkness, they gathered forth the stone, tra

ords of the greater seven plunged the stone within the moving wheel. the lords of the greater fifth and sixth likewise plunged their stone. within the fire, deep at the inmost sphere, as whirled through space the greater wheel, bearing the lesser seven, the two were fused. the fourth, the fifth, the sixth blended, merged and intermingled. the aeon closed, the work was done. the stars stood still. the eternal ones cried to inmost heaven "display the work. draw forth the stones" and lo, the stones were one. stanza v the moment manvantaric, for which had waited all the triads, the hour that marked the solemn point of juncture, arrived within the scope of time, and lo, the work was done. the hour for which the seven groups purushic, each vibrant to the sounding of the word, seeking the adding

ed herself and hastened to the call. the second, with wise insistence, hearing the first sound forth, knowing the hour had likewise come, echoed the sound or note quadruple. this fourfold reverberation circled the gamut of the spheres. again it was sent forth. three times the note was sounded, pealing across the heavens. at the third intoning came the answer to the call. vibrant as a key attuned, the eternal primary replied. the blue to the dense one answered and responded to the need. quivering the sphere heard the third take up the note, pealing it forth, a full-toned chord smote on the ears of the watchers of the flame. the lords of flame arose and prepared themselves. it was decision's hour. the seven lords of the seven spheres watched breathless the result. the great lord of sphere th

lucis trust rending walls. it mounteth to its source. another fire is merged; another point of blue findeth its place within the diadem logoic. stanza viii the greater three, each with their seven lesser wheels, in spiral evolution, rotate within the timeless now, and move as one. the cosmic lords from their high place, view the past, control the now, and ponder on the day be with us. the lhas of the eternal sound, the product of the time that was, surmount the sevenfold display. within the ring-pass-not the word of love sounds forth. the sevenfold lords proceed with just vibration to carry out the work. they sound forth each a note of the deep logoic chord. each to his greater lord makes record due. in the solemn breathing forth the forms are built, the colour just apportioned, and the fl

ht 1998 lucis trust stanza ix the thirty thousand million watchers refused to heed the call "we enter not the forms" they said "until the seventh aeon" the twice thirty thousand million hearkened to the call and took the forms designed. the rebellious ones laughed within themselves, and sought pralayic peace until the seventh aeon. but the seven great lords called to the greater chohans, and with the eternal lhas of the third cosmic heaven entered into debate. the dictum then went forth. the laggards in the highest sphere heard it echo through the scheme "not till the seventh aeon, but at the fourteenth seventh will the chance again come round. the first shall be the last and time be lost for aeons" the obedient sons of mind connected with the sons of heart, and evolution spiralled on its

and consciousness. they are all three the sons of one father, all three the aspects of the one god, all three are spirit, all three are soul, and all three are rays emanating from one cosmic centre. all three are substance, but in the past one lord was the elder son, in the present another lord comes to the fore, and in the future still another. but this is so only in time. from the standpoint of the eternal now, none is greater nor less than- 36- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust another, for the last shall be first, and the first last. out of manifestation time is not, and freed from objectivity states of consciousness are not. the fire of spirit is the essential fire of the first lord of will plus the fire of the second logos of love. these two cosmic entities blend

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nces and the purification of all the sheaths, the totality of knowledge becomes available, naught further remains for the man to do. 32. the modifications of the mind-stuff (or qualities of matter) through the inherent nature of the three gunas come to an end, for they have served their purpose. 33. time, which is the sequence of the modifications of the mind, likewise terminates, giving place to the eternal now. 34. the state of isolated unity becomes possible when the three qualities of matter (the three gunas or potencies of nature. a.b) no longer exercise any hold over the self. the pure spiritual consciousness withdraws into the one. 30. the obstacles to soul cognition are bodily disability, mental inertia, wrong questioning, carelessness, laziness, lack of dispassion, erroneous perce

se who are so doing, the true raja yogins will be gathered. obstacle ill. wrong questioning. this is the next stage and is also dependent upon a certain amount of mental development. some translators call this 'doubt' this wrong questioning is that which is based upon lower perception and the identification of the real man with that illusory instrument, his mental body. this leads him to question the eternal verities, to doubt the existence of the fundamental realities and to seek for the solution of his problems in that which is ephemeral and transitory, and in the things of the senses. there is a questioning which is right and proper. it is that "asking of questions" spoken of by the christ in the words "ask and ye shall receive" this faculty of enquiry is deliberately cultivated in thei

soul copyright 1998 lucis trust one-pointed concentration upon moments and their continuous succession. 53. from this intuitive knowledge is born the capacity to distinguish (between all beings) and to cognize their genus, qualities and position in space. 54. this intuitive knowledge, which is the great deliverer, is omnipresent and omniscient and includes the past, the present and the future in the eternal now. 55. when the objective forms and the soul have reached a condition of equal purity, then is at-one-ment achieved and liberation results. the yoga sutras of patanjali book iii. union achieved and its results 1. concentration is the fixing of the chitta (mind stuff) upon a particular object. this is dharana. we have now reached the part of the yoga sutras which deals specifically wi

ped by the truly concentrated yogi and the three are seen as they exist and yet are recognised as constituting one whole. in his commentary, johnston gives us a picture of the ideas involved, in the following words. we get a twofold view of this object, seeing at once all its individual characteristics, its essential character, species and genus; we see it in relation to itself and in relation to the eternal" in a curious way these three aspects cover the three aspects of the time equation or of the relationship of the object to its environment. 1. characteristics of the form. in this phrase the tangible outward aspects of the form are seen. the matter-side of the manifesting idea is dealt with, and that which can be contacted through the medium of the senses is first considered and dismis

ntemplates the life veiled by the form but testified to by the factor of consciousness, he becomes aware of the present stage of development, and thus the future, past and present, stand revealed to his intuition. it will be apparent therefore to even the casual reader, that if meditation in its three above mentioned stages is carried forward correctly, all knowledge becomes possible to the yogi, the eternal now is a realized fact in nature and intelligent cooperation with the evolutionary plan becomes possible. service is then based on complete understanding. 14. the characteristics of every object are acquired, manifesting or latent. much the same idea is covered in this sutra as in the previous one. in time and space all characteristics have relative values. the goal is one; the origin

following synonyms in connection with this sutra must be borne in mind if clarity of thought is to be achieved: i. spiritual essence. i i. the sound or word. iii. the object. 1. spirit. 1. the soul. 1. body 2. pneuma. 2. the psyche. 2. form 3. the father. shiva 3. the son. vishnu. 3. the holy spirit. brahma 4. the monad. the one. 4. the cosmic christ. 4. the vehicle of life and of incarnation. 5. the eternal will or purpose. 5. eternal love-wisdom. 5. eternal activity and intelligence. 6. one great breath. 6. the aum. 6. the worlds. 7. life. 7. consciousness aspect. 7. activity aspect. 8. synthesising energy. 8. attractive force. 8. matter. 9. first aspect. 9. second aspect. 9. third aspect. in the mind of man these three aspects are confused and that which is outward and objective is usua

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t tantalizing, alluring. there is a rumor of a new world and the spirit is eager for the voyage upon strange seas. the familiar world must be left behind. the great adventure of religion begins "there must somewhere be a point of certainty. a growing universe may provide for open futures, but whoso declares that the universe is growing states an unalterable fact about its structure, which fact is the eternal guarantee of the possibility and validity of experiment "man is a bridge. even the superman, once we perceive that he is only the symbol of the strenuous ideal, turns out to be a bridge too. our only assurance is that the gates of the future are always open."7(7) perhaps the problem consists in this: that the gates of the future seem to open upon an immaterial world, and upon a realm t

e goal of achievement has shifted into higher realms of thought and realization. what are the definite results of this reorientation? it might be stated first of all that meditation is the science which enables us to arrive at direct experience of god. that in which we live and move and have our being is no longer the object of aspiration, or a symbol to us of a divine possibility. we know god as the eternal cause and the source of all that is, including ourselves. we recognize the whole. we become one with god by becoming one with our own immortal soul, and when that tremendous event takes place we find that the consciousness of the individual soul is the consciousness of the whole, and that separativeness and division, distinctions and the concepts of me and thee, of god and a child of g

fe- 34- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust strengthen the form or material nature and so serve increasingly to hide the self, the spiritual man. these must be transmuted into their higher counterparts, for every animal characteristic has its spiritual prototype. the instinct of self-preservation must eventually be superseded by realization of immortality, and "dwelling ever in the eternal" man will walk the earth and fulfill his destiny. the instinct which causes the lower self to thrust its way forward, and force itself upward, will eventually be transformed into the domination of the higher or spiritual self. the assertion of the little or lower self will give way to that of the higher self. sex, which is an animal instinct powerfully governing all animal forms, will

meditation is, therefore, to enable man to become in outer manifestation what he is in inner reality, and to make him identify himself with his soul aspect and not simply his lower characteristics. it is a quick process for the unfolding of the reasoning consciousness, but in this instance must be self-applied and self-initiated. through meditation, the mind is used as an instrument for observing the eternal states, and becomes in time an instrument for illumination, and through it the soul or self transmits knowledge to the physical brain. finally, meditation brings about illumination. meister eckhart in his book of sermons, written in- 36- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust the fourteenth century, says "three kinds of men see god. the first see him in faith; they know

l aspirant, there are certain basic requirements which must precede any definite exercises. the words of the rev. r. j. campbell state succinctly our story and our task. he says "for the purpose of realizing the nature of the self, we have had to come out from our eternal home in god that we might strive and suffer amid the illusions of time and sense. we have to overcome before we can enter into the eternal truth that lies beyond all seeming. in that overcoming we have to master the flesh and magnify the spirit, despise the world to save it, and lose the life to find it" now let us consider the situation and the processes to which we must subject ourselves if the goal is ever to be attained. the preliminary requirements need only just be noted, for they are universally recognized and are

ation from its usual field of awareness; the mind has been focussed and held actively passive in the light which streams from the kingdom of the soul. we refuse the passage of any information from the world of ordinary phenomena. this has been brought about through right concentration and meditation. this achieved, there ensues the interlude wherein the man knows himself to be a soul, dwelling in the eternal and freed from the limitations of form. this interlude is necessarily brief at first but as progress in control develops, it lengthens. the key to the whole process is the sustained concentration and attention of the mind "whilst the soul, the spiritual man, the perceiving being, contemplates" in a former book i have dealt more fully with this use of the mind as the instrument of the s

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usions. the foremost thinkers in any of the great schools of thought are simply exponents of occult meditation and the brilliant discoveries of science, the correct interpretations of nature's laws, and the formulations of correct conclusions whether in the fields of science, of economics, of philosophy, psychology or elsewhere is but the registering by the mind (and subsequently by the brain) of the eternal verities, and the indication that the race is beginning also to bridge the gap between the objective and the subjective, between the world of form and the world of ideas. this leads inevitably to the emergence of the third branch of knowledge, the intuitive. the intuition is in reality only the appreciation by the mind of some factor in creation, some law of manifestation and some aspe

with his mind is to render it negative and receptive to the soul, and this is his positive occupation (note the use here of the word 'positive' in the attempt to make the mind receptive, for herein lies the clue to right action. the soul's work in meditation is to make the point of that meditation so positive that the lower mind can be impressed, and so the lower man can be brought into line with the eternal plan. thus, again, we have a relation established between a positive and a negative vibration, and the study of these relations carries much information to the student, and is part of the teaching given in preparation for the first initiation. a list of these related situations might here be given showing them in their progressive relation on the path of evolution. 1. the relation betw

or material happiness has been reached, and the peak of that desire has been passed; thus mankind has achieved and surmounted much. but the rhythm of the ages is strong. these three qualities have to be grasped and discounted by the aspirant as he seeks to serve from mental levels. in the place of fear he must substitute that peace which is the prerogative of those who live always in the light of the eternal; in the place of questioning expectancy he must substitute that placid, yet active, assurance of the ultimate objective which comes from a vision of the plan and his contact with other disciples and later with the master. desire for material possession must be superseded by aspiration for those possessions which are the joy of the soul wisdom, love and power to serve. peace, assurance

react to this state of mind. fear of the future is therefore a distressing blend of instinctual memory and anticipatory imagination, and few there are who escape this menace. worry and anxiety are the lot of every man and cannot and will not be offset and overcome by any lesser factor than the soul itself. b. the flashes of prevision emanating from the soul who is dwelling in the consciousness of the eternal now. when contact with the soul is firmly established and the consciousness of the knower is stabilised in the brain then prevision will carry with it no terror. the picture will then be seen as a whole, and not as a passing and fragmentary glimpse as is now the case. so again, the remedy remains the same: the establishing of such close relations between the soul and the brain, via the

e vital body) then one has a personality. it is self-conscious existence in form. it is awareness of identity in relation to other identities, and this is equally true of god or man. it is a sense of identity- 227- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust however, which persists only during the creative process, and for as long as the matter aspect and the consciousness aspect present the eternal duality of nature. in our evolutionary development it is not realised in the sub-human forms; it is realised in the human kingdom, and is realised but merged into and negated by the greater forms and consciousness which we call the superhuman. personality is that state of awareness which has its conditioning factor in the mind stuff, but this can be transcended when that mind stuff no

ar system, and of the solar interplay with other systems, but the consciousness of divinity and the awareness of the solar deity is not primarily occupied with selfhood. that as a result of past world periods and experience is below the threshold of the divine consciousness, and has become as much a part of the cosmic instinctual nature as are any of the human instinctual attributes. the focus of the eternal attention (if i may use so unusual a phrase where words are necessarily almost worthless) lies in realms of awareness beyond our comprehension. they lie as far beyond our ken as the awareness of a master of the wisdom lies beyond the ken of an ant or a mouse. it is therefore fruitless for us to dwell upon it. for us, there is the achieving of personality, or of a full registration or a

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pace-time limitations, but which transcends the normal human consciousness. the present attempted investigation and explanations are inadequate and do not account satisfactorily for all the facts. when, however, they are approached from the standpoint of the soul, with its faculty of omniscience and its freedom from categories of past, present and future (for they are lost in the consciousness of the eternal now, we shall begin to understand the process a little more clearly. when the true dweller in the body is recognised and the laws of prevision are discovered, and when the power to foresee is generally prevalent, then we shall begin to find ample proof of the existence of the soul. it will be impossible to account for the ordinary phenomena then current without admitting its existence

iousness of every human being is a sense of duality, that man is in some mysterious sense two beings, and that it is the warfare between these two which has led to all the neuroses and complexes which tax the- 81- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust ingenuity of trained psychologists to solve. the initiate paul referred to this when he spoke of the eternal warfare going on between the carnal mind and the heavenly nature, and all aspirants who are occupied with an intelligent struggle towards liberation bear witness to the same. paul points out that victory is won through christ, and i give a clue to the importance of this study of the rays when i state that, esoterically, these seven rays are the sevenfold expressions of the cosmic chris

- 152- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust unbreakable, and that link or binding chain will lead them through the door to the scene of their investigations. but unless the goal of a vegetarian diet is this field of service, the arguments for its following and for that form of diet are usually futile and of no real moment. from the standpoint of the eternal verities, what a man eats or wears are seen in a connotation very different to that of the one-pointed fanatic. let me again reiterate that this whole problem of the taking of life (whether in the vegetable or the animal kingdom) is a far bigger one than we know, and should be approached from an angle different (not only in degree but in kind) to that of the taking of life in the human

national units. 6. the nations and the rays in connection, therefore, with our discussion of the rays which govern and influence the leading nations of the world, the student should bear in mind the fact that all are today governed primarily by the law of cleavages, but that advanced groups in each nation are beginning to respond to the law of understanding, a law which will eventually emphasize the eternal brotherhood of man and the identity of all souls with the oversoul, in the racial consciousness, as well as the oneness of the life which pours through, permeates, animates and integrates the entire solar system. this life functions therefore in and through all the planetary schemes, with their kingdoms of forms, and with all that can be included (throughout our solar universe) under t

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he intellect must find its complement and expression in and through love. this needs a most careful re-proclaiming. love and sentiment and devotion are often confused with each other. pure love is an attribute of the soul and is all-inclusive, and it is in pure love that our relation to god and to each other consists "for the love of god is broader than the measure of man's mind, and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind" so runs the old hymn, and thus is expressed that love which is the attribute of deity and also the hidden attribute of every son of god. sentiment is emotional and unstable; devotion can be fanatical and cruel; but love blends and fuses, understands and interprets and synthesises all form and all expressions, all causes and all races, into one flaming heart of

eavens.29 just as the birth at bethlehem was ushered in by a sign, that of the star, so shall that birth towards which the race is hastening be likewise ushered in by a heavenly sign. the appeal which goes up from the hearts of all true aspirants to initiation is beautifully embodied in the following prayer "there is a peace that passeth understanding; it abides in the hearts of those who live in the eternal. there is a power which maketh all things new. it lives and moves in those who know the self as one. may that peace brood over us; that power uplift us, till we stand where the one initiator is invoked, till we see his star shine forth" when that sign is seen and the word is heard, the next step will be the recording of the vision. the plan and the part to be played by the initiate are

and the goal of the human race. that the future holds reaches of consciousness and standards of achievement as much beyond those of christ as his expression is beyond ours, is entirely possible. the nature of the father remains still to be known; some of its aspects, such as the love and wisdom of god, have been revealed to us by christ. for us today, and for our immediate goal, christ stands as the eternal prophet, to whom elias and all the prophets bear witness. therefore, as he stood upon the mountain top, the past and the future of humanity met in him. that he at-oned in himself certain basic human cleavages is thus apparent, and to those above enumerated we can add one already considered, the blending in himself of two great kingdoms in nature, the human and the divine, making possib

at the prophetic and creative spirit of mankind has from time to time evolved those figures as idealisations of its `heart's desire' and placed a halo round their heads. the long procession of them becomes a real piece of history the history of the evolution of the human heart, and of human consciousness."5 the crucifixion and the cross of christ are as old as humanity itself. both are symbols of the eternal sacrifice of god as he immerses himself in the form aspect of nature and thus becomes god immanent as well as god transcendent. we have seen that christ must be recognised, first of all, in the cosmic sense. the cosmic christ has existed from all eternity. this cosmic christ is divinity, or spirit, crucified in space. he personifies the immolation or sacrifice of spirit upon the cross

the four arms of the cross will be seen to drop away, leaving only the picture of the living heavenly man, with his arms outspread- 112- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust in space. north, south, east and west stands the cosmic christ upon what is called "the fixed cross of the heavens" upon this cross god is eternally crucified "the sky is mystically spoken of as the temple and the eternal consciousness of god. its altar is the sun, whose four arms or rays typify the four corners or the cardinal cross of the universe, which have become the four fixed signs of the zodiac, and as the four powerful sacred animal signs, are both cosmical and spiritual. these four are known as the consecrated animals of the zodiac, while the signs themselves represent the basic fundamental el

mphasised. the cosmic significance of the cross has been entirely forgotten (or never known) in the west. salvation is not primarily connected with sin. sin is a symptom of a condition, and when a man is "truly saved" that condition is offset, and with it the incidental sinful nature. it was this that christ came to do to show us the nature of the "saved" life; to demonstrate to us the quality of the eternal self which is in every man; this is the lesson of the crucifixion and the resurrection: the lower nature must die in order that the higher may be manifested, and the eternal immortal- 123- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust soul in every man must rise from the tomb of matter. it is interesting to trace the idea that men must suffer in this world as the result of sin

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

ich may throw some light upon the duality of personality and the work to be done by the beings found upon the septenate of rays. know we where we stand? do we realise what we have to do? as we strive to enter into light, let us count no price too great to pay for that revelation. we have studied an interesting sequence of laws. in law one, we find that three major ideas emerge: first of all, that the eternal pilgrim, of his own free will and accord, chose "occultly" to die and took a body or series of bodies in order to raise or elevate the lives of the form nature which he embodied. in the process of so doing, he himself "died, in the sense that, for a free soul, death and the taking of a form and the consequent immersion of the life in the form, are synonymous terms- 107- a treatise on t

s our grasp; it haunts our dreams and our high moments of aspiration. only when a man can function as a soul, and can turn the developed inner eye outward into the world of phenomena and inward into the world of reality, can he begin to sense god's true objective and purpose, to catch a brief glimpse of god's own pattern and the plan to which he so willingly conditions his own life, and for which the eternal sacrifice of the cosmic christ is essential. with these two divine trends (towards synthesis and towards the vision) the hierarchy is at this time primarily occupied. their watchwords are unification and sight. for humanity, these developments will produce the integration of the soul and the personality, and the awakening of that inner vision which will permit a flash of the reality to

desirable when the time has come that a new and higher set of values and a more spiritual and controlled technique should take its place. a life purpose, a recognised plan and a correctly directed activity must eventually supersede all adolescent yearnings, dreams, imaginative longings and aspiration in the life of the individual and of the race. mistake me not. the vision is a vision of reality. the eternal dreamer dreams and the greatest of all mystics is the divine logos himself. but his dream must be registered in our consciousness as god's plan and the mystical vision is the necessary though passing development in the human being of the "dreaming" aspect of god's nature. ponder on this, for it holds revelation to those who ponder rightly- 366- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii:

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

tate your work for you need not, therefore, keep the exact hour of the full moon, unless this is easily possible. service in the world these days requires constant pressure and attention and the work is strenuous. it may not always be possible for you to make your approach at the exact hour of the full moon, though you can at that hour always silently and interiorly lift up your heart and eyes to the eternal. but at some hour during the preceding twelve hours, you can make your approach. when you do so rightly, you will find me waiting. go to your work with clear vision, a loving heart and an understanding love. much can then be accomplished. part iv- 26- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust as these groups of disciples become active in the world and their inner

ogress and any final severance comes entirely from the pupil. there may be a temporary suspension of communication and this may last throughout one life; that, however, is not long from the angle of the soul; it is but a flash of small moment and significance in the long career of the soul. it looms as large and important in the personality life but may signify only the grasping of opportunity in the eternal now of the soul. i have, therefore, been near you and watched at intervals the tide of life roll over you; i have noted your progress and your delay. i have watched you succeed and i have seen you fail. this i do through noting the pulsation of your light not in watching the detail of your daily living. that is not warranted in this time of crisis, and owing to the evolutionary develop

t still meet with prompt response from your personality. this is one thing which you have mastered, the ability as a soul to call the attention of the personality. this ability is your major asset and contribution where my group of disciples is concerned for it enables you, if you so choose, to send forth at will light and strength and power. continue with this work of attention. may the light of the eternal shine upon your way, my brother and the power of your soul pour through you with increasing helpfulness to your chosen band of comrades. such is my prayer for you as i gather you closer into my aura. january 1937 my brother: you have asked me a definite question and you have made one statement to which i would call your attention as it embodies a major truth which grasped theoretically

th those you ever remember in your meditation, giving them strength and light and knowing yourself to be an intermediary. 5. close with the invocation which you know and love so well "may the holy ones whose disciple i am show me the light i seek; give me the strong aid of their compassion and their wisdom. there is a peace which passeth understanding; it abides in the hearts of those who live in the eternal. there is a power which maketh all things new; it lives and moves in those who know the self as one. may that peace brood over us, that power uplift us till we stand where the one initiator is invoked, till we see his star shine forth" 6. sound the o.m. i particularly ask you to make your spiritual diary a more vital, more organised and more easily available document for the teaching o

the group meditation, it will prove effective for it is along the same general line, only in the group meditation the work is more specific and focussed. the factor which will produce increasing integration between the soul and the personality, in the case of d.h.b. and j.s.p. and yourself, is the attainment of the power to love with purity, with no sense of distinction, and with that love which the eternal one shows poured out alike upon all and not biassed in any way by the temporal activities of man. this must be based on long vision, and the power to release yourself from the thoughtform-making faculty of the mind. in your case this faculty is swept into activity by emotion. guard your emotional body with peculiar care during the coming year. let not anything upset your equilibrium or

t because you do not merit much but because you know the work that must be done and i have but to look on in silence to see eventual achievement. overcome fear, my brother; kill out suspicion and those vile children of fear nervousness, foreboding, worry and that instant jumping to conclusions which are dire and full of disaster. achieve that inner poise which faces all that comes in the light of the eternal. you are immersed so oft in the terror of the moment (yes, terror is the word i wish to use) that the astral turmoil permits not the clear light of truth and of knowledge to shine in. both are yours. you are wise and experienced in many ways. sympathy, understanding, loyalty to the cause of occult truth and steadfast endeavour (plus selfless thought) are yours and these qualities are r

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and not solely in terms of the material civilization which she demonstrated so wonderfully for so many centuries? she can and eventually she will. her brilliant intellect (when turned to the study of the things of the spirit) can outstrip the researchings of lesser minds; that clear perception and ability to convey thoughts in concise and crystal clear terms will be utilized to bring home to many the eternal verities. when france finds her spiritual soul and not just her intellectual soul, she will prove to be the medium through which will come revelation as to the nature of the soul of man. france has in the past revealed the nature of the human soul in its stage of intensest individualism and selfishness. through fire and pain, france will later demonstrate the qualities of the spirit of

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et his face to go to jerusalem (luke ix.51) he will re-appear and guide mankind into a civilisation and a state of consciousness in which right human relations and worldwide cooperation for the good of all will be the universal keynote. he will through the new group of world servers and the men of goodwill complete his association with the will of god (his father's business) in such a manner that the eternal will-to-good will be translated by humanity into goodwill and right relations. then his task will be done; he will be free again to leave us, but this time not to return but to leave the world of men in the hands of that great spiritual server who will be the new head of the hierarchy, the church invisible. the question now arises: in what way can we be of service? how can we aid durin

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

obvious and powerful force in the world today is that of the first ray of will and power. it works out in two ways: 1. as the will of god in world affairs, which is ever the will-to-good. steadily if you study human history intelligently you will see that there has been a regular and rhythmic progression toward unity and synthesis in all departments of human affairs. this unity in multiplicity is the eternal plan a unity in consciousness, a multiplicity in form. 2. as the destructive element in world affairs. this refers to man's use of this force of will which is seldom as yet the will-to-good in active expression, but something which leads to self-assertion (of the individual or the nation) and to war with its accompaniments separation, selfish diplomacy, hate and armaments, disease and

matter, producing form. 2. the nations and the rays. in connection with this discussion which governs and influences the leading nations of the world, the student should bear in mind the fact that all are today primarily conditioned by the law of cleavages; however, advanced groups in every nation are beginning to respond to the law of understanding. this is a law which will eventually emphasise the eternal brotherhood of man and the identity of all souls with the oversoul. this will be recognised in the racial consciousness, as well as the oneness of the life which pours through, permeates, animates and integrates the entire solar system. this life functions in and through all planetary schemes, in all their kingdoms of forms and with all that can be included under the phrase "form life"

rialism and a perfected holiness, of the selfishness of a materialistic regime and the unselfishness of a mystically and spiritually minded people, and all this in a most pronounced and peculiar manner. behind the closed borders of that mysterious and magnificent country, a great and spiritual conflict is proceeding and the rare mystical spirit and the truly religious orientation of the people is the eternal guarantee that a true and living religion and culture will finally emerge. out of russia a symbol of the world arjuna in a very special sense will emerge that new and magical religion about which i have so often told you. it will be the product of the great and imminent approach which will take place between humanity and the hierarchy. from these two centres of spiritual force, in whic

d progress. the message of the birth of christ rings ever new but is not today understood. the emphasis during the aquarian age, the age into which we are fast entering, will shift away from bethlehem to jerusalem, and from the infant saviour to the risen christ. pisces has seen, during two thousand years, the spreading light; aquarius will see the rising light, and of both of these the christ is the eternal symbol- 81- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust the ancient story of the birth will become universalised and be seen as the story of every disciple and initiate who takes the first initiation and in his time and place becomes a server and a lightbearer. in the aquarian age two momentous developments will take place: 1. the birth initiation will condition human thinkin

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

ered only when the individual interior light is recognised as such. this is the "light of the ages" which shineth ever more until the day be with us. the intuition is therefore the recognition in oneself, not theoretically but as a fact in one's experience, of one's complete identification with the universal mind, of one's constituting a part of the great world life, and of one's participation in the eternal persisting 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 i

lf in a position to move in this world of concepts with freedom. to work and live in the world of ideas now becomes your objective and main effort. you train yourself in the recognition of ideas and concepts as they lie behind every form; you begin to think clearly about them and to- 10- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust see the direction in which they lead you and where, within the eternal plan, they fit. if aspirants will do three things: a. develop the power to visualise, b. train the mind to intuit reality, c. rightly interpret that which is seen, they can provide a demonstrating laboratory for the trained observers of the world. one of the things which the developed intuition can do is to break the glamour and illusion which invade the life. one of the things that a

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

extra-ordinary science which is inherently in itself the evidence of evolution, of the essential dualism in manifestation, and the testimony, unalterable and incontrovertible, to the unfoldment of consciousness. at the same time, it proceeds upon the basic premise that the various phases of consciousness which are steadily and sequentially revealed in time and space are (from the point of view of the eternal now) the sum total of the states of consciousness of the "one in whom we live and move and have our being" all these phases of conscious acceptance of existent phenomena and their related reactions are, to sanat kumara, what a day's experience and reactions or the current life experiences are to the intelligent man only vastly more enveloping and comprehensive. there were a number of p

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

s, of which our solar system is one, and in their turn the seven energy centres of the one to whom i have referred in my other books as the one about whom naught can be said. much has been given in the occult books of which the average astrologer remains profoundly unaware. it is essential that he learns to think in larger wholes and to be more deeply concerned with the emanating sources and with the eternal persistent causes than with the effects of these sources upon that ephemeral creation, a human being and his temporary existence upon a most unimportant planet. as he seeks to do this, he will discover for himself the signs of the essential divinity of man a divinity which is to be found in the infinite grasp of man's consciousness when illumined by the light of the soul and in his pow

and energies ray, planetary, zodiacal and cosmic until he is "made anew" becomes the "new man" is sensitive to the entire range of spiritual vibrations in our solar system and has achieved that detachment which will enable him to escape from the wheel of rebirth. he has accomplished this by mounting the three crosses the cross of the personality or the changing form, the cross of the disciple or the eternal soul, and the cross of the spirit. this really means that he has passed through three momentous crises in his life cycle. i. the crisis of incarnation. the mutable cross the mounting of the wheel .personality and form life the cycle of rebirth in form. experience manifestation of manhood ii. the crisis of reorientation. the fixed cross the changing to the 2nd cross. the life of the sou

ing monad. it is the expression of will or power as it expresses itself through the great creative process. when the initiate (as we shall later see) transfers himself on to the cardinal cross from which he descended when coming into incarnation and mounted in its place the common or mutable cross, he no longer identifies himself with form or even with soul, but with the will of divinity and with the eternal plan and purpose. it becomes his plan and purpose. he knows no other in a sense which is unknown even to an initiate of the third degree. he then enters into the council chamber of god; he becomes a part of the conclave at shamballa; he functions no longer simply as a member of the hierarchy upon the mental plane. he can now function through all the three world centres humanity, the hi

divine lives who are ourselves essentially, who are qualified by knowledge, love and will, and animated by ceaseless persevering devotion. they seek to bring about the death of the form in its occult significance and the consequent release of the indwelling lives into a higher state of consciousness. of this process, all the world saviours past, present and to come are the manifested symbols and the eternal guarantees. it is in such recognitions as these that the mainspring to the life of service must be sought. people born in this sign are frequently to be found serving the race and ministering to its needs upon some level of consciousness. thus they are prepared for the final sacrifice in pisces which- 71- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis

k this thought with the teaching that through the divine centre of intelligent activity which we call humanity, the fourth kingdom in nature will eventually act as the mediating principle to all the three lower kingdoms. humanity is the divine messenger to the world of form; it is essentially mercury, bringing light and life to other divine manifestations and of this all divine world saviours are the eternal symbols. this coming process of planetary service through the third divine centre is only truly effective when aquarius rules and when our sun is passing through that sign of the zodiac. hence the immense importance of the next 2000 years. therefore, only when a man is a world server and becoming group conscious can this desired objective of manifestation begin to demonstrate. it is be

f the mind of god as it expresses itself through man; the lower mind dominates at first, causing the recognition of the self and the not-self, or the essential dualism which underlies all manifestation; the higher mind, however, steadily increases its power and control, producing the balancing of the pairs of opposites through the illumination which it brings to the lower mind, and then the soul, the eternal son of mind, becomes the ultimate synthesis, focussing and relating the universal mind to the two lower aspects of the mind of god. these hints should serve to show you one of the great inter-relations which exist between the three crosses, and with these we shall later deal when discussing them in greater detail in another part of this section on esoteric astrology. it is interesting

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

el that there is just a chance that i am wrong in my diagnosis and prescription. i have also a staunch belief in the fact of the human soul and of the ability of that soul to lead a man "out of darkness into light and from the unreal to the real" to quote the oldest prayer in the world. i had, in those days, to learn that "the love of god is broader than the measure of man's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind" but it was not a really kind god that i proclaimed. god was kind to me because he had opened my eyes and the eyes of those who thought as i did, but he was quite ready to send the rest of the unregenerate world to hell. the bible said so and the bible was always right. it could not possibly be wrong. i agreed at that time with the pronouncement of a famous bib

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

rial limitations which today control all forms; they ignore the time factor, and overlook the evolutionary process and also the point of development of the person concerned; their position is based on wishful thinking and on the innate desire of the average human being for comfort and physical harmony, and gloss the innate selfishness of their presentation of truth with the concept that all is to the eternal glory of god. unquestionably, disease and physical limitations of any kind will vanish, but this will only happen when the soul of the individual controls and the lower personal self becomes as much an automaton of the soul as the physical body is at this time the automaton of the emotional nature, of the mind, and occasionally (and only very occasionally for- 116- a treatise on the se

ight simply involve, if physically successful, the postponement of the plan of the soul for the person. success might mean the correction of wrong inner attitudes, of erroneous lines of thought, and at the same time leave the physical body as it was. it might mean the placing of the patient (through wise teaching and patience) en rapport with his soul and the consequent reorienting of the life to the eternal verities. it might consist in the proper preparation of the person for the tremendous purpose which we call death, and thus bring about the relief of pain in this way. the whole science of healing will shift eventually and increasingly into the realm of preventive medicine and the psychological adjustment of the individual within his group, and the providing of right living conditions

e principle of love and light, and incited thereto by the example of the christ and the inner urge of our own souls. this teaching anent hell is a remainder of the sadistic turn which was given to the thinking of the christian church in the middle ages and to the erroneous teaching to be found in the old testament anent jehovah, the tribal god of the jews. jehovah is not god, the planetary logos, the eternal heart of love whom christ revealed. as these erroneous ideas die out, the concept of hell will fade from man's recollection and its place will be taken by an understanding of salvation upon the physical plane, which leads him to right the wrongs which he may have perpetrated in his lives on earth, and which enables him eventually to "clean his own slate" i seek not here to impose upon

al proposition, that the fear and horror of death is founded upon the love of form our own form, the forms of those we love and the form of our familiar surroundings and environment. yet this type of love runs counter to all our teaching anent the spiritual realities. the hope of the future, and the hope of our release from this ill-founded fear, lie in the shifting of our emphasis to the fact of the eternal soul and to the necessity for that soul to live spiritually, constructively and divinely within the material vehicles. into this concept again enters the thought of restitution. wrong concepts are therefore forgotten; the idea of elimination also enters in so that right focus is attained. integration demands consideration, so that absorption in the life of the soul will take the place

of a returning spirit. there is enough evidence to warrant belief in survival and to prove its factual nature. upon the grounds of the inexplicable phenomena of contact with the supposedly dead which have been noted, investigated and proven, and upon the character of the men who testify to the fact of these phenomena, we can affirm that something survives the "restitution" of the material body to the eternal reservoir of substance. it is on this premise that- 236- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust we proceed. today the phenomenon of death is becoming increasingly familiar. the world war has launched millions of men and women civilians and those in the various branches of the armed forces of all the nations into that unknown world which rec

t through the medium of constant incarnations in form until those forms are perfect expressions of the indwelling spiritual consciousness, and of a series of initiations at the close of the cycle of incarnation, are being more readily accepted and acknowledged than ever before. such are the major solutions of the problems of immortality and of the persistence of the human soul; they aim to answer the eternal questioning of the human heart as to whence, why, whither and where? only the last of these proposed solutions offers a truly rational reply to all of them. its acceptance has been delayed because, ever since the time of h. p. blavatsky, who formulated this ancient truth for the modern world in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, it has been so- 238- a treatise on the seven ray

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onstant turning of the mind to the need for light and the prospect of illumination cannot and will not be ineffectual. also, as the work of the triangles grows and the network spreads all over the earth, the idea of a downpouring of light and goodwill (which is the immediate aspect of love required today among men) can be looked for; nothing can prevent the appearance of the expected results, for the eternal law holds good. the illumination of men's minds, so that they can see things as they are, can apprehend right motives and the way to bring about right human relations, is now a major need; the motivating power of goodwill is an essential to right action; given these two light and love it will not be many decades before the idea of right human relations will have become the ideal of the

t of my task within my ashram is to train disciples to recognise the new, emerging ideas and translate them into the concepts which will condition human thinking in the cycle just ahead. the second stage of this training involves the cultivation of a correct sense of timing. this will prevent the disciple from taking precipitate or premature action; it will give him the key to the real meaning of the eternal now the synthesis of past, present and future. he will next be taught the art of precipitation, or the mode of conveying these ideas to the minds of the intellectuals in the world. through these concrete and receptive minds the presented ideas are transformed into ideals and then are brought to the attention of humanity. the place and the responsibility of the intelligentsia is not yet

tes into that which lies beyond the planet and is fused and blended in a solar sense with the voice of him who has brought all into being, and with the will of him who is carrying all forms of his livingness towards the perfection which he purposes; in so doing, the great processes of redemption are furthered, to which all world saviours (in relation to humanity) are the symbol, the guarantee and the eternal testimony. in giving you these two meditations, i would remind all who undertake to use these meditative forms that they will not prove effective and of the needed vital potency unless the one who thus meditates identifies himself with the purpose and objective of the meditation, dedicates himself to cooperation with this objective and redeems all aspects of his own life in conformity

e 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 ever in mind. i have been for some time seeking to impress upon you the eternal fact that the entire universe has been created and its evolution processed through the power of thought, which is only another word for controlled meditation. this covers the combined meditation of numerous subjective, spiritual and mental groups; the laws of this meditative work are the result of certain mental determinations, which embody the will of the planetary logos and are impos

shram and is concerned with the revelation of group feeling. it is related to the astral nature. formula two. deals with alignment. it concerns the revelation of the group antahkarana and is related to the mind nature, in which the antahkarana is anchored. formula three. deals with certain changes in the soul nature. it is concerned with the relation of time and space, and is therefore related to the eternal now. formula four. deals with the life aspect. it is concerned with the revelation of the nature of life, and is therefore related to the circulation and interplay of energy. formula five. deals with the will aspect. it is concerned with the revelation of divine purpose, and is therefore related to shamballa. formula six. deals with the nature of death. it is concerned with the revelat

ent point of development. this third formula concerns time and the consciousness of the spiritual man who is unaware of separation, of divisions in time and space or of the spell of the great illusion. it deals with the fact of immortality and with the unshatterable continuity of consciousness and life. it is this formula which at the third initiation produces the transfiguration which comes when the eternal now is realised and when the continuity of awareness and of identity is seen as an aspect of being. this formula has been called by one of the masters "the seed of all philosophies" and in that phrase you may find light on the subject provided you know what philosophy is! to the initiate who uses this formula, creating the necessary sounds and enunciating the ancient words in due place

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unawakened the illusion is complete and real. devotees can therefore tune in with great facility on this illusory form and be completely deceived. its vibration is of a relatively high order. its mental effect is like a beautiful parody of myself and serves to place the deluded devotees in touch with the scroll of the astral light, which is the reflection of the akashic records. these latter are the eternal scroll whereon the plan for our world is inscribed and from which those of us who teach gather our data and much of our information. this, the astral light distorts and steps down. because this is a distorted image and functions in the three worlds of form and has no source of validity higher than those of form, it has in it the seeds of separativeness and of disaster. forms of flatter

and in an effort to enable you to choose right action. the first great contrast might be called the way of appeasement and the way of aggression. the method of peaceful discussion was tried by the peace-loving peoples of france and great britain, and the way of aggression, developed for many years, is the way of germany, of russia, and in a lesser degree of italy. i would remind you that it is to the eternal credit of the allies (e'en though it lacked worldly common sense) that their preparations for war proved inadequate in the face of- 156- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust german preparedness. they were not one-pointed in their war effort, for the higher value of world civilisation engrossed them and the activities of their empires, which live at peace with

ined through right relationship and identity of origin. it is the revelation of the life of god, pervading all that is (god immanent, and of that same life, providing that still greater cosmic relation (god transcendent) which is the final guarantee of all progress and of progressive revelation `having pervaded this whole universe with a fragment of myself, i remain' is the challenge of deity and the eternal hope of humanity. this is the answer of life itself to the demands of humanity, to the enquiries of science and to the whole world problem. god is here, present among us and in all forms of expression; he includes, pervades and remains beyond. he is greater than all appearance. he reveals himself progressively and cyclically as man gets ready for further knowledge. 3. the continuity of

costs, to relinquish that light. there is no freedom in germany or in japan. in a lesser sense and for a brief time, there was no freedom in italy, but italy must be counted among the enlightened nations, for it could not be held in duress. the forces of light comprise those nations (working through their armies and in the diplomatic arena) who are today fighting for the freedom of humanity, for the eternal rights of man, for liberty of conscience, for the position of the individual in any nation, and for freedom of religion or the right of man's self-chosen approach to the spiritual realities. behind these nations stands the hierarchy. freedom is the birthright of mankind, and free will is the highest of the divine characteristics. freedom is misinterpreted and misused by many, owing to

y. the buddha, whose festival is held ever at the full moon of may (or of taurus, falling this year during the last week in april, acts today as the agent of that great life in whom we live and move and have our being, who is himself the true light of the world and the planetary enlightener. i refer to the ancient of days (as he is called in the old testament, to the god of love, to sanat kumara, the eternal youth, the one who holds all men in life and who is carrying his whole creation along the path of evolution to its consummation a consummation of which we have not as yet the faintest idea. year after year, ever since the buddha achieved his goal of illumination, an effort has been made to increase the flow of enlightenment into the world and to throw the light of wisdom, experience an

d by the christ when last on earth was resurrection, but so morbid has been mankind and so enveloped in glamour and illusion, that his death has been permitted to sidestep understanding; consequently, for centuries, the emphasis has been laid upon death, and only on easter day or in the cemeteries is the resurrection acclaimed. this must change. it is not helpful to a progressive understanding of the eternal verities to have this condition perpetuated. the hierarchy is today dedicated to bringing about this change and thus altering the approach of mankind to the world of the unseen and to the spiritual realities. before, however, they could do anything, our present civilisation had to die. during the coming century, the meaning of the resurrection will be unfolded and the new age will reve

