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h the candidate, with stolistes and dadouchos following last (as the candidate passes the hierophant, he knocks. as they pass the hiereus in the west, he knocks. they pass on to the north, and as they pass east again, the hierophant gives another knock. the kerux bars the way in the south) kerux "unpurified and unconsecrated thou cannot enter the pathway of the west" stolistes (signs a cross upon the forehead of the candidate "child of earth i purify thee with water" dadouchos (censing the candidate "child/children of earth, i consecrate thee with fire" hegemon "child/children of earth, twice purified and twice consecrated, thou mayest approach the gateway of the west (kerux leads the procession to the throne of the hiereus. the hegemon raises all hoodwinks) hiereus (stands threatening wit

(hegemon pulls down the hoodwink (kerux leads on. they pass the hierophant who gives one knock, then the hiereus gives one knock as they pass by him. after this passing, the kerux halts in the north, and raises his wand) kerux (blocks the way in the north "child/children of earth, unpurified and unconsecrated, thou may not enter the pathway of the east" stolistes (marking a cross with water upon the forehead "child/children of earth, i purify with thee water" dadouchos (censing the candidate "child/children of earth, i consecrate thee with fire" hegemon "thrice purified and thrice consecrated, thou mayest approach the gateway of the east (kerux leads the procession forward to the hierophant who stands threatening with the sceptre. the hegemon raises all hoodwinks) hierophant (blocking the

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d kissing the ground, to obtain absolution: da er uf siner venie lac (lay, earl. 366, 21. den anger maz mit der langen venie, frib. trist. 2095. venien suochen, ms. 1, 23. morolt. 28. troj. 9300. terrae osculationibus, quas venias appellant, pez. bibl. ascet. 8, 440. gie ze kirchen und banekte (prostrated) ze gote siniu glider mit venien und gebet, cod. kolocz. 180^ the tchelo-bitnaya, beating of the forehead in presenting a petition, was prohil:)ited in russia by catherine ii. conf. pronis vultibus adorare, hehnold 1, 38. 3 what else i have collected about this practice, may be inserted here: elevato a capite pileo alloquitur seniorem, dietm. merseb. p. 824 (an. 1012. sublata cxjdare surgens inclinat honeste, ruodlieb 2, 93. odofredus in i. secundo loco digest, de postulando: or signori

one against the other, each stands in his might, unconquered, unapproachable. dieterieh's divine herohood comes out in more than one feature, e.g, his fiery breath, and his taking the place of wuotan or ero (p. 213-4) at the head of the wild host, as dietriclibcrn or bernhard. the fiery breath brings him nearer to donar, with whom he can be compared in another point also: dietericli is wounded in the forehead by an arrow, and a piece of it is left inside him, for which reason he is called the deathless^ not otherwise did the half of hrungnir's hein (stone wedge) remain in thor's head, and as groa's magic could not loosen it, it sticks there still, and none shall aim with tlie like stones, for it makes the piece in the god's forehead stir (sn. 109 111^ this horn-like stone was very likely s

isus, is mentioned in the chron. petershus. p. 302, with the remark: de talibus excisis literae testantur quod, si vita comes fuerit, felices in mundo habeantur. to such the common standard cannot be applied, their extraordinary manner of coming into the world gives presage of a higher and mysterious destiny. not unlike is the greek myth of metis and tritogeneia: the virgin goddess springs out of the forehead of zeus. the phrase about' hlosr being born %cuh helmet, sicord and horse (above, p. 76, is explained by the hervararsaga, p. 490, to mean, that the arms and animals which accompany the hero were forged and born at the time of his birth. schroter's finnish eunes speak of a child that was born ar7ned: this reminds us of the superstition about lucky children being born with hood and hel

sion of krilo and okrilie (wing and wing-cover, vuk 2, 88. 90. 100. a piece of the wing remaining, or in women a swan's foot, will at times betray the higher nature. the superliuman quality of heroes shines out of their eyes (luminum vibratus, oculorum micatus, saxo gram. 23: ormr i cmga. the golden teeth of gods and heroes have been spoken of, p. 234. in the miirchen sons are born with a star on the forehead, kinderm. 96. straparola 4, 3; or a golden star falls on the forehead, pentam. 3, 10. the dioscuri had a star or fkme shining on their heads and helmets: this may have reference to the rays encircling the head (p. 323, or to constellations being set in the sky. in some cases the heroic form is disfigured by animal peculiarities, as siegfried's by his horny skin, and others by a scaly;

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er, then make a perfume upon the altar; and then on your knees pray before the altar as we have directed. now when the time is expired, on the last day, you shall fast more strictly; and fasting on the day following, at the rising of the sun, enter the holy place, using the ceremonies before spoken of, first by sprinkling thyself, then, making. a perfume, you shall sign the cross with holy oil on the forehead, and anoint your eyes, using prayer in all these consecrations. then open the lamen and pray before the altar upon your knees; and then an invocation may be made as follows: an invocation of the good spirits. in the name of the blessed and holy trinity, i do desire ye, strong and mighty angels (here name the spirit or spirits you would have appear, that if it be the divine will of him

les. 9 ie, the cardinal points, or quarters. introduction xxiv then make a fumigation, and deprecate the angels by the said divine names, that they will appear unto you, and reveal or discover that which you so earnestly desire; and do this continually for six days washed, and fasting. on the seventh day being washed and fasting, enter the circle, perfume it, and anoint thyself with holy oil upon the forehead, eyes, and in the palms of both hands, and upon the feet; then with bended knees, say the psalm aforesaid, with divine and angelical names. which being said, arise, and walk round the circle from east to west, until thou shalt be wearied with a giddiness of thy head and brain, then straightway fall down in the circle, where thou mayest rest, and thou wilt be wrapped up in an ecstasy;

point: the day being come when it is necessary to perform the orations, prayers, and convocations of thy guardian angel, thou shalt have a little child69 of the age of six, seven, or eight years at the most, who shall be clothed in white, the which child thou shalt have washed from head to foot, and thou shalt place upon his forehead a veil of white silk very fine and transparent, which covereth the forehead even unto the eyes; and upon the veil it is necessary to write beforehand in gold with a brush a certain sign made and marked in the manner and order as it will be shown in the third book; the which doth serve to conciliate and to give grace unto the mortal and human creature to behold the face of the angel. he who operateth shall do the same thing, but upon a veil of black silk, and

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

bance. 17. now i do not believe that there are any rules for doing this that will be any use to you. there are innumerable little tricks that you might try; only it is, as in the case of the posture itself, rather better if you invent your own tricks. i will only mention one: roll the tongue back towards the uvula, at the same time let the eyes converge towards an imaginery point in the centre of the forehead. there are all sorts of holinesses indicated in this attitude, and innumerable precedents on the part of the most respectable divinities. do, please, forget all this nonsense! the advantage is simply that your attention is forced to maintain the awkward position. you become aware sooner than you otherwise would of any relaxation; and you thereby show the rest of the body that it is no

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iry ring, two children wantonly and shamelessly embrace. line 31. an angel blowing a trumpet, adorned with a golden banner bearing a white cross. below a fair youth rises from a sacrophagus in the attitude of the god shu supporting the firmament. on his left a fair woman, her arms giving the sign of water an inverted c on the breast. on his right a dark man giving the sign of fire an upright b on the forehead. line 32. an ellipse, composed of 400 lesser circles. at the corners of the card a man, an eagle, a bull, and a lion. within the circles a naked shining figure in the sign of earth right foot advanced, fight hand advanced and raised, left hand lowered and thrown back. the hands grip each a ray of dazzling light, spiril, the right hand being dextro- and the left hand l vo-rotary. a red

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

s the set of photos originally published facing page 12 in equinox i, 2 and titled there "the signs of the grades" these are arranged as ten panels* in this re-publication, the original half-tones have been redone as line copy. each panel consists of an illustration of a single human in a black tau robe, barefoot with hood completely closed over the face. the hood displays a six-pointed figure on the forehead- presumably the radiant eye of horus of the a. a, but the rendition is too poor in detail. there is a cross pendant over the heart. the ten panels are numbered in black in the lower left corner. the panels are identified by two columns of numbered captions, 1 to 6 to the left and 7 to 10 to the right. the description is bottom to top and left to right "1. earth: the god set fighting"

at great voice proceeded from the universe, and not from himself. in both the above practices all consciousness of anything but the god-form and name should be absolutely blotted out; and the longer it takes for normal perception to return, the better. iv. i. the rituals of the pentagram and hexagram must be committed to memory; they are as follows "the lesser ritual of the pentagram" i. touching the forehead say ateh (unto thee, ii. touching the breast say malkuth (the kingdom, iii. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah (and the power<equinox version. the error made the end of line iii copy the end of line iv, iv. touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah (and the glory, v. clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-o

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

apology for manner of poem. a chance for tibet. hopes. identity of poet. attention drawn to my highly decorative cover. shields? be they paper, paint, lath? they shall cover 70 well as they may, the big heart of a lover! swords? let the lightning of truth strike the fortress frowning of god! i will sever one more tress off the white beard22 with his son s blood besprinkled, carve one more gash in the forehead23 hate-wrinkled: 75 so, using little arms, earn one day better ones; cutting the small chains,24 learn soon to unfetter one s limbs from the large ones, walk forth and be free! so much for browning! and so much for me! pray do not ask me where i stand! 80 who asks, doth err. 25 at least demand no folly such as answer means! but if (you26 say) your spirit weans itself of milk-and-water

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six months for it. once or twice, the magistrate had to direct the stream of emphatic words. but the accusation was formal and precise. the question now was: how would the magistrate deal with the case? at first sight, mr. brown, the magistrate, made a good impression on me. he was getting on in life: the dark hair was growing thin on top and a little grey at the sides. the head was well-shaped; the forehead notably broad; the chin and jaw firm. the only unpleasant feature in the face was the hard line of mouth, with thin, unsympathetic lips. mr. brown was reputed to be a great scholar, and was just the type of man who would have made a pedant; a man of good intellect and thin blood, who would find books and words more interesting than men and deeds. at first, mr. brown had seemed to be o

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h with his left hand gives the sign of silence. i wish to see what is within their ring. one of them bends forward so that i may whisper the pass- word. the angel prompts me to whisper "there is no god" so they let me pass, and though there was indeed nothing visible therein, yet there was a very strange atmosphere, which i could not understand. suspended in the air there is a silver star, and on the forehead of each of the guardians there is a silver star. it is a pentagram- because, says the angel, three and five are eight; three and eight are eleven (there is another numerical reason that i cannot hear) and as i entered their ring, they bade me stand in their circle, and a weapon was given unto me. and the pass-word that i had given seems to have been whispered round from one to the oth

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n the words "frater x y z, we receive thee into the order of the golden dawn" 22 meaning also "let the light arise in the candidate" they then recite the mystic words "khabs am pekht" as sealing the current of the flaming light. but the higher soul remaineth in the invisible station of harpocrates, and to the spirit vision, at this point, there should be a gleaming white triangle formulated above the forehead of the candidate and touching it, the symbol of the white triangle of the three supernals. the "hierophant" now calleth forward the kerux, and turning towards the candidate says to him "in all your wanderings through darkness, the lamp of the kerux went before you though you saw it not! it is the symbol of the hidden light of occult science" it here representeth to him a vague formula

e, and through her wild floating hair could be seen her eyes, in which glittered madness "on seeing me, she knelt down before me, and i, trying to comfort her, extended my hands to her, which she in turn kissed. behind her stood the white astrals of weeping women- these were her many lovers "after a while i brought her into the circle in which i was standing, and raising her up, caressed her upon the forehead. then i changed to my usual shape, at which she was exceedingly amazed, and only comforted when i told her of my great love for her. thereupon we rose together, embracing, to a place where angels greeted us. here we were told to go between the pillars into the temple; which we did, and saw in front of us an immense kneeling figure of some oriental deity. 315 "before us glared a human

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es. 10 liber o vel manvs et sagittae svb figvra vi a. a. publication in class b. imprimatur: d.d.s.praemonstrator o.s.v.imperator n.s.f.cancellarius illustration facing page 12: the signs of the grades. these are arranged as ten panels* these are all halftone photos of a single human in a black tau robe, barefoot with hood completely closed over the face. the hood displays a six-pointed figure on the forehead- presumably the radiant eye of horus of the a. a, but the rendition is too poor in detail. there is a cross pendant over the heart. the ten panels are numbered in white in the upper left, but the numerals are very dim even in the ist edition (some blurred out entirely in the weiser edition. the panels are identified by two columns of numbered captions, 1 to 6 to the left and 7 to 10 t

great voice proceeded from the universe, and not from himself. in both the above practices all consciousness of anything but the god-form and name should be absolutely blotted out; and the longer it takes for normal perception to return, the better. 18 iv i. the rituals of the pentagram and hexagram must be committed to memory; they are as follows "the lesser ritual of the pentagram (i) touching the forehead say ateh (unto thee (ii) touching the breast say malkuth (the kingdom (iii) touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah (and the power (iv) touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah (and the glory (v) clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-olahm, amen (to the ages, amen (vi) turning to the east make a pentagram (that of earth) with the proper weapon (usually the wand. say("i.e" v

ake us throw away our atheism and exclaim "o god be merciful to me a sinner, and keep me in the way of truth" nay, for those of us who know what triple silver cord of moonlight binds the red blood of our heart to the ineffable crown of brilliance, who have seen what angel stands in the moon-ray, who have known the perfume and the vision, seen the drops of dew supernal stand on the silver lamen of the forehead- for us is neither fear nor pride, but silence in the one thought of the one beyond all thought. the world of phantoms has no terror left; we can take the blood of the black dragon for our red tincture. we understand the precept "visita interiora terrae rectificando invenias occultum lapidem; and harnessing to our triumphal car the white eagle and the green lion we voyage at 63 our ea

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d lie; its positive promise is sexual; for mercury is hermaphrodite "jesod" which is solid and sluggish, and would be idle and content with what it had done "malkuth" which needs one to point out illusory nature of matter, and tree of knowledge of good and evil "the stigmata" formulate the lvx cross "cf" ateh, malkuth, ve geburah, ve gedulah, le' olahm, amen (the stigmata being formed by touching the forehead, feet, right hand, left hand and heart) 228 thus the sephiroth are equilibrated in both directions as in the equinox ritual.22 the versicles will be seen to be very appropriate to each sephira. this application of the stigmata fixes the light, as the flaming sword is a transitory symbol (see opening. the aspirant may now resume his emblems; after which themis commemorates the life and

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the waggon of night; nor restest thine hand upon the handle of the plough! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; urge me in the unity of thy might, and drench me with the red vintage of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 8. o thou god of the nothingness of all things! thou who art neither the starry eyes of heaven; nor the forehead of the crown d morning: o thou who art not perceived by the powers of the mind; nor grasped by the fingers of silence or of speech! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; robe me in the unity of thy might, and speed me into the blindness of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thy art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 33 9. o thou god of the nothingness

o thou ghostly night of terror, that art slaughtered in the blood of the dawn! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou poppied nectar of sleep, that art curled in the 59 still womb of slumber! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou burning rapture of girls, that disport in the sunset of passion! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou molten ocean of stars, that art a crown for the forehead of day! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou little brook in the hills, like an asp betwixt the breasts of a girl! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou mighty oak of magic, that art rooted in the mountain of life! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou sparkling network of pearls, that art woven of the waves by the moon! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao!

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whereon that night sits like a serpent on a tomb! for palamede those eyes beheld the iron image of his own; on those dead brows a fate he spelled to strike a gorgon into stone. he knew his father. still he sate, nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. the knight approves the justice done, and pays with that his rowels' debt; while yet the forehead of the son stands beaded with an icy sweat. 4 god's angel, standing sinister, unfurls this scroll- a sable stain "who wins the spur shall ply the spur upon his proper heart and brain" he gave the sign of malison on traitor knights and perjured men; and ever by the sea rode on sir palamede the saracen. ii behold! arabia's burning shore rings to the hoofs of many a steed. lord of a legi

st bar breaks; the steel will snaps; the black hordes riot in his brain; a thousand threatening thunder-claps smite him- insane- insane- insane! his muscles roar with senseless rage; the pale knight staggers, deathly sick; reels to the light that sorry sage, sir palamede the lunatick. 66 xxv a savage sea without a sail, grey gulphs and green a-glittering, rare snow that floats- a vestal veil upon the forehead of the spring. here in a plunging galleon sir palamede, a listless drone, drifts desperately on- and on- and on- with heart and eyes of stone. the deep-scarred brain of him is healed with wind and sea and star and sun, the assoiling grace that god revealed for gree and bounteous benison. ah! still he trusts the recreant brain, thrown in a thousand tourney-justs; still he raves on in r

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k the self supreme. this world is shadow-shapen of the bitterness of pain. vain are the little lamps of love! the light of life is vain! life, death, joy, sorrow, age and youth are phantoms of a further truth. beyond the splendour of the world, false glittering of the gold, a serpent is in slumber curled in wisdom's sacred cold. life is the flaming of that flame. death is the naming of that name, the forehead of the snake is bright with one immortal star, lighting her coils with living light to where the nenuphar sleeps for her couch. all darkness dreams the thing that is not, only seems. that star upon the serpent's head is called the soul of man. that light in shadows subtly shed the glamour of life's plan. 32 the sea whereon that lotus grows is thought's abyss of tears and woes. leave s

he world's irremovable bounds! roll, ye wild billows of ether! the sistron is shaken and sounds! wild and sonorous the clamour, vast in the region of death. live with the fire of the spirit, the essence and flame of the breath! sound, o sound! gleam in the world of the dark, where the chained ones shall tremble and flee! gleam in the skies of the dusk, for the light of the dawn is in me! light on the forehead and life in the nostrils, and love in the breast, shine, o thou star of the dawning, thou sun of the radiant crest! shine, o shine! flame through the sky in the strength of the chariot-wheels of the sun! flame, ye young fingers of light, on the west of the morning that run! 121 flame, o thou meteor car, for my fire is exalted in thee! lighten the darkness and herald the daylight, and

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ights. 75 rinaldo. it may be so. but you are my hostage["he releases her. she faces him" laylah. a worthless pledge. rinaldo. these silks and pearls! i could draw your veil through a link in my chain mail. laylah. i am the bride of the emir. rinaldo. a fair bride. i guessed you his daughter. laylah. my feet have not entered his house. rinaldo. your feet are fair. can you tell fortunes? laylah. on the forehead of every man his destiny is written. rinaldo. read mine. laylah. let me go to my house. rinaldo. then i will read yours. you are to be captive to a strange knight. laylah. not to you, sir knight! rinaldo. the rest is dark. laylah. you dare not touch me. rinaldo. sit there["he seats her on the wall of the well] do you guess what i have been thinking as i rode through the sun to these p

the imagery of the book as essentially that of the earlier and pre-christian gnostics. though we may not have absolute proof of the great antiquity of the gnosis, such as mr pryse unveils, yet it is clearly aryan, dating from the time of momu- the thinker; then again the development of the kundalini- serpent fire- world's mother, also termed rousing the brahm- is said to be shown as issuing from the foreheads of early 165 egyptian kings; apollonius of tyana, a contemporary of our jesus, visited the gymnosophists of the upper nile, but said that they were not equal to those of india. the british druids must have had a knowledge of the "serpent fire" in their secret instruction, or why exclaim "i am a serpent" the mythraic mysteries, and all the eranoi societies, were equally protected by t

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

d be thy breasts[/breast, erected in beauty[/formed in strength;[kiss r. breast, then l. breast] blessed be thy lips, that shall utter the sacred names.[kiss on lips [rises] h: now we are going to take your measure. h, aided by another witch of the same gender, stretches a button thread from the ground by c's foot to crown of c's head and cuts it there with athame or bolline. measure c once about the forehead with the cut thread and knot at the point of overlap, again about the heart starting from the same end [knot, and lastly about the hips across the genitals [knot. the measure is wound and placed upon the altar. h asks: h: before thou art sworn, art thou ready to pass the ordeal and be purified? c: i am. h, aided by another witch of the same gender, helps c to kneel, head and shoulders

