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ye of osiris representing the orb of the sun, and the cow, symbolic of the great water, the blue firmament of heaven. next the adoration of the lords of truth behind the northern heaven 'hail unto ye, ye lords of truth, ye chiefs behind osiris! ye followers of her whose peace is sure' then the soul arises at the mystic pool of persea trees, wherein is horus, symbolized by the great cat, who slays the evil serpent, apophis. last of the symbols of the 17th chapter is the adoration of the creator in his bark, and the uniting of the purified soul with its maker. the 125th chapter is called' the hall of the two truths, and of separating a person from his sins when he has been made to see the faces of the gods' it opens with a solemn adoration of the lords of truth and the ceremony of passing by

your left foot forward about six inches. this is the step, and represents the foot on the side of chesed, put forward and taking a hesitating step in darkness. the left foot alludes to isis which is the beginning of action. action is necessary for the achievement and fulfillment of the great work. on a deeper level, the step alludes to the beginning of a journey as well as to the stomping down of the evil persona. this is accomplished through the process of self sacrifice unto our higher genius. thus, the step is appropriately six inches which equals tiphareth, the sephira of self sacrifice. secondly, as you advance your foot, it will be placed toe to heel next to the inside of the other member's foot you are sharing the step, grip and grand word with. at this point, you have completed the

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phira malkuth, and it has about it seven columns, and the four splendors whirl around it as in the vision of the mercabah of ezekiel; and from gedulah it derives an influx of mercy, and from geburah an influx of severity and the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil shall it be until it is united with the supernals in daath. but the good which is under it is called the archangel metatron, and the evil is called the archangel samael, and between them lies the straight and narrow way where the archangel sandalphon keeps watch. the souls and the angels are above its branches, and the qlippoth or demons dwell under its roots. let the neophyte enter the pathway of evil. kerux: takes his place in front of neophyte, leads him in a n.e. direction towards the hiereus, halts and steps out of the

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sa^m. 38^ 95^ fornald. siig. 1, 487. not quite parallel are phrases such as: daz geloube gote unde w?r; amis 989. iu unde ffote von himile klage ich unser leit; nib. 1889, 3. ik klage gode unde iu; eichtsteig landr. 11. 16. 37. sane die messe beide got u. in; parz. 378, 25. wh. 280, 5. neic si im unde gote; iw. 6013. also in o.fr, jel te pardoins de diit et de mi]\iones untersuch. 245. sometimes the evil one is named by the side of the deity: got noch den tiuvcl loben; iw. 1273. in beschirmet der tii'vcl noch got; iw. 4635, i.e. no one protects him. poems of the middle ages attribute human passions to god; especially is he often pictured in a state of complacency and joy (see suppl, and again in the contrary state of wrath and vengeance. the former is favourable to the creation of eminent

32 'in krist er sih gisidalta' says 0. i. 25, 24; but hel. 30, 1 of the dove: sat im icppan uses drohtines ahslu (our lord's shoulder. is this an echo of heathen thoughts? none of the fathers have this circumstance, but in the mid. ages there is talk enough about doves resting on shoulders^ and the dove, though frequently contrasted with the raven (which, like the wolf, the christians applied to the evil one, may nevertheless be put in the place of it. oswald's raveii flies to his shoulder and arm, 749. 942. oswald talks to it, 95-6, and kneels before it, 854. conf. ziugerle, oswalt p. 67 (see suppl^ now under that figure of the bearded old man, wuotan is apparently to be regarded as a water-sprite or water-god, answering well to the latin name of mptunus which some of the earlier writers

e; lith. ahnu gen. akmens /cam /lam. 182 thunar. current among the people, in which you can exchange ilamer for duvcl, but which, one and all, can only be traced back to the god that strikes with the hanuner. in tlie same way' dat is en ha7ner, en hamerskcn kerl' a rascally impudent cheats de hamcr kennt se all! the devil may know them all, schiitze 2, 96. hemmerlein, meister hdmmerkin, signified the evil spirit. consider also the curses which couple the two names; donner und teujd! both of which stood for the ancient god. by gammel tlwr, old thor, the common people in denmark mean the devil; in sweden they long protested by thore gud. the lithuanians worshipped an enormous hammer, seb. frankes weltbuch 55 (see suppl. it must have been at an earlier stage that certain attributes and titles

, and presents it as tacen of his victory, just as tristan chops off the giant urgan's hand, and takes it with him to certify the deed, 16055-65-85. the amputation of the huge giant-hand seems therefore part of an ancient myth, and to have been fitly loki, grendel, saturn. 241 retained in the name of a broad-leaved vegetable; there is also a plant called devivs-liancl, and in more than one legend the evil one leaves the print of his hand on rocks and walls. if these last allusions have led us away from the beneficent deities rather to hurtful demons and malignant spirits, we have here an easy transit to the only god whom the teaching of the edda represents as wicked and malevolent, though it still reckons him among the ases. 5 (loki, grendel, saturn. lofji, as we have seen, was a second so

ofi/xata /xap/xaipovra. and in on. legend, hallbiurn on awaking sees the shoulder of a figure in his dream before it vanishes ?ykist sia a hersar honum, fornald. sog. 3, 103; as is likewise said in olaf the saint's sagr cap. 199. ed. holm, while the fornm. sog. 5, 38 has it: sia svi, mannsins er a brutt gekk; conf. os humerosque deo similis, aen. 1 589. this also lingers in our devil-stories: at the evil one's departure his cloven hoof suddenly becomes visible, the 'l-xyia of the ancient god. as the incessus of venus declared the goddess, the motion (jd/jlo) of here and athene is likened to that of timorous doves, ii. 5, 778, flight. vehicles. horses. 327 but the gliding of the gods over such immense distances must have seemed from first to last like flying, especially as their departure

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een himself and hiereus and facing hierophant, takes pyramid from him. hiero: stoop not down into the darkly splendid world, wherein continually lies a faithless depth, and hades wrapped in clouds, delighting in unintelligible images, precipitous, winding, a black ever rolling abyss ever espousing a body unluminous, formless and void. nature persuadeth us that there are pure demons, and that even the evil germs of matter may alike become useful and good. but these are mysteries which are evoked in the profound abyss of the mind. such a fire existeth extending through the rushings of air or even a fire formless whence comes the image of a voice or even a flashing light abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. also there is the vision of the fire flashing courser of light, or also

okmah are the ghogiel, or hinderers. those of binah are the satariel or concealers. those of chesed are the gagh shekelah or breakers in pieces. to geburah belong the golahab or burners. to tiphareth the tagariron or disputers. to netzach the gharab zereq or ravens of death, dispersing all things. to hod the samael or deceivers, to yesod the gamaliel or obscene. and the shell of malkuth is lilith the evil woman. but these have also many other appellations. hiero: i have much pleasure in conferring upon you the title of lord (lady) of the 31st path. you will now quit the temple for a short time, and on your return the ceremony of your passage of the 30th path will take place. temple officers part ii hierophant: red robe, r&w nemyss, gold shoes, white collar, lamen, scepter. hiereus: black r

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

all binding magic rituals. my friend lilian, a white witch and healer, used to wrap the perpetrators of crimes in a mantle of pink and visualise them in a sea of tranquillity so that they might be diverted from a destructive course of action. however, i usually cast a protective barrier around the victims and i think this is the best answer to a very difficult problem. we must harm none, not even the evil, hard though it is, and we should leave the punishment to natural justice. in my own experience, few who find happiness at the expense of others achieve more than temporary, superficial pleasure, and in time they do seem to end badly. we should never use magick in order to act as judge and jury. after all, some who do act badly do so only out of unhappiness or ignorance. what are spells?

is mentioned in an ancient egyptian papyrus dating from over 3,000 years ago as having healing powers. the sumerians believed it contained the souls of their gods and goddesses and as such would endow them with magical powers, and the goddess ishtar was famed for her beautiful necklaces of this crystal. in egypt, lapis lazuli was first used in a powdered form for eye make-up as protection against the evil eye. lapis lazuli counteracts insomnia and the inability to communicate, and is a powerfully protective stone against all pettiness, spite, injustice and unfair officialdom. it offers the courage and clarity to win through, however seemingly powerful the opposition, but it demands nobility of purpose in its users. lapis lazuli is good for healing both air and water pollution and for world

en one's survival, either professional or personal, is an issue. smoky quartz also counteracts self-destructive impulses. tiger's eye a brown or red translucent stone (the green and blue versions are cat's, falcon or hawk's eyes, tiger's eye combines the powers of the earth with the deep instinctive ability to survive life's challenges. throughout the ages, tiger's eye has been a talisman against the evil eye. roman soldiers would wear engraved stones as protection from death and wounding. tiger's eye is also associated with practical aspects of life and enhances the five senses. thus it can alert us to physical danger as well as potential malice. it is effective in tackling gossip, backbiting and spite in a firm but creative way, and is perhaps best of all for creating a sparkling shield

ABRAMELIN1

light, the latter that of darkness; the former usually depending on the knowledge and invocation of the angelic natures, the latter on the method of evocation of the demonic races. usually the former is termed white magic, as opposed to the latter, or black magic. the invocation of angelic forces, then, is an idea common in works of magic, as also are the ceremonies of pact with and submission to the evil spirits. the system, however, taught in the present work is based on the following conception (a) that the good spirits and angelic powers of light are superior in power to the fallen spirits of darkness (b) that these latter as a punishment have been condemned to the service of the initiates of the magic of light (this idea is to be found also in the koran or, as it is frequently and per

f light are superior in power to the fallen spirits of darkness (b) that these latter as a punishment have been condemned to the service of the initiates of the magic of light (this idea is to be found also in the koran or, as it is frequently and perhaps more correctly written, qur-an (g) as a consequence of this doctrine, all ordinary material effects and phenomena are produced by the labour of the evil spirits under the command introduction ix usually of the good (d) that consequently whenever the evil demons can escape from the control of the good, there is no evil that they will not work by way of vengeance (e) that therefore sooner than obey man, they will try to make him their servant, by inducing him to conclude pacts and agreements with them (z) that to further this project, they

ice of the lower and evil, the knowledge of the higher and good is requisite (ie, in the language of the theosophy of the present day, the knowledge of the higher self. from this it results that the magnum opus propounded in this work is: by purity and self-denial to obtain the knowledge of and conversation with one s guardian angel, so that thereby and thereafter we may obtain the right of using the evil spirits for our servants in all material matters. this, then, is the system of the secret magic of abra-melin, the mage, as taught by his disciple abraham the jew; and elaborated down to the smallest points. except in the professed black magic grimoires, the necessity of the invocation of the divine and angelic forces to control the demons is invariably insisted upon in the operations of

f operation than the one here laid down. for also besides the unintentional perversions of magical symbols i have above mentioned, there was further the circumstance not only possible but probable of the many black magic grimoires falling into his hands, as they evidently had into abraham's, the symbols in which are in many cases intentional perversions of divine names and seals, so as to attract the evil spirits and repel the good. for the third book of this work is crowded with qabalistic squares of letters, which are simply so many pentacles, and in which the names employed are the very factors which make them of value. among them we find a form of the celebrated sator, arepo, tenet, opera, rotas, which is one of the pentacles in the key of solomon. abraham's formula is slightly differe

hey kept hearing something telling them to commit the crime! yet these suggestions would not always arise from elementals alone, but frequently from the depraved astral remnants of deceased evil persons. devils, on the other hand, are far more powerful than elementals, but their action for evil is parallel to that of the good angels for good; and their malignancy is far more terrible than that of the evil elementals, for not being, like them, subjected to the limits of a certain current, their sphere of operation extends over a far greater area; while the evil they commit is never irrational or mechanical, but worked with full consciousness and intent. i do not agree entirely with the manner of behaviour, advised by abraham towards the spirits; on the contrary, the true initiates have alwa

ABRAMELIN2

all superstitions, fascinations, diabolical pacts, and lastly all that the gross blindness of the world can touch with its bands and feet is reckoned as wisdom and magic! the physician, the astrologer, the enchanter, the sorceress, the idolater, and the sacrilegious, is called of the common people a magician! also he who draweth his magic whether from the sun, whether from the moon, whether from the evil spirits, whether from stones, herbs, animals, brutes, or lastly from thousand divers sources, so that the heaven itself is astonished thereat. there be certain who draw their magic from air, from earth, from fire, from water, from physiognomy, from the hand, from mirrors, from glasses, from birds, from bread, from wine, and even from the very excrements themselves; and yet, however, all t

wellingplace, i will show unto ye what shall be necessary herein.40 ye shall choose an apartment which hath a window, joined unto the which shall be an uncovered terrace (or balcony, and a lodge (or small room or hut) covered with a roof, but so that there may be on every side windows whence you may be able to see in every direction, and whence you may enter into the oratory. in the which place41 the evil spirits shall be able to appear, since they cannot appear within the oratory itself in the which place, beside the oratory towards the quarter of the north, you shall have a rooted or covered lodge, in the which and from whence one may be able to see the oratory. i myself also had two large windows made in my oratory, and at the time of the convocation of the spirits, i used to open them

end the mystery of thy grace, and the treasures of thy divine wisdom. sanctify me also with the oil of thy sanctification, wherewith thou hast sanctified all thy prophets; and purify in me therewith all that appertaineth unto me, so that i may become worthy of the conversation of thy holy angels and of thy divine wisdom, and grant unto me the power which thou hast given unto thy prophets over all the evil spirits. amen. amen. this is the prayer which i myself made use of in my consecration; the which i give not here to confine you (to a certain form, nor to oblige you to employ the same, nor to tell it you over as i would to a parrot whom i should wish to teach to talk; but only and solely to give unto you an idea of the manner in which we should pray. having finished your orison, rise fro

he evening when the sun shall be set, you shall eat but soberly; and then you shall go to rest alone; and you shall live separated from your wife during these days. during seven days shall you perform the ceremonies without failing therein in any way; namely, the day of the consecration, the three days of the convocation of the good and holy spirits, and the three other days of the convocation of the evil spirits. now the second morning after, you are to be prepared to follow the counsel which the angel will have given you. you will go early unto the oratory, you will place the lighted charcoal and perfumes in the censer, you are to relight the lamp if it be (by that time) extinguished; and wearing the same robe of mourning as of the day before, prostrate with your face towards the ground

ur life, will instruct you and give unto you the manner in which you shall be able to appease him by a pure, devout, and regulated life, and by honest and meritorious actions, and such things as god shall ordain unto you. after this he will show unto you the true wisdom and holy magic, and also wherein you have erred in your operation, and how thenceforward you should proceed in order to overcome the evil spirits, and finally arrive at your desired ends. he will promise never to abandon you, but to defend and assist you during the whole period of your life; on condition that you shall obey his commands, and that you shall not voluntarily offend your creator. in one word, you shall be received by him with such affection that this description which i here give unto you shall appear a mere no

ABRAMELIN3

o the occult student to be able to see at a glance briefly stated at the end of each chapter, the substance of the information especially referring thereto, given by abraham the jew in other parts of the work, notably towards the end of the second book: under (a) therefore i have stated by what powers the symbols of each particular chapter are manifested. under (b) the names of the sub-princes of the evil spirits who are the especial overseers of the execution of the effect desired. under (c) whether the operations of the chapter in question can be to an extent performed by the familiar spirits, or not. under (d) an abridgment of any especial instructions given by abraham in other parts of the work. under (e) i have given the meanings of most of the names employed in the squares, as far as

i r u l i g i l u r i e l p u l l a (2) m e l a m m e d e r i f o i s e l i s i l l i m a f i r e l o m m o l e r i f a m i l l i s i l e s i o f i r e d e m m a l e m (3) e k d i l u n k l i s a t u d i n a n a l i s a g a s i l a n a n i d u t a s i l k n u l i d k e of abramelin the mage 130 notes to chapter ii (a) the symbols of this chapter are manifested partly by the angels, and partly by the evil spirits (b) oriens, paymon, ariton, and amaymon execute the operations hereof by the means of their common ministers (c) the familiar spirits can to an extent execute the operations of this chapter (d) take the symbol in your hand, and name what information you require (in the second book, the remarks given concerning this chapter are evidently far more applicable to the third chapter, an

no. d is a square of e j squares. ipomano, probably from greek hippomanes an ingredient used in philtres, etc, perhaps put here for chemical drugs in general. the sacred magick 145 the eighth chapter. o excite tempests (i) to cause hail( c) to cause snow( d) to cause rain( e) to cause thunder. notes to chapter viii (a) the symbols of this chapter are manifested partly by the angels and partly by the evil spirits (b) ashtaroth executes the operations of this chapter (c) the familiar spirits cannot execute the operations of this chapter (d) to excite a tempest, give the signal above you, and touch the symbol on the top. to make it cease, touch it underneath (e) no. b is a square of e j squares. canamal= hebrew ciinml, ie, hailstones of great size. c a n a m a l a m a d a m a n a d a d a m a

i l a i s i o r e l a i e r i r a c o r i l o n i r i l e i a l r r o i s i a l a n a i a (2 (5) k a l t e p h a p i e r i p l i l m o r e t e m u m e t e r o m l i l p i e r i p a h p e t l a k b e d a s e k e d a s e k b e d a s e r a m a si (3 (4) c h a d s i r h a d s i r i s d a h c h a d s i of abramelin the mage 148 notes to chapter ix (a) the symbols of this chapter are only manifested by the evil spirits (b) ashtaroth and asmomus together execute the signs and operations of this chapter (c) the familiar spirits cannot execute the operations of this chapter (d) let the being, whether man or animal, see the symbol, and then touch them suddenly with it; when they will appear transformed; but this is only a kind of fascination. when you wish to make it cease, place the symbol upon the

f chemistry. notes to chapter xi (a) the symbols of this chapter are manifested only by the angels, or by the guardian angel (b) magoth alone executes the operations of this chapter (c) the familiar spirits cannot execute the operations of this chapter (d) many ancient books of magic, etc, have been lost or destroyed, in some cases by the wish of the good spirits, in others by the machinations of the evil spirits. by these symbols you can have many supposed extinct works brought to you, abraham states; but adds that he could never copy them, because the writing disappeared as fast as he wrote it; notwithstanding this he was permitted to read some of them. c o l i o d a c l a c a i c a r (1 (2) s e a r a h e l l o p a a l a t i m r o t a r a a p i r a c h a m a c s (3) k e h a h e k e h a h

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

great power entrusted to me" jxn "i furthermore solemnly pledge myself never to work at any important symbol without first invocating the highest divine names connected therewith, and especially not to debase my knowledge of practical magic to purposes of evil and self seeking and low material gain or pleasure, and if i do this, notwithstanding this my oath, i invoke the avenging angel hua, that the evil and material may react on me" dwh "i further promise to support the admission of both sexes to our order, on a perfect equality, and that i will always display brotherly love and forbearance towards the members of the whole order, neither slandering nor evil-speaking, nor repeating nor tale-bearing, whereby strife and illfeeling may be engendered" dwsy "i also undertake to work unassisted

presents the three supernal sephiroth; the heptagram, the lower seven; the rose represents the 22 paths of the serpent of wisdom "the floor has upon it also the symbol of a triangle enclosed within a heptagram, bearing the titles of the averse and evil sephiroth of the twpylq, the great red dragon of seven heads, and the inverted and evil triangle. thus, in the tomb of the adepti do we tread down the evil powers of the red dragon (chief adept stamps thrice on diagram, and so tread thou upon the evil powers of thy nature" 30 ceiling of the vault floor of the vault "for there is traced within the evil triangle the rescuing symbol of the golden cross united to the red rose of seven times seven petals. as it is written 'he descendeth into hell' but the whiteness above shines the brighter for t

diagram, and so tread thou upon the evil powers of thy nature" 30 ceiling of the vault floor of the vault "for there is traced within the evil triangle the rescuing symbol of the golden cross united to the red rose of seven times seven petals. as it is written 'he descendeth into hell' but the whiteness above shines the brighter for the blackness which is beneath "thus mayest thou comprehend that the evil helpeth forward the good. and between the light and the darkness vibrate the colors of the rainbow, whose crossed and reflected rays, under the planetary presidency are shewn forth in these seven walls "remember that thou hast entered 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 fi

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

y task. memory is strangely fragmentary and strangely vivid. i remember how, when i had completed my fourth month, the priests took me and wrapped me in a panther s skin, whose flaming gold and jet-black spots were like the sun. they carried me to the river bank where the holy crocodiles were basking; and there they laid me. but when they left me they refrained from the usual enchauntment against the evil spirit of the crocodile; and so for three days i lay without protection. only at certain hours did my mother descend to feed me; and she too was silent, being dressed as a princess only, without the sacred badges of her office. also in the sixth month they exposed me to the sun in the desert where was no shade or clothing; and in the seventh month they laid me in a bed with a sorceress, t

ad they fell before her as if smitten of the lightning. but those priests who were friendly to me and loyal to the goddess took that virgin courtesan, and led her in triumph through the city, veiled and crowned as is befitting. now after some days he that guarded the sacred goat of khem died, and they appointed her in his place. and she was the first woman that was thus honoured since the days of the evil queen in the eighteenth dynasty, of her that wearied of men at an age when other women have not known them, that gave herself to gods and beasts. but now they took me to the pool of liquid silver- or so they called it; i suppose it was quicksilver; for i remember that it was very difficult to immerse me- which is beneath the feet of the veiled one. for this is the page 9 gulf.txt secret o

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

and the picture above it is of the atomic bomb! basically, there are two "sets" of gods in the mythos: the elder gods, about whom not much is revealed, save that they are a stellar race that occasionally comes to the rescue of man, and which corresponds to the christian "light; and the ancient ones, about which much is told, sometimes in great detail, who correspond to "darkness. these latter are the evil gods who wish nothing but ill for the race of man, and who constantly strive to break into our world through a gate or door that leads from the outside, in. there are certain people, among us, who are devotees of the ancient ones, and who try to open the gate, so that this evidently repulsive organisation may once again rule the earth. chief among these is cthulhu, typified as a sea monst

ly a doll made in the likeness of a witch or evil sorcerer that the magician wished to dispose of. hence, we have here probably the archetype of the great burning times of the inquisition, when people were condemned to a fiery death as witches and pagans. the chant "burn, witch! burn" can be found in the maklu text, in all its pristine glory. indeed, cthulhu calls. the conjuration "the binding of the evil sorcerers" alsi ku nushi ilani mushiti itti kunu alsi mushitum kallatum kuttumtum alsi bararitum qablitum u namaritum ashshu kashshaptu u kashshipanni eli nitum ubbiraanni ili-ia u ishtari-ia ushis-su-u-eli-ia eli ameri-ia amru-usanaku imdikula salalu musha u urra qu-u imtana-allu-u pi-ia upu unti pi-ia iprusu me mashtiti-ia umattu-u eli li nubu-u xiduti si-ipdi izizanimma ilani rabuti sh

the horrors that stalk without, and which lie in wait at the door of every man, for this is the ancient arcana that has been handed down of old, but which has been forgotten by all but a few men, the worshippers of the ancient ones (may their names be blotted out. and if i do not finish this task, take what is here and discover the rest, for time is short and mankind does not know nor understand the evil that awaits it, from every side, from every gate, from every broken barrier, from every mindless acolyte at the alters of madness. for this is the book of the dead, the book of the black earth, that i have writ down at the peril of my life, exactly as i received it, on the planes of the igigi, the cruel celestial spirits from beyond the wanderers of the wastes. let all who read this book

ra in thy power, and burn the sorcerers who persecute me! gibil gashru umana yanduru tushte yesh shir illani u ma yalki! gishbar ia zi ia ia zi dingir girra kanpa! rise up, son of the flaming disk of anu! rise up, offspring of the golden weapon of marduk! it is not i, but enki, master of the magicians, who summons thee! it is not i, but marduk, slayer of the serpent, who calls thee here now! burn the evil and the evildoer! burn the sorcerer and the sorceress! singe them! burn them! destroy them! consume their powers! carry them away! rise up, gishbar ba gibbil ba girra zi aga kanpa! spirit of the god of fire, thou art conjured! kakkammanunu! the conjuration of the watcher this is the book of the conjuration of the watcher, for formulae as i received them from the scribe of enki, our master

iate images as described herein. the incantations must be recited after the watcher has been summoned, and he will do the deeds set down for him by the incantations. when he returns, he is to be dismissed as set down previously. know that, when images are used, they must be burned utterly, and the ashes buried in safe ground where none may find them, else to touch them would mean death. know that the evil spirits are principally seven, for the seven maskim who tear away the heart of a man and mock his gods. and their magick is very strong, and they are the lords over the shadows and over the depths of the seas, and reigned once, it is said, over magan, whence they came. the banishings, or exorcisms, are to be pronounced in a clear voice without trembling, without shaking. the arms should b

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

ter ii ii,1: nu! the hiding of hadit. ii,2: come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. i, hadit, am the complement of nu, my bride. i am not extended, and khabs is the name of my house. ii,3: in the sphere i am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found. ii,4: yet she shall be known& i never. ii,5: behold! the rituals of the old time are black. let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! then shall this knowledge go aright. ii,6: i am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. i am life, and the giver of life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. ii,7: i am the magician and the exorcist. i am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. come unto me

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nhabitants. cxxvii* seven heavens of the arabs. 0. 1 dual contending forces& 2 hinderers# 3 concealers' daath] h wiyah hypocrites dar al-jalai 4 breakers in pieces% jahim pagans or idolaters dar as-salam 5 burners$ sakar guebres jannat al-maawa 6 disputers! sa ir sabians jannat al-khuld 7 dispersing ravens hutamah jews jannat al-naim 8 deceivers laza christians jannat al-firdaus 9 obscene ones 10 the evil woman or (simply) the woman jehannum moslems jannat al- adn or al-karar table of correspondences 25 cxxviii. meaning of col. cxxvii. cxxix. pairs of angels ruling wands. cxxx. pairs of angels ruling cups. cxxxi. pairs of angels ruling swords. 0. 1. 2 lawhw laynd lauya hywbj lalzy lahbm 3 house of glory, made of pearls hycjh hymmu lahar hymby layrh hymqh 4 house of rest or peace, made of r

elling the name as ahija (b) writing each letter out in full and (c) counting h in full as ah rather than the more usual hh) can get this name to add to 666. line 7. asmodai. appears in the apocryphal book of tobit. sometimes also known by the latinised form asmodeus. the name is possibly a modification of aeshma deva, an evil spirit from persian mythology. line 8. belial. said to be the chief of the evil spirits in some late jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g. the testament of the 12 patriarchs, but in the old testament the name was a mere term of abuse meaning masterless or worthless. line 9. lilith. she gets everywhere. line 10. naamah. the sister of tubal-cain (see masonic symbolism; but in the zohar she gets turned into another version of lilith. col. cix. rather than use planetary sy

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rmly extend his empire to the depth of hell "my adepts stand upright, their heads above the heavens, their feet below the hells<equinox> this is the reason why the magician who performs the operation of the "sacred magic of abramelin the mage, immediately after attaining to the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel, must evoke the four great princes of the evil of the world "obedience and faith to him that liveth and triumpheth, that reigneth above you in your palaces as the balance of righteousness and truth" is your duty to your holy guardian angel, and the duty of the demon world to you. these powers of "evil" nature are wild beasts; they must be tamed, trained to the saddle and the bridle; they will bear you well. there is nothing useless in

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nment of nothingness) western philosophy has on occasion approached this doctrine. it has at least asserted that no known form of existence is exempt from sorrow. 50 huxley says, in his evolution and ethics "suffering is the badge of all the tribe of sentient things" magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 89 the philosophers of this school, seeking, naturally enough, to amend the evil at the root, inquire into the cause of this existence which is sorrow, and arrive immediately at the 'second noble truth' of the buddha "the cause of sorrow is desire. they follow up with the endless concatenation of causes, of which the final root is ignorance (i am not concerned to defend the logic of this school: i merely state their doctrine) the practical issue of all this is that ev

, and that type of christianity which we associate with the salvation army, billy sunday and the fundamentalists of the back-blocks of america, are sufficiently simple cases of religion whose essence is the propitiation of a malignant demon. when the light of intelligence begins to dawn dimly through many fogs upon these savages, we reach a second stage. bold spirits master courage to assert that the evil which is so obvious, is, in some mysterious way, an illusion. they thus throw back the whole complexity of sorrow to a single cause; that is, the arising of the illusion aforesaid. the problem then assumes a final form: how is that illusion to be destroyed. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 90 a fairly pure example of the first stage of this type of thought is to

t to "everything is joy. there is no question of any ostrich-ignoring of fact, as in christian science. there is not even any more or less sophisticated argument about the point of view altering the situation as in vedantism. we have, on the contrary, and attitude which was perhaps first of all, historically speaking, defined by zoroaster "nature teaches us, and the oracles also affirm, that even the evil germs of matter may alike become useful and good "stay not on the precipice with the dross of matter; for there is a place for thine image in a realm ever splendid "if thou extend the fiery mind to the work of piety, thou wilt preserve the fluxible body."35 it appears that the levant, from byzantium and athens to damascus, jerusalem, alexandria and cairo, was preoccupied with the formulat

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nd again, until he doth no act with the lust of result. having attained this inertia all accomplisheth itself. 3. he who attracteth to himself all that is under heaven doth so without effort. he who maketh effort is not able to attract it. 54 chapter xlix the adaptability of the teh. 1. the wise man hath no fixed principle; he adapteth his mind to his environment. 2. to the good i am good, and to the evil i am good also; thus all become good. to the true i am true, and to the false i am true; thus all become true. 3. the sage appeareth hesitating to the world, because his mind is detached. therefore the people look and listen to him, as his children; and thus doth he shepherd them. 53 chapter l the estimation of life. 1. man cometh into life, and returneth again into death. 2. three men in

e gaineth supporters; in the second, favour. 4. the great state uniteth men and nurtureth them; the small state wisheth the good will of the great, and offereth service; thus each gaineth its advantage. but the great state must keep silence. 67 chapter lxii the workings of the tao. 1. the tao is the most exalted of all things. it is the ornament of the good, and the protection and purification of the evil((cf 'soul of goodness in things evil) 2. its words are the fountain of honour, and its deeds the engine of achievement. it is present even in evil. 3. though the son of heaven were enthroned with his three dukes appointed to serve him, and he were offered a round symbol- of-rank as great as might fill the hands, with a team of horses to follow, this gift were not to be matched against the

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e west. what folly" or "that is no voice of any leader of ours" or "star in the west? beware: that is the star called wormwood" then, presently, from the blind land behind the mountain, comes one heavy groan, then the sound of a fall, made vile by a titter of malignant tinkling laughter. the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 4 there follow ghoulish wailings. the mystery, the evil darkness of these incoherent cries, sets my teeth on edge with horror. and yet i cannot give up the hope which thrilled me at the voice. but so keen, so desolate, so deadly, is the pain of my spirit that blank darkness overwhelms me altogether. umbra. within the vision is a dream- i struggle in my sleep in a morass of blood and mud. howlings more bestial than hell's: stench at whose touch

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it possesses the power to know, nuit that of being known. nuit is not unconnected with the idea of nibbana, the "shoreless sea" in which knowledge is not. hadit is hidden in nuit, and knows her, she being an object of knowledge; but he is not knowable, for he is merely that part of her which she formulates in order that she may be known. al ii,5 "behold! the rituals of the old time are black. let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! then shall this knowledge go aright" the old comment 5. a reference to certain magical formulae known to the scribe of this book. the purification of said rituals is in progress at this time, an. v. the new comment the 'old time' is the aeon of the dying god. some of his rituals are founded on an utterly false metaphysic and c

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where those intelligent and incorporeal beings reside who are wrapped in a luminous garment, and who assume a form when they appear to man. the fourth is the assiatic world, hycuh \lwu, olahm ha-assiah, the world of action, called also the world of shells, twpylqh \lwu, olahm ha-qliphoth, which is this world of matter, made up of the grosser elements of the other three. in it is also the abode of the evil spirits which are called the shells by the qabalah, twpylq, qliphoth, material shells. the devils are divided into ten classes, and have suitable habitations (see tables in 777).23 the demons are the grossest and most deficient of all forms. their ten degrees aswer to decad of the sephiroth, but in inverse ratio, as darkness and impurity increase with the descent of each degree. the two f

tarot, and signifactory methods of investigating any word. but though frater p. was expert enough in these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in 777. thus a in the yetziratic world is air, by tarot the fool, and by signification an ox. thus we have the famous i.n.r.i= y. n. r. i= f, h, f; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and revealed by the birth, death and resurrection of christ; and further the signs of the mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and rising o

pentagram. 301. ca, fire. 314. ydc, the almighty, a name of god attributed to yesod. 325. a mystic number of mars. labxrb, the spirit of mars, and layparg, the intelligence of mars. 326. hwchy, jesus see 300. 333. wznwrvj, see liber 418, 10th thyr. it is surprising that this large scale 3 should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion. there is doubtless a venerable arcanum here connoted, possible the evil of matter summ. 333= 37 9 the accurs d. 340 \c the name. 341. the sum of the 3 mothers, aleph, mem, and shin. 345. hcm, moses. note that by transposition we have 543, hyha rca hyha, existence is existence, i am that i am, a sublime title of kether. moses is therefore regarded as the representative of this particular manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name. 358

, the microcosm and macrocosm? and these are the numbers which seemed to me to bear upon the problem. 1. is the goal not the means. too simple to serve a magician s purpose. 2. vide supra. 3. still too simple to work with, especially as 3= 1 so easily. but, and therefore, a great number to venerate and desire. 4. the terrible weapon of tetragrammaton, the great enemy. the number of the weapons of the evil magician. the dyad made law. 5. the pentagram, symbol of the squaring of the circle by virtue of \yhla= 3.1415, symbol of man s will, of the evil 4 dominated by man s spirit. also pentagrammaton, jeheshua, the saviour. hence the beginning of the great work. 6. the hexagram, symbol of the macrocosm and microcosm interlaced, and of the end of the great work (pentagram on breast, hexagram on

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hjaour scorned not his art. roll on in time, thou ball! he cried. move down the stream of years, timeless and hideous servant of my will! taph! tath! arath! 2 he sounded the triple summons, the mysterious syllables that bound the spirit to the stone. then suddenly the crystal grew a blank; and thereby the foiled wizard knew that which threatened his power, his very life, was so high and holy that the evil spirit could perceive it not. avaunt! he shrieked, false soul of darkness! and the crystal flashed up red, the swarthy red of hate in a man s cheek, and darkened utterly. foaming at the fouth the wretched jehjaour clutched at air and fell prone. iii. to what god should he appeal? his own, hanuman, was silent. sacrifice, prayer, all were in vain. so jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and his whol

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the devil, once to swing the thurible, once to kiss the goat of hell, once to dance the aspen spring, once to croak, and once to sing, once to oil the savoury thighs of the witch with sea-green eyes with the unguents magical. oh the honey and the gall of that black enchanter's lips as he croons to the eclipse mingling that most puissant spell of the giant gods of hell with the four ingredients of the evil elements; 38 ambergris from golden spar, musk of ox from mongol jar, civet from a box of jade, mixed with fat of many a maid slain by the inchauntments cold of the witches wild and old. he had crucified a toad in the basilisk abode, muttering the runes averse mad with many a mocking curse. he had traced the serpent sigil in his ghastly virgin vigil "sursum cor" the elfin hill, where the w

lf sore; so that unto this hour hath the name of perardua been forgotten, and they that have need to speak of him say in right joyance "non sine fulmine. 93 the lonely bride "blest among women" they say: i stand here in the market-place, and the crowd throngs by in this lonely land, nor stays to heed my face. my head is bowed down with the shame of my thought; mine eyes grow hot with disgrace. oh the evil that men have wrought! i was once a king's daughter, back in the olden time, they called me the bride of water: i went to the sea for her rhyme; i went to the stars for their song of life, for then i was in my prime. now i am filled with strife. i stare all day at the men that pass, and all that i see i crave; there are simple-gatherers fresh from the grass, there are mariners brown from

first you must keep your promise and enter the temple" strong in the trust of her black master, she agreed. the poet opened the little door, and closed it quickly after her, turning the key. as she passed into the utter darkness that hid behind curtains of black velvet, she caught one glimpse of the presiding god. 106 it was a skeleton that sat there, and blood stained all its bones. below it was the evil altar, a round table supported by an ebony figure of a negro standing upon his hands. upon the altar smouldered a sickening perfume, and the stench of the slain victims of the god defiled the air. it was a tiny room, and the girl, staggering, came against the skeleton. the bones were not clean; they were hidden by a greasy slime mingling with the blood, as though the hideous worship were

lf in the controlled fury of her love- nay, beyond all these images art thou (little brother) who art passed from i and thou, and he unto that which hath no name, no image. little brother, give me thy hand; for the first step is hard. aleister crowley. 135 the hermit an attack on barbercraft at last an end of all i hoped and feared! muttered the hermit through his elfin beard. then what art thou? the evil whisper whirred. i doubt me sorely if the hermit heard. to all god's questions never a word he said, but simply shook his venerable head. god sent all plagues; he laughed and heeded not; till people took him for an idiot. god sent all joys; he only laughed amain, till people certified him as insane. but somehow all his fellow-lunatics began to imitate his silly tricks. and stranger still

the treasury. words. words. words! they have shackled and chained you, o children of the mists and the mountains; they have imprisoned you, and walled you up in the dungeon of a lightless reason. fancy has been burnt at the stake of fact; and the imagination cramped in the irons of tort and quibble. o vanity of vain words! o cozening, deceitful art! nimbly do the great ones of to-day wrestle with the evil-smelling breath of their mouths, twisting and contorting it into beguilements, bastardising and corrupting the essence of things, sucking as a greedy vampire the blood from your hearts, and breathing into your nostrils the rigid symbols of law and of order, begotten on the death-bed of their understanding. o children of wonder and of fancy, fly to the wild woods whilst yet there is time!

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ay carry out the three rules here laid down. we all know what it is to avoid doing evil- we detail the acts 29 that are ill each time we take "panca "sila" the taking of life, the taking of what does not rightly belong to us, living a life of impurity, speaking what is not true, or what is cruel and unkind, and indulging in drugs and drinks that undermine the mental and moral faculties- these are the evil actions that we must avoid. living in peace and love, returning good for evil, having reverence and patience and humility- these are some part of what we know to be good. and so we can all understand, can all try to live up to, the first two clauses of this stanza; we can all endeavour to put them into practice in our daily lives. but the way to purify the thought, the way to cultivate th

love alone" therefore do those evil sankh ras of his nature, those tendencies to anger and to cruelty, disappear before the rise of new good tendencies of live and of pit, even as the darkness of the night fades in the glory of the dawn. thus we see that one way- and the best way- of overcoming bad sankh ras is the systematic cultivation, by dint of meditation, of such qualities as are opposed to the evil tendencies we desire to eliminate; and in the central and practical feature of the instance adduced, the practice of definite meditation or mental concentration upon the good sankh ras, we have the key to the entire system of the purification and culture of the mind, which constitutes the practical working basis of the buddhist religion. if we consider the action of a great and complex en

earts and lives, and to augment it; and so you pervade all six directions with thoughts of 47 happiness, with this feeling of sympathy with all that is happy and fair and good. then, finally, reflecting on all that is evil and cruel and bad in the world, reflecting on the things which tempt men away from the holy life, you assume to all evil beings thoughts of indifference- understanding that all the evil in those beings arises from ignorance; from the asavas, the leakages of mental power into wrong channels; you understand concerning them that is is not your duty to condemn, or revile, but only to be indifferent to them, and when you have finished this meditation in indifference, you have completed the meditation on the four sublime states- on love, and pity, and happiness, and indifferen

hat reside those intelligent and incorporeal beings who are wrapped in a luminous garment, and who assume a form when they appear unto man. the fourth is the asiatic world, ovlm hoshih, olahm ha-asiah, the world of action, called also the world of shells, ovlm hqlipvth, olahm ha-qliphoth, which is this world of matter, made up of the grosser elements of the other three. in it is also the abode of the evil spirits, which are called "the shells" by the qabalah, qlipvth, qliphoth, material shells. the devils are also divided into ten classes, and have suitable habitations (see tables in "777) 81 the demons are the grossest and most deficient of all forms. their ten degrees answer to the decad of the sephiroth, but in inverse ratio, as darkness and impurity increase with the descent of each de

ny word. but though frater p. was expert enough in these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in "777. thus hb:aleph in the yetziratic world is "air" by tarot "the fool" and by signification "an ox" thus we have the famous i.n.r.i= hb:yod, hb:nun, hb:resh, hb:yod= virgo, scorpio, sun, virgo; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and revealed by the birth, death, and resurrection of christ; and further the sings of mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and rising of t

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of illusions, that barreth the understanding from the crown. o thou that hast beheld the city of the pyramids, how shouldst thou behold the house of the juggler? for he is wisdom, and by wisdom hath he made the worlds, and from that wisdom issue judgements 70 by 4, that are the 4 eyes of the double-headed one; that are the 4 devils, satan, lucifer, leviathan, belial, that are the great princes of the evil of the world. 142 and satan is worshipped by men under the name of jesus; and lucifer is worshipped by men under the name of brahma; and leviathan is worshipped by men under the name of allah; and belial is worshipped by men under the name of buddha (this is the meaning of the passage in liber legis, chap. iii) moreover, there is mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut hersel

is written "confound her understanding with darkness" for thou canst not speak this thing. 21 hb:resh, hb:lamed and hb:nun (sun, libra and scorpio, the sun, the balance or plumes of maat, and the snake. added they make 280. it is the figure of the magus of the taro; and in his right arm the torch of the flames blazing upwards; in his left the cup of poison, a cataract into hell. and upon his head the evil talisman, blasphemy and blasphemy and blasphemy, in the form of a circle. that is the greatest blasphemy of all.22 on his feet hath he the scythes and swords and sickles; daggers; knives; every sharp thing- a millionfold, and all in one. and before him is the table that is a table of wickedness, the 42-fold table. this table is connected with the 42 assessors of the dead, for they are the

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or that word containeth all. into this prepared pyramid of divine light there cometh a certain darkling wight, who knoweth not either his own nature, or his origin or destiny, or even the name of that which he desireth. before he can enter the pyramid, therefore, four ordeals are required of him. so, bound and blinded, he stumbles forward, and passes through the wrath of the four great princes of the evil of the world, whose terror is about him on every side. yet since he has followed the voice of the officer who has prepared him, in this part of the ritual no longer merely nature, the great mother, but neschamah (his aspiration) and the representative of adonai, he may pass through all. yea, in spite of the menace of the hiereus, whose function is now that of his fear and of his courage

ering remarks about my body that i find everything wrong with it, and two grains of cascara sagrada necessary to its welfare! i wish i knew where i was! i don't at all recognise what path i am on; it doesn't seem like a path at all. as far as i can see, i am drifting rudderless and sailless on a sea of no shore the false sea of the qliphoth. for in my stupidity i began to try a certain ritual of the evil magic, so called. not 70 evil in truth, because only that is evil (in one sense) which does not lead to adonai.(in another sense, all is evil which is not adonai. and of course i had the insane idea that this ritual would serve to stimulate my devotion. for the information of the z.a.m. i may explain that this ritual pertained to saturn in libra; and, though right enough in its own plane

! let asi my mother rend her robes in anguish, and nepti weep for me unavailing. then shall asi being forth hoor, and heru-pa-kraat shall leap glad from her womb. the lord of vengeance shall awaken; sekhet shall roar, and pasht cry aloud. then shall my members be gathered together, and my bonds shall be unloosed; and my khu shall be mighty in khem for ever and ever! 11.37. i return to he place of the evil triad, of ommo satan, that is before the altar. there to expiate my folly in 88 attaching myself to all this great concourse of ideas that i have here recorded, instead of remaining fixed in the single stronghold of unity with myself. 11.54. and so this great day draws to its end. these are indeed the qliphoth, the qliphoth of kether, the thaumiel, twin giant heads that hate and tear each

risen up and prepared myself ceremonially as a bride, and waited in the proper magical manner. also i was too pleased with the heralds of my lord's coming the vision of khephra, etc. it was perhaps this subtle self-satisfaction that lost me so i fell to the shocking abyss of last night! the dweller of the threshold is never visible until after one has fallen; he is a veiled god and smites like the evil knight in malory, riding and slaying and no man seeth him. but when you are tumbled headlong into hell, where he lives, then he unveils his face, and blasts you with its horror! very good, john st. john, now you know! you are plain john st. john and you have to climb right up again through the paths to the threshold; and remember this time to mortify that self- satisfaction! go at it mor

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four vicegerents of the elements; and they are situated at the four corners of the temple, at the places marked by the four rivers of eden in the warrant,9 which later represents the temple itself; of which the guardians are the kerubim, and the vicegerents in the palaces of the rulers ameshet at the n.e, thoumathph at the s.e, ahephi or ahapshi at the s.w, kabetznuph at the n.w. of the place of the evil triad this is the place of yesod, it is termed the place of the evil one, of the slayer of osiris. he is the tempter, accuser and punisher of the brethren. wherefore is he frequently represented in egypt with the head of a water-dragon, the body of a lion or leopard, and hindquarters of a water- horse. he is the administrator of the evil triad, whereof the members are: apophrasz. the stoo

ul, london, 1972. there is a left-right inversion of the kerubim on the borders of the document, possibly due to a mistake by the original artist. this inversion was perpetuated throughout the golden dawn system, in the present ritual, in design of tarot cards and generally. of the place of harpocrates the next invisible station is in the path of hb:samekh between the place of thmaist and that of the evil triad: and it is the place of the lotus- throned lord of silence, even that great god harpocrates, the younger brother of horus. of isis and nephthys the stations are the places of the pillars in netzach and hod respectively; wherefore these great goddesses are not otherwise shown in this grade, save in connection with the praemonstrator and imperator. of arouerist his secret place is the

hos, and she is thoum-aesh-neith, or perfection through fire manifesting upon the earth. the grade of neophyte "the opening" the officers and members being assembled the kerux proceeds to the right of the hierophant and facing west raises his wand, as a symbol of the ray of divine light from the white triangle of the three supernals, and cries "hekas, hekas, este, bebeloi!"15 250 in order to warn the evil and uninitiated to retire so that the triangle may be formulated upon the altar. the hierophant then calls upon all present to assist him in opening the hall of the neophytes, and bids the kerux see that the hall is properly guarded. 12 more fluidic. 13 or caduceus "see" diagram 24. 14 or fylfat "see" diagram 14. 15 the same as "eskato bebeloi" used in the eleusinian mysteries. the fratre

hierophant" asks the candidate whether he is willing "in the presence of this assembly to take a great and solemn obligation to keep inviolate the secrets and mysteries of our order" to which the candidate himself replies "i am" the hierophant now advances between the pillars as if thus asserting that the judgment is concluded "and he advanceth by the invisible station of harpocrates unto that of the evil triad; so that as arouerist19 he standeth upon the opposer" he thus cometh to the east of the altar, interposing between the place of the evil triad and that of the candidate. at the same time the hiereus advanceth on the candidate's left, and the hegemon standeth at his right, as formulating about him the symbol of the triad, before he be permitted to place his right hand in the centre o

penalty of submitting "myself to a deadly and hostile current of will set in motion by the chiefs of the order, by which i should fall slain or paralyzed without visible weapon, as if blasted by the lightning flash!21 (hiereus here suddenly applies sword) so help me the lord of the universe and my own higher soul" as the candidate affirmeth his own penalty should he prove a traitor to the order, the evil triad riseth up in menace, and the avenger of the gods, horus, layeth the blade of his sword on the point of the da th junction("i.e, of the brain with the spine) thus affirming the power of life and death over the natural body: and the form of the higher self advanceth and layeth its hand on the candidate's head for the first time, at the words "so help me the lord of the universe and my

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scribe them. they are classified, tentatively, in the "herb dangerious" part ii "infra [a book of elementary invocations is in preparation, and will be issued in number 3] 30 the herb dangerous part ii the psychology of hashish by oliver haddo the herb dangerous i "the girders of the soul, which give her breathing, are easy to be unloosed "nature teaches us, and the oracles also affirm, that even the evil germs of matter may alike become useful and good" zoroaster. comparable to the alf laylah wa laylah itself, a very tower of babel, partaking alike of truth both gross and subtle inextricably interwoven with the most fantastic fable, is our view of the herb- hashish- the herb dangerous. of the investigators who have pierced even for a moment the magic veil of its glamour ecstatic many have

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ou hast said: blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. grant unto me that i may attain unto thy peace, wherein is life for evermore. come unto me, o lord of perfect justice! mighty is thine arm, strong is thy hand: justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne! strengthen thou, o lord of strength, my will and heart, that i may be able, with thine aid, to cast out and destroy the evil powers that ever fight against those who seek thee [formulate now before thee the two pillars of cloud and of fire, saying] purify me with hyssop, and i shall be clean! wash me and i shall be whiter than snow! o send forth thy light and thy truth, let them lead me, let them guide me unto thy holy hill; even to thy tabernacles. i stand before the gate of the west; and the pillars of the un

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 was scarcely safe to visit it. this was not solely due to p.'s own experiments; we have to consider the evil work of others in the order, such as e.f.e.j, who, envious of his progress and favour with the chiefs, were attempting to destroy him (see "at the fork of the roads" the equinox, vol. i. no. 1, p. 101) weird and terrible figures were often seen moving about his rooms, and in several cases workmen and visitors were struck senseless by a kind of paralysis and by fainting fits. knowledge, he

ack. the ceiling consists of a triangle, enclosing a rose of twenty-two petals surrounded by a heptagram. on the triangle are the three supernal sephiroth, and in the heptangle the seven lower ones. 221 the floor is black, having upon it also a triangle enclosed with a heptagram, bearing the titles of the averse and evil sephiroth as shown by the great red dragon with seven heads. in the midst of the evil triangle is the rescuing symbol of the golden cross united to the red rose of forty- 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

will surround you with an inexpressible odour, and this alone will console you and comfort your heart so that you shall call for ever happy the day of the lord.42 "during seven days shall you perform the ceremonies without failing therein in any way: namely, the day of the consecration, the three days of the convocation of the good and holy spirits, and the three other days of the convocation of the evil spirits "on the second morning you shall follow the counsels your holy guardian angel shall have given you, and on the third you shall render thanks "and then shall you first be able to put to the test whether you shall have well employed the period of your six moons, and how well and worthily you shall have laboured in the quest of the wisdom of the lord; since you shall see your guardia

he least imaginable thing of their contents: not to gloss or comment in any way on that which may be or may not be; not to use this sacred science to offend the great god, nor to work ill unto my neighbour: to communicate it to no living person, unless by long practice and conversation i shall know him thoroughly, well examining whether such an one really 248 intendeth to work for the good or for the evil. i will punctually observe, in granting it, the same fashion which was used by abramelin to abraham. otherwise, let him who receiveth it draw no fruit therefrom. i will keep myself as from a scorpion from selling this science. let this science remain in me and in my generation as long as it shall please the most high.46 all these points i generally and severally swear to observe under the

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erve the great guns! the assailants blench; they are driven from the foremost trench. the deadliest batteries belch their hell no more. so day by day fought well, we silence gun by gun. at last the fiercest of the fray is past; the circling hills are ours. the attack is over, save for the rare crack, long dropping shots from hidden forts_ so is it with our thoughts! olympas. the hostile thoughts, the evil things! they hover on majestic wings, like vultures waiting for a man to drop from the slave-caravan! marsyas. all thoughts are evil. thought is two: the seer and the seen. eschew that supreme blasphemy, my son, remembering that god is one. olympas. god is a thought! marsyas. the "thought" of god is but a shattered emerod: a plague, an idol, a delusion, blasphemy, schism, and confusion! o

y place his trust in a charlatan instead of in an adept. this indeed is a danger, but surely after a little while the most ignorant will be able to discriminate, as a blind man can between day and night. and, if the pupil be a true seeker, it matters little in the end. for as the sacrament is efficacious, though administered by an unworthy priest, so will his love of truth enable him to turn even the evil counsels of a knave to his advantage. to return, how can these multiform desires be silenced, and the one desire be realised so that it engulf the rest? to this question we must answer as we have answered elsewhere "only by a one-pointedness of the senses_ until the five-sided polygon become pyramidal and vanish in a point. the base must be well established, regular, and of even surface;

lusion from fresh operation. 164 t. the diviner then compares carefully the whole judgment and decisions arrived at with their conclusions, and delivers now plainly a succinct and consecutive judgment thereon. u. the diviner gives advice to the consultant as to what use he shall make of the judgment. v. the diviner formulates clearly with what forces it may be necessary to work in order to combat the evil, or fix the good, promised by the divination. w. lastly, remember that unto thee a divination shall be as a sacred work of the divine magic of light, and not to be performed to pander unto thy curiosity regarding the secrets of another. and if by this means thou shalt arrive at a knowledge of another's secrets, thou shalt respect and not betray them. hb:heh book v alchemical processes. a

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n manure before writing to the sanitary inspector about other people's dung, and to cease hatching mysteries between the sheets of our family four-poster. if unions were sanctioned outside the marriage bond, even if such unions were only of an ephemeral nature, there would be no necessity to procure young girls, for natural love-making would take the place of state-fostered abduction. the root of the evil lies neither in the inherent lust of man after woman, which is natural, or of woman after gold, which shows her business-like capabilities; but in the unhealthy point of view adopted by the general public. there is nothing more disgusting in the act of generation, or even in the pleasures associated with it, that there is in alimentation, with its particular enjoyments. dessert is quite a