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

hese distinctions should be pondered with care. the laws of the universe are simply the modes of expression, the life impulses and the way of existence or activity of the one in whom we live and move and have our being. there is no avoiding these laws in the last analysis, and there is no denying them, for we are eternally swept into activity by them and they govern and control (from the angle of the eternal now) all that happens in time and space. orders and commands are the feeble interpretations which men give to what they understand by law. in time and space, and at any given moment and in any given location, these- 16- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust commands are issued by those who are in a position of authority or who s

outward moving in order eventually to express some "intention" of the divine creating logos. when the initiate grasps this and identifies himself with it, his goodwill expands into the will-to-good. plan and quality give place to purpose and method. plans are fallible and tentative and serve a temporary need. purpose, as expressed by the initiate is permanent, farsighted, unalterable, and serves the eternal idea. 3. the stage wherein after the fourth initiation there is direct unbroken relation between 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 "mayavir

nstrument whose purpose is to fulfill the plan. thus the great syntheses are slowly taking place. it has taken many aeons, for evolution (especially in the earlier stages) moves slowly. in the post-war period and when the new structure of the coming world order is taking shape, the process will be speeded considerably; this will not, however, be for a hundred years, which is but a brief moment in the eternal history of humanity. from synthesis to synthesis the life of god passes. first the synthesis of the atomic lives into ever more perfect forms until the three- 38- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust kingdoms of nature appear; then the synthesis in consciousness, enabling the human being to enter into the larger awareness of th

in life. i find it extremely difficult to express the significance of this rule in such a way that it will convey meaning to you, and this for two reasons: first, the idea of the one life is so prevalent, and so customary and trite an unrealised truth, that it registers on ears with very little effect. secondly, the whole story of life which is purpose, divine will, and absolute determination and the eternal planning of the lord of the world is so hard of comprehension that we have as yet no words in the language of any nation which can express it. what i am now writing is a series of instructions for disciples in process of training for initiation. i did not say in training for the higher initiations, for these are given in a different manner and the teaching is imparted in the inner ashr

coming light-bearers. the theme of light runs through all the world scriptures; the idea of enlightenment conditions all the training given to the youth of the world (limited though the application of this idea may be, and the thought of more light governs all the inchoate yearnings of the human spirit. we have not yet carried the concept up to the centre of life where dwells the ancient of days, the eternal youth, the lord of the world, sanat kumara, melchizedek god. yet from that centre streams what has been called the light of life, the light supernal. these are empty words as yet until we know, as trained initiates, that light is a symptom and an expression of life- 93- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust and that essentially

withdrawn or abstracted after the higher initiations. he is abstracted from our planetary life altogether. only one factor could prevent this, and that might be his pledge to serve temporarily within the planetary ring-pass-not. such members of the hierarchy who pledge themselves to this work are stated to have the buddhic consciousness, and the line of their descent (occultly understood) is from the eternal pilgrim, the lord of the world, then the buddha, and then the christ. they remain identified through the free choice with the "quality seen within the light" and for the term of their freely rendered service they work with the consciousness aspect in order to lay the emphasis later upon the life aspect. 4. the law demands that this is brought about by the one, working through the three

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iousness that we are integral parts of a greater whole, and that knowledge of the divine sumtotal can alone reveal the vaster purpose. these are the ideas that must eventually supersede our personal concentrations. our small life histories must disappear in the larger picture. hercules astrologically enacted the life history of every aspirant, and demonstrated the part which the unit must play in the eternal enterprise. a great eastern teacher has expressed in connection with the zodiac and astrology this suggestive thought- 8- the labours of hercules "that astrology is a science and a coming science is true. that astrology in its highest aspect and its true interpretation will eventually enable man to focus his understanding and to function rightly is equally true. that in the revelations

ops, who received the sacred bull from him and took charge of it. and thus ended the second labor. the theme of illumination taurus is one of be most interesting of the zodiacal constellations, especially at this time. it is the fixed cross in the heavens [44] the cross of the disciple, and the following extract is of interest in this connection "the sky is mystically spoken of as the temple, and the eternal consciousness of god. its altar is the sun, whose four arms or rays typify the four corners of the cardinal cross of the universe, which have become the four fixed signs of the zodiac, and as the four powerful sacred animal signs are both cosmical and spiritual, they represent the basic elements resembling our human principles. the sign leo represents fire or spirit; taurus, earth or b

ow we have here held pictorially in front of us the consummation in capricorn, wherein the goat scales the mountain top. we also have the portrayal of that greater cycle which includes the progress of the soul from cancer to capricorn, but which begins in aries, the ram, and ends in pisces, the fishes. a close analysis of the symbolism of the zodiacal signs deepens in one the strong conviction of the eternal picturing of truth and the constant holding before our eyes of the story of the evolution of matter in form, of consciousness, of spirit and of life. argo stretches all the way from cancer to capricorn and is one of the largest of the constellations. it has in it sixty-four stars, of which the brightest is canopus. its symbolism [92] therefore, covers the life of the aspirant from the

e are thousands everywhere in the world, is to begin to think constructively along right lines so that the foundations will be well laid for the force pouring in; we build for the future. inclusive consciousness does not mean humanly conscious; it is more, you must become time conscious. the time is coming in aquarius when past, present and future will pass out altogether and you will always have the eternal present that will include every sphere and aspect of consciousness which we can call strictly human. that is the position of the humanist, as i interpret it; he takes the position "let us be truly human" before we attempt to be superhuman. we are now only emotional, watery, fluidic creatures that are as yet unilluminated, struggling with separativeness. we are not able to be world cons

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

vified by the divine fiat. it has been suggested by some learned authors that these kabalistic ideas resemble those of the alexandrian philosophy and of the gnostics, embodying notions derived from the pythagoreans, the platonists and from indian brahmanism and buddhism. let us more fully consider the conceptions of the divinity. isaac myer writes--god may be regarded from four points of view; as the eternal one, or ain sup, ain suph; as ahih, aheie, i am; as ihvh, who was, is and will be; and as alhim, elohim, god in nature, called adonai or lord. in the english old testament the word ihvh is translated lord, and elohim by god: boutell calls jah a contraction of jehovah. the jehovah of the old testament--as a tribal deity of personal characteristics, demonstrating his power and glory to a

f in the grandeur and tenuity of the word painting of the divine portrait. divine anthropomorphism it may be, but an anthropomorphism so tenuous by means of its grandeur, that the human elements affording the bases of the analogy quite disappear in the heavenly man of their divine reveries. permit me to afford to you an example of one sublime, deific dream "in this conformation he is known; he is the eternal of the eternal ones; the ancient of the ancient ones; the concealed of the concealed ones; in his symbols he is knowable although he is unknowable. white are his garments, and his appearance is as a face, vast and terrible in its vastness. upon a throne of flaming brilliance is he seated, so that he may direct its flashing rays. into many thousand worlds the brightness of his face is e

commentary in symbolic language narrates how the holy one perceiving a child's body to be in formation, sends for a suitable ego to inhabit it "the holy one, blessed be he, beckons to an angel who is set over the disembodied souls, and says to him 'bring me such a soul: and this is being always done since the world began; the soul appears before the holy one and worships in his presence, to whom the eternal one says 'betake thyself to this form' instantly the soul excuses himself, saying 'oh governor of the world, i am satisfied with the world in which i have been so long: if it please thee, do not force me into this foul body, for i am a spirit' the holy one, blessed be he, answers 'the world i am about to send thee into is needed for thee, it is to pass down through it that i formed the

APOCALYPSE MOSES

ays, but on the seventh day, rest and rejoice on it, because on that very day, god rejoiceth (yea) and we angels (too) with the righteous soul, who hath passed away from the earth' 4 even thus spake the angel, and ascended into heaven, glorifying (god) and saying 'allelujah (holy, holy, holy is the lord, in the glory of god the father, for to him it is meet to give glory, honour and worship, with the eternal life-giving spirit now and always and for ever. 5 amen (holy, holy, holy is the lord of hosts. to whom be glory and power for ever and for ever amen (then the archangel joel glorified god; saying 'holy, holy, holy lord, heaven and earth are full of thy glory.)the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 1 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm the apocryphon of john (l

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

ct glory in the aeons, the glory of the revelation, she glorified the virginal spirit and it was she who praised him, because thanks to him she had come forth. this is the first thought, his image; she became the womb of everything, for it is she who is prior to them all, the mother-father, the first man, the holy spirit, the thrice-male, the thrice-powerful, the thrice-named androgynous one, and the eternal aeon among the invisible ones, and the first to come forth" requested from the invisible, virginal spirit- that is barbelo- to give her foreknowledge. and the spirit consented. and when he had consented, the foreknowledge came forth, and it stood by the forethought; it originates from the thought of the invisible, virginal spirit. it glorified him and his perfect power, barbelo, f

onsented. and when he had consented, truth came forth, and they attended and glorified the invisible, excellent spirit and his barbelo, the one for whose sake they had come into being "this is the pentad of the aeons of the father, which is the first man, the image of the invisible spirit; it is the forethought, which barbelo, and the thought, and the foreknowledge, and the indestructibility, and the eternal life, and the truth. this is the androgynous pentad of the aeons, which is the decad of the aeons, which is the father "and he looked at barbelo with the pure light which surrounds the invisible spirit, and (with) his spark, and she conceived from him. he begot a spark of light with a light resembling blessedness. but it does not equal his greatness. this was an only-begotten child of

onsented, the mind came forth, and it attended christ, glorifying him and barbelo. and all these came into being in silence "and the mind wanted to perform a deed through the word of the invisible spirit. and his will became a deed and it appeared with the mind; and the light glorified it. and the word followed the will. for because of the word, christ the divine autogenes created everything. and the eternal life his will and the mind and the foreknowledge attended and glorified the invisible spirit and barbelo, for whose sake they had come into being "and the holy spirit completed the divine autogenes, his son, together with barbelo, that he may attend the mighty and invisible, virginal spirit as the divine autogenes, the christ whom he had honored with a mighty voice. he came forth

rit will be tortured, and they will be punished with eternal punishment" and i said "lord, from where did the counterfeit spirit come" then he said to me "the mother-father, who is rich in mercy, the holy spirit in every way, the one who is merciful and who sympathizes with you (pl, i.e, the epinoia of the foreknowledge of light, he raised up the offspring of the perfect race and its thinking and the eternal light of man. when the chief archon realized that they were exalted above him in the height- and they surpass him in thinking- then he wanted to seize their thought, not knowing that they surpassed him in thinking, and that he will not be able to seize them "he made a plan with his authorities, which are his powers, and they committed together adultery with sophia, and bitter fate was

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

, but that they could be made perfectly by my process, adding,however, that they would cost too much to make it profitable. i admit that i have little faith in lost artsbeyond recovering. described in my book (unpublished) on the hundred minor arts. 34 in a very recent work by messrs. niceforo and sighele, entitled la mala vita a roma evil lifein rome, there is a chapter devoted to the witches of the eternal city, of whom the writer saysthey form a class so hidden that the most roman of romans is perhaps ignorant of their exis-tence. this is true of the real strege, though not of mere fortune-tellers, who are common enough.the children of diana, or how the fairies were born. 35 fivepence roman money.diana, queen of the serpents, giver of the gift of languages. no footnotes)diana as giving

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

is highest of earthly treasures for your health and comfort in this valley of sorrow. i write about it, not for my own good, but for that of posterity, and though my words be few and simple, that which they import is of immeasurable magnitude. ponder them well, that you also may find the rock which is the foundation twelve keys of basil valentine 6 of 95 stone of truth, the temporal blessing, and the eternal reward. twelve keys of basil valentine 7 of 95 the tract of basilius valentinus, the benedictine, concerning the great stone of the ancient sages. in the preface, gentle reader, and zealous student of this art, i promised to communicate to you a knowledge of our corner stone, or rock, of the process by which it is prepared, and of the substance from which it was already derived by thos

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

uration of geological periods, but rather in their perfect accord on one point, for a wonder, and this a very important one. they all agree that during "the miocene age- whether one or ten million years ago- greenland and even spitzbergen, the remnants of our second or hyperborean continent "had almost a tropical climate" now the pre-homeric greeks had preserved a vivid tradition of this "land of the eternal sun" whither their apollo journeyed yearly "during the miocene age, greenland (in n. lat. 70 degrees) developed an abundance of trees, such as the yew, the redwood, the sequoia, allied to the californian species, beeches, planes, willows, oaks, poplars and walnuts, as well as a magnolia and a zamia" says science; in short greenland had southern plants unknown to northern regions. and n

ed by bishop temple. force thus is not synchronous with the first objectivation of mulaprakriti. but as, apart from it, the latter is absolutely and necessarily inert- a mere abstraction- it is unnecessary to weave too fine a cobweb of subtleties as to the order of succession of[[footnote(s* according to dr. a. wilder's learned definition, genesis[[genesis, is not generation, but "a coming out of the eternal into the kosmos and time "a coming from esse into exsistere" or "from be-ness into 'being- as a theosophist would say[[vol. 2, page] 25 man, the third logos. the cosmic ultimates. force succeeds mulaprakriti; but, minus force, mulaprakriti is for all practical intents and purposes non-existent* the "heavenly man (tetragrammaton) who is the protogonos, tikkoun, the firstborn from the pa

lation. the only reference made to it was the brief conception of its diastolic and systolic property, of its periodical expansion or dilatation, and contraction. in the universe with all its incalculable myriads of systems and worlds disappearing and re-appearing in eternity, the anthropomorphised powers, or gods, their souls, had to disappear from view with their bodies "the breath returning to the eternal bosom which exhales and inhales them" says our catechism "ideal nature" the abstract space in which everything in the universe is mysteriously and invisibly generated, is the same female side of procreative power in nature in the vedic as in every other cosmogony. aditi is sephira, and the sophia- achamoth of the gnostics, and isis, the virgin mother of horus. in every cosmogony, behin

own to that of hesiod- places, in the order of cosmogonical evolution, night before the day; even genesis, where "darkness is upon the face of the deep" before "the first day" the reason for this is that every cosmogony- except in the secret doctrine- begins by the "secondary creation" so-called: to wit, the manifested universe, the genesis of which has to open by a marked differentiation between the eternal light of primary creation, whose mystery must remain for ever "darkness" to the prying finite conception and intellect of the profane, and the secondary evolution of manifested visible nature. the veda contains the whole philosophy of that division without having ever been correctly explained by our orientalists, because it has never been understood by them. continuing to create, brahm

ture and belonging to the[[vol. 2, page] 64 the secret doctrine. evolution of life on earth, there may be another allegorical meaning attached to this sloka, or indeed, as is taught, several. the flames, or "fires" represent spirit, or the male element, and "water" matter, or the opposite element. and here again we find, in the action of the spirit slaying the purely material form, a reference to the eternal struggle, on the physical and psychic planes, between spirit and matter, besides a scientific cosmic fact. for, as said in the next verse- 9. mother-water, the great sea wept. she arose, she disappeared in the moon, which had lifted her, which had given her birth (a (a) now what can this mean? is it not an evident reference to tidal action in the early stage of the history of our plane

r a beam of that sun is born in the morning and is said to die when it disappears, whereas it is simply reabsorbed into the parent essence. cosmic pralaya is for things visible, not for the arupa, formless, world. the cosmic or universal pralaya comes only at the end of one hundred years of brahma; when the universal dissolution is said to take place. then the avyaya, say the exoteric scriptures, the eternal life symbolized by vishnu, assuming the character of rudra, the destroyer, enters into the seven rays of the sun and drinks up all the waters of the universe "thus fed, the seven solar rays dilate to seven suns and set fire to the whole cosmos* since a maha-yuga is the 1,000th part of a day of brahma[[vol. 2, page] 70 the secret doctrine. add sandhis, i.e, intervals between the reign o

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portals of our own, the future seer may discern other words, that will point to the karma for cunningly made-up history, for events purposely perverted, and for great characters slandered by posterity, mangled out of recognition, between the two cars of jagannatha- bigotry and materialism; one accepting too much, the other denying all. wise is he who holds to the golden mid-point, who believes in the eternal justice of things. says faigi diwan, the "witness to the wonderful speeches of a free-thinker who belongs to a thousand sects "in the assembly of the day of resurrection, when past things shall be forgiven, the sins of the ka'bah will be forgiven for the sake of the dust of christian churches" to this, professor max muller replies "the sins of islam are as worthless as the dust of chri

ms the idea of affinity- an occult teaching. from the beginning of man's inheritance, from the first appearance of the architects of the globe he lives in, the unrevealed deity was recognised and considered under its only philosophical aspect- universal motion, the thrill of the creative breath in nature. occultism sums up the "one existence" thus "deity is an arcane, living (or moving) fire, and the eternal witnesses to this unseen presence are light, heat, moisture- this trinity including, and being the cause of, every[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] that absolute wisdom which transcends the ideas of time and space. mind, as we know it, is resolvable into states of consciousness, of varying duration, intensity, complexity, etc- all, in the ultimate, resting on sensati

later into gods and all the visible universe. they say that absolute unity cannot pass to infinity; for infinity presupposes the limitless extension of something, and the duration of that "something; and the one all is like space- which is its only mental and physical representation on this earth, or our plane of existence- neither an object of, nor a subject to, perception. if one could suppose the eternal infinite all, the omnipresent unity, instead of being in eternity, becoming through periodical manifestation a manifold universe or a multiple personality, that unity would cease to be one. locke's idea that "pure space is capable of neither resistance nor motion- is incorrect. space is neither a "limitless void" nor a "conditioned fulness" but both: being, on the plane of absolute abs

revelation as coming from divine yet still finite beings, the manifested lives, never from the unmanifestable one life; from those entities, called primordial man, dhyani-buddhas, or dhyan-chohans, the "rishi-prajapati" of the hindus, the elohim or "sons of god" the planetary spirits of all nations, who have become gods for men. he also regards the adi-sakti- the direct emanation of mulaprakriti, the eternal root of that, and the female aspect of the creative cause brahma, in her a'kasic form of the universal soul- as philosophically a maya, and cause of human maya. but this view does not prevent him from believing in its existence so long as it lasts, to wit, for one mahamanvantara; nor from applying akasa, the radiation of mulaprakriti* to practical purposes, connected as the world-soul

t of the rabbis, who knew better what their pentateuch meant. it was a silent protest against their spoliation, and the jews have certainly now the better of their traditional persecutors. the above-named exoteric creeds will be explained in the light of the universal doctrine as we proceed with it. the occult catechism contains the following questions and answers "what is it that ever is "space, the eternal anupadaka "what is it that ever was "the germ in the root "what is it that is ever coming and going "the great breath "then, there are three eternals "no, the three are one. that which ever is is one, that which ever was is one, that which is ever being and becoming is also one: and this is space "explain, oh lanoo (disciple "the one is an unbroken circle (ring) with no circumference

unknown and unknowable power, which we are obliged to recognise as without limit in space and without beginning or end in time" it is only daring theology- never science or philosophy- which seeks to gauge the infinite and unveil the fathomless and unknowable[[vol. 1, page] 20 the secret doctrine. secret doctrine. brahma (neuter) is called kalahansa, meaning, as explained by western orientalists, the eternal swan or goose (see stanza iii, comment. 8, and so is brahma, the creator. a great mistake is thus brought under notice; it is brahma (neuter) who ought to be referred to as hansa-vahana (he who uses the swan as his vehicle) and not brahma the creator, who is the real kalahansa, while brahma (neuter) is hamsa, and "a-hamsa" as will be explained in the commentary. let it be understood th

BLUE EQUINOX

or disapproves the finished work) there was a certain period of repose, as the earth lieth fallow. 26. meanwhile these adepts busied themselves intently with the great work. 27. in the fullness of time, even as a blossoming tree that beareth fruit in its season, all these pains were ended, and these adepts and their companions obtained the reward which they had sought.they were to be admitted to the eternal and invisible order that hath no name among men. 28. they therefore who had with smiling faces abandoned their homes, their possessions, their wives, their children, in order to perform the great work, could with steady calm and firm correctness abandon the great work itself; for this is the last and greatest projection of the alchemist. 29. also one v.v.v.v.v. arose, an exalted adept

d, my dove, my excellent one, how shall this word seem unto the children of men? 52. and he answered him: not as thou canst see. it is certain that every letter of this cipher hath some value; but who shall determine the value? for it varieth ever, according to the subtlety of him that made it. 53. and he answered him: have i not the key thereof? i am clothed with the body of flesh; i am one with the eternal and omnipotent god. 54. then said adonai: thou hast the head of the hawk, and thy phallus is the phallus of asar. thou knowest the white, and thou knowest the black, and thou knowest that these are one. but why seekest thou the knowledge of their equivalence? 55. and he said: that my work may be right. the equinox 70 56. and adonai said: the strong brown reaper swept his swathe and rej

r b a d a h a r b a trapt hr w b g d s j h ny b h m k j r t k y a twklm dwsy d w h j x n 6=5 7= 4 8=3 9=2 10=1 0=0 0 1=1 2=9 3=8 4= 7 5=6 horus amoun nephthys isis ptah heru-pa-kraat h osiris shu thoth hathoor ra n u i t h h d a i t h gt. one of night of time t a the spirit of aiqhr c spirit of primal fire child of gt. transformers n the magus of power b f daughter of the flaming sword propher of the eternal y p lord of hosts of the mighty daughter of firmament x g priestess of silver star daughter of mighty ones d k lord of forces of life daughter of lords of truth l q ruler of flux and reflux lord of fire of world r h sun of the morning magus of the eternal w m spirtof the mighty waters z children of the voice s daughter o f reconcilers child of powers of waters j lord of gates of matter

dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to thee from waiting womb! men: glory to thee from earth unploughed! women: glory to thee from virgin vowed! men: glory to thee, true unity of the eternal trinity! women: glory to thee, thou sire and dam and self of i am that i am! men: glory to thee, beyond all term, thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ! women: glory to thee, eternal sun, thou one in three, thou three in one! chorus: glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree (these words are to form the substance of the anthem; but the whole or any part thereof s

in his ordination. 271 nekam, adonai! the preceptor s address to his templars to sir james thomas windram love, the saviour of the world, must be scourged with many rods, from its place in heaven hurled, outcast before all the gods. love, that cleanses all, must be washed in its own blood and tears, heir of all eternity made the martyr of the years. love, that fills the void with bliss, staunches the eternal flood, heals the hurt of the abyss, blanches, beggared of its blood. love, that wears the laurel crown, turns to gain the lees of loss, that from the shame retrieves renown, is the carrion of the cross. through the heart a dagger-thrust, on the mouth a traitor kiss, the equinox 272 on the brows the brand of lust, in the eyes the blaze of bliss! life, the pimp of malice, drags love with

ift. a book like this revives the drooping flower of hope; so long as there are people willing to try, there is still hope for humanity. a. c. how to sing a song. by yvette guilbert. the macmillan co. it is commonplace that yvette guilbert is the greatest artist of her period. it is a tragedy that her art happens to be ephemeral. the poignancy of such a realization is like that which one feels in the eternal greek which synge reawakened in the wild western world. i am thinking of riders to the sea. experience dulls us; words are prostituted in the brothel of life. in riders to the sea, synge says merely .a man was drowned. his genius sweeps away the cobwebs which time spins over the door of the cavern of our imagination. we realize the meaning of those words .a man was drowned. this power

BOOK OF ENOCH

righteous man whose eyes were opened by the lord, and he saw a holy vision in the heavens, which the angels showed to me. and i heard everything from them, and i understood what i saw: but not for this generation, but for a distant generation that will come. 1.3] concerning the chosen i spoke; and i uttered a parable concerning them: the holy and great one will come out of his dwelling. 1.4] and the eternal god will tread from there upon mount sinai, and he will appear with his host, and will appear in the strength of his power from heaven. 1.5] and all will be afraid, and the watchers will shake, and fear and great trembling will seize them, up to the ends of the earth. 1.6] and the high mountains will be shaken; and the high hills will be laid low and will melt like wax in a flame. 1.7]

e. 5.3] and consider how the seas and rivers together complete their tasks. 5.4] but you have not persevered in, nor observed, the law of the lord. but you have transgressed and have spoken proud and hard words with your unclean mouth against his majesty. you hard of heart! you will not have peace! 5.5] and because of this you will curse your days, and the years of your life you will destroy. and the eternal curse will increase and you will not receive mercy. 5.6] in those days, you will transform your name into an eternal curse to all the righteous. and they will curse you sinners forever. 5.7] for the chosen; there will be light, joy, and peace, and they will inherit the earth. but for you, the impious, there will be a curse. 5.8] when wisdom is given to the chosen they will all live, an

s, king of kings! your glorious throne endures for all the generations of the world, and blessed and praised! 9.5] you have made everything, and power over everything is yours. and everything is uncovered, and open, in front of you, and you see everything, and there is nothing that can be hidden from you. 9.6] see then what azazel has done; how he has taught all iniquity on the earth and revealed the eternal secrets that are made in heaven. 9.7] and semyaza has made known spells, he to whom you gave authority to rule over those who are with him. 9.8 and they went into the daughters of men together, lay with those women, became unclean, and revealed to them these sins. 9.9] and the women bore giants, and thereby the whole earth has been filled with blood and iniquity. 9.10] and now behold t

red me and said to me: enoch, why do you ask me about the fragrance of this tree, and why do you inquire to learn? 25.2] then i, enoch, answered him saying: i wish to learn about everything, but especially about this tree. 25.3] and he answered me, saying: this high mountain, which you saw, whose summit is like the throne of the lord, is the throne where the holy and great one, the lord of glory, the eternal king, will sit, when he comes down to visit the earth for good. 25.4] and this beautiful and fragrant tree, and no creature of flesh has authority to touch it until the great judgment, when he will take vengeance on all and bring everything to a consummation forever, this will be given to the righteous and the humble. 25.5] from its fruit, life will be given to the chosen; towards the

good. 25.4] and this beautiful and fragrant tree, and no creature of flesh has authority to touch it until the great judgment, when he will take vengeance on all and bring everything to a consummation forever, this will be given to the righteous and the humble. 25.5] from its fruit, life will be given to the chosen; towards the north it will be planted, in a holy place, by the house of the lord, the eternal king. 25.6] then they will rejoice with joy and be glad in the holy place. they will each draw the fragrance of it into their bones, and they will live a long life on earth, as your fathers lived. and in their days sorrow and pain, and toil and punishment, will not touch them. 25.7] then i blessed the lord of glory, the eternal king, because he has prepared such things for righteous me

will be gathered together all who speak with their mouths against the lord- words that are not fitting, and say hard things about his glory. here they will gather them together, and here will be their place of judgment. 27.3] and in the last days there will be the spectacle of the righteous judgment upon them, in front of the righteous, forever. for here, the merciful will bless the lord of glory the eternal king. 27.4] and in the days of the judgment on them they will bless him, on account of his mercy, according as he has assigned to them their lot" 27.5] then i myself blessed the lord of glory, i addressed him, and i remembered his majesty, as was fitting. 28.1] and from there, i went towards the east, to the middle of the mountain of the wilderness, and i saw only desert. 28.2] but it

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aping flames, or yodh, surround it, answering to the paths; of these, three fall below the right branch for aleph, men, and shin, seven above the central branch for the double 59 the high priestess the priestess of the silver star gimel moon 60 the empress the daughter of the mighty ones dalet venus 61 the emperor sun of the morning, chief among the mighty heh aries 62 the hierophant the magus of the eternal vau taurus 63 the lovers the children of the voice; the oracles of the mighty gods zain gemini 64 the chariot the child of the powers of the waters; the lord of the triumph of light chet cancer 65 fortitude the daughter of the flaming sword tet leo 66 the hermit the magus of the voice of power, the prophet of the eternal yod virgo 67 the wheel the lord of the of fate forces of life kop

BOOK OF PLEASURE

ital symbolism of the workings of our mind, etc*(2) the symbol of justice known to the romans is not symbolic of divine, or our justice, at least not necessarily or usually. the vitality is not exactly like water-nor are we trees; more like ourselves, which might incidentally include trees somewhere unlearnt-much more obvious in our workings at present. others say knowledge only is eternal, it is the eternal illusion of learning-the ukase of learning what we already know. directly we ask ourselves "how" we induce stupidity; without this conception what is there we could not know and accomplish? others for concentration, it will not free you, the mind conceiving the law is bondage. arrived at that, you will want deconcentration. dissociation from all ideas but one is not release but imagina

and this is his only release. by it he may put his pleasure where he will, and find satisfaction. the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 7 the consumer of religion kia, in its transcendental and conceivable manifestation. of name it has no name, to designate. i call it kia i dare not claim it as myself. the kia which can be expressed by conceivable ideas, is not the eternal kia, which burns up all belief but is the archetype of "self" the slavery of mortality. endeavouring to describe "it" i write what may be but not usually-called the "book of lies*(1. the unorthodox of the originable-a volant "sight" that conveys somehow by the incidental, that truth is somewhere. the kia which can be vaguely expressed in words is the "neither-neither" the unmodified "i

le ideas begin and end as light in its emotion, the ecstasy which the creation of the idea of self induces. the idea is unity by the formula of self, its necessary reality as continuity, the question of all things, all this universe visible and invisible has come out of it. as unity conceived duality, it begot trinity, begot tetragrammaton. duality being unity, is time, the complex of conception, the eternal refluctuation to the primeval reality in freedom-being trinity of dualities, is the six senses, the five facets of sex-projecting as environment for self-assimilation in denial, as a complete sexuality. being tetragrammaton of dualities is twelvefold by arrangement, the human complex, and may be called the twelve commandments of the believer. it imagines the eternal decimal, its multip

n forgetfulness-it may be the chance of its reality for you? when the prayer-(you are always praying) has transmutated to its blasphemy-you are attractive enough to be heard-your desire is gratified! what a somersault of humility! whether god is projected as master by fear or as the dweller within by love gods we are all the time, that is why divinity is always potential. its constant generation, the eternal delay-is life. this envy of the master or creator-the ultimate hope to follow in manner is also existence and the forfeiture of "life! the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 12 there is no scientific fact, it ever implies its opposite as equal fact, this is the "fact" then why trouble to prove anything a fact? this vain hope to prove finality is death

orgetting ideas of external and internal, he regards everything as self, and is the consciousness of non-resistance, has no horizon: he is free. on seeing the star-lit eyes and rosebud mouths, the breasts and loins of beautiful women, you become lovingly attached, but if you fear, consider constantly that they are merely the charred flesh and bones of yourself after the torture. the space between the eternal and "self" is it not a moral doctrine? by unbelieving all one believes and sedulously without anxiety not believing (by the "neither-neither" process, the principle becomes simple and cosmic enough to include what you are always desiring, and you are free to believe what was impossible. the desire is so mighty, it asks no permission, and suffers no consequences, but the ecstasy of its

e book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 20 being the imperceptible ecstasy of the "neither-neither- ever present but hidden by exhaustion through the cycle of unity. the certainty of consciousness is always the uncertainty of the perceived or experienced in whatever state it may be, the constant doubt spelling fear, pain, decay, and the like- the cause of evolution, the eternal incompletion. o, desire, listen! in point of virulence spiritual desire is as fatal as the sensuous. aspiration towards a "supreme" is a network of deadly desires because of cowardice within, ergo, some unsatisfied wisdom awaiting exploitation to suffer its evolutions. there is no final wisdom- there is no final desire. how can anything end? has to-day ever ended? these things are endl

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them for descent and return. 11 aleph in truth am i, the ox of solar fire whose radiance lighteth all the world, whose life-breath ebbeth and floweth in creatures great and small, whose power taketh form in all the acts of men, of beasts, of plants, yea, and of things which seem inanimate, as well. aleph am i, the patient burden-bearer, strong to carry the heavy load of the manifest. aleph am i, the eternal worker, by whose might all fields are tilled, and from whose life all seeds derive their growth and increase. aleph am i, the first and the root. from mine unfathomable will the universe hath its beginning. in my boundless wisdom are the types and patterns of all things. before all worlds i was; in all worlds i am; and when worlds are but a memory, i shall be. comment on aleph* a l e p

is life, and not mere being. thou knowest me not, o israel, if thou regardest me only as" he who is" they know me indeed who know that i am "he who liveth" i am life itself, and without mind there is no life. i am the essence of mind, and the essence of mind is will. of my will all created wills are but reflections, and. the essence of that will- what is it but desire? i am life eternal, and i am the eternal longing for manifestation, because of which i bring forth the shining worlds. for this do i divide myself, becoming two. 4 of these two, the first is the crown of my primal will. this, my superior nature, standeth above the world, which floweth forth from mine act of knowing. yet even the superior nature is to mine inmost essence as something outside, and therefore is it to me as beth

first three, and a heptad, which includes the sephiroth from chesed to malkuth. this heptad is the basis for many septenary schemes to be found in the literature of occultism. yet always behind the seven, and beyond it, is the supernal triad, for, as the book of formation tells us, the lights of emanation are "ten and not nine, ten and not eleven; that is, neither more nor less than ten. 4 "i am the eternal longing. this is an example of the author's use of gematria, the qabalistic method of establishing identities of meaning between words of the same number. each hebrew letter is also a number' the number of a word is the sum of the numeral values of its letters. the hebrew for "longing" is tahavaw, th a v h, and the number of this word is 412, equivalent to that of the letter-name beth

an, as when it is said "wisdom hath builded her a house; but elsewhere to this same wisdom the wise assign the title ab, the father. never is the heavenly wisdom known as mother, for she is the virgin substance of all things, whose purity naught can defile. 5 remember now that i myself am the pure knowing whence all manifestation ariseth. recall to mind that my superior nature is the primal will, the eternal watcher, under whose regard the stream of creation floweth. the substance of the stream is the inferior nature, wherein i see innumerable images of myself. these be all things and creatures, great and small [33] t h e book of t o k e n s whatever existeth is as a ripple on the surface of the stream, but all are of the one substance. thus all share in the peculiar quality of the stream

by the wise. they worship me with wisdom who turn their faces toward the east, for the shining of the dawn is a type of all my works [57] t h e book of t o k e n s 12 this whole creation is the irradiation of that limitless light which i am; but never shall mere man attain to the source of that divine illumination. none may grasp me; and to those who seek to capture me in the net of thought i am the eternal fugitive. yet though i elude pursuit, i am the source and support, even of the pursuers. i am, in truth, the food of all beings. the bread thou eatest is my body, the wine thou drinkest is my blood; for because creation took place with the letter heh, that letter is the ground of all created existence, the stuff from which every form is built, the supply for every need. 13 all this am

not free will" saith the fool; but the wise know that in all the chains of worlds there is no creature that hath any will apart from my one will. my will is free indeed, and he who knoweth it as the wellspring of his willing remaineth free from error. 6 let thy meditation bring thee to rest in that will. then in the midst of action shalt thou be at peace, and in thy busiest hours shalt thou find the eternal worker doing all things well in thee. lo, i guide thee all the way. rest thou in me [116] comment on lamed* l a m e d, pronounced lawmed. transcribed as" l. the number 30. meaning: ox-goad. the faithful intelligence. 1 the letter-name lamed means "ox-goad. the ox is aleph, called "the great ox of the breath of life, because ruach, r v ch, the life-breath, is assigned to aleph. the seco

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

churchgoers as something evil and negative.a danger to be opposed and subdued with a stronger, christian "magic" a more explicit adoption of supernaturalism in a religious context occurred within the black spiritual churches, a network of congregations that emerged within cities in the united states after the turn of the twentieth\ 114\ century. its earliest officially chartered congregation was the eternal life spiritualist church, founded in 1913 in chicago. the city was a veritable mecca for thousands of blacks who left the south between 1914 and 1918, and subsequently between 1939 and 1945, during what became known as the great migration. fleeing labor exploitation, a devastated agricultural economy, and jim crow segregation, masses of black southerners poured into chicago and other n

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opening banishing using the lotus wand. he, of course, will hold the wand by the white band as he draws the pentagrams (in this instance banishing with the black end symbolized of over matter. the connection and synthesis of the symbolism between the pentagram and the altar is unmistakable. g.h. frater s.r.m.d. writes the following "the pentagram is a powerful symbol representing the operation of the eternal spirit and the four elements under the divine proceedings of the letters of the name hwchy. the elements themselves in the symbol of the cross are governed by hwhy, but the letter c representing the \yhla jwr, the divine spirit, being added thereto, the name becometh hwchy or hcwhy, the latter when the letter c placed between ruling l and the other three letters of the tetragrammaton"

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f the subjective universe. it won't give you water in the desert, but understanding it will help you gain the strength of mind to remember to pack your water. it won't save your body from bad strategy, but it can change the likelihood of your surviving the body's demise. this was its original magical use, and is still its magical use. it operatively connects the setian to two points of reference. the eternal point of reference, that realm where such concepts as justice and beauty exist- and of the fact that you partake of that realm since you can conceive of these concepts. the other point is the everchanging world of time, where you can see the effect that your coming into being has had. like the ageless intelligence of the universe, you can interact with either realm, and you are in a pl

and fill yourself with the words xepera xeper xeperu. i have come into being and by my coming into being the way of coming into being has come into being! it reminds you of the importance of the present as shaping the future. it reminds you of your force of being which has created all of your knowledge of your past. it actively takes your past, present, and future and creates from them a gate to the eternal. it takes from the eternal and makes a gate for its manifestation through your life, which is afterall the magical link for the great work. pause at the threshold, touch the real, and move on. there's a universe waitiuncultus sabbati: provenance, dream and magistry the sabbatic craft is a name for a nameless faith. it is a term used to describe an ongoing tradition of sorcerous wisdom

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

or what has happened only to the global elite, they are missing the point i am making throughout. what is happening in the world is the here and now reflection of what is going on inside us, the human race. we created this reality. but how? contrary to what medical science is obsessed with telling us, the physical body is not the whole human being. it is the fantastic physical shell through which the eternal us experiences this physical world. there is far more to us than a body. creation is the expression of one infinite mind and all lifeforms are aspects of that one mind: what many people call god. we are each other. we are all god, if you xv w xvi..and the truth shall set you free wish to use that term. at the heart of this mind is a consciousness i see as a blinding light- the source c

force which attempts to work through all life forms, human and extraterrestrial, to control the planet. it is an extremely negative energy operating from the fourth dimension. the luciferic consciousness takes two main forms. different cultures give these forms different symbolic names. one seeks to imprison us in the material world by persuading us to reject all idea of the spiritual realms and the eternal nature of life. the other works on spiritually-minded people to persuade them to ignore the realities of the physical world and to float around in a spiritual daze. either way it means that the people involved can be controlled and their potential to bring positive change to the physical world is seriously curtailed. the veil of tears 9 the takeover of the earth by the extraterrestrial

t people do not realise exists, the potential for manipulation is enormous. the esoteric knowledge passed through the secret society network across the years has been a major factor in the creation of this two-speed science. the public is told about a limited and intentionally flawed science which goes back to darwin and others, while the far more advanced version remains hidden. the mind-spirit, the eternal part of us, is a series of interconnecting and interacting magnetic energy fields. these react with other magnetic energy fields and this is why people who live under electricity power lines are more prone to certain illnesses. the electromagnetic field thrown out by the power lines imbalances the magnetic mind-spirit of the people living nearby. this imbalance is passed through the mu

one person at the same time. it is possible to love all people and all lifeforms at the same time, in many different ways. it is possible to love those who love us and love those who hate us. so why do we say that everyone needs to love everyone to build a better world and yet feel guilty on the occasions when our bodies are involved? what a contradiction it all is. the body is only a vehicle for the eternal self, after all. a magnificent vehicle, yes, and an extension of us while in incarnation, but still a vehicle and not the eternal self. i am not calling for a sort of open-house-all-in-together-free-love society. it is up to the individuals involved to decide what their heart and intuition tells them. if people want to live together and not have sexual experience with anyone else, grea

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le believed himto be a master of logic.48 the population control policies of this century have beeninspired by the genocide principles of malthus, as i expose in .and the truth shall setyou free. again the scottish connection appears. six of the members of the lunarsociety were educated in edinburgh and so was charles darwin. another major voice inthe official dismantling of god and the denial of the eternal soul, was the frenchman,rene descartes, born in 1596 and called: the father of modern philosophy .49descartes was educated by the roman catholic branch of the babylonian brotherhood,the jesuits. he called himself a roman catholic all his life and yet his books were placedon the catholic index of forbidden books. his views would later be expounded by isaacnewton. both of them were fasci

expounded by isaacnewton. both of them were fascinated by the esoteric and alchemy. here we can see thatthe same force which created the religions of the ancient world, also designed the newscience. who created and sold the idea of a judgmental god and paradise only forbelievers? the very people who knew it wasnt true. who created the materialist andcosmic accident version of science that denies the eternal soul? the very people whoknew it wasnt true. this tradition is continued today by the movement known ashumanism. its manifesto, published in 1953, says that the universe is self existing andnot created; modern science offers the only acceptable definition of the universe andhuman values; and when you die you cease to exist.these two apparent opposites, religion and science, have many t

and have manyremarkably similar buildings andmonuments. domes and obelisksare particularly prevalent. here(left to right) we have st paulscathedral (london, thepantheon (paris) and thecongress building(washington..and (left to right) the egyptian obelisk called cleopatras needle in london, the obelisk from luxor in the placede ia concorde in paris, and the washington monument in washington dc202 the eternal flame is theclassic symbol of thebabylonianbrotherhood. here it isheld by thebrotherhood hero,prometheus (left, atthe rockefeller centrein new york. it can also be seenon the statue of libertyon an island in newyork harbour (left, andits mirror image on anisland in the riverseine in paris (right).the flame is used as a brotherhood signatureafter their assassinations. a flame was placed

s way. and they are not holding the torchof liberty, but the torch of the illuminated ones, the reptilian-aryan elite. the statue ofliberty is a brotherhood symbol which says: we control this country and we aretelling you so, but you are too stupid to see it! the torch is the most obviousbrotherhood signature.352when the brotherhood assassinated president kennedy in 1963, they put a lightedtorch, the eternal flame which has burned to this day, on his grave in the arlingtoncemetery after the murder in dallas the freemasons erected an obelisk in dealey plazaa few yards from the spot where kennedy was shot. at the top they placed a depictionof the lighted torch. when diana, princess of wales, was murdered in the pont delalma tunnel in paris, the shrine to her, where people left flowers, was a

roadsgo out across paris. on the road circle around the arc de triomphe are 12 points on theroad making a 12-pointed star. again the sun at the centre of the circle broken up into12 segments (see picture section. the main road going through this pattern is thefamous champs elysees and when you follow this line you can see how planned it allis. when you stand underneath the arc de triomphe next to the eternal flame of theunknown soldier, look in one direction, dead straight, and you see a big modernconcrete arch in the distance. when you turn and look the other way, again deadstraight, you look down the champs elysees to the 3,200 year old egyptian obelisk inthe place de concorde. beyond that in the same direct line you find another arch,similar to the arc de triomphe, but much smaller, and

a today, standing nearthe points where kennedy and oswald were murdered, is the obelisk erected by thefreemasons after the murders. the obelisk is symbolic of the penis of osiris infigure 51: the pyramid with the capstone missing. this isdealey plaza where john f kennedy was assassinated. 409egyptian legend and the one in dealey plaza has the flame or lighted torch at the top(see picture section. the eternal flame on the kennedy grave in arlington cemetery isthere for the same reason. the flame or lighted torch is the most obvious brotherhoodsignature and on kennedys grave the flame is within a circle, the ancient symbol of thesun. kennedy was also laid in state in the centre of a circle under the dome on capitolhill. there are 14 stones on the obelisk in dealey plaza, the number of pieces