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

d under that name is hidden much of esoteric moment. shiva stands for: a. the will aspect, b. the spirit aspect, c. the father in heaven, d. the directing purpose, e. conscious energy, f. dynamic intent, and in the consideration of these phrases the innate faculties of the third eye will become apparent. the "eye of shiva" in the human being has its position, as is already known, in the centre of the forehead between the two physical eyes.3(268) it is not to be confounded with the pineal gland, which is distinctly a physical centre or gland. the third eye exists in etheric matter, and is an etheric centre of force, being made of the substance of the ethers, whereas the pineal gland is formed of matter of the three lower subplanes of the physical plane. the latter, nevertheless, has to be f

ego on its own plane. during the greater part of evolution the ego makes its contact with its reflection, physical plane man, through the centre at the top of the head. when man is more highly evolved, and is nearing or treading the path, the indwelling self takes a more complete grasp of its lower vehicle, and descends to a point in the head or brain which is found approximately in the centre of the forehead. this is its lowest contact. it is interesting here to note the correspondence with the evolution of the senses. the three major senses and the three first to demonstrate in order are, hearing, touch, sight. for the greater part of evolution, hearing is the guiding impulse of human life through egoic contact with the top of the head. later, when the ego descends a little lower, the et

the revealer of the love-wisdom nature of gods and man, and it is therefore the sign of the white magician. third, the reflex action of the pineal gland itself. as these three types of energy, or the vibration of these three centres, begin to contact each other, a definite interplay is set up. this triple interplay forms in time a vortex or centre of force, which finds its place in the centre of the forehead, and takes eventually the semblance of an eye looking out between the other two. it is the eye of the inner vision, and he who has opened it can direct and control the energy of matter, see all things in the eternal now, and therefore be in touch with causes more than with effects, read the akashic records, and see clairvoyantly. therefore, its possessor can control the builders of lo

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

ness, or perception through hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell. these modes of perception become temporarily dormant, and man's perception becomes simply mental and the brain consciousness is all that is active on the physical plane. 2. the withdrawal of the consciousness into the region of the pineal gland, so that man's point of realization is centralized in the region between the middle of the forehead and the pineal gland. 3. the next stage is that of abstracting the consciousness into the head centre, the thousand petalled lotus or sahasara, by knowingly withdrawing the consciousness out of the head. this can be done in full waking consciousness when certain rules are learned and certain work accomplished. these can obviously not be given in such a work as this. the majority of pe

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

d smell. these modes of perception become temporarily dormant, and man's perception becomes simply mental and the brain consciousness is all that is active on the physical plane- 94- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. the withdrawal of the consciousness into the region of the pineal gland, so that man's point of realization is centralized in the region between the middle of the forehead and the pineal gland.3(131) five: when this has been done, and the aspirant is acquiring the ability so to focus in the head, the result of this process of abstraction is as follows: the five senses are being steadily synthesized by the sixth sense, the mind. this is the co-ordinating factor. later it is realized that the soul has an analogous function. the threefold personality is th

have an inclination to weep, or to be unduly restless; they have periods of intense activity wherein they find themselves running hither and thither serving, talking, writing and working so that they end by undergoing a violent reaction, sometimes to the point of nervous collapse. others complain of pains in the head, of headaches immediately after meditating, or of an uncomfortable vibration in the forehead, or the throat. they also find themselves unable to sleep as well as heretofore. they are, in fact, over-stimulated. the nervous system is being affected through the medium of fine and subtle "nadis" which underly the nerves and to which we earlier referred. these troubles are the troubles of the neophyte in the science of meditation and must be dealt with carefully. rightly handled

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

ary puts it "let the disciple seize hold of the tail of the serpent of wisdom, and having with firmness grasped it, let him follow it into the deepest centre of the hall of wisdom. let him not be betrayed into the trap set for him by the serpent of illusion, but let him shut his eyes to the colourful tracery upon its back, and his ears to the melody of its voice. let him discern the jewel, set in the forehead of the serpent whose tail he holds, and by its radiance traverse the miry halls of maya" no glamour, no illusion can long hold the man who has set himself the task of treading the razor-edged path which leads through the wilderness, through the thick-set forest, through the deep waters of sorrow and distress, through the valley of sacrifice and over the mountains of vision to the gate

three are to be found in the head. these three bisect the head, and form a series of crosses, as follows: this is much like the cross upon the union jack, which has always had an esoteric significance for the student, and indicates a point in racial evolution. this cross in the head separates the ajna centre (the centre between the eyebrows) from the head centre, for it lies behind that centre in the forehead, and at the same time forms a protective shield between the ajna and throat centres. these etheric webs are in reality disks, rotating or revolving at specific rates, which differ for the different centres, and according to the point in evolution of the system of centres concerned. only when these webs are burnt away by the ascending and descending fires can the true centres really be

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

from the centres below the diaphragm to the throat centre and from the soul to the throat centre. this leads to creative activity of some kind. 4. that the world disciples are beginning to be governed and controlled by the throat and heart centres and are also beginning to transfer the forces which have been raised to the heart and throat, to the ajna centre between the eyebrows, in the middle of the forehead. when this has been done, the man is then an integrated personality. the soul also stimulates the ajna centre. 5. that the more advanced disciples and world initiates are also energised from two sources: by means of the energies raised up and lifted into the head from all the centres in the body, and by those which pour into the human frame from the soul, via the highest centre at the

consequent urge to go forth into the world of daily living to love, to give and to stimulate. privately, and in group gatherings the great invocation could be said, including the final words "so let it be and help us do our part. there are those who have learned to say these words with intensity of feeling, raising the clasped hands above the head, and then at the last word bringing them down to the forehead and then to the heart. the raising of the hands above the head and their return in touching the forehead and the heart are simply symbolic of the lifting of heart and life and consciousness to divinity, and the subsequent and consequent downflow of spiritual life into the personality the instrument through which the loving soul must work out the expression of good will. the emphasis i

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

ng. 2. the protective formula. the protective formula is very simple. the members of the group will say in unison "as a soul i work in light and darkness cannot touch me. i take my stand within the light- 136- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust i work and from that point i never move" as they say this, each person in the group makes the sign of the cross by touching the centre of the forehead, the centre of the chest, and each of the two eyes, thus forming the long limbed cross of the christ or of divine humanity. the cross is not, as you well know, simply a christian symbol. it is the great symbol of light and of consciousness and signifies the vertical light and the horizontal light, the power of attraction and the power of radiation, soul life and service. the cross as

ach of the two eyes, thus forming the long limbed cross of the christ or of divine humanity. the cross is not, as you well know, simply a christian symbol. it is the great symbol of light and of consciousness and signifies the vertical light and the horizontal light, the power of attraction and the power of radiation, soul life and service. the cross as now made in the catholic churches, touching the forehead, the heart and the two shoulders is the sign of matter. it signifies in reality the third aspect. the cross which the group will make is the cross of christ and of the christ consciousness. gradually the cross of christ (the cross of the risen christ) will supersede the cross of matter and of the mother aspect. its likeness to the swastika is obvious and will be one of the reasons for

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

of light" in the centre of the bull's forehead; this is "the single eye" of the new testament which makes the "whole body to be full of light" then capricorn, the goat, related particularly and closely to aries, but hiding (as an esoteric blind) the symbolism of the unicorn in which the two horns and the single eye are blended and depicted by the long straight horn of the unicorn in the centre of the forehead. behind all the above lies the dual mystery of leo, for leo is as far as humanity is concerned the key or clue to the entire zodiac and around the constellation leo two great mysteries are found: 1. the mystery of the sphinx, connected with the relation of leo and virgo, and tied up with the secret of the solar angels. this is not the mystery of soul and form, but the mystery of the h

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

turous men could enter that vast maze which lured them to bewilderment, the maze of minos, king of crete, the keeper of the bull. crossing the ocean to the sunlit isle (though how we are not told) hercules entered on his task to seek and find the bull, and lead it to the holy place where dwell the one-eyed men. from place to place he chased the bull, led by the gleaming [40] star which shone upon the forehead of the bull, a bright lamp in a dark place. this light- 26- the labours of hercules moving as moved the bull, led him. from place to place. alone, he sought the bull; alone he chased it to its lair; alone he captured it and mounted on its back. around him stood the sisters seven, urging him on his way and, in the shining light, he rode the bull across the glimmering water to the isle

ete and searched all over the island, pursuing the bull from place to place until at last he cornered it. then, we are told, he rode the bull, like a horse, across the island and through the waters which separated crete from the mainland, and so brought it into the city of the cyclops. these cyclops were peculiar beings of whom it was claimed that they possessed only one eye, set in the middle of the forehead. they were ruled over by three outstanding figures, whose names were brontes, meaning thunder, steropes, meaning lightning, and arges, meaning whirling activity. when hercules arrived with the bull at the gates of the city, he was met by the three cyclops, who received the sacred bull from him and took charge of it. and thus ended the second labor. the theme of illumination taurus is

gate the tenth. he said "within this very hour hercules shall venture forth" when hercules stood face to face with him who was his guide, the latter spoke "a thousand dangers you have braved, o hercules" the teacher said "and much has been achieved. wisdom and strength are yours. will you make use of them to rescue one in agony, a prey to vast and unremitting suffering" the teacher gently touched the forehead of hercules. before the latter's inner eye a vision rose. a man lay prone upon a rock, and groaned as if his heart would break. his hands and legs were shackled; the massive chains that bound him were tied to iron rings. a vulture, fierce and bold, kept pecking at the prostrate victim's liver; in consequence, a trickling stream of blood flowed from his side. the man uplifted his manac

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

sabaoth; and isud, yesod, foundation, with the name al chai, el chai. finally, all these ideals are resumed in a single form, the tenth sephira, mlkut, malkuth, the shekinah, the kingdom, also sometimes called tzedek, righteousness. the whole decad form "adam kadmon "the archetypal man" and the wondrous otz chiim "tree of life" in the ancient figures of adam kadmon we see kether, the crown, over the forehead; chokmah and binah are the two halves of the thinking brain; gedulah and geburah are the organs of action, the right and left upper limbs; tiphareth is the heart and the vital organs of the chest; netzach and hud are the lower limbs right and left; jesod refers to the digestive and reproductive organs and abdomen; and lastly malkuth is compared to the feet as a basis or foundation of

BANISHING THE SLAVE GODS

ype of religious figure, authority, or someone that is just plain witnessing to you with their chosen "faith. to intiate an offensive attack- which is actually a blessing in disguise- you will imagine this inverse pentagram slightly between your eyebrows at the center of your forehead. in the same manner that said pentagram is projected out during the rite, you may project this onto the center of the forehead of the person you are cursing/blessing. the key to the efficacy of this attack lies in the ability to open ones own "third eye chakra" which provides the force behind the actual symbol. here is a brief sex magical rite to open the "third eye. obtain crowley's book of thoth: tarot take out the devil and tower cards. you can: a. masturbate while gazing upon the tower card equating its s

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aphrodite humanity was "four-armed" unriddles probably the mystery of all the representations and idols of the exoteric gods of india. on the acropolis of argos, there was a[[zoanon, a rudely carved wooden statue (attributed to daedalus, representing a three-eyed colossus, which was consecrated to zeus triopas (three-eyed. the head of the "god" has two eyes in its face and one above on the top of the forehead. it is considered the most archaic of all the ancient statues (schol. vatic. ad eurip. troad. 14* the inner sight could henceforth be acquired only through training and initiation, save in the cases of "natural and born magicians" sensitives and mediums, as they are called now* this expression "petrified" instead of "ossified" is curious. the "back eye" which is of course the pineal g

senses "from within without" from astral prototypes, is far more satisfactory: the third eye retreated inwards when its course was run- another point in favour of occultism. the allegorical expression of the hindu mystics when speaking of the "eye of siva" the tri-bochana("three-eyed, thus receives its justification and raison d'etre- the transference of the pineal gland (once that "third eye) to the forehead, being an exoteric licence. this throws also a light on the mystery- incomprehensible to some- of the connection between abnormal, or spiritual seership, and the physiological purity of the seer. the question is often asked "why should celibacy and chastity be a sine qua non rule and condition of regular chelaship, or the development of psychic and occult powers" the answer is contain

hat which is meant is this: siva, as said before, is unknown by that name in the vedas; and it is in the white yajur veda that he appears for the first time as the great god- mahadeva- whose symbol is the lingham. in rig veda he is called rudra, the "howler" the beneficent and the maleficent deity at the same time, the healer and the destroyer. in the vishnu purana, he is the god who springs from the forehead of brahma, who separates into male and female, and he is the parent of the rudras or maruts, half of whom are brilliant and gentle, others, black and ferocious. in the vedas, he is the divine ego aspiring to return to its pure, deific state, and at the same time that divine ego imprisoned in earthly form, whose fierce passions make of him the "roarer" the "terrible" this is well shown

(descending male ray, and a horizontal line (matter, female principle, and the mundane circle was an attribute of isis, and it is but at death that the egyptian cross was laid on the breast of the mummy" these square hats are worn unto this day by the armenian priests. the claim that the cross is purely a christian symbol introduced after our era, is strange indeed, when we find ezekiel stamping the foreheads of the men of judah, who feared the lord (ezekiel ix. 4, with the signum thau, as it is translated in the vulgate. in the ancient hebrew this sign was formed thus[[diagram, but in the original egyptian hieroglyphics as a perfect christian cross[[diagram (tat, the emblem of stability. in the revelation, also, the "alpha and omega (spirit and matter, the first and the last, stamps the

en of judah, who feared the lord (ezekiel ix. 4, with the signum thau, as it is translated in the vulgate. in the ancient hebrew this sign was formed thus[[diagram, but in the original egyptian hieroglyphics as a perfect christian cross[[diagram (tat, the emblem of stability. in the revelation, also, the "alpha and omega (spirit and matter, the first and the last, stamps the name of his father in the foreheads of the elect (p. 323, vol. ii) moses, in exodus xii. 22, orders his people to mark their door-posts and lintels with blood, lest the "lord god" should make a mistake and smite some of his chosen people, instead of the doomed egyptians. and this mark is a tau! the identical egyptian handled cross, with the half of which talisman horus raised the dead, as is shown on a sculptured ruin

ire to prove man's pithecoid origin, insists that the transformation of the primordial ape into a human being must have occurred millions of years back. for in criticising the excellent average cranial capacity of the neanderthal skull, notwithstanding his assertion that it is overlaid with "pithecoid bony walls" coupled with mr. grant allen's assurances that this skull "possesses large bosses on the forehead, strikingly) suggestive of those which give the gorilla its peculiarly fierce appearance (fortnightly review, 1882) still mr. huxley is forced to admit that, in the said skull, his theory is once more defeated by the "completely human proportions of the accompanying limb-bones, together with the fair development of the engis skull" in consequence of all this we are notified that those

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

atural tendency to place your attention in the manner that you focus your eyes, is used to aid your meditation in what is called the third eye meditation technique. do you want to focus on the higher self? then by using your natural tendencies, simply focus your eyes and your attention upward and inward to the third eye; a spot about one inch above the brow line and one inch inside the surface of the forehead. posture meditation should be comfortable and secure. therefore your posture should be comfortable and secure. you may choose any position you like so long as you make sure to keep your spine straight. i personally recommend that you sit in a comfortable, straight-backed chair. you should be able to sit well back spine straight with your feet flat on the floor. the chair should, prefe

lax the entire body, section by section. calves, knees, thighs, groin, buttocks, spine, stomach and chest cavity, shoulders, upper and lower arms, wrists, hands, neck, throat, chin, jaw (let the jaw sag and hang slightly open if you feel a tendency for it to do so, eyes, cranial area and scalp. relax every muscle, vein, nerve and fiber as you move up your body. finish your relaxation technique at the forehead. then you need only to focus inward to your third eye. with your attention focused at the third eye, let your eyes roll up, if you can. go deeper and ever deeper into the third eye. abandon the unreal material world; the ego self. it is only when the materialistic ego self is transcended that you can find the door to the inner kingdom and your higher self. give yourself to it. yield t

earn. stay with it. you are embarking on the greatest voyage of your life. ending your meditation period for your physical well-being it is important that you end each meditation period with a re-awakening of the physical and conscious selves. this should be done in the reverse order to the method for relaxation. as your consciousness begins to pull away from the third eye, direct it to expand up the forehead to the top of the head. then, step by step, proceed down through the body: cranial area, eyes, back of the group meditation can bring enormous satisfaction. the interaction of each person's vibrations work in a complementary manner resulting in tremendous psychic achievement. when meditating alone you may, once in a while, experience an 'off' day. this is never the case with group med

tion? again, have no expectations; be purely receptive. feel; listen; look into the third eye. move into any perceptions that you find. examine them and become one with them. then record them, exactly as received. don't let your conscious mind interfere. some people find they are better able to get their results holding the object in one particular hand, rather than in both hands; some hold it to the forehead, over the third eye; some hold it over the heart. experiment. see which is best for you. there is good evidence to show that a pictorial method is resorted to very largely by the spirits mediums seeing what they describe, very often, when the more direct auditory method is not resorted to. the spirit presents somehow to the mind of the medium a picture, which is described and often in

the mouth of the figure. she finishes off by winding the thread all around the body of the figure. the concentration is on the fact that the person is unable to speak on the forbidden subject whatever the secret may be that is being safeguarded. at the end* the tantric facial pack par excellence is liberal quantities of fresh, warm semen upon the skin, with special attention to the oily areas of the forehead and nose. as the semen dries, it closes the pores with an astringent action and tightens the wrinkles, feeds the skin cells and thus leaves the face rejuvenated and smooth. of the ritual the poppet is stored away in a safe place, wrapped in a piece of white cloth. so long as the thread remains in place, the person represented is bound. protection it is possible for the nicest person t

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h continues "this great god saith, o ye who stand by your waters, who keep ward over your lands, who go round about in the pool of those who are submerged in nu, pilot ye these to the lands of the sea of the tuat, unto your waters which never dry up, and rise ye up in your lands and let me travel over you in peace. this great god saith, o ye, lift ye up your weapons to your. image, and protect ye the foreheads of your maat, and perform ye your work, in order that i may be able to pass by you in peace" 8. immediately in front of the god anp-heni is an object which looks like a chamber with a rounded roof; but whatever it may be, it is filled with sand, and from the fact that the sign of "night" or "darkness" appears at the top, we may conclude that it represents p. 106 some form of the dark

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n the set, which caused the person on the screen to really get mad. he sent a wave of pure fury into the camera that almost knocked me off my chair and it takes a lot to move me. 3. this energy can be polarized and will behave much as light does. it can be made to pass through lenses and be reflected by mirrors. 4. it will emanate from the entire human body, with certain points, such as the eyes, the forehead, the top of the head and the fingertips being the strongest emission points. 5. it has a relation to electromagnetic energy that allows it to be carried over wires without a carrier wave. this is one feature that can be proven by an easily repeatable experiment. t. galen hieronymus, a famous radionic expert who died in 1988, did an experiment in which he took two identical potted plan

s discovery, he set out to prove that this relationship could be used to diagnose diseases and that the energies involved would pass over a wire. he procured an assistant, undoubtedly a local medical student, and had him stand with an aluminum electrode attached to his forehead while the doctor had another assistant behind a screen hold another electrode, this one attached by a wire to the one on the forehead of the victim, over disease tissue samples. while the second assistant did this, abrams tapped the tummy of the first assistant to determine what kind of noise he got and where on the tummy it came from. in doing this, abrams proved that such a diagnosis could be made and the energies he read in doing so could travel over a wire. this convinced abrams that he was dealing with an elect

e red spray paint the very first thing you must do when you get home from the helmet store is to try it on. it is important that it fit comfortably. after it is adjusted, put it on and look in the mirror and try to get some idea of how the device will look after it is completed. okay, now that you have an idea of what your going to do, take the helmet off and look at the front. find the center of the forehead, high enough so that the works of the potentiometers will be inside without scraping your head and the dials in front will be able to turn without running into the brim. mark this point with a felt pen and measure a couple of inches off to each side and mark those points as well. this way when the pots and dials are mounted they will form a neat row in front of the helmet. now figure

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

bots in every sense, an extension of a computer program. in the us, food stamps and some other benefits are being converted to the card based electronic benefit transfer (ebt) and the whole social security system is planning to do the same. the plan to phase out cash moves apace. a united kingdom company, aim uk, which specialises in "automatic identification, produced a face with a bar coding on the forehead as part of its publicity material. one of this company's products is radio frequency 402 .and the truth shall set you free identification which reads electronic labels in manufacturing, warehousing, shops, and on people. the technology now being developed will allow every thought and action to be monitored and recorded. the london sunday times of april 16th 1995, also reported that "t

ernational social security number, fingerprint identification, physical description, family and medical history, address, occupation, income tax information, and criminal record. another selling point of this, no doubt, would be the end of passports. the chip recharges itself by turning the changes in body temperature into a dynamo system and the most effective places they have found for this are the forehead and the back of the wrist. the bbc 'science' programme, tomorrow's world, revealed in september 1995, how in the uk, people are already being microchipped with their medical records. this stuff is happening now! the implications of allowing ourselves to be microchipped are far wider than i've even outlined. it also involves the suppression of the spiritual transformation now underway

