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4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

en arranged on the letters of the paths between them. the king and queen of the suit are placed beside chokmah and binah respectively, the knight beside tiphareth and the knave beside malkuth, thus representing the attribution of the sephiroth to the four letters of the holy name in the world wherein they operate. heg: leads practicus to tablet of the pillars in south. heg: this tablet represents the formation of the hexagram of tiphareth from the pillars on each side. in chesed is the water and in geburah is the fire, and in tiphareth is the uniting and reconciliation of both triangles in the hexagram, as aleph forms the reconciliation between mem and shin so thus stands the reconciling pillar between the pillars of fire and of cloud; the yakin and boat of solomon's temple. heg: leads pra

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

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ting the three main cycles of the moon, and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this motif continued right through to the triple goddess of the celts, reflecting the lunar cycles as maiden, mother and crone, an image that also appeared throughout the classical world. witchcraft and the early christians after the formation of the christian church, the worship of the old deities and the old ways were banned and the nature festivals supplanted by christian ones. the christians were pragmatic, however, and pope gregory, who sent st augustine to england in ad 597, acknowledged that it was simpler to graft the christian festivals on to the existing festivals of the solstices and equinoxes. so, easter, for e

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voyer d'argenson, marquis de paulny; and was first opened to the public on the 9th flor al, in the fifth year of the french republic (that is to say, on 28th april, 1797, or just a century ago. this marquis de paulny was born in the year 1722, died in 1787, and was successively minister of war, and ambassador to switzerland, to poland, and to the venetian republic. his later years were devoted to the formation of this library, said to be one of the richest private collections known. it was acquired in 1785 by the comte d'artois, and today belongs to the state. it is situated on the right bank of the seine, in the rue de sully, near the river, and not far from the place de la bastille, and is known as the biblioth que de l'arsenal. in round numbers it now possesses 700,000 printed books, an

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

indeed, crowley had nothing but admiration for the shaitan (satan) of the so-called "devil-worshipping" cult of the yezidis of mesopotamia, knowledge of which led him to declare the lines that open this introduction. for he saw that the yezidis possess a great secret and a great tradition that extends far back into time, beyond the origin of the sun cults of osiris, mithra and christ; even before the formation of the judaic religion, and the hebrew tongue. crowley harkened back to a time before the moon was worshipped, to the "shadow out of time; and in this, whether he realised it as such or not, he had heard the "call of cthulhu. sumeria that a reclusive author of short stories who lived in a quiet neighbourhood in new england, and the manic, infamous master magician who called the world

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

er is said to be all hotch-potch and accursed. the chapter should be read most carefully in connection with the 10th aethyr. it is to that dramatic experience that it refers. the mind is called "wind, because of its nature; as has been frequently explained, the ideas and words are identical. in this free-flowing, centreless material arises an eddy; a spiral close-coiled upon itself. the theory of the formation of the ego is that of the hindus, whose ahamkara is itself a function of the mind, whose ego it creates. this ego is entirely divine. zoroaster describes god as having the head of the hawk, and a spiral force. it will be difficult to understand this chapter without some experience in the transvaluation of values, which occurs throughout the whole of this book, in nearly every other s

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

maining letters are but a solidification of the same thing. it must be understood that we are here speaking of the whole ceremony considered as a unity, not merely of that formula in which "yod" is the god invoked "he" the archangel, and so on. in order to understand the ceremony under this formula, we must take a more extended view of the functions of the four weapons than we have hitherto done. the formation of the "yod" is the formulation of the first creative force, of that father who is called "self-begotten, and unto whom it is said "thou has formulated thy father, and made fertile thy mother. the adding of the "he" to the "yod" is the marriage of that father to the great co-equal mother, who is a reflection of nuit as he is of hadit. their union brings forth the son "vau" who is the

n the hexagram. it is the first number of the sun, whose last number<sun being 6, a square 6x6 contains 36 squares. we arrange the numbers from 1 to 36 in this square, so that each line, file, and diagonal adds to the same number. this number is 111; the total of all is 666> is 666 "the number of a man. the letter m exhibits the termination of this process. it is the hanged man of the tarot; the formation of the individual from the absolute is closed by his death. we see accordingly how aum is, on either system, the expression of a dogma which implies catastrophe in nature. it is cognate with the formula of the slain god. the "resurrection" and "ascension" are not implied in it. they are later inventions without basis in necessity; they may be described indeed as freudian phantasms co

accidental kind<metaphysical antithesis that magick is the art of the will-to-live, mysticism of the will-to-die; but "truth comes bubbling to my brim; life and death are one to him> ii beside these open methods thee are also a number of mental methods of invocation, of which we may give three. the first method concerns the so-called astral body. the magician should practise the formation of this body as recommended in liber o, and learn to rise on the planes according to the instruction given in the same book, though limiting his "rising" to the particular symbol whose god he wishes to invoke. the second is to recite a mantra suitable to the god. the third is the assumption of the form of the god- by transmuting the astral body into his shape. this last method is rea

d this method of self-realization; the object of incarnation is to obtain its reactions to its relations with other incarnated beings and to observe theirs with each other- section aa "line 1" the adept asserts his right to enter into conscious communication with his angel, on the ground that that angel has himself taught him the secret magick by which he may make the proper link "mosheh" is m h, the formation in jechidah, chiah, neshamah, ruach- the sephiroth from kether to yesod- since 45 is gr:sigma =summation 1-9 while sh, 300, is gr:sigma =summation 1-24, which superadds to these nine an extra fifteen numbers (see in liber d 276 the meanings an correspondences of 9, 15, 24, 45, 300, 345) 45 is moreover a d m, man "mosheh" is thus the name of man as a god-concealing form. but in the ri

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

lf, and not to be apprehended by another, can mean nothing to one's neighbors. what happens, of course, is that similar, though not identical, point- events happen to many of us, and so we are able to construct a symbolic language. my memory of the mysterious reality resembles yours sufficiently to induce us to agree that both belong to the same class. but let me furthermore ask you to reflect on the formation of language itself. except in the case of onomato-poetic words and a few others, there is no logical connection between a thing and the sound of our name for it "bow-wow" is a more rational name than "dog, which is a mere convention agreed on by the english, while other nations prefer chien, hund, cane, kalb, kutta and so on. all symbols, you see, my dear child, and it's no good your

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

. in any case, it was the secret lemurian tradition that they themselves represented the survivals of a yet earlier race who lived on ice, and they of yet another who lived in fire, and they again of earlier colonists from mars. the theory, in fine, was that the aim of man is to attain the sun, whence, according to one school of cosmology, he was exiled in the cosmic catastrophe which resulted in the formation of neptune. his task on any given planet was therefore to overturn the laws of nature on that planet, thus mastering it sufficiently to enable him to make the leap to the next planet inward. exactly how and in what sense the leap was made remains obscure, even to the heirs of atlantis* the men of atlas could fly, it is true, and that by a method so simple that men will laugh outright

facta erat. vix credere dignum est, tanquam verum, feminarum montes venereales similutidine facies fuere, facies demonicae, sardonicae, satyricae, cujus os erat os vulvae, res horribiles atque ridiculosa. ferunt similia de virorum membris, quae fingunt sicut imagines homunculorum fuere. lege--judice--tace. many of the men had ossified extensions of the frontal process which amounted to horns, and the formation was occasionally found in the higher types of women. curiously carven head-dresses of gold were worn by both sexes, and those of priestly rank adorned these with living serpents, and the high priests yet further with feathers or with wings, such being not the spoils of dead birds, but the blossoms of the live gold of the crowns. some tradition of this custom is found in the pictures

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s tighten in the particular way requisite to the production of that sound; the muscles of lips and throat and tongue perform the necessary movements; the breathing apparatus is controlled, so that just the right quantity of air passes over the vocal chords; and as the child speaks it repeats the word it had formerly learnt to associate with the object of its present desire. such is the process of the formation of a sankh ra. the more frequently that idea recurs to the child, the more often does it have to go through the processes involved- the more often, in a word, has the mind of the child to perform mental concentration,or samadhi, upon that particular series of mental and muscular movements, the more powerful does the set of sankh'aras involved become, till the child will recall the ne

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that is at my side if the ceremony hath been duly performed. and he says: yes, the aethyr is present. it is thou that canst not perceive it, even as i cannot perceive it, because it is so entirely beyond thy conception that there is nothing in thy mind on to which it can cast a symbol, even as the emptiness of space is not heated by the fire of the sun. and so pure is the light that it preventeth the formation of images, and therefore have men called it darkness. for with any lesser light, the mind responds, and makes for itself divers palaces. it is that which is written "in my father's house there are many mansions; and if the house be destroyed, how much more the mansions that are therein! for this is the victory of babalon over the magician that ensorcelled 151 her. for as the mother s

the heavens which provided you for the government of the earth, and her unspeakable variety, furnishing you with a power of understanding, that ye might dispose all things according to the foresight of him that sitteth on the holy throne, and rose up in the beginning, saying, the earth, let her be governed by her parts (this is the prostitution of babalon to pan, and let there be division in her (the formation of the many from the one, that her glory may be always ecstasy and irritation of orgasm. her course let it round with the heavens (that is, let her way be always harmonious with heaven, and as an 152 handmaid let her serve them (that is, the virgin of eternity climbing into the bed of chaos. one season let it confound another (that is, let there be unwearying variety of predicates, a

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gh it, and stand at some distance, to get the perspective, will be proved a conclusive proof of my thesis. i think that every failure will be certainly traceable to my own dam foolishness; every little success to courage, skill, wit, tenacity. if i had but a little more of these! 2.22. i further take this opportunity of asserting my atheism. i believe that all these phenomena are as explicable as the formation of hoar-frost or of glacier tables. i believe "attainment" to be a simple supreme sane state of the human brain. i do not believe in miracles; i do not think that god could cause a monkey, clergyman, or rationalist to attain. i am taking all this trouble of the record principally in hope that it will show exactly what mental and physical conditions precede, accompany, and follow "att

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inal hb:koph hb:resh 6. 7. 2- diagram 40. the qabalah of nine chambers. illustration on page 278 approximated below: hb:shin hb:aleph hb:mem (o (o (o (o (o\ x(o)x (o (o (o (o- diagram 41. the tablet of the three columns after which the "hiereus" shows the practicus "the qabalah of nine numbers" and the tablet of the "forming the tree of life in the tarot" and the "hegemon" the tablet representing the formation of the hexagram, and known as "the tablet of the three columns; and also explains to him the mode of using the talismanic forms drawn from the geomantic figures. the "hierophant" then confers upon the practicus the title of "lord of the twenty ninth path" and the first part of the ritual is ended. 278 illustration on page 279 approximated below_ hb:resh hb:samekh hb:tzaddi_ names in

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is as a flash of lightning; the flaming sword. this is shown by 21, the number of eheieh, the divine name of kether; then the tiphereth symbol of the vault; and last the centre of the earth affirmed in turn. this descent from kether to malkuth formulates the flaming sword, and thus is the light invoked in the second place. the seal is iao, ihshvh= 17+ 326= 343= 7 x 7 x 7 "i.e, 7 made into a cube, the formation of the stone of the wise from the seven-fold regimen, and the fixation of the wanderers (the seven planets, or of the volatile. 777= one is she the ruach elohim of lives, and the flaming sword, and olahm ha qliphoth. moreover 17 is the svastika and ihshvh_ the pentagram again, the marriage of isis and osiris (as shown by the signs in the key-word. now the flaming sword is a swift and

overned absolutely by three chiefs. ultimately their authority all devolved on one_ our late chief, the g.h. frater d.d.c.f, who was practically recognised as autocrat. this we have already learnt from the lection. but from a "statement" issued to adepti in february 1901, we further learn that on april 1("sic, 1897, v.h. soror s.s.d.d. was appointed head of the london branch of the order and that the formation of secret groups was advised and legalised by d.d.c.f "s.a. approved of this and formed a group himself, as silentio("sic) can bear witness" however, in "letters to the adepti of r.r. and a.c" issued in the same month, it appears that it was not by d.d.c.f.'s sanction, but through their distrust of him, that soror s.s.d.d. started a group in london, and frater s.s. one in edinburgh

[let formulate the idea of becoming invisible; imagine the results of success: then say] let the shroud of concealment encircle me at a distance of ten inches from the physical body. let the sphere be consecrated with water and with fire [done] o auramooth and o thoum-aesh-neith, i invoke and beseech you: let the vapour 275 of this water, and of this fire, be as a basis on the material plane for the formation of this shroud of art [form mentally the shroud] i, p, frater of the order of the golden dawn, and a 5= 6 thereof: a lord of the paths in the portal of the vault of the adepts: a frater ordinis rosae rubeae et aureae crucis: and especially a member of the 0= 0 grade: master of the pass-word "h" and of the grand word "m" am here: in order to formulate to myself a shroud of concealment

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e place where the operation is done. b. the magical operator. c. the forces of nature employed and attracted. d. the telesma; the material basis. 9 see "liber o" the equinox, vol. i, no. 2. e. in telesmata, the selection of the matter to form a telesma, the preparation and arrangement of the place: the forming of the body of the telesma. in natural 155 phenomena, the preparation of the operation, the formation of the circle, and the selection of the material basis; such as a piece of earth, a cup of water, a flame of fire, a pentacle, or the like. f. the invocation of the highest divine forces; winding a cord thrice round the telesma or material basis; covering the same with a black veil and initiating the blind force therein; naming aloud the "purpose" of the telesma or operation. g. the

performed to pander unto thy curiosity regarding the secrets of another. and if by this means thou shalt arrive at a knowledge of another's secrets, thou shalt respect and not betray them. hb:heh book v alchemical processes. a. the curcurbite or the alembic. b. the alchemist. c. the processes and forces employed. d. the matter to be transmuted. e. the selection of the matter to be transmuted, and the formation, cleansing and disposing of all the necessary vessels, materials &c, for the working of the process. f. general invocation of the higher forces to action. placing of the matter within the curcurbite or philosophic egg, and invocation of a blind force to action therein, in darkness and in silence. g. the beginning of the actual process: the regulation and restriction of the proper deg

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force and matter, and if the annihilation of the one does not carry with it the annihilation of the other irrespective of which is first- if either? ananda metteya carries his illustration further still. john smith, then, in a sense, is immortal; nay, every thought he thinks is deathless, and will persist, somewhere, in the depths of infinity. but it is not this part of his energy that results in the formation of a new being when he dies. we may then consider the moment of john smith's death. during his life he has not alone been setting in vibration the great ocean of the aether, he has been affecting the structure of his own brain. so that at the moment of his death all his own life, and all his past lives are existing pictured in a definite and characteristic molecular structure, a trem

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

hesises and blends the three aspects, uniting them in himself. he is the totality of the divine attributes, though as yet they are largely embryonic, and he has to repeat within his cycle of evolution the identical processes that the atom itself has followed. just as the atom pursues its own internal course, and just as it also has later to be drawn into and to merge and blend with other atoms in the formation of a group, so the human atom equally has to find his place within a greater form. let us, therefore, consider for a little what is the method of the evolutionary process for a human being. we have seen that in him the three lines converge, and that he is a point of synthesis, with one aspect as yet predominant, that of the intelligence, with the second aspect of love-wisdom just beg

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

specialised type of force from a centre which must remain nameless is applied to a man's causal body, and is one of the causes of its final disintegration. in thinking of this matter of the attainment of the sons of men, we must recognise that as mankind completes one unification after another, the "heavenly men" on intuitional levels and on spiritual levels are completed, and in their turn go to the formation of the centres in the great "heavenly men" of the solar system. these seven heavenly men, in whose bodies each human monad and each deva finds his place, form the seven centres in the body of the logos. he, in his turn, forms the heart centre (for god is love) of a still greater entity. the consummation of all for this solar system will be when the logos takes his fifth initiation. w

that far-seeing vision which sees the end from the beginning and the things of time as though they were not. third: through certain ceremonial rhythmic action the lodge greatly assists in the work of initiation. just as in the wesak festival, results in force demonstration are brought about by the use of chanted mantrams and the sacred ceremonial pacing and interweaving of the assembled crowd in the formation of geometrical figures, so in the initiation ceremony a similar procedure is followed. the geometrical figures appropriate for the various initiations differ, and herein lies one of the safeguards of the ceremony. the initiate knows the set figure for his own initiation, but no more. all these three aspects of the work of the masters and initiates in lodge assembled, occupy them unti

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

purpose the atoms of his body, and stimulates ever more and more the spirillae of those atoms by the force of his mind playing upon them- 209- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust here comes the opportunity to make clear something that is oft lost sight of in the general fog surrounding this subject. the human and deva units on the upward arc, who are the cells in his body, go to the formation of the centres, and not to the remainder of the cellular vital substance of his vehicles. man has a body made up of matter which is applied to different uses, yet which forms a unit. in this unit there are certain areas of more vital importance than other areas from the standpoint of energising force. such an area as the heart may, in this connection, be considered and compared (as r

this distinction clear, nor is it desirable at this time; the true facts of the case are one of the guarded secrets of initiation, but the distinction between the permanent atom, and atomic matter, may be somewhat comprehended if we state: the permanent atom is one that has been appropriated by one of the lives that form the centres in the body of a solar lord, whilst atomic matter per se goes to the formation of other parts of his great body of light. a permanent atom is one which has come under the attractive power of the second aspect, whilst- 306- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust atomic matter itself is vitalised by the life of the third aspect. a permanent atom follows the line of the least resistance of force, and is passing out of the control of the deva lord and

oning in and through the etheric body of the logos, formed of the matter of the four higher planes of the system. from this point of view the mental plane provides an interesting consideration: its three higher subplanes are positive, and centralise the positive force of the plane. this focussing of the positive affects the negative substance of the four lower planes and brings about likewise: a. the formation of force centres on the causal levels, those force centres being egoic groups in their various divisions. b. the concretion of substance, or the building of the dense physical body of the logos. on the physical plane of the solar system an analogous process can be seen taking place as regards the physical body of man, or his concrete manifestation. in his case, the fourth subplane is

e above paragraph, there are secondly three entities who embody planetary principles. they are (speaking from the present standpoint) the dynamic energy which holds together the three lower kingdoms, viewing these kingdoms as units and not as differentiations. they are closely connected with the energy aspect of the three earlier chains, and it only needed the work of an interplanetary avatar (at the formation of the triangle which resulted in the individualisation period in lemurian days) to enable them to take etheric bodies and incarnate among men. they act as focal points for the energy of the planetary logos on his own plane. the first kumara is in a mysterious sense the energy which produces self-consciousness in the human family. the three other kumaras, or the three buddhas of acti

osmic entity will utilise the vehicles of an adept in order to contact the physical planes. this method whereby cosmic existences make their power felt can be seen- 444- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust working out on all the planes of the cosmic physical plane. a striking instance of this can be seen in the case of the kumaras, who, under certain planetary forces, and through the formation of a systemic triangle, gave the impulse to the third kingdom which produced the fourth by bringing it into conjunction with the fifth. these kumaras, sanat kumara and his three pupils, having achieved the highest initiation possible in the last great cycle, but having as yet (from their standpoint) another step to take, offered themselves to the planetary logos of their ray as "foca

body, thus demonstrating on the physical plane the force of the logos in the administration of the law. when he comes at the close of this century and makes his power felt, he will come as the teacher of love and unity, and the keynote he will strike will be regeneration through love poured forth on all. as he will work primarily on the astral plane, this will demonstrate on the physical plane in the formation of active groups in every city of any size, and in every country, which will work aggressively for unity, co-operation and brotherhood in every department of life economic, religious, social and scientific- 446- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust these groups will achieve results now impossible, owing to the retention of buddhic force, but later this force will be s

efinite laws, which are the laws of substance itself; the effect is the same for human, planetary and solar vehicles. the different stages might be enumerated as follows: 1. the nebulous. the stage wherein the matter of the coming sheath begins to separate itself gradually from the aggregate of plane substance, and to assume a nebulous or milky aspect. this corresponds to the "fire-mist" stage in the formation of a solar system and of a planet. the pitris of the mist are then active as one of the many subsidiary groups of the three major groups. 2. the inchoate. condensation has set in but all is as yet inchoate, and the condition is chaotic; there is no definite form "the pitris of the chaos" hold sway, and are characterised by excessive energy, and violent activity, for the greater the c

into one and mingle with the sixth. the flame mounts up, responding to the breath. the final disappearance of the cube is needed and then the work stands forth" from the archives of the lodge (c) the names of the egoic lotuses. we might consider briefly the work of forming the egoic lotus on its own plane; this is as the result of the work of the agnishvattas, after its segregation in space, and the formation of its ring-pass-not. we have touched upon the remotest and earliest stages. one point we have not yet emphasised but which is of interest to the thoughtful student. this is the fact of the difference existing between the egoic bodies owing to their varying stages of development. for instance, up till the middle of the atlantean rootrace68(235 (when the door of individualisation was

roduction of a new set of vehicles at each incarnation, in order to assist the working out of karma. the history of the lunar bodies is stored up in the permanent atoms. the solar record. this deals with the more permanent egoic vehicle, and concerns itself with: a. the rate of vibration. b. the history of the petal unfoldment. c. the history of any particular group of solar angels concerned with the formation of the lotus. d. the activity of the deva substance out of which the lotus is constructed. e. group relationships. this information is used by the master who has made himself responsible for the stimulation and the growth of any particular series of egos, and also by advanced egos who are consciously working with their group- 506- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust

we find at the summit of the column, and surmounting all, that small organ called the pineal gland, which when vivified causes the third eye to open, and the beauties of the higher, subtler planes to stand revealed. all this physico-psychical occurrence is possible to man owing to certain events which happened to the heavenly serpent in the second, or serpent, round. these happenings necessitated the formation and evolution of that peculiar and mysterious family we call the reptilian. these forms of divine life are very intimately connected with the second planetary scheme, being responsive to energy emanating from that scheme, and reaching the earth via the second globe in the second chain. a group of special devas (connected with a particular open sound in the planetary word, work with t

y is under discussion. not only are they affected by: a. a man's note, b. the colour poured forth by the transmitting agents, c. the karmic agents, but they come under: d. group karma and vibration which will sweep in another group of agencies and builders, and thus affect a man's bodies, e. racial karma, an extension of the above, f. forces playing upon the planet from another scheme, or through the formation of a systemic triangle, g. a cosmic triangle of force of some specific kind which may bring in entities and energies of any particular scheme incident upon the karma of the planetary logos. it will, therefore, be apparent to the student how intricate this subject is and how truly each man- 560- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust is the outcome of force of some kind

riad and the personality. the power of the ego can begin to make itself felt. applicants for initiation and initiates up to the third initiation use both the sutratma and the antaskarana, employing them as a unit. the power of the triad begins to pour through, thus energising all human activities upon the physical plane, and vitalising in ever increasing degree the man's thought forms. the key to the formation of the mayavirupa is found in the right comprehension of the process. if students will study carefully the above differentiations, much light will be thrown upon the quality of the energy employed in thought-form building. in the early stages of alignment, it has to be concisely and carefully brought about through concentration and meditation. later, when the right rhythm has been se

hich enable him to create in the three spheres. it is the same basic concept which governs thought form building, and which enables a magician of white magic to produce objective phenomena on the physical plane. he works with the two types of energy, will and desire, and their equilibrising is what leads to the balancing of the pairs of opposites, and the subsequent release of energy-substance in the formation of the physical plane structure. the magician has to know the following facts: the formulas for the two aspects of logoic energy, will and desire. this is literally apprehension of the note and formula of the brahma or substance aspect, and the note and formula of the vishnu, or building aspect. one he ascertains because he has mastered matter; the other is revealed to him when he ha

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of the macrocosm. he will find that he, the real or spiritual man, the thinker, or the one life in his tiny system, is responsible for the creation of his mental, emotional and physical bodies, his three lower aspects, the "shadow" of the trinity, just as his spirit, soul and body are the reflections of the three divine aspects, father, son and holy spirit. he will find that he is responsible for the formation of all the organs in his body, and for all the cells of which they are composed and as he studies his problem more closely he will become aware that his consciousness and life pervades, and is therefore responsible for, myriads beyond number of tiny infinitesimal lives; that he is the cause of their aggregation into organs and forms, and the reason those forms are held in being. grad

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

as there ever been before in the history of the world, such a generous outlay of money for education both lower and higher. the total effect, however, is disappointing, and misses the central point. our institutions of learning produce some good scholars and give a body of scientific facts to a great number. but there is a pitiable failure in the main business of education which is, or should be, the formation of character, the culture of the spirit, the building of the soul."1(13) old mother asia and europe, up to the eighteenth century, trained and cultured the individual. an intensified training was given to the so-called upper classes, and to the man who showed a marked aptitude for spiritual culture. under the brahmanical system in the east, and in the monasteries in the west, a speci

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

and racial pride. the result of this would lead inevitably to wide cleavages and the erection of world barriers between nation and nation, and between race and race- 235- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust this determination of the members of the hierarchy to train the minds of men more rapidly and to build towards a more synthetic unity brought them to a decision which involved the formation of group units, and brought about the emergence of those groups of workers and thinkers who, through their activities, have so largely governed and moulded our world for the past three or four centuries. we have therefore, dating from this conclave, the inauguration of definite and specific group work along clearly defined lines, with each group standing for some peculiar presentatio

lve the neglect of any part, but it does involve the care and nurture of each part in order that it may contribute to the well being of the entire organism. it involves, for instance, the right government and proper development of every national unit so that it can adequately perform its international duties, and thus form part of a world brotherhood of nations. this concept does not even involve the formation of a world state, but it does involve the development of a universal public consciousness which realises the unity of the whole, and thus produces the determination that each must be for all and all for each as it has been said. only in this way can there be brought about an international synthesis which will be characterised by political and national unselfishness. this universal st

of their work are still to be felt, for the modern humanistic movement with its emphasis upon the past which is completed in the present, and its search for the roots of man's equipment in the earlier trends, harks back to the renaissance. revolution and the determination to fight for the divine rights of man find their prime inaugurating influence and impetus in the revolution in france. revolt, the formation of political parties, the class warfare which is so rampant today and the splitting of every country into warring political groups, though sporadic always, have- 237- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust become universal during the past two hundred years, and are all the results of the group activity started by the masters. men have grown thereby and have learnt how t

onferences with no desire to impress one another and with no thought of relative numerical strength; they will demonstrate no ambition to increase their ranks. how should they when they know themselves all to be members of the one world group? they have no teaching to give of a doctrinal nature and will not seek to demonstrate learning. they will meet solely to discuss modes of world helpfulness, the formation of a platform so universal and composed of such basic truths that it can be presented under all the varying methods and utilise the many terminologies. they will endeavour to employ each other's terms, and to familiarise themselves with each other's approach to reality and symbology. little by little also the special contribution and note of each group will be recognised and where a

e the surface. but underneath, the deep river of purity and truth is flowing strong. one evidence of the success of the world movement towards pure living and the destruction of that which hinders is that the work of the second stage is now in process of initiation. the hierarchy, for the first time in world history, can now work directly with the centres in the body of humanity. thus we have now the formation of the new group of world workers, who, in their totality throughout the world, constitute the heart centre and the "centre between the eyebrows" of the etheric body of the human family. through the one, spiritual life can begin to flow in and vitalise all the centres, and through the other, the vision can be seen and the inner worlds sensed and known. i would here like to point out

is found prior to dense and concrete manifestation. it does not here refer to the shadow as the counterpart in physical manifestation of the soul. it refers to one of the intermediate stages in the creative process. it is technically called the "stage of the waxing and the waning of the nebulae, and this stage precedes the appearance of the more stabilised and relatively static exoteric form. in the formation of a solar system, this is recognised as a preliminary period and can be seen going on in the starry heavens. it indicates the stage wherein the great magician is only in process of carrying forward his work; he has not yet finally chanted those mystic words or those spiritual sounds which will produce concretion and the tangible appearance of form. the secret doctrine refers to the

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

and reading with care, a group interplay is set up, the group becomes more closely integrated, the units in it more closely linked together and as a group more closely blended in the unfolding plan of the treat ones. we are building and planning for the future and for humanity, and not for the personal unfoldment of any particular aspirant. the individual growth is of no tremendous significance. the formation and development of a band of pledged aspirants, trained to work together and to respond in unison to a teaching, is of real moment [page xviii] to those of us who are responsible for the training and for the preparation of the group of world disciples who will function with freedom and power in a later cycle. you see a tiny portion of the plan. we see the plan as it unfolds for a ser

d spiritual work must go forward because of the free- 4- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust choice and self-initiated effort of the individual student. in the books already published three basic lines of teaching can be traced: first, a relatively new technique has been given as to the control of the body. second, teaching has been given anent the formation of the new group of world servers. third, the general lines of the magical work of creation have received attention. the first line of teaching concerns the individual and his development; the second indicates the nature and ideals of the group into which he may find his way if he profits by the teaching and learns control; the third, could you but realise it, details in some measure

tion as taught by the hierarchy of adepts. lower expression: religion. ray iii. higher expression: m eans of communication or interaction. the radio- 35- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust telephone, telegraph and the power to travel. lower expression: the use and spread of money and gold. ray iv. higher expression: t he masonic work, based on the formation of the hierarchy, and related to the second ray. lower expression: architectural construction. modern city planning. ray v. higher expression: t he science of the soul. esoteric psychology. lower expression: modern educational systems and mental science. ray vi. higher expression: c hristianity and diversified religions (notice here relation to ray ii) lower expression: churches and

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

ill develop the magician who works in the field of white magic. c. the sixth ray, as part of the evolutionary plan, led to separations, to nationalism, and to sectarianism, due to the selective nature of the mind and its tendency to divide and separate. the seventh ray will lead to fusion and synthesis, for its energy is of the type which blends spirit and matter. d. the sixth ray activity led to the formation of bands of disciples, working in groups but not in close relation, and subject to internal dissension, based on personality reactions. the seventh ray will train and send forth groups of initiates, working in close unison with the plan and with each other. e. the sixth ray brought the sense of duality to a humanity which regarded itself as a physical unity. of this attitude the acad

ression: modern diplomacy and politics. ray ii .h igher expression: t he process of initiation as taught by the hierarchy of masters. lower expression: religion. ray iii .h igher expression: m eans of communication or interaction. radio, telegraph, telephone and means of transportation. lower expression: the use and spread of money and gold. ray iv .h igher expression: t he masonic work, based on the formation of the hierarchy and related to ray ii- 254- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust lower expression: architectural construction. modern city planning. ray v. higher expression: t he science of the soul. esoteric psychology. lower expression: modern educational systems. ray vi .h igher expression: c hristianity and diversified religio

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

ns. it is, however, through the achievement of the last of the manifesting kingdoms, the human, that the cross and its purpose is completed, and to this the death of christ bears testimony- 115- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust but the important point is not his death, though that was climactic in the evolutionary process, but the subsequent resurrection, symbolising as it did the formation and the precipitation upon earth of a new kingdom in which men and all forms would be free from death a kingdom of which the man released from the cross should be the symbol. we thus complete the entire circle, from the man in space, with arms outspread in the form of a cross, through the sequence of crucified saviours, telling us again and again what god had done for the universe un

an beings are needed, and the call goes forth for each to make that extra effort towards unselfishness, and that mental push towards clarity of thought, which will transform us from well-meaning aspirants into clear-sighted disciples animated by a spirit of love and goodwill to all men, irrespective of race or creed or colour. this religious will is in expression now, not turned to theology or to the formation of doctrines and occupied with their enforcement, but to love and service, forgetting self, giving the uttermost that is possible for the helping of the world. this will breaks down all barriers and elevates the children of men wherever the will to be so helped is found. and it is something that is organising slowly in the world today, its quality that of universality, and its techni

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

are temporarily subordinated to varying aspects of force, in order to produce those fields of magnetic activity wherein certain needed rates of vibration may be established. from the angle of the initiates of the ageless wisdom, the story of man, the aspirant, is the story of his response to, or repulse of, applied energies. the fact that the interplay between different types of energy results in the formation of those aggregations or condensations of force which we call bodies, sheaths or vehicles (material or immaterial) is incidental to the main issue, which is the development of a conscious response to the life of god. small units of energy, relatively speaking, are swept into contact with great fields of force, which we call planes. according to the extent of the impact (and this is d

inherent in the entire universe, and man is today only awakening to its immediacy and potency. it is this divine attribute in man which makes his physical body an integral part of the physical world; which makes him psychically gregarious and willing to herd (of choice or perforce) with his fellow man. it is this principle, working or functioning through the human consciousness, which has led to the formation of our huge modern cities symbols of a coming higher civilisation which we call the kingdom of god, wherein the relationship between men will be exceedingly close psychically. it is this instinct to unify which underlies all mysticism and all religions, for man seeks ever a closer union with god and naught can arrest his at-onement (in consciousness) with deity. it is this instinct w

of criticism, for that would be infringing one of the basic rules of the new group, and such is most definitely not contemplated. therefore we mention no specific groups, nations or parties, nor do we refer to any particular personalities. we are concerned with only one subject, the ushering in of the new world order. to do this, we must recognise the situation as it exists. we are occupied with the formation of that new party which will gather into its ranks all men of peace and good will, without interfering with their specific loyalties and endeavours, though probably modifying their methods considerably where based on the old order. this new party can be regarded as the embodiment of the emerging kingdom of god on earth, but it should be remembered that this kingdom is not a christian