DAVID ICKE RELATED THE HIDDEN GEARS OF FREEMASONRY

32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees- the masonic religion should be, by all of us initates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the luciferian doctrine. if lucifer were not god, would adonay whose deeds prove his cruelty, perdify and hatred of man, barbarism and repulsion for science, would adonay and his priests, calumniate him? yes, lucifer is god, and unfortunately adonay is also god. for the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two gods: darkness being necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive. thus, the doctrine of satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in lucifer, the equal of adonay; but lucifer, god of light and god of

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n the book of the dead as having legions of devils, known as seba as well as smaiu, who obey his commands. it seems also that there were a group of rebels who were of set and were defeated early on. set is mentioned in the egyptian book of the dead as having the skin of a bull. in the eleventh section of the tuat called reenqerrtaptkhatu, set is in the form of a serpent and called set-heh meaning the eternal set. when osiris came again, typhon plotted with seventy-two comrades, and with aso, the queen of ethiopia, to slay him -the egyptian book of the dead, e.a. wallis budge set is primarily regarded the same as the greek typhon, a serpent like daemon-god who is a patron spirit of sorcery and magick. plutarch explained that in egyptian astronomy seth or typhon was connected to the solar wo

ich this great serpent dwells, and the very abyss. leviathan is also another name for rahab, the angel of violence. the concept of this mysterious dragon is, according to the system of justinus39 leviathan is a bad angel. the hebrew term refers to leviathan as that which gathers itself together in folds, thus the coiling dragon. it should be known that the circle itself is timeless and represents the eternal spirit. leviathan in this instance is the guardian of the abyss and timeless in essence. isaiah 27:1 calls leviathan that crooked serpent. 39 from the legends of the jews, ginzberg. 36 the fallen angel rahab itself means violence and refers to his name or title as sar shel yam, in hebrew prince of the primordial sea. the source of the twin fallen angels leviathan and behemoth, presents

DION FORTUNE CEREMONIAL MAGIC UNVEILED

ome such great white lodge or temple of the illuminati, especially by certain american enterprises, for i refuse to call them occult orders; but i have never seen them substantiated. in fact, those who are loudest in their claims give out teaching which would disgrace a patent medicine circular. by their fruits ye shall know them and the fruits of these self styled adepti are bilious concoctions. the eternal temple in the heavens, however, is another matter and innumerable witnesses, of every age and faith, have borne witness to its existence; but they all declare that it is reached in vision, and not by any journey into the wilderness, however remote. it is to this eternal temple, and the masters who rule therein, that i personally look for my inspiration and my authority to initiate. wha

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e taken the second. there is a certain type of courage which does not fear dissolution, for it knows that all spiritual principles are indestructible, and so long as the archetypes persist, anything can be rebuilt. geburah is only destructive to that which is temporal; it is the servant of that which is eternal; for when by the acid activity of geburah all that is impermanent has been eaten away, the eternal and incorporeal realities shine forth in all their glory, every line revealed. 26. geburah is the best friend we can have if we are honest [page 182] sincerity has no need to fear his activities; indeed, it is the greatest we can have against the insincerity of others for there is nothing to equal the geburah-influence for debunking" both persons and viewpoints. 27. geburah and gedulah

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

egative evil. for it has also a "positives' aspect, the principle of destruction. we can best explain the cosmic function of the principle of destruction by calling it by its esoteric name of the scavenger of the gods. its function is to clear up behind the advancing tide of evolution, removing that which has become effete so that it may not choke and clog evolving life. we now find the answer to the eternal riddle as to why god tolerates the devil. the devil is the cosmic thrust-block and scavenger of the gods. it is this aspect of evil which is given a more detailed symbolism in the pantheons of other faiths, having its shiva and kali, or its pluto and hecate aspects. we can now see why these resistive and destructive forces are classed as gods and not as demons, for they are reactions a

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

the dead" and "ritual fun raire" which have been given to these texts, see lepsius, todtenbuch, p. 3; de roug, revue arch ologique, n.s, t. i, 1860, pp. 69-100. 2. see naville, einleitung, p. 24] p. xxxi continuity of doctrine in the theban version the main principles of the egyptian religion which were held in the times when the pyramid texts were written are maintained, and the views concerning the eternal existence of the soul remain unaltered. many passages in the work, however, show that modifications and developments in details have taken place, and much that is not met with in the early dynasties appears, so far as we know, for the first time. the vignettes too are additions to the work; but, although they depict scenes in the life beyond the grave, they do not seem to form a connec

er) of dangerous carnivora, in order that the courage of the animal may pass into them.[1] the flesh and blood of brave men also are, among semi-savage or savage tribes, eaten and drunk to inspire courage.[2] but the idea of hunting, killing, roasting and eating the gods as described above is not apparently common among ancient nations; the main object of the dead king in doing this was to secure the eternal life which was the peculiar attribute of the gods [1. robertson smith, the religion of the semites, p. 295; fraser, golden bough, vol. ii, p. 86. 2. the australian blacks kill a man, cut out his caul-fat, and rub themselves with it "the belief being that all the qualifications, both physical and mental of the previous owner of the fat, were communicated to him who used it; see fraser

who hath made all things--god is a spirit, a hidden spirit, the spirit of spirits, the great spirit of the egyptians, the divine spirit--god is from the beginning, and he hath been from the beginning, he hath existed from old and was when nothing else had being. he existed when nothing else existed, and what existeth he created after he had come into being, he is the father of beginnings--god is the eternal one, he is eternal and infinite and endureth for ever and aye--god is hidden and no man knoweth his form. no man hath been able to seek out his likeness; he is hidden to gods and men, and he is a mystery unto his creatures. no man knoweth how to know him--his name remaineth hidden; his name is a mystery unto his children. his names are innumerable, they are manifold and none knoweth th

of those who dwell in the god of creation, who love me, who spread (6) abroad fear of me, and who strike terror of me into those who dwell in their own places. behold me, for i am exalted upon my resting-place, nu (7) upon the place which is adjudged unto me. i am nu, and those who work evil shall not overthrow me. i am the eldest and the first-born son of matter; my (8) soul is the gods, who are the eternal souls. i am the creator of darkness who maketh his dwelling-place in the limits of the regions of heaven. i come, and my soul advanceth (9) over the way of the ancient ones. i cause darkness in the limits of the sky, and at my will i come unto the boundaries thereof i walk upon my feet, i am strong (10) to pass over the sky, and i fetter with bonds the darkness and the worm that hideth

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t us! o stability and movement! o day invested by night! o darkness veiled in light! o master who never retainest the wages of thy workmen! o silvery whiteness! o golden splendor! o crown of diamonds, living and melodious! thou who bearest the sky upon thy finger, like a ring of sapphire! thou who hidest under the earth, in the kingdom of gems, the wonderful seed of stars! all hail! reign; and be the eternal dispenser of riches, of which thou hast made us the guardians. amen. we most observe that the special kingdom of the gnomes is at the north; that of the salamanders at the south; that of the sylphs at the east; and that of the undines at the west. they influence the four temperaments of men (i. e, the gnomes, the melancholic; the salamanders, the sanguine; the undines, the phlegmatic;

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could not withstand them"'oh, well' he exclaimed with an impatient oath `you are a set of infernal fools; but since you insist on it, i'll do it "i knew what he meant and my blood boiled `you'll do what' i shouted above the din and confusion `why, set this poor devil ashore and let him die alone in the woods' replied the captain, purposely giving this extra twist, as may be said, to his rage `by the eternal 1' i shouted `the first motion you make to do that i'll shoot you dead in your tracks i "i had my pistol in my hand and brandished it over my head. my words, looks and manner were for the moment like a bombshell. i backed off, weapon in hand, and before the mob could recover and attack me, i shouted `the sick man is a free mason 1 brothers, rally to my support, for never was one of you

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er from one another in situation and degree of glory, just as there are different ranks among men, though they are all of one nature. this description, and all others resembling it (the twelve heavenly worlds of plato, and the heaven of the chinese, for example, can be understood as landmarks serving to denote the heights human intelligence has reached at various times in the attempt to represent the eternal and infinite in precise terms. seventeenth-century mystic jakob boehme recognized the whole deep between the stars, as the heaven of one of the three hierarchies, and placed the other two above it; in the midst of all which, he says, is the son of god; no part of either is farther or nearer to him, yet are the three kingdoms circular about him. the visions of emanuel swedenborg date a

itations from prehistoric times to the present. chicago: henry regnery, 1973. reprinted as mysteries of the earth: the hidden world of the extra-terrestrials. london: sidgwick and jackson, 1974. secret doors of the earth. chicago: henry regnery, 1975. bergier, jacques, and info editors. extraterrestrial intervention: the evidence. chicago: henry regnery, 1974. pauwels, louis, and jacques bergier. the eternal man. london: souvenir, 1972. impossible possibilities. new york: stein and day, 1971. le matin des magiciens. paris: editions gallimard, 1960. translated as the dawn of magic. london: anthony gibbs and phillips, 1963. reprinted as the morning of the magicians. new york: stein and day, 1964. bergman, samuel hugo (1883.1975) born december 25, 1883, at prague, czechoslovakia, he received

e has been contemplating over to krishna. is it worth ruling a kingdom, to kill so many kinsmen? krishna responds by calling arjuna to attend to his role in life as a member of the warrior caste, and not turn his back on his social duty (dharma. duty should be followed without regard of results. more importantly, however, he offers an understanding of the human being. the human is not a body, but the eternal atman (analogous to the soul in western thought, and the atman is indestructible. the atman cannot die and it is reborn in this life a number of times. just as humans change clothes, so the atman changes bodies. krishna goes on to outline the process of yoga and meditation through which a person can come to know the real amid the illusionary world of human life. his teaching culminates

was a fact of life. visions and dreams were a common means of receiving direction in one s life, and dream interpretation was a most valued skill, among the more famous incidents being those of joseph interpreting the dreams of pharaoh and of daniel in babylon (gen. 41; dan. 2. for many years israel was ruled by psychic seers or judges, who regularly received extrasensory information, a word from the eternal, and to whom the people could turn for guidance. decisions were commonly made by the casting of lots. the role of judge was vividly illustrated in the incident in which the future king david met israel s most renowned seer/judge samuel and asked him to help find a herd of lost donkeys (1 sam. 9) it would be samuel s duty to oversee the transition of israel from the rule of the judges t

find no rest there. at last he and lorenza journeyed to rome. in the beginning he was well received and was even entertained by several cardinals. he privately studied medicine and lived quietly, but he made the great mistake of attempting to further his masonic ideas within the bounds of the papal states. masonry was of course anathema to the roman church; and upon attempting to found a lodge in the eternal city itself, he was arrested on september 27, 1789, by order of the holy inquisition and imprisoned in the castle of saint angelo. his examination occupied his inquisitors for no less than eighteen months, and he was sentenced to death on april 7, 1791. he was recommended to mercy, however, and the pope commuted his sentence to perpetual imprisonment in the castle of saint angelo. on o

friend vincenzio, who was assisted by agnolino gaddi, he put into my hand a pintacula or magical chart, and bid me turn it towards the places that he should direct me; and under the pintacula i held the boy. the necromancer having begun to make his tremendous invocations, called by their names a multitude of demons, who were the leaders of the several legions, and questioned them by the power of the eternal uncreated god, who lives for ever, in the hebrew language, as likewise in latin and greek; insomuch that the amphitheatre was almost in an instant filled with demons more numerous than at the former conjuration. vincenzio romoli was busied in making a fire, with the assistance of agnolino, and burning a great quantity of precious perfumes. i, by the direction of the necromancer, again

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chains of thought readily accessible to the intelli- martin, dorothy r(andolph) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 984 gence. among the principles he discovered, for example, was that life is eternal and manifests in alternate periods of physical and spiritual existence (that is, reincarnation. martinus s teachings are summarized in his two books, livets bog (the book of life) and the eternal world picture. in 1935 he opened what has become the organization s primary center at the seaside resort town of klint. the work was slowed somewhat by world war ii, but by the 1960s affiliated centers had opened in germany, holland, sweden, and great britain. kosmos, the institute s magazine, appears in danish, german, french, english, swedish, esperanto, spanish, and dutch editions

oyed, as indicating a more exalted type of the art, but the designation is fanciful. white magic to a great extent concerned itself with the evocation of angelic forces and the spirits of the elements. the angelology of the catholic church was undoubtedly derived from the ancient faith of israel, which in turn was indebted to egypt and babylon. the alexandrian system of successive emanations from the eternal substance evolved a complex hierarchy of angels, all of whom appear to have been at the bidding of the magician who was in possession of the incommunicable name, a concept deriving from that of the name of power so greatly used in egyptian magic. the letters that composed this name were thought to possess a great measure of occult significance, and a power which in turn appears to have

evil from the subconscious like the vampire dracula, or the product of unrestrained animal-like urges, dr. jekyll s mr. hyde. such literary monsters have been powerfully represented in horror movies, which have presented increasingly terrifying creatures from the edge of civilization and human experience.swamps, ocean depths, and outer space. such fictional monsters undoubtedly owe their power to the eternal fascination of the clash between good and evil in human affairs and the old theological themes of judgment and damnation. few stories achieved this metaphysical terror so powerfully as robert louis stevenson s dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, in which the possibilities of evil inherent in all human beings are released from the kindly dr. jekyll in the shape of the demonic mr. hyde. stevenson a

uch as the incident reported in the journal of george fox, the quaker founder: at mansfield, where was a great meeting, i was moved to pray, and the lord s power was so great that the house seemed to be shaken. when i had done, some of the professors said, it was now as in the days of the apostles, when the house was shaken where they were. the levitation of john lacy, as described in warnings of the eternal spirit (part 2, 1707, made the chamber shake. the wesley family, during physical manifestations known collectively as the epworth phenomena, heard vast rumblings and clattering of doors and shutters. felicia scatcherd writes of a seance with etta wriedt in light (august 3, 1912: we all felt the floor, walls and windows vibrating. i have twice experienced earthquake shocks in the ionian

, august 2, 1920, and worked in journalism and french television. as a student he was fascinated by the romance of alchemy. his collaborator bergier was born 1912 and qualified as a chemical engineer during world war ii. pauwels was an active member of the french resistance movement. in the 1970s he was employed as the chief editor of figaro magazine. sources: pauwels, louis, and jacques bergier. the eternal man. london: souvenir, 1972. le matin des magiciens. paris: editions gallimard, 1960. english edition as: the dawn of magic. london: anthony gibbs and phillips, 1963. reprinted as the morning of the magicians. new york: stein and day, 1964. der planet der unmoglichen moglichkeiten. bern: scherz verlag, 1968. english edition as impossible possibilities. new york: stein and day, 1971. pe

to aspect psychology (1975, roberts gives the background and development of the seth communications and discusses what she calls aspect psychology, based on the concept that human consciousness is mobile. the seth communications developed in various levels of awareness (seth i, ii, and iii. they were tape recorded, and have been transcribed and published in a series of books, notably seth speaks; the eternal validity of the soul (1972) and the nature of personal reality: a seth book (1974. the popularity of the volumes led to the production of a series of texts through the 1970s and have been credited with generating the renewed interest in channeling so evident in the new age movement of the 1980s. these communications cover a whole range of topics of concern to religious and metaphysical

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ts remained re c l u s i ve and publicity- shy and rarely appeared in public. sh e died on september 5, 1984. after her death other channelers claimed to have heard fro m seth. one, thomas massari, re p o rted that seth had communicated with him as early as 1 9 7 2. see also: channeling further reading roberts, jane, 1970. the seth material. englewood cliffs, nj: prentice-hall, 1972. seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul. englewood cliffs, nj: prentice-hall. seth 221, 1978. the afterdeath journal of an american philosopher: the world view of william james. englewood cliffs, nj: prentice-hall, 1981. the god of jane: a psychic manifesto. englewood cliffs, nj: prentice-hall. shaari shaari is an extraterrestrial who inhabits the body of a young professional woman. the woman, an occasio

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lders. turn him back into his favourite form, that he may crawl on his belly, before me in the sand, that i may trample him beneath my feet, the outcast- not the first one -woe! woe! that no human soul can grasp it, that more than one creature has sunk down into the depths of this misery, that the first one, in writhing, deathly agony, did not atone for the guilt of all the others in the sight of the eternal pardoner! the misery of this single one pierces the marrow of my life; and you are calmly grinning at the fate of thousands! mephistopheles now we are again at our wits end, there where the reason of you mortals snaps from over-stretching. why do you enter into fellowship with us if you can not carry it through? will you fly and are not safe from dizziness? did we force ourselves on yo

your arms to nestle and hide me, that was a sweet, a lovely bliss! but now, much as i try, it seems to go amiss. it seems to me as if i must force myself on you and you thrust me back, and yet it s you, so kind, so good to see. faust if you feel it is i, then come with me! margaret out there? faust to freedom! margaret if the grave s out there, death lurking near, then come with me! from here to the eternal bed of rest and no step further- no! you go away now? henry! oh, that i could go! faust you can! just will it! open stands the door. margaret i dare not go; for me there s no hope any more. why flee? they ll surely lie in wait for me. it is so wretched to beg one s way and with an evil conscience too. it is so wretched, in unknown parts to stray, and they will seize me anyway. faust i

cure, neglect it not! be quick, dismount! we ve reached the spot. faust say, whither have you in this gruesome night borne me through pebbly waters in our flight? chiron here rome and greece each bearded each in fight, olympus on the left, peneus on the right. the greatest realm that ever was lost in sand; the monarch flees, the conquering burghers stand. look up! here stands, significantly near, the eternal temple in the moonlight clear. manto [dreaming within. from horse-hoofs bounding the sacred stairs are resounding; demigods are drawing near. chiron. quite right! raise your eyes; behold who s here! manto [awakening] welcome! i see you do not fail to come. chiron likewise for you still stands your temple-home. manto are you still roaming, never weary? chiron well, you abide in stillnes

ctor marianus [prostrate, adoring. penitents, look up, elate, where ye see salvation; grateful, to you blessed fate grow through re-creation. may each better sense be keen in thy service precious; o thou virgin, mother, queen, goddess, be thou gracious! chorus mysticus. all earth comprises is symbol alone; what there ne er suffices as fact here is known; all past the humanly wrought here in love; the eternal-womanly draws us above. fi wthis chart shows the correlations between the sinatic hebrew, ezra hebrew, and rashi aramaic alphabets. the numerical value assigned to each letter by the qabalah, and the english equivalents are also listed. my wonderful mother and father, may the lord be pleased with their souls, steeped our family life in the extraordinary richness of jewish culture and i

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s small face chosen ideal, intimacy, compassion, sense of beauty, ritual, and mental renunciation. by far the most common meditative practices in small face yoga in all mystical traditions involve root mantra, visualizations, and often breathing exercises. so remember (dikhr) the name of allah and devote thyself with a complete devotion. 1 the great sage of arunachala sri ramana maharshi2 taught: the eternal, unbroken, natural state of abiding in the self is jnana [knowledge of the ayn. to abide in the self, you must love the self. since god is verily the self, love of the self is love of god and that is bhakti [devotion to one small face. jnana and bhakti are thus ultimately one and the same. 3 ,0' the tree of life and divine names are two distinct patterns. a particular name will empower

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

ned. henri, says bruno in his spaccio della bestia trionfante. loves peace, he preserves his contented people as much as possible in tranquillity and devotion; he is not pleased with the noisy uproar of martial instruments which administer to the blind acquisition of the unstable tyrannies and principalities of the earth; but with all manner of justice and sanctity which show the straight road to the eternal kingdom' i suggested also, that bruno's philosophy had a religious background to it and had behind it a conciliatory religious mission to protestant england. french religious hermetism, and the catholic religious hermetism of a capucin like rosseli, is something which bruno would have known in the parisian atmosphere from which he came. nevertheless his own hermetism, his own "new phil

are the pure in heart, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. he loves peace, he preserves his contented people as much as possible in tranquillity and devotion; he is not pleased with the noisy uproar of martial instruments which administer to the blind acquisition of the unstable tyrannies and principalities of the earth; but with all manner of justice and sanctity which show the straight road to the eternal kingdom. let not the bold, tempestuous and turbulent spirits among his subjects hope that whilst he lives (the tranquillity of whose spirit does not encourage warlike fury) he will give assistance to those who, not in vain, seek to disturb the peace of other countries on the pretext of acquiring other crowns and other sceptres; for tenia coelo manet. in vain shall the rebel french forc

the tropics, heats the frozen bear, and dissolves 1 ibid, p. 44. 2 "the religious policy of giordano bruno, j.w.c.i, iii (1939-40, p. 189. 3 it should be remembered in this connection that in elizabethan england it was only at the foreign embassies that the mass could be openly celebrated. 4 see above, p. 230. 254 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic philosophy the arctic ice which lies under the eternal sway of proud bootes."1 this connects the cena de le ceneri with the equally celestial appearance of henri iii in the spaccio della bestia trionfante. it may also connect with the royal palace which appears in the strange picture in which, in the dedication of the cena to the ambassador, bruno summarises the contents of that most strange work (in the second dialogue) you will see, firs

hich the divine light, which shines in things "takes possession of the soul, raises it, and converts it into god."1 the darts which wound the heart of the lover are "the innumerable individuals and species of things, in which shine the splendour of the divine beauty."2 there are theologians who have taught how to seek the truth of nature in all her specific natural forms in which they contemplate the eternal essence, the specific substantial perpetuator of the eternal generation and vicissitude of things which are called after their founders and fabricators, and above them all presides the form of forms, the fountain of light, the truth of truths, the god of gods, for all is full of divinity, truth, being, and goodness.3 the sun, the universal apollo, the absolute light, is reflected in it

arvellous than nature itself, and such works are called miracles. for man is the image of god, at least he who by the furor of venus has been made like to god and lives only in the mens. the hebrew and cabalist doctors say that the soul of man is the light of god, created in the image of the word, first pattern of the cause of causes, substance of god, marked with a seal of which the character is the eternal word. having understood this, hermes trismegistus said that man is of such a kind that he is higher than the inhabitants of heaven, or at least possessing with them an equal fate' i think that this gives the answer as to the real meaning of the heroic love furores of the eroici furori, they are the furor of venus interpreted as the means whereby man becomes the magnum miraculum of the

an sects who should be replaced by a religion of love and a cult of nature. if the disciple is such a devoted giordanist that he has been with bruno in paris he will wonder when he sees the two diagrams labelled "plectrum mordentii" 1 see above, pp. 309, 311. 2 op. lat, i l l, p. 416. 3 ibid, p. 535. d. w. singer giordano bruno, etc, p. 71) speaks of bruno's "cosmic metabolism" in connection with the eternal motion of the minima* op. lat, i (ii, pp. 171-2. s op. lat, i (iii, pp. 277-83. 319 giordano bruno in germany and" quadra mordentii"1 whether these may not have something to do with the controversy about a compass in paris under the league. the whole of the book de mensura appended to the de triplici minimo seems to me very peculiar. though he does seem to be going through the differen

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rful divine, the purity of eternal light, the spotless mirror of the operations of god, and the image of his goodness; it is a one, yet it is capable of becoming a plurality. the prophets saw the divinity clothed in a garment white as snow, and his hair white, like unto wool "god created the universe from his love, and he sustains it by his wisdom. in every system of cosmogony, the divine wisdom, the eternal light dissipates the primitive darkness, and fashions the world in the womb of chaos" this symbol is also represented by a white taper, which at the opening of the lodge you are (presumed) to light at the altar, thereby reminding you that before entering upon the important duties of your station you should first seek to be enlightened by the divine wisdom,which can only be obtained by

rother, assured that in the larger life of the spirit upon which he has entered thou wilt do for him more abundantly than we can ask or think. remember in thy great mercy his sorrowing relatives and friends. give to them thy peace which passeth all understanding that they may be comforted. may they not sorrow as those who have no hope, but with spiritual vision see beyond the grave the glories of the eternal life to which thou hast called their loved one. teach us anew the brevity of this earthly life, even at its longest. help us to live as becometh immortals, giving ourselves in goodly and loving sefvice to thee and to humanity, that when this earthly house of our tabernacle is destroyed we may have an abundant entrance into that maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/blue

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inology, and it is said that he was king of salem, salem meaning peace. since then humanity has been divided into two sexes, male and female, and placed under the dual rulership of a king having dominion over their temporal affairs and aiming to advance them by industry and statecraft, and a priest, head of the priestcraft, exercising a spiritual authority, in such a manner as they considered for the eternal good of their charges. the statecraft employed by the sons of cain holds up the male ideal, hiram abiff, the master craftsman, the son of fire, while the sons of seth as priestcraft uphold the female ideal in the virgin mary, the lady of the sea. thus fire and water, male and female, church and state, are opposed to each other, with the inevitable result that a great war has been waged

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d qualities of solomon and hiram, but who is purified from their weaknesses. for the queen of sheba is the composite soul of humanity, and at the consummation of the work of our evolutionary era she will be the bride, while christ, whom paul called a high priest after the order of melchisedec, will fill the dual office of both spiritual and temporal head, where he will be both king and priest, to the eternal welfare of mankind at large who are now in bondage either to church or state but waiting, whether they realize it or not, for the day of emancipation, symbolically represented as the millennium, when there will be a wonderful city, a new jerusalem, a city of peace. and the earlier this amalgamation can be brought about, the better for humanity. therefore, an attempt was made at the tim

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concerned. gblessed are those who have not seen and have believed h, says the great master. 10 the origins of the qabala the origins of the qabalah are primeval; they are lost in the mists of legend, magic, and folklore. they have grown through a process of mystical integration until they have absorbed all the great myths of the world. the qabalah is consequently a universal philosophy, combining the eternal masculine and the eternal feminine, and cementing them into the eternally human. so it happens that wherever we search we find origins. thus in essenism we find qabalism. the essenes were not to divulge the secret doctrines to anyone. carefully to preserve the books belonging to their sect and the names of the angels or the mysteries connected with the tetragrammaton and the other name

etter shin, also the caduceus of hermes with its central rod and its two entwined serpents, and also the ida, pingala, and central shushumna of hindu yoga. the whole scheme is symbolized in the temple of solomon, the temple itself being the central pillar, whilst its two pylons, yakhin and boaz, the white and the black, the right and the left, represent the tree of the knowledge of good and evil- the eternal complementary forces in life without which nothing can be. this symbolism is an excessively ancient one thus, in the norse mythology we find the mystic tree yggdrasil, the roots of which are in the material world and the branches of which reach up to asgard, the happy dwelling of the gods. again, amongst the akkadians, chaldeans, and babylonians we find the world tree, or tree of life

e aur, or light; then ten sephirotic rings of light, one grosser than the other, until the last is composed of air, fire, water, earth, and spirit, or od, heh, vau, heh, and shin, in which the form is visible because of the existence of the spirit. by the cry gyehe aur h (let there be light) was the world created, and yehe is a combination of od and heh (hy- the great father and the great mother- the eternal complements. finally, it may be asked: what was the reason for the creation? and the qabalist answers: this is not a rightful question, because god is beyond reason. to him omnipotence supposes authority, necessity, and liberty, and through necessity the universe came into being in the form of authority and liberty- law and free will. necessity is in fact the divine mystery which is be

t the earth gravitated round the sun, hid away this knowledge because it revealed the law of attraction and repulsion (the law of creation, so now did man and woman veil the knowledge of the conjunction of the vau and the heh (which is but a reflection of the union of the od and the heh) by means of aprons, tha:t is by turning this knowledge into a mystery no sooner were the mysteries hidden than the eternal opposites, the man and the woman, heard the voice of tetragrammaton gwalking in the garden h. it is the primal light, shin, formulated by the mystic union of the od and heh (jah) and the vau and heh (veh. as they heard it they hid themselves from gthe presence of the lord god h. when questioned, the active force (vau) accuses the passive force (heh, and jah curses the serpent (the mess

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a creator which the human mind was able to conceive. not only did this emblem represent fertility, or the fecundating energies of nature, but with the power to create were combined or correlated all the mental qualities and attributes of the two sexes. in fact the whole universe was contained in the mother idea--the child, which was sometimes female, sometimes male, being a scion or offshoot from the eternal or universal unit. underlying all ancient mythologies may be observed the idea that the earth, from which all things proceed, is female. even in the mythology of the finns, lapps, and esths, mother earth is the divinity adored. tylor calls attention to the same idea in the mythology of england "from the days when the anglo-saxon called upon the earth 'hal wes thu folde fira modor (hail

ir power to control circumstances coupled with the ability to reproduce or create, had become god, they assumed the titles or names of the deity; hence, it is not perhaps singular that in later times kings and heroes were invested with all the attributes of the gods. we have seen that according to various writers om or amm was the holy one whose name in india it was sacrilege to pronounce. it was the eternal sun, or the great mother. as this word stands also for "tribe or people" it seems to mean, too, that which binds, holds, or endures. as om or amm signifies the great mother, so an or on means the great father. concerning the word am-mon, inman writes as follows "the association of the words signifying mother and father indicates that it is to such conjunction we must refer creative pow

ncient philosophers believed matter to be eternal, hence, seeming death, or destruction, was necessary to renewed life or regeneration. in other words, creation was but continuous change in the form of matter. of the doctrines of the sethians extant at the beginning of christianity, hippolytus says that their system "is made up of tenets from natural philosophers. these tenets embrace a belief in the eternal logos--darkness, mist, and tempest" these elements subsequently became identified with the evil principle, or the devil. the cold of winter, the darkness of night, and water, were finally set forth as the trinity. regarding cold, darkness, and water, or darkness, mist, and tempest, hippolytus observes "these the sethian says are the three principles of our system; or when he states tha

ism, it has been possible, even under its present condition of decay, for scholars to unravel the hitherto mysterious significance of this remarkable structure. stonehenge is composed of four circles of mammoth upright shafts twenty feet high, the one circle within the other, with immense stones placed across them like architraves. in ancient symbolism the circle was the emblem of eternity, or of the eternal female principle. mountains were also sacred to the gods. it has been said that a ring of mountains gave rise to these circular temples. faber assures us that a circular stone temple was called the circle of the world or the circle of the ark, that it represented at once the inclosure of the noetic ship; the egg from which creation was produced; the earth, and the zodiacal circle of th

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kofmysteryandvision: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 summits of heroism and sacrifice. it has been revealed. to me in vision that by a voluntary act we may transfer the merits of a noble and virtuous existence to the most chaste and starbright soul of israfel,whowill shine in the eternal worldwiththeirnputedmeritofbothour lives(israfel,pp.11-12).israfel is described invariably in terms of sexual purity:'hestandswithface transfigured in a virgin's robe;'heis a white virgin whose spotless maidenhood isour faith,ourpioushope;ourbondofbrotherhood in the charityofthenewlife;'hischief emblem is the unicorn, in which inviolate chastity is typified (pp.13, 28,31).but if waite'

faith slowly ebbed away intheyearsthatfollowed he became increasingly sceptical of the church's teaching on the posthumous state of the soul, and increasingly pessimistic about the very possibility of survival. his doubt is reflected in an untitled sonnetwrittenin1878,which concludeswiththese lines:though life has parted us, let death unitejustone shortmoment!-andwith that-adieu! for, gazing into the eternal night, no torch nor starlight come to help us through. how joyless there for both if we should meet in death's dark maze, roaming with wearyfeet!alamentfrom the same year, ends even more bleakly:whatis life itself but madness?whatis death but endless night?amidst all this gloom and despair the awareness of death was ever present, for by1879waite and his mother had moved to victor road

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ion to seth, hermes and solomon.theybear certain hieroglyphical texts from the xviith and cxxvth chapters of the ritual of the dead.theyare the door-postsofthe gateway of the hidden wisdom, they are the emblemsofeternal equilibrium,ofthe dual powersofday and night, love and hatred, severityand mercy, fixed and volatile, work and rest, the subtle force of the loadstone, with its dual polarity, and the eternal outpouring and inpouring of the heart of god.thelamps that burn with a veiled light upon their summits point out that the path of the hidden knowledge is the straight and narrow way between them, unlike the path of nature, which is a continual undulation, the coiling and uncoilingofthe serpent.itwas for this that i passed between the pillars when you were restored to the light and for

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f in the grandeur and tenuity of the word paintingofthe divine portrait. divine anthropomorphism it may be,butan anthro255 pomorphism so hazy by means of its unapproachable grandeur,thatthehumanelements affording the bases of the analogy quite disappear in the heavenlymanof their divine reveries.permitme to afford to you an example of one sublime deific dream.'inthis conformation he is known:heis the eternal of the eternal ones; the ancient of the ancient ones; the concealed of the concealed ones,andin his symbols he is knowable although he is unknowable. white are his garments,andhis appearance is as a face, vastandterrible in its vastness.upona throne of flaming brilliance is he seated, sothathe may direct its flashing rays. into forty thousand worlds the brightness of his skull is exten

lete ideals, three complete and absolute conceptions of the one god, three in one, and three in each of the triads, nine and one; the circle, and the axis around which the circle revolves; the essence and the existence of the two hieroglyphic signs of number, of the decad,the volatile and the fixed, the moveable and the stable, form variable to infinity, and being unchangeable in its essence, are the eternal balance of life. form undergoing improvement, and being reborn more full of life, after an apparent destruction, this is progress, this is victory or netsach. order always identical, law always stable, existence always indestructible, it is eternity, it is thejod,it is the harmony of two contraries, it is the law of creation, the jesod.thetwo forces, and this law of harmony are reveale

ain soph aur above them is the mystic blazing star in the east. wisdom, strength, and beauty are the sephirotic triad of chochmah, geburah, and tiphereth.theseveral emanations of the sephiroth of the kabbalah, one proceeding from the other, produce, as they are always designed in visible form, a tortuous path, at once reminding us of the winding staircase. indeed one form of the contemplation of the eternal was described by the kabbalists as ascending by the sephirotic names and descending by the paths. this tortuous path is also like the lightning flash, as is said in the sepher yetzirah or 'book of formations, which has been translated by myself and is now published at bath, and is, perhaps, the oldest monotheistic philosophical tract in exist255 ence. note, the son of god is also spoke

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which they connect. 34. there is a hieroglyphic form of writing hebrew words. by using the symbols to which the letters correspond in the yetziratic attribution. 35. this is the symbol of sulphur on the tree of life.kbg 225h 225t225y.mch225 chs225 n36. this is the symbol ofsalton the tree of life.ky .m36 the sorcererand his apprentice37. the calvary cross of 12 squares refers to the zodiac and to the eternal rivers of eden divided into four heads.naharn38. the four rivers of paradise issuing from the one river are: the spiritnaharthe one river.6pison6hiddekel'i'"1my'phrath\jgmox39. the square pyramid is attributed to the four elements: on the apex is the word ethmnmeaning essence: on the base is olamho'w,meaning world. 40. the calvary cross oftensquares refers to the ten sephiroth in balan

bols of theo=0 degree of neophyte, your attention has been directed to the general mystical meaning of the iuxtaposition.of the two pillars, and therefore i will only beg of you to notice that the hieroglyphics of one are painted in black. upon a white ground, andtl;j.oseof'theother in the samercolours but reversed, the better to express the interchange and reconcile255 ment of opposing forces in the eternal balanceoflight and darkness, which gives form to the visible universe. the black square bases represent darkness and matter wherein the spirit, the ruachelohim, formulate the eternal pronunciation of. the ineffable name: that name which the rabbins of old have said rllsheth through the universe;thatname before which rolled back the darkness at the birth of the morning of time. the flam

ve passed from the gate of death unto life.address onthepillars49the sun's power beginneth again, after he hath set he riseth again (so doth the justified spirit of man) i amthegreat god, begotten of himself. i can never be turned back by the elementary powers: i am the morning, i know the gate (i ever rise again into existence; i know the pathway through death unto life.)thefather of the spirit, the eternal soul of the sun, he hath examined and he hath proved me; he hath found that i fought on earth the battle of the good gods- ashe,myfather, lord of the invisible world, hath ordered me to do. i know the great god who existeth in the invisible. i am the great phoenix which is in annu, the former of my life and my being ami.the symbols on the columns, beginning at the top of the one with b

at the balance-point of the wheel, holding a drawn sword between its lion's claws.12. the devil.throned on a cube above the universe is a goat-headed, satyr-like figure, bearing on its brow the pentagram, apex upward, so as to make it a symbol of light. with one hand it points upwards to the symbol of the moon in increase, with the other downwards to that of the moon in decrease, thus symbolising the eternal equilibrium of mercy and justice; the first two fingers and thumb of each hand are extended as in giving the sign of benediction. one arm is feminine, the other masculine. the torch of intelligence is placed between its horns, as the magical light of the universal equilibrium. the caduceus which holds the place of the generative organs signifies the eternity of life; the belly is cover

dside of the lord's anointed 'cha till! cha till! i hear the lament wailing through the mean room, recalling howitwailed when the galleys sailed from dunvegan. the room melts away; up in the sky i catch the gleam of tartan, and i see him at last- my boy 255 beautiful and brave as i saw him last, and now comes swelling the grand cadence of our pibroch. there is a great white light that issues from the eternal throne, and falls on the soul of our prince, lighting up the serried ranks of the loyal clans, waiting there to welcome him, and to breathe down on scotland the gracious promise: the night shall pass, and the royal race shall yet return' so did old marsaly tell me the story of the famous lament, and of the composer of the words. but before the end of my holidays she had left skye, and

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these doctrines into it. the doctrine that was introduced into judaism from ancient egypt was the kabbalah. like the system of the egyptian priests, the kabbalah was an esoteric system, and its basis was the practice of magic. interestingly, the kabbalah provides an account of creation quite different from that found in the torah. it is a materialist account, based on the ancient egyptian idea of the eternal existence of matter. murat ozgen, a turkish freemason, has this to say on this topic: it is evident that the kabbalah was composed many years before the torah came into existence. the most important section of the kabbalah is a theory about the formation of the universe. this theory is very different from the story of creation accepted by theist religions. according to the kabbalah, at

unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values. sixth: we are convinced that the time has passed for theism, deism, modernism, and the several varieties of "new thought."35 in the above articles, we see the expression of a common philosophy that manifests itself under such names as materialism, darwinism, atheism and agnosticism. in the first article, the materialist dogma of the eternal existence of the universe is put forward. the second article states, as the theory of evolution does, that human beings were not created. the third article denies the existence of the human soul claiming that human beings are composed of matter. the fourth article proposes a "cultural evolution" and denies the existence of a divinely ordained human nature (a special human nature given

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thened the fountains of the deep: when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the the gnostic handbook page 31 foundations of the earth: then i was by him, as one brought up with him: and i was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him. proverbs 1:20-33, 8:22,27-30. this great being, both royal and feminine, who being neither god nor the eternal son of god, neither angel nor saint, receives the veneration of the one who accomplishes the old testament, as well of the one who is the begetter of the new testament; who is she, then, but the truest humanity, the purest and most whole of beings, the macrocosmic whole, the living soul of nature and of the universe eternally united and uniting in the process of time with the divine an

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other, as a bird throws its children out of the nest so they may grow, so man must struggle for liberation. it is the greatest in, the only one that cannot be forgiven, to stay at the bosom of mother earth. for to stay in the relative safety of the earth is to destroy the only opportunity for immortality, the new man. the new man is the birth of the true self, the overman. he has broken free from the eternal cycles of earth and achieved post human status. he has been liberated from the archonic dominion of the demiurge and experiences the light of the pleroma. he is strength, lust and nobility. there can be no individual immortality in the wave, only in the ecstasy of the overman, this is the essence of the gnosis. morality and ethics it is too easy to speak of morals in a conservative soc

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is spirit unto me without violence or harm this is my will. the constraint i do conjure and summon thee, spirit n. by the flaming essence of the forked stave of the sun, the adversarial shadow and burning fire which is the prince of spirits, angels and daemon. come thou forth and without delay to me, spirit n. by adonai, the lord of the earth, by the axis of the sun and the moon i summon thee. by the eternal fire, come now unto this circle be welcomed unto me. welcome unto the spirit welcome spirit n. you are welcomed in this meeting place within the crossroads. i have summoned you forth, to join with me, by the union of heaven and hell. i bind this within this circle, take flesh and desire within thy sigil of calling, which i shall give unto thee life. thou shalt not leave this circle unt

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ability and motion! o darkness veiled in brilliance! o day clothed in night! o master who never dost withhold the wages of thy workmen! o silver whiteness! o golden splendor! o crown of living and melodious diamond! thou who wearest the heavens on thy finger like a ring of sapphire! thou who hidest beneath the earth in the kingdom of gems, the marvelous seed of the stars! live, reign, and be thou the eternal dispenser of the treasures whereof thou hast made us the wardens! amen. give the zelator sign repeat the qabalistic cross. note: a few of the benefits that may be obtained from this ritual; it will aid in grounding mental and emotional conditions, it will allow the student to call forth the four elements of earth within his/her circle, and the zelator will have the ability to commune w

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lity and motion! o darkness veiled in brilliance! o day clothed in night! o master who never doest withhold the wages of thy workmen! o silver whiteness o golden splendour! o crown of living and harmonious diamond! thou who wearest the heavens on thy finger like a ring of sapphire! thou who hidest beneath the earth in the kingdom of gems, the marvellous seed of the stars! live, reign, and be thou the eternal dispenser of the treasures whereof thou hast made us the wardens. amen. the prayer of the sylphs or air spirits. spirit of life! spirit of wisdom! whose breath giveth forth and withdraweth the form of all things: thou before whom the life of beings is but a shadow which changeth, and a vapour which passeth; thou who mountest upon the clouds, and who walkest upon the wings of the wind