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

lashed a red, laser-like beam, he says, which can knock a person down and paralyse them. this is an origin of the phrase about giving someone the "evil eye".2 in china the lung wang("dragon kings) were said to have a "magical pearl" on their foreheads, a "divine eye" and mystical source of power. french stories from the alpine regions speak of a dragon with a blood-red ruby "eye" in the centre of the forehead that was so bright the creature seemed to be projecting fire.3 sometimes this middle eye is called a dracontia4 and the eye in the centre of the forehead in the ancient stories of the beings called the cyclops may well relate to this, too. credo mutwa and modern abductees describe how the most "royal" and senior reptilians, the draco, have horns. some look like darth maul in the star

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

esoteric mathematician,who was a high initiate of both the greek andegyptian mystery schools.34 according to the most famous historian of the period,josephus, the essenes were sworn to keep secret the names of the powers who ruled theuniverse. this was in line with the laws of the mystery schools. the essenes-therapeutae practised rituals very similar to the later christian baptism and theymarked the foreheads of initiates with a cross. this being the symbol indicated in theold testament book of ezekiel for enlightened (or illuminated) ones and also used forinitiations into the mysteries of mithra and other such sun god figures. the essenesviewed natural bodily functions, including sex, with disgust and in that sense they were figure 17: the jewish priest with themushroom cap to symbolise

actuallymeans goddess line as in dea (goddess) andley (ley line. the pyramid with the capstonemissing, or the pyramid and all seeing eye, ismost famously depicted on the reverse of thegreat seal of the united states and the dollar bill.the all seeing eye is the eye of horus, lucifer,satan, whatever name you want to use, and alsorelates to the so-called third eye, the chakravortex in the centre of the forehead throughwhich we connect with our psychic sight.according to egyptian legend, osiris was figure 28: the all seeing eye on the dollarbill is it reptilian?353murdered by set and set was killed byhorus who lost an eye in the process, hencethe eye of horus. for me it also symbolisesthe reptilians looking into this world fromthe lower fourth dimension and if you lookat a magnification of th

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

heir initiatory pattern. thesis-antithesis-synthesis theory: a theory stating that if you have one condition (a, and wish to change to a different condition (b, you usually get a mixture of the old condition and the new condition (ab, rather than the new condition (b) that you wanted to change to. theurgy: from the greek meaning "god magick" see high magick. third eye: an imaginary eye located on the forehead between the eyebrows which is said to be the astral organ of psychic sight and clairvoyance (q.v. thought control: a form of sex magick (q.v) which is a method of controlling sexual energy via the mind during sexual excitation and orgasm. tikune: hebrew for "correct" pronounced "tee-koon" according to donald michael kraig, the word tikoon is synonymous with the sanskrit word, karma (q

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

f the elements and hallow them in thy holy name. grant that this salt may make for health of body and this water for health of soul, and that there may be banished from the place where they are used every power of adversity and every illusion and artifice of evil, for the sake of jesus christ our saviour. amen" the water thus consecrated may be used as a bath, or for making the sign of cross upon the forehead, or for sprinkling about a place. when thus using it, the following prayer may be employed "in the name which is above every other name, and in the power of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost, i exorcise all influences and seeds of evil; i lay upon them the spell of christ's holy church, that they may be bound fast as with chains and cast into outer darkness, that they tr

root and branch; whereas the mere destruction of a thought-form is like cutting off the top of a weed. on the other hand, it can only be done by an advanced occultist keyed up to the highest pitch. if one is disturbed or harassed or has in any degree lost his nerve, one dare not attempt it. if the rapport is perceived as a line of light, a cord, or any similar form, attached to the solar plexus, the forehead, or any other part of the body, the best way of severing the rapport is to forge a magical weapon and cut it. in fact, if a rapport is felt, the first thing to do is to visualise the cord and try to see where it attaches; the solar plexus is the commonest place. next formulate the cross-handled sword as already described, and invoke god's blessing upon it. then visualise a flaming tor

be able to look upon them as chance. it is my belief that it is possible for anyone who has need of them to get into touch telepathically with this occult police force. the symbol i was taught to use was a black calvary cross with circle on a scarlet ground. this is pictured in the imagination, and while gazing at it mentally the call is sent out into the unseen, projecting it from the centre of the forehead. 99 of 103 various attempts have been made to prove that the occult fraternities are all directed from a single headquarters, said variously to be situated in germany, thibet, mongolia and south america. personally i do not believe it. i suppose that i have a pretty varied acquaintance with the inner workings of the occult movement, and i have never seen anything whatever that indicat

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

the underworld, i osiris, the scribe ani, triumphant in peace" vignette: the emblem of amenta and ani standing with a staff in his left hand. text [chapter viii (i) the chapter of passing through amenta, and of coming forth by day. saith osiris ani "the hour) openeth (2) the head of thoth is sealed up; perfect is the eye of horus. i have delivered the eye of horus which shineth with splendours on the forehead of ra (3) the father of the gods. i am the same osiris, dwelling in amenta. osiris knoweth his day and that he shall not live therein; nor shall i live therein (4) i am the moon among the gods; i shall not come to an end. stand up, therefore, o horus; osiris hath counted thee among the gods [1. the god seker was a form of the night sun, like ptah, osiris and tanen; see lanzone, dizion

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

the original black box was devised by dr. albert abrams, an unconventional san francisco physician in the early twentieth century. it consisted of a box, variously called the era or the oscilloclast, with several variable rheostats and a thin sheet of rubber mounted over a metal plate. a blood sample from the patient would be put into the machine, which was connected with a metal plate placed on the forehead of a healthy person. by tapping on the abdomen of this person, the doctor determined the disease of the patient according to the areas of dullness identified by dial readings on the apparatus. this strange procedure brought together various techniques: auscultation is part of normal medical practice, but the suggestion of a psychic relationship between a patient and his blood sample

nnot endure for ever; god is merciful. all that belongs to earth is fading away. i see in the distance a little light glittering like a diamond. i feel a calm stealing over me. what a good sleep i shall have. what joy! these were the last words the painter spoke. he was still entranced but no longer replied to the questions asked by the doctor. they then approached the head and the doctor touched the forehead, the temples, and the teeth and found they were cold. the head was dead. wiertz painted three pictures of a guillotined head. according to an account of his gruesome experience in catalogue raisonne du musee wiertz, precede d une biographie du paintre par le dr. l. watteau (1865, wiertz had been closely following a murder trial that ended in two men being sent to the scaffold. it is v

eriments was made in paris in the presence of a. n. aksakof with elizabeth d esperance as the seeing subject and a ms. lambert as the exteriorizing subject. henri durville was the next experimenter. by means of passes he built up a double around his subjects ninette and martha and observed that the double was capable of motor effects at a distance of several rooms. finally, from an effluvium from the forehead, the bregma, the throat, the epigastrium, and even the spleen, he saw a true phantom take shape at a distance of 20 to 24 inches from the medium. it had the appearance of the medium, became more or less luminous, and was united with the medium s body by a little cord at the navel, the bregma, or the epigastrium. the phantom could see through opaque bodies in the distance and its objec

ung loosely on her figure. her arms had disappeared, but putting my hands up the dress sleeves i found them diminished to the size of those of a little child.the fingers reaching only to where the elbows had been. the same miracle had happened to her feet, which only occupied half her boots. she looked in fact like the mummy of a girl of four or six years old. the spirit told me to feel her face. the forehead was dry, rough and burning hot, but from the chin water was dropping freely on the bosom of her dress. the famous case of the partial dematerialization of d esperance s body in helsinki on december 11, 1895, is described in alexander aksakof s book a case of partial dematerialization (1898. he was not present himself, but he collected testimonies of 15 witnesses. as he reconstructed t

police, and they also heard the knocking coming from the walls and saw a chair move. the phenomena continued for the next week. a priest and a medium were called in. they could do nothing and the knocks and unusual movements of objects continued. next they invited the news media. their patient waiting was finally rewarded with a host of flying objects, including a pan that hit the photographer on the forehead. at this point the society for psychical research was called in. thus, for the next 13 months, michael grosse and guy lyon playfair made extensive observations and kept detailed records of the paranormal phenomena. they recorded over 2,000 unexplained events. they also tried means such as wiring down a bed to stop the phenomena. in the case of the bed, the wire was snapped and the bed

he and his master fashioned images of wax to represent the king, his two favorites, the prior, his caterer and steward, and one richard de lowe.the latter being brought in merely as an experimental figure to test the effect of the charm. at an old ruined house near coventry on the friday following holy cross day, john gave marshall a sharp-pointed leaden branch and commanded him to plunge it into the forehead of the figure representing richard de lowe. this being done, john dispatched his servant to lowe s house to find out the result of the experiment. lowe it seems had lost his senses and went about screaming harrow! on the sunday before ascension, john withdrew the branch from the image s forehead and thrust it into the heart, where it remained until the following wednesday, when the un

ent to anspach in the charge of a dr. meyer, who became his tutor. hauser eventually became a clerk in the office of feuerbach, who was then president of the court of appeal. feuerbach died in may 1833, and rumors circulated that he had been poisoned by mysterious enemies (back in 1829, when in the care of daumer, hauser had claimed to be the victim of a mysterious assassin who had wounded him on the forehead) hauser became increasingly dissatisfied with his clerical post, believing himself destined for higher things. like meyer, he had hopes that lord stanhope would take him to england and adopt him into high society. meanwhile meyer became increasingly disillusioned with hauser, finding him incurably untruthful. he had strong misgivings about stanhope s imminent visit to anspach. on dece

ng cannot endure for ever; god is merciful. all that belongs to earth is fading away. i see in the distance a little light glittering like a diamond. i feel a calm stealing over me. what a good sleep i shall have! what joy! these were the last words the painter spoke. he was still entranced, but no longer replied to the questions put by the doctor. they then approached the head and dr. d. touched the forehead, the temples, and teeth and found they were cold. the head was dead. in the wiertz gallery in brussels are to be found three pictures of a guillotined head, presumably the outcome of this gruesome experiment. theory of hypnotic action among numerous explanations of the physiological conditions accompanying the hypnotic state there is one, the theory of cerebral dissociation, which was

rsen) and one of the two trumpets which had been levitated for the voice immediately fell at the feet of mr. nelson. at the same moment, mrs. nelson received an electric shock which formed a blister on one of her fingers, resembling one which would be produced by a burning of the skin. all the sitters testified to having felt the electric shock both in the region of the solar plexus, the back and the forehead. larsen was reportedly discovered prostrate on the floor, minus any heartbeat and her body rigid. it took considerable effort to restore her to consciousness. burnside, the other medium, suffered from the shock for several days after the sitting. frederick bligh bond, editor of psychic research, speculated about the nature of the electric shock: is it the light, qua light, which in th

161 n. sandusky rd, tiffin, oh 44883. sources: maryona [helen spitler. light of the universe. 2 vols. tiffin, ohio: the light of the universe, 1965, 1976. mini-manual for light bearers. tiffin, ohio: light of the universe, 1987. lignites a beautiful glass-like stone. according to ancient belief, if the stone were hung about a child, it preserved him or her from witchcraft, and if it were bound on the forehead, it stopped bleeding of the nose, restored the loss of senses, and helped to foretell future events. it is not clear what stone is indicated, and it seems unlikely to have been the lignite, which is a brown or black variety of coal. lilith demonic figure in jewish folklore. she seems to have originally been a storm demon and was later associated with the night. at a very early period

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nomena such as thunder and lightning, concerned with divination from the appearance and movements of meteors and shooting stars. methetherial a term coined by f. w. h. myers meaning beyond the ether, the transcendental world in which spirits exist. metopomancy metopomancy is a form of divination character analysis based upon the reading of the wrinkle lines of an individual s forehead. the use of the forehead wrinkles would appear to be but another one of the many items assigned some divinatory significance in the ancient world, and in fact it was one aspect of the ancient art of face reading or physiognomy in china. however, early in the sixteenth century, renowned mathematician, physician, and astrologer gerolomo cardano (1501.1576) proposed metopomancy as a new art. in his book, metopos

igned some divinatory significance in the ancient world, and in fact it was one aspect of the ancient art of face reading or physiognomy in china. however, early in the sixteenth century, renowned mathematician, physician, and astrologer gerolomo cardano (1501.1576) proposed metopomancy as a new art. in his book, metoposcopia, he covered some 800 wrinkle configurations and related each wrinkle on the forehead to a particular astrological sign. by this method, he claimed to be able, for example, to identify adulterous women and thieves. cardano divided the area of the forehead into seven positions, each assigned to one of the then-known heavenly bodies. beginning at the top, the areas were assigned in order to saturn, jupiter, mars, the sun, venus, mercury, and the moon. the assignment allo

forehead to a particular astrological sign. by this method, he claimed to be able, for example, to identify adulterous women and thieves. cardano divided the area of the forehead into seven positions, each assigned to one of the then-known heavenly bodies. beginning at the top, the areas were assigned in order to saturn, jupiter, mars, the sun, venus, mercury, and the moon. the assignment allows the forehead reading to be aligned with the horoscope. reading the forehead began with an assessment of the length, depth, and prominence of the lines. long unbroken lines indicate an honest person while x-shaped lines indicate a deceptive personality. a slight curve in the lines indicate a balanced personality, while wavy lines suggest that the person likes to travel (physically and/or mentally

loger jerome cardan (1501.1576. his work, including some 800 illustrations of faces, was published in an edition edited by c. m. laurenderio, titled metoposcopia, libris tredecim, et octingentis faciei humanae eiconibus complexa: cui accessis melampodia de navis corporis tractatus graece et latine nunc primum editus (lutetiae parisorum, 1658. although his interpretations were confined to lines in the forehead (coupled with astrology, his ideas were a forerunner of the physiognomy of j. k. lavater (1741.1801. metratton according to jewish rabbinical legend, the angel metratton is one of the agents by whom god the father works. he receives the pure and simple essence of the divinity and bestows the gift of life upon all. he dwells in one of the angelic hierarchies. metropolitan spiritual chu

again. moles (birthmarks) birthmarks on the human face or body, usually classed medically as a benign form of nevus. many superstitions exist about moles, and moleoscopy arose as a system of divination based on the position, character, and astrological connections of these markings. in folk belief, a mole on the throat was said to be a sign of good luck, but unlucky if located on the left side of the forehead near the hair. a mole on the chin, ear, or neck was said to indicate riches, but on the breast to signify poverty. the position of moles on the various parts of the body had various meanings: on the feet and hands of a woman.many children; on the right arm and shoulder of a man or woman. great lechery; on the ankles or feet.modesty in men and courage in women; on or about the knees.ri

ed by groans and piercing cries. again, the widely-opened mouth, eyes wild and showing nothing but the white, the pupil being turned up under cover of the lids.the whole returning to the normal at the mere command of the exorcist in conjunction with the sign of the cross. they have often been seen creeping and crawling on the ground without any help from the hands or feet; the back of the head or the forehead may be touching the soles of the feet. some lie on the ground, touching it with the pit of the stomach only, the rest of the body, head, feet and arms, being in the air for some length of time. sometimes, bent back so that the top of the head and the soles of the feet touch the ground, the rest of the body being supported in the air like a table, they walk in this position without hel

animal and human bodies. the force could be conducted to distances yet unascertained by all solid and liquid bodies, bodies may be charged with od, or od may be transferred from one body to another. reichenbach believed this transference was apparently affected by contact. but mere proximity, without contact, was sufficient to produce the charge, although to a lesser degree. the mouth, the hands, the forehead, and the skull were the main parts of the body in which the od force manifested. reichenbach claimed that the odic tension varied during the day; it diminished with hunger, increased after a meal, and also diminished at sunset. he insisted that the odic flame was a material something, that it could be affected by breath or a current of air. the thoroughness of reichenbach s many exper

iritualism. sitters at a seance or other gathering are each requested to write the name of a deceased person or persons whom they wish to contact or know about, and/or questions to which they seek an answer, on a slip of paper. the slips are either folded into billets or tightly screwed up into pellets, which are sometimes sealed in envelopes. the medium would hold each billet or pellet (often to the forehead) and give a message relating to the deceased individual or question on the slip of paper. the american medium charles h. foster specialized in this type of clairvoyance. variants of this performance are common with stage magicians and the very nature of the procedure suggests a conjuring trick. the psychical researcher harry price described in his book confessions of a ghost hunter (1

with stage magicians and the very nature of the procedure suggests a conjuring trick. the psychical researcher harry price described in his book confessions of a ghost hunter (1974) how he bought the secret of the trick from a man from oshkosh, wisconsin. as practiced by fake mediums, such billet-readings sessions begin with the medium taking a piece of paper, holding it in his or her hand (or at the forehead for dramatic effect) and giving an initial reading. the first reading is not for the person who wrote the billet but for a person in cahoots who agrees with whatever is said. the medium then reads the billet and places it aside. the process is repeated and the answer is now given to the first billet, pretending it to be a reading for the billet in hand. by this manner the medium is al

ient s disease simply by holding his hand. many of his acquaintances, on pressing a letter against their foreheads, could tell the character and surroundings of the writer, the circumstances under which the letter was written, and other details. many mediums who have practiced psychometry have since become famous in this line. as has been said, their method is to hold in the hand or place against the forehead some small object, such as a fragment of clothing, a letter, or a watch; appropriate visions are then seen or sensations experienced. while on rare occasions a psychometrist may be entranced, normally he or she is in a condition scarcely varying from the normal. the psychometric pictures, presumably somehow imprinted on the objects, have been likened to pictures carried in the memory

s of a diagnostic apparatus called a black box. the original black box, sometimes called the e.r.a. or oscilloclast, was the invention of dr. albert abrams, a san francisco physician. the black box consisted of several variable rheostats and a thin sheet of rubber mounted over a metal plate. a blood sample from the patient was put into the machine, which was connected with a metal plate placed on the forehead of a healthy person. by tapping on the abdomen of this person, the doctor determined the disease of the patient according to areas of dullness in relation to dial readings on the apparatus. this strange procedure brought together the special sensitivities of radiesthesia or dowsing and medical auscultation. after the death of abrams in 1924, his procedures were developed by ruth drown

ds of somnambulism: the natural, the symptomatic, the artificial, and ecstatic. hypnotism would fall under the artificial category, and trance under the ecstatic. physiologically, somnambulism differs from sleep in that the muscles retain the ordinary tension of the waking life. the eyeballs are usually in an unnatural position, drawn upward and inward so that the vision is directed to the top of the forehead. there is an insensibility to pain; taste and smell are paralyzed. the external senses are perfectly sealed. no memory is carried into the waking state. there are various degrees of somnambulism. charles richet spoke of semi-somnambulism, the state in which the medium retains consciousness while automatic manifestations take place. catalepsy is a deep stage of somnambulism. the fakirs

thian-ti-hwii the heaven and earth league, an ancient esoteric society in china, said to have still been in existence in 1674. the society professed to continue a system of brotherhood derived from ancient customs. sources: chesneaux, jean. secret societies in china in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ann arbor, mich: university of michigan press, 1971. third eye the mystical center behind the forehead between the eyes, which is a focus for oriental mystical meditation. it is known in yoga philosophy as the ajna chakra (center of command) and its activation or opening through meditation is often the preliminary to activation of other chakras. the initial experience of the third eye, the seeming presence of a screen inside the head at the front of the brain, can be had by anyone who

achieved. the plate showed a luminous spot, in the midst of which the profile of a man could be traced. commandant darget, of tours, france, obtained several good thought photographs in 1896. his procedure was to gaze attentively at a simple object for a few moments in order to engrave it firmly on the mind, then go into the dark room and (1) place a photographic plate with the glass side against the forehead for a quarter of an hour, mentally picturing the object decided upon and strongly desiring to make an impression on the plate (2) place the hand on a plate (or hold the plate in the hand) for a quarter of an hour, operating as before (3) put the plate into a developing bath, placing the fingers of one hand on the edge of the plate for ten minutes. there should always be the desire to

lacking. respiratory movements. passing from 18 inspirations to 15 and 12 a minute. heartbeats increase from 70 to 90 and even 120. the hands are seized with jerkings and tremors. the joints of the feet and the hands take on movements of flexure or extension, and every little while become rigid. the passing from this state to that of active somnambulism is marked by yawns, sobs, perspirations on the forehead, passing of insensible perspiration through the skin of the hands, and strange physiognomic expressions. now she seems a prey to a kind of anger, expressed by imperious commands and sarcastic and critical phrases, and now to a state of voluptuous erotic ecstasy. in the state of trance she first becomes pale, turning her eyes upward and her sight inward. exhibiting many of the gestures

than a dangerous cannibal. many werewolves were said to be innocent persons suffering through the witchcraft of others. to regain their true form it was necessary for them to kneel in one spot for a hundred years, to lose three drops of blood, to be hailed as a werewolf, to have the sign of the cross made on their bodies, to be addressed thrice by their baptismal names, or to be struck thrice on the forehead with a knife. according to donat de hautemer, quoted by simon goulart (1543.1628, there are some lycanthropes who are so dominated by their melancholy humour that they really believe themselves to be transformed into wolves. this malady. is a sort of melancholy, of a black and dismal nature. those who are attacked by it leave their homes in the months of february, imitate wolves in al