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rest- he saw the gilding far behind out on the hills toward the west! with aimless fury hot and blind he flung him on a viking ship. he slew the rover, and inclined 25 the seamen to his stinging whip. accurs'd of god, despising men, thy reckless oars in ocean dip, sir palamede the saracen! 26 ix sir palamede the saracen sailed ever with a favouring wind unto the smooth and swarthy men that haunt the evil shore of hind: he queried eager of the quest "ay! ay" their cunning sages grinned "it shines! it shines! guess thou the rest! for naught but this our rishis know" sir palamede his way addressed unto the woods: they blaze and glow; his lance stabs many a shining blade, his sword lays many a flower low that glittering gladdened in the glade. he wrote himself a wanton ass, and to the sea his

se and hot against his fellow men, he thought to end his purpose then- nay! let him seek new lands and seas, sir palamede the saracen! 34 xiii sir palamede is come anon into a blue delicious bay. a mountain towers thereupon, wherein some fiend of ages gone is whelmed by god, yet from his breast spits up the flame, and ashes grey. hereby sir palamede his quest pursues withouten let or rest. seeing the evil mountain be, remembering all his evil years, he knows the questing beast runs free- author of evil, then, is he! whereat immediate resounds the noise he hath sought so long: appears there quest a thirty couple hounds within its belly as it bounds. lifting his eyes, he sees at last the beast he seeks 'tis like an hart. ever it courseth far and fast. sir palamede is sore aghast, 35 but pluc

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tity was anathema to him; but in overthrowing the corrupt ved nta of the latter-day pundits, like luther, who many centuries later tore the tawdry vanities from off the back of prostitute rome, approximating his reformed church to the communistic brotherhood of christ, gotama, the enlightened one, the buddha, now similarly went back to vedic times and to the wisdom of the old rishis. but, fearing the evil associations clinging to a name, he, anathematizing the atman, in 129 its place wrote nibb na, which according to n gasena is cessation,206 a passing away in which nothing remains, and end.207 soon however, under mah y na-buddhism, was the atman to be revived in all its old glory under the name of amit bha, or that source of all light, which so enlightens a man who is aspiring to the bodh

sdom, whose bliss is non-existence, the devotee of the most excellent bh vani,235 the wanderer in the sams ra c kkra, the insect that crawls on earth, on seb beneath nuit, the purusha beyond ishwara: he taketh up the pen of the ready writer, to record those mysterious happenings which came unto him in his search for himself. and the beginning is of spells, and of conjurations and of evocations of the evil ones: things unlawful to write of, dangerous even to think of; wherefore they are not here written. but he beginneth with his sojourning in the isle of lanka:236 the time of his dwelling with m itr nanda sw mi.237 wherefore, o bh vani, bring thou all unto the proper end! to thee be glory- om. on the 6th of august p. landed in colombo, and on the following day he went to see his old friend

ecoming its m y, in its turn sets up a counter circle which in time will likewise be destroyed. the outer circle is "b" is the world m y or the sams ra chakkra, the inner "a" the bodhi stava, the buddha, the christ. this is fulfilled again and again the great prophecy: whenever the dhamma decays, and a-dhamma prevails, then i manifest myself. for the protection of the good, for the destruction of the evil, for the firm 272 this is a mere thought-form induced by misunderstanding the instruction of m itr nanda swami as to observing the phenomenon. establishment of the national righteousness i am born again and again!273 "it is a fallacy" wrote p "that the absolute must be the all-good. there is "not" an intelligence directing law; but only a line of least resistance along which all things mo

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e pentagram. he next lights the hell-broth and recites" even as the traitor's breath goeth forth, he perisheth by the secret sibilant word that is spoken unto death. even as the profane hand reacheth to the sacred sand, fire consumes him that his name be forgotten in the land. 5 even as the wicked eye seeks the mysteries to spy, so the blindness of the gods takes his spirit: he shall die. even as the evil priest, poisoned by the sacred feast, changes by its seven powers to the misbegotten beast: even as the powers of ill, broken by the wanded will, shriek about the holy place, vain and vague and terrible: even as the lords of hell, chained in fires before the spell, strain upon the sightless steel, break not fetters nor compel: so be distant, o profane! children of the hurricane! lest the

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ols- such as thou- make sport for their emirs or guard their women. jocelyn. and a good thing. i am weary of crusading. the sacred sepulchre is empty- praise god, who performed a miracle to make it so- and we must perforce come and fill thousands more with good christian flesh and blood, that was alive and jolly. let us be off, though! the preceptor sheds dullness as the sun sheds light, alike on the evil and on the good. one, two, three- i'll race you all to sidi khaled["they go off r. toward their horses" jocelyn "singing as he goes" what is the worth of a hound or a hawk? a monkey for mirth! a parrot for talk! rosamond's skin is whiter than milk, seductive as sin and softer than silk. would i were back from crusade for an hour, my limbs lying slack in rosamond's bower["from the palms c

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

self-contained flat for her and eric 'you can enjoy a life of luxury too' he told them. but joan hated every minute of the six months she spent there. though alex held no large parties during her stay and kept his girls out of her way, she had a good idea of the kind of life he was leading 'you've sold your soul to the devil, all right' she told him when he visited her for tea one day 'i can feel the evil round you' alex laughed and told her she probably had indigestion 'perhaps you're right' she sighed 'i haven't felt really well since 1 came out of hospital. somehow 1 never seem to be free of pain' now he looked at her closely and for the first time noticed her pallor, but she shrugged off his solicitude and advised him to look to his own affairs, not bother about her 'are you sure it is

he coven meeting and, 97 to the surpriseof those present, had passed round the eighteeninch- long curse. afterwards he was invited to speak on a television programme and the interviewer asked him what he thought of the curse. snapping his.[rogers, alex replied 'let them do their worst; this is what i think of the curse' brave words, but when he later returned to his flat with maxine he could feel the evil about them. the darknessseemed to reach out for him. for days he purified it with incense and calleddown the powers with invocations and incantations. only his enormous confidence in his ability to baaish the curse and protect his wife and his covens prevented the rise of panic among his followers. eventually the curse was banished and no one ever doubted alex's mastery of witchcraft agai

een drugged, whipped and seduced. there was nothing alex could do but tell the man that he must see the young witch back to his hotel by nine c/clock the next morning, failing which the police would be informed. the woman smiled slightly, but her husband was willing to. agree to anything so long as alex wo d leave. there was little sleepfor alex that night as he tried to work spells to counteract the evil that .hadenvelope his frie d. but his magic was overpowered by the black magic emanating from the couple and helped by the willingness of their victim. shortly before nine the next morning, however, the young man arrived at the hotel sober, his injuries hidden by his clothes. 106 alex explained to him what he had got himself mixed up with, and then said 'i don't usually order my witches a

the open mouth and tipped the penny down the thrpat. heremetnbered how often he had tried to rifle it by sticking a knife.between its teeth and shaking it upside down, besides ,having pennies rattling in her head, mrs peters could'get no peace .athome for the-spirit of paddy banging totuid the house' she .had been .searching for months for a jamaican 'shepherd man' or voodoo priest to rid her of the evil spirits; in despair she had advertised fora witch 'please help me' she cried 'the lord will bless you if you do' lio alex toldhet to take .hold of herself;>hewasconviliced that she had an outsized guiltcomplex.about her lodger,and that a bit of psychology would send her home happy 'you'weregreedy, wanting. thosepcnnieswhen'ydu saw them lying idle round the dead man's head, weren't you' he

hut, and told the money to depart. there was a moment's pause,thentheait was filledwith the foulest language alex had ever heard; all in a strong irish accent. alex had thought that. he was dealing with an imaginative self-deluded woman, but now he realized that she was genuinely possessed. he abandoned his parody ofa witch-ceremony and began working in earnest. he must conjure up power to.combat.the evil influence that was. speaking through the entranced woman, gradually the tension eased and the voice died away. mrs peters opened her eyes in surprise 'have i been asleep' alex assured her that everything .was all right, and he gathered together his regalia and offered. to escort her home so that he could exorcise.her house without. delay. all was quiet as they entered the house, and alex

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riches increase they bring with them naught but sorrow and distress, discontent, and misuse. at this stage also the aspirant's life becomes an instrument of destruction in the occult sense of the term. wherever he goes the force which flows through him from the higher planes and his own inner god produces at times peculiar results upon his environment. it acts as a stimulator of both the good and the evil. the lunar pitris, or little lives which form the bodies of his brother and his own body, are likewise stimulated, their activity is increased and their power greatly aggravated. this fact is used by those who work on the inner side to bring about certain desired ends. this it is also which often causes the temporary downfall of advanced souls. they cannot stand the force pouring into the

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

becomes small through the process of disintegration, its effect upon the earth will be correspondingly lessened, and this stage will be paralleled by a consequent greater freedom from evil impulse of the sons of men. better conditions among the animals will be another result above all else, and the dying out of that which is noxious in the animal kingdom. by the time the seventh round is reached, the evil effect of the then moon (which will have to all intents and purposes practically disappeared) will be finished. during the fifth round, men will discover how to neutralise any remaining effects through scientific achievement and knowledge of the necessary sounds and mantrams, and thus much evil will be offset. the etheric moon is included in these remarks. the greatest effect of moon cond

effects are felt in the lowest sheath of all, and are responsible for much that is ignorantly termed "black magic" these two constellations have run their cycles and are "dissolving" some of their life force and energy has been transferred to our solar system, just as the lunar life force was transferred to our earth, and this it is that is the cause of much cyclic evil. the process of decay and the evil emanations induced still have power to influence forms which are responsive to what was for them an earlier vibration. the substance of these forms is magnetically linked with the decaying body, much as the etheric double is connected with its dense sheath, and effects are therefore manifested. purificatory fire is the only cure for this magnetic corruption, and this is being utilised fre

, discontent and misuse. at this stage also the aspirant's life becomes an "instrument of destruction" in the occult sense of the term. wherever he goes the force which flows through him from the higher planes, and from his own inner god, produces at times peculiar results upon his environment. it acts as a- 512- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust stimulator of both the good and the evil. the lunar pitris who form the bodies of his brothers and his own body are likewise stimulated, their activity is increased, and their power greatly aggravated. this fact is used by those who work on the inner side to bring about certain desired ends. this it is also which oft times temporarily causes the downfall of advanced souls. they cannot stand the force pouring into them, or upon t

ng degree, so that they can see clearly this "dweller on the threshold" of the new life, and the antagonist who stands between the fourth kingdom of nature and the fifth. every time a son of man stands upon the probationary path their work is facilitated, for it means that one small stream of life-energy is directed into new channels, and away from the old stream, which tends to vitalise and feed the evil form, and one more conscious assailant can be trained to co-operate in the work of destruction. every time an initiate is admitted to the lodge degrees, it means that a new and powerful agent is available for the bringing down of force from higher levels to aid in the work of disintegration. in the comprehension of these two methods of aggressive work (that of the aspirant and the initiat

ill come much of vital interest to the careful student of analogy. here lies the clue to the present problem of evil, and to the vitality of the hold which the matter aspect has on the spiritual. this gigantic thought form, the product of man's ignorance and selfishness- 562- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust is kept alive and vitalised in three ways: first, by the aggregate of the evil desires, wicked intentions, and selfish purposes of each individual man. every wrong thought, when embodied in speech or manifested in action on the physical plane, goes to swell the proportions of this evil entity. second, by the fostering care of the brothers of the shadow, and those representatives of what may be called "cosmic evil" who (under the karma of the fourth or human family

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is for ever towards reality and away from the unreal and the world of illusion. 42. as a result of contentment bliss is achieved. there is little to say in connection with this sutra except to point out that all pain, displeasure and unhappiness are based upon rebellion, and that, from the point of view of the occultist, rebellion but stirs up increased trouble, and resistance only serves to feed the evil, whatever it may be. the man who has learnt to accept his lot, wastes no time in vain regrets, and his entire energy can then be given to the perfect fulfillment of his dharma, or obligatory work. instead of repining, and clouding the issues of life with worry, doubt and despair, he clarifies his path by the quiet realization of life as it is and a direct appreciation of what he may make

o the brain of the wishes, and plans and purposes of the one master, the christ within; the five senses will be transmitters of different types of energy to the chosen objectives, and herein opens up a vast field of study for the interested investigator. the eye is one of the most potent transmitters of energy, and it was the knowledge of this in the olden days which gave rise to the belief anent the evil eye. there is much to be discovered concerning- 196- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust sight for this study will include not only physical vision, but the development of the third eye, clairvoyance, perfect spiritual vision and on up to that inconceivable mystery covered by the terms the "all-seeing eye" and the "eye of shiva" the hands are potent factors in all magical wor

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is that of unity. but in between is the wretched aspirant, conscious of duality above all else and pulled hither and thither between the two. his first step has, for its objective, to make him aware of the pairs of opposites and of the necessity to choose between them. through the light, which he has discovered in himself, he becomes aware of the dark. through the good which attracts him, he sees the evil which is for him the line of least resistance. through the activity of pain, he can visualize and become aware of pleasure, and heaven and hell become to him realities. through the activity of the attractive life of his soul, he realizes the attraction of matter and of form, and is forced to recognize the urge and pull of both of them. he learns to feel himself as "pendant 'twixt the two

isciple learns to absorb and transmute the wrong vibrations and the energies which are destructive. he has no shells nor barriers. he does not insulate himself nor isolate himself from his brothers. through harmlessness he has learnt to neutralise all evil emanations. now he acts with a positiveness of a new kind. definitely and with full awareness of what he is doing, he gathers into himself all the evil emanations (destructive energies, and wrong forces) and he breaks them up into their component parts and returns them whence they came, neutralised, impotent and harmless, yet intact in nature. you say that this is a hard teaching and conveys but little to the average aspirant? such is ever the way in esoteric teaching, but those who know will understand and for them i speak. another meth

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sex life, and the attitude of the mentally polarised and spiritually oriented initiate to the same subject, may seem so widely dissimilar that on the surface there may appear no point of resemblance; yet basically both of these attitudes are nearer to each other and to the reality than is that of the average man today. the one is controlled by the rhythm of his animal nature, and knows no more of the evil side and of the vile promiscuity of the- 171- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust civilised man than does the animal in its wild state; the other lives his life in a controlled fashion, governing through the power of the mind, and animated by desire for the good of humanity. in between these two approaching extremes, we have the many po

tinguish modern man in all parts of the world. these again vary in the different civilisations and under the influence of the differing climatic conditions. it is therefore obvious is it not? that it is no part of my service to the readers of this book to enter into a detailed analysis of the marriage customs of the ages, past and present. it is not my work to enlarge in detail upon the mistakes, the evil consequences, the many types of perversion, and the sadistic cruelties which have grown out of man's misuse of the natural processes and of his mate, nor to elucidate his foolish misunderstanding of the law of attraction and repulsion. it would serve no useful purpose if i put forth, in this brief discussion of an immense subject, any of the theories which men have formulated in their sea

his mind the way out of the present impasse? the traditions of customs and of practices, with their inevitable consequences and long established tenure, serve to bewilder the clearest minds. the physical results alone of sexual intercourse, carried on within or without the legalised marriage relation, have produced not only the world of every-day human life, but much of the disease, the insanity, the evil tendencies, and the perverted impulses which today fill our hospitals, our homes for neurotics, our sanatoriums, our prisons and our lunatic asylums. our young people, especially the idealistic types and the clear-thinking boys and girls, find themselves faced with a situation which defies their best efforts. they do not know what to think or what to believe. they look into, or form part

or us to work at preparing the world for that significant series of events. the immediate future will show. the point i seek to make, however, is that this inflow of the christ spirit of love (whether it comes through a person in bodily form or through his felt and realised presence) will again be twofold in its effect. this is a hard saying for the unthinking and the illogical. both the good and the evil man will be stimulated; both material desire and spiritual aspiration will be awakened and fostered. facts prove the truth of the saying that a heavily fertilised garden and a carefully tended and watered plot of ground will produce its crop of weeds as well as flowers. yet in this fact you have two reactions to the same sun, the same water, the same fertilising agency and the same care

crop of weeds as well as flowers. yet in this fact you have two reactions to the same sun, the same water, the same fertilising agency and the same care. the difference exists in the seeds found in the ground upon which these factors play. the inflow of love therefore will stimulate earthly love and earthly desire and animal lust; it will foster the urge to possess in the material sense, with all the evil consequent upon this attitude, and the resulting growth of sexual reactions, and the many expressions of an ill-regulated mechanism, responding to an impersonal force. but it will also produce the growth of brotherly love and foster the development and the expression of group consciousness, of universal understanding; it will produce a new and powerful tendency to fusion, to at-one-ment a

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her and his lower nature; it is this realisation which marks st. paul as one of the first initiates to attain that status under the christian dispensation. read what he says about this revelation of his duality "i know that in me [that is, in my flesh] dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good i find not "for the good that i would, i do not: but the evil which i would not, that i do "for i delight in the law of god after the inward man "but i see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members "oh, wretched man that i am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death "i thank god through jesus christ our lord."24 only through the revelation of the ch

ples preparing for initiation, and the method whereby evil can be turned into good. he met temptation with no great new technique or revelation. he simply fell back on what he knew, what he had been taught and told. he met temptation each time with "it is written,"28 and employed no new powers to combat the devil. he simply utilised the knowledge which he had. he used no divine powers to overcome the evil one. he simply used those which we all possess acquired knowledge and the age-old rules. he conquered because he had taught himself to overcome. he was the master of conditions at that time because he had learnt to master himself. such a mastery by the soul may indeed be utterly beyond our immediate attaining, but the- 69- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust command of ch

e spirit in which he met it, turning the light of the soul upon it, and resting back upon past experience. in the baptism initiation, christ's purity and freedom from evil had been demonstrated before men. now they have to undergo a different test. from the crowd and from the experience he went to the solitary place and for forty days and nights he was alone with himself, standing between god and the evil one. through what agency could this evil force reach him? through the agency of his own human nature, through the medium of loneliness, of hunger and of his own visions. christ was thrown back upon himself, and there, in the silence of the desert, alone with his thoughts and desires, he was tested throughout all the parts of his nature which might be vulnerable "as he is, so are we in thi

e incidents of the terrestrial life."37 if these words are studied in connection with christ's temptations, the wonder of what he did emerges, and is encouraging for all of us, his younger brothers, equally sons of god. therefore as a whole man and yet utterly divine, christ entered into final combat with the devil. as a human being, in whom the divine spirit was fully expressing itself, he faced the evil in his own humanity (when viewed apart from god) and emerged victorious. let us not attempt to divorce these two god and man when we think of christ. some thinkers emphasise his humanity and ignore his divinity. therein they are surely in error. others emphasise his divinity and regard as blasphemous and wrong all those who have placed him on an equality with other human beings. but if we

his divinity. therefore he had conquered the extremes of his nature, its highest and lowest aspects. he expressed now the quality of divinity. the divine reality which he sensed and upon which he relied was potent to penetrate the maya and dispel the glamour. pure desire was left desire for god. he had been tried in two aspects of his nature the material and the divine and as god-man he overcame the evil one. primarily, both temptations lay in the region of desire. the call is to personal desirelessness- 80- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust so with christ, desire was transmuted into power, though victory achieved led to developments which had in them the possibility of danger. it was in the realm of power that christ was next tried. a character that has been carried to

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eatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust keep through thine own name those whom thou has given me, that they may be one, as we are. i have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them because they are not of the world, even as i am not of the world. i pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. they are not of the world, even as i am not of the world. neither pray i for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, father, art in me, and i in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. and the glory which thou gavest me i have given them; that they may be one, even as

low not: for what i would, that do i not; but what i hate, that do i. if then i do what i would not, i consent under the law that it is good. now then it is no more i that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. for i know that in me (that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good i find not. for the good that i would, i do not: but the evil which i would not, that i do. now if i do that i would not, it is no more i that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. i find then a law, that, when i would do good, evil if present with me. for i delight in the law of god after the inward man: but i see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. o

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r ray. this is the power to heal. this work is as yet in embryo and the group consciousness is as yet so young and unpolarised that it is needless for me to enlarge upon the possibilities ahead. when men can be trained to be unselfishly and divinely magnetic and radio-active, then there will be poured out upon the world certain divine forces which will vivify and reconstruct, which will eliminate the evil and heal the sick. hitherto the attempts of men in the field of medicine, of healing and of the various forms of therapy have been the result of impulses to respond to these hovering forces, but that is all as yet. these are the three major faculties which the spiritual man can unfold; other faculties and developing capacities are only expansions of these three telepathic thought, receivi

am. in this statement lies the enunciation of a relatively new truth as far as human knowledge is concerned. before the hierarchy can work more openly and with fuller recognition by mankind, there must be the elimination of all hate and all sense of separateness and the evocation of good will and right human relations as the result of the activities of all disciples. the widespread recognition of the evil of the present war and of errors in every national policy make it possible eventually to produce a general attitude which will clear the way for the needed right adjustments. it is the same process of awakening and of consequent strife which disciples experience in their individual lives and which prepare them for the stage of accepted disciple. the vortex of force into which the disciple

ar is that of a great appearance which will end all strife, inaugurate the new era of peace and goodwill, soothe the hearts of the people and lead mankind into realms of beauty and of happiness. he will be the consummation of the wishful thinking of countless minds down the ages. he will be the solace of distressed humanity. he will sweetly love and quietly deal with his own people and will sweep the evil doer out of the earth and prevent him from again molesting the peace of the world. i tell you that such a picture does not enter into the vision of reality at all. it is based on theological interpretations and human selfishness; it is founded on the misery of mankind and on the failure of disciples and aspirants everywhere to grasp the true nature of love and the real vision of the hiera

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

eaders of humanity (both those working on the outer plane and those guiding from the inner side of the veil) are seeking a solution. the solution, however, will be found only when the jews themselves seek to find the way out and cease their present policy of demanding that the gentiles and christians make all the concessions, find the solution of the problem alone, and, unaided by the jews, bring the evil situation to an end. the jews voice loudly and constantly their demand for redress and help; they blame the non-jewish nations for their miseries; they fail always to recognize any conditions on their own side which could account for some of the general dislike with which they are confronted; they make no concessions to the civilizations and cultures in which they find themselves but insi

arrogant, vindictive, full of hate and anxious to assert themselves it is because they have been made so by the white people. the white people face a grave responsibility and it lies in their hands to change conditions. when they do so, they will find the negro as responsive to good and fair treatment, equal opportunity and right living conditions as he is responsive sometimes in the wrong way to the evil educational, political and living conditions under which he now labours. this applies to the entire negro problem in the western hemisphere. the negro cannot be discriminated against for all time; he cannot be asked to defend his country and then have his country refuse him the ordinary rights of citizenship. public opinion is on the side of the negro and there is a steadily growing deter

airs. unity will not be the distinctive characteristic of mankind until men have themselves pulled down the separating walls, and have removed the barriers between race and race, between nation and nation, between religion and religion and between man and man. the wonder of the present situation and its outstanding opportunity is that for the first time, and on a planetary scale, men are aware of the evil which must be eliminated; everywhere there is discussion and planning; there are meetings and forums, and conferences and committees, ranging all the way from the great deliberations of the united nations down to the tiny meetings held in some remote village. the beauty of the present situation is that even in the smallest community a practical expression of what is needed on a worldwide

cal goodwill, expressing itself through individuals, in communities and among nations. such is the sad and sorry picture of the world today and only the blind and the uncaring will deny it. only a keen realization of the situation and of the sources of the trouble will serve to impulse mankind to take the needed action. but there is another side of the picture and there is that which will balance the evil, though, as yet, it will not completely balance and offset it. today men and women everywhere in high place and in low, in every nation, community and group are presenting a vision of right human relations which must constitute the standard for the future of mankind. everywhere they are exposing the evils which must be eliminated and they are educating ceaselessly in the principles of the

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

the so-called holy land and the city of jerusalem for the jews, because he belongs to the whole world and no jews nor any other people have special rights or unique privileges or may claim him as their own; he will not come to convert the "heathen" world for, in the eyes of the christ and of his true disciples, no such world exists and the so-called heathen have demonstrated historically less of the evil of vicious conflict than has the militant christian world. the history of the christian nations and of the christian church has been one of an aggressive militancy the last thing desired by the christ when he sought to establish the church on earth. when he came before he said (and the words have been sadly misread "i come not to bring peace but a sword (matt. x.34. this will be true espe

may regard the separative life of the churches and the arrogance of the theologians as wrong and undesirable dividing (as they have) the world into believer and unbeliever, into christian and heathen, into the so-called enlightened and the so-called benighted and as contrary to all that he himself held and believed when he said "other sheep i have which are not of this fold (john x.16) it is not the evil rampant in the world today which is hindering the revelation and hindering the unfoldment of the spiritual life. that evil is the result of the misapprehension and the wrong orientation of the human mind, of the emphasis upon material things which ages of competitive activity have brought about; it rests upon the failure of the religious organizations throughout the world to preserve the

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

s usually; they marshal the nation's forces, focus the national intent (if intuitive enough) and develop the characteristics of the people, leaving in fact behind them the memory of symbols of national intent, ideals or corruption. this can be seen as it worked out in a demonstrable way in the two great guiding groups of world leaders during the war. the three axis groups of leaders, dominated by the evil german group, with italy and japan fighting at intervals against the evil influence (consciously seldom but unconsciously often, and the second group the leaders of the allied cause. no matter what past history may indicate in connection with many of the allied nations (past aggressions, ancient cruelties and wrong doing, they were and are today seeking to cooperate with the forces of lig

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

karma produce conditions which not only have to be worked out, but that they lead to conditions which delay what we from our limited point of view might look upon as the liberation of the planet. the generating of good karma necessitates the "living through" of conditions where everything (for the man responsible or for any other form within its limitations) is good, happy, beneficent and useful. the evil karma generated in any kingdom in relation to the "realm where dwelleth the planetary dweller on the threshold" stands between the cosmic door of initiation and our planetary logos. this dweller represents all the mistakes and errors due to wrong reactions, unrecognised contacts, deliberate choices made in defiance of known good, and mass movements and mass activities which are temporaril

l chamber of the lord of the world; it is this titanic effort which is made by the sum total of all the living processes and entities that compose the manifestation of sanat kumara which is responsible for the creative evolutionary processes; it is also responsible for what we call time, with all that that concept involves of events, opportunity, the past, the present and the future, the good and the evil. the dynamic impression which emanates from shamballa reaches forth in great cycles and cyclic waves; these are impulsed from extra-planetary sources, as demanded or invoked by the lord of the world and his associates; they emanate in response to the "acclaimed will" of sanat kumara in the council chamber. this high spiritual and ultimate impression moves outward along the seven rays, vie

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

and higher inclinations and tendencies. india, governed by capricorn, has been a- 102- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust battlefield right down the ages; port said, ruled by this sign, is synonymous with the satisfaction of all the earthly and animal desires of the baser sort and is one of the wickedest cities in the world a meeting place for the evil of three continents. but as evolution proceeds, the power of the moon, which is the symbol and ruler of form, grows less and less, and the man upon the reversed wheel is steadily freeing himself from the control of matter. the attractive lure of that which is material wanes increasingly. jupiter, which has been the ruler of pisces and also of aquarius, falls in this sign. this fall must b

getation. c. the shamballa force, thus pursuing its work of destruction, is an aspect of the will and intention of the planetary logos but its first and primary effect has been to stimulate the will-to-power and the will-to-have of certain great and unspiritual groups. later this will aspect will evoke the will-to-good and the will-to-build and to this humanity will respond on a large scale. thus the evil which is now being spread abroad by the opponents of the forces of light will be neutralised by the fixed intention of the men and women of goodwill to work for the good of the whole and not for any one part. it might, therefore, be said that what is truly taking place in the world today is the transference of the energy of the planetary solar plexus to the planetary heart centre. the for

ands of its leaders usually; they marshal the nations' forces, focus the national intent (if intuitive enough) and develop the characteristics of the people, leaving in fact behind them the memory of symbols of national intent, ideals or corruption. this could be seen working out in a demonstrable way in the two great guiding groups of world leaders: the three axis groups of leaders, dominated by the evil german group, with italy and japan fighting at intervals (consciously seldom but unconsciously often) against the evil influence, and the second group the leaders of the allied cause who represent their nations. no matter what past history may indicate in connection with many of the allied nations (past aggressions, ancient cruelties and wrong doing, they sought to cooperate with the forc

that eleven is the number of the initiate and that today it is the eleventh house which is so dominant; forget not that aquarius, the eleventh sign, is the sign of- 318- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust universal relationships, interplay and consciousness. for all this, the combination of signs leo, capricorn and pisces is preparing the race. the evil men who guided the destiny of germany talked of world groups and of the european order of nations but it was a grouping around germany as the centre and for the selfish interests of germany. the grouping which is a part of the divine plan is not around any one nation but a grouping based on the ideal of brotherhood, on the will-to-good and on the freedom of the whole. one expresses a self

its way to manifest; in germany, ancient crystallised forms of belief are met with something more ancient still and the combination of world dislike and decadent forms will make the lot of the german people one of great tragedy. in the consequent struggle for that which is spiritually alive and in the effort to regain belief in the realities of divine revelation, and in the determination to right the evil wrought by her rulers to the world, germany may some day regain the expression of soul life. to this end, she must be first released from evil rule and then aided to regain her spiritual standing. pluto, therefore, comes into full force and expression in order to stage the testings of the world disciple and to this end brings in the potency of scorpio, the sign of discipleship. under thes

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

great law of cause and effect; the emphasis is ever upon evil karma and how to avoid it. yet i would guarantee that, taking it by and large, there is far more general good karma than evil; i say this in spite of the world war, the unutterable horror by which we have been and are still surrounded and in spite of a real knowledge of the things with which all social workers constantly have to deal. the evil and the misery will pass but happiness will remain; above everything else will come the realisation that what we have so badly built must disappear and that ours is now the opportunity to build a new and better world. this is true because god is good, life and experience are good, and the will-to-good is eternally present. always we are proffered the opportunity to right the wrongs which

whilst lecturing up and down western europe. in spite, however, of knowing full well the wonderful qualities of the jew, his contribution to western culture and learning and his wonderful assets and gifts along the line of the creative arts i still fail to see any immediate solution of their crucial and appalling problem. there are faults on both sides. i do not here refer to the faults or rather the evil criminality of the germans or the poles towards their jewish citizens. i refer to all those people who are for the jews and not against them. we gentiles have not yet found out what to do in order to liberate the jews from persecution a persecution that is many, many centuries old. the egyptians in the early phases of biblical history persecuted the jews, and persecution has been their re

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

the world of phenomenal nature. the ameliorative and palliative and curative work of medicine and surgery are proved beyond all controversial discussion. the methods employed, such as the vivisection of animals, may rightly cause distress. in spite of all this the indebtedness of mankind to the medical profession is great, and the service rendered to humanity by the profession does largely offset the evil. that they know not everything is true; that there is a small percentage of physicians and surgeons (less than in any other profession) who are self-seeking and no credit to their craft is equally true; that they already know enough to be willing to admit how very much more there is to be known is also correct. but that it is a great and good and self-sacrificing group within the human fa

uman living will characterise the world to be. today these conditions do not exist, the body of humanity is diseased and its internal life disrupted. instead of free circulation between all parts of the life aspect, there has been separation, blocked channels, congestion and stagnation. it has needed the terrific crisis of the present to arouse humanity to its diseased condition, to the extent of the evil which is now discovered to be so great, and the diseases of the "blood of humanity (symbolically understood) so severe that only the most drastic measures pain, agony, despair and terror can suffice to establish a cure. healers would do well to remember this, and to have in mind that disciples and all good men and aspirants share in this universal disease of humanity which must take its t

81- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust the soul, the healer within the form. the spiritual or third eye then directs the healing force, and all is well. rule one the healer must seek to link his soul, his heart, his brain and his hands. thus can he pour the vital healing force upon the patient. this is magnetic work. it cures disease, or increases the evil state, according to the knowledge of the healer. the healer must seek to link his soul, his brain, his heart and auric emanation. thus can his presence feed the soul life of the patient. this is the work of radiation. the hands are needed not. the soul displays its power. the patient's soul responds through the response of his aura to the radiation of the healer's aura, flooded with soul

angle of vision. true knowledge disproves it. in the infancy of the race, a great mismating, promiscuity and series of perversions took place, and in the language of some of the most ancient books in the masters' archives we read "earth took its toll and earth to earth, polluted and impure, returned to earth; thus evil life entered the pristine cleanliness of the ancient mother. deep in the soil the evil lies, emerging into form from time to time, and only fire and suffering can cleanse the mother of the evil which her children have given unto her" the lemurian race practically destroyed itself, owing to its misuse of the sacral centre, which was at that time the most active and the dominant centre. in atlantean days it was the solar plexus centre which was the prime objective of the "ent

alliances and widespread evil relations. a great new law of nature was then imposed by the planetary logos which has been expressed (very inadequately) by the words "the soul that sinneth, it shall die" this law could be better expressed by saying "he that misuses that which he hath built will see it fall from forces within itself" as the centuries slipped away and the lemurian race submitted to the evil impulses of the animal nature, gradually the earliest type of venereal disease made its appearance; eventually the entire race was riddled with it and died out, nature taking its toll and exacting its inexorable price. you might here ask how these early inhabitants of our planet could be held responsible for there is no sin where there is no sense of responsibility and no consciousness of

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

ewed zest if the past teaching is clearly apprehended and is clearly illumined in your minds. what is the task which confronts you, both as individuals and as a group? it is a fivefold task: 1. to confront and deal adequately with your own personal dweller on the threshold. 2. to share as a group in humanity's effort to confront the group dweller on the threshold; this "dweller" is constructed of the evil desires of all mankind, of humanity's mistakes and weaknesses, thoughts, distorted strengths and perverse motives. this confronting is one of the objectives of the present world war. 3. to arrive at that understanding which is the foundation of wisdom, which is the result of a developed intuition, and which is also an intelligent application of the truths apprehended. 4. to stand as a gro

time of crisis. we have had a great crisis of materialism and the powers of darkness have very nearly assumed control. but we are seeing the slow domination of the good. humanity has been the battleground for a major conflict between the two great lodges the great white lodge and the black lodge. the former is now gradually gaining control. the withdrawal (quite imminent in time, my brothers) of the evil group will leave humanity relieved but bewildered, beaten to the ground, but with enough strength to rise to greater heights- 29- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust than ever before. for this withdrawal i ask you to prepare with intelligence, wise understanding and deep love. the work to be done by the world disciples, the world aspirants, the new group of w

at the san francisco conference (hence its major importance, and will move very slowly at first. it will take time, but the hierarchy thinks not in terms of years and of brief cycles (though long to humanity, but in terms of events and the expansion of consciousness- 105- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. may it seal the door where evil dwells. the sealing up of the evil forces, released during this war, will take place within the immediate future. it will be soon. the evil referred to has nothing to do with the evil inclinations, the selfish instincts and the separativeness found in the hearts and minds of human beings. these they must overcome and eliminate for themselves. but the reduction to impotency of the loosed forces of evil which took advantage

upon an ashram and this has happened, as you know, in the case of my ashram the work of the united disciples is to "seal the door" against the menacing evil, to withdraw themselves from the usual confidence shown to an erring disciple, but to stand at the same time in steadfast love beside him until such time as he has learned the error of his ways and has himself taken the needed steps to arrest the evil which he was responsible in starting. it must be remembered that none of this is a personality or an individual attack upon an ashram. the relatively feeble efforts of a person are unavailing and make no real impact upon the conscious life of the ashram. the evil released must emanate from a group, though it is released through the agency of an individual disciple. that is a totally diffe

re. yet the results of their application to science or their accumulation of the crystallised prana of the financial world are turned to the helping of mankind. this will be a hard saying for some of you who rate an irritable remark by a co-disciple as something disgraceful and belittle the efforts of the money-maker, and do both with a sense of self-righteous congratulation. the old saying that "the evil which men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones" is not occultly true. evil may follow after a man in his next incarnation until be has learnt- 233- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust to eliminate it, but the good men do (even with mixed motives) is not forgotten but is entered upon the calendar of the hierarchy. before the end of th

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

int) of divinity. this is a point to be remembered. today the process is being reversed and money is connected with the produce of the vegetable kingdom in the form of paper money, founded upon the mineral wealth of the world. this is an interesting subjective reality to have in mind. 2. a study of the processes whereby money has been steadily deflected from personal uses, both in the good and in the evil sense. i do not, however, intend to write a treatise upon finance. it would largely be a record of man's dire selfishness, but i seek to deal with money as the hierarchy sees the problem, and to consider it as a form of energy, prostituted at this time to material ends or to the selfish aspirations and ambitions of well-meaning servers. they are limited in their view and need to get a pic

onnotation has become attached to it. today, the karma of humanity is descending upon it. i would remind you, however, that the continuous emphasis laid upon the malevolent aspects of karma conveys a wrong impression and negates the full grasp of the truth. there is as much good karma as there is bad; even in the present world situation, the good karma emanating from the soul of humanity balances the evil which comes from the material aspect and is continuously over-emphasised. it is the rhythm of matter in contradistinction to the rhythm of the soul, and these constitute the initiating causes of the present conflict, both in individual lives and in the general world situation. when this is properly grasped, the true picture may emerge in your hearts and minds with greater clarity. in my e

mistaken, lovers of their country, egoists, impressionable, foolish, cunning, powerful, focussed on some goal or ambition, with clear vision and at the same time myopic reactions, cruel or wise as the case may be but, in the last analysis, highly developed personalities. they are being used to engineer great and needed changes and to alter the face of civilisation. the wrong methods employed and the evil things done are the fault of humanity as a whole, and of the habits of thought which have made mankind selfish and cruel and cause this great and universal spirit of the will-to-change to manifest so powerfully and cruelly- 88- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust blame not the personalities involved or the men who produce these events before which we stand toda

side of the neutral powers, frantically pursuing ineffective peace programmes, policies of appeasement, and play into the hands of the totalitarian powers? humanity having decided to fight out the battle physically, there was nothing left to do but issue a challenge to the men and women of goodwill to take their stand on the side of such action as would release humanity through the destruction of the evil forces. these had determined to prove that might was right. therefore, the forces fighting for progress and civilisation had to meet force with force. the challenge was taken up by the democracies who stand for human rights and liberty. because of the decision to fight on the side of spiritual progress, the spiritual forces of the planet had no alternative but to align themselves on the s

the causes which have produced present world conditions? what are the underlying pressures which are producing the present chaos or those which can produce eventual order? before there can be correction, there must be appreciation of error; there must be understanding of the predisposing causes producing the necessity; there must be realisation of the general guilt and a shared responsibility for the evil conditions; there must be determination to make restitution, and to cease from evil doing. the tendency to fasten the war on hitler and his gang of evil men should not blind us to the causes which have made his evil work possible. he is mainly a precipitating agency, for through him world selfishness and cruelty have been brought to a focus. but, as christ has said "woe unto the world bec

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

hinking, frailty and ambition. is it not possible that these changes are being brought about as the result of certain profoundly important happenings upon inner planes of such advanced states of consciousness that all the average disciple can know about them is their word symbols and their much deleted effects if i may use such a phrase to describe the happenings which are rending humanity today. the evil that is being wrought today on earth, by certain evil members of the human family, are effects of their response to the inflaming energies and indicate their basic wickedness and their prompt reaction to that which is counter to the good. wherever the consciousness is focussed, there is the point of major emphasis and importance, and this is true of the individual man and of humanity as a

e will can be tapped. they are useless to the individual under the new initiatory dispensation. only the group, under the proposed new mode of working and of group- 23- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust initiation, is capable of invoking shamballa. that is why hitler, the exponent of the reversed reaction to shamballa (and consequently the evil reaction) had to gather around him a group of like-minded people or personalities. on the upper arc of the evocative cycle (hitler being the expression of the invocative arc of the shamballa force) it requires a group to bring about evocation. we now come to my third point in relation to the rules or formulas and their objective. they are concerned above everything else with group initiat

tion was permitted to work through humanity itself, and men are now destroying the forms through which many masses of men are functioning. this is both a good and a bad thing, viewed from the evolutionary angle. it is nevertheless a fact which cannot be gainsaid, and the problem, therefore, confronting the custodians of the will, working through the custodians of the plan, is to bring good out of the evil which man has wrought, and thus gear events to the larger issues. that is one of the objectives before the hierarchy at this time (written april, 1943) as it prepares for participation in the may and june full moons. can the forces be so organised and the energies so distributed that the full measure of good may be evoked from humanity by the invocation sounded forth by shamballa? can thi

human spirit is disappearing; the rocky grave of humanity is breaking open and releasing men to a life of resurrection. forget not that in the interim between the tomb experience and the appearance in living form to his disciples, the master jesus went down into hell (figuratively speaking, carrying release for those to be found there. there will be an interim between the darkness of the war with the evil history of the past, and the appearance of a living civilisation and culture based on the spiritual values and intelligently developing the divine purpose. the stage is now being set for this. the crucifixion and the tomb experience lead eventually to resurrection and to life. the destruction is appalling, but it is only the destruction of the form side of manifestation in this particular

herent destructive energy in matter itself and an energy of very great potency; it is with this energy that the axis powers are working. the destructive energy, emanating from "the bright centre" shamballa, is something very different, and i would ask you to remember this. the destroying power of spirit is not the same as that of matter. a human being destroys his own form again and again through the evil which he does and by the material focus of his desires; the following of a life of vice will breed disease, as is well known. the disciple can also destroy his form nature through selfless service and devotion to a cause. in both cases the form is destroyed, but the motivating impulse is different and the energy of destruction comes from different sources. the death of a master jesus or o

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

sufficient; that two earth lives are necessary for almost all to pass; and that if failure result in the second life, a third life is passed linked with a stronger soul who draws the sinner upward into purity: this is a form of the scheme of re-incarnation, transmigration of souls, or metempsychosis (7) that when all the pre-existent souls who have been incarnated here have arrived at perfection, the evil angels are also to be raised, and all lives will be merged into the deity by the kiss of love from the mouth of the holy one, and the manifested universe shall be no more, until again vivified 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 pyt

enly bodies, the planets, over the elemental forces, and over seasons, times, etc; they are the officers of the great arch-angels. the hosts of angels of the sephiroth are chaioth ha kodesh, auphanim, arelim, chashmalim, seraphim, melakim, elohim, beni elohim, cherubim, and tenthly the ishim who are the beatified souls of men and women. the fourth world of assiah is filled with the lowest beings, the evil demons, kliphoth or qliphoth, the cortices or shells, and with all so-called material objects, and to this world belong men, the egos or souls imprisoned in earthly human bodies. this world also has its ten grades, each one more far from the higher forces and forms, each one more dark and impure. first come thu, tohu, the formless; and bhu, bohu, the void, thirdly chshk, the darkness, of

t. in another form of symbolism the kabalist tells us a man has two companions, or guides; one on the right, yetzer ha tob, to good acts, he is from the higher sephiroth; and one on the left, yetzer ha ra, encouraging the appetites and passions, temptations to evil, is an agent of samael and of the beast. man is in a very unfortunate position according to the zohar 95 b, for it is there said that the evil angel joins him at birth, but the good angel only at the age of 13 years. as to death, as we have already learned, the man's ego or soul, unless the life has been superexcellent, has to be re-born in another form, but at death, as all religions agree, great changes occur. according to the kabalah, the visible material body, the guph, decays, and the animal aspect of the soul, the nephesh

APOCALYPSE MOSES

ith prayers and entreaties concerning the tree which floweth with oil to anoint thy father adam. for it shall not be thine now, but in the end of the times. 3 then shall all flesh be raised up from adam till that great day,-all that shall be of the holy people. then shall the delights of paradise be given to them and god shall be in their midst. 4 and they shall no longer sin before his face, for the evil heart shall be taken from them and there shall be given them a heart understanding the good and to serve god only. 5 but do thou go back to thy father. for the term of his life hath been fulfilled and he will live three days from to-day and will die. 6 but when his soul is departing, thou shalt behold the awful (scene of) his passing' chapter 14. 1 thus spake the angel and departed from t

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

rtuna!to diana.tis tuesday now, and at an early houri fain would turn good fortune to myself,firstly at home and then when i go forth,and with the aid of beautiful dianai pray for luck ere i do leave this house!first with three drops of oil 16 i do removeall evil influence, and i humbly pray,o beautiful diana, unto theethat thou wilt take it all away from me,and send it all to my worst enemy!when the evil fortuneis taken from me,ill cast it out to the middle of the street:and if thou wilt grant me this favour,o beautiful diana,every bell in my house shall merrily ring!then well contentedi will go forth to roam,because i shall be sure that with thy aidi shall discover ere i returnsome fine and ancient books,and at a moderate price. page 31 n r r r r r chapter vii.t o find or buy anything, o

n bicchieree quardarti colla lente;sotto un bicchierre tu staraifino che tutti i segret,di questo mondo e di quellaltro non mi faraisapere e anche quelle del grano,e della farina appena,questi segreti io sapr,lucciola mia libera ti lascierquando i segreti della terra io saprtu sia benedetta ti diro! page 11 n r r r r r now when aradia had been taught, taught to work all witchcraft, how to destroy the evil race (ofoppressors, she (imparted it to her pupils) and said unto them:quando io saro partita da questo mondo,qualunque cosa che avrete bisogna,una volta al mese quando la lunae piena..dovete venire in luogo deserto,in una selva tutte insieme,e adorare lo spirito potentedi mia madre diana, e chi vorraimparare la stregonerie,che non la sopra,mia madre le insegnera,tutte cose..sarete liberi

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

i had emptied to the dregs the cup of human suffering, i was led to consider the wretchedness of this world, and the fearful consequences of our first parents disobedience. then i saw that there was no hope of repentance for mankind, that they were getting worse day by day, and that for their impenitence god s everlasting punishment was hanging over them; and i made haste to withdraw myself from the evil world, to bid farewell to it, and to devote myself to the service of god. when i had spent some years at the monastery, i found that after i had performed my work and my daily devotions i still had some time on my hands. this i did not wish to pass in idleness, lest my evil thoughts should lead me into new sins; and so i determined to use it for the study and investigation of those natura

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

fell from heaven as lightening, being a flash downwards, who before the fall, was a guarding seraph around the throne of god. after his fall he was a master of death, the very poison of god yet he was also a giver of life, being the father between fallen angel and woman. in later jewish writings, samael is associated with the name malkira, which morris jastrow jr. associated with malik- ra, being the evil angel and the name matanbuchus, being a form of angro-mainyush or ahriman. here does the circle become closed and the nature of the first angel become perceived or sensed. in ongoing ritual work, the magician begins identifying his or herself with samael (and lilith) within the parameters of their own life and initiation. the lord of the earth, being a name ascribed to samael (satan) and

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ts of "creation" as found on the assyrian fragments of tiles, tell us; those very accounts upon which the pharisees built their angelology? but compare mr. g. smith's "assyrian discoveries" p. 398, and his "chaldean account of genesis" p. 107. the "tablet with the story of the seven wicked gods or spirits" has the following account- we print the important passages in italics- 1. in the first days the evil gods, 2. the angels, who were in rebellion, who in the lower part of heaven 3. had been created, 4. they caused their evil work 5. devising with wicked heads. etc. thus we are shown, as plainly as can be, on a fragment which remained unbroken, so that there can be no dubious reading, that the "rebellious angels" had been created in the lower part of heaven, i.e, that they belonged and do

deavoured to make out, nor could he if he would. these sacred astronomical cycles are of immense antiquity, and most of them pertain, as stated, to the calculations of narada and asuramaya. the latter has the reputation of a giant and a sorcerer. but the antediluvian giants (the gibborim of the bible) were not all bad or sorcerers, as christian theology, which sees in every occultist a servant of the evil one, would have it; nor were they worse than many of "the faithful sons of the church" a torquemada and a catherine de medicis certainly did more harm in their day and in the name of their master than any atlantean giant or demigod of antiquity ever did; whether his name was cyclops, or medusa, or yet the orphic titan, the anguipedal monster known as ephialtes. there were good "giants" in

indwelling principle (the manasa, or the incarnated deva, became the glaring flames of the infernal region; and our globe that hell itself. pippala, haoma, the fruit of the tree of knowledge, were denounced as the forbidden fruit, and the "serpent of wisdom" the voice of reason and consciousness, remained identified for ages with the fallen angel, which is the old dragon, the devil (vide part ii "the evil spirit, who, or what) the same for the other high symbols. the svastica, the most sacred and mystic symbol in india, the "jaina-cross" as it is now called by the masons, notwithstanding its direct connection, and even identity with the christian cross, has become dishonoured in the same manner. it is the "devil's sign" we are told by the indian missionaries "does it not shine on the head

t of the roman catholic church can give it another meaning, once that the mystery language is well studied, and that the hebrew scrolls are read numerically. the occultists know that the serpent, the naga, and the dragon have each a septenary meaning; that the sun, for instance, was the astronomical and cosmic emblem of the two contrasted lights, and the two serpents of the gnostics, the good and the evil one; they also know that, when generalised, the conclusions of both science and theology present two most ridiculous extremes. for, when the former tells us that it is sufficient to trace the legends of the serpents to their primal source, the astrological legend, and to meditate seriously on the sun, conqueror of python, and the celestial virgin in the zodiac forcing back the devouring d

gma. had satan any reality, in the objective or even subjective world (in the ecclesiastical sense, it is the poor devil who would find himself chronically obsessed and even possessed by the wicked- hence by the bulk of mankind. it is humanity itself, and especially the clergy, headed by the haughty, unscrupulous and intolerant roman church, which have begotten, given birth to, and reared in love the evil one; but this is a digression "the whole world of thought is reproached by the church with having adored the serpent. the whole of humanity 'incensed and at the same time stoned it' the zend avesta speaks of it as the kings and vedas do, as the edda and the bible. everywhere the sacred serpent, the naga, and its shrine and its priest; in rome it is the vestal who prepares its meal with th

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erfection eternally, traced both through the course of natural evolution to pure light condensing gradually into form, hence becoming matter or evil. it was left with the early and ignorant christian fathers to degrade the philosophical and highly scientific idea of this emblem (the dragon) into the absurd superstition called the "devil" they took it from the later zoroastrians, who saw devils or the evil in the hindu devas, and the word evil thus became by a double transmutation d'evil in every tongue (diabolos, diable, diavolo, teufel. but the pagans have always shown a philosophical discrimination in their symbols. the primitive symbol of the serpent symbolised divine wisdom and perfection, and had always stood for psychical regeneration and immortality. hence- hermes, calling the serpe

nfluences upon the health of mankind and every living thing. there is occult philosophy in that roman catholic doctrine which traces the various public calamities, such as epidemics of disease, and wars, and so on, to the invisible "messengers" from north and west "the glory of god comes from the way of the east" says ezekiel; while jeremiah, isaiah, and the psalmist assure their readers that all the evil under the sun comes from the north and the west- which proposition, when applied to the jewish nation, sounds like an undeniable prophecy for themselves. and this accounts also for st. ambrose (on amos, ch. iv) declaring that it is precisely for that reason that "we curse the north-wind, and that during the ceremony of baptism we begin by turning towards the west (sidereal, to renounce th

ion or order, but man himself- his deeds or karma, attracting individually and collectively (as in the case of whole nations sometimes, every kind of evil and calamity. we produce causes, and these awaken the corresponding powers in the sidereal world; which powers are magnetically and irresistibly attracted to- and react upon- those who produced these causes; whether such persons are practically the evil-doers, or simply thinkers who brood mischief. thought is matter* we are taught by modern science; and "every particle of the existing matter must be a register of all that has happened" as in their "principles of science" messrs. jevons and babbage tell the profane. modern science is drawn more every day into the maelstrom of occultism; unconsciously, no doubt, still very sensibly. the tw

the undifferentiated essence. the former are arupa, incorporeal; the latter, rupa, corporeal. in volume ii. of isis (p. 183 et seq) the philosophical systems of the gnostics and the primitive jewish christians, the nazarenes and the ebionites, are fully considered. they show the views held in those days- outside the circle of mosaic jews- about jehovah. he was identified by all the gnostics with the evil, rather than with the good principle. for them, he was ilda-baoth "the son of darkness" whose mother, sophia achamoth, was the daughter of sophia, the divine wisdom (the female holy ghost of the early christians- akasa* while sophia achamoth personified the lower astral light or ether. ilda-baoth* or jehovah, is simply one of the elohim, the seven[[footnote(s* they are found, however, in

(the creative force in nature, giving form to all beings, spirits and men, self-generated and self-existent, issued from noun, the celestial river, called father-mother of the gods, the primordial deity, which is chaos or the deep, impregnated by the unseen spirit (2) he has found shoo (solar force) on the staircase in the city of the eight (the two cubes of good and evil, and he has annihilated the evil principles in noun (chaos) the children of rebellion (3) he is the fire and water, i.e, noun the primordial parent, and he created the gods out of his limbs- 14 gods (twice seven) seven dark and seven light gods (the seven spirits of the presence of the christians and the seven dark evil spirits (4) he is the law of existence and being (v. 10, the bennoo (or phoenix, the bird of resurrect