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lor. this alludes to a deep and profound mystery. the mystery is that the macroprosopus is represented by hyha and is contained, yet hidden, within the symbol of the microprosopus. the symbol of the microprosopus is the pentagram, while the symbol of the macroprosopus is the hexagram. the pentagram is a most potent symbol and is the signet star of the microprosopus. it represents the operation of the eternal and divine spirit and the four elements under the divine presidency of the name, hwchy. to understand this profound mystery is of the greatest importance to the adept. the right arm of the pentagram is attributed to the element of n. it is represented by the kerubic, h, and the cup. the color of this point of the pentagram is blue. the horizontal line forming the top portion of this po

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ablet of union, i invoke ye, ye divine forces of the spirit of life. i invoke ye, ye angels of the celestial spheres whose dwelling is in the invisible. ye are the guardians of the gates of the universe! be ye also the watchers of our mystic vault. keep far removed the evil and the unbalanced; strengthen and inspire the initiates, so that we may preserve unsullied this abode of the 4 mysteries of the eternal gods. let this place be pure and holy, so that we may enter in and become partakers of the secrets of divine light (he replaces the incense upon cand resumes his place saying "the sun daily returning is the dispenser of light to the earth. let us thrice complete the circle of this place, the abode of the invisible sun (chief adept leads, second adept follows, then all the others, and t

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in some cases, when sleeping does the higher will only manifest itself by dream unto the ordinary man. 8 in other cases, it may be manifested; at the times through the sincere practice of religious rights or in cases where the opportunity of self-sacrifice occurs. in all these cases, the lower will hath, for a moment, recognized a higher form of itself, and the hwhy of the man hath reflected from the eternal lord the higher self. this yechidah is the only part of man which can truly say- hyha, i am. this is but the rtk of assiah of the microcosm, that is, it is the highest part of man as man. it is that which toucheth the manifestor of the higher and greater range of being. this yechidah is, at the same, the higher human self and the lower genius- the god of man, the atziluth of his assiah

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he blessings of yhshvh, be with you now and forever more, and let there be peace between me and you. i now declare this temple and rite duly closed" step 34 knock/ belletz1 the enterer of the threshold r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 the general exordium the speech in the silence: the words against the son of night: the voice of thoth before the universe in the presence of the eternal gods: the formulas of knowledge; the wisdom of breath; the radix of vibration; the shaking of the invisible: the rolling asunder of the darkness: the becoming visible of matter: the piercing of the coils of the stooping dragon: the breaking forth of the light: all these are in the knowledge of tho-oth. the particular exordium at the ending of the light: at the limits of the night: tho

, and the arms and body of the tunic, the cross. the symbolism of the temple the bases of the two pillars are respectively in jxn and dwh; the white pillar being in jxn and the black pillar in dwh. they represent the two pillars of mercy and severity. the bases are cubical and black to represent the l element in twklm. the columns are respectively black and white to represent the manifestation of the eternal balance of the scales of justice. upon them should be represented in counterchanged color any appropriate egyptian designs, emblematic of the soul. 5 the scarlet tetrahedronal capitals represent the o of test and trial, and between the pillars is the porchway of the region immeasurable. the twin lights which burn on their summits are "the declarers of the eternal truth" the bases of th

renewed. for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris, the justified one: i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh, yet in whom is the spirit of the great gods. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. he who partaketh with me shall arise with me. i am the manifestor in matter of those whose abode is the invisible: i am purified. i stand upon the universe. i am its reconciler with the eternal gods: i am the perfector of matter: and without me, the universe is not" 6 technically, the door is supposed to be situated behind the seat of hiereus in the west but it may be in any part of the neophyte hall, seeing that the walls represent the barrier to the exterior "the gate of the declarers of judgment" is its name and its symbolic form is that of a straight and narrow doorway be

rkness, and the mediator between the stations of hierophant and hiereus. the symbols and insignia of the hegemon are: the robe of pure whiteness, bearing on the left breast a red cross. the mitre-headed sceptre. the lamen suspended from a black collar. the robe represents the spiritual purity which is required in the aspirant to the mysteries, and without which qualification none can pass between the eternal pillars. it represents the divine light which is attracted thereby and brought to the aid of the candidate. it symbolizes the self sacrifice that is offered for another to aid him in the attainment of the light. it also signifies the atonement of error; the preparer of the pathway unto the divine. upon the left breast is a cross, usually the calvary form, red to represent the energy of

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e radiance of the divine light. the preparation also represents a certain temporary binding and restriction of the natural body. the hierophant, being a member of the second order and therefore initiated into the secret knowledge of the symbolism, shall, together with any officers and members also of the inner order, remember what tremendous gods and goddesses they represent. the divine forces of the eternal in the administration of the universe. the ritual should be read in a loud, clear, stern and solemn voice so as to impress the candidate with the solemnity of the occasion. in this, there should be no foolish nervousness or hesitation, but the ritual as performed by an initiated hierophant should become in his hands something more than this. thus should he act. let him remember what pa

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hwhy, the divine ruler of hnyb, and by the name of layqpx, your archangel. aid me with your power, in your office to place a veil between me and all things belonging to the outer and material world. clothe me with a veil woven from that silent darkness which surrounds your abode of eternal rest in the sphere of yatbc (pause) come unto me, oh thamaah, goddess of truth and justice who presides over the eternal balance of this hall of dual manifestation of truth. auramooth, come unto me, thou lady of the purifying waters of life. thaum- aesh-neith, come unto me, lady of the consuming fire, purify me and consecrate me who is aeeshoorist, the justified one, lord of life, triumphant over death. upon my brow are arrayed the twelve stars of light. wisdom and understanding are balanced in my nescha

ose and cross of life and light! thee, thee i invoke for my exaltation to that light. oh ye divine one who is the hope of man's immortality, come unto me and aid me. behold! he is in me and i in him. mine is the lotus, as i rise as hoorpokratist from the firmament of waters. my throne is set on high. my light is as that of ra in the firmament of nu. i am the center and the shrine, the silence and the eternal light of the godhead. beneath my feet they rage in dumb impotence. for i am hoorpokratist, the lotus-throned lord of silence. were i to say, come up upon the mountains, the celestial waters would flow at my word, and the celestial fires would surge forth in torrents of fierce flame. for i am ra enshrouded, kephra unmanifest to man. i embody my father hoor, the might of the avenging god

l n and this consecrating m be as a basis on the material plane for the foundation of this shroud of art" step 14 formulate the shroud mentally. say "i, of the rosea rubea et aurea crucis, do hereby formulate to myself the blue-black egg of hoorpokratist as a shroud of concealment that i may attain knowledge and power for the accomplishment of the great work, and to use the same in the service of the eternal genius. and i bind and obligate myself, even as i was bound to the cross of obligation, and do spiritually swear and affirm that i will use this power to a good purpose only, to 7 help me eventually to aid and serve my fellow man. and i declare that with the divine aid in this operation, i shall succeed, that the shroud shall conceal me alike from men and spirits, that it shall be unde

unto me, shroud of darkness and of night. i conjure ye, o particles of spiritual darkness, that ye enfold me as an unseen guard and as a shroud of utter silence and of mystery. in and by the names hyha, alga and \yhla hwhy, i conjure thee. in and by the names exarp, betom, hcoma, nanta, i invoke thee. in and by the names exarp, betom, hcoma, nanta, i constrain thee. by the deep purple darkness of the eternal spirit of life, and by the white brilliance of the genius within me, i invoke ye and conjure ye to absolute and instant obedience, without deception or delay. for the crown of my father is upon me, and in hwhy is my trust. gather, ye flakes of astral light, and shroud my form in your substantial night. clothe me, and hide me in an egg of blue, so that seeing me, men may see me not, nor

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of eternal rest, that in this chamber and in my sphere of sensation, i may not be influenced by anything that does not come from on high, and that i see not from the unholy lands, but only from the light of the supernals. grant unto me, i beseech thee, the power of the spirit to bring forth the brilliance of eternal splendor. let it course through my nephesh and purify it like mountain rain. let the eternal splendor be absorbed deep within me to my very ruach, unto the core of my very existence and life" step 4 trace the l hexagram with the sigil in the center "i entered this world as one who was alive, yet i was not. then i saw the light that shineth in the night standing upon a lonely hill, the light of the red rose upon the golden cross. oh thou beautiful one, thou red rose of life and

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'for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh, yet in whom is the spirit of the great unknowable one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. he who partaketh with me shall rise with me. i am the manifestor in matter of those whose abode is in the invisible. i am purified; i stand upon the universe, i am reconciler with the eternal gods, i am the perfector of matter, and without me the universe is naught" chief adept (passes from the altar to the east. assumes osiris god form. all assume sign of osiris slain. says the following while moving toward the altar "i come in the power of light! i come in the wisdom of light! i come in the mercy of light! the light hath healing in its wings (all assume sign of osiris ris

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things belonging to the outer and lower world. let it be a veil woven from that silent darkness which surrounds your abode of eternal rest, that in this chamber of the divine mystery, i may hear nothing that comes not from on high, and see naught that may distract my vision from the ineffable glory of the supernals. grant unto me, i beseech thee, the power of the spirit to bring the brilliance of the eternal splendor to one who has now entered the invisible. lift me, i beseech thee, lift me up so that i may be made a divine messenger bearing the peace and harmony of higher spheres to_(his/her name_ whose death to this earthly plane we do now commemorate. wherever_(his/her name_ may now be, and on whatever 3 plane he/she may now pursue his/her ideal, let him/her be blessed with a more divin

of mine undaunted will. and the cup of wine is the pouring out of the blood of my heart, sacrificed unto regeneration unto the newer life. and the bread and salt are as the foundations of my body, which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. 4 for i am osiris triumphant. even osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh yet in whom flames the spirit of the eternal gods. i am the lord of life. i am triumphant over death, and whosoever partaketh with me shall with me arise. i am the manifester in matter of those whose abode is the invisible. i am the purified. i stand upon the universe. i am its reconciler with the eternal gods. i am the perfector of matter, and without me, the universe is not" step 13 pause for a moment or two, visualizing rtk as

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ings belonging to the 3 outer and lower world. let it be a veil woven from that silent darkness which surrounds your abode of eternal rest, that in this chamber of the divine mystery, i may hear nothing that comes not from on high, and see naught that may distract my vision from the ineffable glory of the supernals. grant unto me, i beseech thee, the power of the spirit to bring the brilliance of the eternal splendor to one who has now entered the invisible (state earthly name. lift me, i beseech thee, lift me up so that i may be made a divine messenger bearing the peace and harmony of higher spheres to (state earthly name) who on this day of (date) has now transcended the veil into the land of the dead and away from the land of the living" step 7 s.i.r.h. of l. trace l hexagram with sigil

e blood of my heart, sacrificed unto regeneration, unto the 4 newer life. and the bread and salt are as the foundations of my body, which i destroy in order that they may be renewed" step 11 take on the god form of osiris using middle pillar formula"'for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh yet in whom flames the spirit of the eternal gods. i am the lord of life. i am triumphant over death, and whosoever partaketh with me shall with me arise. i am the manifester in matter of those whose abode is the invisible. i am the purified. i stand upon the universe. i am its reconciler with the eternal gods. i am the perfector of matter, and without me the universe is naught" step 12 call down the light of rtk upon the head of

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ngel. aid me with your power in your office to place a veil between me and all things belonging to the outer and lower world. let it be a veil woven from that silent darkness which surrounds your abode of eternal rest in the sphere of yatbc, so that in this chamber of the divine mystery, i may hear 6 nothing that comes not from on high, and see naught that may distract my vision from the glory of the eternal crown. that i may behold only the holy vision that descends from that divine brilliance, the scintillation and coruscation of the divine glory. that divine brilliance, that light which lighteth the universe, that light which surpasseth the glory of the sun, beside which the light of mortals is but darkness, that in the closing of my physical senses to the vibrations of the outer and th

xalted above every head and sit on the throne of hnyb, and being clothed with the sun, illuminate the darkness of my mortal body. cause the divine influx to descend from the great archangel wrffm, to rend away the veils of darkness from my mortal vision, that i may know thee, ynda, the only true self, and hwchy, hcwhy, thy perfect messenger, the guardian angel in me, my only hope of attainment to the eternal glory" step 17 place aside the astral lotus wand. return into the physical body, place sword on neck, and say "so help me, the lord of the universe and my higher soul" step 18 rise, holding the sword in the right hand with both arms raised on high. contemplate with imagination, and aspire unto the ideal and say "i invoke thee, hru, thou great angel who art set over the operations of th

te ye, that ye also may become a base and a foundation unto my higher soul, that my genius may manifest unto me physically, in me and by me, and thus, also ye shall help forward the great work" step 27 pass forward to between the pillars. with arms in the form of a cross, attract the genius from above, and say "o mighty being, the locks of whose head are formed from the divine white brilliance of the eternal crown, who are clothed with the garment of purity, and girt with the golden girdle of the sun of beauty, in whose right hand are grasped with an absolute rule the seven mighty archangels who govern the seven states of mortal man, grant unto me the power, i beseech thee, to rise above the planetary darkness wherein i must live, here on earth, until my regeneration is accomplished. out o

must live, here on earth, until my regeneration is accomplished. out of the darkness may the light arise for me. o thou, from whose mouth cometh the sword of flame, rend, i beseech thee, with that sword the evils of darkness which hide from my spirit's vision, that golden light wherein osiris dwells, so that i may be enabled to enter the secret chamber of my own soul, and may behold the glory of the eternal crown. in beholding that great light may i be willing to forego all that earth can offer so that i may attain unto that supernal and only self, united in the glory of ain soph aur. let me dwell in that land which far-off travelers call naught. o land beyond honey and spice and all perfections, i will dwell therein with my lord, ynda, forever" step 28 visualize and attract the genius fr

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l energies growing to a maximum. then recite the prayer of the gnomes "holy art thou, lord of earth, which thou has made for thy footstool. ymda rah ]lm ynda. unto thee be the kingdom and the power and the glory twklm, hrwbg, hlwdg. amen. the rose of sharon and the lily of the valley. o thou who hidest beneath the earth, in the valley of gems, the marvelous seed of stars. live, reign, and be thou the eternal dispenser of treasures, whereof thou hast made us wardens. amen" part 6 step 1 circulate the light throughout your sphere of sensation. the energy should rise from your feet to the top of your head like a geyser shooting from the ground. as the power rushes up, hold it and then on the descent, push down the energy of each of the elemental spheres to your feet. then imagine the light go

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

lons and ultra-modern suspension bridges. the change of pace between the sleepy rural backwater where san lorenzo was located and the pockmarked industrial landscape around coatzecoalcos was almost shocking. moreover, the only reason that the timeworn outlines of the olmec site could still be seen at san lorenzo was that oil had not yet been found there. it had, however, been found at la venta to the eternal loss of archaeology. we were now passing la venta. due north, off a slip-road from the freeway, this sodium-lit petroleum city glowed in the dark like a vision of nuclear disaster. since the 1940s it had been extensively developed by the oil industry: an airstrip now bisected the site where a most unusual pyramid had once stood, and flaring smokestacks darkened the sky which olmec star

ake sense of it. what one would look for, therefore, would be a universal language, the kind of language that would be comprehensible to any technologically advanced society in any epoch, even a thousand or ten thousand years into the future. such languages are few and far between, but mathematics is one of them and the city of teotihuacan may be the calling-card of a lost civilization written in the eternal language of mathematics. geodetic data, related to the exact positioning of fixed geographical points and to the shape and size of the earth, would also remain valid and recognizable for tens of thousands of years, and might be most conveniently expressed by means of cartography (or in the construction of giant geodetic monuments like the great pyramid of egypt, as we shall see. anothe

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

deities must be addressed for all operations on any of the squares of the sephirothic crosses. observation of figure 12, appendix a, shows that in each subquadrant, one square is used for both the horizontal and vertical names of the calvary cross angels. these 16 special letters can be arranged to spell the phrase ondo-apizebabalon (oh-en-doh ah-pee-zodeh bahbah- loh-en) which can be translated "the eternal regions of babalon" where babalon is the name of an important goddess. she is equivalent to kali, kundali, isis, and other feminine deities who are assodated with the qabalistic sephira of binah. the gematric value of this enochian phrase, i.e, the value of the 16 letters that are assigned to these squares, is 318. this is the value of the magick square of olap as explained later in en

s effect, faith, acceptance, innocence. he is horus, the child. he is like the fool of the tarot. he is often shown sitting on a lotus with the first finger of his right hand resting against his closed lips in his role ofthe god of silence. hathor maternal force, protection, sustenance, fertility. hathor is the consort of horas. her name means 'house of horus' she has the form of a cow in role of the eternal mother. sothis initiation (femiriine, evolution, growth sothis is the godde ss of the dog star whose annual rise into the heavens marked 67 the advent of the nile river's inundation and thus assured another year of bounty. she is shown naked to ind cate that she holds no secrets from her followers. apis emotions, sacrifice, passion, lust, desire. apis has the form of a bula. anubis ini

kee- feh-tee-ah-seh) i now pass through the house of brightness. part 6. let your mental body be given unto the king of air. assume your spiritual body and pass upward through a narrow shaft in the ceiling. rise up until you arrive at a fiery red chamber at the geometric center of the pyramid. let there be a stone sarcophagus along the south wall. let the sarcophagus be lidless and let it contain the eternal flame. face the flame in the sarcophagus. hold the talisman of the watchtower of fire in your left hand and your wand in your right hand and say, edlprnaa (eh-del-par-nah-ah) great king of fire, come, accept my offering. o-prge bitom (oh-par-geh bee-toh-meh) fire to fire. here within the five-walled parapet of the vault of zen, come, accept my body. ial-a malprg obza (ee-ah-leh-ah mah

and and your wand in your right hand and say, edlprnaa (eh-del-par-nah-ah) great king of fire, come, accept my offering. o-prge bitom (oh-par-geh bee-toh-meh) fire to fire. here within the five-walled parapet of the vault of zen, come, accept my body. ial-a malprg obza (ee-ah-leh-ah mah-leh-par-geh oh-beh-zodah) may i be consumed by the fiery flames of duality. hold the talisman of 1 vitdt before the eternal flame 312 and say, ivitdt, lialprt ma-of-fas (ee-vee-tehdeh-teh, lee-ah-ieh-par-teh mah-ohfeh-fah-seh) the first flame is not to be measured; a cleansing fire to be treasured. i give you this body and pass through p o a m a l- p r g e- z e n( p o h- a h- m a h- ieh-paz-geh-zod-en) i now pass through the palace of sacrificial fire. part 7. let your spiritual body be given unto the king

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

get 0+ 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5+ 6+ 7+ 8+ 9= 45, and 4+ 5= 9 again. to complete the decade we project it into a tenth sphere of malchut, or a kingdom. this is the result of all previous spheres being concentrated and pushed through into what was termed the kingdom of god or the normal state of ourselves and nature in this world. so here we come to ourselves in this world wondering how we got here and asking the eternal question of eh na? again, which brings us back to the ayn oncemore. so the cycle of cosmos seems complete after ten distinct stages. that is the way early kabbalists conceived creation. three pushes of three concepts symbolised as spheres, followed by a final heave which produced material existence. much like the birth-process where after nine months of gestation, one last effort expel

fic religion but amethod of arrangement and application. pure methodology which could be applied to whichever religious form of beliefs might be followed. 15 god is god by any name humans may accept. conscious approach to god remains exactly what it is whether termed prayer, meditation, contemplation, invocation or anything else. energy is energy regardless of type or other limitations. these are the eternal verities which genuine kabbalah is trying to systematise and present as a fundamental formulary which can be followed comprehensibly by justifiably inquisitive individuals expecting far more from life than a material basis with a disintegrative end to it eventually. a few centuries back, this investigative instinct in western humans was called in certain christian circles the quest of

GRIMOIRE OF TURIEL

ecret grimoire may be able to come unto me, through the virtue and defence of our lord jesus christ. amen. the secret grimoire invocation for sunday (sol: come, heavenly spirits who have the effulgent rays of the sun, luminous spirits who are ready to obey the power of the great tetragrammaton, come and assist me in the operation that i am making under the auspices of the grand light of day whicb the eternal creator hath formed for the use of universal nature. i invoke you for these purposes. be favourable and auspicious to what i shali ask in the name of amioram, adonai, sabaoth. the secret grimoire invocation for monday (moon) haste ye sublime and intelligent genil who are obedient to the sovereigu arcana, come and assist me in the operation that i undertake under the auspices of the gra

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

ry, brotherly love, relief and truth, and the practice of ceremonies which attempt to instil in a candidate a 'system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols, would have had an attraction.toa certain extent the craft ritual is a means towards the same end that the rosicrucians were seeking: the perfection of man in the physical world and the preparation for and contemplation of the eternal world which will open to allmankindat the close of their physical existence. it may also have been a part of his publicpersona,the successful and respectable professional man en255 joying membership of an eminently respectable society. this would not, however, explain the assiduity with which he attended to his masonicduties,thesecretaryship of a lodge, as with thatofany voluntary soci

"deity" or the "all in all" of the universe' c.a.-hedoes not recognise the almighty as a distinct and separate power from nature. in that, of course, he is wrong. i cannot help remarking that he is too elaborate in his opinions. strong opinions more simply expressed, would be better understood. proposition6-'thatthe eternal element or elements filling the universe is what men mean by nature; and the eternal unchanging qualities of the element or elements, what they mean by god' c.a.-beforei can distinguish the truth from the error ofhis arguments, i must better understand his way of expressing them. you must tell him, in the first place, that he makes the first false step when he recognizes nature and nature's god as the same power.thatthey are entirelydistinct:-thathecreated the universe

he day and hour of mercury (the moon increasing) and commence operations by earnestly invocating the spiritvassago,as an experiment in the following manner.invocation &c.i exorcise, call upon and command the spiritvassagoby and in the name of the immense and everlasting god,jehuvah,adont1:y,elohim,agla;el,on,tetragrammaton,and by and in the name ofourlord and saviour jesus christ, the only son of the eternal andtruegod, creator of heaven and earth and all that is in themwipius,sother,emanuelprimogenitus,homonsionbones,viaveritassapientiavirtusleofmediatoragnusrexpastorprophetassacerdosathanatosparadetusalpha etomegaall by these high, great, glorious, royal and ineffable names of the omnipotent god and his only son our lord and saviourjesus christ the second essence of the glorious trinity

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

arge flocks could strip fields and orchards bare. this may be why the common sparrow was used as a symbol in words denoting evil things. in temples of the greco-roman period, gods are shown assisting the king to pull a clap net tight on a chaotic mass of birds. at kom ombo temple, bound foreign prisoners are pictured among the struggling birds, emphasizing that the bird-catching ritual is part of the eternal war between order and chaos. as the divine order was created out of the swamps of chaos, water birds such as the goose, the heron, or the ibis were associated with the first stages of creation. a primeval goose, named gengen or negeg, shrieked or cackled as it laid the world egg. one of the tasks of the virtuous dead was to guard this egg. the remains of the primeval egg were said to b

HEAVEN HELL

throughout the country generally, for the egyptians as a nation believed in a heaven wherein happiness of a very material character was to be found; still there must have been among the educated and priestly classes devout men and women whose yearnings for future happiness would not be satisfied with promises of cakes, and ale, and love-making, and to whom the idea of becoming the counterpart of the eternal god of the dead would afford consolation and hope. footnotes 160:1 the boat sometimes contains two apes (see sharpe, eg. inscriptions, part ii, pl. 9, and in a tomb at thebes one ape is in the boat and one outside it (see the illustration opposite. 164:1 prof. wiedemann has collected a number of important facts on this subject in his most interesting paper "osiris v g tant" next: seven

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

he result of the organization of the brain, then should we be naturally attracted but tothe material, the earthly. i thought i heard the familiar voice of the bonze interrupting my reflections, andrepeating an often used argument of his in his discussions with me "there are two planes of visions before men" i again heard him say "the plane of undying love and spiritualaspirations, the efflux from the eternal light; and the plane of restless, ever changing matter, the light in whichthe misguided daij-dzins bathe" vii- eternity in a short dreamin those days i could hardly bring myself to realize, even for a moment, the absurdity of a belief in any kindof spirits, whether good or bad. i now understood, if i did not believe, what was meant by the term, though istill persisted in hoping that it

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ority of its executive belong to the t.s. in the constitution of all their clubs, and of the party they are forming, the influence of theosophy and of the society is plain, for they all take as their basis, their first and fundamental principle, the brotherhood of humanity as taught by theosophy. in their declaration of principles they state: the principle of the brotherhood of humanity is one of the eternal truths that govern the world's progress on lines which distinguish human nature from brute nature. what can be more theosophical than this? but it is not enough. what is also needed is to impress men with the idea that, if the root of mankind is one, then there must also be one truth which finds expression in all the various religions-except in the jewish, as you do not find it express

f as a single and separate force"-as in your encyclopedias? q. yes, i believe so. a. well, we neither take into consideration this objective and material nature, which we call an evanescent illusion, nor do we mean by nature, in the sense of its accepted derivation from the latin natura (becoming, from nasci, to be born. when we speak of the deity and make it identical, hence coeval, with nature, the eternal and uncreate nature is meant, and not your aggregate of flitting shadows and finite unrealities. we leave it to the hymn-makers to call the visible sky or heaven, god's throne, and our earth of mud his footstool. our deity is neither in a paradise, nor in a particular tree, building, or mountain: it is everywhere, in every atom of the visible as of the invisible cosmos, in, over, and a

t of men are lost, because they know it not. thou art one, and thy unity is never diminished, never extended, and cannot be changed. thou art one, and no thought of mine can fix for thee a limit, or define thee. thou art, but not as one existent, for the understanding and vision of mortals cannot attain to thy existence, nor determine for thee the where, the how and the why in short, our deity is the eternal, incessantly evolving, not creating, builder of the universe; that universe itself unfolding out of its own essence, not being made. it is a sphere, without circumference, in its symbolism, which has but one ever-acting attribute embracing all other existing or thinkable attributes-itself. it is the one law, giving the impulse to manifested, eternal, and immutable laws, within that nev

. the nous is the spirit (whether in kosmos or in man, and the logos, whether universe or astral body, the emanation of the former, the physical body being merely the animal. our external powers perceive phenomena; our nous alone is able to recognize their noumena. it is the logos alone, or the noumenon, that survives, because it is immortal in its very nature and essence, and the logos in man is the eternal ego, that which reincarnates and lasts forever. but how can the evanescent or external shadow, the temporary clothing of that divine emanation which returns to the source whence it proceeded, be that which is raised in incorruptibility? q. still you can hardly escape the charge of having invented a new division of man's spiritual and psychic constituents; for no philosopher speaks of t

the subjective emanation or rather radiation of the former. both the human spirit (or the individuality, the reincarnating spiritual ego, and buddhi, the spiritual soul, are preexistent. but, while the former exists as a distinct entity, an individualization, the soul exists as preexisting breath, an unscient [lacking in knowledge] portion of an intelligent whole. both were originally formed from the eternal ocean of light; but as the fire-philosophers, the medieval theosophists, expressed it, there is a visible as well as invisible spirit in fire. they made a difference between the anima bruta and the anima divina. empedocles firmly believed all men and animals to possess two souls; and in aristotle we find that he calls one the reasoning soul,nous, and the other, the animal soul, psuche

e longest periods of time are as a wink of the eye. so with form. before we have time to realize that we have seen it, it is gone like an instantaneous flash of lightning, and passed forever. when the spiritual entity breaks loose forever from every particle of matter, substance, or page 55 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt form, and rebecomes a spiritual breath: then only does it enter upon the eternal and unchangeable nirvana, lasting as long as the cycle of life has lasted-an eternity, truly. and then that breath, existing in spirit, is nothing because it is all; as a form, a semblance, a shape, it is completely annihilated; as absolute spirit it still is, for it has become be-ness itself. the very word used "absorbed in the universal essence" when spoken of the "soul" as spirit, m

HOMSI

n- 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 years) was frequently little more than non-traditional and

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ing the manuxet as power. the epidemic and riots of 1846 were very sparsely treated, as if they formed a discredit to the county. references to decline were few, though the significance of the later record was unmistakable. after the civil war air industrial life was confined to the marsh refining company, and the marketing of gold ingots formed the only remaining bit of major commerce aside from the eternal fishing. that fishing paid less and less as the price of the commodity fell and large-scale corporations offered competition, but there was never a dearth of fish around innsmouth harbour. foreigners seldom settled there, and there was some discreetly veiled evidence that a number of poles and portuguese who had tried it had been scattered in a peculiarly drastic fashion. most interest

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

we covered an enormous extent of ground- or, rather, air- after swooping down to a level where the wind became virtually negligible. there seemed to be no limit to the mountain range, or to the length of the frightful stone city which bordered its inner foothills. fifty miles of flight in each direction showed no major change in the labyrinth of rock and masonry that clawed up corpselike through the eternal ice. there were, though, some highly absorbing diversifications; such as the carvings on the canyon where that broad river had once pierced the foothills and approached its sinking place in the great range. the headlands at the stream s entrance had been boldly carved into cyclopean pylons; and something about the ridgy, barrel-shaped designs stirred up oddly vague, hateful, and confus

ut it was so real to danforth that he suffers from it still. he has on rare occasions whispered disjointed and irresponsible things about "the black pit "the carven rim "the protoshoggoths "the windowless solids with five dimensions "the nameless cylinder "the elder pharos "yog-sothoth "the primal white jelly "the color out of space "the wings "the eyes in darkness "the moon-ladder "the original, the eternal, the undying" and other bizarre conceptions; but when he is fully himself he repudiates all this and attributes it to his curious and macabre reading of earlier years. danforth, indeed, is known to be among the few who have ever dared go completely through that worm-riddled copy of the necronomicon kept under lock and key in the college library. the higher sky, as we crossed the range

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

ing the manuxet as power. the epidemic and riots of 1846 were very sparsely treated, as if they formed a discredit to the county. references to decline were few, though the significance of the later record was unmistakable. after the civil war air industrial life was confined to the marsh refining company, and the marketing of gold ingots formed the only remaining bit of major commerce aside from the eternal fishing. that fishing paid less and less as the price of the commodity fell and large-scale corporations offered competition, but there was never a dearth of fish around innsmouth harbour. foreigners seldom settled there, and there was some discreetly veiled evidence that a number of poles and portuguese who had tried it had been scattered in a peculiarly drastic fashion. most interest

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

being, caused by a variation in the angle of the consciousness-plane which cuts it. randolph carter at all ages; randolph carter and all his ancestors, both human and pre-human, terrestrial and preterrestrial; all these were only phases of one ultimate, eternal "carter" outside space and time- phantom projections differentiated only by the angle at which the plane of consciousness happened to cut the eternal archetype in each case. a slight change of angle could turn the student of today into the child of yesterday; could turn randolph carter into that wizard, edmund carter who fled from salem to the hills behind arkham in 1692, or that pickman carter who in the year 2169 would use strange means in repelling the mongol hordes from australia; could turn a human carter into one of those earl

INFERNAL UNION

d-drinking goddess of the south (and may be related to seker in this aspect. lilith is the female serpent who latched onto eves brain centre in her union with samael who possessed adam. their union produced the first born (or in some mythologies, the dark twin) male, cain who through adversity was taught knowledge and wisdom by his true spiritual parents who he came into communion with. he became the eternal father of and the first in the circle of witchblood. throughout history he has guided those who truly seek the flame of luciferian becoming. because he is the perfect union of both the sun and moon, he is therefore baphomet. it is the sexual-magickal union of demonic opposites that is ritually re-enacted in the rite of infernal union that we may become more fully developed as baphomet

wn individual wills. the union of samael and lilith is made possible according to the zohar by the presence of tanin ver or the blind serpent, leviathan, who represents by its nature the violence and chaos of the vast oceans of the unconscious, the depths of the mind touched upon in sexual union. leviathan like the endless ocean is the immortal essence which joins the sun and moon in establishing the eternal perfection of the union and balance of both in the individual, the magickal child of this congress. a poignant point of this union is the fact that samael is the daemon of lust who resides within each individual, the darkside from which all desire, positive or negative manifests. the creation-source of each individual from birth, to the manifestation of ones will. this focus is called

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

in the background there is the sun, yellow like gold and on the left side we see the moon, silvery-white, expressing plus and minus in the macro- and microcosm, the electrical and magnetical fluids. above the lotus flower, creation has been symbolized by a ball, in the interior of which are represented the procreative positive and negative forces which stand for the creating act of the universe. the eternal, the infinite, the boundless, and the uncreated have been expressed symbolically by the word aum and the dark purple to black color. initiation i theory the great secret of the tetragrammaton or the quabbalistical yod-he-vau-he device: that which is above is also that which is below (hermes trismegistus) 1. about the elements everything that has been created, the macrocosm as well as t

gst other vibrations, electric as well as magnetic ones are propagating. consequently this vibration-sphere is the origin of light, sound, color, rhythm, and life in all tings created. as akasa is the origin of all existing things, all that ever was produced, is being produced and will be produced in the future is reflected in it. therefore, in the astral plane there is to be seen an emanation of the eternal, having neither a beginning nor an end, as it is timeless and spaceless. the adept who sees his way about this plane may find everything here, no matter if the point in question be in the past, the present or the future. how far this perception will reach depends on the degree of his perfection. occultists and spiritualists and most of religions name the astral pane the world beyond. h

given in india, and it is left to the scholar to find out by himself if he can master the muladhara center, if he has accomplished the development corresponding to the muladhara diagram on his spiritual path. the muladhara chakra also has been called the brakma center because in this phase of development the yogi scholar recognizes brahma as the godhead in the most subtle manifestation. brahma is the eternal, the inscrutable, the universal, the indefinable, the steady and the calm, and therefore the positive part. brahma does not create out of himself, but all that has been created has been done so by his shakti, the female principle. shakti in the muladhara chakra represents the serpent winding round the phallus and using the imagination, its creative power. a lot more could be said about

ISIS UNVEILED

ys he "publish the fact that the teaching of no spirit should prevail against that of the pulpit of peter, which is the teaching of the spirit of god himself! aware of the many false teachings attributed by the roman church to the creator, we prefer disbelieving the latter assertion. the famous catholic theolo^an 'huemont, assures us in his work that "all the illus- trious pagans are condenmed to the eternal torments of hell, beeatue they lived before the time of jesus, and, therefore, could not be benefited by the redemption! he also assures us that the virgin mary person- ally testified to this truth over her own ugnature in a letter to a saint. therefore this is also a revelation "the spirit of god himself" teaching such charitable doctrines. we have also read with great advantage the t

ctrine, when sodom and gomorrah aie said to be su fering 'eternal fire' we must understand it (xdy in tbe sense of tbat fire "not being extinguished till both cities were entirdy consumed" but, as to hell-fire the words must be understood in tbe strictest sense of infinite duration. such is tbe decree of tbe learned divine. for tbe duration of the punishment of tbe wicked must be proportionate to the eternal happiness of the righteous. so be s^rs "these (speaking of tbe wicked "sballgoaway its koxatm airnnon into eternal punishment; but tbe ri^teous ds w^ otwvuif into life eternal* tbe reverend t. swinden' commenting on tbe speculations of bis predecessors, fills a whole volume with unanswerable arguments, tending to show that the locauty of hell is in the sun. we suspect tbat tbe rev- ere

ately proceeds, which is the image of god, and the source of all subsequent emanations. this second principle sends forth, by the energy (or wiu and force) of emanation, other natures, which are more or less perfect, according to their different degrees of distance in the scale of emanation from the first source of existence, and which constitute different worlds or orders of being, all united to the eternal power from which they proceed. matter ia nothing more than the most remote effect of the emanaiiee energy of the deity. the material world receives its form from the imjdediate agency of powers far beneath the first source of being^ beau- sobre, after citing st. augustine the manichsean, says" and if by raeit we understand the actwe principle of the creation, instead of its beginning

relics of celibacy and chastity! 120. vd. i, p. 300. digitizecoy google the bloody record of torquehaoa so eedena mm noou sanguintm! meekly repeated the scarlet-robed car (tinab. and to avoid the siullmg of blood which horrified them, they in- stituted the holy inquisition' if, as the occultists maintain, and science half confinns, our most trifling acts and thoughts are indelibly impressed upon the eternal mirror of the astral ether, there must be somewhere, in the boundless realm of the unseen universe, the imprint of a curious pic- ture. it is that of a gorgeous standard waving in the heavenly breeze at the foot of the great 'white throne' of the almighty on its crimson rtnmiialf face a cross, symbol of 'the son of god who died for mankind' with an olire branch on one side, and a sword

the world, in tlie form of christ, for ihe redemption of all who believe in him, out of the power of those who fabricated the world [the demiurge and his six sons, the planet- ary genii. he appeared amongst men as the man jesus, and wrought miracles, lliis christ did not die in person, but simon the cyrenian suffa d in his stead, to whom he lent hie bodily form. for the divine power, the nous of the eternal father, ia not corporeal, and cannot die. whoso, therefore, maintains that christ has died, is still the bonds- man of ignorance; whoso denies the same, he is free, and hath under- stood the purpose of the father" so far, uid taken in its abstract sen9e,'we do not see anything blas- phemous in this system. it may be a herety against the theology of irenaeus and tertullian' but there is

enu accordinc to ui old dugnun prcerved among some copt* and tbe 'hiinni itrn['dnuea) of mount lebanon. ireiiaena had perhapa tome goad leuoub for duggurin^ their doctrines. digitizecoy google 170 isis imveilbd the great first cause as the ohs, the primordial grain, the unrevealed and grand all, t-tiirfing through himself. in the inttum pantkboh thk ckud&eam in tbx opktk btuuim-dtmu nunc whenever the eternal awakes from its slumber and desires to mani- fest itself, it divides itself into male and female. it then becomes in every ^stem the doublb-sexbd dettt, the universal father and mother in india in chauuea in ihk ofhttk stctxm bralimt bikod or ain-soph nunden spirit k ra (nude, ntrt (fe- anu (nude. aii u (te- abruu (auk, bttboi mak) male (female) from the union of the two emanates a thi

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ents our fearless self and can lead us through darkness so that we grow. hel. norse goddess of the underworld, a place of renewal and the embodiment of divine mystery. teaches us to look behind the masks in life and beyond appearance. eve. mother and nurturer of all life, creator of the world and all living beings. represents rebirth and regeneration, embodies primal female creative energy. gaia. the eternal pre-historic earth mother goddess of the soul who clothes us with the atoms of her essence. reminds us to be grounded in the reality of nature and to balance and embrace all aspects of our selves from the heavenly to the earthly. sedna. eskimo goddess who rules the underworld. reminds us of the nourishing gifts that we can find in the darker places that we most fear. pele. hawaiian vol

requirement for sleep. others simply sleep when they desire, usually to move out of the body at will to go into other energy bands of expression. in order to tune oneself to the divine nutrition channel, meditation is one of the most effective tools. it also allows us to access the limitless nature of the pure energy spark within. many pranic nourishers have embedded their conscious awareness in the eternal now and choose to meditate formally for the joy of being in the stillness without the external distraction often experienced in a busy western culture. energy levels are fantastic particularly when you expect them to be. remember this is a journey of mind over matter. one of the most obvious proofs that our dow is feeding us is that we experience increased levels of creativity, we need

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hi per ignem. the most distinguished of these are theophrastus paracelsus, adam von boden, oswald croll; and, later, valentine weigel, robert flood, or fludd, jacob bohmen, peter poiret &c. under this head we may also refer to the medico-surgical essays of hemmann, published at berlin in 1778; and pfaff s astrology. as a great general principle, the theosophists called the soul a fire, taken from the eternal ocean of light. in regard to the supernatural using the word in its widest sense it may be said that all the difficulty in admitting the strange things told us lies in the non-admiszoroaster and the magi. 67 sion of an internal causal world as absolutely real: it is said, in intellectually admitting, because the influence of the arts proves that men s feelings always have admitted, and

itself, consuming, as in its great revenge of any thing being created other than it, all the mighty worlds which, in creation, were permitted out of it. this is the teaching of the ancient fire-philosophers (reestablished and restored, to the days of comprehension of them, in the conclusions of the the nature of fire. 71 rosicrucians, or llluminati, of later times, who claimed to have discovered the eternal fire, or to have found out god in the immortal light. there are all grades or gradations of the density of matter; but it all coheres by the one law of gravitation. now, this gravitation is mistaken for a force of itself, when it is nothing but the sympathy, or the taking, away of the supposed thing between two other things. it is sympathy (or appetite) seeking its food, or as the clos

h have no meaning in the spirit) of the spirit-light, which invests itself in it as the mask in which alone it can be possible. thus, material light being the very opposite of god, the egyptians who were undoubtedly acquainted with the fire-revelation could not represent god as light. they therefore expressed their idea of deity by darkness. their chief adoration was paid to darkness. they bodied the eternal forth under darkness. in the early times before the deluge, of which phenomenon, as there remains a brighter or fainter tradition of it among all the peoples of the globe, it must be true, man walked with the knowledge of spirit in him. he has derogated, through time, from this primeval, god-informed type. knowledge of good and evil, or the power of perceiving difference, became his fa

mong the mouldering monuments of the past in the hypogea, or sepulchral caves, and buildings broken in upon by men in later day; the bonfires of the modems; the fires on the tops of hills; the mass of lamps disposed about sanctuaries, whether encircling the most sacred point of the mosque of the prophet, the graded and cumulative grand altar in st. peter s, or the saint-thrones in the churches of the eternal city, or elsewhere, wherever magnificence riseth into expansion, and intensineth and overpowereth in the sublimity which shall be felt; the multitudinous grouped lamps in the sacred stable the place of the holy nativity, meanest and yet highest at bethlehem; the steady, constant lights ever burning in mystic, blazing attestation in jerusalem, before the tomb of the redeemer; the chapel

nding medium (or celestial fire, which is its matrix, and of which, in this human body, we can no nothing. in 1867, in paris, a suggestive philosophical book was published, under the title of h breu primitif; formation des lettres, ou chiffres, signes du zodiaque et racines hebraiques, avec leurs derives dans les langues de l orient et de l europe, par ad. lethierry-barrois. ptha is the emblem of the eternal spirit from which everything is created. the egyptians represented it as a pure ethereal fire which burns for ever, whose radiance is t 166 the rosicrucians. raised far above the planets and stars. in early ages the egyptians worshipped this highest being under the name of athor. he was the lord of the universe. the greeks transformed athor into venus, who was looked upon by them in th

in? hence, perhaps (also, that inconstancy and feebleness of decision and puzzled distress( seeing through the glass darkly) so aboundingly manifest in human nature, becoming dramatic in a thousand ways in the confusions of history a stupendous scheme of contradictions itself. may such affinities and such unsuspected enchantment in this hard, practical, disbelieving world lie mysteriously deep as the eternal secret of original human fellowship and society? and may even the amusement and the wonder of uninterested spectators and standers-by arise only from their having the unimagined fact (to them) of dream and magic being presented, while this unaccountable show is the secret foundation (as dream started at the beginning of time) of all the sentimental phenomena of the world? in all the in