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lent. they sailed around the room, then landed and bounced up and down on the couch. she shouted at them to stop, and they did, though this would be the last time they did what she asked them to do. the episode lasted for an hour. it was often difficult, trying, and even painful. if they did not like what she had to say, a beam would shoot from the light at the top of their helmets and hit her on the forehead just above the bridge of the nose. sometimes she would be blinded. at other times she would be paralyzed. and at yet other times, when she had addressed them with a seemingly inoffensive question, the light would not hurt her. they would not tell her why they shot the light at her, or why they would quote back to her any question she asked them. the experience made her eyes sore, and

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

qabalistic tree, the columns of the right and the left. the side channels play a much more prominent role in the qabalah than they do in the tantras. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% 2 f# chakra system the kundalini, as chitshakti (the energy of consciousness, awakens and ascends the chakric tree, opening the chakric lotuses along the sushumna on her way to unite with her husband shiva in the ajna chakra at the forehead. the ascent by the kundalini is also called the satchakrabheda, the piercing of the six centers. in the chintamanistava, attributed to the incarnate sage sri shankaracharya, it says: this family woman (kundalini, entering the royal road (shushumna, central column of the tree, taking rest at intervals in the secret places (chakras, sefiroth, embraces the supreme spouse (in the ajna cha

kundalini, as a coiled snake asleep at the base of the chakric tree. the shekhinah of the qabalah is said to be in exile in the lower worlds. the kundalini and the shekhinah are two distinctly different allusions for the same thing. the snake of the kundalini is said to awaken and ascend the chakric tree, opening the chakric lotuses on her way to unite with her husband shiva in the ajna chakra at the forehead. the ascent by the kundalini is also called the satchakrabheda, the piercing of the six centers. the ascent of the tree of life by the shekhinah is called shabat (tbs, sabbath. on the sabbath, shekhinah ascends the tree of life and unites with her husband hvhy in the world of atziluth, thereby transforming the fallen tree into the tree of perfection. 8: 0# sefiroth, latifa, and chakra

t tree, when the world manifests, the trigrams rotate and assume different positions, with fire moving into the position formerly occupied by heaven, and water moving into the position formerly occupied by earth. 2 f 0# after-the-world sequence (shuo qua) 0' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8# in the meditation process of taoist internal alchemy, the pure intention (yi) of the upper tan (i.e. will of vast face) in the forehead center (ajna chakra) directs the heart-mind fire of the middle tan (thoracic center) to concentrate in the water of the lower tan tien in the abdominal center (sefirah foundation/ below, svadhisthana chakra. the fire of the heart-mind heats the water and turns it into steam i.e. qi (vital energy. the qi steam rises, refines, and circulates in the higher centers. this is the same as th

s them deeply as traumatic experiences. meditation gradually desensitizes the mind to accept such flashes as legitimate yogic experiences, thereby making it possible to sustain the experience much longer. in sri ramakrishna the great master, swami saradananda relates the dramatic account of master ramakrishna sustaining and surviving six months of unbroken nirvikalpa samadhi after being struck on the forehead with a sharp rock by the sannyasin tota puri.29 the qur an alludes to the vast face samadhi experience of the prophet mohammed as the night of power, described as better than a thousand nights. the torah also makes references to the vast face samadhi experiences of mosheh and abraham: and mosheh knew that-not; the skin of his face shone. 30 as the sun set, a deep sleep fell upon abram

o syllables yah hu in coordination with the breath. yah is the b riyatic pronunciation of the first two letters of the name hvhy. hu (avh) commonly means he, and is associated with the throat center. inhale gently and slowly through your mouth. quietly draw the breath in with the syllable yah, and allow the air to fill down into your abdomen. feel the inhaled syllable draw divine light in through the forehead center. let that yh-light continue downward to the throat center. when you come to the end of the inhale, let it turn seamlessly into the exhalation, and breath out with the syllable hoo. as you exhale, feel the hu breath descend out from the throat center and move down to fan the flames of the letters of the name hvhy in the heart center. continue to inhale and exhale gently while in

on all the objects there, and finally upon the image of the name hvhy in the tzimtzum against the blue light of the endless. the next step is to make prostration. before people walk, they crawl; first on their bellies, then on their hands and knees. long before that, the fetal position is experienced in the womb. prostration blends postures that are deeply embedded in human consciousness. placing the forehead to the earth is a primordial act of reverence, unification, and extinction. the religious act of prostration is found in some form in virtually all faiths. as practiced in islam for instance, prostration (sujud) is a central component in the ritual of prayer (salat) that is performed five times every day. buddhists are well known for performing long series of continuous prostrations i

asher ehyeh (lit. i will be that i will be. while remaining conscious of the breath, silently repeat the root mantra. if you wish to visualize an allusory image in conjunction with the mantra, you can picture the image of the leviathan encircling the empty tzimtzum (described above, or see the white-haired ancient of days or ancient mother. the images can be seen either in front of the eyes or in the forehead center. your eyes can be open or closed. since vast face-centered aspirants are not focusing on a form or attribute of small face, they will generally experience sefirah beauty/last as formless and empty in the world of b riyah. if the bliss of ananda samadhi with small face does arise, it is renounced and ignored as an illusion. they will then continue to move up the central column t

as real and existent. affirmation of unity: refers to the proclamations of the absolute unity of existence at the foundation of judaism and islam. in judaism, it is the verse in the torah known as the shema. in islam, it is the verse in the qur an, la illaha il allah. after-the-world sequence: a version of the taoist trigram tree that is the equivalent of the qabalistic fallen tree. ajna chakra: the forehead-center on the chakric tree, portrayed as a lotus with two petals. corresponds to the sefiroth wisdom/east and understanding/north on the qabalistic tree, the latifa khafiya on the sufi tree, and the upper tan on the taoist tree. 0' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% alef of unity: small face; the word of god manifest in sefirah knowledge/first and unmanifest in the negativelyexistent roots of the tree

n within the context of spiritual practice. kerubim (hebrew: high class of angels who guard the throne of shadai in the merkabah tree. keter (hebrew: crown: the uppermost sefirah on the tree of life. corresponds to the center on the top of the head and the sahasrara chakra. 0' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% ketuvim (hebrew: writings: the books which comprise the writings in the tanakh. khafiya latifa (arabic: the forehead center on the sufi tree corresponding to the level of the sefiroth wisdom/east and understanding/north on the qabalistic tree, the ajna chakra on the tantric tree, and the upper tan on the taoist tree. khanqah (arabic: meeting hall in which sufis gather to receive instruction and engage in spiritual practices. kohan (hebrew: priest: a member of the israelite priesthood who enacted the

ree, and the latifa nafsiya on the sufi tree. tantra (sanskrit: mystical tradition of northern india, centered upon shiva/shakti" 4 tariqa (arabic: sufi term for the mystical path. tefillin (hebrew: phylacteries: two sets of small boxes within which there are partitions containing small scrolls bearing verses from the torah, and most notably, the shema. rabbinical jews affix the tefillin to their the foreheads and left arms several times daily within the context of daily prayers. torah (hebrew: law: the first five books of the tanakh, ascribed to master mosheh in rabbinical judaism. torah qadmah (hebrew: eternal torah: unmanifest, supernal torah in the upper worlds. tree of perfection (also perfect tree: several types of trees in angelic tree language in which the sefirah knowledge/first i

the endless has been withdrawn, wherein the tree of life is emanated and the small face universe is manifested; a central idea of lurianic cosmology derived from the sefer hazohar and presented in the etz hachayyim. upper light: synonym for the ayn sof or (light of the endless) in the etz hachayyim. upper tan (chinese: uppermost of three primary centers on the taoist tree of life. corresponds to the forehead center, the sefiroth understanding/north and wisdom/east on the qabalistic 4' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% tree, the ajna chakra on the tantric tree, and the latifa khafiya on the sufi tree. vasishtadvaita (sanskrit: qualified non-dualism: one of three world views in vedantic spiritual philosophy in which the divine is innate in all beings. vast face: god without attributes; inactive aspect of t

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

nce, proclaimer of a general philanthropy, who does not choose out the italian more than the briton, the male more than the female, the mitred head more than the crowned head, the man in the toga more than the armed man, the cowled man more than the man without a cowl, but him who is the more peaceable-minded, the more civilised, the more loyal, the more useful; who regards not the anointed head, the forehead signed with the cross, the washed hands, the circumcised penis, but (where the man may be known by his face) the culture of the mind and soul. who is hated by the propagators of foolishness and hypocrites, but sought out by the honest and the studious, and whose genius the more noble applaud" this certainly arrests the attention, and if any of the doctors addressed in so striking a ma

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e uraeus upon the brows of one and at the navels of the other. the latter were mediumistic persons, receiving impressions from spirit controls through the solar plexus. they were properly designated naioth by the hebrews who used the feminine suffix to indicate their negative qualities. but the voluntary clairvoyant and the initiate, represented by the egyptians as having the serpentine uraeus in the forehead, were called naim by the hebrews who used the male suffix to designate the positive spiritual faculty which they possess. and the latin catholic version of the new testament (luke, chapter vii, verses 11 to 15) speaks of the person raised by christ as the widow's son of nain. as the serpent is not fully unfolded until the ninth arch of the lesser mysteries has been passed and the cand

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e creative act and that eve instructed adam. therefore, christ designated the serpents as harmful while admitting their wisdom. to get at the identity of the serpent it is necessary to invoke the esoteric teaching, which points them out as the martial lucifer spirits, rulers of the serpentine sign scorpio. their initiates, even so late as the egyptian dynasty, wore the uraeus or serpent symbol in the forehead as a sign of the source of their wisdom. as a consequence of this unauthorized use of the creative force, humanity ceased to be ethereal and crystallized into the coats of skin or physical body which now hides from them the gods who dwell in the invisible realms; and great was their sorrow at this loss. generation had been originally established by the angels under jehovah. it was the

ormed the trackless wilderness of the world to a garden full of life and beauty, so lovely in fact that the sons of cain have forgotten the garden of god, the kingdom of heaven, whence they were expelled by the decree of the lunar god jehovah. against him they are in constant rebellion because he has tied them by the umbilical "cable tow" they have lost their spiritual sight and are imprisoned in the forehead of the body where it is said cain was marked; they must wander as prodigal sons in the comparative darkness of the material world, oblivious to their high and noble estate until they find the door of the temple, and ask and receive light; then as "phree messen" or children of light they are instructed in methods of building a new temple without sound of hammer, and when the spirit rea

fire, the lucifer spirits, the sons of cain, striving for positive mastership through individual effort, and therefore upholding the male ideal, which is diametrically opposite to that of the hierarchy which works in the plastic element water. in the present day temples of the latter order, magic water stands at the door, and all who enter are required to apply this lethal liquid to the point in the forehead where the spirit resides; their reason is drowned in dictums and dogmas, and the female ideal is worshipped in the virgin mary. faith is the prime factor in their salvation, the attitude of unquestioning childlike obedience being cultivated. it is different in the temple of the other order; when the candidate enters there "poor "naked" and "blind" he is asked at once what he is seekin

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

identifies the upright triangle. with the point up churchward writes that this triangle represents set "set" is one of the infernal names of satan, as listed in the satanic bible written by satanic high priest, anton lavey [churchward's book was, signs and symbols of primordial man, london: george allen and company, ltd, 1913, second edition, p. 189, 309, 471] in india, this triangle was worn in the foreheads of the followers of shiva. masonic authors william meyer and j.s.m. ward, also wrote that this type of triangle was worn in india by followers of shiva, who wear it in their foreheads. shiva is another infernal name listed in the satanic bible as another name for satan! meyer wrote this in, the order of the eastern star, p. 20; ward wrote this information in, freemasonry and the anci

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

e crucified christ, he received eternal life. that the original signification of this symbol was understood by early christians is apparent from the fact that the emperor theodosius, between the years 378 and 395, issued a decree prohibiting the sign of the cross being sculptured or painted on the pavements of churches. tertullian also, after declaring that the devil made the sign of the cross on the foreheads of the followers of the persian mithra, accused the christians of adoring the same emblem. in 280, a. c. porphyry, referring to crosses, asked why theologists give passions to the gods, erect phalli and use shameful language; to which the christian iamblichus in the year 336 replied "because phalli and crosses are signs of productive energy, and provocative to a continuance of the wo

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

.hegemon:'inheritorofthe dying world, arise and enter.thedarkness!'stolistes:'themotherofthedarkness has blinded him withherhair.'dadouchos:'thefatherofthedarkness hashiddenhimunderhis wings.'hierophant:'hislimbs are still weary from the warthatwas in heaven.'kerux:'childofearth,unpurified and unconsecrated, youcan255notenterthesacred hallofthe neophytes.'thestolistes cross-marks the candidate on the forehead and sprinkles him three times.stolistes:'ipurifyyou with water.'thedadouchos makes a cross with thurible and censes three times.dadouchos:'i consecrate you withfire.'ifthereismorethan one candidate the consecrationofeach with fire andwatermustbe completed before proceeding to the next.thestolistesanddadouchos resume their placesbutremain standing.hierophant:'inheritorofthe dying world

the first time, no alarm being given by the hierophant.thehiereus knocks once as the procession passes the west (knocks)thehierophant knocks once as it passes the e. for the second time (knocks)thekerux then halts in the s. and, turning round, bars the way, saying:kerux:'childofearth, unpurified and unconsecrated, you can255 not enter the pathofthe west.'thestolistes cross-marks the candidate on the forehead and sprinkles him three times.stolistes:'i purify you with water.'thedadouchos makes a cross with thurible and censes three times.dadouchos:'i consecrate you with fire.'thestolistes and dadouchos fall backto their places in rear of the procession.hegemon:'childofearth, twice cleansed with water and conse255 crated with fire, you may approach the gateofthe west.'thekerux leads the proc

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

with a lions head. ipos is a spirit of divination and self-development, assisting and inspiring communication and moral concepts of communication of the era of which one lives. as ipos makes men witty and bold, they have a confidence boost through inspiration and self-reliance. w aim aim is a duke whom appears as a man with three heads one as a serpent, the second a human head having two stars on the forehead (burning like an image of the morning star or lucifer) and the third as a cow. aim rides upon a large viper who carries a firebrand in his hand from which he sets cities and great places on fire. aim is a spirit of selfdevelopment and force of will, whom is also of inner divination. he has 26 legions of inferior spirits. x naiberius 47 naiberius is a marquis whom comes forth as a blac

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF AIR

. 68 belial by e.i. ford pg.70 sigils of crowley edition with accents by e.i. ford pg.74 satan cube from abramelin accented by e.i. ford pg. bthe sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 7:54 am the invoking pentagram ritual of air relax and perform the fourfold breath perform the qabalistic cross 1. touching the forehead, say atah. 2. touching the breast, say malkuth. 3. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah. 4. touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah. 5. clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-olam, amen. facing east, use the index finger of the right hand, a dagger, or the white end of the outer wand of double power to trace a large lesser invoking pentagram. charge it with light by pier

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF EARTH

ture, while still adhering to principles set forth by the founders. this lesser invoking ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. it is recommended to be perfomed in the mornings for as long as one is in the zelator grade. relax and perform the fourfould breath perform the qabalistic cross 1. touching the forehead, say atah. 2. touching the breast, say malkuth. 3. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah. 4. touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah. 5. clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-olam, amen. facing east, use the index finger of the right hand, a dagger, or the white end of the outer wand of double power to trace a large black lesser invoking pentagram. charge it with light b

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF FIRE

g, grounding and conversing with the archangel auriel, it is usually not necessary to banish afterwar uthe sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 3 6/27/2004 8:05 am the invoking pentagram ritual of fire the invoking pentagram ritual of fire relax and perform the fourfold breath perform the qabalistic cross 1. touching the forehead, say atah. 2. touching the breast, say malkuth. 3. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah. 4. touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah. 5. clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-olam, amen. facing east, use the index finger of the right hand, a dagger, or the white end of the outer wand of double power to trace a large lesser invoking pentagram. charge it with light by pier

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF WATER

magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 3 of 3 6/27/2004 8:05 am as one is in the practicus gra/2the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 8:04 am the invoking pentagram ritual of water the invoking pentagram ritual of water relax and perform the fourfold breath perform the qabalistic cross 1. touching the forehead, say atah. 2. touching the breast, say malkuth. 3. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah. 4. touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah. 5. clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-olam, amen. facing east, use the index finger of the right hand, a dagger, or the white end of the outer wand of double power to trace a large lesser invoking pentagram. charge it with light by pier

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LBRP

r. with the image of the obsession or disturbing thought in the east, the neophyte should then perform the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram to disintegrate the image, seeing it in his/her mind's eye dissolving on the further side of the circle of flame which is formulated in the pentagram ritual. the lesser bannishing ritual of the pentagram (lbrp) perform the qabalistic cross 1. touching the forehead, say atah. 2. touching the breast, say malkuth. 3. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah. 4. touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah. 5. clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-olam, amen. facing east, use the index finger of the right hand, a dagger, or the black end of the outer wand of double power to trace a large (flaming blue or brilliant white) banishing pentagram o

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER INVOKING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LIRP

ntagram, and the lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram (lbrp/lirp) were the only actual rituals taught to and used by the outer order of the traditional golden dawn. this invoking pentagram ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. perform the fourfould breath perform the qabalistic cross 1. touching the forehead, say atah. 2. touching the breast, say malkuth. 3. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah. 4. touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah. 5. clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-olam, amen. facing east, use the index finger of the right hand, a dagger, or the white end of the outer wand of double power to trace a large lesser invoking pentagram. charge it with light by pier

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS D

alchemy. the wand, again, we will emphasize must never be inverted. the lotus flower is to never be touched in working. so, it is incorrect to pick up your wand by the lotus itself. it is really the most pure part of the wand. it is the crown, if you will, of kether. in spiritual or sephirotic workings, or even in workings where you are rising up in the planes, the lotus is to be inclined toward the forehead. consecration of the lotus wand the tools necessary for the consecration of the lotus wand are! a private room! the white triangle! the red cross of six squares! incense (frankincense or myrrh! a rose, representing m! a cup of wine, representing n! a lamp, representing o! bread and salt, representing l! the altar draped in black. it is also important to get an astrological figure of t

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM13

agic cease (one at a time, each adept stands against the cross holding the crucifix in hand and receives the re-opening of the mark. the chief adept goes last, placing the mark on his own body (at this point, all kneel before the cross) third adept (vibrates "eli eli lama sabachthani, my god! my god! why has thou forsaken me" second adept "unto you father, do we commend our spirit (all kneel with the forehead to the ground for approximately five minutes) 8 second adept "o yehashuah, thou art truly the resurrection and the life, with thy merciful aid, the divine light of kether stands before us" chief adept (invokes tiphareth "o god the vast one thou who art in all things. o nature, thou self from nothing. for what else can i call thee? in myself i am nothing, in thee i am self and exist in