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ew age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust solitude but that matters not. it is the penalty he must pay for the opportunity to meet the need of the hour. the hardest organised push of the hierarchy is now taking place and its objective is to offset the tendency of the race to crystallise into separativeness, for separation is the line of least resistance to people and nations at this time. hence the formation of these working groups of disciples, giving an expression of group work and group cohesion and of non-separativeness. a few relatively a very few of the disciples and intuitives of the world today are standing together in a twofold activity: one activity is to sense and touch with greater accuracy the steadily unfolding subjective plan; the other is to speak and teach with greater c

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

ow but steady formation of international groups, banded together to preserve world security, to protect labour, to deal with world economics and to preserve the integrity and the sovereignty of nations whilst committing each and all to a definite part in the work of securing right human relations throughout the planet. whether we agree or not with the details or the specific commitments proposed, the formation of international advisory councils, and above all, of the united nations, are hopeful indications of the moving forward of humanity into a world where right human relations are regarded as essential to the peace of the world, where goodwill is recognized and where provision is made for the implementing of those conditions which will prevent war and aggression. in the field of educati

and if educators realize that "where there is no vision, the people perish. an international system of education, developed in joint conference by broad-minded teachers and educational authorities in every country is today a crying need and would provide a major asset in preserving world peace. steps towards this are already being taken and groups of educators are getting together and discussing the formation of a better system which will guarantee that the children of the different nations (beginning with the millions of children now demanding education today) will be taught truth, without bias or prejudice- 35- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust world democracy will take form when men everywhere are regarded in reality as equal; when boys and girls are taught that it does n

ocial groups have been disrupted; death has taken its toll of every nation and millions have died as a result of the inhuman processes of war. broadly speaking, everyone has known terror, fear and hopelessness as they face the future; everyone is questioning what that future has in store and there is no surety anywhere. the voice of humanity is demanding light, peace and security. some seek it in the formation of new ideologies; some look for it along political lines and hope for relief and release through some form of government action or some political creed or party. others demand the emergence of a leader, and there are few leaders anywhere to be seen at this time. the leadership provided is coming from groups of well-meaning people and a few statesmen who seem as bewildered as those t

produce a powerful organized international group. public opinion will be forced to recognize the potency of the movement; eventually the numerical strength of the men and women of goodwill in the world will be so great that they will influence world events. their united voice will be heard on behalf of right human relations. this movement is already gathering momentum. in many lands this plan for the formation of a group of people who are trained in goodwill and who possess clear insight into the principles which should govern human relations in world affairs is already past the blueprint stage. the nucleus for this work is present today. their functions might be summarized as follows- 104- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. to restore world confidence by letting it be know

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

sire of all nations, as it is called in the bible) has taken place and isis consequently stands in the ancient zodiacs for fertility, for motherhood and as the guardian of the child. mary carries the process down to the plane or place of incarnation, the physical plane, and there gives birth to the christ child. in these three virgins and these three mothers of the christ, you have the history of the formation and the function of the three aspects of the personality through which the christ must find expression. the sign of virgo itself stands for a synthesis of these three feminine aspects eve, isis and mary. she is the virgin mother, providing that which is needed for the mental, emotional and physical expression of the hidden but ever present divinity. these three expressions are brough

gate; mercury was active at the time of individualisation when the "eighth gate" was opened and a major initiation of our planetary logos took place, producing, in the human kingdom, the process of individualisation. from another angle, as might be anticipated, leo is related to scorpio, whose numbers upon the zodiacal wheel are the same as those of leo, being five and eight. you have, therefore, the formation of the triangle to which i earlier referred: leo-scorpio, leading to initiation in capricorn. as we are upon the subject, one other point might be touched upon here. august, which is ruled by leo, is the month of the dog-star, or of sirius, which thus brings sirius into close relation to leo. leo, in the cosmic sense (and apart from our solar system altogether) is ruled by sirius. si

rian force. each of the months of the year will later be dedicated (through accurate astrological and astronomical knowledge) to whichever constellation in the heavens governs a particular month, as sirius governs leo. this i shall later elaborate in the papers to be written anent the new "approaches" to spiritual reality. mercury again comes, at this point, into our discussion, and you thus have the formation of an esoteric quaternary, affecting powerfully the major quaternary of man spirit, soul, mind and brain. this energy brings about an inter-relation and an inner awakening which prepares the aspirant for initiation. this higher quaternary is sirius-leo-mercury-saturn. you have, therefore: sirius leo mercury s aturn spirit soul mind brain. life quality illumination a ppearance. inhala

completes the final united effort of the triangle: leo, virgo, pisces. it has been the steady impact of piscean force which has at long last brought humanity, the world disciple, to the very door of initiation. for over two thousand years, piscean influence has been playing upon mankind; it has brought about the demand for world adjustment; it has developed the international spirit and has led to the formation of groups in every department of human living and so laid the foundation for the future synthesis in aquarius. the influence of this triangle finds symbolic expression in the life of the self-conscious individual who reaches self-awareness in leo; in the culturing care of virgo and the final self-release in pisces. we might here give a little time to the practical lessons to be learn

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

nd the two eyes, as well as to all the frontal areas of the head. in atlantean days, personality integration was largely unknown, except in the case of disciples and initiates, and the goal of the initiate then, and the sign of his achievement, was this triple integration. today, the goal is that of a still higher fusion that of the soul and personality. speaking in terms of energy, this involves the formation, activity and related interplay of the following triangles of force: i. 1. the soul, the spiritual man on his own plane. 2. the personality, the threefold integrated man in the three worlds. 3. the head centre. ii. 1. the head centre, the point of the second fusion. 2. the ajna centre, the point of the first fusion. 3. the centre in the medulla oblongata, controlling the spine. iii

refrain from certain physical habits. humanity then knew well what was evil, because the evidences of that evil were physically apparent and quite easily perceived. the penalty was obvious and the results immediate; the teachers of the race saw to it that cause and effect were quickly to be noted. at this time there also arose the first tendencies to marriage, as differentiated from promiscuity; the formation of family units became the subject of attention and a goal for the most highly evolved. this was one of the first tasks undertaken by the hierarchy and the first effort toward any form of group activity, conveying the first lesson in responsibility. the family unit was not stable as it can be now, but even its relatively brief tenure was a tremendous step forward; the segregation of

together augment force. thus shall the waiting form he balanced in its work. thus shall the two and the one, under right direction, heal. this rule presupposes a knowledge of the centres, and this knowledge is, as you well know, still embryonic; all that is known in most cases is the location of a centre. this, however, especially with untrained healers, is sufficient. too detailed a knowledge of the formation, condition and responsiveness of a centre would handicap the healer, for his thought would be deflected to the detail of the form and away from the energy and its movements. the rule here requires that the healer, having aligned himself with the soul and "tapped" soul energy (thereby making himself a channel for spiritual force, directs this energy into that one of his own centres wh

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riad and the personality. the power of the ego can begin to make itself felt. applicants for initiation and initiates up to the third initiation use both the sutratma and the antahkarana, employing them as a unit. the power of the triad begins to pour through, thus energising all human activities upon the physical plane, and vitalising in ever increasing degree the man's thought forms. the key to the formation of the mayavirupa is found in the right comprehension of the process. a treatise on cosmic fire, pp. 959-960. it should be noted here that the bridging has to be done in the consciousness aspect, and concerns the continuity of man's awareness of life in all his various aspects. the energy which is used in connecting, in consciousness, the physical man and the astral body is focussed

f educators realise that "where there is no vision, the people perish" an international system of education, developed in joint conference by broadminded teachers and educational authorities in every country, is today a crying need and would provide a major asset in preserving world peace. steps towards this are already being taken and today groups of educators are getting together and discussing the formation of a better system which will guarantee that the children of the different nations (beginning with the millions of children now demanding education) will be taught truth, without bias or prejudice. world democracy will take form when men everywhere are regarded in reality as equal; when boys and girls are taught that it does not matter whether a man is an asiatic, an american, a euro

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

physical vehicle of the planet. three times the atomic bomb was used, and that fact is itself significant. it was used twice in japan, thereby disrupting the etheric web in what you erroneously call the far east; it was used once in what is also universally called the far west, and each time a great area of disruption was formed which will have future potent, and at present unsuspected, results. the formation of the triangles of light and of goodwill[page 62] essentially the manipulation of energy into a desired thought pattern has a definite relation to this area of disruption. it will in due time be found that the japanese people, with their peculiar knowledge of thought power (used along wrong lines in the war period, will respond more intelligently to this type of work than many of th

al, and their quality is not competitive; all of them differ as to their planned activity an activity which is all part of a carefully formulated hierarchical activity. this you need most carefully to remember. the devotion of a disciple to some particular master is of no importance to that master or to his ashramic group. it is not devotion or predilection or any personality choice which governs the formation of a master's group. it is ancient relationships, the ability to demonstrate certain aspects of life to demanding humanity and a definite ray expression of quality which determine the hierarchical placement of aspirants in an ashram. this will perhaps be a new thought to you and is responsible for the reason why a.a.b. has never emphasised concentration on some one of the known maste

e intelligence, through which the third aspect can successfully project and express itself. it is these three buddhas who were instrumental in the amazing and occult process of implementing the mental principle upon our planet, and who through their creative meditation brought our planet, the earth, and the planet venus into direct alignment. this made possible the comings of the sons of mind and the formation of the fourth kingdom in nature, humanity. they are embodiments of the intuition, and control the inflow of intuitional energy into the minds of men. the point which i would have you bear in mind is that these intermediate groups of workers who know the power of meditation are primarily creative, and that the efficacy of their work is demonstrated in the larger group whose behests th

habituated in this meditation rhythm, he learns to swing his own individual meditation into the set rhythm of the hierarchy; this is a definite step forward, for the hierarchical rhythm is one of tremendous potency a potency so great that it penetrates beyond the hierarchical ring-pass-not. the effect of that reflective vibration is both vertical and horizontal, and this wide diffusion has led to the formation of that major group of contemplatives, the nirmanakayas; they focus the hierarchical invocative appeal and (to quote the old commentary "put it into the musical form which will please the ear of the one who dwells in the highest plane" they then transfer the focussed received energies after due reflection and contemplation to shamballa. one of their- 145- discipleship in the new age

tact. it is the great attractive and selfless agent in world affairs. part xiv in my last series of instructions i gave you a group meditation which was based upon the furthering of the work of the new group of world servers, as they sought to prepare humanity for the reappearance of the christ. that preparatory work is the major incentive lying back of all that i do, and was the prime reason for the formation of the group in the early part of this century. pioneers of this group appeared in the nineteenth century but the organisation, as it now exists, is of relatively modern days. in this instruction we will consider the relation of group meditation to the work of the new group of world servers, and the necessity of establishing in the world a united world group, given to unanimous and s

rk. make yourself accessible, my brother, and more and more people will seek you out. your work in the future, as you well realise, lies with the arcane school, and your field of service is unlimited- 376- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust as regards your meditation work, i would like it to centre more definitely on the ashram and be less occupied with yourself and the formation of your own character or with your own development. as i said above, that is now stabilised. meditation on the ashram having dealt with the suggested theme as the soul, functioning through the mind will deal practically with the effects of ashramic contact on the emotional nature and on the daily life on the physical plane. i give you the following themes, covering a year's work whic

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

of my mind and thought, and so leave each aspirant free to come to his own decisions. the pamphlet the next three years is going forth today upon its mission. its objective is to educate public opinion. it carries both inspiration and the power to produce cleavages in the life cleavages which will produce new activities and the cessation of old attitudes of mind. a possible happening is indicated the formation upon the physical plane of that group of aspirants and disciples which, given time and opportunity, can salvage a distressed world and bring light and understanding to humanity. as to this, i need say no more- 15- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust all of you have read the plan as it is embodied in the pamphlet, and the challenge to faith and the appeal t

tain within themselves, can come to fruition, and groups of such appearing seeds can appear in the world "on their own lot" putting it more simply and in terms symbolic, and therefore more easy of understanding, we might state that the seven rays, expressing themselves in the human family through the seven ray types, are now at the stage of unfoldment where the process can be carried forward into the formation of the seven ray groups, and these in their totality will express the kingdom of god. groups will be formed which will be outstandingly of a particular ray type but which will work in all the nine major fields of human expression. these i outlined when indicating the work of the nine groups planned by me. however, let me here point out that the groups which i planned are not in thems

e energies with which he will some day salvage the planetary life- 65- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust the presentation of this vision to the aspirants and disciples of the world has had a dual effect; first of all, it has produced an immediate responsive cohesion among them which resulted in the appearance of the new group of world servers, and secondly, it led to the formation along the line of the seven rays throughout the world of small groups (within the new group of world servers) who were dedicated to the production of this innate synthesis and subjective fusion and to the expression of this blended dedicated consciousness. these latter groups, a small minority, correspond to the earlier and first method of mind-implantation in animal man, whilst the

shaken to its very depths; all its evolutionary grades and groups are responding to the stimulation, generated within the centre itself and also stimulated by forces emanating from the hierarchical centre and from shamballa. this precipitates a crisis which has had no parallel in human history but which finds a faint reflection in the crisis which overtook the animal kingdom and which resulted in the formation of a new kingdom in nature the human. as i have earlier told you, this present world crisis, if met correctly and rightly controlled, will result in the manifestation of the fifth or spiritual kingdom upon earth. this (as you know) will be brought about by the at-one-ing of the two centres the human centre and the hierarchy. one of the major planetary syntheses is taking place or, pe

n of republics. thus the influence of the three great world centres about which i have earlier written can be seen expressing itself through these three groups of nations. at the same time, the shamballa force is active in all of them, for it produces federation and synthesis. its first great expression or demonstration of the spirit of fusion took place in the 18th and 19th centuries, and led to the formation of such countries as italy and germany which were created out of many smaller states, duchies and kingdoms. a history of the trend towards fusion in the modern world would prove a most illuminating study. it would be found that the first faint indications were felt around 1575 a.d. this was due to the fact that permission for the inflow of this force was given when demanded at the ce

understanding and the creative power in man. those are the three major objectives with which i have dealt in past communications. i have also made suggestion as to modes of activity which are practical some of them of an exoteric nature, such as the compiling of mailing lists, in every country, of those who think and express goodwill; others, such as the creation of the network of light, through the formation of triangles. it is not for me to decide the details of your outer activities. that is for you to do, and for that i have called you to assist me. let me recapitulate a few of the things which have been undertaken in our joint work so that you can clearly see the background of our coming effort and grasp the work as a whole. 1. the first activity was the writing and distribution of t

rplay of the three major planetary centres shamballa, the hierarchy and humanity. hierarchical preparation at the wesak festival april-may 1946 i have delayed writing my usual wesak message until this late date because of a certain event in the hierarchy which was maturing and which necessitated my entire attention. this event was connected with the wesak festival and involved among other matters the formation of a new ashram in which the wisdom aspect would be of particular importance and not the love aspect; this ashram would also be related in a peculiar manner to the buddha. it had to be formed at this time in order to be the recipient, and then the custodian, of certain "endowments" which the buddha will bring at the time of the may full moon. the endowments concern the will-to-good o

nce the entire invocation, prefacing each stanza with its appropriate keynote, again sounded in unison. these notes you cannot know, but if, for instance, a very large number of the new group of world servers were brought together, their united om might approximate the appropriate keynote. it will be apparent to you, therefore, that in the new cycle now beginning with the climaxing of the war and the formation of the united nations, the festivals of may and june not only become more closely linked, but the procedure has been changed and the effect on humanity intensified. i would have all who care to meet together at these festivals to try and do so subjectively (wherever they may find themselves) and to participate intelligently in the ordained ceremonies. i would ask all to think imagina

rk today as one group; on the outer side of world affairs, they may not be aware of each other physically, or arrive at any open contact, yet they are animated by the same principles and are carrying forward in all nations and in every great department of human thinking and planning a similar work. in this decade of my work, two major activities were inaugurated: the creation of the triangles and the formation of men of goodwill*(13) and these are just on the verge of a major creative activity. they constitute an effort to energise and relate members and adherents of the new group of world servers (and particularly in the organisation of men of goodwill, to find and mobilise the groups formed by the new group of world servers throughout the world, so as to bring added strength to all of th

energy which produces order. this is the energy of the seventh ray or power of divinity. at this time, its major expression will come through the relationships and adjustments required between capital and labour, and labour will be primarily involved. this energy is being assimilated in the ashram of the master whom i mentioned above; at the inception of the industrial era he was responsible for the formation of the labour movement a movement bringing into relation the workers of the world. it is interesting to have in mind that today labour functions internationally; it is a group which learns with rapidity and has in it the seeds of vast good; it is probably the group which will place goodwill in the forefront of human thinking upon a pinnacle of thought. this master to whom i refer bel

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

, and an unfoldment on a large scale of intuitive perception. when he came before, he evoked from humanity a gradual response to truth, and mental understanding. that is why at the end of the cycle, which he inaugurated, we have formulated doctrine and mental development. the work now being done by shamballa and the hierarchy on behalf of humanity will tend also to develop group consciousness and the formation of many groups which will be living organisms and not organisations; it will make group initiation possible and will enable certain aspects of the will to flower forth correctly and with safety. the tendency to overlook the distinction between groups and organisations is still very deep-seated; the coming of the christ will throw much light upon this problem. a study of rule iv as gi

books were written over a long period of years, prior to publishing. all that appears of the same type of information over other signatures harks back to these books. even if denied by their writers, a comparison of the dates of publishing with the original dates of issuing the instructions (in the form of monthly sets for reading and study in the arcane school) or with the books published before the formation in 1925 of the disciples degree of the arcane school will prove this conclusively. bear in mind this factor of timing. a.a.b. takes down to my dictation an average of seven to twelve pages of typing (single-spaced) each time she writes for me; but owing to the exigencies of my work i cannot dictate to her every day, though i have found that she would gladly take my dictation daily if

is the christ and his two associates, the manu and the mahachohan. the forty-nine subsidiary ashrams (not all of which are yet functioning) are energised by the potency of will from the reservoir of energy at the heart of each major ashram, these in their turn being fed from the central reservoir. the correspondence of this in the human centres is called the "jewel in the lotus" let us now study the formation of the great ashram and then (this will have more meaning for you) the gradual formation of the seven ashrams under direct ray activity. this process lies in the past history of humanity and i shall only briefly touch upon it. once formed, it became the task of these seven ashrams to produce the forty-two ashrams. these seven ashrams express ray qualities, and the whole forty-nine ar

, to fight instinctively and without knowledge of the facts. they are not yet waging a successful fight- 414- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust the point, however, which is of major importance to us is the recognition that each of these three nations is distinguished by: a. a similarity of problem. b. a battleground which is leading to the formation of a triangle of relationships brought about through the principle of conflict. the similarity of problems consists in the fact that each of these three nations is essentially composite in nature and is formed by an amalgamation of many nations, of many peoples speaking many different languages, and is consequently staging a great experiment in fusion. 1. the u.k. is the nucleus or t

ace and human development and their activities have been endorsed by the expediency policy of the u.s.a. and, in a secondary degree, by great britain, under the influence of the u.s.a. it is the zionists who have defied the united nations, lowered its prestige and made its position both negative and negligible to the world. it is the zionists who have perpetrated the major act of aggression since the formation of the united nations, and who were clever enough to gain the endorsement of the united nations, turning the original "recommendation" of the united nations into an order. the rule of force, of aggression and of territorial conquest by force of arms is demonstrated today by the zionists in palestine, as well as the demonstration of the power of money to purchase governments. these ac

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

gn. there is, as we have seen, the urge to begin. this may express itself simply as the urge to take form, to become involved in matter; or it may reverse the process and focus itself in the urge to achieve liberation from form, and the emergence of the soul from the prison of the form nature. then this urge is followed by the consequent urge to create, that activity of the deity which results in the formation of worlds of expression and satisfies his desire to incarnate in a solar system, and to begin the great [33] life cycle of the universe. it may be likewise the urge to individual creation, of the soul to take a body, or of a human being to create something which shall be specially his own. in ancient accadian days, this sign aries was called that "wherein the sacrifice of righteousne

struggles out of the human into the spiritual kingdom. being equipped with the faculty of mind, in aries, and with desire, in taurus, and having arrived at the realization of his essential duality, in gemini, the incarnating human being enters, through birth in cancer, into the human kingdom. cancer is a mass sign, and the influences which pour from it are held by many esotericists to bring about the formation of the human family, of the race, the nation, and the family unit. where the aspirant is concerned, the story is somewhat different, for in these four signs, he prepares his equipment and learns to utilize it. in aries, he grips his mind and seeks to [82] bend it to his need, learning mental control. in taurus "the mother of illumination, he receives his first flash of that spiritual

me, we are told, meant "a pouring out, the nile giving its fullest irrigation at that season. this has also an interesting esoteric significance for, according to the teaching of the ageless wisdom, the human family came into existence through what is technically called "the third outpouring, which was the term given to the coming-in of a great tide of souls into the animal bodies and, therefore, the formation of the human family composed of individual units. another technical term for this third outpouring is "individualization, becoming an individual with self-awareness, thus linking it up with the great happenings in the sign, leo. the ninety-five stars in this constellation also have numerical significance for we have there 9 x 10+ 5. nine is the number of initiation, ten is the number

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

lost in the mists of antiquity; no one can demonstrate who was its author, or who were its earliest teachers. considerable evidence may be adduced to show that its roots pass back to the hebrew rabbis who flourished at the time of the second temple about the year 515 b.c. of its existence before that time i know of no proofs. it has been suggested that the captivity of the jews in babylon led to the formation of this philosophy by the effect of chaldean lore and dogma acting on jewish tradition. no doubt in the earliest stages of its existence the teaching was entirely oral, hence the name qblh from qbl to receive, and it became varied by the minds through which it filtered in its course; there is no proof that any part of it was written for centuries after. it has been kept curiously dis

its several aspects or parts; concerning pre-existence and re-incarnation and the several worlds or planes of existence. the practical kabalah attempts a mystical and allegorical interpretation of the old testament, studying each phrase, word and letter; it teaches the connection between letters and numbers and the modes of their inter-relation; the principles of gematria, notaricon, and temura; the formation and uses of the divine and angelic names as amulets; the formation of magic squares; and a vast fund of allied curious lore, which subsequently formed the basis of mediaeval magic. for those who do not wish to read any kabalistic work as a whole, but rather to glean a general view of this philosophy, there are now three standard works; two are in english; one by dr. c. ginsburg, 1865

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

(see chaldean account genesis, p. 82) there are two "creations" so called, in the babylonian fragments, and genesis having adhered to this, one finds its first two chapters distinguished as the elohite and the jehovite creations. their proper order, however, is not preserved in these or in any other exoteric accounts. now these "creations" according to the occult teachings, refer respectively to the formation of the primordial seven men by the progenitors (the pitris, or elohim: and to that of the human groups after the fall[[footnote(s* see pliny, 4, c. 12; strabo, 10; herodotus, 7, c. 108; pausanias, 7, c. 4, etc[[vol. 2, page] 6 the secret doctrine. all this will be examined in the light of science and comparisons drawn from the scriptures of all the ancient nations, the bible included

must be called the fifth great continent. the secret doctrine takes no account of islands and peninsulas, nor does it follow the modern geographical distribution of land and sea. since the day of its earliest teachings and the destruction of the great atlantis, the face of the earth has changed more than once. there was a time when the delta of egypt and northern africa belonged to europe, before the formation of the straits of gibraltar, and a further upheaval of the continent, changed entirely the face of the map of europe. the last serious change occurred some 12,000 years ago[[footnote(s* it is to be remarked, however, that mr. wallace does not accept mr. sclater's idea, and even opposes it. mr. sclater supposes a land or continent formerly uniting africa, madagascar, and india (but no

11 the tropics at the pole. no two geologists or naturalists agree as to the figures. thus, there is a wide margin for choice offered to the occultist by the learned fraternity. shall we take for one of our supports mr. t. mellard reade? this gentleman, in a paper on "limestone as an index of geological time" read by him in 1878 before the royal society, claims that the minimum time required for the formation of the sedimentary strata and the elimination of the calcareous matter is in round numbers 600 million years (see "proceedings of royal society" london, vol. xxviii, p. 281; or shall we ask support for our chronology from mr. darwin's works, wherein he demands for the organic transformations according to his theory from 300 to 500 million years? sir c. lyell and prof. houghton were s

, and kimnaras (men with the heads of horses) created by brahma in the commencement of the kalpa* see commentary following sloka 18[[vol. 2, page] 66 the secret doctrine. in its cosmic aspect only, the female generative principle, as the sun is the male emblem thereof. water is the progeny of the moon, an androgyne deity with every nation. evolution proceeds on the laws of analogy in kosmos as in the formation of the smallest globe. thus the above, applying to the modus operandi at the time when the universe was appearing, applies also in the case of our earth's formation. this stanza opens by speaking of thirty crores, 30,000,000, of years. we may be asked- what could the ancients know of the duration of geological periods, when no modern scientist or mathematician is able to calculate th

res and flames, the rudras and the forty-nine agnis of the ancient aryas, is sufficiently proven by and in the kabala[[footnote(s* zohar iii, 290a, quoted in isaac myer's qabbalah, p. 387[[vol. 2, page] 86 the secret doctrine. stanza iv. creation of the first races (14) creation of men (15) they are empty shadows (16) the creators are perplexed how to create a thinking man (17) what is needed for the formation of a perfect man. 14. the seven hosts, the "will (or mind)-born" lords, propelled by the spirit of life-giving (fohat, separate men from themselves, each on his own zone (a (a) they threw off their "shadows" or astral bodies- if such an ethereal being as a "lunar spirit" may be supposed to rejoice in an astral, besides a hardly tangible body. in another commentary it is said that the

ical bodies of their own- this race never died. its "men" melted gradually away, becoming absorbed in the bodies of their own "sweat-born" progeny, more solid than their own. the old form vanished and was absorbed by, disappeared in, the new form, more human and physical. there was no death in those days of a period more blissful than the golden age; but the first, or parent material was used for the formation of the new being, to form the body and even the inner or lower principles or bodies of the progeny (c) when the shadow retires, i.e. when the astral body becomes covered with more solid flesh, man develops a physical body. the "wing" or the ethereal form that produced its shadow and image, became the shadow of the astral body and its own progeny. the expression is queer but original

and terrestrial, events: as above, so it is below. the ship or ark- navis- in short, being the symbol of the female generative principle, is typified in the heavens by the moon, and on earth by the womb: both being the vessels and bearers of the seeds of life and being, which the sun, or vishnu, the male principle, vivifies and fructifies* the first cosmic flood refers to primordial creation, or the formation of heaven and the earths; in which case chaos and the great deep stand for the "flood" and the moon for the "mother" from whom proceed all the life-germs* but the terrestrial deluge and[[footnote(s* we must remember that at the head of all the babylonian gods were ea, anu, and the primeval bel; and that ea, the first, was the god of wisdom, the great "god of light" and of the deep, a

continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 216 the secret doctrine. never realised that the cross was an evolution from the "tree and the serpent" and thus became the salvation of mankind. by this it would become the very first fundamental symbol of creative cause, applying to geometry, to numbers, to astronomy, to measure and to animal reproduction. according to the kabala the curse on man came with the formation of woman* the circle was separated from its diameter line "from the possession of the double principle in one, that is the androgyne condition, the separation of the dual principle was made, presenting two opposites, whose destiny it was, for ever after, to seek reunion into the original one condition. the curse was this, viz: that nature, impelling the search, evaded the desired res

evil. is the science of tzyphon, the genius of doubt, tzy to teach, and phon, doubt. tzyphon is one of the aleim; we shall see him presently under the name of nach, the tempter (les oeloim, vol. ii, p. 218. he is now known to the symbologists under the name jehovah* this is the view taken and adopted by all the church fathers, but it is not the real esoteric teaching. the curse did not begin with the formation of either man or woman, for their separation was a natural sequence of evolution, but for breaking the law (see supra "by which (human) nature lives" not even the animal- but the misguided, sensual and vicious nature, which men, not nature, created[[vol. 2, page] 217 "mythical" monsters a reality. the ansated cross in its sexual aspect, and that the 'tree of knowledge' was the separa

and we have nothing against that; for all this relates to the shell of man- his body, which in its growth is subject, of course, like every other (once called) morphological unit, to such metamorphoses. it is not those who teach the transformation of the mineral atom through crystallization- which is the same function, and bears the same relation to its inorganic (so-called) upadhi (or basis) as the formation of cells to their organic nuclei, through plant, insect and animal into man- it is not they who will reject this theory, as it will finally lead to the recognition of a universal deity in nature, ever-present and as ever invisible, and unknowable, and of intra-cosmic gods, who all were men[[footnote(s "men are made complete only during their third, toward the fourth cycle (race. they

nescent sketch on the canvas, of objects, which are destined to receive the final and vivid[[vol. 2, page] 257 the contradictions of science. form under the brush of the painter. the fish evolved into an amphibian- a frog- in the shadows of ponds, and man passed through all his metamorphoses on this globe in the third round as he did in this, his fourth cycle. the third round types contributed to the formation of the types in this one. on strict analogy, the cycle of seven rounds in their work of the gradual formation of man through every kingdom of nature, are repeated on a microscopical scale in the first seven months of gestation of a future human being. let the student think over and work out this analogy. as the seven months' old unborn baby, though quite ready, yet needs two months m

distinguishable about the end of the third month, and also by the peduncles of the pineal gland "at an early period the optic tracts may be recognised as hollow prolongations from the outer part of the wall of the thalami while they are still vesicular. at the fourth month these tracts are distinctly formed. they subsequently are prolonged backwards into connection with the corpora quadrigemina "the formation of the pineal gland and pituitary body presents some of the most interesting phenomena which are connected with the development of the thalamencephalon" the above is specially interesting when it is remembered that, were it not for the development of the hinder part of the cerebral hemispheres backwards, the pineal gland would be perfectly visible on the removal of the parietal bones

to be raised again, then they would, indeed, be barren for ages. because the atlantic sea-bottom is covered with some 5,000 feet of chalk at present, and more is forming- a new "cretaceous formation" of strata, in fact- is no reason why, when the time for a new continent to appear arrives, a geological convulsion and upraising of the sea bottom should not dispose of these 5,000 feet of chalk for the formation of some mountains and 5,000 more come to the surface. the racial cataclysms are not a noah's deluge of forty days- a kind of bombay monsoon[[footnote(s* speaking on periodical elevation and subsidence of the equatorial and polar regions, and ensuing changes of climate, mr. winchell (professor of geology at michigan) says "as the movements here contemplated are cyclical, the same cond