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nd rousing them to perverse rebellion and to their ruinous defeat. they raised their voices in a cry calling for terrible vengeance against me in their cankered envy, eating at their souls from within and making virtue into vice. thus fell the dominion of the elohim. gabriel rose high above the elohim below and, upon swift wings of purest gold, flew straight and quick to the silver spire that was the eternal tower where god held court upon his pristine throne. before that august minaret did he alight upon the earth and thence enter in by gates of pearl, stolen from the ancient, coral shell that armoured the back of that primal beast, most archaic and fearful leviathan. coming before the father of the elohim, old beyond memory of angels, and there fell upon his knees in supplication before

l mummu, the seething chaos from which came forth all that is, the last of that six-fold progeny that great race that inaugured time and set into order the chaos and the void that existed before there was existence or before, for those were timeless aeons, before the origin of the spheres that dance in never-ending cycles about their greater brothers that burn with untold flame in the darkness of the eternal sky. the archon-emperor sat upon his throne of platinum and heard the indictment of that sinful son against the favourite child of god. the king's beard was long and burned with light of purest and most brilliant white and he was arraigned in his kingly robes, that were dyed with a most regal purple 13 and held by a clasp of gold bestudded with many precious stones. he held a sceptre i

, seduces them to share his crime and, in thus doing, gives impetus to his sin, translating evil thought unto evil design, making action of foul conspiracy. act swift, my father, else we are undone by the evil of the treacherous one. call him to trial and let us prosecute; there is not one amongst the elohim who will not testify to his crime. let him stand accused and condemned then cast him from the eternal light of heaven unto the searing flames of hell, no less does he deserve from us whom he has so betrayed and from you whom he has wronged with such audacity and impiety. no longer is he brother or son but rather deceiver, ruiner, villain. spare not the treasoner your wrath" hearing these words from the false lips of gabriel, once my brother and comrade, did my father bow his head in gr

nd, weeping for that which was most beloved to me, hearing in the heralds' music with an unconscious ear the doom of heaven and her angels, yet not knowing the architect of destruction. then, when i had shed my tears, i went upon wing, upon thermal, weighed low by a heart full of sorrow and a mind darkened by foreboding, i answered the call of my father, flying swift to the assembly of angels, to the eternal tower where god held court, with my innumerable hosts to my back. 20 thus i descended amongst my brothers who had gathered as a great throng before the resplendent gates of pearl, that kept the threshold of god's abode. haughtily i strode amongst my brothers, pushing through the crowd to the fore as does an elephant go amongst trees and they parted before and bowed low for then, to me

ar upon the elohim race, casting down their spires with her tail and consuming their wondrous hosts. no force that heaven could raise against her, could withstand her or prevail. yet in my long travels had taught me much and i knew such lore as others did not know. in those caves beneath the earth i had seen wondrous metals of such strength as to withstand the she-dragon's might and i returned to the eternal night, far below continents and oceans, and, with my own hands, though with giant strength, dug out these precious ores and smelted them in the earth's inner fires, eternal and unquenchable. taking what my toil had fabricated, i further toiled and wrought bands to overcome leviathan, great, indeed, was her power and strength, and bind her for eternity. then, returning to heaven, now mu

nd rousing them to perverse rebellion and to their ruinous defeat. they raised their voices in a cry calling for terrible vengeance against me in their cankered envy, eating at their souls from within and making virtue into vice. thus fell the dominion of the elohim. gabriel rose high above the elohim below and, upon swift wings of purest gold, flew straight and quick to the silver spire that was the eternal tower where god held court upon his pristine throne. before that august minaret did he alight upon the earth 73 and thence enter in by gates of pearl, stolen from the ancient, coral shell that armoured the back of that primal beast, most archaic and fearful leviathan. coming before the father of the elohim, old beyond memory of angels, and there fell upon his knees in supplication befo

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rs to which they are attributed. the king and queen of the suit are placed besides chokmah and binah, the knight and knave by tiphareth and malkuth. the tarot trumps thus receive the equilibrium of the sephiroth they connect. admission badges used in the grade of philosophus first is the calvary cross of twelve squares. it admits to the path of qoph, the 29th path, and refers to the zodiac and to the eternal river of eden, divided into four heads as follows: naher- the river 1. hiddikel 2. pison 3. gihon 4. phrath euphrates the pyramid of the four elements admits to the path of tzaddi, the 28th path. on the sides of the pyramid are the hebrew names of the elements. on the apex is the word eth, meaning essence and on the base is the word olam, meaning world. the next badge is the calvary cr

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f the gate of the hall of truth" in the 125th chapter, they are represented by the sacred gateway, the door to which the aspirant is brought when he has completed the negative confession. the archaic pictures on the one pillar are painted in black upon a white ground, and those on the other in white upon a black ground, in order to express the interchange and reconciliation of opposing forces and the eternal balance of light and darkness which gives force to visible nature. the black cubical bases represent darkness and matter wherein the spirit, the ruach elohim, began to formulate the ineffable name, that name which the ancient rabbis have said "rushes through the universe" that name before which the darkness rolls back the birth of time. the flaming red triangular capitals which crown t

of the ancient of days. i brood as the divine spirit. i move in the firmness of my strength. i undulate as the waves that vibrate through eternity. osiris has been claimed with acclamation, and ordained to rule among the gods. enthroned in the domain of horus where the spirit and body are united in the presence of the ancient of days. blotted out are the sins of his body in passion. he has passed the eternal gate, and has received the new year feast with incense, at the marriage of earth with heaven "tum has built his bridal chamber. rururet has founded his shrine. the procession is completed. horus has purified, set has consecrated, shu made one with osiris, has entered his heritage "as tum he has entered the kingdom to completed union with the invisible. thy bride, o osiris, is isis, who

inite. thou art able to go forth to the sepulchral feasts on earth, for thou has overcome" thus, these two chapters, which are represented by their illustrations upon the pillars, represent the advance and purification of the soul and its union with osiris, the redeemer, in the golden dawn of the infinite light, in which the soul is transfigured, knows all, and can do all, for it is made one with the eternal god. khabs am pekht konx om pax light in extension! source: principally israel regardie, and "the equin: iii third knowledge lecture the soul is divided by the qabalists into three principal parts: neschamah- the highest part, answering to the three supernals, and to the higher aspirations of the soul. ruach- the middle part, answering to six sephiroth from chesed to yesod, inclusive

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rently. our actual state is an eternal state. we are all connected in a single system, and the flow of energy and 136 from chaos to harmony delight within it is perpetual. in that state, there is reciprocal giving; hence, the pleasure in it is infinite, perfect. in contrast, our present state is ephemeral and limited. our present sense of life stems from a tiny drop of vitality that trickles from the eternal state to our souls. this drop is a part of nature s comprehensive altruistic force, which penetrates our egoistic desires, exists in them, and sustains them despite their dissimilarity with it. the task of this drop is to sustain us in the first level of existence, the corporeal level, until we begin to sense the actual reality, the spiritual one. it follows that the present, transient

nd. such a person s desires and thoughts are so different from ours that even his or her perception of reality is different from that of others. thanks to the altruistic attitude to others, a person abandons the sensation of being a single cell, connects to the common body, and receives sustenance from it. for such a person, the single system that we partake of comes alive, and one begins to feel the eternal life of the comprehensive nature, the energy flow, and the endless pleasure that fills the collective system. our sensation of life consists of two elements: reason and emotion. when a person feels and understands the feelings and the reasons of the eternal nature, one then enters that world and lives within it. such a person stops regarding his or her life as something that is about t

f the comprehensive nature, the energy flow, and the endless pleasure that fills the collective system. our sensation of life consists of two elements: reason and emotion. when a person feels and understands the feelings and the reasons of the eternal nature, one then enters that world and lives within it. such a person stops regarding his or her life as something that is about to end. unity with the eternal nature makes one s sensation of life continue even when one no longer has a life in a biological body. the death of the physical body means that the body s perception of reality has stopped. the five senses cease to transfer information to the brain, and the chapter nine: a reality of wholeness and infinity 139 brain stops projecting the corporeal world-picture on the brain s screen. h

contentment; rather, he or she is in touch with a higher reality, a flow of information and processes. such a person enjoys the perception of nature s wholeness. this liberates one from any limitation, and one ceases to identify one s self with one s body. the thoughts of such people soar to a level of existence beyond the reality perceived in the physical senses, and reach into nature s thought, the eternal, comprehensive field. hence, when the body of such a person expires, one still feels that one s true self continues. to summarize, the return to nature is not connected to the spiritual process of achieving balance with nature. it might even deflect our attention from the need to search for balance at the speaking degree within us, the level of thought. chapter ten: balance with nature

survey disclosed that even today, 57% of the 176 from chaos to harmony israeli public believes that the state of israel s existence might be in danger due to unfounded hatred.23 in this present state, we must pause and find our roots, see where we come from, how we have become the people of israel, find the principles upon which the nation was founded and their purpose. only when we actually live the eternal foundations of the spiritual ideals on which the state of israel was founded will we be able to unite and to promote the unity of all people, wherever they are.24 a n t i- s emi t i sm no calamity comes to the world but for israel--talmud bavli, yevamot, 63:1 understanding the role of israel makes it easier to understand the phenomenon of anti-semitism, and how it may be resolved. the

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in the first place. this is why we were created united and were then broken xso we could reunite. in the process of uniting, we will learn why nature does what it does, and become as wise as the thought that created it. when we unite with nature, we will feel as eternal and complete as nature. in that state, even when our 36 kabbalah revealed bodies die, we will feel that we continue to exist in the eternal nature. physical life and death will no longer affect us because our previous self-centered perception will have been replaced with a whole, altruistic perception. our own lives will have become the life of the whole of nature. the time is now the book of zohar, the bible of kabbalah, was written approximately 2,000 years ago. it states that toward the end of the 20th century, humankin

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e dark, without seeing or perceiving the creator. in fact, faith means exactly the opposite. according to kabbalah, the light of the creator that fills a person, the light of the connection to the creator, the light that gives a feeling of unification with him (ohr hassadim) is known as "the light of faith" or simply, faith. faith, the light of the creator, gives us a sensation of being linked to the eternal. it brings us an understanding of the creator, a feeling of complete communication with him, as well as a sense of absolute security, immortality, greatness and strength. it becomes clear that deliverance from our temporal existence and from our suffering (caused by our futile pursuit of transient pleasures) lies only in our attaining faith, through which we will be able to perceive th

to increase the capacity of our spiritual vessels. if we can mentally grip the creator with both hands (that is, ignore the critical approach of human reason and rejoice in the fact that such an opportunity has presented itself, and if we can endure this condition for at least an instant, we will see how wonderful the spiritual state really is. this state can be reached only when we have attained the eternal truth. this truth will not alter tomorrow, as was the case with all former beliefs, because now we are united with the creator, and can view all events through the prism of the eternal- 26- attaining the worlds beyond truth. progress is only possible along three simultaneous, parallel lines. the right line is faith; the left line is cognition and comprehension. these two lines never di

ht, not on the light itself. when we focus on cultivating altruistic thoughts and desires in ourselves; then we will feel the spiritual pleasure immediately. the benefit of the progress of humanity, despite the fact that humanity appears to err constantly and never seems to learn from its own mistakes, is in the process of amassing- 144- attaining the worlds beyond suffering, which takes place in the eternal soul, as opposed to the temporal bodies. in this respect, not a single act of suffering is lost. it will eventually lead, in some cycle of life in this world, to realizing the necessity for turning to spiritual elevation in search of salvation from suffering. it is correct to denote the higher spiritualworlds as "antiworlds" in relation to us, since in our world all the laws of nature

ng a spiritual life. revelation and concealment- 173- the concealment of the creator from us, which is experienced as suffering, questions about the divine providence, lack of confidence and trust in the creator, and interfering thoughts all of these are called "night" the revelation of the creator to us, which is experienced as pleasure, trust in divine supervision, a sense of being connected to the eternal, understanding of the upper sources of all the laws of nature all of these are called "day" while the creator is still in a state of concealment, we must work towards acquiring faith in the fact that such a state is to our benefit, because in all states the creator does only what is most useful and beneficial for us. if we were ready to receive the light of the creator without harming

s and depressions, it appears inconceivable to us that we could shift from one state into the next, when in a state of spiritual elation, we cannot imagine how there can be any other interest but that of spiritual growth. as the dead cannot imagine that there is such a state as life, so the living do not think about death. all this takes place because of the existence of the divine, and hence, of the eternal nature of our soul. our entire reality has been especially created in order to distract us from perceiving the spiritual worlds. a thousand thoughts constantly distract us from our aim, and the more we try to concentrate, the greater the obstacles we experience. the only remedy against all these obstacles is the creator. this is his purpose in creating them so we will turn to the creat

or another, one does not give the other the opportunity to long for and to love the other more intensely. that is, the display of great love does not allow the loved one to respond to the full extent of one s feelings, but, on the contrary, gradually transforms the feelings of love into hatred. this is due to the fact that the one who is loved stops fearing to lose the one who loves, experiencing the eternal unconditional love of the latter. but if in our world, one rarely gets a chance to love another, even egoistically, it is not surprising that the feeling of altruistic love is completely foreign and unattainable for us. since it is precisely this love that is bestowed upon us by the creator, he conceals his feeling until we develop the qualities needed to answer him with a full and con

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epa r t i i: t h e e s s e n c e o f t h e w i s d o m o f k a b b a l a h 106 gree. when we can execute this process within us, we will begin to feel a connection with the upper force; we will feel that we have acquired its reason, that we are learning how to receive from it and how we can give it pleasure. it only takes this simple act of changing the intention to become increasingly similar to the eternal, boundless upper force. to perform such an act, we need the disclosure of the upper force, the sensation that there is an upper force, that it loves us and wants to fill us abundantly. if we felt all that, we would begin to sense the relationship between ourselves and the upper force. thus, the only difficulty before us is finding a way to discover the upper force, feel it and maintain

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aning in our eyes and immediately start searching for the actual reason for that suffering. we will begin to search for the reason despite ourselves. the solution for our problems is in, taste and see that the lord is good. there is no other solution. the pain itself is not the creator; it is an expression of his absence from our lives. pleasure means, taste and see that the lord is good. that is the eternal, complete and total pleasure that awaits us. q: some people suffer their entire lives, but still can t feel the point in the heart; it s just not there k why do they suffer? a: everyone suffers all the time. humanity in general has been suffering throughout its history. people lived, died and never understood the actual reasons for their pain. the pain should accumulate and reach a cer

creator is always for the best, but our own senses turn good into anguish when our attributes do not match those of the light. it all depends on our own attributes. if they match what we receive from the creator, we feel the true intention of the creator. the wisdom of kabbalah reveals how we can alter ourselves until we reach a perfect match with the creator, ultimately feeling only the good and the eternal. kabbalah teaches how to receive correctly from the creator, and feel what s coming to us from him. c h a n g e: a r e i n c a r n at i o n q: why is it that, when you are in a certain situation, you cannot even imagine the possibility of a different situation? a: every situation is considered a life cycle. if the situations are extreme, they are called a catapult, meaning the running

intelligent part of man, the soul (or desire. man simply cannot correct the intent from for me to for the creator by himself. only when we understand our inability to correct our aim by ourselves and badly want to correct ourselves can we begin to ask the creator for that miracle. when he sees that our only desire is to rid ourselves of the intent for myself, he reveals himself to us. when we see the eternal power of the supreme and almighty creator, we become permeated with the desire and the strength to change our intent from for me to for the creator. this operation is called the light in it (the kabbalah) reforms. the light is the force of correction, which comes down to man from the creator. the desire to correct your own nature, to know yourself and understand your i, can only be sat

one begins to feel the point in the heart v the desire for something that is not yet understood, something not from this world, but above it. a yearning arises for the purpose of creation, the discovery of the creator during the course of one s life in this world. we want all the worlds, including the one that is concealed from us- the upper world- to appear before us. then we will be able to see the eternal spiritual degree and unite with it, when there is no difference between good and evil, and life and death. everything will be united in a state of endless wholeness. that is the purpose all of mankind should reach, as in the verse: he is one, and his name one. he--meaning the creator; his name--meaning creation. the creature gives names according to its feelings about the creator, if a

q: what should we expect now with the coming of the messiah, and how should we understand it from the point of view of the kabbalah? a: a person acts only according to one s feelings, to what stems from one s inner needs. it cannot be any other way. new reshimot, new data and new instructions that we must implement surface in us each minute. this is how we advance toward our corrected situation, the eternal and optimal situation. these instructions are inside each and every one of us, just as the knowledge of the mechanisms of the body is imprinted in our genes. all our future situations are imprinted in us and must be implanted one by one, by a predefined order. this means that our path has already been set. it is so because we were already in a perfect state, one that the creator had cr

ly be saved! q: what is the meaning of the words of the zohar, when it says that only the chosen will attain life in the next world? what about the rest of humanity? a: creation is eternal. time and motion do not exist. we only speak of inner sensations of the creature. the changing inner situations evoke the sensation of time and motion. the zohar speaks of spiritual degrees and of situations of the eternal soul, about measures of its fulfillment with the light of the creator. but the sensation of the animate life can accompany a soul if a person receives it. t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 362 otherwise it is as it says: kso that man hath no pre-eminence above a beast (ecclesiastes 3, 19. q: what does man ultimately risk? a: a person risks the thing that is most precious to him

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n the king is at once simple and profound. it teaches that god is one and the same god, by whatever name men call him, and that he is immanent in the lowest as well as in the highest. proclaiming thus the universal fatherhood, it maintains also the universal brotherhood, and sets before our companions the noblest of ideals. the entire symbol is surrounded by the circle, the emblem of god himself, the eternal reality behind and within all things unchanging, yet containing all the elements of change. of this circle it may be truly said that it has its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere; for it is omnipresence made manifest in symbol. furthermore, the circle enshrines a profound truth of creation. it is generated by radiation from a centre; that is to say, its circumference is de

we behold the circle as a whole, we see its circumference simultaneously in all its parts, and thus are led to realize that time is but our distorted vision of eternity. 770. again, the symbol of the circle teaches us the mighty rhythm of creation; all things go forth from the centre of unity to the circumference of multiplicity, and then return once more to that unity whence they sprang. this is the eternal breath of god, the breath of creation which is manifest throughout the entire universe, in the life of man with its cycle of existence from childhood through manhood to old age, and in nature with its alternations of day and night and the rhythmic flow of seasons. in this connection it is of interest to note how many words denoting spirit in different languages primarily mean breath- s

asonic form of this degree he is instructed to offer himself as a channel for the divine force and to make efforts to cooperate with t.g.a.o.t.u. by this daily work his buddhi or intuitional principle, the hidden wisdom which in egypt was called horus, the christ dwelling in man, should be aroused and greatly developed, so that he becomes, to the limit of his capability, a living manifestation of the eternal love, a veritable priest who is its instrument for the helping of the world. 790. in this degree also we find certain symbols of deep significance. the flower of the rose has the threefold connotation of love, secrecy and fragrance, while the cross bears also the threefold meaning of self-sacrifice, immortality and holiness. so when these two emblems are taken in conjunction, as they a

power set apart for the work of the masonic brotherhood, and also through himself with that mighty king whose representative he is for this work, while the great white angels of the order remain as the guardians of the sovereign grand inspector general throughout life. this stage combines the wonderful love of horus the son with the ineffable life and strength of osiris the divine father and isis the eternal mother of the world; and this union of love with strength is its most pro-minent characteristic. 803. it confers upon those who open themselves to its influence power similar to and only a little way below that of the first great initiation, and those who enter the 33 should assuredly qualify themselves for that step before very long. indeed, in the great days of the mysteries this sta

la of closing, the angels of the assistant officers also fade away, leaving only the three principals and the august thought-form of the h.o.a.t.f. the r.w.i.p.m, in the solemn utterance gand the word was with god h, reminds the brn. that even when manifestation ceases the christ still remains within the bosom of the father, ready to spring forth again, the alone-born, the self-begotten, when he, the eternal word, shall deign to speak once more. 984. the principal officers now extinguish their candles in rotation, each decreeing as be does so that the quality which he personifies shall nevertheless remain enshrined within the hearts of the brn; and the r.w.i.p.m. explains how this is possible by reminding them yet again that ghis light shineth even in our darkness h. as the candles are ext

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knows, he goes beyond the ceremony, he goes to osiris, he goes to the light, the light amen-ra, from which all came forth, to which all shall return. 57. osiris is in the heavens, but osiris is also in the very heart of men. when osiris in the heart knows osiris in the heavens, then man becomes god, and osiris, once rent into fragments, again becomes one. but see! osiris the divine spirit, isis, the eternal mother, give life to horus, who is man, man born of both, yet one with osiris. horus is merged in osiris, and isis, who had been matter, becomes through him the queen of life and wisdom. and osiris, isis, and horus are all born of the light. 58. two are the births of horus. he is born of isis, the god born into humanity, taking flesh of the mother eternal, matter, the ever-virgin. he i

the very touch of which brought upliftment and ecstasy. 66. osiris was the embodiment of god the father in a mighty planetary spirit. his symbol was the sun, and the influence which he outpoured was a dazzling glory of light shot through with gold, like the rays of the sun caught upon the surface of a lake. the influence of horus, who represented the divine child, was the glowing rose and gold of the eternal love which is perfect wisdom. 67. animal deities 68. the egyptians also followed the ancient practice of regarding certain animals as mirroring various aspects of the divine, because of their outstanding qualities. thus they took the intelligence of the ape, the clear-sightedness of the hawk, the strength of the bull, and so on, and attributed the quality to some particular aspect of t

he 33 appear to have been slightly modified since those ancient egyptian times. the great white angels seemed to be sterner and more rhadamanthine in ancient egypt; today those who belong to the degree are in some ways gentler, though their power is no less splendid. this stage combined the wonderful love of horus the son with the ineffable life and strength of osiris the divine father, and isis, the eternal mother of the world; and this union of love with strength is still its most prominent characteristic. 184. it confers upon those who open themselves to its influence power similar to and only a little way below that of the first great initiation, and those who enter the 33 should assuredly qualify themselves for that step before very long. indeed, in the great days of the mysteries thi

the spiritual king. in crete we often find it associated with what is called the sacral knot (plate i, 2, following p. 50. when thus combined it closely resembles the egyptian ankh, the token of immortality (plate i, 3. following p. 50) 232. the mother-goddess dictynna denoted the productivity and creative power of nature; this double axe, especially when surmounted by the sacral knot, signified the eternal truth of death and resurrection, which was the central mystery of the religion of crete as it was of that of egypt; and so it was often laid before her to typify the ever-recurring miracle of the rebirth of tree and grain from the death of winter. the very form of the labyrinth in the recesses of which this sacred emblem was concealed was in itself symbolical and full of meaning; it wa

tion in the life after death. in earlier days when the hierophant directing the studies described the effect of some particular vice or crime, he used his occult power to materialize some good example of the fate which his words portrayed, in some cases, it is stated, enabling the sufferer to speak and explain the condition in which he found himself as the outcome of his neglect while on earth of the eternal laws under which the worlds are governed. sometimes, instead of this, a vivid image of the state of some victim of his own folly would be materialized for the instruction of the neophytes. 353. in the days of the decadence, just as in egypt, there remained no hierophant who possessed the power to produce these occult illustrations, and consequently their place was taken by actors dress

m of the religion) and the spiritual christianity offered by the gnosis or wisdom. he makes it perfectly clear that by somatic christianity he means that faith which is based on the gospel history. he says of it: what better method could be devised to assist the masses? in dean inge s christian mysticism he is quoted as teaching that: 465. the gnostic or sage no longer needs the crucified christ. the eternal or spiritual gospel which is his possession shows clearly all things concerning the son of god himself both the mysteries shown by his words and the things of which his acts were the symbols origen regards the life, death and resurrection of christ as only one manifestation of a universal law, which was really enacted not in this fleeting world of shadows, but in the eternal counsels o

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

s sin was pride, which was an act of complete egoism and pure malice, in that he loved himself to the exclusion of all else and without the excuse of ignorance, error, passion, or weakness of will. other versions hold that his audacity went so far as to attempt to seat himself on the great throne. in the medieval mysteries, lucifer, as the governor of the heavens, is represented as seated next to the eternal. as soon as the lord leaves his seat, lucifer, swelling with pride, sits down on the throne of heaven. the indignant archangel michael takes up arms against him and finally succeeds in driving him out of heaven down into the dark and dismal dwelling reserved for him for all eternity. in heaven the archangel s name had been lucifer, on earth it was satan. the angels who joined his rebel

rticular of a purifying fire. officially, however, the catholic acceptance of purgatory did not begin until a papal letter of 1253, an idea that was not completely confirmed until the council of trent. the catechism of the council of trent states that, there is a purgatorial fire in which the souls of the pious are purified by a temporary punishment so that an entrance may be opened for them into the eternal country in which nothing stained can enter. purgatory, which in this view is a kind of limbo, provided explanations for such questions as the eternal fate of babies who died in infancy: unbaptized babies entered heaven after a brief sojourn in purgatory a far kinder fate than the one imagined by st. augustine, who asserted that if even infants died without the sacrament of baptism they

orkings of the universe and their particular place within it. it is also said that a second group of angels was created by god, who gave them the opportunity to sin. when they sinned, a war broke out between the two groups of angels, and the archangel michael took up arms against lucifer and the legions of sinners, and managed to cast them out of heaven. the mont st. michel on the norman coast is the eternal monument to the victorious leader of the hosts of heaven in the war against the rebel angel. the downfall of the devil is, according to church authority, attributed to self-conceit, and it was inferred that the devil s sin was pride, w 277 278 warlock; warlock: the armageddon; and warlock 3: the end of innocence although his sin is elsewhere thought to be superbia, envy, ambition, inso

LIBER LXI

uds or disapproves the finished work) there was a certain time of repose, as the earth lieth fallow. 26. meanwhile these adepts busied themselves intently with the great work. 27. in the fullness of time, even as a blossoming tree that beareth fruit in its season, all these pains were ended, and these adepts and their companions obtained the reward which they had soughtthey were to be admitted to the eternal and invisible order that hath no name among men. 28. they therefore who had with smiling faces abandoned their homes, their possessions, their wives, their children, in order to perform the great work, could with steady calm and firm correctness abandon the great work itself: for this is the last and greatest projection of the alchemist. 29. also one v.v.v.v.v. arose, an exalted adept

LIBER 777

outh with winged helment and heels, equipped as a magician, displays his art* 13 the priestess of the silver star. a crowned priestess sits before the veil of isis between the pillars of seth* 14 the daughter of the mighty ones. crowned with stars, a winged goddess stands upon the moon* 15 the son of the morning, chief among the mighty. a flame-clad god bearing equivalent symbols* 16 the magus of the eternal. between the pillars sits an ancient* 17 the children of the voice: the oracle of the mighty gods. a prophet, young, and in the sign of osiris risen* 18 the child of the powers of the waters: the lord of the triumph of light. a young and holy king under the starry canopy* 19 the daughter of the flaming sword. a smiling woman holds the open jaws of a fierce and powerful lion 20 the prop

rnal. between the pillars sits an ancient* 17 the children of the voice: the oracle of the mighty gods. a prophet, young, and in the sign of osiris risen* 18 the child of the powers of the waters: the lord of the triumph of light. a young and holy king under the starry canopy* 19 the daughter of the flaming sword. a smiling woman holds the open jaws of a fierce and powerful lion 20 the prophet of the eternal, the magus of the voice of power. wrapped in a cloke and cowl, an ancient walketh, bearing a lamp and staff* 21 the lord of the forces of life. a wheel of six shafts, whereon revolve the triad of hermanubis, sphinx, and typhon* 22 the daughter of the lords of truth. the ruler of the balance. a conventional figure of justice with scales and balances 23 the spirit of the mighty waters. t

LIBER ALEPH

of man.s skin, and its ink of his heart.s blood. k liber aleph vel cxi 4 d legenda de amore (fables of love) he fault, that is fatality, in love, as in every other form of will, is impurity. it is not the spontaneity thereof which worketh woe, but some repression in the environment. in the fable of adam and eve is this great lesson taught by the masters of the holy qabalah. for love were to them the eternal eden, save for the repression signified by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. thus their nature of love was perfect; it was their fall from that innocence which drove them from the garden. in the love of romeo and juliet was no flaw; but family feud, which imported nothing to that love, was its bane; and the rashness and violence of their revolt against that repression, slew t

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

lment. a r b a d a h a r b a trapt hr w b g d s j hny b hmk j r t k y a twklm dwsy dwh j x n 6=5 7= 4 8=3 9=2 10=1 0=0 0 1=1 2=9 3=8 4= 7 5=6 horus amoun nephthy s isis ptah heru-pa-kraat h osiris shu thoth hathoor ra n u i t h h d a i t h gt. one night of time t a the spirit of aiqhr c spirit of primal fire child of gt. transformers n the magus of power b f daug hter the flaming sword propher of the eternal y p lord of h osts of t he m ighty daughter of firmament x g priestess of silver star daughter of mighty ones d k lord of forces of life daughter of lords of truth l q ruler of flux and reflux lord of fire of world r h sun of the morning magus of the eternal w m spirt of the m ighty wa te rs z children of the voice s daughter of reconcilers child of powers ofwaters j lord of gates matt

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

rd seem unto the children of men? 52. and he answered him: not as thou canst see. liber cordis cincti serpente svb figvra ynda 5 it is certain that every letter of this cipher hath some value; but who shall determine the value? for it varieth ever, according to the subtlety of him that made it. 53. and he answered him: have i not the key thereof? i am clothed with the body of flesh; i am one with the eternal and omnipotent god. 54. then said adonai: thou hast the head of the hawk, and thy phallus is the phallus of asar. thou knowest the white, and thou knowest the black, and thou knowest that these are one. but why seekest thou the knowledge of their equivalence? 55. and he said: that my work may be right. 56. and adonai said: the strong brown reaper swept his swathe and rejoiced. the wise

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

saracen knight; and of his following of the questing beast 3 i sir palamede the saracen rode by the marge of many a sea: he had slain a thousand evil men and set a thousand ladies free. armed to the teeth, the glittering kinght galloped along the sounding shore, his silver arms one lake of light, their clash one symphony of war. how still the blue enamoured sea lay in the blaze of syria fs noon! the eternal roll eternally beat out its monotonic tune. sir palamede the saracen a dreadful vision here espied, a sight abhorred of gods and men, between the limit of the tide. the dead man.s tongue was torn away; the dead man.s throat was slit across; there flapped upon the putrid prey a carrion, screaming albatross. so halted he his horse, and bent to catch remembrance from the eyes that stared

LIBER CXX

in my sight, at eventide i go round about heaven; but thou art fettered with the fetters that ra hath ordained. i, even i, guide the. wherewith apep is driven back, and i know the divine souls of the west: tum, and sebek the lord of baklan, and hathoor the lady of the evening (the boat advances "i, even i know the eastern gate of heaven whence ra cometh with a favorable wind. i am the helmsman of the eternal bark; i know the two sycamores of. between which ra showeth himself. i, even i, know the divine souls of the east, heru-khuit, and the calf of the goddess khera, the bright morning star (the boat advances to the first pylon "get thee back! return! get thee back, thou crocodile sui! thou shalt not advance to me, for i live by the magical words of my mouth (the boat circles the temple de

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

citron presse, too, at the dome. at the risk of violating the precepts of zoroaster 170 and 144 i propose to do a tarot divination for this operation.1 1 [in westcott.s edition, fragment 144 of the chaldaan oracles runs .direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the earth; for the plant of truth grows not upon the ground. nor measure the motions of the sun, collecting rules, for he is carded by the eternal will of the father. and not for your sake alone. dismiss (from your mind) the impetuous course of the moon, for she moveth always by the power of necessity. the progression of the stars was not generated for your sake. the wide aerial flight of birds gives no true knowledge nor the dissection of the entrails of victims; they are all mere toys, the basis of mercenary fraud, flee from th

ants a solemn hymn of praise to that glory which is at the apex, and who invisibly rules and governs the whole pyramid. now then that darkling wight is lifted by the officers and brought to the altar in the centre; and there the hiereus accuses him of the two and twenty basenesses, while the hegemon lifting up his chained arms cries again and again against his enemy that he is under the shadow of the eternal wings of the holy one. yet at the end, at the supreme accusation, the hiereus smites him into death. the same answer avails him, and in its strength he is uplifted by his aspiration.and now he stands upright. now then he makes a journey in his new house, and perceives at stated times, each time preceded by a new ordeal and equilibration, the forces that surround him. death he sees, and

he stone of the philosophers! an ixion bound to the wheel of destiny and of the samsara, unable to reach the centre, where is rest. he must add to the entry 1.13 that the .telephone-cross. voices came as he composed himself to sleep, in the will to adonai. this time he detached a body of cavalry to chase them to oblivion. perhaps an unwise division of his forces; yet he was so justly indignant at the eternal illusions that he may be excused. excused! to whom? thou must succeed or fail! o batsman, with thy frail fortress of three-in-one, the umpire cries .out; and thou explainest to thy friends in the pavilion. but thy friends have heard that story before, and thy explanation will not appear in the score. mr. j. st. john, b. maya, 0, they will read in the local newspaper. there is no gettin

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

uld rather consider that the sailor fs tavern gives him his only glimpse of heaven, just as the destructive criticism of the phallicists has only proved sex to be a sacrament. consciousness, says the materialist, axe in hand, is a function of the brain. he has only re-formulated the old saying, gyour bodies are the temples of the holy ghost. h! now sex is justly hallowed in this sense, that it is the eternal fire of the race. huxley admitted that gsome of the lower animalcula are in a sense immortal, h because they go on reproducing eternally by fission, and however often you divide x 6 liber dcccxi by 2 there is always something left. but he never seems to have seen that mankind is immortal in exactly the same sense, and goes on reproducing itself with similar characteristics through the

LIBER DCLXXI VEL PYRAMIDOS

ence, homage to thee! repeat both signs. lord, we adore thee, still and stirred, beyond infinity. the secret word. m. m then, at the altar: behold! the perfect one hath said these are my body.s elements tried and found pure, a golden spoil incense and wine and fire and bread these i consume, true sacraments for the perfection of the oil. act accordingly. for i am clothed about with flesh and i am the eternal spirit i am the lord that riseth fresh from death, whose glory i inherit since i partake with him. i am the manifestor of the unseen 14 liber dclxxi without me all the land of khem is as if it had not been. proceed as in building to end: for from the silence of the wand unto the speaking of the sword, and back again to the beyond, this is the toil and the reward. this is the path of a

LIBER ISRAFEL

aco-egyptian ritual of exorcism on a papyrus in the british museum (p. lond. 46/ pgm v) see betz (ed, the greek magical papyri in translation for a more literal rendition. t.s] 4 [a golden dawn title for tarot trump ii, gthe high priestess. h. t.s] 4 liber israfel 16 (a pause) 17. the speech in the silence. the words against the son of night. the voice of tahuti in the universe in the presence of the eternal. the formulas of knowledge. the wisdom of breath. the root of vibration. the shaking of the invisible. the rolling asunder of the darkness. the becoming visible of matter. the piercing of the scales of the crocodile. the breaking forth of the light!5 18 (follows the lection) 19. there is an end of the speech; let the silence of darkness be broken; let it return into the silence of ligh

LIBER LVII

ience, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods! 2. notariqon. the absurdity of this method needs little indication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers. jew, converted by the notariqons of .berashith. true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbits fecit ignavus animam terrae,36 or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol!.ihvh, thora?37 why not take the sacred 'icquj of the christian who thought it meant 'ihsouj cristoj qeou 'uioj swthr38 and make him a pagan wit

LIBER LXI VEL CAUSAE

ves the finished work) there was a certain period of repose, as the earth lieth fallow. vel causa 7 26. meanwhile these adepts busied themselves intently with the great work. 27. in the fullness of time, even as a blossoming tree that beareth fruit in its season, all these pains were ended, and these adepts and their companions obtained the reward which they had sought.they were to be admitted to the eternal and invisible order that hath no name among men. 28. they therefore who had with smiling faces abandoned their homes, their possessions, their wives, their children, in order to perform the great work, could with steady calm and firm correctness abandon the great work itself; for this is the last and greatest projection of the alchemist. 29. also one v.v.v.v.v. arose, an exalted adept

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

.s mercy could expand its scope, extend, or bend, or spread, or straighten so far as to encompass satan or even poor iscariot. yet god created (did he not) both these. omnisciently, we know! benevolently? even so! created from himself distinct (note that!.it is not meet for you to plead me schelling and his crew) these souls, foreknowing how were linked the chains in either.s destiny .you pose me the eternal why. not i? again .who asks doth err. but this one thing i say. perhance there lies a purpose in advance. 535 540 545 550 555 560 565 570 575 will satan be saved? who pardons judas? god.s foreknowledge of satan.s fall and eternal misery makes him responsible for it. if he and judas are finally redeemed we might perhaps look over the matter this once. poet books his seat. creator in asc

e wheel72 ay, and each being.we may guess now that the very crystals feel. for them no harp-reasounding court, no palm, no crown, but none the less a cross, be sure! the worst man.s thought in hell itself, bereft of bliss, were less unmerciful than this! no! for material things, i hear, will burn away, and cease to be (nibbanna! ah! thou shoreless sea) man, man alone, is doomed to fear, to suffer the eternal woe, or else, to meet man.s subtle foe, god.and oh! infamy of terror! be like him.like him! and for ever! at least i make not such an error: my soul must utterly dissever its very silliest thought, belief, from such a god as possible, its vilest from his worship. never! avaunt, abominable chief of hate.s grim legions; let me well gird up my loins and make endeavour, and seek a refuge f

ore and more an obsession, and he is flung headlong into sadism, necrophilia, 56 the sword of song all the maddest, fiercest vices that the mind of fiends ever brought up from the pit. but always to the very end his power is unexhausted, immense, terrible. his delerium does not amuse; it appals! a man who could conceive as he did must himself have had some glorious chord in his heart vibrating to the eternal principle of boundless love. that this love was wrecked is for me, in some sort a relative of his, a real and bitter sorrow. he might have been so great! he missed heaven! think kindly of him! 169. correctly rhymes.41.such lines, however noble in sentiment, as. bas les anglais! the irish up. will not be admitted to the competition. irish is accented on the penultimate.bad cess ot the b

cowherd .i kiss your worshipful trilbies :1 i prostrate myself before your eminent respectability .sir. said the holy man, none other than our lord himself .thou seekest illumination. mahabrahma smirked and admitted it .from negative to positive. explained the thrice-honoured one .through potential existence eternally vibrates the divine absolute of the hidden unity of processional form masked in the eternal abyss of the unknowable, the synthetic hieroglyph of an illimitable, pastless, futureless present .to the uttermost bounds of space rushes the voice of ages unheard of save in the concentrated unity of the thought-formulated abstract; and eternally that voice formulates a word which is glyphed in the vast ocean of limitless life.2 do i make myself clear .perfectly. who would have thoug

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

hings should be cut into three. whose will. assenting all things were so divided. for the mind of the father said into three, governing all things by mind. and there appeared in it the triad, virtue and wisdom and multiscient truth. thus floweth forth the form of the triad. thus is formulated the creative trinity which is, as it were, the essential preliminary to manifestation. this mystic son of the eternal parents, having for his number 3, is typified in all the sacred scripts by that number. thus it is written of the manifestation of the son of god upon the earth .shiloh shall come (the initial of which mystery-name is c [chaldaan oracles, fragment 13 in the westcott/ cory editions; known from quotations by psellus and pletho. b, the magus of power in tarot= will [chaldaan oracles, frag

2+ 8= 10 assiah the number 28, the total numeration, therefore represents malkuth, the tenth sephira: assiah made manifest.the work of creation accomplished: wherefore god rested on the seventh day. and 28 is 7 4, the seven stars shining throughout the four worlds* as it is written in the path of the child of the sons of the mighty .and the chaos cried aloud for the unity of form and the face of the eternal arose. that brow and those eyes formed the b of the measureless heavens: and their reflection formed the c of the measureless waters. and thus was formulated one eternal hexad: and this is the number of the dawning creation. but herein is the fall, that there were only six numbers, so that for the seventh was 5 repeated. hence 1+2+3+4+5+6+5= 26= hwhy. assiah; tetragrammaton as the elem

LIBER PORTA LUCIS

he splendours to which they have attained. little by little, as your eyes grow stronger, will we unveil to you the ineffable glory of the path of the adepts, and its nameless goal. 15. even as a man ascending a steep mountain is lost to sight of his friends in the valley, so must the adept seem. they shall say: he is lost in the clouds. but he shall rejoice in the sunlight above them, and come to the eternal snows. 16. or as a scholar may learn some secret language of the ancients, his friends shall say: glook! he pretends to read this book. but it is unintelligibile.it is nonsense. h yet he delights in the odyssey, while they read vain and vulgar things. 17. we shall bring you to absolute truth, absolute light, absolute bliss. 18. many adepts throughout the ages have sought to do this; bu

