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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

ermans; i have never yet heard of an ohg. artinga, ertinga, nor of an on. addingar, eddingar, according to this conjecture, ingenious anyhow and worth examining further, the ancestral hero would be called istio= izdio, izdvio, ohg. erfo, on. mdi, with which the celebrated term edda proavia would agree, its gothic form being izd6, ohg. erta. izdo, izdio proavus would seem in itself an apt name for the founder of a race. the fluctuation between i and a would be common to both interpretations' iscaevones= askinga' and' istaevones= artinga. the third son of mannus will occupy us even longer than his brothers. ermine's posterity completes the cycle of the three main races of germany: ingaevones, iscaevoncs, herminones. the order in which they stand seems immaterial, in tacitus it merely follows

constitutum nominatumque; arani quin etiam ulixi consecratam, adjecto laertae patris nomine, eodem loco olim repertam; tac. germ. 3. in odysseus people have seen osinn, in asciburg asburg; but if woden stood for the god mercury, it cannot here mean the hero, still less can askiburg be traced to the ases, a purely norse form, which in these regions would have been anscs. when tacitus makes ulixes the founder of asciburg, nothing is simpler than to suppose him to have been tsco, escio, asko (p. 350; and if it was isco tliat set the eomans thinking of ul-ixes, how it helps to establish the sc in iscaevones! maiinus the father of isco may have suggested laertes, inasmuch as \a6people, and \aostone, are mixed up in the creation of the first man (the origo gentis) out of stone or rock (se

ABRAMELIN1

one, he and his wife pernelle caused a handsome peristyle to be erected. from his own account, the author of the present work appears to have been born in a.d. 1362, and to have written this manuscript for his son, lamech, in 1458, being then in his ninety-sixth year. that is to say, that he was the contemporary both of nicholas flamel and pernelle, and also of the mystical christian rosenkreutz, the founder of the celebrated rosicrucian order or fraternity in europe. like the latter, he appears to have been very early seized with the desire of obtaining magical knowledge; like him and flamel, he left his home and travelled in search of the initiated wisdom; like them both, he returned to become a worker of wonders. at this period, it was almost universally believed that introduction v the

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

rought many wonderful cures. he was an expert qabbalist as his book 'h' witnessed. his death had been previously foretold him by c.r.c. but those who were later admitted were of the first order, and knew not when c.r. died, and save what they learned from frater a, the successor of d. of the second order and from their library after his death, knew little of the earlier and higher members, and of the founder, nor yet whether those of the second order were admitted to the wisdom of the highest members. the discovery then of the tomb wherein that highly illuminated man of god, our father c.r.c, was buried occurred as follows. after frater a. died in gallia narbonensi, there succeeded in his place frater n.n. he, while repairing a part of the building of the college of the holy spirit, endeav

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

ies by sinking his personal phantasies in the will of the superior. 6. i should like to mention here that the spiritual exercises of st. ignatius are in their essence really admirable yoga practices. they have, it is true, a tinge of magical technique, and they have been devised to serve a dogmatic end. that was, however, necessary, and it was good magic too, at that, because the original will of the founder was to produce a war engine as a counterblast to the reformation. he was very wise to devise a plan, irrespective of its abstract merits as philosophy, which would most efficiently serve that single purpose. the only trouble has been that this purpose was not sufficiently cosmic in scope to resist internal forces. having attained the higher planes by practice of these exercises, they f

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

s doctrine. the reference to their "living not" is to be found in liber 418. the word "perdurabo" means "i will endure unto the end. the allusion is explained in the note. siddartha, or gotama, was the name of the last budda. krishna was the principal incarnation of the indian vishnu, the preserver, the principal expounder of vedantism. tahuti, or thoth, the egyptian god of wisdom. mosheh, moses, the founder of the hebrew system. dionysus, probably an ecstatic from the east. mahmud, mohammed. all these were men; their godhead is the result of mythopoeia. notes (5) masters of the temple, whose grade has the mystic number 6= 1+ 2+ 3 (6) these are not eight, as apparent; for lao-tzu counts as 0 (7) the legend of "christ" is only a corruption and perversion of other legends. especially of dion

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 2

esent the universe. 208 "chief" associate adeptus minor, in what part of it is he buried "third" in the centre of the heptagonal sides and beneath the altar, his head being towards the east "chief" mighty adeptus major, why in the centre "second" because that is the point of perfect equilibrium [by this system of question and answer the whole symbolism of the vault is explained. thus, the name of the founder signifies the rose and cross of christ, the fadeless rose of creation, the immortal cross of light. the vault itself represents the tomb of osiris onnophris, the justified one. its seven sides the seven lower sephiroth, the seven days of creation, and the seven palaces. it is situated in the centre of the earth, in the mountain of the caverns, the mystic mountain of abiegnus; which is

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

after christ. the hindu authorities themselves, however, who may be supposed to know something about the matter, ascribe a very much earlier date, even as far back as 10,000 b. c. patanjali was a compiler of teaching which, up to the time of his advent, had been given orally for many centuries. he was the first to reduce the teaching to writing for the use of students and hence he is regarded as the founder of the raja yoga school- 4- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust the system, however, has been in use since the very beginning of the aryan race. the yoga sutras are the basic teaching of the trans-himalayan school to which many of the masters of the wisdom belong, and many students hold that the essenes and other schools of mystical training and thought, closely connected

ounder of the raja yoga school- 4- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust the system, however, has been in use since the very beginning of the aryan race. the yoga sutras are the basic teaching of the trans-himalayan school to which many of the masters of the wisdom belong, and many students hold that the essenes and other schools of mystical training and thought, closely connected with the founder of christianity and the early christians, are based upon the same system and that their teachers were trained in the great trans-himalayan school. it should be stated here that the sutras have been dictated and paraphrased by the tibetan brother and the commentary upon them has been written by myself, and subjected to revision and comment by the tibetan. it should be noted that the tra

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

king to impose a narrow sectarian christ upon the world. we have fed the fires of separation by our christian divisions, churches, sects and "isms "their name is legion" and most of them are founded upon some sectarian presentation of the dead christ, and of the earlier aspects of his story. let us now unite on the basis of the risen christ christ alive today, christ the source of inspiration and the founder of the kingdom of god; christ, the cosmic christ, eternally on the cross, yet eternally alive; christ, the historical saviour, the founder of christianity, watching over his church; christ, the mystic, mythic christ, portraying upon the canvas of the gospels the episodes of unfoldment so that all who live may know and follow; and christ, alive today in every human heart, the guarantee

development, humanity (regarding it as a kingdom in nature) has reached a point where something new can emerge, as has always happened in analogous circumstances in other kingdoms. we can produce, and as a race give birth to, the next kingdom in nature, which christ called the kingdom of god; this is the kingdom of souls, the kingdom of spiritual lives, and herein, uniquely, christ emerges. he is the founder of that kingdom. he proclaimed its existence and he indicated its nature. in himself he gave us an expression of its qualifications, and showed us the characteristics of the citizen of that kingdom. through the example of its founder, christianity has also had a unique mission in inaugurating the era of service. world service, world welfare, world interest, world inter-communication an

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

se of the smallness of our little planet, and because of the prevalence of the radio, of television and the rapidity of communication, his part will be watched by all and the prospect must surely, for him, hold certain horror, must present its tests and major adjustments, plus painful and unavoidable experience. he does not come as the omnipotent god of man's ignorant creation, but as the christ, the founder of the kingdom of god on earth, to complete the work he started, and again to demonstrate divinity in far more difficult circumstances. the christ suffers, however, far more from those in his own household than from those in the outer world; his work is more impeded by the advanced aspirant than by the intelligent thinker. it was not the cruelty of the outer world of men which caused t

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

y which is in christ. theologians have lost (if they ever possessed it) the "mind that is in christ" and the outstanding need of the church today is to relinquish theology, to let go all doctrine and dogma and to turn upon the world the light that is in christ, and thus demonstrate the fact of christ's eternal livingness, and the beauty and the love which it can reflect from its contact with him, the founder of christianity but not of churchianity. i generalise. there are those in the church today who do express all that i have stated and who are reflections in the truest sense of the living christ. they relegate theology and authority to their rightful place and regard the discussions of theologians as simply expressions of perhaps needed mental gymnastics and as incentives to thought, bu

e world, to bring light and fruitfulness to the earth and through the work of the son of god to bring hope to humanity. the christmas season is regarded by those who do not know any better as uniquely the festival of the christ, and this the christian churches have- 80- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust emphasised and to this all churchmen testify. this is both true and false. the founder of the christian church god in the flesh availed himself of this period and came to us in the dark of the year and initiated a new era in which light was to be the distinguishing note. this has been true from several angles, even from the purely physical, for today we have a lighted world; everywhere lights are to be seen and the pitch dark nights of olden times are fast disappearing

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

e by many research scholars. i would, however, point out that four of the names whereby the virgin is called are familiar to all of us, and tell us much as a whole concerning the form nature of which the virgin is the symbol. the word virgo itself is a descendant of and a corruption of an ancient atlantean root name which was applied to the mother principle in those far off times. this virgin was the founder of the matriarchate which then dominated civilisation and to which various myths and legends bear evidence and which have come down to us concerning lilith, the last of the virgin goddesses of atlantean times; the same thought is also to be found in the traditionary accounts of the ancient amazons, whose queen hercules defeated, wresting from her what he sought. this is an allegory, te

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ause of the smallness of our little planet, and because of the prevalence of the radio, television and the rapidity of communication, his part will be watched by all, and the prospect must surely, for him, hold certain horror, must present its tests and major adjustments, plus painful and unavoidable experience. he does not come as the omnipotent god of man's ignorant creation, but as the christ, the founder of the kingdom of god on earth, to complete the work he started, and again to demonstrate divinity in far more difficult circumstances. the christ suffers, however, far more from those in his own household than from those in the outer world; his work is more impeded by the advanced aspirant than by the intelligent thinker. it was not the cruelty of the outer world of men which caused t

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

man, representing matter that has been dominated and controlled. cassiopeia will be found seated on the arctic circle, close to [36] cepheus the king,or lawgiver, whom we shall meet later as one of the three constellations in pisces. at the commencement, law; at the close, law; for cepheus has a close relation with the first and the last sign of the zodiac. it is interesting to note that mahomet, the founder of the most militant religion, was born in this sign, and legend says that moses also was born in it; moses, the lawgiver, and mahomet, the warrior- 24- the labours of hercules the problem of hercules, as he enters upon his labors, is to demonstrate his power over matter and form, and so he has to recognize cassiopeia from the very beginning, the hitherto enthroned queen. the second co

ANALYSIS OF THE 5 6 INITIATION

of pain and suffering has served the candidate well in that now he is equilibriated. the invocation of h v a follows after the obligation/oath is taken. it is divided into ten parts. the rtk of the candidate who is speaking binds the lower nine. it is a most sacred oath, never to be forgotten. next, themis commemorates the life and death of osiris. the symbolic archetype of christian rosenkruetz, the founder of our order, is now that of osiris. the aspirant is now in a state of mourning. it is the mourning of isis. recall that the aspirant is dead, having been crucified on the cross. the rose cross is pointed out as a symbol of the completion of the great work, though it may be several years before the aspirant fully understands the mysteries of the sublime and sacred symbol. next, the tom

BALANONES TEMPLE OF SET FAQ

variety of scholarly, artistic, or (obviously) magical endeavors to increase the setian mindscape. third degrees can represent the temple in most matters. if you have any questions concerning the temple of set (the organization, our activities, beliefs, or members, these members are the best qualified to answer your questions- the fourth degree wears a blue medallion. the fourth degree setian is the founder of a school of thought in the temple, which may effect the general philosophical and magical actions of mankind as well. these schools of thought are called orders. some such as the order of the vampyre or the order of the trapezoid are well known beyond the boundaries of the temple walls, while others have lower profiles. the job of the fourth degree is the discovery and articulation

any combination of these ideas. 6.1 activities what do setians do? this topic is covered in the ref document. 6.2 setians 6.2.1 specific setians- executive director- can be contacted through the temple's postal address, or through email balfaq.ed@xeper.org- high priest- magus don webb can be contacted through the temple's postal address, or through email (balfaq.hp@xeper.org- dr. michael aquino- the founder of the temple of set can be contacted through the temple's postal address or through email (balfaq.maquino@xeper.org- balanone- this long -time member (and author of this document) can be contacted through the temple's postal address or through email (balfaq@xeper.org. one frequently asked question is why balanone signs his email and posts with "pp" below his name. as stated in april

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

has its watchful eye upon it, from the dawn to the close of the twilight of 'a day' of the great breath[[footnote(s* by "original" we mean the "amshaspend" called "zarathustra, the lord and ruler of the vara made by yima in that land" there were several zarathustra or zertusts, the dabistan alone enumerating thirteen; but these were all the reincarnations of the first one. the last zoroaster was the founder of the fire temple of azareksh and the writer of the works on the primeval sacred magian religion destroyed by alexander* in india called "the day of brahma[[vol. 2, page] 7 hyperboreas and lemuria. ii. the "hyperborean" will be the name chosen for the second continent, the land which stretched out its promontories southward and westward from the north pole to receive the second race

s of the 18th and 19th dynasties the symbols of life and power. but subsequently, in the course of the 20th dynasty, he is suddenly treated as an evil demon, insomuch that his effigies and name are obliterated on all the monuments and inscriptions that could be reached" the real occult reason will be given in these pages* sukra is the son of bhrigu the great rishi, and one of the seven prajapati, the founder of the race of bhargavas, in which parasu rama is born[[vol. 2, page] 33 parent stars and sister planets. that occult mysticism has to deal. the allegory which states that for killing sukra's mother, vishnu was cursed by him to be reborn seven times on the earth, is full of occult philosophical meaning. it does not refer to vishnu's avatars, since these number nine, the tenth being sti

* seth is the "progenitor" of those early men of the third race in whom the "planetary" angels had incarnated- a dhyan chohan himself, who belonged to the informing gods; and enos (hanoch or enoch) or hermes, was said to be his son- because it was a generic name for all the early seers("enoichion. thence the worship. the arabic writer soyuti says that the earliest records mention seth, or set, as the founder of sabeanism; and therefore that the pyramids which embody the planetary system were regarded as the place of sepulchre of both seth and idris (hermes or enoch (see vyse "operations" vol. ii, p. 358; that thither sabeans proceeded[[footnote(s* who became later on, with the greeks, limited only to castor and pollux. but in the days of lemuria, the dioscuri, the "egg-born" were the seven

er was 77 crores (or 770 millions) of men (see padma purana) all such narratives are pronounced meaningless fictions and absurdities. but- truth is the daughter of time, verily; and time will show. meanwhile, what could be easier than an attempt, at least, to verify puranic chronology? there are many kapilas; but the kapila who slew king sagara's progeny- 60,000 men strong- was undeniably kapila, the founder of the sankhya philosophy, since it is so stated in the puranas; although one of them flatly denies the imputation without explaining its esoteric meaning. it is the bhagavata purana (ix. viii, 12 and 13, which says that "the report that the sons of the king were reduced to ashes by the mere glance of the sage is not true "for" as it argues "how can the quality of darkness, the product

ies of the three equal lines or sides of the triangle that ragon based his studies and founded the famous masonic society of the trinosophists (those who study three sciences; an improvement upon the ordinary three masonic degrees, given to those who study nothing except eating and drinking at the meetings of their lodges "the first line of the triangle offered to the apprentice for study" writes the founder "is the mineral kingdom, symbolized by tubalc (tubal-cain. the second side on which the 'companion' has to meditate, is the vegetable kingdom, symbolized by schibb[[diagram (schibboleth. in this kingdom begins the generation of the bodies. this is why the letter g is presented radiant before the eyes of the adept. the third side is left to the master mason, who has to complete his educ

hrice destroyed, namely, by julius caesar b.c. 48, in a.d. 390, and lastly in the year 640, a.d, by the general of kaliph omar. what is this in comparison with the works and records destroyed in the primitive atlantean libraries, wherein records are said to have been traced on the tanned skins of gigantic antediluvian monsters? or again the destruction of the countless chinese books by command of the founder of the imperial tsin dynasty, tsin shi hwang-ti, in 213 b.c? surely the brick-clay tablets of the imperial babylonian library, and the priceless treasures of the chinese collections could have never contained such information as one of the aforesaid "atlantean" skins would have furnished to the ignorant world. but even with the extremely meagre data at hand, science has been able to se

l, and in worlds that preceded our own. these are, the great mathematicians leibnitz and bernouilli, isaac newton himself, as can be read in his "optics; buffon, the naturalist; condillac, the sceptic; bailly, lavater, bernardin de st. pierre, and, as a contrast to the two last named- suspected at least of mysticism- diderot and most of the writers of the encyclopaedia. following these come kant, the founder of modern philosophy; the poet philosophers, goethe, krause, schelling; and many astronomers, from bode, fergusson and herschell to lalande and laplace, with their many disciples in more recent years. a brilliant list of honoured names indeed; but the facts of physical astronomy speak even more strongly in favour of the presence of life, even organised life, on other planets. thus in f

ptune, the god of reasoning, and apollo, the god of the hidden things, presented themselves as masons before laomedon, priam's father, to help him to build the city of troy- that is to say, to establish the trojan religion (maconnerie orthodoxe, p. 44) such veiled sentences with double meaning abound in ancient classical writers. therefore, had an attempt been made to show that, e.g, laomedon was the founder of a branch of archaic mysteries in which the earth-bound material soul (the fourth principle, was personified in menelaus' faithless wife (the fair helen, if ragon had not come to corroborate what we asserted, we might be told that no classical author speaks of it, and that homer shows laomedon building a city, not an esoteric worship or mysteries! and who are those left now, save a f

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

itual, the other material-correlative, and for ever united "thou shalt separate the earth from the fire, the subtile from the solid. that which ascends from earth to heaven and descends again from heaven to earth. it (the subtile light, is the strong force of every force, for it conquers every subtile thing and penetrates into every solid. thus was the world formed (hermes. it was not zeno alone, the founder of the stoics, who taught that the[[footnote(s* see next note* od is the pure life-giving light, or magnetic fluid; ob the messenger of death used by the sorcerers, the nefarious evil fluid; aour is the synthesis of the two, astral light proper. can the philologists tell why od- a term used by reichenbach to denominate the vital fluid- is also a tibetan word meaning light, brightness

ability, as in the case of mesmerism and magnetism, now re-baptised hypnotism, father the thing and reject its name. the choice of the new appellation will depend, in its turn, on the "modes of motion" the new name for the older "automatic physical processes among the nerve fibrils of the (scientific) brain" of moleschott; as also, very likely, upon the last meal of the namer; since, according to the founder of the new hylo-idealistic scheme "cerebration is generically the same as chylification* thus, were one to believe this preposterous proposition, the new name of the archaic thing would have to take its chance, on the inspiration of the namer's liver, and then only would these truths have a chance of becoming scientific! but truth, however distasteful to the generally blind majorities

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

ime has only maneuvered to some certain state due to lack of imagination and vision. chaos magick is an egocentric ideology that has no specific doctrine or form. lack of dogma can often lead to emptiness of concepts and then the boat literally runs aground. chaos magick must be defined in a certain context in order to re-awaken the luminous possibilities contained therein. austin osman spare was the founder of what is today chaos magick. his study and practice of magick developed early on and was later subject to formal training with aleister crowley. spare understood the importance of ritual and ceremony yet at the same time found it repulsive and idiotic. however, by viewing spare s paintings and pastels one is able to understand his appreciative attitude towards ceremony. austin spare

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

e "there am lots of folks, and educated ones too, that says we-uns don't understand" he claimed" emember the lord, in some of his ways, can be mysterious. the bible says so" spiritual powers and supernatural abilities, he argued, were available to those who were divinely gifted or specially inspired by god.[8] this book considers other cases as well, such as that of bishop charles harrison mason, the founder of what would become the largest african american pentecostal denomination, the church of god in christ. mason possessed an uncommon fascination with strangely formed natural objects.objects that were reminiscent of the "roots" or magical artifacts used by black conjurers throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. mason, however, described his roots as "wonders of god" an

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

k alone, with only the tortoise and the dragon for company. his hands were covered with sores and calluses. his skin was blackened and blistered from the sun. one leg shriveled and twisted as yu limped around the rough terrain. wherever he traveled, farmers hailed him as the great yu. their widespread affection caused the ruling emperor to choose yu as the next emperor. it was thus that yu became the founder and ruler of the xia [she ah] dynasty. soon plentiful grain harvests blessed the land. the rivers ran peacefully to the sea and did not overflow. the people lived happily in their villages and blessed the name of yu in their joy and contentment. chinese mythology 58 questions and answers q: how did yu the great come into being? a: zurong the fire god was sent by the yellow emperor to c

e banquet meats, wines, and fruit. he was also insulted that he had not been invited to the feast. q: what did monkey steal to eat and drink? a: he consumed the magic peaches from the orchard, dumplings from the kitchen, wines from the heavenly cellar, and all the magic pills of immortality from laotzu s house. q: who was lao-tzu? a: he was a great philosopher, the author of the tao te ching, and the founder of taoism. monkey 105 expert commentary both the tao te ching and journey to the west are two well-known pieces of literature. fatima wu, assistant professor at loyola marymount university, explains the widespread affection for journey to the west in china: if one is asked to name a chinese book that is known to all ages and all social levels, one has to nominate journey to the west. a

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

y many different extraterrestrial stories have become fused into a composite god over the centuries. dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to worship a composite god made up of extraterrestrials. amen. if you look at the origins of the major religions, the stories are remarkably similar to those we hear today from people claiming to have met, or been abducted by, extraterrestrials. mohammed, the founder of islam in the seventh century, said that he had been visited by the angel gabriel, who was "in the likeness of a man, standing in the sky above the horizon".2 this figure told him he had to be a prophet, and he was given messages which formed the islamic holy book, the koran. these messages would be dictated while mohammed was in a trance on many other occasions in the years that fol

lly is the level which has manipulated us. in the book of enoch, the 'watchers' sound remarkably like extraterrestrials. the dead sea scrolls say that the father of noah was a 'watcher, and nebuchadnezzar, the king of babylon from 651-604bc, records being visited by a watcher and a holy one who came down from heaven.4 the dakas in mahayana buddhism were 'sky travelling beings' and padma sambhava, the founder of tibetan buddhism, was said to have left tibet in a celestial chariot.5 something similar was claimed for the biblical prophet elijah when he left israel6 and for the central american god, quetzalcoatl.7 descriptions of flying discs, flying boats, and celestial chariots, abound on all continents and in all cultures. still today we relate 'heaven' to the sky, because that is where the

such a student of plato's works that he became known as the "german plato. he translated three books of plato's republic into german, but his work was never published. it was, however, passed down through the warburg banking family, the subordinates of the rothschilds, and creators of the federal reserve.1 the warburgs, like the rothschilds, would later help to fund adolf hitler. adam weishaupt, the founder of the illuminati, was another plato groupie and high initiate of the all-seeing eye stream of occult 'thinking. the views of john ruskin and his articulate promotion of them brought about a revolution in the thinking of the privileged undergraduates of oxford and some at cambridge, too. rhodes copied ruskin's inaugural lecture in longhand and kept it with him for the rest of his life

gary allen, writes in his 1972 book none dare call it conspiracy "in actual fact the 'communist manifesto' was in circulation for many years before marx's name was widely enough recognised to establish his authorship for this revolutionary handbook. all karl marx really did was to update and codify the very same revolutionary plans and principles set down seventy years earlier by adam weishaupt, the founder of the order of the illuminati in bavaria" marx was a member of a secret society in the elite/illuminati/ brotherhood network, called the league of the just, which later became the communist league. the league of the just was an offshoot of the society of the seasons, which played a leading role in the french revolution. once again our eyes turn to germany, birthplace of the bavarian i

ere supposed to be tightening their checks on potential revolutionaries entering russia on united states passports! but who controlled wilson? the elite's representative, colonel edward house (comm 300. when the ship docked in canada en route, trotsky was detained by the canadian authorities, but he was released and allowed to continue his journey to russia. lieutenant colonel john bayne maclean, the founder and president of maclean publishing, was known for his close contacts with canadian intelligence. in 1918, he wrote an article which appeared in his own maclean's magazine, headed "why did we let trotsky go? how canada lost the chance to shorten the war".17 maclean made a number of revelations about trotsky, many of which have been confirmed or supported by evidence that has come to li

n fund- unfpa, economic development and environment (the un environment programme- unep, education, science and culture (unesco, and the list is getting longer all the time. these are organisations which are designed to globalise control of all areas of our lives and we urgently need to wake up to this. the un is a front for the illuminati/freemasonic hierarchy. in a speech in 1970, robert welch, the founder of the john birch society in america, predicted with remarkable accuracy what the united nations would become "the united nations hopes and plans- or, more accurately, the insiders, the conspiratorial bosses above it, hope and plan for it-to use population controls, the secret government 145 controls over scientific and technological developments, control over arms and military strengt

rica. monnet was now in the perfect position to coordinate the america-european conspiracy to create the european community. count richard n. coudenhove-kalergi wrote a book in 1923, calling for a united states of europe. he was named after richard wagner, of whom hitler had said that to understand nazi germany one had to understand wagner. a close friend of the count's father was theodore herzl, the founder of zionism. the count's book was called pan europa, and he went on to form the pan european union with branches right across the continent, supported by leading european politicians, the anglo-american establishment, including colonel house and herbert hoover, and the usual crowd that pop up everywhere. the count said in his autobiography "at the beginning of 1924, we received a call f

years before the second world war for which churchill so vigorously campaigned- a war that was responsible for creating the european community. count coudenhove-kalergi was given enthusiastic backing from such 'unbiased' sources as john foster dulles, nicholas murray butler, the president of columbia university and the carnegie endowment for international war (sorry 'peace, and dr stephen duggan, the founder and first president of the institute of education, which was 100% controlled by the council on foreign relations. those who funded the bolshevik revolution and both sides in the two world wars, including adolf hitler, were plotting to introduce the european community as well as the united nations. meanwhile, monnet was also close to franklin d. roosevelt, thanks to his relationship wit

he most obvious expression of illuminism was the bavarian illuminati officially created by the german professor, adam weishaupt, in may 1776, and controlled by the house of rothschild, the bankers to endless revolutions and wars. it was weishaupt who used his wing of the illuminati to infiltrate and take over freemasonry. weishaupt was trained as a jesuit, which is short for the society of jesus. the founder of the jesuits, the spaniard, ignatius loyola, formed a secret society within this apparently catholic order and the initiates were called the 'alumbrados' which means the 'enlightened, the 'illuminated. conflict followed between the jesuit 'illuminism' and weishaupt's german version, battles which the traditions of weishaupt mostly won although the jesuit network is still very much a

of the grand master of italy, lino salvini. once gelli took over, the membership of the p2 lodge soared within a few years to almost a thousand, although he was almost certainly the vehicle for other powers behind p2 who kept their control secret. some researchers believe this hidden control to be the alpine freemasons' lodge in switzerland, which has had among its membership, henry kissinger and the founder of the club of rome, aurelio peccei (bil. others say this was only the 'middle man' between p2 and its real controllers, the banking interests centred on the house of rothschild. p2 initiation ceremonies took place at its headquarters in the excelsior hotel under the supervision of a former grand master of italy, giordano gamberini, but the name most associated with p2 is gelli. gelli

uded an armed bank robbery and the stories began to flow about her being brainwashed by this 'cult. the sla was destroyed when 150 officers and agents expelled 5,000 rounds of ammunition in front of live television cameras during prime time. later patricia hearst was given a mental examination by two 'experts' on brainwashing .dr louis jolyn west and dr martin orne, of the cult awareness network. the founder of can, ted patrick, has a long list of criminal convictions against him which result from his 'counselling' techniques on cult 'victims. these include kidnapping, conspiracy, false imprisonment, abduction and assault, possession of cocaine, and violation of probation. a case brought against patrick in 1976 revealed that he had held one of his abductees prisoner for 86 days at 12 locat

gree with. but manipulation of the human mind doesn't only come in one all-pervading blob. we have designer-manipulation which is targeted at a particular belief system. as people were leaving wembley, there was a group outside handing out little glossy leaflets carrying the message of babaji francesco "the man who has come to bring love and wisdom to all the earth. mr francesco, it turns out, is the founder of an organisation called associazione s.u.m- stati uniti del mondo (the united states of the world. on the first page of the leaflet is a message about love from mr francesco in which he tells us that our tears are his tears and for those who follow him all pain shall be removed. excuse me, i feel quite ill suddenly. he says that he has come to teach us that everything is one. thank y