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

he can, the meaning of the allegorical phrases used. indeed it must be remembered that all these stanzas appeal to the inner faculties rather than to the ordinary comprehension of the physical brain. stanza iii. describes the re-awakening of the universe to life after pralaya. it depicts the emergence of the "monads" from their state of absorption within the one; the earliest and highest stage in the formation of "worlds" the term monad being one which may apply equally to the vastest solar system or the tiniest atom. stanza iv. shows the differentiation of the "germ" of the universe[[vol. 1, page] 22 the secret doctrine. into the septenary hierarchy of conscious divine powers, who are the active manifestations of the one supreme energy. they are the framers, shapers, and ultimately the cr

ne law, which we know as "the laws of nature" generically, they are known as the dhyan chohans, though each of the various groups has its own designation in the secret doctrine. this stage of evolution is spoken of in hindu mythology as the "creation" of the gods. in stanza v. the process of world-formation is described- first, diffused cosmic matter, then the fiery "whirlwind" the first stage in the formation of a nebula. that nebula condenses, and after passing through various transformations, forms a solar universe, a planetary chain, or a single planet, as the case may be. the subsequent stages in the formation of a "world" are indicated in stanza vi, which brings the evolution of such a world down to its fourth great period, corresponding to the period in which we are now living. stan

ainer of that force, but is looked upon by the occultists as an entity- the forces he acts upon being cosmic, human and terrestrial, and exercising their influence on all those planes respectively. on the earthly plane his influence is felt in the magnetic and active force generated by the strong desire of the magnetizer. on the cosmic, it is present in the constructive power that carries out, in the formation of things- from the planetary system down to the glow-worm and simple daisy- the plan in the mind of nature, or in the divine thought, with regard to the development and growth of that special thing. he is, metaphysically, the objectivised thought of the gods; the "word made flesh" on a lower scale, and the messenger of cosmic and human ideations: the active force in universal life

nsane mother" the great sidereal lunatic* the instance of uranus and neptune, whose satellites, four and one respectively, revolved, it was thought, in their orbits from east to west, whereas all the other satellites rotate from west to east, is a very good one, as showing how unreliable are all a priori speculations even when based on the strictest mathematical analysis. the famous hypothesis of the formation of our solar system out of the nebulous rings, put[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 150 the secret doctrine. if no physical intellect is capable of counting the grains of sand covering a few miles of sea-shore; or to fathom the ultimate nature and essence of those grains, palpable and visible on the palm of the naturalist, how can any materialist limit the laws changin

ate them are of immense duration. this will afford us ample time to take a bird's eye view of some points pertaining to the secret doctrine, which have been presented to the public under a more or less uncertain and sometimes mistaken light- a few early theosophical misconceptions concerning planets, rounds, and man. among the eleven stanzas omitted* there is one which gives a full description of the formation of the planetary chains one after another, after the first cosmic and atomic differentiation had commenced in the primitive acosmism. it is idle to speak of "laws arising when deity prepares to create" for (a) laws or rather law is eternal and uncreated; and (b) that deity is law, and vice versa. moreover, the one eternal law unfolds everything in the (to be) manifested nature on a s

seventh round on the lunar chain, when class 7, the[[vol. 1, page] 172 the secret doctrine. last, quits globe a, that globe, instead of falling asleep, as it had done in previous rounds, begins to die (to go into its planetary pralaya* and in dying it transfers successively, as just said, its "principles" or life-elements and energy, etc, one after the other to a new "laya-centre" which commences the formation of globe a of the earth chain. a similar process takes place for each of the globes of the "lunar chain" one after the other, each forming a fresh globe of the "earth-chain" our moon was the fourth globe of the series, and was earth chain. fig. 2. a+ g+ b+ f+ c+ e+ d (our earth) lunar chain. fig. 1. a g b f c e d (our moon) diagram ii[[above is in diagram format in the original text]

es of nature in the kosmos and in the individual man. the latter lives through his life-cycle, and dies. his "higher principles" corresponding in the development of a planetary chain to the cycling monads, pass into devachan, which corresponds to the "nirvana" and states of rest intervening between two chains. the man's lower "principles" are disintegrated in time and are used by nature again for the formation of new human principles, and the same process takes place in the disintegration and formation of worlds. analogy is thus the surest guide to the comprehension of the occult teachings. this is one of the "seven mysteries of the moon" and it is now revealed. the seven "mysteries" are called by the japanese yamaboosis, the mystics of the lao-tze sect and the ascetic monks of kioto, the

other planes of action, one may reply by asking whether a mother, who walks round and round her child's cradle keeping watch over the infant, is the subordinate of her child or dependent upon it; though in one sense she is its satellite, yet she is certainly older and more fully developed than the child she watches. it is, then, the moon that plays the largest and most important part, as well in the formation of the earth itself, as in the peopling thereof with human beings. the "lunar monads" or pitris, the ancestors of man, become in reality man himself. they are the "monads" who enter on the cycle of evolution on globe a, and who, passing round the chain of planets, evolve the human form as has just been shown. at the beginning of the human stage of the fourth round on this globe, they

seventh round of our earth, after our own globes a, b, c, d, et seq, parting with their life-energy, will have informed and thereby called to life other laya-centres destined to live and act on a still higher plane of being- in the same way will the terrene "ancestors" create those who will become their superiors. it now becomes plain that there exists in nature a triple evolutionary scheme, for the formation of the three periodical upadhis; or rather three separate schemes of evolution, which in our system are inextricably interwoven and interblended at every point. these are the monadic (or spiritual, the intellectual, and the physical evolutions. these three are the finite aspects or the reflections on the field of cosmic illusion of atma, the seventh, the one reality. 1. the monadic i

es; and there now gleams the dawn and sunrise of another aeon. the drama enacted on our planet is at the beginning of its fourth act, but for a clearer comprehension of the whole play the reader will have to turn back before he can proceed onward. for this verse belongs to the general cosmogony given in the archaic volumes, whereas book ii. will give a detailed account of the "creation" or rather the formation, of the first human beings, followed by the second humanity, and then by the third; or, as they are called "the first, second, and the third root-races" as the solid earth began by being a ball of liquid fire, of fiery dust and its protoplasmic phantom, so did man[[vol. 1, page] 192 the secret doctrine (a) that which is meant by the qualification the "fourth" is explained as the "fou

ebellious and foolish genii, on account of the magnitude of their ambition, says 'lord of the genii (aeons, see what the genii, the[[footnote(s* fetahil is identical with the host of the pitris who "created man" as only a "shell" he was, with the nazarenes, the king of light, and the creator; but in this instance he is the unlucky prometheus, who fails to get hold of the living fire necessary for the formation of the divine soul, as he is ignorant of the secret name, the ineffable or incommunicable name of the kabalists* the spirit of matter and concupiscence "kamarupa" minus "manas" mind* see franck's "codex nazaraeus" and dunlap's "sod, the son of the man* codex nazaraeus, ii, 233* this mano of the nazarenes strangely resembles the hindu manu, the heavenly man of the "rig vedas "i am the

ently impressed upon the reader* the microprosopus is, as just said, the logos manifested, and of such there are many* sephira is the crown, kether, in the abstract principle only, as a mathematical x (the unknown quantity. on the plane of differentiated nature she is the female counterpart of adam kadmon- the first androgyne. the kabala teaches that the word "fiat lux (genesis ch. i) referred to the formation and evolution of the sephiroth, and not to light as opposed to darkness. rabbi simeon says "oh com[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 216 the secret doctrine. sephira-adam-kadmon. in its unity, primordial light is the seventh, or highest, principle, daivi-prakriti, the light of the unmanifested logos. but in its differentiation it becomes fohat, or the "seven sons" the f

pically small into something very large, from the- to the naked eye- unseen, into the visible and objective. science has provided for all this; and, i dare say, her theories, embryological, biological, and physiological, are correct enough so far as exact observation of the material goes. nevertheless, the two chief difficulties of the science of embryology- namely, what are the forces at work in the formation of the foetus, and the cause of "hereditary transmission" of likeness, physical, moral or mental- have never been properly answered; nor will they ever be solved till the day when scientists condescend to accept the occult theories* but if this physical pheno[[footnote(s* the materialists and the evolutionists of the darwinian school would be ill-advised to accept the newly worked-ou

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

a healthful change without perception. anodyne relieves pain. anthelmintic a medicine that expels worms. aperient gently laxative without purging. aromatic a stimulant; spicy. astringent causes contraction and arrests discharges. antibiuous acts on the bile, relieving biliousness. antimetic stops vomiting. antileptic relieves fits. antiperiodic arrests morbid periodic movements. anthilic prevents the formation of stones in the urinary organs. antirheumatic relieves and cures rheumatism. antiscorbutic cures and prevents scurvy. definition of medical actions (continued) antiseptic a medicine that aims at stopping putrification. antispasmodic relieves and prevents spasms. antisyphilitic having effect or curing venereal diseases. carminative expels wind from the bowels. cathartic evacuating fr

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

gs and interpretations of the spheres of desire and intellect directed downward toward yesod and malkuth, are as spectators watching a mirrored reflection wherein all is the reverse of the true images. in the physical universe of guph is the breaking up of the one into the four which are the basis of the many. and to malkuth is the guph attributed, because the guph cometh not to perfection but by the formation of bodies [195] the book of t o k e n s it is written that "kether is in malkuth and malkuth is in kether, but after a different manner" in kether i am the one, the indivisible, but in malkuth that same one, which i am, appeareth as four and cometh into manifestation as the ten which returneth unto the one. but to enter the kingdom there must always be two, for the wheel turneth not

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

ting the three main cycles of the moon, and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this motif continued right through to the triple goddess of the celts, reflecting the lunar cycles as maiden, mother and crone, an image that also appeared throughout the classical world. witchcraft and the early christians after the formation of the christian church, the worship of the old deities and the old ways were banned and the nature festivals supplanted by christian ones. the christians were pragmatic, however, and pope gregory, who sent st augustine to england in ad 597, acknowledged that it was simpler to graft the christian festivals on to the existing festivals of the solstices and equinoxes. so, easter, for e

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

stian converts, were christians themselves, or drew power from the symbols of christianity. what is distinctive about these practitioners in the united states is that few of them were able to establish sustained movements that outlived them. some were like turner, individualists outside the leadership structures of the organized churches. others were like vesey, churchgoers with limited impact on the formation of new movements within the churches themselves. for many black supernatural practitioners in the united states, spiritual power. especially the power to do harm by supernatural means.was largely uninstitutionalized. black americans have historically utilized supernatural harming more frequently in personal acts of defiance than in collective confrontations. as evidence of the fragme

framework of institutionalized christianity. not only does it appear that some black christians reinterpreted the older conjure healing traditions, but the corresponding experiences of many religious healers and conjure practitioners suggests that they drew from a common cultural vernacular. one of the most significant events in american religious history at the end of the nineteenth century was the formation of the holiness-pentecostal movement. the modern holiness movement had roots in the perfectionist strands of wesleyan methodism, which taught that a life of complete righteousness, called sanctification, was available to the believing christian through a "second work of grace" by the indwelling holy spirit. sanctification began with the conversion and justification of the individual

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ndia, arriving in the town of tsaparang, on the banks of the langchen khambab river. 1624-1701 helvetius 1624-1704 jane leade. philadelphian society. 1625-1697 rabbi moshe zacuto -shorshei hashemoth- the roots of the names 1625 musaeum hermeticum. jacques gaffarel, enthusiast of hebrew and occultism, defends and dedicates to richelieu his abdita divinae cabalae mysteria. heinrich nollius proposes the formation of a society called rotae celestae(keepers of the celestial wheel) 1626-32 stephen cacella and john cabral visited gyantse and shigatse. there does exist a country, very famous here, which is called xembala and which borders on another called sopo [mongolia" 1627 joseph mede, a greek professor published clavis apocalyptica which set forth the structural outline of the book of revelat

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and so forth- remain more or less constant. an important dimension of magical and folk religiosity was the oneiric or dream realm. peripheral areas of european folklore retain vestigial myths which relate the oneiric location of witch -meetings, fairie convocations, and the nocturnal flight of the wild hunt. merging with christian theological conceptions the background of folk belief assisted in the formation of the stereotypical witch ritual we know as 'the witches' sabbath. from an esoteric perspective it is considered that the sabbath is the astral or dream convocation of magical ritualists' souls, animal selves, and a vast array of spirits, faeries and otherworldly beings. it is considered that the true location of the sabbath is at the crossroads of waking, sleeping and mundane dream

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ned. when truman became president and learned of the bomb and the united nations became official, he appointed baruch to head. the united nations atomic energy commission. both baruch and einstein sought to use the fear of atomic destruction to install a world government. what a help it was to have an example in hiroshima and nagasaki to emphasise its capacity for destruction! einstein called for the formation of a world government by the united states, britain and the soviet union, to which the 'secret of the bomb' should be given. he said that these three were "the only three powers with great military strength" and he urged them to commit this strength (world army) to the world government. the 'genius' went on: 114..and the truth shall set you free "the world government would have power

in britain, where they leave the americans standing when it comes to secrecy! most of the 'secrets' that come to the surface in britain are those which have been purposely leaked to undermine a politician, personality, or group, for some desired, manipulative end. this general rule also applies in the us, but the british establishment has had longer to perfect its leak-proofing techniques. since the formation of the cfr, every president of the united states has been a member except for ronald reagan. in truth reagan was not president, his vice-president george bush, a cfr member, was running the show. it was the council on foreign relations, no doubt with riia input and coordination, that brought the united nations (the successor to the league of nations) into being. this was the jewel of

oviet threat was mentioned",22 he said. when the proposals secured approval, the marshall plan executive board included allen w. dulles, then president of the cfr; philip reed, the chairman of general electric; the former secretaries of war, henry l. stimson and robert p. patterson; and the former undersecretary of state, dean acheson (comm 300, a member of the cfr who was in the us delegation at the formation of the united nations. the first step in the creation of the european community was the introduction of the european coal and steel community, which started in july 1952, and merged the coal and steel industries of west germany, france, italy, belgium, the netherlands, and luxemburg under one central control. it had the powers to decide prices, investment, raise money, and make decis

sh returned home in 1975. he received a telegram from kissinger saying that he was being nominated by ford (kissinger) to be the director of the cia. this is a major elite organisation, as is british intelligence, which is probably above the cia in the elite pyramid. it was british intelligence that helped to set up the cia after the war. the familiar names step forward again. a key figure behind the formation of the office of strategic services, later the cia, was general william j. donovan. he studied law at columbia university under professor harland f. stone, who would later become us attorney general and appoint donovan as his assistant. another of stone's proteges was j. edgar hoover, who would be head of the fbi, and one of donovan's classmates was franklin d. roosevelt, the future

ous to make sure this absorption policy is adopted, because once nato begins to expand and operate outside europe and the north atlantic, it gets ever closer to being a world army. the idea is to extend nato's area of operations by inviting more countries to join and to engineer events using the problem-reaction-solution strategy which lead to a fusion of nato and the un 'peacekeeping' forces and the formation of the world army. this is the background from which the gulf war needs to be viewed. disputes between iraq and kuwait are not new. kuwait has been under british and elite control back to the days when the economic potential of oil was discovered. it is a dictatorship, an unpleasant one, and the idea that the gulf war was to 'free' kuwait is just ridiculous. if kuwait is to be freed

eered civil wars designed to show that the un forces need more power. we can expect more rwandas and bosnias until public opinion either bows to the manipulation for a world army or acts to bring an end to the new world order. the former un secretary-general, the elite-stooge, dr boutros ghali, was echoing the words of henry kissinger at the 1991 meeting of the bilderberg group when he called for the formation of a un army under its own command with the right to go into a nation state at will and without the need to consult other countries for permission. in his washington speech, sir shridath ramphal said that the un should be "backed by the ability to rapidly deploy un forces" and he said that protecting the security of states was clearly authorised under the un charter. the following da

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hese reptilian bloodlines apparently, was written in the form of a serpent in egyptian hieroglyphics. khem was the name of the deity symbolised as a black goat and late called pan. the goat is still a symbol of worship for the illuminati and saranists today under the name baphomet. there are many surviving records that claim a lineage of egyptian kings going back tens of thousands of years before the formation of the egyptian civilisation described by official historians. this supports the stories of an atlantean/lemurian colony in egypt long before the cataclysm. the colonisation of greece is also far older than officially claimed and this colony (called the athenians) went to war with atlanteans before the deluge. plato wrote of this war and official historians have dismissed it because

y chose religion as the "battleground" on which to conquer the human mind..the para-human serpent people of the past are still among us. they were probably worshipped by the builders of stonehenge and the forgotten ridge-making cultures of south america..in some parts of the world the serpent people successfully posed as gods and imitated the techniques of the super-intelligence [god. this led to the formation of pagan religions centered on human sacrifices. the conflict, so far as man himself was concerned, became one of religions and races. whole civilizations based upon the worship of these false gods rose and fell in asia, africa, and south america..once an individual had committed himself, he opened a door so that an indefinable something (probably an undetectable mass of intelligent

sents the very essence of who we are. the scottish sunday post of january 2000 told the strange story of alisdair rosslyn sinclair under the headline "victim of secret holy land power struggle" he was a scottish 280 children of the matrix "tourist" who was named after rosslyn chapel, near edinburgh, which was built by the sinclair family, formerly the french st clair family, which was involved in the formation of the knights templar. alistair rosslyn sinclair was a direct descendent of this bloodline. he was originally from arran, but apparently had been working as a musician in amsterdam. he had researched his bloodline connections and had visited rosslyn chapel, an illuminati "holy place, a number of times. in april 1998 he made an unexplained five-day trip to israel and was arrested whe

e intelligence agency's psychological warfare division. aquino's wife, who worked with him, is called lilith sinclair. the name lilith is a symbol of the reptilian bloodlines and one of the major strands of the illuminati's genetic web is the scottish sinclair family, formerly the french st clair bloodline. the st clairs and the black madonnaworshipping, st bernard, were fundamentally involved in the formation of the knights templar. the sinclair chapel at roslyn, near edinburgh, is a shrine to the illuminati and includes the image of the green man- the representation of balder in the king arthur stories. lilith comes from lilim or "children of lilith, which relates to the symbolism of set. lilith aquino founded the lilith grotto in lavey's church of satan and was a member of its council o

ented in detail how the european union was founded by llluminati placemen like jean monnet, count richard n. coudenhove-kalergi, joseph retinger, and others. they were the public face for the forces manipulating the creation of the centralised european dictatorship we see today. retinger, a polish "socialist, was also involved with prince bernhard of the 338 children of the matrix netherlands, in the formation of the bilderberg group. this is an illuminati operation funded by the rockefellers and the rothschilds. it was officially named after the bilderberg hotel in the netherlands where its first official meeting took place in may 1954, but bil can have many connotations "bil, for instance, was another name for "thor, the first king of sumer, according to the edda, and bil also relates to

e orange order, a "protestant" secret society involved in the conflict in northern ireland. the orange order, in turn, connects into the freemasons, the knights templar, and so on. bernhard is a close associate of prince philip and they operate that illuminati front, the worldwide fund for nature, which is exposed at length in the biggest secret. what a coincidence that all the key players behind the formation and subsequent centralisation of the european union have been attendees of the bilderberg group, which has pursued a policy for the centralised control of europe since it was officially created in 1954! the very official suggestion to form the bilderberg group came from joseph retinger, one of the founders of the european community, now union, and prince bernhard. the present chairma

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ted to moses. in truth theywere written by the levites after babylon and not by moses, which was a title in theegyptian mystery schools. is it really a coincidence that these three massive prisons ofthe mind, suppressors of the female, and creators of bloody conflict, should all come119from the same part of the world? or that people having visions and visitations shouldplay such a crucial part in the formation and legend which created these monsters?mohammed said he had his vision near the cave where he used to go. caves and darkplaces constantly recur in stories of religious superstars and sun gods like mithra andjesus. mohammed said his visitor claimed to be the angel gabriel of biblical fameand during the encounter mohammed said he lost consciousness and entered a trancestate. while moh

like their own women, with an arroganceand inhumanity beyond description. with the settlers, as the brotherhood expanded theiroccupation of the planet, came the reptilian bloodlines of the european aristocracy androyalty who would become the business leaders, bankers, presidents and administrators ofthe new united states. the financial and land ownership of america was assured from thestart with the formation of the virginia company, set up by king james i in 1606. jamesknighted francis bacon and appointed him to many important positions, including lordchancellor of england. under jamess patronage, the templars, rosicrucians and othersecret societies joined forces under one name, freemasonry. look at some of the earlymembers of the virginia company- francis bacon, earl of pembroke, earl o

aterials, and 5% ofall profits from other ventures. these rights, the charters detailed, were to be passedon to all heirs of the owners of the virginia company and therefore continue toapply. forever! the controlling members of the virginia company who were toenjoy these rights became known as the treasurer and company of adventurers andplanters of the city of london.after the first 21 years from the formation of the virginia company, all duties,imposts, and excises paid on trading activities in the colonies had to be paid directlyto the british crown through the crown treasurer. no trader could export goods outof the colonies without the permission of the british crown and to do so wouldinvolve the seizure of all their goods and the ship or vehicle which carried them.the lands of the virg

is ideas would form the official philosophy of thebritish labour party until more recently and tbey were also included in the writingsof karl marx and friedrich engels and became the foundations of marxistcommunism which was soon to grip the nations of eastern europe. ruskin is widelybelieved by researchers to have been connected with the bavarian illuminati and itwas his inspiration which led to the formation of the fabian society, yet anotherbrotherhood operation which to this day manipulates the british labour party andoperates further afield. ruskin was a student of platos works, as were most218brotherhood clones like rhodes, engels, weishaupt, the rothschilds and therothschild associate, moses mendelssohn, one of the principle manipulators behind thefrench revolution. rhodes was so in

re the first world war, he had proposed anorganisation called. the league of nations. the war was all a plot to further the agendaand it cost the lives of millions. the league of nations eventually collapsed, but one warlater their ambition was achieved with the creation of the united nations in 1945.the russian revolution/cold warthe russia revolution in 1917, during the first world war, lead to the formation of thesoviet union and later to the cold war. a constant theme of brotherhood manipulationthrough the centuries is the creation of monsters for people to fear, something theyproceeded to do with communism in the soviet union and china. the hierarchy ofthese two regions interlock with the brotherhood network and bloodlines, but of coursethe people dont know that. the public believed t

hewar had no chance of economic survival. this was precisely as planned. that economicchaos was a massive problem in need of a solution and the solution was adolf hitler.the second important development, in a secret meeting of the v ersailles collaborators atthe hotel majestic in paris, was the creation of offshoot organisations connected to the229original round table. the first came in 1920 with the formation of the institute ofinternational affairs, also known as chatham house, at 10 st jamess square inlondon. the monarch is its official head and it was given the title royal institute in1926. its american branch, the council on foreign relations, was formed by theamerican members of the round table in 1921 with funds from the rockefellers andothers. these were additions to the brotherhoo

orld affairs throughout history. they are variouslyknown as the secret chiefs, the hidden masters, or the great white brotherhood andsome researchers believe they are the force behind the creation of the freemasons,sufis, knights templar, rosicrucians, theosophical society, and the hermetic order ofthe golden dawn.17 i think these people are reptilians, some of them anyway. roerichwas involved in the formation of the league of nations, the first attempt at worldgovernment, and supported the work of dr andrija puharich, a scientist who helped todevelop the psychic powers of a young israeli called un geller.18in britain, the round table-royal institute of international affairs members in thehouses of parliament at first called for appeasement with germany until hitlersmilitary build up had r

y and physicallydevastated. this allowed the banks to make vast fortunes lending money to governments torebuild the societies destroyed by a war the same banks had funded. this massivelyincreased the debt owed by nations to private banks and the control over those countriesincreased in proportion. the desperation for peace made the world open to the main reasonthe brotherhood had created the war -the formation of the united nations. problem-reaction-solution (see figure 22. the charter for the united nations, the global body thebrotherhood so badly wanted, was written by a committee of the council on foreignrelations. the writer, james perloff, revealed the background to the un in his 1988 book,the shadows of power: the council on foreign relations and the american decline:in january 1943

cavendish family, the dukes ofdevonshire at chatsworth house, and that offshoot became known as spencer-cavendish. diana shared common ancestors with prince charles in the 3rd duke ofdevonshire and, most significantly, king james i, the first stuart king of england andscotland and sponsor of francis bacon. it was king james who played a highlyinfluential role in the expansion of the brotherhood, the formation of the virginiacompany which still controls the united states, and the creation of the king jamesversion of the bible. diana was also descended through several lines from the stuartkings, charles ii and james ii, which connected her, as with james i, to themerovingian bloodline in france. charles ii had so many children out of wedlock thatgoodness knows where some of their bloodlines

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c of the golden dawn. in practice, however, crowley s magick largely involved sex and drug use. it was the sexual aspects of tantric yoga crowley adopted together with some of the more deviant practices of black magicians and satanists of middle ages europe. the age of satan begins on april 30, 1966, former lion-tamer and carnival calliope player anton lavey, ritually shaved his head and declared the formation of the church of satan and the start of the age of satan. the catchphrase of the church of satan was indulgence instead of abstinence but not compulsion. anton lavey taught his followers to indulge in every sin because they all lead to physical and emotional happiness. compulsions, he said, are never created by indulging but by being unable to indulge. the church of satan entertained

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potency, can at least ensure himself time to make good his escape and seek help. the sacraments are also a most potent source of spiritual power, and a church where the blessed sacrament is reserved, or which is sufficiently old to have been consecrated before the reformation, is 88 of 103 an effectual sanctuary. chapter xix methods of defence iii psychic trouble not infrequently arises owing to the formation of an undesirable rapport. in order to understand the nature of this problem we must consider the whole subject of rapport. we have already considered in some detail the question of telepathic suggestion. rapport might be considered as the passive aspect of that of which telepathic suggestion is the active aspect. it forms, in fact, the basic condition necessary for telepathic sugges

dividuals, but between an individual and a group. this fact plays an important part in all fraternity work. it is also possible to establish rapport between a human being and other kingdoms of nature; with discarnate entities, superhuman beings, and, in fact, with any form of life with which an individual can form a sympathetic understanding. there must be some ground of sympathy as the basis for the formation of a rapport, but once formed, it can be developed almost indefinitely. it is a curious fact that if a rapport is long continued, the persons thus united gradually come to resemble each other. we all know the "horsey" type of man; also the son of the soil of whom it was expressively remarked "father's in the pig-stye. you'll know him by his hat" when two human beings are in rapport

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used by too much caffeine, lethargy or lassitude, and physical pleasure that is widely distributed through the body. this last is not as intense as the bliss of the sahasrara. it is a false belief that kundalini is very difficult to awaken. it only requires sincere and regular practice of the correct exercises, both physical and mental. these must be done daily for several hours. it also requires the formation of a genuine personal relationship with the goddess. once initially awakened, kundalini may easily be aroused thereafter in a matter of minutes, or even moments. various siddhis or occult powers are traditionally associated with the chakras. these must be examined with a certain degree of skepticism, since it was often the practice of occult writers in ancient times to make wildly ex

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ich contained within itself the germs or beginnings, male and female, of everything which was to be in the future world. the divine primeval spirit which formed an essential part of the primeval matter felt within itself the desire to begin the work of creation, and its word woke to life the world, the form and shape of which it had already depicted to itself. the first act of creation began with the formation of an egg[4] out of the primeval water, from which broke forth ra, the immediate cause of all life upon earth. the almighty power of the divine spirit embodied itself in its most brilliant form in the rising sun. when the inert mass of primeval matter felt the desire of the primeval spirit to begin the work of creation, it began to move, and the creatures which were to constitute the

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s intended or ever perpetrated against the man, who willingly agreed to guide himself in accordance with the wishes of his abductors. the father of the writer was a neighbor of morgan, knew the persons accused and gave it as his belief, expressed many years after, that morgan was placed in a boat or flung overboard and sent over niagara falls. the direct outcome of the disappearance of morgan was the formation of the anti-masonic party, whose leaders were william h. seward, millard fillmore, william wirt (attorney- general under monroe, john quincy adams and that adroit politician, thurlow weed. during the four years ending in 18 31, some one or other connected with the abduction was in jail, and suits were prosecuted for a long time. sheriff bruce was removed from office by governor clint

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ndocumented by the emerging scientific community at the time. almost concurrently with the emergence and spread of spiritualism, a few intellectuals, having close ties to traditional religion, yet imbued with the new scientific methodology, concluded that scientific observation could be used to investigate reports of supernatural phenomena, especially reports of ghosts and hauntings. this sparked the formation in 1862 of the ghost club in england. during the next two decades, the growth of spiritualism provided a fertile field for investigation, and in 1882 a new generation of investigators founded the society for psychical research in london to study actual phenomena occurring during spiritualist seances as well as other incidents of psychic phenomena. ix encyclopedia of occultism& paraps

other activities included one-day seminars on acupuncture and biofeedback and nine two-day acupuncture workshops. in june 1974 the academy presented a symposium on nontraditional approaches to treatment of the developmentally disabled, sponsored jointly with the division of retardation of the state of florida s department of health and rehabilitative services. the academy laid the groundwork for the formation of the american holistic medical association in 1978 (see also healing center for the whole person) sources: the dimensions of healing: a symposium. los altos, calif: academy of parapsychology and medicine, 1972. the varieties of the healing experience. los altos, calif: academy of parapsychology and medicine, 1971. academy of religion and psychical research organization founded in 1

ineteenth century as a religious expression of the emersonian tradition. many of its early proponents had been members of the church of christ, scientist. it has been characterized as a very loosely organized movement in contrast to the tight organization of christian science. ernest holmes was the last student of emma curtis hopkins, generally regarded as the founder of new thought. prominent in the formation of the network was harry morgan moses of the new thought center of san diego. the network s goal is the promotion of new thought as a practical philosophy and instructing people on its day-to-day application. it is the members belief that new thought can foster global transformation and healing. associated with the network as its educational arm is emerson institute, located in oakhu

continent since the 1920s, especially in south africa, the central african states, and such west african nations as ghana and nigeria. since world war ii there has been a noticeable popular response to such ideas. as early as 1925 the rosicrucians were present in west africa, and new thought was introduced into africa in the 1930s when several american teachers toured the country and assisted in the formation of the school of practical christianity in 1937 (now known as the school of truth. today a broad range of such groups as the church of religious science, the unity school of christianity, swedenborgians, and the church universal and triumphant are in existence. in the last two decades, guru-oriented groups such as eckankar, subud, and the grail movement, and some of the new japanese

ecially some that practiced what was termed pranotherapy, a form of healing that used prana, considered by hindus the life force, to heal. he became a pranotheraphist in the early 1970s and soon established offices in several towns in northern italy. he also began to operate as a spiritualist medium and eventually wrote a book on the subject. by 1974 he had attained a following that joined him in the formation of two organizations, the horus centre and an associated school of pranotherapy. airaudi advocated the ideals of the communal life and in 1975 land was rented in the valchiusella valley north of turin as a possible site for the community. the following year some two dozen people moved to what was called damanhur, the name of an ancient egyptian city. the land was eventually purchased

l here s health and organized by swan house special events, with exhibitors and workshops in a wide range of subjects, including acupressure and acupuncture, alexander technique, aromatherapy, bach flower remedies, biofeedback, herbalism, homeopathy, hypnotism, iridology, kirlian photography, osteopathy, and reflexology. during the year there was significant interest in alternative medicine, with the formation of the council for complementary and alternative medicine and the confederation of healing organizations. the british medical association, with interests vested in orthodox medical practice, undertook a major investigation into alternative medicine, and a pilot project was also undertaken to provide alternative healing on the national health service. for information on the exhibition

it remained a relatively minuscule movement in the midst of a large population. it did become, as in europe, the subject of a much public scrutiny, but declined in the wake of the discovery of widespread fraud. however, the national spiritualist association of churches, founded in 1893, still has more than a hundred affiliated congregations. the emergence of spiritualism eventually led in 1885 to the formation of the american society for psychical research as a branch of the london-based society for psychical research. it investigated the mediumship and the phenomena associated with that movement over the next several generations and included in its leadership a number of outstanding scientists including william james, walter franklin prince, james h. hyslop and hereward carrington. in 193

come something of a new mythology, comparable with other modern preoccupations such as near-death experiences. at a more responsible level, there remains a residuum of inexplicable phenomena that deserves closer investigation. the emergence of a post-enlightenment occult belief has been opposed at every level by leaders in the scientific community. the ongoing controversy has most recently led to the formation of the committee for the scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal, which is devoted to debunking occult and related claims and publishes a journal, skeptical inquirer. the united states remains home to a vital popular interest in matters psychical and occult. fate, the oldest of the occultrelated periodicals, is but one of hundreds. the occult forms the basis for numerous

her most important book, the secret doctrine. blavatsky taught that both individuals and the human race were engaged in an upward evolutionary process. at the same time, she pictured a hierarchy of masters headed by a being known as the solar logos. those masters at the lowest level of the hierarchy regularly interacted with humanity. the masters el morya and koot hoomi have had a special role in the formation and guidance of the society. one of the early members of the society, a. p. sinnett, also received regular communications from the masters that became the basis of two important theosophical texts, esoteric buddhism and the mahatma letters to a. p. sinnett. together, the masters constituted the great white brotherhood. a number of the spiritual leaders from past history were pictured

llowers believe in the principle of equal opportunity, rights, and privileges for both sexes; compulsory education; and the abolishment of extremes of poverty and wealth. work performed in the spirit of service is considered of equal rank to worship. the faith has become part of the international peace movement and in that regard recommends the adoption of an auxiliary international language, and the formation of the necessary agencies for establishing and safeguarding a permanent and universal peace. the baha i faith has its international headquarters in haifa, israel, and membership now extends to 300 countries and territories, where centers have been established. they remain a minority in contemporary iran and were among the losers in the revolution that resulted in the departure of the

stre gabriel was born on february 10, 1922, in coracao de maria, a small town in the brazilian state of bahia. in 1942 he became part of a government program to accelerate the production of rubber for the war effort and while working in the area near the brazilian/bolivian border encountered bendit, phoebe daphne (payne) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 168 ayahuasca (or hoasca. the formation of the unioa is dated from that experience though the reconstruction of the religion would take the next 20 years. maestre gabriel died on september 24, 1971. according to the uniao de vegetel, its religion dates to the time of king solomon in israel. over the years it has disappeared on several occasions, but as god sees fit, spiritual personages are called forth to reestablish it

ound this limiting, and succeeded in finding a professor who agreed to sponsor a major in occult science. this degree was granted june 16, 1970, after which bonewits published a very successful book about his academic sojourn under the title real magic (1971. while at berkeley, bonewits roomed with robert larson, who had previously attended carleton college. in the 1960s carleton was the site for the formation of the reformed druids of north america. the idea of druidism appealed to bonewits, and he and larson formed a druid grove in berkeley. bonewits was ordained as a druid priest in 1969. in 1974 he moved to minneapolis to become editor of the occult journal gnostica (1974.75. he also established a druid group in minneapolis and founded the aquarian anti- defamation league, a short-live

she graduated, her novels were selling so well that she was able to become a full-time author. in 1963 she moved to berkeley, california. the following year she divorced her husband and married walter breen. in 1963, breen had been consecrated as a bishop in the evangelical catholic communion, an independent liturgical church, in which he was named bishop of berkeley. bradley and breen joined in the formation of a new occult group, the aquarian order of the restoration, dedicated to restoring worship to the goddess. the group, which at its height had less than 20 members, continued until 1982. in the late 1970s bradley joined with a number of other women in the bay area to form what became known as the dark circle. though primarily a women s group and not a witchcraft coven, it did includ

