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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

e.g. in the passage quoted "in ch. iv from vita s. agili; ami the' wilde heiden' in our heldenbuch is an evident pleonasm (see supplement. 1 2 intkoduction. the worn out empire of the eomans saw both its interior convulsed, and its frontier overstept. yet, by the same mighty doctrine which had just overthrown her ancient gods, subjugated eome was able to subdue her conquerors anew. by this means the flood-tide of invasion was gradually checked, the newly converted lands began to gather strength and to turn their arms against the heathen left in their rear. slowly, step by step, heathendom gave way to christendom. five hundred years after christ, but few nations of europe believed in him; after a thousand years the majority did, and those the most important, yet not all (see suppl. from gr

before us as a goddess of no mean rank^ the comparison of snowflakes to feathers is very old; the scythians pronounced the regions north of them inaccessible, because they were filled witli feathers (herod. 4, 7. conf. 31. holda then must be able to move througli the air, like dame herke. she loves to haunt the lake and fountain; at the hour of noon she may be seen, a fair white lady, hathing in the flood and disappearing; a trait in wiiich she resembles nerthus. mortals, to reach her dwelling, pass through the well; conf. the name wazzerholde? another point of resemblance is, that she drives about in a waggon. she had a linchpin put in it by a peasant whom she met; when he picked up the chips, they were gold* her annual progress, wdiich, like those of herke and berhta, is made to fall be

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

became a youth, he fought to avenge his father against seth. the divine judges, including thoth, god of wisdom, met in the great hall of judgment and decided that osiris should become not a living king once more, but eternal king and judge of the underworld. osiris was also god of vegetation, the fertile, flooding nile and the corn, and so represented the annual dying of the land and rebirth with the flood. he is normally pictured as a man, bound in mummy wrappings. osiris is an important icon of the annual cycle of sacrifice and resurrection but, as with all the sacrifice gods, it is the female power that causes the resurrection. like other sacrificed and restored gods, osiris thereby represents the integration of animus and anima and sacred sex magick. he can be used in rituals for the b

ABRAMELIN1

while the above is applied to the nature of venus. i give the hebrew form (see appendix a, table of hebrew and chaldee letters) of equivalents: introduction xii or in latin letters: in the key of solomon it is (as being a pentacle) inscribed within a double circle, wherein is written the following versicle from psalm lxxii, v. 8 his dominion shall be also from the one sea unto the other, and from the flood unto the world s end. in the hebrew, this versicle consists of exactly twenty five letters, the number of the letters of the square. it will be at once noticed that both this form and that given by abraham the jew are perfect examples of double acrostics, that is, that they read in every direction, whether horizontal or perpendicular, whether backwards or forwards. but the form given as

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

r no one knows where the sumerians came from, and they vanished just as mysteriously as they appeared, after the assyrian invasions which decimated their culture, yet providing the assyrians with much of their mythology and religion; so much so that sumerian became the official language of the state church, much as latin is today of the roman catholic church. they had a list of their kings before the flood, which even they carefully chronicled, as did many another ancient civilisation around the world. it is believed that they had a sophisticated system of astronomy (and astrology) as well as an equally religious rituale. magick, as well in history, begins at sumer for the western world, for it his here, in the sand-buried cuneiform tablets that recorded an age, that the first creation epi

masters in magick, that commands thee! kakkammu! kanpa! incantation against the ancient ones (to be recited each year, when the bear hangs from its tail in the heavens) destructive storms and evil winds are they an evil blast, herald of the baneful storm an evil blast, forerunner of the baneful storm they are mighty children, ancient ones heralds of pestilence throne-bearers of ninnkigal they are the flood which rusheth through the land seven gods of the broad heavens seven gods of the broad earth seven ancient ones are they seven gods of might seven evil gods seven evil demons seven demons of oppression seven in heaven seven on earth utug xul ala xul gidim xul mulla xul dingir xul masqim xul zi anna kanpa! zi kia kanpa zi dingir enlil la lugal kurkur ra ge kanpa! zi dingir ninlil la nin k

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

cial problem is the creation of a class with the true patriarchal feeling, and the manners and obligations of chivalry. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 170 [173] 82 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta pi-beta bortsch witch-moon that turnest all the streams to blood, i take this hazel rod, and stand, and swear an oath-beneath this blasted oak and bare that rears its agony above the flood whose swollen mask mutters an atheist's prayer. what oath may stand the shock of this offence "there is no i, no joy, no permanence? witch-moon of blood, eternal ebb and flow of baffled birth, in death still lurks a change; and all the leopards in thy woods that range, and all the vampires in their boughs that glow, brooding on blood-thirst-these are not so strange and fierce as life's u

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

the hermitage into which the magician has shut himself "mem" is the letter of water, and it is the mem final, whose long flat lines suggest the sea at peace hb:mem-final; not the ordinary (initial and medial) mem whose hieroglyph is a wave hb:mem<symbolism above outlined, yod is the mercurial "virgin word, the spermatozoon concealing its light under a cloke; and mem is the amniotic fluid, the flood wherein is the life-bearing ark. see a. crowley "the ship, equinox i, x> and then, in the centre of all, broods spirit, which combines the mildness of the lamb with the horns of the ram, and is the letter of bacchus or "christ<nuith, which makes possible the process described in the previous notes. but it is not permissible here to explain fully the exact

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

lotus, the others beneath the curving feathers. there is still another crown, the crown of amoun, the concealed one, from whom the hebrews borrowed their holy word "amen" this crown consists simply of the plumes of truth. but into the symbolism of these it is not necessary to go, for all this and more is in the crown first described. the crimson cap implies concealment, and is also symbolical of the flood of glory that pours upon the magician from above. it is of velvet for the softness of that divine kiss, and crimson for that it is the very blood of god which is its life. the band of gold is the eternal circle of perfection. the three pentagrams symbolize the father, the son, and the holy spirit, while the hexagram represents the magician himself. ordinarily, pentagrams represent the mi

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

for good out of its context, and call this verse christian optimism? see caird s hegel. hegel knew how to defend himself, though. as goethe wrote of him: they thought the master too inclined to fuss and finick. the students anger grew to frenzy paganinic* they vowed they d make him rue his work in jena s clinic. they came, the unholy crew, the mystic and the cynic: he had scoffed at god s battue, the flood for mortal s sin icthyosaurian waterloo! they eyed the sage askew; they searched him through and through with violet rays actinic they asked him wer bist du? he answered slowly bin ich? 387. the fish.58 because of icquj, which means fish, and very aptly symbolises christ. ring and book (the pope, ll. 89, 90. 395. dharma.59 consult the tripitaka. 409. i cannot trace the chain.60 how vain

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

shoulders of the ancient lands; and where once the white feet of semiramis gleamed amongst the lilies and roses of babylon there now the wild goats leap, and browse the sparse rank grass which sprouts in tufts from the red and yellow sand- heaps, those silent memorial mounds which mark the spot where once stood palaces of marble, and of jasper, and of jade. o woe! o woe! for all is dust and ruin; the flood- gates of the years have been opened, and time has swept away as a mighty wind the embattled castles of kings with the mud-daubed 178 huts of shepherds. merodach has gone, and so has ea, and no longer doth istar flame in the night, or cast down her kisses on the sparkling goblets in the palace of belshazzar. isis, dark-veiled, hath departed, and nu no longer uplifteth the sun-bark with t

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

be understood that the "standard of living" goes up at an incredible rate. the same achievement would, say five days ago, have been entered as "high degree of concentration; unhoped-for success. the phenomena which to-day one dismisses with annoyed contempt are the same which john st. john worked four years continuously to attain, and when attained seemed almost to outstrip the possible of glory. the flood of the chittam is again being heaped up by the dam of discipline. there is less headache, and more sense of being on the path that is the only way one finds of expressing it. 11.45. worse and worse; though pose even better held. in despair returned to a simple practice, the holding of the mind to a single imagined object; in this case the triangle surmounted by the cross. it seems quite

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 3

n "as you like it" in our investigation of the trumpery tin pantheon of aunt sallies which our courtesy calls "literary gents" one of the most striking figures is a certain lame duck that suggests a mixed ancestry of brigand manqu and the ghost in the bab ballads. historically, too, the subject has its advantage, for not only does the work of weary willie suggest primal chaos, but himself recalls the flood. he seems to have desired to emulate noah, but the modern tendency to specialisation has led him to confine his attentions to the insect world, and the remarkable jumping qualities of some of his specimens have their correspondence in the metre of those treacly emulsions which it is our present purpose to study. come with me! behold the scene of action. what? you can see nothing? of cour

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

reverberations of the light. but these are dreams, things in the mind, reveries, idols. thou shalt find no rest therein. the former three (lightning, moon, sun) are royally liminal to the hall of truth. also there be with them, in sooth, their brethren. there's the vision called the lion of the light, a brand of ruby flame and emerald 23 waved by the hermeneutic hand. there is the chalice, whence the flood of god's beatitude of blood flames. o to sing those starry tunes! o colder than a million moons! o vestal waters! wine of love wan as the lyric soul thereof! there is the wind, a whirling sword, the savage rapture of the air tossed beyond space and time. my lord, my lord, even now i see thee there in infinite motion! and beyond there is the disk, the wheel of things; like a black boundle

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

od lost by the silent sea; and shuddering fought the o'erwhelming thought of its own identity. is the frenzied form that derides the storm a ghost of the days to be? and the restless wave but the troubled grave of its own dread imagery? or merely a wraith cast up without faith from the jaws of a phantom sea? to his love unborn in that grey dim dawn did the shade of the dreamer flee; nor marked he the flood where the vision had stood which mocks for eternity. for the soul he would wed was the hope that had fled in the battle with destiny. ethel archer. 208 mr. todd a morality by the author of "rosa mundi""in memoriam" lilith "obiit kal. mai" 1906 mr. todd persons of the play grandfather ossory("eighty-one) alfred ossory("fifty "his son, a shipowner" emily ossory("forty-five "his wife" euphe

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

the awakening of the intuition. as the great races have succeeded one another upon the planet, there has ever been an ordered, directed unfoldment of the powers of the soul, and a definitely planned sequence. in the third root race, the lemurian, the physical aspect of man was carried to a high stage of perfection. later in the great race which preceded ours, the atlantean, and which perished in the flood, the emotional nature of man was developed. then in the race to which we belong, the- 48- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust aryan or fifth race, the development of the concrete or lower mind is the goal, and this we are developing each decade. a few are also beginning to develop the power to think in abstract terms. when this is the case we shall see more of that p

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

. the hierarchy thus took advantage of the discriminative faculty of mind, which is the distinctive quality of humanity, to enable him, through the balancing of the pairs of opposites, to reach his goal, and to find his way back to the source from whence he came. this decision led to that great struggle which distinguished the atlantean civilization, and which culminated in the destruction called the flood, referred to in all the scriptures of the world. the forces of light, and the forces of darkness, were arrayed against each other, and this for the helping of humanity. the struggle still persists, and the world war through which we have just- 22- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust passed was a recrudescence of it. on every side in that world war two groups were to be

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

efore, and should such an entity make platitudinous comments, he will use the same judgment as he would in business or ordinary life with a man who came and said to him "a great work lies in your hands, you are doing well. we see and know, etc, etc" he would probably laugh and continue with the activity or duty of the moment. another effect of meditation, and a very prevalent one at this time, is the flood of so-called inspirational writings which are coming out, with high claims made for them, everywhere. men and women are busily writing automatically, inspirationally, and prophetically, and giving to the public the result of their labors. these writings are distinguished by certain uniform features and can be explained in several ways. they emanate from many different interior sources. t

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

gain under instructions from the masters at shamballa) began to withdraw into the temples, to make the mysteries more difficult of attainment and to work against abuses and distortions, a number of their erstwhile followers, many of great power and knowledge, fought them and thus we have one of the causes of the appearing of black and white magic, and one of the reasons of the purifying waters of the flood being deemed necessary. c. the powerful thought-forms built up in the early ibezhan mysteries and which (particularly in america) are as yet undestroyed. this gigantic "dweller on the threshold" of all the true mysteries has to be slaughtered before the aspirant can pass on. 10. the work of the ibezhan adepts and the mysteries of the temple of ibez are still persisting and are being carr

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

oved and calm, untired and unafraid? quality. endurance and fearlessness. 5. see you not god in all, the life in all, and love in all? why separate yourself and leave behind the loved and the well-known? quality..power to detach oneself- 58- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust 6. can you arrest the waters of the sixth great sphere? can you stem the flood? can you recover both the raven and the dove? can you, the fish, swim free? quality..overcoming the waters of the emotional nature. this out-going ray of devotion to the ideal, and the incoming ray of magical order or organisation are largely responsible for the type of man's consciousness today. man is essentially devoted (to the point of fanaticism) to whatever may be the goal of his l

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

ks in the silence" when a man has quieted all the outer voices. the attainment of the faculty of inspiration is essential to any progress upon the path of initiation, and it presupposes a development of intelligence which will enable a man to make the necessary differentiations. true inspiration is not in any sense the welling-up of the subconscious self or mind; nor is it the releasing in man of the flood of ideas and thoughts which are his racial, national or family; it is not the tuning in on the world of thought which can so easily be done by those in whom a certain quality of telepathic rapport is developed. nor is it listening to the many voices which can make themselves heard when a man succeeds in becoming so utterly negative and so emptied of all intelligent thought that the sound

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

four, beyond giving two ancient stanzas which will convey much to the initiate but may only be sounding words and meaningless symbolic phrases to the average reader and student "the sun, in all its glory, has arisen and cast its beams athwart the eastern sky. the union of the pairs of opposites produce, in the cycles of the time and space, both clouds and mists. these veil a mighty conflagration. the flood pours forth. the ark floats free..the flames devour. the three stand free; and then again the mists envelop. above the clouds of earth, a sign shines forth..only the eye of vision sees this sign. only the heart at peace can hear the thunder of the voice which issues from the dark depths of the cloud. only an understanding of the law which elevates and lifts can teach the man of fire and

a man is, it is needless to say, exceedingly positive in the implications which he attaches to his so-called mental conceptions and ideas as to how it all should be worked out, and is a constant source of dismay to those around him. his friends or co-workers are the butt of his ceaseless criticism, because they do not work out the plan as he believes it should be worked out, or fail to appreciate the flood of ideas with which he is overwhelmed. it should be realised that the man is suffering from a sort of mental fever, with its accompaniments of hallucination, over-activity, and mental irritability. the cure, as i said above, lies in the patient's own hands. it involves earnest application to one chosen plan to prove its effectiveness, using common sense and ordinary good judgment. the li

gdom of the christ, of the power of anti-christ and the power of christ. this produced a great climax in atlantean days and, though the hierarchy of light triumphed, it was only by the merest margin. the battle was fought out on the astral plane, though it had its correspondence upon the physical plane, in a great world conflict of which the ancient legend tells us. it ended in the catastrophe of the flood. the seeds of hate and of separation have been- 349- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust fostered ever since that time and the three modes whereby the forces of darkness seek to control humanity are hatred, aggression and separativeness. the three great spiritual counterparts are love, selfless sharing and synthesis. however, the hol

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

emain unknown to them. an ashram is one group or band of disciples, initiates of various degrees, world disciples and neophytes at the very beginning of the way of discipleship. disciples must not think in terms of different ashrams but in terms of the ashram as a whole. the key to this realisation, little as you may think it, is intensity. intensity, or working from a point of tension, brings in the flood-tide of revelation, and it is then possible for a disciple to learn in one short day what might otherwise take months and even years to learn. tension, when focussed rightly, is the great releasing power. so many disciples focus tension wrongly and release energy in the wrong direction and (if i might so inadequately express it) from the wrong location. right tension is brought about fir

summary of the tibetan's work (1919-1943- 593- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust in 1919, during the month of november, i made a contact with alice a. bailey and asked her to do some writing for me and also to undertake the publishing of certain books which under the sequential giving out of truth were due to appear. she refused immediately, having no sympathy with the flood of so-called occult literature being passed out to the public by the various occult groups, having no experience in writing for the public, and having also a profound dislike of every form of psychic writing and of psychic work. later, she changed her mind when i explained to her that telepathic rapport was a proven thing and a matter of scientific interest, that she was neither clairaud

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

the future of mankind or distress over the disappearance of the old order "the good, the true and the beautiful" is on its way, and for it mankind is responsible, and not some outer divine intervention. humanity is sound and rapidly awakening. we are passing through the stage where everything is being proclaimed from the housetops as christ stated would be the case and as we listen to or read of the flood of filth, crime, and sensual pleasure or luxury buying, we are apt to be discouraged; it is wise to remember that it is wholesome for all- 97- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust this to come to the surface and for us all to know about it. it is like the psychological cleansing of the subconscious to which individuals submit themselves; it presages the inauguration

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

admit mistakes, and this the false pride of the mind will not permit. again, i would assure you that humility is one of the most potent factors in releasing the illuminating power of the mind, as it reflects and transmits the light of the soul. the determined facing of the factual life and the stern recognition of truth coldly, calmly and dispassionately will greatly facilitate the calling in of the flood of illumination which will suffice to dispel glamour. as we are dealing with the problem of glamour and illumination, it might be of value here if i dealt with the particular glamour which i would ask your group to aid in dispelling. i refer here to the glamour of separateness. work along this line will have most practical and salutary implications, for none of you (as you will discover)

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

obiography- 137- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust appendix my work by the tibetan in 1919, during the month of november, i made a contact with a.a.b (alice a. bailey) and asked her to do some writing for me and also to undertake the publishing of certain books which under the sequential giving out of truth were due to appear. she refused immediately, having no sympathy with the flood of so-called occult literature being passed out to the public by the various occult groups, having no experience in writing for the public, and having also a profound dislike of every form of psychic writing and of psychic work. later she changed her mind when i explained to her that telepathic rapport was a proven thing and a matter of scientific interest, that she was not either clair

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

the unseen realms, the forces of nature and man's relation to them through a keen sensitivity, and the entire gamut of his- 32- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust emotional attitudes constituted the life of the race, and coloured all that there was or might have been of embryo thought. the result of all this, inherited by us when history as we now have it arose (from the time of the flood, whenever that might have been, can be expressed by such words as animism, spiritualism, lower psychism and feeling. the sense of god, the sense of immortality, the sense of subtler inner relationships, the sense of worship and the undue sensitivity of modern man is our outstanding heritage from the civilisations which existed upon old atlantis. upon all this basic structure the exact op

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

be at such a cost of human life that there is definite hesitation over employing it by the custodians of natural law and the workers who understand divine purpose, apart from the fact that humanity has now reached the point in evolution where the expression of human free will is definitely possible. the use of cataclysm was the method employed in atlantean days, as you well know from the tales of the flood; and through the flood there was almost complete destruction of the civilisation of that time. it is hoped that such a drastic step will not be needed today, though there are ancient prophecies which foretell the possibility of the destruction of this world at this time through fire instead of flood. which of the two methods divine embodiment and natural cataclysm will be employed will r

the future of mankind or distress over the disappearance of the old order. the good, the true and the beautiful is on its way, and for it mankind is responsible, and not some outer divine intervention. humanity is sound and rapidly awakening. we are passing through the stage where everything is being proclaimed from the housetops as the christ stated would be the case and as we listen or read of the flood of filth, crime, sensual pleasure or luxury buying, we are apt to be discouraged; it is wise to remember that it is wholesome for all this to come to the surface and for us all to know about it. it is like the psychological cleansing of the subconscious to which individuals submit themselves, and it presages the inauguration of a new and better day. there is work to do, and the men of go

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

ffects, both in the hierarchy and in the human family. in old atlantean days, it was the masters (facing the same sixth initiation) who "decided" to bring that ancient civilisation to an end; they therefore sacrificed the form aspect of manifestation and created a situation in which the soul of humanity was liberated from the prison in which it found itself. today, a material catastrophe, such as the flood, has not been deemed necessary; it is believed that humanity can and will find its own way out of the world difficulties. section two- the aspirant and the major initiations we now approach the second part of our theme, dealing with the major initiations; we will do so primarily from the standpoint of the ray energies, considering the subject from the initiate's point of view. i wonder i

it is the dominant energy, always exerting pressure upon the fourth kingdom; this pressure began to exert itself primarily towards the end of the fourth human race, the atlantean race of men; at that time men began to give evidence of a growing sense of responsibility, and therefore of the power to demonstrate discriminative choice. this led to the great war in the fourth race which culminated in the flood, to which all parts of the world testify and to which the majority of the world scriptures bear evidence. in that era, in which the then known world of men was extensively involved, the black and the white lodges of adepts were also implicated, and the first major fight between the demonstrators of evil and the forces of light took place; it was inconclusive, with the evidence for defeat

criptures bear evidence. in that era, in which the then known world of men was extensively involved, the black and the white lodges of adepts were also implicated, and the first major fight between the demonstrators of evil and the forces of light took place; it was inconclusive, with the evidence for defeat to be found on the side of the good more than on the side of evil. under the symbolism of the flood, it is apparent to students that the fight was focussed primarily upon the astral plane, though fought out historically upon the physical plane; it resulted in the destruction of the world by water, as it might be symbolically expressed. in the climaxing war of the immediate past, the mental plane was the focus of the amalgamated forces, for the war was in reality a clash of ideologies a

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

nd even now the list is not exhausted. the explanation of this influence through all its period and everywhere is (i) that which lay behind the romantic thesis of ramsay, as shown by his work on the philosophical principles of natural and revealed religionmystery of hidden knowledge perpetuated in the east from the days of noah and the flood (2) that which lay behind, as already mentioned, the talismanic attraction exercised on masonic minds in the eighteenth century by the name of knights templar, because the church had accused them. they had learned strange things in the east: for some it corresponded to the view of ramsay, for others to occult knowledge on the side of magic, and for the chapter of clermont to alchemy. the