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

e great celestial sign. 1 with this eye the divinity surveys the world, and nothing can escape its peering all-piercing glance 3, all the stars look down upon men.3 but the on. poets, not content with treating sun, moon and stara as eyes of heaven, invert the macrocosm, and call the human eye the sun, mooiv or star of the skull, forehead, brows and eyelashes -y they even call the eye th shield of the forehead: a confirmation of the similar name for the sun. another title they bestow on the sun is gimsteinn himins.(getnma coeli) j so in as. heofones gim/ beow. 4142. and wuldres .gim, andr. 1289 (see suppl. and not only is the sun represented as the god s eye looking down, but as his full face and countenance; and that is how we draw his picture still. otfried says of the sun being darkened

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

30. unless the password, if requested, can be given, admission to the lodge will be denied by the guardian. after entering the lodge, the member must make a salutation to the east. this is done by the member walking directly to a point just west of the shekinah, facing east and taking three steps forward. the right hand is placed over the heart and the forefinger of the left hand to the center of the forehead above the bridge of the nose. after three or four seconds, the hands are dropped, three steps are taken backward, the member turns to the right or left, and is seated. the purpose of such salutation, when first entering a lodge, is to indicate that the member renews or signifies remembrance of the obligation taken in the first degree initiation. this is the general sign of salutation

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

hoth could be shown as a beautiful baboon or as an ibis or an ibis-headed man. ra was said to have created the baboon form of thoth to shine in the night sky and the ibis form to act as a messenger between earth and heaven. thoth was sometimes called the god without a mother. one text states that thoth came from the lips of ra to uphold maat, the divine order. he was also said to have sprung from the forehead of seth after this god swallowed some of the semen of his rival, horus. at his main cult center of hermopolis magna, thoth, lord of the ogdoad, was worshipped as a self-creating deity who produced the cosmic egg on the island of flame. as a moon god he was pictured deities, themes, and concepts 209 crossing the night sky in a boat, but thoth could also be the navigator of the boat of

HP LOVECRAFT FROM BEYOND

ly shut in the attic laboratory with that accursed electrical machine, eating little and excluding even the servants, but i had not thought that a brief period of ten weeks could so alter and disfigure any human creature. it is not pleasant to see a stout man sud-denly grown thin, and it is even worse when the baggy skin becomes yellowed or grayed, the eyes sunken, circled, and uncannily glowing, the forehead veined and corrugated, and the hands tremulous and twitching. and if added to this there be a repellent unkemptness, a wild disorder of dress, a bushiness of dark hair white at the roots, and an unchecked growth of white beard on a face once clean-shaven, the cumulative effect is quite shocking. but such was the aspect of crawford tilllinghast on the night his half coherent message br

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

to the magic mirror we could establish then, which of the qualities corresponding to the element in question were predominant in our mind. how important introspection was indeed then is clearly shown by the fact that just this preponderance of the element concerned points to our astral sensory center. if the fire element had been predominant, the sensory element was the head, to put it correctly, the forehead; if it was the air element, it is the heart, in the case of prevalence of the water element, it is the solar plexus, and if it has been the earth element, the sensory center is in the hands or the thighs. having thus established our astral sensory area, let us pass to the practice: you have to act in exactly the same manner as you did when training the two previous senses. the necessa

he clairfeeling power. as soon as you have accumulated the water element in the whole body through the pores and through breathing, load it with the intense imagination of the faculty of clairfeeling. you must be absolutely sure that it is strong enough to arouse this faculty in your astral body. with the help of imagination draw the water element from your body, whether through the solar plexus, the forehead, hand or by breathing out, accumulating it in the cotton ball or piece of linen soaked in the fluid condenser. you may repeat the loading but no more than 7-9 times. when doing this exercise, do not take up your routing posture, but lie down comfortably on a couch, or on the floor, the main condition is to lie rather flat, only the head remaining a little higher. to develop the astral

d. here the occult anatomy according to polarization has to be observed carefully. any organ performing the function of the magnetic fluid must never be loaded with the electric fluid in order not to harm the patient. in organs where both fluids are at work, the magician will do well to introduce the fluids successively. supposing he wants to exert an influence on the head by fluids, he will load the forehead, the left side and the inside, the big brain, with the electrical fluid, and the back of the head (the small brain) with the magnetic fluid. if the magician works by passing his hands on the patient s body, which is quite a good expedient, but not at all necessary, he will perform this act in accordance with the fluid. with reference to the head, he will influence the forehead and lef

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

e with which he was credited "it being demanded of him by what means he professed himself to have knowledge of things to come, the said john confessed that the space of twenty-six years ago, he being travelling on all- hallow even night between the towns of monygoif and clary, in galway, he met with the king of the fairies and his company, and that the king gave him a stroke with a white rod over the forehead, which took from him the power of speech and the use of one eye, which he wanted for the space of three years. he declared that the use of speech and eyesight was restored to him by the king of fairies and his company on a hallowe'en night at the town of dublin" at his subsequent meetings with the fairy band he was taught all his knowledge. the spot on which he was struck remained imp

ISIS UNVEILED

mdedhersdf. she was accused by the people of paris of sorcery, because it had been asserted that she had used, after the ceremony of exorcism, newly-killed white cocks. believing herself constantly bewitched, and being in very delicate health, the marfoihale had the ceremony of exorcism publicly appued to herself in the church of the augustines; as to the birds, she used them as an application to the forehead on account of dreadful pains in the head, and had been ad- vised to do so by montalto, the jew physician of the queen, and by the italian priests. in the sixteenth century the cura de bargota of the diocese of calla- hora, spain, became the world's wonder for his magical powers. hia most extraordinary feat consisted, it was said, in transporting himself to any distant counti;y, witnes

l description of john the baptist, the naxaria, and the custom of this sect. 2. had lentulus been the author of this letter, it is difficult to beheve that paul should never have heard of it; and had he known its contents, he would never have pronounced it a tkame for men to wear their hair long" thus shaming his lord and christ-god. 3. if jesus did wear his hair long and "parted in the middle of the forehead, after the fashion of the nazarenes (as well as of john, the only one of his apostles who fol- lowed it, then we have one good reason more to say that jesus must have belonged to the sect of the nazarenes, and been called nasaria for this reason and not because he was an inhabitant of nazareth, for they never wore their hair long. the nazarite, who separated himself unto the lord, all

he medieval ages, it was considered a potent spell against epilepsy and de- m(huacal possession; and the "signet of the living god" brou^t down in st. john's vision by the angel ascending from the east to "seal the servants of our god in their foreheads" was but the same mystic tau the egyptian cross. in the painted glass of st. dionysus (france) this angel is represented as stamping this sign on the forehead^ the elect; the legend reads, siqmvm tay. in king's onottici the author reminds us that "this mark is commonly borne by st. anthony, an egyi^ian recluse" what the real meaning of the tau was, is explained to us iqr the christian st. john, the egjrptian hermes, and the hinda br&hmanas. it b quite evident that, with john at least, it meant the 'ineffaue name' as he calls this "signet of

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

is light sensitive, and as part of the body s biological clock, it has a regulating effect in sleep function. melatonin has in fact also psychedelic effects, and can release special ecstatic and transcendental experiences, among meditators and mystics. the mystical third eye: according to several occult traditions, the pineal gland is connected to the third eye, which is situated in the middle of the forehead, on a straight line from the pineal gland. with shiva and the buddha, the third eye is found described as a shining spot and a flaming pearl, symbolizing unity, transcendental wisdom and spiritual consciousness. this point is often used as point of concentration in meditation, because it is one of the places in the body where it is most easy to hold a steady focus, as well as it activ

ne nutrition program. technique no. 24: alternate breathing: sit in a comfortable position with a straight back, either in a meditation pose on the floor, or on a chair. close the eyes and concentrate on the spontaneous flow of air through the nostrils. when the breath has calmed down, place the index and middle finger of the right hand on the third eye, 2-3 cm above the eyebrows in the middle of the forehead. use the thumb to open and close the right nostril, and the ring finger to open and close the left nostril. keep both nostrils open, and take a deep calm in breath. then close the right nostril and exhale through the left. now begins the alternate breathing. breathe slowly, deeply and without sound in through the left. exhale through the right. inhale through the right. exhale through

link. if you can avoid blinking the mind will be calm and free of thoughts, the moment you blink, thought comes. then close the eyes and concentrate on the light impression until it fades away. there are many other forms of tratak, using different objects of concentration. for example; place a red dot on the third eye, and sit in front of a mirror, or in front of another person also with a dot on the forehead. do tratak for 10-15 minutes. with both practices you are in for a surprise. thanks christian! note: our pituitary and pineal gland activation can be done by the techniques shared in chapter 6 and also by flooding these centers daily with the violet light. steps 7, 8, 9 and 10 are well covered in chapter 6. step 7: do the violet light one chakra column meditation in chapter 6, techniq

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

e eastern sunshine, glisten through the land of the moslem; indeed, his two-horned crescent, equally with the moon, or disc, or two-pointed globe of the sidonian ashtaroth (after whose forbidden worship solomon, the wisest of mankind, in his defection from the god of his fathers, evilly thirsted; also, the mystic discus, or round, of the egyptians, so continually repeated, and set, as it were, as the forehead-mark upon all the temples of the land of soothsayers and sorcerers, this egypt so profound in its philosophies, in its wisdom, in its magic seeing, and in its religion, raising out of the black abyss a god to shadow it, all the minarets of the mohammedan, we say, together with all the other symbols of moon, of disc, of wings, or of horns (equally with the shadowy and preternatural bei

ah stood up towards the body of adam &c &c, and prayed (or worshipped. here was the origin of the eucharist, as the reader will clearly see farther on (see accompanying plate) the most ancient monuments of idolatry among the gentiles were consecrated pillars (lingas, or columns, which the jews were forbidden to erect as objects of divine homage and adoration. and yet a most extraordinary lines on the forehead, with ashes obtained if possible from the hearth, on which a consecrated fire is perpetually maintained* it may possibly seem strange, gregory says, that this orison should be daily said before the body of adam; but it is a most confessed tradition among; the eastern men that adam was commanded by god that his dead body should be kept above ground till a fulness of time should come to

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

ise and incorporates within its structure a high magical formula of self-initiation. it is, to all intents and purposes, a ritual of self-initiation. this ritual is given to the neophyte of the order as a means for him/her to come into contact with the invisible forces of nature and to learn how to direct those elementary forces. the qabalistic cross and lesser ritual of the pentagram 1. touching the forehead, say ateh (thou art) 2. touching the breast, say malkuth (the kingdom) 4. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah (and the power) 5. touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah (and the glory) 6. place the two palms of the hands together upon the breast, and say le-olahm (forever) 7. fingers pointing up, say amen. 8. advance to the east, trace the pentagram with the proper weapon (

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

ave been influenced, as it certainly was, by the tammuz-worship of neighbouring nations. bro. ward cites instances of the survival of traces of the cult of adonis in the most unexpected quarters; for instance, he writes: 694. when the pope has died, a high official, armed with a small ivory hammer or gavel, goes up to the dead man and lightly taps him once on each temple and once on the centre of the forehead. after each knock he calls on him to arise, and only when the third summons has been made in vain does he officially proclaim the sad news that the pope is dead, and therefore a successor must be elected(*op. cit, p. 74) 695. bro. ward further identifies hiram abiff with abibaal, the father of hiram, king of tyre, and even suggests that hiram was not a personal name at all, but a titl

he moment of opening, but not to its highest possibility. after inquiries as to business, the r.w.m. gave one k c which was answered as usual, and said: 844. gbrn, we have met to perform the greatest of our duties- to build the temple of the great one, the great architect, the grand geometrician, the most high. h 845. as he uttered the first title, all present raised the back of the right hand to the forehead, and at each of the other titles the appropriate salutes were given, exactly as we know them now. remaining at the salute the r.w.m. continued: 846. gmay we be found worthy to serve him. h 847. all present repeated the words, chanting solemnly in reply: 848. gmay we be found worthy to serve him. h 849. in the same way the following sentences were repeated: 850. r.w.m- may our work be

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

elfprogramming, meaning that it has a life (implicitly a demonic life) of its own. this devilish computer is part of a diabolical plan to imprint id numbers on the hands or foreheads of every man, woman, and child. this will be so the so-called mark of the beast mentioned in revelation: it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name (rev. 13:18 17. the story was particularly promoted by an article printed in christian life in 1976.months later, the magazine was contacted by joe musser, a christian writer. musser explained that the beast computer was a fiction he created as part of his novel, beyond a p

LIBER O

hat great voice proceeded from the universe, and not from himself. in both the above practices all consciousness of anything but the god-form and name should be absolutely blotted out; and the longer it takes for normal perception to return, the better. iv. i. the rituals of the pentagram and hexagram must be committed to memory; they are as follows- the lesser ritual of the pentagram i. touching the forehead say ateh (unto thee, ii. touching the breast say malkuth (the kingdom, iii. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah (and the might, iv. touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah (and the glory, v. clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-olahm, amen (to the ages, amen. vi. turning to the east make a pentagram (that of earth) with the proper weapon (usually the wand. say (i.e. v

LIBER 777

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

when i need it most; i am empty and unreal, a shadow or a ghost. all the great stake is thrown, even now the dice are falling. all deeds are locked in links, one to another calling through time: from the dim throne the first rune that was ree.d by god, the supreme sphinx, determined the last deed [the king of babylon reaches forth his hand and arm. it is the hand and arm of a skeleton. he touches the forehead of the sleeping lord. instantly, radiant and naked, a male figure is seen erect] psyche. adonis! adonis. psyche [they run together and embrace. psyche. ah! long-lost! adonis. my wife! light, o intolerable! infinite love! o life beyond death! psyche. i have found thee! adonis. i was thine. psyche. i thine from all the ages! adonis. to the ages! psyche. mine [the king passes over and de

LIBER COLLEGII SANCTI

ript prepared by f.i. regardie while he was crowley's secretary in the late 1920s, was published in the journal of the college of thelema, black pearl, in the late 1990s, and in an appendix to james eschelman fs book the magical and mystical system of the a a according to this the neophyte robe was plain black with a hood and the symbols added were as follows: zelator: silver eye in a triangle on the forehead; practicus: hexagram of 48 rays (silver) around the triangle; philosophus: calvary cross of six squares (in various colours) on the breast; dominus liminis: rose emblem at the centre of this cross. contra this, it has been suggested that the dark-coloured hooded robes with a rose cross on the breast and the eye in a triangle surrounded by a 48-rayed hexagram on the forehead of the hoo

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

whereon that night sits like a serpent on a tomb! for palamede those eyes beheld the iron image of his own; on those dead brows a fate he spelled to strike a gorgon into stone. he knew his father. still he sate, nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. the knight approves the justice done, and pays with that his rowels. debt; while yet the forehead of the son stands beaded with an icy sweat. god.s angel, standing sinister, unfurls this scroll.a sable stain .who wins the spur shall ply the spur upon his proper heart and brain. he gave the sign of malison on traitor knights and perjured men; and ever by the sea rode on sir palamede the saracen. 5 ii behold! arabia.s burning shore rings to the hoofs of many a steed. lord of a legio

e last bar breaks; the steel will snaps; the black hordes riot in his brain; a thousand threatening thunder-claps smite him.insane.insane.insane! his muscles roar with senseless rage; the pale knight staggers, deathly sick; reels to the light that sorry sage, sir palamede the lunatick. 59 xxv a savage sea without a sail, grey gulphs and green a-glittering, rare snow that floats.a vestal veil upon the forehead of the spring. here in a plunging galleon sir palamede, a listless drone, drifts desperately on.and on. and on.with heart and eyes of stone. the deep-scarred brain of him is healed with wind and sea and star and sun, the assoiling grace that god revealed for gree and bounteous benison. ah! still he trusts the recreant brain, thrown in a thousand tourney-justs; still he raves on in rea

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

n. imperfect scholastic attainements of author remedied by his great spiritual insight. his intention. 4 the sword of song shields? be they paper, paint, lath? they shall cover well as they may, the big heart of a lover! swords? let the lightning of truth strike the fortress frowning of god! i will sever one more tress off the white beard22 with his son.s blood besprinkled, carve one more gash in the forehead23 hate-wrinkled. so, using little arms, earn one day better ones; cutting the small chains,24 learn soon to unfetter one.s limbs from the large ones, walk forth and be free. so much for browning! and so much for me! pray do not ask me where i stand .who asks, doth err..25 at least demand no folly such as answer means .but if (you26 say .your spirit weans itself of milk-and-water pap

LIBER O

ingers being closed. the thumb symbolizes spirit, the forefinger the element of water [note added in the version of .liber o. in magick in theory and practice. see illustration in equinox vol. i. no. 1 .the silent watcher. liber o vel manvs et sagitta 6 iv 1. the rituals of the pentagram and hexagram must be committed to memory. they are as follows. the lesser ritual of the pentagram (i) touching the forehead, say ateh (unto thee (ii) touching the breast, say malkuth (the kingdom).8 (iii) touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah (and the power (iv) touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah (and the glory (v) clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-olahm, amen (to the ages, amen (vi) turning to the east, make a pentagram (that of earth) with the proper weapon (usually the wand. say (

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ts of the druids; the midgard snake of scandinavia; the nagas of burma, siam, and cambodia; the brazen serpent of the jews; the mystic serpent of orpheus; the snakes at the oracle; of delphi twining themselves around the tripod upon which the pythian priestess sat, the tripod itself being in the form of twisted serpents; the sacred serpents preserved in the egyptian temples; the ur us coiled upon the foreheads of the pharaohs and priests--all these bear witness to the universal veneration in which the snake was held. in the ancient mysteries the serpent entwining a staff was the symbol of the physician. the serpent-wound staff of hermes remains the emblem of the medical profession. among nearly all these ancient peoples the serpent was accepted as the symbol of wisdom or salvation. the ant

o the profane. thus placed between man and his divine possibilities, the sphinx also represented the secret doctrine itself. children's fairy stories abound with descriptions of symbolic monsters, for nearly all such tales are based upon the ancient mystic folklore. click to enlarge the ur us. from kircher's oedipus gyptiacus. the spinal cord was symbolized by a snake, and the serpent coiled upon the foreheads of the egyptian initiates represented the divine fire which had crawled serpentlike up the tree of life. click to enlarge good and evil contending for the universal egg. from maurice's indian antiquities. both mithras, the persian redeemer, and serapis, the egyptian god of the earth, are symbolized by serpents coiled about their bodies. this remarkable drawing shows the good and evil

f osiris" osiris represents the spiritual nature of the lower world which is murdered and distributed throughout the substance of the physical spheres; apis is the emblem of the material world within which is the spiritual nature--osiris. the apis is also the symbol of the exoteric (or profane) doctrine, in contradistinction to the esoteric (or divine) teachings represented by the ur us worn upon the foreheads of the priests. front this is derived the mythological allegory of serapis, who in a certain sense is not only the composite figure of osiris and the lower world in which he is incarnated but also of the mysteries, which are the terrestrial bodies containing the secret teachings, or the spiritual soul. p. 92 depiction of the sun man who is the scapegoat of the world and upon whom are

ovenant was a species of acacia. in describing this sacred tree, albert pike has written "the genuine acacia, also, is the thorny tamarisk, the same tree which grew around the body of osiris. it was a sacred tree among the arabs, who made of it the idol al-uzza, which mohammed destroyed. it is abundant as a bush in the desert of thur; and of it the 'crown of thorns' was composed, which was set on the forehead of jesus of nazareth. it is a fit type of immortality on account of its tenacity of life; for it has been known, when planted as a door-post, to take root again and shoot out budding boughs above the threshold (see morals and dogma) it is quite possible that much of the veneration accorded the acacia is due to the peculiar attributes of the mimosa, or sensitive plant, with which it wa

cording to the ancient rites "when the androgenic scorpio-virgo was separated and the balance or harmony made from scorpio, and placed between scorpio, i.e, male, and virgo, i.e, female, then appeared the 32 constellations or signs, as we now have them. the ark is three stories high (perhaps to symbolize heaven, man, earth. in the figure of the man, notice the parting of the hair in the middle of the forehead and the arrangement of the beard, whiskers, moustache and the hair, on the back of the neck and shoulders (see the qabbalah by isaac myer) p. 128 himself. this shadow he then ensouled and it became a living creature. these shadows, however, remain only as long as the original figure of which they are the reflections endures, for with the removal of the original the host of likenesses

n entire work, and of the whole to a certain part selected as standard. from this result the principles of symmetry. without symmetry and proportion there can be no principles in the design of any temple; that is, if there is no precise relation between its members, as in the case of those of a well shaped man. for the human body is so designed by nature that the face, from the chin to the top of the forehead and the lowest roots of the hair, is a tenth part of the whole height; the open hand from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger is just the same; the head from the chin to the crown is an eighth, and with the neck and shoulder from the top of the breast to the lowest roots of the hair is a sixth; from the middle of the breast to the summit of the crown is a fourth. if we take the

lder from the top of the breast to the lowest roots of the hair is a sixth; from the middle of the breast to the summit of the crown is a fourth. if we take the height of the face itself, the distance from the bottom of the chin to the under side of the nostrils [and from that point] to a line between the eyebrows is the same; from there to the lowest roots of the hair is also a third, comprising the forehead. the length of the foot is one sixth of the height of the body; of the forearm, one fourth; and the breadth of the breast is also one fourth. the other members, too, have their own symmetrical proportions, and it was by employing them that the famous painters and sculptors of antiquity attained to great and endless renown" the edifices raised by the dionysiac builders were indeed "ser

imes designated as the hammer cross, because if held by its vertical base it is not unlike a mallet or gavel. in one of the qabbalistic masonic legends, chiram abiff is given a hammer in the form of a tau by his ancestor, tubal-cain. the tau cross is preserved to modern masonry under the symbol of the t square. this appears to be the oldest form of the cross extant. the tau cross was inscribed on the forehead of every person admitted into the mysteries of mithras. when a king was initiated into the egyptian mysteries, the tau was placed against his lips. it was tattooed upon the bodies of the candidates in some of the american indian mysteries. to the qabbalist, the tau stood for heaven and the pythagorean tetractys. the caduceus of hermes was an outgrowth of the tau cross (see albert pike

of christianity, for the persians were the only people to symbolize the first sign of the zodiac by a lamb. because a lamb was the sin offering of the ancient pagans, the early mystic christians considered this animal as an appropriate emblem of christ, whom they regarded as the sin offering of the world. the greeks and the egyptians highly venerated the lamb or ram, often placing its horns upon the foreheads of their gods. the scandinavian god thor carried a hammer made from a pair of ram's horns. the lamb is used in preference to the ram apparently because of its purity and gentleness; also, since the creator himself was symbolized by aries, his son would consequently be the little ram or lamb. the lambskin apron worn by the freemasons over that part of the body symbolized by typhon or