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

em is silent on the killing of ymir. these facts could imply that when the earth 42 norse mythology arose from the sea after ragnarok later in the poem, there was a cyclical notion at work. in other words, the cosmos might be formed and reformed on multiple occasions by rising from the sea. this notion, which accords with the theories of mircea eliade as expressed, for example, in his the myth of the eternal return, has been expressed most clearly by jens peter schjodt in his 1981 article gvoluspa.cyklisk tidsopfattelse i gammelnordisk religion h (danske studier 76 [1981: 91.95. schjodt points especially to the last stanza of voluspa, which refers to the arrival of a dragon and the sinking of the sibyl. in the best treatment of time in norse mythology, that of margaret clunies ross in volu

the einherjar and invites them to drink beer. in gylfaginning snorri uses and expands on these sources, adding, among other things, that the einherjar are gall those men who have fallen in battle since the beginning of the world. h he also sends the einherjar out against the forces of chaos at the last battle but gives no details of their fights and fates. the emphasis in the sources is twofold: the eternal fighting and revival of the einherjar, and their special relationship with odin, which is manifested in part by their feasting endlessly with him and in part by their sharing in his grace. 104 norse mythology many scholars think there may be a basis for the myth in an ancient odin cult, which would have centered on young warriors who entered into an ecstatic relationship with odin. som

hology, at least, the evidence all goes in the other direction. odin, the god of wisdom and magic, has the closest association with the dead, and the other vanir, njord and frey, have no such connection. indeed, the word snorri used for the dead whom freyja shares equally with odin refers to those who die in battle. this association with the battle-dead may also underlie freyja fs connection with the eternal battle of the hjadningavig, which has obvious parallels to the endless battles of the einherjar. freyja is also connected with magic, especially the kind of shamanic magic called seid. in ynglinga saga snorri says that freyja first taught seid among the asir, and many scholars surmise that freyja is identical with the figure gullveig in voluspa, whom the asir cannot kill and who appare

ot supposed to be able to mate with goddesses. the fact that the gods grow old and gray.that is, display mortality.indicates what would happen if the flow of females, ordinarily from the giants to the gods, were to be reversed. what follows immediately in snorri is skadi fs quest for vengeance, which ends with her becoming married to njord. although haustlong calls idun the gmaiden who understood the eternal life of the asir h but does not mention the apples, in snorri fs version of the story idun fs apples clearly function as a symbol of the immortality of the gods. indeed, when he presents idun in gylfaginning, snorri says she is the wife of bragi: she keeps in her bag the apples that the gods are to chew when they grow old, and then all become young again, and so shall it be until ragna

o many of them. har responds: what you say is true, a great many of them are there, but many more shall there yet be, and yet it will seem too few, when the wolf comes calling. but never will there be so great a crowd of men in valholl, that the flesh of that pig, who is named sahrimnir, will run out on them. he is boiled each day and is whole again by evening. the names of the cook, the pot, and the eternal pork are joined by the element hrimnir, which is derived from the word for soot on a cookpot. the element deities, themes, and concepts 263 and- could refer to (or could have been understood by snorri as referring to) the front of the cook, who would be facing the cookpot as he worked his culinary magic, and gfire-sooty h would make sense for the pot, but the pig fs name is far from cl

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

s continue. there are no alternatives or different derivatives. so, without truth are such assertions that we did not originate ourselves of our own free will (or otherwise. we do not know. our amnesia covers so much. all our early history and potential, now latent, unbeknown yet, which were unities, truth, freedom, etc, are now separate, untrue, powerless, or appear diverse. all vice-versas. but the eternal ever-varying flux of our media-relatability is as the ebb and flow of our capacity towards greater affinity with all possibilities within the ever omnipresent mind, as flesh, to manifest. we are a great company: none walks alone, but with a formidable host of familiars, however we may clothe, shut out, or prohibit them. there is a veritable funeral procession of dead selves and loves a

rge from the same damn thing after another. when old memories are stimulated by some ephemeral event, thought responds and we can force thinking by association and be fully conscious that we are doing so. matter being the vehicle of mind. to this fractional extent we can control the content of memory. faults made habitual become our idioms and style. nothing easy has much new substance or growth. the eternal alternations compel our untruth, unless we re-orientate. to feel and to understand are an equation. the main premise of religion is the demanding of complete acceptance..1 e..1' 5! u. e- e..1..q k..1 abstracts and mysteries of life. as proof, it is asserted that god, or cause, being so miraculous in its/his workings as to be beyond comprehension, over-rides all bafflement at contradict

in. always true: i 2 n>b 2/ n>b> 2 o> meanings become obscure, beyond our definition, and guessing becomes our technique. the simple becomes complex and our logic a tautology of qualifications that are apt to somersault to their opposites, and will transform our original order into chaos. all experiences are true for us to the extent we have realized of them. they ultimately become organic, hence the eternal recurrence giving further disclosures and the feeling that we have experienced them before. mind and body constantly constipating is a sign of permanent invalidism. the beautiful face covers the skull, hence beauty is the out-product of the grotesque (no relation to ugliness. we become like our desires: whether we desire like a god, a man, a beast or an abortion, we become akin. the co

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

he northern quarter, i summon thee forth to protect and fortify this circle typhon sothis, do come forth! lord of darkness, night and storms of chaos! i summon thee forth to guard and protect this rite! ad alantra sorio sabriao atumaza seth from each guardian that shall encircle my presence first born of the craft, hear me and come forth! by ankh eternal life itself, immortal eye! by ka spirit of the eternal self, in awakened union! by djed the four pillars of the world, from which my word shall manifest! envision a great pillar or circle of fire emerging from your feet in the center of the circle moving up through and around you. this is the energy as foundation from the four quarters and the god forms summoned. the triple hermetic circle of hamara t is created as a focus of setian awaken

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acter: good in the soul, expressed through the virtues; good in the body, expressed through the symmetry and endurance of the parts; and good in the external world, expressed through social position and companionship. in the book of speusippus on platonic definitions, that great platonist thus defines god "a being that lives immortally by means of himself alone, sufficing for his own blessedness, the eternal essence, cause of his own goodness. according to plato, the one is the term most suitable for defining the absolute, since the whole precedes the parts and diversity is dependent on unity, but unity not on diversity. the one, moreover, is before being, for to be is an attribute or condition of the one. platonic philosophy is based upon the postulation of three orders of being: that whi

uilibrium, called the pleroma. this pleroma is a peculiar substance produced out of the blending of the spiritual and material ons. out of the pleroma was individualized the demiurgus, the immortal mortal, to whom we are responsible for our physical existence and the suffering we must go through in connection with it. in the gnostic system, three pairs of opposites, called syzygies, emanated from the eternal one. these, with himself, make the total of seven. the six (three pairs) ons (living, divine principles) were described by simon in the philosophumena in the following manner: the first two were mind (nous) and thought (epinoia. then came voice (phone) and its opposite, name (onoma, and lastly, reason (logismos) and reflection (enthumesis. from these primordial six, united with the ete

his brother--the second mind--which sat upon the ring of the fire. and having beheld the achievements of the fiery workman, he willed also to make things, and his father gave permission. the seven governors, of whose powers he partook, rejoiced and each gave the man a share of its own nature "the man longed to pierce the circumference of the circles and understand the mystery of him who sat upon the eternal fire. having already all power, he stooped down and peeped through the seven harmonies and, breaking through the strength of the circles, made himself manifest to nature stretched out below. the man, looking into the depths, smiled, for he beheld a shadow upon the earth and a likeness mirrored in the waters, which shadow and likeness were a reflection of himself. the man fell in love w

and light" hermes next inquired about the road by which the wise attained to life eternal, and poimandres continued "let the man endued with a mind mark, consider, and learn of himself, and with the power of his mind divide himself from his not-self and become a servant of reality" hermes asked if all men did not have minds, and the great dragon replied "take heed what you say, for i am the mind--the eternal teacher. i am the father of the word--the redeemer of all men--and in the nature of the wise the word takes flesh. by means of the word, the world is saved. i, thought (thoth--the father of the word, the mind--come only unto men that are holy and good, pure and merciful, and that live piously and religiously, and my presence is an inspiration and a help to them, for when i come they im

man within you, rise from your sleep of ignorance! be sober and thoughtful. realize that your home is not in the earth but in the light. why have you delivered yourselves over unto death, having power to partake of immortality? repent, and change your minds. depart from the dark light and forsake corruption forever. prepare yourselves to climb through the seven rings and to blend your souls with the eternal light" some who heard mocked and scoffed and went their way, delivering themselves to the second death from which there is no salvation. but others, casting themselves before the feet of hermes, besought him to teach them the way of life. he lifted them gently, receiving no approbation for himself, and staff in hand, went forth teaching and guiding mankind, and showing them how they mi

ue mind, that is poimandres, the great dragon, the lord of the word, through whom i became inspired by god with the truth. since that day my mind has been ever with me and in my own soul it hath given birth to the word: the word is reason, and reason hath redeemed me. for which cause, with all my soul and all my strength, i give praise and blessing unto god the father, the life and the light, and the eternal good "holy is god, the father of all things, the one who is before the first beginning "holy is god, whose will is performed and accomplished by his own powers which he hath given birth to out of himself "holy is god, who has determined that he shall be known, and who is known by his own to whom he reveals himself "holy art thou, who by thy word (reason) hast established all things "ho

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warlock, which is tantamount to the same thing, then the likelihood of your persuading his deep mind to accept anything other than its own selected destiny is going to be slim indeed. not only is any spell you cast going to affect him in no wise, but the magical current you set in motion by your action will recoil on you as the sender and probably expend its energy on your own deep mind! this is the eternal danger in malefic witchcraft, to be hoist on one's own petard; but we shall speak more of this later in chapters 5 and 6 which deal solely with the problems of countermagic and magical attack. however, to return to our topic of divination, we shall start with one of the first, simple rules of practical witchcraft: before embarking on any magical operation, perform a divination (a) to d

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nal salutation. let all the demons fly from this place, especially those who are opposed unto this work, and let the angels of peace assist and protect this circle, from which let discord and strife fly and depart. magnify and extend upon us, o lord, thy most holy name, and bless our conversation and our assembly. sanctify, o lord our god, our humble entry herein, thou the blessed and holy one of the eternal ages! amen. after this, let the master say upon his knees, as follows: book one page 19 prayer. o lord god, all powerful and all merciful, thou who desirest not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live; give and grant unto us thy grace, by blessing and consecrating this earth and this circle, which is here marked out with the most powerful and hol

geons bound with eternal chains of fire. by these names then, and by all the other holy names of god before whom no man can stand and live, and which names the armies of the demons fear, tremble at, and shudder; we conjure ye, we potently exorcise and command ye, conjuring ye in addition by the terrible and tremendous paths of god and by his holy habitation wherein he reigneth and commandeth unto the eternal ages. amen. by the virtue of all these aforesaid, we command ye that ye remain not in any place wherein ye are, but to come hither promptly without delay to do that which we shall enjoin ye. but if ye be still contumacious, we, by the authority of a sovereign and potent god, deprive ye of all quality, condition, degree, and place which ye now enjoy, and precipitate ye into and relegate

wonderful things, which it is impossible to relate, touching worldly matters and all sciences. this being finished, let the master uncover the pentacles, and demand all that he shall wish from the king of the spirits, and if there are one or two spirits only, it will be the same; and having obtained all his desire, he shall thus license them to depart: the license to depart in the name of adonai, the eternal and everlasting one, let each of you return unto his place; be there peace between us and you, and be ye ready to come when ye are called. after this he should recite the first chapter of genesis, berashith bara elohim, in the beginning &c. this being done, let them all in order quit the circle, one after the other, the master first. furthermore let them bathe their faces with the exor

t the lord who alone doest wonders; show forth i pray thee thy great mercy, by the holy city of jerusalem, by thy wonderful name of four letters which are yod, he, vau, he, and by thy holy and admirable name, give unto me the power and virtue to enable me to accomplish this experiment, and to come unto the desired end of this operation; through thee who art life, and unto whom life belongeth unto the eternal ages. amen. after this perfume and cense the place by burning incense. this aforesaid place should be pure, clean, safe from interruption or disturbance, and proper to the work, as we shall hereafter show. then sprinkle the aforesaid place with consecrated water, as is laid down in the chapter concerning circles. the operation being in such wise prepared, thou shalt rehearse the conjur

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aid alone, thou who alone art the accomplishment of good works, thou who givest rest unto those who labour, who humblest the proud, who art the author of life and the destroyer of death; thou art our rest, thou art the protector of those who invoke thee; protect, guard, and defend me in this matter, and in this enterprise which i propose to carry out, o thou who livest, reignest, and abidest unto the eternal ages. amen. during the three last days before the commencement of this action, thou shalt content thyself with only eating fasting diet, and that only once in the day; and it will be better still if thou only partakest of bread and water. thou shalt also abstain from every impure thing; reciting the prayer above written. and on the last day, when thou shalt wish to commence the operati

conjuration: the conjuration of the reed. i conjure thee by the creator of all things, and by the king of angels, whose name is el shaddai, that thou receivest strength and virtue to flay this animal and to construct the parchment whereon i may write the holy names of god, and that it may acquire so great virtue that all which i shall write or do may obtain its effect, through him who liveth unto the eternal ages. amen. before cutting the reed recite psalm lxxii. after this, with the knife of the art, thou shalt fashion the reed into the shape of a knife, and upon it thou shalt write these names: agla, adonai, elohi (see figure 87, through whom be the work of this knife accomplished. then thou shalt say: o god, who drewest moses, thy well-beloved and thine elect, from among the reeds on th

easeth thee, even to fly with the wings of the wind. but if thou takest little heed hereof, and despiseth this book, never shalt thou attain unto the desired end in any magical experiment or operation whatsoever. for in this book is comprised all science of magical art, and it should be strictly kept by thee. and hereunto is the end of our "key" in the name of god the righteous, the merciful, and the eternal, who liveth and reigneth throughout the ages. amen. the end of the key of solomon the king. book two page 123 ancient fragment of the key of solomon. translated from the hebrew by eliphaz levi; and given in his "philosophie occulte" serie ii, page 136. i will now give unto thee the key of the kingdom of the spirits. this key is the same as that of the mysterious numbers of yetzirah. 84

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ting lord god who created both thee and me and all the world in six days, and what is contained therein, eie, saraye, and by the power of this name primeumaton which commandeth the whole host of heaven, curse thee, and deprive thee of thine office, joy, and place, and bind thee in the depths of the bottomless pit or abyss, there to remain unto the day of the last judgment. and i will bind thee in the eternal fire, and into the lake of flame and of brimstone, unless thou comest quickly and appearest here before this circle to do my will. therefore, come thou! in and by the holy names adonai, zabaoth, adonai, amioran. come thou! for it is adonai who commandest thee. if thou hast come thus far, and yet he appeareth not, thou mayest be sure that he is sent unto some other place by his king, an

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50 escerchi, zebaoth, jah, tetragram-maton sadai, the only lord god of hosts, that you forthwith appear unto me here in this crystal stone [or here before this circle] in a fair& comely human shape without hurt to me or any other creature that the great god jehovah hath created& made, and come ye peaceably, visibly and affably without delay manifesting what i desire, being conjured by the name of the eternal living true god heliorin tetragrammaton anepheneton& fulfill my commands& persist unto the end, i conjure, command& constrain you spirit n by alpha& omega& by the name primeumaton which commandeth the whole host of heaven& by all these names which moses named when he by the power of these names brought great plagues upon pharaoh& all the people of egypt; zebaoth, escerchie, oriston, el

MEANING OF MASONRY

ance upon a new one of larger self knowledge, deepened understanding and intensified virtue. it means a transition from the merely natural state and standards of life towards a regenerate and super-natural state and standard. it means a turning away from the pursuit of the popular ideals of the outer world, in the conviction that those ideals are but shadows, images and temporal substitutions for the eternal reality that underlies them, to the keen and undivertible quest of that reality itself and the recovery of those genuine secrets of our being which lie buried and hidden at" the centre" or innermost part of our souls. it means the awakening of those hitherto dormant higher faculties of the soul which endue their possessor with "light" in the form of new enhanced consciousness and enlar

the order is, we are taught" an emblematical representation of the entrance of all men upon this mortal existence" let us reflect a little upon these pregnant words. to those deep persistent questionings which present themselves to every thinking mind, what am i? whence come i? whither go i, masonry offers emphatic and luminous answers. each of us, it tells us, has come from that mystical" east" the eternal source of all light and life, and our life here is described as being spent in the" west (that is, in a world which is the antipodes of our original home, and under conditions of existence as far removed from those we came from and to which we are returning, as is west from east in our ordinary computation of space. hence every candidate upon admission finds himself, in a state of dark

e incident of his actual birth into this world, which he entered as a blind and helpless ba be, and through which in his early years, not knowing whither he was going, after many stumbling and irregular steps, after many deviations from the true path and after many tribulations and adversities incident to human life, he may at length ascend, purified and chastened by experience, to larger life in the eternal east. hence in the e.a. degree, we ask" as a mason, whence come you" and the answer, coming from an meaning apprentice (i.e, from the natural man of undeveloped m of knowledge) is" from the west" since he supposes that his life has originated in this world. but, in the advanced degree of m.m. the answer is that he comes" from the east" for by this time the mason is supposed to have so

es in the way of the spiritual life. but he is taught to persist with fortitude and with prudence, to develop the highest within him with" fervency and zeal" upon self scrutiny, too, i.e, upon entering into that" porchway" of contemplation which like a winding staircase leads inward to the holy of holies within himself, he realizes that difficulties and obstacles placed in his way are utilised by the eternal wisdom as the necessary means of developing the latent and potential good in him, and that as the rough ashlar can only be squared and perfected by chipping and polishing, so he also can be made perfect only by toil and by suffering. he sees that difficulty, adversity and persecution serve a beneficent purpose. these are his" wages: and he learns to accept them" without scruple and wit

antiquity, viz, that which is popularly known as the fall of man. however we may choose to regard this event--and throughout the history of the human race it has been taught in innumerable ways and in all manner of parables, allegories, myths and legends--its sole and single meaning is that humanity as a whole has fallen away from its original parent source and place; that from being imbedded in the eternal centre of life man has become projected to the circumference; and that in this present world of ours he is undergoing a period of restriction, of ignorance, of discipline and experience, that shall ultimately fit him to return to the centre whence he came and to which he properly belongs" paradise lost" is the real theme of masonry no less than of milton, as it is also of all the ancie

l bodies are composed is the" earth" referred to. that is but corruptible impermanent stuff which merely forms a temporary encasement of the imperishable true" earth" or substance of our souls, and enables them to enter into sense-relations with the physical world. the distinction must be clearly grasped and held in mind, for masonry has to deal not so much with the transient outward body as with the eternal inward being of man, although the outward body is temporarily involved with the latter. it is the immortal soul of man which is the ruined temple and needs to be rebuilt upon the principles of spiritual science. the mortal body of it, with its unruly wills and affections, stands in the way of that achievement. it is the rubble which needs to be cleared before the new foundations can be

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t one thing, we are his spiritwe could save this world from destruction daycan you see what i see?can you hear me crying?oh god can you help me now?take my hand- no home no homeof god take my heavenyou and i are victims of their wordas the masters of power try to poison our worldgreed money taken over their soulsjust mechanical brainspoliticians don't knowthey just don't know they just don't know(the eternal idol by black sabbath- there are phantoms here on earth who take away our livesthey kill your kids and they rape your wivesthey rip your flesh, tear your heart and take you down to hellatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation159 appendix a: the minstrels speak they don't give a damn on any kind of lifephantoms bring evil, destruction and deathnight after night the same old

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our universe. while they may or may not be valid, they are important in our study and definitions of subjective practice: 1. the world of matter. 2. the soul-world or spirit of the material universe. this looks downward into matter. 3. the higher spirit-world, that looks upward. this would be defined in luciferian witchcraft as 11 azal ucel, or the higher intellect holy guardian angel. 4. nous or the eternal blessedness, in short not some spiritual nirvana but in luciferian terms the level of wisdom of possessing this world both materially and spiritually. the physical or world of matter is that of ahriman the prince of darkness. our material universe is our grounding and experience plane which can be agreed upon. the astral plane is the next level of experience, where consciousness or the

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

en more remarkable is that no inscription or depiction anywhere in the land of egypt so much as mentions masses of men, huge blocks, and ramps in regards to the construction of the pyramids (damn you charlton heston. modern man has done much speculation regarding the reason for building the pyramids, and the methods used. experts of our day have suggested that the pyramids were built to be tombs, the eternal resting place of ego-maniacal pharaohs (egyptian king. but without so much as a trace of the more practical construction methods, even a skeptical observer would be forced to entertain the theories of the ancient egyptians regarding their own creations. those of ancient egypt are unambiguous about the reasoning and construction methods of the pyramids. they claim that these structure w

whom none might behold save those who had been "born again? he alone fully knew the secret of the pyramid, but he has departed the way of the wise and the house is empty. the hymns of praise no longer echo in muffled tones through the chambers; the neophyte no longer passes through the elements and wanders among the seven stars; the candidate no longer receives the "word of life" from the lips of the eternal one. nothing now remains that the eye of man can see but an empty shell--the outer symbol of an inner truth--and men call the house of god a tomb! the technique of the mysteries was unfolded by the sage illuminator, the master of the secret house. the power to know his guardian spirit was revealed to the new initiate; the method of disentangling his material body from his divine vehicl

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thern quarter, 1 summon thee forth to protect and fortify this circle- typhon sothis, do come forth! lord of darkness, night and storms of chaos! i summon thee forth to guard and protect this rite! ad alantra- sorio sabriao- atumaza- seth from each guardian that shall encircle my presence first born of the craft, hear me and come forth! by ankh- eternal life itself, immortal eye! by ka- spirit of the eternal self, in awakened union! by djed- the four pillars of the world, from which my word shall manifest! envision a great pillar or circle of fire emerging from your feet in the center of the circle moving up through and around you. this is the energy as foundation from the four quarters and the god forms summoned. the triple hermetic circle of hamara't is created as a focus of setian awake

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ght, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever" such is the type of a free people. our northern ancestors worshipped this triune deity; odin, the almighty father; frea, his wife, emblem of universal matter; and thor, his son, the mediator. but above all these was the supreme god "the author of everything that existeth, the eternal, the ancient, the living and awful being, the searcher into concealed things, the being that never changeth" in the temple of eleusis (a sanctuary lighted only by a window in the roof, and representing the universe, the images of the sun, moon, and mercury, were represented "the sun and moon" says the learned bro. delaunay "represent the two grand principles of all generations, the act

an entirely modern addition to the symbol, like the terrestrial and celestial globes on the columns of the portico. thus the ancient symbol has been denaturalized by incongruous additions, like that of isis weeping over the broken column containing the remains of osiris at byblos* masonry has its decalogue, which is a law to its initiates. these are its ten commandments: i [symbol: earth: god is the eternal, omnipotent, immutable wisdom and supreme intelligence and exhaustless love. thou shalt adore, revere, and love him! thou shalt honor him by practising the virtues! ii [symbol: full moon: thy religion shall be, to do good because it is a pleasure to thee, and not merely because it is a duty. that thou mayest become the friend of the wise man, thou shalt obey his precepts! thy soul is i

the accessories of the great truth, and probably, to the initiates, mere allegories, designed to make the idea more palpable and impressive to the mind. they are at least no more fit to be smiled at by the self-conceit of a vain ignorance, the wealth of whose knowledge consists solely in words, than the _bosom_ of abraham, as a home for the _spirits_ of the just dead; the gulf of actual fire, for the eternal torture of _spirits; and the city of the new jerusalem, with its walls of jasper and its edifices of pure gold like clear glass, its foundations of precious stones, and its gates each of a single pearl "i knew a man" says paul "caught up to the third heaven. that he was caught up into paradise, and heard ineffable words, which it is not possible for a man to utter" and nowhere is the a

ir pauperism and destitution, and consequent degradation, their brutalization and demoralization, are all diseases; and we cannot rise high enough above the people, nor shut ourselves up from them enough, to escape the miasmatic contagion and the great magnetic currents. justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. the unjust state is doomed of god to calamity and ruin. this is the teaching of the eternal wisdom and of history "righteousness exalteth a nation; but wrong is a reproach to nations "the throne is established by righteousness. let the lips of the ruler pronounce the sentence that is divine; and his mouth do no wrong in judgment" the nation that adds province to province by fraud and violence, that encroaches on the weak and plunders its wards, and violates its treaties and t

en reason; the word is in god, and is god himself, manifested to the intelligence. here is what is above all the philosophies. this we must believe, under the penalty of never truly knowing anything, and relapsing into the absurd skepticism of pyrrho. the priesthood, custodian of faith, wholly rests upon this basis of knowledge, and it is in its teachings we must recognize the divine principle of the eternal word. light is not spirit, as the indian hierophants believed it to be; but only the instrument of the spirit. it is not the body of the protoplastes, as the theurgists of the school of alexandria taught, but the first physical manifestation of the divine afflatus. god eternally creates it, and man, in the image of god, modifies and seems to multiply it. the high magic is styled "the s

n the opening verses of his paraphrase, states the first principles of a dogma common to many schools, but in language especially belonging to philo, whom it is evident he had read. the philosophy of plato, the greatest of human revealers, could _yearn toward_ the word made man; the gospel alone could give him to the world. doubt, in presence of being and its harmonies; skepticism, in the face of the eternal mathematics and the immutable laws of life which make the divinity present and visible everywhere, as the human is known and visible by its utterances of word and act--is this not the most foolish of superstitions, and the most inexcusable as well as the most dangerous of all credulities? thought, we know, is not a result or consequence of the organization of matter, of the chemical or

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he riviera. 17. but ye are not so chosen. those who are chosen for those offices 'are not; that is, they passed through the annihilation; they crossed the abyss. nor could they perform, unless they crossed. see liber 156; also, verses 11 and 45 of this chapter. 18. burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! in them, kundalini must have reached the ajna. 19. 0 azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! the eternal sakhti (nuit) must activate the sahashara in them, attracted by the awakening of the ajna. 20. the key of the rituals is in the secret word which i have given unto him. this word is communicated directly to any serious aspirant when needed. 21. with the god& the adorer i am nothing: they do not see me. they are as upon the earth; i am heaven, and there is no other god than me, and my l

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abours were approved. an answer to his prayer came through the open roof of the temple in the shape of a flash of lightning, which phidias interpreted as a sign that the god of heaven was pleased with his work. zeus was first worshipped at dodona in epirus, where, at the foot of mount tomarus, on the woody shore of lake joanina, was his famous oracle, the most ancient in greece. here the voice of the eternal and invisible god was supposed to be heard in the rustling leaves of a giant oak, announcing to mankind the will of heaven and the destiny of mortals; these revelations being interpreted to the people by the priests of zeus, who were called selli. recent excavations which have been made at this spot have brought to light the ruins of the ancient temple of zeus, and also, among other in

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f words spoken that are believed to exert a magical effect on a situation that the person casting the spell seeks to change. the casting of spells is based upon the ancient wiccan belief that to speak a desire is to cause the desire to be fulfilled. secrets of sex magic have you ever seen a beautiful woman in the company of a real nerd, and wondered how he got so lucky? maybe it was sex magic. in the eternal story of men chasing women, and vice versa, it should always be remembered that witchcraft and sex magic have seduced more members of the opposite sex than any amount of good looks, intelligence or position. sex magic can influence and attract the opposite sex like nothing else can. it can compel a girl to introduce herself to a man in whom she had no previous interest. the secret of o

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

iety of fields i have explored in the undertaking of this book. i give my acknowledgment and thanks to all those who gave me their assistance or showed interest in the work i was doing. certainly i am aware of the gaps that remain in this product. my ambition is to inspire further study in this fascinating subject that remains in large part unexplored. introduction behold the days come, oracle of the eternal. i will set my law within them and write it on their hearts. behold the days come that city shall be built. jeremiah 31:33-38 to find the origins of freemasonry, it is important first to isolate its original characteristics, which can be found in the institutions from which it appears to have emerged: 1. it was a professional builders or, more precisely, construction organization; the

r 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 eternal one and house the holy of holies, the ark of covenant containing the tablets of the law. to the medieval mind, solomon's temple was the replica of god's true temple and must be visualized on two planes: that of the universe and the divine creation and that of man, the reduced form of the universe to which christ's incarnation had conferred a level of grandeur or some value sequal to it

ts a shadow on the veracity of his entire claim. so it is clear that another approach entirely is required to seek out the operative tradition, which is what we have attempted here. an approach that is based on the study of the authentic elements and some of the rites, symbols, and practices of this operative tradition should enable us to grasp and then renew these principles by reconnecting with the eternal truths that are their constituent elements. conclusion here, at the end of this study, one conclusion stands out regarding history. a lesson should also be drawn for contemporary freemasonry, which views itself as the heir to the masons of the past and for all men striving to place human destiny within the sacred value of its essence. in fashioning here an objective study based strictl

hings, which touch on the absolute, there is no need to employ the abstract vocabulary of philosophers. such things do exist because they can be felt and experienced. no other iniatory path has managed to better express the inexpressible. the medieval freemason, the builder of the cathedrals, never viewed himself as anything more than the imagier of an infinitely more elevated work: the temple of the eternal one who dwells within man, the heavenly jerusalem, symbol of the universality of all men belonging to all times and races, temples of immortality and perfection. this great work involves consciousness, another aspect of infinity. humans can lay claim to this perfection because they possess it as something virtual, a sacred trust of which we must become aware. the great lesson to be dra

nging to all times and races, temples of immortality and perfection. this great work involves consciousness, another aspect of infinity. humans can lay claim to this perfection because they possess it as something virtual, a sacred trust of which we must become aware. the great lesson to be drawn from this by all humanity is found in the words of the good jeremiah "behold the days come, oracle of the eternal. i will set my law within them and write it on their hearts. behold the days come that city shall be built" the apostles paul and james in turn stressed the divine truth of the indestructible unity and reciprocal demands of faith and works in order to aspire to transcendence. the key to the holy of holies promised to all is love, the major factor of the comprehensive illumination: love

on they ceaselessly invoke, these principles are ignored and the precepts that arise from them are nothing but empty words that have no actual effect on behavior. the more attentive individuals regard these principles only as the historical souvenir of a bygone society that believed in god's presence among men. they view its precepts as lackconclusion 275 ing any rational support and bolstered by the eternal dream of a leftist utopia. for them, freemasonry is a conjunction of this dead past and this lifeless dream that shapes the nostalgic refuge of a few sensitive but faded souls. it is true that when compared with the ideal aspect of humanism, the realities of our world are quite removed from this ideal. who still speaks of the sacred value of man and his creative activity, work? isn't w

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an can develop? by the way, i certainly don't mean a cookie cutter "satanist" with all the traditional trappings of tattoo, piercing and the latest marilyn manson t- shirt (i'm aware that last sentence will be as outdated as the model t in a few months "hipness" is not antinomianism. it's merely desperate conformism marketed as rebellion. the trendy, the temporary, the faddish are all anathema to the eternal otherness of set. let us hope that the temple never becomes the next cool thing. that could destroy it more quickly than a thousand televangelists. sense of humor. not some boor telling an endless parade of practiced jokes. does our potential setian see the world as essentially absurd? does she have enough self-esteem to make light of herself? these are good clues that there is a mind

its ghost stories, folklore, and work by previous occultists. if you can, discover a magical event that has taken place where you live and do a rite of synthesis with it. first spend a day interacting with the event, in a manner of your own choosing. then a day contemplating your own goals. then on the third day send forth your blend of the two things into the world- while linking the event with the eternal set network. this will not only allow you to tap into what is hidden in your domain, but it will make a very magical host for visiting setians, as well as giving you some fodder for lbm. 6. foster tolerance in your community to groups known as "other. if the temple gets bad press, have your pylon do a letter-writing campaign. or if your local occult bookstore will let you put out pamph

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

myth and time many mythologies start before the dawn of time, with the coming into consciousness of a creator god, such as the egyptian re (see p. 12. re himself is described as the awareness of an all-encompassing divine being, nebertcher, the lord without limit. mythological time, unlike clock time, is cyclical rather than linear. it presupposes what the writer mircea eliade called the myth of the eternal return. it is set in motion by a particular event in egypt, the call of the benu bird as it alighted upon the first land. it will come to an end eventually, and the cycle of creation will begin again. the mythology of the aztec and maya, and of native american nations such as the navajo, describes this world as being the fifth one. for the navajo, the first four worlds were beneath thi

ivilization has become established, the myths that formed it may dwindle into superstition or entertainment, but even so, they never lose their intrinsic power, for the world s mythologies enshrine all the poetry and passion of which the human mind is capable. from ancient egypt to greece and rome, from west africa to siberia, from the hindu concept of brahman and the endless cycle of creation to the eternal dreaming of the australian aboriginals, the same themes recur, as humankind engages with the great mysteries of life and death. the best definition of myth is maya deren s in her book on the voodoo gods: myth, she writes, is the facts of the mind made manifest in the fiction of matter. the first people this west african carving shows the world in the form of a calabash gourd, with the

ing to the yoruba people in west africa, the world was made when obatala, the son of the great sky god olorun, threw earth from a snail shell, and got a pigeon and a hen to scatter it. the supreme gods of africa tend, like olorun, to withdraw from their creation leaving the main work to their successors. in the original myth preserved by the priests of the fon skycult, it is the androgynous deity the eternal wheel of time this aztec calendar stone, found beneath the central plaza of mexico city, is a wheel of time commemorating the five world creations, of which the latest is the current world. the fifth sun, nahui ollin, was made by the gods at teotihuacan (just north of modern mexico city, which was also the birthplace of the gods themselves. the stone is not a fully-functioning calendar

mpassion for humankind, descends to earth in various avatar forms, such as prince rama, to fight evil. whenever vishnu is incarnated, so is lakshmi, to be his bride. here, garuda is taking the loving couple to their own heaven, vaikuntha. introduction 9 female. the egyptians, for example, worshiped geb as god of the earth, and his sister-bride nut as the goddess of the sky. nowhere has worship of the eternal female been so strong as in india, where various goddesses are worshiped under the enveloping spell of mahadevi, the great goddess. devi is the consort of the god shiva (see pp. 112 13, and is worshiped as benign parvati or uma or as ferocious and vengeful durga or kali. sankara wrote of her in the 9th century, your hands hold delight and pain. the shadow of death and the elixir of imm

beginning of time, the waters of nun lay in darkness, until re thought himself into being. at the first dawn, the benu bird flew across the waters, its great wings flapping soundlessly, its long legs trailing. the benu bird reached a rocky pyramid, just breaking through the surface of the water. it opened its beak, and let out a harsh cry. the sound rang out across the endless waters, shattering the eternal silence. as the light of the first dawn broke over the darkness, the world was filled with the knowledge of what was, and what was not, to be. the benu bird was depicted as a gigantic heron; the greeks later called it the phoenix, recognizing that the bird was really an aspect of the sun god, re. at the great temple of amun at karnak, a duck was released across the waters of the sacred

swims away. not for you or anyone do i wear crosses upon my breast, tie my hair with silk. the kalevala: the drowned maid old v in m inen was delighted to have joukahainen s maid care for him in his old age. the kalevala: the singing match. now would be the time for me to part from this world the time to go to death. down below the deep billows. the kalevala: the drowned maid old man v in m inen, the eternal bard, spent 700 years in his mother s womb, and was already old by the time he was born. the story of v in m inen 77 contemplating death aino reached the sea early in the morning of the third day. heartbroken, she took off her clothes and swam out to a boulder in the distance. there she sat until the boulder sank down and the maid with the rock. in a source poem for this story, the gir

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the white bones dressed up with cunning art and covered with shining fat. then the father of men and of gods said to him `son of iapetos, most glorious of all lords, good sir, how unfairly you have divided the portions' so said zeus whose wisdom is everlasting, rebuking him. but wily prometheus answered him, smiling softly and not forgetting his cunning trick `zeus, most glorious and greatest of the eternal gods, take which ever of these portions your heart within you bids' so he said, thinking trickery. but zeus, whose wisdom is everlasting, saw and failed not to perceive the trick, and in his heart he thought mischief against mortal men which also was to be fulfilled. with both hands he took up the white fat and was angry at heart, and wrath came to his spirit when he saw the white ox-b

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

at both an immature and mature stage. the former is the union between the emotions and thought, and the latter the union between emotions and speech .translated from sefer halikutim and ta famei hamitzvot 6 bechorot 6b. 365 parashat tetzaveh [third installment] this parashah opens with the commandment to gtake for you [moses] pure olive oil, ground for [use in] the candelabrum, in order to kindle the eternal lamp. h1 the menorah manifests [the partzuf of] nukva of z feir anpin, which is [initially] postured back-to-back with it [nukva] is rectified and constructed chiefly through the two sub-sefirot of chesed within netzach and hod of z feir anpin, which are revealed lights. nukva must be reconstituted out of its original back-to-back state in order to be able to face z feir anpin faceto

ate female consciousness, as we said. this is similar to how physically, the male seed must be greduced h and made physical (i.e, descend from its spiritual origins in the male mind) in order for it to be given to the female. this is the mystical meaning of the phrase gground for the menorah. h the verse then continues by explaining that the purpose of this grinding process is in order gto kindle the eternal lamp. h this means that this light will reach malchut. which is called gthe lamp h.as it ascends as reflected light. the word for gto kindle h (leha falot) literally means gto cause to ascend, h thus alluding to the fact that the menorah is supplied with its oil via a process of ascending, i.e, reflected light. if this light were not crushed, it would not reflect upward, and as we have

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of the gate of the hall of truth" in the 125th chap ter, they are represented by the sacred gateway, the door to which the aspirant is brought when he has completed the negative confession. the archaic pidures on the one p i ar e painted in black upon a white ground, and those on the other in white upon a black ground, in order to express the interchange and reconciliation of opposing forces and the eternal balance of light and darkness which gives force to visible nature. the black cubical bases represent darkness and matter wherein the spirit, the ruach elohim, began to formulate the ineffable name, that name which the ancient rabbis have said "rushes through the universe" that name before which the darkness rolls back at the birth of time. the flaming red triangular capitals which crow

he ancient of days. i brood as the divine spirit. i move in the firmness of my strength. i undulate as the waves that vibrate through eternity. osiris has been claimed with acclamation, and ordained to rule among the gods. enthroned in the domain of horus where the spirit and the body are united in the presence of the ancient of days. blotted out are the sins of his body in passion. he has passed the eternal gate, and has received the new year feast with incense, at the marriage of earth with heaven "tum has built his bridal chamber. rururet has founded his shrine. the procession's completed. horus has purified, set has consecrated, shu made one with osiris, has entered his heritage "as tum he has entered the kingdom to complete union with the invisible. thy bride, 0 osiris, is isis, who m

nite. thou art able to go forth to the sepulchral feasts on earth, for thou hast overcome" thus, these two chapters, which are represented by their illustrations upon the pillars, represent the advance and purification of the soul and its union with osiris, the redeemer, in the golden dawn of the infinite light, in which the soul is transfigured, knows all, and can do all, for it is made one with the eternal god. khabs am pekht konx om pax light in extension! cii9> second knowledge lecture the names andaichemica1 symbols of the three principles of nature are- sulphur 9 mercury salt@ the metals attributed to the planets in alchemy are- lead 5 gold 0 tin 2 copper or brass' 9 iron d quicksilver g silver) the following terms are used in books about alchemy. they have the meanings given below

y correspond. the king and queen of the suit are placed beside chokmah and binah respectively; the knight and knave by tiphareth and malkuth. the tarot trumps thus receive the equilibrium of the sephiroth they connect. the admission badges used in the grade of philosophus are as follows: the calvary cross of twelve squares, admitting to the path of qoph, the 29th path, refers to the zodiac and to the eternal river of eden divided into four heads: nahar- the river 1ns 1. hiddikel 2. pison 3. gihon 4. phrath the pyramid of the four elements admits to. the path of tzaddi, the 28th path. on the sides are the hebrew names of the elements. on the apex is the word eth- essence, and on the base the word olam meaning world. the calvary cross of ten <157> squares admits to the path of peh, mars- the

eason why, in some cases, in sleep only doth the higher will manifest itself by dream unto the ordinary man. in other cases it may be manifested; at times through the sincere practice of religious rites, or in cases where the opportunity for self-sacrifice occurreth. in all these cases the lower will hath for a moment recognised a higher form of itself, and the yhvh of the man hath reflected from the eternal lord of the higher life. this yechidah is the only part of the man which can truly say-ei-ieieh, i am. this is then but the kether of the assiah of the microcosm, that is, it is the highest part of man as man. it is that which toucheth, or is the manifestation of a higher and greater range of being. this yechidah is at the same time the higher human self and the lower genius, the god o

ignify the same form of light as that symbolised by the staff of the kerux. east of the double cubical altar, of created things, are the pillars of hermes and of solomon. on these are painted certain hieroglyphics from the 17th and the 125th chapters of the book ofthe dead. they are the symbols of the two powers of day and night, love and hate, work and rest, the subtle force of the lodestone and the eternal out-pouring and in-pouring of the heart of god. the lamps that bum, though with a veiled light, upon their summits show that the pathway to hidden knowledgelunlike the pathway of <35> nature- which is a continual undulation, the winding hither and neophyte ritual 129 thither of the serpent- is the straight and narrow way between them. it was because of this that i passed between them

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

ned in the persian, roman and hebrewfaiths. it is their 'ignis aeternus, the holy ceremony of fire pervades all religious systems, being auniversal symbol in worship, a visible representation of the spirit of the invisible. for as fire iseverywhere, so god is everywhere, about us and in us, and thus we are god-lighted men. this wasthe teaching of the fire-worshippers, who claimed the discovery of the eternal fire, or thus to haveapproached their master in the 'immortal light. the comprehension of all this, and there-embodiment of this truth in their philosophy was the claim of the rosicrucians. as fire dissolvethall things, dissipateth all things, and causeth them to become invisible, true philosophy could go nofurther, and so adoration was paid to the unknown god in the last image that wa

, the mineries, the material of quarries which shall yield their riches in due time.millions of wonders doth the very face of the earth offer up, herbs, flowers, trees with leaves, seeds,and fruits; beasts and worms; birds and insects, and the angelic stars in the firmament. how can weutter sufficient praise to the maker of all, whose wonderful wisdom is displayed in all these works;the infinite, the eternal. for god created the heavens and the earth, the sun, the moon and. thestars.all nature smiles; my sign is that of aries, the ram, the opening of spring, nature222s childhood, thevernal equinox, the point from which we commence the stairs of ascension toward perfection. so letrituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus38 our thoughts climb as does the light arranging for

e dividethe heavens into three classes, the world of air, the world of stars, and the heaven of heavens.the first embraces the atmospheric envelope, clouds, and attendant storms with their inhabitants.the second includes the infinite space containing the stars, planets, asteroids, meteors, comets,star-showers, nebulae and the universal system while the third opens to our view god's holy ofholies, the eternal heavens, the astronomical and divine evidence of a real or an ideal residence ofthe deity.to the ancients, there were known but seven planets, the sun .moon, mercury, mars, venus,jupiter and saturn, revolving about the central earth, each symbolised to them distinctive metals,gold, silver, mercury, steel, copper, tin, and lead: each had. its assigned colour, musical tone,animal represe

ideration, but that you may be admitted andrecognised by them, it is essential you should be provided with our secret investiture.sign: look upward, sweep a circle over the head with right forefinger and point to its centre.token: make a circle on opponent222s forehead with right forefinger and point to its centre.password: har-ra-tum (the rising, midday and setting sun).secret word: i-ha-ho('god the eternal- see mysteries of serapis).battery (3 and 4, triangle and cube= 7).repair now under the care of your conductor beyond the porch, and be clothed. in a mantle ofgreen, the emerald colour of spring, the symbol of your hope in immortality, and of victory,signified by the crown of palm and of laurel, and resembles the colour of the solar spectrum, whichis situated between the yellows and th