BLUE EQUINOX

umble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this shall transcend the known and the unknown with somewhat that hath no name. for it is as the abyss of the arcanum that is opened in the secret place of silence. liber lxv 91 8. thou hast come hither, o my prophet, through grave paths. thou hast eaten of the dung of the abominable ones; thou hast prostrated thyself before the goat and the crocodile; the evil men have made thee a plaything; thou hast wandered as a painted harlot, ravishing with sweet scent and chinese colouring, in the streets; thou hast darkened thine eyepits with kohl; thou hast tinted thy lips with vermilion; thou hast plastered thy cheeks with ivory enamels. thou hast played the wanton in every gate and byway of the great city. the men of the city have lusted after thee to

nd that the faroff travellers call naught. 60. o land beyond honey and spice and all perfection! i will dwell therein with my lord for ever. 61. and the lord adonai delighteth in me, and i bear the cup of his gladness unto the weary ones of the old grey land. 62. they that drink thereof are smitten of disease; the abomination hath hold upon them, and their torment is like the thick black smoke of the evil abode. the equinox 98 63. but the chosen ones drank thereof, and became even as my lord, my beautiful, my desirable one. there is no wine like unto this wine. 64. they are gathered together into a glowing heart, as ra that gathered his clouds about him at eventide into a molten sea of joy; and the snake that is the crown of ra bindeth them about with the golden girdle of the death-kisses

ge, the present discourse does not rise above tiphareth. i am very sorry to have to remark at this point that madame blavatsky is now wholly obsessed by her own style. she indulges, much more than in the earlier part of this treatise, in poetic and romantic imagery, and in miltonic inversion (i do not here refer to lycidas) consequently we get quite a long passage on a somewhat obvious point, and the evil persona or dweller of the threshold is introduced. however, it is a correct enough place. that dweller is fear.his form is dispersion. it is in this sense that satan, or rather samael, a totally different person, the accuser of the brethren, is the devil. the seven portals 93 36. beware, disciple, of that lethal shade. no light that shines from spirit can dispel the darkness of the nether

BOOK OF ENOCH

because the dwelling of the spiritual ones is in heaven. 15.8] and now, the giants who were born from body and flesh will be called evil spirits on the earth, and on the earth will be their dwelling. 15.9] and evil spirits came out from their flesh, because from above they were created, from the holy watchers was their origin and first foundation. evil spirits they will be on earth and spirits of the evil ones they will be called. 15.10] and the dwelling of the spirits of heaven is heaven, but the dwelling of the spirits of the earth, who were born on the earth, is earth. 15.11] and the spirits of the giants do wrong, are corrupt, attack, fight, break on the earth, and cause sorrow. and they eat no food, do not thirst, and are not observed. 15.12] and these spirits will rise against the so

BOOK T

ot is the calm and stagnant water of a lake. his armour resembles feathers more than scales. he holds in one hand a lotus, and in the other a cup, charged with the sigil of his scale. a serpent issues from the cup, and has its head tending down to the waters of the lake. he is subtle, violent, crafty and artistic; a fierce nature with calm exterior. powerful for good or evil but more attracted by the evil if allied with apparent power or wisdom. if ill dignified, he is intensely evil and merciless. he rules from 20 degree libra to 20 degree scorpio. air of water prince and emperor of nymphs or undines. xii. the princess of the waters; the lotus of the palace of the floods knave of cups a beautiful amazon-like figure, softer in nature than the princess of wands. her attire is similar. she s

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

the serpent in the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with green and gold, the color of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adam be lifted up, raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of eternal life. and when, like our master, thou art extended on that tree, through suffering and through pain, let thy countenance be raised up towards the light of the holy one to invoke the divine brig

in of the fall, even the separation of the material plane from the sephiroth through the interposition of the coils of the stooping dragon. thus, therefore, must malkuth be cleansed, and this is the redemption to come. for also christ expiated not sin till after he had overcome the temptation. but surely all things in the creation are necessary, seeing that one existeth not without the other, and the evil also helpeth the work, for thus the greater and more intense the darkness, by so much more doth the light become bright by contrast and draweth, as it were, increased force from the blackness. the infernal habitations in the circle are the waters of tears, in the second circle are the waters of creation, in the third circle are the waters of the ocean, in the fourth circle is the false se

re, or meadow 5. tziah- sandy or desert land 6. areqa- earth 7. thebel or cheled- mixed earth and water. upon the left hand are the seven infernal habitations: 1. sheol- the depths of the earth [or literally, pit -editor] 2. abaddon- perdition 3. titahion- the clay of death 4. ber shacheth- the it of destruction 5. tzelmoth- the shadow of death 6. shaari moth- the gates of death 7. gehinnom- hell the evil and averse powers beneath the feet of the four cherubim lilith babel machaloth jonia samael media rehab edom 'splendour on every side fire endfolding whirlwind' these are from cherubic expressions of force and the evil and averse powers broken beneath their feet are: rahab, whose symbol is a terrible demon leaping upon an ox; machaloth, a form compounded of a serpent and a woman, and she

gleaming, watery hue, and their forms like hideous women, almost skeletons, united to the bodies of serpents and fishes. in the midst of the circle are placed samael and asmodai. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot, but colossal and attenuated; that of asmodai is as a bloated, bestial man, but in a crouching position. at the south-east angle are placed the evil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant; and a thousand- headed hydra serpent; everchanging and distorted countenance. at the north-east angle is aggerath, the daughter of machalath, a fiendish witch with serpent hair enthroned in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. at the north-west angle is a gigantic scorpion with a fearful countenance, but standing upright as it were, and formed of p

infernal and averse sephiroth. the second, a black, bloated man-dragon, belial, he denieth a god; and he uniteth the forces of the averse chokmah. the third is othiel or gothiel, a black, bloated man-insect, horrible of aspect, his breth greater than his length: and he uniteth the force of the averse binah. the fourth form is samael the black. all these are of gigantic nature and terrible aspect. the evil and averse sephiroth these be the evil and averse sephiroth contined in the seven evil palaces, and these sephiroth have their place from behind the holiness of the world of assiah. and samael the evil surroundeth the whole evil sephiroth who are thus eleven instead of ten. there are eleven letters in the word lieutenant governors: esther ix.3; eleven days from horeb, deut. i.2; the word

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

death, for what you have done in life (the traditional christian view, witches believe that you get your rewards and punishments during this lifetime, according to how you live it. do good and you will get back good. but do evil and evil will return. more than that, though, it is a three-fold retribution. do good and you will get back three times the good; do evil and you will receive three times the evil. obviously there is here no inducement for you to ever harm anyone. of course it is not a literal threefold return. if you were to punch someone in the eye, it does not mean that you will get punched in the eye yourself three times. no. but, sometime in the future, you may "just happen" to break a leg. something which might be considered three times as bad as being punched in the eye. in

ow put the top on the jar and seal it with tape. it should then be buried in the ground, at least twelve inches deep, in an isolated spot where it can remain undisturbed. if you live in a city, then it will be worth a trip out of town to find some remote spot to bury it. so long as the bottle remains buried and unbroken, it will protect you from any evil directed against you. this applies whether the evil is directed by an individual or by a group of people. not only will it protect you, but it will also reflect back that evil on the sender (s. so the more s/he tries to harm you, the more s/he will be harmed her/himself. such a bottle should last almost indefinitely, but to be on the safe side i'd suggest redoing the ritual once a year. with the present rate of housing development you neve

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

ation, of discovery, of the discerning of sequence in the operation of nature. in all this, and in the power of discrimination, my superior nature worketh through thee. 8 happy art thou if thou canst grasp this truth. for then, understanding that not thy weak self, but my all-knowing mind, looketh out upon the world through thine eyes, shalt thou have faith to let me see. then shalt thou overcome the evil of thy senses. by devoting: them wholly to my use. not thou, but i, shall then, discern the weight and. shape and texture of the things thou touchest, not thine, but mine, shall be the knowledge of scent and savour gained through nose and tongue. and when i use thine ears for hearing, they shall be attuned to sweetest harmonies, where now they are assailed by strident discord. so shalt th

which represented: the whole circle of creation. therefore is the door a cause of separation, and of the setting of one part against another; and for this is it written that the lord is a "man of war" for in this saying is d l th, daleth, concealed. 7 i am the knowledge of the wise, and in me the ignorance of the foolish hath its root [43] the book of t o k e n s from me come forth all conditions the evil as well as the good. without the setting of metes and bounds there is no bringing forth, and thus there can be no creation without seeming evil. 8 creation hath its origin in life unlimited, yet for the sake of manifestation doth that life descend into the appearance of time and place, and that which hath neither end nor beginning appeareth to be born, and to be brought at last to death

et in the head, that they who dwell within may look abroad to see what passeth without. hence it is written in the book of formation that the letter heh correspondeth unto the faculty of sight. this referreth to my power of vision, which is not as thine, since nothing escapeth it, and all things appear unto it in their true aspect. it is written "the eyes of the lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good; and because i, the dweller in the house of the supernal will, see all things as they really are, my vision hath no taint of false judgment. seeing, i understand, and because nothing is hid from me, therefore am i merciful. 5 but the path of my mercy is a way concealed from the profane, because they have not attained unto my perfect vision. easier to follow is the flight of a

o the number 310 [144] the meditation on ayin* 1 thus saith he who formulateth in darkness: i am lord, not of light alone. but of darkness also, for i the one am all-pervading. this is a hard saying and a stumbling block to many, yet must ye consider it well and ponder it in your hearts. 2 is it not written in exodus that the lord hardened the heart of pharaoh, and again, in isaiah "i create both the evil and the good? have ye not also read "the eye of the lord is in every place? and david saith" if i descend into sheol, thou art there [147] t h e book o f t o k e n s 3 ayin is that eye, and it is in every place in very truth, because place there is not, save in the manifested, and wherever place is there also are light and darkness, side by side. from the mixture of light and darkness do

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

all binding magic rituals. my friend lilian, a white witch and healer, used to wrap the perpetrators of crimes in a mantle of pink and visualise them in a sea of tranquillity so that they might be diverted from a destructive course of action. however, i usually cast a protective barrier around the victims and i think this is the best answer to a very difficult problem. we must harm none, not even the evil, hard though it is, and we should leave the punishment to natural justice. in my own experience, few who find happiness at the expense of others achieve more than temporary, superficial pleasure, and in time they do seem to end badly. we should never use magick in order to act as judge and jury. after all, some who do act badly do so only out of unhappiness or ignorance. what are spells?

is mentioned in an ancient egyptian papyrus dating from over 3,000 years ago as having healing powers. the sumerians believed it contained the souls of their gods and goddesses and as such would endow them with magical powers, and the goddess ishtar was famed for her beautiful necklaces of this crystal. in egypt, lapis lazuli was first used in a powdered form for eye make-up as protection against the evil eye. lapis lazuli counteracts insomnia and the inability to communicate, and is a powerfully protective stone against all pettiness, spite, injustice and unfair officialdom. it offers the courage and clarity to win through, however seemingly powerful the opposition, but it demands nobility of purpose in its users. lapis lazuli is good for healing both air and water pollution and for world

en one's survival, either professional or personal, is an issue. smoky quartz also counteracts self-destructive impulses. tiger's eye a brown or red translucent stone (the green and blue versions are cat's, falcon or hawk's eyes, tiger's eye combines the powers of the earth with the deep instinctive ability to survive life's challenges. throughout the ages, tiger's eye has been a talisman against the evil eye. roman soldiers would wear engraved stones as protection from death and wounding. tiger's eye is also associated with practical aspects of life and enhances the five senses. thus it can alert us to physical danger as well as potential malice. it is seite 95 wicca01.txt effective in tackling gossip, backbiting and spite in a firm but creative way, and is perhaps best of all for creatin

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

own as i and what our potential of growth is. it also demands one to know thyself. many misunderstand chaos magick as being dogmatic when this could not be further from the truth, if truth can even apply in our world. chaos magick demands, pushes, threatens and makes ones own individual will come forth. it is most beneficial to the holy guardian angel, and causes the two aspects known the hga and the evil genius to rage incessantly, the energy of the universe is your to command and shape if you have the will. the concepts of free belief are perhaps the most luciferian in the nature of individual process, understanding and application. free belief however is not so easy to practice. it demands constant change and a mental discipline to deny conformity and comfort of associated, lineal belie

hable through the systems of what is considered chaos magick, the form of the astral body allows a severance of eventual worldly bonds. this allows the luciferian adept to take her or his fill of worldly pleasure and eventually ascend astral in the light of lucifer, as an undead god or completely remain within the astral plane. one would seek to understand the place of the holy guardian angel and the evil genius at this level, in the shedding of flesh could it be considered a part of each is severed and a great union may be achieved, from which the conscious becomes aligned with the subconscious. could this be death itself, another level of waking through the web of dreams? what ever the result may be, a formidable individual is fo rmed from the chaos current, while many fail over time the

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

rt the effects of supernatural harming. similarly, the remarks of a former slave in augusta, georgia, who, having been conjured by persons who were known to her, epitomized this suspicious outlook "people is mean in dis world" she said "don't let 'em get mad wid you 'bout nothin f 'cause dere ain't nothin f too low for 'em to do to you" black folk wisdom taught that awareness of one's enemies and the evil potential of others was vital in order to survive in the world. this "mother wit" was summarized in the pronouncements of "ma" stevens, a 103-year-old ex-slave in savannah, georgia, who acknowledged the power and pervasiveness of conjure by noting that "folks can do yuh lots of harm"[54] a discussion of spiritual harming would not be complete without a comment on the numerous african amer

out their history, african americans have retained distinctive ideas concerning sickness, its causes, and cures. affliction expressed disorder in the physical body and conflict in the social body. disease could be physiological, or it could reflect the onslaught of malign spiritual forces. as we will see, african americans viewed healing as an integral part of the ongoing struggle of good against the evil that plagued humankind. using a language of invisible causes, african americans articulated health concerns by incorporating spiritual healing practices and beliefs into their therapies. two religious groups, the black pentecostals and the black spiritual churches, also promoted ritual healing, actively conjoining supernaturalism and christian piety. with the rise of pentecostalism in the

he defining of the illness, its cause, and its treatment by the healing practitioner.connected to specific notions of explanation, prediction, and control of affliction. for littlejohn, illness was not\ 101\ solely a matter of physical disorder. because he believed that he was the object of another's enmity.in this case, malice conveyed through a hidden "trick".the combined power of the charm and the evil intentions of its creator had direct consequences on his physical person. conjure healing was therapeutic, but conjure also caused the afflictions that necessitated treatment. black slaves and ex-slaves, as did their african forebears, connected physical suffering with the spiritual forces around which their lives revolved. personal affliction was rarely attributed to chance. rather, illn

ives revolved. personal affliction was rarely attributed to chance. rather, illness, and misfortune were seen as the outcome of malicious human actions or destructive powers. disease had moral implications; a lifethreatening illness could derive from an individual's own sinful deeds, or it might evolve from the ill will of an enemy. unanticipated misfortune could be a consequence of witchcraft or the evil thoughts of a meanspirited person. in the cosmology of supernatural affliction, misfortune was never random or abstract. in order to identify the sources of affliction, some healers resorted to divination. divination ritual was essential to the diagnostic process that began the healing process. using clairvoyance and prediction, conjurers were believed to be able to locate the direct sour

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

, although you be rejected by this our order, since we cannot all of us do all things at once. but for as much as your lordships have been seduced by base rascals, it shall not, on their part, pass unrevenged. and furthermore his majesty resolves shortly to communicate to your lordships a catalogue of heretics or index expurgatorius, that you may henceforth be able to discern between the good and the evil with better judgement. and because his majesty before long also intends to rummage his library, and offer up the seductive writings to vulcan, he friendlily, humbly, and courteously entreats every one of your lordships to do the same with your own, whereby it is to be hoped that all evil and mischief may for the time to come be remedied. and you are withal to be admonished, never hencefor

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

was tall and graceful with the body of a deer, the hooves of a horse, the tail of an ox, and the neck of a dragon. its body was covered with a yellow hide with dark red and purple spots. it had one fleshy horn in the center of its head. q: why did cheng think the unicorn might be a good omen for the people of her land? a: the chi-lin was known as an omen of peace. people believed that it punished the evil and spared the innocent. it reminded judges and soldiers of their obligations to be fair. q: what did the unicorn drop at the feet of cheng, and what did it tell her? a: it dropped a piece of jade at cheng s feet and told her that she would bear a child who would be a ruler without subjects, a king without a throne. q: what are some special qualities of jade? a: jade is a stone that has o

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your time. i can hear somebody thinking "i'm happily married" or someone else is saying "i've got four girlfriends now. what do i need with another one" well, there is something everyone, especially writers, need and that is more of the green, folding paper, without which life is just not worth the bother of living. money may be considered by some who can afford it to be the root of all evil, but the evil that money is the root of is benevolence itself compared the evils that come from the lack of it. let us be honest and realize that more sleep is lost and more dinners ruined by a lack of money than by any other cause. after all, if your mother-in-law dies while you are cooking dinner, you can always just dump the body in the corner until after you eat, but if the bills have to be paid, t

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on december 20th 1989, was connected with drugs, though not in the way it was portrayed by the government and the media. this is another fine example of how the truth of a situation is submerged in political rhetoric and media camouflage. we are told that american troops invaded panama and abducted president manuel noriega because of his drug running activities and to save american children from the evil of drugs. there is a chance that the very opposite is the case. noriega was on the payroll of the cia while bush was the director and he was being paid some $110,000 a year for his 'services, which included running drugs. when bush was challenged about this after the invasion of panama, he said he had never met noriega, but then suddenly remembered the meeting. noriega was involved in the

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is "wind" brought the sudden demise of sumer and the neighbouring akkadians. texts known as lamentations tell of a "calamity" that befell sumer, one "unknown to man, one that had never been seen before. there was an "evil wind, a battling storm and a "scorching heat. some kind of cloud shut out the sun by day and the stars by night. the texts continue "the people, terrified, could hardly breathe; the evil wind clutched them, does not grant them another day. mouths were drenched with blood, heads wallowed in blood. the face was made pale by the evil wind "it causes cities to be desolated, houses to become desolate; stalls to become desolate, the sheepfolds to be emptied. sumer's rivers make it flow with water that is bitter; its cultivated fields grow weeds, its pastures grow withering plan

literally. so are all the rest. even buddhism, which is claimed to be more enlightened, came from the same source and was sold as historical fact. look at buddha's background. he was born on december 25th to the virgin maya, with a star and wise men in tow. he was a "royal" bloodline and the ruler was told to kill the child to avoid being overthrown. he taught in the temple at 12, was tempted by the evil mara, and baptised in the presence of the spirit of god. he performed miracles, healed the sick, and fed 500 people with a small basket of cakes. he died (in some traditions on a cross) and was resurrected to nirvana or heaven. his tomb was miraculously opened and it was said he would return and judge the dead. buddha was the "light of the world, the "lord" and "master, the "good shepherd

normal. i have met healers who have worked on some famous people in the far east and these are the healing methods the illuminati use. they don't want us to know about such treatments and so they ridicule them, call them "quackery, or condemn them as evil, while secretly using them for their own benefit. most of the "quackery" goes on every day in the official hospitals and doctors' surgeries and the evil is in the billions of people who suffer and die when they could be cured if these suppressed healing methods were in widespread use. this is not to condemn all doctors, only the system which imprisons them. why do you think so many of the most prominent illuminati like david rockefeller and henry kissinger are able to jet around the world like 40 year olds when they are both in their 70s?

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inly not. but many of them are. there is also a common theme of a sacred placebeing guarded by a serpent or dragon. we have the serpent in the garden of eden andthe serpent/dragon theme is global. the persians spoke of a region of bliss and delightcalled heden which was more beautiful than all the rest of the world. it was the originalabode of the first men, they said, before they were tempted by the evil spirit, in the formof a serpent, to partake of the fruit of the forbidden tree. there is also the banyon treeunder which the hindu jesus, known as khrishna, sat upon a coiled serpent andbestowed spiritual knowledge on humanity. the ancient greeks had a tradition of theislands of the blessed and the garden of the hesperides in which grew a tree bearingthe golden apples of immortality. this

frica was expressed in the british isles andeurope by the druids and the giant or titan race, the reptilian-human crossbreeds ofthe ancient near east, were often symbolised as trees because of their height. in his1833 book, phoenician ireland, joachim de villeneuve, insisted that irish druidswere the snake priests of the phoenician seafarers. this would certainly explain theorigin of the balor of the evil eye, the irish version of the north african god baal,and the celebration in may of the baal ritual, beltane. the evil eye relates to thehypnotic stare of the reptilians. the sun god of the phoenicians was bel or bil andlater became known by the canaanites and babylonians as baal- nimrod. thedruids became the carriers of the mystery school tradition in britain, ireland andfrance or britann

lear weapons to force all nations to give up their sovereignty and submit to thedictatorship of the united nations.11eventually the agendas time-scale reached the point where the countries of thesoviet union had to be encompassed into the european union and na to in line with227the plan for a world government and world army. that could not be done while thesoviet union was still there and seen as the evil empire. onto the stage suddenlycame michail gorbachev; an associate and subordinate of those two brotherhoodmanipulators, henry kissinger and david rockefeller, and it was his job to play thegood guy and break up the soviet union. the berlin wall came down and peoplethought it was a blow for freedom, but it was just another step on the road to totalglobal domination. gorbachev left office

ind controlled high priestess/ mother goddess was impregnatedby pindar, she says, but her own mind began to reject the programming and she abortedthe foetus and broke with the brotherhood. as often happens, her programming beganto break down when her programmer, mengele, died in the late 1980s. arizona says thatpindar, like all the reptilians when they shape-shift, has very powerful hypnotic eyes(the evil eye of legend) and at sacrifices the victims face is turned to pindar at themoment of death for him to steal the persons soul or energy through this evil eyemagnetic process.the following is information that has been supplied by arizona: pindar attends themajor satanic ceremonies in europe and then flies to california for the rituals there.beltane used to be celebrated in trebuco canyon i

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w practice of sorcery, thus cannot be judged within a spectrum of the zoroastrian religion this gnosis is other and stands outside within practice. to make proper reference; and by their devotion to witchcraft (yatuk-dinoih) he seduces mankind into affection for himself and disaffection to ohrmazd, so that they forsake the religion of ohrmazd, and practice that of ahriman. the bundahishn, from on the evil-doing of ahriman and the demons, sacred books of the east, oxford university press, 1897 here lies the very foundation and cipher of the averse magical practice of satanic and luciferian magick it is other and exists outside any other religion, despite having inverse practices of traditional right hand path religions. sorcery is a religion, and its doctrines are written in the will and wo

mons, sacred books of the east, oxford university press, 1897 here lies the very foundation and cipher of the averse magical practice of satanic and luciferian magick it is other and exists outside any other religion, despite having inverse practices of traditional right hand path religions. sorcery is a religion, and its doctrines are written in the will and works of the magician his or herself. the evil eye itself holds a precedence and importance within the practice of yatuk-dinoih, there are specific demons of the evil eye. this may be considered in the context of powerful consciousness, the will in consistent motion; thus therein a part of the adversary. consider also the nature of the other demons, savar, who is the leader and may be corresponded to the hebrew belial, the angel of lu

dinoih. herein beyond the zoroastrian religion, acting outside of any connections with it, the sorcerer may choose this gnosis or current of the adversary in that he or she may seek the dangerous elements to strengthen their own will and separate themselves from those around them. in this act of antinomian rebellion, the sorcerer becomes a daeva or druj. the daeva known as akoman or aka manah is the evil mind, a personified demon of intellect which conspires against the vohu manah or good mind. herein presents a cipher to the reader; that they very essence of the so-called satanic or luciferian path known also as the left hand path is brought to the forefront to the simple description of what one would advance themselves on this path for. r.c. zaehner presented an interesting study of the

e to discover the antinomian nature of akht that this individual did not seek to align his psyche with the order perceived through the religious doctrine of zoroastrians, he found comfort and power within a perhaps darker path. it could not be conceivable that akht suggest no good should be done to men, as this would almost certify an extreme from which few would be able to live in accordance to. the evil-hearted, vicious sorcerer akht proclaimed enmity to the divine beings, affection to the demons, the abandonment of the adoration of the divine beings, and the practice of every maimer of demon-worship. denkard here is presented with the essence of what akhtya practiced and suggested that he despised the doctrine of that path, rather than being the inverse by nature of zoroastrianism. by t

with the selfless thinking of the right hand path, or monotheistic duty, the yatus through their own process of antinomian self-liberation chose alternative archetypes to cultivate and control the dark forces of the subconscious. ahriman, who is also called by the avestan word ganamino, is the religion of sorcery, of separating the self from the natural order of spenamino, which is spenta mainyu. the evil minded ganamino is the source of the evil intellect the evil-minded ganamino hopes to influence the creation of god. such a man exercises a miserable control over his desires owing to his evil intellect and the force of the evil invisible power in him he develops and perfects himself in sin- denkard this presents a foundation of the self which is indeed different from the path of the good

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of witches for the purposes of celebration and works of magick. an esbat usually occurs on the nights of the full or new moon. esoteric: greek for "secret" a term used to imply a type of knowledge or wisdom that is reserved only for the few. e.s.p: see extra sensory perception. evil eye: the projection of malefic occult force through the glance. persons, beasts, and growing things "overlooked" by the evil eye are believed to wither and die. a form of intentional psychic attack (q.v. evocation: 1) to evoke (q.v. 2) the calling forth of spirits into tactile and sometimes visible appearance or presence. usually spirits are evoked inside an equilateral triangle of the art (q.v) beyond the limit of the protective magick circle that surrounds the magician. evoke: 1) from the french language from

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of a fire extinguisher, and it is very necessary to have some such device handy, when one adventures into such highly charged levels of the unseen as are contacted by the methods he describes. now what is going to be the outcome of this general disclosure of the secrets of the mysteries? as in most drastic happenings, the results will be mixed; but it is my belief that the good will far outweigh the evil. that some folk will burn their fingers experimenting with that which they do not understand i have no doubt, but on the whole the gain to serious students will be inestimable. mr. regardie has done his work admirably, both in the spirit and in the letter. the tree of life is a book which it would be difficult to praise too highly; it is going to be one of the classics of occultism. when

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t whereby elohim separated the supernal waters of binah from the infernal waters of leviathan. 32. the signification of the qliphoth must be considered flilly in due course; but having referred to them here in order to explain the position of malkuth, we must say something further in order to render the explanation intelligible. 33. the qliphoth (singular qliphah, an immodest woman or harlot) are the evil or averse sephiroth, each an emanation of unbalanced force from its corresponding sphere upon the holy tree; these emanations took place during the critical periods of evolution when the sephiroth were not in equilibrium. for this reason they are referred to as the kings of unbalanced force, the kings of edom "who ruled before there was a king in israel" as the bible puts it; and in the w

as opposed to the static principle. 12. it will thus be seen that if kether, the source of all being is conceived of as the highest good, as it inevitably must he, and the nature of kether is kinetic and its influence is for ever inclined towards chokmah, it inevitably follows that binah, the opposite of chokmah, the perpetual opposer of the dynamic impulses, will be regarded as the enemy of god, the evil one. saturn-satan is an easy transition; and so is time-death-devil. implicit in the ascetic religions such as christianity and buddhism is the idea that woman is the root of all evil, because she is the influence which holds men to a life of form by their desires. matter is regarded by them as the antinomy of spirit in an eternal, unresolved duality. christianity is ready enough to recog

o through life without noting that every type of character has the vices of its virtues; that is to say, its virtues, carried to extremes, becomes vices. so it is with the seven planetary sephiroth; they have their good and bad aspects according to the proportions in which they are represented; when there is lack of equilibrium owing to the unbalanced force of a particular sephirah, we experience the evil influences of that [page 158] sephirah; for instance, saturn ate his children! death began to destroy life before it had fulfilled its function. no sephirah, therefore, is wholly and solely evil, not even geburah- which is destruction personified. they are all equally indispensable to the scheme of things as a whole, and their relative good or evil influence depends on their being where t

ntrasted with mercy and rnildness consequently geburah, the fifth sephirah, which has for additional titles din (justice) and pachad (fear, is one of the least understood of all the sephiroth, and is therefore one of the most important. were it not that the qabalistic doctrine explicitly lays it down that all the ten sephiroth are holy, there are many who would be inclined to look upon geburah as the evil aspect of the tree of life. indeed, the planet mars, whose sphere is the mundane chakra of geburah, is called in astrology an infortune. 2. those, however, who are instructed beyond the crude pretty-pretty of a wish-fulfilling philosophy know that geburah is by no means the enemy or adversary described in scripture, but the king in his chariot going forth to war whose strong right arm pro

bative element in the universe may not break from its allegiance to the one god, i am that i am. the sword must not be cursed as an instrument of the devil, but blessed and dedicated in mystical qabala page 124 order that it may never be unsheathed in an unrighteous cause. it must not be cast aside in an impracticable pacifism, but placed at god's service; so that when the command goes forth that the evil thing shall not be suffered any longer, the mighty khamael, archangel of geburah, may lead the seraphim into battle, not in destructive rage, but temperately and impersonally in god's service in order that evil may be cleared up and good prevail. iii 28. so much has already been said concerning the nature of geburah that a great deal does not remain to say in the analysis of the attributi

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expect much sympathy. however, it had to be faced, and i knew that with every hour of the thing's existence it would be harder to deal with, so i made the resolution to let the opportunity for revenge slip through my fingers, and at first dusk summoned the creature. it came in through the northern corner of the room again (subsequently i learnt that the north was considered among the ancients as the evil quarter, and presented itself upon the hearthrug in quite a mild and domesticated mood. i obtained an excellent materialisation in the half-light, and could have sworn that a big alsatian was standing there looking at me. it was tangible, even to the dog-like odour. from it to me stretched a shadowy line of ectoplasm, one end was attached to my solar plexus, and the other disappeared in t

ot yet in equilibrium, but is pushing out unsupported, like an incomplete arch. it is the uncompensated force emanated during this epoch of unbalance, and never subsequently absorbed after the establishment of the new sphere, which constitutes positive evil. there are, therefore, ten kinds of positive evil, just as there are ten divine emanations. to these spheres go, according to their kind, all the evil imaginings of the heart of man that are not neutralised by repentance or compensated by the overplus of good in other members of the same group-soul. there is a deep occult doctrine here which we cannot enter upon now; it must suffice to state it dogmatically in explanation of the qabalistic conception of the qlippoth. when we consider all that must have been poured into these ten sinks o

therapy touch the root of the trouble. the exorcism may have to be repeated two or three times in the course of the treatment, because the rapports may be renewed after they have been broken. but once the patient's complexes have been cleared up, they will not return. in any case, an exorcism produces marked temporary benefit; during the lull the patient gets a chance to pull himself together and the evil influences are undermined. a courageous patient, who is co-operating intelligently, will seldom have to be exorcised more than three times provided material conditions are favourable. i have seen cases cleared by a single exorcism, and remaining well indefinitely so long as the patient obeyed instructions and had nothing whatever to do with the unseen, neither reading books upon occultism

f the astral, but at least we can ensure that his wanderings shall be in a safe and pleasant part of the astral. people do not realise the extent to which the wanderings of delirium can be directed and controlled by suggestions whispered into the ear of the sick person. we can companion the sick man in his astral wanderings and make our voice heard among his visions, by our knowledge driving away the evil presences that threaten him and guiding his dreams into the way of peace. at the commencement of our diagnosis we must distinguish between three broad classes of psychic disturbance: those which are a by-product of physical disease, those which are due to malicious human action, and those which are due to non-human interference. the first type should be readily picked out by the doctor if

uses him to feel nothing but pity, malice causes him to feel nothing but compassion, and in regard to vampirism, he is so assured that his life is hid with christ in god that he would willingly let the vampire finish its meal in peace if he could thereby help it. in fact, the adept who proposes to perform a magical absorption has to reach the point where he has clearly realised the nothingness of the evil he proposes to absorb, and no longer has any feeling towards it but pity for an ignorance that thinks it can gain any good thing for itself in this way. he desires to uplift and educate and free the misguided soul from its bondage. until he has arrived at the point when he has no other feeling than this towards his persecutor, it is not safe for him to attempt an absorption. having satisf

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son, a salamander may be sent, but there is always the danger of backlash. salamanders do not like being told what to do, and must be compelled with words of power and the sigils of superior spirits. they resent this control. i should emphasize this point: salamanders are dangerous! leave them alone, and they will leave you alone. return hethome resources demons bios fiction tyson the truth about the evil eye (magic charm in the shape of a hand gesture to ward off the evil eye) the evil eye does exist. your eighty-five year old sicilian grandmother was right after all. but it doesn't function in quite the way she imagined. the true evil eye is not in the head of some elderly woman who casts her malicious, bloodshot glance your way- it is the eye through which you look upon your own world

ther of these popular notions is entirely accurate, since the faculty of sight entails much more than simply receiving radiant energy that shines upon our optic nerves- sight is a perception that occurs in our brains, where the light received is processed into images that we can comprehend. but the older folk explanation for how our eyes see the world helps to explain the underlying beliefs about the evil eye. the evil eye in its purest form was understood to be the deliberate projection of a ray of occult energy with the malicious intention to cause harm. several factors were thought to make it more powerful. if the person sending it was from a family or tribe noted for works of black magic, it would derive increased power from this hereditary predisposition. if the eye from which the evi

occult energy with the malicious intention to cause harm. several factors were thought to make it more powerful. if the person sending it was from a family or tribe noted for works of black magic, it would derive increased power from this hereditary predisposition. if the eye from which the evil was projected was bloodshot, or deformed in some way, this also increased its force. if a glance from the evil eye was sent in a sidelong way, from the corner of the eye of the malicious person, it was more powerful. most important of all, the effect was believed fatal if the person "overlooked" by the evil eye actually met the malicious gaze directly. there are various ways to turn aside or at least lessen the harmful effects of this baleful sidelong glance. laughter was thought to weaken its pow

ilarly, a shiny object such as a large, bright piece of jewelry attracted the focus of the person projecting the malicious ray, so that it did not enter the eye of the victim directly. another good defense was to carry the image of an eye as jewelry or embroidered into clothing or as a tattoo- the belief was that the ray from this artificial eye would extend itself first and displace the ray from the evil eye. these artificial eyes were sometimes realistic, but often they were highly stylized and almost unnoticed in the pattern of cloth or the decoration on metalwork. a popular gesture to defuse the power of the glance involved making a fist in which the thumb is thrust between the index and middle finger. this hand gesture was also used as the pattern for a charm to be carried on the body

e- see the illustration at the top of this page. it's difficult to imagine what practical purpose this gesture might serve, even in a symbolic sense, but it was believed to be a highly effective means of protection. for christians, to cross oneself and to utter a prayer under the breath offered some protection. a cross or crucifix worn around the neck was a sentinel against not only vampires, but the evil eye as well. stories of the evil eye are ancient. the philosopher francis bacon observed "scripture calleth envy an evil eye" a reference to proverbs 23:6-8, which reads "eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats; for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. the morsel which thou

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self-destructive. exorcising a spirit must be done magically, by calling upon a higher authority to which the spirit is subject, and by erecting wards and boundaries that the spirit cannot cross. one approach is to bind the spirit into an inanimate object, and then to discard the object in some remote place where it will not be disturbed. this was the technique used by king solomon, when he bound the evil spirits, or genii, into a brass bottle and cast the bottle into the sea (or by another account, into a deep lake. if this approach is used, be sure to put the object where no one will discover it by chance. there is a danger that anyone finding such a bound spirit may, without knowing what they are doing, release the spirit, and themselves become possessed by it. return hy home resources

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radictions of logic by declaring that the vampire is a spirit without a physical body. this spiritual vampire is a type of hungry ghost of a deceased evil doer who sucks out the life-force of his or her friends and relatives during the nights. these ghostly vampires always return to those they knew during life. to prevent the return of the spirits, the families took great care to have the body of the evil person staked to the ground in the grave. the stake was thought to pin the restless spirit into its corpse and prevent its nightly visitations. to be extra certain, the head of the corpse was cut off and its mouth stuffed with garlic. in the most ancient of all vampire legends, such as those that existed in egypt during pre-dynastic times, the vampire was a wholly physical corpse, reanima

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

only one title; see naville, todtenbuch, bd. i, b1. 6] p. xxxii theban version: list of chapters. chapter v. the chapter of not allowing the deceased to do work in the underworld. vignette: the deceased kneeling on one knee. chapter vi. the chapter of making ushabtiu figures do work for a man in the underworld. vignette: an ushabti figure chapter vii. the chapter of passing over the back of apep, the evil one. vignette: the deceased spearing a serpent. chapter viii. another chapter of the tuat, and of coming forth by day. vignette: the deceased kneeling before a ram. chapter ix. the chapter of passing through the tuat. vignette: the deceased kneeling before a ram. chapter x (this chapter is now known as chapter xlviii) chapter xi* the chapter of coming forth against his enemies in the unde

rd of creation was born. in course of time he became king of egypt, and devoted himself to civilizing his subjects and to teaching them the craft of the husbandman; he established a code of laws and bade men worship the gods. having made egypt peaceful and flourishing, he set out to instruct the other nations of the world. during his absence his wife isis so well ruled the state that typhon [set, the evil one, could do no harm to the realm of osiris. when osiris came again, typhon plotted with seventy-two comrades, and with aso, the queen of ethiopia, to slay him; and secretly got the measure of the body of osiris, and made ready a fair chest, which was brought into his banqueting hall when osiris was present together with other guests. by a ruse osiris was induced to lie down in the chest

and even later. the priest whose official title was kher heb, recited the prayers, and the sem or setem priest presented the prescribed offerings. the rubrical directions are given on the margin for the sake of clearness. funeral ceremonies. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod11.htm (1 of 5 [8/10/2001 11:24:10 am "o osiris] all that is hateful in unas hath been brought unto thee,[1] and all the evil words which have been spoken in his name. come, o thoth, and take them unto osiris, bring all the evil words which have been spoken and place them in the hollow of thy hand;[2] thou shalt not escape therefrom, thou shalt not escape therefrom. whosoever marcheth, marcheth with his ka. horus marcheth with his ka, set marcheth with his ka, thoth marcheth with[3] his ka, sep marcheth with his

the north, of the west and of the east. ascribe [ye] praise unto ra, the lord of heaven, the (8) prince, life, health, and strength, the creator of the gods, and adore ye him in his beautiful presence as he riseth in the atet[6] boat (9) they who dwell in the heights and they who dwell in the depths worship thee. thoth[7] and maat both are thy recorders. thine enemy[8] is given to the (10) fire, the evil one hath fallen; his arms are bound, and his legs hath ra taken from him. the children of (11) impotent revolt shall never rise up again [1. according to the egyptian belief man consisted of a body xa, a soul ba, an intelligence xu, and ka, the word ka means "image" the greek ei?'dolon (compare coptic kau peyron, lexicon, p. 61. the ka seems to have been the "ghost" as we should say, of a

hen] they see ra in his rising; his beams flood the world with light (13) the majesty of the god, who is to be feared, setteth forth and cometh unto the land of manu; he maketh bright the earth at his birth each day; he cometh unto the place where he was yesterday (14) o mayest thou be at peace with me; may i behold thy beauties; may i advance upon the earth; may i smite the ass; may i crush (15) the evil one; may i destroy apep[2] in his hour[3; may i see the abtu[4] fish at the time of his creation, and the ant fish in his creation, and the (16) ant[4] boat in its lake. may i see horus in charge of the rudder, with thoth [1, more fully "the great house of the old man" i.e, the great temple of ra at heliopolis: see brugsch, dict. g og, p. 153. 2 apep, the serpent, personifying darkness, w

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incomplete and fugitive forms. this occasioned the nightmares of saint antony, and, very probably, the visions of swedenborg. they are neither souls in hell nor spirits guilty of mortal sin; they are simply inquisitive and inoffensive. we can employ or abuse them like animals or children. therefore the magus who employs their help assumes a terrible responsibility, for he will have to expiate all the evil which he makes them do, and the greatness of his torments will be proportionate to the extent of the power which he will have exercised through their agency. in order to control elementary spirits, and thus become the king of the occult elements, we must have previously undergone the four trials of the ancient initiations. as these no longer exist, it is necessary to supply their place by

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contained in the book of the penitence of adam, which supplements and throws considerable light on the entire kabalistic literature. adam, l abbe about the time that the templars were being driven from france, the devil was said to have appeared under various guises to the abbe adam, who was journeying with one of the servants from his convent to another part of his abbacy of the vaux de cernay. the evil spirit first opposed the progress of the abbe taking the form of a tree white with frost, which rushed toward him with inconceivable swiftness. the abbe s horse trembled with fear, as did the servant, but the abbe himself made the sign of the cross, and the tree disappeared. the abbe concluded that he had seen the devil and called upon the virgin to protect him. nevertheless, the fiend sh

sappeared. the abbe concluded that he had seen the devil and called upon the virgin to protect him. nevertheless, the fiend shortly reappeared in the shape of a furious black knight. begone, said the abbe. why do you attack me far from my brothers? the devil once more left him, but returned in the shape of a tall man with a long, thin neck. to get rid of him, adam struck him a blow with his fist. the evil spirit shrank and took the stature and countenance of a little cloaked monk, with a glittering weapon under his garb. his little eyes could be seen darting and glancing under his cowl. he tried hard to strike the abbe with the sword he held, but adam repulsed the strokes with the sign of the cross. the demon became in turn a pig and a long-eared ass. the abbe, impatient to be on his way

d ossendowski. ossendowski (1876.1945) was a polish writer who traveled extensively through central asia in the 1920s (see also shaver mystery; subterranean cities) sources: dickhoff, robert ernest. agharta. mokelumne hill, calif: health research, 1964. ossendowski, ferdinand. beasts, men, and gods. new york: e. p. dutton, 1922. agla a word from the kabala formerly used by rabbis for exorcisms of the evil spirit. it is made up of the initial letters of the hebrew words, athah gabor leolam, adonai, meaning, thou art powerful and eternal, lord. among superstitious christians it was also a favorite weapon with which to combat the evil one, as late as the sixteenth century. it is found in many books on magic, notably in the enchiridion ascribed to pope leo iii. agapis encyclopedia of occultism

a favorite weapon with which to combat the evil one, as late as the sixteenth century. it is found in many books on magic, notably in the enchiridion ascribed to pope leo iii. agapis encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 16 aglaophotis a kind of herb said to grow in the deserts of arabia and much used by sorcerers for the evocation of demons. other plants were then employed to retain the evil spirits as long as the sorcerer required them. agondonter (newsletter) quarterly publication concerned with the twentieth-century channeled gospel urantia, published by the first urantia society of los angeles. last known address: po box 563, los angeles, ca 90053. agpaoa, tony (1939.1982) a filipino spiritualist healer, born in 1939, who claimed to perform surgery with his bare hands wit

lis. for some time afterward the spirit haunted her wherever she went, continually rapping on the ground near where she stood and even communicating with the other nuns. the spirit who entered the monastery seemed good and devout, but the good sisters, well versed in the wiles of the devil, had their doubts. the bishop of lyons and the narrator, adrien de montalembert, were called in to deal with the evil spirit. after many prayers and formalities, the spirit of alis was found to be an innocent one, attended by a guardian angel. she answered a number of questions regarding her present state and her desire for christian burial, and confirmed the doctrines of the catholic church, notably that of purgatory. the remains of sister alis were conveyed to consecrated ground, and prayers made for t

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

hwestern tribes of the dominion of canada (1889, franz boas gives evidence of the custom among these peoples. when many deaths resulted from disease, the canadian indians sacrificed the joints of their little fingers in order to (they explained) cut off the deaths. magia posthuma (of c. f. de schertz) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 956 among the indian madigas (telugu pariahs, the evil eye was averted by sacrificers who dipped their hands in the blood of goats or sheep and impressed them on either side of a house door. this custom was also known to the brahmans of india. impressions of hands were also occasionally seen on the walls of muslim mosques in india. as among the northwest canadian tribes, the hand ceremony was most frequently practiced in india when epidemics

rather than a pagan faith) and thus the proper concern of the inquisition. that change of perspective led to the fierce and relentless persecution that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of individuals accused of practicing the religion of witchcraft, as opposed to merely practicing malevolent magic (i.e, sorcery, which had long been illegal. this work is in three parts. part i fulminates against the evil of witchcraft, which is characterized as renunciation of the catholic faith, homage to the devil, and carnal intercourse with demons. even disbelief in the existence of witches and witchcraft was declared a grave heresy. part ii details the specific practices of witches. part iii sets forth rules for legal action and conviction of witches. the antiquary thomas wright, in his book narrativ

the time of the publication of the malleus maleficarum, the continental press during two or three generations teemed with publications on the all-absorbing subject of sorcery. one of the points on which opinion had differed most was, whether the sorcerers were carried bodily through the air to the place of meeting, or whether it was an imaginary journey, suggested to their minds by the agency of the evil one. the authors of the malleus decide at once in favour of the bodily transmission. one of them was personally acquainted with a priest of the diocese of frisingen, who declared that he had in his younger days been carried through the air by a demon to a place at a very great distance from the spot whence he had been taken. another priest, his friend, declared that he had seen him carrie

e scientific label of teratology. deformed and limbless children are now known to be caused by rare genetic factors or by the use of such drugs as thalidomide in pregnancy. in modern times, much of the superstitious awe surrounding legendary monsters has passed into the world of fiction, and talented novelists have created images of scientific or technological doom like godzilla and frankenstein, the 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

e loch ness monster was stimulated by reports of the decomposing body of a sea creature caught by the japanese trawler zuiyo maru about 30 miles east of christchurch, new zealand, on april 25, 1977. the carcass was about 30 feet long, weighed two tons, and was raised from a depth of approximately 900 feet. for a time, it was suspended above the trawler deck by a crane, but the captain feared that the evil-smelling fluid dripping from the carcass would pollute his catch of whiptail fish and ordered the creature to be dumped overboard. before this was done, michihiko yano, an official of the taiyo fishery company aboard the vessel, took four color photographs and made a sketch of the carcass, after taking measurements. he described the creature as like a snake with a turtle s body and with f

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil. it is the antithesis and the opposer; the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse; the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou, therefore, the celestial serpent as of brass; glistening with green and gold, the colors of vegetation and of growth. banish thou, therefore, the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst know the life of ages, thou who would follow in the footsteps of our master, o brother of the order of the golden dawn! for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up and raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of eternal life. and when, like our master, thou art extended upo

s is the sin of the fall; even the separation of the material plane from the sephiroth, through the interposition of the coils of the stooping dragon. therefore, twklm must be cleansed, and thus, is the redemption to come, for christ expiated not sin until after he had overcome the temptation. but surely, all things in the creation are necessary, seeing that one existeth not without the other and the evil also helpeth the work, for this the greater and more intense the darkness, by so much the more doth the light become bright by contrast and draweth, as it were, increased force from the blackness. the infernal habitations in the first circle are the waters of tears, in the second circle are the waters of creation, in the third circle are the waters of ocean, in the fourth circle is the fa

5. tzelmoth- the shadow of death 6. shaari moth- the gates of death 7. gehinnom- hell the mercavah in the mercavah vision of ezekiel it is written "and i beheld a whirlwind come forth out of the north; a great cloud and a fire enfolding itself, and a splendour on every side, and the brilliance of the innermost flame in the midst of the fire" 4 there are the four kerubic expressions of force, and the evil and adverse powers broken beneath their feet 1. rahab (bahar) whose symbol is a woman riding upon an ass. 2. samael (lams) whose symbol is a terrible demon leaping upon an ox. 3. macholoth (twlwjam) a form compounded of a woman and a serpent, and she rideth upon a serpent scorpion. 4. lilith (tylyl, a woman outward beautiful but inwardly corrupt and putrefying, riding upon a strange and t

n an ass. 2. samael (lams) whose symbol is a terrible demon leaping upon an ox. 3. macholoth (twlwjam) a form compounded of a woman and a serpent, and she rideth upon a serpent scorpion. 4. lilith (tylyl, a woman outward beautiful but inwardly corrupt and putrefying, riding upon a strange and terrible beast. j bwlwg wryrgt qrz bru laylmg lams k b j laymwat layrts laygwu hlkcug g t h n m y tylyl 5 the evil and averse powers beneath the feet of the four kerubim to these four are attributed the four kingdoms and they are also classed under the sephiroth. sephiroth spirit kingdom qlippoth rtk hmkj hnyb tylyl (strange beast) babel splendor l dsj hrwbg trapt twlwjam (serpent scorpion) greeks whirling o jxn dwh dwsy lams (ox) medes great cloud n twklm bahar (ass) edom whirlwind m the above paper

gleaming, watery line whose forms are like hideous women, almost similar to skeletons united to the bodies of serpents and fishes, for l. in the midst of the circle are placed lams and admca. the symbolic form of the former is somewhat like that of the devil of the tarot, but colossal and attenuated; the form is of a bloated bestial man, in a crouching position. at the southwest corner are placed the evil adam, a goat-headed skeleton-like giant, and the thousand-headed 7 hydra serpent, and the elder tylyl, the wife of lams, a woman with an ever changing and distorted countenance. at the northeast angle is trga (aggerath) the daughter of twlwjam, a fiendish wretch with serpent hair, enthroned in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. at the northwest angle is a gigantic scorpion with a fearfu

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

nced dan-yell, the son of david and corinthian. once on earth, the habanas s souls occupied human bodies. with the passing of centuries, during which the habanas reincarnated repeatedly, other habanas arrived, filling earth with extraterrestrial agents who with each life gained new knowledge that would be useful when the day of reckoning the cleansing of the human race and the final showdown with the evil forces of the universe came. this climax would occur within the lifetimes of most living people. in this life, daniel was keith macdonald. david said, keith has now graduated and become a prophet. he is a prophet of christ. he is a prophet of god. the people of landa, devout christians, practice a form of roman catholicism. raised a protestant, macdonald knew little of catholicism until t

rcely expressed conspiracy theory with openly anti-semitic elements. for example: a n a rchy is something that the jew pro m o t e s re l e n t l e s s l y. while in complete control of the financial powers of the state, they promote internecine strife (ec k e r, 1992. hatonn also denies that the holocaust ever occurred. ha t o n n refers to jews who are working with the anti- christ, satan, and the evil leaders of the new world order to control the world. the plotters call it plan 2000. the space people and their e a rthly allies such as those in the phoenix pro ject are working to thwart the conspiracy and to c reate a new earth after wars and natural disasters have reshaped the face of the planet. see also: ashtar; channeling; contactees; sananda further reading ecker, don, 1992. haton

FAUST

stion seems but cheap from one who for the word has such contempt, who from all outward show is quite exempt and only into beings would delve deep. faust the being of such gentlemen as you, indeed, in general, from your titles one can read. it shows itself but all too plainly when men dub you liar or destroyer or beelzebub. well now, who are you then? mephistopheles part of that power which would the evil ever do, and ever does the good. faust a riddle! say what it implies! mephistopheles i am the spirit that denies! and rightly too; for all that doth begin should rightly to destruction run; twere better then that nothing were begun. thus everything that you call sin, destruction- in a word, as evil representthat is my own, real element. faust you call yourself a part, yet whole you re sta

so i, as many young men do, avail myself of false calves now for many a year. the witch [dancing. i almost lose my senses and my brain- oh, dear! to see squire satan once more here! mephistopheles that title, woman, i forbid it me! the witch why? has it done you any injury? mephistopheles that s been known as a fable many a season; but men have things no better for that reason. free are they from the evil one; the evil are still here. just call me baron, that will satisfy me. like other cavaliers i am a cavalier. my noble blood you don t deny me; this is the coat of arms i bear, see here! he makes an indecent gesture. the witch [laughs immoderately. ha! ha! that is your very way! just as you ever were, you are a rogue today! mephistopheles [to faust. my friend, learn well and understand, t

so rough! what work is there that i ve not had to do? my mother s more than strict enough. they pass on. martha and you, sir, are you always on the go? mephistopheles alas, that business, duty, drive us so! with how much pain one goes from many a place, and even so, one simply must not stay. martha in active years perhaps tis well this way, thus freely round and round the world to race; but then the evil times come on apace, and as a bachelor to drag on to the grave alone, that has been good for no one, you must own. mephistopheles with dread i see it far away. martha then, worthy sir, consider while you may! they pass on. margaret yes, out of sight is out of mind! to you so easy is this courtesy; but many friends you always find, more sensible than i can be. faust o dear one! trust me, t

FOCUS OF LIFE

in the mountains. before projection he prayed thus to the waters-"o thou i, vice versa-my god. i at least shall not be thy jest. in life i have realized possibilities not contained in heaven-amidst a cowardice inconceivable but accomplished everywhere. i have made known [opening his book] something that is different to the muck of retouched photography which men call reality: although it has been the evil habit of thousands of years. i have created art [lived belief] that surpasses all evolved conception. i have incarnated that which i-need to rationalize: verily-not the ever present portraiture of experience to satisfy the ovine: no obvious allegory of assesthinking god: no still-life group of empty bottles and old maids commonplaces: nor the gay-tragedy of song. but stange desires of str

of birth. resist not desire by repression: but tranmute desire by changing to the greater object" tzula answered "alas! this dreadful thing of desire seeks its liberation in willing opposite to all my efforts of conciliation: cannot marriage be my emancipation" aaos answered "o my sister, must thou become ever smaller from thy small desires? oh! renounce half-desiring, much better is it to marry the evil. for thee my sister, i wish no marriage but the marriage of the greater love. for i announce, the day to come, yea it is nigh, thy absorption in a male incarnation. what is nature but thy past will incarnated and removed from consciousness by its further desires? the relationship still living provokes the involuntary purpose-thy opposition to which causes disease, and is but resistance of

rly youth, he met a beautiful maiden-famous among men who knew perfection. she was everything desirous, even to her name. he became her lover, and knew her. to be true. but an evil voice spoke unto him and he doubted her, believing the voice-because it was of one he had made his friend. in youth-like rage he cast aside his lover and wandered into marriage of every kind, without satisfaction. then the evil voice died. for years aaos wandered restlessly seeking, but never finding his lost love: thinking they were both in hell. then in his utmost weariness and despair, he thought much more deeply; and at last realized that the dream was the time for magic. and then he willed. with the new moon his wish was materialized and again he met his first and only love. their hearts being still virgin