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o their journal, the rosicrucian. he resigned from the society in 1875 while preparing his royal masonic cyclopaedia. in subsequent years, he seems to have lived precariously on a modest income from journalism. he developed a system of astrological prediction of horse race winners and also became involved with the promotion of fringe masonic orders, such as sat b hai. he died july 3, 1886, before the formation of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, but was claimed posthumously as an adept of the order (together with levi and hockley) by w. w. westcott, one of the founding chiefs, presuming a continuity of occult tradition through rosicrucianism. sources: mackenzie, kenneth. royal masonic cyclopaedia. 1877. reprint, new york: sterling publishing, 1987. mackenzie, william (1877) british b

creased to be photographed. richet remarked that the supposition of fraud would presume extreme stupidity on eva s part because she knew that photographs would be taken; moreover, there was no reason to suppose that a materialization had to be analogous to a human body and three dimensional. the materialisation of a plaster bust is not easier to understand than that of a lithographic drawing; and the formation of an image is not less extraordinary than that of a living human head, he said. daumer s speculation is strangely contrasted by glen hamilton s report (in psychic science) on the building and photographing of a three-dimensional ectoplasmic ship in the winnipeg circle. the entities john king and walter claimed responsibility for the experiment. coming through the mediums mary m. and

physical body. on another occasion i awakened and found myself moving along at the intermediate speed. a very dense aura surrounded me.so dense, in fact, that i could scarcely see my own body. it remained so until the phantom came to a stop, when i was dressed in the typical ghost like garb. the idea of a power to form spirit clothing seems to have emerged slowly in materialization seances, where the formation of spirit drapery came to be viewed as preliminary to the building up of the body. it served, some speculated, the purpose of covering up imperfections or vacant spots in the temporary organism, protected the ectoplasmic substance from the effects of light, and satisfied the requirements of modesty (very important in both british and american societies. once while yolande (who was of

tion. he also received numerous honors for his psychological studies. murphy joined the society for psychical research, london, in 1917, while in england during world war i as a soldier in the united states army. murphy became involved in the controversy over mina crandon that divided the american society for psychical research in the mid 1920s. believing crandon a fraud, he joined with others in the formation of the boston society for psychic research as a rival organization. once that issue had lost its importance, he led in the reuniting of the two groups. he served as vice president of the aspr (1940.62, and had a notable tenure as president. throughout his many years in administering the most prominent parapsychological research institute in the united states, murphy found time to aut

voting membership was open to professional or qualified astrologers, non-voting membership for associates. the society published the naso journal and the naso international astrological directory from it headquarters in new york city. national colored spiritualist association of churches african americans were among people attracted to the spiritualist movement, especially in the years following the formation of the national spiritualist association (nsa (now the national spiritualist association of churches) in 1893. a few emerged as talented mediums. because american society was segregated at that time, african american members were organized in colored auxiliary societies attached to the association. in the period of heightened racial tension following world war i, the leadership of th

tional spiritualist association of churches (nsac) the national spiritualist association (later renamed the national spiritualist association of churches) was founded in 1893 to bring some order out of the chaotic and decentralized spiritualist movement and to respond to the charges and revelations of fraud that had hindered the movement through the last half of the nineteenth century. leading in the formation of the association were former unitarian clergymen harrison d. barrett and james m. peebles and the medium cora l. v. richmond. an initial six-article declaration of principles was adopted. as later amended by additions, nsac s statement affirms the following: 1. we believe in infinite intelligence [i.e, god. 2. we believe that the phenomena of nature, both physical and spiritual, ar

there can be no illness, she concluded that illness must be an error in the individual s mind. the realization of this new insight led to her immediate healing. she would embody this new idealistic understanding of the universe in a booklet, the science of man (1870, and then more completely in her textbook, science and health (1875. she taught informally for several years but in 1876 encouraged the formation of the christian science association, an organization of her students and the root of the church of christ, scientist, which she would found three years later. the christian science movement placed a new healing emphasis before the american public. eddy regularly offered classes at which she trained people to become practitioners. her students in turn moved out to establish offices a

argely resign from any leadership role in 1895 after launching the movement, which consisted of several large associations of churches and centers (unity, divine science, homes of truth, and later the church of truth and religious science) and many independent churches and centers. various attempts to organize the movement were made through the early years of the twentieth century, culminating in the formation of the international new thought alliance in 1915. several years later the alliance adopted a declaration of principles which guided it for forty years until the present declaration, which was adopted in 1957, appeared. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. new thought 1115 the 1957 declaration affirmed the oneness of god and humanity, a major implication being that huma

gth and endurance. oaten, ernest w(alter (ca. 1937) prominent british spiritualist, and former president of the international federation of spiritualists. he was president of the spiritualists national union from 1915 and edited the journal two worlds (1919.36. he was also a medium and believed that his leading articles were inspired by the spirit of emma hardinge britten, whose work had inspired the formation of the union in 1890. as chairman of the parliamentary committee of the spiritualists national union he pressed for reform of the fortune telling act, the british law relating to mediumship. obe (or oobe or oob) see out-of-the- body travel obeah west indian witchcraft. the term is believed to derive from an ashanti word, obayifo, a wizard or witch, although there are claims that it r

ity press, 1923.58. organisation pour la recherche en psychotronique the organisation pour la recherche en paychotronique was founded in 1987 in toulouse, france, by the leadership of the laboratorie universitaire de parapsychologie et d hygiene mental to promote research in parapsychology in france and other french-speaking countries and throughout europe. its major contribution to the field was the formation of l oeil (the eye, a library and data bank of parapsychological publications, through which it attempted to keep people in the field aware of research that had been conducted in order to avoid needless repetition of work in what has become a vast field. l oeil provided a mail order service for members who request articles from the library and data files. the organization published t

was born august 25, 1876, in boston, massachusetts. he graduated from brown university and moved to new york city as an artist. along the way he joined the masons. at this time there was within the masonic movement a rosicrucian society, but its membership was limited to masons. in 1907 sylvester c. gould decided to found a rosicrucian group that would be open to all. plummer worked with gould in the formation of the group, the societas rosicruciana in america, and the founding of a periodical, the rosicrucian brotherhood. gould died in 1909, and plummer emerged as the sole leader of the society, a position he held for the rest of his life. he also founded the first rosicrucian church in america. he was ordained and later consecrated as a bishop (1918) by manuel ferrando of the reformed ep

seership. london: stead s publishing house, 1911. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1969. price, e(lias) alan (1918) physician and radiologist concerned with parapsychology. price was born on april 15, 1918, in dolhinow, poland. he moved to south africa and studied at the university of witwatersrand, south africa (m.b, ch.b. price served in the israeli army from 1948 to 1949, during the formation of the state of israel. he then returned to south africa as a resident house physician from 1949 to 1951 and then went to england to study at london university college hospital (d.m.r.d. diagnostic radiology, 1953. price became a consulting radiologist (1954.58) at johannesburg general hospital, south africa. he reentered private practice in johannesburg in 1958. price was a member o

an end the next year, following cox s death. from 1878 on, the british national association of spiritualists, london (founded in 1873, appointed a research council that carried on significant research work with well-known mediums of the day under test conditions. their work bore fruit early in 1882 when william f. barrett presided over several conferences held by the association that resulted in the formation of the society for psychical research. the establishment of psychical research the society for psychical research (spr) was founded largely by a group of scientists and philosophers connected with trinity college, cambridge. the society was formed to examine without prejudice or prepossession and in a scientific spirit those faculties of man, real or supposed, which appear to be inex

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

ntaining an art of memory which is a reprint from the one in the cantus circaeus, and two other works entitled explicatio triginta sigillorum and sigillus sigillorum* the "thirty" grouping of the "seals" shows that he is still moving in the mystico-magical realms of the de umbris idearum, and, in fact, the whole volume is a further development of the exploration of memory as a major instrument in the formation of a magus which he had begun in the two books pubhshed in paris. there, he had gained a lectureship and the attention of the king by such efforts, and he hoped to achieve similar results in england, for, after the dedication to the ambassador, there is an address "to the most excellent vice chancellor of oxford university and to its celebrated doctors and teachers, which opens as fo

the spaccio in a later chapter when discussing a later work by bruno in which he gives lists of good and bad moral characteristics, which are of the same type as those used in the spaccio, in a context where these are quite definitely related to astral psychology.1 if my interpretation of the ethics of the spaccio is correct, it means that bruno has developed the ficinian magic, directed towards the formation of a personality in which solar, jovial, and venereal influences predominate and the bad influences of the stars are kept at bay, into a fully "egyptian" or hermetic ethic or rehgion, in which reformation or salvation is achieved in the cosmological setting, the "triumphant beast" of the sum of the vices, the bad influences coming from the stars, is cast out by their good opposites

the book (ed. cit, p. 119. 233 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform elements in elizabethan society, a new outlet, quite independent of the hated spanish catholicism, for their secret yearnings. written in a bold, dramatic style, powerful in its imagery and with a highly original kind of lucianic or celestial humour, the spaccio della bestia trionfante may have been an operative work on the formation of the elizabethan renaissance. for it contained in a potent and unexpurgated form, that charge of dynamite at the heart of renaissance neoplatonism, the magic of the asclepius. 234 chapter xiii before "the philosophy which suits you so well arose" cries bruno to the pedant doctor in the cena de le ceneri (published in 1584, that is in the same year as the spaccio, but probably befor

oxford. the "thirty seals" are thirty mysterious disquisitions, accompanied by diagrams, in which he expounds the principles of his magic mnemonics. there is also in this work another version of his remarkable theory of the imagination4 on which we have touched in the discussion of de magia and in what has just been said of his aim of inner unification. the ultimate object of the magic memory was the formation of the religious personality, or the personality of the good magus. hence, after the mysteries of the thirty mnemonic "seals",5 bruno enters upon a discussion of religion. this he does under the heading of different "contractions",5 by which he means different kinds of religious experience, some of which are good and some bad. in nearly all of these he is following, expanding, turnin

or wonder-worker through it. but he did aim at changing the personality, from a melancholy saturnian one into a happier and more fortunate jovial-solar-venereal type. giordano bruno, as we know from george abbot, knew ficino's de vita coelitus comparanda by heart and he has developed 331 giordano bruno: last published work ficino's sub-christian supposedly medical cult into an inner technique for the formation of a religious magus. it is really quite a logical development from ficino; once you start a religion, there is no knowing what it may become. and we have also always to remember to see bruno in the context of that christian hermetism which was such a major force in the sixteenth century and through which many catholics and protestants were trying to ease the religious antagonisms. b

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nticipate the benediction of that secret arrival. it s not like falling head first into a well of souls; we are already surrounded by those waters- well of souls (l. kohanov) chrnzn was the first child of wisdom and understanding. it is 333 to cover reflection across all worlds (mind, body, spirit. the base guardian of knowledge in human form to the world without in divinity. chrnzn thus reflects the formation of and dissolution gateway of the mind of man. the beast 666 is the formation of this principle in the body (zos. the yet to come is 999 which is a fusion of the reflex of body-mind in the real of spirit (or, the reverse, thus completing the current and giving rise to the urge for unity. the beast took on flesh as it s necessity in the realm of physicality (as this is all necessary f

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

f the many occult correspondences found in lovecraft s fiction has been supplied by kenneth grant in his typhonian trilogies. grant suggests that the lovecraftian grimoire, the necronomicon, actually exists within the akasha, or field of astral light. this is an etheric reservoir said to surround the earth, and which retains within its structure the imprint of every event which has occurred since the formation of the planet. it can be accessed at will by those individuals who possess the necessary psychic ability, and may be manipulated to provide positive images. it was from the akashic records that blavatsky transmitted the book of dzayn, and crowley transcribed the book of the cells of the qliphoth could it be that lovecraft may have subconsciously communicated the book of dead names fr

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earing is that sense by which we distinguish sounds, and are capable of enjoying all the agreeable charms of music. by it we are enabled to enjoy the pleasures of society, and reciprocally to communicate to each other our thoughts and intentions,our purposes and desires; while thus our reason is capable of exerting its utmost power and energy. the wise and beneficent author of nature intended, by the formation of this sense, that we should be social creatures, and receive the greatest and most important part of our knowledge by the information of others. for these purposes we are endowed with hearing, that, by a proper exertion of our rational powers, our happiness may be complete. seeing is that sense by which we distinguish objects, and in an instant of time, without change of place or s

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

rial, even as man is composed of body and soul. man is the synthesis of all the holy names. in man are enclosed all the worlds, both the upper and the lower. man includes all the mysteries, even those that existed before the creation of the world. since the form of man comprises all that is in the heavens above and on the earth beneath, god has chosen it as his own form. naught could exist before the formation of the human form which encloses all things. and all that exists is by the grace of the existence of the human form. but we must distinguish between the upper man and the lower man, since one cannot exist without the other. on the form of man depends the perfection of faith. that which we call heavenly man, or the first divine manifestation, is the absolute form of all that is, the s

ents fire, water, air, and earth. 33 these elements being od, heh, vau, and heh of the name jehovah. man is consequently the synthesis of gall the holy names h, 34 therefore in man are genclosed all the worlds, both the upper and the lower h, and: since the form of man comprises all that is in the heavens above and on the earth beneath, god has chosen it as his own form. naught could exist before the formation of the human form which encloses all things. and all that exists is by the grace of the existence of the human form.35 (see diagram 1 on page 20) secret wisdom of the qabalah page 17 plate 1: the caduceus of hermes secret wisdom of the qabalah page 18 plate 1: the winged wand of egypt secret wisdom of the qabalah page 19 diagram 1: the divine man secret wisdom of the qabalah page 20

on (c) the whirling forces of the zodiac (d) the female swastika (e) the male swastika. the 17 squares of the swastika refer to iao, whose numerical value is 17. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 42 in the first chapter of genesis is depicted the fall of the yetziratic deity through inversion due to reflection; the glory of this deity, that is the shekinah within it, being the agent which renders the formation of a simulacrum possible. according to the zohar, metatron gsets all his legions in motion by the power of a single letter [shin] h.21 this was the spoken word tetragrammaton, which created light, when the yetziratic emanation moved upon the face of the waters (the luminous mirror) and proclaimed gyehe aur h (value 222, glet there be light h (illumination. in proclaiming it, the shek

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

thing lives and has always lived, seeming death being simply change. remnants of these doctrines are found in every portion of the globe; among the mexicans of the west as well as among the rude mountaineers of the burman empire" while contemplating the philosophical speculations of an ancient race bailly gave expression to the belief, that a "profoundly learned race of people existed previous to the formation of any of our systems" the wiser among the greek philosophers, those who, it is believed, borrowed their philosophical doctrines from the east, declare that "there is no production of anything which was not before; no new substance made which did not really pre-exist" equally with matter was spirit indestructible "our soul" says plato "was somewhere, before it came to exist in this p

e elohist, and that it was removed from its original position at the beginning of gen. i, in order to form the commencement of the jehovistic account of the creation.[95 [95] lectures on the pentateuch, p. 32. quoting from bishop browne in the new bible commentary, the same writer remarks that in the elohistic account of the creation "we have that which was probably the ancient primeval record of the formation of the world"[96 [96] ibid. p. 16. the oldest or elohistic portion of genesis is, at the present time, seen to conceal great wisdom and a knowledge of nature far surpassing that of later times. according to higgins, the first verse of the first chapter of genesis, if properly translated, would not declare that in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth, but that wisdom "f

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

ul, and in1889took the first'steptowards bottomley's grandiose design of a vast printing and publishing empire by absorbing redway. bottomley succeeded in outbidding william heinemann for the firm of triibner&co, whose oriental list was highly lucrative, and the enlarged association tenderedfor-andsecured-the contract for printinghansard'sparliamentarydebates.the immediate outcome of all this was the formation of the hansard publishing union ltd, a vastconsortium that aimed to combine under one head every operation of the publishing world from paper-making and printing to publishing and distribution. the initial share capitalof 243500,000 was over..subscribedand for a time the company flourished, but when a secondshare issue of half a million pounds was launched within ayear,rumours of bot

f occult philosophy in the west'(mysteriesofmagic,revisededn, p. xiii, levi represented the summit of occultism, but waitewas seeking for something more. nor wasthere anything to be found in theosophy-not, at least,as presented byh.p.blavatsky.267the theosophical society had been founded in1875,bymadame blavatsky and colonel h. s. olcott, for 'the study of occultscience;91_'hethataspiredtoknow. 90the formation of a nucleusofuniversal brotherhood; and the revival of oriental literature and philosophy';butby the time waite came toknowthe society, in 1883, the apparent harmony between east and west suggested byisisunveiledhad given way to an increased emphasis on 'esoteric buddhism' and its supposed superiority over all western formsofoccultism. waite had no interest in eastern philosophy, wa

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

emple no.iof licht, liebe, leben is a groupofcontinental mystics who have not been in the habit of performing ceremonies in open lodge, but have conferred the grades chiefly in private and in the presence of only two or three members.forthis reason there is no accuraterecord"of the names and rank ofalltheir members and very great reticence is shewn by them in their communications. very soon after the formation of this temple no.3 permission was granted for the consecration of osiris temple no. 4 at weston super mare under the rule of our very honoured frater 'crux dat salutem' and the west of england has been assigned to him as a province. almost at the same time the horus temple no.5 under the rule of the v.h. frater 'vota vita mea' was also consecrated at bradford in yorkshire. these thr

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he world, and in each case the learning wasu'iaughingmatter unto them, and the teacher was a butt foracornand ridicule. in each case the teaching is based upon a foundation of ethicsanda high standard of morality, and the suggestion is made thatsucha course oflifemaylead to abnormal or magical powers. in each case, the teacher, disgusted with a vain-glorious and hypocritical world, fell back upon the formation of a select bandofpupils bound together by solemn contract, and stimulated by enthusiasm. in each case, an early step was the foundation of a home and special dwelling set apart for work, study and contemplation. in each case, the founder passes away and is regarded by sorrowing pupils as dearest friend, most learned teacher, and beloved chief. in one case we find the expenditure of

ots pass back to the hebrew rabbis who flourished at the time of the second temple.ofits existence before this time i know of no evidence. one of the chief books, thesepheryetsirah,is ascribed to abraham:butmodern criticism, which is hardly disposed to grant the existence of abraham, does not of course assent to this ascription.ithas been suggested that the captivity of the jews in babylon led to the formation of this philosphy by the effect of chaldean lore and dogma acting on jewish tradition. no doubt in the earliest stages of its existence the teaching was entirely oral, and became varied by the minds through whom it filtered in its course: there is no proof that any part of it was written for centuries after; and it was kept curiously distinct both from the exoteric pentateuchal mosai

s philosophical conceptions respecting deity, angels, and beings more spirit255 ual than man, the human soul and its several aspects or parts; concerning pre-existence and re-incarnation, and the several worlds or planes of existence.thenthe practical kabalah teaches the relations between letters and numbers and the modes of their inter-relation; the principles of gematria, notaricon, and temura; the formation and uses of the divine and angelic names as amulets; the formation of magic squares; and a vast fund of allied curious lore, which with the tarot, formed the basis of medieval magic. for those who donotwish to read any kabalistic work as a whole but rather to glean a general view of the philosophy, there are two standard works, one in english, by dr ginsburg, a very complete and conc

at the officials of freemasonry in the seventeenth century were so intensely learned that they con255 structedpropiomotu,such a system, in which the doctrines and essays of the most ancient aporreta shine forth.thekabbalah as a system of theosophy has pre-eminent claims to be consideredprimusinterpares,among all the theistic speculations of mankind, which have a bearing on, and have taken part in the formation of, the masonic aphanism. i shall briefly point out a few masonic points which are illuminated by a comparison with the kabbalah. some references to the mysteries are conveniently interspersed, of these there is much evidence that the egyptian forms are the oldest; now it must be specially remembered that the lecture on the tracing board of the first degree actually refers to these c

r much above our present mode of life. this root tzel reappears in the hebrew word tzelmuth, meaning death, and the 'shadow of death: tzel, shadow; and muth, death; in the latin vulgate -umbra mortis,ingreek255skia thanatou.this is a curious coincidence if there be no hebrew recognition of the astral, because the astral, like the physical body, is subject to similar change at death. consider next the formation of eve, the first female, in genesisii.21-23:here we have the so-called jehovisticnarrative, in which the hebrew divine names are jehovah elohim,ihvhalhim,and these are rendered into the english words'lordgod 'and he took one of his [adam's] ribs 'and of the ribanomalies inthebiblical views of man 143which the lord god had taken from adam, made he a woman. now this wordribsuggests th

5 edited, until no one can say what was really first written or intended.fromwhich i conclude that, according to his meansanomalies inrnsbiblical views of man 153and opportunities, each man should seek out these matters for himself, and work out his own salvation, or future progress, and that we should not trust too much to the aid of others. the histories ofallreligions point out the tendency to the formation of a class of men whose business is not alone that of teacher and philosopher, but also that of soul-saving; and not sooner does soul-saving become a profession and a means of livelihood, than do the tendencies to fraud and folly, to manufacture doctrineadmajoremdeigloriam,creep in. doctrines are perverted by, and in favour of this privileged class and new profession, and the simple

erald tablet' are still in our possession; it speaks of the great magical agent, or wonder-working creative god power 'its father is the sun, its mother is the moon, and the wind carried it in its belly, and its nurse was the earth' this is a grand arcanum for those who can read it. read also 'that which is above is like that which is below, and 'that which is below is like that which is above in the formation of the one power; as in heaven above, so on earth below, there exists an analogy between the sublime personalities of god-head in the realms above, and the creative and mother divine forces holding sway in this particular terra, our world. the essence of fire is developed in us through sol, or fire, luna, or water, wind, or air, and is as if nourished in our earth. its forces pulsate

it has been long known that the hindoo records refer to many ages of prehistoric time, and to strange stages in the develop255 ment of mankind; they asserted a world existence of many yugas or vast periods of time, amounting to millions of years, divided between ages of progress and ages of pralaya or stagnation.thegeologists followed with a demand for long periods of millions of years to explain the formation of chalk, coal and other strata of the earth.thekabalists hinted at long ages as having passed over our world, and called them the reigns of the kings of edom.thencame more definite statements concerning rounds of world history, a scheme of evolving globes, and then of races of men, prehistoric and incomplete in form and function, slowly developing into our present humanity.theold st

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bition through blackness lion=heat and sulphurous action eagle=sublimation 4. one great. distinction between alchemic and chemical processes is that alchemy employs a gradual heat continually and carefully increased. chemistry uses a more violent heat and quick process. s. fromaqabalistic pointofview, the whole alchemic process may be said to consist in the purging and purifying of malkuth. 6. in the formation of planetary talismans the astrologic position and power of the planets signifying the matter should be considered, well-dignified and aspected for good;ill-theazoth lecture 31m.dignified and aspected for evil. 7.rhain,thenegative,c'j'lorhainsoph,the limitless"'hcjloamsophaur,the limitlesslightare the three veils of the negative existence depending back from kether.8.arikhanpin,that

meorebsouth-v-253daromc,,north- tzaphon27.thearchangels of the four elements.t..michael.6.raphael 'y auriel or uriel\lgabriel28. theofthe four elements.t>.arel.'m'm..6.chassanren'y phorlakh\ltaliahad29.therulers of the four elements.t>.seraph:"e-.6.ariel'vkerub\ltharsis30.the kings of the four orders of elementals. salamanderst>.djin.sylphs.6.panllda. gnomes'y ghob or gob. undines\7nicksa;31. in 'the formation of a magical pentacle or talisman consider first under what planet or element etc, it falls. then collect all the names of the sephira to which it belongs as well as those of its angels, intelligences, etc, also the sigils numbers, geomantic characters, lineal figures, thereunto belonging, then classify and arrange. 32.themethod of forming the tree of life with the cards of the tarot

m of occultism known as the cabalah has survived and been proved for thousands of years.itis not necessary for the student in the early grades of our order to acquire any knowledge of hebrew as a language, but a knowledge of the letters and their meanings and their numerical attributions is essential. and here i may interpose a hint to the beginner. learn from the very first to be very careful in the formation of the hebrew letters. never by any chance allow yourself to try and write them cursively as you do english. a few hints here may be useful to the beginner, and savehimmuch time and trouble hereafter. the general idea of the hebrew letters is the square formation, the horizontal lines being thick, and the perpen255 dicular lines thin. the easiest way to acquire this is from the first

e creation of the nebula and the development of the nebula into the solar system.forfuller accounts of that i may refer you to the admirable paper which sirius has contributed to thetransactions.but i just mention it now in order to recall it to your minds, and to have something to start upon. but now there is one remarkable thing to notice here, and202 the sorcererand his apprenticethat is, that the formation of this system has now given us direction; it has given us an up and down. for these whirling ballsintowhich the fiery mass of the nebulafirs]consolidated itself, go round on the same plane. that is.to say, we do not have one. globe going round. in one direction and others at considerable angles to it. we might have imagined something of that kind to have resulted from a whirling sph

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h provides an account of creation quite different from that found in the torah. it is a materialist account, based on the ancient egyptian idea of the eternal existence of matter. murat ozgen, a turkish freemason, has this to say on this topic: it is evident that the kabbalah was composed many years before the torah came into existence. the most important section of the kabbalah is a theory about the formation of the universe. this theory is very different from the story of creation accepted by theist religions. according to the kabbalah, at the beginning of creation, things called sefiroth, meaning "circles" or "orbits" with both material and spiritual characteristics came into being. the total fl a sefiroth is one of the most blatant expressions of the pagan teachings of the kabbalah. th

based on religious sources, it is necessary to establish a morality that is based on love for humanity which is not relative. in its traditional moral principles, masonry has taken into account the tendencies of the human organism, its needs and their satisfaction, the rules of social life and their organization, conscience, freedom of thought and speech and, finally, all the things that go into the formation of natural life. because of this, its goal is to establish and foster human morality in all societies.54 jh humanism revisited what master mason isindag means by "rescuing human beings from a morality based on religious sources" is the alienation of all people from religion. in the same book, isindag explains this goal and its "principles for the establishment of an advanced civiliza

o each other as a legacy. in order to mitigate against the possibility that their established ideas may threaten the establishment, they established secret laws among themselves. in order to protect themselves from the wrath of ignorant people, they took refuge in operative masonry which contained the discreet rules of their own trade. they inseminated this with their ideas which later influenced the formation of the modern speculative masonry we know today.62 in the above quotation, layiktez praises the societies that were the origin of masonry, and claims they kept themselves hidden to protect themselves from "ignorant people" if we can leave aside this subjective claim for a moment, we can understand from the quotation above that masonry is a present-day representation of societies that

sindag claims that "apart from nature there is no force that guides us, and is responsible for our thoughts and actions" he immediately adds "life began from one cell and reached its present stage as a result of various changes and evolutions."115 later he summarizes what the theory of evolution means for masons: from the point of view of evolution, human beings are no different from animals. for the formation of man and his evolution there are no special forces other than those to which animals are subjected.116 this assertion shows clearly why masons attach such importance to the theory of evolution. their aim is to defend the idea that human beings were not created and to present their own humanist materialist philosophy as tenable. and, the only method that can be used to reject the id

long-term, and to initiate all people into their philosophy only little by little. an american mason sums up this method as follows: freemasonry does its work silently, but it is the work of a deep river, that silently pushes on towards the ocean.137 high priest j.w. taylor, from the state of georgia in the usa, makes this interesting comment on the same matter: the abandonment of old themes and the formation of new ones do not always arise from the immediately perceptible cause which the world assigns, but are the culmination of principles which have been working in the minds of men for many years, until at last the proper time and propitious surroundings kindle the latent truth into life enthusing all with a mighty common cause and moving nations as one man to the accomplishment of grea

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eenth century eliphas levi and others triggered an occult revival, and put into print many of the hermetic kabbalistic texts and it is from here that so much of our heritage derives. the task is still ongoing, there is much restoration to be made. the foundations of the kabbalah the foundation of the kabbalah is in numbers and shapes. it represents a mathematical and geometrical way to understand the formation of the universe. since the universe has been formed by emanation, stepping down from one level to another, then some framework is needed to comprehend the process. we can deduce this mathematical mysticism in the works of pythagoras and many of the greek school as well as in the earliest christian and gnostic traditions. in jesus christ, sun of gnostic theurgy page 91 god (david fide

n deduce this mathematical mysticism in the works of pythagoras and many of the greek school as well as in the earliest christian and gnostic traditions. in jesus christ, sun of gnostic theurgy page 91 god (david fideler, quest books 1993) for example, we have an outline of the secret numerical codes found in the new testament. in the works of valentinus, the master gnostic, we have an outline of the formation of the universe as a mathematical sequence. valentinus outlined a meticulous system which charted the movement from divine depth, to the dyad of depth and silence, to the four principles, to the ogdoad and then onto the decad and dodecad. as time progressed the kabbalistic form of mysticism became codified and the resulting structure came to be called the tree of life. the tree of li

of the hebraic astrological system, they are seen illustrated in the sevenfold candelabrum used in kabbalistic liturgy. the single letter are gimel, he, vau, zain, cheth, teth, yod, lamed, samekh, ayin, tzaddi and qoph. they are attributed to the twelve signs of the zodiac, they are seen illustrated in the twelve tribes of israel and the twelve disciples. this progression of letters also outlines the formation of the tree of life. the gnostic theurgy page 105 three mother letters are the supernals and when added to the seven double letters- we have the ten sephira. if we then add the twelve single letters, we have the twenty two paths of the tree. if we accept that the letters are symbols or glyphs which represent certain vibrations or energies, then it would be reasonable to say that word

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS B

pentagram and are governed by hwhy with the point uppermost. it is a fitting symbol of the microprosopic man stretched out in perfect balance and harmony before the divine. the letter c is the symbol of the "fires of life" the \yhla jwr, the divine spirit that hovered over the waters of creation. when the letter c is added to the tetragrammaton, it forms the name hwchy, hcwhy. the latter name is the formation when the letter c is placed between the three letters of the tetragrammaton and ruling l. as one can observe from the diagram of the complete pentagram, a ray representing the divine issueth forth from each angle. therefore, the true name of the pentagram is called the "flaming pentagram" or "star of great light" this affirms the power and force of the divine light to be found within

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oulder (from the side of the black pillar, as they first received it, and the white sash from the right shoulder. egyptian head-dresses, or nemysses are worn by the chiefs and officers with those of the chiefs being of the color of their mantles striped with the complementary color. those of the officers are striped equally in black and white or plain black squares of approved pattern. the key to the formation of the tunic and nemyss is the crux ansata, for the nemyss makes the oval, and the arms and body of the tunic, the cross. the symbolism of the temple the bases of the two pillars are respectively in jxn and dwh; the white pillar being in jxn and the black pillar in dwh. they represent the two pillars of mercy and severity. the bases are cubical and black to represent the l element in

stolistes and he is a power of the great god ahaphshi and his operation is by the sign b, called ta-aur in egyptian. 2. the children of horus: between the invisible stations of the kerubim are those of the four vice-gerants of the elements and they are situated at the four corners of the temple, at the places marked by the four rivers of eden in the warrant; for the body of a warrant, authorizing the formation and establishment of a temple, represents the temple itself of which the guardians are the kerubim and the vice-gerents in the places of the rivers. ameshet (man-headed) is placed in the northeast, between the man and the bull. ameshet or amesheth (the spelling is coptic and differs according to the force intended to be invoked by the letters. tou-mathaph, jackal-headed, is placed in