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es can be found in ancient accounts of the gods and the "children of the gods) the beings in the mountain all wore long white gowns with a maltese cross medallion on a chain- the symbol of the knights of malta and widely seen in the symbolism of british royalty. it is also a symbol from lemuria-mu, according to james churchward, and i have heard beings of this description associated with lemuria. the founder of the mormons, joseph smith, a high-degree freemason and merovingian bloodline, said he had a the unholy alliance 89 "vision" on september 21st, 1821 in which he saw "a messenger sent from god" dressed in a long white robe of "the most exquisite whiteness. from this "vision" came the mormon church, and a stream of religions have been founded on stories, real or otherwise, of similar e

one of the most famous monarchs and conquerors of all time, was known as the "serpent son. alexander is extremely important to the nordic-reptilian genealogy of the illuminati bloodlines (see appendix i. the legend goes that alexander's real father was the serpent god, ammon, who had mysteriously slid into his mother's bed and conceived him.15 the same story was told of the conception of merovee, the founder of the merovingians. this symbolism is supported by many ancient and modern accounts of "virgin birth" impregnations by reptilian beings. the stories of women being abducted by reptilians and then finding themselves pregnant are told today all around the world. often, as the zulu shaman credo mutwa reveals from the experience of african women, the baby "disappears" from the womb during

ngue spoken on lemuria, and ends in the syllable "ka, which denotes both serpent and wisdom. apparently echoing the recollections of the andean elders, h.p. blavatsky maintains in the secret doctrine that america is referred to in the hindu puranas (legends) as potala, the kingdom of the nagas [serpents."36 native americans call america "turtle island" after their reptilian ancestors. the name of the founder of both the inca empires in south america was manco or manko kapac (kapac means serpent wisdom or spiritually wealthy. some of the former lemurian and atlantean peoples who settled in the andes migrated northwards to become some of the native american tribes of what we now call the united states. the mescalero apaches of arizona claim to descend, via peru, from a continent that sank in

ormer 33rd degree freemason, jim shaw, are many reptilian images when this statue was unveiled of george washington, the first president of the united states, the people could not understand why their esteemed george was depicted in such a strange, half-naked, pose. look at the classic image of the satanic symbol of "baphomet, however, and all becomes clear 190 children of the matrix anton lavey, the founder of the church of satan, with his high priestess, the actress, jane mansfield. many famous showbiz names were involved with lavey, including sammy davis junior and frank sinatra aleister crowley, the most famous satanist of the 20th century, who was connected both to the nazi networks in germany and the british prime minister and bloodline, winston churchill baron philippe de rothschild

in mormon rituals. in her pursuit of the truth, she spoke with another victim of ritual abuse by the mormon and roman catholic church. this other lady told her that the mormon "prophet" had taken her baby from her at a ritual and eaten it. two other women raised as catholics told her that they had seen the abusers shape-shift into reptilians and eat a human sacrifice. jane said that joseph smith, the founder of the mormons, was from "the occult bloodlines (very true) and the whole official story was a lie "the 246 children of the matrix leaders are mostly reptilian" she said "one witness says that only one of the twelve [mormon] apostles did not shape shift at the ritual" she goes on "i was so mad to find out that the alien abuse was connected to the ritual abuse in the church when i had b

line names come up all the time with the stories of shape-shifting. as i mentioned earlier, members of the oppenheimer family are the bloodline branch managers for the illuminati reptilians in south africa and this is a story from a correspondent there "i was born in south africa and years ago got to know an old lady in johannesburg who had for many years been the lover of sir ernest oppenheimer, the founder [with rothschild backing] of the gold and diamond corporate cartel. she told me that sir ernest used to visit her in the afternoons at her flat in parktown. on one occasion as they were about to make love, his body took on the form and proportions of a giant lizard with scales and she said the experience had been one of the sexual highlights of her life. the story which was so strange

of the matrix the past. there's no point in fighting technology. if you want to give your kids pocket money, you pass it to them by phone. they can use it for bus fares, in the school cafeteria, or whatever" he then listed all the merits of the cashless society that i have long predicted they would use to sell it to the people- safer than cash and credit cards etc. etc. mayer amschel rothschild, the founder of the rothschild banking dynasty, said "give me control of a nation's currency and i care not who makes the laws" this has been attributed to another rothschild also. the fewer currencies there are, the more control you can have over the money system. this is why the euro has been introduced within the european union and the pressure is mounting for canada to take the us dollar. these

trolled by that family. the american president woodrow wilson, was "advised" at versailles by colonel house and bernard baruch, both rothschild clones and leaders of the round table in the united states; the british prime minister, lloyd george, was "advised" by alfred milner, the rothschild employee and round table leader, and sir phillip sassoon, a direct descendant of mayer amschel rothschild, the founder of the dynasty; the french leader, georges clemenceau, was "advised" by his minister for the interior, georges mandel, whose real name was jeroboam rothschild. who do you think was making the decisions here? but it went further. also in the american delegation were the dulles brothers, john foster dulles, who would become us secretary of state, and allen dulles, who would become first

eral. the rothschilds are not jews, they are a bloodline with a reptilian genetic code, who hide behind the jewish people and use them as a screen and a means to an end. according to simon schama's book, two rothschilds and the land of israel (collins, london, 1978, the rothschilds acquired 80% of the land of israel. edmond de rothschild worked closely with theodore herzl, who just happened to be the founder of zionism, the political movement created to ensure a "jewish" homeland in palestine. rothschild was also the power behind chaim weizmann, another leader of zionism. as rothschild told weizmann "without me zionism would not have succeeded, but without zionism my work would have been stuck to death" so now with the rothschilds increasing their financing of jewish settlements in palesti

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ds of years thatfollowed. the brotherhood which controls the world today is the modern expression ofthe babylonian brotherhood of reptile-aryan priests and royalty which came togetherthere after the flood. it was in babylon in this post-flood period from around 6,000years ago that the foundation beliefs- manipulated beliefs- of todays world religionswere established to control and rule the people.the founder of babylon according to ancient texts and legend was nimrod whoreigned with his wife, queen semiramis. nimrod was described as a mighty tyrant andone of the giants. the arabs believed that after the flood it was nimrod who built orrebuilt the amazing structure at baalbek in the lebanon with its three stones weighing800 tons each. it was said that he ruled the region that is now lebanon

fthe phoenicians as barat was thegod/king. these are possiblynames for the babylonian deitiesnimrod and semiramis. theroyal elite clan of the aryanswere (are) called the barats andthis is why you find the termbarat or brihat in the ancientindian culture as you do withbritain and british (barat-ainand barat-ish. the indian v edassay that king barat gave hisname to the dynastic race of which he was the founder; and so it is from him that thefame of that dynastic people hath spread so wide.35 parat, prat and prydi, are some ofthe other derivatives of barat. the original form was barat-ana or brithad-ana.36 thesuffix ana in hittite-sumerian (aryan) means one. ana in fact evolved into theenglish word one and the scottish ane. barat-ana or briton therefore means one ofthe barats (bruits. it is t

torians, and such people would definitely be initiates of the secret society network ofthe roman empire, a major stepping stone for the reptilian full-bloods and crossbreedsto the present day. this is why a roman soldier is the logo of that brotherhoodoperation, american express. the piso family claimed to descend from calpus who,they said, was the son of numa pompilius, the successor to romulus, the founder ofrome. these were seriously connected people. such roman bloodlines are said to havecome from troy and we are looking at a family which goes back to the caucasus andthe near east. after the destruction of troy around 1,200 bc, the story goes that a guycalled aeneas of a royal (that is reptilian) bloodline went with the remnants of hispeople and settled in italy. there he married into

y the romans after the scythian genuine ones) and their centre wascologne. it was from the time of king meroveus, who was named guardian of thefranks in 448, that this line became known as the merovingians. these were the sorcererkings who were noted for their esoteric knowledge and magical powers which theyinherited from the underground bloodline streams of secret groups and initiations.francio, the founder of the franks, claimed to be a descendant of noah and his ancestorsonce resided in ancient troy. i think myself that the story of noah is symbolic of thereptilian crossbreed bloodlines which survived the flood and afterwards returned thedove and the olive branch (semiramis-nimrod) to power. decendents of noah= human-reptilian crossbreeds, or at least those who have interbred enough to

horse infiltration assured victory for the spartans. both the trojans andthe spartans were offshoots of the same aryan and reptile-aryan peoples. themerovingians established the city of paris on a major vortex point and used anunderground chamber there for their rituals, including human sacrifice to the goddessdiana. here, kings in dispute over property would settle the issue in combat. meroveus,the founder of the merovingian dynasty, followed the pagan goddess cult of diana,another symbol for isis/semiramis. this is not surprising because the centre for dianaworship was at ephesus in asia minor, not far from the alleged site of troy. the locationof the ancient underground chamber in paris where the merovingians worshipped andsacrificed to the goddess diana is now called the pont and plac

klin..18 in the years that followed abrotherhood secret society called the society of united irishmen was formed whichinvolved people like lord edward fitzgerald and wolfe tone.19 this was behind theirish rebellions of 1798 and 1803 and the conflict thus triggered has continued in irelandever since. you find the brotherhood involved in all the major world events in history.simon bolivar, known as the founder of bolivia in south america and the liberator ofv enezuela, new granada, equador and peru, was a member of the cadiz freemasons196lodge in spain and a master in the nine sisters lodge in paris. this was the lodge ofbenjamin franklin, the writer v oltaire, and other french revolutionaries.20 a lock ofgeorge washingtons hair was sent to bolivar, via the french and americanrevolutionary

ed states caused so much poverty, bankruptcyand rebellion, that it was eventually closed down, but soon after that came itsreplacement, the federal reserve. the rothschilds main banking operation in americain the early part of this century was kuhn, loeb and company in new york which washeaded by jacob schiff. the schiff family lived in the same house in frankfurt as therothschilds at the time of the founder, mayer amschel rothschild. in 1902, therothschilds sent their agents, paul and felix warburg, to america to engineer thecreation of the federal reserve. their brother, max warburg, stayed behind to run thefamily banking business which had been started in v enice under their previous name,the abraham del banco family. when they arrived in the states, paul warburg marriednina loeb, of ku

onnet was perfectly placed to be thepuppet through which other powers could manipulate into being the europeaneconomic community. count richard n. coudenhove-kalergi wrote a book in 1923calling for a united states of europe. he was named after richard wagner, of whomhitler had said that to understand nazi germany one had to understand wagner. a closefriend of the counts father was theodore herzl, the founder of zionism (sionism- thesun cult. the counts book was called pan europa and he went on to form the paneuropean union with branches right across the continent, supported by leadingpoliticians and the anglo-america establishment, including colonel house and herberthoover. the count said in his autobiography:at the beginning of 1924, we received a call from baron louis de rothschild; one

e, was a founding executive officer of the council on foreignrelations. the russells with the tafts formed the skull and bones society and theblack flag with the white skull and cross bones was the corporate flag flown on allrussell trust company ships. it was also a flag flown on ships in the knights templarfleet. another american connection to the opium trade was the freemason, john jacobastor, the founder of the astor dynasty who became a stockholder in the british eastindia company.8 philadelphia and boston, the headquarters of the northern jurisdictionof the scottish rite of freemasonry, were (and are) other centres for the drug trade. adescendant of astor, waldorf astor of the waldorf astoria hotel in new york, was ahigh degree freemason who became chairman of the royal institute of

ho was later knownto the romans as janus. the reason that belgium is a headquarters for satanism and somany brotherhood institutions is very simple. the brotherhood created belgium forjust this reason in 1831 and they imposed upon it a reptilian royal line, the house ofsaxe-coburg-gotha, the bloodline of the british royal family and, through its branch inprussia, the supporters of adam weishaupt, the founder of the bavarian illuminati.the paedophile murder ring which came to light in belgium in 1996 is but one part ofthe satanic network operating from and in that country. it was organised by marcdutroux, who is connected to the satanic order of abrasax, based in the village offorchies-la-marche near charleroi in southern belgium, not far from the castle ofdarkness. abrasax is abraxas, a fa

cause also in 1776 the house of rothschild wasformerly founded and the brotherhood-controlled economist from scotland, adamsmith, published his highly influential work, the wealth of nations. like i say, datesmatter to these people because they represent energy flows and cycles. weishaupt usedhis illuminati to further infiltrate freemasonry. weishaupt was trained as a jesuit, thesociety of jesus. the founder of the jesuits, the spaniard ignatius loyola, formed asecret society within this apparently catholic order and the initiates were called thealumbrados, the enlightened, the illuminated. weishaupt created 13 degrees ofinitiation in his illuminati (the same as the number of levels on the great seal pyramid)and the key personnel were to be found in the top nine degrees.the obelisk and the

nd rothschild cousinjames goldsmith, and the zoo owner john aspinall, who, with goldsmith, was a close392friend of lord lucan, the missing earl still wanted for the murder of the family nanny.friends of the earth reached its peak of prominence in britain under the directorship ofjonathan porritt, the son of the former british governor-general of new zealand, andlater an advisor to prince charles. the founder of foe in france, brice lalonde, was apartner in a rockefeller law firm and became environment minister to the frenchpresident, the high level freemason and friend of the rothschilds, francois mitterrand,under whose reign the black glass pyramid was erected alongside the louvre museum.as with prince philip, people were surprised when the late sir james goldsmith becamea born again envi

tive theretoo, in the windsor operations. princess alexandra is the head of wwf-uk.54 otherexploiters of the great african continent today include rio tinto, anglo-american,minorco, de beers, barclays, shell, n.m. rothschild, imperial chemical industries(ici, and unilever, all, or most of whom, are reported to enjoy substantial investmentsby the queen. incidentally, lord melchett, the grandson of the founder of ici, a pillarof the world chemical cartel, became head of greenpeace, united kingdom. the threebiggest mining companies in the world, anglo-american, rio tinto, and minorco, arein truth the same operation. minorco is the international holding company for theoppenheimer empire, the family which have monopolised the world diamond marketwith the rothschilds through de beers, the compan

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e. his primary expression was art in which he painted mostly egyptian styled images, as can been seen in the rare manuscript the book of tahuti 4, in which pace presents a powerful alternate study and design of the tarot. charles pace painted murals in boleskine house, crowley s former residence where the abramelin workings were conducted and the goetia was edited. in the late 60- s. anton lavey, the founder of the church of satan was a long correspondent with pace, who both shared similar ideas in certain areas. it is suggested by charles pace in the book of tahuti 5 that anubis was the bastard son of sethan and aset (isis. it is obvious that pace considered himself a messanger rather than an author of any system. this is noted by his attribution of hamar at (magical name) as associated w

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r blessed lady, mary, the mother of christ" gardnarian (wicca: modern witches (q.v) who follow the teachings of and use the book of shadows composed by gerald b gardner (q.v. the first major tradition of modern wicca (q.v) a combination of neo-paganism and high ceremonial magick, much of which was "shortened" and incorrectly abbreviated from the perspective of modern magicians. gardner, gerald b: the founder of the gardnarian tradition of wicca (q.v. his book in 1954 entitled witchcraft today, was the first book about witchcraft by a self-proclaimed witch. he is considered the father of modern wicca. claimed to have been initiated into wicca (witchcraft) by the "new forest coven" of wicca in england. a one time member and leader of the o.t.o. under aleister crowley (q.v) of whom he was a s

werful method of getting rid of negative things in your life, based on hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) techniques mixed with methods of exorcism. the letters stand for 1) identify; 2) objectify; and 3) banish- j- jesus: 1) born in circa 6 a.d. to humble parents, this prophet and teacher was said to be the son of god incarnate sent on earth to re-unite the created order with divinity. the founder and messiah of the christian religious faith. 2) a title known as the pentagrammaton (q.v. juno: one of four thousand known asteroids, but treated as a very minor planet. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the greek goddess who served as the patron deity of marriage. she was the wife of jupiter, though the marriage was not a happy one. keywords include: spouse, wife, partnership

of divination (q.v- s- sagatarius "the archer" in astrology (q.v, the ninth sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of mutable (q.v) and fire (q.v) and is ruled by the planet jupiter (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color blue. keywords include: wide rangingly, boisterously, bluntly, expansively, optimistically, wisely, freely. sanders, alex: the founder of a tradition of wicca (q.v) known as alexandrian wicca (q.v. called by his followers "the king of the witches" satan: in the christian, jewish, and islamic religions, the supreme arch-foe of god. the prince of darkness, the adversary of god. in modern thought, the lord of evil. satanism: a religion that basis it's beliefs on reverse and backward principles of christianity. the worshi

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s of the human mind and set to work to exploit them. i am convinced that this factor played a large part in the witch-cult, and was the real cause of the universal horror and detestation of the witch. these powers have always been known to students of occultism, but nowadays they are known and used by people who would be exceedingly surprised to find who are their fellow-practitioners. mrs. eddy, the founder of christian science, stumbled on to these methods empirically without ever acquiring any rational knowledge as to their modus operandi. she endeavoured to teach them in such a way that they could only be used for good and their power for evil should be concealed; but that she herself was well aware of their possibilities if abused is witnessed by the dread of what she called "maliciou

a thought- atmosphere by dwelling upon certain ideas in connection with him. this is how spiritual healing is done. the affirmations of christian science are used in order to get the mind of the healer into a certain emotional state, and his condition effectually influences the mind of the patient with whom he has put himself en rapport. this power, however, can be used for evil as well as good; the founder of christian science was wise enough to put her teaching in such a way that her students would not readily discern the second edge of the sword. as long as the world in general was ignorant of the powers of the mind, it was better that nothing should be said by those who knew, because the knowledge, if spread abroad indiscriminately, might do more harm than good, giving information to

o the automatic mind and threw certain of the functional systems of the body out of gear. it is my belief that this explanation affords a key to a good many cases of functional disorder. many people in the course of occult meditative practices obtain control of the automatic mind which controls the functioning of the bodily organs. it may be recalled that the famous scientist, sir francis galton, the founder of the science of eugenics, experimented with mental control of respiration, and having obtained it, found that the automatic function had fallen into abeyance, and he had to spend three anxious days breathing by will power and voluntary attention until the automatic function was re-established. in this particular case, however, there was more than disturbance of function, there was th

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is to send away. pentagrams are inscribed with the right index finger, or more formally with a ritual instrument of projection such as the wand or sword. modern witches use a dagger called an athame. the correct way of drawing the pentagram is seldom taught, and perhaps is not that widely known. it was described in one of her books by the late dion fortune, a member of the golden dawn, and later the founder of her own occult society known as the society of the inner light. inscribe the pentagram on the air in front of your body with strong strokes as though drawing it with chalk upon a blackboard. it is important that the figure be regular. regular symbols have a natural affinity with the spirits of light, and irregular symbols resonate with the spirits of darkness. it is also vital to ma

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ot expect its followers to heed its own warning in the satanic bunco sheet: 2. look out for jargon and secrets to which only the initiated can be privy. once you re processed through the lengthy and strictly-enforced degree system, you ll discover there are really no answers, just more gobbledygook [21] 2. a new religion the church of satan has referred to its ideology as a religion [22. although the founder may have had ulterior motives as indicated in the following chapters, it is ultimately the behavior of the organization that determines whether the movement qualifies as a religion. the sai baba movement is a religion, for example, regardless of the motives and moral or legal integrity of the founder, whose miracles have been exposed as clumsy stage magic in video clips. the church of

e of jewelry. this organizational structure is common among religious groups. the structure is not formalized in the church of satan, and only serves to understand the dynamics of the church of satan as a religious organization. 2.1 characteristic religious traits the core and the soldiers display the characteristic traits of new religious movements founded by charismatic leaders: 1. they believe the founder can/could perform miracles or other supernatural feats, and the founder is perceived as somehow more than human. the founder is considered infallible, or the founder s faults are ignored or explained away [25, pp. 184- 218] the founder, anton lavey, plays a key role in the religion. it is very common to find that followers of new religious groups, sects, or cults revere the founder as

nder is considered infallible, or the founder s faults are ignored or explained away [25, pp. 184- 218] the founder, anton lavey, plays a key role in the religion. it is very common to find that followers of new religious groups, sects, or cults revere the founder as more than human, capable of miracles (or, in the case of anton lavey, curses, etc. with very flattering hagiographies written about the founder s life. they ignore rampant inconsistencies in the founder s professed past and perceive ordinary actions as accomplishments only a demigod could have performed. they are quick to accredit general trends to the founder; for example, on the church of satan web page peter gilmore contributes today s pleasure-oriented culture to anton lavey: indulgence was the watchword chosen by anton la

joy references to authority. older, well established religions refer to figure 2. the church of satan s followers are roughly organized in four layers: the core, the soldiers, the interested, and the periphery, with an increasing number of followers in each layer. core soldiers interested periphery full-fledged religious behavior new age behavior the tendency to wholly desert the possibility that the founder is an ordinary person or even a crook is common among followers of new religious movements. even if a follower is presented with undeniable evidence somehow the follower does not comprehend the evidence. the thought is beyond their operational paradigm, beyond obscenity and blasphemy; it is unthinkable. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 9 of 30 their ancient scrip

: i don t think you ve ever had much admiration or confidence in me personally, and you ve shown yourself to be increasingly critical of our founder s ideas, as well. you ve done your best to stir up dissension and purposely create misapprehensions about who we are and what satanism advocates, despite attempts to guide, encourage and educate you [27] these statements demonstrate that criticism of the founder s ideas is frowned upon, and that the church of satan actively attempts to enforce a specific interpretation where no teacher is needed. the potential objections that this follower did not understand the ideology or was never appreciated are not valid, because blanche barton had written a personalized statement of appreciation for his efforts to the same person just half a year earlier

hence, only the church of satan s administration can provide a true interpretation of anton lavey s ambiguous writing. anyone else making doctrinaire statements on the meaning of his texts is branded a heretic (as ironic as it may seem for a religion called satanism see figure 3) who falsifies satanism and misleads people. 2. there is strong contempt for organizations that follow the teachings of the founder without being followers of the founder s organization [25, pp. 200-201] today, several members of his family have become an embarrassment to the church of satan, which now does its best to downtone their influence: diane hegarty is never mentioned; karla lavey was suddenly never really important to the church of satan once she distanced herself from the organization to start the first

ey s ambiguous writing. anyone else making doctrinaire statements on the meaning of his texts is branded a heretic who falsifies satanism and misleads people. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 10 of 30 it is common to find remarkably strong hostility against the new organization if eventually a group of people creates an organization of their own that follows the teaching of the founder without belonging to the founder s own organization. the church of satan is evidently no exception from the above rules, as described in section 5, desire for a name patent, and section 6, earned hostility. the church of satan officially disapproves of new organizations: founding your own satanic organization is a detriment to our movement [29] sociologists have proposed the theory tha

ry between psychology and religion, not as a religion [33, p. 35] the term religion has connotations that followers of religious groups often prefer to avoid. these groups typically make no direct use of anthropomorphic gods, which is a hallmark of traditional religions and silently implied by the term religion. instead they see themselves as groups that follow a specific philosophy formulated by the founder. for example, the transcendental meditation program describes itself as a technique and spurns the term religion (and even went to court to avoid it, but sociologists agree that the organization is a religion [31, p. 20. there are clear distinctions between religions and philosophies, and the differences in the behavior of followers of a religion and followers of a philosophy are reaso

ested followers and the periphery can best be classified as new age religious people and people with no actual involvement in the religion, respectively. new age religious people are characterized by rather unorganized religious training [25, pp. 316-317. like the religious people mentioned earlier they typically consider themselves followers of science-founded philosophies, but their relation to the founder and spinoff organizations is usually much more relaxed. the technical term for their form of religious study is audience cult [31, p. 207, which means that their understanding of their religion is self-taught via books and perhaps occasional meetings. they are free to pick and choose from various books and sources: a religious buffet. ideologies vary greatly among new age religions, bu

rge that members of the church of satan worshipped dr. lavey. these dolts cannot distinguish worship from respect. they imagine that by criticizing dr. lavey they can diminish, or cause us to reject, the church of satan. they do not attack the philosophy; they attack the philosopher. this makes it quite clear that it is they who are the personality cultists [55] while it is true that an attack on the founder does not necessarily imply an attack on the ideology, it is false to state that the attack implies personality cult mentality on behalf of the attacker. the argument may apply to some people, but does not address the following cases, for example: if anything, anton lavey seems to have been rather unsuccessful. he apparently never held a long term employment, and living off his only suc

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the alphabet. the term autoscope has been given to such devices as the ouija board, planchette, and additor, that are believed to facilitate the production of messages from an unknown intelligent source, at times the subconscious mind, at other times from discarnate spirits of the dead (see also automatic writing) adelphi organization the adelphi organization dates to 1976 when richard kieninger, the founder of the stelle group, left stelle, illinois, and founded a second group near dallas, texas. kieninger s autobiographical volume the ultimate frontier had provided the main teaching at stelle, but he was asked to leave the community after his sexual liaisons with several of the married women were discovered. the new organization was modeled on stelle and had the same goal, which kieninge

perspective that originated in the late nineteenth 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 a

azie told of in medical texts, where a man can be stricken by a disease bearing this name. ahmad ibn sirin (ca. ninth century c.e (also known as achmet. arabian seer who wrote a book on dream interpretation, now known only in the greek and latin translations, which was published in paris in 1603 titled oneirocritica. aho, wayne sulo (1916) wayne aho, one of the 1950s flying saucer contactees, was the founder of a small new age religion, the cathedral of the stars. born on august 24, 1916 in woodland, washington, he dated the beginning of his religious career to a childhood experience. when he was only 12 he had heard a voice telling him that he would be able to do something great for humanity in his later life. he joined the army as a young man and eventually rose to the rank of major duri

rning the cat as a sacred animal. ainsarii an ishmaelite sect of the assassins, who continued to exist after the stronghold of that society was destroyed. they held secret meetings for receptions and possessed signs, words, and a catechism. the ainsarii are discussed in the asian mystery illustrated in the ansaireeh or nusairis of syria by samuel lyde, 1860. airaudi, oberto (1950) oberto airaudi, the founder of damanhur, an italian esoteric community, was born in 1950 in balangero, north of turin, italy. as a youth he became involved in the metaphysical community in turin and found himself drawn to psychic healers, especially 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

doubtedly a semi-occult origin. its founder, joseph smith, jr. claimed to discover tablets of gold upon which was engraved the new revelation, the book of mormon, which he translated by a process similar to modern channeling. smith also tied the church loosely to freemasonry. theosophy became firmly rooted in america through the efforts of william q. judge, and his successor katherine b. tingley, the founder of the theosophical colony at point loma, california. in recent years, however, the american society formerly led by judge declined and most theosophists now adhere to the theosophical society headquartered in adyar, india. modern american occultism and parapsychology throughout the twentieth century, old and new religious movements have appeared, and a few have flourished. ceremonial