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

tious to him through filial love and uttering benedictions and hymns. trismegistus gives thanks to pimander for having revealed all things to him, but wishes also to know about the "ascension. pimander explains that at death the mortal body dissolves into its corporeal elements but the spiritual man goes up through the armature of the spheres leaving at each sphere a part of his mortal nature and the evil it contains. then, when entirely denuded of all that the spheres had imprinted on him, he enters into the "ogdoadic" nature, hears the powers singing hymns to god and becomes mingled with the powers. trismegistus is now dismissed by pimander "after having been invested with powers and instructed in the nature of the all and the supreme vision" he begins to preach to the people urging them

t and thought nonsense. and believe me, it will be considered a capital crime under the law to give oneself to the religion of the mind. a new justice will be created and new laws. nothing holy, nothing pious, nothing worthy of heaven and of the gods who dwell there, will be any more spoken of nor will find credence in the soul. the gods will separate themselves from men, deplorable divorce. only the evil angels will remain who will mingle with men, and constrain them by violence miserable creatures to all the excesses of criminal audacity, engaging them in wars, brigandage, frauds, and in everything which is contrary to the nature of the soul. then the earth will lose its equilibrium, the sea will no longer be navigable, the heaven will no longer be full of stars, the stars will stop thei

tual description of magical practices in the admiring reference to the methods by which the egyptians "made gods, but also even the loftiest and most mystical of the philosophical hermetic treatises presuppose, as we have seen, an astrological pattern in the cosmos. gnosticism and magic go together. the pessimist gnostic needs to know the magical passwords and signs by which he may rid himself of the evil material 1 text of the stobaeus fragments, with french translation, in c.h, vols. i l l and iv. 2 scott tried to make such a separation, treating the philosophical hermetica as quite distinct from, and infinitely superior to, the "masses of rubbish" going under the name of hermes (scott, i, p. i. festugiere, on the other hand, devotes the first volume of his revelation to "l'astrologie et

t pico thinks that the hermetic "punishments" correspond to ten evil things5 in cabala which are driven out by their good opposites that is by the ten sephiroth in an experience of which he did not speak in the cabalist con- 1 scholem, jewish gnosticism, pp. 65 ff. 2 pico, p. 80. 3 see above, pp. 30-1. 4 pico, loc. cit. 5 according to s. l. macgregor matthews, the kabbalah unveiled, london, 1951, the evil opposites of the sephiroth would be the ten archdevils, satan, beelzebub, and so on. 109 pico della mirandola and cabalist magic elusions, because it was too secret and holy to divulge. that is to say (or so i interpret it, pico believes that the fundamental experience of the cabalist, when the ten sephiroth or powers and names of god, take up their abode in his soul, having driven out al

ht of matter permeated by influences which are in themselves evil. it is possible, as i suggested earlier,1 that these distinctions were blurred for a renaissance reader. how little ficino understood dualism is indicated by the fact that he took ormuzd, mithras, and ahriman to be the expression among the magi of persia of the truth pervading all rehgions that god is a trinity,2 whereas ahriman is the evil principle in the uncompromisingly dualist zoroastrian system. with this determination to find adumbrations of christian truths everywhere, he would be likely to ignore, or to misunderstand as an "egyptian" version of christian asceticism, the dualist aspects of the hermetica. moreover, many of the most influential of the hermetic treatises, including the asclepius, are far from dualist an

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

r new character it is expected that you will conform to the principles of the order, by steadily preserving in the practice of every commendable virtue. such is the nature of your engagements as a fellowcraft, and to these duties you are bound by the most sacred of ties. chapter v. the third, or master mason's degree. first section* lesson. remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say, i have no pleasure in them; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain; in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened

file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (27 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:55 am] golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto god who gave it. the following hymn may be used instead of the lesson: musicsinai, or windham. i. let us remember in our youth, before the evil days draw nigh, our great creator, and his truth! ere memory fail and pleasure fly; or sun, or moon, or planet's light grow dark, or clouds return in gloom; ere vital spark no more incite; when strength shall bow, and years consume. ii. let us in youth remember him who formed our frame, and spirits gave, ere windows of the mind grow dim, or door of speech obstructed wave; when voice of bi

riends and brothers, among whom no contention should ever exist, save that noble contention, or rather emulation, of who best can work and best maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (29 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:55 am] agree* second section* prayer. thou, 0 god! knowest our downsitting and our uprising, and understandest our thoughts afar off. shield and defend us from the evil intentions of our enemies, and support us under the trials and afflictions we are destined to endure, while traveling through this vale of tears. man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. he cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee; thou hast appo

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

vil counterpart. in fact, satanism and freemasonry both share the same, very revealing, symbol to depict this situation. quoting from masonic sources, you are provided with this picture. in these symbols, the left-hand pentagram surrounded by the magic circle is lucifer- the good god- with the one point upward and two down; the right-hand pentagram, again surrounded by the magic circle, is satan- the evil god- with the two points up and the one down. these symbols depict exactly what albert pike is talking about in the paragraph above. he says that the evil god, whom he calls seth or typhon [typhon is listed in the satanic bible as infernal names for satan] is the adversary of the good god, osiris; therefore, pike is saying osiris is lucifer, a finding consistent with the rest of the occul

a digest of the writings of eliphas levi, chicagodelaurence, scott, and company, inc, 1966 edition, 1909, p. 223- note: waite is a freemason author; also shown in d. duane winters, a search for light in a place of darkness: a study of freemasonry, p. 69] you should find this highly interesting that the masonic street layout for washington, d.c, which is on another page, is laid out in the form of the evil pentagram on the right, the symbol for satan, also known as the goats head of mendes. therefore, the masonic plan for the united states is one of evil, even in their own minds, not good. pan. satan is not a black god, but negation of god. this is not a person, but a force, created for good, but which may represent evil. it is the instrument of liberty or free will. they represent this for

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

and consequently there lurks within it the makings of a world religion. that it should show remarkable resemblance fs to zoroastrianism is to be expected, for both flourished in adjacent regions. as the qabalah is largely an exposition of the upper and lower, god and the image of god, so is the zoroastrian philosophy founded on the idea of the passive and active in nature- the so-called good and the evil. as to the qabalist the mediating agent is the will, so to the zoroastrian the great magical agent is in actual fact no other than lucifer- the vehicle of light. to pythagoras, god was absolute truth clothed in light, all things emerged from the tetrad, and the mediator was number manifested by form. to him material forms were but images or illusions of real forms, and this was the view a

e world of action, also called the world of qliphoth, that is the world of shells or demons. in its ten sephiroth lives the actual material substance of the universe. it is the abode of sammael, the prince of darkness. it is subject to change, birth, death, corruption and re-birth, yet not anything in it is considered as ever totally annihilated or destroyed in essence or atom. it is the abode of the evil spirit and his demonical forces. 24 such are the four worlds. in the simple sephirotic scheme the first is referred to kether 'hokmah, and binah; the second to 'hesed, pahad, and tiphereth; the third to netzah, hod, and yesod; and the fourth to affixed to the throne legions to serve it [the ten angelic hosts of this world. and for the service of these, the holy, blessed be he! made sammae

list meditated upon this problem, until wisdom revealed to him that the world of action is fashioned of two distinct yet inseparable elements: the positive life-giving principle which reveals itself as energy, and the negative death-giving principle which reveals itself as inertia. to him the first is spiritual and the second material. the one he symbolizes by the hosts of angels and the other by the evil spirits of the qliphoth. isaac myer explains this very clearly when he writes: the qabbalah does not recognize in the good and evil, two independent, automatic, opposing powers, but both are, according to it, under the power of the supreme absolute deity. it asserts that the evil springs out of the good, and only originated from a diversion of the latter. evil exists, for god's own wise p

tree of life is a pictorial representation of man. to the tree of life each sephirah is both good and evil: good in its relation to the sephirah immediately above it, and evil in its relation to the sephirah immediately below it. in the sepher yetzirah we read the ineffable sephiroth. they are. the infinity of the beginning and the infinity of the end, the infinity of the good and the infinity of the evil. 7 and again: twenty-two basal letters; they are placed together in a ring, as a wall with two hundred and thirty-one gates. the ring may be put in rotation forwards or backwards and its token is this: nothing excels gno= ong= pleasure) in good, and nothing excels ogn= ngo= plague) in evil. 8 in man good and evil represent the pillars of mercy and severity (or justice, whilst free will re

mately (through a reversed process of emanation) reinstate the no-thingness of the ayin. as we have shown, the first fall is from the ain soph to adam qadmon, the second from adam qadmon to metatron, the third from metatron to sammael, and the fourth from the angelic sammael to his demoniacal counterpart; for we are told that glife in the present dispensation is cut short through the influence of the evil serpent, whose dominion is symbolized by the darkened moon h. 11 the mention of the gevil serpent h presupposes the existence of a ggood serpent h- the serpent of yetzirah. to simplify this problem it is necessary to enter more deeply into the idea of the fall. sammael of necessity revolts against deity, as symbolized by metatron, and of necessity he is cast out of heaven- that is out of

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

o air, an egg floated on the face of the deep, which, being parted, brought forth love, or cupid. out of chaos this god created or formed all things. now cupid is the same as the greek phanes, and phanes is noah, the egg being the ark or female principle from which he was produced. the greek god phanes is the same as the egyptian osiris, who was driven into the ark by the "wind that blasts" or by the evil principle [45] the theogony "as cupid is indifferently said to have been produced from an egg at a time when the whole world was in disorder, and from the womb of the marine goddess venus, the egg and the womb of that goddess must denote the same thing. accordingly we shall find that, on the one hand, venus is immediately connected with the symbolical egg; and, on the other hand, that she

ake their appearance in history, they are sun worshippers, as are all the nations by which they are surrounded. they are worshippers of seth the destroyer and regenerator; but when the philosophical truths underlying the ancient universal religion were forgotten, or when through ignorance the language setting forth these mysteries was taken literally, seth became identified with the destroyer, or the evil principle. in the meantime man had come to believe himself the sole creator of offspring. he is spirit, which is eternal; woman is matter, which is not only destructible but altogether evil. he is heat or passion--the principle through which life is produced. she represents the absence of heat. she is the simoom of the desert and the chilly blast which destroys. that it was no part of the

ary 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 that three were born in paradise- adam, eve, the serpent; or when he speaks of three persons, namely

ess" we shall perceive that his (or her) satanic majesty was once a very respectable personage and a powerful divinity--a divinity which was worshipped by a people whose superior intelligence can scarcely be questioned. regarding this subject higgins remarks "persons who have not given much consideration to these subjects will be apt to wonder that any people should be found to offer adoration to the evil principle; but they do not consider that, in all these recondite systems, the evil principle, or the destroyer, or lord of death, was at the same time the regenerator. he could not destroy but to reproduce, and it was probably not till this principle began to be forgotten, that the evil being, per se, arose; for in some nations this effect seems to have taken place. thus baal-zebub is, in

ving energy throughout the universe. we have observed that when the profound principles underlying the most ancient doctrines had been lost or forgotten, and when through the decay of philosophy, and through the stimulation of the sensual in human nature, mankind had lost the power to reason abstractly, destruction, which was symbolized by darkness or the absence of the sun's rays, finally became the evil principle, or the devil. darkness and cold, which had formerly been worshipped as the powers which brought forth the sun, or as mother of the sun, in process of time became the agency which is ever warring with good and which is constantly destroying that which the latter brings forth. we are informed by forlong that "some derive our term devil from niphl or nevil, the wind that blasts or

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decipher the verses, although his comments, giving parallels fromkabbalistic sources, can be read.'theuse of thechalice',hesays,'belongs to a recondite order ofinfemal symbolism.itisnotmerely the affirmation oftwoprinciples in the atziluth worldbutin a veiled yet discernible. mannerit propounds thefrightfuldoctrinethat the masculine principle emanates from the good principle and the feminine from the evil principle. it is in fact, the occult theory of monosexualism based on a blasphemous distortionofthesacred text' succeedingversesinvolve further distortions and blasphemies-not, however, to. be taken seriously. he sums uptherite in this way:therite puts asunderwhatgod has joined together. it then unites them in abondof defiance to the command that they should fill the earth. it takes the m

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for the reception of magical force; but unless the operator canreallyattract that force to them, they are nothing but so many dead, and to him worthless, diagrams. but used by the initiate who fully comprehends their meaning, they become to him a powerful protection and aid, seconding and focussing the workings of his will" in an earlier work,the key ofsolomontheking(1889),hepower63warns against the evil use of magic:'lethim who..determines10work evil be assured that this evilwill recoil on himself and that he will be struck by the reflex current' dion fortune, however, thought that working any kind of magical, as opposed to initiatory, rituals was always fraught with danger 'i cannot say much upon these subjects, for they are among the most secret paths of occult lore. enough must be hin

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sposition for intercession with god, and paul appears to have combated this dogma.themohammedans taught that two guardian angels watched each man's actions, one registering his good and the other his bad actions, and that they were so regardful of man's fate that they deferred a decision on his conduct after a wicked action until they had allowed him to sleep, and if on awaking he repented him of the evil the bad record was not made. among the ancient persians there was an idea that each man had five angel guards; the first at his right hand to write his good actions, a second at his left hand to record his sins, a third before him to show the correct path, a fourth behind him to ward off the attacks of evil powers, and the fifth before his face to sustain his aspirations.thesiamese recogn

rs, but only of such as have been madeinthe hebrew tongue. metatron is the highest angel before god and specially represents his power. he it was who led the israelites out ofangels129egypt; for god has said my name is in him. this is explained by the methods of gematria and temurathus-shadai,almighty is sh=300,d=4,1=10, total 314; and metatronis m=40, t=9, t=9, r=200, v=6 and n=50, total 314. of the evil angels there are also numerous details found in the rabbinic tracts.thetalmud says: six things are declared concerning demons. they have three points in common with men, and three with ministering angels. they eat and drink, propagate and die like men. they have wings, they fly and they know future events like the angels. codexchagija cap. ii.p,16. the names of several female demons are c

eing subject under certain conditions to mastery by the magician. hence has arisen the system of practical occult working, which has been the aim of so many students who have sacrificed the ordinary pleasures of the world to the aim of wonder working, and to the hope of attaining intercourse with such superhuman beings for enlight255 enment and knowledge with power. the rosicrucians also refer to the evil spiritual angels who tempt man to sin, as their duty, and those are apt to attack and injure man if he is not protected by his own goodness. ceremonial magic is largely concerned in banishing these evil personalities. simple goodness in thought and action protects130themagical masonagainst such beings in ordinary life; sin and intoxication expose mantotheir attacks, which may cause death

has been much influenced by the works of milton, notably by hisparadise lost,in which the devil appearsundera newname-lucifer;and by goethe in hisfaust,in which mephist255 opheles appears in a german town as a fiend in human form, tempting faust to sin for pleasure.themost modern tendency, however, is to cast doubts on the ideal satan as a being, and to consider him rather as a type or symbol of the evil tendencies which arise in the mind, and are displayed in the actions of men.theoccult students of the middle ages recognized devils in general, and also personal chieftains among them, and so do the more modern rosicrucian students.thetheosophists do not give very clear opinions as to the personality of great evil forces,the devil, and evil spirits133but rather postulate the doctrine that

been degraded into its present use as a title of the modern christian conception of the one evil spirit. perhaps the key to an occult truth lies hid in this fact of the change of attribution in names from one extreme to the other, from divinity to malignancy.therecent revision of the new testament led to a controversy as to what was the modern position of the church regarding evil ones, evil, and the evil one.theresult being that the words of matthew vi. 13 'deliver us from the evil, have become changed to 'deliver us from the evil one. this seems to suggest that the revisers looked upon evil in the abstract, as an essence from an evil spirit, and notably fromoneevil spirit; apparently implying that other evil beings either do not exist, or may be neglected. this superficial glance at thes

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s the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledgeofgoodand evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with. green and gold, the colour of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst follow in the footsteps of our master, brother of the golden dawn. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adambelifted up, raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of eternal life. and when, like our master, thou art extended on that tree, through suffering and through pain, let thy co

f the fall, even the separation of the material plane from the sephiroth through the interposition of the coils of the stooping dragon. thus, therefore, must malkuth be cleansed, and this is the redemp255 tion to come. for also christ expiated not sin till after he had overcome the temptation. but surely all things in the creation are necessary, seeing that one existeth not without the other, and the evil also helpeth the work, for thus the greater and more intense the darkness, by so much the more doth the light become bright by contrast and draweth, asitwere, increased force from the blackness.theinfernal habitations in the first circle are the waters of tears, in the second circle are the waters of creation, in the third circle are the waters of ocean, in the fourth circle is the false

trange beasts splendour on every side fire enfolding whirlwind babel ionia media edomthemercavah in the mercavah vision of ezekiel it is written 'and i looked and behold a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself and a splendour on every side, and hashmal the brilliance of the innermost flame in the midst of fire' these are from cherubic expressions of force and the evil and averse powers broken beneath their feet are:rahab,whose symbol is a terrible demon leaping upon an ox;machaloth,a form compounded of a serpent and a woman, and she rideth upon a serpent scorpion; andlilith,a woman outwardly beautiful but inwardly corrupt and putrefying, riding upon a strange and terrible beast. to these four (babel, ionia, media, edom) are attributed four kingdoms, an

econd, a black, bloated man-dragon, belial, he. who denieth a god; and he uniterh the force of the aversechokmah.thethird is othiel or. gothiel. a black, bloatedwlan-insect, horrible of aspect, his breadth greater than his length: and he uniteth the force of averse binah. the fourth form is samael the black. all these areofgigantic nature and terrible aspect.theevil and averse sephiroth .these be the evil and averse sephirothcontainedin the seven evil palaces, and.these sephiroth have their place from behind the holiness of the worldofassiah. and samsel the evil surroundeth the whole evil 225 sephiroth whoarethus eleven instead of ten. there are eleven letters in the word28 the sorcererand his apprentice'lieutenant governors: esther ix.3; eleven days from horeb, deut, 1.2; the word 'where'

of dull, demon- headed, dog-like monsters. the seventh palace containeth yesod and malkuth. unto yesod are referred the gamaliel, or obscene ones, whose forms are those of corrupting, loathsome bull-men, linkedtheqliphoth of the qabalah 29together. thereunto are also referred nachashiel, evil ser255 pents, and obriel. thereunto belongeth the blind dragon255force.unto malkuth is attributed lilith, the evil woman, and the appearance is that of a woman, at first beautiful but afterwards changing to a black, monkey-like demon. the name of the serpent, nachash, hath the same number as that of messiah, whowillroot out the qliphoth from the world. these are the evil chiefs: 1. kether- satan or moloch 2. chokmah- beelzebub 3. binah- lucifuge 4. chesed- ashtaroth 5. geburah- asmodeus 6. tiphereth

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l evil- suffering, cruelty, decay, death- is abundantly present. how then can god, the supreme good, be the cause of suffering and evil? must he be held responsible for wars, epidemics, the oppression of the poor by the rich..the bogomils (a medieval gnostic sect) had an answer which was at least logical and consistent; evil and pain are inherent in this world because the world is the creation of the evil one. the byzantine commonwealth, obolensky what are we to make of such speculations. is the world really evil? or worse is the creator of the world evil? the first thing we need to do is to consider how this model arose and then examine the esotericism that exists behind it. the first thing we need to consider is how the different models of the creation of matter developed. some tradition

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cal evil- suffering, cruelty, decay, death- is abundantly present. how then can god, the supreme good, be the cause of suffering and evil? must he be held responsible for wars, epidemics, the oppression of the poor by the rich..the bogomils had an answer which was gnostic theurgy page 35 at least logical and consistent; evil and pain are inherent in this world because the world is the creation of the evil one. the byzantine commonwealth, page 122. obolensky. the world is the work of lowly powers which though they may mediately be descended from him do not know the true god and obstruct the knowledge of him in the cosmos over which they rule. the genesis of these lower powers, the archons (rulers, and in general that of all of the orders of being outside god, including the world physical it

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fraternity. the works of the lake harris school are better avoided: the hermetic brotherhood of luxor is condemned, as of course are luciferian or palladistic teachings: the so-called rose croix of sar peladan, is considered as an ignorant perversion of the name, containing no true knowledge and not even worthy of the title of an occult order: the black mass is naturally by its own confession of the evil magic school: the martinists, as long as they adhere to the teachings of their founder, should not be out of harmony with the r.r. et a.c (other schools to avoid are all thelemic schools) additional notes 1995 the chiefs of the second order now reside in america where we hold the lamp of the golden dawn and the r.r. et a.c. the current chief of the order is g.h. frater p.c.a. 7=4 and the

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pward. it is a symbol of spirit ruling over matter. when it is traced in an adverse fashion with the single point down, it becomes an "evil" symbol affirming the empire of the mundane and matter over the divine spirit. see that thou dost not trace it adversely except in rare circumstances when it is absolutely necessary for the working and conversing with an evil spirit. this is done only so that the evil natured spirit may be retained before thee without causing the spirit undo torment "know well that thou hast no right to injure or hurt even 'evil spirits' to gratify thine own curiosity" when the need shall arise for such a working with an evil-natured spirit, thou shalt hold the blade of thy sword upon the spirit until such a time when thou shalt give him the license to depart. let the

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lished and for good reason. the following is from an early manuscript dated 1895 by g.h. frater s.r.m.d "the last fifth form is of a more evil nature and should only be employed with the very greatest care, and in cases of communications with an evil force working thereunder. and in these cases, thou shalt keep the point of the magical sword upon the apex thereof, as with the case of working with the evil and reversed pentagram. and see that thou workest not with evil forces, save in a few instances as if thou art endeavouring to heal another from sickness and misfortune and thou art thus obliged to deal with the evil force which is injuring him. and even so, it will be better for thee not to do even this until thou hast arrived at a higher grade than that of z.a.m. remember, also, that th

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the great power entrusted to me. jxn: i furthermore solemnly pledge myself never to work at any important symbol without first invocating the highest divine names connected therewith, and especially not to debase my knowledge of practical magic to purposes of evil and self-seeking and low material gain or pleasure. if i do this, notwithstanding this my oath, i invoke the avenging angel hua, that the evil and material may react on me. dwh: i further promise to support the admission of both sexes to our order on a perfect equality, and that i will always display brotherly love and forbearance toward the members of the whole order, neither slandering, nor evil-speaking, nor repeating, nor tale-bearing, whereby strife and ill-feeling may be engendered. 3 dwsy: i also undertake to work unassis

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entagrams, saying "exarp bitom (draw active pentagram) hcoma nanta (draw passive pentagram) in the names and letters of the mystical tablet 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

ember on the cross of suffering at his admission to the grade of adeptus minor" chief adept (while still bound "i invoke thee, the great avenging angel hua to confirm and strengthen all the members of this order during the ensuing revolution of the sun to keep them steadfast in the path of rectitude and self-sacrifice, and to confer upon them the power of discernment, that they may choose between the evil and the good, and try all things of doubtful or fictitious seeming with sure knowledge and sound judgment" obligation "kether: i, frater, a member of the body of christ, do this day spiritually bind myself, on behalf of the whole second order, even as i am now bound physically upon the cross of suffering. chokmah: that i will to the utmost lead a pure and unselfish life, and will prove my

great power entrusted to me. netzach: i furthermore solemnly pledge myself never to work at any important symbol without first invocating the highest divine names connected therewith, and especially not to debase my knowledge of practical magic to purposes of evil and self seeking and low material gain or pleasure. if i do this, notwithstanding this my oath, i invoke the avenging angel hua, that the evil and material may react on me. hod: i further promise to support the admission of both sexes to our order, on a perfect equality, and that i will always display brotherly love and forbearance toward the members of the whole order, neither slandering nor evil-speaking, nor repeating nor tale-bearing, whereby strife and ill-feeling may be engendered. yesod: i also undertake to work unassiste

ler with the ineffable. i am the dweller in the invisible. let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend (the chief adept lowers face and hands. other adepts withdraw their wands) chief adept (raising his hand "in the name and power of the divine spirit, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtowers of the universe. guard this vault during this revolution of the solar course. keep far from it the evil and the uninitiated that they penetrate not into the abode of our mysteries, and inspire and sanctify all who enter this place with the illimitable wisdom of the light divine (chief adept gives the sign of 5=6. all others copy. pastos is replaced inside the vault, and the circular altar is placed on top. all resume positions as in the opening of the vault) closing chief adept/ second adep

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angels) are microcosms of the macrocosms of yetzirah, even as man is the microcosm of the macrocosm of assiah. all archangelic forms are microcosms of the macrocosms of briah, and the gods of the sephiroth are consequently the microcosms of the macrocosm of atziluth. therefore apply this perfecting to the spiritual nature as the preparation of the pathway for the shining light, the divine light. the evil persona of man is in the sphere of the qlippoth, and the devils are the microcosm and the macrocosm of the qlippoth. this evil persona has its parts and divisions, and it is the part which touches the twklm of the nephesch which is its rtk. tremble, therefore, at the evil forces which be in thy own evil persona. and, as above the rtk of a man are his angelic and other forms, so below the

persona of man is in the sphere of the qlippoth, and the devils are the microcosm and the macrocosm of the qlippoth. this evil persona has its parts and divisions, and it is the part which touches the twklm of the nephesch which is its rtk. tremble, therefore, at the evil forces which be in thy own evil persona. and, as above the rtk of a man are his angelic and other forms, so below the twklm of the evil persona are awful forms, dangerous even to express or think of. du2 u3 u4 u5 task to be undertaken by the adeptus minor 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 this material is private and has been lent to me on trust, to return on demand. it contains nothing of pecuniary value and nothing personal to myself. i hereby direct my legal representatives whomsoever, in case of my

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uniary value and nothing personal to myself. i hereby direct my legal representatives whomsoever, in case of my death or incapacity, to return the same at once, unread and unopened, to g.h. frater p.c.a, at 14050 cherry avenue, suite r- 159, fontana, california, 92337. 2 u3 this, then, is the task to be undertaken by the adeptus minor: to expel from the sephiroth of the nephesch the usurpation by the evil sephiroth; to balance the action of the sephiroth of the ruach and those of the nephesch; to prevent the lower will and human consciousness from falling into and usurping the place of the automatic consciousness; to render the king of the body, the lower will, obedient to and anxious to execute the commands of the higher will, that he be neither an usurper of the faculties of the higher

ower will shall be as one, and the higher genius shall descend into the kether of man, bringing with him the tremendous illumination of his angelic nature. and the man shall become what is said of enoch "and chanokh (enoch) made himself to walk with god and he was not, for god took him (genesis, 5:24" u2 u4 then also this shall thou know, that the nephesch of the man shall become as the genius of the evil persona, so that the evil persona itself shall be as the power of the divine in the qlippoth as it is said "wither shall i go from thy spirit, or wither from thy presence shall i flee? if i ascend up to heaven, thou art there. if i make my bed in hell, behold thou art there (ps.cxxxix" therefore even the evil persona is not so evil when it fulfilleth its work, for it is the beginning of a

art there (ps.cxxxix" therefore even the evil persona is not so evil when it fulfilleth its work, for it is the beginning of a dim reflection of the light unto the qlippoth, and this is what is hidden in the saying that "typhon is the brother of osiris" hear thou, then, a mystery of the knowledge of evil. the 5=6 ritual of the adeptus minor saith that even the "evil helpeth forward the good" when the evil sephiroth are expelled from the nephesch into the evil persona, they are, in a sense, equilibrated therein. the evil persona can be rendered as a great and strong, yet trained, animal whereupon the man rideth, and it then becometh a strength unto his physical base of action. this mystery shalt thou keep from the knowledge of the first order, and still more from that of the outer world, th

shalt thou keep from the knowledge of the first order, and still more from that of the outer world, that is a formula, seeing that it is a dangerous secret. now then shalt thou begin to understand the saying "he descendeth into hell" and also to comprehend in part this strength, and thus to begin to understand the necessity of evil unto the material creation. wherefore, also, revile not overmuch the evil forces, for they also have a place and a duty, and in this consisteth their right to be. but check their usurpation, and cast them down unto their plane. unto this end, curse them by the mighty names if need be, but thou shalt not revile them for their condition, for thus also shalt thou be led into error. 3 u5 there is also a great mystery that the adeptus minor must know, viz: how the s

reating a split or dichotomy in the personality. this is not a case of good and evil fighting it out for control within the individual. this is the case of the higher genius working in harmony with the lower will and ruling over the nephesch in such a way that the nephesch now begins to serve in the great work "then also this shalt thou know, that the nephesch of man shall become as the genius of the evil persona, so that the evil persona itself shall be as the power of the divine in the qlippoth" here, we clearly see the hierarchy within man now working in perfect integration and harmony. thus, the nephesch takes on the appearance in the qlippoth as the divine ruler or genius. thus, the true will, the divine will, now emanates from the divine through the higher genius, the lower will, and

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narrow path of s, let the philosophus advance like the arrow from the bow of tcq. h now, tcq, the bow, is the rainbow of promise stretched above the earth, whose name is formed from the letters of the paths leading from twklm. if then it be by the path of s, that the philosophus should advance to the knowledge of the adept, turning aside neither unto the right hand nor unto the left, whereon are the evil and threatening symbols of death and the devil. he must have a perfect and absolute knowledge of the bow, ere he can follow the path of the arrow. but the bow is of brilliant and perfect color, whose analysis and synthesis yield others of the same scale, and hence is this book entitled, gthe book of the path of the chameleon, h that path, namely which ascendeth alone through the force of

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r: 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 between two mighty pylons "the watcher against the evil ones" is the name of the sentinel who guards it, and his form is the symbolic one of anubis. the stations of the officers the hierophant is placed in the east of the temple on the outer side of the veil of paroketh, to rule the temple under the presidency of the chiefs. there, he fills the place of a lord of the paths of the portal of the vault of the adepts, acting as as inductor to the

west in the black of twklm, where it borders on the kingdom of shells. the black robe of darkness, bearing a white cross on the left breast. the sword of strength and severity. the lamen suspended from a scarlet collar. the banner of the west. the position of the throne of the west at the limits of twklm is fitting for the avenger of the gods, for he is placed there in eternal affirmation against the evil ones "hitherto shall ye come and no further" the throne is also placed there as a seat of witness and of punishment decreed against evil. the robe or mantle is of darkness, threatening and terrible to the outer, as concealing an avenging force ever ready to break forth against the evil ones. on the left breast is a white cross to represent the purification of matter unto the light. the sw

in its turn by the circle of light" in addition to this explanation, the lamen represents "the light that shineth in the darkness though the darkness comprehendeth it not" it affirms the possibility of the redemption from evil and even that of evil itself through self sacrifice. it is suspended from a scarlet collar which represents its dependence on the force of divine severity for overpowering the evil. it is a symbol of tremendous strength and fortitude and is a synthesis of the office of the hiereus as in regards to the temple, as opposed to his office as in regards to the outer world. for these reasons, it should always be worn by the hiereus. the banner of the west completes the symbols of the hiereus. it is thus explained in the zelator grade "the white triangle refers to the three

us explained in the zelator grade "the white triangle refers to the three paths 10 connecting twklm with the other sephiroth, while the red cross is the hidden knowledge of the divine nature which is to be obtained through their aid. the cross and triangle together represent life and light" in addition to this explanation from the zelator grade, it represents eternally the possibility of rescuing the evil and in it, the trapt cross is placed within the white triangle of the supernals as thereby representing that sacrifice as made only unto the higher. the red cross may be bordered with gold in this instance to represent the perfect metal obtained in and through the darkness of putrefaction. black is its field which thus represents the darkness and ignorance of the outer, while the white tr

therein by heat and dryness "goddess of the scale of the balance at the white pillar" is the name of dadouchos, and she is "perfection through fire manifesting on earth" thaum-aesch-nia-eth, and there is a connection between her and the thummum of the hebrews. the stolistes has the care of the robes and insignia of the temple as symbolizing by their cleansing and purification, the purging away of the evil of twklm by the waters of the. the dadouchos has charge of all lights, fires and incense, as representing the purifying and purging of twklm by o and the light of the. these officers also purify the temple, the members and the candidate by n and by o, as it is written "i indeed baptize you with n, but one shall come after me who shall baptize ye with the holy ghost and with o" this comple

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conclusion from fresh operation. t. the diviner then compares carefully the whole judgment and decisions arrived at with their conclusions, and delivers now plainly a succinct and consecutive judgment thereon. u. the diviner gives advice to the consultant as to what use he shall make of the judgment. v. the diviner formulates clearly with what forces it may be necessary to work in order to combat the evil, or fix the good, promised by the divination. w. lastly, remember that unto thee a divination shall be as a sacred work of the divine magic of light, and not to be performed to pander unto the curiosity regarding the secrets of another; if by this means thou shalt arrive at a knowledge of another s secrets, thou shalt respect and not betray them. h alchemy a. the curcurbite or the alembic

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andidate. his office towards the candidate is analogous to that of his higher soul- wherefore also, the hegemon holds in his hand the mitre-headed sceptre to attract, since it is the sceptre of wisdom, the higher self of the candidate. at this moment, as the candidate stands before the altar and the simulacrum of the higher self is attracted, so also arises the form of the accuser in the place of the evil triad. this similarly attracts the simulacrum of the evil persona of the candidate. 4 were it not for the power of the 42 lettered name in the palaces of hryxz (the gods of which are usually called the great assessors of judgment) the actual evil persona would at once formulate and be able to obsess the jwr of the candidate. for, seeing that at this time, the simulacrum of the higher soul

ulacrum of the higher soul is attracting the neschamah of the candidate, the human will is not as powerful in the jwr for the moment, because the aspirant of the mysteries is now, as it were, divided. in other words, his neschamah is directed to the contemplation of his higher self which is attracted by the hegemon. his natural body is bound and blinded, his jwr is threatened by the simulacrum of the evil persona attracted by omoo-szathan, and a species of shadow of himself is thrown forward to the place of the pillars, where the scales of judgment are set. at the same time that the first consecration establishes a semblance of the pillars to his right and left, it also has drawn forth from him a semblance of himself to the place vacated by the hegemon between the pillars. here then stands

candidate while the scales of the balance oscillate unseen. unseen also and colossal, there is imaged before him tho-oth, as wrffm, in the sign of the enterer of the threshold, ready, according to the decision of the human will, to permit or withhold the descent of the lower genius of the candidate. meanwhile, the great assessors of judgment examine into the truth of the accusations formulated by the evil and averse antithesis. the assessors of judgment come not under the head of invisible stations, but during the obligation and circumambulation of the candidate, until he is brought to the light, they hover immediately about the limits of the temple and their evil antithesis immediately below. therefore, when the candidate stands before the altar before the obligation, is the decision actu

disintegrated into his component parts. the process of symbolic judgment takes place during the speech of the hierophant to the candidate, the answer of the hegemon and his consent to take the obligation. the moment the candidate thus consents, the hierophant advances between the pillars as if to assert that the judgment is concluded. he advances by the invisible station of harpocrates to that of the evil triad, which he symbolically treads down, so that as aroueris, he stands upon the opposer. he then comes to the east of the altar, interposing between the place of the evil triad and the candidate. at the same time, the hiereus advances on the candidate s left, the hegemon on his right, thus formulating about him the symbol of the higher triad before he places his hand upon the symbol of

influences of the three pillars, as though the ray from the divine would descend into the darkness of the mind, for then, but not until then, is he fitted to realize what are the first things necessary to the search for the shining light. the hierophant now leaves his throne and passes between the pillars, either halting there during the prayer or halting at the places of harpocrates, or that of the evil triad, or east of the altar. it does not particularly mattter which, but one of them may seem more appropriate to a particular candidate than another and the hierophant will usually find that he halts at the right place instinctively. the hiereus stands on the left of the candidate, the hegemon on his right, thus forming the triad of the supernals. the kerux, stolistes, and dadouchos repr

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ich thou dost reveal thyself as the perfection of creation and the light of the world to come. i implore thee to grant unto me the presence of thine archangel layqpx. in thy holy name send forth thy archangel layqpx. oh layqpx, i invoke thee now in the name of \yhla hwhy. thou who art prince of spiritual initiation through suffering and of strife against evil. aid me, i beseech thee, to transcend the evil and obstacles of the qlippoth. for the contending forces of laymwat would have me divided within myself and against my brothers of the red rose and the cross of gold \aygwu would steal me from my true will and prevent me from attaining perfect wisdom. layrts would shroud me in confusion from my true will and my higher development. then i would be not only divided and confused, i would be

have passed through the hour of cloud and of night. i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris the justified one, lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me which is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light" step 13 face east standing between the pillars, stomp three times and say "i have overcome the world and the evil, i am purified in the warmth of the divine white light. i am the reconciler with the ineffable, the dweller in the invisible. oh ye qlippoth of night and division, of despair and lust, i have overcome thee. thou art dust beneath my feet" step 14 turn west and separate again from your subtle body, leaving it in the east, facing west. walk to the west "whoever thou art, whatsoever is thy wi

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great power entrusted to me. netzach: i furthermore solemnly pledge myself never to work at any important symbol without first invocating the highest divine names connected therewith, and especially not to debase my knowledge of practical magic to purposes of evil and self seeking and low material gain or pleasure. if i do this, notwithstanding this my oath, i invoke the avenging angel hua, that the evil and material may react on me. hod: i further promise to support the admission of both sexes to our order on a perfect equality, and that i will always display brotherly love and forbearance toward the members of the whole order, neither slandering, nor evil-speaking, nor repeating nor tale-bearing, whereby strife and ill-feeling may be engendered. yesod: i also undertake to work unassiste

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gh the veil. grant thine aid unto the highest aspirations of my soul, in thy divine name \yhla hwhy by which thou dost reveal thyself as the perfection of creation and the light of the world to come. i implore thee to grant unto me the presence of thine archangel layqpx. o layqpx, thou prince of spiritual initiation through suffering and of strife against evil, aid me, i beseech thee to transcend the evil that is in me, so that i may be enabled to perform a higher and more divine work. o ye strong and mighty ones of the sphere of yatbc, o ye \ylara, i conjure ye by the mighty name of \yhla hwhy, the divine ruler of your realm, 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 lower world. le

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eal figure of hrwbg. the divine and angelic names related to hrwbg are then to be added in emerald, as well as their sigils taken from the rose. the sword must then be consecrated in due form. 3 here, again, let the adeptus minor remember his obligation to never use his knowledge of practical magic for purposes of evil, and let him be well assured that if he does this, notwithstanding his pledge, the evil he endeavors to bring about will react on himself. he will experience in his own person and affairs that very thing which he has endeavored to bring about for another. also, may he perish and be blotted out from among us. to obtain real force implanted in any magical weapon by consecration, the adept requires to be healthy, pure, strong in mind, free from anxiety and apart from disturbanc

that f is in. step 10 trace the invoking hexagram of f, vibrating "rwbg \yhla" step 11 then, still holding the wand by the white band, recite your invocation to the power of hrwbg and the forces of f, tracing the sigil of each as you read it. 5 "o mighty power who governeth hrwbg, thou strong and terrible divine rwbg \yhla, i beseech thee to bestow upon this magical sword power and might to slay the evil and weakness i may encounter. in the fiery sphere of \ydm, may it be welded and tempered to unswerving strength and fidelity. may thy great archangel lamk bestow upon me courage wherewith to use it aright, and may the powerful angels of the order of the \yprc scorch with their flames the feebleness of purpose which would hinder my search for the true light" step 12 then, slowly trace in t

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ll, god willing, behold the same with your own eyes. every side or wall is parted into ten squares, every one with their several figures and sentences, as they are truly shewn and set forth concentratum here in our book. the bottom again is parted in the triangle, but because therein is described the power and rule of the inferior governors, we leave to manifest the same, for fear of the abuse by the evil and ungodly world. but those that are provided and stored with the heavenly antidote, do without fear or hurt, tread on and bruise the head of the old and evil serpent, which this our age is well fitted for. every side or wall had a door for a chest, wherein there lay divers things, especially all our books, which otherwise we had, besides the vocabulario of theophrastus paracelsus of hoh

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gh the veil. grant thine aid unto the highest aspirations of my soul, in thy divine name \yhla hwhy by which thou dost reveal thyself as the perfection of creation and the light of the world to come. i implore thee to grant unto me the presence of thine archangel layqpx. o layqpx, thou prince of spiritual initiation through suffering and of strife against evil, aid me, i beseech thee to transcend the evil that is in me, so that i may be enabled to perform a higher and divine work. o ye strong and mighty ones of the sphere of yatbc, o ye \ylara, i conjure ye by the mighty name of \yhla hwhy, the divine ruler of your realm, and by the name of layqpx, your archangel to aid me with your power in your office to place a veil between me (whisper your power name) and all things belonging to the 3

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race the active equilibrating spirit pentagram. say "exarp, bitom" trace the passive equilibrating spirit pentagram, saying "hcoma, nanta. in the names and letters of the mystical tablet of union, 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 my mystic sphere. remove and banish far the evil; strengthen and inspire me that i may preserve unsullied this my body, as the abode of the mysteries of the holy one. let my sphere be pure and holy so that i may be able to enter into the center of my being, and become a partaker of the secret of the divine light" 5 step 11 pass to the northeast. take the lotus wand and say "the visible sun is the dispenser of light to the earth. let me

hwhy, by which thou dost reveal thyself as the perfection of creation, and the light of the world to come. i implore thee to grant unto me the presence of thy archangel layqpx" perform the s.i.r.h. of saturn. trace sigils as required and vibrate powerfully. say "o layqpx, thou prince of spiritual initiation through suffering and of spiritual strife against evil, aid me, i beseech thee, to conquer the evil that is in me by the binding and controlling of my mortal parts and passions. o ye strong and mighty ones of the sphere of yatbc, o ye \ylara, i conjure ye by the mighty name of \yhla hwhy, the divine ruler of your strength, and by the name of layqpx, your archangel, aid me with your realm, and by the name of layqpx, your archangel. aid me with your power in your office to place a veil be

u great avenging angel hua, to confirm and strengthen me in the path of the light. o messenger of the beloved one, let thy shadow be over me. thy name is death, it may be, or shame or love. 7 so when thou bringest me tidings of the beloved one, i shall not ask thy name. keep me steadfast in the path of rectitude and self-sacrifice. confer upon me the power of discernment that i may choose between the evil and the good, and try all things of doubtful and fictitious seeming with sure knowledge and sound judgment" step 16 rise and project your astral form to the east of the altar. hold the lotus wand in the right hand, turn, face your body, take the left hand in the left hand of the astral and in both astral and physical say "hyha, hyha, hyha, hyha (vibrate and circulate by formula of the mid

ep 22 pass on and halt in the south. formulate the two pillars, and aspire to the genius. pass to the west, and say "before all things are the chaos, the darkness and the gates of the land of night. therefore, in the place of the guardian of the gate of the west, i tread thee down beneath my feet, o form of darkness and of fear. for fear is failure, and except i be without fear, i cannot cast out the evil ones into the earth. i have conquered thee, so i pass on" go around, saying: 9 "o lord of the universe, thou art above all things, and thy name is in all things, and before thee the shadows of the night roll back and the darkness hasteth away (vibrate hyha, wrffm) thus, have i formulated the white triangle of the light divine that, rising and expanding, may shine within my heart, a center

g forth to seek and to save the lost ones of the race of man" after contemplating say "thus, at length have i been enable to begin to comprehend the form of my higher self" step 31 return to west of the altar, facing east. say: 12 "and now, in the name and power of the divine spirit, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtowers of the universe, and charge ye to guard this my sphere. keep far from me the evil and the unbalanced, that they penetrate not into my abode of the mysteries. inspire and sanctify me that i may enter into the center of my being, and there, receive the illimitable wisdom of the light divine" step 32 give the signs of 5=6. close by purifying with n and consecrating with o or by l.b.r.p. and b.r.h. perform the reverse circumambulation, and adoration toward the east. after

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the pentagrams and behind us shines the six rayed star (perform the qabalistic cross (remaining behind the altar "prepared in body, mind and spirit, we now invoke thee ye great lords of the watchtowers of the universe. guard well this magic circle, and let no evil or impure spirit enter therein. strengthen and inspire us in this righteous and holy operation of the magic of light. keep far removed the evil and unbalanced so that we, who are weak, may be strong and may enter into and partake of the secrets of divine light (perform rending of the veil (enochian call of the watchtowers is said) second adept (moves to the banner of the east "the visible sun is the dispenser of light to the earth as the rose cross is the symbol of light to the spirit. let us, therefore, form a vortex in this cha

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he divine spirit descend. therefore, with the light of the god head above me and within me do i invoke lapr, the archangel of trapt, to command unto me the \yklm, the divine messengers of the holy one, blessed be he. come, come unto me \yklm and bring forth the angel of cmc, lakym that he may cause his intelligence laykn to 13 make powerful this consecrated telesmata and to infuse within it trws, the evil spirit of a. under the constant guidance of laykn may sorath also play a part in the empowerment of this talismata and thus, forward the cause of light and the purpose of this talisman in accordance with my will. laykn, thou shall take for thy body this talismata and thus form a sacred link between the spirit of the godhead in trapt and the human soul of the exorcist. step 13 lift the tal

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tion of the divine or higher genius as symbolized by spirit ruling of the elements. this pentagram in one's sphere of sensation on a microprosopic level and is the light that shineth in the darkness yet the darkness comprehendeth it not. the averse pentagram is an evil symbol of the world of matter and of shells ruling over the spirit; the filling of one's sphere of sensation with the darkness of the evil averse pentagram. many individuals and groups would argue that the averse pentagram is not an evil symbol, but remember, that any action against one's divine and true will is an evil action, therefore, disproving the argument that the inverted pentagram in one's sphere of sensation is acceptable. the bornless middle pillar exercise should be performed by the adept as an important prerequi

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ative forces of and of the four elements under the presidency of hnyb, the convolution and revolution of forces under aimah. as a general rule, the endecagram refers to the twpylq. when it is reflected from every forth point, it represents their restriction. however, from other reflections, it indicates the twpylq operation through nature. thus, we can say that the endecangle naturally represents the evil and imperfect nature of the endecad and the endecagon. this is highlighted by the dispersal of the eleven curses of mount ebal through the universe. the dodecangle refers to the zodiac. it represents the power of the dodecad. the dodecagon represents the influences of the zodiac through nature. however, the dodecagram represents its constriction. the number of degrees of the great circle

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were painstakingly gathered, heaped up and burned by zealous friars. in july 1562, for example, in the main square of mani (just south of modern merida in yucatan province) fr. diego de landa burned thousands of maya codices, story paintings and hieroglyphs inscribed on rolled-up deer skins. he also destroyed countless idols and altars, all of which he described as works of the devil, designed by the evil one to delude the indians and to prevent them from accepting christianity. 10 elsewhere he elaborated on the same theme: we found great numbers of books [written in the characters of the indians] but as they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the devil we burned them all, which the natives took most grievously, and which gave them great pain.11 not only the natives shou

as his residence in water ?27 let us also consider tiamat, the sumerian goddess of the oceans and of the forces of primitive chaos, always shown as a ravening monster. in mesopotamian tradition, tiamat turned against the other deities and unleashed a holocaust of destruction before she was eventually destroyed by the celestial hero marduk: she opened her mouth, tiamat, to swallow him. he drove in the evil wind so that she could not close her lips. the terrible winds filled her belly. her heart was seized, she held her mouth wide open, he let fly an arrow, it pierced her belly, her inner parts he clove, he split her heart, he rendered her powerless and destroyed her life, he felled her body and stood upright on it.28 how do you follow an act like that? marduk could. contemplating his advers

truction myths are in frank waters, the book of the hopi, penguin, london, 1977. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 197 chapter 25 the many masks of the apocalypse like the hopi indians of north america, the avestic aryans of pre-islamic iran believed that there were three epochs of creation prior to our own. in the first epoch men were pure and sinless, tall and long lived, but at its close the evil one declared war against ahura mazda, the holy god, and a tumultuous cataclysm ensued. during the second epoch the evil one was unsuccessful. in the third good and evil were exactly balanced. in the fourth epoch (the present age of the world, evil triumphed at the outset and has maintained its supremacy ever since.1 the end of the fourth epoch is predicted soon, but it is the cataclysm at

mythical birthplace and original home of the aryan race. in those days airyana vaejo enjoyed a mild and productive climate with seven months of summer and five of winter. rich in wildlife and in crops, its meadows flowing with streams, this garden of delights was converted into an uninhabitable wasteland of ten months winter and only two months summer as a result of the onslaught of angra mainyu, the evil one: the first of the good lands and countries which i, ahura mazda, created was the airyana vaejo. then angra mainyu, who is full of death, created an opposition to the same, a mighty serpent and snow. ten months of winter are there now, two months of summer, and these are cold as to the water, cold as to the earth, cold as to the trees. there all around falls deep snow; that is the dire

vendidad, fargard i, cited in lokamanya bal gangadhar tilak, the arctic home in the vedas, tilak publishers, poona, 1956, pp. 340-1. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 198 it is at this point that the strange parallels with the traditions of the biblical flood begin to crop up, for ahura mazda takes advantage of the meeting to warn yima of what is about to happen as a result of the powers of the evil one: and ahura mazda spake unto yima saying: yima the fair. upon the material world a fatal winter is about to descend, that shall bring a vehement, destroying frost. upon the corporeal world will the evil of winter come, wherefore snow will fall in great abundance. and all three sorts of beasts shall perish, those that live in the wilderness, and those that live on the tops of the mounta

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he elements. feel the angels of the tablet of union rising up from within you. step 7. make the sigas of the rending of the veil (reference "rending and closing the veil" later in this manual) and say, i invoke you, angels of the celestial spheres, whose dwelling is in the invisible. you are the guardians of the cates of the universe. may you also be the guardians of this mystic sphere. keep away the evil and the unbalanced. strengthen and inspire me so that 1 may preserve in purity this abode of the mysteries. let my sphere be pure and holy that i may enter in and become a partaker of the secrets of the light. feel all of the angels of the watchtowers and the tablet of union rising up together from within your body of light. step 8. turn three times to each watchtower while'holding your w

that point if a sigil has three letters along a single straight fine, and the center letter is needed in the name, then represent it by a small noose or circle tangent to the fine at that point the following five sigils provide typical examples of how to use the rase: 97 tracing the pentagram the pentagram, symbol of the squaring of the circle by virtue of alhim =3.1415, symbol of man's will, of the evil 4 dominated by manis spirit aleister crowley, gematria traced as a symbol of good, itshould be placed with the single paint upward, representing the rule of the divine spirit. for i f thou shouldst write it with the two points upward, it is an evil symbol, affirming the empire of matter over that divine spirit which should govern it. the golden dawn's the ritual of the pentagram the five

on the words vrelp-arf-el-e afe implying that the vrelp is an ideal vehicle in which to unite with divine creativity (literally "vrelp is a supreme vessel in which to. visit the sun. the vrelp is obedient to divine law, not to human society. in fact, he is often considered a renegade or eccentric by society and has historically been feared and shunned through misunderstanding. he is portrayed as the evil wizard with a pointed hat and flowing beard who speaks in ambiguities and casts curses and evil spells on the townfolk at a whim. middle age literature has stereotyped him into either a witch or warlock depending on sex. because 2 5 8 259 he/she is always speaking against christianity, he/she is 'ipso facto' evil. the truth, as is often the case, is not what it seems on the surface. the v

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or of a symphony. thus the major adept becomes the conductor of an orchestra of forces that once conducted him (or her, unseen and unobserved, from the darkness. thus we may understand what an r. r. et a. c. paper published by israel regardie means when it says "hear thou, then, a mystery of the knowledge of evil. the 5=6 ritual of the adeptus minor saith that 'evil helpeth forward the good' when the evil sephiroth are expelled from the nephesh into the evil persona, they are, in a sense, equilibrated therein. the evil persona can be rendered a great and strong, yet trained, animal whereupon the man rideth, and it becometh a strength unto his 10 physical base of action..now then shalt thou begin to understand the saying 'he descendeth into hell' and to comprehend in part this strength, and

rated therein. the evil persona can be rendered a great and strong, yet trained, animal whereupon the man rideth, and it becometh a strength unto his 10 physical base of action..now then shalt thou begin to understand the saying 'he descendeth into hell' and to comprehend in part this strength, and thus to understand the necessity of evil in material creation. wherefore, also, revile not overmuch the evil forces, for they have a place and a duty, and in this consisteth their right to be. but check their usurpation, and cast them down unto their plane."10 10 the golden dawn (the original account of the teachings, rites, and ceremonies of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [1937, revealed by israel regardie, 6th ed (st. paul: llewellyn, 1989, p. 1 e i'axloitoit' v* fv v* cection..grj5>fe7

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er oflf his shoulders, something clutched his hair from behind, and he was so startled that he looked round and let his burden fall. the maiden flew up into the air, complaining 'that she must sufi"er more severely now, and wait another hundred years to be saved by a steadier hand' since then she has not as yet appeared again (tettau and temme no. 267. the pillberg is a castle that was banned. in the evil hour from 11 to 12 at noon a woman used to shew herself on it, smoothing her hair in the sunshine, and begging the shepherds to lay hold of her: no harm should come to whoever did so, only let him hold her tight and not say a word. a man of thirty, who was still employed as a cowboy, mustered up all his courage for once, and grasped the hand of the castle-dame; while he held, all sorts of

deemon's power fades away. then out of this unity there grow up trilogies (brahma, vishnu, siva; zeus, poseidon, pluto; wuotan, donar, fro; har, lafnhar, thri'si, dodecalogies, and the plenitude of pantheism. but it is to my mind a fundamental feature of polytheism, that the good and beneficent principle in the divine preponderates; only some isolated deities, subordinate to the whole, incline to the evil or hurtful, like the norse loki, whose nature even then is more on a par with that of hephgestus (vulcan) than of the christian devil. goodness predominates even in elvish sprites: to the nix, the homesprite, nay the giant, it is but partially that cruelty and malice are attributed. in harmony with this is the mild way in which our antiquity pictures death and the underworld. but for all