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consecration of talismans a. the place where the operation is done. b. the magical operator. c. the forces of nature employed and attracted. d. the telesmata or material basis. e. in telesmata, the selection of the matter to form the talisman; the preparation and arrangement of the place. the drawing and forming of the body of the talisman. in natural phenomena, the preparation of the operation; the formation of the circle, and the selection of the material basis, such as a piece of earth, a cup of n, a flame of o, a pentacle, or the like. f. the invocation of the highest divine forces, winding a black cord around the talisman or material basis covering the same with a black veil, and initiating the blind force therein. name aloud the nature of the talisman or operation. g. the talisman o

divine magic of light, and not to be performed to pander unto the curiosity regarding the secrets of another; if by this means thou shalt arrive at a knowledge of another s secrets, thou shalt respect and not betray them. h alchemy a. the curcurbite or the alembic b. the alchemist. c. the processes and forces employed. d. the matter to be transmuted. e. the selection of the to be transmuted, and the formation, cleansing and disposing of all the necessary vessels, materials, etc, for the working of the process. f. general invocation of the higher forces to action. placing of the matter within the curcurbite or philosophic egg, and invocation of a blind force to action therein, in darkness and silence. g. the beginning of the actual process. the regulation and restriction of the proper degr

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erux with the symbolic light, as formulating that the higher soul is not the only divine light, but rather a spark from the ineffable flame. the kerux, in his turn, is but the watcher of the gods. after the kerux comes the hegemon, the translator of the higher self, leadng the candidate. then comes the goddesses of the scales of the balance, the stolistes and the dadouchos. they move once around; the formation in darkness of the hnyb angle of the white triangle of the three supernals. the hierophant knocks once as they pass him in affirmation of mercy, the hiereus in affirmation of severity. the invisible assessors each give the sign of the enterer as the candidate passes on his way. at the second passing by the hierophant, the knock affirms the commencement of the angle of hmkj. the kerux

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

hrown into the air. and formed the clouds, sn. 8, 9. seemund s account 45 (conf. 33b) differs in some points: or ymirs itoldi var ior&lt;5 urn scoput, enn or sveita seer, biorg or beinom, baismr or hdri, enn or jiausi himinn, enn or hans brdm gerso bli$ regin mrsgars manna sonom, enn or hans heila voro]?au in harsmosgo sk- oil um scoput. here the teeth are not made use of, but we have instead the formation of trees out of the giant s hair. when all this was done, the sons of borr went to the seashore, and found two trees, out of which they created two human beings, asjcr and embla. to these osinn gave soul and life, vili wit and feeling (sense of touch, ye countenance (colour, speech, hearing and sight, sn. 10. more exactly in stem. 3l&gt: unz]?rfr komo or j?vi ir5i 6flgir ok astgi

t may be that there were plenty more of such correspondences passing current. if thorr flung a toe into the sky as a constellation, there may also have been tongues that represented stars. the main difference between the scandinavian view and all the others is, as i said before, that the one uses the microcosm as material for the macrocosm, and the other inversely makes the universe contribute to the formation of man. there the whole of nature is but the first man gone to pieces, here man is put together out of the elements of nature. the first way of think ing seems more congenial to the childhood of the world, it is all yeulx, des nues furent les pcnsees, du vent furent les allaines, des pierres furent les oz, du saint esprit fu la vie,l& clarte du moude signifie crist et sa creance. sai

nd mountain and tree to be put into requisition to produce the human eye and bones and hair. yet we do speak of eyes being sunny, and of our flesh as akin to dust, and why may not even the heathens have felt prompted to turn that cosruogonic view upside down? still more would this commend itself to christians, as the bible expressly states that man was made of earth or loam,1 without enlarging on the formation of the several constituent parts of the body. none of the fathers seem to be acquainted with the theory of the eight constituents of the first man; i will not venture to decide whether it was already familiar to heathen times, and maintained itself by the side of the eddie doctrine, or first arose out of the collision of this with christian teaching, and is to be regarded as a fuller

/ the night, a timid roe, retires before the mighty beast of day: a beautiful image, and full of life. wolfram again in another song makes day press forward with resistless force (see suppl. but the dawn is also pictured in human guise, that of a beautiful youth, sent like wuotan s raven as harbinger of day: dasg by$ dryhtnes sond* says the lay of runes. and in this connexion we ought to consider the formation of such names as rsdldceg, swipdceg, etc, for gods and heroes. this messenger of the gods stations himself on the mountain s top, and that on tiptoe, like the beast on his claws, that he may the sooner get a glimpse of the land: jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops/ eom. and j. 3, 5; a popular image, i have little doubt, and one that hebel also uses about sunday mornin

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

the pri [49] mary three degrees or atria may be permitted to receive the higher teachings of the order in the same manner as the first three degrees are presented. lodge, chapter, and pronaos membership. sanctum members may form pronaoi, chapters, and lodges in cities and localities where there are a sufficient number of members to conform to the requirements of the constitution and statutes for the formation of a lodge, chapter, or pronaos. new chapters and pronaoi are organized from time to time, and if you do not find one near you listed in our monthly magazine, the rosicrucian digest, further information can be obtained by writing to the grand master. all members of lodges, chapters, and pronaoi are grand lodge sanctum members paying their monthly dues to the grand lodge in their juri

hereby arrange the sand in various forms, as shown in the seven black squares of illustration no. 2. in the lessons of our higher degrees, where the metaphysical principles are taught, we learn that thought vibrations can be directed into designs and "forms" just as with the sand and the physical vibrations on the glass. the rest of the chart shows how nature adheres to the law of the triangle in the formation of snow crystals, ice crystals, mineral crystals, and acid crystals. nature is truly an artist in her great work, but solely because she uses system and order. crystallography the science which treats of crystals a crystal is a portion of inorganic matter with a definite molecular structure and an outward form bounded by plane surfaces called "crystal faces" and conforming to the ang

g force, it is necessary that they should be crowded together by reason of the contraction of the space in which they are confined. this happens where a mass solidifies by cooling, or when by evaporation the amount of a substance dissolved in a liquid (such as water) exceeds in quantity the amount which the solvent can retain in solution under the conditions obtaining. either condition results in the formation of crystals. a condition of formation more rarely met with is that in which crystals form directly from vapors, as in the case of iodine or chloride of ammonia. the best means of studying the formation of crystals is afforded by the evaporation of a solution of some soluble compound, such as salt or blue vitriol, until it is supersaturated, when crystals of the dissolved substance wi

d, the angles are always 60 or 120 degrees.a fact to be kept in mind by all rosicrucians. therefore, we see that when the law of the triangle (the equilateral triangle) demonstrates or manifests itself in the composition of matter or the arrangement of atoms, we have an entirely different and important demonstration of the atomic laws. the grouping in figure d represents the grouping of atoms in the formation of ice. by this arrangement of the atoms the air space or "air" is eliminated to a great extent and thereby the liquid becomes more solid. this is accounted for by the two facts that since the atoms fit more closely together the matter becomes more solid, and that the elimination of air takes from the water a great amount of its elasticity. to further demonstrate the grouping of atom

by this arrangement of the atoms the air space or "air" is eliminated to a great extent and thereby the liquid becomes more solid. this is accounted for by the two facts that since the atoms fit more closely together the matter becomes more solid, and that the elimination of air takes from the water a great amount of its elasticity. to further demonstrate the grouping of atoms in this fashion in the formation of ice, dr. dalton points to another interesting fact. he calls your attention to the formation of ice. he asks you to note that when water freezes by sudden congelation (that is, when water is brought into an atmosphere below the freezing point and is suddenly chilled) certain forms of crystals or spiculae can be seen upon the surface of the water. figure g shows one of these spicul

n order to attain to a noble structure. metals generally have lower electronegativity values than nonmetals. for this reason, in most reactions involving metals and nonmetals, the metal functions as an electron-donor while the nonmetal functions as an electron-acceptor. in such transfers of electrons both metal and nonmetal attain to a noble structure. however, such transfers of electrons lead to the formation of ions of two polarities. the metal atom, in donating electrons, becomes positively charged, while the nonmetal, in receiving electrons, becomes negatively charged. ions of positive polarity are called cations; ions of negative polarity are called anions. anions and cations, being of opposite electric polarity, attract each other to form molecules known as salts. when atoms having s

shared equally. when two atoms of equal electronegativity value share electrons in forming a molecule, one [124] speaks of a non-polar molecule. when one brother enjoys a moderate advantage over the other the sharing is unequal. the type of molecule formed under conditions of unequal sharing is referred to as a polar molecule. all out advantage, as in the case with metals and nonmetals, leads to the formation of ionic molecules or salts. thus we see that the type of union that exists between atoms covers the range from ionic, on the one hand, to non-polar covalent on the other. the type of molecule formed when atoms combine is dependent only upon the ability of atoms to attract electrons to themselves, i.e. the degree of difference between the strength of their auras. atoms of a given typ

. the degree of difference between the strength of their auras. atoms of a given type and polarity (electronegativity) do not always find themselves in the presence of atoms of a different polarity. in other words, atoms often find themselves in the presence of their own kind. under appropriate conditions of temperature and pressure the auras of like atoms may interact in such a way as to lead to the formation of liquids from gases, or solids from liquids. differences in physical states are accounted for on the basis of closeness of atoms as illustrated in plate 2. expressions of this principle of closeness are known to modern crystallographers who have studied the differences between various allotropic forms of iron and sulphur, for example. allotropic forms reflect the various physical a

of figure 4) there is another mixture of a purer and unmodified nature. and.when none of the rays unite we find that the atoms do not give a true mixture of any kind. thus we see that theoretically, at least, there is a great deal to study and learn about the potentiality of atoms and the emanations of atoms; for in the potentiality and in the rays lies the secret of the combination of atoms and the formation of matter. this, then, is the great work of rosicrucian chemistry, and in our order are found laws making all those things plain which i have been able to refer to only in a veiled way in the interpretation of the work and discoveries of dr. john dalton. conclusion members are urged to study this carefully. reference to any standard textbook on chemistry will be helpful. it must be r

is not so. we can be aware of only one objective impression at a time. we appear to experience things as a whole, rather than sequentially, because our separate impressions are unified in our imagination. by our sense impressions we are capable only of perceiving and concentrating on change. for instance, when we normally see, our eyes constantly scan and shift focus. such motion is essential to the formation of a visual image whether we use our inner or outer faculties. if we stare fixedly at an object without changing focus or point of view, the object will disappear from our field of vision. the essence of concentration, then, consists in fixing the attention upon one idea or thing with one sense faculty at a time, and being able to hold that attention as the idea or object moves, inte

us mind, which law has become unconscious to the objective mind. habits are usually, if not always, formed consciously by the objective self. such acts are not habits at the time, regardless of how systematically they may be performed, nor are such acts intended to become habits unless one is striving to make the acts or series of acts an unconscious practice, such as maintaining rhythm in music, the formation of letters in writing, etc. it is only when the act is performed unconsciously that it is a habit, a law of the subconscious self, unconscious to the objective self. hallucination.imaging of the mind. such imaging may become fixed in intensity and interest and limited in regard to subject, or unlimited, and is then a hallucination. on the other hand, imaging may be rational, intense

is a victim of delusion or deception. spirit.rosicrucians were the first mystics to make a distinct difference between spirit and soul. spirit is a universal essence pervading all nature, even unconscious matter, and manifesting in many ways, such as cohesion, adhesion, etc. it is a divine, universal essence like soul, but of a lower rate. spirit essence makes its first material manifestation in the formation of "electrons, which enter into the composition of atoms. soul, as an essence, can manifest only psychically, because of its very high rate of vibrations. spiritualism.a religious doctrine attempting to use some of the psychic manifestations of soul, some of spirit, and some of personality, to sustain a theoretical scheme of the soul's activities here on earth, or in the cosmic, afte

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

teachings far antedating any modern faith. q. but how did this system come to be put forward just now? a. just because the time was found to be ripe, which fact is shown by the determined effort of so many earnest students to reach the truth, at whatever cost and wherever it may be concealed. seeing this, its custodians permitted that some portions at least of that truth should be proclaimed. had the formation of the theosophical society been postponed a few years longer, one half of the civilized nations would have become by this time rank materialists, and the other half anthropomorphists and phenomenalists. q. are we to regard theosophy in any way as a revelation? a. in no way whatever-not even in the sense of a new and direct disclosure from some higher, supernatural, or, at least, sup

the production of adepts the aim of theosophy? a. theosophy considers humanity as an emanation from divinity on its return path thereto. at an advanced point upon the path, adeptship is reached by those who have devoted several incarnations to its achievement. for, remember well, no man has ever reached adeptship in the secret sciences in one life; but many incarnations are necessary for it after the formation of a conscious purpose and the beginning of the needful training. many may be the men and women in the very midst of our society who have begun this uphill work toward illumination several incarnations ago, and who yet, owing to the personal illusions of the present life, are either ignorant of the fact, or on the road to losing every chance in this existence of progressing any farth

at much if not all of this could be obtained by proper and truly theosophical education -ooo- why then is there so much prejudice against the t.s? q. if theosophy is even half of what you say, why should there exist such a terrible ill-feeling against it? this is even more of a problem than anything else. a. it is; but you must bear in mind how many powerful adversaries we have aroused ever since the formation of our society. as i just said, if the theosophical movement were one of those numerous modern crazes, as harmless at the end as they are evanescent, it would be simply laughed at-as it is now by those who still do not understand its real purport-and left severely alone. but it is nothing of the kind. intrinsically, theosophy is the most serious movement of this age; and one, moreove

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into a kind of calm detachment .emptied. momentarily of any further feeling. i walked around the temple, as though seeing the debris for the first time, sifting carefully through the mess, examining each half-finished piece as though it wasn.t anything to do with me. some i was able to give names to .you are uul, the fear of failure .you are hamal, guilt not yet erased. this was the beginning of the formation of an alphabet of binding. the second half of this operation consisted of experimenting with this alphabet, binding the demons into magical weapons for later use. when the initial phase of the work was done, i 10 slept for about 18 hours, and awoke clear of the frenetic delirium which had been built up. commentary the hierarchy of human needs traditionally, demons and devils are orga

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

edical, i found a fairly consistent mixture of myth and hallucination whose scope and wildness left me utterly dazed. only one thing consoled me, the fact that the myths were of such early existence. what lost knowledge could have brought pictures of the palaeozoic or mesozoic landscape into these primitive fables, i could not even guess; but the pictures had been there. thus, a basis existed for the formation of a fixed type of delusion. cases of amnesia no doubt created the general myth pattern- but afterward the fanciful accretions of the myths must have reacted on amnesia sufferers and coloured their pseudo-memories. i myself had read and heard all the early tales during my memory lapse- my quest had amply proved that. was it not natural, then, for my subsequent dreams and emotional im

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

lize the lower part for all succeeding time. indeed, one gained a curious impression that this place had been deliberately closed and deserted in some dim, bygone aeon, rather than overwhelmed by any sudden calamity or even gradual decay. had the coming of the ice been foreseen, and had a nameless population left en masse to seek a less doomed abode? the precise physiographic conditions attending the formation of the ice sheet at this point would have to wait for later solution. it had not, very plainly, been a grinding drive. perhaps the pressure of accumulated snows had been responsible, and perhaps some flood from the river, or from the bursting of some ancient glacial dam in the great range, had helped to create the special state now observable. imagination could conceive almost anythi

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als. mastering this practice too, he is qualified to go ahead. the next exercise will be to draw an element out of the universe, not however to fill a space as described in the previous exercise, but to condense a self-selected form, similar to the exercises where forms of the elements had been condensed in the solar plexus and kept outside the body, floating in the air; the difference being that the formation of the shape does not take place inside the body, but immediately during its floating in the air. consequently the magician must know exactly how to produce a fireball, a ball of air, one of water, and an earth ball. if he has achieved this performance faultlessly, he has to shape different forms from the elements floating in the space and let these forms dissolve again in the univer

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

he wilderness was a talisman in the form of a serpent coiled around the mystic tau. this is a palladium offered for worship, as we have explained in several places. in a previous part of our book, we have brought forward certain reasons for supposing that the origin of the most noble order of the garter was very different from that usually and popularly assigned. the occurrence which gave rise to the formation of the order, and which explains the adoption of the motto, does not admit of being told, except in far-off, round-about terms; propriety otherwise would be infringed. we may say no more than that it was a feminine accident, of not quite the character commonly accepted, and not quite so simple and ordinary as letting fall a garter. but this accident, which brought about the 284 the r

ptions et belles lettres. par m. j. matter, professeur. 2 tomes, avec planches, 8vo, paris, 1828. the third volume is of small size, and contains eleven plates of gems and symbols. g profundities of brahmin belief. 347 this book proves gnosticism to be identical with the sacti creed of the hind s* br hm atma, the breathing soul, is, according to the hindoos, a spiritual supreme being, coeval with the formation of the world. in process of time the hindoos appear to have adopted a material type or emblem of br hm. a rude block of stone began to be set up. this was the phallus, or, as they termed it, the linga. this emblem had reference to the procreative power seen throughout nature, and in that primaeval age was regarded with the greatest awe and veneration. this simple and primitive idolat

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

more effective than ours, and more directly associated with forces which we do not yet comprehend. again we are dealing with indirect evidence, not always of the greatest clarity. yet in support of an antiquity of such an order i have seen and touched stonework carved out of the solid mountains of rock in south america, which certainly antedate the andean glaciers, and almost as certainly predate the formation of the mountains themselves. this work is superior in technique to that accomplished by our currently machanized civilization. much of that construction, sculpture and tunneling could only have been accomplished by "forces" different from those in use by us today. the quandary is largely resolvable by admitting to a levitating force developed and used by the same common denominator

, have gaps which do not seem to be filled. furthermore, such systems indicate zones surrounding the larger planets which are not always occupied by satellites, and which may contain interplanetary debris. the earth-moon system is unique. it is really a binary planet, and while we speak of the moon as being earth's satellite, it may be that this is a misnomer, and the result of a misconception of the formation of the little system. there are a number of traditions, among ancient tribes and races, to the effect that their forefathers were thriving before there was a moon. this would hint that the moon was picked up by acquisition and not formed in the original coagulation of earth-material. at any rate, neither the earth nor its twin venus formed satellite systems such as accompany the oute

s with 3 fingers& thumb to uninhibited thinkers, facts remain facts. this specimen is artificially shaped; it is a fossil of tertiary coal beds; it is of meteoritic structure and material which even conservative science has reluctantly admitted as being from outer space. so this must have been shaped by intelligence either before or after falling, but certainly prior to or surely concomitant with the formation of tertiary coal. for our purpose, we do not care whether one says it was fashioned by extraterrestrial hands or terrestrial hands, for we are just as much interested in proving the extreme antiquity of civilized man as we are in indicating the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. this obstreperous whickeroo was dropped into an embryonic coal bed, either from an indigenous civ

but we must not overlook the actual sighting of shaped objects, falling from the sky. the object, five inches by fifteen inches, for instance, which fell at twickenham, august 5, 1889. samples of script have come out of the brazilian jungles which are almost identical with alphabetical characters from ceylon's buried and forgotten ruins. tiahuanaco is thought to have been in ruins so long before the formation of the andes that it had actually been submerged and was raised from under the sea at the time of the formation of the andes (red is a& b. confirmed, 1954, american arch. exp. ed: the following has no obvious reference or necessary postion. read "the day the sun stood still" edited 1941. readers digest of the book. andes were impelled upwards by great force once by nature once by "th

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

yman s introduction discusses the text of sy and its treatment by both religious and academic commentators. consideration of four pre-kabbalistic commentaries* leads up to hayman s the earliest recoverable text of sefer yesira and the three recensions. this earliest recoverable text has been created [by hayman] as a theoretical exercise in order to try to penetrate into the processes which led to the formation of the multitudinous texts of sy which have come down to us (page 33. the critical edition and its translation follow specific manuscript versions: one short, one long, one saadyan, presented side by side, with extensive notes and commentary. hayman s sy is the first of a promised three-volume series: this first book is concerned solely with the text with the manuscripts, the recensi

the language used (including some observations on the term beli mah. there follows a brief survey of the commentaries on sy* kabbalah and major trends are not the extent of scholem s work. see, in contrast, on the kabbalah and its symbolism (new york: schocken books, 1965) and on the mystical shape of the godhead (new york: schocken books, 1991. 20073 21 elsewhere, scholem discusses sy s role in the formation of kabbalah (pp. 46-8, its influence on the german hasidim (pp. 97-8, its development as a manual for creating a golem (pp. 102-3, its links with merkabah mysticism (117-8, and notes on the commentaries on sy of joseph ben shalom (p. 224, isaac the blind (pp. 257-8, and nahmanides (pp. 388-9. on the kabbalah and its symbolism. german original: zur kabbala und ihrer symbolik. zurich:

LAITMAN M KABBALAH REVEALED

rt of the spiritual level, the creature, is the unworkable part. now you know why, if we correct humanity, everything else will be corrected at the same time. so let s talk about us and what happened to us. a dam h a r i s h o n x t h e c ommo n s o u l adam ha rishon, the common soul (the creature, is the actual root of everything that happens here. it is a structure of desires that emerged once the formation of the spiritual worlds was completed. as we ve said above, the five worlds, adam kadmon, atzilut, beria, yetzira, and assiya complete the development of the upper part of phase four. but the lower part still needs to be developed. in other words, the soul is made of unworkable desires that couldn t receive light in order to give to the creator when they were first created. now they

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

ceptacle, see figure 1. figure 1 in other words, the desire to give creates the desire to receive, meaning the light wants the kli (vessel) to receive what it wants to give it. the desire to enjoy is the beginning of matter; kabbalah calls it the primordial matter. however, it is still not a complete matter because at this point, it is created entirely by the light s action. this process precedes the formation of any matter known to us, long before the material formation of our universe. since this will to receive stems from the light s action, it senses the light (the pleasure) at a very minimal level. at this point the will to receive has no independent desire for the light. to make it independent and further develop the will to receive, we must add another element: the will s awareness

ust feel that it is your own desire before you can define it as pleasure. thus, at the end of state one, the creature begins to sense the giver and his nature. the will to receive evolves by sensing the giver (state one, and consequently wanting to be like the giver (state two. in that state it becomes worthwhile for the creature to be like the giver (state three. however, this is only a phase in the formation of the will to receive, and the creature is not really aware that it is receiving anything. in fact, the creature isn t aware of any of these observations; they are merely phases in the evolution of the crude will to receive. this crude desire must still descend, formulate, and drift t h e n a t u r e o f m a t t e r 33 far from the creator until it stops sensing him altogether. it m

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

people before adam ha rishon? also, how does it correlate with the sciences dealing with the origin of man? i read in your books that all objects and interrelations are ultimately realized in specific people on earth. so is it literally the first man, or is it the first man to have a screen? a: the universe and humanity are eternal. there is neither beginning nor end to the development of matter. the formation of the universe is a consequence of the development of the spiritual world. the creation of man stems from the development of spiritual objects, which upon descending in degrees materialize into the lowest forms v the objects of this world. t h e t h o u g h t o f c r e a t i o n 35 of course, we have developed from the more primitive forms, but not by natural (darwinian) selection

say, thank god another day went by. i stayed healthy, i did a few things, we, on the other hand, will start evaluating ourselves in greater detail: am i closer to the creator today? do i have a desire for him? even if our evaluations are negative, they are nonetheless a testimony to our progress. k a b b a l a h v s. a s c e t i c i s m q: if i understand correctly, the spiritual path begins with the formation of the screen within me, meaning with the restriction on reception of pleasures. does that not lead to self-oppression? if i have to give up on pleasures, won t that bring me to asceticism, which judaism forbids? a: contrary to all other religions and philosophies, kabbalah states clearly and unequivocally that spiritual ascent means increased pleasure. the beginning of the path incl

ay as much as possible. we must treat everything that happens in the group as signs, instructions from the creator. we have no right to think that what happens between us is merely a number of routine, everyday problems. it is not that we calculate whether it is more profitable for us to deal with our petty strife or advance together toward the sublime goal. in fact, if the aim and the reason for the formation of the group is the attainment and revelation of the creator, then everything we get today should be treated as a message that the creator sends us in order to approach him. what this implies is that we have friends who go along with us on our spiritual path, and if they mistreat us, we should not focus on that. rather, we should try to build a warm and friendly relationship, and cor

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

t, the information derived from these volumes. masons of various degrees will be able to select from it the features which remind them of their own ceremonies. 6. some interesting illustrations have been collected from the wall-pictures of ancient egypt, and from vignettes on various papyri, chiefly from the book of the dead, of which there are many recensions. it is clear from these sources that the formation of the temple in egypt was 7. figure 1 8. 9. a double square, and in the centre were three cubes standing one upon another, forming an altar(*churchward, the arcana of freemasonry, p. 43) upon which were laid their volumes of the sacred lore- not the same as our own, of course, for ours had not yet been written. those cubes represented the three aspects or persons of the trinity- osi

raising the series is completed by the deep blue stream of the sushumna, illustrated by fig. 14(c. 686. the stimulation of these nerves and the forces which flow through them is only a small part of the benefit conferred by the r.w.m. when he wields the sword at the moment of admission. i have already referred to the widening of the connection between the individuality and the personality, and to the formation of a link between certain principles of the candidate and the corresponding vehicles of the h.o.a.t.f. the changes induced are somewhat of the same nature as those which i have described on page 319 of the science of the sacraments, but of a less pronounced character. 687. i cannot emphasize too often or too strongly that while these effects are absolutely real, unmistakable and univ

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

en in the mysteries, classified in the three degrees which we have considered, the hierophants also made it their work to instruct and guide aspirants who had proved themselves fit for still further progress. we cannot say that there were in egypt any organized degrees beyond the third, that of osiris; but there was individual teaching, which led to the acquisition of still greater powers, and to the formation of links with beings at still higher levels. 165. the higher degrees of the ancient and accepted scottish rite of our modern days (which were established perhaps as late as the eighteenth century, when the rite of perfection or of heredom was formed) reflect to some extent these more advanced lines of progress which existed in egypt. we may therefore in the following brief account of

e know it to-day until after the foundation of the grand lodge of england in 1717, and that the speculative ritual was derived from england after that event. no evidence exists to show that lodge kilwinning, the second lodge in scotland according to the schaw statutes, whose extant minutes go back to 1642, ever worked any degrees other than those belonging to craft masonry, either before or after the formation of the grand lodge. 620. a past master of lodge canongate kilwinning draws my attention to a serious mistake which i made in the hidden life in freemasonry (p. 119) in describing that historic lodge as founded in 1723. he says: 621. lodge canongate kilwinning no. 2 received a charter from the mother lodge at kilwinning in ayrshire (now known as lodge mother kilwinning no. 0) dated 20

egree for the united states of america was opened, with the high honours of masonry, by brothers john mitchell and frederick dalcho, sovereign grand inspectors-general; and in the course of the present year (1802) the whole number of grand inspectors-general was completed, agreeably to the grand constitutions(*quoted in mackey s encyclopaedia. art. supreme council) 766. such is a brief account of the formation of that which called itself the mother supreme council of the world, from which, indeed, all other supreme councils of the world spring, with the exception of a few survivals of other lines of descent. it is clear from archives in the possession of the mother supreme council that up to the eve of its formation the only degrees worked were the 25 of the rite of perfection. 767. the fo

st, sovereign prince masons, substitutes-general of the royal art, grand surveillants and officers of the grand sovereign lodge of s. john of jerusalem; and the rite which they worked was called the rite of perfection or of heredom. there was also an office or rank of grand inspector, though there was no degree of sovereign grand inspector-general until the beginning of the nineteenth century. on the formation of the mother supreme council at charleston in 1801, eight further degrees were added to the 25 to make the total of 33. it is supposed that these were drawn from continental sources. most of them were previously worked under a grand chapter of prince masons in ireland. they received the approval of the h.o.a.t.f. these are: 23 chief of the tabernacle 24 prince of the tabernacle 25 k

ed into the grand orient. formation of the mother supreme council at charleston, and were worked under a grand chapter of prince masons and templar grand con clave. the degrees of kadosh and rose-croix were thus already in possession when the supreme council of ireland was introduced. 1791 the revolution. rite of perfection disappeared from public view. at some time during this period the myth of the formation of the 33 by frederick the great arose and the alleged grand constitutions of1762 and 1786 were produced. who was originally responsible for these is not known, but there is clearly no foundation for them, though they were widely accepted as genuine. 1796 isaac long conferred the inspector ship upon comte de grasse tilly, founder of the supreme council of france, upon his father-in-l

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

eader will also find treatments of a handful of traditional literary figures who have helped shape our images of the prince of darkness, such as milton and dante. and because of their influence on modern, religious satanism, i included material on romantic writers like blake and other literary figures like baudelaire. beginning in 1966, religious satanism emerged out of the occult subculture with the formation of the church of satan. anton lavey, founder of the church, was indebted to a number of different sources for his synthesis. especially important were: 1. traditional folklore about the devil and various adversarial figures in world mythology. 2. certain romantic poets who, as a literary device, created a noble, promethean satan at odds with the dehumanizing aspects of modern society

m some of the material one finds on the internet, his memory and his organization are often attacked by other satanists. in the course of my research, i found myself unwittingly stepping into this arena of contention. perhaps as a consequence of this conflict, some of my contacts xiv introduction voiced objections to the central role i assigned lavey and his best-known work, the satanic bible, in the formation of modern satanist religion. i was, furthermore, encouraged to shift my emphasis to the work of earlier literary figures ultimately responsible for fashioning the positive image of the devil that lavey later adopted for his church of satan. after reflecting on these objections, however, i concluded that despite his heavy dependence on prior thinkers lavey was directly responsible for

m was then adopted and improved by the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and so became the source of all modern systems of magic, including the magic of modern satanist groups. his work also influenced the english occult writer sir edward bulwer-lytton; they both joined an occult organization (which bulwer- lytton may have founded, and studied together. this organization may also have influenced the formation of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (hogd. levi s works were translated into english by a. e.waite, a very prominent member of the hogd, and have been kept in print by occult publishers ever since. see also hermetic order of the golden dawn; magic and magical groups for further reading: cavendish, richard. the black arts. new york: capricorn books, 1967. guiley, rosemary ellen

tems of medieval folklore and contemporary sra folklore. the serious resurrection of medieval notions about diabolical conspiracies began during the counterculture of the 1960s. during that decade, traditional, conservative christians became concerned about what they perceived as the breakdown of tradition and the accompanying rise of satanism. phenomena like the popular movie rosemary s baby and the formation of anton lavey s church of satan appeared to provide concrete evidence for the growth of the prince of darkness s earthly kingdom. although lavey was clear that satan was no more than an iconoclastic symbol for a basically secular philosophy promoting self-seeking individualism, christians assumed that lavey actually worshiped the fallen angel lucifer (by the time of the full-blown s

ersion to christianity in a dramatic incident staged for the press in st. petersburg. other members of the church of satan in kentucky and indiana left to form the ordo templi satanas, also short-lived. as more schisms took place, lavey disbanded the remaining grottos, the local units of the church of satan, and decided to reorganize the church as a fellowship of individuals. this action prompted the formation of the temple of set. the temple was established by michael a. aquino, a magister templi with the church of satan, lilith sinclair, head of the largest of the grottos in spottiswood, new jersey, and other cos priests. the temple of set is a group dedicated to the ancient egyptian deity believed to have become the model for the christian satan. in sharp contrast to laveyan satanism, t

ich virgil was personally familiar and dealing with all aspects of universal life, as the themes of the four books on war, peace, death, and rebirth suggest. virgil s last years were devoted to the aeneid, left unfinished at his death, telling about the wanderings of aeneas after the fall of troy, similar to the wanderings of odysseus, and his final settlement in latium. the poem is an epic about the formation of roman people and the great role they played in the history of the world according to a divine decree. the agency of fate is predominant in the poem, even though in some parts of it a spiritual dispensation is awarded to virtuous men, according to their actions. this image is particularly easy to perceive in the sixth book of the aeneid, which can be considered the starting point o

alling attention to the many ships that had mysteriously disappeared between florida and bermuda. 1951 the very last british antiwitchcraft law which had been enacted in 1736 is repealed because of lobbying by spiritualist churches. 1963 the process church of the final judgement (or the process) is founded in england by robert de grimston and his wife,mary anne maclean. 1966 anton lavey announces the formation of the church of satan. the existence of the church of satan provides a concrete target for conservative christians with vague fears about the machinations of the prince of darkness. 1968 release of rosemary s baby. after the exorcist, this was the most successful movie with a satanic theme of all time. 1969 anton lavey publishes the first and most important of three books, the satan

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gh it, and stand at some distance, to get the perspective, will be proved a conclusive proof of my thesis. i think that every failure will be certainly traceable to my own dam foolishness; every little success to courage, skill, wit, tenacity. if i had but a little more of these! 2.22. i further take this opportunity of asserting my atheism. i believe that all these phenomena are as explicable as the formation of hoar-frost or of glacier tables. i believe .attainment. to be a simple supreme sane state of the human brain. i do not believe in miracles; i do not think liber dccclx 108 that god could cause a monkey, clergy-man, or rationalist to attain. i am taking all this trouble of the record principally in hope that it will show exactly what mental and physical conditions precede, accompan