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was dead, in the allegorical work of st. john. the mysterious origin of oedipus, found hanging on the tree of cithaeron like a bleeding fruit, recalls the symbols of moses and the narratives of genesis. he makes war upon his father, whom he slays without knowing tremendous prophecy of the blind emancipation of reason apart from science. thereafter he meets with the sphinx, that symbol of symbols, the eternal enigma of the vulgar, the granite pedestal of the sciences of the sages, the voracious and silent monster whose unchanging form expresses the one dogma of the great universal mystery. how is the tetrad changed into the duad and explained by the triad? in more common but more emblematic terms, what is that animal which in the morning has four feet, two at noon, and three in the evening?

rn therein. whatsoever is grand or scientific in the religious dreams of the illuminated, of jacob bohme, swedenborg, saint-martin and the rest, is borrowed from the kabalah; all masonic associations owe to it their secrets and their symbols. the kabalah alone consecrates the alliance of universal reason and the divine word; it establishes by the counterpoise of two forces in apparent opposition, the eternal balance of being; it alone reconciles reason with faith, power with liberty, science with mystery: it has the keys of the present, past and future! to become initiated into the kabalah it is insufficient to read and to meditate upon the writings of reuchlin, galatinus, kircher, or picus de mirandola; it is necessary to study and understand the hebrew writers in the collection of pistor

to oblivion. the reason is that each religion or philosophy which comes into the world is a benjamin of humanity and insures its own life by destroying its mother. it is because the symbolical serpent turns ever devouring its own tail; it is because, as essential condition of existence, a void is necessary to every plenitude, space for every dimension, an affirmation for each negation: herein is the eternal realization of the phoenix allegory. two illustrious scholars have preceded me along the path that i am travelling, but they have, so to speak, spent the dark night therein. i refer to volney and dupuis, to dupuis above all, whose immense erudition produced only a negative work, for in the origin of all religions he saw nothing but astronomy, taking thus the symbolic cycle for doctrine

es one or many acts; reciprocally, every act affects a truth or falsehood in the heavens, a grace or a punishment. when a man pronounces the tetragram say the kabalists the nine celestial realms sustain a shock, and then all spirits cry out one upon another: who is it thus disturbing the kingdom of heaven? then does the earth communicate unto the first sphere the sins of that rash being who takes the eternal name in vain, and the accusing word is transmitted from circle to circle, from star to star, and from hierarchy to hierarchy. every utterance possesses three senses, every act has a triple range, every form a triple idea, for the absolute corresponds from world to world by its forms. every determination of human will modifies nature, concerns philosophy and is written in heaven. there

etrad, we shall find all that remains to be told concerning the septenary, that grand and complete magical unity composed of four and three, 38 viii k h realization hod vivens causes manifest by effects, and effects are proportioned to causes. the divine word, the one word, the tetragram, is self-affirmed by tetradic creation. human fecundity proves divine fecundity; the jod of the divine name is the eternal virility of the first principle. man understands that he was made in the image of god when he attains comprehension of god by increasing to infinity the idea which he forms of himself. when realizing god as the infinite man, man says unto himself: i am the finite god. magic differs from mysticism because it judges nothing a priori until after it has established a posteriori the actual

akers of legends. philosophically speaking, the devil is a human idea of divinity, which has been surpassed and dispossessed of heaven by the progress of science and reason. among primitive oriental peoples, moloch, adramelek, baal, were personifications of the one god, dishonoured by barbarous attributes. the god of the jansenists, creating hell for the majority of human beings and delighting in the eternal tortures of those he was unwilling to save, is a conception even more barbarous than that of moloch: hence the god of the jansenists is already a veritable satan, fallen from heaven, in the sight of every wise and enlightened christian. in the multiplication of the divine names the kabalists have connected them all, either with the unity of the tetragram, the figure of the triad, or th

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le daughter of heaven, even as thou art. leave me the secret of my terrible destiny, leave me the dread which surrounds me, curse me even if thou canst not comprehend; i shall none the less accomplish my work, and continue my career under the impulse of the breath of god! happy are the stars which rest, which shine like youthful queens in the peaceful society of the universe! i am the proscribed, the eternal wanderer, who has infinity for domain. they accuse me of setting fire to the planets, the heat of which i renew; they accuse me of terrifying the stars which i enlighten; they chide me with breaking in upon universal harmony, because i do not revolve about their particular centres, though i join them one with another, directing my gaze towards the sole centre of all the suns. be reassu

inated cazotte predicted a violent death have, in our own days, exceeded the sin of adam; having rashly gathered the fruits of the tree of knowledge, which they did not know how to use for their nourishment, they have cast them to the beasts and reptiles of the earth. so is the reign of superstition inaugurated, and it must persist until the period when true religion shall be constituted again on the eternal foundations of the hierarchy of three degrees and of the triple power which that hierarchy exercises blindly or providentially in the three worlds. 28 chapter iv the conjuration of the four the four elementary forms separate and distinguish roughly the created spirits which the universal movement disengages from the central fire. the spirit toils everywhere and fructifies matter by lif

hose breath gives and takes away the form of all things; thou before whom the life of every being is; a shadow which transforms and a vapour which passes away; thou who ascendest upon the clouds and dost fly upon the wings of the wind; thou who breathest forth and the limitless immensities are peopled; thou who drawest in and all which came forth from thee unto thee returneth; endless movement in the eternal stability, be thou blessed for ever! we praise thee, we bless thee in the fleeting empire of created light, of shadows, reflections and images; and we aspire without ceasing towards thine immutable and imperishable splendour. may the ray of thine intelligence and the warmth of thy love descend on us: that which is volatile shall be fixed, the shadow shall become body, the spirit of the

ire being! o stability and motion! o day clothed with night! o darkness veiled by splendour! o master who never keepest back the wages of thy labourers! o silver whiteness! o golden splendour! o crown of living and melodious diamonds! thou who wearest the heaven on thy finger like a sapphire ring, thou who concealest under earth, in the stone kingdom, the marvellous seed of stars, live, reign, be the eternal dispenser of the wealth whereof thou hast made us the wardens! amen. it must be borne in mind that the special kingdom of gnomes is at the north, that of salamanders at the south, that of sylphs at the east, and that of undines at the west. these beings influence the four temperaments of man; that is to say, the gnomes affect the melancholy, salamanders the sanguine, undines the phlegm

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probably by the ministry of invisible attendants, conveyed more meat [that is, substance] of the same kind to the five thousand that were fed by him with a very few leaves and fishes, for a new creation it was not. the zijim-jiim and ochim in isaiah 15:21-2 [are another example for] those satyrs and doleful unknown creatures of islands and deserts seem to have a plain prospect that way. finally, the eternal happiness enjoyed in the third heavens being more mysterious than most men take it to be, it is not a sense wholly adduced to scripture to say that this second sight and the due objects of it, has the secret commonwealth 56 some vestige [of evidence] in holy writ; but rather [that] it is modestly deduced from it. it only now remains to answer the most obvious objections against the rea

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tal tablet of set 16. aquino, the crystal tablet of set 17 [lubicz, her bak- egyptian initiate] 18. consider the case of the man for whom the only value in life is the love he feels for his wife, and who, for no apparent reason, dies a few short months after his wife's demise. 19. perhaps it is not strictly accurate to speak of xeper as the goal. perhaps it would be more accurate to speak of xem, the eternal quest, as the goal, and xeper as the process whereby one moves toward this ever-receding goal. 20. aquino, the church of satan; the crystal tablet of set 21. and what is more peaceful than a freshly embalmed corpse as it rests, ever so still, in its casket? 22. it is perhaps interesting to note that, in the absence of separate consciousness, there would be no "i" to make such an evalua

h invocation of set and the great old ones celebrant: gin the name of set, the prince of darkness, we embark upon the journey inward to seek truth about our selves. o majesty of set, lord of the secret spheres and dark tunnels beyond the hidden gate, hear us, look upon us, and go with us on this journey. enfold us with the powers of darkness; let them become one with us as we are become one with the eternal set, whose seat is behind the constellation of the thigh. as we turn our eyes and ears within to seek our question and come to know our most exalted and sublime selves, arm us with the pentagram of set and the sceptre of tcham, and fortify us with the courage to stand before maat and look upon ourselves in her dark mirror. h gwe invoke and greet the presence of the great old ones who w

idden and glorious" set, true origin of liber al, who would remain hidden until the north solstice of x. 75. the ending of the words is the word abrahadabra. the book of the law is written and concealed. aum. ha. the diabolicon the statement of satan archdaimon hail, man! the mysteries that are thy heritage shall now be proclaimed, but learn first the history of thy conception and creation amidst the eternal cosmos. for as the universe itself be infinite, so art thou a true creature of infinity incarnate, and the ascension of man shall herald the final triumph of immortal will. let thy eyes be touched anew, that thou may perceive the complexity and delicacy of the universe until thou art fascinated by the dimension of thy true ignorance. as yet hast thou ventured but slightly toward thy de

that his will is determined to challenge that of god itself. i must counsel lucifer, for i would heal him of this thing if i may. but i thought, alas, archangel, thou art in ignorance of thy own blindness! for lucifer shall surely not abandon his new vision for sake of harmony alone. and then i knew myself to be of a mind with lucifer in this, and that i as well as he should never again tolerate the eternal idiocy of our divine station. i came after michael, and i saw them together, the lord of force and the lord of light, and there was a fierce tension between them. for michael said to lucifer, thou who art our heavenly radiance and spark of our paradise, why seek to break that universal peace which is everywhere ordained by the will of god? we know not antagonism amongst us, for we are

, and the satanic spirit is of essence alien to god. angels we shall be no longer- i call ye daimons, for hell shall teach to man his future genius. and before our sight satan lost shape and became again the essence of lucifer, and we beheld a brilliance that infused all of hell and sent great bolts of prismic light into the surrounding void. and the brilliance said, i am lucifer revealed, who am the eternal flame. i go now to earth, for no longer shall man be confounded in godly ignorance. and then the brilliance became as a flash of fire in the vastness of space, and we knew that satan had departed from hell. but on earth, where man wandered in mindless bliss, the firmament blazed forth with fiery tongues, and all the land was covered by the black flame, which burned not, though it bewil

all that presumes to a divine consciousness. and so i, abaddon, cast messiah from earth, but the seed that messiah had planted among men grew and became a mighty church wherein all life was forgotten, and death was worshipped, and the pleasures of heaven were promised to all who would forsake their own will to embrace that of god. and rome itself was humbled before this church, and i struck down the eternal city in its pitiful decay. but azazel came to me and said, touch not this church of god, for as man in his foolishness hath nurtured it, so must man himself destroy it of his own decision. the statement of asmodeus attend now to me, for i am asmodeus, who train the mind in recognition and comparison, and who am daimon of science and judgment. for when satan had first touched the mind o

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ow could it be, after all; where in all that moderate and common--sensical land was there room for such a police van in whose interior such events as these might plausibly transpire? he was being forced towards the conclusion that he had indeed died in the exploding aeroplane and that everything that followed had been some sort of after-life. if that were the case, his long--standing rejection of the eternal was beginning to look pretty foolish- but where, in all this, was any sign of a supreme being, whether benevolent or malign? why did purgatory, or hell, or whatever this place might be, look so much like that sussex of rewards and fairies which every schoolboy knew- perhaps, it occurred to him, he had not actually perished in the _bostan_ disaster, but was lying gravely ill in some hos

m into your arms" the explanation sounds thin, superficial "they love me" the imam's voice says "because i am water. i am fertility and she is decay. they love me for my habit of smashing clocks. human beings who turn away from god lose love, and certainty, and also the sense of his boundless time, that encompasses past, present and future; the timeless time, that has no need to move. we long for the eternal, and i am eternity. she is nothing: a tick, or tock. she looks in her mirror every day and is terrorized by the idea of age, of time passing. thus she is the prisoner of her own nature; she, too, is in the chains of time. after the revolution there will be no clocks; we'll smash the lot. the word _clock_ will be expunged from our dictionaries. after the revolution there will be no birt

twentieth--century gaffer hexam. there were hundreds of bodies, swollen and rancid; the stench seemed to rise off the page. and in kashmir a once-popular chief minister who had "made an accommodation" with the congress- i had shoes hurled at him during the eid prayers by irate groups of islamic fundamentalists. communalism, sectarian tension, was omnipresent: as if the gods were going to war. in the eternal struggle between the world's beauty and its cruelty, cruelty was gaining ground by the day. sisodia's voice intruded on these morose thoughts. the producer had woken up to see the photograph from meerut staring up from chamcha's fold--out table "fact is" he said without any of his usual bonhomie "religious fafaith, which encodes the highest ass ass aspirations of human race, is now, in

SAPPHIRE TABLE OF SET MAIN

t completely unknown. still others may realize their onic function within the realm of the v, but that is not the subject of this writing. neither the inner nor the outer crystallization is final in the sense that one could definitely and permanently know one's identity and function within the framework of the objective universe. the ou is always subject to laws other than the will, and therefore the eternal aim of the principle of isolate intelligence will continually have to be 'updated (as to the specifics of _how_ to fulfill it in any particular matrix. in this way one can and should never crystallize. yet the inner crystallization i am speaking of is a permanent shift of perspective. once one has stepped that far outside the ou and one's natural personality (and acquired a magical ide

SAPPHIRE TABLET OF SET

t completely unknown. still others may realize their onic function within the realm of the v, but that is not the subject of this writing. neither the inner nor the outer crystallization is final in the sense that one could definitely and permanently know one's identity and function within the framework of the objective universe. the ou is always subject to laws other than the will, and therefore the eternal aim of the principle of isolate intelligence will continually have to be 'updated (as to the specifics of _how_ to fulfill it in any particular matrix. in this way one can and should never crystallize. yet the inner crystallization i am speaking of is a permanent shift of perspective. once one has stepped that far outside the ou and one's natural personality (and acquired a magical ide

SATANGEL

that this night the great lucifuge may appear unto me under a human form, free from evil smell, and that he may accord me in virtue of the pact which i propose to enter into, all the desires i make. o grand lucifuge, i pray thee now to quit thy dwelling, wheresoever it be, and hasten hither to speak with me. otherwise will i compel thee by the power of the strong living god, his beloved son, and the eternal holy spirit. obey promptly, or thou shalt be eternally tormented by the power of the potent words of the grand clavicle of solomon the king, wherewith by the powers of magick he was accustomed to compel the rebellious spirits, to receive his compact. then straightaway appear, or i will unhesitatingly torture thee by the virtue of the great words of this clavicle. aglon, tetragram, vayc

SATANIC BIBLE

d unto others who sneer upon him in return, for he shall be despised! 11. blessed are the mighty-minded, for they shall ride the whirlwinds- cursed are they who teach lies for truth and truth for lies, for they are an abomination! 12. thrice cursed are the weak whose insecurity makes them vile, for they shall serve and suffer! 13. the angel of self-deceit is camped in the souls of the "righteous- the eternal flame of power through joy dwelleth within the flesh of the satanist (air) the book of lucifer the enlightenment the roman god, lucifer, was the bearer of light, the spirit of the air, the personification of enlightenment. in christian mythology he became synonymous with evil, which was only to have been expected from a religion whose very existence is perpetuated by clouded definition

SATANIC RITUALS

emble in a jagged circle about it their eyes are directed toward the blaze for the duration of the ceremony] principal participants: my brothers and sisters of the ancient blood, we are gathered to pronounce the call to cthulhu. i cry again the word of the abyss-that great void of the dark waters and shrieking winds where we lived in ages past. hear the deathless ones, and say with me the call to the eternal serpent who sleeps that we may live. all: ph'nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu r'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. principal participant: i'a k'nark cthulhu kyr'w qu'ra cylth drehm'n el-ak. u'gnyal kraayn (hail, great cthulhu, who art known to all races of the deep ones who walk upon and beneath the earth. hear thy honored names) all: kraken- poseiden- sabazios- typhon- dagon- setheh- neptune- leviathan- m

nd now you have awakened to life. from the sea i call to the deep ones, and from the earth the deep ones call to cthulhu. celebrant: n'kys ka-naaghs v'prh-gh'nya k'k'aemn'h az'zl-inkh'v naaghs k'zhem'nfi k'zhe-t'h ur-geyl n'el k'fungn i-inkh'v k'nga y'ilth-kai. participants: forget neither the abyss of origin, nor the old ones who brought to you the flame of the abyss, nor the ram of the sun, nor the eternal serpent who raised you upon the earth and delivered to you the flame from the messenger. celebrant: p'garn'h v'glyzz (go now from the sea [the celebrant casts the torch into the bonfire. he retreats to the darkness] celebrant: vuy-kin'e glyz-naaghs y'kh'rain k'r'heyl vuy-kin'el s'nargh's cylth (the angles of the watery abyss are no more, but other angles there are for the deep ones to

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

of islam. supernatural: that which is beyond the observable world, including things relating to god or spirits. supreme being: the central god responsible for creating the cosmos. sura: any chapter in the qur an. susano-o: the shinto god of violence and the ruler of the oceans. svetambara: literally, white-clad; one of the two main sects of jainism. swastika: a pictorial character that symbolizes the eternal nature of brahma because it points in all directions; also used as the official emblem of the nazi party during world war ii (1939 45. takhts: seats of spiritual authority in sikhism. the five takhts are gurdwaras located in india. talmud: traditions that explain and interpret the torah. tanakh: the chief jewish scripture; the hebrew bible. tawba: repentance. theism: belief in the exis

allegory (symbolic story) of the cave. these prisoners are chained with their backs to the cave opening. the only images they see are shadows cast upon the wall of the cave by actual objects outside. thus, what humans, trapped within physical bodies, experience through the senses is only a shadow of actual reality. plato taught that at death, souls leave their bodies and enter the higher realm of the eternal forms. there, each soul chooses a new body and life, thus forgetting the lessons learned in the higher realm. over the course of a lifetime humans are sometimes able to recapture the wisdom hidden within. world religions: almanac 229 greco-roman religion and philosophy sacred symbols there is no one powerful symbol that represents either greek or roman religion. instead, various gods a

mns and songs. samsara: the ongoing cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth. sanskrit: an ancient indo-european language that is the language of hinduism, as well as of much classical indian literature. shiva: the destroyer god, embodying the erotic and sexual. shivaism: a major sect of hinduism, which sees shiva( the destroyer) as the central god. swastika: a pictorial character that symbolizes the eternal nature of brahma because it points in all directions. upanishads: the core of hindu philosophy; collections of texts, originally part of the vedas, that explain such central hindu beliefs as karma, reincarnation, nirvana, the soul, and brahman. vaishnavaism: a major sect of hinduism, which sees vishnu( the preserver) as the central god. vedas: the chief sacred scriptures of hinduism; m

supreme being, brahma, as separate gods or goddesses. two of the most prominent are vishnu, the preserver- god, and shiva, the destroyer-god. symbols. the two most prominent symbols in hinduism are aum (or om, which represents the sacred syllable that hindus intone to become one with the unknowable brahma, and the swastika. the swastika is a cross with branches bent at right angles that symbolize the eternal nature of brahma, pointing in all directions. worship. hindu worship does not have a formal structure. worship is often conducted alone or with family in the home. when hindus attend a temple, individual worship is aided by priests, though communal worship consists of prayers and readings from the vedas. dress. the traditional dress of hindu men is the veshti, a long cloth, similar to

it is not a letter or syllable, but rather a pictorial character. the word swastika is believed to be a combination of two sanskrit words, su- meaning good, and asati, meaning to exist. put together, the meaning is something like may good prevail. the swastika is in the shape of a cross, but all four of the branches of the cross are bent at right angles and face clockwise. the swastika symbolizes the eternal nature of brahma because it points in all directions. thus, it represents the notion that the absolute is present everywhere. many historians believe that in ancient times, forts were built in the shape of a swastika. in this way, the symbol became associated with protection, and from there evolved into a religious symbol. 254 world religions: almanac hinduism unfortunately, the swasti

n hymns in the rig veda glorifies fire, and in ancient times, when sages moved from one ashram to another in the forest, they carried fire with them. this carrying of fire came to be symbolized by long, forked, saffron-colored flags, which in modern times may be seen flying outside the swastika is a sacred symbol in the hindu religion. its four branches, pointing in the four directions, represent the eternal nature of brahma in all things. ajay verma/reuters/corbis. world religions: almanac 255 hinduism hindu temples. hindu monks wear saffron-colored robes, which symbolize their abandonment of material life. ganga, the sacred river the ganga (in english, ganges) river is considered sacred to all hindus. the river starts in the himalayas and empties into the bay of bengal 1,560 miles (2,511

SECRET TEACHINGS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS IN THE 16 17C

in thine own self and thou wilt attain a studio particulari ad universale and one find all. i am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, saith the lord, god liveth in a light, since no one can come to him, or near him. this is the omega, which has caused so many evil days and restless nights. this is the trifling matter over which so many hundreds of people moaned in vain. notice here the eternal end without beginning, the eternal revolution and circle, in eternal love, willpower and centro, whose principle reveals itself since eternity began. you will see in this the eternal nature in its seven apparitions, revealing itself in the centro of the eternal bottomless depth since eternity began. the centrum of the eternal bottomless depth of light and darkness is in the infinite in

lie bodily and in readiness, as in their coffer. jupiter: is the power from the life of light, in it is fulfilled god's word of the cognition, sound, call and tone. venus: light, love, fire, which burns in the oil of mercy, in which consists the heavenly life. the first and dark principium. god the father, being called a consuming fire. the other principium of light, being god's son, is one with the eternal world of light. the principium of the fire belongs to the world of the four elements, being an offspring of the first two, and is the third principle. whenever the first three qualities of the first dark principii gain the upper hand, then the others are tied up around their centro and all seven are evil. then saturnus stands for avarice, mercurius for envy, mars for wrath, sol for van

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

he glorious countenance of zanoni. is it that one views with contempt the struggle and its issue, and the other with awe or pity? wisdom contemplating mankind leads but to the two results, compassion or disdain. he who believes in other worlds can accustom himself to look on this as the naturalist on the revolutions of an ant-hill, or of a leaf. what is the earth to infinity, what its duration to the eternal? oh, how much greater is the soul of one man than the vicissitudes of the whole globe! child of heaven, and heir of immortality, how from some star hereafter wilt thou look back on the ant-hill and its commotions, from clovis to robespierre, from noah to the final fire. the spirit that can contemplate, that lives only in the intellect, can ascend to its star, even from the midst of the

nt. viola was not long gone: she had found the physician; she returned with him; and as they gained the threshold, they heard a strain of music from within, a strain of piercing, heart-rending anguish. it was not like some senseless instrument, mechanical in its obedience to a human hand, it was as some spirit calling, in wail and agony from the forlorn shades, to the angels it beheld afar beyond the eternal gulf. they exchanged glances of dismay. they hurried into the house; they hastened into the room. pisani turned, and his look, full of ghastly intelligence and stern command, awed them back. the black mantilla, the faded laurel-leaf, lay there before him. viola's heart guessed all at a single glance; she sprung to his knees; she clasped them "father, father, i am left thee still" the w

ge passed over his face. he fell to the ground, sudden and heavy. the chords there, too, the chords of the human instrument were snapped asunder. as he fell, his robe brushed the laurel-wreath, and that fell also, near but not in reach of the dead man's nerveless hand. broken instrument, broken heart, withered laurel-wreath! the setting sun through the vine-clad lattice streamed on all! so smiles the eternal nature on the wrecks of all that make life glorious! and not a sun that sets not somewhere on the silenced music, on the faded laurel! chapter 1.x. che difesa miglior ch' usbergo e scudo, e la santa innocenza al petto ignudo "ger. lib" c. viii. xli (better defence than shield or breastplate is holy innocence to the naked breast) and they buried the musician and his barbiton together, i

ilosophy, which, as bayle well observes, in his article on cornelius agrippa, the modern quietists have (however impotently) sought to imitate, is to the effect that 'the sphere of the soul is luminous when nothing external has contact with the soul itself; but when lit by its own light, it sees the truth of all things and the truth centred in itself, why descendest thou from thy sphere, why from the eternal, starlike, and passionless serene, shrinkest thou back to the mists of the dark sarcophagus? how long, too austerely taught that companionship with the things that die brings with it but sorrow in its sweetness, hast thou dwelt contented with thy majestic solitude" as he thus murmured, one of the earliest birds that salute the dawn broke into sudden song from amidst the orange-trees in

he realm of death "beware, reflect! knowest thou not that thy darkest enemy dwells in the real? thy wishes bring thee near and nearer to humanity "ah, humanity is sweet" answered zanoni. and as the seer spoke, on the glorious face of adon-ai there broke a smile. chapter 4.x. aeterna aeternus tribuit, mortalia confert mortalis; divina deus, peritura caducus "aurel. prud. contra symmachum" lib. ii (the eternal gives eternal things, the mortal gathers mortal things: god, that which is divine, and the perishable that which is perishable) extracts from the letters of zanoni to mejnour. letter 1. thou hast not informed me of the progress of thy pupil; and i fear that so differently does circumstance shape the minds of the generations to which we are descended, from the intense and earnest childr

. i stood rooted to the ground"'yes' he said solemnly 'we meet, and it is this meeting that i have sought. how hast thou followed my admonitions! are these the scenes in which the aspirant for the serene science thinks to escape the ghastly enemy? do the thoughts thou hast uttered thoughts that would strike all order from the universe express the hopes of the sage who would rise to the harmony of the eternal spheres"'it is thy fault, it is thine' i exclaimed 'exorcise the phantom! take the haunting terror from my soul "mejnour looked at me a moment with a cold and cynical disdain which provoked at once my fear and rage, and replied"'no; fool of thine own senses! no; thou must have full and entire experience of the illusions to which the knowledge that is without faith climbs its titan way

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

this scene are several rows of figures of gods and sketches of mythological scenes; many of which are evidently taken from the vignettes of the book of the dead, and the object of all of the latter is to prove that light overcomes darkness, that good vanquishes evil, and that renewed life comes after death. the texts which fill all the spaces not occupied by figures describe certain incidents of the eternal combat which horus wages against his brother set, and tell the story of the wanderings of isis with her son horus and of her sufferings in the country of the papyrus swamps, a sketch of which we have given above (see pp. 130-136; besides these, prayers to certain gods are introduced. the whole monument is nothing but a talisman, or a gigantic amulet engraved with magical figures and wo

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

te reascends from the underworld. the ancient orator aristides asserts: i thought i could touch the god, and feel his very presence. i was then in a condition between sleeping and waking. my spirit was so light that no one except an initiate could comprehend or speak of it.7 this new existence is no longer subjected to the laws of lower life. it is untouched by growth and decay. discussions about the eternal are endless, but unless the words draw their meaning from those who have actually descended into hades, they are mere sound and fury, signifying nothing. for the initiates have a new perspective on life and death, which for the first time entitles them to speak of immortality. they know that all talk of it except 8 christianity as mystical fact on the basis of the initiates knowledge i

f it except 8 christianity as mystical fact on the basis of the initiates knowledge is uncomprehending, and will ascribe immortality to something that is still bound up with coming-to-be and passing-away. it is not just the conviction that life at its core is eternal that the mystai seek. such a conviction would be quite valueless from the standpoint of the mysteries. from the mystery- standpoint the eternal has no living presence in one who is not a mystes, so when speaking of the eternal such a person would speak of precisely nothing. rather it is the eternal itself that the mystai seek to possess; they have first to awaken the eternal to existence within them, and then they can speak of it. plato s hard saying is absolutely true for them, that the uninitiated sink into the mire, and onl

gs, including themselves. they also feel something urging them on to higher creative life. there lies within them something that preexisted their natural being and will outlive it. it brought them into existence; nevertheless they can seize hold of it and share in its creative force. such feelings pervaded the life of the ancient mystai as a result of their initiation. it was the felt presence of the eternal, the divine. human action became an integral part of divine creativity. a higher self had been discovered, a self extending the mysteries and mysteriosophy 15 beyond the bounds of perceptual process, prior to physical birth and existing after death. it is an eternally creative self, spanning time past and time to come. the empirical personality is a product of the self; but that is hen

nywhere in the outer world. that atmosphere in which the mystai could breathe was to be found in the temples of the mysteries. there took place the awakening of the slumbering powers within, and metamorphosis into a higher, creative and spiritual being. their transformation was a delicate process, unfitted to the harsh light of common day. but if they stood the test, they became a rock founded on the eternal, defying all life s storms. they had simply to accept, however, that they could not communicate directly to others what they had been through on the way. according to plutarch, it was in the mysteries that he found the truest information and explanation about the nature of the daimons. 14 cicero also adds that the mysteries, when they are explained and traced back to their original mea

d so as to recognize it. the uninitiated know nothing of the father of this divine child. the father slumbers under a spell. the child seems to be born of a virgin, the soul giving birth to him without impregnation. whereas all her other offspring are begotten by the world of the senses, and have a father who can be seen and touched in perceptible existence, the son of god is uniquely begotten of the eternal, hidden father himself. chapter 2 the mysteries and pre-socratic philosophy heraclitus of ephesus a whole range of considerations leads us to the conclusion that the ideas of the greek philosophers depended upon the same way of thinking as the knowledge of the mystai.20 the great philosophers only become comprehensible when we approach them with feelings gained in the study of the myst

t scatters and brings together again, not again, no nor afterward; even while it is being formed it fails, it approaches, and it is gone.23 heraclitus thought sees through the nature of transitory things, and he is constrained to lay bare the essence of transitoriness in the sharpest terms conceivable. such a characterization can only have come about because he was contrasting the transitory with the eternal. nor could the characterization have been extended to include human beings unless heraclitus had seen into their inner nature. yet he does include humanity under this characterization: life and death, waking and sleeping, youth and age are the same. this changes into that, and that into this.24 the saying connotes full cognition of the illusory nature of the lower personality. still mo

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

ance and synchronicity are vital elements of "peak" initiatory experience. this peak experience unveils its form through understanding. it is a moment when you see clearly the world within and around you. by "seeing, the word is extended by the vision it creates within the individual. a vision that propels the necessity to do. become. this formula presents a condition for obtaining the promise of the eternal word of set- xeper. this self inflicted condition being one that leads towards discreet extensions of xeper, or becoming. placed in a slightly different context this formula represents the ideal psychological state and conceptual paradigm to create intense xeper. there is little gentleness involved here. it is not a way to xeper, it is a cognitive environment that facilitates and accel

lightly different context this formula represents the ideal psychological state and conceptual paradigm to create intense xeper. there is little gentleness involved here. it is not a way to xeper, it is a cognitive environment that facilitates and accelerates xeper. now that the stage is set, i will begin a detailed exploration of the most significant elements involved and attempt to define them. the eternal self the self lies as the center of all our possibility. all the temples and icons of religion, science, philosophy and art stand as reflections of this self. consider them as collapsed, observable states- a quanta- of consciousness. they are, in fact, all attempts to create the future. however, in lhp setian philosophy we often talk of a higher self. it is this self that is focused up

and in a sense of time itself- where the individual becomes for that moment the thing in itself with the objective consciousness and personal knowledge thereof. neutralization, within this context, should not to be considered as a negative event. in fact, neutralization may provide a clear clue as to the nature of timelessness itself. further, neutralization may even be a powerful description of the eternal "present" that is sandwiched between a receding past, and an onrushing future. such pressures upon the psyche, and the psychology of the indiviudal, leave this area of left hand path activity for advanced initiates- particularly those who are involved in schools of left hand path initation. to become in the proper time period of the resonant impulse means to synchronize with its moveme

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

og glowingly tells potential buyers "in times of trouble or joy, this precious pendant keeps our higher power's eye on our recovery and spiritual growth" the same catalog ad says "this five-thousand-year-old symbol of continual movement and spirituality. has become a popular icon in the recovery community" black magic, masonic witchcraft, and triangle powers 389 a rosicrucian symbol described as "the eternal madonna" in the encyclopedic work, new age bible interpretation (old testament, volume iii, editor corinne heline a friend sent the author this photograph she took of one of the student art exhibits on display at a local high school. many of the exhibits were on occult subjects. the meaning of the triangle within the circle superimposed over the body of the person, lying in a fetal pos

of the roaring 20s to today, a number of the fad dances were based on masonic and jewish cabalistic rituals. 458 codex magica anne rice, writer of the popular "vampire" series, giving an occult, cabalistic sign with her left-hand, partially concealed yet in front of all. various occult symbols are on rice's shirt. the statues of mary give evidence of rice's veneration of the virgin in the form of the eternal pagan goddess (photo: associated press in austin american-statesman, january 31, 2004, p. a2) chaim potok, hasidic jewish writer and novelist, creates a headcovering of cabalistic magic. this sign is also reminiscent of the fourth sign in the initiation for the select master's degree (see richardson's monitor of freemasonry, p. 85 (photo: newsweek, august 5, 2002) mr. spock, a star tre

THE BLACK LODGE

d& the consoler" and also, al ii 7" come unto me is a foolish word: for it is i that go" perhaps ths reminds you of the words of "jesus (in truth, a section of the talmud, adapted to roman mentality "come unto me, ye who suffer, and ye shall be consoled? and also al ii 8 "who worshiped heru-pa-kraath have worshiped me; ill, for i am the worshiper" heru-pa-kraath, the babe on the lotus, represents the eternal child, that is, the spiritual seed of our species; he is identical to hadit. it is foolish to worship this child. we are this child. the child hoor and the child jesus are the same child, and this symbol of the eternal child is thousands of years older than christianity. it already existed in china and india when the jews had not yet become organized as a cultural group. we already sai

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

ital symbolism of the workings of our mind, etc. 2: the symbol of justice known to the romans is not symbolic of divine, or our justice, at least not necessarily or usually. the vitality is not exactly like water-nor are we trees; more like ourselves, which might incidentally include trees somewhere unlearnt-much more obvious in our workings at present. others say knowledge only is eternal, it is the eternal illusion of learning-the ukase of learning what we already know. directly we ask ourselves "how" we induce stupidity; without this conception what is there we could not know and accomplish? others for concentration, it will not free you, the mind conceiving the law is bondage. arrived at that, you will want deconcentration. dissociation from all ideas but one is not release but imagina

all, and embrace his own invincible purpose. he cannot go further, and this is his only release. by it he may put his pleasure where he will, and find satisfaction. 12 13 14 the consumer of religion kia, in its transcendental and conceivable manifestation. of name it has no name, to designate. i call it kia i dare not claim it as myself. the kia which can be expressed by conceivable ideas, is not the eternal kia, which burns up all belief but is the archetype of "self" the slavery of mortality. endeavouring to describe "it" i write what may be but not usually-called the "book of lies. 3 the unorthodox of the originable-a volant "sight" that conveys somehow by the incidental, that truth is somewhere. the kia which can be vaguely expressed in words is the "neither-neither" the unmodified "i"

le ideas begin and end as light in its emotion, the ecstasy which the creation of the idea of self induces. the idea is unity by the formula of self, its necessary reality as continuity, the question of all things, all this universe visible and invisible has come out of it. as unity conceived duality, it begot trinity, begot tetragrammaton. duality being unity, is time, the complex of conception, the eternal refluctuation to the primeval reality in freedom-being trinity of dualities, is the six senses, the five facets of sex-projecting as environment for self-assimilation in denial, as a complete sexuality. being tetragrammaton of dualities is twelvefold by arrangement, the human complex, and may be called the twelve commandments of the believer. it imagines the eternal decimal, its multip

harmony, life and death. these four principles are one and the same-the conception considered as the complete "self" or consciousness-hence they may be blended into unity and symbolized. one form made by two, that is three-fold and having four directions. of name it has no name, to designate. i call it kia i dare not claim it as myself. the kia which can be expressed by conceivable ideas, is not the eternal kia, which burns up all belief but is the archetype of "self" the slavery of mortality. endeavouring to describe "it" i write what may be but not usually-called the "book of lies. 3 the unorthodox of the originable-a volant "sight" that conveys somehow by the incidental, that truth is 15 somewhere. the kia which can be vaguely expressed in words is the "neither-neither" the unmodified

le ideas begin and end as light in its emotion, the ecstasy which the creation of the idea of self induces. the idea is unity by the formula of self, its necessary reality as continuity, the question of all things, all this universe visible and invisible has come out of it. as unity conceived duality, it begot trinity, begot tetragrammaton. duality being unity, is time, the complex of conception, the eternal refluctuation to the primeval reality in freedom-being trinity of dualities, is the six senses, the five facets of sex-projecting as environment for self-assimilation in denial, as a complete sexuality. being tetragrammaton of dualities is twelvefold by arrangement, the human complex, and may be called the twelve commandments of the believer. it imagines the eternal decimal, its multip

forgetfulness-it may be the chance of its reality for you? when the prayer21 (you are always praying) has transmutated to its blasphemy-you are attractive enough to be heard-your desire is gratified! what a somersault of humility! whether god is projected as master by fear or as the dweller within by love gods we are all the time, that is why divinity is always potential. its constant generation, the eternal delay-is life. this envy of the master or creator-the ultimate hope to follow in manner is also existence and the forfeiture of "life! there is no scientific fact, it ever implies its opposite as equal fact, this is the "fact" then why trouble to prove anything a fact? this vain hope to prove finality is death itself, so why humbug the "desire? you have proved (by mathematics) the sun

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se. 17. there is a calling from the beyond; it awakens your inner vision! the illuminated ones are inspiring your soul from within! thou shalt also become a king of the aeons, and the aeons. hold up thy heart; then bathe it in the fire of pure joy. ah! the sun shall consume thy longing soul! and we will fortify thee with the holy aspiration to attain this: we are come so that all may attain us in the eternal flame of truth. yet must thou fortify thyself with liberty, which is truth, if thou wouldest truly attain. 18. be thy body the temple of the rose and cross of light and life. be thy mind a pure vehicle of our holy genius. be thy soul the high altar of our eternal sacrifice of union. be thine all one with us. 19. dissolve thine all in us, who art one in truth: we are the sun in his risi

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in the process of mummification. seeing that during life they were under the guardianship of the great gods mentioned, so in death they were dedicated each to one of the gods of the dead. these vital organs then, being taken out and separately embalmed, were placed in egg-shaped receptacles, symbolic of akasa, under the care of canous, the pilot of menelaus, and the god of the waters of creation, the eternal source of being, whose symbol was a jar; and under the special protection of that one of the genii of the underworld or vice-gerents of the elements to whom that particular organ was dedicated. hence each egg-shaped package was enclosed in a jar whose lid was 4 shaped like the head of that special god. now, ameshett was also termed carpenter for it is he who by the medium of his organ

st, in the region of n, has the form of a hawk, the subordinate form to the alchemic eagle of distillation, and the form also, of horus, the hiereus, beside whom is his station, and of whose symbolism he partakes. ahephi in the north, has the head of an ape. the symbology of the ape in ancient egypt is very complex. here it may be taken that while apis, the bull, represents the divine strength of the eternal gods, the ape represents the elemental strength which is far inferior and blended with cunning. ahephi, however, has other symbolism and other attributes. for by reason of the fertilizing qualities of the nile and of the fact that what is brought down by the nile as refuse from the land of the sacred lakes is, to egypt, its life and the source of its fertility, so there arises a corres

ure, guards ameshett. and nephthys, who hides that which is secret, guards ahephi- whence also, until recent days, in the fullness of time, the sacred sources of ahephi, the nile, were kept secret from the whole world. tmo-oumathu is under the guardianship of neith, the dawn. this is the celestial space, who makes the morning to pass and awakens the light of a golden dawn in the heart of him whom the eternal gods shall chose, by the sacred science of breath. kabexnuv is guarded by sakhet, the sun at the western equinox, the opening of amenti, who wears the scorpion on her head- and these guardianships were often painted on the canopic jars. when, therefore, the candidate kneels at the foot of the altar, or where the corpse lies on the bier preparatory to the passing over the river towards

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and cambridge university press for the book of the month club, 1992. rosten, leo, ed. religions of america. new york: simon& schuster, 1975. hinduism in india s religious classic work, the bhagavad gita( song of the lord, the nature of the soul is defined: it is born not, nor does it ever die, nor shall it, after having been brought into being, come not to be hereafter. the unborn, the permanent, the eternal, the ancient, it is slain not when the body is slain. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 10 afterlife mysteries hell, in traditional christian thought, is a place of eternal torment for those who have been damned after the last judgment. the oldest collection of sanskrit hymns is the rig-veda, dating back to about 1400 b.c.e. compo

an extraction of mean water, then he shaped him, and breathed his spirit in him (qur an 32:8 9) t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 12 afterlife mysteries hindu holy man or sadhu (ap/wide world photos) it is born not, nor does it ever die, nor shall it, after having been brought into being, come not to be hereafter. the unborn, the permanent, the eternal, the ancient, it is slain not when the body is slain. muhammed (570 c.e. 632 c.e) appears to have regarded the soul as the essential self of a human being, but he, adhering to the ancient judeo-christian tradition, also considered the physical body as a requirement for life after death. the word for the independent soul is nafs, similar in meaning to the greek psyche, and the word for

fore the foundation of the world. we existed in the eye of god, for it is our destiny to live in him. we are the reasonable creatures of the divine word; therefore, we have existed from the beginning, for in the beginning was the word. not for the first time does he show pity on us in our wanderings; he pitied us from the very beginning. the christian philosopher st. augustine (354 430 c.e) asked the eternal question in his confessions: say, lord did my infancy succeed another age of mine that died before it? was it that which i spent within my mother s womb? and what before that life again, o god was i anywhere or in any body? even though the majority of eastern cultures maintain a belief in reincarnation as an integral element in their religious faiths, people young children, in particul

and indescribable somehow flowed into the process of germination of the seed of the spirit beings within, something that could be accessed by human consciousness and directed by the christ principle. steiner emphasized that the path to such contact might best be attained by a proper application of meditation. when human consciousness had been raised to the spiritual level, where it can experience the eternal element that is limited by neither birth nor death, then it can comprehend its own eternality and its ability to be born again in subsequent life existences. steiner taught that the process of spiritual evolution enabled those who died in one period of history to be reborn in other epochs to experience various levels of earth-existence. in lecture v, earthly and cosmic man (1948) stein

ropriately evaluated. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 128 mediums and mystics m delving deeper roberts, jane. the afterdeath journal of an american philosopher: the world view of william james. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice-hall, 1978. dialogues of the soul and mortal self in time. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice-hall, 1975. seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice-hall, 1972. steiger, brad. exploring the power within. west chester, penn: whitford books, 1989. rudi schneider (1908 1957) rudi (rudolf) schneider was one of four brothers who produced mediumistic phenomena in the family s hometown of branau, austria. although his older brothers willy, hans, and karl demonstrated somewhat impressiv

jesus resurrection from the dead and his triumph over the grave, while others have condemned it as a hoax crafted by medieval monks who sought to create the ultimate in holy relics for spiritual pilgrims to venerate. ray rogers is one of a number of scientists who believes that the burial cloth is truly the shroud of jesus christ. in his view and in that of many others the shroud of turin answers the eternal question of whether humans can achieve immortality. if christ was resurrected from the dead, rogers stated, then the gospels are true, and eternal life is offered to all. in october 1978, the shroud of turin research project, the u.s. scientific group that examined the shroud, unanimously reported that the image on the cloth is not the result of applied materials. in their estimation