: ioewpovv top a-aravav? aatpairrjv ix rov ovpavov iteaovta, as the lightning darts into the ground, whereas a falling star usually affords a pleasing image (p. 722. at the same time, this revolt of the devil and his companions must be supposed to have had a higher antiquity. thus arose the doctrine of a satanic empire in rivalry with the celestial, a doctrine that daily met with more acceptance: the evil spirits maybe the weaker side and suffer 'defeat, but they go about enlisting wicked men, and seek thereby to replenish their host. compacts are made with the devil, and he aids his confederates even during their eai'thly life. from another side, the conversion of the heathen itself contributed to expand and diversify the prevailing conception of the devil's agency. it has been remarked m

often repeats satanas. o.fr. goufre de satenie, saternie, ren. 20224, 28429, the last form stretching out a hand to saturn (p. 249, and suppl. all other names for the devil can be brought under three points of view, according as they are drawn from his character, his figure, or his place of abode. and to these may be added disguised forms of name. i. from his intrinsic nature the devil is called the evil, hostile^ so is our engel, angel borrowed, both name and thing. mone, who thinks' teufel' is unborrowed, and identifies both it and diabohis with dionysus (anz. 6, 351. 8, 449, will hardly bog:!lo over the germanuess of' engel' either. it is true sid^oxos (the slanderer, which the lxx does not yet have, might in the n. t. spring out of an oriental word allied to pers. div and lat. divus (

s* sa er flestu illu rsesr' of loki, sn. 46, or the epic periphrase in reinh. xxxii. xxxvi to describe the fox and wolf as beasts of devilish nature 'dich hat nilit guotes uz gelan 'twas nothing good= the devil) that left us you, dietr. 8-347; as we still say' i have looked for him like notliing good' der ilhele tiuvel, iw. 467(3. nib. 215, 4. 426,4.1892,4. ms. 1, 59 ^ev iihel vient, gregor 2849. the evil foe, evil spirit, evil one; der ubile geist, fundgr. 102, 34. 105, 2. der hose geist 105, 7. nethl. de hooze vyand' the croolced devils' in kinderm. 1, 422 means the unrighteous, evil ones. a sermon in mhg. has' der iihile human der tivel' griefshaber 277. it is remarkable that in on. we even come upon' hinn illi o&inn/ fornm. sog. 5, 172. 10, 171. the o.fr. poets often put maufez, malfez

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lso as prime movers of the whirlwind, the gyrating dancing herodias, and/raw hilde, frau holde (p. 285. in kilian 693 it is a fahrendes weib; in celtic legend it is stirred up by fays, 1 orithyia carried off by boreas (ov. met. 6, 710^ could with perfect justice be named windesbrut by albreclit. 2 two pol. tales in woycicki 1, 81 and 89: when the whirlwind (vikher) sweeps up the loose sand, it is the evil spirit dancing; throw a sharp new knife into the middle of it, and you wound him. a magician plunged such a knife into his threshold, and condemned his man, with whom he was angry, for seven years to ride round the world on the swift stormwind. then the whirlwind lifted the man, who was making haycocks in a meadow, and bore him away into the air. this knifethrowing is also known to germ

ala, hyndla; and later, thiota (p. 96) announced consummationis seculi diem. 2 rof ruptura; as they said regin riufaz, dii rumpuntur, the world is going to pieces. 814 time and woeld. on p. 753, die finstre ragende nacht/ which can hardly be ex plained from our ragen (rigere) stick out.1 ragnarok then is the night of the gods, which comes over all beings, even the highest, p. 316 (see suppl. then the evil beings, long held in check and under spell, break loose and war against the gods: a wolf swallows the sun, another the moon (p. 705-6, the stars fall from heaven, the earth quakes, the monstrous world-snake lormungandr, seized with giant fury (iotunmcvsr, p. 530, rises out of the waters on to the land, fenrisulfr is set free (p. 244, and naglfar afloat, a ship con structed out of dead men

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

rks of francis bacon, we introduce his portrait (on page 7) and a few brief remarks about him. he was born in london on january 22, 1561. he attained very high positions in the british government, and was secretly a representative of many high officials, and was often forced to assume the responsibility and guilt of those whose reputations he would save. for years those unfriendly to him believed the evil that was said of him, and which he cared not to deny in order to save further explanations. but within the past fifty years certain unquestioned records have proved the rosicrucian contention that he was one of england's noble men.in heart, soul, and deed. as a pioneer in the revolution of methods of education he stands without a peer, and the effect of his "secret society" upon mankind i

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

u should use the exorcism that you use in exorcising this mirror, every time you feel an inclination to take your pen.thenature of evil spirits is deceit; and were they to say what they truly are, they would be for the time honest.besides,-bydeclaring themselves as relatives and friends, they claim attention more readily than if they were to make themselves known by a strange name.theknowledge of the evil spirits is almost boundless, so far as concerns mortals or spirits of low degree. if questions were proposed to those spirits such asthis-'arethere a number of ministering angels who have never been embodied, constantly in the presence of god, his son, and the holy ghost, interceding for man's eternal happiness and welfare'-they would stoutly deny it.correspondencewithrobertowen175thespir

spirits,255atmosphericspirits-wanderingspirits,-andspirits that animate the body.theheavenly host are a band of spirits; but they are also ministering angels. there are many evil spirits in the atmosphere and upon the earth;butthey cannot take the form of an angel of light.theman who has the power of second sight, has also the power of discerning betwixt good and evil spirits.ifknowingly he seeks the evil spirits instead of the good, he deserves the errors they may lead him into.3.-lnmatthew, ch.15,v.18,and ch. 22, v. 37, and in many other places in the old and new testaments, the heart of man is spoken of as the seat of thesoul-thebrain,as such, being never referred to. may i ask where in man is the seat of the soul? c.a.-itpervades the whole being. it is contained in the body, and has no

responses given by him might be printed; and, on the roth october inst, i requested thec.a. to favour me with the means of testing, either by questions or otherwise, whether the spirits who rap to you and others are good orevil,-thatif evil, they might be prevented from leading those persons astray who are actuated solely by a desire to attain truth. i received the followingreply:-c.a.'theways of the evil spirits are so numerous, and their powers so great, that no means can be formed of stopping them by tests or questions.ifone place is shut, they find another opened, perhaps larger and more convenient 'you as a man can do more under my guidance than i can spiritually 'will you write a work to the society, denouncing their spirits as evil..give the passages from your minutes, and quote the

m?e.a.-nexttuesday evening. tuesday, 27th december, 1853:i.-isit agreeable for you to give me the further information concerning robert owen, promised last tuesday evening, if you have obtained it from his guardian spirit?e.a.-ihave obtained it. and as he wished to know the name of the spirit you communicatewith,-givehim mine. perhaps by that means he will be able to find out that i am not one of the evil spirits he has been specially guarded against. his guardian spirit makes it known to me that it will not be advisable to write to him for a short time.2.-1will write to him when you advise.e.a.-intwenty days.3.-mayi ask the name of his guardian spirit?e.a.-solomia.theresponses thus obtained are given by the c. a. generally in a large mirror, eighteen inches bytwelve;sometimes in a crystal

a knowledge of the way, in which they ascendthere-theyare liable to great danger and error, but having arrived there, and once looked through those holes, they obtain whilst still upon earth a glimpse of the spiritual world, through that they see and converse with their guardianspirit-theatmospheric spirits that guard the loop-hole, and are more nearly connected with them or if they wish it with the evil spirits that dwell beneath. i must again go back further than i have done and explain, the rise and cause of evil spirits and the rise and the end of goodspirits-itwill take too long for me to do so this evening-shall you be alone next tuesday evening?-i will thencontinue255there are other things connected with it which i will then tellyou-crystalmss:extractsconcerningcapt.andersonvol.7,p

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

the stars or among the followers of osiris, ra, thoth, or hathor, but they could not escape the cycles of destruction and renewal. the soul might experience life in the field of reeds, a paradise similar to egypt, but this was not a permanent state. when the night sun passed on, darkness and death returned. the star-spirits were destroyed at dawn and reborn mythical time lines 93 each night. even the evil dead, the enemies of ra, continuously came back to life like apophis so that they could be tortured and killed again. as the western souls, the justified dead formed part of the crew of the embattled boat of millions. they might be thought of as rowing or towing the sun boat or even defending it against the forces of chaos. the vignette to book of the dead spell 39 shows a dead person tak

stern horizon where the sun god died at sunset and the eastern horizon where he was reborn at sunrise. the standard image of the horizon was a sun disk between two mountain peaks. two shining trees grew on these mountains, and the double horizon was guarded by a double sphinx or twin lions. see under feline deities; ra; shu and tefnut ammut ammut was a monstrous goddess who devoured the hearts of the evil dead. see also hippopotamus goddesses amun (amon, ammon, amen) amun was the mysterious creator god whose name meant hidden one. he was most commonly shown as a bearded man in the prime of life wearing a headdress surmounted by a double plume. his origins are obscure, but amun and his female counterpart amunet (amaunet) were listed among the divine protectors of the king in the pyramid tex

e an entirely destructive force. he was the negative counterpart of the snake form of the creator god. apophis was first mentioned in the twenty-first century bce. a much later creation myth explained that apophis sprang from the saliva of the goddess neith when she was still in the primeval waters. her spit became a snake 120 yards long. he 106 handbook of egyptian mythology was the great rebel, the evil one who led the forces of chaos against the sun god ra. the idea of the apophis snake may have come from the african python, which can open its mouth wide enough to swallow a person. apophis is probably the unnamed snake demon who tried to swallow the nun, the primeval waters, but was forced to cough them up again. the eyes of apophis seem to have been particularly feared, and he was said

to combat the chaos serpent and destroy all the aspects of his being, such as his body, his name, his shadow, and his magic. priests acted out this unending war by drawing pictures or making models of apophis. these were cursed and then destroyed by stabbing, trampling, and burning. see also atum; boats; crocodiles; feline deities; ra; seth; snakes references and further reading: j. f. borghouts. the evil eye of apophis. journal of egyptian archaeology 59 (1973: 114 150. e. hornung. the triumph of magic: the sun god s victory over apophis. in the valley of the kings: horizon of eternity. london and new york: 1990, 103 113. primary sources: ct 414; bd 17, 39, 108; ad; bod; bog; brp arsaphes see heryshef ash ash was the god of the western desert and its oases. later identified with seth. ast

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

HEAVEN HELL

hey lived, who were unable to wage wars in syria and sinai and to bring back much spoil, could neither establish colleges of priests nor endow new temples; for in ancient egypt, as elsewhere, the fortunes of the gods and the wealth of their sanctuaries increased or declined according as the inhabitants of the land were prosperous or otherwise. similarly also, when the community was suffering from the evil effects of a long period of civil wars, and business was at a standstill, and farmers were unable to carry on the usual agricultural operations on which both the government and the priesthood ultimately depended for support, it was impossible for men to bury their dead with all the pomp and ceremony which were the characteristics of funerals in times of peace and prosperity. the innate co

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

e middle of the present century, attributed all such abnormal, out-of-the-way talent as that ofpaganini to "supernatural" agency. every great and marvellous artist had been accused in his day of dealingswith the devil. a few instances will suffice to refresh the reader's memory. tartini, the great composer and violinist of the xviith century, was denounced as one who got his bestinspirations from the evil one, with whom he was, it was said, in regular league. this accusation was ofcourse due to the almost magical impression he produced upon his audiences. his inspired performance onthe violin secured for him in his native country the title of "master of nations" the sonate du diable, alsocalled "tartini's dream- as every one who has heard it will be ready to testify- is the most weirdmelod

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ophy and the theosophical society there is no difference, and forthwith you lay the system of christianity and its very essence open to the same charges, only in a more serious form. q. why more serious? page 29 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt a. because, while the leaders of the theosophical movement, recognizing fully their shortcomings, try all they can do to amend their ways and uproot the evil existing in the society; and while their rules and bylaws are framed in the spirit of theosophy, the legislators and the churches of nations and countries which call themselves christian do the reverse. our members, even the worst among them, are no worse than the average christian. moreover, if the western theosophists experience so much difficulty in leading the true theosophical life

will upon our actions. they rejected fatalism, for fatalism implies a blind course of some still blinder power. but they believed in destiny or karma, which from birth to death every man is weaving thread by thread around himself, as a spider does his cobweb; and this destiny is guided by that presence termed by some the guardian angel, or our more intimate astral inner man, who is but too often the evil genius of the man of flesh or the personality. both these lead on man, but one of them must prevail; and from the very beginning of the invisible affray the stern and implacable law of compensation and retribution steps in and takes its course, following faithfully the fluctuating of the conflict. when the last strand is woven, and man is seemingly enwrapped in the net-work of his own doi

eosophists-those who have a correct idea of karma. q. i wish you would, as your literature seers to be very sparing on this subject? a. because it is the most difficult of all our tenets. some short time ago there appeared the following objection from a christian pen: granting that the teaching in regard to theosophy is correct, and that "man must be his own savior, must overcome self and conquer the evil that is in his dual nature, to obtain the emancipation of his soul" what is man to do after he has been awakened and converted to a certain extent from evil or wickedness? how is he to get emancipation, or pardon, or the blotting out of the evil or wickedness he has already done? to this mr. j.h. conelly replies very pertinently that no one can hope to "make the theosophical engine run on

he theological track" as he has it: the possibility of shirking individual responsibility is not among the concepts of theosophy. in this faith there is no such thing as pardoning, or "blotting out of evil or wickedness already done" otherwise than by the adequate punishment therefore of the wrong-doer and the restoration of the harmony in the universe that had been disturbed by his wrongful act. the evil has been his own, and while others must suffer its consequences, atonement can be made by nobody but himself. the condition contemplated in which a man shall have been "awakened and converted to a certain extent from evil or wickedness" is that in which a man shall have realized that his deeds are evil and deserving of punishment. in that realization a sense of personal responsibility is

l responsibility is inevitable, and just in proportion to the extent of his awakening or "converting" must be the sense of that awful responsibility. while it is strong upon him is the time when he is urged to accept the doctrine of vicarious atonement. he is told that he must also repent, but nothing is easier than that. it is an amiable weakness of human nature that we are quite prone to regret the evil we have done when our attention is called, and we have either suffered from it ourselves or enjoyed its fruits. possibly, close analysis of the feeling would show us that thing which we regret is rather the necessity that seemed to require the evil as a means of attainment of our selfish ends than the evil itself. attractive as this prospect of casting our burden of sins "at the foot of t

HEPTAMERON

nct functions of spirits, how they may be drawn to discourse and communication; what is to be done every day, and every hour; and how they shall be read, as if they were described sillable by sillable. in brief, in this book are kept the principles of magical conveyances. but because the greatest power is attributed to the circles (for they are certain fortresses to defend the operators safe from the evil spirits) in the first place we will treat concerning the composition of a circle. of the circle, and the composition thereof. the form of circles is not alwaies one and the same; but useth to be changed, according to the order of the spirits that are to be called, their places, times, daies and hours. for in making a circle, it ought to be considered in what time of the year, what day, an

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

alone for the years to topple, lest things be stirred that ought to rest for ever in their black abyss. after the policeman had gone blake stood staring at the sullen steepled pile. it excited him to find that the structure seemed as sinister to others as to him, and he wondered what grain of truth might lie behind the old tales the bluecoat had repeated. probably they were mere legends evoked by the evil look of the place, but even so, they were like a strange coming to life of one of his own stories. the afternoon sun came out from behind dispersing clouds, but seemed unable to light up the stained, sooty walls of the old temple that towered on its high plateau. it was odd that the green of spring had not touched the brown, withered growths in the raised, iron-fenced yard. blake found hi

erhaps it means no injury this time; are found scattered down two of the pages. then the lights went out all over the city. it happened at 2.12 a.m. according to power-house records, but blake's diary gives no indication of the time. the entry is merely "lights out- god help me" on federal hill there were watchers as anxious as he, and rain-soaked knots of men paraded the square and alleys around the evil church with umbrella-shaded candles, electric flashlights, oil lanterns, crucifixes, and obscure charms of the many sorts common to southern italy. they blessed each flash of lightning, and made cryptical signs of fear with their right hands when a turn in the storm caused the flashes to lessen and finally to cease altogether. a rising wind blew out most of the candles, so that the scene

ng the conservative. the case of these imaginative theorists has not been helped by the action of superstitious doctor dexter, who threw the curious box and angled stone- an object certainly self-luminous as seen in the black windowless steeple where it was found- into the deepest channel of narragansett bay. excessive imagination and neurotic unbalance on blake's part, aggravated by knowledge of the evil bygone cult whose startling traces he had uncovered, form the dominant interpretation given those final frenzied jottings. these are the entries- or all that can be made of them: lights still out- must be five minutes now. everything depends on lightning. yaddith grant it will keep up. some influence seems beating through it. rain and thunder and wind deafen. the thing is taking hold of m

y spade causing a viscous yellow ichor to ooze from the white fungi which it severed, i trembled at the dubious thoughts of what i might uncover. some secrets of inner earth are not good for mankind, and this seemed to me one of them. my hand shook perceptibly, but still i delved; after a while standing in the large hole i had made. with the deepening of the hole, which was about six feet square, the evil smell increased; and i lost all doubt of my imminent contact with the hellish thing whose emanations had cursed the house for over a century and a half. i wondered what it would look like- what its form and substance would be, and how big it might have waxed through long ages of life- sucking. at length i climbed out of the hole and dispersed the heaped-up dirt, then arranging the great c

o know just what joseph curwen looked like; and he decided to make a second search of the house in olney court to see if there might not be some trace of the ancient features beneath peeling coats of later paint or layers of mouldy wall-paper. early in august that search took place, and ward went carefully over the walls of every room sizeable enough to have been by any possibility the library of the evil builder. he paid especial attention to the large panels of such overmantels as still remained; and was keenly excited after about an hour, when on a broad area above the fireplace in a spacious ground-floor room he became certain that the surface brought out by the peeling of several coats of paint was sensibly darker than any ordinary interior paint or the wood beneath it was likely to h

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

when we had come very close to the sprawling obstructions could we trace that second, unexplainable fetor to any immediate source- and the instant we did so danforth, remembering certain very vivid sculptures of the old ones history in the permian age one hundred and fifty million years ago, gave vent to a nerve-tortured cry which echoed hysterically through that vaulted and archaic passage with the evil, palimpsest carvings. i came only just short of echoing his cry myself; for i had seen those primal sculptures, too, and had shudderingly admired the way the nameless artist had suggested that hideous slime coating found on certain incomplete and prostrate old ones- those whom the frightful shoggoths had characteristically slain and sucked to a ghastly headlessness in the great war of res

HP LOVECRAFT THE ALCHEMIST

credible narrative unfolded before my eyes. the paper carried me back to the days of the thirteenth century, when the old castle in which i sat had been a feared and impregnable fortress. it told of a certain ancient man who had once dwelled on our estates, a person of no small accomplishments, though little above the rank of peasant, by name, michel, usually designated by the surname of mauvais, the evil, on account of his sinister reputation. he had studied beyond the custom of his kind, seeking such things as the philosopher's stone or the elixir of eternal life, and was reputed wise in the terrible secrets of black magic and alchemy. michel mauvais had one son, named charles, a youth as proficient as himself in the hidden arts, who had therefore been called le sorcier, or the wizard. t

e been called le sorcier, or the wizard. this pair, shunned by all honest folk, were suspected of the most hideous practices. old michel was said to have burnt his wife alive as a sacrifice to the devil, and the unaccountable disappearance of many small peasant children was laid at the dreaded door of these two. yet through the dark natures of the father and son ran one redeeming ray of humanity; the evil old man loved his offspring with fierce intensity, whilst the youth had for his parent a more than filial affection. one night the castle on the hill was thrown into the wildest confusion by the vanishment of young godfrey, son to henri, the count. a searching party, headed by the frantic father, invaded the cottage of the sorcerers and there came upon old michel mauvais, busy over a huge

HP LOVECRAFT THE CATS OF ULTHAR

plain to the sinister couple; even when little atal, the innkeeper s son, vowed that he had at twilight seen all the cats of ulthar in that accursed yard under the trees, pacing very slowly and solemnly in a circle around the cottage, two abreast, as if in performance of some unheard-of rite of beasts. the villagers did not know how much to believe from so small a boy; and though they feared that the evil pair had charmed the cats to their death, they preferred not to chide the old cotter till they met him outside his dark and repellent yard. so ulthar went to sleep in vain anger; and when the people awakened at dawn behold! every cat was back at his accustomed hearth! large and small, black, grey, striped, yellow and white, none was missing. very sleek and fat did the cats appear, and son

HP LOVECRAFT THE CRAWLING CHAOS

nd athwart the desert of deserts appeared a smoking rift. still the black ocean foamed and gnawed, eating away the desert on either side as the rift in the center widened and widened. there was now no land left but the desert, and still the fuming ocean ate and ate. all at once i thought even the pounding sea seemed afraid of something, afraid of dark gods of the inner earth that are greater than the evil god of waters, but even if it was it could not turn back; and the desert had suffered too much from those nightmare waves to help them now. so the ocean ate the last of the land and poured into the smoking gulf, thereby giving up all it had ever conquered. from the new-flooded lands it flowed again, uncovering death and decay; and from its ancient and immemorial bed it trickled loathsomel

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

ing, unwinking eyes, and a flat-nosed wench with unbelievably thick, clumsy hands being in attendance. the service was all of the counter type, and it relieved me to find that much was evidently served from cans and packages. a bowl of vegetable soup with crackers was enough for me, and i soon headed back for my cheerless roam at the gilman; getting a evening paper and a fly-specked magazine from the evil-visaged clerk at the rickety stand beside his desk. as twilight deepened i turned on the one feeble electric bulb over the cheap, iorn-framed bed, and tried as best i could to continue the reading i had begun. i felt it advisable to keep my mind wholesomely occupied, for ft would not do to brood over the abnormalities of this ancient, blight -shadowed town while i was still within its bor

bed. they hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. i was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. their croaking, baying voices, clearly wed tar articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked. but for all of their monstrousness they were not unfamiliar to me. i knew too well what they must be- for was not the memory of the evil tiara at newburyport still fresh? they were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design- living and horrible- and as i saw them i knew also of what that humped, tiaraed priest in the black church basement had fearsomely reminded me. their number was past guessing. it seemed to me that there were limitless swarms of them and certainly my momentary glimpse could have shewn only the le

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

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

HP LOVECRAFT WHAT THE MOON BRINGS

f. so i watched the tide go out under that sinking moon, and saw gleaming the spires, the towers, and the roofs of that dead, dripping city. and as i watched, my nostrils tried to close against the perfume-conquering stench of the world's dead; for truly, in this unplaced and forgotten spot had all the flesh of the churchyards gathered for puffy sea-worms to gnaw and glut upon. over these horrors the evil moon now hung very low, but the puffy worms of the sea need no moon to feed by. and as i watched the ripples that told of the writhing of worms beneath, i felt a new chill from afar out whither the condor had flown, as if my flesh had caught a horror before my eyes had seen it. nor had my flesh trembled without cause, for when i raised my eyes i saw that the waters had ebbed very low, she

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

of fire, too, has two polarities, i.e, the active and the passive one, which means positive) and negative. plus will always signify the constructive, the creative, the productive sources whereas minus stands for all that is destructive or dissecting. there are always two basic qualities, which must be clearly distinguished in each element. religions have always imputed the good to the active and the evil to the passive side. but fundamentally spoken, there are no such things as good or bad; they are nothing but human conceptions. in the universe there is neither good nor evil, because everything has been created according to immutable rules, wherein the divine principle is reflected and only by knowing these rules, shall we be able to come near to the divinity. as mentioned before, the fi

his law works everywhere as the most sublime rule. consequently every deed proceeds from a cause or is followed by any result. therefore we should not only accept karma as a rule for our good actions, as the oriental philosophy puts it, but its signification reaches farther and is a very deep one. instinctively all men have the feeling that something good can bring good results only and again all the evil must end up with evil or, in the words of a proverb, whatsoever a man sows, that shall he reap. everybody is bound to know this law and to respect it. this law of cause and effect governs the elemental principles, too. i have no intention to enter into details of this law, which could be expressed in a few words, as they are quite clear so that every reasonable man will understand them. s

the fiery element, diligence, joy, dexterity, kindness, lust, and optimism to the air element, modesty, abstemiousness, fervency, compassion, tranquility, tenderness, and forgiveness to the watery element, and respect, endurance, conscientiousness, thoroughness, sobriety, punctuality, and responsibility to the earth element. by doing so, you will get two so-called psycho-mirrors, a black one with the evil qualities, and a whit one with the good and noble character traits. these two magic mirrors are correct occult mirrors, and none but the owner has any right to look into them at all. let me repeat once more that the owner must endeavor to elaborate his magic mirrors precisely and conscientiously. if, in the course of the development, he should remember any good or bad quality, he can stil

y convinced that through washing the power will pass into your body and the desire will be realized. he who has time to spare can combine both exercises by stripping off all evil in one water (say under the tap or in a separate basin, and then washing himself in another basin with the water impregnated with his desire. in this case, namely the first exercise, you have to use soap when washing off the evil. female adepts have a third opportunity besides the two forementioned possibilities: they will concentrate their magnetism on the fact that the water makes the face and skin look much younger, more elastic and thus more attractive. it is therefore advisable not only to wash the face, but to dip the whole face into the water for some seconds. this procedure is to be repeated at least seven

how to practice introspection. he has recorded his good and bad properties in accordance with the four elements, and has divided them in three groups. in this way he has made two soul mirrors, a good (white) one and a bad (black) one. these two soul mirrors represent his psychic character. now he must find out from these records which elemental powers are prevailing in him on the good as well as the evil side, and endeavor to establish the balance of these elemental influences at all events. without a balance of the elements in the astral body or in the soul, there is no possible magical progress or rise. consequently, in this step we must establish this psychic equipoise. if the novice magician possesses a sufficient amount of willpower, he may pass on to master the passions or qualities

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

pamphlets, which served as the "yellow press" of the day; they were well calculated to arouse the superstitious feelings of their readers, as they were written from a sensational standpoint- indeed it seems very probable that the compilers, in their desire to produce a startling catch-penny which would be sure to have a wide circulation, occasionally drew upon their imaginations for their facts. the evil that was wrought by such amongst an ignorant and superstitious people can well be imagined; unbelievers would be p. 11 converted, while the credulous would be rendered more secure in their credulity. at a later date, when men had become practical enough to question the reality of such things, a literary war took place, and in this "battle of the books" we find such well-known names as ric

h, and ideas relative to milk and butter magic, may in the main be counted as results of the anglo-norman invasion, though it is possible that an earlier instalment of these came in with the scandinavians. with our present knowledge we cannot trace its active existence in ireland further back than the kyteler case of 1324; and this, though it was almost p. 13 certainly the first occasion on which the evil made itself apparent to the general public, yet seems to have been only the culmination of events that had been quietly and unobtrusively happening for some little time previously. the language used by the parliament with reference to the case of 1447 would lead us to infer that nothing remarkable or worthy of note in the way of witchcraft or sorcery had occurred in the country during the

r robin son of art, who had carnal knowledge of her, and from whom she admitted that she had received all her wealth. this incubus made its appearance under various forms, sometimes as a cat, or as a hairy black dog, or in the likeness of a negro( thiops, accompanied by two others who were larger and taller than he, and of whom one carried an iron rod. according to another source the sacrifice to the evil spirit is said to have consisted of nine red cocks, and nine peacocks' eyes. dame alice was also accused of having "swept the streets of kilkenny betweene compleine and twilight, raking all the filth p. 30 towards the doores of hir sonne william outlawe, murmuring secretly with hir selfe these words "to the house of william my sonne hie all the wealth of kilkennie towne" on ascertaining t

excited the inquisitors against them, and so gave ecclesiastical authorisation to the reality of the belief in magical forces. indeed, the general expressions used in the bull super illius specula might be applied to the actions of dame alice and her party. he says of certain persons that "they sacrifice to demons and adore them. making or causing to be made images, rings &c, with which they draw the evil spirits by their magical art, obtain responses from them, and demand their help in performing their evil designs" 1 heresy and sorcery were now identified, and the punishment for the former was the p. 45 same as that for the latter, viz. burning at the stake and confiscation of property. the attitude of this pontiff evidently found a sympathiser in bishop de ledrede, who deemed it necessa

ey to purchase so large an estate no one could imagine, and classon porter in his useful pamphlet relates for us the manner in which popular rumour solved the problem. it was said that he had sold himself to the devil, and that he had purchased the estate with the money his body p. 83 and soul had realised. scandal even went further still, and gave the exact terms which dr. colville had made with the evil one. these were, that the devil was at once to give the doctor his hat full of gold, and that the latter was in return, at a distant but specified day, to deliver himself body and soul to the devil. the appointed place of meeting was a lime-kiln; the devil may have thought that this was a delicate compliment to him on account of the peculiarly homelike atmosphere of the spot, but the doct

ISIS UNVEILED

d cap, on the front of which was written in hebrew the holy word, the tetragrammaton the ineffable name. it was writtrai with a new pen dipped in the blood of a white dove. what the exordsts most yearned after, was to release miserable spirits wkich haunt spots v^ere hidden treasures lie. the exorcist sprinkles the circle with the blood of a black lamb and a white pigeon. the priest had to adjure the evil spirits of hell acheront, magoth, asmodei, bedzebub, beual, and all the damned souls, in the mighty names of jehovah, adonai, elohah, and sabaoth, which latter was the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob, who dwelt in the urim and thummim. when the damned souls flung in the face of the exorcist that he was a sinner, and could not get the treasure from them, the priest-sorcerer had to reply t

ace in a perpetual state of fear. it is thus that in all agea and under every latitude, side by side with philosophical speculations of the highest character, one always finds the reliffion of the raime* in india it was the work of the lowat dergy; in rome, that of the higheat potuiffa. but then, have they not as authorify their greatest sunt, augustine, who declares that "whoever believes not in the evil spirits, refuses to believe in holy writ* therefore, in the second half of the nineteenth century we find the counsel for the sacred congregation of bites (exorcism of demons in- cluded. father ventura de rauhca, writing thus, in a letter published by des mousseauz in 1865 "we are io full magic! and, under false namea, tbe spirit of lies and inq>adkity goes on perpetratidj his horrible de

initiates, could not, under the penalty of death, be revealed to the vulgar" says vrihaspati. neither could it in the anmysteries. nor can it be nout. it is in the hands of the adepts, and must remain a mystery to the world so long as the materialistic savant regards it as an undemonstrated fallacy, an insane hallucination; and the dogmatic theo- logian, a snare of the evil one. sidfjectwe conmiunication with the human, god-like spirits of those who have preceded us to the silent land of bliss, is in india divided into three categories. under the spiritual training of a guru or tannydm, the vatu (disciple or neophyte) begins to feel them. were he not under the immediate guidance of an adept, he would be controlled by the invisibles and utterly at their men

and foolith teaching of the boatile man enemy" epuiu 0 pott la jama, i 2. he says further "simon (paul. who came before me to the gcntilee. and i have followed him as light upon daha>es^ as knowledge dtx>n igiwrance. as health upon disease (aomtl. ii, ivii. still further, be calls hua oea/k and a dsomsr(/md, ii, xviii. he warn* the gentilei that "our lwd and proplul [7 [jemtu] dedared to us that the evil one. announced that he would aesd from among his ftdlowos, apostjes to deeeite. thofitm, above all remembo' to avmd every apoctmv or teacher, or prophet, who first does not accurately compare his t *ing with that of jamea, called the brother of my lord (kb the diffneooe between paw and jama on faith, hibnm, si, xii, and jawui, ii. kat this evil one should scod a false preadier, he has sen

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for all stages are precious, and also to remind us that there is one multi-faceted goddess, always present, always sacred. then we have some of the hindu goddesses who the hindu s believe are all aspects of the one divine mother goddess. durga. also called devi in india where all goddesses are one as all are different aspects of the divine feminine. devi took the name of her enemy after she slew the evil demon durga in battle while riding on a tiger. lakshmi. goddess of abundance, the shakti force of vishnu. kali. the triple goddess of creation, the animating force of shiva, the destroyer. kali s role is to face our fears. shakti. the animating force of the universe, shakti unites us with the divine, cosmic, orgasmic energy of life. next we have some of the celtic goddess. the lady of the

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e to man of anything the fire. and they chose that as his shadow, as the very opposite of that which he really was; honouring the master through his servant; bowing before the manifestation, eldest of time, for the timeless; paying homage to the spirit of the devil-world, or rather to beginning and end, on which was the foot of the all, that the all, or the last, might be worshipped; propitiating the evil principle in its finite shows, because (as by that alone a world could be made, whose making is alone comparison) it was permitted as a means of god, and therefore the operation of god downwards, as part of him, though upwards dissipating as before him, before him in whose presence evil, or comparison, or difference, or time, or space, or anything, should be impossible: real god being not

not the quickening and the sharpening of the intellect, as seeking wings devil-pinions wherewith to sail into the region 82 the rosicrucians. only of its own laws, where, of course, it will not find god. then step in the mathematics, then the senses, then the reason, then the very perfection of matter-work, or this world s work, sets in engines of which the satanic powers shall realise the work. the evil spirit conjures, as even by holy command, the translucent sky. the archangelic, clear, childlike rendering-up in intuitive belief, intense in its own sun, is faith. lucifer fills the scope of belief with imitative, dazzling clouds, and built splendours. with these temptations it is sought to dissuade, sought to rival, sought to put out saints sight sought even to surpass in seeming a furt

dotting fleets, the precursors of the exploring ships of the vikings. we claim the caldron of the witches as, in the original, the vase or urn of .the fiery transmigration, in which all the things of the world change. we accept the sign of the double-extended fingers (pointed in a fork, or of horns, which throughout italy, the greek islands, greece, and turkey, is esteemed as the counter-charm to the evil eye, as the occult magian telegraphic. the horns, or radii of the merry-andrew, or jester, or motley, and the horns of satan,-indeed, the figure of horns generally* even have* horns generally whether the horns of the cocu, which need not be those of the wittol, or contented, betrayed husband, but generally 98 the rosicrucians. a strange affinity in the consecrate and religious. the horse

ictoria, all are alike in their reality at the time that they arise in the mind. the white lady of berlin, and her mysterious appearances from time to time, are well known to the writers of modern romantic biographical story. whom she is supposed to represent seems to be unknown to all. those who have recorded her fitful revelations of herself venture no surmise; but she is considered in some way the evil genius of the hohenzollern family, much in the same manner as the unaccounted-for figure might have been 184 the rosicrucians. regarded who revealed himself to brutus on the plains of philippi, and who announced the crowning misfortunes of the next day. the irish have a name for this supernatural appearance in the banshee, or the speaker, or exponent, of fate. the white lady of berlin is

curious, when we come to consider it by the side-glance, as it were, that the colour white (the english unfortunate colour, besides being that of the white rose and of whitehall, is that white of the unlucky stuarts, whose history through centuries, both in scotland and in england, was but one long catalogue of mishaps, woes, and disasters. prince charles edward and his famous white cockade, and the evil fortunes of all his followers and of the jacobite cause in general in 1715 and 1745, emblemed in the virgin, holy colour white, supply a touching nay, tragical page in public and in private history. lastly, we may adduce as a supposed exemplification of the terrible general effects.of this evil-boding name albus, and colour white, in france, the history of all the bourbons, whose colour i

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se bright eyes of infinite kindness that blinds him to the perfidy of the malefactor, and to love of those who, though less noble, cherish him better than he who should cherish him best. hatred comes to fruition in my heart for satanael who surely is the prince of lies. we must act before his spell is done and he stirs our father's heart beyond deliverance against those who would deliver him from the evil of his best-loved son. we must go to our most beloved father and petition with him to hear our sorry news of the treachery of our brother who is not fit to call himself elohim. we must bring an prosecution before satan brings his own false accusation, spoken through lips black with deceit. we must open our father's eyes to this most terrible crime before it is complete and he and we are r

mplate rebellion against you 15 that is the well-spring of his being is surely crime enough. but he goes amongst his brothers who should do nought but cherish you and, with perverse and unholy speech, 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 bro

isfying to your discernment then summon to yourself all your sons, all the elohim that serve you in heaven and upon the earth below, the ancient dominion of the giants that we vanquished so long ago, and call upon their testament for none of us cannot recount an instance where our false brother came to us, perverting by his deceitful tongue. lord, all heaven cries 'vengeance! 18 vengeance against the evil one who brings ruinous contention to our most beautiful dominion which we both love and serve devotedly' tarry no longer, liege. it serves us not. rather act delayless and judiciously before the villain's crime is full-worked and heaven and god are undone by his injurious wrong and perfidy. call the elohim to assembly as an audience before you. take out the balances of justice, weighing t

ught less but, indeed, more worthy than him by much, his perfidious intent to corrupt with clever words, promising that which he had no right to bequeath though, in his base arrogance, believing he was lord and had the right to promise what he will, that which is, as all is, yours, o father! well do i remember, though yet i think it a dream and not, as it is, the truth of day, that fatal day when the evil one came to me, promising me a third of heaven and of earth as a paltry price for my humble soul. many other things did he promise me, seeking to win me to his evil cause, speaking such honeyed words as now i report 'michael, my brother, my noble brother, you whom, of all my brethren, i love best, tell me, in all truth, sparing no detail, tell me whether you are content to be as you are

se bright eyes of infinite kindness that blinds him to the perfidy of the malefactor, and to love of those who, though less noble, cherish him better than he who should cherish him best. hatred comes to fruition in my heart for satanael who surely is the prince of lies. we must act before his spell is done and he stirs our father's heart beyond deliverance against those who would deliver him from the evil of his best-loved son. we must go to our most beloved father and petition with him to hear our sorry news of the treachery of our brother who is not fit to call himself elohim. we must bring an prosecution before satan brings his own false accusation, spoken through lips black with deceit. we must open our father's eyes to this most terrible crime before it is complete and he and we are r

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unpronounceable name of god symbolized by 'jehovah. the laver of water of purification refers to the waters of binah, the female power reflected in the waters of creation. the altar of burnt offering for the sacrifice of animals symbolizes the qlippoth, or evil demons of the plane contiguous to and below the material universe. it points out that our passions should be sacrificed. the qlippoth are the evil demons of matter and the shells of the dead. the altar of incense in the tabernacle was overlaid with gold. ours is black to symbolize our work which is to separate the philosophic gold from the black dragon of matter. this altar diagram shows the ten sephiroth with all the connecting paths numbered and lettered, and the serpent winding over each path. around each sephira are written the

LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

d not receive permission from above. the ban, the creator s personal secret, means that kabbalistic secrets are only revealed to those who are devoted to the creator and revere him. this is the most important reason for keeping kabbalah s secrets from a wide circle of people. many frauds used kabbalah in their own interests by luring simpletons with soothsaying, making amulets, saving people from the evil eye, and other so-called miracles. originally kabbalah was concealed for this very reason. therefore, the true kabbalists committed to subjecting their disciples to very stringent tests. this explains why even the few people in every generation granted permission to study kabbalah were sworn not to reveal even a small detail of it, which fell under the three abovelisted bans. however, we

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esires will evoke the reshimot that will show us what being more altruistic means. every time we decide that we do not want to use this or that desire egoistically, the reshimo of that state is considered to have completed its task, and moves on to make room for the next. this is the only correction we are required to make. kabbalist yehuda ashlag phrases this principle in these words: kby hating the evil [egoism] in earnest truth it is corrected. and then he explains: kif two people come to realize that each hates what one s friend hates, and loves what and whom one s friend loves, they come into perpetual bonding, as a stake that will never fall. hence, since the creator loves to bestow, the lower ones should also adapt to want only to bestow. the creator also hates to be a receiver, as

e on the inferior one. human nature, or egoism, is discovering how opposite it is from nature, or altruism. this is why so many people feel distressed, depressed, insecure and frustrated. in short, the crisis isn t really happening on the outside. even though it certainly seems to take up physical space, it is happening within us. the crisis is the titanic struggle between the good (altruism) and the evil (egoism. how sad it is that we have to play the bad guys in the real reality show. but don t lose hope xas in all shows, a happy end awaits. 3. determining the best solution. the more we recognize the underlying cause of the crisis, namely our egoism, the more we ll understand what needs to be changed in us and in our societies. by doing so, we will be able to de-escalate the crisis and b

only had an average income, i d feel like the poorest person on earth. in other words, our norms are dictated by the combination of phase one (what we want to have) and phase two (which is determined by what others have. the (narrow) road to freedom 145 in fact, our desire to give, which should have been the guarantee that our world would be a good place to live in, is actually the reason for all the evil in this world. this is the essence of our corruption, so replacing the intention to receive with an intention to give is all that we need to correct. the cure no desire or quality is naturally evil; it s how we use them that make them so. ancient kabbalists already said: envy, lust, and (the pursuit of) honor bring a man out of the world, meaning out of our world and into the spiritual wo

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

e main focus is on glorifying the spiritual and the creator, irrespective of oneself or of one s own condition. when we begin checking how serious our attitude is toward the spiritual, and how close we are to perfection, it becomes obvious that we are still immersed in petty egoism and cannot lift a finger for the sake of others or the creator. inner motion and development- 107- having discovered the evil in ourselves, we must strive to oust that evil, and must apply our utmost efforts to this task. we must also pray to the creator for help as soon as it is clear that we are unable to transform ourselves without assistance. thus, there become two opposite lines in a person. alongside the right line, we feel that all is in the power of the creator and, therefore, all is perfect. so we do no

that all is in the power of the creator and, therefore, all is perfect. so we do not wish for anything and are, therefore, happy. by the left line, we feel no interest in the spiritual; we have no sense of spiritual progress, and we sense that we are still encased in the shell of our ego, just as before. furthermore, we do not ask the creator for help to escape from this state. having discovered the evil within, we decide to dispense with our common sense because it tries to dissuade us from our efforts to pursue the hopeless task of correcting our egoism. at the same time, we should continue to thank the creator for our present state, sincerely believing that this state is truly the perfect state. we should also continue to be just as happy as we were prior to checking our state. if we c

times, the barrier that separates the masses from kabbalah has been obliterated altogether, and there is hardly any resistance to the teaching. if in the past only those of very strong character could attain the connection with the creator, today beginners and even children can reach the same results simply by studying kabbalah under the proper supervision. we are unable to separate the good from the evil, just as we are unable to discern what is good for the self and what is detrimental. only the creator can help us in this respect by opening our eyes. only then do we begin to see everything, which means "to choose life" but until we come to realize our absolute necessity for the constant connection to the creator, he will not open our eyes. in this way, he will induce us to ask for compa

thoughts and desires remain under the influence of egoism. in order to be objective about our own condition, we must attempt to consider egoism as something outside of our essence, as an enemy who tries to pass itself off as a friend. we must try to see egoism as something foreign to us, which was placed in us by the will of the creator. such actions are considered to be our attempts to recognize the evil that stems from the ego. but this is possible only to the extent that we can sense the creator s existence and perceive his light, since everything is understood merely in relation to other objects, by the perception of opposites. thus, rather than concentrating all our energy on the search for the evil within us, we should make the utmost effort to perceive the light of the creator. all

r is the stench perceived. revelation and concealment- 167- for this reason, the creator shows those who are only at the beginning of the path, the sinners, that their egoism is not so formidable that it cannot be overcome. this is so they will not give up hope at the sight of work that is not appropriate to the task. for those who are already on the path, the creator reveals a greater measure of the evil (egoism) within them. this is done to a degree appropriate to the feeling of the importance of the correction, and the power of resistance to egoism that they have acquired. finally, to those who desire to be righteous, the creator reveals the full magnitude of their egoism. consequently, it appears to them as a high, unsurpassable mountain. thus, as a person progresses, the evil within i

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thus preventing its onset. by so doing, one can evolve consciously, through reasoning, and thus the kli (creature) learns to become aware of its oppositeness from the light. the wisdom of kabbalah is a method that pa r t i: k a b b a l a h m e e t s q ua n t u m p h y s i c s 40 helps us evolve through knowledge instead of through pain, and it is appearing today to allow humankind to acknowledge the evil that lies in egoism before it fully manifests itself, inflicting horrendous ruin in all aspects of life. hence, the wisdom of kabbalah as the means to achieve both our evolution and the purpose of creation should reach all of humanity. the more people engage in kabbalah, and the more we circulate it throughout the world, the better off we will all be. baal hasulam writes about it very cle

en we will flourish and thrive. such recognition will force us to replace our nature. actions such as mass meditation do not promote humanity to the creator, meaning to the altruistic nature. they are predicated on our being able to maximize the use of our egoistic forces; hence, no single plan of humanity will help to improve our world. these actions will eventually lead to quicker disclosure of the evil pa r t i v: r e a l i z i n g t h e s p i r i t ua l g e n e 162 in our egoism. in fact, any bonding of many people to achieve a common goal, positive or negative, accelerates the disclosure of evil, but this is not a desirable way for progress. the optimal evolution occurs only when one draws light from above. the spiritual force exposes the flaws as well as corrects them, but to do that

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learn how to use it wisely. today, however, all scientific and technical discoveries bring harm to man, since they only show us how imperfectly we have developed. hence we can only conclude that all human activity should be strictly determined by its intention for the creator. if our intention matches the goal of creation, then we ll develop pleasantly. if not, we will suffer, but only to reveal the evil inside us, to understand and correct it, ultimately achieving the same goal through anguish. w h y i s r e c e i v i n g f o r m y s e l f e v i l? q: if the creator made a world in order to bestow his abundance to the created beings, then what s wrong with wanting to receive everything for oneself? why is it perceived as evil? why was it necessary to create a world so imperfect, and a cr

of self-satisfaction develops, and they begin to take pride in their efforts. it is a good idea to be careful of such gratifications. however, the efforts should continue regardless of one s conclusions about oneself. naturally, before we cross the barrier between our world and the spiritual one, all our efforts stem from the will to get something for ourselves. but these efforts gradually expose the evil in us, making us feel as though we are growing worse. for example: i would always drive my neighbor in my car, lend money to friends and help my relatives. these acts gave me satisfaction and made me respect myself, until i suddenly saw that my behavior stemmed from pure selfishness. i wanted to think well of myself, to be highly spoken of, to maintain what i had been taught to do, and th

that lie. when you really do begin to hate that situation, and hate that lie of lo lishma because you have now discovered the truth, you can compare the two and clearly see where the deceit lies. if you begin to feel the light of lishma within the situation of lo lishma, you will see how deep that situation of lo lishma is, and you will feel you must get out of it, but can t! you will already see the evil and despair because you can t escape that situation on your own. at that point, the exodus occurs. the passage from lo lishma to lishma is exactly like a seed that rots and gives life to something new. q: will we be unable to enjoy life in another way after the restriction! it s as though there is no connection between the spiritual worlds and the material worlds. before we learn to give

how do we discover evil, and for what purpose? a: if you remember the idea of creation and its goal, all your calculations will stop being passive. instead, they will become vessels, or aims with which we contact the creator and feel him. every negative attribute in us becomes a means to an end. there is no other way to make contact with the creator--only through our negative attributes, through the evil. the revelation of evil is the beginning of the revelation of good v its opposite. the creator tells you of your negative attributes to make you want him when you sense your egoism. we have to try and use the evil to help us make contact with the creator. here, in the midst of my evil, i cleave to him. even if it is the opposite side, i still make contact with the creator. it is here that

nal sense that will be developed in us in the future. we call that information the system of creation. our fathers had a much closer connection with the upper world than we do. however, once we do go into the spiritual world, we will obtain a stronger and more effective bond because we are more selfish, more evolved and more corrupt. precisely because of that combination, we have a chance to turn the evil into good, experience deeper feelings in our world, and reach places our fathers never could. in the beginning, they were closer to spirituality than we are because they were less egoistic. moreover, we have drifted so much farther from spirituality than they did, that if we did come back to it now, we would have to go that much deeper into the system of creation. t h e s t u d y o f k a

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creator. hence, the study of kabbalah must be correctly directed; thoughts must be focused on studying the inner attributes that we are still unable to see in ourselves. all the worlds, partzufim, sefirot, names, everything the kabbalah speaks of, exists in us and will be revealed in us, depending on the degree of our correction. we will find our inner moses and aaron, king david and the angels, the evil, the righteous, and the degrees of attainment called jerusalem, the temple and more. every word in the torah speaks of our own forces and our levels of ability to sense the creator. that is the only topic of discussion of the torah. that is also the only thing we speak of in our daily lives, because we talk about our feelings. in fact, all we feel is the influence of the creator. everythi

d then go above them, above our reason, meaning that we must follow our feelings. the above reason route is based on trial and error. everyone who starts to walk in that direction must stumble in it and rise again with one s own strength, and begin to perceive daily circumstances as assistance from above for one s spiritual progress. there are many forces that were created by the creator, such as the evil eye, slander, etc. their one and only purpose is to teach us to control ourselves. the golden rule states: walk humbly with thy god (micah 6:8. one must hide one s goals even from one s own egoism, let alone that of others. however, this does not mean that we should dress or act any differently than is customary where we live, or refrain from contact with people. but when around strangers

re that conducts and moves us, only fear can force the ego not to carry out its desires without consideration. q: can a person be pushed into studying kabbalah? a: no. it can only be done passively. give that person something to read and let things evolve naturally. q: how does the recognition of evil appear in me? is it different in a person who has committed a crime? a: in an ordinary criminal, the evil inclination appears as a negative desire that is not connected with anything else. but kabbalah portrays your evil in comparison with the good. because of that, you begin to feel your evil inclination as such. if you speak to a murderer or a rapist, you will always find a person who thinks that what he did was just. simply thinking that a certain person is evil is still not considered the

orld, below the barrier, in the dark, in a place where the light doesn t reach us. when the surrounding light shines on us, we begin to see our real essence. it is a process called the recognition of evil. but before the light shines on us, we always try to justify ourselves. we think we are always right. but once under the light of the creator, we begin to see t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 74 the evil in ourselves, which drives us to ask for help of the creator, the source of that illumination. if our request is genuine, the creator will change our natures. but the will to receive doesn t change, only the aim changes from for me to for the creator. that change is called giving. thus, one gradually changes one s properties to the properties of the creator in each of the 125 degrees on t

th our hearts; there is no need for words. thus, in order to justify the creator, we must always feel good. when we hear that there is murder, oppression, and terrorism in the world, we must recognize that this is the best possible thing for our world, and it is only considered bad because of our corrupted souls. that is why our only option is to ascend spiritually and correct our vessels so that the evil we see and hear of will be perceived as good in our eyes. our only concern should be that in the process of the correction of the vessels and the spiritual degree, we will see how good he is to us and to the entire world. someone who is still climbing the degrees of the first spiritual world the world of assiya (called all evil) still feels events as bad. one who feels that the creator s

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

, and in another, less worthy, the powers given would be much smaller, because of the candidate s incapacity to respond fully to them. in such cases a fuller degree of power will manifest itself as greater advancement is made in the development of character. it also appears to be possible for power to be temporarily withdrawn in cases of evil-doing by one of the brn, and to be restored later when the evil-doing has ceased. 42. all this may seem a little bewildering to the student of the form side of masonry; and indeed it is a fact that there is but little means on the physical plane of judging the inner effect of a given degree without reference to those who may be working it. it may however be generally stated that the chief lines of masonic tradition- those which are of the greatest inn

t, and shown to the student. the whole of what we now call black masonry led up to an explanation of karma as divine justice, this having been preserved for us in shadow in what is now the 31, that of the grand inspector inquisitor commander, whose symbol is a pair of scales. in egypt this pair of scales was taken as an emblem of the perfect balance of divine justice; the aspirant learnt that all the evil and horror associated with the working out of karma was indeed based on perfect justice, although it had appeared as evil to the lesser vision of the profane. 176. thus the first stage of the higher instruction, that of the rose-croix or red masonry, was devoted to the knowledge of good, while the second stage, that of k.h. or black masonry, was devoted to the knowledge of evil. next, in

the church from her abuses, to bring her teachings into closer harmony with the new ideas; but it must be admitted that it did little to improve matters from the spiritual point of view, even though it won freedom of belief and liberty for the individual intellect to search for the truth in its own way. for so great was the ignorance and bigotry of the reformers that they cast aside the good with the evil, and framed a theology more intolerable than that of rome, while to a great extent rejecting her sacramental and contemplative treasures. 558. the reappearance of speculative masonry 559. after the reformation in england ecclesiastical architecture practically ceased as an activity of the guilds, and the operative lodges fell into decay since their work was no longer needed. but while the

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for granted was shaken- the firm foundations of my world crumbled in that instant, and i was lost, as it were. some months later, i fell into a conversation with a chap i met in the central library. i expounded my somewhat idealistic conviction that science would usher in an age of rationality, and that the age of christianity s grip upon the world was passing away. he asked me if i had heard of the evil aleister crowley, who had declared that "there is no god but man" i had heard of crowley- indeed my father had once burnt a copy of the news of the world which had somehow found its way into the house which made much of his death and the devilworshippers who attended his funeral in hastings. my new friend was instrumental in feeding my passion for knowledge- he introduced me to the writin