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atchtower representative of that quarter. in answer to the first query, however, the candidate should now respond "from the north, the gate of death" likewise, in the challenger's reply, in place of the word "north "west" is now used, and the guardian of the west subsequently administers the "cup of memory" a draught of pure water from the chalice, and the "purification of water" a few drops upon the forehead. the candidate is then led on another clockwise circuit of the periphery, and ends up in the south, where he is again challenged, this time by the representative of fire, who, by laying the flat of his sword, or athame, on the candidate's right shoulder and censing him thrice with cernunnos incense, bestows upon him the sword of power and the consecration of fire. finally, on being le

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there let each of them taking off his clothes, wash himself with due solemnity, as is rehearsed in book ii. and when they are clean and pure, let each put upon him garments of white linen, pure, and clean, using the prayers and ceremonies described in book ii. after which let the master alone say the confession. the which being finished, the master in sign of penitence will kiss the disciples on the forehead, and each of them will kiss the other. afterwards let the master extend his hands over the disciples, and in sign of absolution, absolve and bless them; which being done he book one page 17 will distribute to each of his disciples the instruments necessary for magical art, which he is to carry into the circle. the first disciple will bear the censer, the perfumes and the incense; the

secret of secrets, and against the mystery of mysteries. amen, amen. fiat, fiat. this conjuration thou shalt say and perform, turning thyself unto the east, and if they appear not, thou shalt repeat it unto the spirits, turning unto the south, the west, and the north, in succession, when thou wilt have repeated it four times. and if they appear not even then, thou shalt make the sign of tau upon the foreheads of thy companions, and thou shalt say: conjuration. behold anew the symbol and the name of a sovereign and conquering god, through which all the universe fears, trembles, and shudders, and through the most mysterious words of the secret mysteries and by their virtue, strength, and power. the key of solomon page 30 i conjure ye anew, i constrain and command ye with the utmost vehemenc

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e, allowing the proper closing in such ceremony. i. the banishing facing the altar, located in the east, take the athame and make the sign of an invoking pentagram, averse and envision a light emerge from the center of your being. by the light of lucifer, born of my desire for the attainment of becoming, open the gates of the dead to protect my very being spirit and flesh. noctifer observe! touch the forehead and recite: ateh (unto thee) facing the north, make the sign of the invoking pentagram averse, and envision the graves of the earth opening forth and encircling you, protecting you from all outside forms. by the light of azazel, who brought to man and woman the knowledge of the serpent, attend my being in the protection of the kin of witchblood! touching the genitals recite: malkuth (

nd of manifestation. the combination of the two combined with a system of inspired belief and action represent a state of individual strength, granting access to the gates of the 93 current which is the vital source of thelema. in dogme et rituel- haute magie by eliphas levi, he describes his famous baphomet image as the following "the goat on the frontispiece carries the sign of the pentagram on the forehead, with one point at the top, a symbol of light, his two hands forming the sign of hermetism, the one pointing up to the white moon of chesed, the other pointing down to the black one of geburah. this sign expresses the perfect harmony of mercy with justice. his one arm is female, the other male like the ones of the androgen of khunrath, the attributes of which we had to unite with thos

n the altar. legends also tell of witches smearing their bodies in some obscure ointment in order to obtain flight across the sky. one workable explanation of such tales is the witch obtaining flight in dream facilitated by an ointment, which would contain such fluids as blood or sexual excretion, mixed with herbs, oils and ashes. once the ointment is created, a small amount should be spread over the forehead, chest or breast of the witch. the ointments used by medieval witches were combinations of such extremely potent herbs as mandrake, deadly nightshade, henbane, and hemlock. these herbs would be mixed in a base of lard and be smeared upon the body. the intention should then be bound into the ointment, by focused concentration, before taking to the night sky in dream. the webs of belief

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reserving, life-destroying: represented by the mystic character [mystic character: y. the genuine _acacia, also, is the thorny tamarisk, the same tree which grew up around the body of osiris. it was a sacred tree among the arabs, who made of it the idol al-uzza, which mohammed destroyed. it is abundant as a bush in the desert of thur: and of it the "crown of thorns" was composed, which was set on the forehead of jesus of nazareth. it is a fit type of immortality on account of its tenacity of life; for it has been known, when planted as a door-post, to take root again and shoot out budding boughs over the threshold* every commonwealth must have its periods of trial and transition, especially if it engages in war. it is certain at some time to be wholly governed by agitators appealing to all

ur, fire _rouach, the air, and _iebeschah, the dry earth. how we read it, i need not repeat to you. the cross [illustration: glyph] was the sign of the creative wisdom or logos, the son of god. plato says "he expressed him upon the universe in the figure of the letter x. the next power to the supreme god was decussated or figured in the shape of a cross on universe" mithras signed his soldiers on the forehead with a cross [glyph] is the mark of 600, the mysterious cycle of the incarnations. we constantly see the tau and the resh united thus [glyph. these two letters, in the old samaritan, as found in arius, stand, the first for 400, the second for 200-600. this is the staff of osiris, also, and his monogram, and was adopted by the christians as a sign. on a medal of constantius is this ins

lure of the vernal equinox had passed into aries, and after it had left aldebar n and the hyades, the pleiades were, for seven or eight centuries, the leading stars of the sab an year. and thus we see, on the monuments, the disk and crescent, symbols of the sun and moon in conjunction, appear successively--first on the head, and then on the neck and back of the zodiacal bull, and more recently on the forehead of the ram. the diagrammatical character or symbol, still in use to denote taurus [glyph, is this very crescent and disk: a symbol that has come down to us from those remote ages when this memorable conjunction in taurus, by marking the commencement, at once of the sab an year and of the cycle of the chaldean saros, so pre-eminently distinguished that sign as to become its characteris

his season; that is to say, when the first new moon and new sun of the year were coincident, which happened once in eighteen years and a fraction. on the sarcophagus of alexander, the same symbol appears on the head of a ram, which, in the time of that monarch, was the leading sign. so too in the sculptured temples of the upper nile, the crescent and disk appear, not on the head of taurus, but on the forehead of the ram or the ram-headed god, whom the grecian mythologists called jupiter ammon, really the sun in aries. if we now look for a moment at the individual stars which composed and were near to the respective constellations, we may find something that will connect itself with the symbols of the ancient mysteries and of masonry. it is to be noticed that when the sun is _in_ a particul

bust man at the summer solstice, and an old man at the autumnal equinox. this idea was borrowed from the egyptians, who adored the sun at the winter solstice, under the figure of an infant. the image of the sign in which each of the four seasons commenced, became the form under which was figured the sun of that particular season. the lion's skin was worn by hercules; the horns of the bull adorned the forehead of bacchus; and the autumnal serpent wound its long folds round the statue of serapis, 2500 years before our era; when those signs corresponded with the commencement of the seasons. when other constellations replaced them at those points, by means of the precession of the equinoxes, those attributes were changed. then the ram furnished the horns for the head of the sun, under the name

possess themselves of the golden-fleeced ram, or aries, whose rising in the morning announced the sun's entry into taurus, when the serpent-bearer jason rose in the evening, and, in aspect with the dioscuri, was deemed their brother. and orion, son of neptune, and most potent controller of the tempest-tortured ocean, announcing sometimes calm and sometimes tempest, rose after taurus, rejoicing in the forehead of the new year. the summer solstice was not less an important point in the sun's march than the vernal equinox, especially to the egyptians, to whom it not only marked the end and term of the increasing length of the days and of the domination of light, and the _maximum_ of the sun's elevation; but also the annual recurrence of that phenomenon peculiar to egypt, the rising of the nil

ngle tau represents the one god, so, no doubt, the triple tau, the origin of which cannot be traced, was meant to represent the trinity of his attributes, the three masonic pillars, wisdom, strength, and harmony. the prophet ezekiel, in the 4th verse of the 9th chapter, says "and the lord said unto him 'go through the midst of the city, through the midst of jerusalem, and mark the letter tau upon the foreheads of those that sigh and mourn for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof" so the latin vulgate, and the probably most ancient copies of the septuagint translate the passage. this _tau_ was in the form of the cross of this degree, and it was the emblem of _life_ and _salvation. the samaritan _tau_ and the ethiopic _tavvi_ are the evident prototype of the greek [greek: t

enoting heaven, and the pythagorean tetractys, or incommunicable name of god. the tau cross is also found on the stones in front of the door of the temple of amunoth iii, at thebes, who reigned about the time when the israelites took possession of canaan: and the egyptian priests carried it in all the sacred processions. tertullian, who had been initiated, informs us that the tau was inscribed on the forehead of every person who had been admitted into the mysteries of mithras. as the simple tau represented life, so, when the circle, symbol of eternity, was added, it represented eternal life. at the initiation of a king, the tau, as the emblem of life and key of the mysteries, was impressed upon his lips. in the indian mysteries, the tau cross, under the name of _tiluk, was marked upon the

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mbroidered very richly; she also gave jason a cloak wrought by herself, when he set forth in quest of the golden fleece. being on one occasion challenged to a contest in this accomplishment by a mortal maiden named arachne, whom she had instructed in the art of weaving, she accepted the challenge and was completely vanquished by her pupil. angry at her defeat, she struck the unfortunate maiden on the forehead with the shuttle which she held in her hand; and arachne, being of a sensitive nature, was so hurt by this indignity that she hung herself in despair, and was changed by athene into a spider. this goddess is said to have invented the flute,[21] upon [46]which she played with considerable talent, until one day, being laughed at by the assembled gods and goddesses for the contortions wh

me, and where it has been, for more than three hundred years, the admiration of the world. when rome was taken, and plundered by the french, this celebrated statue was transported to paris, and placed in the museum there, but in 1815 it was restored to its former place in the vatican. the attitude of the figure, which is more than seven feet high, is inimitable in its freedom, grace, and majesty. the forehead is noble and intellectual, and the whole countenance so exquisite in its beauty, that one pauses spell-bound to gaze on so perfect a conception. the god has a very youthful appearance, as is usual in all his representations, and with the exception of a short mantle which falls from his shoulders, is unclothed. he stands against the trunk of a tree, up which a serpent is creeping, and

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

is: yud yud-hei yud-hei-vav yud-hei-vav-hei= 10 (10+ 5 (10+ 5+ 6 (10+ 5+ 6+ 5= 72. elokim: alef-lamed-hei-yud-mem. the progressive iteratino of this name is: alef alef-lamed alef-lamed-hei alef-lamed-hei-yud alef-lamed-hei-yud-mem= 1 (1+ 30 (1+ 30+ 5 (1+ 30+ 5+ 10 (1+ 30+ 5+ 10+ 40= 40+ 2(10+ 3(5+ 4(30+ 5(1= 40+ 20+ 15+ 120+ 5= 200. arov: ayin-reish-beit= 70+ 200+ 2= 272. this plague issued from the forehead [i.e, netzach] of the holy feminine principle and smote the yesod of the evil z feir anpin, i.e, samael. the word for gforehead h is metzach, etymologically related to netzach. also, netzach( gvictory h) signifies resolve, which we express by contracting the skin on the forehead. 5. pestilence. the numerical value of the word for gpestilence h [dever] is equivalent to the combined num

t, these lights pierce through [him, shining and projecting outward. if the emotional response is sufficiently intense, it will not be satisfied in simply producing feelings in the person experiencing it, but will motivate him to spread the enthusiasm his enlightenment has granted him to the outside world as well. similarly, the headband signifies the [lights of] yesod of ima that are revealed on the forehead [of z feir anpin, this being the location of all facets of [z feir anpin fs] intellect. these lights, too, shine outward. the emotional response to the intellect of ima is not simply pure intellect, for we have noted that every partzuf comprises the full array of all ten sefirot. thus, z feir anpin has its own intellect, that is, emotions possess their own intellectual underpinning, a

the front of the turban. it shall remain on aaron fs forehead, and thus aaron will bear the iniquity of [the community with regard to] the sacred things that the israelites consecrate for all their sacred gifts. it shall be on his forehead to always elicit divine favor. h1 when the mentality of abba enters z feir anpin [residual] radiances [of this light] issue from its sides [and shine] outside the forehead of z feir anpin. z feir anpin is the partzuf of the emotions; abba is the partzuf of chochmah, i.e, of transcendent insight. although something of the mentality of abba does inform (or gshine into h) z feir anpin, in order that the emotions follow the dictates and lead of the new, divine insight, z feir anpin cannot contain all the intensity of the mentality of abba that enters it. th

affixed to four-cornered garments. the noun tzitz, lacking any feminine suffix, is in the masculine form. tzitzit is the same word but with a final tav, which indicates the feminine form. abba, the source of insight that gimpregnates h the partzuf of ima (binah) to develop a new way of looking at reality, is considered male relative to ima. therefore, the headband of the high priest was placed on the forehead above the [head-]tefilin, for the tefilin embody the mentality of ima, while the headband embodies the mentality of abba. the torah calls the tefilin ga [means of] remembrance between your eyes. h2 from this we see that the headtefilin are meant to influence our mentality, to keep the exodus from egypt and all it signifies in our consciousness at all times. as we have seen previously

y of ten sefirot, which subdivides via inter-inclusion into 100 sub-sefirot. if we add 4 for the four yud fs themselves, we reach the numerical value of the word for gholy h [kodesh, as we have explained elsewhere. 400+ 4= 404. kodesh: kuf-dalet-shin= 100+ 4+ 300= 404. the light of the four internal mentalities of abba [that cannot be contained with z feir anpin] pierces outward [at the level of] the forehead of z feir anpin, specifically, from the two sides of the forehead adjacent to the ears. the [transcendent] radiance of chochmah of abba and the states of chesed within da fat of abba issues from the [right] side. the [transcendent] radiance of binah and the states of gevurah with da fat of abba [issue] from the [left] side. the head-tefilin contains four compartments, into which are i

h respectively. just as the intellect in general is divided into these three/four sefirot, the mentality of abba is also subdivided into these four aspects. two of them, chochmah of abba and chesed of da fat of abba, are masculine and therefore issue to the right; the other two, binah of abba and gevurah of da fat of abba, are feminine and therefore issue to the left. they then all spread around the forehead [of z feir anpin, forming the headband of the high priest. it seems to me [rabbi chaim vital] that i also heard from my master [the arizal, of blessed memory, that the name havayah was engraved on the headband as follows. the yud and the vav were engraved on the right side, one above the other, and the two hei fs on the left side, one above the other. but i do not remember this well

ear the garments of the supernal man. the gsupernal man h is z feir anpin, the arrangement of the sefirot in the human form. anyone who would pass in front of the headband, if he was a righteous person, it would be evident on his [own] forehead, for his binah would be revealed on his forehead. letters are at the level of binah, as we have stated previously, and that is why letters are revealed on the forehead, which is [the individual fs] binah. the holiness of the headband would gcall forth h the holiness of the person fs intellect, causing it to be manifest on that person fs forehead. thus, the headband would gread h the gletters h or gwords h in the mind of the person passing in front of it. while the experience of chochmah is essentially beyond articulation (i.e, beyond gletters h, the

ich anpin] is the radiance that issues from the inner dimension of mocha setima fah of arich anpin via the hairs of its head and of its beard. these extend until the head of z feir anpin, as is known, and shine into the intellect of z feir anpin. mocha setima fah means gthe hidden brain, h and refers to chochmah of arich anpin. the third [light] is the radiance that issues from the inner light in the forehead of arich anpin, i.e, that originates in the brain of arich anpin and pierces its forehead and issues from it. it extends until the forehead of z feir anpin, and shines into the intellect of z feir anpin itself.that exists within its forehead. it destroys all aspects of severe judgment present on [z feir anpin fs] forehead, as is known. the forehead of arich anpin is seen as one of the

ehead and issues from it. it extends until the forehead of z feir anpin, and shines into the intellect of z feir anpin itself.that exists within its forehead. it destroys all aspects of severe judgment present on [z feir anpin fs] forehead, as is known. the forehead of arich anpin is seen as one of the places from which the good will of arich shines downward into the lower partzufim. in contrast, the forehead of z feir anpin is seen as the expression of his power to make resolutions, for good or for bad. brazenness, for example, is resoluteness in doing bad, and the prophets chastise israel for their gbrazen foreheads. h7 the resoluteness of the forehead of z feir anpin therefore needs to be gsweetened h of all its negative potentials. this is accomplished by having the forehead of arich a

en as the expression of his power to make resolutions, for good or for bad. brazenness, for example, is resoluteness in doing bad, and the prophets chastise israel for their gbrazen foreheads. h7 the resoluteness of the forehead of z feir anpin therefore needs to be gsweetened h of all its negative potentials. this is accomplished by having the forehead of arich anpin.which is pure good will.onto the forehead of z feir anpin. now we will explain the idea of a vow. just as arich anpin looks out and shines forth from its forehead of goodwill toward the forehead of z feir anpin and its intellect, so does z feir anpin look out toward the forehead of its nukva in order to shine his three intelligences to her. to explain: after the goath of truth, h her body is completed, that is, her seven lowe

eted, that is, her seven lower sub-sefirot. then, after this, her three upper sub-sefirot are completed [by the gvow h. she is then equal [in stature] to z feir anpin and stands face to face with him. 7 isaiah 48:4. the arizal on parashat matot (2) 668 then, a radiance issues from within his brain.which is situated behind his forehead.and issues forth from his forehead. from there, it glooks at h the forehead of nukva, and this light then enters through her forehead, and shines into her three [levels of] intellect. so we see here that true, legitimate vows and oaths are positive acts, which contribute to the maturation of the soul .translated from sha far ruach hakodesh 669 parashat devarim in the book of genesis, g-d promises to abraham the land of canaan, which comprises the territory of

gabriel also derives from this aspect of spirituality; therefore he has gthe inkwell of the scribe at his waist. h5 the numerical value of the word for ginkwell h [keset] is also twice that of the combined numerical values of the final letters. the ink of judgment originates in this inkwell, which [g-d] uses to mark all [the righteous of] humanity, as it is written, gand you shall draw a line [on the foreheads of the men c. h6 these verses are taken from a vision in which the prophet ezekiel is shown how g-d plans to destroy jerusalem. delivering the consequence of sin is certainly an act of gevurah, and is therefore executed by the archangel gabriel. however, g-d also tells gabriel to use the ink to gmark a sign on the foreheads of the men who sigh and moan for all the abominations done w