, punish him who has done this evil, and take him from among us by thy great justice, that the sorcerer or sorceress may be anathema, and we safe. harrison ainsworth s famous novel, the lancashire witches, deals with the subject and the pendleton locality in england. ancient and mystical order of seekers the ancient and mystical order of seekers was founded in the 1950s by clifford bias (d. 1986, the founder of the universal spiritualist association, as a society for the clergy and the more serious lay students in the association. the order explores the esoteric arts and sciences, those areas generally part of the work of occult orders and magical groups. bias produced a series of manuals, the a.m.o.s. path of light, for the order s members. the order may be contacted c/o universal institu

ding vegetarianism, to so purify the self that the individual need not die but could ascend to the next level of conscious existence. ballard s own untimely death necessitated some revision of that ideal, and the natural process of death was integrated into the understanding of the process of ascension. ballard is now believed to have assumed a position as an ascended master, as has mark prophet, the founder of the summit lighthouse (now the church universal and triumphant, a group similar to the i am. ballard regularly and publicly served as a messenger for a variety of ascended masters, especially comte de st. germain. at the same time, alice a. bailey claimed contact with a master she generally called the tibetan, named djwhal khul. both became models for a variety of people through the

ter the melting of the snow. at night it can be seen by torchlight, but through the day it is invisible. it was believed to be of great assistance to alchemists in the transmutation of metals. it is alluded to by the historian josephus (lib. 8, chap. 25) bab name given to mirza ali muhammad (1819.1850, who led the movement that was the direct precursor of the baha i faith. baha u llah (1817.1892, the founder of the baha i faith, was a member of the babi religion, which was in turn heavily influenced by the traditions of shia islam, the form of islam dominant in iran (formerly persia. the bab, meaning the gate (of revelation, was martyred for his faith. sources: balyuzi, h. m. the bab: the herald of the day of days. oxford: g. ronald, 1973. selections from the writings of the bab. comp. hab

tion internationally. sources: beneficent spiritual center uniao do vegetel. http/ www.udv.org.br/udvpag01-ing.htm. june 12, 2000. benemmerinen according to ancient hebrew belief, benemmerinen are witches who haunt women in childbirth for the purpose of stealing newborn infants. benjamine, elbert (1882.1951) elbert benjamine, one of america s leading astrologers in the early twentieth century and the founder of the church of light, was born december 12, 1882, in iowa. he began to study the occult as a teenager and in 1900 made contact with the heremetic brotherhood of luxor, a small occult order headquartered in denver, colorado. the hermetic brotherhood was the outward expression of the brotherhood of light, a mystical order of enlightened beings believed by occultists to guide the destin

atter hypothesis now dominates serious thinking about berkowitz. in 1987, berkowitz converted to christianity. from his prison cell, he now has a webpage, http//www.inetworld.net/hutrcc/ davidb.htm, hosted by a christian church in san jose, california. in his testimony published on that site, he mentioned that before he began his killing spree he had read the satanic bible written by anton lavey, the founder of the church of satan. as a result, he began to dabble in the occult and do satanic rituals. he does not mention demon voices. sources: abrrahamsen, david. confessions of the son of sam. new york: columbia university press, 1999. david berkowitz. http//www.inetworld.net/hutrcc/ davidb.htm. may 16, 2000. klausner, lawrence. son of sam. new york: mcgraw-hill, 1981. terry, maury. the ult

ew york: columbia university press, 1999. david berkowitz. http//www.inetworld.net/hutrcc/ davidb.htm. may 16, 2000. klausner, lawrence. son of sam. new york: mcgraw-hill, 1981. terry, maury. the ultimate evil. new york: barnes and noble, 1999. berlitz, charles (1914) popular writer on the bermuda triangle and similar mysteries. born november 23, 1914, in new york city, berlitz is the grandson of the founder of the famous berlitz language schools and is familiar with some 30 languages. he studied at yale university (b.a. magna cum laude, 1936) and during world war ii served in the army, becoming a captain in counterintelligence in europe and latin america. he has written or edited dozens of textbooks, language dictionaries, and tourist phrase books in his capacity as vicepresident of the b

. she again went abroad, and, disguised as a man, she fought under garibaldi and was left for dead in the battle of mentana. she fought back to life, had a miraculous escape at sea on a greek vessel that was blown up, and, in 1871 in cairo, she founded the societe spirite. it was a dubious venture that soon expired amid cries of fraud and embezzlement, reflecting considerably on the reputation of the founder. her closer ties with spiritualism dated from her arrival in new york in july 1873. blavatsky first worked as a dressmaker to obtain a living and, after her acquaintance with col. henry steel olcott at chittenden, vermont, in the house of the eddy brothers, she took up journalism, writing mostly on spiritualism for magazines and translating olcott s articles into russian. for over 15 y

cated coming good fortune. sources: angkor wat. http//ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/ forgotten/angkor.html. june 16, 2000. cambridge buddhist association founded to provide instruction in buddhist meditation in the united states and to make available study materials. the association is nonsectarian and meetings are conducted by priests of different buddhist sects, in accordance with the wishes of the founder, shinichi hisamatsu. the association has been served by a series of outstanding buddhist teachers. the first president was shunryu suzuki (also of the san francisco zen center. he was succeeded by rev. chimyo horioka of the shingon sect of buddhism, who graduated from koyasan university, japan, then studied philosophy at the university of berlin, and science and the history of religion

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. maharaj ji, guru (1957) teacher in the sant mat tradition and head of elan vital (formerly known as the divine light mission. guru maharaj ji, a title rather than a name, was born prem pal singh on december 10, 1957. he moved to the united states as a spiritual teacher in 1971, at the age of 14. he was the son of sri hans maharaj ji, a spiritual teacher in the sant mat radha soami tradition and the founder of the divine light mission in india. when sri hans died in 1966, his youngest son, only eight but recognized as something of a spiritual prodigy, assumed control of the movement as guru maharaj ji. on a visit to the united states he was met by a public skeptical of one so young assuming any role in religious leadership, but was welcomed by many young adults as a contemporary spiritual

vatsky invited him to collaborate in the building of encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. mathers, s(amuel) l(iddell) macgregor 999 the theosophical society, but he declined. in 1890 he married moina bergson, sister of the french philosopher henri bergson. soon afterward he moved to paris with his wife. mathers and his wife received a small allowance from annie horniman (daughter of the founder of the horniman museum, london, and a member of the golden dawn, so that he might continue his studies on behalf of the order. however, disputes developed between them on financial issues, and in december 1896 mathers peremptorily expelled horniman from the organization. mathers was also deceived by the charlatans theodore and laura horos, who acquired golden dawn rituals from him for

aks today. new york: hsa-uwc, 1975. moonsign book popular publication concerned with influence of the moon on plants and health that has become a key annual publication of llewellyn publications, p.o. box 64383, st. paul, mn 55164. moore, marcia (1928.1979) marcia moore, an astrologer and metaphysical teacher, was born on may 22, 1928, in cambridge, massachusetts, the daughter of robert l. moore, the founder of the chain of sheraton hotels. she attended radcliffe, where she chose astrology as the subject of her senior thesis. the heart of the work reported on the results of a questionnaire she had sent to the subscribers of a popular astrological periodical. the finished work would later be published under the title astrology today.a socio-psychological survey (1960. following graduation i

e edited light, contributed many articles on spiritualism to human nature and other periodicals, and published a number of books, primarily developed from his automatic writings, under the pen name of m. a. oxon, a reference to his degree from oxford. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. gauld, alan. the founder of psychical research. new york: schrocken books, 1968. oxon, m. a [stainton moses. higher aspects of spiritualism. n.p, 1880. psychography; or, a treatise on the objective forms of psychic or spiritual phenomena. n.p, 1878. reprinted as direct spirit writing. n.p, 1952. moss, thelma (1918.1997) contemporary parapsychologist and medical psychologist at the neuropsychiatric institute of

o founded a new store dedicated to the left-hand path, pandora s box, in port st. lucie, florida. in 1999, in the wake of the church of satan s reestablishment of grottos as local church centers, gidney led in the founding of the nepotism grotto and now serves as the grotto master. mourning star is designed as the expression of a maturing satanic philosophy in the tradition of anton sandor lavey, the founder of the church of satan. each issue contains articles, poems, reviews, and additional varied material. all articles must at the least show the author s familiarity with the principles and idea of the satanic bible, the basic text of the church of satan. while representative of opinions within the church of satan, mourning star is not an official church publication. it is issued irregula

ation of churches. http/ www.nsac.org. march 8, 2000. the national spiritualist association of united states of america. one hundredth anniversary of modern spiritualism. chicago: the author, 1948. national spiritual science center the national spiritual science center was established in washington, d.c, by rev. alice welstood tindell, who had been trained by mother julia o. forrest, a medium and the founder of the spiritual science mother church. for many years after its opening in 1941, the washington center was an integral part of the mother church. in 1969, while attending a meeting of the federation of spiritual churches and associations, tindell had a disabling accident. this occasioned her retirement and she turned the center over to two of her students, revs. henry j. nagorka and d

hereafter wandered from place to place, earning a living as best he could. an element of mystery surrounds the manner of his death, which took place september 24, 1541. some say that he was poisoned at the instigation of the medical faculty, others that he was thrown down a steep incline. but interesting as were the events of his life, it is to his work that most attention is due. not only was he the founder of the modern science of medicine, but the magnetic theory of franz a. mesmer, the astral theory of modern spiritualism, and the philosophy of descartes were all foreshadowed in the fantastic, yet not always illogical, teachings of paracelsus. he revived the microcosmic theory of ancient greece, and sought to prove the human body analogous to the solar system by establishing a connecti

e. j. brill, 1996. pathwork foundation. http//www.pathwork.org. june 10, 2000. pierrakos, eva. guide lectures for self-transformation. new york: pathwork press, 1985. the pathwork of self-transformation. new york: bantam doubleday, 1990. pierrakos, john c (1921) psychiatrist john pierrakos, the husband of psychic channel eva pierrakos, was a student of controversial psychiatrist wilhelm reich and the founder of a system of bodywork called core energetics. pierrakos was born in a small town, neon oitylon, in greece. in 1939, as world war ii loomed on the horizon, he left greece for the united states. he settled in new york and attended columbia university eventually earning an m.d. with a specialization in psychiatry. he eventually earned a ph.d. in psychiatry. in the late 1940s, he came to

, n.j: scarecrow press, 1973. on the evaluation of verbal material in parapsychology. new york: parapsychology foundation, 1969. parapsychology: an insider s view of esp. metuchen, n.j: scarecrow press, 1977. the psychic realm. new york: random house, 1975. rhine, j. b, j. g. pratt, et al. extrasensory perception after sixty years. new york: henry holt, 1940. pratt, morris (d. 1901) morris pratt, the founder of the morris pratt institute, currently the educational arm of the national spiritualist association of churches, was a successful nineteenth-century businessman and spiritualist. little is known of his early life, but in 1851, just three years after spiritualism emerged in the united states, he visited the lake mills (new york) spiritualist center. the visit launched his interest in

o studied parapsychology. he was born on october 15, 1875, at grande-riviere du nord, haiti. price-mars was a professor and rector at the university of haiti and a member of the haitian senate. beginning in 1900 he served in the haitian diplomatic service in germany, the united states, france, the dominican republic, and the united nations and served as haiti s minister of foreign affairs. he was the founder of the institute of ethnology, haiti, and president of the african society of culture. he published various books on the folklore, history, culture and ethnology of haiti and took a special interest in parapsychology in relation to voudou. he died march 2, 1969. sources: price-mars, jean. africa in the americas. tomorrow (autumn 1954. prince, morton (1854.1929) physician, neurologist

urus who have appeared in america seeking followers are kirpal singh, guru maharaj ji, and ajaib singh. eckankar and the several groups that have developed from it are westernized groups based on radhasommi teachings but without the punjabi appearance of its leaders. the two groups within the larger movement became known as the radhasoami satsang, beas, and the ruhani satsang, both descended from the founder shiv dayal singh through baba jaimal singh, whose satsang was based at beas, punjab. baba jaimal singh passed away in 1903 and was succeeded by his disciple sawan singh (1858.1948. sawan singh had a profound influence in the spread of teachings relating to shabd-yoga, the pathway of sacred sound current. on the passing of sawan singh, he was succeeded by his grandson charan singh (b. 1

ts of europe, and a large number of pamphlets were published criticizing or defending the society and its manifesto, in which it was pointed out there were a number of discrepancies. to begin with, no such city as damcar existed in arabia. where, it was asked, was the house of the holy ghost, which the rosicrucians stated had been seen by 100,000 persons but was concealed from the world? c. r. c, the founder, as a boy of 15 must have achieved great occult skill to have astonished the magi of damcar, skeptics said. despite these objections, however, considerable credit was given to the rosicrucian publication. the confession of the rosicrucian fraternity, addressed to the learned in europe, appeared one year later. this offered initiation by gradual stages to selected applicants, and reveal

nces at the french court by interfering in a dispute between austria and france, and he was forced to leave for england. he resided in london for one or two years, but in 1762 was in st. petersburg, where he is said to have assisted in the conspiracy that placed catherine ii on the russian throne. after this he traveled in germany, where he was reported in the memoirs of cagliostro to have become the founder of freemasonry, and to have initiated cagliostro into that rite. if cagliostro s account can be credited, saint germain set about the business with remarkable splendor and bombast, posing as a deity and behaving in a manner calculated to delight pseudo-mystics of the age. saint germain died at schleswig, germany, somewhere between the years 1780 and 1785, but the exact date of his deat

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th and justice. jove (jupiter) balances magnetic fields. zoroaster (saturn) monitors order, structure, and destiny. quetzalcoatal (uranus) leads religious and philosophical change. merlin (neptune) directs scientific discovery. lao-tzu (pluto) offers objective, detached wisdom, and apollo (phoenix) generates change. all of these individuals figure in earthly mythology and (in the case of lao-tzu, the founder of taoism) history. see also: ascended masters; athena; fairies encountered; sasquatch further reading korsholm, celeste, 1991. lao-tzu, planetary council member from pluto. http//www.spiritweb. org/spirit/pluto-celeste.html, 1995. tales from the planets. http//spiritweb. org/spirit/tales-planets-celeste.html. portla portla is best remembered as the extraterrestrial who in a july 18, 1

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ent hermetic-cabalist tradition, ultimately stemming from him, was of most far-reaching importance. it could be purely mystical, developing hermetic and cabalist meditations on creation and on man into immensely complex labyrinths of religious speculation, involving numerological and harmonic aspects into which pythagoreanism was absorbed. but it also had its magical side, and here, too, pico was the founder who first united the hermetic and cabalist types of magic. it was in i486 that the young pico della mirandola went to rome with his nine hundred theses, or points drawn from all philosophies which he offered to prove in public debate to be all reconcilable with one another. according to thorndike, these theses showed that pico's thinking "was largely coloured by astrology, that he was

trezvnesse of the christian religion, with a dedication to the earl of leicester, then fighting against spain in the low countries. we can therefore quote again in what may be sidney's english, the passage quoted above which comes fairly near the beginning of the work: mercurius trismegistus, who (if the bookes which are fathered uppon him bee his in decde, as in trueth they bee very auncient) is the founder of them all, tcacheth eucry where, that there is but one god: that one is the roote of all things, and that without that one, nothing hath bene of all things that are: that the same one is called the onely good and the goodnesse it selfe, which hath uniuersall power of creating all things. that unto him alone belongeth the name of father, and of good. he calleth him the father of the w

us. the religious situation at helmstedt was fairly fluid; the old duke had been a protestant; his son and successor was nominally catholic. bruno got into difficulties with a protestant pastor at helmstedt who excommunicated him,1 but the young duke henry julius seems to have been rather kind to him, and allowed him to deliver an oration to the university on the death of his father, duke julius, the founder of the university. once again the nolan is in his element, and about to deliver one of his highly original addresses to the doctors of a university. the oratio consolatoria1 at helmstedt is not so brilliant as was the oratio valedictoria at wittenberg, but it is interesting for the indications that bruno had moved into a more radically anti- catholic and anti-papal position than he had

civil law, in italy and spain, whilst gaul and belgia are destroyed by wars of religion, and some regions in germany are most unhappy.3 in the spaccio he had emphasised the importance of a restoration of law in the reform of the heavens, but his strong interest, both here and in the prague dedication to the emperor, in the ius gentium, perhaps suggests an influence of his friend alberico gentile, the founder of international law,4 whom he had known in england and met again at wittenberg, where it was through gentile's introduction that he obtained his lectureship in the university. the rhetorical praises of the late julius take a particularly brunian turn when the speech starts to go through the northern and southern constellations into which the virtues of julius are mounting whilst vices

may also be the author of the translation from boccalini and the other manifestoes, though this is not certain.1 it would seem that rosicrucianism, as it emerges in germany in the early seventeenth century, has lutheran connections; one explanation of the rosicrucian emblem of the cross and the rose which has been put forward is that it is an imitation of luther's emblem.2 "christian rosencreutz, the founder, seems entirely mythical; perhaps this name, too, is an allusion to luther. but the rosicrucians were magical, hermetic, cabalistic lutherans and particularly addicted to alchemical symbolism of which "the chemical wedding of christian rosencreutz" 3 is an elaborate and incomprehensible example. the lutheran flavour of rosicrucianism is not against the hypothesis of a connection with b

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fire he heard the call of tubal cain, bidding him jump into the molten sea. full of faith in his ancestor, who had gone before him upon the path of fire, hiram obeyed and plunged fearlessly into the flames. sinking through the disintegrated bottom of the vessel, he was conducted successfully through nine-arch-like layers of the earth to the center, where he found himself in the presence of cain, the founder of his family, who gave him instructions relative to blending water and fire, and who furnished him with a new hammer and a new word, which would enable him to produce these results. cain looked into the future and uttered a prophecy which has been partially fulfilled; what remains is in process of realization day by day, and as surely as time goes on all will come to pass "you, hiram"

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in a state of happiness or misery; that the righteous soul, freed from the limitations of matter, returns at death to the source whence it came, and that the wicked, after having been detained for a while in a place prepared for their reception, are sent back to earth to reanimate other bodies. aristotle held the opinion that the souls of human beings are sparks from the divine flame, while zeno, the founder of the stoic philosophy, taught that spirit acting upon matter produced the elements and the earth. there is plenty of evidence going to show that the early fathers in the christian church believed in the doctrines of reincarnation and the renewal of worlds. neither is there any doubt but that this philosophy came from the east, where it originated. it is thought that the ancient philo

of dynasties, the descendants of confucius remain the only hereditary noblemen and national pensioners in the empire. even the imperial blood becomes diluted, degraded, and absorbed into the body politic after the seventh generation; but the descendants of confucius remain separate, through all the mutations of time and of government"[119 [119] thomas magee, in the forum, vol. x, p. 204. laotse, the founder of the smallest of the three sects in china, namely, confucianism, buddhism, and taoism, was an old man when confucius was in his prime. the word taou signifies reason, but the doctrines believed by the taoists prove their system to be the most irrational of all the religions of the east. in an article on the taouist religion, warren benton says "the tendency in rationalism is toward t

peculiar tendency of christ's teachings women soon became active factors in their promulgation. if there were no other evidence to show that they publicly taught the new doctrines, the injunction of st. paul "i suffer not a woman to teach" would seem to imply that they were not silent. the doctrines of the gnostics were particularly favorable to women. marcellina, who belonged to this order, was the founder of a sect called marcelliens. of her works waite observes "it would scarcely be expected that the heretical writings of a woman would be preserved amid such wholesale slaughter of the obnoxious works of the opposite sex. the writings of marcellina have perished"[143] not only did women teach publicly, and write, but according to bunsen they claimed the privilege of baptizing their own

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

onoursomewhatexceptional,and i can butvalueit the more highly in consequence' he returned the rituals toyarkerand addedthe hope that 'i shallproveuseful, asi shallcertainly endeavour to beactive,in the diffusion of the order among occult students who are not masons (letter of 5 february1897).there is noevidencethat waite applied isreligion'127for a charter, but papus (dr gerardencausse,1865-1916, the founder in 1884 of the martinist order, referred to the setting-up of two new 'formations' in england when he addressed the international congress of spiritualistsin1898;one of these mayhaveinvolvedwaite. he did,however,sendpapusa copy of his booklouisclaudedesaint-martinwhen it was published in1901,and expressed his satisfaction on hearing thatpapusliked it 'i learned with verysinceresatisfac

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

political, and certainly they stimulated a stream of replies, both attacking and defending the mysterious order while not producing one scrap of evidence for its real existence.therosicrucian myth, set out in the manifestoes, is this 'according to the "fama fraternitatis benedicti ordinis rosae crucis" and the "confessio fraternitatisrc."the notable mystic and adept known as christian rosenkreuz, the founder of the rosicrucian fraternity, was born in1378,of a noble family, and received his education in a cloister. a certain monk, p.a.l, took him as a companion on a journey to the holy land; they reached cyprus, and there p.a.l. died. christian rosenkreuz, however, went on alone to damascus, and to the sanctuary ofmountcarmel where he studied with the wise men, from thence to egypt, to fez

nd. about1450a funeral vaultofseven sides decorated with symbols was erected for the reposeofthe founder. frater p.d. was the second to die.'in1457the curious alchymical tractate called "chymische hochzeit (chemical wedding) was written in german by c.r.butwasnotthen published.itnarrates the attainment by himofthe grade of"equesaurei lapidis" or "knight of the golden stone'.18 thegoldendawn'in1484the founder and imperator c.r. died, his body was embalmed and put into the vault, which was closed and con255 cealed from the membersofthe latest circle of junior students 'frater d. was then chosen to be magus, and after his death frater a. at a date unknown, but he died in1600.his successor was fratern.n.,who in1604discovered the entrance to the cavern and caused it to be opened,120years after

date unknown, but he died in1600.his successor was fratern.n.,who in1604discovered the entrance to the cavern and caused it to be opened,120years after the decease of c.r. within the vault was found the body carefully preserved under an altar, and in his hand the parchment roll called the book t (testamentum, also copies of other valuable books of the fraternity, a "vita" and an "itinerarium" of the founder, certain songs(mantras),with mirrors, glasses, bells, lamps etc. after a careful examination of all these matters the vault was closed.'ithas been stated that this tomb still exists, but its situation is only revealed to high continental adepts.'6thes.r.i.a. was much more homely and concerned less with spiritual philosophy than with more worldly pursuits. walter spencer, the masonic pu

a brief note referred to the guild, saying:'theproceedings of the society are quite private, but it is known that the objects pursued are the study and practice of christian mysticism. although the attainment of startling phenomena was not contemplated, yet some satisfactory results even of this class have been arrived at during the two months' sittings.'thethird issueoflightcarried a letter from the founder of the guild, a 'clergyman of the church of england, in which he elaborated the beliefs and practices of its members 'i have myself taken a small, private room which i20thegoldendawnhave fitted up as a small chapel or oratory, and, gathering a few earnest people round me, have officiated twice a week at a simplebutsolemn service, in the intervalofwhich we sit for spirit255 communion..t

n and mystic, has left us in his works, published in and after the year1614,an account of100thegoldendawnthe doctrines and exoteric management of the r.c. society. but even the revival of mysticism was but a new development of the vastly older wisdom of the kabbalistic rabbis and of.the most ancient of all secret knowledge, the magic of the egyptians, in which the bible itself tells us that moses the founder of the jewish system was 'learned, that is, in which he had been in255 itiated. through the hebrew kabbalah we have indeed become pos255 sessed of more of the ancient wisdom than from any other source, for it must be borne in mind that the hebrews were taught at one time by the egyptians, and at a later date by the chaldean sages of babylon.itis a very curious fact that the classical n

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

o slur over this assertion of the old testament narrative.ourpresent world has taken almost no notice of the rosicrucian philosophy, nor until the last twenty years of any mysticism, and when it does condescend to stoop from its utilitarian and money-makingoccupations,itis only to condemn all such studies, root and branch, as waste of time and loss of energy.thevery name of 'christian rosenkreuz, the founder of rosicrucianism, would meet with hardly any sign of recognition in the best social or the literary circles of this country; and yet the mere publication in 1614 of a little pamphlet in germany, narrating the mode of foundation and the aims of the rosicrucian order, made such a stir throughout14themagical masoneurope, that even to-day there are extant six hundred tracts for and agains

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 loving care and skill in preserving the remains of the master; and in the other we find an urn of ashes preserved by loving hands and placed in respectful privacy in her own chamber; and lastly, as christian rosenkreuz left the prophetic, an

ity of their order, so may this lodge founded by your great inspirer,h.p.blavatsky, con255 tinue to flourish and extend until time shallbeno more with you.[reprintedfromtheosophicalsiftings,vol6, no.is, pp.3-14.]2.dataofthehistory oftherosicruciansaccording to thefama fratemaatisbenedictiordinisrosaecrucisand theconfessiofraternitatisr.c.the notable mystic and adept known as christian rosenkreuz, the founder of the rosicrucian fraternity, was born in 1378, of a noble family, and received his education in a cloister. a certain monk,p.a.l.,took him as a companion on a journey to the holy land; they reached cyprus, and there p.a.l. died. christian rosenkreuz, however, went on alone to damascus, and to the sanctuary of mount carmel where he studied with the wise men, from thence to egypt, to f

he books m (magicon, axiomata, rota mundi and protheus; they also designed and built the house called 'domus sancti spiritus' as the home of the fraternity. after a few years a second circle of four other fratres was formed; these were c.r. the son of the deceased father's brotherofc.r.,b, a skilful painter, g.g, andp.d.,who acted as secretary to the others. while two fratres always remained with the founder c.r, the others went about doing good, relieving the poor and sick and collecting further knowledge.thefraternity then was a society of students of religion, philosophy and medicine, whose members sought for spiritual development and practised acts of benevolence.the history of the rosicrucians 29in the fama fratemitatiswe readthatthey bound them255selvesby six rules:1.to profess nothi

edhim.s.thatthe lettersr.c.should be their seal, mark and character.6.to maintain the secrecy of the fraternity for at least one hundred years. frater1.0.,a learned kabalist and doctor, author of the bookh.,cured the young earl of norfolk of leprosy, and was the first member to die, and that in england. about 1450 a funeral vault of seven sides decorated with symbols was erected for the repose of the founder. fraterp.d.was the second to die. in 1457 the curious a1chymical tractate calledchymischehochzeit(chemical wedding) was written in german byc.r.,butwas not then published.itnarrates the attainment by him of the grade of 'eques aurei lapidis' or 'knight of the golden stone. in 1484 the founder and imperator c.r. died, his body was embalmed andputinto the vault, which was closed and conc

at a date unknown,buthe died in 1600. his successor was fratern.n.,who in 1604 discovered the entrance to the cavern and caused it to be opened, 120 years after the decease of c.r. within the vault was found the body carefully preserved under an altar, and in his hand the parchment roll called the book t (testamentum, also copies of other valuable books of the fraternity, avitaand anitinerariumof the founder, certain songs(mantras),with mirrors, glasses, bells, lamps, etc. after a careful examination of all these matters the vault was closed.30themagical masonithas been stated that this tomb still exists, but its situation is only revealed to high continental adepts. in 1610 a notary named haselmeyer wrote that he had seen a ms copy of the history calledfamafratemitatis oder bruder255 scha

ian tacitus.theastrologer heliodorus was the adviser of the emperor valens. juvenal mentions the astrologers on several occasions.theearly christian fathers all condemned judicial astrology, among these tertullian, augustine and isidorus were most famous. apart from mythological fancies, the first man of whom it can be proved that he had astronomical knowledge is thales, a citizen of miletus, and the founder of the ionic system of philosphy; he died about 546b.c.he predicted an eclipse, the horrid darkness of which stopped a battle between the medes under cyaxares, and the lydians led by alyattes. he was believed to have gained his knowledge of the heavenly bodies from egyptian sources; josephus and plutarch both say he wenttoegypt to study astronomy. the greeks seem to have recognised a m

at adam was instructed by divine inspiration in astrology, and that his son seth practised the art. he wrote abouta.d.66.theannals of the ottoman empire, and the history of the mohammedan rulers in asia, africa and spain, teem with narratives of astrological pre255 dictions, and supernatural warnings which helped to arouse the enthusiasm of these hardy and superstitious warriors. osman the first, the founder of the ottoman empire in 1299, is said to have been much guided by a sheik who professed astrology. timour or tamerlane, the tartar chief, was induced to make war with baiazet, the sultan of turkey about the year 1400, by warning received by the astrologer abdullah lissan, and defeated him, as had been foretold.thesudden death of murad the second about 1451, who was a sultan of turkey

learning taught by the hebrew rabbis. in england the practice of casting lots, thesortilegiumof the romans, was condemned by the tenth statute of king james the first as a felony, and by the twelfth statute of charlesii,was excepted from the list of general pardons on the ground of its being sorcery and subversiveofthechristian faith. at even so late a period as 1790 in this country, john wesley the founder of methodism and a most famous preacher is reputed to have said 'to give up the belief in witchraft and divination, would be to give up the bible as a standard of faith and practice'.moderneurope in our own times, as has been already stated, divination by astrology is practised by many persons in privacy and it is professed by many teachers for a livelihood.thebelief in a concealed mea