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

g was that this world was the creation of an evil deity who had trapped human spirits in the physical world. our true home is the absolute spirit, referred to as the pleroma, to which we should seek to return. two distinct types of entities are associated with gnosticism: aeons and archons. the aeons are the higher spiritual beings who reside in the pleroma. the archons are the rulers, created by the evil demiurge, who govern this world and who act as guardians preventing the sparks of light (i.e, the divine essence of individual human beings) from returning to the pleroma.abraxas appears to have originally referred to the great unknown out of which the aeons and the pleroma itself emerged. however, in later cabalistic thought, abraxas becomes the designation of the chief aeon. yet other a

n of the eye of the youthful egyptian sun god horus. the udjat eye was placed on rings in ancient egypt. the scarab beetle symbolized resurrection after death and protection against evil magic. mummies wore a heart scarab as an amulet on their breasts. seals and jeweled charms in the form of scarabs protected wearers against evil. the hebrews, as early as 2200 b.c, wore crescent moons to ward off the evil eye and attached bells to their clothing to ward off evil spirits. in ancient rome (753 b.c. a.d. 476) bronze figures of hands stood in houses to ward off evil. this amulet derives from the instinctive gesture to put the hand in front of the face to ward off the evil eye. the position of the fingers on these pre- christian amulets was the same as that used today for blessing, namely with

milarly, circles inscribed with the names of god were used in england as recently as 1860 to repel demons. eyes and phallic amulet from the book of the angel raziel (fortean picture library) 6 angel heart symbols are widely used on amulets. eyes protect against evil spirits and are found on tombs, walls, utensils, and jewelry. the phallic symbol, often represented by a horn, also protects against the evil eye. the hand is an ancient amulet that has carried forward to the present.hand gestures have long been used to ward off the evil eye. two of the best known gestures are mano cornuta, making horns, in which the index and little finger are extended with the other two fingers and the thumb are folded into the palm; and the mano in fica or the fig, in which the hand is in a fist with the thu

ym for the female genitals. rock-crystal amulets set in gold of a hand in the sign of the fig were made in southern germany circa 1680. amulets may be made of hands in these configurations and are still made and sold today. in many regions a red coral amulet depicting the sign of the fig is popular even today on watch-chains and necklaces. knots are another symbol traditionally believed to dispel the evil eye. knots have long been tied in garments to ward off evil and have carried over into carvings and metalwork. nurses used to wear elaborately patterned silver buckles on their belts to protect against sickness, much of which was blamed on the evil eye. the elaborate interlacings and intertwinings of celtic and saxon decorative art probably arose from the notion of warding off the evil ey

ear elaborately patterned silver buckles on their belts to protect against sickness, much of which was blamed on the evil eye. the elaborate interlacings and intertwinings of celtic and saxon decorative art probably arose from the notion of warding off the evil eye also. witch balls are bright reflecting balls of glass that one often sees hanging up in antique shops. their purpose was to ward off the evil eye by reflecting it back to the source. it was believed that the glass ball would attract to itself all the influences of ill luck that would otherwise have fallen upon the household. early christians continued to use many of the amulets of the ancients. the medieval catholic church promoted the use of numerous holy charms including rosaries and holy relics. the most common charm was the

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currence of an event which might involve that loss, or at least disappoint some reasonable expectation of that gain. in the particular case of employing this sacrament for the elixir of life, its misuse might cause premature old age, disease, or even death, as it is said; but we do not think that these results would follow the miscarriage of any other operation; we think that retribution is to be the evil and adverse reflection of reward, and on its plane. adepts will then shew prudence by experimenting thoroughly in minor operations, where failure does not imply irreparable disaster, until they have the knowledge and experience of this art which will give a reasonable confidence. viii of a theory of this art magical the theory of this art appears to us to involve certain cosmic hypotheses

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more places at one time, and of prophecy. 18 power of casting enchantments. 19 power of training wild beasts. 20 invisibility, parthenogenesis, initiation. 21 power of acquiring political and other ascendency. li 22 works of justice and equilibrium. 23 the great work, talismans, crystal-gazing& c. tui 24 necromancy. 25 transmutations[[vision of universal peacock. 26 the witches sabbath so-called, the evil eye. 27 works of wrath and vengeance kbn 28 astrology. 29 bewitchments, casting illusions. 30 the red tincture, power of acquiring wealth li and khien 31 evocation, pyromancy kbn 32 works of malediction and death khbn 32 bis alchemy, geomancy, making of pantacles[[travels on the astral plane] kbn 31 bis invisibility, transformations, vision of the genius. table i (continued) 15 xlvii. kin

tants. cxxvii* seven heavens of the arabs. 0. 1 dual contending forces& 2 hinderers# 3 concealers' daath] h wiyah hypocrites dar al-jalai 4 breakers in pieces% jahim pagans or idolaters dar as-salam 5 burners$ sakar guebres jannat al-maawa 6 disputers! sa ir sabians jannat al-khuld 7 dispersing ravens. hutamah jews jannat al-naim 8 deceivers. laza christians jannat al-firdaus 9 obscene ones. 1010 the evil woman or (simply) the woman. jehannum moslems jannat al- adn or al-karar table i (continued) 25 cxxviii. meaning of col. cxxvii. cxxix. pairs of angels ruling wands. cxxx. pairs of angels ruling cups. cxxxi. pairs of angels ruling swords. 0. 1. 2 lawhw laynd lauya hywbj lalzy lahbm 3 house of glory, made of pearls hycjh hymmu lahar hymby layrh hymqh 4 house of rest or peace, made of rubie

elling the name as ahija (b) writing each letter out in full and (c) counting h in full as ah rather than the more usual hh) can get this name to add to 666. line 7. asmodai. appears in the apocryphal book of tobit. sometimes also known by the latinised form asmodeus. the name is possibly a modification of aeshma deva, an evil spirit from persian mythology. line 8. belial. said to be the chief of the evil spirits in some late jewish apocalyptic literature (e.g. the testament of the 12 patriarchs, but in the old testament the name was a mere term of abuse meaning masterless or worthless. line 9. lilith. she gets everywhere. line 10. naamah. the sister of tubal-cain (see masonic symbolism; but in the zohar she gets turned into another version of lilith. col. cix. rather than use planetary sy

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ng he universe, so that they set up an idol of death for their god, in very rage of hatred against the sum of their own selves. b the book of wisdom or folly 201 zr de heresia manich a (of the manich an heresy) hese philosophers, or shall i not say misosophers and pseudo-sophists, have been hard put to it to explain the mystery of the existence of their evil. they have cried, frothing with words, the evil is illusion. but if so, that illusion is evil, whence came it, and to what end? if their devil created it, who created that devil? all their contention resolveth to this dilemma of change in a changeless, falsity in a true, hate in a loving, weakness in an almighty, duality in a simple, being as they define their god. nor do they see that they restrict their god (whom yet hey would have t

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erve the great guns! the assailants blench; they are driven from the foremost trench. the deadliest batteries belch their hell no more. so day by day fought well, we silence gun by gun. at last the fiercest of the fray is past; the circling hills are ours. the attack is over, save for the rare crack, long dropping shots from hidden forts. so is it with our thoughts! olympas. the hostile thoughts, the evil things! they hover on majestic wings, like vultures waiting for a man to drop from the slave-caravan! marysas. all thoughts are evil. thought is two: the seer and the seen. eschew that supreme blasphemy, my son, liber ccxlii 8 remembering that god is one. olympas. god is a thought! marysas. the .thought. of god is but a shattered emerod: a plague, an idol, a delusion, blasphemy, schism, a

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de, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this shall transcend the known and the unknown with somewhat that hath no name. for it is as the abyss of the arcanum that is opened in the secret place of silence. 8. thou hast come hither, o my prophet, through grave paths. thou hast eaten of the dung of the abominable ones; thou hast prostrated thyself before the goat and the crocodile; the evil men have made thee a plaything; thou hast wandered as a painted liber cordis cincti serpente svb figvra ynda 23 harlot, ravishing with sweet scent and chinese colouring, in the streets; thou hast darkened thine eyepits with kohl; thou hast tinted thy lips with vermilion; thou hast plastered thy cheeks with ivory enamels. thou hast played the wanton in every gate and by-way of the great ci

d that the far-off travellers call naught. 60. o land beyond honey and spice and all perfection! i will dwell therein with my lord for ever. 61. and the lord adonai delighteth in me, and i bear the cup of his gladness unto the weary ones of the old grey land. 62. they that drink thereof are smitten of disease; the abomination hath hold upon them, and their torment is like the thick black smoke of the evil abode. 63. but the chosen ones drank thereof, and became even as my lord, my beautiful, my desirable one. there is no wine like unto this wine. 64. they are gathered together into a glowing heart, as ra that gathered his clouds about him at eventide into a molten sea of joy; and the snake that is the crown of ra bindeth them about with the golden girdle of the death-kisses. 65. so also is

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

him rest .he saw the gilding far behind out on the hills toward the west! with aimless fury hot and blind he flung him on a viking ship. he slew the rover, and inclined the seamen to his stinging whip. accurs.d of god, despising men, thy reckless oars in ocean dip, sir palamede the saracen! 22 ix sir palamede the saracen sailed ever with a favouring wind unto the smooth and swarthy men that haunt the evil shore of hind: he queried eager of the quest .ay! ay. their cunning sages grinned .it shines! it shines! guess thou the rest! for naught but this our rishis know. sir palamede his way addressed unto the woods: they blaze and glow; his lance stabs many a shining blade, his sword lays many a flower low that glittering gladdened in the glade. he wrote himself a wanton ass, and to the sea his

se and hot against his fellow men, he thought to end his purpose then. nay! let him seek new lands and seas, sir palamede the saracen! 29 xiii sir palamede is come anon into a blue delicious bay. a mountain towers thereupon, wherein some fiend of ages gone is whelmed by god, yet from his breast spits up the flame, and ashes grey. hereby sir palamede his quest pursues withouten let or rest. seeing the evil mountain be, remembering all his evil years, he knows the questing beast runs free. author of evil, then, is he! whereat immediate resounds the noise he hath sought so long: appears there quest a thirty couple hounds within its belly as it bounds. lifting his eyes, he sees at last the beast he seeks .tis like an hart. ever it courseth far and fast. sir palamede is sore aghast, but pluckin

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speech is of great gladness. open the doors to me, and i will declare the things that i have seen! horus hath become the divine prince of the boat of the sun; unto him hath been given the name of his father osiris. i have stretched out my arms at the word of osiris; i am entered in, i am justified, i come forth worthy at the gate. i am pure at the palace of the passage of souls; i have destroyed the evil that clung to my members upon earth. hail, ye twin hawks upon your pinnacles, ye that guard the gate of the abyss, for i am made as ye! i am he that cometh forth by day. i have passed the hidden ways; yea, i am he, the bornless spirit, having sight in the feet; strong and the immortal fire! i am he, the truth! i am he, that hate that evil should be wrought in the world! i am he, that ligh

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record must be investigated. it seems quite certain that meditationpractices profoundly affect the sexual process: how and why i do not yet certainly know. 2.45. rubbish! everything perfectly normal. difficult, though, to keep mantram going. 3.00. am sitting on the brink of the big fountain in the luxembourg. this deadness of the whole system continues. 1[.for the good that i would i do not: but the evil which i would not, that i do] 2 brothel in rue des 4 vents [ms. note by ac in equinox i (1, transcribed by yorke] john st. john 23 to explain. normally, if the thought be energetically directed to almost any point in the body, that point is felt to pulse and even to ache. especially this is the case if one vibrates a mantra or magical name in a nerve-centre. at present i cannot do this at

1 [death is represented by the hiereus, and life by the hegemon; they are identified with the greek god-forms of hades and demeter, with hermes and iacchus for invisible stations. t.s] liber dccclx 32 which he desireth. before he can enter the pyramid, therefore, four ordeals are required of him. so, bound and blinded, he stumbles forward, and passes through the wrath of the four great princes of the evil of the world, whose terror is about him on every side. yet since he has followed the voice of the officer who has prepared him, in this part of the ritual no longer merely nature, the great mother, but neschamah (his aspiration) and the representative of adonai, he may pass through all. yea, in spite of the menace of the hiereus, whose function is now that of his fear and of his courage

ring remarks about my body that i find everything wrong with it, and two grains of cascara sagrada necessary to its welfare. i wish i knew where i was! i don ft at all recognise what path i am on; it doesn ft seem like a path at all. as far as i can see, i am drifting rudderless and sailless on a sea of no shore.the false sea of the qliphoth. for in my stupidity i began to try a certain ritual of the evil magic, so called. not evil in truth, because only that is evil (in one sense) which does not lead to adonai (in another sense, all is evil which is not adonai) and of course i had the insane idea that this ritual would serve to stimulate my devotion. for the information of the z.a.m, i may explain that this ritual pertained to saturn in libra;1 and, though right enough in its own plane, i

let asi my mother rend her robes in anguish, and nepti weep for me unavailing. then shall asi being forth hoor, and heru-pa-kraat shall leap glad from her womb. the lord of ven-geance shall awaken; sekhet shall roar, and pasht cry aloud. then shall my members be gathered together, and my bonds shall be unloosed; and my khu shall be mighty in khem for ever and ever! 11.37. i return to the place of the evil triad, of ommo satan, that is before the altar. there to expiate my folly in attaching myself to all this great concourse of ideas that i have here recorded, instead of remaining fixed in the single stronghold of unity with myself. 11.54. and so this great day draws to its end. these are indeed the qliphoth, the qliphoth of kether, the thaumiel, twin giant heads that hate and tear each ot

e risen up and prepared myself ceremonially as a bride, and waited in the proper magical manner. also i was too pleased with the heralds of my lord.s coming.the vision of khephra, etc. it was perhaps this subtle self-satisfaction that lost me. so i fell to the shocking abyss of last night! the dweller of the threshold is never visible until after one has fallen; he is a veiled god and smites like the evil liber dccclx 78 knight in malory, riding and slaying.and no man seeth him. but when you are tumbled headlong into hell, where he lives, then he unveils his face, and blasts you with its horror! very good, john st. john, now you know! you are plain john st. john and you have to climb right up again through the paths to the threshold; and remember this time to mortify that self-satisfaction

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where those intelligent and incorporeal beings reside who are wrapped in a luminous garment, and who assume a form when they appear to man. the fourth is the assiatic world, hycoh \lwo, olahm ha-assiah, the world of action, called also the world of shells, twpylqh \lwo, olahm ha-qliphoth, which is this world of matter, made up of the grosser elements of the other three. in it is also the abode of the evil spirits which are called .the shells. by the qabalah, twpylq, qliphoth, material shells. the devils are divided into ten classes, and have suitable habitations (see tables in 777).23 the demons are the grossest and most deficient of all forms. their ten degrees aswer to decad of the sephiroth, but in inverse ratio, as darkness and impurity increase with the descent of each degree. the two

rot, and signifactory methods of investigating any word. but though frater p. was expert enough in these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in 777. thus a in the yetziratic world is .air. by tarot .the fool. and by signification .an ox. thus we have the famous i.n.r.i= y. n. r. i= f, h, f; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and thus combining all the symbols into the form of a lion [note added by ac to a copy of equinox i (5, as transribed by yorke. in the copy i am working

pentagram. 301. ca, fire. 314. ydc, the almighty, a name of god attributed to yesod. 325. a mystic number of mars. labxrb, the spirit of mars, and layparg, the intelligence of mars. 326. hwchy, jesus.see 300. 333. wznwrvj, see liber 418, 10th athyr. it is surprising that this large scale 3 should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion. there is doubtless a venerable arcanum here connoted, possible the evil of matter summo. 333= 37 9 the accursed. 340 \c.the name. 341. the sum of the .3 mothers. aleph, mem, and shin. 345. hcm, moses. note that by transposition we have 543, hyha rca hyha .existence is existence .i am that i am. a sublime title of kether. moses is therefore regarded as the representative of this particular manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name. 3

, the microcosm and macrocosm. and these are the numbers which seemed to me to bear upon the problem. 1. is the goal not the means. too simple to serve a magician.s purpose. 2. vide supra. 3. still too simple to work with, especially as 3= 1 so easily. but, and therefore, a great number to venerate and desire. 4. the terrible weapon of tetragrammaton, the great enemy. the number of the weapons of the evil magician. the dyad made law. 5. the pentagram, symbol of the squaring of the circle by virtue of \yhla= 3.1415, symbol of man.s will, of the evil 4 dominated by man.s spirit. also pentagrammaton, jeheshua, the saviour. hence the beginning of the great work. 6. the hexagram, symbol of the macrocosm and microcosm interlaced, and of the end of the great work (pentagram on breast, hexagram on

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hjaour scorned not his art .roll on in time, thou ball. he cried .move down the stream of years, timeless and hideous servant of my will! taph! tath! arath!.2 he sounded the triple summons, the mysterious syllables that bound the spirit to the stone .then suddenly the crystal grew a blank; and thereby the foiled wizard knew that which threatened his power, his very life, was so high and holy that the evil spirit could perceive it not .avaunt. he shrieked .false soul of darkness. and the crystal flashed up red, the swarthy red of hate in a man.s cheek, and darkened utterly .foaming at the fouth the wretched jehjaour clutched at air and fell prone. iii .to what god should he appeal? his own, hanuman, was silent. sacrifice, prayer, all were in vain. so jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and his whol

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ire, the effect is short circuited by lust of result. egotistical identification, fear of failure, and the reciprocal desire not to achieve desire, arising from our dual nature, destroy the result. therefore, when selecting topics for concentration, choose subjects of no spiritual, egotistical, intellectual, emotional, or useful significance- meaningless things. object concentration the legend of the evil-eye derives from the ability of wizards and sorcerers to give a fixed dead stare. this ability can be practiced against any object- a mark on a wall, something in the distance, a star in the night sky- anything. to hold an object with an absolutely fixed, unwavering gaze for more than a few moments proves extraordinarily difficult, yet it must be persisted in for hours at a time. every at

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onic force h (i am unaware of any evidence for bes being regarded as a demonic or malignant power in egypt) oddly, in some of the graco-egyptian magical papyri, bes is identified with the headless one. 3 the goetia version has giapos h( fiapoj. apophrasz (apovrac) is a coptic spelling of apep (hellenised as apophis, the monster-serpent of egyptian myth; in the g.d. z documents, another element of the evil persona, dubbed the gstooping dragon h (the third part of the evil person was set-typhon; while not explicitly cited, the opening of section c is almost identically worded in the original greek to the opening of an invocation of set-typhon in the demotic and greek magical papyrus of london and leiden. 4 the goetia version has gmosheh h (mousej in the original greek. gankh-f-n-khonsu h was

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

ur, bor; ymir byggvir mythological character. byggvir is found only in the prose header to lokasenna and stanzas 55.56 of the poem. the prose header says that he and beyla were servants of frey. byggvir fs intervention with loki in the poem proper follows that of frey. in stanza 43 byggvir apparently says (the stanza is difficult) that if he could measure up to frey, he would give loki a beating, the evil crow! loki fs response is dismissive: gwhat is that little thing/ i see strutting about/ a hungry parasite/ at the ears of frey/ you will always be/ and will cluck under the millstone h (stanza 45. byggvir responds by proclaiming his name and stating that all men and gods call him rapid: gi am proud here/ that the sons of hropt [i.e, of odin/ all drink beer together. h loki responds: gshu

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nrealisation of otherness in self; of the absolute in the non-absolute. contact with reality: the impact of flesh on flesh by every illogical means is the only logical thing. our unsocial acts are paid for by our future deformities: redemption is by our own blood. sex abreacted between two becomes seductive and consummation should naturally follow. is it our misconception of self which determines the evil will of man, formulating a disastrous law to which he is ever subject "i desire" is all of life. desires are born of necessity, by sincerity of belief and striving for realization, yet always originating through the fictional supposition from reality. thus man creates his conceptions from his conception of a soul. from his wish for one, and he becomes his mental( 87 g# 5..1..1( 9"f. n@ x#

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elf and the psychological make up of the individual. seek to master, control and move on. you may use this circle for any rituals you wish, such as ceremonial or solitary workings. rituals of chaos and summoning may be done within this circle, and the grand witches sabbat circle may be used as the circle to perform both the bornless or headless one ritual and congress cum daemone or the ritual of the evil genius. it is the dual gnosis of light (headless one, the air aspect of lucifer) and darkness (set, the evil genius or isolated, separate psyche which is earth based. to sum it up: a few examples of use of the triple hermetic circle would be the following (but not limited to: high ceremonial sex magick (the union of gods and goddesses) workings of the antichrist (belarion armiluss al dajj

tward. the triple hermetic circle is by design not held to keep forces out, rather a power circulation of the arcana of energy within. end of ritual 21 the grand luciferian circle (above) would be used in the following manner (but not limited to: low ceremonial or solitary sex magick sexual congress with daemons or succubi. the bornless or headless one ritual congress cum daemone or the ritual of the evil genius immolation or god form absorbing evocation/invocation rituals (meaning you would invoke the spirit within you after it was evoked, the act of possession which allows one who is strong of will to absorb it thus it shall have no power over you. vampiric rituals of qlippothic power channeling. the triple hermetic circle is a foundation of the darker luciferian aspects of black magick

he blade of holy magick or greater black magick workings, used in ceremonial or solitary practice. pathally a black handled knife. azazel called the guardian of the goat, azazel is one of the 200 original fallen angels, according to lore. it is considered that azazel is the same as shemyaza, the leader of the watchers. the zohar makes reference (in vayeze 153a) about the rider upon the serpent is the evil azazel. in islamic lore, azazel is the same as eblis and considered by other lore as the first star (in reference to any angels) which would reveal him as lucifer. azoth the beginning and end in its spiritual aspect, azoth is a form of life and death. from between comes the possibility of manifestation. ba- the soul in egyptian mythology. when the immortal physically dies, the ba, which i

ed by other lore as the first star (in reference to any angels) which would reveal him as lucifer. azoth the beginning and end in its spiritual aspect, azoth is a form of life and death. from between comes the possibility of manifestation. ba- the soul in egyptian mythology. when the immortal physically dies, the ba, which is the astral body, lives on within the tomb and beyond. ba may be seen as the evil 34 genius of earth bound force often presented in egyptian lore as a human headed bird. the ba is the psyche and force which exists beyond the veil. balefire ritual fire used in coven gatherings. black flame the illuminated essence of being, the concept that we perceive ourselves and our separate aspect from the natural order. the gift of set or azazel. chalice the magickal cup used for p

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all some adepts practice as well. in the tuat, a demon-serpent called sati-temui who was seventy cubits long and was said to grow strong from devouring the souls of the dead who were there. there is also a mention of a serpent called akriu who was also an enemy of ra as well. there was a place of fire in the tuat as well, where there was a lord in the form of a giant serpent who held the power of the evil eye. this serpent would seduce his prey and then devour their spirits. know that the forms of set are many, the god of darkness and war is also a creative god of progression and shape shifting. he survives by transformation. the path of sorcerous arte known as luciferian witchcraft, is perhaps becoming a clearer subject under the sethian concept of the adversary as a dual and necessary fo

tellect or essence associated with the neter set. within luciferian witchcraft, algol is represented by the five elements of ahriman, as first described by the ancient manichaean cult, which was inspired by zoroastrianism but called heretics. these elements of the prince of darkness combined the bestial and earthly aspects, from which ahriman masters all within his circle. the holy guardian angel/the evil genius/congressus cum daemone there has been much in the way of misunderstanding within magick as to what the holy guardian angel actually is. some have described it as an exteriorized force which guides each person, others a force of the subconscious. i am partial by experience and direction that this is a force of the subconscious, the greater familiar is a result of atavistic workings

ing within magick as to what the holy guardian angel actually is. some have described it as an exteriorized force which guides each person, others a force of the subconscious. i am partial by experience and direction that this is a force of the subconscious, the greater familiar is a result of atavistic workings (which include the bornless one ritual) from which the luciferian sorcerer calls both the evil genius (the demonic atavistic nature of self) in unity with the holy guardian angel, the empyrean angelic force, blended with the demonic aspect grants a higher articulation of the spirit force, which is still very much a part of us. the attendant spirit, as familiar may be considered an angelick/luciferian illuminated self. this is of course, not a separate entity but the projected and d

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s an altar sacred to the deity. sun worship played an important part in nearly all the early pagan mysteries. this indicates the probability of their atlantean origin, for the people of atlantis were sun worshipers. the solar deity was usually personified as a beautiful youth, with long golden hair to symbolize the rays of the sun. this golden sun god was slain by wicked ruffians, who personified the evil principle of the universe. by means of certain rituals and ceremonies, symbolic of purification and regeneration, this wonderful god of good was brought back to life and became the savior of his people. the secret processes whereby he was resurrected symbolized those cultures by means of which man is able to overcome his lower nature, master his appetites, and give expression to the highe

iffering doctrines in rome. according to the story that the church fathers have preserved, simon was to prove his spiritual superiority by ascending to heaven in a chariot of fire. he was actually picked up and carried many feet into the air by invisible powers. when st. peter saw this, he cried out in a loud voice, ordering the demons (spirits of the air) to release their hold upon the magician. the evil spirits, when so ordered by the great saint, were forced to obey. simon fell a great distance and was killed, which decisively proved the superiority of the christian powers. this story is undoubtedly manufactured out of whole cloth, as it is only one out of many accounts concerning his death, few of which agree. as more and more evidence is being amassed to the effect that st, peter was

ord abraxas when added together result in the sum of 365. the same author also notes that the name mithras when treated in a similar manner has the same numerical value. basilides caught that the click to enlarge the death of simon the magician. from the nuremberg chronicle. simon magus, having called upon the spirits of the air, is here shown being picked up by the demons. st. peter demands that the evil genii release their hold upon the magician. the demons are forced to comply and simon magus is killed by the fall. p. 26 powers of the universe were divided into 365 ons, or spiritual cycles, and that the sum of all these together was the supreme father, and to him he gave the qabbalistical appellation abraxas, as being symbolical, numerologically, of his divine powers, attributes, and em

lem of supreme importance. p. 30 ceremonies were performed at midnight. some of those sleeping spirits who had failed to awaken their higher natures during the earth life and who now floated around in the invisible worlds, surrounded by a darkness of their own making, occasionally slipped through at this hour and assumed the forms of various creatures. the mystics of eleusis also laid stress upon the evil of suicide, explaining that there was a profound mystery concerning this crime of which they could not speak, but warning their disciples that a great sorrow comes to all who take their own lives. this, in substance, constitutes the esoteric doctrine given to the initiates of the lesser mysteries. as the degree dealt largely with the miseries of those who failed to make the best use of th

ation and conversion, the cataclysms which sank atlantis began. the initiate-priests of the sacred feather who promised to come back to their missionary settlements never returned; and after the lapse of centuries tradition preserved only a fantastic account of gods who came from a place where the sea now is. h. p. blavatsky thus sums up the causes which precipitated the atlantean disaster "under the evil insinuations of their demon, thevetat, the atlantis-race became a nation of wicked magicians. in consequence of this, war was declared, the story of which would be too long to narrate; its substance may be found in the disfigured allegories of the race of cain, the giants, and that of noah and his righteous family. the conflict came to an end by the submersion of the atlantis; which finds

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the pursuit of hideous delights and necromantic pastimes besides which gilles de rais' antics are said to pall into insignificance. and they [the giants] began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones] book of enoch, ibid- legend has it that the watchers, in despair at the evil that had been unleashed upon the world by their hand, took counsel among themselves and wielded their power to cast down the lands wherein the nephelim dwelt, overwhelming the entire population in one day and night by volcanic upheaval and subsequent flood, of such a planetary magnitude that to this day, throughout many parts of the world, there yet remains evidence of this appalling cata

ion' jewels, and the more intricate and unusual the jewel, the better it serves its purpose. as to its composition and monetary value, it is completely a matter of individual taste and economy. the best magical witch stones are traditionally the sapphire and the opal. however, most precious and semi-precious stones do just as well, especially those which traditionally are held efficacious against the evil eye and fascination! these, in fact, are excellent accumulators of witch power, and as such, if you have ever worn one as a good-luck charm, has provided you, albeit unwittingly maybe, with an equal and opposite means of fascinating others or casting your own evil eye! in effect, you will be fighting fire with fire! here is a list, in alphabetical order, of some of those stones you may ca

er words, she will be seeking for some magic which, if habondia's charms prove too lightweight, would allow her to be swept off her feet literally and metaphorically. the key to success in this area of magic lies in our old friend, the witches' pyramid. our chief weapon is none other than the potent will itself. of course, we are dealing here with the art of bewitchment proper, sometimes known as the evil eye. but let us call it by its real name as used by practitioners themselves: the art of fascination in order to understand this mysterious process, by which you will be effecting your more lustful ambitions, we should first glance briefly at the theory which underlies the practice. the art of fascination, in itself an integral part of all witchcraft, can take many forms, ranging from the

tion more than any others, hence the awe and fear that the red-headed witch has been held in from the time of ancient egypt down to the present day. set, the sorcerous brother of osiris, was reputed to have had red hair; back in the old country in the eleventh century william rufus (son of william the conqueror) was publicly much feared on account of his connections with witchcraft, red hair, and the evil eye! today the red-headed witch has become something of a cliche, but the origin of the belief is rooted in centuries of witch knowledge. if you have red hair, you are lucky indeed! this energy, or witch power, is in fact what you have been using all along to empower your rituals. it can, however, be used without the assistance of a spell, if you learn how to project it correctly. this pr

m alone for this, though, of course, in some cases, particularly those of an impromptu nature, this won't always be possible. again, as in any act of fascination or close-quarter projection of your witch power, three types of contact may be employed- eye, hand, or breath. owing to the nature of the operation, however, it is usually the first method which is mainly relied upon, hence the old term, the evil eye. as in love magic, you must first catch the glance of your victim and then hold it. this may prove harder than you think, particularly if your victim is aware of your reputation as a witch. you may have to accomplish it by saying something to the effect of "i never trust a person who won't look me directly in the eye" or even, as a last resort "have you ever noticed how one of my eyes

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le in its own department. in editing this volume, i have omitted one or two experiments partaking largely of black magic, and which had evidently been derived from the two goetic works mentioned above; i must further caution the practical worker against the use of blood; the prayer, the pentacle, and the perfumes, or temple incense, rightly used, are sufficient as the former verges dangerously on the evil path. let him who, in spite of the warnings of this volume, determines to work evil, be assured that evil will recoil on himself and that he will be struck by the reflex current. this work is edited from several ancient mss. in the british museum which all differ from each other in various points, some giving what is omitted by the others, but all unfortunately agreeing in one thing, whic

mpire endureth unto the ages of the ages. amen. after having said all these words devoutly, let the master arise, and place his hands upon the pentacles, and let one of the companions hold the book open before the master, who, raising his eyes to heaven, and turning unto the four quarters of the universe, shall say: o lord, be thou unto me a tower of strength against the appearance and assault of the evil spirits. after this, turning towards the four quarters of the universe, he shall say the following words: these be the symbols and the names of the creator, which can bring terror and fear unto you. obey me then, by the power of these holy names, and by these mysterious symbols of the secret of secrets. the which being said and done, thou shalt see them draw near and approach from all par

humbled in thy presence. for i have sinned before thee by pride, avarice, and boundless desire of honours and riches; by idleness, gluttony, greed, debauchery, and drunkenness; because i have offended thee by all kinds of sins of the flesh, adulteries, and pollutions, which i have committed myself, and consented that others should commit; by sacrilege, thefts, rapine, violation, and homicide; by the evil use i have made of my possessions, by my prodigality, by the sins which i have committed against hope and charity, by my evil advice, flatteries, bribes, and the ill distribution which i have made of the goods of which i have been possessed; by repulsing and maltreating the poor, in the distribution which i have made of the goods committed to my charge, by afflicting those over whom i hav

n and unprofitable discourse when there, by despising the sacred vessels of the temple, by turning the holy ceremonies into ridicule, by touching and eating the sacred bread with impure lips and with profane hands, and by the neglect of my prayers and adorations. i detest also the crimes which i have committed by evil thoughts, vain and impure meditations, false suspicions, and rash judgments; by the evil consent which i have readily given unto the advice of the wicked, by lust of impure and sensual pleasures; by my idle words, my lies, and my deceit; by my false vows in various ways; and by my continual slander and calumny. i detest also the crimes which i have committed within; the treachery and discord which i have incited; my curiosity, greed, false speaking, violence, malediction, mur

e exorcist lay his hand upon the pentacles, while one of the disciples shall hold open before him the book wherein are written the prayers and conjurations proper for conquering, subduing, and reproving the spirits. then the master, turning towards each quarter of the earth, and raising his eyes to heaven, shall say: o lord, be thou unto me a strong tower of refuge, from the sight and assaults of the evil spirits. after which let him turn again towards the four quarters of the earth, and towards each let him utter the following words: behold the symbols and names of the creator, which give unto ye forever terror and fear. obey then, by the virtue of these holy names, and by these mysteries of mysteries. after this he shall see the spirits come from every side. but in case they are occupied

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within a fortified castle, and nothing shall he able to harm him. book two page 105 chapter x. concerning incense, suffumigations, perfumes, odours, and similar things which are used in magical arts. there are many kinds of incense, suffumigations, and perfumes, which are made for and offered unto the spirits; those which are of sweet odour are for the good, those which are of evil savour are for the evil. for perfumes of good odour, take thou aloes, nutmeg, gum benjamin, musk, and make a mixture which will give off a good perfume. for a suitable suffumigation, thou may burn incense, as it gives forth a most fragrant odour which seems to possess the power to attract the good spirits, and force the evil ones to go away from thee; over which thou shalt say: the exorcism of incense. o god of

rve to chase them from thee; and it will be thereafter exceedingly difficult for thee to attract them for use for pure ends. book two page 121 chapter xxii. concerning sacrifices to the spirits, and how they should be made. in many operations it is necessary to make some sort of sacrifice unto the demons, and in various ways. sometimes white animals are sacrificed to the good spirits and black to the evil. such sacrifices consist of the blood and sometimes of the flesh. they who sacrifice animals, of whatsoever kind they be, should select those which are virgin, as being more agreeable unto the spirits, and rendering them more obedient. when blood is to be sacrificed it should be drawn also from virgin quadrupeds or birds, but before offering the oblation, say: may this sacrifice which we

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g. h. fra, having succumbed unhappily to the assaults of the four great princes (acting notably under martial influences, it seemed expedient that the work should be brought to its conclusion by another hand. the investigation of a competent skryer into the house of our unhappy fra, confirmed this divination; neither our fra. nor his hermetic mul. were there seen; but only the terrible shapes of the evil adepts s.v.a.2 and h, whose original bodies having been sequestered by justice, were no longer of use to them. on this we stayed no longer our hand; but withdrawing ourselves, and consulting the rota, and the books m. and q. did decide to ask mr. aleister crowley, a poet, and skilled student of magical lore, and an expert kabbalist, to complete openly that which had been begun in secret.3

appear are filled in with bright yellow, the centres, where the t-shaped crosses are, blue or green. in the pentagrams outside the circle, the outer triangles where te, tra, gram, ma, ton, is written, are filled in bright yellow, and the centres with the t crosses written therein are red) the magical triangle of solomon. this is the form of the magical triangle, into the which solomon did command the evil spirits. it is to be made at 2 feet distance from the magical circle and it is 3 feet across (see frontispiece figure 154) note that this triangle is to be placed toward that quarter whereunto the spirit belongeth. and the base of the triangle is to be nearest unto the circle, the apex pointing in the direction of the quarter of the spirit. observe thou also the moon in thy working, as af

entagram, where soluzen is written, green. external angles of pentagram where abdia. ballaton, halliza, etc, are written, blue) the magic ring or disc of solomon this is the form of the magic ring, or rather disc, of solomon, the figure whereof is to be made in gold or silver. it is to be held before the face of the exorcist to preserve him from the stinking sulphurous fumes and flaming breath of the evil spirits (colour- bright yellow. letters, black) the vessel of brass. this is the form of the vessel of brass wherein king solomon did shut up the evil spirits, etc (see figures 158 and 159 (somewhat different forms are given in the various codices. the seal in figure 160 was made in brass to cover this vessel with at the top. this history of the genii shut up in the brazen vessel by king

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me will go under. the athame is the weapon of the holy guardian angel, the will itself. this blade should represent the forces of angelick guardians of which you should work through. such will lead you unto a positive flow of mental energy all the while understanding the beautiful, and sometimes barbaric forces of darkness within you. this is the detailed seperation of the holy guardian angel and the evil genius, from which is described in the congress cum daemone ritual of descending into the core essence of your opposite self. the 55 55 luciferian magick tome reveals much of the higher work beyond the foundations listed here. athame consecration ritual the athame is a ritual knife used by witches as a magickal weapon. the athame represents the imposing will and direction of the witch, th

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n is rarely focused onthe lawmakers and those in control of the economy, military, media, and technology ofthe world.in this book my intention is to draw the attention of the ordinary person to the reasonswhy he lives in the disempowered existential state he does and that while confined tocircumscribed, socially-vetted roles, he and his fellows will have little ability and lessresource to prevent the evil that is evidence everywhere, especially in the so-calledcorridors of power. i explain why it is that in the back of every mind is the memoryof a time when life was harmonious and reverent, when there was no war and little inthe way of want, subjugation, or class division. i explain something of the fate ofwomen and why it is that they have suffered the incredible atrocities they have thro

ttle. in this endeavor the use of betrayers was espe-cially useful. they spread false rumors that the newcomers were not returning saviors,but dangerous sorcerers who would steal the children and bring disease (all things thatthe tyrant masters were themselves engaged in).all over the world, we have then one of two possible outcomes. either the free onestriumph, banishing, imprisoning, or killing the evil ones, or alternatively, the evil onesprevail to continue cruel, inhumanitarian regimes. in this latter scenario, the freedatlanteans would be killed, betrayed, or imprisoned. they, like the less endowednatives, would live out lives of poverty and servitude. this is the situation that we findin evidence all over the globe coming down into historical times (see the saga of robinold world di

in this latter scenario, the freedatlanteans would be killed, betrayed, or imprisoned. they, like the less endowednatives, would live out lives of poverty and servitude. this is the situation that we findin evidence all over the globe coming down into historical times (see the saga of robinold world disorder24atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation hood. and since, for the most part, the evil ones remained in power, they had the offi-cial histories fabricated to aggrandize themselves and to perpetuate the status quo.their priestly allies were especially complicit in this endeavor.their mythographers pushed back in time the dates of the arrival of their masters byhundreds of thousand of years, making it impossible for later scholars to piecetogether the facts. they also saw to

it impossible for later scholars to piecetogether the facts. they also saw to it that facts would be further distorted by creatingaround the various accounts innumerable elaborations and exaggerations, such as wenow find in all myths, legends, and fairy tales.for a certain time, it seems that the efforts of the rebels were successful. the humansprobably relied on their physical numbers. however, the evil ones who lost battlesor who were deposed continued to practice their vile arts. more importantly, the off-spring of those who had been genetically altered also continued to exist and procreate.they had within them the instincts of aggression and power mania innate to their fore-fathers. it is these persons who moved from the limbic and later the left-brain modalitywho excelled in the tech

y possession of a straight staff with aserpent motif. this is the reason why even today, the medical profession uses the hermeticcaduceus. there is nothing esoteric about the term, tree of good and evil. when it isrealized that the reference is to dna, all becomes clear. both sides, literally, the good andthe evil had knowledge of the tree. therefore, it should read as the tree of the good and/or the evil. alan alford is just one of many scientists who is open to the concept of alien interven-tion when accounting for the anomalies surrounding the origin and evolution of man.he writes: homo sapiens has acquired a modern anatomy, language capability, and a sophisticatedbrain (well beyond the needs of its everyday existence) apparently in defiance of the laws ofdarwinism. there are a number o

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pathway to initiation. look for wisdom from experience, always test yourself in this way long trips, extensive exercise to your capacity, college or specific areas of learning in short, challenge yourself. building the mind builds the immortal spirit. 3. qi or life energy is around all of us. drain it and grow strong from it. you absorb energy from focus itself using aighash, the persian demon of the evil eye the eye represents the soul, use this to mentally connect with everything around you. one of our 18 symbols, aapep or apophis, is the devil serpent of ancient egypt. we seek to feast and drain on life force, on the astral plane and in the flesh. to join us is to be hidden mostly in society, to be the wolf among sheep. humanity seeks eternally a safety net; a god to believe will save t

one may practice vampirism in the following manner: 1. physical contact (handshake, brush up against, handing something to individual) 2. sight (imagine a serpent extending from your body to enter their body, draining life force with the eye) this is of aighash, ahrimanic daeva. 3. ritual setting (in ritual chamber, using image or word created image to focus the mind on) this is focused on akoman the evil mind. 4. dreaming or nightmare practice. perhaps the most powerful but also the most difficult. this belongs to astwihad the evil flyer of night devouring daeva. mal occhio is the evil eye. the evil eye has long been a symbol of envy but also power. the eye represents the soul and the stronger the glare, the stronger the spirit. 33 in yatukan or persian ahrimanic or primal sorcery, there

ming or nightmare practice. perhaps the most powerful but also the most difficult. this belongs to astwihad the evil flyer of night devouring daeva. mal occhio is the evil eye. the evil eye has long been a symbol of envy but also power. the eye represents the soul and the stronger the glare, the stronger the spirit. 33 in yatukan or persian ahrimanic or primal sorcery, there are several daevas of the evil eye: sur chashmih/chishmak, arashk and aighash. akoman s symbol is often an eye representing the evil mind. hakim bey wrote that the yezidi tribes would be cautious not to wear blue, as it is the color of shaitan, their lord. it was agreed that wearing this color to ward off evil would be offensive. in many rituals in the book of the witch moon specifically liber nehebkau, the tuats or un

ones, whose form are those of corrupting, loathsome bull-men, joined together. these demons are also called nachashiel, evil serpents, and obriel. the spirits of this sphere are of the blind dragon-force called leviathan or 56 ourabourus. in qlippothic workings, this sphere relates to lilith. the earth malkuth nahemah nahemoth (nhmath: nobrexiel+ heteriel+ molidiel+ a'ainiel+ thauhedriel lilith, the evil woman, who has many forms, changes afterwards to a black skinned and fur covered, monkey-like demon whose eyes are pitch black. these are the names of the twelve princes and tribes of the qlippoth who are the heads of the months of the year. bairiron aries (march 20 april 19th -active fire they are from the dragon spirit, the one of flames, the fourth evil force; samael the black. their c

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

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subside, utnapishtim released a dove, as noah did, to see if there was dry land nearby. and like noah from the bible, the boat finally rested on a mountain. in chinese mythology, gong the serpent-looking water god, wanted to expand his sphere of influence and so contrived to flood the world. gong nearly succeeded but was stopped by the righteous god zurong. in greek mythology, zeus is enraged by the evil mankind was partaking in and so therefore plotted to destroy everything on earth in a great flood. but wily prometheus warned a man named deucalion, who builds a chest and survives the flood. in persian mythology, the benevolent god ahura mazda tells a man named yima that a terrible winter of frost and snow is upon him. ahura mazda commands yima to build an underground enclosure to protec

very mythology. in egyptian mythology, satan is set, the egyptian god of chaos, storms, and evil. and similar to satan from the bible, who once stood beside the throne of god, set was once the guarding of the sun god ra. apparently, it was after set s battle with apep, the serpent of chaos, that he became the new villain in the egyptian tales; the first to play this villain role was apep himself. the evil god set kills his benevolent brother osiris, twice; then begins to make war with the seed of osiris, a god named horus. in jewish folklore, satan was called samael. samael, whose name meant venom of god, was considered a dark angel of death, and also the true father cain (the first child of adam and eve. satanists repeatedly reinforce this association, frequently suggesting that it was th

d did not have the support of the most high god. our humble civilizer, on the other hand, spoke of morals and the sciences while never teaching magic, and he also had the support of the most high god. jehovah, jove, or god, is the righteous brother and ruler whose names are also many. to the jews, he was yahweh. to the christians he is jehovah. in persia he was known as ahura mazda, the bother of the evil ahriman. in egypt, he was ra/osiris. the greek myths call this entity zeus, and in rome he went by the name jupiter. this being, and his son, is commonly associated with the sun. here an important distinction must be made, because many have noticed a correlation between the sun, and satan. satan, or set, is the god of the setting sun and so therefore his symbol is that of a black sun, as

d moments before you received a phone call from them? some of these instances are coincidence, in that the people who we often receive phone calls from are the very same who are often on our minds. in other cases, especially when the thought of that person came abruptly, and did not evolve into being (as most day-to-day thoughts do, you may have experienced the phenomena of telepathy. the idea of the evil eye pervades many cultures to this day. the evil eye is the sending of malicious and hurtful thoughts through an intentional act of telepathy. being unaware of the source of these malicious feelings, the recipient of these negative thoughts often interprets and responds to the messages with self-hatred. the recipient isn t the only one who will feel the pain of this attack, however, becau

of apep into his own being. set became the master of apep, and gained new powers from being merged with the mighty demon; this probably contributed to further corrupting set and driving him from the light. apep, whose number is 333 is therefore half of the essence of lucifer, whose number is 666 and therefore complete. apep, who became the shadow aspect of set, has titles like the great rebel and the evil one. this guardian of the abyss, is sometimes spoke of as a female character and is frequently associated with a single, lid-less eye. this being is also closely associated with the triangle (being a 3-sided shape, and his seal has often been depicted as 3 triangles in an arrangement that resembles a nuclear or radiation symbol. leviathan appears to be another name for the demon choronzon

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te from the abyss in the material world i create according to my will that i rise up in opposition in the dawn and twilight i become druj, the dragon which does emerge through the serpent of my tongue in this circle, against the sun i speak the names of power kundak attend! carry me unto the infernal sabbat! astwihad- vampyre haunter of night, encircle me kindred spirit- i summon thee ashemaogha, the evil eye which shall burn always within, the gift of akhtya -i may curse and bless with sight i become the serpent of the dark places of the earth i become the gray shadow of the wolf, of the wolfs brood am i, i become in the light of pride, that self is the vessel of all gods and goddesses, that i become by each power of which i summon and bind i invoke the jahi, the children of az, mother of

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

that the artificer he sent schlomoh was the principal or chief workman in his line at tsur. a medal copied by montfaucon exhibits a female nursing a child, with ears of wheat in her hand, and the legend (iao. she is seated on clouds, a star at her head, and three ears of wheat rising from an altar before her. horus was the _mediator, who was buried three days, was regenerated, and triumphed over the evil principle. the word heri, in sanscrit, means _shepherd, as well as _saviour. crishna is called _heri, as jesus called himself the _good shepherd [hebrew _khur, means an aperture of a window, a cave, or the eye. also it means white. in syriac [symbols [hebrew] also means an opening, and noble, free-born, high-born [hebrew, khurm means consecrated, devoted; in thiopic [symbols] it is the na

autiful in their daily lives. you see their masonry in their work and in their play. it appears in all the forms of their activity, individual, domestic, social, ecclesiastical, or political. true masonry within must be morality without. it must become _eminent_ morality, which is philanthropy. the true mason loves not only his kindred and his country, but all mankind; not only the good, but also the evil, among his brethren. he has more goodness than the channels of his daily life will hold. it runs over the banks, to water and to feed a thousand thirsty plants. not content with the duty that lies along his track, he goes out to seek it; not only _willing, he has a salient _longing_ to do good, to spread his truth, his justice, his generosity, his masonry over all the world. his daily lif

ledge to be dispensed, the sciences taught, and the lectures become like the teachings of socrates and plato, of agassiz and cousin. real knowledge never permitted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. whoso dreads these may well tremble; for he may be well assured that their day is at length come, and must put to speedy flight the evil spirits of tyranny and persecution, which haunted the long night now gone down the sky. and it is to be hoped that the time will soon arrive, when, as men will no longer suffer themselves to be led blindfolded in ignorance, so will they no more yield to the vile principle of judging and treating their fellow-creatures, not according to the intrinsic merit of their _actions, but according

urniture, to the israelites; he insisted on and delighted in sacrifices and burnt-offerings; he was angry, jealous, and revengeful, as well as wavering and irresolute; he allowed moses to reason him out of his fixed resolution utterly to destroy his people; he commanded the performance of the most shocking and hideous acts of cruelty and barbarity. he hardened the heart of pharaoh; he repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto the people of nineveh; and he did it not, to the disgust and anger of jonah. such were the popular notions of the deity; and either the priests had none better, or took little trouble to correct these notions; or the popular intellect was not enough enlarged to enable them to entertain any higher conceptions of the almighty. but such were not the ideas of

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r. hadit possesses the power to know, nuit that of being known. nuit is not unconnected with the idea of nibbana, the 'shoreless sea' in which knowledge is not. hadit is hidden in nuit, and knows her, she being an object of knowledge; but he is not knowable, for he is merely that part of her which she formulates in order that she may be known. 5. behold! the rituals of the old time are black. let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! then shall this knowledge go aright. the "old time" is the aeon of the dying god. some of its rituals are founded on an utterly false metaphysics and cosmogony; but others are based on truth. we end those, and mend these. this "knowledge" is the initiated wisdom of this aeon of horus. see book 4, part iii, for an account of th

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alled ichor, never engendered disease, and, when shed, had the power of producing new life. the greeks believed that the mental qualifications of their gods were of a much higher order than those of men, but nevertheless, as we shall see, they were not considered to be exempt from human passions, and we frequently behold them actuated by revenge, deceit, and jealousy. they, however, always punish the evil-doer, and visit with dire calamities any impious mortal who dares to neglect their worship or despise their rites. we often hear of them visiting mankind and partaking of their hospitality, and not unfrequently both gods and goddesses [8]become attached to mortals, with whom they unite themselves, the offspring of these unions being called heroes or demi-gods, who were usually renowned fo

er favour was propitiated by offerings and sacrifices, principally consisting of black lambs. her festivals were celebrated at night, by torchlight, when these animals were offered to her, accompanied by many peculiar ceremonies. these ceremonies were carried out with the minutest attention to details, as it was believed that the omission of the slightest particular would afford to her ministers, the evil spirits of the lower world, who hovered round the worshippers, an opportunity for entering among them, and exerting their baneful influence. at the end of every month food was placed wherever two roads met, in readiness for her and other malignant divinities. in studying the peculiar characteristics which hecate assumes when she usurps the place of persephone, the rightful mistress of pag

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

the dead, and ahura mazda will marry body to soul. first to rise will be gayomart, the first fire priest, then the mother and father of humanity, mashya and mashyoi, then the rest of humanity. all the metal in the mountains of the world will melt, and each man and woman will pass through the stream of molten metal and emerge purified. to the good, the stream will feel like a bath of warm milk; to the evil, it will be agony, as their sins are burned away. the new world will be immortal and everlasting, and free of taint. gods of olympus 22 hades hades (see pp. 28 29, zeus brother, was the god of the underworld. he was married to persephone (see above. cronos and rhea this couple may depict zeus parents, cronos and rhea, who were banished to tartarus in the underworld. cronos, whose name mea

single eye as they passed it between themselves. held to ransom, they told him what he needed to know. he then threw the eye into a lake so that they could not warn the gorgons of his plans. love at first sight the infant eros (cupid, with his flaming torch, indicates that perseus is in love with andromeda. sword of hermes fired by heroism and love, perseus prepares to swing his sword and destroy the evil sea monster. the curved, unbreakable, sword was also a gift from hermes. perseus first used it to strike off medusa s head while she slept. he fled the scene undetected by the other gorgons, thanks to the magic helmet that made him invisible. bronze shield perseus carries a bronze shield, which was lent to him by athena. she warned him not to look at medusa directly, but to look at the re

abant,who has no sons, received authority from emperor philip to name his daughter maria as his heir, thus giving topicality to von eschenbach s use of lohengrin story. swan helm lohengrin s helm with swan s wings marks him as a knight, both of this world and of the spirit world. ortrud ortrud, wife of friedrich von telramund, is an invention of wagner and does not appear in the medieval sources. the evil antithesis of the pure elsa, it is she who urges friedrich to denounce the girl and taunts her at her wedding with lohengrin s anonymity. in wagner s version of the tale, friedrich is elsa s guardian and his accusation is that she has murdered her brother gottfried, the true heir of brabant, who has disappeared. gottfried has, in fact, been turned into a swan by ortrud s magic. he is rele

ers, spiders webs are rubbed on their arms. and when a navajo woman uses spider woman s knowledge to weave a rug, she must weave a break into the pattern at the end, so that her soul can come out, back to her. lone man 94 buffalo dancers eight dancers dressed in buffalo skins danced outside the medicine lodge during the okeepa, in order to ensure plentiful supplies of buffalo for the coming year. the evil spirit o-ke-h e-de (the owl or evil spirit) appeared on the fourth day to disrupt the dance, creating alarm or fear. the medicine man pacifies him with the sacred pipe but he is finally vanquished by one of the women. this woman then takes the lead in the celebratory feast that night. she is said to hold the power of creation and of life and death, and be the mother of the buffaloes. the

sed the aztec understanding of the complex interrelation of the world of men and the world of the gods. it ran alongside a 365-day solar calendar (not adjusted for leap years, and the two calendars coincided once every 52 years, an occasion for much rejoicing. aztec goddesses t he aztecs worshiped a number of important goddesses. coyolxauhqui takes a particularly active role in aztec mythology as the evil older sister of huitzilopochtli, the supreme god who was associated with the sun and with fire. when coyolxauhqui discovered that her mother coatlicue was pregnant, she slew her in a fit of jealousy, with the aid of her 400 brothers. in her death throes, coatlicue gave birth to huitzilopochtli, and the supreme god, who emerged fully armed, dismembered his treacherous sister. this primal b

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andora. but when he had finished the sheer, hopeless snare [pandora, the first woman, created by the gods, the father sent [hermes. to take it to epimetheus as a gift. and epimetheus did not think on what prometheus had said to him, bidding him never take a gift of olympian zeus, but to send it back for fear it might prove to be something harmful to men. but he took the gift, and afterwards, when the evil thing was already his, he understood -works& days 42-89 "deukalion was the son of prometheus and pronoia, hesiod states in the first catalogue -the catalogues of women& eoiae frag 1 (from scholiast on apollonius rhodius arg. iii.1086 "against the wise prometheus bitter-wroth the sea-maids [nereides] were, remembering how that zeus, moved by his prophecies, unto peleus gave thetis to wife