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incarnation is to obtain articulate apprehension of the soul by measuring its reactions to its relations with other incarnated beings, and to observe theirs with each other. section aa line 1 the adept asserts his right to enter into conscious communication with his angel, on the ground that that angel has himself taught him the secret magick by which he may make the proper link. gmosheh h is mh, the formation, in jechidah, chiah, neschamah, ruach .the sephiroth from kether to yesod.since 45 is s1. 9 which sh, 300, is s1.24, which superadds to these nine an extra fifteen numbers (see in liber d the meanings and correspondences of 9, 15, 24, 45, 300, 345).15 45 is moreover adm, man. gmosheh h is thus the name of man as a god-concealing form. but in the ritual let the adept replace this gmos

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

e main issues in the study of scandinavian mythology. xv a note on orthography this page intentionally left blank 1 introduction when most of us use the word gmyth h in conversation, we refer to something that is not true. when historians of religion use it, they generally refer to a representation of the sacred in words. when anthropologists use it, they often refer to narratives that tell about the formation of some social institution or behavior. none of the definitions, however, will hold directly for the characters and stories this book treats. that is in part because of the enormous time frame: materials relevant to the study of scandinavian mythology, broadly defined, span two millennia or more. but even if we limit the discussion to the relatively small body of texts from the vikin

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT AN INTRODUCTION

ch allowed him to attend the witches sabbath, as well as communicate with many of the attendants. zos vel thanatos (aka. austin spare) created numerous glyphs and sigils based on the astral conclave, even writing texts which included a full invocation of the sabbath. such art and writings no doubt influenced the magickal stream of initiation within many individuals later on, as well as announcing the formation of the technical term called chaos magick in the 70 s. wisdom is the point of conscious understanding that is essential for the practice and life work of the craft of the wise. one may find considerable study in the four elements as described by robert cochrane of the clan of tubal cain. as is within all luciferian traditions, the significance of individual study and obtainment of kn

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT THE MYSTERY REVEALED

e sabbat, and lucifer emerges as the sun. through the art of sorcery shall the winding path be shown, through the art of magick shall we all be elevated towards the light. the luciferian witchcraft tradition in relation to one particular group of individuals announces a specific development of the cunning craft and darker, more hidden elements of the left hand path. coven nachttoter has announced the formation of the order of phosphorus, a luciferian group based on a wide variety of traditions which allow the individual a multitude of choices to develop his/her will to its fullest potential. the foundation of toph and coven nachttoter is luciferian magick, and the luciferic witchcraft tradition developed by the coven. taken from elements of gardnerian and medieval witchcraft, influences of

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

characteristics applies quite well to human cultural evolution, if not biological evolution. charles lyell was also a predecessor and friend of darwin s. at first interested in mathematics, lyell soon turned his attention to geology. for him, as for lamarck, earth could not possibly be as young as just a few thousand years. he realized that processes such as erosion by wind and water, as well as the formation of geological layers, are extremely slow, meaning that visible features of earth s surface must have taken considerable periods of time to materialize. in addition, lyell was very interested in fossils and stratigraphy, the order in which rock layers are laid down. he realized that in many cases fossils found in rock layers close to the surface were relatively abundant and resembled

ntrasting traits by geneticists. some of his plants were tall, and some were dwarf. some set yellow seeds, and some set green seeds. some set round seeds, and others set wrinkled seeds. today, we would call these plants mutants or variants of one another (for the purpose of this book, these two words are equivalent. for example, wrinkled seeds are the result of a variant in a gene that determines the formation of some compounds necessary to make the seeds look round. the variant gene no longer produces this compound, and as a result, the seeds look wrinkled. mendel then mated plants bearing green seeds with plants bearing yellow seeds, as well as tall plants with dwarf plants, and he studied the properties of the progeny plants. this was his first great insight: he used as experimental obj

he mutated variants will outcompete other finches for food, with the consequence that the variants will reproduce preferentially and become more numerous. this is, in a nutshell, how evolution by natural selection works. given enough time (often millions of years or more, mutations accumulating in individuals and subject to natural selection can profoundly change many different traits and lead to the formation of new species. with our understanding of how gene variants appear, how variants may show differential fitness, and how enhanced fitness is transmitted to progeny, we have come nearly full circle in the explanation of evolution. nearly, but not quite completely. evolution is also determined by factors other than natural selection, something that darwin never envisioned. let us now se

viously, organisms belonging to different species have some metabolic pathways not shared by all species. for example, wheat is green because its dna encodes the instructions necessary to perform photosynthesis, which involves the green pigment chlorophyll. lions are not green because they do not possess the genes necessary for photosynthesis, but contrary to wheat, they have genes that determine the formation of one head, one tail, and four legs. in many ways, however, a lion and a wheat plant are much more similar than either is to, say, a rock or a cloud. this is because lions and wheat are both life-forms based on the same fundamental blueprint centered on the transcription of dna into rna, and the subsequent translation of this rna into proteins. given the great similarities between a

dy how they are expressed what they do in different biological environments. single genes determining eye formation have been cloned from humans, mice, and fruit flies called drosophila melanogaster. these three genes are called aniridia in humans, pax-6 in mice, and eyeless in drosophila. it turns out that when the human aniridia and mouse pax-6 genes were injected into drosophila, they directed the formation of extra compound eyes in these flies! indeed, these human and mouse genes had been engineered to be expressed not only in the heads, but also in the legs of the flies. thus, the flies injected with the mouse and human genes developed extra compound eyes on their heads but also on their legs. when the dna of aniridia, pax-6, and eyeless was sequenced, it was obvious that all three ge

interested readers are invited to consult the first three web sites and references given in further reading. these sites provide many technical details on the evolution of the eye, the immune system, and bacterial flagella. unfortunately, given their technical nature, these sites and articles may not be easy for everyone to follow. some will object that evolution by natural selection, especially the formation of new species, is not directly observable. indeed, no one has ever seen a fish sprout legs or a lizard develop wings. but, of course, one should not expect leg or wing development to happen all at once in single organisms. these are gradual transformations that take a very long time and hence, yes, are not directly observable under natural or laboratory conditions. this last point b

utionary biology. however, they all reject macroevolution, the appearance of new species from preexisting ones. most scientists do not think that a sharp distinction should be made between the processes of microevolution and macroevolution. the topic of macroevolution is addressed in chapter 6, which describes in more detail how the science of genetics views evolutionary pathways that can lead to the formation of new physiological and morphological functions. meanwhile, major evolutionary transformations are taking place in the bacterial world right as you are reading this, and these changes both are directly observable and do have important implications for a correct understanding of evolutionary biology. bacteria are evolving right in front of our very eyes anyone who has had the misfort

depends on the energy states of molecules that compose this system. it is impossible to predict and know at each moment the exact energy level of each of the billions of molecules or atoms that compose a system. therefore, one can only describe and predict the behavior of a system within certain limits of probability, that is, in terms of statistics or chance. this has important consequences for the formation and fate of dissipative structures (or systems. for dissipative systems, it can be demonstrated that even very subtle changes to their composition can swing them in a number of different states of disequilibrium, again in a probabilistic way that cannot be entirely predicted. this type of butterfly effect may have played a role in the origins of life when molecules, not yet cells, st

sk of irritating some colleagues, we think they are less developed than the sequence we explain below. hydrogen is by far the most abundant element in the universe. it is present in its molecular form (h2) in high concentrations in the atmospheres of the giant gas planets, notably jupiter and saturn. thus, hydrogen is thought to have been part of the primeval atmosphere of all planets right after the formation of the solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago. hydrogen is no longer found at significant concentrations in the atmospheres of rocky planets such as venus, earth, and mars. this is because the low gravity of these planets compared to that of the gas giants could not prevent the escape of hydrogen into space. however, recent calculations have shown that hydrogen may have represente

rotocells can evolve because they all potentially contain different hypercycles, some with altruistic ribozymes, and some with selfish ones. it has even been shown that liposomes can trap not only rna molecules but also microscopic clay particles (figure 5.4, which can bind nucleotides and further facilitate rna replication. but then, for this rna-world encapsulation in liposomes to be realistic, the formation of liposomes should be spontaneous. furthermore, these liposomes should be able to engage in primitive division to imitate genuine cell division. only under these circumstances can natural selection favor (or not) different liposomes containing different hypercycles. we know now that this can happen to some extent. first, countless types of fatty acids and carboxylic acids form lipos

ifferent hypercycles. we know now that this can happen to some extent. first, countless types of fatty acids and carboxylic acids form liposomes when simply shaken in water. second, some 124 evolution and religious creation myths of these compounds can form liposomes in an autocatalytic fashion. this means that these liposomes, when in the presence of their carboxylic acid building blocks, induce the formation of more liposomes in a manner reminiscent of dissipative structure formation described above: liposomes simply make more of themselves once a particular chemical threshold is reached. recall that dissipative structures are chemical or physical systems far from equilibrium that evolve in a particular direction once a certain threshold is reached. and indeed, as has been well demonstra

and truly function as coordinated hypercycles, particularly inside liposomes. this is a difficult problem, and there is no denying it it will take some time to solve it. 128 evolution and religious creation myths the rna world is thought to have appeared about 3.8 billion years ago, soon after our planet stopped experiencing frequent bombardments by very large meteorites and comets left over from the formation of the solar system. but next, there is the question of the transition from an rna world to a dna world, which is the living world as we know it today. this transition, which is thought to have occurred at least as early as 3.5 billion years ago, may not have been as daunting a problem as one might think. again, modern cells have retained a memory of the rna world in that the buildin

ich terrain for chemical reactions taking place far fromthermodynamic equilibrium.wecan thus imagine that building blocks of rna, made through atmospheric chemistry and subsequently dissolved in the primordial soup, could easily have diffused to the vicinity of hydrothermal vents and their sharp temperature gradients. there, in the presence of mineral catalysts constantly spewed out by the vents, the formation of rna molecules in a markovian way could have taken place following the thermodynamics of dissipative structures. in this hypothesis, the rna world would thus have been born from a combination of organic molecules made in the atmosphere that subsequently reacted chemically (perhaps with the help of preproteins made in the vents) to make rna deep under the ocean surface. or else some

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

that produced by the genius of dr. edwin d. babbitt and which is reproduced herewith. the diagram is selfexplanatory. it must be borne in mind that this apparently massive structure is actually s minute as to defy analysis. not only did dr. babbitt create this form of the atom but he also contrived a method whereby these particles could be grouped together in an orderly manner and thus result in the formation of molecular bodies. p. 14 inclosed in any body, is the efficient cause of all things; out of the infinite matter consisting of similar parts, everything being made according to its species by the divine mind, who when all things were at first confusedly mingled together, came and reduced them to order" archelaus declared the principle of all things to be twofold: mind (which was inc

talents of silver. if this then is a true record, what a vast sum must have been spent on the iron tools used in the work, and on the feeding and clothing of the labourers, considering the length of time the work lasted, which has already been stated [ten years, and the additional time--no small space, i imagine--which must have been occupied by the quarrying of the stones, their conveyance, and the formation of the underground apartments" while his account is extremely colorful, it is apparent that the father of history, for reasons which he doubtless considered sufficient, concocted a fraudulent story to conceal the true origin and purpose of the great pyramid. this is but one of several instances in his writings which would lead the thoughtful reader to suspect that herodotus himself w

ne be accepted as the symbol of the spiritual sphere, the border typifies the elements, and the various panels surrounding the central one become emblematic of the worlds or planes emanating from the one divine source. if the table be considered from a purely physical basis, the throne becomes symbolic of the generative system and the table reveals the secret processes of embryology as applied to the formation of the material worlds. if a purely physiological and anatomical interpretation be desired, the central throne becomes the heart, the ibimorphous triad the mind, the nepht an triad the generative system, and the surrounding hieroglyphics the various parts and members of the human body. from the evolutionary viewpoint the central gate becomes the point of both entrance and exit. here

lso considered (d) synonymous with the one. number is the term applied to all numerals and their combinations (a strict interpretation of the term number by certain of the pythagoreans excludes 1 and 2) pythagoras defines number to be the extension and energy of the spermatic reasons contained in the monad. the followers of hippasus declared number to be the first pattern used by the demiurgus in the formation of the universe. the one was defined by the platonists as "the summit of the many" the one differs from the monad in that the term monad is used to designate the sum of the parts considered as a unit, whereas the one is the term applied to each of its integral parts. there are two orders of number: odd and even. because unity, or 1, always remains indivisible, the odd number cannot b

ife. therefore, they chose the five-pointed star, or pentagram, as the symbol of vitality, health, and interpenetration. it was customary for the philosophers to conceal the element of earth under the symbol of a dragon, and many of the heroes of antiquity were told to go forth and slay the dragon. hence, they drove their sword (the monad) into the body of the dragon (the tetrad. this resulted in the formation of the pentad, a symbol of the victory of the spiritual nature over the material nature. the four elements are symbolized in the early biblical writings as the four rivers that poured out of garden of eden. the elements themselves are under the control of the composite cherubim of ezekiel. the pythagoreans held the hexad--6--to represent, as clement of alexandria conceived, the creat

raphael 'for each phrase= 701" assuming the sides of a scalene to be 11, 9, and 6 inches, a triangle of such dimensions would then be an appropriate symbol of jehovah, for the sum of its three sides would be 26, the numerical value of the hebrew word ihvh. gematria also includes the system of discovering the arcane meaning of a word by analyzing the size and arrangement of the strokes employed in the formation of its various letters. gematria was employed by the greeks as well as the jews. the books of the new testament--particularly those attributed to st. john--contain many examples of its use. nicephorus callistus declared the gospel according to st. john to have been discovered in a cavern under the temple at jerusalem, the volume having been secreted "long anterior to the christian ra

th the biliteral system. the next step is to apply the nine letters to what is commonly called a wheel (or disc) cipher (q.v, which consists of two alphabets, one revolving around the other in such a manner that numerous transpositions of letters are possible. in the accompanying cut the a of the inner alphabet click to enlarge an example of biliteral writing. in the above sentence note carefully the formation of the letters. compare each letter with the two types of letters in the biliteral alphabet table reproduced from lord bacon's de augmentis scientiarum. a comparison of the "d" in "wisdom" with the "d" in "and" discloses a large loop at the top of the first, while the second shows practically no loop at all. contrast the "i" in "wisdom" with the "i" in "understanding" in the former

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istians, meaning the "first and the last" a reference to his attributed divinity. these words were sometimes formed into an equal-armed cross, which symbol though pagan in origin, as has been already mentioned, became a suitable stock on which to graft the newly arrived cult symbol, the latin or cross of crucifixion. this emblem was then used as a code sign among early converts. however, prior to the formation of the holy roman empire, the early christians themselves were subject to great persecution, and someone hit on an ingenious method of continuing the use of the pater noster code sign and still utilizing all the letters comprising the cross, but cunningly forming them into an acrostic which was at the same time a palindrome. that is, a square of words which reads the same across as i

of their small, magical servants. the term "familiar" is one coined by the ecclesiastical authorities during the persecutions, implying merely an intimate friend or servant. basically, there are three types of magistellus. there is that which is used as the coven "totem" animal, mentioned earlier in connection with the symbolism of the witch bracelet. this symbolic animal form is decided upon at the formation of a coven by mutual agreement among the members and after much introspection and divination. the chosen totemic animal form or forms, for there may be several, is then ritually "assumed" by coven members during the chain dance at the sabbat itself, and also should they at any time wish to indulge in the practice of "sending for the fetch" commonly known as astral projection. omens a

method of accomplishing this is by transfixing with a single dagyde through the heart, and then dissolving the image slowly in fire if it is made of wax, water if of clay. after the immolation has been accomplished the candle of bewitchment should be left to burn itself out. needless to say at this stage, for best effect a ritual such as this should be repeated on several occasions, thus ensuring the formation of an irresistible vortex, cone, or pyramid of power. it is, or rather, should be extremely taxing for the individual witch, involving considerable strain and sometimes risk, and for this reason is often left, like the operation of necromancy, for full coven performance. the actions here are still performed by a single operator, though the words and visualization are joined in by all

her as a further aid to the discarding of inhibitions, which is of such primary importance in all magic. however, should you wish to gather a group of likeminded friends around you for regular witchcraft sessions, then of course you will need a larger space to operate in than the one required for solo work. apart from the more obvious aspect of companionship and mutual enjoyment of the practices, the formation of a group, or coven as it is called, brings with it certain advantages not present in the solo approach. it is well known among practitioners of the occult arts that a magical operation performed by a group will often succeed spectacularly, whereas a solo effort may achieve only moderate success. the old adage about strength in numbers is particularly true in the case of magic. this

l rapport among the members, witches believe that a pool or vortex of magical energy begins to form, which, if sustained by regular performance of a ritual, not only becomes an "energy bank" upon which the comprising members can draw to supplement their personal resources, but also an artificially constructed collective deep mind, independent in its own right. this is the magical rationale behind the formation of most occult groups that require secrecy from their members. the rituals and symbols special to a group such as this are kept from the eyes of "cowans" or the uninitiated, not so much for fear of the powers supposedly conferred being abused, but because, by meddling with the "triggering devices" involved in the symbolism, such outsiders set to naught all the careful work involved i

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

ntagrammaton, athanatos, ehieh asher ehieh, qadosch, qadosch, qadosch; o god eternal, and my father, bless this instrument prepared in thine honour, so that it may only serve for a good use and end, for thy glory. amen. having again perfumed, thou shalt put it aside for use. the needle may be consecrated in the same way. figures 67- 70. the key of solomon page 102 book two page 103 chapter ix. of the formation of the circle. having chosen a place for preparing and constructing the circle, and all things necessary being prepared for the perfection of the operations, take thou the sickle or scimitar of art and stick it into the centre of the place where the circle is to be made; then take a cord of nine feet in length, fasten one end thereof unto the sickle and with the other end trace out t

work, should put aside from him all uncleanness, and prepare himself in secret during these days, and prepare all the things necessary, and in the space of these days all these should be made, consecrated, and exorcised. the which being duly completed, let him go on the day and hour of the commencement of the work, unto the place set apart for the same, as hath been said, in the place concerning the formation of the circle. let him instruct his disciples on no cause whatsoever to move from their assigned places. and the magus should exhort them with a bold and confident voice as follows: the exhortation of the companions fear ye not, my beloved companions, seeing that we draw near unto the desired end; therefore, all things being rightly done and the conjurations and exorcisms diligently

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

text format only, many of which appear on the internet. the art must be viewed in order to understand the concepts. 8. aleister crowley and the hidden god and nightside of eden by kenneth grant. skoob publishing. 9. the desert of set is the abyss, the dwelling of choronzon whose number is 333. the demonic force can be useful in workings of da ath 10. an early associate of coven nachttoter before the formation of the coven maleficia who used art as a channeling point for qlipothic forces. 11. liber 49 by jack parsons and the vision and the voice by aleister crowley. 12. see chapter five. 13. a rite of protection, unpublished. chapter three 1. the devil or baphomet. 2. atavistic resurgence is the recalling of a past ancestral quality, or an obtained one with the karma of another animal. suc

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

old as wethink (p. 15)the darwinian viewwhat has to happen for life to get started in the primeval oceans and to develop by mutation and naturalselection into the animal and plant kingdoms we see today? first, the inert chemicals in the sea mustform amino acids, probably under the influence of ultraviolet light and electrical discharges in the formof lighteningthe darwinian view is that although the formation of protein molecules without anyprecursor is highly improbable, it could have occurred given enough timehundreds of millions ofyears (p. 16)problem: life is not spontaneously emerging today in the seas. running out of millenniabut let us be generous and allow the full 600 million years. what is a few million years when we haveso many at our disposal? this interval must accommodate no

s of elephant with tusks 14 ft. long and 3 ft. in circumferencemost ofthe species whose fossils are found today are extinct, including some thirty species of elephant of whichonly one has survived in india.these animals must have been killed by some singular event whichtook place on land. and whatever the nature of the event, it resulted not only in catastrophic extinctionof many species but also the formation of beds of sediment thousands of feet thick (p. 93)charles darwinthe number of intermediate varieties which have formerly existed on earth must be truly enormous.why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? geologyassuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps is the most obviousand gravest objecti

low peril) at two cities close to the 33rd parallel, hiroshima and nagasaki.on august 6, 1945 at 8:15 a.m. united states b-29 bomber enola gay, on mission no. 13, droppedan atomic bomb called little boy on hiroshima, japan near the 33rd parallel. this was dayone of a new age, the nuclear age. to understand the change that took place, we must back up andlook at the importance of the number 13 from the formation of the united states to the atomicbomb's explosion in hiroshima. in 1935, paul foster case wrote: since the date, 1776, is placed on the bottom course of the pyra-mid [on the great seal, and since the number 13 has been so important in the history of the unitedstates and in the symbols of the seal, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the thirteen courses of thepyramid may represen

d the guelphs, from welf, the german prince who competed with frederick forcontrol of the holy roman empire. the pope allied himself with the guelphs. all modern historystems directly from the struggle between these two powers. the guelphs are also called the neri,black guelphs, or black nobility, and supported william of orange in his seizure of the throne ofengland, which eventually resulted in the formation of the bank of england and the east india com-pany, which would rule the world from the 17th century. all coup d'etats, revolutions and wars in the19th and 20th centuries are centered in the battle of the guelphs to hold and enhance their power, whichis now the new world order. the power of the guelphs would extend through the italian financialcenters to the north of france in lombar

sociation of engineers. 1918 world war i ends after the use of 66 million poison gas artillery shells. 1918 congress passes the sedition act of 1918. 1918 great influenza epidemic attributed to widespread use of vaccines. 1918 the surgeon general of the united states issues a report that states that tuberculosis is the leadingcause for discharge of men from the armed forces. 1918 wilson calls for the formation of a league of nations. 1918 paris peace conference. 1918 beginning of period of near-anarchy in germany, that would last until hitler becomes president ofthe reich in 1933. conflict between communist element and national socialist democratic party, withhindenburg administration presiding. 1918 karl t. compton assigned to american embassy in paris. compton would later become a specia

MORALS AND DOGMA

ether, and is the analogue of the world binah. again the introduction repeats the first and second descent of yod into the vacated space, to make the light there less great and subtile; the constitution of the _tehiru, splendor, from the light left behind there by him; the communication of light to him by the female letter he; the emission by him of that light, within the sphere of splendor, and the formation thereof, within the sphere "of a certain sphere called the supreme crown _corona summa, kether "wherein were contained, in potence, all the remaining numerations, so that they were not distinguishable from it. precisely as in man exist the four elements, in potence specifically undistinguishable, so in this corona were in potence all the ten numerations, specifically undistinguishabl

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

on all planes, who has the courage to be mistress and mother. a woman who shuts herself up, who castrates herself psychically, deserves only that scorn that we must reserve for all cowards. as long as "nuns" and "chaste" women are treated with more social consideration than "adulteresses" and "promiscuous" girls, the sex-life of mankind will remain stunted, and the factors that most contribute to the formation of enslaving traumas will continue to manifest in the psychic atmosphere of the race. the concept of woman as a thing that "shuts itself up" comes from inside the "black brethren" who really have shut themselves up. their souls shut upon themselves, refuse to become open to the influence of their fellowmen, to the influence of the whole, pan. any form of sexual intercourse is permiss

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

change when clovis, in 507, with the help of the burgundians, fought the arian visigoths in vouille, resulting in his annexation of aquitaine and languedoc minus the duchy of septimania, which, under the hegemony of narbonne, would remain visigothic for two more centuries. despite clovis's victory, the breviary of alaric continued to be applied. its clauses remained in practice and contributed to the formation of the law set down in central france, where it supplanted the lex romana burgundionum. the province of auvergne remained the most roman in tradition. for centuries it had been the religious center of gaul. from the fifth the collegia and the barbarian invasions 21 century on, churches (several of which are noteworthy) multiplied there under the influence of christianity. the visigot

and enjoyed great renown, then we can deduce that goth architects had roman teachers and that associations still existed that had inherited the traditions of the roman collegia. it is also worth nothing that the influence of these associations occurred in an era contemporary with that of charles martel, who, as legends in france and england have it and as we shall see, played a prominent role in the formation of freemasonry. it is necessary, however, to stress that gallo-roman and goth art of that time had evolved. the basilicas of gaul did in fact differ from those of rome in that goths and visigoths introduced eastern influences, particularly those from egypt, palestine, syria, and sassanid persia. in the fifth and sixth centuries the whole of gaul was penetrated by asia. the gauls were

persevered. these collegia, or at least their remnants, probably continued at least until the seventh century. at that time they were forced if not to disappear, then at least to transform. even in lands where roman law survived, however, it is not possible to speak of collegia in the strict sense of the term, for we must take into account the social, economic, and political evolution that led to the formation of feudal society. in the feudal world, individuals and groups must be envisioned in light of the bonds of suzerainty and vassalage that characterized the society of that time. there was no legal framework permitting the existence of autonomous professional associations. more important, individual freedom no longer guaranteed the work of the independent craftsman. an individual could

hout the christian world. the bishop's authority or conventual grip extended even into the cities. withdrawing into themselves in response to the shock of invasions, cities had become veritable fortresses almost everywhere. the possessions of the church expanded there until the secular populace became a minority and urban life took on an increasingly clerical nature.6 all of these factors explain the formation of the monastic associations, which we will look at in chapter 3. the fate of the collegia in italy in 493 the ostrogoths became masters of all italy. they maintained roman laws there just as did the visigoths and the burgundians in their kingdoms. but when it came to the question of adaptation, the the collegia and the barbarian invasions 25 ostrogoths went even further. not only di

d monastic associations ecclesiastical associations, primarily monastic organizations, are of twofold interest in the study of the origins of professional building organizations. first, they contributed and this is critical to the preservation and transmission of the traditions and secrets of the collegia that had been more or less overwhelmed by the barbarian invasions, then legally dissolved by the formation of feudal society. second, the monastery schools trained the lay masters, who, starting in the twelfth century, took over the brotherhoods of builders jointly with the ecclesiastical masters. these brotherhoods were precursors to later trade guilds and corporations; they were able to be transformed into these new structures when social evolution offered a legal framework that support

twelfth century on they were involved with the organization of lay communities of builders that enjoyed specific franchises, earning them the name francs metiers (free craftsmen; see chapter 6. in this chapter we will study these monastic associations specifically. the role of the templars, which appears to be closely tied to the birth of operative freemasonry, will be developed in chapters 5-7. the formation of ecclesiastical and monastic associations in the goth regions and their extension into the north we have seen how in england and the frankish kingdoms the advocates of christianity appealed to the roman collegia and their remnants in the visigoth regions. this was widespread due to the fact that members of the collegia were regarded as the best artisans for propagating the faith by

fdom did not definitively vanish until the time of the french revolution. the crusades, concurrent with this broad serfdom, engendered a commercial cosmopolitanism that encouraged the development of a class of merchants and a kind of social and cultural intermixing, which brought about a rebirth of ideas that we will explore in more detail later. these phenomena set off a powerful movement toward the formation of associations with the specific purposes of defense, protection, and independence. these led first to the immigration of tradesmen toward towns, then to the development of cities, and eventually to the emancipation of these areas, which put the finishing touches on the emancipation of individuals. a veritable urban revolution was underway. life, activities, and knowledge that had f

radesmen toward towns, then to the development of cities, and eventually to the emancipation of these areas, which put the finishing touches on the emancipation of individuals. a veritable urban revolution was underway. life, activities, and knowledge that had found refuge for centuries around monasteries and castles was now concentrated in cities. this regrouping of the populace in fact inspired the formation of law, municipal bodies, universities, brotherhoods, and guilds to respond to secular brotherhoods: the germanic and anglo-saxon guilds 53 new economic, social, cultural, and political needs and aspirations. in france, north of the loire river, the most remarkable and eloquent illustration of this enormous evolution is apparent in the construction of cathedrals and churches. in this

hey were brothers. also notable in this regard are texts in which colleagues (bruderschaft) unite by blending their blood and drinking together. in the custom of convivium observed in the roman collegia we find these same religious and sacred elements of meals eaten together. it remains to be seen how and at what time the ideas connected to the convivium became more specific and eventually led to the formation of legitimately constituted societies. various theories have been offered on the subject of the origin of guilds. for some, the guild owes its origin to the influence of christian ideas and fraternity. for others, the guild was once the roman collegia, specifically the kind imported by the apostles of the christian faith into southern lands, where it was subsequently transformed. it

mune* in the second half of the twelfth century, london may not yet have had a builders guild. in fact, we know that craftsmen and artists capable of building in stone were few in number in that city. in chapter 5 we will learn that in order to build their church on fleet street, the templars had to import an architectural brotherhood from the holy land and thus may well have been responsible for the formation of the original masons guild in london. the statutes of the earliest germanic, english, and scandinavian guilds include precious little information on their professional hierarchy. in the twelfth century in the norwegian city of bergen, however, there existed the classic tripartite division of discipuli (apprentices, formuli (journeymen, and magistri (masters. in part 2, we will look

e example of religious communities such as the benedictines and cistercians. 2. the influence that the eastern world byzantine and islamic exercised over western civilization at the time of the crusades and the primary role assumed by the templars in this social and cultural influence, including the close ties they developed to byzantine and muslim guilds. 3. the templars' specific involvement in the formation in europe of professional communities, primarily those of builders, which includes our discovery of the source of the francs metiers in general and operative freemasonry in particular. the templars, creators of the brotherhoods of builders the templars, protectors of the holy land and guardians of the faithful, were great builders of churches and fortified buildings. the task they un

these assassins, we are told by guillaume de tyr, possessed notably ten fortified castles in the province of tyre.32 going beyond simple architectural instruction, the influence of the ismailians and the assassins also left its mark on templar ceremonies as well as on many of their customs "ismailism clearly seems to have been the practical model that the templars adopted almost immediately after the formation of the order, with respect to its hierarchy and the obedience to a grand master and commanders on whom the order firmly established its discipline."33 this hierarchy in fact was derived from the pythagorians and the egyptian mysteries. the same could also be said about other customs and symbols that the assassins and templars had in common. for example, couldn't the white garb of bot

ing then and which the templars used or guided for their constructions. these rites and customs combined with the remnants and symbols passed down by the brotherhoods of the early middle ages in regions where memories of roman and ancient times had never entirely disappeared. given the number and importance of their building projects, it is most likely that the templars played a prominent role in the formation of european "master associations" we know that the templars, just like the benedictines, employed many workers in their service in addition to their servant brothers, notably masons and carpenters. in each commandery, these builders were under the direction of an officer of the temple, the magister carpentarius. this individual, a veritable architect, 82 the origins of freemasonry fr

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fronted with the challenge to build a more perfect world from the ruins of the old. some initial steps were taken, but psychologically, symbolically and organizationally the church of satan was not equipped for this task. tensions arising between the hedonistic/critical and idealistic/ constructive currents in the church served to crystallize, if not to cause the crisis of x/1975 that resulted in the formation of the temple of set. in the temple of set the idealistic/constructive current was immediately the prevalent one, with the satanic current becoming more of a western-cultural theme which could be invoked should the need arise. the temple's perception of conventional society remained highly critical: it is a social medium in which the individual is forced to exist. while not all of it

nd acquires political influence in the community. indeed the most successful clerics are those who allow the least intrusion of religious idealism into their decision-making: in essence those who do not make the mistake of fooling themselves along with their victims. this is central to the art of popular control by propaganda, to which all conventional religions finally reduce. in his propaganda: the formation of men's attitudes jacques ellul remarks "the propagandist cannot believe in the ideology he must use in his propaganda. he is merely a man at the service of a party, a state, or some other organization, and his task is to ensure the efficiency of that organization if the propagandist has any political conviction, he must put it aside in order to use some popular mass ideology. he ca

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

ower within the bosom of another supreme power, a state within a state. e e e e e e e e e a letter of the brother leonard. reduces the request to these two heads: bst. constitution of a lodge under the distinctive title of l orientale de mizraim. cd.authorization to work in this lodge in the three first symbolic degrees, according to the forms of the rite of mizraim. postponing any decision as to the formation of a chapter, the right to ask which hereafter is reserved. e e e e e e e e e it is merely certain masons who come and petition to be allowed to constitute a lodge under the obedience of the grand orient of france. this being the case, are we to inquire whence they come, and to what obedience they have belonged? no.all we require to know is, if they are masons, and if their brethren

rance had been founded in paris a year earlier, through the activities of the count de grasse-tilly, who had received the d d x in america. about the same time, germain hacquet carried to france from san domingo, w[est] i[ndies, the rite of heredom in twenty-five degrees and established a grand consistory to govern it, entirely independent of the grand orient of france. but had nothing to do with the formation of the supreme council. de grasse-tilly, in b i a e, gave the degrees of the ancient and accepted scottish rite to the principal members of the grand orient of france; and after the fall of the empire a supreme council in the bosom of the grand orient was organized, which still exists. though now inactive. legitimate scottish rite masonry in france is now under control of the supreme