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

y gods of the phoenicians, chaldeans, and israelites, it will be easy to discover whence came also the confused account of the noachian deluge. it has become undeniable of late that the jews, who obtained their primitive ideas about creation from moses, who had them from[[footnote(s* as it is now asserted that the chaldean tablets, which give the allegorical description of creation, the fall, and the flood, even to the legend of the tower of babel, were written "before the time of moses (see g. smith's "chaldean account of genesis" p. 86, how can the pentateuch be called a revelation? it is simply another version of the same story[[vol. 2, page] 4 the secret doctrine. the egyptians, compiled their genesis and first cosmogonic traditions- when these were rewritten by ezra and others- from t

ha (wisdom, the illegitimate son of the moon (soma) and the planet jupiter's (brihhaspati's) wife, tara. all this, which seems a jumble to the profane, is full of philosophical meaning to the occultist. on the very face of the narrative a secret and sacred meaning is per[[footnote(s* the first occurred when what is now the north pole was separated from the later continents[[vol. 2, page] 139 what the flood means. ceivable, all the details, however, being so purposely mixed up that the experienced eye of an initiate alone can follow them and place the events in their proper order. the story as told in the "mahabharata" strikes the key-note, and yet it needs to be explained by the secret sense contained in the bhagavad gita. it is the prologue to the drama of our (fifth) humanity. while vaiv

lical dagon- the man-fish who rose out of the persian gulf* see part. ii "the holy of holies* it is far later on that the moon became a male god; with the hindus it was soma, with the chaldeans nannak or nannar, and sin, the son of mulil, the older bel. the "akkadians" called him the "lord of ghosts; and he was the god of nipoor (niffer) in northern babylonia. it is mulil who caused the waters of the flood to fall from heaven on earth, for which xisuthrus would not allow him to approach his altar. as the modern assyriologists have now ascertained, it is the northern nipoor which is the centre whence chaldean (black) magic spread; and eridu (the southern) which was the primitive seat of the worship of the culture god, the god of divine wisdom- the sun-god being the supreme deity everywhere

t was destroyed by volcanic action, and afterwards sank[[vol. 2, page] 142 the secret doctrine. with agruerus, the great phoenician god (whom faber sought to identify with noah; further, it is suspected that the name of "titan" is derived from tit-ain "the fountains of the chaotic abyss (tit-theus, or tityus is "the divine deluge; and thus the titans, who are seven, are shown to be connected with the flood and the seven rishis saved by vaivasvata manu* they are the sons of kronos (time) and rhea (the earth; and as agruerus, saturn and sydyk are one and the same personage, and as the seven kabiri are said to be the sons of sydyk or kronos-saturn, the kabiri and titans are identical. for once the pious faber was right in his conclusions when he wrote "i have no doubt of the seven titans and

first. thus, while the latter reads "and darkness was upon the face of the deep. and the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters" in ch. 7 it is said. and the waters prevailed. and the ark went (with noah, the spirit) upon the face of the waters" thus noah, if identical with the chaldean nuah, is the spirit vivifying matter, which latter is chaos, represented by the deep, or the waters of the flood. in the babylonian legend (the pre-cosmical blended with the terrestrial event) it is ishtar (astaroth or venus, the lunar goddess) who is shut up in the ark and sends out "a dove in search of dry land("isis unveiled" vol. ii, pp. 423 and 424. george smith notes in the "tablets" first the creation of the moon, and then that of the sun "its beauty and perfection are extolled, and the regu

ere is no god or mortal yet on earth" when manu vaivasvata lands on the himavan; in the second, the seven rishis are allowed to keep him company: thus showing that whereas some accounts refer to the sidereal and cosmic flood before the so-called creation, the others treat, one of the great flood of matter on earth, and the other of a real watery deluge. in the satapatha brahmana, manu finds that "the flood had swept away all living creatures, and he alone was left- i.e, the seed of life alone remained from the previous dissolution of the universe, or mahapralaya, after a "day of brahma; and the mahabharata refers simply to the geological cataclysm which swept away nearly all the fourth race to make room for the fifth. therefore is vaivasvata manu shown under three distinct attributes in ou

tremes of the oceanic world, affirms 'that all these islands once formed two immense countries, inhabited by yellow men and black men, always at war; and that the gods, wearied with their quarrels, having charged ocean to pacify them, the latter swallowed up the two continents, and, since, it has been impossible to make him give up his captives. alone, the mountain-peaks and high plateaux escaped the flood, by the power of the gods, who perceived too late the mistake they had committed "whatever there may be in these traditions, and whatever may have been the place where a civilization more ancient than that of rome, of greece, of egypt, and of india was developed, it is certain that this civilization did exist, and it is highly important to science to recover its traces, however feeble an

ntinents and islands which sink under the ocean waves in due time "gods and mortals have one common origin" says hesiod (ibid. v. 108; and pindar echoes the statement (nem. vi, 1. deucalion and pyrrha, who escape the deluge by constructing an ark like noah's (see apollod, 1, 7, 2, and ovid, metam. i, 260, 899, ask jupiter to re-animate the human race whom he had made to perish under the waters of the flood. in the slavonian mythology (lithuanian legend, in grimm, deutsche myth. 1, 545, all men were drowned, and two old people, a man and his wife, alone remained. then pram-gimas (the "master of all) advised them to jump seven times on the rocks of the earth, and seven new races (couples) were born, from which came the nine lithuanian tribes. as well understood by the author of the mythologi

s 7 x 7 manus, and that there are 49 root-races on the seven planets during each round, then every root-race has its manu. the present seventh manu is called 'vaivasvata' and stands in the exoteric texts for that manu who represents in india the babylonian xisuthrus and the jewish noah. but in the esoteric books we are told that manu vaivasvata, the progenitor of our fifth race- who saved it from the flood that nearly exterminated the fourth (atlantis- is not the seventh manu, mentioned in the nomenclature of the root, or primitive- manus, but one of the 49 manus emanated from this root-manu "for clearer comprehension we here give the names of the 14 manus in their respective order and relation to each round- 1st round 1st (root) manu on planet a- swayambhuva. 1st (seed) manu on planet g

ne spirit of life which broods over chaos. now vishnu is the divine spirit, as an abstract principle, and also as the preserver and generator, or giver of life- the third person of the trimurti (composed of brahma, the creator, siva, the destroyer, and vishnu, the preserver. vishnu is shown in the allegory as guiding, under the form of a fish, the ark of vaivasvata manu clean across the waters of the flood. there is no use in expatiating upon the esoteric meaning of the word fish (see payne knight, inman, gerald massey, etc) its theological meanings is phallic, but the metaphysical, divine. jesus is called the "fish" and so were vishnu and bacchus[[ies, the "saviour" of mankind, being but the monogram of the god bacchus called[[ichthus, the fish* as to the seven rishis in the ark, they sym

eristics in man (see de quatrefages "the human species" p. 113[[vol. 2, page] 316 the secret doctrine. stanza xi. the civilization and destruction of the fourth and fifth races (43) the lemuro-atlanteans build cities and spread civilization. the incipient stage of anthropomorphism (44) their statues, witnesses to the size of the lemuro-atlanteans (45) lemuria destroyed by fire, atlantis by water. the flood (46) the destruction of the fourth race and of the last antediluvian monster-animals- 43. they (the lemurians) built huge cities. of rare earths and metals they built. out of the fires (lava) vomited. out of the white stone of the mountains (marble) and the black stone (of the subterranean fires) they cut their own images, in their size and likeness, and worshipped them (a (a) as the his

through the equator, and that the "land of bliss" of the fourth race, its inheritance from the third, had now become the region of desolation and woe. this alone ought to be an incontrovertible proof of the great antiquity of the zoroastrian scriptures. the neo-aryans of the postdiluvian age could, of course, hardly recognise the mountains, on the summits of which their forefathers had met before the flood, and conversed with the pure "yazathas (celestial spirits of the elements, whose life and food they had once shared. as shown by eckstein (revue archeologique, 8th year, 1885 "the vendidad seems to point out a great change in the atmosphere of central asia; strong volcanic eruptions and the collapse of a whole range of mountains in the neighbourhood of the kara-korum chain[[footnote(s* s

further details upon the satanic myth, part ii. on symbolism, in this volume* as he is also vulcan or vul-cain, the greatest god with the later egyptians, and the greatest kabir. the god of time was chium in egypt, or saturn, or seth, and chium is the same as cain* see strabo, comparing them to the cyclopes- xiv. p. 653 et seq (callim in del, 31 stat. silo. iv, 6, 47; etc, etc[[vol. 2, page] 391 the flood legends. the history or "fables" about the mysterious telchines- fables echoing each and all the archaic events of our esoteric teachings- furnish us with a key to the origin of cain's genealogy (genesis, ch. iii; they give the reason why the roman catholic church identifies "the accursed blood" of cain and ham with sorcery, and makes it responsible for the deluge. were not the telchines

titans, in another form. they are the atlanteans also "like lemnos and samothrace" says decharme "rhodes, the birth-place of the telchines, is an island of volcanic formation (genii of fire, p. 271) the island of rhodes emerged suddenly out of the seas, after having been previously engulfed by the ocean, say the traditions. like samothrace (of the kabiri) it is connected in the memory of men with the flood legends. as enough has been said on this subject, however, it may be left for the present. but we may add a few more words about noah, the jewish representative of nearly every pagan god in one or another character. the homeric songs contain, poetized, all the later fables about the patriarchs, who are all sidereal, cosmic, and numerical symbols and signs. the attempt to disconnect the t

etheus traces him to his origin and birth-place in his prophecy to io. io is the moon-goddess of generation- for she is isis and she is eve, the great mother* he traces the path of the (racial) wanderings as plainly as words can express it. she has to quit europe and go to asia's continent, reaching there the highest of the mountains of caucasus (737, the titan telling her "when thou hast crossed the flood, limit betwixt two continents, fronting the burning east (810) that she must travel eastward, after passing the "kimmerian bosphorus" and cross what is evidently the volga and now astrakhan on the caspian sea. after this she will encounter "fierce northern blasts" and cross thither to the land of the "arimaspian host (east of herodotus' scythia) to "pluto's gold-abounding flood"(825) whi

chamber the measurement from the surface of the great step* and the grand gallery to the top of the said gallery, is by the very careful measures of piazzi smyth 339 inches[[diagram] take a as a centre and with this radius describe a circle; the diameter of that circle will be 339 x 2= 678, and these numbers are those of the expression and the raven, in the 'dove and raven' scenes or pictures of the flood of noah (the radius is taken to show division into two parts, which are 1,065 each) for 113 (man) x 6= 678; and the diameter to a circumference of 1,065 x 2- so we have here an indication of cosmic man on this high grade or step, at the entrance of the king's chamber (the holy of holies- which is the womb. now this passage is of such a height that a man to enter it must stoop. but a man

the author of the mythologie de la grece antique remarks "thus prometheus is something more than the archetype of humanity; he is its generator. in the same way that we saw hephaestus moulding the first woman (pandora) and endowing her with life, so prometheus kneads the moist clay, of which he fashions the body of the first man whom he will endow with the soul-spark (apollodorus, i, 7, 1. after the flood of deukalion, zeus, it was taught, had commanded prometheus and athena to call forth a new race of men from the mire left by the waters of the deluge (ovid, metam. 1, 81. etym. m. v[[prometheus; and in the day of pausanias the slime which the hero had used for this purpose was still shown in phocea (paus. x, 4, 4 "on several archaic monuments one still sees prometheus modelling a human b

shown connected, directly or indirectly, with the origin of birth in its crudest and most[[vol. 2, page] 545 a plagiarism by pascal. brutal form. thus, however interesting and ingenious the rabbinical methods, the writer, in common with other eastern occultists, must prefer those of the pagans. it is not, then, in the bible that we have to search for the origin of the cross and circle, but beyond the flood. therefore, returning to eliphas levi and the zohar, we answer for the eastern occultists and say that, applying practice to principle, they agree entirely with pascal, who says that "god is a circle, the centre of which is everywhere and the circumference nowhere" whereas the kabalists say the reverse, and maintain it solely out of their desire to veil their doctrine. by the way, the de

was the head and synthesis of the elohim and no more; so agni-vishnu-surya was the synthesis and head, or the focus whence emanated in physics as in metaphysics, from the spiritual as from the physical sun, the seven rays, the seven fiery tongues, the seven planets or gods. all these became supreme gods and the one god, but only after the loss of the primeval secrets, the sinking of atlantis, or "the flood" and the occupation of india by the brahmans, who sought safety on the summits of the himalayas, when even the high table-lands of what is now tibet became submerged for a time. ahura mazda is addressed only as "the most blissful spirit, creator of the corporeal world" in the vendidad "ahura mazda" in its literal translation means the "wise lord (ahura "lord" and mazda "wise. moreover, t

ained to be delivered" a great red dragon, etc, stands before the woman ready to devour the child. she brings forth the man child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron, and who was caught unto the throne of god (the sun. the woman fled to the wilderness still pursued by the dragon, who flees again, and casts out of his mouth water as a flood, when the earth helped the woman and swallowed the flood; and the dragon went to make war with the remnant of her seed who keep the commandment of god, etc (see xii, 1, 17) anyone, who reads the allegory of latona pursued by the revenge of jealous juno, will recognise the identity of the two versions. juno sends python, the dragon, to persecute and destroy latona and devour her babe. the latter is apollo, the sun, for "the man-child, who was t

from pelagus, the great sea. noah's deluge is astronomical and allegorical, but it is not mythical, for the story is based upon the same archaic tradition of men- or rather of nations- which were saved during the cataclysms, in canoes, arks, and ships. no one would presume to say that the chaldean xisuthrus, the hindu vaivasvata, the chinese peirun- the "beloved of the gods" who rescued him from the flood in a canoe- or the swedish belgamer, for whom the gods did the same in the north, are all identical as a personage. but their legends have all sprung from the catastrophe which involved both the continent and the island of atlantis. the allegory about the antediluvian giants and their achievements in sorcery is no myth. biblical events are revealed indeed. but it is neither by the voice

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

rana* according to colonel wilford, the conclusion of the "great war" was b.c. 1370 (see a. r, vol.9, p. 116; according to bentley, 575 b.c! we may hope, perhaps, that before the end of this century, the mahabharatean epics will be found and proclaimed identical with the wars of the great napoleon[[vol. 1, page] 370 the secret doctrine. the world beyond which nobody can go" and "immediately after the flood (see royal asiat. soc, vol. 9, p. 364) we know of no "flood" 3,102 years b.c- not even that of noah, for, agreeably with judaeo-christian chronology, it took place 2,349 years b.c. this relates to an esoteric division of time and a mystery explained elsewhere, and may therefore be left aside for the present. suffice to remark at this juncture that all the efforts of imagination of the wi

led a coincidence? a strange one it is then, indeed, when we find even moses- found in the water of the nile- having the symbolical consonant in his name. and pharaoh's daughter "called his name moses. because" she said "i drew him out of water (exod. ii, 10* besides which the hebrew sacred name of god applied to this letter m is meborach, the "holy" or the "blessed" and the name for the water of the flood is m'bul. a reminder of the "three maries" at the crucifixion and their connection with mar, the sea, or water, may close this example. this is why in judaism and christianity the messiah is always connected with water, baptism, the fishes (the sign of the zodiac called meenam in sanskrit, and even with the matsya (fish) avatar, and the lotus- the symbol of the womb, or the water-lily, w

was a longest and shortest solar day, and two solar days of equal day and night, within the period of the solar year; and the points in the year of these could be marked with the greatest precision in the starry groups of the heavens or the constellations, subject to that retrograde movement thereof, which in time would require a correction by intercalation, as was the case in the description of the flood, where correction of 150 days was made for a period of 600 years, during which confusion of landmarks had increased. this would naturally come to pass. with all races in all time; and such knowledge must be taken to have been inherent in the human race, prior to what we call the historic period" on this basis, the author seeks for some natural physical function possessed in common by the

first word of genesis, with its prepositional prefix, signifying the same concreted general form[[vol. 1, page] 444 the secret doctrine. astronomically, with the one here intended" now the secret reading of the first verse of genesis being "in rash (b'rash) or head, developed gods, the heavens and the earth- it is easy to comprehend the esoteric meaning of the raven, once that the like meaning of the flood (or noah's deluge) is ascertained. whatever the many other meanings of this emblematical allegory may be, its chief meaning is that of a new cycle and a new round (our fourth round* the "raven" or the eth-h'orebv, yields the same numerical value as the "head" and returned not to the ark, while the dove returned, carrying the olive-branch, when noah, the new man of the new race (whose pro

licism, and astronomy" and this was finally applied to the "signification of simply human generative organs* hence the whole cycle of events[[footnote(s* bryant is right in saying "druid bardesin says of noah that when he came out of the ark (the birth of a new cycle, after a stay therein of a year and a day, that 364+ 1= 365 days, he was congratulated by neptune upon his birth from the waters of the flood, who wished him a happy new year" the "year" or cycle, esoterically, was the new race of men born from woman after the separation of the sexes, which is the secondary meaning of the allegory: its primary meaning being the beginning of the fourth round, or the new creation* unpubl. mss (but see "source of measures[[vol. 1, page] 445 god is our higher self. from adam and the patriarchs dow

y meaning being the beginning of the fourth round, or the new creation* unpubl. mss (but see "source of measures[[vol. 1, page] 445 god is our higher self. from adam and the patriarchs down to noah is made to apply to phallic and astronomical uses, the one regulating the other, as the lunar periods, for instance. hence, too, their genesis begins after their coming out of the ark, and the close of the flood- at the fourth race. with the aryan people it is different. eastern esotericism has never degraded the one infinite deity, the container of all things, to such uses; and this is shown by the absence of brahma from the rig veda and the modest positions occupied therein by rudra and vishnu, who became the powerful and great gods, the "infinites" of the exoteric creeds, ages later. but even

f the spiritual, man[[vol. 1, page] 460 the secret doctrine- the chief of the kumaras- is called ambhamsi "waters- according to the commentary on vishnu purana. why? because the "waters" is another name of the "great deep" the primordial waters of space or chaos, and also means "mother" amba, meaning aditi and akasa, the celestial virgin-mother of the visible universe. furthermore, the "waters of the flood" are also called "the great dragon" or ophis, ophio-morphos. the rudras will be noticed in their septenary character of "fire-spirits" in the "symbolism" attached to the stanzas in book ii. there we shall also consider the cross (3+ 4) under its primeval and later forms, and shall use for purposes of comparison the pythagorean numbers side by side with hebrew metrology. the immense impor

BOOK OF ENOCH

l received or widely accepted anywhere in 200 bc. this plus the all too accurate prophecies are probably the reasons why it was lost by the religions that used to regard it as holy. i concluded that the book is probably what it appears to be; well preserved, ancient and genuine. enoch was the great-grandfather of noah, and father of methuselah, and his book gives a unique view of the world before the flood; which recent research suggests may have occurred as long ago as 17,000 bc. the history of the book of enoch the book was thought to have been lost, for over 2,000 years, with many ancient sources referring to it, and even quoting parts, but no complete copies were known. then in 1773, james bruce brought three copies back from ethiopia, having spent some years exploring the country. eno

many ancient sources referring to it, and even quoting parts, but no complete copies were known. then in 1773, james bruce brought three copies back from ethiopia, having spent some years exploring the country. enoch had two main reasons for writing his book. the first was because the watchers instructed him to do it (see section 15 at 81.5 and 81.6. the second reason; was to save his family from the flood. enoch wrote his book, after his grandson lamech was born, but before noah was born. noah is only named in the section that methuselah wrote (see section 10 at 107.3, and of course in his own section (section 11, the book of noah. so, there may still have been 40- 80 years left before the flood, at the time when enoch wrote his book. there is a long gap between the time of the flood and

n from the notes that enoch took while he was with the watchers. additionally, the end of noah s short book conveniently serves as an introduction to enoch s book of parables. andy mccracken (august 2002) the book of enoch 1) the blessing of enoch book from the ashes of angelsthe main theme is that of destruction; god is going to clear away the sinners, so that good people can have peace. this is the flood of noah which was still some way off when enoch wrote the book, although there are details of a second end later in the book (see the 10 weeks. 1.1] these are the words of the blessing of enoch; according to which he blessed the chosen and righteous who must be present on the day of distress, which is appointed, for the removal of all the wicked and impious. 1.2] and enoch began his stor

background details do emerge later in the book. at 106.13 (section 10, we learn that the runaways came to enoch's area in his father's day. enoch is a scribe, see 12.4, and he says that it was the angels who introduced writing. so, enoch was probably taught to write, and employed, by the runaway angels. at 10.1-3, the most high instructs an angel to save the son of lamech (this will be noah) from the flood. this is interesting, because besides prophesying details of the flood, and its timing, it reveals that this was written at a time when enoch is a grandfather (of lamech, but he does not yet know what lamech's son will be called. if the runaways were young in enoch's father s day, then they are probably at least 10 years older than enoch and maybe more. so, it is likely that the events i

eard the words of his father enoch- for he showed him everything which is secret- he returned, having seen him, and called the name of that child noah; for he will comfort the earth after all the destruction. 11) the book of noah (pages 50-53) noah's book was probably written when he was the head of the family and like methuselah he claims to speak with enoch. he seems to have written this before the flood; and once again there are some interesting details. the most important passage is at 67.2. this indicates that the boat is being constructed at the time of writing. noah may have written this piece in order to persuade his sons to come and live with him, inside "the wooden structure. noah may not have seen a boat like this before, and perhaps was not sure what to call it. there seems to

not have seen a boat like this before, and perhaps was not sure what to call it. there seems to be a background of unusual geological events. at the beginning, 65.1, noah says the earth has tilted, later, at 67.11, he says the hot springs became cold. this does fit with the theories of charles hapgood in his book the path of the pole where he suggests that the huge ice melt (that probably caused the flood) occurred when the poles shifted- perhaps due to an impact from space. the north pole shifted from hudson s bay to its present position. at 65.3 noah says the earth is afflicted and shaken and he does seem quite alarmed by it. there is also talk of molten metal and a smell of sulphur, 67.6, but this may be pollution from the metalworking described at 65.7. production of metals, and weapo

BOOK OF JASHAR

from the natural laws, which had guided the universe since the beginning, and she got no answer. but tubalcain faithfully made the cart to carry their tents and the younger children. no one knew the way to mount ararat, and so they followed a dove for forty days and forty nights, until it came to rest on an olive tree in a field of wheat, high above the valley. and there they stayed, waiting for the flood. in their first winter on the mountain, they had no food, except for the wheat. but god put a blessing on noah's porridge, and tubalcain set out to enlarge the field. with torch and axe he cut the brush, and in the spring they scattered their last grains over the clearing. by autumn, the rain and sun had brought them a rich harvest. when noah's sons grew up, they found wives from the sur

re as the agent whom god has selected to bring about this transformation of humanity, and the consequent reversal of peoples' relationship with the forests. 4. the book of numbers (26.33) tells us that a woman named noah was one of the daughters of zelophehad, who set a legal precedent for women's rights to inherit property. in the jashar manuscript, the daughter of zelophehad becomes the noah of the flood. confusing these two noahs would be less likely in hebrew, where their names are spelt differently. according to genesis 4.22, tubal-cain was a maker of metal tools, his parents were lamech and zillah, and his sister was naamah. but chapter 4 of genesis lists naamah at the end of an eight-generation genealogical sequence that is almost the same as the sequence that ends at noah in chapte

fe in the other (noah. but human and noah both rely on the skills, the strength, and the faithful support of their spouses, eve and tubalcain. so, in this text, leading and supporting roles are not type-cast as exclusively male or female. otherwise, however, noah's gender actually makes very little difference in the story. of all the factors that differ here from the biblical story (the nature of the flood, the wooden vehicle, the promise of the rainbow, etc, the gender of noah is one of the least essential. and yet noah's gender tends to capture readers' attention more than any other aspect of the story (indeed, we could readily imagine that a reader might more easily accept goliath being transformed into a short philistine general, assassinated by david) thus, our reaction to noah's woma

o make an interesting story, god wanted the earth to be dominated by intelligent animals, not by trees. noah was led up from her home because god wanted people to progress beyond hunting and gathering, and to dominate the earth by farming. so we should not have been surprised, as noah was, to learn that god's destructive flood is a flood of humanity, not a flood of water. this reinterpretation of the flood may be particularly satisfying to a modern reader, because it relates the flood directly to our own lives. even today, as chain saws reduce the last forests and jungles, we can see the advancing waves of noah's flood. the ecological impact of civilization is thus portrayed here as a part of god's plan. woven in with the agricultural-revolution theme, there are at least three other strand

mage of tubalcain and noah pulling the cart, while the younger children enjoy the ride, as the family goes on a wild dove chase (like modern archaeologists, noah and her family are uncertain about the exact location of the biblical ararat) another, more serious strand concerns intermarriage and unbelief, which noah confronts when her sons marry forest women who do not share the family's belief in the flood. the unbelieving wives lead noah's sons down the mountain to the better lands below. noah is in anguish for her family, and she prays each day that the flood should be deferred long enough to get her whole family back up to safety on the mountain. we recognize, however, that noah and her daughters-in-law have complementary and equally essential roles in god's plan. without noah's prophec

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

became a youth, he fought to avenge his father against seth. the divine judges, including thoth, god of wisdom, met in the great hall of judgment and decided that osiris should become not a living king once more, but eternal king and judge of the underworld. osiris was also god of vegetation, the fertile, flooding nile and the corn, and so represented the annual dying of the land and rebirth with the flood. he is normally pictured as a man, bound in mummy wrappings. osiris is an important icon of the annual cycle of sacrifice and resurrection but, as with all the sacrifice gods, it is the female power that causes the resurrection. like other sacrificed and restored gods, osiris thereby represents the integration of animus and anima and sacred sex magick. he can be used in rituals for the b

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

the xia dynasty of the great yu and his descendants lasted for six hundred years and ended the period of the god-kings. with the next dynasty, the shang, came recorded history and human rulers. dr. john s. major, director of the china council of the asia society, explains the change: the square earth had to be drained, surveyed, marked out into its nine provinces, and set under the government of the flood tamer [yu] himself [after the xia dynasty] the world became familiar, ruled by a human emperor with a normal life span, and marked by the trouble and strife that is the lot of all mortals. for better or worse, we became masters of our own fate, but at a price for the gods, those inhabitants of the celestial plane, withdrew from the plane of the earth, and were our constant companions no

ten suns which rose in sequence from the branches of the mulberry [fusang] tree in outlying regions. in the central states, this tradition was known but the ten suns were confined to the mythical past by the story that one day all of them came out at once and nine were shot by archer yi.3 the sun god dijun plays only a small role in chinese mythology. professor anne birrell surmises [t]he myth of the flood and its control was more nearly relevant to the lives of the people than the less real myth of the unnatural phenomenon of solar disaster.4 dijun s wife shiho plays a more prominent part in her position as mother of the suns. scholar anthony christie clarifies: both sun and moon are in fact suns and moons, ten and twelve in number respectively. each of these heavenly bodies is in the car