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ontinue to curse the earth because of mankind, because the inclination of man s heart is evil from his youth, i will, therefore, not continue to punish any living thing, as i had done" here, man s inclination to evil is given as the logic and reason for judging them favorably, whereas prior to the flood, the identical reason was given for judging them as guilty, as is written "and hashem saw that the evil of man was great on earth, and that all the inclinations of his heart were only evil all day long" from this we see that it is specifically in da at that the two conceptually opposite qualities of chesed and gevurah become connected, leaning toward kindness in one manner and toward judgment in another, even in regard to the same case. likewise, it is the quality of tiferet, which is the n

il, it is only because of this. if they do good deeds and fulfill the commandments, they imagine the great reward that awaits them. in actuality, this is complete self centeredness, which is the antithesis of g-dliness (nonetheless, at times it is necessary for one to awaken this type of love and fear within himself, in order to restrain himself from falling to sinful temptations. for, certainly, the evil deed itself is worse than this type of fear) false excitement of the emotions the second category is also not a level of divine service. unfortunately, many people fall into this category as well. we, therefore, must explain it, to correct it. this level is the external stimulation of the emotions, which stems from false delusions and imaginations. one fires up his emotions. he may sing a

est jews who lack all knowledge in torah have a natural disposition and inclination to do them, without any prior thought or contemplation. the reason a jew is drawn to the mitzvot (commandments) is, specifically, because of his essential jewishness (the divine soul. now, though there may be many who take leniencies when it comes to fulfilling of the positive commandments, this is only because of the evil in their animal souls which overpowers the nature of the divine soul. however, the nature of the divine soul is the diametric opposite of the animal soul. just as the animal soul is drawn to physical pleasure, so is the divine soul drawn to fulfill the commandments of g-d. because g-dliness is its pleasure, the divine soul detests evil, which is the antithesis of g-dliness. now, when a pe

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

in the translation of onkelos.4 by reading the hebrew together with the aramaic, we are subsuming the mundane, nogah-shell into holiness. the nogah-principle encloses the light of holiness after midnight.5 as we said, the realm of the gfruit h or kernel of holiness is envisioned as existing within the four shells. in this depiction, we may consider the nogah-shell as protecting the holiness from the evil shells (this is true, of course, to the extent that the individual or society has endeavored to consecrate the nogah-shell by subsuming their mundane activities into the realm of holiness. otherwise, the nogah-shell comes under the rule of evil and there is no protective layer separating evil from holiness) since this protection is said here to be operative specifically after midnight, we

tured h the nogah-shell, allowing the forces of evil to invade (like a worm enters a fruit) and gsuck h from holiness. this is the mystical significance of the statement of our sages that enoch was a cobbler,6 meaning that he closed that which adam opened up, and was able to cover the light of beriah. enoch was the sixth generation from adam,7 and was something of a saint or ascetic who renounced the evil ways of his rapidly degenerating society. in the midrash it is stated that the phrase describing the end of his life on earth. gand he was no more, for g-d took him, h instead of the more usual gand he died, h.implies that g-d made 4 berachot 8b. 5 it could be that the proper translation of chatzot here is midday, and refers to the fact that some consider it preferable to read the torah p

the land of the philistines, isaac told the ruler, abimelech, that rebecca was his sister, for he feared that if he told him the truth, that rebecca was his wife, abimelech would kill him in order to take her. but, we are told, abimelech looked in to their tent through the window and saw them engaging in marital intercourse, and thus discovered that they were husband and wife. abimelech signifies the evil of the philistines; the fact that he was able to observe the union between isaac and rebecca means that their level of intercourse was in some way exposed or vulnerable to intrusion by evil. isaac engaged in marital relations on the level of asiyah, where there is not intended to be any such intercourse, for that is the level of lesbianism. this is why the snake envied them, for he is on

ust that forms on the surface of molten metal. even though they are derived from gevurah, which is red, when they are manifest below, they become black. this is the meaning of our sages statement that gblack is a defective form of red. h6 5 2:203a. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 52 in contrast, the states of gevurah that descend on the right axis always remain red, and they become the nefesh of the evil shells. there are sparks of holiness within them that fell [into them] when the vessels [of the world of tohu] were shattered. these are the vav-hei [of the name havayah, the vav being the lifeforce of the male and the hei being the life-force of the female of the evil shells. since the right axis is not inherently one of gevurah, the gevurah within it does not descend as much as the sefi

some of it gspills h into the wrong places. open coupling thus increases the power of evil. but when the secrets of the torah are revealed to the righteous, yesod directs its flux directly to malchut, these two being righteous, and then the vav with the hei ascend in the world of beriah as gfeminine waters h for malchut, and cause it to couple [with z feir anpin. this is thus a rectification for the evil coupling, in which the vav and hei are forced into the lower worlds to copulate there. gfeminine waters h is the kabbalistic imagery for garousal from below. h but when the opposite is the case, it causes a coupling below, and then there is no rectification [for this] until the root of the problem is rectified. there is a difference between the rectification required for those souls who i

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

> unpronounceable name of god symbolised by jehovah. the laver of water of purification refers to the waters of binah, the female power reflected in the waters of creation. the altar of burnt offmmnfgo r the sacrifice of animals syrnbolises the qlippoth or evil demons of the plane contiguous to and below the material universe. it points out that our passions should be sacrificed. the qlippoth are the evil demons of matter and the shells of the dead. the altar of incense in the tabernacle was overlaid with gold. ours is black to symbolise our work which is to separate the philosophic gold from the black dragon of matter. this altar diagram (page 123) shows the ten sephiroth with all the <122> connecting paths numbered and lettered, and the serpent winding over each path. around each sephira

t in <147> their place.thou couldst have resisted the tem ation? and even were it so, why shouldst thou despise one w? o is weaker than thyself? be thou well sure of this, that in slander and self-righteousness is sin. pardon therefore the sinner, but encourage not the sin. the master condemned not the adulterous woman, but neither did he encourage her to commit the sin. that th soul is firm that the evil 8ne will gain neither man nor courage is the beginning of virtue. therefore fear not the s irits, but be firm and courteous with them, for thou hast no right either to z espise or to revile them, and this too may lead thee into sin. command and banish the evil ones. curse them by fourth knowledge lecture 75 the great names of god, if need be; but neither mock nor revile them, for so assur

hy coffers and to satisfy thy lust for gold? wouldst thou defile the spirits of driving fire to 76 the golden dawn: volume i book one serve thy wrath and hatred? wouldst thou violate the purity of the souls of the water to pander to thy lust and debauchery? wouldst thou force the spirits of the evening breeze to minister to thy folly and caprice? know that with such desires thou canst but attract the evil and not the good, and in that can the evil will have power over thee. in true religion there is no sect. therefore take heed that thou blaspheme not the name by which another knowethhis god for if thou doest this thing in jupiter, thou wilt blaspheme yhvh; and in osiris yeheshuah''ask of god and ye shall have, seek and ye shall find. knock, and it shall be opened unto you <150> the garden

f samekh, let the philosophus advance like the arrow from the bow of qesheth.'now qesheth the bow is the rainbow of promise stretched above the earth, whose name is formed from the letters of the paths leading from malkuth. if then it be by the path of samekh that the philosophus should advance to the knowledge of the adept, turning aside neither unto the right hand nor unto the left, whereon are the evil and threatening symbols of death and the devil, he must have a perfect and absolute knowledge of the bow, ere he can follow the path of the arrow. but the bow is of brilliant and perfect colour, whose analysis and synthesis yield others of the same scale, and hence is this book entitled "the book of the path of the chameleonnthat path, namely which ascendeth alone throug- h the force of q

call angels) are microcosms of the macrocosm yetzirah, even as man is the microcosm of the macrocosm of assiah. all archangelic forms are microcosms of the macrocosm of briah, and the gods of the sevhiroth are conseauentlv the microcosms of the macrocosm of atziluth. hiref fore apply this ierfeiting of the spiritual nature as the preparation of the pathway for the shining light, the light divine. the evil persona of a man is in the sphere of the qlippoth, and the devils are the microcosms of the macrocosm of the qlippoth. this evil per <216> sona hath its parts and divisions, and of it the part which toucheth the malkuth of the nephesch is its kether. tremble therefore at the evil forces which be in thy own evil persona. and as above the kether of a man are his angelic and other forms, so

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

reat scene of yezeedee festivities. i was absent in the tyari country when the chief rites were performed, but mrs. badger having accompanied my sister and mr. rassam on a visit to ba- sheaka, took several notes of the proceedings on that occasion, which i shall insert here as illustrative of the religious customs of the yezeedees, and as introductory to the succeeding remarks on their worship of the evil principle "april 18th, 1850--we took a walk through the village this morning, and noticed a small enclosure which was erected by a yezeedee last year, and who is said to have been incited thereto by the evil principle in a dream. the promise made to him if he obeyed was, that all persons suffering from cutaneous diseases should be cured on rubbing themselves with the dust taken from that

cover the remains of the sheikh. the enclosure round the shrine contains several other tombs, and a number of small apartments "this being new year's day with the yezeedees we again walked through the villages to witness their festivities, and observed a number of wild scarlet anemonies stuck over the entrance to several of the houses. we learned on inquiry that these were intended to propitiate the evil principle, and to ward off calamity during the coming year. the practice reminded me at once of the blood sprinkled upon the door-posts of the dwellings of the israelites in egypt as a sign for the destroying angel to pass over, and it also recalled to my memory a custom prevalent among the hindoos and parsees of india, who hang a string of p. 120 leaves across the entrance to their house

is the principle or power from whom all evil proceeds, and their religious services seem to partake much more of a propitiatory than of an eucharistic character. in this respect, their system is in accordance with the natural feelings of man in his fallen state, which lead him rather to dread punishment for his misdeeds, than to be thankful for benefits received. the yezeedees, therefore, revere the evil principle, not out of love, but from fear, and this reverence they manifest not only by such religious rites as these already described, but by scrupulously avoiding all mention of satan, and the use of any word implying execration. thus, they will never pronounce the word "sheitan" the arabic for devil, nor "shat" a river, because of its resemblance to the former. neither will they use a

press the much dreaded attribute of melek taoos. their use of the scarlet anemone as a propitiatory charm or offering, has already been mentioned, and if this flower is chosen for its colour, we may see in it, as well as in the ochre with which the heathen in india daub their idols, a symbol of blood and sacrifice. what the particular rites are wherewith the yezeedees testify their veneration for the evil principle in their secret assemblies, i am unable to state from personal observation; but i received the following account from one who has frequently been an eyewitness of them. it appears, there are in all seven fr. 1 brazen cocks, which are constantly being carried about in some or other of the yezeedee districts. these are under the absolute control of sheikh n sir, who directs their

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

under our brief forms and symbolic services to impart the same to you.we can, at best, but place in your hands the wrap upon which you must weave the threads, which wewill also give you (some dark and sombre, other bright and golden) a picture pleasing to the eye ofthe eternal, who is to pass upon your work. alchemy is so called because it is an instrument bywhich the good is to be separated from the evil; and what is not mature it matureth. it is a primarypower, pure and uncorrupted, it exerciseth with the intellectual man and takes no part with theunthinking and indolent. draw then upon your innate and tutored mind, and. follow us in our courseof reasoning.alchemists claim the power after eliminating and dispersing the u1timate and grosser elements ofbodies by the influence of fire, to g

rous gases, as of an evil spirit, dare to approach it.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliapracticus32 the colour of the rose turns to a pallor, or white.our expressive emblem of man222s redemption, blushing in its pride, fails not to hide its beauty andscorning the distasteful union, exhibits its defilement through every part; as the soul grows pallid bycontagion with the influences of the evil one, whose symbols are sulphur in contact with fire. sohere sulphur and fire work their fearful sickly curse.but be ye ever so impure, the crystal waters of life by repentance and faith will wash your sinsaway, and make you pure as ere thou were before pollution. in like manner i baptise this symbol, andbehold it shall be as god created it in all its beauty and radiant splendour.as this l

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

redly aston90 the doctrine of transcendental magic ish and afflict us. but is not such gulf needed as a basis for the exaltation of the most sublime virtues? does not the depth of infernus demonstrate by antithesis the infinite height and grandeur of heaven? in the north, where the instincts are more repressed and deep rooted; in italy, where the passions are more unreserved and fiery, charms and the evil eye are still dreaded; the jettatura is not to be braved with impunity in naples, and persons who are endowed unfortunately with this power are even distinguished by certain exterior signs. in order to guard against it, experts affirm that horns must be carried on the person, and the common people, who take everything literally, hasten to adorn themselves with small horns, not dreaming of

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

it themselves to ecstatics and somnambulists under incomplete and fugitive forms. this explains the nightmares of st. anthony and most probably the visions of swedenborg. such creatures are neither damned nor guilty; they are curious and innocent. we may use or abuse them like animals or children. therefore the magus who makes use of them assumes a terrible responsibility, for he must expiate all the evil which he causes them to accomplish, and the extent of his punishment will be in proportion to that of the power which he may have exercised by their mediation. to govern elementary spirits and thus become king of the occult elements, we must first have undergone the four ordeals of ancient initiations; and seeing that such initiations exist no longer, we must have substituted analogous ex

entagram, engraved in luminous lines upon glass by the electrical machine, exercises also a great influence upon spirits and terrifies phantoms. the old magicians traced the sign of the pentagram upon their doorsteps, to prevent evil spirits from entering and good spirits from departing. this constraint followed from the direction of the points of the star. two points on the outer side drove away the evil; two points on the inner side imprisoned them; one only on the inner side held good spirits captive. all these magical theories, based upon the one dogma of hermes and on the analogical deductions of science, have been confirmed invariably by the visions of ecstatics and the paroxysms of cataleptics, declaring that they are possessed by spirits. the g which freemasons place in the middle

chariot. looked at after another manner, and postulating other ideal lines, he will notice a well-formed ghimel placed above jod, in a large daleth, a symbol typifying the strife between good and evil, with the final triumph of good. as a fact, the ghimel superposed on the jod is the triad produced by unity, the manifestation of the divine word, whilst the reversed daleth is the triad composed of the evil duad multiplied by itself. thus regarded, the figure of orion would be identical with that of the angel michael doing battle with the dragon, and the appearance of this sign, so understood, would be, for the kabalist, a portent of victory and happiness. a long contemplation of the sky exalts imagination, and then the stars respond to our thoughts. the lines drawn mentally from one to anot

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

ered by tradition, without any voluntary alteration, and they [the magicians] reckoned their virtue evaporated and was lost by being poured out and translated into any other language. the jews also are very shy in translating any of the common forms of blessing, or the like, prescribed in the law by mystical ways. both the good spirit and image of jesus' holy mind and life, and also the malice of the evil spirit against all good, are conveyed to men according to their different endeavours after [such things. it is not the natural influence that the pronunciation of such words can have on the things signified by them which brings their effect to pass, but purely the promise and authority of the first institutor on such persons and things as he has command over, and manifest it [as] his plea

e. 5. a spell said to cure a swollen milt [in cattle or sheep. the skill against a swollen milt, to assuage its wrath, against the sharp milt, the rough milt, the bare milt, the brow milt, against the sharp snouted grey worm that holes and eats the sinews of your heart and vitals. but now the most dangerous part of this enchantment succeeds [that is, flows, which is the assigning [of] a place for the evil [to go] when expelled. for [in the bible] the devils, say the charmers, when put out of [a] man, sought [to go] unto the swine; therefore the enchanter proceeds thus when he thinks meet [that is, necessary or fitting: he that gives warmth and prosperity, turn from the all hill-envy, or fairy-envy, all womanmalice, my own malice with them; as the wind turns about the hillock, thy evil turn

rk argues against tarbett's suggestion that the clean air of the highlands and islands induces second sight, and cites the obvious fact that people in the same region may not have it, yet a seer can temporarily induce it. all of this is affirmed in his thesis of the subterranean people. page 47. some. pierce and kill [with their eye] whatever creature they first [see. this is the first example of the evil eye (which was also investigated in spain by samuel pepys in 1684) mentioned by kirk. he introduces it as a disproof of worldwide copyright 1990, 1998-2001,rj stewart, all rights and permissions reserved http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_102.htm (9 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:30 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 102-111) http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_102.htm (10 of 10 [10/

lker between worlds(pages 112-121) flip to page# commentary 112 figure 7. robert kirk's cosmology and hierarchy of birds, animals, humans and fairies tarbett's' suggestions as to cause of the sight. a man with this ability to blast by looking, says kirk, speaking from experience of a case, may not be a seer, or see anything more than usual with his regular eyesight. kirk suggests, therefore, that the evil eye is not connected to the second sight, and is not part of the communion between fairy and human beings. he does not make any suggestions as to its origins, other than the fact that the person so cursed may be radicated in malice. this would presume a type of telepathy or involuntary transfer of negative energy. page 47. the true solution. seems. to be as follows. kirk summarizes his ow

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jonas answers that he is flesh, soul, and spirit, mundane and extra mundane. indeed, if we read the gospels contained in the nag hammadi library we must agree with these statements. however, man as thus described must be conceived of as homogeneous to the scientistically conceived dualistic cosmos. man partakes in the good to an extent, however, his lot is to be involved predominantly in that of the evil aspects of the cosmos. in other words, man as a whole is really part of the evil aspect of the cosmos. he is really qualitatively of an inferior material constitution. however, mankind is divided into three categories, depending on the quantity of the qualitative superior material he possesses. this qualitative superior, the good, is in seed form in the qualitatively inferior, the evil as

of the most used names of satan in today's culture. however, it is interesting to note that this is the only passage in the bible that mentions lucifer by name. lucifer is mentioned nowhere else in the bible. the dragon: revelation 12:7 and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought, and his angels. since christian doctrines proclaim that all the evil angels left heaven with lucifer, how is it that their own scripture indicates angels will join with the dragon to fight against michael? for everyone knows departed angels become daemons. so if angels join with the dragon, then this says there are still malcontent angels in the heavens. and if the angels feel like this, woe be unto the soul that ends up there. the deceiver: revelation 20:

e. it showed a man, with his hat pulled down, hiding behind a tree with a bag of candy in his hands. he was waiting for a sweet little girl walking home from school alone. at the top it read "boys and girls, color the page, memorize the rules" at the bottom it read "for your protection, remember to turn down gifts from strangers, and refuse rides offered by strangers" the poster clearly contrasts the evil of the offender with the goodness of the child victim. the myth of the child molester as the dirty old man in the wrinkled raincoat is now being reevaluated, based on what we now know about the kinds of people who victimize children. the fact is a child molester can look like anyone else and even be someone we know and like. there is another myth that is still with us and is far less like

ds of people who victimize children. the fact is a child molester can look like anyone else and even be someone we know and like. there is another myth that is still with us and is far less likely to be discussed. this is the myth of the child victim as a completely innocent little girl walking down the street minding her own business. it may be more important to dispel this myth than the myth of the evil offender, especially when talking about the sexual exploitation of children and child sex rings. child victims can be boys as well as girls, and not all victims are little "angels" society seems to have a problem dealing with any sexual abuse case in which the offender is not completely "bad" or the victim is not completely "good" child victims who, for example, simply behave like human b

ptual examination of the nature of evil. machen rejects as inadequate the traditional, primitive notion that evil is necessarily antisocial or even destructive. evil in its true sense consists in that which is outside the natural order of the universe. seeking to achieve harmony with that universe, however, he makes two erroneous assumptions: that true evil must be unconscious of itself, and that the evil man will be an ascetic. consciousness evolves through a synthetic process in the hegelian sense via the comparison of contrasting data, beginning with the recognition of "self" and "not-self" awareness of oneself as an isolate identity, distinct and apart from the natural universe (i.e "god, is the original and most deadly sin, bringing with it the knowledge of good and evil. therefore re

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eir plans. khalid the water-carrier hangs back and the hollow-eyed prophet waits for him to speak. awkwardly, he says "messenger, i doubted you. but you were wiser than we knew. first we said, mahound will never compromise, and you compromised. then we said, mahound has betrayed us, but you were bringing us a deeper truth. you brought us the devil himself, so that we could witness the workings of the evil one, and his overthrow by the right. you have enriched our faith. i am sorry for what i thought" mahound moves away from the sunlight falling through the window "yes" bitterness, cynicism "it was a wonderful thing i did. deeper truth. bringing you the devil. yes, that sounds like me" o o o from the peak of mount cone, gibreel watches the faithful escaping jahilia, leaving the city of arid

other: he keeps her close. just as, far away in the palaces of her omnipotence she will be clutching his portrait beneath her royal cloak or hiding it in a locket at her throat. she is the empress, and her name is- what else- ayesha. on this island, the exiled imam, and at home in desh, she. they plot each other's deaths. the curtains, thick golden velvet, are kept shut all day, because otherwise the evil thing might creep into the apartment: foreignness, abroad, the alien nation. the harsh fact that he is here and not there, upon which all his thoughts are fixed. on those rare occasions when the imam goes out to take the kensington air, at the centre of a square formed by eight young men in sunglasses and bulging suits, he folds his hands before him and fixes his gaze upon them, so that n

holy song. bilal the muezzin: his voice enters a ham radio in kensington and emerges in dreamed-of desh, transmuted into the thunderous speech of the imam himself. beginning with ritual abuse of the empress, with lists of her crimes, murders, bribes, sexual relations with lizards, and so on, he proceeds eventually to issue in ringing tones the imam's nightly call to his people to rise up against the evil of her state "we will make a revolution" the imam proclaims through him "that is a revolt not only against a tyrant, but against history" for there is an enemy beyond ayesha, and it is history herself. history is the blood--wine that must no longer be drunk. history the intoxicant, the creation and possession of the devil, of the great shaitan, the greatest of the lies- progress, science

thought him not quite pukka, a levantine angel, maybe, cypriot or greek, in need of her best talking--to--the--afflicted voice "if they came over and filled up wherever you come from, well! you wouldn't like _that" o o o punched in the nose, taunted by phantoms, given alms instead of reverence, and in divers ways shewn the depths to wihich the denizens of the city had sunk, the intransigence of "the evil manifest there, gibreel became more determined than ever to commence the doing of good, to initiate the great work of rolling back the frontiers of the adversary's dominion. the atlas in his pocket was his master-plan. he would redeem the city square by square, from hockley farm in the north-west cornerr of the charted area to chance wood in the south-east; after which, perhaps. he would

e adversary, who could be guttural and high, who insulted and ingratiated, who was both insistent and shy, who was prosaic- yes- and versifying, too- and now, at last, gibreel farishta recognizes for the first time that the adversary has not simply adopted chamcha's features as a disguise- nor is this any case of paranormal possession, of body-snatching by an invader up from hell; that, in short, the evil is not external to saladin, but springs from some recess of his own true nature, that it has been spreading through his selfhood like a cancer, erasing what was good in him, wiping out his spirit- and doing so with many deceptive feints and dodges, seeming at times to recede; while, in fact, during the illusion of remission, under cover of it, so to speak, it continued perniciously to spr

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that men can thus become as angels or devils through their own doing, as angels may become human or demonic and visa versa; when intended for the more imperfect spirits, it becomes solidified, thickens, and forms the bodies of this visible world. if it is serving higher intelligences, it shines with the brightness of the celestial bodies, and serves as a garb for the angels of god. the concept of the evil one is essential in any religion that preaches redemption, for there must be something to be overcome. it is an old truth that the devil is the church s greatest ally, keeping it in business. during the next two millennia the dark one inevitably gathered followers of his own, as well as many new names and titles. amongst them is the father of lies, and it is said that the greatest trick h

as, that is an angel that keepeth hell. he goes on to boast..i was formed the first angel. in the goetia, a king commanding 50 legions. appears as two beautiful angels sitting in a chariot of fire, who speak with a comely voice. distributes presentations and senatorships, causes favour of friends and foes, gives excellent familiars. possible roots include the mesopotamian goddess belili. belmagel the evil angel of the scryer edward kelly, who worked alongside dr. dee to earth the enochian angelic magick. belphegor (assyrian baal-poer, meaning lord of flesh. once a prince of the order of principalities. the patron devil of ingenious inventions and discoveries, and also of marital discord. the demonic ambassador of france, patron demon of paris. keen on partying, belphegor may appear also in

lemnelie vow and promise all my progenie unto the devil. i swear to the devil to bring as many into his societie as i can. i will always swear by the name of the devil (discoverie of witchcraft, 1584) the rites of sacrifice in many operations it is necessary to make some sort of sacrifice unto the demons, and in various ways. sometimes white animals are sacrificed to the good spirits and black to the evil. such sacrifices consist of the blood and sometimes of the flesh. they who sacrifice animals, of whatsoever kind they be, should select those which are virgin, as being more agreeable unto the spirits, and rendering them more obedient. when blood is to be sacrificed it should be drawn also from virgin quadrupeds or birds, but before offering the oblations say- camiach, eomiahe, emial, mac

y become efficacious, and grant that this skin may preserve us against the wiles of demons, that they may be terrified at the sight thereof, and may only approach them trembling, through thee, jesus christ, who reignest through all ages. amen. the litanies of the holy name of jesus must then be repeated, but instead of the agmus dei, substitue: immolated lamb, be thou a pillar of strength against the evil spirits. slain lamb, give us power over the power of darkness. slain lamb grant power, favour, and strength unto the binding of rebellious spirits. so be it. amen. the lambskin shall be stretched for eighteen days, and on the nineteenth day, the fleece shall be removed, reduced into powder, and interred in the same place. the word vellus shall be written above it with the finger, together

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the time when the spirits of the dead, the demons, witches, and sorcerers were unusually active and propitious. paradoxically, all hallows' eve was also the night when young people performed magical rituals to determine their future marriage partners. the youth of the villages carried on with much merry-making and sensual revelry, but the older people took great care to safeguard their homes from the evil spirits, witches, and demons who had exceptional power that night. the solstices and equinoxes are also celebrated as holidays, as they herald the first day of the seasons. the difference between a solstice and an equinox is a semantic one defining the relationship between the sun, moon, and the fixed stars. the solstice applies to summer and winter; the equinox refers to autumn and sprin

chantment and could charm the men and save their own lives. most of the real witches were sleeping with the inquisitors. this is the origin of the word "glamour. the antiquated meaning of glamour is witchcraft. the most important asset to the modern witch is her ability to be alluring, or to utilize glamour. the word "fascination" has a similarly occult origin. fascination was the term applied to the evil eye. to fix a person's gaze, in other words, fascinate, was to curse them with the evil eye. therefore, if a woman had the ability to fascinate men, she was regarded as a witch. had the ability to fascinate men, she was regarded as a witch. learning to effectively utilize the command to look, is an integral part of a witch's or warlock's training. to manipulate a person, you must first be

SCHEM HA MEPHORESH

d the queen. and the schem ha-mephoresch, the 72, are found in the number of the family of jacob s sons is 70; and jacob and joseph equals 72. but the then ruling pharoah, corresponds more to hadar amongst the edomite kings, as representing one of not so evil 4 a tendency. yet as the apocalyptic symbol of the lamb and the airy sign which leads off the schem ha-mephoresch is chesed; one opposed to the evil symbol of the dragon, so is every shepherd an abomination to the egyptians, who yet are friendly with the ox symbol, the kerubic ruler of earth, and therefore is it symbolically said by the children of israel that their business has been about cattle and not about sheep. names and meanings of the 72 verses 1st angel name: vahuaih sign: leo planet: saturn degree: 0 5 meaning: god the exalt

maton with all my heart, will tell of all thy wondrous works. 26th angel name: heeiah sign: sagittarius planet: mercury degree: 5 10 meaning: heaven in secret. psalm 119:145: i have called with all my heart, answer 13 me tetragrammaton, i will preserve thy statutes. 27th angel name: irthel sign: sagittarius planet: moon degree: 10 15 meaning: deliver psalm 140:2: deliver me 0 tetragrammaton, from the evil man, from the man of violence preserve thou me. 28th angel name: sehaiah sign: sagittarius planet: moon degree: 15 20 meaning: taker away of evils. psalm 71.12: 0 tetragrammaton be not far from me, 0 my tetragrammaton make haste for my help. 29th angel name: rayayel sign: sagittarius planet: saturn degree: 20 25 meaning: expectation. psalm 54:4: behold, elohim helpeth me, and tetragrammat

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

supreme or ultimate being or reality; creator of the universe. goddess worship: term that refers generally to any neo-pagan practice that elevates the status of goddesses over that of gods. golden temple: the chief sikh temple, located in the city of amritsar in india; more formally, the sri harmandir sahib. gurdwara: a sikh temple or place of worship. guru: a religious teacher. ha-ne-go-ate-geh: the evil-minded, the evil spirit of the iroquois nation. ha-wen-ne-yu: the great spirit of the iroquois nation. hadiths: the sayings of the prophet muhammad recorded by his followers. xx world religions: almanac words to know haj: pilgrimage to the holy city of mecca. halal: permissible activities for muslims. hanukkah: the jewish festival of lights commemorating the rededication of the first temp

on. many of these religious systems do not have a name other than the name attached to the tribal group itself. words to know animism: the worship of trees, rocks, mountains, and such, which are believed to have supernatural power. bon: an indigenous religion of tibet. candomble: a south american religion with many similarities to santer a, often used synonymously with santer a. ha-ne-go-ate-geh: the evil-minded, the evil spirit of the iroquois nation. ha-wen-ne-yu: the great spirit of the iroquois nation. ho-no-che-no-keh: the invisible agents, or lesser spirits, of the iroquois. indigenous: a word that describes a people, culture, or religion that is native to a particular geographical region. olo du` mare: the name of the supreme god in santer a. orishas: name given to the lesser gods o

ed their power to the great spirit s enormous power. some had names, while others were associated with a natural force or object. one example was he-no, to whom the great spirit gave the thunderbolt. he-no controlled the weather. the great spirit was regarded as benevolent (kind. the iroquois did, however, note the existence of evil, represented by the great spirit s brother, ha-ne-go-ate-geh, or the evil-minded. the evil-minded existed independently from the great spirit and controlled his own lesser spirits. people could choose whether to obey the great spirit or to give in to the temptations of the evil-minded. at death the great spirit would judge a person s immortal soul and punish those who had failed to obey him. for this reason, the iroquois developed a moral code that contributed

mud, or traditions that interpret and explain the scriptures, are accepted as true. in the second century of the common era the talmud was written down in a text called the mishnah. orthodox jews believe that god taught it to moses and that it was handed down orally until then. 9. there will be no other torah. 10. god knows the deeds and thoughts of people. 11. god will reward the good and punish the evil. some people regard judaism as a strict religion that emphasizes a god of wrath. they believe that judaism emphasizes the justice of god at the expense of mercy. many jews dispute this belief, pointing out that of the two names used most frequently in the hebrew bible to world religions: almanac 353 judaism refer to god, the name that refers to his mercy is used just as often as the other

ts the shinto attitude toward sin. shintoists believe that certain evil deeds, called kegare( dirtiness, can create a kind of ritual impurity( the opposite is kiyome, meaning purity) sin does not require forgiveness from the gods. rather, sin is a state that causes discomfort for the person who commits it. a sinner can restore a sense of contentment by purifying him or herself of the dirtiness of the evil deed. shinto priests prepare for a ritual. priests and priestesses can lead shinto followers in worship, but their primary job is to care for the jinja, or shrines. chris lisle/corbis. world religions: almanac 403 shinto 4. worship of the kami: the fourth affirmation concerns matsuri, a word that refers collectively to the many shinto festivals held each year to worship the kami. these fe

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is hand against the law to take in his own desire what he should not have taken. therefore, god let him fall, and since he had despised the quiet, he had to feel painfully the restlessness. in such restlessness of life all children of man still extend their hands, trying to grasp their pleasures. and as is their understanding and will, so is their grasping. some grasp for the good, some grasp for the evil. some grasp for the fruit, some only for the leaves, some for a branch with fruits and leaves on it. and they derive pleasure from the things they have grasped, these poor fools do not know that all their pain and labor had only been a studium particulare. they grasp for pieces, where they could obtain the whole. they seek for quiet and cannot find it; for they look from the outside into

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e of man s heart is evil from his youth. it is evil from his youth, and it does not incline [in any direction] other than the left, for it is already accustomed to be there. it is regarding this that the blessed holy one said to israel (exodus 15:26, if you listen to the voice of the lord your god, and do what is upright in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and not to the commandments of the evil urge and keep all his decrees and not the decrees of the evil urge [then all the sickness that i brought upon the egyptians, i will not bring upon you] for i am god who heals you. 164. what does the evil urge gain? what is this like? a king appointed clerks over the lands of his kingdom, over his work and over his merchandise. each and every thing had its clerk. there was one clerk in cha

nes from me, and i will not be inferior to the other. it is thus written (jeremiah 1:14, from the north will evil come forth, upon all the inhabitants of the earth. the verse then continues (jeremiah 1:15) for i call all the families of the kingdom of the north says god and they will come, and each one will place his throne at the opening of the gates of jerusalem evil will be their business, and the evil urge will also constantly strive. the word satan means turning aside, since he turns all the world aside to the balance of guilt. how is this indicated? it is written (genesis 38:16, and he turned aside to her, and the targum renders this vesata [satah being the root of satan. it is likewise written (proverbs 4:15, turn aside (s the) from it and pass on. 165. what is the significance of t

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were a friend placed between them. 2. the celestial dragon, t l i, is placed over the universe like a king upon the throne; the revolution of the year is as a king over his dominion; the heart of man is as a king in warfare. moreover, he made all things one from the other; and the elohim set good over against evil, and made good things from good, and evil things from evil: with the good tested he the evil, and with the evil did he try the good. happiness (50) is reserved for the good, and misery (51) is kept for the wicked. 3. the three are one, and that one stands above. the seven are divided; three are over against three, and one stands between the triads. the twelve stand as in warfare; three are friends, three are enemies; three are life givers; three are destroyers. the three friends

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

a couple of gems where the name of iao as well as the name of ichthys denotes the good shepherd surrounded by the twelve apostles. cf. also his discussion on p. 270-272. 21 see worrell "a coptic wizard's hoard, american journal of semitic languages and literatures 46 (1930) 239-262. standing in the tradition inaugurated by wunsch (see n. 5, worrell says that the god is "set- typhon-seth.the good, the evil, the powerful god, the storm demon, the hebrew patriarch, the gnostic christ, the ass-headed on the crucifix (255. as for the theory that the famous palatine graffito is a christian gnostic work showing an identification of christ and the egyptian seth, see already the refutation in procope- walter "iao und set (above n. 15) 50-51. 22 see mirecki "the coptic 'wizard's hoard, to be publish

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adiates into the lower one. for the superior one is called abundant kindness,98 whereas in the small one, it is simply kindness,99 though when light is required, it will radiate, and it is called abundant kindness. and elohim said the waters will swarm with movement of living-being.100 meaning to say hy,101 the light of the one extended into the other, all came forth at one time, the good waters, the evil waters. for he said: the waters will swarm 11 they were contained, one in the other. the upper living-being, the lower living-being. the good living-being. the evil living-being. and elohim said, we will make adam. 102 this adam-not is written on not-adam in order to take away adam of above who was made by the perfect name. when this is perfected, that is perfected. male and female were p

h yv the channels of connection are shrouded beneath his covering. yod y small in this very form he is found. but if judgments are to be mitigated, necessarily the ancient one is required. the serpent came upon the female and a nest of impurity was formed within her, establishing a dwelling for evil. thus it is written: and she conceived, and she gave birth to qain,103 the nest of the dwelling of the evil spirits, storms and demons, and blows to qain within hy. he formed in that adam(,da, by twos, by the general principle and the particular, which are contained in the particular and the general, legs and arms, right and left. it divides at its sides. male and female were established- vhy. yod y male, heh h female. vav v as it is written male and female created he them, and blessed them, 10

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

antastic which did not please the taste of the dilettanti of naples. he was fond of unfamiliar subjects into which he introduced airs and symphonies that excited a kind of terror in those who listened. the names of his pieces will probably suggest their nature. i find, for instance, among his mss, these titles "the feast of the harpies "the witches at benevento "the descent of orpheus into hades "the evil eye "the eumenides" and many others that evince a powerful imagination delighting in the fearful and supernatural, but often relieved by an airy and delicate fancy with passages of exquisite grace and beauty. it is true that in the selection of his subjects from ancient fable, gaetano pisani was much more faithful than his contemporaries to the remote origin and the early genius of italia

italian and neapolitan. her youth had been all love, and her age was all superstition. she was garrulous, fond, a gossip. now she would prattle to the girl of cavaliers and princes at her feet, and now she would freeze her blood with tales and legends, perhaps as old as greek or etrurian fable, of demon and vampire, of the dances round the great walnut-tree at benevento, and the haunting spell of the evil eye. all this helped silently to weave charmed webs over viola's imagination that afterthought and later years might labour vainly to dispel. and all this especially fitted her to hang, with a fearful joy, upon her father's music. those visionary strains, ever struggling to translate into wild and broken sounds the language of unearthly beings, breathed around her from her birth. thus you

is walking over the spot which shall be your grave "there are in all lands different superstitions to account for so common an occurrence" replied the stranger "one sect among the arabians holds that at that instant god is deciding the hour either of your death, or of some one dear to you. the african savage, whose imagination is darkened by the hideous rites of his gloomy idolatry, believes that the evil spirit is pulling you towards him by the hair: so do the grotesque and the terrible mingle with each other "it is evidently a mere physical accident, a derangement of the stomach, a chill of the blood" said a young neapolitan, with whom glyndon had formed a slight acquaintance "then why is it always coupled in all nations with some superstitious presentiment or terror, some connection bet

last communicates to the world the process by which it attains its discoveries; the first boasts of marvellous results, and refuses to explain the causes "well said, o logician of the schools; but think again. suppose we were to impart all our knowledge to all mankind indiscriminately, alike to the vicious and the virtuous, should we be benefactors or scourges? imagine the tyrant, the sensualist, the evil and corrupted being possessed of these tremendous powers; would he not be a demon let loose on earth? grant that the same privilege be accorded also to the good; and in what state would be society? engaged in a titan war, the good forever on the defensive, the bad forever in assault. in the present condition of the earth, evil is a more active principle than good, and the evil would preva

ll we not grow old together, and our eyes be accustomed to a change which the heart shall not share" zanoni sighed. he turned away, and seemed to commune with himself. glyndon's attention grew yet more earnest "but were it so" muttered zanoni; and then looking steadfastly at viola, he said, with a half-smile "hast thou no curiosity to learn more of the lover thou once couldst believe the agent of the evil one "none; all that one wishes to know of the beloved one, i know that thou lovest me "i have told thee that my life is apart from others. wouldst thou not seek to share it "i share it now "but were it possible to be thus young and fair forever, till the world blazes round us as one funeral pyre "we shall be so, when we leave the world" zanoni was mute for some moments, and at length he s

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

ich we may make of the one necessarily includes an examination of the other. from the religious books of ancient egypt we learn that the power possessed by a priest or man who was skilled in the knowledge and working of magic was believed to be almost boundless. by pronouncing certain words or names of power in the proper manner and in the proper tone of voice he could heal the sick, and cast out the evil spirits which caused pain and suffering in those who were diseased, and restore the dead to life, and bestow upon the dead man the power to transform the corruptible into an incorruptible body, wherein the soul might live to all eternity. his words enabled human beings to assume divers forms at will, and to project their souls into animals and other creatures; and in obedience to his comm

h dynasty. later, however, the ideas in it were developed, the work itself was greatly enlarged, and at the time of the ptolemies it had become a book called "the book of overthrowing apep" which contained twelve chapters. at the same time another work bearing the same title also existed; it was not divided into chapters, but it contained two versions of the history of the creation, and a list of the evil names of apep, and a hymn to ra. 2 among the chapters of the former work was one entitled "chapter of putting the fire upon apep" which reads "fire be upon thee, apep, thou enemy of ra! the eye of horus prevails over the accursed soul and shade of apep, and the p. 80 flame of the eye of horus shall gnaw into that enemy of ra; and the flame of the eye of horus shall consume all the enemies

monethes sicknes sucks up life in 'em (act i, scene 2) ii "heccat. what death is't you desire for almachildes? duchesse. a sodaine and a subtle. heccat. then i have fitted you. here lye the guifts of both; sodaine and subtle: his picture made in wax, and gently molten by a blew fire kindled with dead mens' eyes will waste him by degrees (act v, scene 2) mr. elworthy in his very interesting book "the evil eye" 1 relates some striking examples of the burning of hearts stuck full of pins for magical purposes p. 100 in recent years. thus an old woman at mendip had a pig that fell ill, and she at once made up her mind that the animal had been "overlooked; in her trouble she consulted a "white witch" i.e. a "wise" man, and by his orders she acted thus. she obtained a sheep's heart, and having s

. when isis saw this she was sorry for the child who had been stung, and as he was blameless in the matter of the door of his mother's house being shut in the face of the goddess, she determined to save him. thereupon she cried out to the distraught mother, saying "come to me, come to me! for my word is a talisman which beareth life. i am a daughter well known in thy city also, and i will do away the evil by means of the word of my mouth which my father hath taught me, for i am the daughter of his own body" then isis laid her hands upon the body of the boy, and p. 132 in order to bring back the spirit into his body said "come tefen, appear upon the ground, depart hence, come not nigh "come poison of befen, appear upon the ground. i am isis, the goddess, the lady of words of power, who doet

or khu could or did hold intercourse with his relatives or friends whom he left alive upon earth cannot be said, but an instance is known in which a husband complains to his wife, who has been dead for three years, of the troubles which she has brought upon him since her death. he describes his own merits and the good treatment which he had vouchsafed to her when she was alive, and declares that the evil with which she is requiting him is not to be endured. to make his complaint to reach her he first reduced it to writing upon papyrus, then went to her tomb and read it there, and finally tied the papyrus to a statue or figure of his wife which was therein; since her double or spirit lived in the tomb she would, of course, read the writing and understand it. 1 it is a pity that we have no

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n all the artisans who are working in the temple of god? do i not give thee double wages and a double supply of food? how is it that day by day and hour by hour thow growest thinner" 4. but the child said to the king "i pray thee, o king. listen to what has befallen all that thy child hath. after we are all released from our work on the temple of god, after sunset, when i lie down to rest, one of the evil demons comes and takes away from me one half of my pay and one half of my food. then he also takes hold of my right hand and sucks my thumb. and lo, my soul is opressed, and so my body waxes thinner every day" 5. now when i solomon heard this, i entered the temple of god, and prayed with all my soul, night and day, that the demon might be delivered into my hands, and that i might gain aut

ner of the temple [1. cp. i pet. ii. 6, 7, who combines in the same way ps. cxviii. 22 and isa. xxviii. 16. cp. matt. xxi. 42, mark xii, 10, luke xx, 17] 119. and after seven days, being reminded of the epistle of adares, king of arabia, i called my servant and said to him "order thy camel and take for thyself a leather flask, and take also this seal. and go away into arabia to the place in which the evil spirit blows; and there take the flask, and the signet-ring in front of the mouth of the flask, and (hold them) towards the blast of the spirit. and when the flask is blown out, thou wilt understand that the demon is (in it. then hastily tie up the mouth of to flask, and seal it securely with the seal-ring, and lay it carefully on the camel and bring it me hither. and if on the way it off

thout using oath to release it. and then if it point out to the places where are gold or silver, mark the places and seal them with this seal. and bring the demon to me. and now depart, and fare thee well" 120. then the youth did as was bidden him. and he ordered his camel, and laid on it a flask, and set off into arabia. and the men of that region would not believe that he would be able to catch the evil spirit. and when it was dawn, the servant stood before the spirit's blast, and laid the flask on the ground, and the finger-ring on the mouth of the flask. and the demon blew through the middle of the finger-ring into the mouth of the flask, and going in blew out the flask. but the man promptly stood up to it and drew tight with his hand the mouth of the flask, in the name of the lord god

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

lunatic asylum. the other sect, the binh xuyen. is an organization of bandits, in mustard-colored uniforms, who controlled both the brothels of saigon and the police of the same city under an arrangement with the absentee chief of state, bao dai. their commander, general le van vien. was once a river pirate. premier ngo dinh diem crushed the three sects. for eight years south viet nam was free of the evil of the cao dai. then, in late 1963. the premier and his brother. ngo dinh nhu. were assassinated in a cia-supported murder plot headed by buddhist traitors in the vietnamese government. at once the top surviving cao dai leader, exiled general le than tat, returned to viet nam from cambodia to regroup the many factions of the cult into a unified movement- 36- general tat returned on novemb

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

emple of god in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant became visible there. 148 666: the beast and the abyss the initiate s experience brings back in a new form the primaeval struggle between the higher and lower natures. the apocalypse of john 137 on the christian path, everything that the initiates in the older mysteries had to undergo must be recapitulated. as osiris was threatened by the evil typhon, so now there is the great dragon, the ancient snake to be defeated. from far back the wisdom of the mystai had used the snake as its symbol of knowledge. the snake knowledge may be a seductive force, however, unless human beings bring to life within themselves the son of god. he it is who crushes the serpent s head: the great dragon was hurled down that ancient snake who is called

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

f the west on the banner of the west, the white triangle refers to the three paths connecting twklm with the other sephiroth; while the red cross is the hidden knowledge of the divine nature which is to be obtained through their aid. the cross and triangle together represent life and light. in addition to this explanation from the zelator grade, it represents eternally the possibility of rescuing the evil. but in it, the trapt cross is placed within the white triangle of the supernals as thereby representing that sacrifice made only unto the higher. the red cross is bordered with gold in this instance, to represent the perfect metal obtained in and through the darkness of putrefaction. black is its field which thus represents the darkness and ignorance of the outer, while the white triangl

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

diego. no more secret meetings in nearby escondido guarded with heavy illuminati security. no more pushing "the family" agenda as a head mind control trainer. she was simply fed up with the lies, deceit, torture, bribery and killing, deciding 10 years ago to call it quits on her wealthy parents and the members of the insidious illuminati. brainwashed as a child, she finally saw through the lies, the evil and decided to start all over again, landing in northern texas where she has now began a christian ministry with a foundation in truth, not illuminati lies. if svali was in the mafia, she'd probably be at the bottom of the pacific with her feet in cement. but the illuminati chose to try and bury her in a more subtle way, choosing to leave her penniless, separating her from her two childre

ournal, on both the republic broadcasting(rbn) and genesis communications(gcn) radio networks. on the talk shows, svali gasped for breadth several times and was emotionally shaken when recalling how she was brainwashed as a young child and then how she was subjected to watching a young child being sacrificed at her illuminati induction ceremony at the vatican at age 12. her graphic description of the evil vatican ceremony is contained in part ii of this series "i hope what i am trying to tell people will help save the lives of other children, as well as show people how organized and dangerous these people in the illuminati really are" said svali, who was born into what insiders call the "family or order" running from the group's evil clutches 10 years ago "growing up in the secret organiza

rs something serious has happened. with that in mind and in an effort to keep her publicly protected and her story alive, the arctic beacon is reprinting a transcript of her lengthy interview from her appearance with greg on the investigative journal radio show of january 17, 2006. svali's startling comments, as well as the arctic beacon series on child sacrificing, should serve as a reminder how the evil intentions of the new world order knows no bounds or limits. transcript of illuminati survivor svali's appearance on investigative journal with greg szymanski january 17, 2006 gs: you're listening to the investigative journal. i'm your host, greg szymanski. two hours- two hours with great interviews all the time. we get into the news behind the scenes that the mainstream media refuses to

atholics is a christian religion, we look at them as the precursor of the new world religion. so. gs: well, you know, if i may just break in. i grew up a catholic. i don't get involved in the splicing of the religions. i'm basically stating that when i started researching the illuminati as a reporter in rome, and i realized there was a bad portion of the church, i looked at it. i had to deal with the evil and the good. so that's the way i reconciled it. the evil within the catholic church, at the high level of the vatican, which seeps down into many, many areas. go ahead. ml: okay, well i won't argue that point. sv (crosstalk) now. now. now. ml: i won't agree with it, but it sounds like you have become possibly born again to get out of this? would i be correct in that? sv: yes. yes. now i

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wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they shouldest he judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth- recorded in revelation 11:15, 18 god's incomparable will and plan shall prevail. his christ and his people shall reign triumphant forever, and the evil shall be judged. and what of the illuminati, the destroyers of the earth, the ones whom satan's servant, oppenheimer, trumpeted were the "destroyer of worlds" the scriptures give testimony to their fate; they too, shall be judged, so that god "shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth" power the hunger for power motivates the human disciples in the illuminati structure. because they

re the "destroyer of worlds" the scriptures give testimony to their fate; they too, shall be judged, so that god "shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth" power the hunger for power motivates the human disciples in the illuminati structure. because they serve satan, they instinctually know they are also serving the will of his human hierarchy. they expect to be rewarded for this service to the evil side. george bernard shaw, who maintained an overwhelming hatred for god and for christianity, wrote of a "will" incarnated in higher consciousness man (the elite) that shall "finally mould chaos itself into a race of gods."5 to fancy yourself as in a state of becoming divine, as so superhuman, special and superior you shall achieve elevation as one of a "race of gods" is an intoxicating

white magic" those on the left-handed path, however, are practitioners of "black magic" full-fledged satanists are typically of the left-handed path, though, in reality, it does not matter to the devil which hand is used! the left hand is ever considered the sinister hand. it is associated with words like diabolical, witchlike, clever, deceptive, sly, cunning, evil, wrong, backward, and perverse. the evil eye is said to be the left eye. some early christians (for example, the writer of the apocryphic gospel of nicodemus) taught that of the two thieves crucified next to jesus, the one at his left side an odd, old drawing of a priest with hands in prayer, but aimed downwards toward satan! concealed messages: the importance of hand signs d 49 at left: josephine bonaparte's palm from mlle le n

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

who inexplicably actively participated in crimes with sla gang members. conspiracy researchers subsequently discovered that the sla was a secret revolutionary project funded by the fbi (photo and article: newsweek, february 4, 2002) 278 codex magica blatant serpent wickedness is rampant in this advertisement for crown royal whiskey. we have the regal scarlet crown, the diamond cuts on the glass, the evil snake shaped in the form of "s (satan, and the one word question "tempted" the phrase below "enjoy our quality responsibly" sounds like some kind of hellish joke. crown royal is manufactured by seagram& sons, the world's largest distillery. seagram is owned by the bronfman bloodline dynasty of canada, the family of ardent adl jewish zionists. its senior is currently edgar bronfman, who al

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the qabala; hence 70 x 4) of the double-headed one (the two headed giant which represents the qlipoth, or false reflection, of the unity, the crown, kether. this is the first of the demonic reflections, representing division, or duality. please notice that manifested existence would be impossible without this; that are the 4 devils, satan, lucifer, leviathan, belial, that are the great princes of the evil of the world "and satan is worshiped by men under the name of jesus; and lucifer is worshiped by men under the name of brahma; and leviathan is worshiped by men under the name of allah; and belial is worshiped by men under the name of buddha (see al iii 48-56 "moreover, there is mary (the reflex, in the qliphoth of malkuth, of our lady babalon, the guardian of the abyss. she is the scarle

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e lies on the bier preparatory to the passing over the river towards the west, and the soul stands before osiris, and the goddesses stand by and watch while the beam sways and the decision is taken- the body of the candidate is then, as it were, broken up as the body of osiris was broken, and the higher self stands before the place of the pillars, but the lower self is in the invisible station of the evil persona. then is the candidate nigh unto death, for then, symbolically, his spirit passes through the veils of negative existence, passing from the rtk of hycu to the twklm of hryxy. therefore, unless the genii of the underworld were then present and directing their forces on the vital organs, he must inevitably die. let their symbols then be represented in all operations and formulae dra

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ne house, 1993. orphic mysteries orpheus may have been an actual historic figure, a man capable of charming both man and beast with his music, but god or human, he modified the dionysian rites by removing their orgiastic elements. dionysus zagreus, the horned son of zeus (king of the gods) and persephone (daughter of zeus and demeter, was the great god of the orphic mysteries, who was devoured by the evil titans while zeus was otherwise distracted. athena managed to save dionysus zagreus s heart while the enraged zeus destroyed the titans with his thunderbolts. zeus gave the heart of his beloved son to the earth goddess semele who dissolved it in a potion, drank thereof, and gave birth to dionysus, the god of vegetation, whose cycle of birth, death, and rebirth reflects the cycle of growth

oved son to the earth goddess semele who dissolved it in a potion, drank thereof, and gave birth to dionysus, the god of vegetation, whose cycle of birth, death, and rebirth reflects the cycle of growth, decay, and rebirth seen in nature. orpheus preached that humankind was created from the ashes of the titans who devoured dionysus zagreus; therefore, the physical bodies of humans are formed from the evil of the titans, but they also contain within them a tiny particle of the divine essence. within this duality a constant 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 34 afterlife mysteries war rages, so it is the duty of each human to repress the titanic element and allow the dionysian an opportunity to assert itself. the final release of the div

ls, the natives marched behind the body, brandishing swords to frighten away the death demons. the galibis of guiana dance on the newly covered grave to stamp down the spirits. the winnebago tribe had a fear of evil spirits troubling the corpses of their deceased loved ones, so they swept the grass around the grave in a circle from six to 20 feet in diameter, a ritual that they believed prevented the evil spirits from approaching the departed s final earthly resting place. the cosmology of certain eastern native american tribes placed two powerful manitous, representatives of the great spirit, on duty in the land of the departed. one of the manitous, chibiabos, like the egyptian god osiris and the hindu judge of the dead, yama, was master over the realm of the dead and escorted the newly a

the true spiritual essence of the scriptures to him, but swedenborg felt that god wanted him to develop a new church. swedenborg said that he could hear the conversations of angelic beings and could even participate in such otherworldly discussions. in time, he was given visions of both heaven and hell, and he developed the habit of lying in trance for several days and nights. his arguments with the evil spirits, the fallen angels, terrified his servants, but the gentle conversations with the benign angelic beings soothed their fears. in 1759, swedenborg had the vision of the great fire at stockholm, which has been recorded as one of the first completely documented cases of clairvoyance in history and which has become well known throughout the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h

d by the devil and 38 percent believe ghosts and spirits exist. 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 religious phenomena 179 in the u.s, some clergypersons believe satan and his demons appear to be busier than ever in the new millennium and they admit that the ancient rites of exorcism are being performed in increasingly large numbers to combat the evil machinations of the powers of darkness. while the roman catholic church is most noted for conducting exorcisms, their clergy is actually extremely cautious in approving the rites. once official approval has been granted to conduct an exorcism, the rites themselves may take hours, days, or weeks to complete. but in spite of their careful scrutiny of all claims of satanic possession, the ch