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rcy or jachin pillar is on your right hand as 162> you approach the altar from the west and from the hiereus (see chronicles 11. iii, 17 "and call the name on the right hand (of him who enters) jachin, and the name of that on the left, boaz" now boaz= strength, severity, binah, black pillar, and jachin= white pillar of mercy. so in making the qabalistic cross on your breast it is correct to touch the forehead and say ateh-thou art; the heart-malkuth; right shoulder, ve- geburah; left shoulder ve-gedulah, and with the fingers clasped on the breast say, le, olahm, amen (note: the following items and attributions are those which were formerly eliminated from the so-called knowledge lectures and rituals. they have been assembled here and added as an appendix since this was assumed to be more s

the lowest and outer 8 refer to the powers of earth and water. the centre and amber portion refers to the spiritual sun, while the outer calyx of 4 orange sepals shows the adion of the sun upon the life of things by differentiation. the wand should never be used inverted. the lotus flower is not to be touched in working, but in sephirotic and spiritual things, the flower is to be inclined towards the forehead; and to rise in the planes, the orange coloured centre is to be fully directed to the forehead. consecration of the lotus wand 1. provide a private room, white triangle, red cross of six squares. incense, a rose, water in a vase, lamp or vessel of fire, salt on a platter, and an astrologicalfigure of the heavens for the time of consecration. if possible a set of astrological symbolic

refully and in full detail the landscape of the vision. he should discover if possible the special attributes and nature of that plane, the type of its in <21> habitants -spiritual, elemental and so on; the plants, animals and minerals which would correspond to its nature; the operation of its influence upon man, animals, plants and minerals here. the process of working by placing the symbol upon the forehead, instead of imaginatively passing through it, is not a good practice. s.r.m.d. claims that it is liable to derange the brain-circulation and cause mental illusions and disturbance, headache and nervous exhaustion. it is also necessary to avoid self-hypnotism, for this would dispose towards mediumship and make the seer the playground of forces. the seer at all costs must control, and n

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ters upon the countenance of querents. as a fact, the lines formed on the human face by nervous contractions are determined fatally, and the radiation of the nervous tissue is absolutely analogous to those networks which are formed between the worlds by chains of starry attraction. the fatalities of life are therefore written necessarily in our wrinkles, and a first glance frequently reveals upon the forehead of a stranger either one or more of the mysterious letters of the kabalistic planisphere. should the letter be jagged and scored deeply, there has been a struggle between will and fatality, and in his most powerful emotions and tendencies the individual's entire past manifests to the magus. from this it becomes easy to conjecture the future; and if events deceive the sagacity of the d

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rected was a matter for careful observation. if the spirit were supposed to be from heaven, the operator placed himself at the top, and set the altar of fumigations at the bottom; but if the spirit came from the abyss this method was reversed. moreover, the sacred symbol of two interlaced triangles, forming the six-pointed star, known in magic as the pantacle or seal of solomon, must be worn upon the forehead and the breast, and graven 24 the ritual of transcendental magic in the right hand. independently of these signs, the ancients, in their evocations, made use of those mystical combinations of divine names which we have reproduced in our gdoctrine h from the hebrew kabalists. the magic triangle of pagan theosophists was the celebrated abracadabra, to which they attributed extraordinary

love; jupiter, the risen and glorious saviour; saturn, god the father, or the jehovah of moses. in the human body, the sun is analogous to the heart, the moon to the brain, jupiter to the right hand, saturn to the left, mars to the left foot, venus to the right, mercury to the generative organs, whence an androgyne figure is sometimes attributed to this planet. in the human face, the sun governs the forehead, jupiter the right and saturn the left eye; the moon rules between both at the root of the nose, the two alae of which are governed by mars and venus; finally, the influence of mercury is exercised over mouth and chin. among the ancients these notions constituted the occult science of physiognomy, afterwards recovered imperfectly by lavater. the magus who intends undertaking the works

vourable for transcendent science, the vestment should be green, or shot with various colours; the necklace of pearls in hollow glass beads containing mercury; the perfumes benzoin, mace and storax; the flowers, narcissus, lily, herb-mercury, fumitory, and marjoram; the jewel should be the agate. on thursday, a day of great religious and political operations, the vestment should be scarlet and on the forehead should be worn a brass tablet, with the character of the spirit of jupiter and the three words: giarar, bethor, samgabiel; the perfumes are incense, ambergris, balm, grain of paradise, macis and saffron; the ring must be enriched with an emerald or sapphire; the wreaths and crowns should be oak, poplar, g and pomegranate leaves. on friday, the day for amorous operations, the vestment

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comment as being directed to "the other worshippers of nuit" besides the scarlet woman and himself. i read it as establishing to all readers of the book of the law that there would be but one "prince-priest the beast" the pathetic posturing of the many self-proclaimed "reincarnations" of aleister crowley speaks for itself. 18. burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! the uraeus cobra, worn on the forehead, was the symbol of egyptian kingship. more precisely, the pharaoh's role was that of a priest-king: a divinely inspired and sanctioned guardian of the initiatory elect of egypt. nuit announces crowley's ascent to his station as magus of the aon. once again the authenticity of the book of the law is subtly evidenced, as the exclusive symbolism of the uraeus is unmistakable "this is the

august xix reading list: my place is a vast expanse, such as the one i beheld a millennium ago. my time is again. through this home-spun being, shall i cause and effect. to be over-reminded of the chaotic, open fields requires (a) stranger presence in a different place. i am occupying that place now. stop wearily and yet leave reanimated. for selkhet suffers no further bondage and will reside at the forehead of her brother set. this also means that the eye has been opened and that eye is the gate to my being. feed as upon the nerve-centre. be prepared to defend even the outer-most edge, for there are beings there other than you know. my sign of time is the puncture mark /signed/ selkhet experience i want to relate that when i had gone to bed at 2.15 a.m. today, i was not tired, but it was

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s that accompanied the scenes. the pictures would be shown like a movie: held up while someone read out the hero's tale. in the _hamza-nama_ you could see the persian miniature fusing with kannada and keralan painting styles, you could see hindu and muslim philosophy forming their characteristically late--mughal synthesis. a giant was trapped in a pit and his human tormentors were spearing him in the forehead. a man sliced vertically from the top of his head to his groin still held his sword as he fell. everywhere, bubbling spillages of blood. saladin chamcha took a grip on himself "the savagery" he said loudly in his english voice "the sheer barbaric love of pain" changez chamchawala ignored his son, had eyes only for zeeny; who gazed straight back into his own "ours is a government of ph

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

to the eucharist or divine liturgy. the first part consists of hymns, prayers, bible readings, and recitations of various teachings and prayers by the entire congregation. the second part is the actual celebration of the last supper, with the symbolic eating of a wafer and drinking of wine. catholics also make the sign of the cross at various times during the service by placing the right hand to the forehead, to the breast and to the left shoulder and to the right shoulder, with the words: in the name of the father, and of the son and of the holy spirit. amen. music and singing also forms a part of the mass. a typical worship service in a protestant church is led by a preacher or minister and focuses on a sermon or a teaching from the bible. some services are opened with prayers from the

e service, candidates for confirmation usually study their religion in small groups. at the service, the young person answers a series of questions about his or her faith and promises to reject evil. then, in the catholic tradition, the bishop puts his hand on the person s shoulder, says the person s name (there may be a special confirmation name after a saint, and traces the sign of the cross on the forehead with holy oil to show this is a child of god. methodist ministers also put a hand on the candidates. in the baptist church everyone watching the confirmation extends his or her right hand. this shows acceptance and fellowship of the group. this ceremony formally accepts the candidate into the religion. weddings are another rite of passage in christianity, as they are in many other rel

s that the pleats of the sari have to be tucked in so the vayu, the god of wind, can whisk away evil influences. colors are likely to emphasize yellow, green, and red, which are festive colors that bring good fortune. in the twenty-first century the wearing of beautiful saris has become something of a fashion statement for hindu women. additionally, many hindu women wear the tilaka, a red spot on the forehead, typically made of sandalwood paste, this spot on the forehead is thought to be the seat of wisdom and concentration. the mark will differ depending on the sect of hinduism to which the woman belongs. male hindu scholars also sometimes wear the tilaka. world religions: almanac 261 hinduism hindu deities there are a large number of deities, or gods and goddesses, that hindus can choose

apter of the qur an with the hands folded over the chest. each person then recites a second passage from the qur an of his or her own choosing, followed again by god is 312 world religions: almanac islam great, then glory to my great lord, then god hears those who praise him, all while bowing forward at the waist. the worshiper then stands upright, says god is great, then, on hands and knees with the forehead to the ground, says glory to my lord, most high three times. again, the worshiper says god is great, before rising to a sitting position. after saying god is great again, the worshiper bows forward with the forehead touching the ground. this ritual is a unit of prayer, or a ra kah. a second unit would follow the same pattern, except that a different, second passage from the qur an wou

erything, governs all human actions, rewards good conduct and punishes evil, dispenses justice, and protects cities and homes. nonetheless, zeus recognizes that humans play a part in determining their own fates. in greek myth, numerous lesser gods and goddesses have their own spheres of influence and often quarrel among themselves. legend has it that athena had no mother. she sprang directly from the forehead of zeus. she is a goddess of warfare, but, more importantly, she also represents practical wisdom, restraint, and reason. in the iliad, she inspires the greek heroes, and her name is equated with military skill, excellence in combat, victory, and glory, as opposed to mere lust for blood, represented by the god ares. in this role, she becomes odysseus s guardian, and in her relationshi

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forth from the earth.79 when? when the name (hvhy) was implanted. and thus air came forth. and a spark80 came to be. 1) one skull extends to its side.81 full of the dew of two colors over it. 2) three cavities in which the marked letters are manifested as vhy 3) black ones, as a raven, hanging over the deep holes, so that he hears right and left as not. here there is one slender path above.82 4) the forehead that shines as not, the discord of the world, except when his will(]vor, ratzon) has regard. 5) eyes of three colors, to cause fright before them, they are washed with radiating milk. it is written: your eyes shall see jerusalem, a peaceful habitation.83 righteousness dwells in her.84 the peaceful habitation is the ancient one who is hidden. thus the script is oynk(;nyi).85 6) the nos

to the world of creation, the vav v to the world of formation, and the lower heh h to the world of making. 13 hidden within the hidden is atiqa ha atiqim in aramaic. hidden one (atiqa) is a prominent name of vast face in the zohar. 14 the skull of vast face. 15 the envelope is the skin. 16 the pure wool (sufim ,ypvc) are the hairs which hang from the skull. 17 the will(]vor ratzon) corresponds to the forehead. 18 the open eye is the eye of providence, the ayin i (vast face. 19 the hollow pillar is an allusion to the nose. 20 spirit xvr ruach. 21 torah b reshith 1:1. 22 the six are the directional sefiroth, the chayot who ran and returned. 23 torah b reshith 5:29. 24 unformed (tohu) and empty (vuhbohu, darkness, and al-face of the deep are all epitaphs of vast face. 25 al li is a prominent

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ttes. frizzled and coiffe, not a hair was out of order, not a speck lodged on the sleek surface of the blue coat, not a wrinkle crumpled the snowy vest, with its under-relief of delicate pink. at the first glance, you might have seen in that face nothing but the ill-favoured features of a sickly countenance; at a second glance, you would have perceived that it had a power, a character of its own. the forehead, though low and compressed, was not without that appearance of thought and intelligence which, it may be observed, that breadth between the eyebrows almost invariably gives; the lips were firm and tightly drawn together, yet ever and anon they trembled, and writhed restlessly. the eyes, sullen and gloomy, were yet piercing, and full of a concentrated vigour that did not seem supported

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

eth forth into heaven from the ladder. pepi hath need neither to 'plough the earth' nor to 'collect the offering; and he hath (need neither to go to the hall which is in annu (heliopolis, nor to the hall of the morning which is in annu; for that which he seeth and that which he p. 54 heareth shall feed him and nourish him when he appeareth in heaven from the ladder. pepi riseth like the uraeus on the forehead of set, and every god and every spirit stretcheth out his hand to pepi on the ladder. pepi hath gathered together his bones, be hath collected his flesh, and he hath gone quickly into heaven by means of the two fingers 1 of the god of the ladder (i.e, horus. elsewhere 2 the gods khonsu, sept, etc, are invoked to bring the ladder to pepi, and the ladder itself is adjured to come with i

ce because thou hast transformed thyself into a hawk of gold by means of thy amulets (or talismans) of the city of gold" etc. when these words have been said, a priest who is made to personify anubis comes to the deceased and performs certain symbolical ceremonies by his head, and lays certain bandages upon it. when the head and mouth and face have been well oiled the bandage of nekheb is laid on the forehead, the bandage of hathor on the face, the bandage of thoth upon the two ears, and the bandage of nebt-hetep on the nape of the neck. over the head was laid the bandage of sekhet, in two pieces, and over each ear, and each nostril, and each cheek was fastened a bandage or strip of linen; over the forehead went four pieces of linen, on the top of the head two, outside the mouth two, and i

SIX ANGLED RITE OF THE ROYAL SUN OF THE GOAT LORD

w the fading green sigil 4: the sign of the devil's trident invocatory name: routa (roo tah) poetic stream: the old puck-angel raises a fork a threefold sharpened wand one tine for heaven, earth and hell three for the king of the hidden land sigil 5: the sign of mars invocatory name: samael (sam eye el) poetic stream: heavenly steel, earthly steel, the mark of cain is red lifted above, a touch to the forehead above bodies of men struck dead sigil 6: the sign of the spring equinox invocatory name: bhouck (boo k) poetic stream: spring, the year's faithful king fire in every leaf and furrow life from below, risen above to return on water down below once you have placed the last implement on it's sigil, bow your head again to the east and return to the center. here, you will go down to one kne

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

hor. in looking at its origin, it could be said that it is phoenician or egyptian. for the 3 bottom of the ankh, the egyptian symbol of life, is a t cross. it could be said to be the male part of the ankh symbol. in contemplating the christian origin of the t cross, we need to look in ezekiel (ix. 4, for we read that the prophet was commanded by god to go through jerusalem and to "set a mark upon the foreheads" of certain men, presumably as a sign of their exemption from judgment. the hebrew word which is translated as "mark" is tau and some have identified the sign tau with the t cross. tertullian, in commenting on the passage, says of the sign "ipsa enim litera graecorum t, nostra autem species crucis (adversus marcian iii.22" we also see a view that the mark made with the blood of the p

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ss, and son (allseeing eye. art illustration from the book, active meditation, by robert leichtman, m.d. and carl japikse (ariel press. the hermetic monk holds the solar disk with cross and all-seeing eye. 272 codex magica this bizarre advertisement for cable-tv's the learning channel. the tattoos on this man are real. the all-seeing eye is in what hindus call the "ajna center" in the midpoint of the forehead just above the eyebrows. the riddle of the great seal of the united states 273 sir walter raleigh, the impetuous adventurer and polished courtier, was also a man of considerable literary accomplishments. much of the poetry he wrote has been lost, but several impressive prose works survive. the most ambitious and distinguished of these is the history of the world, written between 1607

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sat sprawled in chairs or leaned against walls, tears streaming down their cheeks. carrington made special note of the fact that two highly skeptical friends of the tenant had accompanied the group to the house out of boredom. both of these skeptics experienced the same sensations as the other members of the group a difficulty in swallowing, tears streaming from the eyes, and cold perspiration on the forehead. a dog, belonging to a member of the party, resisted all manner of coaxing designed to lure it upstairs. it growled, planted its feet stubbornly, and the hair raised on its back. in short, carrington commented, the dog behaved very much as dogs are supposed to behave in the presence of ghostly phenomena. much later that evening, carrington led another expedition up the stairs to the s

date that the shroud cloth had been woven. as might be expected, large numbers of diligent researchers object to the date of 1320 and the suggestion that some talented artisan in the middle ages had created the image on the shroud as a work of piety or as an instrument of deception. those who champion the authenticity of the shroud point out that the scalp punctures and blood rivulets as seen on the forehead of the man of the shroud have the characteristics and proper location for both veinous and arterial blood flow, and yet, if the shroud were a hoax created in approximately 1320, circulation of human blood was not discovered until 1593. the cloth-to-body distance correlates so precisely that the image perfectly encapsulates three-dimensional data perfectly. when the shroud image is fed

omas. serpent-handling believers. knoxville, tenn: university of tennessee press, 1993. crim, keith, gen. ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1989. farnell, kathie. snakes and salvation. fate, december 1996, pp. 28 32. stigmata stigmata are spontaneous bleeding wounds which appear in various places on the body, such as the hands, the feet, the back, the forehead, and the side, and, in the christian context, are considered to be manifestations of the suffering endured prior to, and during, jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) crucifixion. while theologians debate whether or not st. paul himself may have been a stigmatic (galatians 6:17 i bear on my body the marks of jesus, st. francis of assisi (1181 1226) suddenly bore the wounds of christ while pra

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how do the flying-saucer contactees encounter the space beings? a synthesis of such experiences reveals the following. they first saw a ufo on the ground, hovering low overhead, or heard a slight humming sound above them that drew their attention to a mysterious craft. next, a warm ray of light emanated from the craft and touched the contactees on the neck, the crown of the head, or the middle of the forehead. they may have lost consciousness at this point and, upon awakening, may have discovered that they could not account for anywhere from a minute or two to an hour or two of their time. those contactees who later claim direct communication with space beings generally state that they have no recollection of any period of unconsciousness, but they maintain that they heard a voice speaking

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

been called into perform the rites which would secure the success of the operation. they were also consulted if an animalfell sick. thus at burton-on-trent, in 1597,[26] a certain farmer's cow was ill "elizabeth wright took uponher to help upon condition that she might have a penny to bestow upon her god, and so she came to the man'shouse, kneeled down before the cow, crossed her with a stick in the forehead and prayed to her god, sincewhich time the cow continued well. here there is the interesting and very definite statement that elizabethwright had a god who was clearly not that of the christians. in orkney, in 1629,[27] jonet rendall wasaccused that "the devil appeared to you, whom you called walliman. after you met your walliman uponthe hill you came to william rendall's house, who h

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

eals fall, when the last material chains of conscience break, when the last of them that killed the 22 prophets and the last of them that stifled the word are confounded, then will be the reign of the holy ghost. then, glory to the father who drowned the host of pharaoh in the red sea! glory to the son, who tore the veil of the temple, and whose cross, overweighing the crown of the caesars, broke the forehead of the caesars against the earth! glory to the holy ghost, who shall sweep from the earth by his terrible breath all the thieves and all the executioners, to make room for the banquet of the children of god! glory to the holy ghost, who has promised victory over earth and over heaven to the angel of liberty! the angel of liberty was born before the dawn of the first day, before even t

basing the universe upon the two columns of hermes and of solomon, has divided the metaphysical world into two intellectual zones, one white and luminous, enclosing positive ideas, the other black and obscure, containing negative ideas, and which has given to the synthesis of the first, the name of god, and to that of the other, the name of the devil or of satan. the sign of the lingam borne upon the forehead is in india the distinguishing mark of the worshippers of shiva the destroyer; for that sign being that of the great magical arcanum, which refers to the mystery of universal generation, to bear it on the forehead is to make profession of dogmatic shamelessness "now" say the orientals "the day when there is no longer modesty in the world, the world, given over to debauch which is ster

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ter, the beginning of our era (see jean danielou's "les symboles chretiens primitifs, paris 1961. it was the sign of the elect' of the old testament, even before it was mentioned in the revelation of st. john (the apocalypse) and also well prior to its adoption by the christians as a sign recalling the passion of christ. for example we read in ezekiel that it was supposed to have been traced upon the foreheads of the elect by the angel of yaveh. 11 the ancient egyptians, the eleusinian mysteries and those of dionysos, the gnostics, all had known and used this tau for the same reason as ancient israel and her kabbalists- thus it can be used by initiates of any religious or philosophical appurtenance. it used to be traced in oil of unction upon the forehead of the high priest of israel at th