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

e middle east, attracted the europeans. this inclination took on a religious facade, and was ornamented with the symbols of christianity, though, in actuality, the idea of the crusades was born out of a desire for worldly gain. this was the reason for the sudden change among christians of europe from their former pacifist policies, in earlier periods of their history, towards military aggression. the founder of the crusades was pope urban ii. he summoned the council of clermont, in 1095, in which the former pacifist doctrine of the christians was abandoned. a holy war was called for, with the intent to wrest the holy lands from the hands of the muslims. following the council, a huge army of crusaders was formed, composed both of professional dd from the templars to ancient egypt the roots

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

ng oral traditions. behind them all, however, it seemed that there must lie some solid historical reality. in the judgement of sylvanus griswold morley, the doyen of maya studies: the great god kukulkan, or feathered serpent, was the mayan counterpart of the aztec quetzalcoatl, the mexican god of light, learning and culture. in the maya pantheon he was regarded as having been the great organizer, the founder of cities, the former of laws and the teacher of the calendar. indeed his attributes and life history are so human that it is not improbable that he may have been an actual historical character, some great lawgiver and organizer, the memory of whose benefactions lingered long after death, and whose personality was eventually deified.7 all the legends stated unambiguously that quetzalco

se zeus sent hermes to deucalion with permission to ask for whatever he wished. he wished for human beings. zeus then bade him take stones and throw them over his shoulder. the stones deucalion threw became men, and those that pyrrha threw became women.37 as the hebrews looked back on noah, so the greeks of ancient historical times looked back upon deucalion as the ancestor of their nation and as the founder of numerous towns and temples.38 a similar figure was revered in vedic india more than 3000 years ago. one day (the story goes) when a certain wise man named manu was making his ablutions, he found in the hollow of his hand a tiny little fish which begged him to allow it to live. taking pity on it he put it in a jar. the next day, however, it had grown so much bigger that he had to car

e of her pelvis and back teeth. for these and other reasons, 1 roger lewin, human evolution, blackwell scientific publications, oxford, 1984, p. 74. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 204 her species classified as australopithecus afarensis has been accepted by the majority of palaeoanthropologists as our earliest direct ancestor.2 about two million years ago representatives of homo habilis, the founder members of the homo line to which we ourselves belong, began to leave their fossilized skulls and skeletons behind. as time went by this species showed clear signs of evolution towards an ever more gracile and refined form, and towards a larger and more versatile brain. homo erectus, who overlapped with and then succeeded homo habilis, appeared about 1.6 million years ago with a brain

nety-degree corners, and the incredible symmetry of the four enormous sides. and so were the engineering logistics of raising millions of huge stones hundreds of feet in the air. whoever they had been, therefore, the architects, engineers and stonemasons who had designed and successfully built this stupendous monument must indeed have thought like men 100 feet tall, as jean- fran ois champollion, the founder of modern egyptology, had once observed. he had seen clearly what generations of his successors were to close their eyes to: that the pyramid builders could only have been men of giant intellectual stature. beside the egyptians of old, he had added, we in europe are but lilliputians. 25 24 cited in traveller s key to ancient egypt, p. 90. 25 ibid, p. 40. champollion of course, decipher

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

much cipher material shows up in and around layne, who was said to be in frequent communication with the great white brotherhood, is highly suggestive that he was one of those who introduced the cipher into ufo trance-channeled contactee lore. layne was also writing about flying discs before kenneth arnold s sightings. he also introduced the idea of channeled masters to ufology. moseley, james w, the founder of the saucers and unexplained celestial events research society (saucers. since 1954 he has published some variation of saucer news. for many years moseley was the primary mover and shaker in ufology in the new york area. he was a fixture on early talk radio programs, and was an intimate collaborator with the late gray barker. the wealthy son of a u. s. army general, moseley has alway

all this and more at: www.borderlands.com 49 8 recap: meade layne, mark probert and the inner circle all questions pose more questions and all answers are personal opinions -and the only sound rule and reply to lift s problems is to question nothing but to faa all situations with detachment. maharaja natcha of the inner circle meade layne, to review our premise, was best known among ufologists as the founder of borderland sciences research founda-tion (bsrf. he had an impressive metaphysical library and was a member of the society of the inner light, one of several organizations that arose from the fragments of the seminal turnof- the-20th-century ritual occult body called the hermetic order of the golden dawn. layne s successor, riley crabb, recently passed away, but borderland sciences c

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

te) for details with respect to this ritual, see "naming" in the rosicrucian dictionary. marriage ceremony for details with respect to this ceremony, see "marriage ceremony" in the rosicrucian dictionary [26] some of the official seals of the a.m.o.r.c. 1. general symbol of the order in the world 2. the great seal of the supreme council 3. the seal and sign of the supreme treasurer 4. the seal of the founder 5. original emblem worn by the fratres and sorores 6. the rosae crucis (official) 7. the seal and sign of the supreme secretary 8. great seal of the grand master 9. the sacred insignia of the imperator [27] part three operating manual we present to our members a manual regarding the work, symbols, and other matters pertaining to our order. this manual will answer many questions continu

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

rystal, to see if she, viz, her mother was gone, yea or not; the angels appeared and shewed her mother opening a trunk and taking out a red waistcoat, whereby she perceived she was not gone. next day she went to her mother's and there, as she entered the chamber, she was opening a trunk, and had a red waistcoat in her hand' lilly wrote the accountofhis life to and by the request of elias ashmole (the founder of the ashmolean museum, oxford) and in reference to these and similar relations, says 'i may seem to some to writeinaedibilia,be it so, but knowing unto whom, and for whose only sake i do write them, i am much comforted therewith, well knowing you are the most knowing man in these curiosities of any man now living in england' so far as myownexperience extends, i feel convinced that no

e and, later, a member of the fratres lucis. 2 robert wentworth little (1839-78. originally educated for the church, he entered the civil service but left in 1862 to become a clerk in the grand secretary's office at freemason's hall, leaving in 1872 to become secretary of the royal masonic institution for girls. a most enthusiastic freemason he 'revived' a number of masonic orders and in 1866 was the founder and first supreme magus of the sria. editoroftherosicrucian1868-78 and of early issues of the weeklyfreemason.3therosicrucianmagazine.4itnever appeared in thespiritualistmagazinebut was published, without permission, in therosicrucian.5 kenneth robert henderson mackenzie, or whom seetheintroduction to the next section. 6 see note2of letter2.7 unidentified. 8 see note2of letteri.ii167li

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

cal policies were not popular, and under the boy king tutankhamun (tutankhamon (c. 1336 1327 bce, thebes was reestablished as the religious capital and amun-ra as the national god. horemheb (c. 1323 1295 bce, the last king of the eighteenth dynasty, presented akhenaten s reign as a time of chaos in which the gods had abandoned egypt. horemheb was succeeded by his vizier rameses (ramses, ramesses, the founder of the nineteenth dynasty. rameses son, seti (sety) i (c. 1294 1279 bce, was a vigorous king who reestablished egyptian authority over parts of syria, but the art of his reign has a serene beauty. seti s son rameses ii ruled egypt for sixty-seven 20 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 5. view of the desert hills at western thebes showing the pyramid-shaped mountain peak that overlook

f the modern horror genre. most major egyptian religious and literary texts were translated into western languages during the second half of the nineteenth century ce. some of these sources, particularly e. a. wallis budge s translation of the book of the dead, were drawn on by occult writers such as the theosophist madam blavatsky and the self-styled great beast, aleister crowley. sigmund freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was attracted by the symbolic qualities of ancient egyptian art, and his colleague carl jung was fascinated by egyptian solar mythology.112 sir james frazer, the father of anthropology, devoted several chapters of his influential book the golden bough to the myths of osiris and isis, which he interpreted as primarily relating to the annual growth and decay of vegetat

s father, ptah, and his divine stepmother, sekhmet; defeating the asiatics with the help of sekhmet; his death and mummification; and his appearance as a god. the greeks identified imhotep with their god of medicine, asclepius. the supposed tomb of imhotep in the desert near memphis and a nearby temple, the asklepion, became places of pilgrimage for sick people and childless couples. hippocrates, the founder of greek medicine, is said to have been inspired by books kept in the temple of imhotep at memphis. priests of imhotep were consulted about the meaning of dreams. imhotep was said to appear to dreamers as a shining human figure or as a scarab. in a story inscribed on a ptolemaic stela, it is not clear whether it is imhotep himself or a priest of imhotep who interprets king djoser s dre

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

longed at various times to these great schools, and helped to make of alexandria one of the most justly renowned seats of learning that the world has ever produced. altruism from alter, other. a quality opposed to egoism. actions tending to do good to others, regardless of self. ammonius saccas a great and good philosopher who lived in alexandria between the second and third centuries of our era, the founder of the neo-platonic school of the philaletheians or "lovers of truth" he was of poor birth and born of christian parents, but endowed with such prominent, almost divine goodness as to be called theodidaktos, the "god-taught" he honored that which was good in christianity, but broke with it and the churches at an early age, being unable to find in christianity any superiority over the o

es fifteen figures to express the duration of such an age, after the expiration of which the maha-pralaya or great dissolution sets in, and lasts in its turn for the same space of fifteen figures. brahma-vidya (sans) the knowledge or esoteric science about the true nature of brahma and brahm. buddha (sans "the enlightened" generally known as the title of gautama buddha, the prince of kapilavastu, the founder of modern buddhism. the highest degree of knowledge and holiness. to become a buddha one has to break through the bondage of sense and personality; to acquire a complete perception of the real self, and learn not to separate it from all the other selves; to learn by experience the utter unreality of all phenomena, foremost of all the visible kosmos; to attain a complete detachment from

s. but the alexandrian believers in thaumaturgy were not regarded as sinners and impostors when orthodox jews were at the head of such schools of "hazim" there were colleges for teaching prophecy and occult sciences. samuel was the chief of such a college at ramah; elisha, at jericho. hillel had a regular academy for prophets and seers; and it is hillel, a pupil of the babylonian college, who was the founder of the sect of the pharisees and the great orthodox rabbis. cycle (gr. kuklos) the ancients divided time into endless cycles, wheels within wheels, all such periods being of various durations, and each marking the beginning or end of some event either cosmic, mundane, physical, or metaphysical. there were cycles of only a few years, and cycles of immense duration, the great orphic cycl

na of creation that were produced for their tuition. he was the sole expounder of the exoteric secrets and doctrines. it was forbidden even to pronounce his name before an uninitiated person. he sat in the east, and wore as symbol of authority, a golden globe, suspended from the neck. he was also called mystagogus. hillel a great babylonian rabbi of the century preceding the christian era. he was the founder of the sect of the pharisees, a learned and a saintly man. hinayana (sans) the "smaller vehicle" a scripture and a school of the buddhists, contrasted with the mahayana "the greater vehicle" both schools are mystical (see mahayana) also in exoteric superstition, the lowest form of transmigration. homogeneity from the greek words homos "the same" and genos "kind" that which is of the sa

the kamarupa has learnt the way back to living human bodies, it becomes a vampire feeding on the vitality of those who are so anxious for its company. in india these eidolons are called pisachas-and are much dreaded. kapilavastu (sans) the birthplace of the lord buddha, called the "yellow dwelling" the capital of the monarch who was the father of gautama buddha. kardec, allan the adopted name of the founder of the french spiritists, whose real name was rivaille. it was he who gathered and published the trance utterances of certain mediums and afterwards made a "philosophy" of them between the years 1855 and 1870. karma (sans) physically, action; metaphysically, the law of retribution; the law of cause and effect or ethical causation. it is nemesis only in the sense of bad karma. it is the

n hebrew; or "long face" in greek, macroprosopus, as contrasted with "short face" or zeir anpeen, the microprosopus. one relates to deity, the other to man, the "little image of the great form" longinus, dionysius cassius a famous critic and philosopher, born in the very beginning of the third century (about 213. he was a great traveler, and attended at alexandria the lectures of ammonius saccas, the founder of neo-platonism, but was rather a critic than a follower. porphyry (the jew malek or malchus) was his pupil before he became the disciple of plotinus. it is said of him that he was a living library and a walking museum. towards the end of his life he became the instructor in greek literature of zenobia, queen of palmyra. she repaid his services by accusing him before the emperor aurel

e authority of returning "spirits" as a lovely land, having beautiful cities and buildings, a congress hall, museums, etc, etc. swedenborg, emanuel a famous scholar and clairvoyant of the past century, a man of great learning, who has vastly contributed to science, but whose mysticism and transcendental philosophy placed him in the ranks of hallucinated visionaries. he is now universally known as the founder of the swedenborgian sect, or the new jerusalem church. he was born at stockholm (sweden) in 1688, from lutheran parents, his father being the bishop of west gothland. his original name was swedberg, but on his being ennobled and knighted in 1719 it was changed to swedenborg. he became a mystic in 1743, and four years later (in 1747) resigned his office (of assessor extraordinary to th

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

rs of the g.d. unfortunately his theosophical society correspondence, which must have been extensive, did not reach the ultimate destination of his g.d. papers, namely the late mr gerald yorke, a patrician gloucestershire landowner whom i first came to know well during the 1960s. yorke acquired them after gardner's death from the late michael houghton (i.e, hurwitz) during the 1930s. houghton was the founder and proprietor of the atlantis bookshop, then in bury street close to the british museum. i used to visit it occasionally before the war, not to see houghton but, rather, a german refugee bookseller whom houghton allowed to occupy a corner of the ramshackle premises and who, much to houghton's irritation, regularly sold me books that had no connection with occultism. at that time my la

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

ere of thoughts which have their origin in the world of ideas, consequently in the spiritual akasa. each thought is preceded by a basic idea which, according to its property, accepts a definite form, and arrives to the consciousness of the ego through the etheric principle, consequently the mental matrix, as expression of the thought in the shape of a plastic picture. therefore man himself is not the founder of the thoughts, but the origin of each thought is to be sought in the supreme akasa sphere or the mental plane. man s spirit, as it were, is the receiver, the antenna of thoughts from the world of ideas, according to the situation in which man happens to be. the world of ideas being all in all, each new idea, new invention- in short, all man believes to have created by himself- has be

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4s diqnitea between gnostics and church fathers 51 bloody leooids of oiriitimiity 63 chapter n christian crimes and heathen virtues so t eeiies tt catherine of medida 5s occult aria practised by the clemt 69 tntijcbumintp and auto-tuhfi ocutot children 62 lgring cathdic saints 74 n t^iboii* of missionaries in india and china 79 sacrilqpou* tricks of catholic clergy 82 fuii k kabalist 91 peter not the founder of the roman dinrdi 91 strict lives of pagan hierophants 98 hl^ dwntctct of ancient 'mysteries' 101 jacouiot's account ol hiudd faldrs 103 christian symbolism derived from fbauic worship 109 hindu doctrine of the pitns, 114 "brahmanic spirit-dinununion dangers of u digitizecoy google contents chapter m ditisioi^ amongst the early christiai>k beaemblance between eariy chrotianity and bo

ent, tyran- nical, a hypooite and liar. isidor, bishop of pelusium, in a letter addressed to cyril him- self (i, ep. 370) wrote "let not the punishment, which you deem it necessary to inflict on mortoi men on account c ?perianal grwtanea, tall upon the living church. prepare not the way for perpetual divinons of the church imder fhepreuntt ijf piety" such wm one al uie first christian saints- and the founder of the innity as he qipears on the pages of history. digitizecoy google 54 isb unveiled codqiming sword of the islam prophet ia a direct consequence of the bloody riots and fights among christians. it was the intestine war between the nestorians and cyrilians that engendered lalamism; and it is in the convent of basra that the prolific seed was first sown by bahira, the nestorian monk

f their own, but faithful mirrors of the well which evokes, controls, and guides them. we wiu not waste our time in drawing the reader's attention to doubtful or obscure thauma- turgista and exorcizers, but take as our standard one of the greatest saints of catholicism, and select a bouquet from that same prolific con- servatory of pious lies. the golden legend, of james de voragine* st. dominic, the founder of the famous order of that name, is one of the mistiest saints on the calendar. his order was the first that received a solemn confirmation from the pope* and he is well known in histoty as the associate and counsellor of the infamous simon de montfort, the, papal general, whom he helped to butcher the unfortunate ajbigenses in and hear toulouse. the story goes that this saint and the

teachers on several questions of formal observance. he cannot strictly be called an essene, for reasons which we will indicate farther on, neither was be a nazar, or nazaria of the older sect. what jesus wat, may be found in the codsx naxaraeui, from the unjust accusations of the bardesantan gnostics "jesu is n^m, the false messiah, the destroyer of the old orthodox religion" s^s the codec* he is the founder of the sect of the new ntuors, and, as the words clearly imply, a follower of the buddhist doctrine. in hebrew the word naba, k23, means to speak by inspira- tion; and dj is nebo, a god of wisdom. but nebo is also mercary, and mercury is buddha in the hindq monogram [iconography] of planets. moreover we find the talmudists holding that jesus was inspired by the genius of mercury* the n

renes ab- horred in order to prove them [the nazarenes] to have been a sect sprung from the' mysteries' of the' secret doctrine; and their rites can by no means be coctfounded with those of the pagan populace, who had simply fallen into the idolatrous and unreasoning faith of all plebeian multitudes. john was the prophet of these nazarenes, and in galilee he was termed 'the savior' but he was not the founder of that sect which derived its tradition from the remotest chaldaeo-akkadian theurgy" the early plebeian israelites were canaanitea and phoenicians, with 272. luie, xiu, 32-3. 273. maa, ii, 23. we must bt*i in mind tlut the gtitpd according ta umubtw in the new tcitanicnt ia not the original goapel of the ^natle of that name. hie authentic evangel wai for centurica in the poosession of

must be left to philologists to agree upon. guru, in sanskrit, is a spiritual teacher; and as zuruastara means in the same language he who worships the sun, why is it impossible that, by some natural change of language due to the great number of different nations which were converted to the sun- worship, the word guru-aetara, the spiritual teacher of sun-worship, so closely resembling the name of the founder of this religion, became gradu- ally transformed from its primal form to zurytutara or zoroaster? the opinion of the kabalists is that there was but one zarathustra and many ffuruattaraa or spiritual teachers, and that one such guru, or rather huru- aster, as he is called in the old manuscripts, was tiie instructor of i- thagoras. to philology and our readers we leave the explanation f

gion of the sanctuary, the pre-vedic br&hmanism. the 'schism' of zoroaster, as it is called, is a direct proof of it. for it was no achimt, strictly speaking, but merely a partially-public exposition of strictly monotheistic religious truths hither- to taught only in the sanctuaries, and that he had learned from the br&h- nuuuia. zoroaster, the primeval institutor of sun-worship, cannot be called the founder of the dualistic system; neither was he the first to teach the unity of god, for he taught only what he himself had learned with the br&hmanos. and that zarathustra and his followers, the zoro- astiiims" had been settled in india before they immigrated into persia" is also proved by max muller" that the zoroastrians and their ances- tors started from india" he says "during the vedic pe

ess the jm-chriittaa existence of tbe crucifix in ireuud. its buddhistic chanurter, and tlie peoetiatiod of the miationariea of that faith even to that then remote portion of the earth, we need not wonder that ia the minds of the naaarcan oontempcuaries of jesus and their descendants he sbonld digitizecoy google secret christian and other sects 291 boodhasp (bodhisauva, the alleged chaldaeao, was the founder of sabaeanism or baj^iam* what the actual baptists, d-mogtasilah, or nazaraeans, do believe, is fully set forth in other places, for they are the very nazaienea of whom we have spoken so much, and from whose codex we have quoted. persecuted and threatened with annihilation, they took refuge in the nestorian body, and so allowed themaelves to be arbitrarily classed as christians, but as

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ting and yielding joyful and carefree sides of the chinese character. this attitude offsets and complements the moral and duty conscious purposeful character ascribed to confucianism. taoism is characterized by a positive attitude towards the occult and the metaphysical, whereas the pragmatic confucian tradition considers these of only marginal importance, even though their reality is not denied. the founder of taoism, lao-tzu, historically remains an obscure figure. the principal source of information about his life is a biography written in about 100 bc. he was said to be a court official advising in matters such as astrology and divination, and was in charge of the sacred books. the name lao-tzu seems to represent a certain type of sage rather than an individual name, and the relevant b

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in the honour-point of the cover of the tomb. there is an amount of unsuspected meaning in every curve of these templar tombs; but it would at present too much occupy us to more fully explain. the crook part of a bishop s staff shows the undulating curve of the s.s. issuing out of the foliations: meaning the blessed virgin mary. this is particularly observable in the statue of william of wykeham, the founder, at st. mary s college, winchester; who, holding the spiritual crook in the left hand, gives the usual benediction of the two extended fingers with his right. the crook is the shepherd crook of the second person, and of the holy spirit. we now give a series of gnostic talismans, from originals. the reader is requested to refer to our numerous figures and symbols from the temple church

one of his banners, which was about two hundred years after his martyrdom, and very early for a country so remote from cappadocia to have him in reverence and esteem, in regard to the story of the countess of salisbury and her garter, we shall insert the judgment of dr. heylin, who took great pains to ascertain its foundation. this i take to be a vain and idle romance, he says, derogatory both to the founder and the order, first published by polydore virgil, a stranger to the affairs of england, and by him taken upon no better ground than fama vulgi, the tradition of the common people too trifling a foundation upon which to raise so great a building. the material whereof the garter was composed at first is an arcanum, nor is it described by any writer before polydore virgil, and he only sp

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mentor, and absorbing as much as he could of his teachings. today, he is regarded as the foremost authority on kabbalah, having authored thirty books on the subject, translated into ten languages. his live lessons are broadcast daily on cable tv and internet around the world. in recent years, he has become a sought-after lecturer in academic circles in the united states and europe. dr. laitman is the founder and president of bnei baruch- kabbalah education and research institute, which operates the largest and most extensive internet site on the subject of kabbalah, www.kabbalah.info. the website provides unlimited access to kabbalistic texts and media in over twenty languages, with 1.4 million hits per month. since the year 2000, the encyclopedia britannica recognizes kabbalah.info as one

enty languages, with 1.4 million hits per month. since the year 2000, the encyclopedia britannica recognizes kabbalah.info as one of the largest internet sites for both number of visitors and quantity of educational and informational materials on the science of kabbalah. biographies 11 p ro f e s s o r e rv i n l a s z l o prof. ervin laszlo, who graciously wrote the introduction to this book, is the founder and foremost exponent of systems philosophy and general evolution theory. born in budapest, hungary in 1932, laszlo made his debut as a concert pianist at the age of fifteen in new york, an event reported in life, time, newsweek, and the international media. prof. laszlo turned to science and philosophy in his mid-twenties and began publishing books and articles in 1963. in 1970 he rec

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religion. this is the reason for the important need to clearly distinguish between kabbalah and religion. every religion relies on a certain prophet, a person who was connected with spirituality and circulated his knowledge among people. this argument is at the basis of every religion, meaning that everything begins with the sublime truth, the revelation of the creator before the prophet, who was the founder, be it judaism or any other religion. the wisdom of kabbalah is a method to attain the creator that is available for all. it allows any person to come without any mediators and to reach a spiritual contact with the creator. people who have reached spiritual attainment described how they did this step by step so that others might follow them to a similar conclusion. one s spiritual conn

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

. while we can hardly accept the suggestion that the ancestry of our modern rite is wholly syrian, we cannot doubt that the influence of the third line of tradition especially contributed by hiram abiff was very considerable. we note also that it seems to have been especially concerned with the working of metals. 286. all that is found in our modern rituals about lamech and his sons, about jubal, the founder of the art of music, and tubal cain, the first artificer in metals, appears to belong to the line of tradition which hiram abiff introduced. 287. this council was the originator of the greater part of our modern masonic working; the main outline of the egyptian ritual was carefully preserved (although king solomon on more than one occasion referred to his brother of tyre on points of d

and influence was transmitted to certain of the mystic schools of the middle ages. nevertheless our rites have the same purpose, symbolize the same invisible worlds, and are intended to prepare candidates for the same august reality that lies behind all true systems of the mysteries alike. 386. the school of pythagoras 387. the great philosopher pythagoras was born in samos about 582 b.c, and was the founder of the school that bore his name and studied his teachings in greece, italy, egypt and asia minor. mr. g. r. s. mead says of the pythagorean school: 388. the finest characters among women with which ancient greece presents us were formed in the school of pythagoras, and the same is true of the men. the authors of antiquity are agreed that this discipline had succeeded in producing the

story, etc, p. 67, from which translation the citations following are also taken) 714. there he learnt arabic, translated into latin the book m, which he afterwards brought to europe, and in which paracelsus was said to have been interested; and thence he travelled to egypt and to fez, to become acquainted with the elementary inhabitants, who revealed unto him many of their secrets. 715. from fez the founder of the order is said to have crossed into spain, where he offered his knowledge to the learned, but to them it was a laughing matter. he therefore returned to germany, his own native country, determining gradually to begin there the foundation of the brotherhood that was destined to reform europe. he chose three brethren out of his own monastery to be the first rosicrucians; and later

rees of the eighteenth century; and, as bro. r. r. gould points out, colour is lent to this view by the fact that the earliest names mentioned in connection with freemasonry in france are those of well-known adherents of the stuarts, although he himself rejects the hypothesis for lack of sufficient evidence(*gould. hist. freem, iii, 78) we have the direct and personal testimony of baron von hund, the founder of the rite of the strict observance, given in 1764, that he himself was received into the order of the temple in paris in 1743 by an unknown bro, the knight of the red feather, in the presence of lord kilmarnock(*at that time grand master of the grand lodge of scotland, and master of lodge kilwinning on his election to that high office in 1742. ibid, p. 53) and that he was subsequentl