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given to flights of fancy. while he watched at betsy s bedside that night, johnson saw the young girl receive several blows on the cheeks from an invisible antagonist. he adjured the spirit to stop in the name of the lord jesus christ, and there was no activity from the ghost for several minutes, but then betsy s hair received a yank that brought a cry of pain from her lips. again johnson adjured the evil spirit, and it released the girl s hair. johnson concluded that the spirit understood the human language and that betsy was the center of the haunting. he met with other neighbors, and they decided to help the bell family as best they could. a committee kept 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 26 ghosts and phantoms hauntings are in th

young people to be ideally suited for one another, but the witch protested violently when the engagement was announced. the witch screamed at joshua whenever he entered the bell home and embarrassed both young people by shouting obscenities about them in front of their friends. a friend of the family, frank miles, learned of the witch s objection to betsy s engagement and resolved to stand up to the evil spirit on her behalf. he challenged the entity to take any form it wished, and he would soon send her packing. suddenly his head jerked backwards as if a solid slap had stung his cheeks. he put up his forearms to block a series of facial blows, and then dropped his guard as he received a vicious punch in the stomach. miles slumped against a wall, desperately shaking his head to recover hi

pears to the desperate wayfarer like illumination shining through a windowpane, thus signaling shelter and a dry place to spend the inclement evening. but as the hopeful traveler approaches the light, it keeps moving just a bit farther away. since the poor, drenched pilgrim has no choice in the darkness but to keep pursuing the light source, the spunkie keeps moving it just a bit farther on until the evil goblin has lured the unfortunate traveler over a cliff. m delving deeper bord, janet. fairies: real encounters with little people. new york: dell publishing, 1998. dubois, pierre, with roland sabatier and claudine sabatier, illustrators. the great encyclopedia of fairies. new york: simon& schuster, 2000. froud, brian. good faeries, bad faeries. new york: simon& schuster, 1998. jones, alis

sically, the philosophy behind the relaxation process is quite 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 156 mysteries of the mind fdaresearch noted that extended use of lsd could lead to mood swings, including depression, which could in turn lead to suicide. likely as old as the first healers in ancient babylon, egypt, and greece, who believed that the evil spirits within the ill could be replaced by good spirits if the patient concentrated on positive images of benevolent entities. new age practitioners believe that in order to achieve a complete healing of body, mind, and spirit, one must counter the negative input that the individual has placed in his or her mind over decades of negative reinforcement. the individual must fill himself or

e fears and feelings of helplessness, there arose accounts of personal rituals of survival. superstitions and religions evolved into accepted rules for appropriate human behavior (customs) and forbidden behavior (taboos. many of these societal customs, and religious and cultural taboos, are perpetuated in the urban legends of today. 187 chapter exploration superstitions cats days of the week dogs the evil eye four-leaf clover gems horseshoes knocking on wood ladders numbers rabbit s foot sneezing spitting strange customs and taboos courtship and marriage hospitality and etiquette burials and funerals urban legends and beliefs deadly reptiles in the imported carpets the fabulous cookie recipe green m&ms the hook on the car door if your college roommate commits suicide. jesus on the freeway

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ltures of the southwest, the practice of burjeria is feared as a manifestation of evil. those who use rituals, spells, incantations, potions, and powders to work ill against others are known as brujas (witches, who are primarily female in number (the male witch is known as a brujo. all the negative facets of witchcraft feared by people throughout the world are practiced by the brujas: manifesting the evil eye, casting spells to cause physical or mental illness, bringing about bad luck, even death. the brujas create dolls in which they insert bits of the victim fs hair, fingernail clippings, or pieces of clothing and focus their evil intent upon the miniature representative of the person to be cursed. if an anglo doctor with modern medical techniques cannot cure someone who has fallen sudde

ection from the brujas, but the only sure way to rid oneself of their evil deeds is to employ the services of a curandero. sometimes the curandero is able to contact the bruja through supernatural means and demand that the curse or spell be removed. in more severe cases, the curandero may have to direct a spell toward the bruja and defeat her on the spiritual level in order to force her to remove the evil directed toward the victim. sources: gcurandismo. h the handbook of texas online [online] http//www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/ cc/sdc 1.html. middleton, john, ed. magic, witchcraft and curing. garden city, n.y: natural history press, 1967. simmons, marc. witchcraft in the southwest. flagstaff, ariz: northland press, 1974. villoldo, alberto, and stanley krippner. healin

ts soul. then, as if he were fanning a tiny spark of life in dry tinder, the sorcerer nurtures the spark of life in the corpse until he has fashioned a zombi. the deceased are often buried face downward by considerate relatives so the corpse cannot hear the call of the sorcerer. some villagers take the precaution of providing their departed with a weapon, such as a machete, with which to ward off the evil hungan. haiti is filled with terrible tales of the zombi. there are eyewitness accounts from those who have allegedly discovered friends or relatives, supposedly long-dead, laboring in the field of some native sorcerer. upon investigation, such zombi usually turn out to be mentally defective individuals who bear a strong resemblance to the deceased. unfortunately, some unscrupulous hungan

icate even members of royal houses, the inquisitors were formidable figures with whom to reckon. in 1257, the church officially sanctioned torture as a means of forcing witches, sorcerers, shapeshifters, and other heretics to confess their alliance with satan. the inquisition became a kind of hideous industry. it employed judges, jailers, torturers, exorcists, woodchoppers, and experts to destroy the evil ones who were threatening the ruling powers. gwitch persecutors cwere craftsmen with a professional pride, h kurt seligmann wrote in the history of magic (1948. ga hangman grew melancholic when a witch resisted him unduly. that was akin to a personal offense. in order to save face he let the accused die under the torture, and thus his honor was not impaired, for the blame for the killing

associated with mystical occurrences and the spirit world since ancient times. goddess images were frequently cast in the shape of bells. ancient jews wore bells tied to their clothing to ward off evil. the ringing of bells or death knells for the deceased is an old custom. some authorities believe that the ringing of bells at times of death originated in the practice of seeking to frighten away the evil spirits that lurk beside a corpse, waiting the opportunity to seize the newly released soul. in ancient times bells 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 170 objects of mystery and power amulets at the wat market (corbis corporation) egyptians considered amulets necessary for protection of the living and the dead. were rung only when imp

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trengthened by the powers of heaven; and the belief that the devil hadbeen defeated by the archangel michael backed by the whole power of the almighty gave them courage inthe contest.the study of anthropology has changed much of this childish method of regarding the forms of religiousbelief which belong to another race or another country. to consider islam, buddhism or hinduism as theinvention of the evil one would be thought ridiculous at the present day, even the fetishes and the images ofthe more savage races are treated with respect as being sacred to their worshippers.but though there is no difficulty in realising the fact that "heathen" religions exist outside europe, there isstill a strong feeling among christians that christianity is so essentially european that no other religion c

ade a pact for seven years with the devil on the night before the battle ofworcester, and he not only won an overwhelming victory but died that very day seven years later in themiddle of the worst thunderstorm within human memory; which was proof positive of the truth of the story inthe minds of the royalists.[22] on the other hand the royalists in scotland were believed to have soldthemselves to the evil one. the bishops were said to be cloven-footed and to cast no shadows, and thosejustices of the peace appointed to try the political prisoners were seen often talking in a friendly way with thedevil.[23]this uninterrupted record of belief in a horned deity shows that underlying the official religion of the rulersthere still remained the ancient cult with all its rites almost untouched.in

told generations, entered into adefinite compact with the devil who in his proper person is the father of all the children of the family. certainother members of the sect, the elect ones, are permeated with the spirit of good, and are regarded asincarnations of the divine essence. it is the general belief that the witches hold regular gatherings for thepractice of magical rites and the worship of the evil principle. they are reported to assume the form ofanimals, generally black, and to be restored to their original shapes at the rising of the sun. these meetingsare illuminated by candles made of human fat, which renders the celebration invisible to all except theinitiated."chapter ii. the worshippers"in the hinder end of harvest, on all hallow fen, when the good neighbours do ride, if i r

s belong to one of the lowestcastes it is difficult to obtain much information. one "sect" is known as mehtars; a word which means princeor leader, a mehtar is therefore often addressed as maharaj. the ordinary house-broom is made of date-palmleaves and is considered sacred, but it has not the magical qualities of the sweeper's broom which is made ofsplit bamboo "it is a powerful agent for curing the evil eye, and mothers get the sweeper to come and wave itup and down in front of a sick child for this purpose.[80] the dead of the sweeper-caste are buried facedownwards to prevent the spirit from escaping, for a sweeper's ghost is regarded as extremely malevolent;this custom should be compared with the burial of a witch at the cross-roads with a stake through her heart,which was done to prev

ners. there were two men concerned in the making of the waxfigures. the record of the first one states[28] that "he began to make magic rolls for hindering and terrifying,and to make some gods of wax and some people, for enfeebling the limbs of people; and gave them into thehand of pebekkamen and the other great criminals, saying 'take them in, and they took them in. now, whenhe set himself to do the evil deeds which he did, in which r352 did not permit that he should succeed, he wasexamined. truth was found in every crime and in every evil deed, which his heart had devised to do. therewas truth therein, he had done them all, together with all the other great criminals. they were great crimes ofdeath, the things which he had done. now, when he learned of the great crimes of death which he

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a. a moral man. q. and if he sacrifices his interests to justice? a. a man of honour. q. and if in order to imitate the grandeur and goodness of providence he does more than his duty, and sacrifices his right to the good of others? a. a hero. q. what is the principle of true heroism? a. faith. q. what is its support? a. hope. q. and its rule? a. charity. q. what is the good? a. order. q. what is the evil? a. disorder. q. what is permissible pleasure? a. enjoyment of order. q. what is forbidden pleasure? a. enjoyment of disorder. 103 q. what are the consequences of each? a. moral life and moral death. q. has then hell, with all its horrors, its justification in religious dogma? a. yes; it is a rigorous consequence of a principle. q. what is this principle? a. liberty. q. what is liberty? a

the air of speaking of 135 ourself- the professor, then, master eliphas levi, gave the persons assembled in mme. de b-'s drawing-room the scientific explanation of the three signatures, and this is what he said "these three signs belong to the series of sacred and primitive hieroglyphs, known only to initiates of the first order. the first is the signature of typhon. it expresses the blasphemy of the evil spirit by establishing dualism in the creative principle. for the crux ansata of osiris is a lingam upside down, and represents the paternal and active force of god (the vertical line extending from the circle) fertilizing passive nature (the horizontal line. to double the vertical line is to affirm that nature has two fathers; it is to put adultery in the place of the divine motherhood

u have lost. take my book, observe the prescriptions of the ritual, and come again to see me in a week" a week later he returned, but this time the workman declared that he had invented a life-saving machine of the greatest importance for the navy. the machine is perfectly 158 put together; it only lacks one thing- it will not work: there is a hidden defect in the machinery. what was that defect? the evil spirit alone could tell him. it is then absolutely necessary to evoke him "take care you do not" said eliphas "you had much better say for nine days this qabalistic evocation" he gave him a leaf covered with manuscript "begin this evening, and return to-morrow to tell me what you have seen, for to night you will have a manifestation" the next day, our good man did not miss the appointment

but man never conceives absolute evil, save as a false idea of good. good only can be absolute; and evil is only relative to our ignorance, and to our errors. every man, in order to be a god, first makes himself a devil; but as the law of solidarity is universal, the hierarchy exists in hell as it does in heaven. a wicked man will always find one more wicked than himself to do him harm; and when the evil is at its climax, it must cease, for it could only continue by the annihilation of being, which is impossible. then the man-devils, at the end of their resources, fall once more under the empire of the god-men, and are saved by those whom one at first thought their victims; but the man who strives to live a life of evil deeds, does homage to good by all the intelligence and energy that he

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these shells or "envelopes" were said to hold their abode beneath the world of assiah into which adam descended at the fall. much of the development of this idea was made by issac de loria (1534-1572) who in his commentary on the "book of concealment" added his own viewpoint to the original zoharic teachings. commenting on the formation of the nations of the gentiles, he said that the recrements, the evil and rejected parts of the edomite kings (who existed in the void before the world was formed) are the cortices or shells which compose the adverse adam belial, or the "shadow" side of humanity. when adam and eve partook of the forbidden fruit, their fall confounded the good and the evil of the cortices, and after this fall the nations of the world were produced from the shells. in this we

roth those that are crooked 5 burners (flaming ones) jugglers asmodeus the barber 6 disputers (the litigation) airy powers belphegor the flayer 7 dispersing ravens furies, or seminaries of evil baal those kindling the funeral pyre 8 deceivers (the false accuser) sifters, or triers addramalech the venom of god 9 obscene ones (the obscene ass) tempters, or ensnarers lillith he who bears a burden 10 the evil woman (the woman of the night) wicked fouls bearing rule nahema the moaners part one, chapter four, table one chapter fifteen; gematria gematria is one of the rules for interpreting the torah, and is partially a high-level system of numerology. it is defined by scholem as "explaining a word or group of words according to the numerical value of the letters, or of substituting other letters

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sanctifying the alb and cordelier: o lord, my power is in thy name, thou who hast made heaven and earth, grant, o lord, my prayer, and may my cry ascend to thee. peace be with thee, and with thy spirit. alb and cordelier, sacred vestments which i ordain for the cult of my celestial reconciliation, i exorcise you in the name of him who commissioned you for the protection of man in the presence of the evil spirits and for his purification in the presence of the celestial powers. become thus henceforward, immaculate and blessed vestments, pure) and radiant, protected from any power and any prestige of the demoniacal spirit and his ministers, become protected from any attempts of theirs and any malefice of theirs whatever they may be. do not retain in yourselves any diabolic force but become

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 help and protection of the patrons whom i have just invoked, as well as the submission of the spirits who still remain to be invoked in the operation. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator remains silen

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dary. the second is "the essence of mind is intrinsically pure" should we desire to translate terminology, we will find i think that the jungian tao, or the very deepest level of the unconscious, is as near an exact definition of "the essence of mind" that we could find. it is only a popular and false misconception of psychological concepts that relegated the unconscious into a mere receptacle of the evil shadow-beings of human nature. some have considered it exclusively as a receptacle retaining the primeval slime deposits, harboring the most violently explosive material. but in point of fact, as but little practical acquaintance with the problems of analysis proves, the unconscious does not harbor exclusively explosive motives. the unconscious stream only becomes explosive when the ruach

agioli, one of the most effective ways of adueving h s is a method called disidentifi ation w28h ch aids in the dissolution of harmful complexes whose newly freed energies can be controlled and used toward more positive ends. dispelling these complexes requires the methods of objectification, critical analysis, and discrimination (in magic, the shadow aspects of the psyche are collectively called the evil persona-they must be recognized, subjugated to the magician's hgher spiritual will, and their energies transmuted and employed for the completion of the great work) 3. realization of one's true sey the discovey or creation of a unibing center. the intermediate link which, if focused on and identified with, allows for the integration/unification of the lower and higher selves, and freedom

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and the picture above it is of the atomic bomb! basically, there are two "sets" of gods in the mythos: the elder gods, about whom not much is revealed, save that they are a stellar race that occasionally comes to the rescue of man, and which corresponds to the christian "light; and the ancient ones, about which much is told, sometimes in great detail, who correspond to "darkness. these latter are the evil gods who wish nothing but ill for the race of man, and who constantly strive to break into our world through a gate or door that leads from the outside, in. there are certain people, among us, who are devotees of the ancient ones, and who try to open the gate, so that this evidently repulsive organisation may once again rule the earth. chief among these is cthulhu, typified as a sea monst

ly a doll made in the likeness of a witch or evil sorcerer that the magician wished to dispose of. hence, we have here probably the archetype of the great burning times of the inquisition, when people were condemned to a fiery death as witches and pagans. the chant "burn, witch! burn" can be found in the maklu text, in all its pristine glory. indeed, cthulhu calls. the conjuration "the binding of the evil sorcerers" alsi ku nushi ilani mushiti itti kunu alsi mushitum kallatum kuttumtum alsi bararitum qablitum u namaritum ashshu kashshaptu u kashshipanni eli nitum ubbiraanni ili-ia u ishtari-ia ushis-su-u-eli-ia eli ameri-ia amru-usanaku imdikula salalu musha u urra qu-u imtana-allu-u pi-ia upu unti pi-ia iprusu me mashtiti-ia umattu-u eli li nubu-u xiduti si-ipdi izizanimma ilani rabuti sh

the horrors that stalk without, and which lie in wait at the door of every man, for this is the ancient arcana that has been handed down of old, but which has been forgotten by all but a few men, the worshippers of the ancient ones (may their names be blotted out. and if i do not finish this task, take what is here and discover the rest, for time is short and mankind does not know nor understand the evil that awaits it, from every side, from every gate, from every broken barrier, from every mindless acolyte at the alters of madness. for this is the book of the dead, the book of the black earth, that i have writ down at the peril of my life, exactly as i received it, on the planes of the igigi, the cruel celestial spirits from beyond the wanderers of the wastes. let all who read this book

ra in thy power, and burn the sorcerers who persecute me! gibil gashru umana yanduru tushte yesh shir illani u ma yalki! gishbar ia zi ia ia zi dingir girra kanpa! rise up, son of the flaming disk of anu! rise up, offspring of the golden weapon of marduk! it is not i, but enki, master of the magicians, who summons thee! it is not i, but marduk, slayer of the serpent, who calls thee here now! burn the evil and the evildoer! burn the sorcerer and the sorceress! singe them! burn them! destroy them! consume their powers! carry them away! rise up, gishbar ba gibbil ba girra zi aga kanpa! spirit of the god of fire, thou art conjured! kakkammanunu! the conjuration of the watcher this is the book of the conjuration of the watcher, for formulae as i received them from the scribe of enki, our master

iate images as described herein. the incantations must be recited after the watcher has been summoned, and he will do the deeds set down for him by the incantations. when he returns, he is to be dismissed as set down previously. know that, when images are used, they must be burned utterly, and the ashes buried in safe ground where none may find them, else to touch them would mean death. know that the evil spirits are principally seven, for the seven maskim who tear away the heart of a man and mock his gods. and their magick is very strong, and they are the lords over the shadows and over the depths of the seas, and reigned once, it is said, over magan, whence they came. the banishings, or exorcisms, are to be pronounced in a clear voice without trembling, without shaking. the arms should b

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

how he wants to be felt. hence, the study of kabbalah must be correctly aimed; the thought must be focused on studying the inner attributes that we still cannot see in us. all the world, partzufim, sefirot, names, everything the kabbalah speaks of exists in us and will be revealed in us, depending on the degree of our correction. we will find our inner moses and aaron, king david and the angels, the evil, the righteous and the 7 of 273 degrees of attainment called jerusalem, the temple and more. every word in the torah speaks of our own forces and the levels of our sensation of the creator. that is the only thing that the torah discusses. that is also the only thing we speak of in our daily lives, because we talk about our feelings. all we feel is the influence of the creator. every thing

d in it, drowning in our own emotions. when a person feels good he should remember that there were bad situations in his life, relate to them as cause and consequence, as good that comes after the bad etc. this brings man closer to completeness, and eternity. you begin to look at things, as opposite sides of the same coin, one cannot be without the other. we must take reality for what it is. then the evil can also be accepted as good, because it is only in our corrupted vessels (emotions) that we feel it as dark. if our vessels were corrected (in order to bestow) we would perceive both good (light) and bad (dark) as light. as long as our natural attributes (pride, greed and desires for power and sex) don t disturb us, as long we are not ashamed of them and don t understand that they are in

o that we develop it, but then go above it, above our reason, meaning take after our feeling. the above reason route is based on trial and error. everyone who starts to walk in it must stumble in it and rise again with his own strength, and begin to perceive the daily circumstances as assistance from above to one s spiritual progress. there are many forces that were created by the creator such as the evil eye, slander etc. their one and only one purpose is to teach us to control ourselves. the golden rule states: walk humbly with thy god (micah 6, 8. one must hide one s goals even from his own egoism, let alone other people s. however, this does not mean that we should dress or act any different than is customary where we live, or refrain from contact with people. but when around strangers

sed good. the good appears gradually in the intermediate state, but not through the revelation of additional good, but quite the contrary, through the revelation of greater evil than before, its rejection and the discovery of the good that actually stands behind it. that system is applied because the revelation of the ultimate good is possible only through the discovery of the lowness and harm of the evil. q: what are the degrees of one s spiritual development? a: a person s spirituality evolves the (spiritual) degrees of still, vegetative, animate and speaking. 1. still: the desire for physical pleasures, such as food and sex. 2. vegetative: the desire for money and wealth. 3. animate: the desire for respect and power. 4. speaking: the desire for science, self-awareness and to learn about

nducts and moves us, only fear can force the egoism to do anything in such a way that it will not carry out its desires without consideration. q: can a person be pushed into studying kabbalah? a: no. it can only be done passively. give that person something to read. q: how does the recognition of evil appear in me? is it different in a person who has committed a crime? a: in an ordinary criminal, the evil inclination appears as a negative desire that is not connected with anything else. but kabbalah portrays your evil in comparison with the good. because of that you begin to feel your evil inclination as such. if you speak to a murderer, or a rapist, you will always find a person who thinks that what he did was just. if you think a certain person is evil in your eyes, that is still not con

THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTOS

ur society) behold the same with your own eys; but every side or wall is parted into ten squares, every one with their several figures and sentences, as they are truly shewed, and set forth concentratum here in our book. the bottom again is parted in the triangle, but because therein is discribed the power and rule of the inferior governors, we leave to manifest the same, for fear of the abuse by the evil and ungodly world. but those that are provided and stored with the heavenly antidote, they do without fear or hurt, tread on, and bruise the head of the old and evil serpent, which this our age is well fitted for: every side or wall had a door for a chest, wherein there lay diverse things, especially all our books, which otherwise we had, besides the vocabular of theoph: par. ho. and thes

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

and it is invested with the potency of superior and inferior things. thou wilt possess by this means the glory of the whole world, and all darkness will depart from thee. it is the strong power of every power, for it will overcome all things subtle and penetrate all things solid. it is thus that the world was created *hermes. tannhauser also separated the higher from the lower self, the good from the evil. christ also attempted the same course, not living alone for either good or bad, but for the whole, as jelaladeen sang, gi am the song and singer, h etc, the surest centre of immortality lying in the whole, and not in the part. the qabalist compared the wicked with the excrement of the great human body, a necessary vivific secretion, and not a poison to the living organism. waite tells us

virtue of the thinker fs thought (berkeley, hume, etc *berashith, vol. ii, p. 242. gthese are real, these illusions: i am of them, false or frail. h*1. and they cannot be overthrown even by travellers in morocco who administer to possessed moors seidlitz powders, first giving the alkali, and then the acid, the patients firmly believing that in the effervescence consequent to the evolution of gas, the evil spirit has been dislodged from their interior. for if they firmly believe the spirit was dislodged, there can not be the slightest doubt on this point, the spirit being a temporary part of the gbrain, h as all other gideas h must be from the idea of gconstipation g. which seidlitz powders will also remove. to that of heaven and hell,*2. which swedenborg also dislodges *1. epilogue, vol. i

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

own as i and what our potential of growth is. it also demands one to know thyself. many misunderstand chaos magick as being dogmatic when this could not be further from the truth, if truth can even apply in our world. chaos magick demands, pushes, threatens and makes ones own individual will come forth. it is most beneficial to the holy guardian angel, and causes the two aspects known the hga and the evil genius to rage incessantly, the energy of the universe is your to command and shape if you have the will. the concepts of free belief are perhaps the most luciferian in the nature of individual process, understanding and application. free belief however is not so easy to practice. it demands constant change and a mental discipline to deny conformity and comfort of associated, lineal belie

hable through the systems of what is considered chaos magick, the form of the astral body allows a severance of eventual worldly bonds. this allows the luciferian adept to take her or his fill of worldly pleasure and eventually ascend astral in the light of lucifer, as an undead god or completely remain within the astral plane. one would seek to understand the place of the holy guardian angel and the evil genius at this level, in the shedding of flesh could it be considered a part of each is severed and a great union may be achieved, from which the conscious becomes aligned with the subconscious. could this be death itself, another level of waking through the web of dreams? what ever the result may be, a formidable individual is formed from the chaos current, while many fail over time ther

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

tas and ritual mantras were inversed and transformed into hymns to ahriman and the daevas, which are in direct association to the body and spirit of the sorcerer. this is in effect, chaos sorcery with defined purpose. in the avesta, ahriman is said to be full of death, from an initiatory perspective, death is transformation and not an end itself. ahriman holds evil knowledge and seeks to manifest the evil religion. it is when a man here below, combing his hair or shaving it off, or paring off his nails, drops them in a hole or in a crack avesta- venidad in luciferian witchcraft, the yatuk dinoih has a ritual of evocation in which the sorcerer makes a sacrifice of nail parings or hair into a dark place in the earth, a crack or hole wherein by such daevas are produced in the soil. one may go

THE GOD SET

ime (see romer's ancient lives, henry holt, 1984, and if you've got as copy of stephen quirk's ancient egyptian religion check out the beautiful stella of aapehty- probably the most beautiful surviving example of setian art. by the end of the twentieth dynasty, as the funerary cult of osiris became the dominate force in popular egyptian religion,more and more, set as the murderer of osiris became the evil one. in fact by the twenty sixth dynasty it was a common practice to disfigure any representations of set. he became--for all practical purposes the christian devil. some scholars have even derived the name satan from set-hen, a cult title meaning the majesty of set, but i am dubious of this particular derivation. however set was not down for the count. during the ptolemaic period set, me

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

seventh degree were sworn most solemnly to chastity in the inmost as in the outermost, who have now as epopts of the illuminati beheld with our eyes, and as perfect, pontiffs of our noble order administered with our members, the initiation whose name is resurrection unto the light, we therefore are able to lighten the darkest places of the earth, and to consider wisely what lieth in the empire of the evil ones. read therefore these passages in the forgery called the epistle of paul to the file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c2.html (1 of 12 [12/28/2001 2:05:25 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. romans: let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof: neither present your members unto sin as instruments

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

o the grave. 44:32 for thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, if i bring him not unto thee, then i shall bear the blame to my father for ever. 44:33 now therefore, i pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. 44:34 for how shall i go up to my father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure i see the evil that shall come on my father. 45:1 then joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, cause every man to go out from me. and there stood no man with him, while joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 45:2 and he wept aloud: and the egyptians and the house of pharaoh heard. 45:3 and joseph said unto his brethren, i [am] joseph; doth my father yet li

elah, which abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of ephron the hittite, before mamre. 50:14 and joseph returned into egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 50:15 and when joseph s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. 50:16 and they sent a messenger unto joseph, saying, thy father did command before he died, saying, 50:17 so shall ye say unto joseph, forgive, i pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the god of thy father. and joseph wept when they spake unto him. 50:18

he face of the earth? turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. 32:13 remember abraham, isaac, and israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, i will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that i have spoken of will i give unto your seed, and they shall inherit [it] for ever. 32:14 and the lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. 32:15 and moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony [were] in his hand: the tables [were] written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other [were] they written. 32:16 and the tables [were] the work of god, and the writing [was] the writing of god, graven upon the tables. 32:17 and when joshua heard t

promise. 14:35 i the lord have said, i will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. 14:36 and the men, which moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, 14:37 even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the lord. 14:38 but joshua the son of nun, and caleb the son of jephunneh [which were] of the men that went to search the land, lived [still] 14:39 and moses told these sayings unto all the children of israel: and the people mourned greatly. 14:40 and they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, lo

the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 7:14 thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 7:15 and the lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all [them] that hate thee. 7:16 and thou shalt consume all the people which the lord thy god shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee. 7:17 if thou shalt say in thine heart, these nations [are] more than i; how can i disposse

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

siod, orpheus, pytagoras; but these had not such gifts of secrets as the former. to this are referred, the nymphes, and sons of melusina, and gods of the gentiles, achilles, neas, hercules: also, cyrus, alexander the great, julius c sar, lucullus, sylla. marius. it is a canon, that every one know his own angel. and that he obey him according to the word of god; and let him beware of the snares of the evil angel, lest he be involved in the calamities of brute and marcus antonius. to this refer the book of jovianus pontanus of fortune, and his eutichus. the third way is, diligent and hard labor, without which no great thing can be obtained from the divine deity worthy admiration, as it is said, tu nihil invita dices facie sue minerva. nothing canst thou do or say against minerva s will. we d

ason of the ignorance of the true god, are done with the princes of spirits, that his desires may be fulfilled; such is the work of the mercurialists. the fourth division is, that some exercise their magick with the good angels in stead of god, as it were descending down from the most high god: such was the magick of baalim. another magick is, that which exerciseth their actions with the chief of the evil spirits; such were they who wrought by the minor gods of the heathens. the fifth division is, that some do act with spirits openly, and face to face; which is given to few: others do work by dreams and other signs; which the ancients took from their auguries and sacrifices. the sixth division is, that some work by immortal creatures, others by mortal creatures, as nymphs, satyrs, and such

ed, what we understand by magitian in this work. him then we count to be a magitian, to whom by the grace of god. the spiritual essences do serve to manifest the knowledge of the whole universe& of the secrets of nature contained therein, whether they are visible or invisible. this description of a magitian plainly appeareth, and is universal. an evil magician is he, whom by the divine permission the evil spirits do serve, to his temporal and eternal destruction and perdition to deceive men, and draw them away from god; such was simon magus, of whom mention is made in the acts of the apostles, and in clemens; whom saint peter commanded to be thrown down upon the earth, when as he had commanded himself, as it were a god, to be raised up into the air by the unclean spirits. unto this order a

sels of his enemies by the word of god, or to keep himself from the snares and deceits of the tempter. aphorism 45. the greatest precept of magic is, to know what every man ought to receive for his use from the assisting spirit, and what to refuse: which he may learn of the psalmist, saying, wherewith shall a yong man cleanse his way? in keeping thy word, oh lord. to keep the word of god, so that the evil one snatch it not out of the heart, is the chiefest precept of wisdom. it is lawful to admit of, and exercise other suggestions which are not contrary to the glory of god, and charity towards our neighbours, not inquiring from what spirit such suggestions proceed: but we ought to take heed, that we are not too much busied with unnecessary things according to the admonition of christ; mart

at is faithfully conversant in his vocation, shall have also the spirits constant companions of his desires, who will successively supply him in all things. but if he have any knowledge in magick, they will not be unwilling to shew him, and familiarly to converse with him, and to serve him in those several ministeries, unto which they are addicted; the good spirits in good things, unto salvation; the evil spirits in every evil thing, to destruction. examples are not wanting in the histories of the whole world; and do daily happen in the world. theodosius before the victory of arbogastus, is an example of the good; brute before he was slain, was an example of the evil spirits, when he was persecuted of the spirit of c sar, and exposed to punishment, that he slew himself, who had slain his o

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ood and evil was, according to plutarch, of immemorial antiquity, derived from the oldest theologists and legislators, not only in traditions and reports, but in mysteries and sacrifices, both greek and barbarian.3 fire was the efficient principle of both, and, according to some of the egyptians, that therial fire which concentred in the sun. this opinion plutarch controverts, saying that typhon, the evil or destroying power, was a terrestrial or material fire, essentially different from the therial. but plutarch here argues from his own prejudices, rather than from the evidence of the case; for he believed in an original evil principle coeternal with the good, and acting in perpetual opposition to it; an error into which men have been led by forming false notions of good and evil, and con

had made drawings of a number of these figures which he had met with in such situations.1 a christian saint exercised some of the qualities thus deputed to priapus; the image of st. nicholas was usually painted in a conspicuous position in the church, for it was believed that whoever had looked upon it was protected against enchantments, and especially against that great object of popular terror, the evil eye, during the rest of the day. it is a singular fact that in ireland it was the female organ which was shown in this position of protector upon the churches, and the elaborate though rude manner in which these figures were sculptured, show that they were considered as objects of great importance. they represented a female exposing herself to view in the most unequivocal manner, and are

ttres, sont pass s, on ne fait comment, entre les mains d un particulier qui en prive le public. j a. duaure, histoire de diff rens cultes, tom. ii. p. 251, 8vo, 1825. generative powers 133 shelah-na-gig, which, we are told, means in irish julian the giddy, and is simply a term for an immodest woman; but it is well understood that they were intended as protecting charms against the fascination of the evil eye. we have given copies of all the examples yet known in our plates xxix and xxx. the first of these1 was found in an old church at rochestown, in the county of tipperary, where it had long been known among the people of the neighbourhood by the name given above. it was placed in the arch over the doorway, but has since been taken away. our second example of the shelah-na-gig2 was taken

l, was found at avignon, and is preserved in the same private collection just alluded to; and a third,4 was dug up, about ten years ago, at kingston-on-thames. the form of these statuettes seems to show that they were intended as portable images, for the same purpose as the shelahs, which people might have ready at hand to look upon for protection whenever they were under fear of the influence of the evil eye, or of any other sort of enchantment. we have not as yet any clear evidence of the existence of the shelah-na-gig in churches out of ireland. we have been informed that an example has been found in one of the little churches on the coast of devon; and there are curious sculptures, which appear to be of the same character, among the architectural ornamentation of the very early church

in which the two sexes are displaying to view the members, which were believed to be so efficatious against the power of fascination. the figure of the female organ, as well as the male, appears to have been employed during the middle ages of western europe far more generally than we might suppose, placed upon buildings as a talisman against evil influences, and especially against witchcraft and the evil eye, and it was used for this purpose in many other parts of the world. it was the universal practice among the arabs of northern africa to stick up over the door of the house or tent, or put up nailed on a board in some other way, the generative organ of a cow, mare, or female camel, as a talisman to avert the influence of the evil eye. it is evident that the figure of this member was fa

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

aos has a secondary connotation, which should not be confused with its pri- mary meaning. it is sometimes said to be the dwelling place of evil because chaos is naturally destructive of order. however, this sense can be misleading. chaos as the region or dimension of formlessness is synonymous with the unmanifest itself; chaos as the land of evil beings or forces is a part of the manifest because the evil beings or forces there have forms and qualities. these may be loosely called chaotic entities since they tend to destroy what is perceived by human consciousness as order; however, they are not in the strict sense inhabitants of true chaos. the dividing plane between the manifest and unmanifest is not a thing in itself, but the place where the two universes press close to each other. it i

highest instrument of the all, just as the art of magic is the highest instrument of humankind. unfortunately, since the art is so often used for unworthy ends, the highest expressions of spirit often shun it. the materially-minded magician will be able to summon powers enough, but these will be powers of evil whose underlying desire for the magician is not evolution but destruction. the basis of the evil force will be the same as the good, the unmanifest, but its color will be black, its odor foul, its taste repugnant and bitter, its touch slimy, and its visual aspect loathsome. it might be wondered how the source of illumination can also be the source of darkness. the answer is that the unmanifest is the source of all things. the light is the will of the unmanifest to change and experien

ditions. magic cannot be half real and half illusion. if power is to be gained inside the circle, it must be given up outside. if the angels of light are rendered tangible to the eyes of the magus, then he or she will also, perforce, be able to see the demons of the pit in all their loathsome detail. if the magus seeks to extract the good out of the art, he or she must also learn how to deal with the evil. in short, if the circle works at all, it works on both sides. all too often the talented beginner will succeed in pumping some measure of energy into the circle and then, through stupidity or pigheadedness, will violate its boundary. the least this person can expect is a shock that will leave the flesh numb and burning for hours, perhaps days. the worst is probably the birth of a madness

s found or what shape it takes, is a stairway to heaven where human consciousness ascends and divine consciousness descends. it is a modification of the conical hilltops upon which human beings have worshipped and worked magic from time immemorial. the triangle is a two-dimensional representation of the cone, and this is one of its most important symbolic aspects. for example, in ritual evocation the evil spir- it is made to come into perceptual existence inside a triangle. the triangle acts as a prison for the spirit, but just as importantly is the lens whereby the spirit is enabled to manifest itself through the point. a triangle widens from its apex down to its base, thereby emerging into manifest existence. implied in ritual evocation is a similar but mirror-opposite triangle on the fa

s can control, and be controlled, by other individuals. it is through the eye that rays of will are most often projected into the circles of the per- sonal universe that lie beyond the sphere of the perceived self. such eye magic is very common among simple peoples of the world. in north africa and india, in the rural regions of italy and spain, and even in the more developed countries of europe, the evil eye is accepted as a reality that must either be avoided or countered with a magical act. the evil eye is no more than the projection of malignancy through the eye along a ray to the object of hatred. it is considered most effective when it enters the eye of the intended victim. common folk will swear they can feel such attacks on the surface of their skin, which begins to prickle, and wi

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

that one world with its scenery and inhabitants would seem to fade slowly away from his view, while another world of a more elevated character would dawn upon him in its stead.93 the densest seventh level is described as a shadowy reflection of the lowest aspects of life, where nothing wholesome or pleasant is able to subsist. it may be conceived as a kind of astral underworld, or hell, in which the evil impulses and inclinations of humanity take on murky shapes "most students find the investigation of this section an extremely unpleasant task, for there appears to be a sense of density and gross materiality about it which is indescribably loathsome to the liberated astral body, causing it the sense of pushing its way through some black, viscous fluid, while the inhabitants and influences

hysical limbs and astral limbs suggests why such a simple posture as crossed legs may have a profound effect on the ability of the astral body to separate. it is worth noting that in medieval times, crossing the legs was reputed to be a way to prevent oneself from being bewitched or otherwise influenced by magic. men crossed their legs for much the same reason they made a hand gesture to ward off the evil eye. today we have the superstition that crossing the fingers behind the back will prevent the truth from being drawn out of us by an interrogator. folding the hands over the solar 216. crookall, 34, citing the journal of the a. s. p r (1916, vol. x, 679. 217. muldoon and carrington, phenomena of astral projection, 22. chapter fifteen: training for soul flight 263 plexus, as i have sugges

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

sed by josephus, which took place in the presence of the roman emperor vespasian (first century a.d. josephus reports than a jewish exorcist named eleazar used "a ring that had a root [in it] of one of those sorts mentioned by solomon (antiquities 8.2.5) to draw demons out through the nose of those that were possessed. he did this by placing the ring close to the nostrils of the possessed person. the evil spirit (spiritus means breath) was forced out upon the exhalation of the sick individual by the power of the ring, or the root contained in it, or both (this is not made 90 tetragrammaton clear. it is a common practice in magic for occult herbs to be placed under the stones of rings, so that the rings take on the virtues of the herbs. as is true of the breastplate of aaron, the power of s

ys 209 if they are applied to the face of the clock, each five minute division receives two and a half aethers. this may form the basis for this odd number. the "mighty guard of fire" is said to have wings "of wormwood, and of the marrow of salt" i have capitalized the word 'wings" here to indicate that it refers to angels. wormwood signifies poison, specifically poisoned water. it is the name of the evil star that fell from heaven at the sounding of the third trumpet "and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter (rev. 8:ll. marrow in the bible is usually a symbol of life, but "marrow of salt" is a symbol of death. salt was sown in the ground so that nothing might grow there. it was used in funeral services to purify. wing

) clavicula salomonis 0 god almighty who art the life of the universe and who rulest over the four divisions of its vast form by the strength and virtue of the four letters of thy holy name tetragrammaton, yod, he, vau, he (key of solomon the king [fourteenth century, macgregor mathers edition, bk. 1, ch. 13, pork beach, maine: weiser, 19891, p. 55) pico della mirandola the letters of the name of the evil demon who is the prince of this world are the same as those of the name of god-tetragrammaton- and he who knows how to effect their transposition can extract one from the other (kabbalistic conclusions [1486, as translated by a. e. waite in the holy kabbalah [new hyde park, new york: university books, 19751, p. 447) 242 tetragrammaton cornelius agrippa therefore a four square is ascribed

VOX SABBATUM

s, dev of the cold north of arezura vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 26 i summon athuro, dev of water and the coiling waters of leviathan and tiamat! who stands in the center within me is az lilith, my bride! i call now my druj and dev of the deserts and mountains, those who through me are created! akoman isolate druj of the adverse mind zairi the venom maker, the kiss of the serpent araska dev of the evil eye akatash who opens the isolate way of the left hand path nas the druj of the shadow, awakener in the grave with blood! witness my ritual of the sun, from which i am the god of above and below! i ascend now into the sky, as the angel-djinn of light i am upon earth known as ahriman, arimanius, the dragon of darkness my religion is sorcery, that which is created from the self thus of self

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

. they invoke my name, and they overthrow their enemies, and they make words of power for the overthrowing of apep, over whose hands and arms aker keepeth ward. his hands and arms shall not exist, his feet and leas shall not exist, and he is chained in one place whilst ra inflicts upon him the blows which are decreed for him. he is thrown upon his accursed back, his face is slit open by reason of the evil which he hath done, and he shall remain upon his accursed back [fn#57] i.e, i uttered my own name from my own mouth as a word of power. the legend of the destruction of mankind. chapter i [here is the story of ra] the god who was self-begotten and selfcreated, after he had assumed the sovereignty over men and women, and gods, and things, the one god. now men and women were speaking words

so that the serpent may never more appear" and thoth said "let this district be called hemhemet[fn#86] by name" and thus hath it been called from that day to this. and horus, the son of isis, in the form of a hawk-headed staff, took up his abode there with his mother isis; in this manner did these things happen [fn#86] this name means "the place of the roarer" hemhemti, being a well-known name of the evil one. some texts seem to indicate that peals of thunder were caused by the fiend set. then the boat of ra arrived at the town of het-aha; its forepart was made of palm wood, and the hind part was made of acacia wood; thus the palm tree and the acacia tree have been sacred trees from that day to this. then heru-behutet embarked in the boat of ra, after he had made an end of fighting, and sa

seated in a shrine set upon a pedestal. in the right hand he holds the sceptre and in the left the ankh. and ra heru-khuti (ra harmachis) said to thoth "thou shalt make this winged disk to be in every place wherein i seat myself (or, dwell, and in [all] the seats of the gods in the south, and in [all] the seats of the gods in the land of the north. in the country of horus, that it may drive away the evil ones from their domains" then thoth made the image of the winged disk to be in every sanctuary and in every temple, where they now are, wherein are all the gods and all the goddesses from this day onwards. now through the winged disk which is on the temple-buildings of all the gods and all the goddesses of the land of the lily,[fn#114] and the land of the papyrus,[fn#115 [these buildings]

son. o thou cat, thy neck (nehebt) is the neck of neheb-ka, president of the great house, vivifier of men and women by means of the mouth of his two arms. o thou cat, thy breast is the breast of thoth, the lord of truth, who hath given to thee breath to refresh) thy throat, and hath given breath to that which is therein. o thou cat, thy heart is the heart of the god ptah, who healeth thy heart of the evil poison which is in all thy limbs. o thou cat, thy hands 25 are the hands of the great company of the gods and the little company of the gods, and they shall deliver thy hand from the poison from the mouth of every serpent. o thou cat, thy belly is the belly of osiris, lord of busiris, the poison shall not work any of its wishes in thy belly. o thou cat, thy thighs are the thighs of the go

,[fn#202] who travelleth over all the two lands by day and by night, and shall lead the poison to the ground. o thou cat, thy legs (or, feet) are the legs of amen the great, horus, lord of thebes, who shall stablish thy feet on the earth, and shall overthrow the poison. o thou cat, thy haunches are the haunches of horus, the avenger (or, advocate) of his father osiris, and they shall place set in the evil which he hath wrought. o thou cat, thy soles are the soles of ra, who shall make the poison to return to the earth. o thou cat, thy bowels are the bowels of the cowgoddess meh-urt, who shall overthrow and cut in pieces the poison which is in thy belly and in all the members in thee, and in [all] the members of the gods in heaven, and in [all] the members of the gods on earth, and shall ov

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

order to attain true existence. do you want to drink? then do not drink; do you what to smoke? then do not smoke. did they strike your right cheek? then present your left. the supreme self-denial is found in the coitus. not to ejaculate the ens seminis in the supreme moment is an absolute sacrifice of the i; the outcome of such a denial of oneself is the awakening of the kundalini. the fire burns the evil slag19 and in the end it dissolves the i absolutely. the fire is the potable gold. the great work the twelfth arcanum of the tarot represents the great work. on this card, we see a man that hangs from one foot. the hands of this man are tied in such a way that they form an apex of an inverted triangle; with his legs, he forms a cross that is over the triangle (over the rest of his body. t

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

or to quench the spirit of life and allow the world to continue to die like a spiritual desert-planet void of life-giving waters. the renewed spirit of humankind would take dominion over the material forces of chaos within themselves and in turn without, or they would allow the forces of death, darkness, and destruction to continue as they had done since edenic times. however, back to eden, once the evil-one was in residence within the mind and body of the "serpent, the weak will of this beast was quickly overcome. the serpent had offered itself and also its "seed" to the luciferians, and they were intent on taking full advantage of this and in not giving up any ground. it is not too hard to imagine that the serpent may have acquired supernatural powers over humanity and nature, yet at th

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

'waes hael (be whole or hale. medieval christmas folklore seems endless: that animals will all kneel down as the holy night arrives, that bees hum the '100th psalm' on christmas eve, that a windy christmas will bring good luck, that a person born on christmas day can see the little people, that a cricket on the hearth brings good luck, that if one opens all the doors of the house at midnight all the evil spirits will depart, that you will have one lucky month for each christmas pudding you sample, that the tree must be taken down by twelfth night or bad luck is sure to follow, that 'if christmas on a sunday be, a windy winter we shall see, that 'hours of sun on christmas day, so many frosts in the month of may, that one can use the twelve days of christmas to predict the weather for each

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

ld have had anything to do with blood sacrifices or other objectionable practices. but it is conceivable that there were two sects, the worshippers of set, as well as those of osiris, who crept in with the plea 'there is a short cut; if you cannot work magic properly, you can gain power this way' the writings of witches speak with horror of the practice of sorcerers using blood to gain power. but the evil knowledge may have kept pace with the good and may account for some of the statements against the cult which i am still inclined to think were christian libels or came from a misunderstanding of the rites. the mysteries, in greece and rome at least, were secret cults to which only the initiated were admitted after being prepared and purified and passing ordeals to prove their worth. they

cium taciturnitatis. there was no escape, and the best course for the victim on the rack was to confess all at once without a relapse into denials, for that at least abbreviated the procedure. according to page 330 'before the torture began, the accused was forced to drink the witch-broth, a disgusting concoction mixed with the ashes of burnt witches, and supposed to protect the torturers against the evil influence of witchcraft' the filth (carceris squaloris) of the, dungeons was used. the same page tells of the torture applied to a woman in the year 1631 on the first day of her trial. unfortunately he does not give the place, or whether it was by the inquisition or the reformed church; but this is a translation from konig, ausgeburten des menschenwahns, p. 130; also soldan, hexenprocesse

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

eat? or, what shall we drink? or, wherewithal shall we be clothed? for after all these things do the gentiles seek; for your heavenly father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. but seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. selections from: matthew 5:1-16, 6:19-34. the authorized version (king james) of the holy bible. 241 (i corinthians 13) if i speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, i am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. and if i have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if i have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not

italian the more abundantly water gushes from its source, the less the source is esteemed. russian the good ass is sold in his own country. maltese taste is in variety. chilean the marvelous and the astonishing only surprise for a week. amharic do not become too hard, lest you get broken. ukrainian sharp acids corrode their own containers. albanian to an inverted vessel, nothing adheres. sikh if the evil will not leave you, then leave it. bosnian he who embraces much collects little. french no hemlock is drunk out of earthenware mugs. latin pass at a distance from him who chops wood. maltese to be a druid was to be a master of the art of living. graham howe, mind of the druid to remain whole, be twisted. to become straight, let yourself be bent, to become full, be hollow. tao te ching. ei

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

rrenothelus. in connection with these notes on parity and imparity, definite and indefinite numbers, it is to be noted that the old philosophers were deeply imbued with the union of numerical ideas with nature--in its common acceptation, and also to the natures, essences or substrata of things. the nature of good to them was definite, that of evil indefinite; and the more indefinite the nature of the evil, the worse it was. goodness alone can define or bound the indefinite. in the human soul exists a certain vestige of divine goodness (buddhi. this bounds and moderates the indefiniteness and inequality of its desires. 20. it may be demonstrated that all inequality arises from equality, so that obtaining, as it were, the power of a mother and a root, she pours forth with exuberant fertility

he place of punishment. there are only two jewish laws, the written law of moses, and the oral law of the qabalah. every jew who goes from the synagogue to his house on the eve of the sabbath is accompanied by two angels, one good and one bad, and if the house is all in order the good angel confirms a blessing, but if it be in disorder, the good angel has to say amen to the condemnation spoken by the evil angel. 39. two are better than three; this means youth is better than old age with its staff of support. there were two women notorious for their pride, and their names were contemptible. deborah meant wasp and hulda weasel. many persons nowadays believe that numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott birth names somehow affect their owners, as names given

r ever. these phrases are either folly, or else they recognize the spiritual essences or beings inherent in the elements and created things. again, read hymn 269 in hymns ancient and modern, a most orthodox volume. principalities and powers, watch for thy unguarded hours, and hymn 91, christian, dost thou see them, on the holy ground, how the troops of midian compass thee around? if these are not the evil elementals, what are they? francis barrett mentions the 4 consecrated animals, lion, eagle, man and calf, emblems of the kerubim on the terrestrial plane; 4 archangels, michael, gabriel, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott uriel, raphael; note, all end in the deity name, el, i.e. al, of the hebrews. 54. the gnostics said that all their edifice rested

ep holy the festivals; to observe the fasts; to attend public worship; to receive the sacraments; and to adhere to the customs of the church. st. paul said he preferred to speak 5 words in a language understood by his hearers than 10,000 in an unknown tongue. in arranging a horoscope some astrologers use only 5 aspects of the planets the conjunction, the opposition, sextile, trine and square; and the evil or good fortune of the person seems to depend on them. among the romans a display of 5 wax candles indicated that a marriage was being celebrated; and special prayers were also made on such occasions to these 5 deities, jupiter, juno, venus, pitho and diana. see rabelais, 3. 20. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott one of the two main divisions of flo

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

pter two their desire to mix the unholy and holy a reading attested in other zoharic passages. for example, the following appears in the stratum of zohar known as sitrei torah: there is a holy fire [esha qaddisha, the feminine [nuqba, and a foreign fire [esha nukhra ah, the strange fire [esh zarah, and thus it is written do not come at any moment to the shrine (lev 16:2, this is the feminine from the evil inclination [nuqveta min yeser ha-ra. the holy spirit [ruah qaddisha] is male [dekhar, and there is a spirit of impurity [ruah mesa ava, which is the evil inclination [yeser ha-ra, as it says, from the stock of the serpent sprouts an asp (isa 14:29. there is holy ground [afar qaddisha] and unholy ground [afar mesa ava].246 as still other zoharic comments demonstrate, the symbolic ascripti

of initiates, who used this teaching to delve deeply into the truth of the divine nature.57 abulafia links this mystery to the aggadic distinction between the tau of life and the tau of death. in this connection, he quotes two passages from the bahir, one depicting god (on the basis of job 25:2) as making peace between michael on the right and gabriel on the left,58 the other describing satan as the evil power after tau/ where endings begin 169 on the north side of the divine (related exegetically to jer 1:14, a force that assumes the shape of a hand and is identified as chaos, tohu, the matter that confounds people until they sin.59 after citing the latter text, abulafia comments: what they said concerning the seal of the holy one, blessed be he, being truth, this is truth and peace you

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

testament. this demonic area is filled with owls, ravens, daemonic servitors, vampires, werewolves, satyrs and drenched 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 fornica

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

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 which stands in the presence of the holy one the yechidah the divine self; which stands, as it were, before the synthetical god of all things. that is the only real way to become the greatest adept, and is directly dependent on your life and your actions in life. and upon the lid of the pastos this pro

they be beheld. standing thus in the sign of osiris slain, with all sincerity and singleness of heart, do i affirm that i will ever maintain the most perfect silence in respect thereof; i promise that i will never reveal them to the profane, nor will hint of them to those in the order who are below the rank of theoricus adepti majoras (2)1 will hence forth endeavour to dose my ears to the call of the evil and impure, whether around me or in my own heart, being well assured that he who gazes upon evil things or listens to the lure thereof save only with the firm intention and will to stem its progress and transmute its power into the good, the true and the beautiful--can but increase that evil. as it is written who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom i have sent" part 2 th

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