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

an invention, westerners tend to belittle this gift as a childish diversion. 28. some advanced middle pillar exercises are given in part two, chapter ten. 29. spiritual mastery. chapter three the qabalistic cross and the pentagram ritual s ome years ago, the principles of this exercise of the qabalistic cross were published in my book the tree of life, and i repeat the rubric as follows: 1. touch the forehead, say "atoh("thou art. 2. bring the hand down and touch the breast, say "malkuth("the kingdom. 3. touch the left shoulder, and say "ve-gedulah("and the glory. 4. touch the right shoulder and say "ve-gevurah("and the power).l 5. clasping the fingers on the breast, say "le olahm amen("forever, amen. the words employed are in the hebrew tongue. hebrew is so employed because the magical sy

enced. let therefore the student consider h s higher and divine genius, the core of his unconscious, as of the nature of wisdom and love and light, visualizing its sphere of activity as having an affinity with the region immediately above the head. after some seconds of ths the qabalistic cross and the pentagram ritual 53 quiet recollection, let him raise his hand above h s head, then lower it to the forehead and vibrate the first word "atoh" as though formally to affirm the presence of that genius. the hand employed should then be brought in a straight line down to the region about the diaphragm. vibrate the word "malkuth" as this is done, let the mind dwell on the fact that as the hand descends, so does a stream of light descend from above, a steady brilliant ray of light permeating him

n the mindlbody system, then it follows that mental pictures or visualizations can be used to purposely effect an attitude of total relaxation prior to magical work) lie face up on a mat or thick blanket placed on the floor and relax. let the weight of your body sink into the floor. begin breathing in a rhythmic fashion. start with the top of the head. inhale and deliberately tense the muscles of the forehead for a moment. visualize your brain and the muscles of your brow. tense the muscles as much as you possibly can. then exhale, let go of the tension, and relax the forehead totally. feel and visualize your muscles as they relax. do this two or three times. after a brief period of time, inhale and tense the muscles of your face, squeezing your eyes shut. with your mind's eye, see your fa

"a lump in the throat) malfunctions of the thyroid, as well as speech and hearing disorders, are under the dominion of the fifth chakra. the essence of this center is associated with sound, particularly vibration. in yoga the visuddha is a very important center of alchemical transmutation. it is also said to produce a secretion of immortality. 6. ajna, the brow or third eye chakra, is located in the forehead. it is associated with the pituitary gland and the frontal lobes of the brain. the word ajna means "order" or "command" which indicates that activation of ths chakra is indicative of true order and mastery. the traditional color here is translucent blue. an alternative color is whte.12 its symbol is a circle with two wings or petals, which correspond to two pituitary lobes and the two

agical tools that the ceremonial magician has at his disposal. the following rendition is only slightly different from the one presented in chapter three. it is the version that we prefer to use. the qabalistic cross stand and face east. imagine a brilliant white light touching the top of your head. reach up with the index finger or blade of a dagger to connect with the light and bring it down to the forehead. touch the forehead and vibrate "atah (ah-tah-"thou artu).l touch the breast and bring the dagger blade or index finger down till it covers the heart or abdominal area, pointing down to the ground. imagine the light descending from the forehead to the feet. vibrate "malkuth (mahl-kooth-"the kingdom. touch the right shoulder and visualize a point of light there. vibrate "ve-geburah (v'

of it can be more difficult. the following section describes a number of different versions of the lbrp, including egyptian, greek, gaelic, and shamanic renditions. egyptian pentagram ritual the egyptian qabalistic cross stand and face east. imagine a brilliant white light touching the top of your head. reach up with the index finger or blade of a dagger to connect with the light and bring it to the forehead. touch the forehead and say "entek pau (pronounced "en-tek pow" meaning "thou art he who is. touch the breast and say "ta sutenit (pronounced "tah suten- it" meaning "the kingdom. touch the right shoulder and say "ta sakhem (pronounced "tah sahk-hem" meaning "the divine power. touch the left shoulder and say "ta djeser (pronounced "tah d-jes-er" meaning "and the glory. clasp the finge

n sign sign of silence eye of horus the ankh the cross circled cross figure 14: ritual signs and symbols of protection. the pentagram 199 a greek banishing pentagram ritual the greek qabalistic cross (stauros kabalistikos) stand and face east. imagine a brilliant whte light touching the top of your head. reach up with the index finger or blade of a dagger to connect with the light and bring it to the forehead. touch the forehead and say "sou estin (pronounced "soo-estin" meaning "thne is1--oou e t i v. touch the breast and say "he basileia (pronounced "hay bahsih- lay-uh" meaning "the kingdom"-q baot3l ta. touch the right shoulder and say "kai he dynamis (pronounced "kigh hay din-ah-mees" meaning "and the power- at q guvapt. touch the left shoulder and say "kai he doxa (pronounced "kigh ha

d above me shines he chariti tou theos (pronounced "heh chah-reetee too thay-os "the grace of godu--q apt zzto u@&to. closing repeat the greek qabalistic cross. a gaelic banishing pentagram ritual the gaelic qabalistic cross stand and face east. imagine a brilliant whte light touchg the top of your head. reach up with the index finger or blade of a dagger to connect with the light and bring it to the forehead. touch the forehead and say "bhuait, a cruithear (pronounced "voo-uhch, uh xroo-uhr" meaning "from you, creator. touch the breast and say "na rioghachd (pronounced "nah ree-uhchk" meaning "the kingdom. touch the right shoulder and say "na neart (pronounced "nah nyarst" meaning "the power. touch the left shoulder and say 's na miadh (pronounced "snah mee-uhgh,"30 meaning "and the honor

oint on the left side of the circle and trace clockwise (see figure 14, p. 198) a shamanic banishing ritual (note: this ritual employs the names of deities from several different native american tribes) the shamanic cross stand and face east. imagine a brilliant white light touching the top of your head. reach up with the index finger or blade of a dagger to connect with the light and bring it to the forehead. touch the forehead and say "to wakanda."32 touch the breast and say "to michab0."33 touch the right shoulder and say "to ioskeha."34touch the left shoulder and say 'to whope."35 clasp the fingers over the breast and say "and to all the ancestors, i give thanks" the pentagrams face east. use dagger or the index finger of the right hand to trace a large lesser banishing pentagram. as y

THE BINDING OF SHADOWS

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

that he might pay proper salutation to the sun, with whom he knew himself one and individible. the furious wretch exclaimed: who art thou? and our brother, with a supreme effort, fixed his eyes upon the last ray of the sun as it sank, and cried, i am the truth, and in my turban is wrapped nothing but god. at that, the chief of the assassins picked up yet another stone, which struck our brother on the forehead, and laid him lifeless at his feet (done) then to make double sure, he stabbed the master in the throat with a dagger, and his blood gushed out upon the disk or platter from which he was wont to eat. summoning his accomplices, he directed them to conceal the corpse within the well of the oasis. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c4.html

and herein lieth a great mystery, beyond the understanding even of a master magician. it is in this position that the secrets of this degree are communicated. they consist of a sign, a grip and a word. as in the first degree, the sign was single, in the second double, so in the third degree it is triple. first, is the sign of mystery. clenching the fingers of the right hand, touch with the thumb, the forehead, the right breast, the left breast and finally the throat. this is in commemoration of the wounds of the ancient master, and by their position they form a triangle with a point in the focus thereof, which is called centrum in trigono centri. second is the sign of resurrection. clenching the right hand as usual, touch the navel with the thumb. then draw the hand sharply across the body

e of the realms that are! the possession and right use of this secret giveth an hundred powers; yea, verily, five score is the numeration of the reward thereof. for this mystery is of jove himself whose letter is pk; and these are the initials of our athanor and our cucurbite, their names in the language of the greeks. yet of all these powers i name but seven, the glories of eulis; the stars upon the foreheads of the brothers of hermetic light. luna and of these the first is the building up of one that is not born; verily, a child of wonder shall he be. venus and the second is the harmony and the mastery of one co-eval and co-operative with thee from eternity, twin with thee, and thy mate. mars by the third cometh youth and beauty and energy, be thou never so old. saturn by the fourth is l

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar. 9:3 and the glory of the god of israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. and he called to the man clothed with linen, which [had] the writer s inkhorn by his side; 9:4 and the lord said unto him, go through the midst of the city, through the midst of jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. 9:5 and to the others he said in mine hearing, go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: 9:6 slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the mark; and begin at my sanctuary

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ians, as well as the greeks, looking upon fire as the essence of all active power; whence perpetual lamps are kept burning in the holy of holies of all the great pagodas in india, as they were anciently in the temple of jupiter ammon, and many others both greek and barbarian;3 and the incarnate god in the bagvat geeta says, i am the fire residing in the bodies of all things which have life.4 upon the forehead of the gonnis is a 1 see plate xiii, fig. 11, from a medla of seleucus i. beloning to me. 2 page 26. 3 see plut. de orac. defect. 4 page 113. of priapus 59 crescent representing the moon, whose power over the waters of the ocean caused her to be regarded as the sovereign of the great nutritive element, and whose mild rays, being accompanied by the refreshing dews and cooling breezes o

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

en rightly made) sur- rounded by four, or a multiple of four. the figure below is designed to produce a true understanding of the elements: f ive is the number of man. there are five fingers on the hand. the right hand is reflected in the left, its mirror opposite. a human being standing with arms and legs spread apart can with some difficulty form a perfect penta- gram, the points of which touch the forehead, hands, and feet. this was accepted as profoundly significant by the hermetic philosophers of the middle ages, as it served to confirm their intuited understanding that humanity and the pentagram are closely bound together. the ordering of the points of the star is of some importance in practical work- ing. it defines the structure of many rituals. the lower four points, which form a

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

it terrified him. he became aware of a floating sensation, followed by rapid vibrations of his body and a pain at the back of his head. suddenly he found himself lying on the air five feet or so over his bed. an unseen force pushed him into a standing position, and when he looked back at his bed he realized that his body was still lying on it. a glowing white cord stretched between the center of the forehead between the eyebrows of his physical body and the back of the head of his astral body. he tried to wake other members of his family but found that his hands passed through their bodies. after fifteen minutes or so, the silver cord contracted and pulled him back into his body in a reversal of the stages by which he had left it. in this account, we find all of the main features of muldo

t helpful to stimulate it during scrying and soul flight, both using the weight of the hands, and the pressure of the retained breath applied through the diaphragm. a body center more widely recognized as important for astral projection is the point between the eyebrows, the ajna chakra, which can be stimulated in several ways. perhaps the most effective method is to place a small, flat object on the forehead, so that its constant pressure stimulates the chakra and draws the awareness to it. a small silver coin such as a dime works very well. an older dime is better, because older coins contained silver, the metal of the moon, and astral projection falls under the general lunar influence. s. l. macgregor mathers, leader of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, explicitly advised against u

ned silver, the metal of the moon, and astral projection falls under the general lunar influence. s. l. macgregor mathers, leader of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, explicitly advised against using this technique. describing the use of the tattwa symbols for astral doorways, regardie, quoting from original golden dawn documents, wrote that "the process of working by placing the symbol upon the forehead, instead of imaginatively passing through it, is not a good practice. s.r.m.d [mathers] claims that it is liable to derange the brain-circulation and cause mental illusions and disturbance, headache, and nervous exhaustion."223i n my own work, i have found that placing a small object on the ajna chakra is quite helpful. there is no reason why a symbol cannot be placed on the forehead

nnot be placed on the forehead, and yet still be used as an astral doorway. contrary to what might be expected, unless the head is moved violently about, it has little tendency to slip or fall off, but will remain in place throughout the entire ritual. if a small disk of silver is incised with the sign of projection, using a punch or other sharp instrument, it would is quite useful when placed on the forehead during the general ritual of projection. another method i have used to apply this pressure is with a 223. regardie, 462. chapter fifteen: training for soul flight 267 specially made circlet of copper. silver would be a superior material, but copper is inexpensive and easy to work, and its qualities are in general harmony with those of silver. i shaped my circlet into a serpent biting

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

he rainbow, which also embodies all colors, is appropriate to represent it. when imagining the black egg against the black background of space, visualize an aura of silvery light around its edge. this radiant aura will distinguish the shape of the egg from the darkness behind it. the founder of the golden dawn, s. l. macgregor mathers, specifically instructed against placing the tattwa symbols on the forehead, on the grounds that it would cause headaches. i have not found this to be the case. on the contrary, placing the tattwa symbols on the forehead seems to facilitate their activation. if you find that you get headaches while performing this exercise, try doing it without using the physical tattwa cutouts. inward concentration i: mantra t he purpose of this exercise is to still the chao

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

h of the jews and the christ of the christians. the magical power that has always been most closely associated with jesus is the ability to drive out sickness from the mind and body. thus the name ihshvh is not only a banishing formula, but a healing formula as well. to free a person from nightmares, possession, depression, or obsession (persistent destructive thoughts, place your right hand upon the forehead of the sufferer and your left hand over your heart center. visualize the hebrew letters ihshvh glowing in your heart and vibrate the letters so that your breath touches the face of the person. this should be done in a rhythmic chant, repeating the letters of yeheshuah over and over. time the 54 tetragrammaton rhythm of your vibrations of the name so that, as you sound the letters, the

maton rhythm of your vibrations of the name so that, as you sound the letters, the sufferer inhales. in this way your breath will be drawn directly into the body of that person through the lungs and spread to every point by the circulation of the blood. you should visualize the white light of the name flowing from your heart center, up your left arm, across your body, and out your right hand into the forehead of the sufferer. visualize the body of the sufferer filling with white light, and dark shadows fleeing from this light through the top of the person's skull and out the soles of the feet. to heal sickness, the right hand should be placed firmly over the site of the illness and the white light of ihshvh concentrated in this area. vibrate the name with the lips close to the part of the

at name" for this reason baeovib should be regarded as a name of power. all of the keys in this last cycle contain different names, or characterizations, of god. in the fifteenth key, he is the god of righteousness; in the sixteenth, the god of conquest; in the seventeenth, the god of anger; in the eighteenth, the god of glory. the "seal of honor" may be a reference to the mark of god sealed into the foreheads of the 144,000 servants of god, twelve thousand from each tribe of israel (rev. 7:4. however, it may also refer to an occult sigil or symbol, possibly the sigil of aemeth, concerning which the angel uriel says "this seal is not to be looked upon without great reverence and devotion (james, the enochian magick of dr. john dee, p. 37, transcribed from dee's de heptarchia mystica, sloan

possibly the sigil of aemeth, concerning which the angel uriel says "this seal is not to be looked upon without great reverence and devotion (james, the enochian magick of dr. john dee, p. 37, transcribed from dee's de heptarchia mystica, sloane 3191. because of the dominance of apocalyptic appendix a: the keys 227 imagery throughout the keys, i am more inclined to think it refers to the seal on the foreheads of the righteous. the sixteenth key 0 thou second flame, the house of justice, which hast thy beginning in glory, and shalt comfort the just; which walkest on the earth with feet 8763 that understand and separate creatures: great art thou in the god of stretch-forth-and-conquer. move and show yourselves; open the mysteries of your creation; be friendly unto me, for i am the servant o

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

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

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

the skin is a gray-green..dark..somewhat 'oily' but with the feeling of 'scales..the odor he emits is putrid..he is not wearing any clothing, but there is something on his chest that reminds me of 'armor' but it seems to be a natural protection and not a material addition "face and head: the size of the head is in proportion to the body..there is no hair..there is a large ridge or flap of skin on the forehead just above the eyes, extending across the brow..the eyes are yellow-gold and 'glow..slightly almond-shaped with the pupils vertical slits..the nose and mouth protrude slightly giving the appearance of "snout-like..the teeth are pointy..the ears are over-sized in proportion to the head and the tips extend above the head and come to a point" case file #31 from: todd jumper, co-founder o

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

were three great vedas; three margas or ways of salvation; three gunas, the sattva, quiescence; rajas, desire; and tamas, decay. three lokas, swarga, bhumi and patala; heaven, earth and hell. three jewels of wisdom, the tri-ratnas; buddha, dharma and sanga. the three fires being the three aspects of the human soul, atma, buddhi and manas. there were three prongs of the trident, and three eyes in the forehead of siva. note also the 3-syllabled holy word aum. at the oblation of the elements in the celtic church, 3 drops of wine and 3 drops of water were poured into the chalice. in the present christian church, we notice 3 crossings with water at baptism, 3 creeds; the banns of numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott marriage are published 3 times; and a bi

nerate (and from the hebrew shbo, seven, or satisfied, abundance, being septos, holy, divine, and motherless, and a virgin. from nicomachus we learn that it was called minerva, being unmarried and virginal, begotten neither by a mother, i.e, even number, nor from a father, i.e, odd number. but proceeding from the summit of the father of all things, the monad; even as minerva sprang all armed from the forehead of jove or zeus. hence also obrimopatre, or daughter of a mighty father, and glaucopis, shining-eyed, and ametor and ageleia, she that carries off the spoil. and fortune, for it decides mortal affairs. and voice, for there are seven tones in every voice, human and instrumental. because they are emitted by the seven planets, and form the music of the spheres. also tritogenia, because t

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

to two formations of the divine: arikh anpin (or atiq yomin, which is in the position of keter, and ze eir anpin, which comprises the sefirot from hokhmah to yesod.229 insofar as opposites coalesce in arikh anpin, the world wherein judgment is contained fully in mercy, the feminine in the masculine, an idea mythopoeically conveyed by the symbolic image of the single eye situated in the middle of the forehead,230 it is appropriately designated the continuous day, yom ehad, that is, the interval of time beyond the polarity of night and day, a temporal span that is continuously diurnal all shadows of dark dissolved in the shimmer of light. by contrast, the lower form, ze eir anpin, contains judgment and mercy as distinct attributes, and thus it is characterized by the sequence of night and d

am the seal of your signet truth [hotama de-gushpanqa dilakh emet, and you are called truth. it is appropriate for the king to begin with the letter of truth [ot emet] and to create the world through me. the holy one, blessed be he, said to it: you are worthy and you are commendable, but you are not worthy enough for the world to be created through you since in the future you will be inscribed on the foreheads of faithful men who fulfilled the torah from alef to tau and through your marking [reshimu dilakh] they will die. moreover, you are the seal of death [hotama de-mawet, and since this is the case, you are not worthy for the world to be created through you. immediately, it departed.21 after tau/ where endings begin 159 the argument placed in the mouth of tau is crafted on the basis of

me of r. aha ben hanina.25 the narrative about god s punishing the jerusalemites in the ninth chapter of ezekiel is presented as the sole textual source for an exception to the theological axiom that a good measure (middah tovah) does not go forth from god and change into evil. according to the exegesis of r. aha, the man clothed in linen refers to gabriel,26 who was commanded by god, go and mark the foreheads of the righteous with a tau of ink so that the angels of destruction will not prevail over them, and [place a] tau of blood on the foreheads of the wicked so that the angels of destruction will prevail over them. the attribute of judgment (middat ha-din, however, mounts a persuasive argument before god that the righteous 160 chapter five who did not try to prevent others from sinning

of the prophetic vision, then, is to stress that a righteous man who does not prevent others from sinning justifies the attribute of judgment s altering of the divine will by transforming god s good intention into evil. before returning to the medieval kabbalistic source, we would do well to note that the singular mark of the biblical text becomes two marks in the rabbinic homily: an ink spot on the foreheads of the righteous and a bloodstain on the foreheads of the wicked, the former serving as an apotropos to deflect the angels of destruction and the latter as a lure to attract them. three crucial points in the talmudic source may be clarified with the help of saul lieberman s analysis. 28 first, in all probability, the exegetical decoding of tau in ezekiel as referring to the last lett

bbreviation for thanatos (death) in capital sentences in gentile courts. second, the doubling of the mark may be explained by the fact that tau was almost identical in form with chi and in sound with theta. while the latter was deployed as a mark of execution, the former was a mark of the canceling of debts and, by extension, a sign of freedom from bondage. thus, the mark of liberty was placed on the foreheads of the righteous and the mark of death on the foreheads of the wicked. the dual function of tau is captured in a statement attributed to rav in the same talmudic context that this letter concomitantly signals tihyeh and tamut, you shall live and you shall die. furthermore, the black-mark of death (nigrum theta) is depicted in the rabbinic homily as the blood-mark (tau shel dam, which

some rabbis to an exegetical tradition cultivated by early church fathers that connected the tau of ezekiel with the paschal lamb, the symbol of salvation. this possibility is enhanced by the evidence (supplied, for example, by origen) that jewish christians interpreted the tau of ezekiel as a sign of the cross (related, as we have seen, to the shape of the letter in the ancient script) placed on the foreheads of christians.29 apparently responding to this interpretation, rabbinic exegetes emphasized that the mark of blood signals destruction rather than deliverance.30 this rabbinic concern underlies the zoharic comment that the faithful men who fulfilled the torah from alef to tau would die because of the tau with which they were marked. one should note the stroke of literary ingenuity: t

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