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

the negro type. the sumerian tablets describe how the anunnaki "gods" left the planet to escape the devastation, even indicating that they had caused it.60 the only ones to survive the catastrophe were the extraterrestrials with the technology and foresight, perhaps prior warning, who left before the stuff hit the fan, and the people who sheltered deep underground or in the mountain ranges above the flood water which, according to the boeing study, could have reached heights of 10,000 feet. the earth is riddled with tunnels and caverns, natural and created, which date back into far ancient times. many of these have been located, including an underground city that could house a population of thousands in cappadocia, turkey, one of the centres of the phoenicians and the origin of george of

y the mysteries of egypt and sumer and the staggering structures left us by the ancients would be far less mysterious. and if egypt and sumer were founded with this same advanced knowledge, it means that some of those pre-cataclysmic peoples must have survived. so what has happened to their knowledge for thousands of years and what happened to their bloodlines? once you allow a hole in your dyke, the flood begins to pour through. this is why the illuminati, through their vehicles of religion and, more latterly "science, have made a prime focus the suppression of all knowledge and information that would reveal the true story of human history. once we see that, the mist begins to clear. sources for the people who have written to me asking for the meaning of "ibid" in the source lists, it mea

ere associated with cannibalism and blood drinking- just like the illuminati bloodlines are today. most accounts say that these giants were unfriendly, even hostile, to the rest of the population. often associated with these giants are strange craft that sound very much like the "flying saucers" of modern ufo accounts. genesis tells us that the sons of the gods married the daughters of men before the flood, as well as afterwards and numbers calls the nephilim, the sons of anak, or descendants of the anakim (anunnaki).10 hero worship according to zecharia sitchin, who has written many books on the sumerian tablets, the term "men of renown" in the genesis passage should read, from its sumerian origin "men of the sky vehicles. this puts rather a different complexion on the whole story and mak

rpent trinity was on the mother and son. in babylon, that major stronghold of the serpent cult, the "son" was ninus/tammuz (balder) and the "mother" was queen semiramis (el. the edda explains how one of the centres for the serpent cult during the conflicts with thor/indara was the van tribe of lake van on the western side of mount ararat in turkey, the biblical resting place of "noah's ark" after the flood.1 the van tribe was known as "the children of khaldis, waddell reports, and these became the chaldeans of mesopotamia and the culdees of northern britain. other offshoots were the "vandals" or "hun- again reptilian bloodlines. van or baina was also the ancient capital of the matriarch queen of the serpent cult, semiramis (el, and i guess this might relate to the lady of the lake in the k

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a. waddell, the phoenician origin of britons, scots and anglo saxons (the christian bookclub of america, hawthorne, california, first published 1924, p 65.53from the ashes of angels, p 191.54ibid.55second book of enoch, 1:4-5.56revelation, 12:9.57ibid, 20:2-3.58geza vermes, the dead sea scrolls in english (penguin books, harmondsworth, 1990).59ibid, p 7.50chapter threethe babylonian brotherhoodas the flood waters receded after the v enus cataclysm the survivors came down fromthe mountains and up from within the earth. they settled on the lowlands and plainsand began to rebuild. this was when sumer, egypt and the civilisation in the indusv alley suddenly appeared at a very high level of technological advancement, althoughthey had existed before and were now restored after the upheavals.the

agrees, highly advanced societiesspontaneously emerged. however within this white race, and others also, was a geneticstream i will call reptile-aryan or reptile-human. whenever i use the term aryan i amreferring to the white race. these were the crossbreed bloodlines created from thegenetic manipulation of the anunnaki. the major centre for the reptile-aryanbloodlines, in the ancient world after the flood waters receded, was babylon in thesouth of the sumer region alongside the river euphrates. a closer look at the evidenceappears to date the foundation of babylon far earlier than previously believed and itwas one of the first cities of the post-flood era. it was here that the mystery schools andsecret societies were formed which were to span the globe in the thousands of years thatfollow

ar earlier than previously believed and itwas one of the first cities of the post-flood era. it was here that the mystery schools andsecret societies were formed which were to span the globe in the thousands of years thatfollowed. the brotherhood which controls the world today is the modern expression ofthe babylonian brotherhood of reptile-aryan priests and royalty which came togetherthere after the flood. it was in babylon in this post-flood period from around 6,000years ago that the foundation beliefs- manipulated beliefs- of todays world religionswere established to control and rule the people.the founder of babylon according to ancient texts and legend was nimrod whoreigned with his wife, queen semiramis. nimrod was described as a mighty tyrant andone of the giants. the arabs believed

t was in babylon in this post-flood period from around 6,000years ago that the foundation beliefs- manipulated beliefs- of todays world religionswere established to control and rule the people.the founder of babylon according to ancient texts and legend was nimrod whoreigned with his wife, queen semiramis. nimrod was described as a mighty tyrant andone of the giants. the arabs believed that after the flood it was nimrod who built orrebuilt the amazing structure at baalbek in the lebanon with its three stones weighing800 tons each. it was said that he ruled the region that is now lebanon and, accordingto genesis, the first centres of nimrods kingdom were babylon, akkad and others inthe land of shinar (sumer. later he expanded further into assyria to build cities likenineveh where many of th

societies wereestablished, the brotherhood priests and initiates would hijack the positions of religiousand political power and ensure that any advanced knowledge in circulation was suckedout of the public domain and into their mystery schools and secret societies. the whiterace and the reptile-aryan crossbreeds had emerged from the caucasus mountains andthe mountains of iran and kurdistan after the flood to settle in egypt, israel/palestineand what we now call jordan, syria, iraq, iran and turkey, going up to the caucasusfigure 7:the land of thegods in theancient worldfrom where thearyan andreptile-aryanbloodstreamsemerged in thecaucasusmountains,sumer; babylon,and egypt.there wereother advancedpeoples in otherparts of theworld, however,not only here. 59mountains (see figure 7. significa

columbus. the reasonthat the native legends of the americas speak of tall white gods coming from the seabringing advanced knowledge is because that is precisely what happened, if you forgetthe gods bit. they were the aryan race and the reptile-aryans from the east landing inthe americas thousands of years ago, the same aryan race or gods who thesumerians said gifted them their civilisation after the flood. this is also why the laterwhite invaders who followed columbus were astonished to find that the native peoplesof the american continent had the same basic religious stories and myths as they had.this is perfectly explainable now. they came from the same source- the aryan raceknown as the phoenicians among many other names like sumerian and hittite with thereptile-aryan bloodlines within

explored the northern waters around icelandbefore the vikings and it is said that the welshman prince madoc went ashore inamerica three centuries before columbus. thats very possible because if he had accessto the knowledge of the phoenicians, he would have known that the americas werethere. the v enerable bede of cymbri (approximately the welsh) said they were aneastern people who migrated after the flood from the lands of the bible to the britishisles.44when the irish settled in parts of wales and cornwall, some of the displaced peoplemoved to armorica, now brittany, on the french coast. there you find the fantasticforest of standing stones called carnac, a name which comes from karnac in egypt.the breton language is a mixture of old welsh and cornish- aryan. brittany meanslittle britain

were the sorcererkings who were noted for their esoteric knowledge and magical powers which theyinherited from the underground bloodline streams of secret groups and initiations.francio, the founder of the franks, claimed to be a descendant of noah and his ancestorsonce resided in ancient troy. i think myself that the story of noah is symbolic of thereptilian crossbreed bloodlines which survived the flood and afterwards returned thedove and the olive branch (semiramis-nimrod) to power. decendents of noah= human-reptilian crossbreeds, or at least those who have interbred enough to maintain thatgenetic structure. the french city of troyes, where the templars were officially formed,was named by the sicambrian franks after their former home. the city of paris wasestablished by them in the 6th

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the basis of life, not a steady forward progress. if we understood this better, how much suffering we should save ourselves, for we should watch the chokmah and binah phases succeeding each other, both in our own lives and the lives of nations,and would realise the deep significance of shakespeare's words when he says: mystical qabala page 98 "there is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune" 14. binah is the primordial root of matter, but the full development of matter is not found till we arrive at malkuth, the material universe. we shall see repeatedly in the course of our studies that the three supernals have their specialised expressions on a lower arc in one or another of the six sephiroth which form microprosopos. it is repeatedly said of these tha

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utiful female demons. there are many cases on record of whole nunneries being attacked by the devil, who visited their members. george moore, in his exceedingly interesting study of convent life, sister theresa, gives an account of an outbreak of "counterparts" among the younger nuns, in which they formed liaisons with angelic lovers, who were supposed to be the souls of those who were drowned in the flood. we read in genesis and in the book of enoch that the sons of god mated with the daughters of men, and the demonic race was the result. the folk-lore of every country contains instances of the mating of humans with elementals, usually with disastrous consequences. classical literature is full of stories of the visits of gods and goddesses to human kind. what shall we say of all such stor

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

becometh mighty as the river [nile" plate xv. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod22.htm (3 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:28:11 am] appendix; in many early papyri the text of chapter lxi. forms part of a longer composition which m. naville calls chapters lxi,[4] lx,[5] and lxii,[6] and which reads (1) chapter of drinking water in the underworld [he saith "i, even i, am he who cometh forth from (2) seb. the flood hath been given unto him [1. this chapter is usually accompanied by a vignette. in that in the papyrus of nebseni the deceased is being weighed against his own heart; an ape "thoth, lord of the balance" seated on a pedestal, holds the tongue of the balance. in british museum papyrus no. 9964 the deceased is also weighed against his own heart, but at the same time a figure of himself is a

of heaven (4) who are mighty in splendours. o grant ye that i may gain power over the water, even as set overcame his foes on the day (5) when he terrified the world. i have passed by the great ones shoulder against shoulder, even as they have passed by that great and splendid god who is (6) provided [with all things] and whose name is unknown. i have passed by the mighty one of the shoulder (7) the flood of osiris hath been passed through by me, and thoth-hapi-tmu, the lord of the horizon, hath opened unto me the flood in his name 'thoth, the cleaver of the earth (8) i have gained power over the water, even as set gained power over his foes. i have sailed over heaven. i am ra. i am the lion-god. i am the young bull (9. i have devoured the thigh, i have seized the flesh. i have gone round

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to be taken unawares. smith would have been glad to whisper a word of counsel or at least to say good-by, but it was not necessary or worth the risk. as i emerged from behind the rock, i perceived that the moon had risen and was rapidly climbing the sky. just then it was obscured by a heavy cloud, but observing that it would soon pass, i improved the chance to creep forward for several rods. then the flood of light was such that i lay flat awaiting another opportunity, which i perceived would soon come. ahead of me and slightly to the left towered another boulder, not so large as the one that screened lieutenant smith. i crawled behind this and then awaited the obscuration of the moon, to advance farther into the open. i was in the act of creeping forward, when, without the slightest sound

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antis was revived in 1882 with the publication of ignatius donnelly s atlantis, the antediluvian world. he argued that atlantis was the lost origin point of humanity, the place where the race moved out of barbarism to a civilized state. for donnelly, atlantis explained many of the prominent similarities between the culture of egypt and that of latin america. he believed that the worldwide myth of the flood was really the account of atlantis s demise. blavatsky adopted donnelly s ideas and integrated atlantis into the theosophical story of the evolution of the human race. she hypothesized the evolution of humanity through a series of root races. lemuria, the pacific equivalent of atlantis, was the home of the third root race; atlantis, of the fourth root race. earth is currently populated b

se silver star center. amid the many books designed simply to present his claims for contact, a lesser-known set of books, designed primarily to circulate among his followers, outlined his moral/ religious message. basic to that message, known as the ten bids (analogous to the ten commandments) are the ten things creation bids us to do. the attacks upon meier s credibility were somewhat lost amid the flood of material supportive of his claims, including more than a dozen books, most beautifully illustrated with photos. meier also released several amateurish videos. through the 1980s these materials circulated among ufo buffs, but found an even larger audience within the new age community. they associated the pleiades as the home for the visitors from outer space, and thus it is not surpris

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s with those of ceres, rhea, venus, and isis. euripides also mentioned that the rites of cybele were celebrated in asia minor in a manner identical with the grecian mysteries of dionysius and the cretan rites of the cabiri. the rev. geo. oliver, in his book the history of initiation (1829, asserted that the rites of freemasonry were exercised in the antediluvian world, were received by noah after the flood, and were practiced by people at the building of babel. these rites spread and were molded into a form, the great outlines of which can be traced in the mysteries of every heathen nation. these mysteries are the shattered remains of the one true system, from which they were derived. although there may have been likenesses between the rites of certain societies, the idea that all sprang f

ablished a large gold mining operation in south africa, and gold was shipped to mesopotamia where the space port was set up to transport it to nibiru. the anannaki created humans to work the mines, then later intermarried with their creation. the near approach of nibiru around 11,000 b.c.e. led to the destructive flood recounted in genesis. noah and his family escaped in a submersible ship. after the flood, life began again with the anunnaki s assistance. given the hypothesis of human interaction with the anunnaki, sitchcin has been able to present an alternative reading of ancient history that, while ignored by the mainstream of modern archeologists and astronomers, has found a broad popular audience. the 12th planet has been followed by five additional volumes, collectively termed the ea

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

lated by entities that included serpentlike cre a t u res and sasquatchlike hairy bipeds. soon after their initial conve r s a t i o n, wight and his companions we re taken to a kind of elevator that led them to the undere a rt h e r s place of residence, a city made of glass. it turned out that their guides we re no a h s direct descendants, who had found their way und e r g round in the wake of the flood. t h e re they found supertechnology and the remains of an a d vanced civilization, along with teros. ap p a rently at some point, wi g h t s group met the t e ros who had been there all along. this was not the only trip the group took to blowing cave. unable to get anybody on the surface to believe their story, wight and his friends vowed to return with conclusive proof. during one expe

p open to pranks that periodically sent its members packing in preparation for meetings with space people or saucer landings. though on the morning of the twentieth the guardians promised that they would board a flying saucer just after midnight, no spaceship appeared. stunned, the group tried to figure out what had happened. finally, someone suggested that the group s positive work had prevented the flood. not long afterward, a message from sananda confirmed that interpretation. when laughead called reporters and wire services to pass on the good news, he triggered a fresh round of ridiculelaced stories. even worse, group members who had given up jobs and cut ties with skeptical family members faced uncertain futures. prank calls and visits over the next 24 days, however, kept the group o

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

ah and his wife and all fauna and flora thereby existed in a formless state, as vibrational signatures in the world of b riyah (creation. this information then reemerged with the regeneration of life on the planetary mass in the world of asiyah (activity in matter. this extraordinary idea is also found in ancient sanskrit texts in the account of the incarnation of vishnu as matsya the fish, where the flood is called pralaya( dark night of brahma. 0' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8- 0' the primary texts that are largely the source for the core ideas, meditation practices, and all the various forms of the tree of life in the mystical qabalah are listed below. primary texts include those revealed through messiahs, prophets, and great masters. secondary texts are commentaries upon primary texts. during and s

s of master mosheh and master yeshuvah find parallels in those of messiahs in other traditions. messianic appearances are called avatara in sanskrit. the hindu tradition contains beautiful and profound descriptions of the life dramas and teachings of the ten incarnations of vishnu, including rama, krishna, narasimha (lit. man-lion, and matsya (the fish, who is said to have appeared to noah during the flood. hindus also ascribe messianic stature to chaitanya (sixteenth century ce, ramakrishna (1836- 1886, shirdi sai baba (d.1918) and satya sai baba (1925- present. they assign such status as well as to incarnations of the divine mother i.e. the goddess, such as saradamani devi (1853- 1920, anandamayi ma (1896-1982, amritanandamayi ma (1953-present, known widely as ammachi, and others. buddhi

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with respect; for roger bacon he was the "father of philosophers",6 and he is sometimes given a genealogy which makes him even more ancient than ficino or the designer of the siena mosaic thought. in the preface to a twelfth-century translation of an alchemical work, it is stated that there were three hermeses, namely enoch, noah, and the king, philosopher, and prophet who reigned in egypt after the flood and was called hermes triplex. the same genealogy of 1 festugiere, i, pp. 112 ff. the liber hermetis was discovered by gundel and published by him in 1936. 2 festugiere, i, pp. 139 ff. 3 ibid, pp. 283 ff. 4 thorndike, i i, pp. 214 ff; festugiere, i, pp. 105 ff. 5 in his speculum astronomiae; see albertus magnus, opera, ed. borgnet, x, p. 641; and cf. thorndike, ii, p. 220. albertus magnu

for downing rivals, and the like, to a wider view of the possibilities of magic. one might say that this city shows us hermes mercurius triplex in his triple role of egyptian priest and god-maker, of philosopher-magician, and of king and lawgiver. unfortunately no date is given for the founding of adocentyn, so we have no means of knowing whether this took place in the time of noah and soon after the flood, or in the time of moses, or not much later than moses. but the pious admirer of those two "divine" books by the most ancient hermes the pimander and the asclepius might surely have been much struck, by this vivid description of a city in which, as in plato's ideal republic, the wise philosopher is the ruler, and rules most forcibly by means of the priestly egyptian magic such as is desc

n rhetoric as represented by cicero, the proficiency in literary and historical studies which a ciceronian speech represents, its exquisite latin style, the dignified way of life in a well-organised society, which is its framework. this world really did exist at the date at which the latin humanist thinks it existed. he is not transposing its date to some misty antiquity just before or just after the flood, with a bogus chronology such as that by which the prisca theologia is given a false emphasis in the other tradition, and distorts the approach to greek philosophy. this historical realism of the latin humanist gives also a realism to his textual scholarship. petrarch already has a feeling for the dating and genuineness of texts1 which his successors rapidly carried to high standards of

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the number of his months are with thee; thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; turn from him that he may rest, till he shall accomplish his day. for there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. but man dieth and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? as the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up, so man lieth down, and riseth not up till the heavens shall be no more. yet, 0 lord i have compassion on the children of thy creation; administer them comfort in time of trouble, and save them with an everlasting salvation. amen. or this form may be used: o god, in whose hand our breath is, we bow in thy presence with a sense of the frailty and uncertainty of this

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and paul taught the thessalonians by the word of the lord that those who are christ's at his coming shall be caught up in the air to meet him and be with him for the age. this is in line with the tendencies shown by past developments. the lemurians lived very close to the fiery core of the earth. the atlanteans inhabited the basins somewhat further away from the center. the aryans were driven by the flood to the hilltops where they are now living. and analogously, the citizens of the coming age will inhabit the air. but we know that our dense body gravitates towards the center of the earth, therefore, a change must take place; also paul tells us that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. but he also points out that we have a soma psuchicon (mistranslated natural body) a so

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is request faust asks the reason and mephistopheles says knowingly and cunningly "blood is a most peculiar essence" it is said in the bible that the blood of bulls and calves will not take away sins and that is reasonable, but how then about the blood of jesus, which is extolled as a panacea? to understand this great mystery of golgotha it is necessary to study the composition and the function of the flood from the occult point of view. when blood is placed under a microscope, it appears as a number of minute globules or discs, but when seen by the trained clairvoyant as it courses through the living body blood is found to be a gas, a spiritual essence. the heat is caused by the ego which is within that blood, for as the bible says, the life is in the blood. mephisto was right when he said

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pposition, which in man is shadowed forth as ignorance. a void is created, and over it the spirit (shekinah) in man moves and respiritualizes the gross incarnation of tetragrammaton and so formulates the messiah. the laboratory of the devil (satan of the qliphoth) is the heart of man; herein are all things human conceived and ordered. mystically this heart is the ark which rode out the terrors of the flood, just as the shin rode out the terrors of the darkness which gwas upon the face of the deep h. the timber it is built of is cut from the branches of the tree of life. in it is carried the cubic stone of the wise, the corner stone of the qabalistic temple (the divine form of adam qadmon, the apex of which is the letter od, and at the corners of whose triangular base stand the letters heh

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ented by a parent and a triplicated offspring. it is perhaps unnecessary to add that this monad trinity is the creator, preserver, and destroyer with their great parent, the mother of the gods, which in process of time came to be regarded as male. according to wilford, hindoo chronology presents fourteen different periods, six of which have already elapsed; we are in the seventh, which began with the flood. each of these periods is called a manwantara, the presiding genius or deity of which is a menu. at the close of each dynasty a total destruction of the world takes place, everything being destroyed except the ruler, or menu, who "escapes in a boat" each new world is an exact counterpart of the one destroyed, and each menu is a representation of all preceding ones. thus the history of on

of a flood. the doctrine of a triplicated god saved from destruction by a storm-tossed ark which rested on some local mountain answering to ararat, and which was filled with the natural elements of reproduction, is found amongst the traditions of every country of the globe. in egypt, the destructive agency drives the god into the ark--or into the fish's belly, where he is obliged to remain until the flood subsides. in other words, at the time of the destruction of the world, the creative agency is forced within the womb of nature, there to remain until it again comes forth to recreate the world; nor does the symbolism end here, for this god--the sun, or the reproductive power within it, which every year is put to death by the cold of winter, must for a season remain lifeless, but, at the

d, becomes incarnate, by transmigrating from the human bodies occupied during a former incarnation; brahm or the unity appearing as the paternal menu of a new age, while the triad, brahma, vishnu, and siva, is exhibited in the person of his three sons. but the ark-preserved menu--satyavrata and his three sons are certainly noah and his three sons, shem, ham, and japhet" hesiod teaches that, after the flood, chaos, night, and black erebus first appeared.[45] at this time, when there was no earth, no heaven, and no 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

e. that the early historic nations understood little concerning the origin and true meaning of the legends which they had inherited from an older race is quite evident. the ignorance of the greeks regarding the significance of these legends is shown by the following: when solon, wishing to acquaint himself with the history of the oldest times, inquired of an egyptian priest concerning the time of the flood, and the age of deucalion or phroneous or noah, this functionary replied "o solon, solon, you greeks are always children, nor is there an old man among you! having no ancient traditions nor any acquaintance with chronology, you are as yet in a state of intellectual infancy. the true origin of such mutilated fables as you possess is this. there have been and shall again be in the course o

h there is a tradition recounting the ravages of a flood. whether or not this legend is to be traced to an actual calamity by which a large portion of asia was inundated, is not for a certainty known; but the fact that there was a deluge of contention and strife, surpassing anything perhaps which the world has ever witnessed, seems altogether probable. not long after the catastrophe designated as the flood, emblems of the deity, representations of the male and female elements, appear in profusion. babylon, at which place was erected the tower of belus, and memphis, which contained the pyramids, were among the first cities which were built. as the tower typified the deity worshipped by those who claimed superiority for the male, so the pyramids symbolized the creative agency and peculiar qu

male god beginning to assume a position quite independent of the beliefs of their fathers. at this time great towers or pillars begin to be erected in honor of this deity, which is figured as the "god of life" or as the "lord of hosts" notwithstanding the fact that the story of the exodus contains much historical truth, it is altogether probable that the priests have used it, as they did that of the flood, to conceal their religious doctrines. at the time of the exodus, the israelites were ignorant tribes without laws or letters, and while in egypt were menials of the lowest order. hence, the laws written on the two tables of stone, and which it is claimed were elaborated during their wanderings in the wilderness of sinai for the guidance of these unlettered slaves, show the desire of the

e the above account of creation. he says that finally omoroka, or thalatth, the woman who existed before the creation, was divided, one half of her forming the heavens "the other half the earth "all this" berosus declares "was an allegorical description of nature"[93 [93] prof. smith, chaldean account of genesis, pp. 34, 35. in the following legend will be observed the groundwork for the story of the flood. xisuthrus was a king of chaldea. to him the deity, kronos, appeared in a vision and warned him that upon the fifteenth day of the month daesius there would be a flood, by which mankind would be destroyed. he therefore enjoined him to write a history of the beginning, progress, and conclusion of all things down to the present time, and to bury it in sippara, the city of the sun. he was c

t himself fearlessly to the deep. having asked the deity whither he was to sail, he was answered "to the gods; upon which he offered up a prayer for the good of mankind. he then obeyed the divine admonition, and built a vessel five stadia in length and two in breadth. into this he put everything which he had prepared, and last of all conveyed into it his wife, his children, and his friends "after the flood had been upon the earth, and was in time abated, xisuthrus sent out birds from the vessel, which not finding any food, nor any place whereupon they might rest their feet, returned to him again. after an interval of some days, he sent them forth a second time; and they now returned with their feet tinged with mud. he made a trial a third time with these birds; but they returned to him no

ast of all, as the crowning work of elohim, and are created together-'and elohim created man in his own image, in the image of elohim created he him; male and female created he them' this ancient elohistic narrative, then, the jehovist had before him; and he enlarged and enlivened it by introducing a number of passages recording additional incidents in the lives of the patriarchs before and after the flood, and especially by inserting the second account of the creation, ii, 4-25" colenso observes that verse four of chapter second belongs to the elohist, and that it was removed from its original position at the beginning of gen. i, in order to form the commencement of the jehovistic account of the creation.[95 [95] lectures on the pentateuch, p. 32. quoting from bishop browne in the new bib

or of the anthropological society of london, when commenting on the obscene myths upon which the christian religion rests, remarks "the fundamental basis of christianity is more purely phallic than that of any other religion now existing, and its emotional nature. shows how intimately it was related to the older faiths which had a phallic basis" after stating that the myth of creation and that of the flood have their exact counterpart in india, the rev. mr. faber remarks that "there is no rite or ceremony directed in the pentateuch of which there is not an exact copy in the rites of the pagans" the christian doctrines as established by paul, and afterwards formulated into a system by the romish church, were adopted by the ignorant multitude who, being incapable of understanding the higher