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

ll done to a background of ribald recitations from the 28 black mass holy bible, and audible expectorations on the cross! if a baby can be slaughtered during the ritual, so much the better; for as everyone knows, this is the favorite sport of the satanist (99) as with other components of infernal mythology, the belief in the real existence of black masses was widespread in the middle ages. lavey, the founder of modern satanism, drew on a few elements of this literary satanism (e.g, black candles and the use of a naked woman for his altar) to construct his own version of the black mass.however, unlike the imaginary black masses of the middle ages, lavey was more concerned with using the black mass for psychodrama than for magic.he also noted that if the purpose of the original was to shock

y. lavey s approach was eclectic and his attitude pragmatic if it works, use it. although very different, contemporary chaos magic developed from the same roots as lavey s magical practices and it shares lavey s pragmatic attitude. this similarity of spirit may be one of the reasons why many contemporary satanists are attracted to chaos magic. austin osman spare (1886 1956, the person regarded as the founder of chaos magic, was a talented graphic artist. after short stints in the golden dawn and crowley s argenteum astrum, he began thinking through a new approach to the occult. the result was chaos magic, which has been described as more of an attitude than a magical system. the chaos magician can make use of traditional rituals or create new ones, as she or he wishes, the only requirement

m, who had converted from satanism to a neo-nazi form of norse neopaganism, was eventually sent to jail for his involvement in the burning of at least ten churches and the iron maiden, 7 july 1998 (mitchell gerber/corbis) heavy metal music 107 murder of another musician. he continues to be popular among black metalists, writing articles and music from prison. mayhem, the band who lost a member to the founder of burzum, is perhaps the most influential northern black metal group. one of their most well-known songs is carnage, another mayhem tune is deathcrush. as indicated by the burning of christian churches and other antisocial acts, for some black metal groups violence is more than just a topic for sensationalistic song lyrics.more characteristic than violence, however, is black metal s s

rned out of hell to once again participate in the cycle reincarnation. in the christian tradition, the notions of heaven and hell are mixed in a somewhat confused manner with earlier ideas about the resurrection of the body. the notion of resurrection in which the deceased person remains in the ground until judgment day was popular in jesus s lifetime, and this is the notion of the afterlife that the founder of christianity taught. however, the christian tradition very early adopted the greek idea of an eternal soul that went to a realm of punishment or a realm of reward after the body died. hence, resurrection in later christianity involves reuniting the soul, which obviously has to hell and heaven 109 leave heaven to accomplish this purpose, with the reconstructed body on earth. another

s of theater, and any stadium. see also purgatory; zoroastrianism for further reading: eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macmillan, 1987. turner, alice k. the history of hell. new york: harcourt brace& company, 1993. van der leeuw, g. religion in essence and manifestation. vol. 1. 1933. gloucester, ma: peter smith, 1967. lavey, anton szandor anton szandor lavey (1930 1997) was the founder of the church of satan, the first organized church in modern times promulgating a religious philosophy championing satan as the symbol of personal freedom and individualism. unlike the founders of other religions who claimed divine inspiration, lavey readily acknowledged that he synthesized satanism from his own understanding of the human animal and insights from earlier philosophers w

publisher of famous monsters of filmland and acknowledged expert on science fiction, author fritz leiber, local eccentric dr. cecil e. nixon (creator of the musical automaton isis) and underground filmmaker kenneth anger. from this crowd lavey distilled what he called a magic circle of associates who shared his interest in the bizarre, the hidden side of what moves the world. as his anton lavey, the founder of modern religious satanism (archive photos) 146 lavey, anton szandor expertise grew, lavey began presenting friday night lectures summarizing the fruits of his research. in 1965, lavey was featured on the brother buzz show, a humorous children s program hosted by marionettes. the focus was on lavey s addams family lifestyle making a living as a hypnotist, psychic investigator and org

at of a charismatic leader beginning an organization, which grows well during his or her lifetime, and usually attracts as its most prominent members people who have been or still are members of most of the other extant occult organizations. upon the leader s demise, the organization usually fractures into two or many factions, as the other members struggle to decide who will assume the mantle of the founder, and these factions generally then become independent organizations, which repeat the cycle. most contemporary magic goes back to that of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (hogd, which was an offshoot of a masonic- rosicrucian organization, the societas rosicruciana in anglia (sria, founded by robert wentworth little in 1865, and supposedly based on old manuscripts found in freemas

who wrote a major book on the tarot. the hogd attracted a stellar cast from among britain s middle-class intellectuals. its members (as revealed by ithel colquhon s appendixes) included arthur machen, arthur edward waite, james m. barrie, sir e. a. wallis budge, hugh schonfield, florence farr (at one time a lover of george bernard shaw, and maud gonne (a lover of yeats and mother of sean mcbride, the founder of amnesty international. the most famous member of the hogd was william butler yeats, who joined in 1890, and remained a devout member (according to virginia moore s masterful biography) until 1900, when a fight over whether mathers could bring aleister crowley rapidly up into the leadership of the organization shattered it into several factions. most of the members left with yeats to

the survival of an ancient religion, wicca was a creative synthesis of elements drawn from freemasonry, ceremonial magic, aleister crowley, robert graves s notion of a pre- christian goddess religion, charles godfrey leland s witches gospel, murray s imaginative reconstruction of the old religion from inquisition records, and other sources. in contrast, anton lavey, the person usually regarded as the founder of modern satanism, never claimed to be the lineal descendant of an neopagan witchcraft 185 ancient tradition. although his basic philosophy was quite different, lavey did, however, draw on some of the same sources as gardner particularly ceremonial magic and crowley resulting in certain parallels between wicca and satanism (e.g, both are involved in roughly comparable magical practice

daughters of men were fair and. took to wife such of them as they chose (6:2. such a geneology would make him a son of a fallen angel. see also fallen angels; nephilim for further reading: ginzbery, louis. the legends of the jews. philadelphia: jewish publication society of america, 1954. the nine satanic statements the nine satanic statements refers to a set of nine assertions that anton lavey, the founder of modern satanism, made in the introductory chapters of his best-selling satanic bible. although he may or may not have intended them as such, they have become a touchstone of contemporary organized satanism. the nine satanic statements can often be found reprinted on satanist websites, and have provided a paradigm for other, comparable documents (e.g, the nine satanic sins. they cons

tility and salvation. a prominent pre-christian example is 238 sammael the slaying and dismembering of osiris, who is brought back to life by his wife isis to become the god and who, by overcoming death, saves humankind from its consequences. salvation can be achieved in different ways in different religious traditions. typically, in the religious traditions based on the worship of or devotion to the founder, this figure is taken as the exemplum to imitate, and the founder s religious doctrine is considered to delineate the path that insures salvation (e.g, christ and buddha. devotion to saints and other religious guides (such as shamans) also leads to the path of salvation. salvation also becomes possible through certain rituals, as in the christian sacrament of baptism, which initiates t

vi (alphonse-louis constant) appears. levi s system was adopted and improved by the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and so became the source of all modern systems of magic. 1865 the societas rosicruciana in anglia founded by robert wentworth little. 1875 birth of aleister crowley (1875 1947, the most famous and influential ritual magician of the twentieth century. 1884 gerald brosseau gardner, the founder of modern wicca, born at great crosby, near blundell sands in lancashire, england. 1886 birth of austin osman spare (1886 1956, regarded as the founder of chaos magic, a popular form of magic in contemporary satanist circles. 1888 the hermetic order of the golden dawn founded in london, with dr.william wynn westcott, samuel liddell macgregor mathers, and w. r.woodman as its ruling triu

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skaldenkenningen met de namen der godinnen freyja en frigg, h tijdschrift voor nederlandsche taal- en letterkunde 53 (1934: 210.217, is a comprehensive study of the kennings for freyja and frigg. frodi ancient danish king and figure of heroic legend. in his account of the story told to explain the kenning gfrodi fs flour h for gold in skaldskaparmal, snorri says that skjold was a son of odin and the founder of the skjoldung dynasty in denmark. his son was fridleif, and fridleif fs son was frodi. frodi ascended to the throne at the time emperor augustus had imposed peace on the entire world when christ was born. but because frodi was the most powerful of all kings in the northern lands, the peace was ascribed to him wherever scandinavian was spoken, and the people of the north call it the

gefjon as a figure of prehistory, a member of the asir not in their roles as gods but in their role as gasia-men, h as the icelandic learned prehistory understood them, and as snorri presented them in the prologue to his edda, the frame to gylfaginning, and ynglinga saga. this gefjon had a clear association with denmark, especially sjalland, even if no other texts support a marriage with skjold, the founder of the danish royal family known as the skjoldungar in medieval scandinavian tradition and the scyldingas in old english. her interaction with the giants would have been on the order of other such human-supernatural interactions. however, many scholars have found themselves persuaded that gefjon originally was a goddess. they believe that her name has to do etymologically with gifts or

filologi 87 (1972: 97.118. grottasong eddic poem, spoken by two giant women who turn a magic mill and foretell the demise of king frodi of denmark. the poem is found only in manuscripts of snorri sturluson fs edda, in the section called skaldskaparmal. snorri cites it after explaining the kenning gfrodi fs deities, themes, and concepts 151 flour h for gold. skjold, he says, was a son of odin and the founder of the skjoldung dynasty in denmark. his son was fridleif, and fridleif fs son was frodi. frodi ascended to the throne at the time emperor augustus had imposed peace on the entire world when christ was born, and this was called the peace of frodi in scandinavia. frodi visited the swedish king fjolnir and purchased from him two slave girls, fenja and menja, who were large and strong. at

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, as well. social darwinism was a doctrine, not a scientific theory, and it is best dismissed. another unfortunate offshoot of the misapplication of darwinism and genetics was the eugenics movement. started in the late 1860s in england, this movement advocated the selective breeding of human beings for the intellectual betterment of the human race. characteristically for his time, francis galton, the founder of the eugenics movement, considered that people in his society were intellectually superior to africans, which he singled out. by the early 1910s, the eugenics doctrine had reached the united states, notably through the efforts of charles davenport. he, too, considered africans inferior, as he did people of southern european origins. nordic people creationism and intelligent design 11

roman emperor constantine, or darwin, can radically and quickly change the thinking of many. this is how christianity first appeared, through the teachings of jesus christ (surely a type of cultural evolution, and then evolved further through the actions of among others, emperor constantine (who made christianity the official religion of the roman empire, martin luther, and henry viii of england (the founder of anglicanism, who can all be seen as innovators and modifiers of preestablished order. this is also how evolutionary theory first spread. in the many-to-one mode, where several people are transmitting the same message to one individual, cultural innovations are rare because this type of transmission is akin to social pressure or peer pressure. thus, this type of cultural transmission

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size, both characterized by infinite variety. the soul democritus also conceived to be atomic in structure and subject to dissolution with the body. the mind he believed to be composed of spiritual atoms. aristotle intimates that democritus obtained his atomic theory from the pythagorean doctrine of the monad. among the eleatics are also included protagoras and anaxarchus. socrates (469-399 b.c, the founder of the socratic sect, being fundamentally a skeptic, did not force his opinions upon others, but through the medium of questionings caused each man to give expression to his own philosophy. according to plutarch, socrates conceived every place as appropriate for reaching in that the whole world was a school of virtue. he held that the soul existed before the body and, prior to immersio

were looked upon as bodies either corporeal or incorporeal. meekness marked the attitude of the stoic philosopher. while diogenes was delivering a discourse against anger, one of his listeners spat contemptuously in his face. receiving the insult with humility, the great stoic was moved to retort "i am not angry, but am in doubt whether i ought to be so or not" epicurus of samos (341-270 b.c) was the founder of the epicurean sect, which in many respects resembles the cyrenaic but is higher in its ethical standards. the epicureans also posited pleasure as the most desirable state, but conceived it to be a grave and dignified state achieved through renunciation of those mental and emotional inconstancies which are productive of pain and sorrow. epicurus held that as the pains of the mind and

eel, prepar'd, tho seiz'd with sudden fear, to force the guard. off'ring his brandish'd weapon at their face, had not the sibyl stop'd his eager pace, and told him what those empty phantoms were; forms without bodies, and impassive air" p. 17 even though neo-platonism was to intervene and many centuries pass before this emphasis took definite form. although ammonius saccus was long believed to be the founder of neo-platonism, the school had its true beginning in plotinus (a.d. 204-269. prominent among the neo-platonists of alexandria, syria, rome, and athens were porphyry, iamblichus, sallustius, the emperor julian, plutarch, and proclus. neo-platonism was the supreme effort of decadent pagandom to publish and thus preserve for posterity its secret (or unwritten) doctrine. in its teachings

osis. the members of the order claimed to be familiar with the secret doctrines of early christianity. they interpreted the christian mysteries according to pagan symbolism. their secret information and philosophic tenets they concealed from the profane and taught to a small group only of especially initiated persons. simon magus, the magician of new testament fame, is often supposed to have been the founder of gnosticism. if this be true, the sect was formed during the century after christ and is probably the first of the many branches which have sprung from the main trunk of christianity. everything with which the enthusiasts of the early christian church might not agree they declared to be inspired by the devil. that simon magus had mysterious and supernatural powers is conceded even by

inity several centuries before the christian era "as to orpheus himself" writes thomas taylor "scarcely a vestige of his life is to be found amongst the immense ruins of time. for who has ever been able to affirm any thing with certainty of his origin, his age, his country, and condition? this alone may be depended on, from general assent, that there formerly lived a person named orpheus, who was the founder of theology among the greeks; the institutor of their lives and morals; the first of prophets, and the prince of poets; himself the offspring of a muse; who taught the greeks their sacred rites and mysteries, and from whose wisdom, as from a perennial and abundant fountain, the divine muse of homer and the sublime theology of pythagoras and plato flowed (see the mystical hymns of orphe

bol. the first gods of the scandinavians were licked out of blocks of ice by the mother cow (audhumla, who symbolized the principle of natural nutriment and fecundity because of her milk. occasionally isis is represented as a bird. she often carries in one hand the crux ansata, the symbol of eternal life, and in the other the flowered scepter, symbolic of her authority. thoth hermes trismegistus, the founder of egyptian learning, the wise man of the ancient world, gave to the priests and philosophers of antiquity the secrets which have been preserved to this day in myth and legend. these allegories and emblematic figures conceal the secret formul for spiritual, mental, moral, and physical regeneration commonly known as the mystic chemistry of the soul (alchemy. these sublime truths were co

ings being the good, it is natural that all things should partake of the good and be arranged in combinations that are harmonious. harmony is the manifesting expression of the will of the eternal good. the philosophy of music it is highly probable that the greek initiates gained their knowledge of the philosophic and therapeutic aspects of music from the egyptians, who, in turn, considered hermes the founder of the art. according to one legend, this god constructed the first lyre by stretching strings across the concavity of a turtle shell. both isis and osiris were patrons of music and poetry. plato, in describing the antiquity of these arts among the egyptians, declared that songs and poetry had existed in egypt for at least ten thousand years, and that these were of such an exalted and

ntific and religious; science was philosophic and religious i religion was philosophic and scientific. perfect wisdom was considered unattainable save as the result of harmonizing all three of these expressions of mental and moral activity. while modern physicians accredit hippocrates with being the father of medicine, the ancient therapeut ascribed to the immortal hermes the distinction of being the founder of the art of healing. clemens alexandrinus, in describing the books purported to be from the stylus of hermes, divided the sacred writings into six general classifications, one of which, the pastophorus, was devoted to the science of medicine. the smaragdine, or emerald tablet found in the valley of ebron and generally accredited to hermes, is in reality a chemical formula of a high a

the same author states that certain sects of early christianity were accused of using drugs for the same general purposes as the pagans. the sect of the assassins, or the yezidees as they are more generally known, demonstrated a rather interesting aspect of the drug problem. in the eleventh century this order, by capturing the fortress of mount alamont, established itself at irak. hassan sabbah, the founder of the order, known as the "old man of the mountain" is suspected of having controlled his followers by the use of narcotics. hassan made his followers believe that they were in paradise, where they would be forever if they implicitly obeyed him while they were alive. de quincey, in his confessions of an opium eater, describes the peculiar psychological effects produced by this product

e two extremely significant references occurring in the introduction to that remarkable potpourri, the anatomy of melancholy. this volume first appeared in 1621 from the pen of democritus junior, who was afterwards identified as robert burton, who, in turn, was a suspected intimate of sir francis bacon. one reference archly suggests that at the time of publishing the anatomy of melancholy in 1621 the founder of the fraternity of r.c. was still alive. this statement--concealed from general recognition by its textual involvement--has escaped the notice of most students of rosicrucianism. in the same work there also appears a short footnote of stupendous import. it contains merely the words "job. valent. andreas, lord verulam" this single line definitely relates johann valentin andre to sir f

ustodians of a secret and sacred knowledge of architectonics, its members were entrusted with the design and erection of public buildings and monuments. the superlative excellence of their handiwork elevated the members of the guild to a position of surpassing dignity; they were regarded as the master craftsmen of the earth. because of the first dances held in honor of dionysos, he was considered the founder and patron of the theater, and the dionysians specialized in the construction of buildings adapted for the presentation of dramatic performances. in the circular or semicircular orchestra they invariably erected an altar to schylus, the famous greek poet, that while appearing in one of his own plays he was suspected by a mob of angry spectators of revealing one of the profound secrets

its most involved principles that many newly converted to the christian faith deserted it to become her disciples. hypatia not only proved conclusively the pagan origin of the christian faith but also exposed the purported miracles then advanced by the christians as tokens of divine preference by demonstrating the natural laws controlling the phenomena. at this time cyril--later to be renowned as the founder of the doctrine of the christian trinity and canonized for his zeal--was bishop of alexandria. seeing in hypatia a continual menace to the promulgation of the christian faith, cyril--indirectly at least--was the cause of her tragic end. despite every later effort to exonerate him from the stigma of her murder, the incontrovertible fact remains that he made no effort to avert the foul a

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they would even tax modern machin-ery to duplicate?why is it that no ape brain, according to exhaustive tests, displays the fantastic higher qualities of mansbrain, such as genius, imagination, scientific inspiration, and less flattering, schizophrenia?why do human beings alone, apart from any animal, have religion?alfred r. wallacediscovered natural selection previous to darwin and with him was the founder of the evolutionisttheory. but on reviewing the startling differences between homo sapiens and other mammals, he real-ized that man was an exception to the rules he amazingly wrote: some intelligent power has guided or determined the development of mannature never overendows a species beyond the demands of everyday existence.why religion?an important question is why religion. why did h

ogy and astronomy, exposes the occult roots of religion, government and bigbusiness. knowledge of these roots will empower, inform and clarify your perception of the seem-ingly complex dynamics of the world (includes 600+ digital slides).what connection do the symbols of government, religion, royalty and the corporate world have with the constellations and the zodiac? who was jesus christ? was he the founder of christianity? what has the church been concealing for 2,ooo years? what are the gospels, and why were there 12 disciples? who are the serpents of wisdom and why is the serpent symbol so feared and revered? what do the symbols on flags, heraldry and money mean? who are the biblical magi? why has the role of women been reduced by patriarchal edifices?log on to www.taroscopes.com and v

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

each into the spirit of ahriman. this supports the initatory foundation of the luciferian path itself the adept prepares to become like the adversary his or her self, based on their own unique path. akht [avestan/pahlavi] the sorcerer who was the embodiment of the yatus, the demonic forces of ahriman. akht-jadu or kabed-us-spae as he was called was mentioned in matigan-i yosht-i fryan. akhtya was the founder and member of the yatus, a coven of demons and sorcerers who wandered persia, practicing and developing sorcery. the name akht itself means evil, filth and pestilence, thus relates to the initiatory nature of akhti as a sorcerer of the adversary, by the darkness shall he come into light. akhtya or azyta is thus considered a symbol of the zanda, which is an apostle or priest of ahriman

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this cave, banish and close the rite. keep a journal of this working and what you learned about yourself by it. this shadow form is but of you, thus you should seek a regular communion with such spirits. prayer of akhtya purpose of ritual to achieve aethyric communication, inspiration and self-initiation through the anthropomorphic assumption of identity. akhtya was considered an "evil" sorcerer, the founder of yatus, or yatuk-dinoih (witchcraft- a guild of sorcerers who practiced black magic or adversarial rites under the direction or path of ahriman in ancient persia. yatuk/yatus is considered now a left hand path approach to witchcraft, that is by encircling the self one may achieve self-initiation into the mysteries of the adversary, the opposition of self against the natural order. th

MORALS AND DOGMA

e orb of the universe; but being himself all in all, he sees all the beings that fill his immensity; the only principle, the _light_ of heaven, the father of all. he _produces everything; he orders and disposes everything; he is the reason, the life, and the motion of all being "i am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life" so said the founder of the christian religion, as his words are reported by john the apostle. god, say the sacred writings of the jews, appeared to moses in a flame of fire, in the midst of a bush, which was not consumed. he descended upon mount sinai, as the smoke of a _furnace; he went before the children of israel, by day, in a pillar of cloud and, by night, in a pillar of _fire, to give them _light "c

asses of equality, the pelican of humanity, and our order of fraternity. laboring for these, with faith, hope, and charity as our armor, we will wait with patience for the final triumph of good and the complete manifestation of the word of god. no one mason has the right to measure for another, within the walls of a masonic temple, the degree of veneration which he shall feel for any reformer, or the founder of any religion. we teach a belief in no particular creed, as we teach unbelief in none. whatever higher attributes the founder of the christian faith may, in our belief, have had or not have had, none can deny that he taught and practised a pure and elevated morality, even at the risk and to the ultimate loss of his life. he was not only the benefactor of a disinherited people, but a

the golden calf. the egyptian priests taught in their great mysteries, that there was one god, supreme and unapproachable, who had _conceived_ the universe by his intelligence, before he _created_ it by his power and will. they were no materialists nor pantheists; but taught that matter was not eternal or co-existent with the great first cause, but created by him. the early christians, taught by the founder of their religion, but in greater perfection, those primitive truths that from the egyptians had passed to the jews, and been preserved among the latter by the essenes, received also the institution of the mysteries; adopting as their object the building of the symbolic temple, preserving the old scriptures of the jews as their sacred book, and as the fundamental law, which furnished t

th him. other figures on this vessel belong to the zodiac. the base of the _tripod_ of the pythian priestess was a triple-headed serpent of brass, whose body, folded in circles growing wider and wider toward the ground, formed a conical column, while the three heads, disposed triangularly, upheld the _tripod_ of gold. a similar column was placed on a pillar in the hippodrome at constantinople, by the founder of that city; one of the heads of which is said to have been broken off by mahomet the second, by a blow with his iron mace. the british god hu was called "the dragon--ruler of the world" and his car was drawn by serpents. his ministers were styled _adders. a druid in a poem of taliessin says "i am a druid, i am an _architect, i am a prophet, i am a _serpent (gnadi" the car of the godd

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

ions of nature, he represents those grand laws of unchanging and harmonious order, by which not only the physical but also [27]the moral world is governed. hence he is the god of regulated time as marked by the changing seasons, and by the regular succession of day and night, in contradistinction to his father cronus, who represents time absolutely, i.e. eternity. as the lord of state-life, he is the founder of kingly power, the upholder of all institutions connected with the state, and the special friend and patron of princes, whom he guards and assists with his advice and counsel. he protects the assembly of the people, and, in fact, watches over the welfare of the whole community. as the father of the gods, zeus sees that each deity performs his or her individual duty, punishes their mi

to this very ancient pagan source. the lares familiares were a much more pleasing conception. they were the spirits of the ancestors of each family, who exercised after death a protecting power over the well-being and prosperity of the family to which they had in life belonged. the place of honour beside the hearth was occupied by the statue of the lar of the house, who was supposed to have been the founder of the family. this statue was the object of profound veneration, and was honoured on all occasions by every member of the family; a portion of each meal was laid before it, and it was believed to take an active part in all family affairs and domestic events, whether of a sad or joyful nature. before starting on any expedition the master of the house saluted the statue of the lar, and

all the gods honoured them with their presence, and offered rich gifts and congratulations. cadmus himself presented his lovely bride with a splendid necklace fashioned by hephastus, which, however, after the death of harmonia, always proved fatal to its possessor. the children of cadmus and harmonia were one son [205]polydorus, and four daughters, autonoe, ino, semele, and agave. for many years the founder of thebes reigned happily, but at length a conspiracy was formed against him, and he was deprived of his throne by his grandson pentheus. accompanied by his faithful wife harmonia, he retired into illyria, and after death they were both changed by zeus into serpents, and transferred to elysium. perseus. perseus, one of the most renowned of the legendary heroes of antiquity, was the son

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

mmanded the monks of iona to adopt the roman date for easter and the roman tonsure. they refused, however, and were forced to leave their monastery and scatter throughout the mountains. through their actions, two men often confused with one another have come to epitomize this celtic christian community: saint columba (known in ireland as columkill) and saint columban. saint columba (521?-597) was the founder of the monastery of derry and, in 563, of the monastery on the isle of iona, which he transformed into the center of irish christianity and the brotherhood of the culdees. his missionaries evangelized as far afield as iceland and feroe and were responsible for restoring the christian religion in britain. saint columban (540-615, one of the fathers of the culdeen church, preached the ch

located on two colorful streets: the rue du grand hurleur (formerly the rue grand hue leu, or hue loup) and the rue du petit hurleur.33 the term hurler, meaning "to howl" is still a compangonnage term, which is significant given that these streets were already in existence in the thirteenth century. from 1242 to 1540, the rue du petit hurleur was known as rue jean palee, referring to the name of the founder of trinity hospital. this quarter also had a rue du renard [fox (which should not be confused with the current street that holds that name) which is interesting given that journeymen designated as "foxes" those aspirants to their ranks. saint merri church is also of ancient origin. in the seventh century there was already a chapel by this name built on a site that was then part of the

em was the militant church; in the tropological sense, it was the christian soul; and in the anagogical sense it was the celestial jerusalem, the land above announced by saint john in the apocalypse. with respect to kings david and solomon, both of whom were extremely popular, they were regarded, curious as this might appear today, as signs or portents of jesus christ. the same was true of hiram, the founder of the pillars of the temple, and adoniran, solomon's high official and head of the conscripted labor. hic et christus, said the venerable bede in the eighth century, meaning that it is christ who guides the workers of the temple and provides the measures of the construction. this was repeated in walafrid strabo's ordinary gloss, which, from the ninth to the sixteenth century, accompan