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

were particularly egocentric, in that each one was a thing unto itself and was incapable of interacting with any of its sister emotions or subordinating itself to them. gevil h is the state of discord and blockage that does not allow the flow of divine beneficence to reach its proper destination, so the latter two letters of the name havayah, indicating the emotions, can be seen as tending toward the formation of evil. in contrast, the two first letters [of the name havayah, yud-hei, signify abba and ima, and they gtend toward doing good h for they are entirely good [themselves] and they possessed no evil impurities. therefore they did not die, as is known. the first two letters and the partzufim they represent signify the intellect. the intellect is essentially objective and impartial, si

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

o the= 190 the golden dawn: volume zz book two of philosophus. take in your right hand the calvary cross of ten squares and follow your guide through the pathway of mars. heg the lord is a man of war; lord of armies is his name! hegemon leads practicus between the pillars and round to hierophant, halting at the foot of the dais. hierophant rises, red lamp in hand. hiero ere the eternal instituted the formation, beginning and end existed not. therefore, before him, he expanded a certain veil, and therein he instituted the primal kings. and these are the kings who reigned in edom before there reigned a king over israel. but they subsisted not. when the earth was formless and void- behold this is the reign of edom. and when the creation was established, lo, this is the reign of israel. and th

first received it, and the white sash from the right shoulder. egyptian head-dresses, or nemysses are worn by the chiefs and officers, those of the chiefs being of the colour of their mantles striped with the complementary colour; those of the officers being striped equally black and white. members may wear similar nemysses in black and white or plain black squares of approved pattern. the key to the formation of the tunic and nemyss is the crux ansata for the nemyss makes the oval, and the arms and body of the tunic, the cross. the symbolism of the temple the bases of the two pillars are respectively in netzach and hod; the white pillar being in netzach and the black pillar in hod. they represent the two pillars of mercy and severity. the bases are cubical and black to <86> represent the

listes and he is a power of the great god ahaphshi and his operation is by the sign taurus called ta-aur in egyptian. 2. the children of horus: between the invisible stations of the kerubim are those of the four vice-gerants of the elements and they are situated at the four comers of the temple, at the places marked by the four rivers of eden in the warrant; for the body of a warrant, authorising the formation and establishment of a temple, represents the temple itself- of which the guardians are the kerubim and the vice-gerents in the places of the rivers. ameshet (man-headed) is placed in the north east, between <103 *the man and the bull. ameshet or arnesheth (the spelling is coptic and differs according to the force intended to be invoked by the letters) tou-mathaph, jackal-headed, is

ulating that the higher soul is not the only divine light but rather a spark from the ineffable flame- and the kerux, in his turn, is but the watcher of the gods. after the kerux comes admission of the candidate 367 the hegemon, the translator of the higher self, leading the candidate; and then come the goddesses of the scales of the balance, the stolistes and the dadouchos. they move once round; the formation in darkness of the binah angle of the white triangle of the three supernals. the hierophant knocks once as they pass him in affirmation of mercy- the hiereus in affirmation of severity; and the invisible assessors each give the sign of the enterer as the candidate passes on his way. at the second passing of the hierophant, the knock affirms the commencement of the angle of chokmah. t

necessity. consecration of talismans a-the place where the operation is done. b-the magical operator. c-the forces of nature employed and attracted. d-the telesma or material basis. e-in telesmata, the selection of the matter to form the telesma; the preparation and arrangement of the place. the drawing and forming of the body of the telesma. in natural phenomena the preparation of the operation; the formation of the circle, and the selection of the material basis, such as a piece of earth, a cup of water, a flame of fire, a pentacle, or the like. f-the invocation of the highest divine forces, winding a black cord round the telesma or material basis, covering the same with a black veil, and initiating the blind force therein. naming aloud the nature of the telesma or operation. g-the teles

gic of light, and not to be performed to pander unto thy curiosity regarding the secrets of another, and if by this means thou shalt arrive at a knowledge of another's secrets, thou shalt respect and not betray them. v il alchemy a-the curcurbite or the alembic. b-the alchemist. c-the processes and forces employed. d-the matter to be transmuted. e-the selection of the matter to be transmuted, and the formation, cleansing and disposing of all the necessary vessels, materials, etc, for the working of the process. f-general invocation of the higher forces to action. placing of the matter within the curcurbite or philosophic egg, and invocation of a blind force to action therein, in darkness and silence. g-the beginning of the actual process. the regulation and restriction of the proper degree

et the shroud of concealment encircle me at a distance of eighteen inches from the physical body. let the egg be consecrated with fire and water. place fire and water on either side of you. 0 auramo-0th and thaum-aesh-neith, ye goddesses of the scales of the balance, i invoke and beseech you, that the vapours of this magical water and this consecrating fire be as a basis on the material plane for the formation of 426 the golden dawn: volume 111 book six this shroud of art. formulate mentally the shroud. i, a.m.a.g, frater of the order of the g. d. and a= of the r.r. et a.c.,a lord of the paths in the portal of the vault of the adepti, do hereby formulate to myself the blue-black egg of harpocrates as a shroud of concealment that i may attain unto knowledge and power for the accomplishment

d agla. while vibrating the following words, let the z.a.m. imagine that, standing between the pillars, he is formulated as a black egg of akasa, and that from the dark centre of that egg, its tiphareth, extends upwards into the heights an astral semblance of his wand. as each word is vibrated let this sceptre shoot higher and higher towards the kether of the universe. the conception should be of the formation of an astral middle pillar, down the centre of which the divine white brilliance may descend. hear me, ieou. pur. iou. pur. iaeo. ioou. abrasar. sabriam. do. uu. adonai. ede. edu. angelos ton theon. anlala lai. gaia. ape. diathana thorun. above the lotus of the sceptre, the z.a.m. should now see the divine white brilliance clearly, formulated as a flashing angelic figure descending u

t from the christ. the mercury from the mercury, through the path of the cross, through the life of the light, god shall be thy help (note: an illustration accompanying this manuscript depicted a conventional nude figure of mercury, winged helmet and sandals, diving into the sea. in the right hand was the caduceus, and the left bore a scroll showing the words described in the text.-1.r) talismans the formation of talismans and f'lashing tablets a talisman is a magical figure charged with the force which it is intended to represent. in the construction of a talisman, care should be taken to make it, as far as is possible, so to represent the universal forces that it should be in exact harmony with those you wish to attract, and the more exact the symbolism, the more easy it is to attract th

ill not work the required effect and will probably bring a current of exhaustion and trouble on yourself. without doing much good you will have attracted his own karma into your own atmosphere and, in fact, brought it on yourself. these remarks only apply to an attempted radical change in the karma of another, which is a thing you have no right to do until you have attained the highest adeptship. the formation or adaptation of talismans in ordinary matters should be employed with great discernment. what may assist in material things is often a hindrance spiritually, seeing that for a force to work, it must attract <53> elemental forces of the proper description, which may thus, to an extent, endanger your spiritual nature. also, in making talismans for a person, you must endeavour to isola

the feminine; restlessness and movement, that of the masculine. therefore, let this be clearly understood in ascribing gender to angelic forms and images. our tradition classes all forces under the heads of vehement and rushing force, and firm and steady force. therefore a figure representing the former would be a masculine and that representing the latter, a feminine form. but for convenience in the formation of telesmatic images of ordinary occult names and words, the letters are arranged in masculine and feminine classification. this classification is not intended to affirm that the let <69> ters have not in themselves both natures (seeing that in each letter as in each sephirah is hidden the dual nature of masculine and feminine) but shows more their tendency as regards the distinction

broad gold belt on which adonai ha aretz is written in theban or hebrew characters. the feet are shown in flesh colou* with golden sandals. long yellow green drapery rayed with olive reaches to the feet. beneath are black lurid clouds with patches of colour. around the figure are lightning flashes, red. the crown radiates white light. a sword is girt at the side of the figure. further concerning the formation of telesmatic images (note: this is a precis of the document numbered "m- lecture on the lineal forms of the names of the sephiroth.-1.r) talismans and sigils 493 translate the letters of the name of each sephirah into the numerical equivalents whichwill be yielded by reference to the qabalah of nine chambers. if these letters and numbers are again translated into their yetziratic at

h reduces also to 2, symbolised likewise by the cross. there are three letters in the name kether- which itself, as a whole, may be symbolised by a triangle. if the above symbolic lineal figures are placed within the lineal figure of the whole name, the triangle "a species of hieroglyphic form of each sephirah will result. this may <73> again be represented by a cognate angelic form, as taught in the formation of sigds from the rose" the yetziratic attributions will yield the information as to what colours, symbols, etc. are to be used in formulating the image. the same principle applies to the remaining sephirotic names <74> talismans and sigils there are innumerable methods of forming sigils for use in connection with talismans and their construction. one method, using the rose of the ze

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tters and numbers called the qabalah of nine chambers. it is produced by the interception of two horizontal and two vertical lines, forming nine squares, as follows: this arrangement is called aiq beker. reading from right to left we have aleph= 1, yod= 10, qoph= 100. in the second chamber are beth= 2, caph= 20, and resh= 200. thus aiq bkr. this arrangement of aiq beker is considered important in the formation of sigils or symbols from the names of the planetary spirits. it is first necessary to reduce those letters and their numbers to tens or units by means of the above. for example, in the case of zazel, the spirit of saturn, the letters are zayin= 7, aleph= 1, zayin= 7, and lamed= 30. the only letter which requires reduction in this instance will be lamed which reduces to 3. the next s

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

analogous to their spiritual logos if they have not lived on earth. this explains all visions, and accounts for the dead invariably appearing to seers, either such as they were upon earth, or such as they are in the grave, never as they subsist in a condition which escapes the perceptions of our actual organism. pregnant women are influenced more than others by the astral light, which concurs in the formation of the child, and offers them incessant reminiscences of the forms that abound therein. this explains how it is that women of the highest virtue deceive the malignity of observers by equivocal resemblances. on the fruit of their marriage they impress frequently an image which has struck them in dream, and it is thus that the same physiognomies are perpetuated from generation to gener

uidic tendency of the earth itself to operate the cure of its inhabitants. superstitions are instinctive and all that is instinctive is founded in the very nature of things, to which fact the sceptics of all times have given insufficient attention. it follows that we attribute the strange phenomena of table-turning to the universal magnetic agent in search of a chain of enthusiasms with a view to the formation of fresh currents. the force of itself is blind, but can be directed by the will of man and is influenced by prevailing opinions. this universal fluid if we decide to regard it as a fluid being the common medium of all nervous organisms and the vehicle of all sensitive vibrations, establishes an actual physical solidarity between impressionable persons, and transmits from one to anot

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

l number 666, which we have already explained sufficiently. when we think that men like bossuet and newton amused themselves with such chimeras, we can understand that humanity is not so acute in its genius as might be supposed from the bearing of its vices. 61 chapter xi the triple chain the great work in practical magic, after the education of the will and the personal creation of the magus, is the formation of the magnetic chain, and this secret is truly that of priesthood and of royalty. to form the magnetic chain is to originate a current of ideas which produces faith and draws a large number of wills in a given circle of active manifestation. a well-formed chain is like a whirlpool which sucks down and absorbs all. the chain may be established in three ways. by signs, by speech and b

such matters above all that the triple chain 63 imagination is creative, so that both days and numbers seldom fail to be propitious or otherwise to those who believe in their influence. consequently, christianity was right in proscribing the divinatory sciences, for in thus diminishing the number of blind chances it gave further scope and empire to liberty. printing is an admirable instrument for the formation of the magic chain by the extension of speech. no book is lost; as a fact, writings go invariably precisely where they should go, and the aspirations of thought attract speech. we have proved this a hundred times in the course of our magical initiation; the rarest books have offered themselves without seeking as soon as they became indispensable. thus have we recovered intact that un

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

uction 18 where he has indicated general models, such as the rotation of the seasons, the quarters, and the relationships between daemones, fairies, angels, and humans, the relevant illustrations show typical models employed through the centuries, with emphasis on the basic attributes known to be used in pagan and early christian celtic culture. where he has described metaphysical models, such as the formation of the septenary from the four elements and the trinity, we have used simple mathematical or geometric patterns, in the time-hallowed method of magical and spiritual tuition worldwide. overall the illustrations are intended to help the reader not only with kirk's text itself but with my commentary upon it, which selects certain of the magical and metaphysical elements of the thesis

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eaven. this difference assured the gnostics that they would attract the more intelligent of the spiritual seekers, and the disdain of the conventional. classification: v2- 189.g- 1 author: shell runar ii date: spring, xxv publication: flames from hell, iii.1 html revision: sept. 10, 1998 ce subject: gnosticism reading list: most gnostic groups lasted not much longer than two hundred years, during the formation of the orthodox christian groups. they were, and still are, often lumped in with christianity. this is always with the added label "heresy, but they were actually very syncretic. they did borrow from the teachings of christ, but equally from the greeks, egyptians, indians, israelites, and persians. theories as to their origins abound, but the most cogent one is that they derived from

les of ill health were due to syphilis. he had a wassermann test at the time of his marriage. according to this test, he did not suffer from syphilis. we may be able to infer some hereditary component to his nervous sensitivity, and there is probably a powerful psychological effect associated with the early stages of dementia in his parents. this added a further element for him to contend with in the formation of his psyche and his view of the world. the death of his grandfather forced lovecraft's family into a smaller flat in providence. his father had already been hospitalized, and his mother moved in with two aunts. he regarded this as the end of a golden age in his childhood. he dropped out after two years of high school, had a nervous breakdown, and never returned to his studies. he r

my aeon. i punish the enemies who are in it, placed in the place of destructlon. i deliver them to the examiners from whose guard there is no escape" the subject of the examiners is covered in the analysis and commentary on the book of coming forth by night, and need not be gone into in historical detail here. a number of conjectures regarding the examiners have come about over the years. beyond the formation or intervention of outside entities, there is one trend of thought dealing with the examiners which deserves some reflection. circa xvi the concept of the higher self as the personal examiner began to be known, and personally i think it one that may have more than a grain of truth in it. as the being progresses in skill and understanding, he grows in self-awareness, thereby developin

eceives every setting of the sun [drink from chalice [first assistant] in the beginning was there nothing, and the nothing was whole [second assistant] and though the nothing was whole, it came together to form substance, which was both matter and energy [first assistant] and this substance, apart from the chaos of nothing, became mechanically ordered; but it could not create [celebrant] and with the formation of this substance was formed a force, at once distinct from the cosmic inertia and driven by it. and while all moved, all was stagnant and did not progress. suddenly this force began to glimmer, and its awakening began, and through countless ages its intelligence sparked and became great. and it soon realized that it was separate from the cosmic order, and saw the need to create its

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

the aat of the 3de and 14th letter of the sacred alphabet this cell represents the manifestation of the spirits and powers governing the sigil under the dominon of the second hidden star (orion, but in general there are a strong sub-stellar touch to the material presented in this aat, and therefore it is essentially reflected in the lunar rays of the mystery) of the azoth. this cell is focused on the formation of the fluidity and fluxity of the magical matrix of invocation. this is the abode of the goddess of water, salt and fire. she who is colour and sex (p. 146. the 2nd cell is setting forth the mysteries of the goddess trifold of nature and marks through this synthesis the lesser mystery of the three lunar phases and how the growth, maturity and the old age of the goddess are functioni

ems and the understanding of our belief through mastery of alchemy and therefore our own senses. the construction of the temple of flesh, the path of no return and total integration is found in this cell of ultimate vision and fluids. there is a great flexibility in this cell and is experienced as the muse of divine inspiration. the most important formulae is the techniques of iconoclastisism, or the formation of the many into one. again sigilic methods are used to accomplish this task and through this the one and its adversary are integrated in this fluid process. permutation are an important aspect of these operations, for instances the temuric birth of sekah from hekas. this method is the same as used by for instance spare where for instance watcher are turned into rehctaw. the cell exp

s. working with these kind of deities will often result in either the traditional waning of life -force or even worse that you enter secret priesthoods that meet in dark cellars where the genii of commandment will force you to drink from the rod of fire in your un-natural search for disgracing your flesh and mouth and hand to the work of the backward wand. this can accomplish external changes and the formation of the perverse manifesting in the outer. this kind of obsession are reflected in the weird cloaks of the priest of these congregations and their vampyric drift towards drinking constantly from the rod of fire to quench their unnatural thirst for the light they believe to be found in churches formed as seedy dungeons. this will almost always be the case if the novice embarks on the r

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rd schisms. there's planning to be done" he sat down again, and swatilekha kissed him on the cheek "i'm sorry" she said "too much college education, george always says. in fact, i loved the poems. i was only arguing a case" bhupen, mollified, pretended to punch her on the nose; the crisis passed. they had met, salahuddin now gathered, to discuss their part in a remarkable political demonstration: the formation of a human chain, stretching from the gateway of india to the outermost northern suburbs of the city, in support of "national integration. the communist party of india (marxist) had recently organized just such a human chain in kerala, with great success "but" george miranda argued "here in bombay it will be totally another matter. in kerala the c p(m) is in power. here, with these s

chain were in tears. the order to join hands had been given by the organizers- swatilekha prominent among them, riding on the back of a jeep, megaphone in hand- at eight am precisely; one hour later, as the city's rush--hour traffic reached its blaring peak, the crowd began to disperse. however, in spite of the thousands involved in the event, in spite of its peaceful nature and positive message, the formation of the human chain was not reported on the doordarshan television news. nor did all-india radio carry the story. the majority of the (government-supporting "language press" also omitted any mentions. one english-language daily, and one sunday paper, carried the story; that was all. zeeny, recalling the treatment of the kerala chain, had forecast this deafening silence as she and sala

SATANGEL

f black magick. the lesser rite of the pentagram in the ceremonial magick of the western tradition, the archangels are commonly attributed to the influences of the planets, hours, and days, corresponding also to the sephiroth of the tree of life, their demonic counterparts corresponded to the reverse side of the quabalah, otherwise called the tree of death. most commonly they are evoked called in the formation of the circle in preparation for further work. in the sorcery of the grimoire, their names and seals are inscribed upon the floor about the circle. the purpose of such ritual will be discussed in further detail later in this book. for now, i give a simple form of such ritual. the arrangement and correspondence of the archangels may be recognised as that employed by the golden dawn in

SATANIC BIBLE

at the carnival or some other place of indulgence "i knew then that the christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out" from that time early in his life his path was clear. finally, on the last night of april, 1966- walpurgisnacht, the most important festival of the believers in witchcraft- lavey shaved his head in the tradition of ancient executioners and announced the formation of the church of satan. he had seen the need for a church that would recapture man's body and his carnal desires as objects of celebration "since worship of fleshly things produces pleasure" he said "there would then be a temple of glorious indulgence" introduction by burton h. wolfe preface prologue the nine satanic statements (fire--book of satan- the infernal diatribe [i [ii [iii

l great movements that contribute to the development of civilization and the advancement of mankind. he is the spirit of revolt that leads to freedom, the embodiment of all heresies that liberate" on the last night of april 1966- walpurgisnacht, the most important festival in the lore of magic and witchcraft- lavey ritualistically shaved his head in accordance with magical tradition and announced the formation of the church of satan. for proper identification as its minister, he put on the clerical collar. up to that collar he looked almost holy. but his genghis khan-like shaven head, his mephistophelian beard, and his narrow eyes gave him the necessary demonic look for his priesthood of the devil's church on earth "for one thing" lavey explained himself "calling it a church enabled me to

SATANIC RITUALS

e to assume that the only "good" witchet in the world were english witches? this, however, becomes difficult to accept when one considers the term wizard, which stems from the middle english wysard= wise, versus the old english wican= to bend, from whence witch is supposedly derived. all in all, it seems to be an unsuccessful attempt to legitimatize a word that probably originated by onomatopoeia-the formation of a word that sounds like what it is intended to mean! satan in the next, when the man of science owes his heritage to what had for hundreds of years been relegated to devildom? the answers to these questions can be reduced to a single bitter charge: they cannot afford to admit to an affinity with anything that bears the name of satan, for to do so would necessitate turning in their

rgh's cylth (the angles of the watery abyss are no more, but other angles there are for the deep ones to command) participants: v'yn'khe rohz v'schm'h v'ragsh kyr-reng'ka w'nath-al y'keld v'fnaghn k'aemn'hi. i'a cthulhu! i'a sha-t'n (by the seal of nine and by the shining trapezoid, let none hazard thy wrath, for we are known to the old ones. hail, cthulhu! hail, satan) the satanic baptisms since the formation of the church of satan, many persons wishing to solemnize their newly acknowledged dedication to satanic principles have requested a "baptismal" rite, whereby they might utilize an established form of religious observance for more compatible beliefs. as a result, two distinct ceremonies have been created, one for infants and the other for adults who have reached the legal age of cons

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ry temper tantrums which surely are most typical of an adolescent brat, angered by its pets for mis-behaving, than that of a god -3- scientific discoveries and collected evidence go a long way toward discrediting xian creationism, biblical theories of human origins, and the like. to believe in the scriptures as truth is to blind oneself to the irrefutable evidences of nature s creative processes: the formation, development and age of our earth; the evolutionary phases of man and animal, etc. perhaps satanists who believe should re-evaluate and begin a thoughtful review: objectively looking at the evidence of our primitive heritage; our inherited and gradually-developed mental and physical characteristics; instinctual proclivities; thought and action; social customs and the like, which were

SCHEM HA MEPHORESH

ce yh which signifies mercy and beneficence, or in others of the suffice al which signifies severity and judgment. or as it is said: and the name is in him, etc. these 72 angels rule over the 72 quinances or sets of 50 of the zodiac, and therefore each decanate or set of 100 of a sign has 2 quinances, and each sign has 3 decanates, which are again allotted to the planets in regular order. this is the formation as given above (each angel s name containing 5 letters and each name of deity 3. these then are the schem ha-mephoresch or 72 angels bearing the name of god, classed into nine sets of 8, each answering to the nine choirs of angels, and also divided into 4 great divisions of 18 each, each division under the presidency of one of the four letters of the name yhvh. they are further class

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

or a moses received the ten commandments from god and gave them to the jewish people. the commandments were carved onto tablets and stored within the ark of the covenant. upon his thirteenth birthday, a jewish boy automatically becomes a son of the commandment. israel images/alamy. world religions: almanac 367 judaism jewish state in palestine. additionally, the british appointed him to advise on the formation of such a state. during world war ii, when jews were being targeted for extermination by nazi germany, weizmann tried to prevent the restriction of jewish immigration into palestine, though he was unsuccessful. after the war he was involved with partition plan presented before the united nations, which established boundaries for the proposed jewish state in palestine. the state of is

whose name is entered at birth at the local shinto shrine. 394 world religions: almanac shinto history and development the origins of japanese civilization, and of shinto, are shrouded in legend and history. historians believe that around 35,000 to 30,000 bce humans first migrated to the japanese islands, probably from mongolia or siberia through korea, or possibly from polynesia. historians date the formation of a more stable civilization to some time around 10,000 bce, the start of the jomon period, which extended to about 400 bce. it is believed that shinto beliefs emerged in japan late in the jomon period. during this period the concept of the kami originated. japanese society was divided into separate clans. these clans were not connected by a central government or by a sense of natio

verse, such seeds were initially in one huge mass without shape or form. through nous, or organizing principle, this mass was set in rotary motion. this motion caused the mass to separate out into smaller elements. world religions: biographies 27 anaxagoras anaxagors believed the creation of the world was due to this separating of the seeds and by the effect of the spinning motion on these seeds. the formation of the universe or cosmos took place in two stages. first was the revolving process, which separated and then remixed the particles. in this stage, all the dark particles came together to form night, and the fluid seeds joined to make the oceans. the friction in this rotary motion in turn caused heat, which set the stars and sun on fire. the development of all living things came in t

later scientists. these include his theory of the rotating cosmic mass at the beginning of time and his idea that the basic building blocks of life could be divided. more importantly, by attempting to explain the process of creation without relying on gods as the driving factor, anaxagoras helped to pave the way for criticism of religious ideas about the origin of the universe. his explanation of the formation of heavenly bodies such as the sun, stars, and the moon ultimately led to doubts in god s existence (agnosticism) or possibly even a complete lack of belief in god or gods (atheism. some historians, however, call anaxagoras the father of theism, the belief in a personal god that created the universe, or even of monotheism, the belief in one supreme being. although it was never referr

g the actions that led to this supreme goal for the individual. aristotle, perhaps more than any other great thinker, paved the way for the development of western intellectual study. though many of his conclusions on natural sciences for example, the sun revolves around the earth have been proved false, his ideas and methods are still used by modern-day thinkers. his greatest accomplishments were the formation of a system for studying formal logic and the establishment of the study of zoology, the branch of biology dealing with animals. his work in ethics, or proper behavior, was also significant. many of his ideas were later adapted by the arab philosopher averroe s (1126 1198; the jewish scholar maimonides (1135 1204; see entry; the scholastics, or medieval church scholars, such as thoma

that witchcraft was in danger of dying out. he wrote: i think we must say good-bye to the witch. the cult is doomed, i am afraid, partly because of modern conditions, housing shortage, the smallness of families, and chiefly by education. the modern child is not interested. he knows witches are all bunk. the book s publication, however, brought about a resurgence of interest in england and led to the formation of many new covens. gardner was dubbed by the english media as britain s chief witch. he angered some witches in the country who felt that he was sharing too many secrets of the practice with outsiders. others disapproved because gardner incorporated his beliefs on naturism (nudism) with witchcraft. by all accounts, gardner was a difficult man with whom to work. some considered him c

ly passions. kara, a steel bracelet worn on the right wrist, which, being a perfect circle, with no beginning or end, symbolizes a connection with god. kirpan, a saber, which is carried in readiness to defend the weak or uphold the right. the word literally means mercy or grace. in modern times the kirpan is not an actual weapon but a small symbolic reminder. ongoing struggles the years following the formation of the khalsa were ones of continuing struggle for gobind and his followers. from 1703 through 1705 a series of battles took place, collectively referred to as the battle of anandpur. a local raja, ajmer chand, conspired with other chiefs to kill the guru, but the hired assassins were themselves killed before they could carry out their mission. the emperor aurangzeb agreed to march a

ed more simply as justification through faith. this doctrine, or principle, says that salvation is an unconditional gift of god s love and grace that one receives through his son jesus christ, and that this gift is based on faith alone. this doctrine became one of the most important of the protestant reformation, a movement that saw the rejection of many of the teachings of catholicism and led to the formation of many different protestant churches, including the lutheran church. luther s beliefs regarding indulgences, however, were what attracted the attention of church authorities. according to catholic theology, when a person confesses a sin to a priest and receives absolution, or forgiveness, from god through the priest, the sin is removed. the person is then in a state of grace and is

ophets (divine messengers, and their prophecies were revealed in the hebrew scriptures, primarily in the section called prophets (nevi im. this section consists of twenty-one books, including 1 kings, 2 kings, isaiah, and jeremiah. 7. moses (c. 1392 c. 1272 bce; see entry) was the greatest among the prophets. moses was the dominant figure in the biblical book of exodus, which details the story of the formation of the jewish nation after he led the jewish people out of slavery in egypt. moses has also traditionally been regarded as the author of the torah, the first five books of the hebrew scriptures, although modern biblical scholars dispute this belief. 8. god gave his law to man in the form of the ten commandments and other principles. god s law was first revealed to moses in the book o

rms used to refer to jewish scripture and traditions confusing. the most important jewish scripture is the bible s old testament, which jews refer to as the tanakh( old testament is a term used by christians) the most essential part of the tanakh is the torah, the first five books in the tanakh: genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy. these books detail the principles of jewish law, the formation of the jewish nation, and god s covenant, or agreement, with the israelites as his chosen people. these five books are often referred to as the written torah. in addition to the written torah is the oral torah, which consists of interpretations of the written torah and methods with which to apply its laws. the oral torah, the first part of the talmud, was written down in the second c

italism would in time cause its own collapse. he said wealth would become concentrated in a very small number of companies. at the same time the poverty and misery of the working classes would increase. marx looked forward to the time when the working classes would organize themselves and overthrow the capitalist system. in 1871 marx thought that his vision of a new economic order was coming with the formation of the paris commune. in march of that year socialists rose up and established a revolutionary government in paris that introduced a number of socialist reforms. in may, however, french troops suppressed the rebellion and killed thirty thousand revolutionaries in an assault on the city. another fifty thousand were later executed. marx was depressed by the outcome, but he continued to

traditional culture and law. they were partially right. in response to the haskalah, many european jews discontinued their practice of jewish law. many converted to christianity, including all of mendelssohn s children and his grandson, the pianist and composer felix mendelssohn (1809 1847. many immigrated to the united states, while others initiated the zionist movement, which eventually led to the formation of a jewish state in israel. judaism in europe was forever changed because of the work of moses mendelssohn. 274 world religions: biographies moses mendelssohn for more information books altmann, alexander. moses mendelssohn: a biographical study. oxford, uk: littman library of jewish civilization, 1998. isaacs, abram s. step by step: a story of the early days of moses mendelssohn. w

japanese invaded the country in 1940, during world war ii (1939 45; a war in which great britain, france, the united states, and their allies defeated germany, italy, and japan. a communist revolutionary group called the viet minh, under the leadership of ho chi minh (1890 1969, saw this as a possible opportunity to be freed of french rule. after japan surrendered in 1945, the viet minh declared the formation of the democratic republic of vietnam. the french refused to leave, however, and a long period of unrest and warfare between local rebels and the french began. the french finally withdrew in 1954, and vietnam was divided into north vietnam, the stronghold of ho chi minh s communist forces, and south vietnam, where the french had been centered around saigon and which was essentially d

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right to left, spr ytzyrh, samech peh resh, yod tzaddi yod resh heh; modes of transliteration vary with different authors. yod is variously written in english letters as i, y, or j, or sometimes ie. tzaddi is property tz; but some write z only, which is misleading because the hebrew has also a true z, zain. chapter i the twelve sections of this chapter introduce this philosophic disquisition upon the formation and development of the universe. having specified the subdivision of the letters into three classes, the triad, the heptad, and the dodecad, these are put aside for the time; and the decad mainly considered as specially associated with the idea of number, and as obviously composed of the tetrad and the hexad. 1. thirty-two. this is the number of the paths or ways of wisdom, which are

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ecoming contracted by cooling, the rotation increased in rapidity, and zones of nebulosity were successively thrown off, in consequence of the centrifugal force overpowering the central attraction. the condensation of these separate masses constituted the planets and satellites. but this view of the conversion of gaseous matter into planetary bodies is not limited to our own system; it extends to the formation of the innumerable suns and worlds which are distributed throughout the universe. the sublime discoveries of modern astronomers have shown that every part of the realms of space abounds in large expansions of attenuated matter termed nebulae, which are irregularly reflective of light, of various figures, and in different states of condensation, from that of a diffused, luminous mass

ld pierce, no valour could force its way, the thirst for wisdom alone reigned in the hearts of those who received its study as a heritage from sire to son. hence, even in your imperfect records of the progress of human knowledge, you find that, in the earliest ages, philosophy descended not to the business and homes of men. it dwelt amidst the wonders of the loftier creation; it sought to analyse the formation of matter, the essentials of the prevailing soul; to read the mysteries of the starry orbs; to dive into those depths of nature in which zoroaster is said by the schoolmen first to have discovered the arts which your ignorance classes under the name of magic. in such an age, then, arose some men, who, amidst the vanities and delusions of their class, imagined that they detected gleam

SORCERIES OF ZOS

ey- as his autobiography makes abundantly cleardevoted a lifetime to proving that extra-terrestrial and superhuman consciousness can and does exist independently of the human organism. as explained in images and oracles of austin osman spare, spare was initiated into the vital current of ancient and creative sorcery by an aged woman named paterson, who claimed decent form a line of salem witches. the formation of spare's cult of the zos and the kia owes much to his contact with witch paterson who provides the model for many of his 'sabbatic' drawings and paintings. much of the occult lore that she transmitted to him suffuses two of his books- the book of pleasure and the focus of life. in the last years of his life he embodied further esoteric researches in a grimoire which he had intended