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hough josephus is said to mention them in his first book of antiquities, and two pillars erected before the noachian deluge are referred to in ancient masonic charges, for example in the 'cooke ms' of the 15th century, it is narrated that all science was written upon each of two pillars, one of which could not be destroyed by fire, and the other not injured by water; the legend relates that after the flood these two pillars were recovered by hermes and pythagoras and the inscriptions260themagical masonupon them formed the basis of all other knowledge. samuel erected a stone pillar between mizpah and shen and called it ebenezer (the stone of help, i samuel, vii, 12. king saul is said to have set up a pillar or monument at carmel as a memorial of his success over the amalekites.therewas also

names the earliest stage lemuria (the hindoo name would confer no meaning to us, then acknowledges the atlantic continent, and that the lastpartto disappear was a great atlantic island beyond the pillars of hercules, that is, outside gibraltar;itsank beneath the ocean some 6,000 years before egyptian history begins: this great submergence gave rise to the widespread primary form of the legend of the flood. streams of survivors from this deluge, led by adepts, settled in egypt and passed to central asia, forming the sources of the great ancient nations which have flourished since the deluge. the first to obtain precedence was iran, ancient persia, then india, then chaldeo255 egyptian and semitic dominance, then the greco-roman, and last our own civilization, in which it is believed the anc

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ame down from heaven to learn its contents, but that he refused to admit them to the knowledge of sacred things entrusted to himself alone; that, after the fall, this book was taken back into heaven; that after many prayers and tears god restored it to adam; and that it passed from adam to seth.thebook being lost, and the mysteries contained in it almost forgotten, in the degenerate age preceding the flood, they were restored by special revelation to abraham who transmitted them to writinginthe book 'yetzirah; and that the revelation was renewed to moses, who received a traditionary and mystical as well as athekabbalah17written and preceptive law from god. accordingly the jews believe, that god gave to moses on mount sinai, not only the law,butalso the explication of that law; and that mos

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are condensed and radiated into the lower. this is the plane on which the immortals exist. the intuitional plane this plane is also known as the intuitional plane. it is the dimension where the forces and archetypes take creative solidity and manifest. on a human level, it is the dimension of high level intuition and cosmic awareness. the mental plane this is also known as the mental plane. here the flood of energy takes the form of reason and thought, blueprints are formulated and laid. the astral plane the desire plane is also known as the emotional or astral plane. in some traditions it is also seen as the reflective sphere or astral light. the division between the mental and desire plane is not as clear as it seems and intermingling occurs between them both. the physical plane the wor

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spirit are equivalent to the kabbalistic world of briah. traditionally the alpha event caused the fall of everything below the world of atziluth. the worlds of briah, yetzirah and assiah all contain mixtures of light and darkness. however, it is in the desire and the physical planes that the dialectic has gained the most influence. the plane of thought this is also known as the mental plane. here the flood of energy takes the form of reason and thought, the ground plane are formulated and laid. gnostic theurgy page 29 the desire plane the desire plane is also known as the emotional or astral plane. in some traditions it is also seen as the reflective sphere or astral light. the division between the thought and desire plane is not as clear as it seems and intermingling occurs between them b

ptive, and he carried them over the waters and so they came into another land. but they took this counsel among themselves and they would leave the multitude of the heathen and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt, that they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land. and they entered into euphrates by the narrow passages of the river. for still the flood till they were passed over. for through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half and the same region is called asareth. 2 esdras 13:13-45. ancient historians such as ptolemy and herodotus and modern historians such as gibbons have also affirmed that the captive tribes of israel were known through various periods as guta, getae, gauls, goths, manda, dacians

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

here are so many dogmas whether they come from the right or the left, religion or sociology. for the gnostic it is clear that equality is a deception, no one is really equal. while the politicians may scream all men are created equal reality slaps us in the face and we realise that this is a matter of social policy rather than everyday experience. every path to the divine is unique, we experience the flood of past lives in different ways and therefore our present conditions vary greatly. nobody is the same, nobody is equal and we must each individually decide whether our personal charade will continue. however, one thing we can be sure of, is that the kali age is accelerating, mans degeneration is reaching its peak. while technology has become more and gnostic theurgy page 223 more refined

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overwhelmed with a great flood.3 very similar notions were, of course, found in other, quite unconnected, sources, such as the jewish old testament. in chapter six of the book of genesis, for example, which describes the hebrew god s displeasure with his creation and his decision to destroy it, i had long been intrigued by one of the few descriptive statements made about the forgotten era before the flood. according to the enigmatic language of that statement, there were giants in the earth in those days .4 could the giants buried in the biblical sands of the middle east be connected in some unseen way to the giants woven into the fabric of pre-colombian native american legends? adding considerably to the mystery was the fact that the jewish and peruvian sources both went on, with many fu

.9 in the period since the city was built, it therefore follows that one of two things must have happened: either the level of lake has fallen greatly or the land on which tiahuanaco stands has risen comparably. 5 either way it is obvious that there have been massive and traumatic 4 tiahuanacu, j. j. augustin, new york, 1945, volume i, p. 28. 5 ibid. 6 see, for example, h.s. bellamy, built before the flood: the problem of the tiahuanaco ruins, faber& faber, london, 1943, p. 57. 7 ibid, p. 59. 8 tiahuanacu, iii, pp. 192-6. see also bolivia, lonely planet publications, hawthorne, australia, 1992, p. 156. 9 ibid. see also harold osborne, indians of the andes: aymaras and quechuas, routledge and kegan paul, london, 1952, p. 55. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 72 physical changes. some

ttery, jewels, tools and utensils. layers of alluvium cover the whole field of the ruins and lacustrine sand mixed with shells from titicaca, decomposed feldspar and volcanic ashes have accumulated in the places surrounded by walls..11 it had been a terrible catastrophe indeed that had overwhelmed tiahuanaco. and if posnansky was right, it took place more than 12,000 years ago. thereafter, though the flood waters subsided, the culture of the altiplano did not again attain a high point of development but fell rather into a total and definitive decadence .12 struggle and abandonment this process was hastened by the fact that the earthquakes which had caused lake titicaca to engulf tiahuanaco were only the first of many upheavals in the area. these initially resulted in the lake swelling and

maize called atzitzintli. in this age lived the giants. the first sun was destroyed by water in the sign matlactli atl (ten water. it was called apachiohualiztli (flood, deluge, the art of sorcery of the permanent rain. men were turned into fish. some say that only one couple escaped, protected by an old tree living near the water. others say that there were seven couples who hid in a cave until the flood was over and the waters had gone down. they repopulated the earth and were worshipped as gods in their nations. second sun, ehecoatl: duration 4010 years. those who lived then ate wild fruit known as acotzintli. this sun was destroyed by ehecoatl (wind serpent) and men were turned into monkeys. one man and one woman, standing on a rock, were saved from destruction. third sun, tleyquiyahu

p. 44-5. 42 j. eric thompson, maya hieroglyphic writing, carnegie institution, washington dc, 1950, p. 155. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 151 chapter 20 children of the first men palenque, chiapas province evening was settling in. i sat just beneath the north-east corner of the mayan temple of the inscriptions and gazed north over the darkening jungle where the land dropped away towards the flood plain of the usumacinta. the temple consisted of three chambers and rested on top of a ninestage pyramid almost 100 feet tall. the clean and harmonious lines of this structure gave it a sense of delicacy, but not of weakness. it felt strong, rooted into the earth, enduring a creature of pure geometry and imagination. looking to my right i could see the palace, a spacious rectangular comp

quity human beings preserved memories of times still more remote times from which they were separated by the interval of a great and terrible deluge: i will proclaim to the world the deeds of gilgamesh. this was the man to whom all things were known; this was the king who knew the countries of the world. he was wise, he saw mysteries and knew secret things, he brought us a tale of the days before the flood. he went on a long journey, was weary, worn-out with labour, returning he rested, he engraved on a stone the whole story.1 the story that gilgamesh brought back had been told to him by a certain utnapishtim, a king who had ruled thousands of years earlier, who had survived the great flood, and who had been rewarded with the gift of immortality because he had preserved the seeds of humani

from open country, all kinds of craftsmen. the time was fulfilled. when the first light of dawn appeared a black cloud came up from the base of the sky; it thundered within where adad, lord of the storm was riding. a stupor of despair went up to heaven when the god of the storm turned daylight to darkness, when he smashed the land like a cup. on the first day the tempest blew swiftly and brought the flood. no man could see his fellow. nor could the people be distinguished from the sky. even the gods were afraid of the flood. they withdrew; they went up to the heaven of anu and crouched in the outskirts. the gods cowered like curs while ishtar cried, shrieking aloud, have i given birth unto these mine own people only to glut with their bodies the sea as though they were fish? 4 meanwhile

r cried, shrieking aloud, have i given birth unto these mine own people only to glut with their bodies the sea as though they were fish? 4 meanwhile, continued utnapishtim: for six days and nights the wind blew, torrent and tempest and flood overwhelmed the world, tempest and flood raged together like warring hosts. when the seventh day dawned the storm from the south subsided, the sea grew calm, the flood was stilled. i looked at the face of the world and there was silence. the surface of the sea stretched as flat as a roof-top. all mankind had returned to clay. i opened a hatch and light fell on my face. then i bowed low, i sat down and i wept, the tears streamed down my face, for on every side was the waste of water. fourteen leagues distant there appeared a mountain, and there the boat

finding no resting place she returned. then i loosed a swallow, and she flew away but finding no resting place she returned. i loosed a raven, she saw that the waters had retreated, she ate, she flew around, she cawed, and she did not 2 ibid, p. 108. 3 ibid, and myths from mesopotamia, p. 110. 4 myths from mesopotamia, pp. 112-13; gilgamesh, pp. 109-11; edmund sollberger, the babylonian legend of the flood, british museum publications, 1984, p. 26. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 186 come back.5 utnapishtim knew that it was now safe to disembark: i poured out a libation on the mountain top. i heaped up wood and cane and cedar and myrtle. when the gods smelled the sweet savour they gathered like flies over the sacrifice. 6 these texts are not by any means the only ones to come down

the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die. saving only noah and his family (whom he instructed to build a great survival ship 450 feet long x 75 feet wide x 45 feet high, and ordering the hebrew patriarch to gather together breeding pairs of every living creature so that they too might be saved, the lord then sent the flood: in the selfsame day entered noah and ham and japheth, the sons of noah, and noah s wife, and the wives of his sons with them, into the ark they and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. and they went in unto noah into the ark, two and

ry beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. and they went in unto noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. and they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as god had commanded, and the lord shut them in. and the flood was upon the earth; and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. and the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. and the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. and every man was destroyed, all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, and noah only remained alive

ined to destroy all mankind with a flood, saving only a certain tezpi who embarked in a spacious vessel with his wife, his children and large numbers of animals and birds, as well as supplies of grains and seeds, the preservation of which were essential to the future subsistence of the human race. the vessel came to rest on an exposed mountain top after tezcatilpoca had decreed that the waters of the flood should retire. wishing to find out whether it was now safe for him to disembark, tezpi sent out a vulture which, feeding on the carcasses with which the earth was now strewn, did not return. the man then sent out other birds, of which only the hummingbird came back, with a leafy branch in its beak. with this sign that the land had begun to renew itself, and the dove came in to him in the

s. a heavy resin fell from the sky. the face of the earth was darkened and a black rain began to fall by day and by night. the wooden figures were annihilated, destroyed, broken up and killed. 11 not everyone perished, however. like the aztecs and the mechoacanesecs, the maya of the yucatan and guatemala believed that a noah figure and his wife, the great father and the great mother, had survived the flood to populate the land anew, thus becoming the ancestors of all subsequent generations of humanity.12 south america moving to south america, we encounter the chibcas of central colombia. according to their myths, they had originally lived as savages, without laws, agriculture or religion. then one day there appeared among them an old man of a different race. he wore a thick long beard and

ia, appeared after him, but she was wicked and enjoyed thwarting her husband s altruistic efforts. since she could not overcome his power directly, she used magical means to cause a great flood in which the majority of the population died. bochica was very angry and exiled chia from the earth to the sky, where she became the moon given the task of lighting the nights. he also caused the waters of the flood to dissipate and brought down the few survivors from the mountains where they had taken refuge. thereafter he gave them laws, taught them to cultivate the land and instituted the worship of the sun with periodic festivals, sacrifices and pilgrimages. he then divided the power to govern among two chiefs and spent the remainder of his days on earth living in quiet contemplation as 10 lenor

e nations on earth.16 the araucnaians of pre-colombian chile preserved a tradition that there was once a flood which very few indians escaped. the survivors took refuge on a high mountain called thegtheg( the thundering or the glittering) which had three peaks and the ability to float on water.17 in the far south of the continent a yamana legend from tierra del fuego states: the moon woman caused the flood. this was at the time of the great upheaval. moon was filled with hatred towards human beings. at that time everybody drowned with the exception of those few who were able to escape to the five mountain peaks that the water did not cover. 18 another tierra del fuegan tribe, the pehuenche, associate the flood with a prolonged period of darkness: the sun and the moon fell from the sky and

nly a few people managed to escape in their canoes or take refuge on the tops of the highest mountains, petrified with terror.20 the luiseno of lower california had a legend that a flood covered the mountains and destroyed most of mankind. only a few were saved because they fled to the highest peaks which were spared when all the rest of the world was inundated. the survivors remained there until the flood ended.21 farther north similar flood myths were recorded amongst the hurons.22 and a legend of the montagnais, belonging to the algonquin family, related how michabo, or the great hare, re-established the world after the flood with the help of a raven, an otter and a muskrat.23 lynd s history of the dakotas, an authoritative work of the nineteenth century which preserved many indigenous

hebrew accounts.25 20 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 426. 21 folklore in the old testament, pp. 111-12. 22 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 431. 23 ibid, pp. 428-9; folklore in the old testament, p. 115. in this version the character of michabo is called messou. 24 from lynd s history of the dakotas, cited in atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 117. 25 frederick a. filby, the flood reconsidered: a review of the evidences of geology, archaeology, ancient literature and the bible, pickering and inglis ltd, london, 1970, p. 58. andree was an eminent german geographer and anthropologist. his monograph on diluvial traditions is described by j. g. frazer (in folklore in the old testament, pp. 46-7) as a model of sound learning and good sense set forth with the utmost cle

hoth we have come full circle to the sumerian and biblical floods. the earth was filled with violence, says genesis: and god looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. and god said unto noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold i will destroy them with the earth. 45 like the flood of deucalion, the flood of manu, and the flood that destroyed the aztecs fourth sun, the biblical deluge was the end of a world age. a new age succeeded it: our own, populated by the descendants of noah. from the very beginning, however, it was understood that this age too would in due course come to a catastrophic end. as the old song puts it, god gave noah the rainbow sign; no more wat

ied by great darkness. in the words of one toba elder, these afflictions were sent because when the earth is full of people it has to change. the population has to be thinned out to save the world. in the case of the long darkness the sun simply disappeared and the people starved. as they ran out of food, they began eating their children. eventually they all died..9 the mayan popol vuh associates the flood, with much hail, black rain and mist, and indescribable cold .10 it also says that this was a period when it was cloudy and twilight all over the world. the faces of the sun and the moon were covered. 11 other maya sources confirm that these strange and terrible phenomena were experienced by mankind, in the time of the ancients. the earth darkened. it happened that the sun was still brig

period when it was cloudy and twilight all over the world. the faces of the sun and the moon were covered. 11 other maya sources confirm that these strange and terrible phenomena were experienced by mankind, in the time of the ancients. the earth darkened. it happened that the sun was still bright and clear. then, at midday, it got dark..12 sunlight did not return till the twenty-sixth year after the flood. 13 7 the arctic home in the vedas, p. 390ff. 8 the mythology of south america, pp. 143-4 9 ibid, p. 144. 10 popol vuh, p. 178. 11 ibid, p. 93. 12 the mythology of mexico and central america, p. 41. 13 maya history and religion, p. 333. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 200 the reader may recall that many deluge and catastrophe myths contain references not only to the onset of a gr

tarahumara of northern mexico have preserved world destruction legends based on a change in the sun s path.17 an african myth from the lower congo states that long ago the sun met the moon and threw mud at it, which made it less bright. when this meeting happened there was a great flood. 18 the cahto indians of california say simply that the sky fell .19 and ancient graeco- roman myths tell that the flood of deucalion was immediately preceded by awesome celestial events.20 these events are graphically symbolized in the story of how phaeton, child of the sun, harnessed his father s chariot but was unable to guide it along his father s course: soon the fiery horses felt how their reins were in an unpractised hand. rearing and swerving aside, they left their wonted way; then all the earth wa

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escorts an angel through the world (meon, nouv. rec. 2, 116, and pref. to tome 1; from mielcke's lith. sprachl. p. 167 i learn that the same version prevails in samogitia, and the gesta romanor. cap. 80 tell of the angelus et eremita. as the gods lodged with philemon and baucis, so does a dwarf travelling in the grindelwald with some poor but hospitable folk, and protects their little house from the flood (ds. no. 45; in kinderm. 87 god almighty lodges with the poor man, and allows him three wishes; to riigen comes the old beggar-man= wuotan, gets a night's lodging from a poor woman, and on leaving in the morning lets her dabble in the wishing business, which turns out ill for the envious neighbour. thiele (danmarks folkesagn 2, 306) finds the very same myth in fiinen, and here the travel

anz. 8, 535; conf. schreiber's tagb. for 1840, p. 271. that is a forcible description of the swift advance of an unforeseen calamity. the same legend presents us with yet a third feature full of moaning. when the water had wrecked and swamped all the houses in suggenthal, there remained alive only that old man and his son, and one small infant. this child, a hoy, floated in ids cradle all through the flood, and with him was a cat. whenever the cradle tilted to one side, the cat jumped to the other, and restored the equilibrium; in this way the cradle safely arrived below buchholz, and there stuck fast in the duld or crown of a tall oak. when the water had subsided, and the tree was accessible again, it was fetched down, and child and cat were found alive and unhurt. as nobody knew who the

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there comes also a destructive flood, but does not need to be followed by a new creation, for a pious remnant of mankind is saved, which peoples the earth anew. the muhammedan eblis (by aphseresis from dieblis, diabolus) is an apostate spirit indeed, but created after adam, and expelled from para dise. our teutonic giants resemble at once the rebel angels (devils) and the sinful men swept away by the flood; here deli verance was in store for a patriarch, there for a giant, who after it continues his race by the side of men. a narrative preserved in the appendix to our heldenbuch offers some fragments of cosmogony: three creations follow one another, that of dwarfs leading the way, after whom come giants, and lastly men; god has called into being the skilful dwarfs to cultivate waste lands

s of men sprang robbers and wrongdoers; and it repented jehovah that he had made man, and he said he would destroy everything on earth. but noah found favour in his eyes, and he bade him build a great ark, and enter therein with his household. then it began to rain, until the waters rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountains, and all that had flesh and breath perished, but the ark floated on the flood. then jehovah stayed the rain, the waters returned from off the earth, and the ark rested on the mountains of ararat. but noah let out first a raven, then a dove, which found no rest for her foot and returned into the ark; and after seven days he again sent forth a dove, which came back with an olive leaf in her mouth; and after yet other seven days he sent forth a dove, which returned n

ot so good is the ohg. and mhg. smtvluot, and our siindfluth (s^-flood) is a blunder. sailors let birds fly, pliny 6, 22. three ravens fly as guides, landnamabok 1, 2. deluge, sinflut. 577 jehovah made a covenant with man, and set his bow in the cloud for a token of the covenant. after this beautiful compact picture in the 0. t, the eddie narrative looks crude and unpolished. not from heaven does the flood rain down, it swells up from the blood of the slain giant, whose carcase furnishes material for creating all things, and the human race itself. the insolence and violence of the annihilated giants resemble those of the sons of elohim who had mingled with the children of men; and noah s box(/a/rtaro) is like bergelmi s luftr. but the epic touches, such as the landing on the mountain, the

ds, asuris and men, and all the worlds, things movable and immovable. and as he had spoken, so it was done. in the bhagavatam, satydvratas (supra, p. 249) takes the place of manus, vishnus that of brahma, and the facts are embellished with philosophy. the indian myth then, like the teutonic, makes the deluge precede the real creation, whereas in the mosaic account adam lives long before noah, and the flood is not followed by a new creation. the seven rishis in the ship, as bopp remarks, are of divine rather than human nature, sons of brahma, and of an older birth than the inferior gods created by manus or their enemies the asuris (elsewhere daityas and danavas= titans, giants. but it is a great point gained for us, that manus (after whom manushyas, homo, is named) comes in as a creator; so

once 1 conf. the capture of the soothsaying marmennil, p. 434. 2 dzieje starozytne narodu litewskiego, przez th. narbutta. wilno 1835. 1, 2. 580 ceeation. more, when he happened to be eating celestial nuts, pramzirnas dropt a nutshell, and it lighted on the top of the highest moun tain, to which beasts and several human pairs had fled for refuge. they all climbed into the shell, and it drifted on the flood which now covered all things. but god bent his countenance yet a third time upon the earth, and he laid the storm, and made the waters to abate. the men that were saved dispersed themselves, only one pair remained in that country, and from them the lithuanians are descended. but they were now old, and they grieved, whereupon god sent them for a comforter (linxmine) the rainbow, who couns

ction. not all, even of the stories quoted, describe a universal deluge desolating the whole earth: that in which deucalion was rescued affected greece alone, and of such accounts of partial floods there are plenty. philemon and baucis in phrygia (where noah s ark rested, p. 577, had given shelter to the wayfaring gods, and being warned by them, fled up the mountain, and saw themselves saved when the flood rose over the land (ovid. met. 8, 620; they were changed into trees, as askr and embla were trees. a welsh folktale says, that in brecknockshire, where a large lake now lies, there once stood a great city. the king sent his messenger to the sinful inhabitants, to prove them; they heeded not his words, and refused him a lodging. he stept into a miserable hut, in which there only lay a chi

f the welsh goddess geridwen (dav. brit. myth. 204; conf( god s chair/ supra p. 136. lett, warrawihksne, liter, the mighty beech? lith. laumes yosta, lauma s or laima s girdle (sup. p. 416; also dangaus yosta heaven s girdle, jdlpinnis dangaus heaven s bow, urorykszte weather-rod; more significant is the legend from polish lithuania, noticed p. 580, which introduces the rainbow as messenger after the flood, and as counsellor. finn, taiwancaari, arcus coelestis. in some parts of lorraine courroie de 8. lienard, couronne de s. bernard. in superst. esth. no. 65 it is the thunder-god s sickle, an uncom monly striking conception. to the greeks the ipis was, as in the 0. test, a token of the gods, ii. 11, 27; but at the same time a half-goddess *i/h9, who is sent out as a messenger from heaven