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ch was carved from a living tree and so could not be moved. when odysseus died penelope married telegonus, his son by circe; and circe married telemachus. dido and aeneas 66 dido and aeneas aeneas, a trojan prince, was the son of venus (greek aphrodite) and a mortal called anchises. aphrodite told anchises that his son would one day found a great dynasty and, indeed, the romans regarded aeneas as the founder of their race. virgil s aeneid tells how he escaped from the sack of troy carrying his father on his back and how, after a long journey, during which his father died, he came to italy and founded a settlement on the site of rome. the most famous part of the story is his love affair with dido, queen of carthage. shipwrecked by juno (hera, who did not wish him to fulfil his destiny, aene

ost everything. he awoke convinced of the vanity of worldly ambition and became chung li s disciple. he traveled the world fighting evil and helping people, and is shown carrying a magic sword given to him by a fire dragon. li t ieh-kuai li t ieh-kuai, meaning li with the iron crutch, looks after the sick and is shown as an old lame beggar. called to heaven to be instructed by the spirit lao tzu, the founder of taoism, li told one of his students to burn his body if he did not return in seven days. but the student, called to his mother s deathbed, burned it after six. when li returned he had to enter the body of a beggar who had just died of starvation. soul li t ieh-kuai s soul is shown in the vapor rising from his gourd of life-preserving medicine, hovering above the beggar s body it inh

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

its members set at naught b f c heredom albert pike& william l. cummings their obligations by becoming dignitaries in it, and giving what is pretended to be the d dd, as an inferior degree. appendi x. x x x x x documents referred to in the address of the sov gr commander. x x x x x the rite of memphis. in a work entitled the sanctuary of memphis, by j. e. marconis, the author, who styles himself the founder of the rite in question, thus briefly gives an account of its origin. the rite of memphis, or oriental rite, was introduced into europe by, ormus, a seraphic priest of alexandria, and egyptian sage,who had been converted by st.mark, and reformed the doctrines of the egyptians in accordance with the principles of christianity. the disciples of ormus continued, until b b b i, to be the s

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nvestigators whose origin is traced to the fratres roseae crucis of germany, which association was founded by one christian rosenkreutz about the year 1398 a. d "the rosicrucian revival of mysticism was but a new development of the vastly older wisdom of the qabalistic rabbis and of that very ancient secret knowledge, the magic of the egyptians, in which the hebrew pentateuch tells you that moses the founder of the jewish system was learned, that is, in which he had been initiated" in a slender but highly informative booklet entitled data of the history of <17> the rosicrucians published in 1916 by the late dr. william wynn westcott, we find the following brief statement "in 1887 by permission of s.d.a. a continental rosicrucian adept, the isis-urania temple of hermetic students of the g.d

f the consciousness into the neschamah, and there are three places where this can take place. the first is when the aspirant is on the cross, because he is so exactly fulfilling the symbol of the abnegation of the lower self and the union with the higher" the obligation assumed, the candidate is now removed from the cross, and the officers then narrate to him the principal facts in the history of the founder of the order- christian rosenkreutz. on a previous page was given a summary of these historical facts. when the history lecture mentions the discovery of the vaultwherein the tomb and body of the illustrious father were discovered, one of the initiating adepts draws aside a curtain, admitting the candidate to a chamber erected in the midst of the temple similar to that described in the

wrought many wonderful cures. he was an expert kabbalist as his book h witnesseth. his death had been previously foretold him by c. r c. but those who were later admitted were of the first order, and knew not when c. r died, and save what they learned from frater a, the sucessor of d. of the second order and from their library after his death, knew little of the earlier and higher members, and of the founder, nor yet whether those of the second order were admitted to the wisdom of the highest members. the discovery then of the tomb wherein that highly illuminated man of god, our father c. r. c, was buried occurred as follows. after frater a. died in gallia narbonensi, there succeeded in his <220> place frater n.n. he, while repairing a part of the building of the college of the holy spirit

most cases, unnamed masters. at the close of the second point of the 5-6 ceremony, there are <292> named, without further reference, the names and ages of the "three highest chiefs of the order. these chiefs are hugo alverda, whose age is given as 576, franciscus, who died at the age of 495 years and elman zata, who died at the age of 463. in addition to these three there is christian rosencreutz the founder who died at the age of 106 years- these enormous ages, unbelievably long in the case of the three chiefs, imply- that is if we accept the history in its obvious and literal sense- that, as adepts, they had discovered and employed the secret of the elixir of life, in order to prolong the period of their usefulness on earth. and though they have died, that is discarded their purely physi

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life, one must examine the beginnings of significant political systems. it is the beginning that sets the pattern for a political situation; successive rulers are relative imitations reflecting the beginning. this is the basis for machiavelli's being called the first political scientist, since he seeks an explanation of a state in what it is and has been rather than in its future goals or ideals. the founder(s) of a society must be excused for acts which are inexcusable after the society has been established. the grounds for this initial license are simply the forceful, initial establishment of good qualities and benefits of the resultant society. examples of such unprincipled founders in the prince are moses, romulus, and cyrus. each of whom attacked and destroyed rivals in order to found

pprehensions, flashes, based on feeling, denying the rational order. the mystic's reports of his experiences are beyond discussion inasmuch as they are subjective and emotional; they must be accepted, by one who wishes to believe them, as a matter of faith, not knowledge. plato's view of the world is that of an intelligible system that man can know by disciplined intellect alone. he was, in fact, the founder of logic, a logician and a poet, but he was not a mystic, he never exalted feeling above reason. the sphinx: well, well. what do you think cairns would say to the following quote from the statesman? he turns to page #1082. stranger: when there arises in the soul of men a right opinion concerning what is good, just, and profitable, and what is the opposite of these. an opinion based on

SATANIC BIBLE

ood, gore, and baby-fat candles of the previous century's masses, sir francis managed to conduct rituals replete with good dirty fun, and certainly provided a colorful and harmless form of psychodrama for many of the leading lights of the period. an interesting sideline of sir francis, which lends a clue to the climate of the hell-fire club, was a group called the dilettanti club, of which he was the founder. it was the 19th century that brought a whitewashing to satanism, in the feeble attempts of "white" magicians trying to perform "black" magic. this was a very paradoxical period for satanism, with writers such as baudelaire and huysmans who, despite their apparent obsession with evil, seemed nice enough fellows. the devil developed his luciferian personality for the public to see, and

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

in the world s religions throughout history. among those profiled are abraham, whose influence is seen in three of the modern world s most influential religions: judaism, christianity, and islam; muhammad, considered the final and most important prophet by muslims; and siddhartha gautama, who became known as the buddha. modern figures include the hindu teacher swami vivekananda and baha u lla h, the founder of the baha faith. women who made significant impacts on religion are also featured, including mother maria skobtsova, an orthodox christian nun who worked to save many during the holocaust. world religions: primary sources (one volume) offers eighteen excerpted writings, speeches, and sacred texts from across the religious spectrum. the selections are grouped into three thematic chapt

istian church is formally divided into two distinct branches: the roman catholic church and the eastern orthodox church. 1095 1291 the duration of the crusades, a series of military campaigns in which european christians attempt to take control of the holy land from muslims. 1391 1474 life span of gedun drub, considered the first dalai lama in tibetan history. 1469 1538 life span of nanak dev ji, the founder of sikhism. 1492 jews are expelled from spain. 1517 the german augustinian monk martin luther launches the protestant reformation, which divides christianity into two main denominations, or branches: catholicism and protestantism. 1817 92 life span of mirza husayn ali nuri, later known as baha u lla h, who was the founder of the baha faith. 1844 the german philosopher karl marx makes h

justice; a central concept in the religion of ancient egypt. mabon: neo-pagan celebration of the autumn equinox; the completion of the harvest season. magen david: the so-called star of david, a symbol of the jewish faith and nation. magick: the ability to focus mental and physical energies to affect the natural world or to achieve a goal. mahavira: the twenty-fourth tirthankara often regarded as the founder of jainism. mahavira jayanti: mahavira s birthday, an important holy day for jains. mantra: a formula repeated over and over to create a trancelike state. materialism: a belief that matter and the motion of matter constitute the universe. all phenomena, even those of mind, are the result of material interactions. matsuri: festival. mecca: a city in present-day saudi arabia, the holiest

s. biographies: studying the lives of important religious figures can be an excellent way of learning about different religions. choose two religious figures, one from the past and one from the present. write a report in which you discuss their lives. how are their religious beliefs seen in their actions? include a photo or drawing of each figure. figures from the past might include zarathushtra, the founder of zoroastrianism, or the chinese philosopher confucius. modern figures might include black elk, the native american who wrote about his life as a member of the lakota sioux tribe, or malidoma some, who has written about his african religious heritage. world religions: almanac xxxv research and activity ideas world religions almanac volume 1 michael j. o neal and j. sydney jones neil s

ministers, and other clergy lead the faithful in christianity, while monks and nuns do much the same in buddhism. christians worship god the father. buddhism, though it has no supreme being, has world religions: almanac 11 what is religion? many deities in the mahayana branch and also reveres the state of enlightenment, or buddhahood, as godlike and at one with the universe. jesus of nazareth was the founder of christianity, while siddartha gautama, who was known by the title of the buddha or enlightened one, was the founder of buddhism. christians acknowledge jesus as the divine son of god, and the buddha, though he firmly denied being divine during his lifetime, has become godlike to many of his followers. such a brief comparison can be made for most major religions. similar characterist

feuerbach (1804 1872) argued that the concept of god is simply the projection of the highest ideals and standards that people can imagine. as such, god was not a subject for theology (religious study, but for anthropology (the study of human beings and their cultures. his work the essence of christianity influenced an entire generation of german thinkers, including karl marx (1818 1883. marx was the founder of marxism, an economic system that views history as an ongoing struggle between the oppressed workers, or proletariat class, and the owners of the means of production, the bourgeoisie, or capitalists. marx thought that the proletariat would rise against the owners and create a workers state and a classless society. for marx, the concept of god and religion was just another way the rul

baha s, all gods are merely various perceptions, or views, of the one god. symbols. the nine-pointed star is the primary symbol of the baha faith. worship. there is no clergy in the baha faith. services are held at the first of the month in homes or simple buildings and in houses of worship around the world. dress. baha s have no official dress. texts. kitab-i-aqdas, the book of laws, written by the founder, baha u lla h, is the primary text for the religion. sites. the shrine of baha u lla h in israel is considered the holiest site for baha s. observances. the most important holy period for baha s is the festival of ridvan, held from april 21 and 29 through may 2. naw-ruz, or new year s day, on march 21, is also an important holy day. phrases. baha is sometimes used by members to address

themselves, representing 247 countries worldwide. such meetings take place in individual homes or in community centers when available. the baha year includes seven holidays. the declaration of the bab, marking the date when the bab announced the coming arrival of a new messenger from god, is held on may 23 and is a day free from work. may 29 is the ascension of baha u lla h, marking the death of the founder of the baha faith. the death of the bab, called the martyrdom of the bab, is celebrated on july 9 and is another day of rest. the birthdays of both the bab and baha u lla h, on october 20 and november 12, respectively, are days of rest as well. the day of the covenant, on november 26, marks baha u lla h s promise that baha would be a permanent religion. the ascension of abdu l-baha, th

next several hundred years, 771 401 bce, are known as the spring and autumn period of chinese history. although the power of the central government was failing, this period was very rich in terms of philosophy and political theory (the organization and structure of government. in addition to confucius, these years also saw the rise of the teachings of laozi (b. c. 604 bce; also known as lao tzu, the founder of daoism in around the seventh century bce. 154 world religions: almanac confucianism all through this period china was divided into warring states. the zhou emperors never became strong enough to unite the country or to control the warring feudal lords (members of prominent families who made their living from plots of land, called fiefs, assigned to them by the emperor. invasions cam

or all gods to descend to earth. phrases. there are no commonly used phrases that unite all daoists. 180 world religions: almanac daoism organizational change helped make daoism the state religion of north china for a time. similar reforms happened in the south, with court ritual added to the religion to make it more acceptable. the tang dynasty (618 907) marked a high point for religious daoism. the founder of the dynasty, li yuan, claimed to be a descendant of laozi. daoist texts, along with those of confucianism, were used for civil service examinations under the tang. monasteries multiplied, and the dao de jing was translated and reached india, japan, and tibet. in the early twelfth century the name of the celestial masters was changed to the way of the orthodox unity. declines in prac

ut the country, including the temple complex at dragon tiger mountain, where the celestial masters had their center of power. the new life movement, begun in the early twentieth century by the chinese leader chiang kai-shek (1897 1975, also suppressed daoist centers. the movement was intended to return china to the path of reason and confucianism. to this end, students were recruited to go laozi, the founder of daoism, is said to have ridden a water buffalo towards the west, away from the lawlessness in china during his lifetime. at the border, however, he was stopped and asked to write down his wisdom. this became the dao de jing. burstein collection/corbis. world religions: almanac 181 daoism out into the countryside and destroy daoist temples, statues, and texts wherever they could find

sters (also called heavenly masters, founded in west china in the second century by zhang daoling. the celestial masters advocated the confession of wrongdoings or sins as a way to heal illnesses and reach immortality. various healing spells were also central to the early form of this sect. the celestial masters sect remains the most important form of religious daoism to this day. followers honor the founder, zhang daoling, as an immortal, a spiritual being who has attained greater awareness and understanding of the dao. an immortal is not born and does not die. he of she can travel around at will and cannot be easily harmed. some immortals take up the role of laozi the central figure in daoism is laozi. it is not known if he ever actually existed. daoist tradition places his birth in 604

o spelled chou) dynasty (1027 256 bce) in their capital of luoyang. titled a shih, or historian, laozi may also have worked as an astrologer to the court (an astrologer studies the movements of the stars and planets, interpreting how these movements may affect events on earth) as laozi s fame as a wise man spread, he attracted visitors. one of these visitors was supposedly confucius (551 479 bce, the founder of confucianism, who was more than fifty years younger than laozi. legend has it that laozi found the younger man s ideas about tradition and acceptance of one s proper role in society rather silly. later in his life laozi planned to leave china for good. he was tired of everyday life at the royal court and saddened by the lawlessness of his times. he rode a water buffalo toward the we

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ace whence issues the vision of those seeing in apparitions (that is the prophecies by seers in a vision) the thirteenth path is named the uniting intelligence, and is so called because it is itself the essence of glory. it is the consummation of the truth of individual spiritual things. the fourteenth path is the illuminating intelligence and is so called because it is that chashmal (7) which is the founder of the concealed and fundamental ideas of holiness and of their stages of preparation. the fifteenth path is the constituting intelligence, so called because it constitutes the substance of creation in pure darkness, and men have spoken of these contemplations; it is that darkness spoken of in scripture, job xxxviii. 9 "and thick darkness a swaddling band for it" the sixteenth path is

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historical approach. later, especially in his lectures, he was to extend his treatment into the details of the gospels and the apocalypse, only touched on here. his evolutionary idea that in christianity the processes of the mysteries, hitherto experienced in vision and expressed in myth, had to become an individual life, already opens the way however for his intimate and deeply moving account of the founder s role. in obedience to his father, the god of history, christ had to be willing to translate that pattern of death and resurrection into personal destiny, thereby opening a new dimension of humanity s relationship to god. all those 7. building stones for an understanding of the mystery of golgotha, p.19. xx christianity as mystical fact unfounded criticisms that steiner did not take s

rsonal presence of jesus, and because the church in a mysterious way draws from that personal presence its power to make the truth manifest. the mysteries handed down the techniques of coming to the truth. the christian ecclesia propagates this truth in itself. the mysteries had fostered a trust in the spiritual powers that were awakened inwardly through initiation. to this was added the trust in the founder, the initiator as such. the mysteries had been a process of divinization, an actual experience of being made god. jesus attained oneness with god; therefore one must cling to him, so as to share in his divinization as part of the community that he founded. that is the christian claim. the divinization of jesus has a universal significance, in which the community of his faithful can sha

which could have been apprehended by our unaided sense perception. however, they are really experiences that can only be grasped by perception of a higher, spiritual type. their character makes it clear that they cannot be understood in terms of the natural, physical order. it is imperative, then, that we read the gospels in the right way. we shall then understand what they have to tell us about the founder of christianity. the style of the gospels is that used to communicate a mystery, and they speak in the way the mystai spoke of an initiated one. the only difference is that they ascribe the initiation to a unique personality, a single being. and they make the salvation of humanity depend upon a connection with this uniquely initiated being. for the initiates this was the coming of the

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hillary rodham clinton (d-ny. joseph campbell promoted symbols and masonic new age philosophies in a popular series aired over the public broadcasting system (pbs) network on the bill moyers program. the stelle group, a new age community, offers to interested persons this brochure which entices the reader to maximize the "hidden powers" of his or her mind by seeking initiation into a brotherhood. the founder of stelle group says that spirit beings gave him his initiation and actually made a sign, or marking in his body. on becoming an initiate proven techniques to help you attain initiation into a brotherhood. triangles up, triangles down, triangles, triangles all around 357 historic photograph of russia's last romanov dynasty czar, nicholas ii, and his family. though connected with other

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who lives within. the self cannot be pierced with weapons or burned with fire; water cannot wet it, nor can the wind dry it. the self cannot be pierced or burned, made wet or dry. it is everlasting and infinite, standing on the motionless foundation of eternity. the self is unmanifested, beyond all thought, beyond all change. knowing this, you should not grieve. paramahansa yogananda (1893 1952, the founder of the self-realization fellowship, which seeks to blend hindu and christian concepts, once presented three truths to be employed by those who wished to rise above karma. the first truth, the yogi said, is that when the mind is strong and the heart is pure, we are free. it is the mind that connects you with pain in the body, he said. when you think pure thoughts and are mentally strong

rney toward oneness. rudolf steiner (1861 1925) was the head of the german theosophical society until 1912, when he broke away to form his anthroposophical society. steiner s objections with the theosophists were mainly that they didn t revere jesus and christianity as special. however, he had no problem incorporating reincarnation and karma into his beliefs. helena petrovna blavatsky (1831 1891, the founder of theosophy in collaboration with henry steele olcott (1832 1907, had no problem with christianity, but she preferred focusing on its esoteric traditions, which united it with all other religions. she popularized the study of reincarnation and past lives in europe and the united states and introduced many occult and metaphysical concepts which flourished in the new age movement of the

at they are facing today. next, it is up to me to make suggestions about how they might go about dissolving the karmic debts that they have accumulated. m delving deeper gaynor, frank, ed. dictionary of mysticism. new york: philosophical library, 1953. steiger, brad. returning from the light. new york: signet inspiration, 1996. anthroposophy when he was in his late 30s, rudolf steiner (1861 1925, the founder of anthroposophy, received a revelation of what he believed was the turning point in human spiritual history, the incarnation of the divine being known as the christ. in the twentieth century, steiner said, humankind began to enter the fullness of time when the christ principle, cosmic consciousness, might once again become manifest. steiner defined christ consciousness as a transforma

s own sword to a capable leader with his own army. thoroughly frightened and confused, king saul wishes that he would once again be able to seek the advice of the great and wise samuel, who, 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 mediums and mystics 131 before his death, had served israel as the last of the judges, the first of the prophets, and the founder of the monarchy, the sole ruler between eli and saul. receiving no answer to his prayers to god, saul tells one of his servants to find him a woman who has a familiar spirit (i.e, a spirit medium) who can speak to the dead. the servant reminds saul that he had passed laws that forced all such mediums and wizards out of the land under penalty of death, but, he admits, he does know of su

r, blavatsky claimed to have disguised herself as a man and fought under garibaldi during the battle of mentana when she was wounded and left for dead. after about five years spent perfecting her mediumship in russia, blavatsky entered another 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 mediums and mystics 147 helena petrovna blavatsky (1831 1891) was the founder of the theosophical society (corbis corporation) veiled period in her life when, from 1863 to1870, she was allegedly in retreat in tibet, studying with the mahatmas koot hoomi and morya, and a secret brotherhood of adepts. in 1870, back in europe, blavatsky was en route to greece when the vessel on which she was traveling exploded, and she lost all her earthly possessions, including wh

handling have found that it is a popular misconception that the snakes won t bite the snake handlers in their religious ritual or that, if bitten, the handlers, under the direction of the holy spirit, won t die. although exact records are difficult to substantiate, at least 71 people have been killed by poisonous snakebites during religious services in the united states. and that number includes the founder of the snake handling movement, george went hensley, who, it has been estimated, had been bitten over 400 times before his death in 1955. while some might consider such deaths as strong reasons to discontinue the practice of actually handling poisonous snakes during services, devout snake handlers say that it is a good thing that one of their members occasionally dies as a result of a

childbirth set: god of chaos shu: god of the air sobek: crocodile god taweret: hippopotamus goddess and protective deity of childbirth wepwawet: god of war and of funerals source: social science data lab: egyptian gods theme. http//sobek.colorado.edu/lab/gods/ index.html. 12 november 2002. an advanced extraterrestrial culture, say the proponents of this theory, he was considered a god and became the founder of the mystery schools and raised the primitive egyptians standard of living to a remarkable degree. even many conservative scholars of the history of religion have a sense that the mystery schools of egypt contain within their teachings a particular knowledge that came, if not from prehistoric times, from ancient times. the earliest human records legible, the pyramid texts of egypt (c

at indulgence death the great abstinence. therefore, make the most of life here and now (book iv, line 1) as a supplement to the satanic bible, lavey published the satanic rituals (1972, in which he explained the church of satan s rituals and ceremonies in greater detail. rituals includes the actual text of the black mass and the ritual for the satanic baptism of adults and children. anton lavey, the founder of the first church of satan in san francisco, ran away from home at the age of 17 to work as a cage boy for the circus lion tamer clyde beatty. later, lavey became a carnival mentalist and hypnotist, then an organ player for the dancers and strippers in the sideshows. on sunday mornings he had an extra job playing the organ for an evangelist who conducted revival meetings in a large t

d coming. while ufo cults such as heaven s gate, the raelians, and the order of the solar temple developed sensational or negative images, there are many ufo groups who seek to develop a new religion that will blend science and more traditional religious concepts. falun gong, although branded an evil cult by the chinese government in 1999, claims to have 100 million members worldwide. li hongzhi, the founder of the movement who lives in the united states, insists that his group is not a religion, but a series of five daily exercises by which individuals may activate the higher abilities of mind, body, and spirit. the church of scientology is classified as a cult by its detractors, but its members assert that scientology is a new religion that was founded by l. ron hubbard in the twentieth

ment banned the practice of the cult and sent more than 50,000 adherents to prisons, labor camps, and mental hospitals. falun gong means the practice of the wheel of the dharma (dharma is a complex hindu and buddhist concept that translates in a broad sense to law, especially to the natural order of personal ethics and principles of conduct, equivalent to what is commonly referred to as religion) the founder of the movement, li hongzhi, a former chinese government grain clerk now residing in the united states, claims to have been born on may 13, 1951, the supposed birthday of siddhartha gautama, the buddha (c. 563 c. 483 b.c.e, but government records list his birthday as july 7, 1952. hongzhi also claims that falun gong has 100 million members worldwide, 80 million of whom are in china. th

who ascribe to its teachings. in spite of endorsements regarding the benefits of scientology from various wellknown persons, the organization is often in the center of controversy. richard behar, writing in time magazine, stated that rather than being a religion or a church, scientology is a hugely profitable global racket that survives by intimidating members and critics in a mafia-like manner. the founder of the church, lafayette ronald hubbard (1911 1986, known to scientologists as l. ron, is said to have studied many eastern philosophies as he journeyed to the various countries of their origins. when injuries suffered during service as a naval officer during world war ii (1939 1945) left him crippled and blind, hubbard claimed that his ability to draw upon mental insights allowed him

rn-in, and from gignere, meaning to beget. inborn, intrinsic, or belonging to a place, such as originating, growing, or living in an area, environment, region, or country. left-hand path in occult tradition, a practitioner who practices black magick. 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 mystery religions and cults 321 l. ron hubbard (1911 1986, the founder of the church of scientology (ap/wide world photos) neophyte from the latin neophytus and greek neophutos or phuein, to plant or cause to grow literally meaning newly planted. a beginner or novice at a particular task or endeavor. somebody who is a recent convert to a belief. a newly ordained priest, or someone who is new to a religious order, but who has not yet taken their vows, so i

se. someone professing to have magical powers as a magician, sorcerer, or a male witch. in general, someone who is extremely knowledgeable and clever. zoology the scientific branch of biology that studies animals in all their characteristics and aspects. from the greek zoologia, literally the study of life and from zolion, or life form. zoroaster a persian prophet (c. 628 b.c.e. c. 551 b.c.e) and the founder of an ancient religion called zoroastrianism whose principal belief is in a supreme deity and of the existence of a dualism between good and evil. derived from the greek word zarat or zarathustra, meaning camel handler. 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 334 glossary cumulative index 335 the cumulative index, found in each volume

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men shall dream dreams. by the late nineteenth century, dreams were being examined from a physiological perspective. the ancient notion that god spoke directly to men in dreams was pretty much dismissed by a culture that was becoming more scientific and materialistic. then came the groundbreaking work of sigmund freud and carl g. jung. in 1899 sigmund freud (1856 1939, a viennese psychiatrist and the founder of psychoanalysis, brought dreams into the realm of the scientific community with the publication of his monumental work, the interpretation of dreams, in which he maintained that the dream is the guardian of sleep and the royal road to understanding the human unconscious. freud s theory was basically that the dream was a disguised wish-fulfillment of infantile sexual needs, which were

y: bearly, 1988. rowlands, barbara. in the dead of night. the observer, november 18, 2001 [online] http/ www.observer.co.uk/life/story/0,6903,596608,00. html. 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 mysteries of the mind 127 researchers links sleep paralysis with rapid eye movement (rem, the dream state. symbology of dreams fritz perls (1893 1970, the founder of gestalt therapy, believed that dreams were the royal road to integration. in his view the various parts of a dream should be thoroughly examined and even role-played to gain selfawareness and to integrate fragmented aspects of the personality into wholeness. according to perls, the different parts of a dream are fragments of the human personality. to become a unified person without

ordinary or the splendor in the simple and warns that such mystical, supernatural experiences as those listed above are irrelevant to the process of spiritual development and should they occur, they should not be given any special attention at all, as the ultimate goal is to achieve the state of nirvana, which is defined as the complete release from all physical limitations of existence. although the founder of buddhism, siddhartha gautama (c. 563 b.c.e. 486 b.c.e, himself found spiritual enlightenment while meditating under a bodhi tree, the buddhist approach to spiritual awakening does not only consist of meditation but of three ways believed to work together. those ways are: 1. sila or purification 2. samadhi or concentration 3. punna or insight sila, or purification, is simply cleansin

n in norse mythology who ride their horses over the battlefield as they escort the souls of slain heroes to valhalla. from the old 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 238 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends norse valkyrja, meaning literally chooser of the slain. zoroaster a persian prophet (c. 628 b.c.e. c. 551 b.c.e) and the founder of an ancient religion called zoroastrianism whose principal belief is in a supreme deity and of the existence of a dualism between good and evil. derived from the greek word zarat or zarathustra, meaning camel handler. 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 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends 239 chapter 14 invad

se. someone professing to have magical powers as a magician, sorcerer, or a male witch. in general, someone who is extremely knowledgeable and clever. zoology the scientific branch of biology that studies animals in all their characteristics and aspects. from the greek zoologia, literally the study of life and from zolion, or life form. zoroaster a persian prophet (c. 628 b.c.e. c. 551 b.c.e) and the founder of an ancient religion called zoroastrianism whose principal belief is in a supreme deity and of the existence of a dualism between good and evil. derived from the greek word zarat or zarathustra, meaning camel handler. 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 314 glossary cumulative index 315 the cumulative index, found in each volume