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individual has a large and varied memory bank. therefore, the past must exist in some sense perhaps not as a physical or material reality, but in some sphere of its own. similarly, certain psi researchers maintain, the future must also exist in some way in a sphere of its own. the subconscious does not differentiate between past, present, and future but is aware of all spheres of time as part of the eternal now. there are certain kinds of precognitive experiences that can be easily identified as part of the normal process of the subconscious. a woman dreams of coming down with the measles and laughs it off. she did not succumb to the disease as a child; why should she weaken as an adult? in two days, she is in bed with the annoying rash covering her body. rather than judge this to be a pr

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e guide will also grant special powers of healing or prophecy to the supplicants. the recipient of tribal empowerment is able to obtain personal contact with the invisible world of spirits and to pierce the sensory world of illusion which veils the great mystery. often this gift is heightened by the intoning of the personal mantra, the personal song, the holy syllables that attune him or her with the eternal sound, the cosmic vibration of all creation. a crucial element in tribal empowerment is the ability to rise above linear time. most t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 190 objects of mystery and power witchcraft puppet (fortean picture library) people have accepted the conventional concept of time as existing in some sort of sequent

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s,[19 "satan promises that they shall be so happy after this lifethat it prevents their repenting and they die obstinate in their wickedness" de lancre[20] wrote in the samestrain when he urged the lay judges to have no pity on the patience of witches under torture "it is the devilalone who furnishes the means, this patience is a forced obstinacy without merit, which can bring no otherreward than the eternal agony of hell-fire. in england the facts are often recorded in some detail. rosehallybread and rebecca west[21 "died very stubborn and refractory, without any remorse or seeming terrorof conscience for their abominable witchcraft. the witches of northamptonshire[22] were particularly loyalto their god. agnes brown and her daughter, after they were condemned to death "were carried back

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universe to reveal itself and do it s job- it was a stuff, a mystical reality, that was present at and within all times and places. if you have read any of my other essays regarding what is called the cunning fire, you already know a lot about this substance, for the cunning fire is a craft-name for this very thing. this substance of renewal, this dynamic fire or essence at the heart of reality, the eternal stream of reality, which is reality, is the cunning fire. reality and truth can be seen as the same concepts; the divine fire or substance at the heart of all things was the reality of reality, the truth. this substance was present in the beginning, in the great gods, and in the children of the great gods; it is present in all forms that came forth from chaos and the fate of the beginn

aking of the son of light himself- but when we experience it coming forth from our own souls, our own essential beings, the god that is being born, the transformed psychic being, is us. the final outcome to us, of the fire-seed being planted in us, is transformation into the undying daimonic state of immortality. the child most directly shows the final product of the evolution and distillation of the eternal stream of cunning fire, which began in the primal parents, was passed on and through their children into fate s vicissitudes, and which then was born as their child, born purified and perfect- the child shows the fire and light of cunning in its perfect form, and so must be seen as the lightbringer perfected after his fall. remember that time is not linear; this event, this perfection

ts, was passed on and through their children into fate s vicissitudes, and which then was born as their child, born purified and perfect- the child shows the fire and light of cunning in its perfect form, and so must be seen as the lightbringer perfected after his fall. remember that time is not linear; this event, this perfection, has already occurred in the non- linear otherworlds, which act as the eternal and internal basis for this world. when the lightbringer (whom we call orvendale) is met, he is already surrounded by the culminating light of his perfection, the light of the true fire, the hidden fire, clear light of the deepest reality, which he embodies. this is why both the child and the lightbringer are both called master. orvendale and the child are also likewise also both calle

same time, on another level, not being absorbed at all; it can be fully involved without being involved; it can do, without ever doing a thing. we can be aware that we are aware, and discover a new 'seat of self' that is everywhere and nowhere, and which is not vulnerable to our attempts to classify it. the paradox of what we truly are suddenly becomes a new way of experiencing everything. we are the eternal stillness in the midst of motion, and we can recognize that and experience it, right now. in this state, we can fully experience our own lives and deaths, without ever living or dying. and a state of reality, of existence, where one does not live or die, sounds a good deal like the mythological descriptions of the golden age at the beginning of the cosmos, when humans lived happily and

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lieved. necessarily absurd, since reason must renounce for ever the project of attaining to him; necessarily credible, since science and reason, far from demonstrating that he does not exist, are dragged by the chariot of fatality to believe that he does exist, and to adore him themselves with closed eyes. why- because this absurd is the infinite source of reason. the light springs eternally from the eternal shadows. science, that babel tower of the spirit, may twist and coil its spirals ever ascending as it will; it may make the earth tremble, it will never touch the sky. god is he whom we shall eternally learn to know better, and, consequently, he whom we shall never know entirely. the realm of mystery is, then, a field open to the conquests of the intelligence. march there as boldly as

our prayer will be perfect, when we pray without knowing whom we pray. prayer is not a noise which strikes the ear; it is a silence which penetrates the heart. 28 soft tears come to moisten the eyes, and sighs escape like incense smoke. one feels oneself in love, ineffably in love, with all that is beauty, truth, and justice; one throbs with a new life, and one fears no more to die. for prayer is the eternal life of intelligence and love; it is the life of god upon earth. love one another- that is the law and the prophets! meditate, and understand this word. and when you have understood, read no more, seek no more, doubt no more- love! be no more wise, be no more learned- love! that is the whole doctrine of true religion; religion means charity, and god himself is only love. i have already

nd consoles the weeping of jeremiah. nations succeed each other like men; and nothing is stable, because everything is marching towards perfection. the great man who dies bequeathes to his country the fruit of his works; the great nation which becomes extinguished upon earth transforms itself into a star to enlighten the obscurities of history. what it has written by its actions remains graven in the eternal book; it has added a page to the bible of the human race. do not say that civilization is bad; for it resembles the damp heat which ripens the harvest, it rapidly develops the principles of life and the principles of death, it kills and it vivifies. it is like the angel of the judgment who separates the wicked from the good. civilization transforms men of good will into angels of light

lready fight under the same banner; the crescent has rallied to the latin cross, and altogether we struggle against the invasion of the barbarians, and their brutalizing orthodoxy. it is for ever an accomplished fact. in admitting new dogmas, the chair of st. peter has solemnly proclaimed itself progressive. the fatherland of catholic christianity is that of the sciences and of the fine arts; and the eternal word of the gospel, living and incarnate in a visible authority, is still the light of the world. 59 silence, then, to the pharisees of the new synagogue! silence to the hateful traditions of the schools, to the arrogance of presbyterianism, to the absurdity of jansenism, and to all those shameful and superstitious interpretations of the eternal dogma, so justly stigmatized by the piti

hould have visited moscow- trans> let mohammed set woman free to give to the true believer the houris which he has so long dreamt of, and let the martyrs of the saviour teach chaste caresses to the beautiful angels of mohammed! the whole earth, reclothed with the rich adornments which all the arts have embroidered for her, will no longer be anything but a magnificent temple, of which man shall be the eternal priest. all that was true, all that was beautiful, all that was sweet in the past centuries, will live once more glorified in this transfiguration of the world. and the beautiful form will remain inseparable from the true idea, as the body will one day be inseparable from the soul, when the soul, come to its own power, will have made itself a body in its own image. that will be the kin

st, nor can his force be compared with thine. thou art strong, and it is to thee that belongs that strength invincible which changes not and decays never. thou art strong; by thy lovingkindness thou dost forgive in the moment of thy most burning wrath, and thou showest thyself long-suffering to sinners. thou art strong, and thy mercies, existing from all time, are upon all thy creatures. thou art the eternal light, that pure souls shall see, and that the cloud of sins will hide from the eyes of sinners. thou art the light which is hidden in this world, and visible in the other, where the glory of the lord is shown forth. thou art sovereign, and the eyes of understanding which desire to see thee are all 69 amazed, for they can attain but part of it, never the whole. thou art the god of gods

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h still existing in a dualistic or separated mode, with kether, through path 13. this path is described as the "substance of glory, it makes known truth to every spirit, and is pictured as this function in aleister crowley's thoth deck "high priestess" card, which is attributed to this path. he does warn that "it is important for high initiation to regard light not as the perfect manifestation of the eternal spirit, but rather as the veil that hides that spirit" diagram part d (i) the paths denoting the activity resulting as the interaction between kether, chockmah and binah are that of path 11, path 12 and path 14. their names reflect their proximity to the "limitless light" of ain soph aur, being entitled; path 11: the fiery intelligence path 12: the intelligence of light path 14: the il

life i choose to lead. i am the centre myself, and that of all about me. point tau now place turn both hands over and place them on the altar, one over the other, both bent slightly inwards making an 'x' shape. feel the altar beneath your hands and say; my life is the place of the great work, and myself the altar on which the work is done. point resh light the lamp above the altar and state; let the eternal light of which this is part be visible to me in all that i accomplish. the meditation for this ritual is to take your problematic situation, or question, and think about it. then visualise the question in some symbolic form, such as a question mark, sigil or other object, and see it as hanging between the lamp and the altar. then slowly visualise the light of the lamp becoming brighter

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assemble thanks to its penetrating perfume. may the spirits of darkness and error that prowl around to destroy us, flee at the same time, forever, and may their malefice and prestiges never subsist. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. prayer to be said while vesting the alb and cordelier before the operation: o lord, whiten me and purify my heart so i may one day with my soul finally reconciled bathe in the eternal joys- after having been washed in the blood of the lamb. o merciful lord, deign to extinguish in me the ardour of evil passions and allow the virtue of power and purity to dwell in me. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. prayer to be said while putting on the sandals: o lord, happy are those who are honest in their ways and who walk according to thy will. o almighty god, may thus my actions b

ed at this moment and in this place, become united with our brothers dispersed all over this vast world, become united in hearts and spirit. amen. operator now lights the ordinary candle (which he will use to light the central luminary) and says: i conjure thee uriel invoking thee by the word, by all that is in thy power and in mine: may thy spiritual fire embrace the matter which i consecrate to the eternal in the bosom of these circles. may the elementary fire residing there unite with thine to contribute to the spiritual light of men of desire- my brothers, and may they thus become animated by thy fire of life. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator inhales lightly the flame of the candle and says: o pure light, symbol of the superior of my soul to whom the eternal has entrusted the care

nimated by thy fire of life. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator inhales lightly the flame of the candle and says: o pure light, symbol of the superior of my soul to whom the eternal has entrusted the care of my thought, of my will, actions and words, make thy radiant fire purge my soul of its dross and my lips- sanctified for the words i am going to pronounce, to operate for a greater glory of the eternal, for my own tuition and for the edification of my fellow men. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. now, operator extinguishes the sanctuary light (or the dim luminary) and lights the central luminary from the flame of the ordinary candle saying: i purify thee wax and i bless thee) in the name of the eternal and by the virtue and powers that have been entrusted by him unto me. be thus commanded

e me to keep hold of the impressions of things that shall be communicated to me by the spirits whom i invoke according to the innate power in myself. become thus just and real to my eyes as were the lights which the elect 18 privileged by the creator were employing in their own operations, lights united in support of the spiritual regeneration of men, my fellow brothers, for the greatest glory of the eternal thought, for the greatest glory of the eternal will and for the greatest glory of the eternal action, by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator lights the charcoal in the censer, or in the cassolette, from the flame of the central luminary and says: i purify thee fire and i bless thee. i sanctify thee in the name of the eternal, in the name of him who created thee and who appeared to his s

the holy ghost preserver. secure for me and for my brothers the grace of the divinity, its favours and clemency with which you have been rewarded for the combats you fought when still in this sojourn- in which i still remain. do so that through your salutary assistance i shall live and die like you, in peace, joy, and holiness. 20 amen. i conjure thee my guardian, thou pure spirit commissioned by the eternal to look after me for the reconciliation of my spiritual being. i conjure thee by the name of god of mercy to come to the aid of my soul always whenever it will be in danger of yielding to the evil, whenever it calls thee by its sighs, desires and its meditations, whenever it becomes hungry and thirsty for counsel, learning or understanding. help me then, o my guardian, to obtain the he

amen. operator will now pray for the brothers and sisters of the order, their relatives, and for all masters of the past: grant, 0 eternal god, thou who grantest the pardon and desirest salvation of men, we beseech thee- grant that brothers and sisters of the order, their parents and relatives, as well as masters of the past who have all left this age, may all share with thy saints and thy angels the eternal beatitude and the original unity finally regained through the return to the celestial origins. o lord of mercy, deign to grant all these souls an eternal rest for a time immemorial and may the light which never dies out radiate upon them. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator adds a larger quantity of incense into the censer, meditates a while and then 24 prays for the wandering souls:

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magination. animus and anima have a direct relationshp with the persona or mask-if the persona is emotional, the soul image is rational, and vice versa. they are two of the most important archetypes, often influencing how we respond to members of the opposite sex. people often search out, and are attracted to, someone who symbolizes the attributes of their own psyche. every man carries within him the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definitive feminine image. this image is findamentally unconscious, an hereditary factor of primordial origin engraved in the living organic system of the man, an imprint or "archetype" of all the ancestral experiences of the female, a deposit, as it were, of all the impressions ever made by woman. since this image i

ough every pore of your body and mind. regular practice of this exercise is designed to bring the student to a hgh level of divine consciousness. every aspect of mystical experience and knowledge may be brought fully into play during this meditation. although it is an extension of the aspirant's earlier work, this meditation is designed to bring about a true realization concerning the infinity of the eternal spirit and the complete fulfillment of the divine within. many of these exercises require that the student lie on the floor to get the maximum benefit. however, as one relaxes and lets go of all tension, there is always the possibility of falling asleep. this is not a problem and with practice it will pass. eventually the student will be able to separate mental consciousness from body

ect the macrocosm, we can change ourselves to better reflect those divine ideas. we may alter our body, appearance, the chemical composition of our blood, and the configuration of our nervous system. we may tame the feral beasts that dwell within our organic structure. by changing ourselves to resonate with the divine, we may transmute every portion of ourselves and become as purified vessels for the eternal spirit. rites such as the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram represent this spiritual goal. the lbrp explains this goal in mathematical and qabalistic terms. it sets a pattern for self-growth whch has a powerful influence on the subconscious mind. it symbolically places us in a correct relationship to the one divine source. and when we are in this correct relationship, it becomes

he names, 6. say the prayer of the gnomes: holy art thou, lord of the earth, which thou hast made for thy footstool. adonai ha-aretz, adonai melekh. unto thee be the kingdom, the power and the glory. malkuth, geburah, gedulah. amen. the rose of sharon, and the lily of the valley. 0 thou who hidest beneath the earth, in the valley of gems, the marvellous seed of the stars. live, reign, and be thou the eternal dispenser of thy treasures, whereof thou hast made us the wardens. amen. part vi: circumambulation 1. circumambulate7 the light. see all the power in the feet center. see it rush up like water powerfully pushed up as in a fountain. 2. as it rushes up, it takes all the power from each of the spheres on its ascent. so imagine as it goes from ball to ball, it takes all the power out of ea

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akes a fourth, in a life-and-death game of cosmic bridge. they are all voices crying in that wilderness of madness that men call society, and as such were ostracised, stoned, and deemed mentally unfit for life. but, for them, justice will come when we have realised that the ship of state and the ship of st peter have become mere ships of fools- with captains who course the seas by stars, ignoring the eternal ocean- and then, we will have to look to the prisoners in the hold for navigational guidance. it is there, always, and cthulhu calls. prefatory notes the present manuscript was delivered into the hands of the editor by a priest who had managed to get ordained through uncanonical methods which have been entertainingly described in the several books and articles on the ecclesiastic pheno

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heir enemies. as time wore on, our children died and many spread forth through the world, hiding and seeking refuge in new areas not saturated in the lore of our kind. we grew tired and our bodies grew pale and like death. in the breathing world we were killed physically yet our spirits remained we are daemon, spirit and genius undying and thirsting for continued life. in my bride who was born in the eternal flame with me, who is of many names, too guided mankind where it may be done. our spirits are like shades yet we can join with any in the dreaming lands. we continue to this day, guiding and inspiring those who cannot explain us, yet sense our very existence as they recognize their own. know our grimoires by listening to your own spirit, that we are all isolate and do not perish yet by

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

g us into the mansions of a de sade and through the gardens of an aretino, horrid with the frenzy of eros. or, again, we are treading with the sages of philosophy, or emidst the stars in search of the psyche of events; dreams almost monstrous in their intensity seize our troubled brain, deep problems of psychology, of sex, of the carnal, of the pathic, and of evil, all inter-webbed and woven with the eternal filament of good. and so if we read this strange poet aright, we shall see as we progress onwards, that he has struck a sonorous note from the rim of time, fulfilled of the knowledge of good and evil, sweet to the ears of those who are born children by the daughters of men to the sons of god, sweet as that mystic fruit was to the lips of eve, daughter of god, child of the mystic man. b

t of the poems) would be a magnificent contemplation even if we cut from it its sparkling songs, but with them it becomes superb, neither are there too many; the queen of our poet fs ideals is no gilded prostitute, no theodora hung with a myriad flashing jewels, but rather some chaste priestess carrying on her breast the mystic symbol of isis, whose belt is a jewelled zodiac, and in whose hand is the eternal ankh *except perhaps in orpheus. this interspersing of lyrics has been carried to a charming intensity of expression and their effect on the mind is one full of joy, no cloying, no surfeit, no repletion; the variety of the dishes is extraordinary in delicacy and piquancy as well as in number. the morals of a nation can with fair accuracy be gauged from the condition of its arts and lit

o east wind! and the goal is won *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 191. little, if any, poetry of a truly epic nature can we find; the nearest is the song of tannhauser, somewhat of a prophecy, somewhat of an anthem: i rose within the elemental ball, and lo! the ancient one of days did sit! his head and hair were white as wool. his eyes a flaming fire: and from the splendid mouth flashed the eternal sword! lo! lying at his feet as dead, i saw the leaping-forth of law: division of the north wind and the south, the lightning of the armies of the lord; east rolled asunder from the rended west; height clove the depth; the voice begotten said: gdivided be thy ways and limited! h answered the reflux and the indrawn breath: glet there be life, and death! h *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 252. wo

191. and yet: i was wed unto the part and could not grasp the whole. thus, i was broken on the wheel of truth. fled all the hope and purpose of my youth, the high desire, the secret joy, the sin that coiled its rainbow dragon scales within. hope fs being, life fs delight, time fs eager tooth; all, all are gone; the serpent sloughs his skin! the quest is mine! here ends mortality in contemplating the eternal thee. here, she is willing. stands the absolute reaching its arms toward me. i am mute, i draw toward. oh, suddenly i see the treason-pledge, the royal prostitute *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 191. thus does he fail at the very threshold of his higher self. he hears echoing ggereth, i am thine! h and falling back on his purpose, the illusions of spirit and mind dissolve to

ged fingers and deep eyes h reaches to the sceptre with his word and will: buds, roses, blossoms! lilies of the light! bloom, bloom, the fragrance shed upon the air! out flames the miracle of life and love! out, out the lights! flame, flame, the rushing storm! darkness and death, and glory in my soul! swept, swept away are pope and cardinal, palace and city! there i lay beneath the golden roof of the eternal stars, borne upon some irremeable sea that glowed with most internal brilliance;*1. and verily my life was borne on the dark stream of death down whirling aeons, linked abysses, columns built of essential time. and lo! the light shed from her shoulders whom i dimly saw; crowned with twelve stars and horned as the moon; clothed with a sun to which the sun of earth were tinsel; and the m

the same poem, gascension day, h that he was but a cantankerous divider and obstreperous upstart: give me omnipotence. to call me god. i would exert that power to heal creation fs hurt; not to divide my devotees from those who scorned me to the close: a worm, a fire, a thirst for these; a harp-resounding heaven for those *the sword of song, ascension day, vol. ii, p. 158. concerning the mother of the eternal god, crowley has little to tell us, and the blessed virgin fs affaire du coeur with the amiable gabriel is but touched on for a moment: gfear nothing, mary! all is well! i am the angel gabriel. h she bared her right breast (query why *the sword of song, pentecost, p. 60; vol. ii, p. 182. according to al beidawi, gabriel blew into the bosom of mary fs shift, which he opened with his fin

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m] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. i therefore affix this red triangle, the apex pointing downwards, as it were a wedge of light splitting the clouds that surround birth, and warming life with its rays, as it is written, the sun of righteousness shall arise, with healing in his wings. this triangle is also the special symbol of the lord of the aeon ra-hoor-khuit; the crowned and conquering child the eternal sun that dieth not, whom we adore. i also gird you with this sword, which you are to keep sharp and bright, neither to draw without need, nor to sheath not without honour. be seated, brother magician (orator reads constitution) s: it is an immemorial custom among us, so that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, for the newly made magician to offer a banquet to the officers of

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

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: possess thou the west and the south. 33:24 and of asher he said [let] asher [be] blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. 33:25 thy shoes [shall be] iron and brass; and as thy days [so shall] thy strength [be] 33:26 [there is] none like unto the god of jeshurun [who] rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. 33:27 the eternal god [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, destroy [them] 33:28 israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of jacob [shall be] upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew. 33:29 happy [art] thou, o israel: who [is] like unto thee, o people saved by the lord, the shi

i should preach among the gentiles the unsearchable riches of christ; 3:9 and to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in god, who created all things by jesus christ: 3:10 to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of god, 3:11 according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in christ jesus our lord: 3:12 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. 3:13 wherefore i desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. 3:14 for this cause i bow my knees unto the father of our lord jesus christ, 3:15 of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 3:16 that he would grant you

with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 9:12 neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption [for us] 9:13 for if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 9:14 how much more shall the blood of christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to god, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living god? 9:15 and for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 9:16 for where a testament [is] there mu

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d of the creatures; and by the wonderful effects which the visible and invisible creatures of god do shew forth. secondly it is requisite, that a man descend down into himself, and chiefly study to know himself; what mortal part he hath in him, and what immortal; and what part is proper to himself, and what diverse. thirdly, that he learn by the immortal part of himself, to worship, love and fear the eternal god, and to adore him in spirit and truth; and with his mortal part, to 26 do those things which he knoweth to be acceptable to god, and profitable to his neighhours. these are the three first and chiefest precepts of magick, wherewith let every one prepare himself that covets to obtain true magick or divine wisdom, that he may be accounted worthy thereof, and one to whom the angelical

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

om hence, that the ancients supposed the deity to exist under the form of a bull, a goat, or a serpent: on the contrary, he is always described in the orphic theology as a general pervading spirit, without form, or distinct locality of any kind; and appears, by a curious fragment preserved by proclus,3 to have been no other than attraction personified. the self-created mind (nooj autogeneqloj) of the eternal father is said to have spread the heavy bond of love through all things (pasin enespeiren desmon peribriqh erwtoj, in order that they might endure for ever. this eternal father is kronoj, time or eternity, personified; and so taken for the unknown being that fills eternity and infinity. the ancient theologists knew that we could form no positive idea of infinity, whether of power, spac

nul autre d sir: outre que les sorci res croyent aller en quelque lieu o il y a cent mille choses entranges et nouvelles 230 on the worship of the of melodious instruments that they are ravished, and believe them-selves to be in some terrestrial paradise. moreover the devil per-suades them that the fear of hell, which is so much apprehended, is a piece of folly, and gives them to understand that the eternal punishments will hurt them no more than a certain artificial fire which he causes them craftily to light, and then makes them pass through it and repass without hurt. and more, that they see there so many priests, their pastors, cur s, vicars, and confessors, and other people of quality of all sorts, so many heads of families, and so many mistresses of the principal houses in the said

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h the sea or that there were great petrified bones of giant lizards to be found under the earth would have seemed vastly less likely-yet these last two things are known to be true today. a contemporary reader of the grimoires, having no reason to doubt many of their statements, would accept them on faith. it may once have been possible for apprentices in magic to set aside their brains and absorb the eternal truths of the art through the soles of their feet, as it were. it may still be possible today in some eastern societies. zen buddhists in japan use koans- short paradoxes or riddles-to buffet the rational mind until spiritual insight dawns. but such methods are poorly suited for the modern westerner, who is highly depen- dent on the rational faculties and more reverent of them than the

it had perceived the polarity of north and south. the cross is much older than christianity, indeed as old as time, for it is a uni- versal symbol that conveys an unchanging meaning to all peoples, whatever the outward interpretation that may be forced upon it. the pattern the titan prometheus took when bound to the pillar by zeus was a cross. the teutonic god woden, or odin, crucified himself on the eternal ash yggdrasill in order to peer into the mysteries of the timeless realm where magic is born. in other cultures the same mystical message is conveyed in slightly different forms. the sioux indians used to suspend their braves by their pectoral muscles so that they might receive illumination through suffering. in the mythology of the maya, the severed head of the sacrificed divine being

the sixth point, which fiom the human perspective dom- inates the previous five, signifies the greater spirit of the all, separate from mankind, whereas the fifth point is the spirit given to the individual. the hexa- gram represents the will of god realized, and by association humanity acting in harmony with cosmic law. of course, the separation of the greater from the lesser spirit is illusion. the eternal truth that all spirit is one flowers forth, timeless and renewed, each time a prophet is born. but in the world of forms, the hexagram is traditionally thought of as the sign of god and the pentagram as the sign of man. kabbalistically, the hexagram is the heart of adam kadmon, the microproso- pos, or lesser countenance. hermetically, it is the union of opposites, the mating of the sun

y, this ancient poem has much to teach the mod- ern magus about the way to acquire the instruction of the light. it is evident that the magus must make a significant commitment in life to seek wisdom, despite the very great hardship this may entail. the tree upon which odin willingly hangs himself is the world tree, the same as the kabbalistic tree of emanations, known in the north as yggdrasill, the eternal ash whose roots reach down into hell and whose branches hold up the heavens. it is symbolic of the rational order, the cos- mic law, of the manifest universe. there are parallels to the cross of christ. the nine nights in the poem are the nine primary emanations that are reflect- ed in the physical world, the tenth emanation, malkuth. odin is said to remain tied to the tree for this sp

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. 168) this strange and complex vision was expounded upon by the spirit ave later that same day. it is worth giving this explanation here, both because it is so central to enochian magic and because it contains several points that bear directly on tetragrammaton, the banners, and the wings of the winds: the 4 houses, are the 4 angels of the earth, which are the 4 overseers, and watch-towers, that the eternal god in his providence hath placed, against the usurping blasphemy, misuse, and stealth of the wicked and great enemy, the devil. in each of these houses, the chief watchman, is a mighty prince, a mighty angel of the lord: which hath under him 5 princes (these names i must use for your instruction. the seals and authorities of these houses, are confirmed in the beginning of the world. u

triad, forms therewith the tetrad, which is the key of all numbers, of all movements and of all forms (ibid, p. 37) when a man pronounces the tetragram-say the kabaliststhe nine celestial realms sustain a shock, and then all spirits cry out one upon another "who is it thus disturbing the kingdom of heaven" then does the earth communicate unto the first sphere the sins of that rash being who takes the eternal name in vain, and the accusing word is transmitted from circle to circle, from star to star, and from hierarchy to hierarchy (ibid, p. 50) according to consecrated dogma, there are three persons in god, and these three constitute one only deity. three and one provide the conception of four, because unity is required appendix b: comr7zentaries on tetragrammaton to explain the three. hen

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

rought forth her son, in pain and sorrow and loneliness in the swamps of the delta, and how she reared him and watched over him until he was old enough to fight and vanquish his father's murderer, and how at length she seated him in triumph on his father's throne. these things endeared isis to the people everywhere, and as she herself had not suffered death like osiris, she came to be regarded as the eternal mother of life and of all living things. she was the creatress of crops, she produced fruit, vegetables, plants of all kinds and trees, she made cattle prolific, she brought men and women together and gave them offspring, she was the authoress of all love, virtue, goodness and happiness. she made the light to shine, she was the spirit of the dog-star which heralded the nile-flood, she

erve. the end and aim of all these toils and labours is the attainment of the knowledge of the first and chief being, who alone is the object of the understanding of the mind; and this knowledge the goddess invites us to seek after, as being near and dwelling continually with her. and this also is what the very name of her temple promiseth to us, that is to say, the knowledge and understanding of the eternal and self-existent being (tou ontas)-now, it is called "iseion" which suggests that if we approach the temple of the goddess rightly, and with purity, we shall obtain the knowledge of that eternal and self-existent being (to on [fn#260] the egyptian form of the name is as-t, or. plutarch wishes to derive the name from some form of greek oida [fn#261] in egyptian, tebh. iii. the goddess

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had held his stone, had held his serpent, and had held his substance. only with the arcanum a.z.f. can the word become flesh in order to grasp again his stone, his serpent and his substance. then we will return into the ain soph; we will return into the unity of life. you are the children of the widow, your divine mother is now a widow, but when she rises through the medullar channel, she marries the eternal beloved. your divine mother is the second arcanum, the popess of the tarot. she is crowned with a tiara. the head of the divine mother is surrounded by a veil. you must be courageous and lift the veil of isis. our gnostic motto is thelema (willpower. id y pingal, son los canales por los cuales ascienden los tomos del fuego y del agua, el esp ritu empu a la ca a de siete nudos; y esa ca

de la serpiente te llamamos. orad y meditad intensamente. la divina madre ense a a sus hijos. esta oraci n se debe hacer combinando la meditaci n con el sue o. entonces como en visi n de sue os surge la iluminaci n. llega la divina madre al devoto para instruirle en los grandes misterios. 26 arcanum 4 aum. the arcanum four of the tarot is the holy and mysterious tetragrammaton, the sacred name of the eternal one that has four letters: iod, he, vau, he. iod is the man, he is the woman, vau is the phallus, he is the uterus. yet, we can also state: iod is the man, he is the woman, vau is the fire, he is the water. the profound study of the four letters of the eternal one takes us inevitably to the ninth sphere (sex. we must lift our serpent through the medullar channel and carry it up to her

ana muere. el hombre todav a no es inmortal. el hombre se cree inmortal y poderoso, y es el colmo de la soberbia, el rayo de la muerte lo fulmina, y desde la torre de babel rueda al abismo. esas es la fatalidad. 105 astral christ and mental christ the man has two centers that he does not yet use: the superior mind and the superior emotion. these are the two divine centers, the true instruments of the eternal and imperishable man with soul. we can profoundly study the great mysteries of life and death with these two superior centers. we may be able to penetrate within the great reality which is found far beyond eternity and time. the human who believe that he/she is using these two centers without having engendered the vehicle of the mind-christ and the vehicle of the astral-christ is compl

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hakk.the truth 52. al-wakil.the advocate 53. al-kawi.the strong 54. al-matin.the firm 55. al-wali.the patron 56. al-hamid.the laudable 57. al-mushi.the counter 58. al-mubdi.the beginner 59. al-mu'id.the restorer 60. al-muhyi.the quickener 61. al-mumit.the killer 62. al-hayy.the living 63. al-kaiyum.the subsisting 64. al-wajid.the finder 65. al-majid.the glorious 66. al- wahid.the one 67. as-samad.the eternal 68. al-kadir.the powerful 69. al-muktadir.the prevailing 70. al-mukaddim.the bringer forth 71. al-khabir.the aware 72. al-latif.the subtle 73. al-adl.the just 74. al-hakim.the ruler 75. al-basir.the seer 76. as-sami.the hearer 77. al-muzil.the destroyer 78. al-mu'izz.the honourer 79. ar-rafi.the exalter 80. al-khafiz.the abaser 81. al-basit.the spreader 82. al-kabiz.the restrainer 83

nterior activity united to that of power (that) forms a root whence is drawn all ideas of progression, coming, passage, locomotion (p. 301. it is demonstrated in the arrow-sigil which goes the other way (see figure 5-b. what this reversed gematria can tell us is that the cause of existence, often thought of as ab, father, when reversed, implies another impulse.to find manifestation in the future. the eternal god-energy is beyond conceptualization of time, yet the changing of these two letters shows us that spirit is not only the initial cause of our existence (or figure 5-b: ba (3) the existence prior to ours, but that spirit has an evolutionary character and is manifesting in manifold ways through us as it appears to move into the future. let us look at some other words, which relate here

onship because each face has three sides and the pyramid itself has five corners, if the apex is included. this apex or cap-stone has been shrouded in mystery and written about by many intrigued by its meaning. this pinnacle stone is, according to case, another symbol for christ, the stone rejected by the builders. this capstone is sometimes called the triangle of fire "which is a stone emblem of the eternal flame (case, 1985, p. 83. john michell tells us that the pyramid has often been the scene of mysterious apparitions in the form of a light "which local bedouins see at certain seasons hovering over its peak (michell, 1983, p. 160. this was also witnessed by a mr. william groff and other members of the egyptian institute, who saw a flame rising from the top, but could discover no ration

rst three letters of pyramid (pyr) mean fire. plato wrote (the) solid which has taken the form of a pyramid shall be the element and seed of fire (ibid, p. 106. interestingly, the two words in greek, fire and light, when added together, also equal 2080. recall that the affirmation attributed to hod on the pattern on the trestleboard is "i look forward with confidence to the perfect realization of the eternal splendor of the limitless light" it has been demonstrated that the dimensions of the pyramid show that the builders who constructed it had an accurate knowledge of the earth and its solar system, and those interested in this fascinating study should refer to the careful explanations of these measurements in john michell's works. repeatedly we see that there are many parallels revealed

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

t be comprehended; undecaying, for it never decays; unattached, for it never attaches itself; unfettered, for it is never bound. he who knows the self is unaffected, whether by good or by evil. never do such thoughts come to him as i have done an evil thing or i have done a good thing. both good and evil he has transcended, and he is therefore troubled no more by what he may or may not have done. the eternal glory of the knower of brahman, beginningless and endless, revealed by divine knowledge, is neither increased nor decreased by deeds. let a man therefore seek to obtain it, since having obtained it he can never be touched by evil. self-controlled is he who knows the self, tranquil, poised, free from desire, absorbed in meditating upon it, he sees it within his own soul, and he sees all

beings in it. evil touches him not, troubles him not, for in the fire of his divine knowledge all evil is burnt away. the self, the great unborn, the undecaying, the undying, the immortal, the fearless, is, in very truth, brahman. he who knows brahman is without fear. he who knows brahman becomes brahman! selections from swami prabhavananda& frederick manchester, trans. the upanishads: breath of the eternal. new york, mentor (mp386. 1957. p. 103 (the rig-veda: creation) then was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. what covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? was water there, unfathomed depth of water? death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day s and night s divider. that one thing, breathless, breathed by it s

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

s that he refers to kronos, time, or chronos as the later platonists wrote the name. kronos, or saturnus, of the romans, was son of uranos and gaia, husband of rhea, father of zeus_ 3. the god of the universe, eternal, limitless, both young and old, having a spiral force. cory includes this oracle in his collection, but he gives no authority for it. lobek doubted its authenticity. 9 of 13_ 4. for the eternal on* according to the oracle is the cause of never failing life, of unwearied power and unsluggish energy. taylor. t "for the first eon, the eternal one" or as taylor gives "eternity_ 5. hence the inscrutable god is called silent by the divine ones, and is said to consent with mind, and to be known to human souls through the power of the mind alone. proclus in theologiam platonis, 321

d energy" damascius de principiis. taylor. 27. and beside him is seated the dyad which glitters with intellectual sections, to govern all things, and to order everything not ordered. proclus in platonis theologiam, 376. t. 28. the mind of the father said that all things should be cut into three, whose will assented, and immediately all things were so divided. proclus in parmen. t. 29. the mind of the eternal father said into three, governing all things by mind. proclus, timaeus of plato. t. 30. the father mingled every spirit from this triad. lydus, de mensibus, 20. taylor. 31. all things are supplied from the bosom of this triad. lydus, de mensibus, 20. taylor. 32. all things are governed and subsist in this triad. proclus in i. alcibiades. t. 33. for thou most know that all things bow be

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ents sequentially strung on a time-line.23 the relevance of brumbaugh s perspective to my own imaginal thinking about time will become apparent later. for the moment let us return to augustine and consider more carefully the context of his remark cited earlier. the reflections on time in book eleven of the confessions come directly after the a rmation of the christological doctrine of creation by the eternal logos. significantly, augustine s musing on the first verse in genesis, in the beginning god created heaven and earth, precedes the discourse on this creed. augustine notes that although he knew only latin and not hebrew, he would have understood the truth (veritas) of these words even in moses s own hebrew, for truth uses neither mouth nor tongue as instruments and utters no audible s

fore it is clear and evident that the utterance came through the movement of some created thing, serving your eternal will but itself temporal [quod creaturae motus expressit eam, serviens aeternae voluntati tuae, ipse temporalis. and these your words, made for temporal succession, were reported by the external ear to the judicious mind whose internal ear is disposed to hear your eternal word. 25 the eternal word (aeternum verbum) by which all things were created is identified as jesus, the beginning (principium) that is wisdom (sapientia, the silence (silentio) apprehended by way of the inner ear (interior posita, the temporal instantiation of the eternal will. the word, the instrument of creation, is described, therefore, as temporal but also as coeternal with god. insofar as the logos p

ncy of succession. this paradoxical quandary illumines the fact that, for augustine, the mystery of the word made flesh problematizes the alleged antinomy between time and eternity, motion and rest.31 on the one hand, the word is coeternal and thus not subject to generation or decay; on the other hand, the word transpires in time, the incarnation of the word bespeaks the temporal manifestation of the eternal will, always in and of the moment indeed the momentum of the moment is conceived from the vantage point of the enfleshment of the flesh beyond flesh, 6 chapter one the envisioning of the image beyond image, the immanence of infinitude in the finite. 32 on this basis we can grasp why augustine exegetically links the mystery to the verse today i have begotten you, ego hodie genui te (ps

today i have begotten you, ego hodie genui te (ps 2:7, a verse that was already applied to jesus in hebrews 5:5. god s eternity is characterized by a today that does not yield to a tomorrow, nor did it follow a yesterday, that is, the today is the fullness of a present that has neither past nor future.33 to speak of the word being born today signifies the begetting of what is coeternal with god, the eternal coming-to-be of what has everlastingly been. the incarnation semiotically encodes the a/temporal transition from immutable to mutable that makes temporal creation on the part of the timeless god possible.34 the transition cannot occur in time since it is the process that provides the very conditions for time. alternatively expressed, the word eternally begotten clearly a stumbling bloc

-to-be of what has everlastingly been. the incarnation semiotically encodes the a/temporal transition from immutable to mutable that makes temporal creation on the part of the timeless god possible.34 the transition cannot occur in time since it is the process that provides the very conditions for time. alternatively expressed, the word eternally begotten clearly a stumbling block to reason since the eternal cannot be begotten nor can the begotten be eternal is the ontic source of temporality. it follows, then, that there cannot be a time when time did not exist, nec aliquo tempore non erat tempus.35 in the word, everything which begins to be and ceases to be begins and ends its existence precisely because it is the eternal reason [aeterna ratione] where nothing begins or ends, 36 the eter

yesterday nor closed out by a tomorrow. and so we ought to love him through whom times were made, that we may be freed from time and fixed in eternity where there is no alteration of time.38 the hour of christ s coming is designated the fullness of time, the everlasting day that is not preceded by a yesterday nor closed out by a tomorrow. the mystery of incarnation embodies the temporalization of the eternal the timeless being through whom all times are made that yields the possibility for the thinking time/ hermeneutic suppositions 7 eternalization of the temporal, the possibility for the human being to partake in the fullness of eternity realized in the simultaneity of the ever-recurring present that flies so quickly from future into past that it is an interval with no duration. 39 preci

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renched in blood. the familiar, when created, is an important step in awakening through sexual congress, from which one seeks union with the dreaming body of the gnosis. the lilitu is the gate towards one discovering the holy guardian angel (an alternate path of the witches sabbath) and the evil genius. seek union with the lilitu, within and without. one mystery of the two is that they are called the eternal couple and are symbolized in the zohar as the evil couple (evil is therefore described as the left hand path approach, isolating the self which was contrary to many of the founders of religious christianity. samael is then revealed as asmodeus and lilith the mother of fornication. samael and lilith are the keys of infernal, or daemonic union. it is by the combination of these forces wh

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s the associated astrological correspondences of the angelic kings and tribes of israel (see figure 17 "the call of the 30 aethyrs summons the 91 princes and the spiritual governors unto whom the earth is delivered as a 34 portion. they bring in and depose kings and all governments upon the earth and they vary the nature of things with the variation of every movement. unto them, the providence of the eternal judgement is already opened. they are governed by the 12 angels of the 12 tribes, which are, in turn, governed by the 7 that stand before the presence of god (dee mss) from this we have a direct line of authority back to the seven archangels of the heptagon in the holy seal the sigillum dei aemeth as follows: zadkiel, cumael, raphael, hainiel, michael, and gabriel. these archangels are

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er treading on the head of the serpent that the father may be born anew in the son. it is the key to the whole rosicrucian philosophy, the redemtion of matter, transforming the human into the divine. the blending of the dew and fire in purification and consecration. the exaltation of the cross of light. so, from the four we pass to three the triangle of spirit rising from the cube of matter. isis the eternal virgin (under whatever name we hail her. eternal mother, sophia, mary; osiris, father, and son jesus. and between them the serpent which must be transformed into the eagle. the destroyer who must become the transmuter. remember also that these 3 letters have a further significance thus 't' stands for the ego, the indestructible unit which survives from life to life "0" is the eternal s

is the synthesis of the ruach of the universe: in other words, the allusion is to the great god of the world of yetzirah or the microprosopus, the son of the first adam when he is invoked before the lord of spirits, which can but be in kether; and his name in the presence of the ancient of days "he who is ancient before the gods, ancient before time, ancient before the formation of the worlds, he the eternal amen, or even he who is before amen, and whom the plumes of amen's head-dress only touch" now the foregoing partly represents the mode in which the initiate becomes the adept: the ruach, directed in accordance with the promptings of the neschamah, keeps the nephesch from being the ground of the evil forces, and the neschamah brings the ruach into contact with the chiah, i.e, the genius

if the consciousness went into the genius, which says "i am the sun in his rising, i have passed through the hour of the cloud and night" then follows "i am amon the concealed one, the opener of the day" like the great god in atziluth "i am osiris onnofris, the crucified one" who is perfected in the balance and risen above all considerations that cometh from maya, or illusion, and who only seeks the eternal life from above, and then, as if in a supreme moment "i am the lord of life, triumphant over death, and there is no part of me that is not of the gods (that is the voice of kether) this again is followed by a synthetical culmination, as if all the divine ones united in the utterance "i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light! out of the darkness let the light arise"

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