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water in the nile. when the swollen river reached egypt, it flooded all the low-lying land in the nile valley and delta, depositing a thick layer of silt.7 as the floods went down, the fields were planted, and crops such as emmer wheat and barley grew very quickly in the moist, fertile soil. in a good year, the egyptians could grow more grain than they needed to feed the population. in bad years, the flood might not be high enough to reach all the fields, or it might be too high and sweep away villages and towns and drown thousands of people. the whole welfare of the country depended on this one phenomenon, and because of this the ancient egyptians seem to have felt both uniquely blessed and uniquely vulnerable. aspects of the inundation were personified as deities (see hapy in deities, th

barley to make beer. they make 7,000 jars of beer and add the red mineral to it to make the beer look like blood. ra has the beer taken to the place where the goddess plans to destroy humanity. before dawn ra pours the red beer out until the fields are flooded to a depth of three palms. 28 when the goddess arrives at dawn, she sees her own 74 handbook of egyptian mythology beautiful reflection in the flood. she drank and it delighted her heart. she came back drunk without having noticed humanity. ra welcomed her back and from that day on alcohol was drunk during the festivals of hathor.29 it is not clear whether ra took pity on humanity after the first day s slaughter or whether he only wanted to save the portion of humanity that he regarded as innocent. the latter is probably implied by t

anity, he goes on to say that after millions of years he will become one with osiris. when this happens, there will no longer be a division between life and death, and everything on earth will go through a period of catastrophic change. in book of the dead spell 175, atum declares that after millions of years he will destroy everything that he has made and the land will return into the deep, into the flood, as it was before (creation. a spell in the harris magical papyrus has the magician claim that he can, like the creator, cause the earth to go down into the primeval waters and the south to become north. this strain of thought seems to be reflected in the roman period hermetic text known as the asclepius. in this dialogue, hermes trismegistus warns that in the old age of the world the go

and tomorrow. vignette from the funerary papyrus of herweben (british museum) mals dancing and playing musical instruments to pacify the goddess and welcome the inundation (see figure 14. alternatively, the nile flood could be seen as the tears that isis wept every year for her murdered husband or as the efflux from the decaying body of osiris (see osiris in deities, themes, and concepts. during the flood season, egypt resembled the nun again. when the floods began to recede, the land appeared to rise up like the primeval mound, and the fields could be planted. the growth cycle of food crops (particularly wheat and barley) was linked to the myth of osiris. the scything down of the grain and its trampling and winnowing were equated with the murder and dismemberment of the good god. the spr

iam lichtheim, ancient egyptian literature, vol. 3: the late period (berkeley, los angeles, and london,1980, 156 159. 23. this section of the myth is probably based on a list of names, epithets, and festivals of goddesses. by the greco-roman period, and probably earlier, the myth of the distant goddess was linked with the winter solstice and the annual return of the inundation from the far south. the flood took some weeks to spread northward, so the priests of each major temple would greet it in turn. for the wild celebrations that marked the return of the wandering goddess, see j. c. darnell, hathor returns to medamud, studien zur alt gyptischen kultur 22 (1995: 47 94. 24. these references are chiefly in the texts known as the teaching for king merikare and the words of neferti; see parki

at man with pendulous breasts and blue or green skin. though egypt was totally dependent on the annual nile flood, the inundation god was not a high-ranking deity. the river nile was thought of as flowing out of the primeval waters (the nun) that continued to encircle the world. hymns and spells credit the creator with making the nile rise each year so that the fields of egypt could be irrigated. the flood was said to come from two caverns that were imprints of the creator s sandals. the god khnum was in charge of these secret caverns of hapy. the potentially destructive aspect of the flood could be embodied by the solar lioness known as the distant goddess. the powers of the flood to irrigate and fertilize the nile valley were represented by hapy. for this reason, hapy has been called a f

d not rise high enough to flood the agricultural land. djoser summoned the wisest of the priests who could read the sacred books and ordered him to discover the source of the inundation. the priest consulted ancient books and discovered that the inundation came from twin caverns under the island of elephantine. he told the king that only the god khnum had the power to unbolt the doors and release the flood from these caverns. djoser hastily made offerings to the deities of elephantine. then khnum the maker of every body appeared to the king in a dream and promised to let the flood gush again so that the years of hunger would be ended. it was probably the fertile mud spread by the inundation that khnum was thought to use as a potter god. in the pyramid texts and the coffin texts he mainly s

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

sudden lightning-bolt must have struck somewhere in this neighbourhood, though no trace of its striking could afterwards be found. a youth in the tau omega fraternity house thought he saw a grotesque and hideous mass of smoke in the air just as the preliminary flash burst, but his observation has not been verified. all of the few observers, however, agree as to the violent gust from the west and the flood of intolerable stench which preceded the belated stroke, whilst evidence concerning the momentary burned odour after the stroke is equally general. these points were discussed very carefully because of their probable connection with the death of robert blake. students in the psi delta house, whose upper rear windows looked into blake's study, noticed the blurred white face at the westwar

which a friend could bear better than a relative. as family physician he must have a free hand, and the first thing he required was a period alone and undisturbed in the abandoned library upstairs, where the ancient overmantel had gathered about itself an aura of noisome horror more intense than when joseph curwen's features themselves glanced slyly down from the painted panel. mr. ward, dazed by the flood of grotesque morbidities and unthinkably maddening suggestions that poured in upon him from every side, could only acquiesce; and half an hour later the doctor was locked in the shunned room with the panelling from olney court. the father, listening outside, heard fumbling sounds of moving and rummaging as the moments passed; and finally a wrench and a creak, as if a tight cupboard door

s. eccentricity, moreover, could easily account for his strange acts and apprehensions toward the last. the whole matter began, so far as i am concerned, with the historic and unprecedented vermont floods of november 3, 1927. i was then, as now, an instructor of literature at miskatonic university in arkham, massachusetts, and an enthusiastic amateur student of new england folklore. shortly after the flood, amidst the varied reports of hardship, suffering, and organized relief which filled the press, there appeared certain odd stories of things found floating in some of the swollen rivers; so that many of my friends embarked on curious discussions and appealed to me to shed what light i could on the subject. i felt flattered at having my folklore study taken so seriously, and did what i co

pective nonagenarians ever whispered of beings dwelling in those hills; and even such whispers admitted that there was not much to fear from those things now that they were used to the presence of houses and settlements, and now that human beings let their chosen territory severely alone. all this i had long known from my reading, and from certain folk tales picked up in new hampshire; hence when the flood-time rumours began to appear, i could easily guess what imaginative background had evolved them. i took great pains to explain this to my friends, and was correspondingly amused when several contentious souls continued to insist on a possible element of truth in the reports. such persons tried to point out that the early legends had a significant persistence and uniformity, and that the

r, were merely romanticists who insisted on trying to transfer to real life the fantastic lore of lurking "little people" made popular by the magnificent horror-fiction of arthur machen. ii as was only natural under the circumstances, this piquant debating finally got into print in the form of letters to the arkham advertiser; some of which were copied in the press of those vermont regions whence the flood-stories came. the rutland herald gave half a page of extracts from the letters on both sides, while the brattleboro reformer reprinted one of my long historical and mythological summaries in full, with some accompanying comments in "the pendrifter's" thoughtful column which supported and applauded my skeptical conclusions. by the spring of 1928 i was almost a well-known figure in vermont

have seen and touched one of the things, or part of one of the things. god, man, but it s awful! it was dead, of course. one of the dogs had it, and i found it near the kennel this morning. i tried to save it in the woodshed to convince people of the whole thing, but it all evaporated in a few hours. nothing left. you know, all those things in the rivers were seen only on the first morning after the flood. and here s the worst. i tried to photograph it for you, but when i developed the film there wasn t anything visible except the woodshed. what can the thing have been made of? i saw it and felt it, and they all leave footprints. it was surely made of matter- but what kind of matter? the shape can t be described. it was a great crab with a lot of pyramided fleshy rings or knots of thick

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han apostolical. its sanctity proceeded, however, from the esoteric rdigiod c^ the former times of rome. the hierophant of the mysteries probably oc- cupied it on the day of initiations, when exhibiting to the candidates the petroma (atone tablet containing the last revelation made by the hioiqihsnt to the neophyte for initiation" digitizecoy google 26 isis vnvbilbd that were on the other side ot the flood, or the gods of the amorites, in whose land ye dwell'"hie science of religion" wrote max mutler in 1860t "is only just beginning. during the last fifty years the authentic docu- roents of the most important religions in the world ktat been recovered in a nu t unexpected and almoat miraeulotu manner* we have now before us the canonical books of buddhism; the zend avetta of zoro- aster is

should estimate the ignorance of hinda meta- phydcians by their own. t^e grand cycle, as we have heretofore remarked, includes the pro- gress of mankind from its germ in the primordial man of spiritual form to the deepest depth of degradation he can reach each successive step in the descent being accompanied by a greater strength and grossness of the physical form than its precursor and ends with the flood. but while ^e grand cycle, or age, is running its course, seven minor cycles are passed, each marking the evolution of a new race out of the preceding one, on a new world. and each of these races, or grand ^pes of hu- manity, breaks up into subdivisions of families, and they again into nations and tribes as we see the earth's inhabitants subdivided today into mongols, caucasians, indians

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

this planet some tens of thousands of years ago perhaps hundreds of thousands. such a case can be made, without too much difficulty, in spite of the anti-atlantians who have a phobia against it; and we can show that there have been two at least two principle waves of civilization. the first can be said, roughly, to be antediluvian and the second postdiluvian, speaking in general terms and putting the flood, or its equivalent, far enough back in history so as to coincide with the cataclysm which caused it. all of the centers of civilization and cultural renaissance recognized by present-day anthropologists india, peru, yucatan, egypt, babylonia, greece, china, rome, england and others are but the reviving remnants of an empire and civilization which colonized the world a hundred thousand ye

trying to explain the method of haphazard arrival in thessalonia to the "blocked-headed 126 locals who thought it a new game. the farther back in time, the less note is taken of plain, bare facts, thus antiquity of obfuscates, realty. it is the purpose of this chapter to lead you still farther back in time to the threshold of human intelligence, in a wave of civilization covering the world before the flood. if we discover that no matter how far we push the periphery of our quest, we still find a ready-made civilization we have to admit human intellectual antiquity of (to us) fantastic and unbelievable vastness. could this mean that civilization was planted here, within the species of animal selected by some superintelligence as most fit to develop culture? could these superfolk be space dw

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the race of men as falling vega does shine amongst the stars. yet your words and your intent are not governed by wisdom but by the heart's lament and your wit is distempered by rightful wrath. wrath shall not avail in this time and when anguish is most justified it is of the least service. such a dire peril as this must be faced, possessing full capacity of wit and wisdom. were that the waters of the flood all that there was to fear at this time but it is not so for those ships that defy the will of the elohim shall be struck down and consigned to the ocean's lower depths as appeasement to unforgiving leviathan. that which water cannot destroy shall be undone by flame and steel. even did you send one in your place they would die where you would live. utanapishtim is the greatest of his peo

n be washed from the earth thus defeating satan and evil crew. though you are wearied by those toils that your hand has already made complete spurn not yet greater industry now when it is most necessary and its reward is both near and great. make preparations for the voyage and then i shall teach to you those incantations that you must know to summon from the sky and depths the waters to raise up the flood. the keys to the great cataracts shall be taught to you once the ship is ready so make haste that god's will be not thwarted for a longer time than must be for it to be accomplished. act now, noah, and find vengeance that you so earnestly desire" did that mad criminal need such words as these? no! his heart was so black with hate, 270 flowing in his blood like a burning venom, that no wo

that base noah is no more of the nephilim than satan is of the elohim. before had even michael finished his speaking noah had even then begun the loading of the beasts into that black boat built for heaven's purpose and had instructed his weary family to make ready for the voyage. all night and day laboured noah and for another night before all was done and all preparations had been made against the flood. now came michael to noah at dawn, perceiving now had come the time to act and bring forth the waters to cover the earth "noah, son of lamech" he spoke "now has the time come to intone those incantations to open the doors by which are bound the sky's cataracts and the waters of the deep earth. speak then the words with me and enact the rightful rituals that these jaws might gape open and

id the last of the nephilim use what time was theirs within the storm before the coming of a greater storm. storing up their strength for battle utanapishtim and his brave retinue let the wind carry them where it will across the black and frothing sea that seemed to boil with spite for men. on those gross waters did they drift in many directions though all direction was lost in that dark waste of the flood. 275 ten thousand sights did appear like phantoms from the eternal gloom before then being left to fade once more into those shadows that spawned them. lo! did a mountain's peak appear now made a petty island by the tides grown great and on there stood, made mad with famine, some twenty woman with mewling infants clutched tight to their parched breasts and others not accommodated on that

those that went upon the ships and they rejoiced to see all things upon the earth restored to equilibrium. at that time all the land was bare and no green thing grew from the soil. all was desolated by the great cataclysm. yet no darkness is there where no light burns nor despair that fosters no hope. deep beneath the barren soil hid the seeds of the thousand plants, washed away by the waters of the flood. with the waters fallen back to their place and the light of the burning sun making warm once more the sodden earth to new life were those germs stirred 285 and even before the waters had retreated utterly the hill-sides bloomed with flowers of every hue and the plains were made verdant with grasses. now made the weary sailors for some harbour renouncing then their long companions, the w

ock, some fell down, wracked by weeping, and others danced and sang with joy. yet utanapishtim was silent and i could read not in him the root of such impassiveness. thus did mankind go forth from the sea-shore to the distant hills to learn of their new land to which the storm had brought them. nowhere did they find a trace of those that had been before. it was as though all remembrance of before the flood had been carried off with the tide, lost forever to the earth save in the hearts of those that came after. now i went to utanapishtim who already busied himself with work throwing up walls and making into order the fields of grain with the plough. now did i address him with these words "utanapishtim, son of ubartutu, fondest of all my children, from this place let your people go forth le

my god, my lord, my father, echoing up from the earth beneath your proud kingdom, eternal and invincible, have i heard the voice of a man, one of satan's children that does renounce his father, even as you were yourself renounce by that apostate angel, once your son. abraham sings daily your praise and raises his voice in prayer. let me then claim him for your possession. yet after the failure of the flood and gabriel's humiliation at the hands of that most wicked of the nephilim, utanapishtim who defied your will, 290 little traffic do i desire with that blasphemous race of men. let me rather sport with this one and avenge upon this one at least those wrongs that his race has done you. let me then test well abraham's resolve to worship adonai yahweh and let him prove his worth to you by s

out from his tower across the wide expanse of heaven and resolved that it should all be his. for such resolution would three kingdoms pay dear and the three races, shedim and elohim, and of all the nephilim would pay dearest for gabriel's ambition in those dark days that were to come. this is the truth! 305 pyloclasm hear me o my prophet! in those later days, the successors of the bright days of the flood, the ancient days of great men, then a peace was there between earth and heaven and the elohim withdrew from the earth, seeking not a conflict lost to them. rather did they bide their time within the walls of heaven and looked not from their towers to that which was lost to them. those days were the last of the great men and the nephilim were as a forgotten dream, 306 men being now but m

destroy his corrupt dominion. this terrible thing did he command and his warriors, paid with gold and of virtue most forgetful, fulfilled the command of herod, fulfilling the command of michael, who, like herod himself, would fall unceasingly into the dark abyss that he might preserve his sovereignty over the elohim of heaven. thus herod became but a mirror to the criminal soul of michael who, by the flood, had slain my children. so went forth the soldiers of herod to carry out his bloody instruction and went across the land to slay the infant sons of galilee. how could i raise my hand against them that so destroyed the innocents that i raised not my hand against my children though i had given them over to heaven? since that day of sorrow when had abbadon struck down methuselah and brought

in my children. so went forth the soldiers of herod to carry out his bloody instruction and went across the land to slay the infant sons of galilee. how could i raise my hand against them that so destroyed the innocents that i raised not my hand against my children though i had given them over to heaven? since that day of sorrow when had abbadon struck down methuselah and brought upon my children the flood it has not been the shedim way to make war upon the nephilim. too well do we know the price. so did we watch and weep, spilling out oceans of tears for michael's wrongs. one was there that wept not but acted with a bloody hand 331 to defend his own son. against that which michael worked worked gabriel, descending to the earth, flying most swift from heaven, falling as a fulmination to th

shalem and, before that time, on great kart-hadasht. goths and huns and vandals all cast down the walls of rome and the glory of gabriel was cast back to the east. gabriel looked upon the fallen walls of rome and wept and raged and recalled those ancient words of wolf-suckled romulus "none shall leap my walls and live" now was rome broken upon the rocks of history and the teutons leapt the walls. the flood of time's river washes all away to make pure the land for those to come that empire of my children, bound to none. gabriel swam against time itself but he knew it not. earth and heaven were in agitation, famine, plague, comets and the shaking earth all prophesied calamity or overthrow. war yet raged betwixt byzantium and persia and both parties were made weak by that unwon war, pouring a

ling scythe of gabriel. when medina and met at uhud, gabriel and satan met there also. across the desert sands we came, he that marched with medina alone saw me at mecca's foremost rank. he alone descried my sword, bright with the borrowed light of the sun. now as the horns sounded across the dunes and each side went against the other, i joined combat with gabriel once more as i had fought him in the flood. 364 the men that fell bloody to the sand and those that exulted in the death perceived not the hidden war fought that day. they knew nothing of the scythe and sword, those two that once were brothers, contesting above them, in winged flight, the very fate of earth and heaven. mecca perceived not her champion and medina knew not their champion matched. weaving, darting, soaring, striking

misery of the nephilim and would rule for a millennium yet. is this how it must be? aeons ago each of us swore an oath that we should defend the nephilim and guide them to their true destiny yet in this are we thwarted. we have failed our duty to them and that shame is ever upon us. yet now have we opportunity to make amends and overthrow gabriel who would master them. you have been made timid by the flood and have long believed that abaddon's vengeance as he struck down methuselah had brought this calamity upon your children. this we can avoid and yet aid. the true enemy is not of the nephilim but is gabriel of the elohim and him we can rightfully oppose. tarry not then in this matter but find strength within yourself. mourn not the nephilim but act. take up that burden which has long bee

e stretched his wings and made to fly to heaven. abaddon spoke a word of power and gabriel was bound to the earth. now wove gabriel a spell by which he made be made obscure that the sight of abaddon would find him not. abaddon spoke a word of power and gabriel was made apparent. all his art was broken now and gabriel made but to run that he might yet escape the blade that killed methuselah before the flood. abaddon spoke a word of power and his legs were held fast. combat was enjoined once more. gabriel drove forward with his blade to cut at the flesh of his foe. abaddon was nimble and was found not. he swung havoc and cut the thigh of gabriel. now limping with the wound gabriel swung again at abaddon but the scythe found but havoc's steel. 377 abaddon's second blow struck flesh, cutting d

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

d the light of kabbalah. the way of kabbalah is a period of preparing for new thoughts and desires, during which we experience feelings of- 139- suffering. but once we move over this bridge that leads to the dwelling of the creator, we enter the world of spirituality, the kingdom of light. at this point, we reach the final goal of creation the ultimate perception of the creator. the generation of the flood is called "a period of work of the heart" whereas the generation of building the babylonian tower is regarded as "the period of working with one s intellect" each of us strives to satisfy every desire from the first moment of life up to the very last moment. the difference between us is in the object from which we want to receive pleasure, whereas the pleasure itself is always spiritual

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orlds are therefore named the impure bya. the impure worlds (shells) are called: esh mitlakachat (erupting fire) opposite the world of beria. anan gadol (great cloud) opposite the world of yetzira. ruach se ara (stormy wind) opposite the world of assiya. after the sin, partzuf adam ha rishon broke into 600,000 pieces. the pieces continued to break (the torah describes them as the killing of abel, the flood, babylon, and more. consequently, all that was left of partzuf adam ha rishon were fragments with a will to receive in order to receive, with just a spark of light. these parts with sparks in them clothe people in this world and awaken them to spirituality, to the light, to the creator. this is how people are pushed to join groups of kabbalah students. there is yet another shell, called

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

advanced race was finally dispossessed (and, i think, to some extent absorbed) by the true egyptians when they returned to their country. as i have explained in chapter i, the wise men of egypt had foreseen that there would be a great flood, and the aryan portion of the egyptian population had left the country and gone over to arabia, where it was mountainous. when the returned a long time after the flood they found the nilotic negroes in possession of their country, and to some slight extent they blended with them; that is the explanation of the traces of negro blood which are found in the ancient egyptians. 247. these nilotic negroes also used the same symbol, but they altered it somewhat; instead of having the two sticks crossed (fig. 8 a, they laid them across the vertical rod one abo

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

r the image of god, the great architect of the universe, must have had the liberal sciences, particularly geometry, written on his heart, while others, less fanciful, have attributed its origin to abraham, moses, or solomon. dr. oliver, writing as late as the first part of the nineteenth century, held that masonry, as we have it to-day, is the only true relic of the faith of the patriarchs before the flood, while the ancient mysteries of egypt and other countries, which so closely resembled it, were but human corruptions of the one primitive and pure tradition. as scientific and historical knowledge progressed in other fields of research, and especially in the criticism of the scriptures, scientific methods were gradually applied to the study of masonry, so that to-day there exists a vast

lending with the egyptian line of tradition. 424. the analogies between mithraism and christianity are very close; they are well summarized thus in the encyclopedia britannica: 425. the fraternal and democratic spirit of the first communities, and their humble origin; the identification of the object of adoration with light and the sun; the legends of the shepherds with their gifts and adoration, the flood, and the ark; the representation in art of the fiery chariot, the drawing of water from the rock; the use of bell and candle, holy water and the communion; the sanctification of sunday and of the 25th of december; the insistence on moral conduct, the emphasis placed upon abstinence and self-control; the doctrine of heaven and hell, of primitive revelation, of the mediation of the logos e

d nothing of hidden mystery to transmit. i give below a brief summary of the dowland manuscript, which is fairly representative of the tradition common to all. it is reproduced from hughan s old charges (1872, and is quoted from mackey s encyclopaedia(*art. legend of the craft) 550. the legend begins with an account of lamech and his four children, who founded all the sciences of the world before the flood. these sciences were engraved on two pillars, one of which was later found by hermes, who taught its contents to the people. nimrod is next mentioned as having employed masons at the building of the tower of babel, and as having given them their first charge. next abraham and sarah are said to have taught the seven sciences to the egyptians, and especially to a worthy scoller that hight

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

d the angels of the spirits of the winds, and the angels of the spirit of clouds, and of darkness [and so forth (giovetti 1993, 19. among other contents, the book of jubilees repeats the central angel tale in the book of enoch in which a group of angels mate with mortal females. they then fell from grace and became devils after leaving their heavenly abode. the book of jubilees adds that god sent the flood to destroy the race of sinful giants who were the offspring of these unnatural unions. see also enoch; judaism for further reading: giovetti, paola. angels. the role of celestial guardians and beings of light. transl. toby mccormick. 1989. york beach, me: samuel wiser, 1993. prophet, elizabeth clare. forbidden mysteries of enoch: fallen angels and the origins of evil. 1983. livingston, m

eed them; when they turned themselves against men, in order to devour them (7:10 13) when earth was in complete anarchy, god sent the archangel michael down from heaven to confine the corrupt angels in the valleys of earth until doomsday. the giants that these angels had fathered (the nephilim) went on wreaking havoc until (according to such sources as the book of jubilees) they were wiped out in the flood. scripture, however, records later, post-flood tribes of giants who were descendants of the nephilim (e.g, num. 13:33; deut. 2:11; josh. 12:4; etc. this story, which at one time was widely known, eventually disappeared from popular folklore because it clashed with the official church position, which was that angels were beings of pure spirit and thus could not engage in sexual intercours

ed as the angel of adversity. elsewhere,mastema is referred to as the accusing angel, and in hebrew mastema means animosity. mastema works for god to tempt mankind and as an executioner. a large number of demons are under his charge. these evil spirits were born from the dead bodies of giants killed by god that were the offspring of fallen angels and mortal earth women. one legend tells how after the flood god intended to comply with a request of noah s to lock away all of the evil spirits underground. but mastema was able to convince god that it would be wise to allow some of the demons to continue their work, as sinful mortals still needed to be kept in line and have their faith tested at times. god agreed to allow one-tenth of the demons carry on their work under mastema s supervision

ct anything good from these scientifically- created creatures, and that out of man only evil could come. satan was like the head of a political party on the planet of the elohim, which was opposed to the creation of any type of beings in their image by other elohim, who thought that they could create beings who would be positive and non-violent (rael 1986, 94 95. certain biblical stories, such as the flood, are explained in terms of the intervention of satan s party: the group who believed that nothing but evil came out of man, presided on by one of the elohim named satan, finally triumphed, and the destruction of all life on earth came about by the flood (ibid, 4. according to this narrative, noah s ark was actually a space ship within which another party of elohim preserved humanity. mak

ge that they ate all the food on earth, then went on to eating humans, and eventually started to eat each other. when earth was in complete anarchy, god sent the archangel michael down from heaven to confine the corrupt angels in the valleys of earth until doomsday. the giants that these angels had fathered were destroyed, but their evil spirits went on wreaking havoc until they were wiped out by the flood sent by god. according to hebrew myths, by robert graves, semyaza is now eternally residing in the sky in the form of the constellation orion, hanging between heaven and earth, with his head pointing downwards. see also fallen angels; nephilim for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. 1967. new york: free press, 1971. ronner, john. know yo

n advance about humankind. god responded by asserting that angels would have failed just as quickly if not more so if placed under the same conditions. as an answer to god s challenge, shemhazi and azazel came down to earth to show that angels could do better. 252 sheol almost immediately, however, they were overcome by desire for an attractive woman, and begat horrible giants (later destroyed in the flood. shemhazi repented his sin, and hung himself upside down in the sky, where he remains to this day as the constellation orion. azazel, on the other hand, refused to repent, and remains on the earth to this day, encouraging women to wear jewelry and cosmetics as part of their efforts to lead mortal men into sin. see also nephilim; semyazi for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary