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

the eternal the fleece he is not yet safe. a part of his consciousness apsyrtus must be offered up as a sacrifice. this is demanded by the nature of the sense-perceptible world, which is only to be comprehended by us as a manifold, dismembered domain. we might go still further into the spiritual processes underlying these images, but the intention here is only to indicate the principle underlying the formation of myths. special interest attaches from this point of view to the saga of prometheus. prometheus and epimetheus are sons of the titan iapetus. the titans are the children of the oldest generation of the gods, uranus (heaven) and gaia (earth. kronos, the youngest of the titans, usurped his father s throne and seized the rulership of the world. he was overthrown in his turn by his son

e? their own behavior shows that they are not. for in their own work they do not follow the path shown by the pioneers in other fields. would darwin and haeckel have made their great discoveries in evolution if they had spent their time, not out observing life and the structure of living organisms, but incarcerated in the laboratory experimenting on specimens of tissue? could lyell have explained the formation of the earth s crust if he had examined, not the composition of the various strata as they occur but just the chemical classification of numberless rocks? if we were really to follow in the footsteps of the great figures, the towering geniuses of modern science, we would apply to spiritual life the same approach they brought to bear on nature. that would not bring us to the idea of c

ess rocks? if we were really to follow in the footsteps of the great figures, the towering geniuses of modern science, we would apply to spiritual life the same approach they brought to bear on nature. that would not bring us to the idea of creating the divine tragedy of hamlet by chemical processes of digestion, any more than a natural scientist would claim to have understood the role of heat in the formation of the earth after having studied a piece of sulfur warmed in a retort, or the structure of the brain after subjecting an extract to the effects of acid rather than investigating how it has evolved out of the organs belonging to lower forms of life. it is true, then: the investigation of spiritual things can indeed learn from the example of natural science only it must be a real imit

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

ce, and it is a rite that has everything. stochastic resonance is a phenomena of physics, its principles are frequently utilized in scientific research.the properties of stochastic resonance that are capable of manufacturing transformational environments are described in the following extract from a research paper entitled classical and quantum stochastic resonance: the idea that noise can assist the formation of order might sound paradoxical but does indeed occur in non-linear systems with the phenomenon of stochastic resonance. this term is given to the effect where the detection of weak periodic signals is enhanced in presence of noise activated crossings of barriers or threshold levels..peter hnggi, university of augburg keep in mind the previous description of noise as this phenomena

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

mbols, signs, and doctrines. 162 codex magica president george w. bush and fbi director nominee robert mueller exchange grip behind podium (photo: the washington post, july 22, 2001) secret handshakes of the illuminati 163 in august, 2000, prime minister ehud barak of israel in a clear masonic hand grip with jordan's king abdullah as they meet in amman, jordan. all prime ministers of israel since the formation of that nation in 1948 have been initiates of the masonic lodge. all have been recruited into the order of the llluminati, also (photo: associated press, in austin american-statesman, august 17, 2000, p. a3) european farm commissioner franz fischler (left) in handshake with german agriculture minister karl heinz funke at a european community session in brussels, belgium (photo: spotl

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in the beginning: the story of the king james bible and how it changed a nation, a language and a culture, by alister mcgrath. winchester states that the more important points in these books are about the realizations that came from the brave actions taken to make the bible available to all, and how the popularization of the bible led to the establishment of the individual s inviolable rights and the formation of equal government, for and of the people. in other words, the essentials of popular democracy were inspired by writings first set down on papyrus and in manuscript two millenniums ago in hebrew, aramaic, and greek words since translated and then printed for the benefit of all, by the courageous and long-suffering heroes, winchester said. sources: bobrick, benson. wide as the waters

ved in producing the physical phenomena of spirit contact in the seance room. in an essay written in 1946, carrington said that there appears to be a form of unknown energy that issues from the body of the medium, capable of affecting and molding matter in its immediate environment. at times this is invisible; at other times it takes forms and becomes more or less solid, when we have instances of the formation of so-called ectoplasm. it is this semi-material substance which moves matter and even shapes it into different forms. according to carrington s observations, this ectoplasm issues from various parts of the medium s body from the fingertips, the solar plexus, and the genitals. it represents a psychic force, he claimed, as yet unknown to science, but now being studied by scientific me

with the madonnas and the icons of various saints and holy figures that appear to issue tears are worldwide. to the skeptical, such phenomena can be easily explained as moisture gathering in the eye hollows of the statues due to condensation, sudden changes in humidity, or outright fraud. the weeping of blood is dismissed as normal condensation colored by the reddish-hued paints so often used in the formation of religious statues. for the faithful, who point to dozens of dramatic healings, hundreds of mystical experiences, and thousands of religious conversions as their evidence that something supernatural is occurring around these icons, such phenomena as the weeping madonnas are likely to be interpreted as physical signs that the spiritual presence of the holy figure is with them. m del

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phenomenon had appeared periodically throughout history. gradually, some ufologists believed humankind s gods, angels, devils, and demons were nothing more than alien visitors from some superior civilization on some far planet in a dark corner of the universe. the hypothesis of ancient astronauts received its most popular expression in erich von daniken s chariots of the gods (1970, which led to the formation of an international ancient astronaut society in 1973. while many find the premise that gods from outer space may have guided developing humankind in its evolutionary ascent, critics find fault in the propensity of such theorists to attribute any ancient, unexplained mystery to extraterrestrials who supposedly seeded, propagated, and still maintain watch over the planet. despite thes

cerealogists pointed out that pranksters have been unable to create crop circles with the same precision and undisturbed nature as those circles thought to be of alien or unknown origin. regardless of general dismissal of the crop circle phenomenon by conventional scientists who remain skeptical because human beings could be perpetrating hoaxes, it would appear that there is a genuine mystery in the formation of many of the incredible designs that suddenly appear in fields around the world. four of the principal theories regarding the origins of crop circles are the following: 1. extraterrestrial entities offering clues to their identity and intentions toward earthlings; 2. natural phenomena, ranging from insects to lightning, from plasma vortices (a kind of ball lightning) to electromagn

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g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d magic and sorcery 61 countallesandro cagliostro was allegedly the one who held the secret of the philosopher fs stone. illnesses were linked to hysteria or psychosomatic delusions. although the church had chosen to ignore accusations of deception and charlatanism directed against cagliostro, it could not overlook the formation of another masonic lodge. and when the grand copt sought to establish a lodge within the boundaries of the papal states, he was arrested on september 27, 1789, by order of the holy inquisition and imprisoned in the castle of saint angelo. inquisitors examined cagliostro for 18 months, and he was condemned to death on april 7, 1791. however, his sentence was commuted to perpetual impr

london: faber and faber unlimited, 1952. the witch-cult in western europe. 1921. reprint, oxford: clarendon press, 1962. m. macha nightmare as her contribution to the emerging pagan culture, m. macha nightmare (also known as aline o fbrien, priestess and witch, chose to develop her skills as a collaborative ritualist and author. early in her journey on the path of witchcraft, nightmare joined in the formation of reclaiming collective, a network of people who sought to bring together activism with earth-based spirituality and healing. she also participated with the collective in teaching the craft and in performing public sabbats in san francisco. the collective evolved into a craft tradition, and eventually dissolved itself in 1997 and reemerged as a much larger and more inclusive entity

s became common in the area, and some divers claimed to have seen remnants of temples, pillars, and pyramids. however, none were documented by extensive excavations. the j-shaped structure became popularly known as the bimini road and was a cause of celebration among enthusiasts of atlantis and cayce. geological tests, however, show that the j shape is actually a limestone beachrock. fractures in the formation give it the appearance of a construction of blocks, but the entire formation shows the same grains and microstructure.a quality difficult to replicate in a series of blocks. radiocarbon testing of shells in the stone show that the formation is relatively young.about two or three thousand years old, some 9,000 years younger than the alleged final destruction of atlantis. finally, the

ry king arthur. in geoffrey fs account, merlin was asked by ambrosius aurelianus, brother of uther pendragon and uncle of king arthur, to erect a monument to commemorate the site where several hundred british nobles were murdered by saxons. merlin used magic to transport the stones from ireland, where they had been erected in the form of stonehenge after having been brought from africa by giants. the formation of stones was called the giants dance. later theories emerged to overshadow geoffrey fs tale. stonehenge was credited as the work of the mycenae, a civilization that thrived in the aegean sea area of the eastern mediterranean region before the rise of greece in the first millennium b.c.e. the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 27

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

ac luria, called the ari (1534-1572, and rabbi moshe cordevero, the ramak (1522-1570. the former is responsible for much of the current structure and cosmology of kabbalah, as the "lurianic" school of thought provided answers to many of the more complex issues of kabbalistic thought, particularly relating to the "breaking of the vessels. the next major historical development of kabbalah came with the formation of the hasidic movement in the mid 1700's, based around the rabbi israel, more commonly known as the baal shem tov (1698-1760, which means "master of the word, a high mark of respect in kabbalism. having briefly examined the development of kabbalah within the judaic mystical tradition, we must now attempt to sketch some of the significant points at which it passed through to the occu

awareness (sun) of the true (hermit) will (judgement, which takes place in the initiation process at two key points, the first on crossing the veil and attaining to the sephirah tiphareth, and the second on crossing the abyss and attaining to the sephirah binah. the following extensions can be drawn: will in malkuth: the way of nature, the "entelechy" of aristotle in the unfolding of blossoms and the formation of galaxies. the "selfish gene" or "blind watchmaker" aspect of nature in the unfolding genesis about us. will in yesod: the way of the personality, an understanding of the ego requirements, cultural conditioning and so forth. the development of purpose, aim, goal, valuation, motivation and intention through a discipline such as psychosynthesis. will in tiphareth: the way of the self

h chockmah through the fourteenth path, to which is attributed the tarot card of the empress. the number of the card is 3, which is also the number of binah, and the first of the numbers to enclose a space: 0: no space nought (ain soph aur) 1: point point (kether) 2: vector line (chockmah) 3: space triangle (binah) the empress is a fitting personification of binah as mother of life, and nature as the formation of living things. the tarot cards to which the letters of binah are attributed are the magician, hermit, death and the emperor. these show the action of the process of binah thus: the magician is the logos, the creative word issued from chockmah as the universal will, given direction and the light enclosed in a container (the light in the lamp of the hermit. it is then transformed or

masks as deemed necessary. as crowley says in liber al vel legis "a king may choose his garments as he will, a beggar has no choice" other types of representational systems are also attributed to yesod. these are cosmologies, maps, models and paradigms. cosmologies: a cosmology is an integrated set of concepts about the universe, and has two aspects. a "physical" cosmology is a conceptual map of the formation and structure of the universe, whereas a "metaphysical" cosmology further relates to our place and role within the environment. maps: maps are usually historical, in that they are descriptions of a place or places already experienced, and are drawn to guide others. note that a map does not per se contain any indications of where one ought to go, or indeed the best way to get there. a

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

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

1) that this letter shin, inverted, in the flamboyant star (the pentagram) with its point up, represents to the rosicrucian initiate the incarnation of the divine word in the human nature. dr. r. allandy, in his work on the symbolism of numbers, adds this to what papus had already said. the addition of shin to the sacred tetragram (i.h.v.h) marks the passage of the quaternary into the quinary for the formation of the living creature. jesus, the word made flesh, kabalistically represents all creatures, but particularly man, as man is the most evolved of all creatures" having been taught, and which is in accordance with the general christian tradition, that the entire nature had fallen with adam as a result of his own fall, we can easily understand how in effect this same nature can evolve

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

ion of one's true sey the discovey or creation of a unibing center. the intermediate link which, if focused on and identified with, allows for the integration/unification of the lower and higher selves, and freedom from selfish interests and personal limitations. a point of connection between the individual and the divine self, whch is reflected and symbolized in that point.29 4. psychosynthesis: the formation or reconstruction of the personality around the new center. once the unifying center is found, the next step is to gradually and systematically build a new "ideal" personality around it in an organized, purposeful manner and with clear, achievable goals in rnind.30 practical psychosynthesis commences with the construction of this new personality. this process involves the active util

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

indeed, crowley had nothing but admiration for the shaitan (satan) of the so-called "devil-worshipping" cult of the yezidis of mesopotamia, knowledge of which led him to declare the lines that open this introduction. for he saw that the yezidis possess a great secret and a great tradition that extends far back into time, beyond the origin of the sun cults of osiris, mithra and christ; even before the formation of the judaic religion, and the hebrew tongue. crowley harkened back to a time before the moon was worshipped, to the "shadow out of time; and in this, whether he realised it as such or not, he had heard the "call of cthulhu. sumeria that a reclusive author of short stories who lived in a quiet neighbourhood in new england, and the manic, infamous master magician who called the world

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

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her 320 parts and refrain from using them. 288 (320- 32) of the 320 parts in every broken piece can be corrected because they are not parts of malchut, but of the upper nine sefirot. those that belong to the ge need only be sorted and taken out of the pile, because they are vessels of bestowal in and of themselves. they are the ones that construct katnut of zon deatzilut. 167 of 273 chapter 3.21- the formation of the worlds of abya the formation of the world of atzilut atik: the screen rose along with the reshimot to rosh of nekudim and from there to rosh desag. the screen sorted the finest reshimot- aleph dehitlabshut and shoresh deaviut, and rose from peh to keter of rosh desag, and from there, even higher up to bina deketer. there it stopped above the sefirot khb hgt of keter, so that a

hen partzuf zeir anpin was created in katnut, abba veima passed it all the remaining reshimot that haven t been corrected by the previous partzufim. zeir anpin selected the finest ones, and made a zivug on them, creating partzuf malchut of atzilut as a dot, as it was in the world of nekudim. that concludes the corrections of all the reshimot of katnut of the world nekudim that rose to rosh desag. the formation of the worlds of bya the partzufim of gar, of the world of atzilut, came out on reshimot of rosh of nekudim that refined, but did not break. from zon of nekudim and under, the birth of any partzuf is done by sorting and correcting the broken pieces, because the breaking of the vessels in the world of nekudim mixed the vessels of bestowal above the parsa, 168 of 273 with the vessels o

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TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

nch it has continued to exist to a far more recent period than we might be inclined to suppose. it is the object of the essay which has been written for the present volume of which it forms more than one half to investigate the existence of these superstitions among ourselves, to trace them, in fact, through the middle ages of western euroipe, and their influence on the history of medi val and on the formation of modern society, and to place in the hands of historical scholars preface vii such of their monuments as we have been able to collect. it is hoped that, thus composed, the present volume will prove acceptable to the class of readers to whom it specially addresses itself. it must not be supposed or expected that this essay on the medi val part of the subject can be perfect. a large

ho, according to the church doctrines, were only so many devils. hence arose the diabolical agency in the scene. thus we easily obtain all the materials and all the incidents of the witches sabbath. where this older worship was preserved among the middle or more elevated classes of society, who had other means of secrecy at their command, it would take a less vulgar form, and would show itself in the formation of concealed sects and societies, such as those of the different forms of gnosticism, of the stadingers, of the templars, and of other less important secret clubs, of a more or less immoral character, which continued no doubt to exist long after what we 1 see michelet, la sorci re, liv. i, c. 9, on the use and the effects of the solane, to which he attributes much of the delusions of

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top of page 28. a circle marks the boundary between outward and inward going. it is the bal- ance of these two opposite tendencies. as such, it has no thickness but merely divides, in the same way the present divides the past from the future. when the pulse of desire begins to rotate, a circle is created. this is the serpent with its tail held in its mouth: the circular tendency that arose before the formation of the first point is not a circle as the human mind normally understands it. a circle drawn on paper pre- supposes three-dimensional space. the primal circular desire took place before space-time, when there was no form, no point of self-awareness, only pure desire acting in a void. it did not act toward anything because there was nothing else. rather, it fled from unending nothingn

l levels of being. however, the iden- tities of some types are bound by tradition to certain levels. ghosts are popularly defined by their appearance on the astral circle. they are visible and audible, some- times tactile, but they seldom leave material evidence of their presence. an homunculus, on the other hand, usually has a physical body of human shape, although not necessarily of human size. the formation of a spirit may be completely unconscious as in the case of lar- vae, or deliberate in various degrees. the most highly conscious method is the golden dawn technique of forming telesmatic images, where spirits are built up from simples into complexes through a rational process of correspondence. the creation of a telesmatic image can be compared to the process of life. it begins with

order of the golden dawn involves the manipulation of a spirit name. the name is translated into hebrew letters. each letter has a certain set of symbolic associa- tions. the first letter of the name is used to form the head of the image, the second letter, the shoulders, and so on. bit by bit the spirit is built up, like frankenstein's monster, until an integrated figure is obtained. throughout the formation process, the magus relies on the symbolism of the hebrew letters for guidance. to illustrate, here are the attributes of graphiel, the intelligence, or good spir- it, of the planet mars: g camel priestess moon r head sun jupiter a ox fool air ph mouth tower mars i hand hermit virgo a ox fool air l ox goad justice libra the first column after the name is the meaning of the hebrew lett

ed instrument when seeking sigils intuitively. an ancient technique of focusing the attention described in the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the is to place a small plate of silver on the altar and ask the guardian angel to inscribe the sigil upon its polished surface. sigils sent in this way were said to appear in tiny beads of dew that looked like the filaments of a spider web. no doubt the formation of those dew drops was helped by the fact that the windows of the ritual chamber were open and the ritual took place in the very early morning. the sigl image was hurriedly copied by the magus before it faded away. any hard shiny surface will serve, such as a plate of brass, gold, or even glass. crystals can also be used for intuiting sigils, as can automatic drawing. smoke and water

in the system is uniformly distributed, and thus no work is possible. in other words, it is the tendency of the universe to run down like a giant clock. were the universe to endure forever, as some scientists have postulated (the steady state theory, eventually all the stars would burn themselves out and all the raw materials of new stars (hydrogen and helium) would also be consumed, pre- venting the formation of new stars. the universe would be one great cold expanse of darkness. this is the final fulfillment of entropy, and the direction it always tends. fortunately, the steady state theory is false. the universe is a closed system that will collapse back in upon itself long before all the stars exhaust their available fuel. entropy acting on the moral and spiritual levels of human being

hind the well-known witching away of warts, which are in fact colonies of viruses. the wise woman uses her will and the uncon- scious will of the afflicted person to send the soul of the wart away, after which the body of the wart soon dissolves into nothingness. the reverse of this is the uncon- scious creation of the soul of a disease, such as hysterical pregnancy in women who want children, or the formation of stigmata in the fanatically religious. all modern medicine is a treatment of symptoms. the disease is burned or cut out or poisoned, but always the effort is directed against the physical body of the disease, never at its soul. even inoculation merely prepares the human body to resist the body of the microorganism. perhaps the closest science has come to attacking the soul of a di

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paris in 1873, blavatsky was directed by spiritual overseers to go to new york and meet with a man named henry steel olcott (1832-1907. she followed their directive, and was soon living with olcott in a seven-room apartment in new york that they referred to as the lamasery. their union appears to have been intellectual rather than sexual. an intense period of mediumship and writing culminated in the formation of the theosophical society. olcott was elected as chairman and became the organizational genius responsible for the rapid spread of the society. blavatsky's two greatest works, isis unveiled (1877) and the secret doctrine (1888, are bewildering in their scope and complexity. somehow, from their confusion, and from subsequent spirit messages received by blavatsky during seances, she

d in astral projection because of the negative connotation the term holds in the scientific community. considering that one of them was a tarot-card reader, this nicety of terminology appears a bit silly. because they did not use a formal ritual structure, they were poorly protected when confronted by astral entities with malicious intentions. their response was to retreat as rapidly as possible. the formation of simple rituals is difficult to avoid when repeating the same actions on a regular basis. they define themselves spontaneously. we all have little rituals that 160 soul flight help us get through our daily tasks. the morning grooming ritual. the first cigarette of the day ritual. the meet a friend in the street ritual. each of these and a hundred others are like intricate little da

han the physical space, or it can be molded in specific ways to serve the purposes of the ritual. you will remember that the remote viewers of the cia adopted the practice of going to their "safe place" on the astral level in their extended experiments, as a staging zone from which to depart on their assignments. this "safe place" was nothing other than a ritual space created on the astral level. the formation of a ritual chamber or temple on the astral level that corresponds with the physical ritual space is universal in modern western ceremonial magic. since the cia operatives had no clear idea of what they were doingthey probably believed they were the first to have invented the technique-their physical ritual space gave poor support to their astral space. ideally, the physical chamber

is far more emphatically the case. an elemental may, for some purpose of its own, masquerade for a time in alien garb, but we are given a certain definite procedure to follow in dealing with them."232 the methods of dealing with such deceptions in appearance mentioned by mathers involved the vibration of divine and angelic names, the making of signs of the elemental grades of the golden dawn, and the formation of pentagrams upon the air with various elemental associations. their purpose was to show to the spirit that the astral traveler 231. gaster and daiches, three works (babylonian oil magic, 20. 232. regardie, 460. chapter seventeen: etiquette in the astral world 295 had authority over the spirit, and to compel the spirit to present itself honestly and in harmony with the elemental lev

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is not nearly so popular among practitioners of magic as the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram. it is excellent for purifying the atmosphere of a room and keeping it free from unwanted psychic or spirit intrusions. the interlocking framework of lines and crosses acts as a protective barrier without being as obtrusive on the astral level as the pentagrams. there are two parts to the ritual, the formation of the interlocking framework of circle-crosses, and the invocation of lvx. both parts can be performed as separate rituals in their own right. the grid of lines and crosses is excellent for cleansing a space. the lvx formula elevates the spirit and opens it to higher influences and communications. as is the case with most golden dawn rituals, the original description in the order pa

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letters, and reads thus, yod-he-vau-he, 713 (the tarot of the bohemians [1889, translated by a. p. morton, new york: arcanum books, 1958, pp. 17-8) aleister crowley 26. ihvh. jehovah, as the dyad expanded, the jealous and terrible god, the lesser countenance. the god of nature, fecund, cruel, beautiful, relentless (777 and other qabalistic writings [i9091 [york beach, maine: weiser, 1977, p. 30) the formation of the yod is the formulation of the first creative force, of that father who is called "self-begotten" and unto whom it is said "thou hast formulated thy father, and made fertile thy mother" the adding of the he' to the yod is the marriage of that father to the great co-equal mother, who is a reflection of nuit as he is of hadit. their union brings forth the son vau who is the heir

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

description, the following exercise is suggested: withdraw from your mind all types of thoughts, imagine now the holy eight as it is represented in the following graphic: allow the figure to submerge itself within your consciousness and go to sleep. imagine your mind as a blank screen without thinking of anything1. thus after a while, you will awaken your consciousness in the astral body. now, if the formation of this sign is considered, then we can see the continuity of the same arm which closes a double circuit in the first stroke, while in the second only encloses one, deviating in the other one to project itself towards the exterior after cutting the sign in the central crossing. one closes and the other opens. 1 literally: without thinking in anything arcano numero 1 est representado

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

our haunted planet, by john a. keel (1968. fawcett publications, greenwich, conn..the parahuman serpent people of the past are still among us. they were probably worshipped by the builders of stonehenge and the forgotten ridge-making cultures of south america..in some parts of the world the serpent people successfully posed as gods and imitated the techniques of the superintelligence. this led to the formation of pagan religions centered around human sacrifices. the conflict, so far as man himself was concerned, became one of religions and races. whole civilizations based upon the worship of these false gods rose and fell in asia, africa, and south america. the battleground had been chosen, and the mode of conflict had been decided upon "the human race would supply the pawns. the mode of c

WILLIAM WESCOTT GOLDEN DAWN HISTORTY LECTURE

ermanubis no. 2 which had ceased to exist owing to the death of all its chiefs. the temple no. 1 of licht, liebe, libra is a group of continental mystics who have not been in the habit of performing ceremonies in open lodge, but have conferred the grades chiefly in privacy and in the presence of two or three members, so there is no accurate record of name and rank of all these members. soon after the formation of temple no. 3, permission was granted for the consecration of osiris temple no. 4 at weston-super-mare under rule of v.h. frater "crux dat salubrem" and the west of england has been assigned to him as a province. almost at the same time, the horus temple no. 5 under the rule of v.h. fratre "vote vita mea" was also consecrated at bredford in yorkshire. these three temples have membe

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

omical terms, a form of divination became practiced, by which the professors attempted to foretell the future, life and death, good and evil fortune, detection of theft, etc, an ample explanations of which may be studied by the curious in the holy guide of john heydon. with this system is associated the practice of pure astrology, the divination of fate by means of the heavenly bodies, especially the formation of the so-called horoscopes- schemes of the arrangement of the planets at the moment of birth, from which all the important phases of the life can be inferred by some few pernumbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott sons. the kabalah became a means of handing down from one generation to another hidden truths, religious notions, secrets of nature, idea

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

the division that stands in the beginning and end of the ontic circuit, determining our way of being-in-the-middle. with this insight we may return to the zoharic narrative that set us on our way in this chapter. on the face of it, tau is not worthy to be the instrument of creation because its negative association with mawet cancels out the positive value assigned to it on account of its role in the formation of emet. it would seem, then, that the deleterious ramifications of death outweigh the beneficial consequences of truth. reflecting, however, on the correlation of death and truth as they relate to the seal of divine judgment raises a question as to why these two are set in diametric opposition; on the contrary, there is no apparent justification for separating truth and death, as di

t his conclusion that the blurring of the difference between past, present, and future implies that for the rabbinic sages time is neither linear nor cyclical but unremarkable (p. 181. see also p. 187: time in a system of perfection can be neither linear nor cyclical; time in historical dimensions simply is not a consideration in thinking about what happens and what counts. instead, paradigms for the formation of the social order of transcendence and permanence govern, so that what was now is, and what will be is what was and is. for a more detailed analysis, see neusner, presence, pp. 39 60. it is equally plausible to speak of a convergence of the circular and linear to account for the rabbinic sensibility regarding the timeless nature of time and the timely nature of timelessness. also r

ng to some sources, the latter term is applied to shekhinah, 244 notes to pages 130 133 which is the feminine persona. see idel, kabbalah: new perspectives, pp. 119 and 135, and liebes, studies in the zohar, pp. 110 114. 91. on the distinction between tehillah, praise, and tefillah, prayer, see bahir, 46, p. 143. 92. vestiges of what i assume is a much older myth that has had a profound impact on the formation and evolution of kabbalistic symbolism can be found in the bahiric anthology. see bahir, 12, p. 123 (in that passage, the parabolic image of the king preparing a crown to rest on the head of his son prior to creating his son is employed to explain the notion that light preceded the world, 61, pp. 153 155, and 72, pp. 161 163. in my scholarly writings, i have returned to this theme re

e path, pp. 84 86. the analysis here is based on my previous discussion. compare the remark of nahmanides in his report of the barcelona disputation in 1263, translated in maccoby, judaism on trial, p. 134: the truth is that the messiah will come and he will be completely human, the son of a man and a woman from their intercourse just like myself. on the possible influence of marian veneration on the formation of the bahiric symbol of shekhinah, see sch fer, daughter, pp. 221 242; idem, mirror, pp. 147 216. although sch fer refers to my study on the jewish-christian context of a central bahiric symbol-complex, he does not consider the dimension of my study that casts the issue in terms of the medieval setting. the lack of attentiveness is most apparent in sch fer s summary of my view in mi

lip in time saves nine: prestigious origins again. in chronotypes: the construction of time, edited by john bender and david e. wellbery, 67 76. stanford: stanford university press, 1991. a twice-told tale: the history of the history of religions history. numen 48 (2001: 131 146. snow, dale e. schelling and the end of idealism. albany: state university of new york press, 1996. sokolowski, robert. the formation of husserl s concept of constitution. the hague: martinus nijhoff, 1970. spiegelberg, herbert. the phenomenological movement. 2 vols. the hague: martinus nijhoff, 1960. spinoza, benedict de. ethics. in works of spinoza, vol. 2. translated with an introduction by robert h. m. elwes. new york: dover publications, 1955. 300 bibliography. tractatus theologico-politicus (gebhardt edition

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rest had single letters. however, there were changes to five more squares which were added by various adepti over the years. these were appendices to a copied version of wynn wescott's original tablets, which i currently have in my possession. trying to give an original version of these tablets is something of an impossibility due to the ongoing debate among occultists. some versions do not allow the formation of the names of the governors of the aethyrs and their sigils. dee even had a numbex of different versions which were also corrected. the final version does not fit well either, although it was corrected by the archangel raphael. making changes using the raphael revised version to the various subsystems would be a monumental undertaking, an article written by christian wilby in adam

n applied to the 7-branch candlestick" this tied the whole latter part of the system to the first seven verses of genesis. this system, however, started with a diagram called the "tabula collecta (figure 40, which went through at least three other subsystems before it reached its pinnacle as shown in the mathers figure. this chapter goes through each of these subsystems save one (which relates to the formation of the holy table, and shows the formation of the system and its remarkable ties with the golden dawn paper "particular exordium (found in the z1 document of the golden dawn. israel regardie encouraged me to go further into this system, and my debt to him is hereby acknowledged. he worked on this subject himself for a few years but was never able to get past the note-taking stage. as

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

borate study and analysis and the four squares above the calvary crosses in each lesser angle of the four enochian tablets, and their influence when combined with the serviant squares of each lesser angle. 6. development of the employment and uses of telesmata and symbols. 7. of the combination of diverse forces so as to reconcile their action in the same symbol of telesma. 8. the egyptian art of the formation of a combined series of images of gods or forces, so as to have the effect of a continuous prayer or invocation for the power desired. 9. the knowledge of shdialchi or the art of taking, in any working, the godform which would govern the same, by means of identification with a telesmatic figure. 10. the true system of astrological divination. 11. of the correspondence existing betwee

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since the beginning of the atlantean race many million years have passed, yet we find the last of the atlanteans, still mixed up with the aryan element, 11,000 years ago. this shows the enormous overlapping of one race over the race which succeeds it, though in character and external type the elder loses its characteristics, and assumes the new features of the younger race. this is proved in all the formations of mixed human races. now, occult philosophy teaches that even now, under our very eyes, the new race and races are preparing to be formed, and that it is in america that the transformation will take place, and has already silently commenced. pure anglo-saxons hardly three hundred years ago, the americans of the united states have already become a nation apart, and, owing to a stron

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into its objective state, as to cause it to represent the idea which they, the unseen directors, had in view, namely the idea of a sailing ship (psychic science, vol. 11, no. 4, jan. 1933. the appearance of images instead of forms was said to have something to do with the available power. geley often observed strange, incomplete forms, imitations or simulacra of organs. his theory was as follows: the formations materialised in mediumistic seances arise from the same biological process as normal birth. they are neither more nor less miraculous or supernormal; they are equally so. the same ideoplastic miracle makes the hands, the face, the viscera, the tissues, and the entire organism of the foetus at the expense of the maternal body, or the hands, the face, or the entire organs of a materia

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

tziluthic letter alef a. the beards of the two faces with their nine respective formations of names are shown in figures 3.3 and 3.4. the beard of faith, not (al, is mentioned because it is the most precious of all. it egresses from the ears round about the face, the white locks [strands of names] ascending and descending, 2" 2' 8 +0 separating into thirteen of that most splendid of splendors. 10 the formations of the beard are found to be thirteen, that is the upper one [vast face. in the lower one [small face] they are beheld in nine. 11 each hair is said to be the breaking of the hidden fountains that issue forth from the hidden brain [vast face. 12 and all those threads [i.e. convoluting names] go out from the hidden brain and are disposed in the weights [i.e. sefiroth. 13 2 f# vast fa

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

and whose debris has continually fallen into earth atmosphere and onto the very sur-face, as charles fort and others have researched for decades.scientists find 'lost city' of ancient rocknow researchers probing the ocean bottom have found 18-story-high towers of stone- the tallest ever -near a section of volcanic fault ridges that extend for 6,200 miles along the atlantic ocean floor.inspired by the formations' majestic heights and by the fact that the stone towers appear on a sea-floormountain named atlantis massif, the scientists named the field of about two dozen stone structures thelost city in honor of the fabled, flooded city.not only are the underwater stone spirals unusual in composition and their location, scientists think theymay offer a glimpse into earth's earliest environment

would be a national park. the lost city is also strikingly brightor as bright as things canappear under artificial light a half-mile below sea level.while rock formations around volcanic ridges normally appear black, these formations are gleamingwhite because they are made up of materials similar to pale concrete, such as carbonate minerals andsilica. kelley, who was lead author of a study about the formations in this week's issue of the journal,nature, says the steep-sided towers of rock blossom into feathery ledges of precipitated stone whichsprawl outwards for as wide as 30 feet.most unusual about the structures are their size. the highest stone spiral reaches 180 feet above theocean floor. before finding lost city, the highest known underwater structure was an 80-foot-highstone chimne

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

nd. h6 the full passage reads: david was told: gthe philistines are fighting with ke filah and plundering the threshing floors. h david consulted g-d [through the urim v ftumim, gshall i go and attack these philistines? h and g-d said to david, ggo; attack the philistines and you will save ke filah. h but david fs men said to him, glook, we are afraid here in judah, how much more if we go against the formations of the philistines in ke filah! h so david consulted g-d again, and g-d answered him, garise, go down to ke filah, for i am going to deliver the philistines into your hands. h david and his men went to ke filah and fought against the philistines; he drove off their cattle and inflicted a severe defeat on them. thus david saved the inhabitants of ke filah. when evyatar son of achimel

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