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ed widely throughout europe and had risen in the clerical ranks to become a chaplain at the court of wurtemberg, germany. embittered by the misery that had been brought to his fatherland as a result of the thirty years f war (1618.48, andreae became an apologist for the rosicrucians and wrote the hermetic romance or the chemical wedding (1616, an allegorical autobiography of christian rosencreutz the founder of the fraternity. since the seal of the rosicrucian fraternity, the seal of martin luther, and the crest of the andreae family all bear the image of the cross and the rose, understandable confusion has arisen from time to time regarding the gautobiography. h upon the book fs initial publication, many scholars, aware that rosencreutz had been dead for 130 years, speculated that his spi

hy. new york: st. martin fs press, 1969. hodges, henry. technology in the ancient world. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1970. irwin, constance. fair gods and stone faces. new york: st. martin fs press, 1963. mecca mecca, known to the muslim faithful as umm al-qura, the mother of cities, is the holiest place in the islamic world. it was here that muhammad the prophet (c. 570.632, the messenger of god, the founder of the muslim faith, was born in 570, and it is here within the great mosque that the ka faba, the most sacred shrine of islam, awaits the muslim pilgrim. throughout the world, wherever they may be, all devout muslims pray five times per day, each time bowing down to face mecca. all able-bodied muslims who have sufficient financial means and whose absence from their families would not

a growing trend in great britain to recognize ancient britons, especially druids, as gbards h (poets) living in communion with nature. stukeley himself gwent druid h and joined an order that practiced secret druidic rites, and he assumed the name of chyndonax after a fabled french druid priest. sir j. norman lockyer (1836.1920, who was once director of the solar physics observatory in london and the founder of the journal nature, published the dawn of astronomy in 1894. the book argued that ancient temples in egypt were aligned for stellar observations and as calendars.to determine the summer solstice, for instance. his findings were controversial, but they helped spur further studies of the astronomical interests of ancient societies. lockyer came to the same conclusion about ancient bri

. h someone professing to have magical powers as a magician, sorcerer, or a male witch. in general, someone who is extremely knowledgeable and clever. zoology the scientific branch of biology that studies animals in all their characteristics and aspects. from the greek zoologia, literally the study of life and from zolion, or life form. zoroaster a persian prophet (c. 628 b.c.e. c. 551 b.c.e) and the founder of an ancient religion called zoroastrianism whose principal belief is in a supreme dei a the god of the witchesmargaret alice murraythe god of the witchesmargaret alice murraythis page copyright 251 2001 blackmask online.http//www.blackmask.comforeword to the first edition267 introduction267 chapter i. the horned god267 chapter ii. the worshippers267 chapter iii. the priesthood267 cha

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th holy souls. i have leaped; but do thou understand the whole, andhaving understood it, say: glory be to the father. amen (97) thus, my beloved, having danced with us thelord went forth" the early date of this singing dance shows the importance attached to this mode ofworship, which though heathen in origin was transferred to the religious services of the christians as thoughwith the sanction of the founder of the religion.the ring dance was regarded as a sinister ceremony by the priestly authorities who were engaged insuppressing the old religion during the middle ages. boguet compares the round dance of the witches withthat of the fairies, whom he stigmatises as "devils incarnate.[70] the ring usually moved to the left, butwhere as in france the dancers faced outwards the movement was w

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toward religion. this is the reason for the important need to clearly distinguish between kabbalah and religion. every religion relies on a certain prophet, a person who was connected with spirituality and circulated his knowledge among people. this argument is at the basis of every religion, meaning that everything begins with the sublime truth, the revelation of the creator before the prophet, the founder, be it judaism or any other religion. the wisdom of kabbalah is a method to attain the creator that is available for all. it allows any person to come by himself without any mediators, to a spiritual contact with the creator. people, who have attained spiritual attainment, described the way they went through step by step so that one might follow them and reach these attainments by hims

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flame we shall brood upon the great deep. hail unto the lords of the groves of eleusis *eleusis, vol. iii, pp. 229, 230. that which was to be said hereon is spoken, amen without lie, amen and amen of amedthe tarot of c. c. zain more properly called the brotherhood of light tarot, this tarot pattern was developed by an american occultist and astrologer, elbert benjamine (aka c.c. zain, 1881--1951, the founder of the church of light. decker and dummett in a history of the occult tarot report that zain's lessons 22 through 33, forming a study course on the tarot, were originally issued in 1918 (as separate papers. on this early stage the church of light used a set of black and white tarot cards, where the majors and courts were taken from the saint-germain illustrations while the minors were

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ime has only maneuvered to some certain state due to lack of imagination and vision. chaos magick is an egocentric ideology that has no specific doctrine or form. lack of dogma can often lead to emptiness of concepts and then the boat literally runs aground. chaos magick must be defined in a certain context in order to re-awaken the luminous possibilities contained therein. austin osman spare was the founder of what is today chaos magick (unknowingly of course. his study and practice of magick developed early on and was later subject to formal training with aleister crowley. spare understood the importance of ritual and ceremony yet at the same time found it repulsive and idiotic. however, by viewing spare s paintings and pastels one is able to understand his appreciative attitude towards

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son. 17:3 and when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels] of silver judges page 152 to his mother, his mother said, i had wholly dedicated the silver unto the lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore i will restore it unto thee. 17:4 yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred [shekels] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of micah. 17:5 and the man micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. 17:6 in those days [there was] no king in israel [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes. 17:7 and there was a young man out of bethlehemjudah of

make thee mourning [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. 6:27 i have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. 6:28 they [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters. 6:29 the bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. 6:30 reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the lord hath rejected them. 7:1 the word that came to jeremiah from the lord, saying, 7:2 stand in the gate of the lord s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, hear the word of the lord, all [ye of] judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the lord. 7:3 thus saith t

who would not fear thee, o king of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms [there is] none like unto thee. 10:8 but they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities. 10:9 silver spread into plates is brought from tarshish, and gold from uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men] 10:10 but the lord [is] the true god, he [is] the living god, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. 10:11 thus shall ye say unto them, the gods that have not made the heavens and the earth [even] they shall perish from the ear

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ultimate source. the more familiar sequence of the banners employed in golden dawn occultism is: ih* ih, iv; hv, hvia hm; vi%1, vih, v&h; hv, vh, vi. as can be readily seen by comparing the two lists of banners, the golden dawn arrangement has misplaced the three banners of elemental air (those that begin with the hebrew letter vau. this error entered the magical system of the golden dawn through the founder of that hermetic order, s. l. macgregor mathers. in the introduction to his influential 1887 translation of the kabbalah unveiled (kabbala denudata) by christian knorr von rosenroth, a work first published in latin at sulzbach between the years 1677-84, mathers presents this flawed sequence. it is not certain where he came by it, but the most likely source would seem to be the magus by

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ondence: moon "the thirteenth path is named the uniting intelligence, and is so called because it is itself the essence of glory. it is the consummation of the truth of individual spiritual things" 14. chokmah to binah hebrew letter: daleth tarot trump: i11 the empress correspondence: venus "the fourteenth path is the illuminating intelligence and is so called because it is that chashmal which is the founder of the concealed and fundamental ideas of holiness and of their stages of preparation" 15. chokmah to tiphareth hebrew letter: heh tarot trump: iv the emperor correspondence: aries "the fifteenth path is the constituting intelligence, so called because it constitutes the substance of creation in pure darkness, and men have spoken of these contemplations; it is that darkness spoken of i

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nducting medium for light. due to its universal nature, it was assigned both white (all colors) and black (no colors. the rainbow, which also embodies all colors, is appropriate to represent it. when imagining the black egg against the black background of space, visualize an aura of silvery light around its edge. this radiant aura will distinguish the shape of the egg from the darkness behind it. the founder of the golden dawn, s. l. macgregor mathers, specifically instructed against placing the tattwa symbols on the forehead, on the grounds that it would cause headaches. i have not found this to be the case. on the contrary, placing the tattwa symbols on the forehead seems to facilitate their activation. if you find that you get headaches while performing this exercise, try doing it witho

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

many other occult writers have been collected together for the first time in appendix b. it is fascinating to compare the words of levi with those of papus; of s.l. macgregor mathers, the leader of the golden dawn, with those of aleister crowley, his former student and the self-proclaimed great beast of the apocalypse; of helena p. blavatsky, the leader of the theosophists, with paul foster case, the founder of builders of the adytum; of p.d. ouspensky, the disillusioned former pupil of the mystic gurdjieff, with frater achad, a rebellious student of crowley. even in modern times, tetragrammaton continues to exert a powerful fascination over magicians working in the western tradition of ceremonial magic. contemporary kabbalists and occultists discover in the arrangement of the four letters

on rosenroth's kabbalah denudata (see the kabbalah unveiled [london: routledge& kegan paul, 19621, p. 31. mathers' book was first published in 1887, a year before the establishment of the 270 tetragrammaton isis-urania temple of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. in fact, it had circulated in manuscript a year before its publication-mathers had shown it with obvious pride to madame blavatsky, the founder of the theosophical society, in 1886. as is so often the case in magic, five centuries of magicians adhered to this order without ever questioning it. when i came to write the new magus around 1984, i decided to analyze the order of the banners using the simple expedient of substituting numbers for the letters. i made yod equal 1, the first he equal 2, vau equal 3, and the second he eq

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

in a chariot "sit not on a measure (choenix "plant not a palm-tree" and "stir not the fire with a sword in the house" and i myself am of the opinion that, when the pythagoreans appropriated the names of several of the gods to particular numbers, as that of apollo to the unit, of artemis to the duad, of athene to the seven, and of poseidon to the first cube, in this they allude to something which the founder of their sect saw in the egyptian temples, or to some ceremonies performed in them, or to some symbols there exhibited. thus, their great king and lord osiris is represented by the hieroglyphics for an eye and a sceptre,[fn#286] the name itself signifying "many-eyed" as we are told by some[fn#287] who would derive it from the words os,[fn#288 "many" and iri,[fn#289] an "eye" which have

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following for scrutiny. icke wrote" the reason that belgium is a headquarters for satanism and so many brotherhood institutions is very simple. the brotherhood created belgium for just this reason in 1831 and they imposed upon it a reptilian 'royal' line, the house of saxe-coburg-gotha, the bloodline of the british royal family and, through its branch in prussia, the supporters of adam weishaupt, the founder of the bavarian illuminati. the paedophile murder ring which came to light in belgium in 1996 is but one part of the satanic network operating from and in that country. it was organised by marc dutroux, who is connected to the satanic order, of abrasax, based in the village of forchies-la-marche near charleroi in southern belgium not far from the castle of darkness. abrasax is abraxas

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

cious bunch of grapes. holding onto the vine with one hand, he reached and picked a grape with the other hand. how delicious (miracles) while bankei was preaching quietly to his followers, his talk was interrupted by a shinshu priest who believed in miracles, and thought salvation came from repeating holy words. bankei was unable to go on with his talk, and asked the priest what he wanted to say. the founder of my religion, boasted the priest, stood on one shore of a river with a writing brush in his hands. his disciple stood on the other shore holding a sheet of paper. and the founder wrote the holy name of amida onto the paper across the river through the air. can you do anything so miraculous? no, said bankei, i can only do little miracles. like: when i am hungry i eat, when i am thirst

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

ght many wonderful cures. he was an expert kabbalist, as his book 'h' witnesseth. his death had been previously foretold him by c.r.c. but those who were later admitted were of the first order, and knew not when c.r. died; and save what they learned from frater a, the successor of d. of the second order, and from their library after his death, knew little of the earlier and higher members, and of the founder, nor yet whether those of the second order were admitted to the wisdom of the highest members. the discovery then of the tomb wherein that highly illuminated man of god, our father c.r.c. was buried occurred as follows "after frater a. died in gallia narbonensi, there succeeded in his place frater n.n. he, while repairing a part of the building of the college of the holy spirit, endeav

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

position, to survive and thrive. it is also for physical health and vitality and so its rituals are always dynamic. mars rules passion and the consummation of love. like fire magick, the energy of mars is very powerful and so spells should always be for positive purpose and with a circle that can afterwards be closed down. mars was the roman warrior god, and legendary father of romulus and remus, the founders of rome. as god of both agriculture and war, he represented the ideal roman, first as a farmer and then as a conqueror and so the agricultural fire festivals are linked with his power. he is the roman equivalent of the greek ares and the viking tyr, the altruistic warrior god who sacrificed his sword arm to save the other deities (the word tuesday derives from his name. the hour of ma

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

e a few more remarks to be made anent the turning of the various wheels, and we can then take up the consideration of motion and the sheaths. within all those wheels which we have enumerated, are many lesser wheels all governed by the same laws, actuated by the same three forms of activity, and all (in their totality) forming one great whole. it will be apparent to all conscientious students that the founders of the symbolical method managed to convey in the symbol of the wheel an idea of the triplicity of all atomic activity: a. the central point of active..the hub. positive force b. the negative stream of life..the radiating spokes. c. the sphere of activity itself..t.he circumference of the wheel. the effect of the interplay of these two if the student can picture those wheels in activi

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

emancipation, and consequent transfer of the centre of consciousness from the human to the spiritual kingdom, is hastened and nurtured by a specialized education, called the meditation process, which is superimposed upon a mind widely and wisely cultured. the result of this intensive and individual training has been spectacular in the extreme. the eastern method is the only one which has produced the founders of all the world religions, for all are asiatic in origin. it is responsible for the appearance of those inspired scriptures of the world which have moulded the thoughts of men, and for the coming forth of all the world saviours the buddha, zoroaster, shri krishna, the christ, and others. thus the east has manifested forth, as the result of its particular technique, all the great indi

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

d unto the heights of joy. the three remained without the gates, holding their treasure firm" in this ancient writing, older than any of the written scriptures of the world, is to be found the secret of the masonic story and of the slaying of the master by the three most closely associated with him in his death and burial. masons will all recognise the three to whom i here refer. these three were the founders of the modern jewish race. they were three advanced disciples who resented the command to enter, free and untrammelled, the place where light is to be found. they sought to hold that which they had gathered and to dedicate it to the service of god. their unrecognised motive was love of riches and a desire to hold safe their gains. ancient tradition, as taught by the teachers of the pa

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

ideal before the hierarchy is the realised plan. this is brought to humanity in the form of ideas, which become, in time, ideals to be desired and fought for. in order to materialise these ideals, the trend to organise comes into being. c. it is the result curiously enough of the work of a peculiar group of world workers, who are recognised by humanity under the name of world saviours. these are the founders of those forms through which the divine ideas become the ideals of the masses, in all realms of human thought. every great world leader is necessarily a "suffering saviour" 7. the seventh rule or controlling force with which the hierarchy works is the interplay of the great dualities. through the activity engendered by this interplay, and through the results achieved (producing always

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

can transmute the knowledge garnered down the ages into wisdom. it is- 422- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust wisdom which is needed today. those who are now attempting to foster goodwill in themselves and others will be stimulated into wise action. you can see, therefore, that the outpouring of this energy is the first and greatest need. it can reach mankind because the founders of all the world religions (i refer not to their many diversifications) are banded together in unison with the christ, their lord and master; through their united and directed effort, these energies will flow. forget not that christ represents the energy of love and the buddha that of wisdom. 2. the energy of will or power. the outpouring of this energy, owing to the "little wills" of

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

aga dwipa one of the seven continents or divisions of bharatavarsha (old india, the town of nagpur being one of the most ancient cities in the country[[vol. 2, page] 502 the secret doctrine. the earliest adepts known; the royal, or rajarshis, kings and princes, who adopted the ascetic life; the devarshis, divine, or the sons of dharma or yoga; and brahmarshis, descendants of those rishis who were the founders of gotras of brahmans, or caste-races. now, leaving the mythical and astronomical keys for one moment aside, the secret teachings show many atlanteans who belonged to these divisions; and there were strifes and wars between them, de facto and de jure. narada, one of the greatest rishis, was a devarishi; and he is shown in constant and everlasting feud with brahma, daksha, and other go

40,000 men. such statements are quite inapplicable to a small island state, of about the size of ireland! the greek allegories give to atlas, or atlantis, seven daughters (seven sub-races, whose respective names are maia, electra, taygeta, asterope, merope, alcyone, and celaeno. this ethnologically, as they are credited with having married gods and with having become the mothers of famous heroes, the founders of many nations and cities. astronomically, the atlantides have become the seven pleiades. in occult science the two are connected with the destinies of nations, those destinies being shaped by the past events of their early lives according to karmic law. three great nations claimed in antiquity a direct descent from the kingdom of saturn or lemuria (confused already several thousands

untry of asia- india- can be shown to claim the same descent likewise. sub-races guided by karmic law or destiny repeat unconsciously the first steps of their respective mother-races. as the comparatively fair brahmins have come- when invading india with its dark-coloured dravidians- from the north, so the aryan fifth race must claim its origin from northern regions. the occult sciences show that the founders (the respective groups of the seven prajapatis) of the root races have all been connected with the pole star. in the commentary we find "he who understands the age of dhruva* who measures 9090 mortal years, will understand the times of the pralayas, the final destiny of nations, o lanoo" moreover there must have been a good reason why an asiatic nation should locate its great progenit

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

position, to survive and thrive. it is also for physical health and vitality and so its rituals are always dynamic. mars rules passion and the consummation of love. like fire magick, the energy of mars is very powerful and so spells should always be for positive purpose and with a circle that can afterwards be closed down. mars was the roman warrior god, and legendary father of romulus and remus, the founders of rome. as god of both agriculture and war, he represented the ideal roman, first as a farmer and then as a conqueror and so the agricultural fire festivals are linked with his power. he is the roman equivalent of the greek ares and the viking tyr, the altruistic warrior god who sacrificed his sword arm to save the other deities (the word tuesday derives from his name. the hour of ma

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

wells brown, narrative of william wells brown, a fugitive slave (boston: the anti- slavery office, 1847, pp. 91.93; charles e. stevens, anthony burns (boston: john p. jewett, 1856, pp. 168.69. see also james lindsay smith, the autobiography of james l. smith, including also reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc (norwich: society of the founders of norwich, connecticut, 1881, p. 171 for another account of a conjurer's assistance to a fugitive slave. 12. rawick, american slave, texas narratives vol. 5, p. 161; added emphasis. 13. drew gilpin faust, james henry hammond and the old south: a design for mastery (baton rouge: louisiana state university press, 1985, pp. 82, 93. see also levine, black culture and black consciousness

, p. 13. 39. irving e. lowery, life on the old plantation in ante-bellum days, or a story based on facts (columbia, s.c: state co. publishers, 1911, p. 81.84. 40. morgan, slave counterpoint, p. 618; james lindsay smith, the autobiography of james l. smith, including also reminscences of slave life, recollections of the war, the education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc (norwich: society of the founders of norwich, connecticut, 1881, pp. 5.6; walker diary, june 5, 1832, february 19, 1833, john walker papers, southern historical collection, cited in william dosite postell, the health of slaves on southern plantations (baton rouge: louisiana state university press, 1951, pp. 108.9. see also piersen, black legacy, p. 100. 41. catterall, judicial cases concerning slavery, south carolina

vol. 15, pp. 157, 375; georgia writers' project, drums and shadows, pp. 117, 121, 133, 184 "conjure doctors in the south" southern workman 7, no. 4 (1878: 30.31. on the use of cards for divination, see james lindsay smith, the autobiography of james l. smith, including also reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc (norwich: society of the founders of norwich, 1881, p. 56; on the use of cups, crystals, and gourds by conjurers and specialists, see gilbert osofsky, puttin on old massa: the slave narratives of henry bibb, william wells brown, and solomon northup (new york: harper and row, 1969, p. 215. on the frizzly chicken, see southern workman 24 (1895: 78; see also michael bell "pattern, structure and logic in afro-american hoo

n the south, it was in the los angeles revival that many historians assert that the foundations of a national pentecostal movement were laid in 1906, under william seymour. on the historical origins of pentecostalism, see james tinney "competing theories of historical origins for black pentecostalism (manuscript, 1979, james tinney collection, howard university. for the biographical background of the founders of pentecostalism, see synan, pentecostal black magic page 115 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006\ 193\ movement, pp. 99.103; sarah e. parham, the life of charles f. parham, founder of the apostolic faith movement (new york: garland publishing, 1930; james goff, fields white unto harvest: charles f. parham and the missionary or

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

ilgrimage 117 expert commentary dr. daniel overmyer of the university of british columbia explains buddhism s appeal: wherever it went, buddhism was accepted by many people as a new, liberating religion that had something for everybody; simple morality for peasants and sophisticated philosophy for intellectuals, all based on scriptural texts and interpreted by literate monks. as has happened with the founders of other religions, the buddha came to be venerated as a superhuman being whose teaching was eternally true, even though one suspects such veneration would have made him uneasy.3 kuan yin also continues to hold a high place in the pantheon of chinese gods. martin palmer, director of the international consultancy on religion, education and culture (icorec) states: kuan shih yin, to acc

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

an inspiration behind the founding of the royal society. researchers into the background of the lunar society have shown that it mirrored (with remarkable accuracy) a group called the invisible college, described in the francis bacon work, the new atlantis. it was known as the lunar society because it met once a month at the time of the full moon. among its members were benjamin franklin, one of the founders of the united states and close associate of french revolutionaries, and .erasmus darwin, the grandfather of charles darwin, the man who would later be the frontman for this-world-is-all-there-is. what a coincidence! another member of the lunar society was the unitarian, josiah wedgwood, founder of the famous pottery, and his daughter was to become the mother of charles darwin after sh

ffairs (riia. in britain, the astors, including major john (jacob) astor (comm 300, a director of hambros bank and owner of the times newspaper (after 1922) were operating at the heart of both the round table and the institute, and many of the former associates of cecil rhodes were involved. sir abe bailey, the owner of transvaal mines, who worked with lord milner to start the boer war, was among the founders of the riia, as was john w. wheeler-bennett, who would become general eisenhower's political advisor in london in the crucial last two years of the second world war as the nature of the post war world was being developed. chatham house at 10 st james's square, london, is named after william pitt, the earl of chatham, one of three british prime ministers who have lived there. goodness

and independence of the united states is pervasive throughout most of the membership, and particularly in the leadership of several divergent cliques that make up what is actually a polycentric organisation [the main clique] is composed of the one-world-global-government ideologists- more respectfully referred to as the organised internationalists. they are the ones who carry on the tradition of the founders."2 the writer james perloff read every issue of the cfr's magazine, foreign affairs, since its first publication in 1922. his verdict..the accusations against the council on foreign relations- the pursuit of world government and receptiveness to communism are true. he said the domination of washington administrations by the cfr membership had influenced "mightily upon the course of am

ported, even planned, by these crazy people to ensure that both israel was created and that 'anti-semitism' could be used as a defence against legitimate investigation of their sickening activities. that has certainly been the outcome. anyone who exposes these breathtaking horrors is dubbed a neo-nazi. what's more, a lot of the money and the armaments used both by these underground terrorists and the founders of israel were supplied by the meyer lansky organised crime syndicate which was based in the us, but operated internationally. lansky, who was born maier suchowjansky in grodno, russia, rose from the slums of new york to the top of the heap in the international underworld. he was above the mafia. lansky acheived these dizzy heights by the usual means- murder and terror. this was the m

ican and british families originated and they were behind the orange order which put william of orange on the british throne, and led to the bank of england and the national debt. in more recent times, the orange order has been behind the protestant wing of the conflict in northern ireland. the black nobility includes, or is at least connected to, the dutch royal family of prince bernhard, one of the founders of the bilderberg group. its connections extend to london and the british 'establishment' families of the old aristocracy and the new 'money' aristocracies. members of the european bluebloods which are closely linked with the british royal family are involved. the swedish, dutch and spanish royal families are often represented at bilderberg meetings. in the uk, prince philip and princ

phernalia and names for the levels of initiation like apprentice, fellow craft, and master mason. the working tools of the stonemasons- the square, compasses, level, plumbline, gauge, gavel, and chisel- were still used in the bizarre ceremonies and rituals and the freemason's apron was another throwback to the stone masons. but freemasonry now had a very different agenda. during the rituals which the founders of the new freemasonry introduced, barechested initiates were blindfolded with a noose around their neck and a dagger held 184 .and the truth shall set you free to their heart. they had to swear to serve the order and keep its secrets, on pain of a grotesque ritual death. the penalty for divulging the secrets of the second degree (the fellow craft mason) is "having my left breast laid

ers of the grand council of knights (led by their grand master, heinrich himmler, and the black rituals were performed at the ancient castle of wewelsberg in westphalia. they celebrated the festivals of the nordic pagans and the summer solstice. here they worshiped satan, lucifer, set, whichever name you prefer, the consciousness which was the nazis and is the elite today. prince bernhard, one of the founders of the bilderberg group, was in the ss. esoteric knowledge and black magic pervaded all that hitler and the nazis did, even down to the use of pendulums on maps to identify the positions of enemy troops. the original swastika symbol was right-handed which, in esoteric terms, means light and creation, the positive. hitler insisted it be turned around to symbolise black magic and destru

s never mentioned or investigated by the lap dog media, nor the alleged involvement of the rothschild 'gofer, and currency speculator, george soros (bil).31 george bush and bill clinton both had considerable connections with the bcci, among them one jackson stephens, owner of stephens incorporated, a big investment bank based in little rock, arkansas, the home of bill clinton. stephens was one of the founders of the bcci. he had connections with a company called harken energy and arranged a loan for them from a swiss bank affiliated with the bcci. this would have greatly pleased george bush junior, the president's son, who sat on the harken board. another son, jeb bush, also had 322 .and the truth shall set you free numerous dealings with the bcci. he was often seen in the bank's miami off

freedom network, is a member of many secret societies, including an uluminised freemasonry order which claims allegence to the martyred knights templar leader, jacques de molay. in arkansas, clinton sat at the head of a complex network of drug running, money laundering, and general corruption. his biggest financial backer when he ran for president was, as we've discussed, jackson stephens, one of the founders of the bcci. the citizens for honest government organisation produced an investigative video into bill clinton's background in 1994 and they interviewed a former friend of clinton in the arkansas days, larry nichols. it would appear that clinton misjudged nichols. he thought he could be trusted to keep quiet and take the perks. clinton gave him the job of marketing director of the ark