LIBER CCXLII AHA

berations of the light. but these are dreams, things in the mind, reveries, idols. thou shalt find aha! 9 no rest therein. the former three (lightning, moon, sun) are royally liminal to the hall of truth. also there be with them, in sooth, their brethren. there fs the vision called the lion of the light, a brand of ruby flame and emerald waved by the hermeneutic hand. there is the chalice, whence the flood of god fs beatitude of blood flames. o to sing those starry tunes! o colder than a million moons! o vestal waters! wine of love wan as the lyric soul thereof! there is the wind, a whirling sword, the savage rapture of the air tossed beyond space and time. my lord, my lord, even now i see thee there in infinite motion! and beyond there is the disk, the wheel of things; like a black boundl

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be understood that the .standard of living. goes up at an incredible rate. the same achievement would, say five days ago, have been entered as .high degree of concentration; unhoped-for success. the phenomena which to-day one dismisses with annoyed contempt are the same which john st. john worked four years continuously to attain, and when attained seemed almost to outstrip the possible of glory. the flood of the chitta is again being heaped up by the dam of discipline. there is less headache, and more sense of being on the path.that is the only way one finds of expressing it. 11.45. worse and worse; though pose even better held. in despair returned to a simple practice, the holding of the mind to a single imagined object; in this case the triangle surmounted by the cross. it seems quite e

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

good. out of its context, and call this verse .christian optimism. see caird.s .hegel. hegel knew how to defend himself, though. as goethe wrote of him. they thought the master too inclined to fuss and finick. the students. anger grew to frenzy paganinic* they vowed they.d make him rue his work in jena.s clinic. they came, the unholy crew, the mystic and the cynic: he had scoffed at god.s battue, the flood for mortal.s sin.icthyosaurian waterloo! they eyed the sage askew; they searched him through and through with violet rays actinic they asked him .wer bist du. he answered slowly .bin ich. 387. the fish.58.because of .cquj, which means fish, and very aptly symbolises christ. ring and book (the pope, ll. 89, 90. 395. dharma.59.consult the tripitaka. 409. i cannot trace the chain.60..how va

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

it was a great dome of violet, and in the centre the moon shone. she was a full moon, and yet she looked like a woman quite, quite young. yet her hair was silver, and finer than spiders. webs, and it rayed about her, like one can.t say what; it was all too beautiful. in the middle of the hall there was a black stone pillar, from the top of which sprang a fountain of pearls; and as they fell upon the flood, they changed the dark marble to the colour of blood, and it was like a green universe full of flowers, and little children playing among them. so i said .shall we be married in this domus x. v. regnum v. porta 4 loci secundum elementa. qliphoth. via t vel crux. cherubim domus ix v. fundamentum yod v. membrum sancti f.deris the wake world 7 house. and he said .no, this is only the house

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

ces his understanding of the historical nature of the gods and gives us the key to understanding gylfaginning. snorri starts the prologue to his edda by stating, galmighty god created heaven and earth and all things that accompany them, and finally two people, from whom genealogies are reckoned, adam and eve, and their progeny multiplied and went all around the world. h ultimately, however, after the flood, people lost sight of god, but they observed that there were similarities and yet differences among humans, animals, and the earth, and they began to trace their genealogies from earth. and seeing the importance of the heavenly bodies for time reckoning, they assumed that some being had ordered the course of these bodies and probably existed before they did and might rule all things. thi

rgelmir, whose father was thrudgelmir and grandfather aurgelmir. 6. whence came aurgelmir? from drops of poison out of the elivagar. 7. how did aurgelmir beget children? a boy and girl came from under his arm, and one leg begat a six-headed son on the other. 8. what is the first thing you remember? when bergelmir was placed on a lu.r (according to snorri, something that floated and saved him from the flood created from ymir fs blood. 9. whence comes the wind? from the giant hrasvelg, who sits in the form of an eagle at the end of heaven and flaps his wings. these items are known from other accounts of the creation and structure of the universe. it is, however, worth noting that vafthrudnir had also asked about the sun and moon; odin fs questions elicit a response that concedes the role of

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

y after christ and the early history of both cults was closely interwoven. the encyclop dia britannica makes the following statement concerning the mithraic and christian mysteries "the fraternal and democratic spirit of the first communities, and their humble origin; the identification of the object of adoration with light and the sun; the legends of the shepherds with their gifts and adoration, the flood, and the ark; the representation in art of the fiery chariot, the drawing of water from the rock; the use of bell and candle, holy water and the communion; the sanctification of sunday and of the 25th of december; the insistence on moral conduct, the emphasis placed on abstinence and selfcontrol; the doctrine of heaven and hell, of primitive revelation, of the mediation of the logos eman

ude markings, whatever proof they might be that the building was erected during the fourth dynasty is certainly offset by the sea shells at the base of the pyramid which mr. gab advances as evidence that it was erected before the deluge--a theory substantiated by the much-abused arabian traditions. one arabian historian declared that the pyramid was built by the egyptian sages as a refuge against the flood, while another proclaimed it to have been the treasure house of the powerful antediluvian king sheddad ben ad. a panel of hieroglyphs over the entrance, which the casual observer might consider to afford a solution of the mystery, unfortunately dates back no further than a.d. 1843, having been cut at that time by dr. lepsius as a tribute to the king of prussia. caliph al mamoun, an illus

nd emblems of the supreme deity, of the latter because while under water the crocodile is capable of seeing--plutarch asserts- though its eyes are covered by a thin membrane. the egyptians declared that no matter how far away the crocodile laid its eggs, the nile would reach up to them in its next inundation, this reptile being endowed with a mysterious sense capable of making known the extent of the flood months before it took place. there were two kinds of crocodiles. the larger and more ferocious was hated by the egyptians, for they likened it to the nature of typhon, their destroying demon. typhon waited to devour all who failed to pass the judgment of the dead, which rite took place in the hall of justice between the earth and the elysian fields. anthony todd thomson thus describes th

lves were said to speak. many myths have been fabricated to explain the brilliant plumage of birds. a familiar example is the story of juno's peacock, in whose tail feathers were placed the eyes of argus. numerous american indian legends also deal with birds and the origin of the various colors of feathers. the navahos declare that when all living things climbed to the stalk of a bamboo to escape the flood, the wild turkey was on the lowest branch and his tail feathers trailed in the water; hence the color was all washed out. gravitation, which is a law in the material world, is the impulse toward the center of materiality; levitation, which is a law in the spiritual world, is the impulse toward the center of spirituality. seeming to be capable of neutralizing the effect of gravity, the bi

ce presumably connected with the mainland by a bridge--as the actual site of the garden of eden from which the human race migrated. according to the arabian nights (sir richard burton's translation, adam's footprint may still be seen on the top of a ceylonese mountain. in the islamic legends, adam was later reunited with his wife and after his death his body was brought to jerusalem subsequent to the flood for burial by melchizedek (see the koran) the word adm signifies a species or race and only for lack of proper understanding has adam been considered as an individual. as the macrocosm, adam is the gigantic androgyne, even the demiurgus; as the microcosm, he is the chief production of the demiurgus and within the nature of the microcosm the demiurgus established all the qualities and pow

f nature. on the horizontal arms of the cross are the words the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. the plate explains the interblending of the spiritual and infernal powers in the creation of the universe. figure 7 is called the road to paradise. it probably indicates the positions of the sun, moon, and planets at the moment of their genesis. figure 8 is the earth before the flood, when it was watered by a mist or vapor. the words at the left are the tree of life; those at the right, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. the diagram with the symbol of mars is devoted to a consideration of the rainbow. table xv, figures 6, 9, 10. figure 6 is similar to figure 5 and is called the secret of nature. an interesting diagram is shown on either side of the central f

juball found the crafte of musick, of songs, organs and harp. the third brother [tubal-cain] found out smith's craft to work iron and steel, and their sister naamah found out the art of weaving. these children did know thatt god would take vengeance for sinne, either by fire or water, wherefor they wrote these sciences which they had found in two pillars of stone, thatt they might be found after the flood. the one stone was called marbell--cannott burn with fire, and the other was called laturus [brass, thatt cannott drown in the water" the author of this constitution there upon declares that one of these pillars was later discovered by hermes, who communicated to mankind the secrets thereon inscribed. in his antiquities of the jews, josephus writes that adam had forewarned his descendant

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

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 cataclysm in the form of layers of silt and debris beneath a certain level of geological strata, as well ,as the recurring legends of the flood and atlantis current throughout the western hemisphere. the early christian writer of the tale of beowulf recounts how, written in runes upon the hilt of an enchanted sword said to have been made by the nephelim themselves, king hrothgar of the danes reads. the story of ancient wars between good and evil, the opening of the waters, the flood sweeping the giants away, how they suffered, a

nds, surging waves that found them wherever they fled] beowulf, translated by burton raffel (mentor books u.s.a. 1963- we again find traces of this lore in the norse legend of the giants' revolt, and similarly in greek mythology concerning the gods' dealings with the rebellious titans. it is a persistent theme. the zohar intimates, however, that though most of the giants yielded up their lives in the flood, many of their spirits partaking as they did of the angelic nature of their fathers, proved indestructible, and lived on, invisible yet powerful even in their disembodied state. on occasion, these shades are said to gain access to the world of men by reincarnating in human shape, and are referred to as intruders, ancient alien souls transmigrating from the past. otherwise, collectively i

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON PENTACLES

records of medieval magic; and, save to very few, its derivation from the present pentacle has been unknown. it will be seen at a glance that it is a square of five, giving twenty-five letters, which, added to the unity, gives twenty-six, the numerical value of ihvh. the hebrew versicle surrounding it is taken from psalm lxxii 8 "his dominion shall be also from the one sea to the other, and from the flood unto the world s end. this passage consists also of exactly twenty-five letters, and its total numerical value (considering final letters with increased numbers, added to that of the name elohim, is exactly equal to the total numerical value of the twenty-five letters in the square. figures 11 and 12. the holy pentacles page 61 figure 13. the third pentacle of saturn. this should be made

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

t had been down below, forthere was as yet no heaven, nor sun, nor moon, nor stars. from teutonic legends:earth sinks in the sea, the sun turns black, cast down from heaven are the hot stars,fumes reek, into flames burst, the sky itself is scorched with fireearths first deluge8atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation from maverick catastrophist and researcher comyns beaumont, we read: the flood, to the world generally a vague and nebulous tradition, really conceals the mostappalling visitation and its ravages in the british isles and scandinavian lands may beretraced to more considerable extent by the effects of what geologists term the drift age.it was no mere ice drift. it was sudden and terribly swift and violent. it permanently affected the world s climate towards greater e

the world s climate towards greater extremes of cold and damp,lengthened the solar year by enlarging the world s orbit. it shaped world history by compel-ling the flight of survivors to other less inhospitable climes and led in considerable degree tothe dispersion of the aryans. it inundated the british isles for a period to a great extentexcept the higher lands. it was the drowning of atlantis. the flood immortalizes the colli-sion of a fallen planet, later termed satan, actually a cometary body, with our earth comyns beaumont (riddle of prehistoric britain)the debris from tiamats destruction has become the asteroid belt with its own orbit.when it nears the roche limit of this planet, the debris occasionally re-enters theatmosphere, falling to the surface. as researchers like charles for

therefore to one inevitable conclusionthe mammoth and its companions perishedby some wide-spread catastrophe which operated over a wide area and not through the slowprocess of the ordinary struggle for existencenot the result of gradual accumulationbutthe result of one of nature s hetacombs on a grand and wide-spread scale, when a vast faunaperished simultaneously (henry howarth, the mammoth and the flood, 1887) from the masterpiece, when the earth nearly died, by scientists alain and delair: in europe immense herds of diverse animals utterly vanished off the face of the earth for noobvious biological reason. records of blood and stone50atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation..coincident with this dreadful slaughter upon the land was the deposition of myriads ofcontemporary m

21, 22) the laplanders of northern sweden preserved these accounts. their ancient bookshave god saying:i shall reverse the world. i shall bid the rivers flow upward; i shall cause the sea to gathertogether itself up into a huge towering wall which i shall hurl upon your wicked earth-chil-dren, and thus destroy them and all life. from maverick catastrophist and researcher comyns beaumont, we read:the flood, to the world generally a vague and nebulous tradition, really conceals the mostappalling visitation and its ravages in the british isles and scandinavian lands may beretraced to more considerable extent by the effects of what geologists term the drift age.it was no mere ice drift. it was sudden and terribly swift and violent. it took several hundred years for any sense of normalcy to re

be morally pure? if satan could even have the ability to aspire toward supreme godhead, and if thereare hierarchies of angels, etc, then perhaps god can indeed be surpassed? what arewe to make of this? we find that jehovah told a lie. eve did eat of the prohibited tree, but did not, as waswarned, die. so how and why would a god that puts such currency in morality telllies? god promised noah after the flood that he would never visit the world with likecalamity again..but there have been innumerable devastations unleashed on earth,which taken together would rival and even surpass the horror and death-toll of a pre-historic aeon. why does god create mankind and then lamenting his great evil nature proceed todestroy all his creations? why not confine the act to mankind alone? and would it noth

ously, a legacyof seismic activity was bequeathed which is far from over, a new land drainage pattern was instituted,and completely different oceanic and atmospheric circulatory regimes were established (p. 263)and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and everybondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains.the flood watersinevitably, the inhabitants of high latitudes experienced the most massive rising of the deluge waters asthey became piled up into a gargantuan water mountain submerging all land. salvation in arks andother floating refuges was the sole means of escape for those communities (p. 303)the phaeton disaster proper marked the singlemost momentous point in intelligent humanitys historyso

ht mankindto about 5,000 b.c. hence, by all scales of evolutionary reckoning, we should still be far removed fromany basic understanding of mathematics, engineering or sciencebut here we are, only 7,000 yearslater, landing probes on marsso, how did we inherit wisdom, and from whom (p. 11)distortionswe shouldconsider how it was that the original hebrew compilers of genesis, nearly 3,500 yearsafter the flood, grafted uta-napishtims story into the lifetime of the much later noah (p. 23)jehovah= el elyonthe prototype of jehovah was the canaanite king, el elyon. he was the bestower of titles of lordship.his headquarters was between the tigris and euphrates (see p. 24)el shaddaianother canaanite precursor to jehovah, an appellation for deity used by the hebrews.the hebrew allegiance to jehovahwa

book in circulation or existence (see p. 28)first compilationthe first set of amalgamated books to be generally approved as the hebrew bible appeared after the fallof jerusalem to the roman general titus in ad 70, and it was compiled in an endeavor to restore faith injudaism at a time of social turmoil (p. 28)eriduthe most important and sacred of the sumerian cities. the seat of the kings before the flood. enuma elishthe original genesis story. the hebrews became exposed to it during their captivity in babylon.while the babylonian enuma elish pre-dates the genesis account by more than 1,000 years, it was itselfbased on far more ancient records, and the earliest sumerian creation story discovered to date is morethan a 1000 years older than the enuma elish (p. 75)tiamattiamat means the deep

ntil thirty years later (p. 272-3)the biblical delugecould also have been caused or at least precipitated due to the impact of a watery comet (p. 30)such a comet would have had its icy content melted or vaporized, which would have saturated the airwhich could not hold water. the release would have created the rains spoken of in the bible.ancient babylonian descriptions of the events leading up to the flood, which are found in various cune-iform translations, seem to describe the earthly arrival of this serpentine comet (p. 260)reduction of lifespanwhile the average life before the deluge extended for a period 912 years, after this great catastrophe itwas reduced one-half, and we must admit the entrance of some great calamity must have produced thisreduction in the length of life. under the

uman race whose blood was not red like ours (see p. 371.)venezuelaskeletons having flat heads have been found in v enezuela. huge monuments to men with pointed headssuggest that their makers might have enjoyed modes of perception unknown to us (p. 371)there are many legends about the building of the city of tiahuanaco. according to inca mythology, itwas built in a single night by men who survived the flood. an older legend says that it was built bygiants that did not build the city of their own free will but were made to do it by beings who came fromthe sky (p. 371)the mayan calendarthe use of a v enusian calendar is remarkable, because it requires a great deal more astronomical knowl-edge to observe its revolutions than those of earths moon (p. 372)apache indiansthe apache indians tell st

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

d ancient buddhism/bon po, including workings and descriptions of kali and her various mythological guises. adamu features numerous discipline-building excercises which will set the focus for serious initiatory practionthe soul travelers: by michael wynn@ hollywoodinsiders.net chapter 1- the great name game--pg 3 the collective hallucination [1.1--pg 3 the story of the serpent [1.2--pg 5 story of the flood [1.3--pg 6 paradise lost, the tower of babel, and the savior [1.4--pg 9 the great name game [1.5--pg 12 hidden history [1.6--pg 16 the stargates [1.7--pg 18 chapter 2- universe.com--pg 19 quantum confusion [2.1--pg 19 the onion of reality [2.2--pg 22 dreamscape [2.3--pg 25 on the inside looking out [2.4--pg 30 meet the neighbors [2.5--pg 32 the jinn [2.6--pg 35 meet the neighbors (revisi

d no longer restrain his angry hand, so he--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 4 alerts a righteous man named noah that he is soon to destroy the world in a flood, and that noah s family should begin straight-away building a large boat, so that he and his family may survive the earth s coming inundation. what s more, noah was told to bring 2 of every animal so that earth may be repopulated after the flood waters subside. the vast majority of angels, nephilim, and mankind were killed in this flood which lasted for 40 days. before the waters subsided, noah released a raven from the ark to discover whether dry land was yet peaking above the waters, but it only flew back and forth. next noah released a dove into the air, and the bird returned with an olive branch, indicating to noah that ther

connected to, or described as, dragons and serpents. in islam, the serpent is associated with satan, and demons. in voodoo the gods are again associated with serpents. reptile gods are seen as far east as the pacific islands. no matter what place or age we examine, serpents provide a central theme in that region s mythological tales. serpents are also repeatedly associated with villains. story of the flood [1.3] even more frequent than the themes of serpentine gods is the theme of a global flood. the number of stories regarding a worldwide flood is incredible, and the similarities between the various tales of inundation are even more alarming. most people who are even remotely familiar with atlantis will know that it was consumed by a flood. in the norse tradition of sweden and norway, a f

worldwide flood is incredible, and the similarities between the various tales of inundation are even more alarming. most people who are even remotely familiar with atlantis will know that it was consumed by a flood. in the norse tradition of sweden and norway, a flood with poured forth from the bleeding god ymir consumed the whole of humanity, save a man named bergelmir and his wife who survived the flood using a hollowed-out tree trunk as a vessel. in the sumerian/babylonian accounts (2500bc, allegedly, a man named utnapishtim is warned by the god ea that another god enlil intends to flood the earth. utnapishtim then built a massive boat, and loaded his wife and 2 of every creature aboard. as the flood began to subside, utnapishtim released a dove, as noah did, to see if there was dry la

erpent-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 protect 2 of every creature and a small group of choice people. in--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 6 serbian legends, a rooster who acts as the messenger of god becomes increasingly ignored b

the boat was endangered by a whirlpool, lone man rose to his feet and reminded the whirlpool that it was he, lone man, that created the waters; the whirlpool promptly dissipated. one day lone man arrived to an island, proclaiming that a flood was soon to destroy the earth, and that a fortress must be built at the center of the village. he promised to return one day, and after leaving the village the flood waters did come, which protected those who believed him. it s important to note that this tale of a chosen one who travels with 12 guys predates the arrival of europeans to north america. in the african myth from the mande people of mali, an evil god named pemba fell from heaven, and was barred from returning because he stole male seeds from god. pemba spread tainted seeds, borne from in

rrived to earth in the form of a fish, and warned a man named manu of a coming flood. the fish informed manu to build a massive ark which, needless to say, saved manu s life--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 7 in the aztec mythologies of mexico, only 2 humans survive a massive flood. coxcoxtli and his wife xochiquetzal survive the great inundation in a boat they were told to construct prior to the flood. after the subsiding of the flood waters, their boat came to rest on a tall mountain. in yet another central american tradition, that of a tribe called the mechoacanesecs, the god tezcatlipoca desired to destroy all of mankind. this god however schemed to spare a small group of humans to repopulate the planet after the coming flood; so he spared a man named tezpi, his wife, and their fam

central american tradition, that of a tribe called the mechoacanesecs, the god tezcatlipoca desired to destroy all of mankind. this god however schemed to spare a small group of humans to repopulate the planet after the coming flood; so he spared a man named tezpi, his wife, and their family in a large boat which, as usual, they were told to build and subsequently loaded with various animals. as the flood waters began to diminish, tezpi sent out a vulture to assess whether the boat could be disembarked. the vulture did not return, nor did some other birds tezpi released. finally, he released a hummingbird, which did return with a branch in its mouth, confirming for tezpi the presence of dry land. tezpi, his family, and a multitude of animals depart from the ship and repopulate the earth

a crime scene and start the investigation by talking to witnesses. and although i d hate to make the truth a popularity contest (wink wink, you d be could forgiven for disregarding the testimony of 2 witnesses who report a story wildly different than the other observers. fortunately for me (whew, a popularity contest requires contest, and there is none, or none who do; even occultists speak about the flood that wiped out the noble nephilim. bottom line: a wicked race of both humans and non-humans--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 8 an angry creator, a small family warned by a god, 2 of every creature on a boat, a big damn flood, and humanity reborn. that s one hell of a dream. paradise lost, the tower of babel, and the savior [1.4] another reoccurring theme through out the mythologies i

ages is yet another repetitive motif. the bible, as usual, contains the most famous version of this story. as stated earlier, a king called nimrod desired to build a tower to reach to the heavens; his arrogance and presumption was punished when god caused all of nimrod s laborers to abruptly speak different languages. from there, the people dispersed to every corner of the globe. this story, like the flood, has many parallels outside of the bible. the aztec people of mexico say that at one time giants of deformed stature once possessed the land. arrogant were these giants, who endeavored to build a tower so as to reach the heavens. when the lord of heaven looked upon the haughty ambition of the earth-dwellers, he sent down his minions to confound them. this action caused the builders of th

ture once possessed the land. arrogant were these giants, who endeavored to build a tower so as to reach the heavens. when the lord of heaven looked upon the haughty ambition of the earth-dwellers, he sent down his minions to confound them. this action caused the builders of the tower to go their separate ways and disperse across the earth. and then there s the savior. a character who, similar to the flood, seems like an imprint in the mind that was left by a dream- yet a pleasant dream this time. the wanderer, the civilizer, the magician, the chosen one, the incarnated god, the sacrificed. he was all of these things. typical of the west, the most famous savior figure is jesus christ. what christians have generally agreed on regarding this savior is: he is the only son of god or was god. h

ss. there is a similar account in the bible where a character who fights for justice and rides a white horse will arrive during the end times. the aforementioned bochica, a character from the mythology of central columbia, was also a civilizer. according to the natives, bochica was of a different race, but still human. he taught the locals to build huts and live in peace amongst each other. after the flood, he taught the people the secrets of agriculture and construction, instituted sun worship, and then departed. the incan people of peru speak of the previously discussed virococha; this name, viracocha, was given to both their miracle-working savior, and the group that was with him. according to the inca, a day came after the flood when their people were approached by a teacher and healer

the god who carries away the soul. a well-known symbol, that of the all-seeing eye, is related to satan and has been called the eye of set. satan is a god of the setting sun and is therefore often symbolized by a black sun, or a sun that is in total eclipse. perhaps it was a time before the merger of satan and hades, but once these two beings competed for the souls of the nephilim who had died in the flood. satan send ishtar to the gates of the underworld, demanding the souls of those nephilim from hades. lucifer, who is also called azazel and prometheus, absorbed the essence of satan; think of lucifer as an avatar of satan, and it must be remembered that lucifer is satan only because of the merger. upon falling to earth, he worked some kind transformation upon himself, where he became bot

MORALS AND DOGMA

eries of the moral and physical universe. enoch[[hebrew, khanoc, we are told, walked with god three hundred years, after reaching the age of sixty-five-"walked with god, and he was no more, for god had taken him" his name signified in the hebrew, initiate or initiator. the legend of the columns, of granite and brass or bronze, erected by him, is probably symbolical. that of bronze, which survived the flood, is supposed to symbolize the mysteries, of which masonry is the legitimate successor--from the earliest times the custodian and depository of the great philosophical and religious truths, unknown to the world at large, and handed down from age to age by an unbroken current of tradition, embodied in symbols, emblems, and allegories. the legend of this degree is thus, partially, interpret

t, and _seventy-two_ that of his disciples: that john addressed his rebukes and menaces to the _seven_ churches, the number of the archangels and the planets. at babylon were the seven stages of bersippa, a pyramid of seven stories, and at ecbatana seven concentric inclosures, each of a different color. thebes also had seven gates, and the same number is repeated again and again in the account of the flood. the sephiroth, or emanations _ten_ in number, three in one class, and seven in the other, repeat the mystic numbers of pythagoras. seven amschaspands or planetary spirits were invoked with ormuzd: seven inferior rishis of hindustan were saved with the head of their family in an ark: and seven ancient personages alone returned with the british just man, hu, from the dale of the grievous

tar stands. the first hermes was the intelligence or word of god. moved with compassion for a race living without law, and wishing to teach them that they sprang from his bosom, and to point out to them the way that they should go [the books which the first hermes, the same with enoch, had written on the mysteries of divine science, in the sacred characters, being unknown to those who lived after the flood, god sent to man osiris and isis, accompanied by thoth, the incarnation or terrestrial repetition of the first hermes; who taught men the arts, science, and the ceremonies of religion; and then ascended to heaven or the moon. osiris was the principle of good. typhon, like ahriman, was the principle and source of all that is evil in the moral and physical order. like the satan of gnostici

t they should give alms, votive offerings, and tenths. he reprobated abominable foods and drunkenness, and appointed festivals for sacrifices to the sun, at each of the zodiacal signs" manetho extracted his history from certain pillars which he discovered in egypt, whereon inscriptions had been made by thoth, or the first mercury [or hermes, in the sacred letters and dialect: but which were after the flood translated from that dialect into the greek tongue, and laid up in the private recesses of the egyptian temples. these pillars were found in subterranean caverns, near thebes and beyond the nile, not far from the sounding statue of memnon, in a place called syringes; which are described to be certain winding apartments underground; made, it is said, by those who were skilled in ancient r

er changes ever, but no single atom is annihilated, it is not rational to suppose that the far nobler soul does not continue to exist beyond the grave: that many thousands who have died before us might claim to be joint owners with ourselves of the particles that compose our mortal bodies; for matter ever forms, new combinations; and the bodies of the ancient dead, the patriarchs before and since the flood, the kings and common people of all ages, resolved into their constituent elements, are carried upon the wind over all continents, and continually enter into and form part of the habitations of new souls, creating new bonds of sympathy and brotherhood between each man that lives and all his race. and thus, in the bread we eat, and in the wine we drink to-night _may_ enter into and form p

were very predominant. the northern firmament, visible to their eyes, possesses by far the largest and most brilliant constellations; and they were more alive to the impressions made by such objects, than are the men of the present day. with the chinese, a patriarchal, simple, and secluded people, idolatry long made but little progress. they invented writing within three or four generations after the flood; and they long preserved the memory of much of the primitive revelation; less overlaid with fiction than those fragments which other nations have remembered. they were among those who stood nearest to the source of sacred tradition; and many passages in their old writings contain remarkable vestiges of eternal truth, and of the word of primitive revelation, the heritage of old thought, w

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

me general outline. they open with an invocation to the trinity and more or less continue as follows "good breathren and fellows, our purpose is to tell you how and in what manner this worthy craft of masonry was first begun" a memorandum declaring that geometry is the oldest of the sciences and the greatest of the seven liberal arts follows this. these are the essential points it covers:11 after the flood, hermes found one of two pillars+ in which the scriptures containing all the sciences had been hidden. he absorbed all the knowledge that he rediscovered, taught it to humanity, and became the father of all sages. the legend goes on to state that nimrod (or nimroth, king of babylon, provided his masons with a "rule" stating that they should be loyal to each other and love each other. it

staffordshire published in 1686, dr. plott included a history of the freemasons. the legendary story he recounts is clearly based on a version of the ancient charters that closely corresponds to william watson's document, which is written in the style of english that was commonly used at the end of the fifteenth century+ according to the cooke manuscript, pythagoras found the second pillar after the flood. the corporative masonry of great britain 193 them that the masons owed the king their loyalty, that they should render assistance to each other and call one another "brother" that they should deserve their wages, and that they should designate the most skilled among them as director of the work and call him "master" finally, euclid ordered his masons to hold an annual assembly. the lege

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

all this serpent aido-hwedo, and he carried the creator in his mouth when the world was made. aido-hwedo is said to have accompanied the first man and woman to earth. introduction 7 our notion of time, the limited time of creation, is merely a trick of ahura mazda s to limit the power of ahriman. at the end of time, all will be purified, and as in norse mythology a fresh, new creation will arise. the flood just as many mythologies look forward to the destruction of this world in a catastrophe, such as the norse cataclysm called ragnarok, so many record a time, within this creation, when the gods grew angry with humankind, and attempted to destroy them with a flood. the biblical story of the deluge is one of many such accounts, and owes much to the sumerian/babylonian account in the epic of

ons, of which the latest is the current world. the fifth sun, nahui ollin, was made by the gods at teotihuacan (just north of modern mexico city, which was also the birthplace of the gods themselves. the stone is not a fully-functioning calendar; the complex aztec calendar was based on a 52-year cycle known as the calendar round, which reconciled the concurrent 260-day and 365-day years. noah and the flood noah s ark rides the flood after the biblical deluge, in a wood-engraving from the nuremberg bible of 1483. god decided to destroy humanity because of its wickedness, but warned the pious noah of the coming flood, and told him to build the ark and take on board two of every living creature. after the ark had grounded on mount ararat, god sent the rainbow as a symbol of his covenant never

h, the mayan hero twins (see pp. 100 1. in his search for the secret of everlasting life, the sumerian hero gilgamesh crosses the ocean of death in search of utnapishtim, the sole survivor of the great flood. but utnapishtim tells him: there is no permanence. do we build a house to stand for ever, do we seal a contract to hold for all time? do brothers divide an inheritance to keep for ever, does the flood-time of rivers endure? it is only the nymph of the dragonfly who sheds her larva and sees the sun in his glory. from the days of old there is no permanence. utnapishtim s lesson is repeated in a haunting little aztec poem, addressed perhaps to the lord of life quetzalcoatl, who descended to the underworld to restore humanity to life (see pp. 98 99: can it be true that one lives on earth?

the chief god, lord of earth and air. gilgamesh. struck humbaba with a thrust of the sword to the neck, and enkidu his comrade struck the second blow the epic of gilgamesh the epic of gilgamesh 19 sumerian statue of the goddess ishtar i will proclaim to the world the deeds of gilgamesh. the man to whom all things were known. he was wise. knew secret things, he brought us a tale of the days before the flood. he went on a long journey, was weary, worn-out with labor, returning he rested, he engraved on a stone the whole story. prologue to the epic of gilgamesh ferryman of the gods urshanabi takes gilgamesh across the ocean. for three days they ran on as if it were a journey of a month and fifteen days and at last urshabani brought the boat to the waters of death. he poles while gilgamesh act

dess siduri, who advised him to seek out the ferryman urshanabi (see below. when gilgamesh reached the far shore, he met utnapishtim and told him of his despair at enkidu s death. because of my brother i am afraid of death. because of my brother, i wander through the wilderness. utnapishtim told him that death was like sleep; it comes to all, and is not to be feared. he then told him the story of the flood. which of your lovers did you ever love forever. there was tammuz. for him you decreed wailing, year after year. you loved the many-colored roller but you struck and broke his wing. you have loved the shepherd of the flock. you struck and turned him into a wolf. gilgamesh refuses ishtar the flood utnapishtim, the only man to survive the great flood sent by the gods, had lived in the city

george catlin (1794-1872) this painting shows the mandan indians, who lived on the upper missouri river, performing part of the annual okeepa ceremony. it celebrated the subsiding of the waters after the deluge in the mandan flood myth; lone man was the only survivor, landing his big canoe on a high mountain to the west, where he still lives. if the ceremony was not performed, the mandan believed the flood would rise again to destroy the human race once more. lone man i n the beginning, says the native american mandan creation myth, the earth was covered in water, and darkness reigned. then first creator and lone man, walking on top of the waters, saw a mudhen and asked her what she ate and she fetched them a grain of sand. first creator and lone man took the sand and from it they made the

beliefs of the few mandan that remain, some of whom say that lone man was a white man who brought the mandan people across a great water in his big canoe and landed them on the gulf of mexico. turtle myth the four sacred drums of the mandan were buffalo skins sewed together in the shape of large turtles. they were filled with water said to have been gathered from the four corners of the earth as the flood subsided. the mandan believed that the world rested on four turtles. the world flooded when each of these turtles made it rain for ten days each, and the waters covered the earth. whether this flood happened before or after lone man and first creator made this earth is not clear. originally, the mandan flood myth was set after the emergence from the world below, and does not seem to have

rsions of a common theme. matsya, the fish vishnu s first avatar was matsya the fish, a form he took to protect manu, the first man, from the deluge. when manu found the tiny fish, it told him, look after me, and i will look after you. but then the fish grew too large, so manu released it into the sea. then the fish warned him that there was going to be a flood, and told him to build an ark. when the flood came, the fish grew a horn, to which manu fastened his ship, using ananta, the world snake, as a rope, and the fish towed him to safety. varaha, the wild boar in his third incarnation as varaha the wild boar, vishnu rescued the world after it had been swamped by the flood and taken over by the demon hiranyaksha. varaha slew the demon and raised the earth up again with his tusk. narasimha

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

as one, is brought about through the middle line which is made up of da at, tiferet and yesod, etc. the first example of this is da at, which acts as a mediator and tips the mind from intellectual kindness to intellectual sternness, or visa versa. it is specifically the faculty of da at which dictates how these intellectual leanings will be. this is evidenced by the verse in which g-d said after the flood "i will not continue 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 writte

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

the world of 9 chagigah 12a; bereishit rabbah 1:15. the arizal on parashat bereishit (2) 26 asiyah, which was the end and conclusion of everything, there the gearth h preceded. thus, one sage made one statement, and another made another statement, and they did not actually differ .translated from likutei torah 27 parashat noach the portion of the torah read this week describes the famous story of the flood. we must understand: 1. why did g-d had to save noah by means of an ark? 2. why [did he command noah him to bring] seven each of the ritually pure animals and of the ritually impure only two each? and 3. who exactly were the generation of the flood and the generation of the dispersion? the end of the portion describes the events of the tower of babel, the aftermath of which was the dispe

that left him as seminal emissions. the sages compare intentional seminal emission to murder, since the individual is squandering his potential to bring life into the world. idolatry: for he caused the sparks of holiness to cling to the forces of evil. giving power to the forces of evil is serving them, which is idolatry. those souls who left him as seminal emissions returned as the generation of the flood, and made things even worse. 8 it is customary not to pronounce the names of angels that are not also names used for people (e.g, michael, gabriel, etc. 9 genesis 27:8. 10 zohar 1:27b. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 32 g-d sought to wipe out the generation of the flood gfor all flesh had corrupted its way on earth, h meaning that they engaged in all kinds of sexual aberrations. therefo

heavens rain on the earth, enabling it to grow fruit, z feir anpin (the male) fertilizes nukva (malchut, the female. the three ghandbreadths h are presumably the lowest three sub-sefirot of malchut, corresponding to asiyah of malchut; as was stated above, intercourse is not to supposed to take place only on the level of mere asiyah. these three handbreadths therefore had to be reconstituted after the flood. noah was [a manifestation of the sefirah of] yesod, and [his three sons] shem, ham, and japheth corresponded to chochmah, binah, and da fat respectively. they issued by way of yesod and were thus rectified because they originated in a high level; the light therefore had to be concealed. noah was said to be ga righteous man, perfect in his generation c. h11 the appellation grighteous h (

and even if they would try to adjure the angels in other languages, this would be totally ineffective. he therefore made them forget hebrew, and thus they no longer knew how to do anything [like this .translated from sefer halikutim and likutei torah 13 jeremiah 51:44. 39 parashat noach [third installment] gthe water prevailed fifteen cubits above, and the mountains were covered. h1 thus, during the flood, the highest mountaintop was submerged 15 cubits. let us understand why [the mountaintops were submerged] fifteen cubits, no more and no less. furthermore, once [the torah] says that[ gthe water prevailed fifteen cubits] above, h why must it say that gthe mountains were covered h? this is implied in the word gabove h! it is enough to say simply that the water prevailed fifteen cubits abo

merged] fifteen cubits, no more and no less. furthermore, once [the torah] says that[ gthe water prevailed fifteen cubits] above, h why must it say that gthe mountains were covered h? this is implied in the word gabove h! it is enough to say simply that the water prevailed fifteen cubits above the mountains. what is gained by saying that they were covered? the answer: the sin of the generation of the flood was wasteful emission of seed. it is known that this act causes above [the same thing, namely] that the drop [of divine beneficence] issues from the male [i.e, z feir anpin] without being posited in the female [i.e, nukva. rather, it is captured by the forces of evil. this is the mystical meaning of the verse, gand g-d saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupte

to waste. h thus, the phrase gfor all flesh had corrupted c h can also mean, gfor all flesh had wasted its way on the earth. h this immediately evokes the story of judah fs son onan, where we are told that gwhen he engaged in marital relations with his [dead] brother fs wife, he wasted it on the earth, in order not to give seed to his brother. h3 the verse describing the state of the earth before the flood thus indicates that wasting seed was rampant. gthe earth h refers to the supernal gearth, h [which was destroyed] and in what did its destruction consist? gthat all flesh had destroyed c h i.e, that the supernal yesod, which is termed gall, h had gdestroyed its way on the earth, h and not in nukva. gearth h is an appellation for nukva/malchut, which receives the seed of z feir anpin and

ing sefirot flows into it and through it to malchut. in the verse quoted, yesod is described as positing its seed on the earth, i.e, on the surface of the earth, rather than in the earth. 1 genesis 7:20. 2 ibid. 6:12. 3 ibid. 38:9. 4 1 chronicles 29:11. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 40 in this way [nukva] was gdestroyed, h for it could not elevate feminine water at all. therefore [g-d] brought the flood upon them. since the flow from yesod was directed toward the forces of selfishness and evil, rather toward nukva, nukva could not elicit the flow of divine beneficence toward it. gelevating feminine water h is the allegorical term for arousing or eliciting flow from above [normally, nukva can] elevate her feminine water, which is states of gevurah. and when the masculine water mates with

commandments, while eto guard it f refers to the passive commandments. h6 here, the active commandments elicit the masculine water while the passive commandments are feminine water. the passive commandments are clearly associated with gevurah, the judgmentality that guards the garden from intrusion by forces antithetical to g-d consciousness. but in the present case [i.e, that of the world before the flood, there was no masculine water at all; rather, there were only severe states of judgment. unable to be gsweetened h by gmating h with masculine water (which was diverted into the forces of evil by the sin of wasting seed, the feminine gevurah states remained in their full force. this predominance of gevurah in the world precipitated the flood. it is known that the five states of judgment

expression of the earth fs gdesire h or gtendency h to reach beyond itself. thus, the midot, oriented outward toward external reality, are gprotrusions h of the partzuf outward. since the intensity of consciousness is greater in chesed and gevurah than it is in netzach and hod, the former are called gmountains h relative to the latter, which are called ghills. h as is known, in the generation of the flood, z feir anpin and nukva were back to back. this is alluded to by the two words gmountain, h gmountain, h whose numerical values are that of the name elokim in regression [plus 5, for the value of the five letters of the name7. because of the sins of the generation, z feir anpin and nukva could not face each other; they were not oriented toward mutual cross-fertilization, as we mentioned

spawned them. subsequent levels must take the inspiration of the intellect but gforget h the idea itself in order to concentrate on getting the conclusion of the idea out into the world. ima, the partzuf of binah, is associated with the left axis of the sefirot, and thus its drive toward expression is the source of the gevurah-aspect of nukva. this is the meaning of the zohar fs statement that in the flood gthe lower waters mixed with the upper waters. h the meaning is also that the states of gevurah in her grain h mixed with the states of gevurah in ima. in the flood, the gevurah-states of nukva could not, as we saw, be gsweetened h by her ghusband, h z feir anpin, so they had to return to their source in their gmother, h ima, to be rectified. the flood was thus the immersion of the world

alet yud-vav-dalet hei-alef yud-vav-dalet hei-alef vav-alef-vav yud-vav-dalet hei-alef vav-alef-vav hei-alef in each case, it can be seen that 26 letters are used in the regression. mabul: mem-beit-vav-lamed= 40+ 2+ 6+ 30= 78. the word mabul thus alludes to the withdrawal of the divine life-force indicated by these iterations of the name havayah from the world* when noah came out of the ark after the flood, g-d re-articulated the seven noahide commandments to him. included in this is the prohibition of tearing the flesh off a living animal, which generalizes to causing unnecessary pain to animals. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 44 regarding killing animals, it is mentioned in the zohar9 that no creature was created purposelessly. it is [therefore] forbidden to kill it purposelessly. as t

ted. this being the case, it is a boon and a rectification for the person when lice are created out of the sweat of his body, for in this way his excess, dross, and evil is excreted [since they perform a positive function, we should not despise them. 9 2:68b. 10 avot 6:11; isaiah 43:7. 11 proverbs 16:7. 12 y. terumah 8:3. 13 2:68b. 14 ecclesiastes 10:11. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 45* after the flood, noah became drunk and was castrated by his third son, ham. his first two sons, shem and japheth, covered him. when he awoke, he blessed shem and japheth and cursed ham together with ham fs son, canaan. ghe said, ecursed be canaan, he will be a servant of servants to his brothers. f and he said, eblessed be g-d, the g-d of shem, and let canaan be his servant. let g-d grant beauty to japh

-hei into the realms of evil adjacent to the world of beriah. as for the souls propagated by adam fs unholy seminal emissions. shem, ham, and japheth were the roots of those souls, and came to rectify them. but the generation of the dispersion ruined [their efforts, and said, gcome, let us build ourselves a city and a tower. h12 [in effect] they said that they saw those souls of the generation of the flood that did not ascend and that they did not have a body to ascend with. so they said, glet us make them bodies from the evil shells. h this is alluded to by the word gcome. h this will be explained presently. nimrod said, glet us build ourselves a city, h referring to malchut of the forces of evil, gand a tower, h referring to yesod of the forces of evil. gcity h is another appellate for m

ords, the course of history in our physical world mirrors the spiritual course of ghistory h (in quotes because this ghistory h occurs outside the creation of time) in the development of the spiritual worlds [this is alluded to in the torah fs account of how] various people fathered children and died, and then [their children] fathered children [and died, and so on.8 then he wiped them all out in the flood, and replanted them through noah until [he began again in] the generation of the dispersion, when the nations were destroyed and all the evildoers were dispersed. in this way the world of tohu was wiped out [remaining so] until abraham rebuilt it [as the world of tikun. this is the mystical meaning of [our sages statement that in the verse, gthese are the generations of the heavens and t

e have explained elsewhere:16 the 130 years that the israelites were in egypt prior to the birth of moses were spent in gathering in the sparks of holy souls which adam had discharged by wasting his seed in the 130 years prior to the birth of his son seth, who was the very same aspect as moses.17 initially, these souls had been incarnated into the bodies of the people who lived during the time of the flood. however, they wantonly spilled their seed upon the earth, following their roots and the place from whence they were drawn. they were then reincarnated in the generation of the tower of babel [but again they did not rectify the sin of adam and the following generations. now, once again, they had been reincarnated as egyptians. joseph had prophetic vision,18 and he knew that they were the

ons, which the forces of evil used to propagate demons. wasting seed is described [in scripture] as gevil, h as in the verse, gand er, the firstborn of judah, was evil in the eyes of g-d. h6 he was called gevil h because he wasted his seed.7 it is also written, gand the imagination of his heart fs thoughts are only evil, the whole day. h8 this verse describes the state of humanity before g-d sent the flood. the generation of the flood was guilty, among other things, of sexual licentiousness.9 it is also written, gwoe to the wicked, the evil one. h10 in the zohar,11 this verse is interpreted to refer to someone who does not procreate, that is, does not utilize his sexuality properly [as we said] jacob set out to rectify the sin of sexual licentiousness, i.e, wasting seed and giving it over

used the divine presence to ascend from the physical world to the first (i.e, lowest) heaven when they ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge. cain caused the divine presence to ascend from the first to the second heaven when he killed his brother, abel. the generation of enoch caused the divine presence to ascend to the third heaven when they introduced idolatry into the world. the generation of the flood caused the divine presence to ascend to the fourth heaven because of their social and sexual sins. the generation of the tower of babel caused the divine presence to ascend to the fifth heaven by declaring war on g-d. the generation of sodom caused the divine presence to ascend to the sixth heaven by their social sins. the egyptians of abraham fs generation caused the divine presence to

n into the world if they were destined to die anyway, he separated from eve. it was only 130 years later that he realized the faultiness of his logic, by losing an argument with lamech fs wives. during these 130 years of celibacy, adam apparently was not able to control himself completely, and committed the sin of wasteful emission of seed. they had previously been incarnated as the generation of the flood, who used to also spill their seed on the ground, inasmuch as they were derived from the same origin.3 the generation of the flood was the first incarnation of the adam fs wasted drops. since they were the first ggeneration h of this ill-conceived seed, their spiritual makeup was powerfully predisposed toward the same mentality that produced them. they therefore committed the same sin th

asteful emission of seed is called gevil, h and one who wastefully emits his seed is also called gevil, h as it is stated in the zohar5 with reference to the verse, gthe wicked will not abide with you. h6 1 bereishit rabbah 19:7; etz chaim 36:2. 2 eiruvin 18b; zohar 1:55a. 3 zohar 1:56b, 66b. 4 genesis 6:5. 5 1:57a. 6 psalms 5:5. the arizal on parashat shemot 224 it follows that the generation of the flood were veritably adam fs evil. this is also the mystical meaning of [g-d fs statement before the flood, gi will wipe out the man that i have created. h7 inasmuch as the name adam means simply gman, h the phrase gand g-d saw that man fs evil was great h may be read, gand g-d saw that adam fs evil was great, h meaning that g-d saw that this generation, the physical embodiment of the souls pr

the letters that make up the name abraham, leaving out the mem, which signifies water, for this gpit is empty, it has no water. h13 bor: beit-reish-vav= 2+ 200+ 6= 208. abraham (avraham: alef-beit-reish-hei-mem. leaving out the mem, we have 1+ 2+ 200+ 5= 208. mem signifies water since it is phonetically related to the word for water, mayim. the form of the mem also represents the enclosing womb. the flood lasted 40 days, the numerical value of mem. the fire corresponds to malchut, for it is the great fire that ate and devoured everything, this being the mystical meaning of the turquoise fire [that descends from heaven to devour the sacrifices].14 the word for gturquoise h (techeilet) is related to the word for gdevour h (kilayon, mechaleh. malchut, the shechinah, would descend from heaven

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e of hiereus. hegemon raises the hoodwink for a moment. hiereus stands threatening with his sword. hiereus thou canst not pass by me, saith the guardian of the west, unless thou canst tell me my name. heg darkness is thy name, thou great one of the paths of the shades. hiereus thou hast known me now, so pass thou on. fear is failure so be thou without fear. for he who trembles at the flame and at the flood and at the shadows of the air, hath no part in god. kerux leads on. they pass hierophant who gives one knock. hiereus gives one knock as they pass. after this passing, kerux halts in the north, and raises his wand. neophyte ritual 125 hiero he8 hiero he8 hiereus unpurified and unconsecrated, thou canst not enter the path of the east! i purify thee with water. cross and sprinkling as befo

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powers with precision, and let your will shine forth. thus shall you rule the universe of your creation [summoning of elements (four initiates, two male and two female, summon these elements] come forth, oh nun and naunet, lord and lady of the primeval waters. bring your gifts of potentiality and the not-yet-formed, and bring your gifts of fluidity. come forth, oh heh and hauhet, lord and lady of the flood force. bring your gifts of driving power and relentless advances. come forth, oh kuk and kauket, lord and lady of darkness. bring your gifts that conceal and contain all things, and bring your gifts that reveal and nurture the mysteries hidden there. come forth, oh amun and amaunet, lord and lady of hidden dynamism. bring your gifts of change, continued, repeated, and unending, and bring

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ce the thirteenth-century german monk richalmus would shut his eyes and instantly see clouds of minuscule demons surrounding every man and woman on earth, dancing like dust-specks in the sunlight, so now gibreel with open eyes and by the light of the moon as well as the sun detected everywhere the presence of his adversary, his- to give the old word back its original meaning _shaitan. long before the flood, he remembered- now that he had reassumed the role of archangel, the full range of archangelic memory and wisdom was apparently being restored to him, little by little- a number of angels (the names semjaza and azazel came first to mind) had been flung out of heaven because they had been _lusting after the daughters of men, who in due course gave birth to an evil race of giants. he began

e sky. the drought had broken too late to save the crops; afterwards many of the pilgrims believed that god had been saving up the water for just this purpose, letting it build up in the sky until it was as endless as the sea, sacrificing the year's harvest in order to save his prophetess and her people. the stunning force of the downpour unnerved both pilgrims and assailants. in the confusion of the flood a second doomtrumpet was heard. this was, in point of fact, the horn of mirza saeed's mercedes-benz station wagon, which he had driven at high speed through the suffocating side gullies of the suburb, bringing down racks of shirts hanging on rails, and pumpkin barrows, and trays of cheap plastic notions, until he reached the street of basket--workers that intersected the street of bicycl

ellas, chappals, sunglasses, baskets, excrement, medicine bottles, playing cards, dupattas, pancakes, lamps. the water had an odd, reddish tint that made the sodden populace imagine that the street was flowing with blood. there was no trace of bully-boy miners or of ayesha pilgrims. a dog swam across the intersection by the collapsed bicycle barricade, and all around there lay the damp silence of the flood, whose waters lapped at marooned buses, while children stared from the roofs of deliquescent gullies, too shocked to come out and play. then the butterflies returned. from nowhere, as if they had been hiding behind the sun; and to celebrate the end of the rain they had all taken the colour of sunlight. the arrival of this immense carpet of light in the sky utterly bewildered the people o

down there. our only chance is to drive down the opposite side of this hill and come out the other side of town" but ayesha and mishal had already started back; the prophetess was supporting the other, ashen woman, holding her around the waist "mishal, for god's sake" mirza saeed called after his wife "for the love of god. what will i do with the motor-car" but she went on down the hill, towards the flood, leaning heavily on ayesha the seer, without looking round. this was how mirza saeed akhtar came to abandon his beloved mercedes-benz station wagon near the entrance to the drowned mines of sarang, and join in the foot-pilgrimage to the arabian sea. the seven bedraggled travellers stood thigh--deep in water at the intersection of the street of bicycle repairers and the alley of the baske

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o able to cure stupidity. pharmaros: who brought us pharmacy, herb lore, and diagnosis. satanail/salamiel: great prince amongst grigori. according to enoch he and his crew were already being punished by god even before the fall through lust, although for what crime enoch is not informed, although it is inferred that he had lead a small rebellion. talmai-el: a descendant of the grigori who escaped the flood and the avenging angels. tamiel: perfection of god. turel: rock of god. usiel: strength of god. chapter two; the fall of lucifer the sin of pride the concept of the devil was a fairly late development in the monothiestic legacy. the early hebrews attributed all events, whether good or bad, to the one god. he encapsulated both darkness and light, destruction and creation, corruption and p

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tates and societies began. he begins with the question of whether humankind was destroyed in a flood and then tries to determine how survivors would have then ordered their lives to create a new society. laws was written in the fourth century bce. it is interesting to note that plato references a flood as being responsible for the destruction of humankind. this is similar to the biblical story of the flood, in which noah is warned that god will destroy humankind and builds an ark to house two of each animal. all of them survive a flood of forty days and forty nights. another flood story is referenced in the ancient mesopotamian epic of gilgamesh. in this story the mesopotamian gods decide to destroy humankind, but utnapishtim is warned in advance and is able to build a great ship, on which

ed that god will destroy humankind and builds an ark to house two of each animal. all of them survive a flood of forty days and forty nights. another flood story is referenced in the ancient mesopotamian epic of gilgamesh. in this story the mesopotamian gods decide to destroy humankind, but utnapishtim is warned in advance and is able to build a great ship, on which he allowed humans and animals. the flood of the epic of gilgamesh is said to have lasted six days and seven nights. laws if a man wants to know the origin of states and societies, he should behold them from the point of view of time. thousands of cities have come into being and have passed away again in infinite ages, every one of them having had endless forms of government; and if we can ascertain [determine] the cause of thes

rary works is jewish in origin. the bible, which contains both the jewish tanakh and the christian new testament, has been translated into more than two thousand languages and dialects. a survey of bible sales up to 1992 revealed that an estimated six billion copies of the book have been sold, making it one of the bestselling books of all time. the stories of the tanakh, such as that of creation, the flood, and the exodus from egypt led by moses, are familiar to millions of people around the world, many of whom are not jewish. these stories have been reproduced in television and in movies, including moses (1975) starring burt lancaster (1913 1994, the ten commandments (1956) with charlton heston (1924) and yul brynner (1920 1985, and samson and delilah (1956, produced by cecile b. demille

eat flood that god sent to earth, and which noah survived by building an ark and populating it with one of each gender of animal and man, liebowitz provides commentary and interpretation. she draws attention to the symbolism within the story, from the darkness of the rains that killied all except those in the ark with noah, to the renewal of life that occurs once the rains stop. she explains that the flood washed away the sins of man, such as the decline in moral behavior and the increasing glorification of things such as warfare and other violence. the jewish agency for israel has reproduced her lessons online, where she says: the light that had become reduced to nothing more than a tiny dot in a world of darkness now shines brighter and brighter, till it once again illuminates the whole

owitz in remembrance: nechama leibowitz z tl (1902 1997. jewish action (summer 1997. also available online at http//www.ou.org/yerushalayim/ lezikaronolam/nehama/ja97.htm. sokolow, moshe. nehama leibowitz: the compleat didact. jerusalem report (may 15, 1997. also available online at http//www.ou.org/yerushalayim/ lezikaronolam/nehama/rememberingnehama.html. web sites leibowitz, nechama. lesson of the flood. the jewish agency for israel. department for jewish zionist education. http//www.jafi.org.il/education/ torani/nehama/indexgil.html( june 5, 2006. leibowitz, nechama (1905 1997: bible scholar, commentator, and teacher. jewish agency for israel. http//www.jafi.org.il/education/100/people/bios/ nleib.html (accessed on june 5, 2006. nechama leibowitz (1905 1997. jewish virtual library. htt

shtim opened a window on the boat to discover that earth was flooded and that all humans had been turned to stone. the boat drifted until it came to rest on mount nimush, where it rested for seven days. utanapishtim then offered a sacrifice to the gods, who smelled the odor of the sacrifice and gathered around him. the gods, particularly enlil, the storm god, were enraged that a human had escaped the flood. enlil accused ea of treachery, but ea pleaded with him to show mercy on utanapishtim and his family. enlil relented and granted immortality to utanapishtim. things to remember while reading the excerpt from the epic of gilgamesh: gilgamesh is believed to be a historical king of uruk, not a fictional creation. he ruled uruk sometime around 2700 bce. the modern country iraq is considered

u, they recognized the storm god enlil, a normally kind god who made the land fertile and gave the sumerians the plow. enlil, however, was at times terrifying, forced to carry out the wishes of other gods when they were displeased with humans. enlil was also known as the punisher. there were also many other gods that sumerians recognized. excerpt from the epic of gilgamesh tablet xi: the story of the flood gilgamesh spoke to utanapishtim, the faraway: i have been looking at you, but your appearance is not strange you are like me! you yourself are not different you are like me! my mind was resolved to fight with you (but instead) my arm lies useless over you. tell me, how is it that you stand in the assembly of the gods, and have found life! utanapishtim spoke to gilgamesh, saying: i will r

e, how is it that you stand in the assembly of the gods, and have found life! utanapishtim spoke to gilgamesh, saying: i will reveal to you, gilgamesh, a thing that is hidden, a secret of the gods i will tell you! shuruppak, a city that you surely know, situated on the banks of the euphrates, that city was very old, and there were gods inside it. the hearts of the great gods moved them to inflict the flood. their father anu uttered the oath (of secrecy, valiant enlil was their adviser, ninurta was their chamberlain, ennugi was their minister of canals. ea, the clever prince, was under oath with them so he repeated their talk to the reed house: reed house, reed house! wall, wall! o man of shuruppak, son of ubartutu: tear down the house and build a boat! abandon wealth and seek living beings

he land ablaze with their flare. stunned shock over adad s deeds overtook the heavens, and turned to blackness all that had been light. the. land shattered like a. pot. all day long the south wind blew, blowing fast, submerging the mountain in water, overwhelming the people like an attack. no one could see his fellow, they could not recognize each other in the torrent. the gods were frightened by the flood, and retreated, ascending to the heaven of anu. kith and kin: immediate family and other relatives. shamash: the god of the sun and of justice, in charge of determining day and night. caulking: sealing up cracks to prevent leaking. adad: the god of thunder. shullat and hanish: lesser gods of storms and bad weather; they predicted bad weather and served the god adad. heralds: messengers

astrophe to destroy my people! no sooner have i given birth to my dear people than they fill the sea like so many fish! the gods those of the anunnaki were weeping with her, the gods humbly sat weeping, sobbing with grief, their lips burning, parched with thirst. six days and seven nights came the wind and flood, the storm flattening the land. when the seventh day arrived, the storm was pounding, the flood was a war struggling with itself like a woman writhing (in labor. the sea calmed, fell still, the whirlwind (and) flood stopped up. i looked around all day long quiet had set in and all the human beings had turned to clay! the terrain was as flat as a roof. i opened a vent and fresh air (daylight) fell upon the side of my nose. i fell to my knees and sat weeping, tears streaming down the

es over a (sheep) sacrifice. just then beletili arrived. she lifted up the large flies (beads) which anu had made for his enjoyment: you gods, as surely as i shall not forget this lapis lazuli around my neck, may i be mindful of these days, and never forget them! the gods may come to the incense offering, but enlil may not come to the incense offering, because without considering he brought about the flood and consigned my people to annihilation. just then enlil arrived. he saw the boat and became furious, he was filled with rage at the igigi gods: where did a living being escape? no man was to survive the annihilation! ninurta spoke to valiant enlil, saying: who else but ea could devise such a thing? it is ea who knows every machination! ea spoke to valiant enlil, saying: it is yours, o v

could devise such a thing? it is ea who knows every machination! ea spoke to valiant enlil, saying: it is yours, o valiant one, who is the sage of the gods. how, how could you bring about a flood without consideration charge the violation to the violator, charge the offense to the offender, but be compassionate lest (mankind) be cut off, be patient lest they be killed. instead of your bringing on the flood, would that a lion had appeared to diminish the people! instead of your bringing on the flood, would that a wolf had appeared to diminish the people! instead of your bringing on the flood, would that famine had occurred to slay the land! instead of your bringing on the flood, would that (pestilent) erra had appeared to ravage the land! it was not i who revealed the secret of the great go

ar as stars in the sky. machination: scheme, plot, or crafty action. sage: wise person. violation: crime or a breaking of laws or rules. compassionate: showing sympathy for the suffering of others. lest: in order to prevent something from happening. pestilent: damaging or deadly. erra: form of erragal as a thunder god. atrahasis: hero of an akkadian epic (c. 1700 bce) that also tells the story of the flood. world religions: primary sources 69 the epic of gilgamesh now then! the deliberation should be about him! what happened next. in the remaining portion of tablet xi, utanapishtim gives gilgamesh a chance at immortality. he tells the hero that if he can stay awake for six days and seven nights, he, too, will be immortal. gilgamesh agrees to try, but as soon as he sits down, he falls aslee

rk of the gods shall be imposed (on him, and so they shall be at leisure. other mesopotamian epics and poems speaks of events similar to those in the judeo-christian bible, including the temptation by the serpent in the garden of eden. consider the following. explain how weather, climate, and geography could influence and shape the view of the world held by ancient peoples. compare the account of the flood in tablet xi of the gilgamesh epic with a flood story from another culture or religious tradition, focusing on similarities and differences. an example is the flood survived by noah and his family in the biblical book of genesis. explain why the writer of the epic of gilgamesh placed so much emphasis on the dimensions and methods of construction of the ark. for more information books fos

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ann arbor 1950) 203. the amulets show the sun god iao-harpocrates. doresse did not cite this evidence either. 32 the name is the first part of a palindrome; for the decipherment of which see tardieu "aberamentho" 416. in the glossary at the end of the greek magical papyri in translation, it is said that "no meaningful decipherment of the word has been put forward (331. for thoth's connection with the flood of the nile, see d. bonneau, la crue du nil (paris 1964) 234f. 33 the preposition, hijn, is used in the coptic translation of the new testament texts describing jesus walking upon water (matt 14.25-26; mark 6.48-49; john 6.19. 34 see g. scholem, origins of the kabbalah, ed. r.j. zwi werblowsky and trans. a. arkush (new york 1987) 31-32. 35 in the two other places where the phrase "jesus

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le is not a history, it is a collection of poems, a book of allegories and images. adam and eve are only the primitive types of humanity; the tempter serpent is time which tests; the tree of knowledge is 'right; the expiation by toil is duty. cain and abel represent the flesh and the spirit, force and intelligence, violence and harmony. the giants are those who usurped the earth in ancient times; the flood was a great revolution. the ark is tradition preserved in a family: religion at this period becomes a mystery and the property of the race. ham was cursed for having revealed it. 32 nimrod and babel are the two primitive allegories of the despot, and of the universal empire which has always filled the dreams of men- a dream whose fulfilment was sought successively by the assyrians, the m

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r no one knows where the sumerians came from, and they vanished just as mysteriously as they appeared, after the assyrian invasions which decimated their culture, yet providing the assyrians with much of their mythology and religion; so much so that sumerian became the official language of the state church, much as latin is today of the roman catholic church. they had a list of their kings before the flood, which even they carefully chronicled, as did many another ancient civilisation around the world. it is believed that they had a sophisticated system of astronomy (and astrology) as well as an equally religious rituale. magick, as well in history, begins at sumer for the western world, for it his here, in the sand-buried cuneiform tablets that recorded an age, that the first creation epi

masters in magick, that commands thee! kakkammu! kanpa! incantation against the ancient ones (to be recited each year, when the bear hangs from its tail in the heavens) destructive storms and evil winds are they an evil blast, herald of the baneful storm an evil blast, forerunner of the baneful storm they are mighty children, ancient ones heralds of pestilence throne-bearers of ninnkigal they are the flood which rusheth through the land seven gods of the broad heavens seven gods of the broad earth seven ancient ones are they seven gods of might seven evil gods seven evil demons seven demons of oppression seven in heaven seven on earth utug xul ala xul gidim xul mulla xul dingir xul masqim xul zi anna kanpa! zi kia kanpa zi dingir enlil la lugal kurkur ra ge kanpa! zi dingir ninlil la nin k

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are therefore named the impure bya. 162 of 273 the impure worlds are called: esh mitlakachat (fire catches fire) opposite the world of beria. anan gadol (great cloud- opposite the world of yetzira. ruach se ara (stormy wind- opposite the world of assiya. after the sin, partzuf adam harishon broke into 600,000 pieces. the pieces continued to break (the torah describes them as the killing of abel, the flood, babylon, and there is more. consequently, all that was left of partzuf adam harishon are fragments that have a will to receive in order receive, with just a spark of light. these parts, with sparks in them, clothe people in this world and awaken them to spirituality, to the light, to the creator. this is how people are pushed to join the group of kabbalah students. there is yet another

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by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. genesis page 4 7:4 for yet seven days, and i will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that i have made will i destroy from off the face of the earth. 7:5 and noah did according unto all that the lord commanded him. 7:6 and noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7:7 and noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 7:8 of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 7:9 there went in two and two unto noah into the ark, the male and the female, as god had commanded noah. 7:10

in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 7:8 of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 7:9 there went in two and two unto noah into the ark, the male and the female, as god had commanded noah. 7:10 and it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 7:11 in the six hundredth year of noah s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 7:12 and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 7:13 in the selfsame day entered noah, and shem, and ham, and japheth, the sons of noah, and noah

nd, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 7:15 and they went in unto noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life. 7:16 and they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as god had commanded him: and the lord shut him in. 7:17 and the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 7:18 and the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 7:19 and the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were covered. 7:20 fifteen cubits upwa

dness. 9:24 and noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 9:25 and he said, cursed [be] canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 9:26 and he said, blessed [be] the lord god of shem; and canaan shall be his servant. 9:27 god shall enlarge japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of shem; and canaan shall be his servant. 9:28 and noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 9:29 and all the days of noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. 10:1 now these [are] the generations of the sons of noah, shem, ham, and japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. 10:2 the sons of japheth; gomer, and magog, and madai, and javan, and tubal, and meshech, and tiras. 10:3 and the sons of gomer; ashkenaz, and riphath, a

jobab: all these [were] the sons of joktan. 10:30 and their dwelling was from mesha, as thou goest unto sephar a mount of the east. 10:31 these [are] the sons of shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. 10:32 these [are] the families of the sons of noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. 11:1 and the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 11:2 and it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of shinar; and they dwelt there. 11:3 and they said one to another, go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. and they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 11:4 and they said, go to, let us build us a city

them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 11:9 therefore is the name of it called babel; because the lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 11:10 these [are] the generations of shem: shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat arphaxad two years after the flood: 11:11 and shem lived after he begat arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 11:12 and arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat salah: 11:13 and arphaxad lived after he begat salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 11:14 and salah lived thirty years, and begat eber: 11:15 and salah lived after he begat eber four hundred and three years

shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you. 24:1 and joshua gathered all the tribes of israel to shechem, and called for the elders of israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before god. 24:2 and joshua said unto all the people, thus saith the lord god of israel, your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time [even] terah, the father of abraham, and the father of nachor: and they served other gods. 24:3 and i took your father abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him isaac. 24:4 and i gave unto isaac jacob and esau: and i gave unto esau mount seir, to possess it; but jacob and his children went do

the two kings of the amorites [but] not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. 24:13 and i have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. 24:14 now therefore fear the lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in egypt; and serve ye the lord. 24:15 and if it seem evil unto you to serve the lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the page 139 joshua amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the lord. 24:16 and the people answered and said, god forbid

ut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 14:8 though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 14:9 [yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. 14:10 but man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where [is] he? 14:11 [as] the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: 14:12 so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. 14:13 oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! 14:14 if a man die, shall he live [again] all the days of my appointe

d fain flee out of his hand. 27:23 [men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. 28:1 surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it] 28:2 iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone. 28:3 he setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. 28:4 the flood breaketh out from the inhabitant [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. 28:5 [as for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. 28:6 the stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. 28:7 [there is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture s eye hath not seen: 28:8 the

6 he maketh them also to skip like a calf; lebanon and sirion like a young unicorn. 29:7 the voice of the lord divideth the flames of fire. 29:8 the voice of the lord shaketh the wilderness; the lord shaketh the wilderness of kadesh. 29:9 the voice of the lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of [his] glory. 29:10 the lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the lord sitteth king for ever. 29:11 the lord will give strength unto his people; the lord will page 323 psalms bless his people with peace. psalm 30 a psalm [and] song [at] the dedication of the house of david. 30:1 i will extol thee, o lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. 30:2 o lord my god, i cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. 3

o god, how terrible [art thou in] thy works! through the page 343 psalms greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee. 66:4 all the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing [to] thy name. selah. 66:5 come and see the works of god [he is] terrible [in his] doing toward the children of men. 66:6 he turned the sea into dry [land] they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him. 66:7 he ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. selah. 66:8 o bless our god, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: 66:9 which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved. 66:10 for thou, o god, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. 66

nd, even thy right hand? pluck [it] out of thy bosom. 74:12 for god [is] my king of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 74:13 thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 74:14 thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces [and] gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 74:15 thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. 74:16 the day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 74:17 thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. 74:18 remember this [that] the enemy hath reproached, o lord, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. 74:19 o deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multi

nces by deceit? 8:6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes [yea] and sell the refuse of the wheat? 8:7 the lord hath sworn by the excellency of jacob, surely i will never forget any of their works. 8:8 shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as [by] the flood of egypt. 8:9 and it shall come to pass in that day, saith the lord god, that i will cause the sun to go down at noon, and i will darken the earth in the clear day: 8:10 and i will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and i will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and i will make it as the mourning of an only [son] and the end

t, and he shall bite them: 9:4 and though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will i command the sword, and it shall slay them: and i will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. 9:5 and the lord god of hosts [is] he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as [by] the flood of egypt. 9:6 [it is] he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: the lord [is] his name. 9:7 [are] ye not as children of the ethiopians unto me, o children of israel? saith the lord. have not i brought up israel out of the land of amos page 532 egypt? and

oors. 24:34 verily i say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 24:35 heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 24:36 but of that day and hour knoweth no [man] no, not the angels of heaven, but my father only. 24:37 but as the days of noe [were] so shall also the coming of the son of man be. 24:38 for as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that noe entered into the ark, 24:39 and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the son of man be. 24:40 then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 24:41 two [women shall be] grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other

e of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. 6:46 and why call ye me, lord, lord, and do not the things which i say? 6:47 whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, i will shew you to whom he is like: 6:48 he is like a man which built an luke page 596 house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. 6:49 but he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great. 7:1 now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of t

er heaven, shineth unto the other [part] under heaven; so shall also the son of man be in his day. 17:25 but first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. 17:26 and as it was in the days of noe, so shall it be also in the days of the son of man. 17:27 they did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 17:28 likewise also as it was in the days of lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 17:29 but the same day that lot went out of sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed [them] all. 17:30 even thus shall it be in the day when the son of man is revealed. 17:31 in that day, he which shall be upon

they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 2:4 for if god spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to hell, and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 2:5 and spared not the old world, but saved noah the eighth [person] a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 2:6 and turning the cities of sodom and gomorrah into ashes condemned [them] with an overthrow, making [them] an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 2:7 and delivered just lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 2:8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day w

rth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man [child] 12:14 and to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 12:15 and the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 12:16 and the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 12:17 and the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of god, and have the testimony of jesus christ. 13:1 and i stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the

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aft the dying human "branches" back into the vine which alone could renew them spirit, soul, and body. in so doing the "logos, the "christ, bought-back the "title deed" to planet earth for all those who were willing to enforce this title by active faith over the enemy "without, by first conquering the enemy "within. since the humans were composed both of spirit and earth-dust, humans would become the flood-gates who could either choose to open the endless heavenly reservoirs of "living water" out into the earth [straight from the side of christ as they accessed the "timeless" grace of the final passover lamb] 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 o

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

e enthrall, the moon s the sovereign remedy of all. let mistletoe with reverent awe be sought, since as a boon, from heav n itself tis bought; the sacred oak ascend, and then with skill, cut the with d branches with a golden bill. selections from: william augustus russel. history of england. london, j. cooke, 1777. p. 4. sayings of the hindus (the rig-veda: to the waters) forth from the middle of the flood the waters their chief the sea flow cleansing, never sleeping. indra, the bull, the thunderer, dug their channels: here let those waters, goddesses, protect me. waters which came from heaven, or those that wander dug from the earth, or flowing free by nature. bright, purifying, spreading to the ocean, here let those waters, goddesses, protect me. those amid whom goes varuna, the sovereig

ld my shield-rim. only geronwy, from the dales of edrywy, is better than i. long and white are my fingers. since i was a shepherd, since i was learned, i have traveled the world; i have made my circuit, i have dwelled in a hundred islands, in a hundred caers. o wise and proficient druids do you prophesy of arthur or is it i you celebrate? i know what is to be you what has been; i know the saga of the flood, christ s crucifixion, the day of doom. golden, jeweled, 1 shall be richly bedecked luxury shall attend me because of virgil s (or the ffyrllt s) prophecy. leadership be not too wise, not too foolish, be not too conceited, nor too diffident, be not too haughty, nor too humble, be not too talkative, nor too silent be not too hard, nor too feeble. for: if you be too wise, one will expect t

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

h and then the sabbath had begun. w. f. shaw says that 6 is the number of temptation and sin, for at the 6th hour of the 6th day the first temptation came into the world. six is the number of toil and work, for 6 days, the israelites had to collect manna; at the 6th hour of the 6th day jesus was sentenced to death, and in the revelations, the 6th seal, trumpet and vial were all emblematic of woe. the flood came when noah was 600 years old. the number 666 was an emblem of the great wicked one, still without identification, but he is implied in a prototype, schechem ben hamor, whose name is 666 by gematria, shkm bn chmvr, he was the corrupter of dinah. see genesis xxxiv. verse 2. the jews expected that the end of the present dispensation of the world would arrive after 6000 years, and st. nu

uitertian. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 86. hence the ogdoad was also called cadmeia, because harmony was looked upon as the wife of cadmus and cadmus meant the sub-lunary world, as olympiodorus says. eight was called also mother, and rhea, cybele and dindymene, from being the first cube, and a cube representing the earth. the eight persons saved from the flood of xisuthrus are synonyms of many octaves of gods, such as the 8 cabiri great gods of samothrace; see bryant and faber on this myth. there are 8 beatitudes of the christian religion, matthew, chap. v. eight is the number of the moons of saturn. there have been several masonic orders concerned with this noachite ogdoad, as the prussian masons, knights of the royal axe, or prince of libanu

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