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

clyms, many atlantean and lemurian royal bloodlines and initiates fled to other parts of the world, heading mostly for high places to escape the impending flood. atlanteans went to britain, one of their colonies, to europe, scandinavia, north africa, the mountains of turkey and iraq, and the americas. all along the american continent are the ancient legends and accounts of highly advanced beings, the founders of their culture, arriving with great knowledge from the sunken land in the atlantic. on the western seaboard of the americas and in asia, they talk of similar advanced "gods" arriving from a sunken continent in the pacific. polynesians claim that survivors from this lost continent travelled to india before returning to the remnants of their homeland, the pacific islands, and becoming

region, phonetically called sumerian (pronounced "shumerian) was actually sidhemurian("shee-murian. in fact, the case for this is now considerable, since the early ring lords of scythia (the tuatha de danaan king-tribe) were actually called the sumaire."61 another researcher, frans kamp in the netherlands, tells me that sumer means "land of the dragon" in the language of the scandinavian vikings. the founders of sumer were the same reptilian anunnaki who had controlled atlantis in its latter stages and led it to destruction. their obsession with technology and control by machine, so characteristic of the final era of atlantis, can be seen in the world today. there is a reason for that: the anunnaki are still in control. one theme of the atlantean and lemurian legends is that, especially in

lets describe a place called e.din("the abode of the righteous ones. the bible speaks of eden the garden of "god. the story of genesis is a summary of the same basic story that is told in the sumerian tablets in far more detail. interestingly, many of the terms translated into the english version of the old testament as "god" come from words that actually mean gods, plural, and the sumerians said the founders of their civilisation were a race of beings that came to this planet from elsewhere in the 68 t blood brothers 69 heavens bringing great knowledge and technology. as i have already indicated, the sumerians called these beings the anunna and their later semitic name was an.unnak.ki("those who from heaven to earth came) and din.gir("the righteous ones of the blazing rockets. anunna mean

ouis i. this, therefore, makes him a direct descendant of charlemagne, the 8th-century emperor.24 these charlemagne links make gore a cousin of george w. bush! the merovingian bloodline charlemagne, in turn, takes us into the merovingian dynasty in france, which founded the city of paris and to whom all the royal families of europe are related. other highly influential figures of their time, like the founders of the mormon religion joseph smith, hiram smith, and brigham young are from this merovingian line. there have been a number of best-selling books written over recent years about the merovingian bloodline and the france-based priory of sion, a secret society through which this bloodline manipulates. these books have presented some interesting and important information, but they claim

ng what is left of that monster structure. references to them have been found in chinese texts dating back 5,000 years. the secret society initiate georges ivanovitch gurdjieff said that he had been part of an unsuccessful expedition to find a lost city of the uigher empire under the sands of the gobi desert. he said he was initiated into the sun/moon brotherhood of central asia and was told that the founders of this brotherhood had come from mars in ancient times.19 james churchward says that the uigher empire were former lemurians. later a russian archaeologist called professor kosloff found a tomb of ancient artefacts in the same area of the gobi desert. these included a painting of a ruler and his queen and he estimated the work to be some 18,000 years old- at least.20 there was also a

roman procurators, etc. but jesus and everyone involved with him were created (that is fictional) characters."38 the pisos were bloodline and were related to the king herod featured in the gospel story. as bloodline roman aristocrats, they would have been initiates of the mystery religions and the symbolic stories that were used to manufacture "jesus" and his life. the pisos claimed descent from the founders of rome, the "wolfsuckled" remus and romulus. reuchlin details the codes he says were used in the gospel stories by the pisos and their accomplice, the roman writer and statesman, pliny the younger. the head of the family, lucius calpurnius, who was married to the great granddaughter of herod, was a close associate of the famous roman writer, seneca. both were killed by the emperor ne

, king ferdinand and queen isabella of what we now call spain, who launched the spanish inquisition and supported christopher columbus, and king james 1st, who sponsored the translation of the king james version of the bible which, according to a survey in 1881, contains 36,131 translation errors.40 all of these people are the same bloodline (see appendix i. so are joseph smith and brigham young, the founders of the mormons, and charles taze russell, one of the founders of the jehovah's witnesses. give me the statistical chances of that. it was these very forces that created the bible and decided what would be in it. they brought together the texts of the old testament with the texts they wrote, or chose, to form the new. they translated it into latin, english, and other languages. even th

e 13th, their grand master heinrich himmler. their black rituals were performed at the ancient castle of wewelsberg in westphalia. they celebrated the rituals of the nordic pagans and the summer solstice. here they worshipped satan/lucifer/set, whichever name you prefer. prince bernhard of the netherlands, a reptilian habsburg and merovingian bloodline, was a member of the ss. bernhard was one of the founders of the illuminati front, the bilderberg group, and is an extremely close friend of prince philip. the esoteric arts pervaded all that hitler and the nazis did, even down to the use of pendulums on maps to identify the positions of enemy troops. the mass rallies that hitler used so effectively were designed with the knowledge of the human psyche and how it can be manipulated. 296 child

oney to pay for their flight to america and all their expenses for the "privilege" of serving the church in this way. they told me what the hierarchy told them to tell all the visitors, and they repeated their script without question. i told them a few facts about the "jesus" story and they said they had no idea this information existed. i asked them if there was any significance in the fact that the founders of the mormon church were freemasons. they looked at each other in bewilderment and eventually one said "what are freemasons" this is the way the few control the many. then there is the strange story of the toad, which smith said appeared when he went to find the plates on which the mormon religion was founded. smith worked from time to time for the family of benjamin saunders. in an

xposed 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 chairman of the bilderberg group is the viscount etienne davignon, another bloodline placeman with the perfect career record. he was vice-chairman of the european commission in the 1980s, and chairman of societe generale de belgique- the massive banking and utility conglomerate in belgium. he is also chairman of th

ave a short physical "life, and then return to oblivion. even by its own official history the royal society was created by freemasons- people like the illuminati agent, 406 children of the matrix benjamin franklin. another inspiration was isaac newton, a grand master of that elite illuminati secret society, the priory of sion, which manipulates on behalf of the merovingian bloodline. newton, like the founders of the royal society, knew that much of what official "science" tells us to be true is utter garbage. but that was the idea, to sell us a lie to keep us from the truth. it is far easier to control people if they believe they are cosmic accidents, who come into existence merely by chemical reactions and then go back to oblivion at death. it is much harder to control those who are aware

people to settle the area as their "homeland. charles taze russell, of the illuminati-reptilian russell bloodline, was the man who founded the watchtower society, better known as the jehovah's witnesses. he was a satanist, a paedophile according to his wife, and most certainly illuminati. his new "religion (mind control cult) was funded by the rothschilds and he was a friend of theirs, just like the founders of the mormons who were also rothschild-funded through kuhn, loeb and company. russell and the mormon founders were all freemasons and merovingian bloodline. in 1880, charles taze russell, this friend of the rothschilds, predicted that the jews would return to their homeland. it was about the only prediction russell ever got right. why? because he knew that was the plan. he wrote to t

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the black nobility have been controlling the church124of england for centuries, indeed from the start, and today one of their most activerepresentatives, queen elizabeth ii, is still the official head of the church. the blacknobility bloodlines are reptilian full-bloods and crossbreeds and pure babylonianbrotherhood. they seized the reins of power in europe to take their agenda intoanother stage.the founders of the european royal houses, many of which continue to this day,were rupert, the count of nassau, and christian, count of oldenbourg. both lived inthe 11th and 12th centuries, the very period when the black nobility-babylonianbrotherhood launched its plan to control the whole of europe. from rupert came thehesse-darmstadt and hesse-cassal lines, the dukes of luxembourg, the battenbor

ignty and independence of the united states ispervasive throughout most of the membership, and particularly in the leadership of severaldivergent cliques that make up what is actually a polycentric organisation (the mainclique) is composed of the one-world-global-government ideologists- more respectfullyreferred to as the organised internationalists. they are the ones who carry on the traditionof the founders.since 1921 virtually every president of the united states has been a member of thecfr along with most of the main government posts including most, today all, theamerican ambassadors around the world. the cfr also includes media owners, keyjournalists and editors, educationalists, military leaders, on and on it goes. themembership of the royal institute of international affairs remains

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civilisation goes the white man's sanitation. by refraining from all action one may achieve release from the bondage of the body more quickly and effectually than one [page 272] bargains for, if among the actions refrained from are those connected with communal cleanliness in a densely populated land. 21. the greeks understood the principle of malkutli better than did anybody else, and they were the founders of the european culture. they taught us to see beauty in perfect proportion and function, and nowhere else, the frieze of figures upon the grecian urn turned the mind of keats to the contemplation of ideal truth and beauty. there can be no higher ideal than this for the finite mind to contemplate, for in it the law and the prophets are lifted far above the grim forbiddings of the mosa

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hica, considered by many as italy s finest psychical research periodical. the association may be contacted at via s. vittore 1920123, milano, italy. astara astara is a hermetic occult fraternity founded in 1951 by robert and earlyne chaney, both former spiritualists. as a young medium, robert chaney had been active in the spiritualist community in the midwest in the 1930s and 1940s and was one of the founders of the spiritualist episcopal church in 1941. he became somewhat alienated from spiritualism after reading theosophical and hermetic literature and accepting some ideas, such as reincarnation, he discovered there. reincarnation was still a very controversial idea in spiritualism at the time. meanwhile, earlyne chaney, who had been a clairvoyant since childhood, had held conversations

9. barbara brennan school of healing the barbara brennan school of healing was founded in 1982 by barbara brennan, a former associate of trance channel eva pierrakos (1915.1979) and her husband, psychiatrist john c. pierrakos (1921. eva pierrakos had founded a system for self-transformation called the pathwork. her husband, who had begun his long career working with wilhelm reich, had been one of the founders of bioenergetics, a system of bodywork, and later founded the institute of core energetics. during the 1970s, brennan worked with the couple and became an accomplished practitioner of both the pathwork and core energetics. she developed her own private healing practice and then began to teach others. brennan had begun her adult life as a physicist. she earned a master s degree in atmo

ression of the brotherhood of light. he led the church until his death on november 18, 1951, by which time membership had spread across the united states and into canada, england, mexico, nigeria, and liberia. sources: benjamine, elbert. astrological lore of all ages. chicago: aries press, 1945. beginner s horoscope maker. chicago: aries press, 1940. stellar dietetics. chicago: aries press, 1942. the founders of the church of light. church of light quarterly 45, no. 1 (february 1970: 1.2. zain, c. c [elbert benjamine. brotherhood of light lessons. 22 vols. los angeles: church of light, 1922.32. the benjees said to be a former indian cult that engaged in devil worship. it seems likely that this belief was based on a misunderstanding of the symbolism of images of indian temples. bennett (cha

he lived in london in great poverty, racked by illness, but made a profound impression on a small circle of perceptive friends for his dedication to buddhist principles and ideals. aleister crowley claimed that he had once witnessed bennett levitate while in a state of meditation. bennett was born in london on december 8, 1872. orphaned at an early age, he was adopted by s. l. m. mathers, one of the founders of the golden dawn. bennett was educated at hollesley college and at bath, england, and took a special interest in scientific research. as a young man he earned a living in a chemical laboratory. although originally brought up by his mother as a roman catholic, he was introduced to occultism through his foster father, who eventually initiated him into the golden dawn, in which he was

ty dance with a baby elephant. the tantric side of his activities seemed confined to a sensible scheme of sex education allied with psychophysical health, and he said he wanted to teach men and women to love, and make women feel like queens. his enlightened work in bodybuilding and character-training attracted the interest of dr. charles francis potter, a liberal new york city minister and one of the founders of humanism. potter said that bernard had all the ear-marks of genius and combined knowledge of age-old indian methods of curing disease of mind and body with the best of western methods, plus a refreshing amount of common sense. by all reports, the club members, mostly professional and business men and women from new york, were healthy and happy. there was an inner circle of the club

ches into the mysteries of occultism (1876) and her translation and editing of the anonymous art magic (1875) were most important. she also for a time edited the american periodical western star (1872) and the british publication unseen universe (1892.93. her early musical talent reemerged in a number of musical compositions and songs written under the name ernest reinhold. britten was also among the founders of the theosophical society in new york in 1875, but soon severed her connection with helena petrovna blavatsky. britten s life is told in a biography edited by her sister, margaret wilkinson. british society of dowsers encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 218 she died in england october 2, 1899. the britten memorial institute and library and the britten memorial museum

rn april 16, 1850, in dublin, ireland, and studied at marlborough college, and trinity college, cambridge (senior classic and chancellors medalist, 1873; m.a. 1876. he was a member of parliament for cambridge university (1906) and an honorary fellow of university college, oxford, and trinity college, cambridge. butcher was not himself involved in psychic research but was a close friend of some of the founders of the society for psychical research, london. after his death he was claimed to be a leading communicator in a famous cross correspondence experiment. he died december 29, 1910. butler, walter (ernest (1898.1978) author of books on magic and other occult subjects. he was born august 23, 1898, in england. in 1924 he married gladys irene newell. after serving in the british army (1917

er, janet, and john hutchinson. this way to cassadaga, deltona, fla: john hutchinson productions, 1980. cassoli, piero (1918) physician and psychologist actively concerned with parapsychology. cassoli was born july 25, 1918, in bologna, italy, and educated at the university of bologna (m.d, 1943. in 1947 he became the secretary of a group of researchers investigating parapsychology. he was one of the founders (1954) and then president (1957.59) of the centro studi parapsicologia. he also served as director of the center for many years. a member of the italian society for parapsychology, cassoli s interests in parapsychology have been quite varied. he was among the first to promote experimental methods of psychical research in italy and conducted experiments on precognition. he also investi

s sea monsters, dragons, hairy dwarfs, and yetis or abominable snowmen. heuvelmans was born in le havre, france, in 1916, and earned his doctoral degree in zoological sciences at brussels. his books include on the track of unknown animals (1955) and in the wake of the sea-serpents (1968, both translated from the french. several of his later books have not been translated. in 1982 he became one of the founders of the international society of cryptozoology. the center has a library of some two thousand volumes and a large collection of magazine articles and illustrations, fully indexed by a card catalog. address: verlhiac, st. chamassy, 24260 le bugue, france. sources: clark, jerome. encyclopedia of strange and unexplained physical phenomena. detroit: gale research, 1993. heuvelmans, bernard

r plate. in 1485 they adopted chains composed of these emblems united by eagles tails. they appear to have been a magical or kabalistic society. compsla see comparative psychophysiological study of living adepts project compton, elizabeth j (1829) a washerwoman of havanah, new york, and mother of nine children who in 1875, at age 45, was discovered to be a powerful medium. henry s. olcott, one of the founders of the theosophical society, in his people from the other world (1875) describes remarkable seances with compton that produced surprising discoveries. olcott removed the medium s earrings, passed sewing thread through the perforation in her ears, and sealed the ends to the back of her chair. he impressed his private signet on the seals, fastened her chair to the floor with thread and

e duke of buckingham the same year. for the assumption of the gift of prophecy, she was cited before the high commission court in 1633 and was imprisoned briefly and fined. sources: davies, lady eleanor. great britains visitation. london, 1645. the revelation interpreted. london, 1645. of times and seasons, their mystery. london, 1651. davis, andrew jackson (1826.1910) medium, channel, and one of the founders of modern spiritualism. he was born august 11, 1826, at blooming grove, orange county, new york. young davis had gifts of clairvoyance and heard voices at an early age. on advice so obtained he pursuaded his father in 1838 to move to poughkeepsie, new york (andrew would later be known as the poughkeepsie seer. up to age 16 he received no formal education. apprenticed to a shoemaker na

21 dingle settled in oakland, california. he began his career as a teacher after being asked to lead an informal class on what he had learned from his teachers in singapore and tibet. he taught informally for more than a decade before incorporating the institute of mentalphysics in 1934. dingle taught his students out of his belief that the tibetans had preserved the ancient wisdom of the aryans, the founders of the indian, mediterranean, and anglo-saxon cultures. he taught them the disciplines he had learned and advised a vegetarian diet. dingle developed a center in los angeles, the international church of the holy trinity, where he not only taught classes but sent out a correspondence course to students across north america. he was generally known by his students as ding le mei, his rel

of the nuns of loudon resulted in the burning alive of urbain grandier. the rise of modern occultism the eighteenth century in france is rich in occult history. at a time when the enlightenment was destroying the older supernatural magic, a new magic was beginning to evolve that made use of scientific information. while the eighteenth century was the low point in practice of the occult in europe, the founders of modern occultism were emerging. perhaps the most striking personality of this age was the comte de saint germain, who was credited with possessing the secrets of alchemy and magic. his family connections were unknown, and he spoke as if he had lived for many centuries. another mysterious adept was an alchemist calling himself lascaris, who literally sowed his path through europe wi

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e story of man s quest for psychic power. london: octopus books, 1973. marabini, enrico (1923) italian gynecologist and obstetrician who was also active in the field of parapsychology. marabini was born on november 12, 1923, at casinalbo, italy, and studied at bologna university (m.d, cum laude, 1949. he was a member of the bologna center of parapsychological studies, and in 1948 he became one of the founders of the centro studi parapsicologici (center for parapsychological studies. marabini took special interest in clairvoyance, telepathy, psychokinesis, and mediumship. he worked with mental and physical mediums for several years in controlled experiments concerned with psychosomatic aspects of paranormal behavior. however, he was unable to validate the authenticity of physical mediumship

a large clientele, and as she could speak five languages, she was called upon to lecture across north america and europe. she was asked to join the faculty of the american federation of astrologers, the international society for astrological research, and the southwest astrology council. she has been active in both the european international congress and united astrology congress. she was one of the founders of the association for astrological networking. in 1975, march joined forces with joan mcevers to found aquarius workshops, the vehicle for their teaching activity. their magazine, aspects, soon became one of the most popular in the field, and their multivolume textbook series, the only way to .learn astrology, one of the most used textbooks for teaching astrology to newcomers to the

superior to paranormal feats, and to the hindu pupil, the master is his guru, or spiritual teacher. the term mahatma is used to indicate a special guru or great soul, and maharishi or maharshi denotes a great sage of transcendental wisdom. another sanskrit term paramahansa (literally greatest swan) is given to a very exalted mystic. the primary masters claimed by helena petrovna blavatsky, one of the founders of theosophy, were: koot hoomi lal singh (usually signing letters k.h, the master morya (known as master m, master ilarion or hilarion (a greek, djual khul (or d.k, and the maha chohan. sources: jinarajadasa, c. the early teachings of the masters. chicago: theosophical press, 1925. johnson, paul. in search of the masters: behind the occult myth. south boston, va: the author, 1990. lea

women of the golden dawn: rebels and priestesses. rochester, vt: park street press, 1995. howe, ellic. the magicians of the golden dawn: a documentary history of a magical order, 1887.1923. york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1972, 1985. king, francis. ritual magic in england. london: neville spearman, 1970. mathers, s(amuel) l(iddell) macgregor (1854.1918) leading british occultist who was one of the founders of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. born in hackney, london, january 8, 1854, he lived with his mother at bournemouth after the early death of his father. as a boy he was intensely interested in symbolism and mysticism. he claimed a romantic descent from ian macgregor of glenstrae, an ardent jacobite who was given the title of comte de glenstrae by louis xiv. mathers became a fr

ature of religion, 1975. melton was ordained a united methodist minister in 1968. in 1969, while in graduate school, he founded the institute for the study of american religion to focus research on the many new and small religious groups that were emerging in late twentieth-century america. melton served as the national field director of the spiritual frontiers fellowship (1971.74, and was one of the founders of the academy of religion and psychical research. in 1975 he transferred from the north alabama conference to the northern illinois conference of the united methodist church and was appointed pastor of the emmanuel united methodist church in evanston, illinois. in 1980 he left the pastorate and was appointed director of the institute for the study of american religion, a post he has

ndependent christian science healers. one of them, joseph addams, began the mind cure journal in chicago in the mid 1880s. other healers with no connection to eddy, other than possibly having read her books, also appeared on the scene. those students most attached to eddy s thought founded what has been a continuing independent christian science movement, while the more autonomous thinkers became the founders of what would in the 1890s become known as new thought. new thought has been perpetuated through such organizations as the unity school of christianity, the divine science association, the church of religious science, and the international new thought association. it produced a number of best-selling authors, such as ralph waldo trine, prentice mulford, elizabeth towne, and orison swe

est of his days were spent quietly at his hermitage. he was credited with sundry alchemistic writings, said to have been translated from arabic, but the ascription rests on the slenderest evidence. one of these works was entitled liber de distinctione mercurii aquarum, and it is interesting to recall that a manuscript copy of this work belonged to the great chemist robert boyle (1627.1691, one of the founders of the royal society in london, while another is entitled liber de compositione alchemiae, and this is printed in the first volume of bibliotheca chemica curiosa. better known than either of these, and more likely to be really from morien s pen, is a third treatise styled de re metallica, metallorum transmutatione, et occulta summague antiquorum medicine libellus, which was repeatedly

of his communications through cummins. lodge saw no reason to dissent from the view that the remarkable accounts of the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh states are the kind of ideas which f. w. h. myers may by this time [1932] have been able to form. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. gauld, alan. the founders of psychical research. new york: schocken books, 1968. haynes, renee. the society for psychical research, 1882.1982: a history. london: mcdonald, 1982. myers, f. w. h. human personality and the survival of bodily death. london: longmans, green, 1903. science and a future life: with other essays. london: macmillan, 1901. myers, f. w. h, edmund gurney, and frank podmore. phantasms of th

2837 1st ave. n, st. petersburg, fl 33713. new dimensions broadcasting network new dimensions broadcasting network is the producer and distributor of post-new age radio and short wave programs. new dimensions was created in 1973, as an expression of the human potentials movement. founders michael and justine toms were, at that time, inspired by the work of parapsychologist charles t. tart, one of the founders of the discipline of transpersonal psychology, who had observed that a new revolution in consciousness was beginning. new dimensions was incorporated as a nonprofit educational foundation to address the issues raised by the approaching change in culture and value systems. new dimensions began modestly as a program for a single station in northern california. in 1980 the program reache

storian of psychical research, about which he authored several important articles. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. gilbert, mostyn. j. fraser nicol: an appreciation of his dedication to psychical research. journal of the society for psychical research 56, no. 818 (january 1990. nicol, j. fraser. the founders of the society for psychical research. proceedings of the society for psychical research 55 (1972. the fox sisters and the development of spiritualism. journal of the society for psychical research 34 (1948. the silences of mr. trevor hall. international journal of parapsychology 1, no. 1 (1966. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1

stigation and reporting on the observation of mediums. the issue divided the american society for psychical research in 1925 and would lead to the resignation of spiritualist believer sir arthur conan doyle from the spr. piddington died in april 1952. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. gauld, alan. the founders of psychical research. new york: schrocken books, 1968. piddington, john george. cross correspondences of a gallic type. proceedings of the society for psychical research 29, 72 (1916. presidential address. proceedings of the society for psychical research 34, 89 (1924. pickering, edward charles encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1210. a reply to sir oliver lodge s not

evelopment. as world war ii (1939.45) approached, she moved to the united states and continued to work as a trance channel and produced a series of lectures that were transcribed and circulated among those who came to hear her. in 1971 she met and married psychiatrist john c. pierrakos, a greek expatriate who, like her, had moved to the united states as world war ii approached. he had been one of the founders of bioenergetics, a system of bodywork partially inspired by the teachings of wilhelm reich and based upon an understanding of the way that psychological energy is reflected in body states. she added some of the energy teachings to her own work and developed the pathwork. in 1972 she opened the first pathwork center in the catskill mountains near phonecia, new york. pierrakos teaching

y powers: a century of psychical research. woodstock, n.y: overlook press, 1977. driesch, hans. psychical research: the science of the supernormal. london: g. bell, 1933. reprint, new york: arno press, 1975. edge, hoyt l, robert l. morris, john palmer, and joseph h. rush. foundations of parapsychology: exploring the boundaries of human capability. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1986. gauld, alan. the founders of psychical research. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1968. grattan-guinness, ivor, ed. psychical research: a guide to its history, principles and practices, in celebration of 100 years of the society for psychical research. london: aquarian press, 1982. haynes, renee. the society for psychical research 1882.1982: a history. london: macdonald, 1982. hyslop, james h. enigmas of psychic

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meditation, it involves giving the meditator an idea with no simple answer on which to contemplate. the most famous is gwhat is the sound of one hand clapping? h lao-tse.founder of taoism. master therian.a name used by aleister crowley under which he wrote several of his most important books, including magic in theory and ractice. p mathers.samuel liddell macgregor mathers (1854-1918) was one of the founders of the hermetic rder of the golden dawn and even ole. through him came many of the unique and impressive rituals and magical techniques. the books he translated and edited on magic, including the sacred agic of abramein the mage, ms on and the kabbalah unveiled, have helped many to become magicians. his autocratic nature lead to schisms in the golden dawn, and he eventually had magica

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ork in abury, though great in itself, is but a part of the whole (the avenues stretching above a mile from it each way, the situation of the whole design is projected with great judgment, in a kind of large, separate plain, four or five miles in diameter. into this you descend on all sides from higher ground. the whole temple of abury may be considered as a picture, and it really is so. therefore the founders wisely contrived that a spectator have an advantageous prospect of it as he appeared within view. when i frequented this place, which i did for some years together, to take an exact account of it, staying a fortnight at a time, i found out the entire work by degrees. the second time i was here, an avenue was a new amusement; the third year another. so that at length i discovered the m

tnight at a time, i found out the entire work by degrees. the second time i was here, an avenue was a new amusement; the third year another. so that at length i discovered the mystery of it, properly speaking, which was, that the whole figure represented a snake transmitted through a circle. this is an hieroglyphic or symbol of highest note and antiquity "in order to put this design in execution, the founders well studied their ground; and to make their representation more natural, they artfully carried it over a variety of elevations and depressions, which, with the curvature of the avenues, produces sufficiently the desired effect. to make it still more elegant and picture-like, the head of the snake is carried up the southern promontory of hackpen hill, toward the village of west kennet

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titution were form255 ulated, notably the hindoos and the egyptians: then, at a later date, we have the views of some greek philisophers still extant.298themagical masontheold testament gives us light on the hebrew doctrines, and the jewish rabbis of the middle ages formulated a scheme of their own in the kabalah. the new testament gospels and especially the epistles of st paul teach the ideas of the founders of the christian faith.theroman catholic church has its own views upon humanity and its destiny, and our modern prot255 estant divines express the doctrines of the reformed christian church.therosicrucian and hermetic authors of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries revived the earlier kabal255 istic views on the constitution of man, and during the last forty years the e

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he continued to press yarker in the same vein, and when mackenzie was dying, in june 1886, westcott wrote to yarker (17 june 1886, offering to act as grand secretary and make an effort to revive the order of swedenborg, of which i have some years been a warden. at this time he was, by a curious coincidence, living in london at 4 torriano avenue, camden road the former home of a mr. knight, one of the founders of the new church theological college. mackenzie died on 3 july 1886, and with appalling insensitivity westcott pestered his widow almost immediately for all the effects of the late supreme grand secretary. when he had obtained from her some 14 packets of constitutions, the warrents of pythagoras and hermes lodges, declairation books, a minute book, various seals and a press for their

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nce the course of history. this order was the templars. df from the templars to ancient egypt the crusaders wreaked havoc in jerusalem. the mediaeval engraving shown above depicts certain scenes of the horror. the templars the templars, or, their full name, the poor fellow-soldiers of jesus christ and the temple of solomon, was formed in 1118, that is, 20 years after the crusaders took jerusalem. the founders of the order were two french knights, hugh de payens and godfrey de st. omer. at first there were 9 members, but the order steadily grew. the reason they named themselves after the temple of solomon was because the place they had chosen as a base was the temple mount where this ruined temple had been located. this same location was where the dome of the rock (qubbet as-sakhrah) stood

ful and enlightening for the understanding of the philosophy of masonry. an american author, robert hieronimus, wrote a doctoral thesis on the united states' seal in which he provided some very important information. the title of hieronimus' thesis was "an historic analysis of the reverse of the american great seal and its relationship to the ideology of humanist psychology" his thesis shows that the founders of america, who originally adopted the seal, had been masons, and that they, therefore, espoused the humanist philosophy. the connection of this philosophy with ancient egypt is symbolized by the pyramid placed in the center of the seal. this pyramid is a representation of the pyramid of cheops, the largest of the pharaoh's tombs.68 the eye and the pyramid among the most important mas

is process allowed the possibility for materialist and evolutionist ideas, that had been operating underground for centuries through the use of symbols, to come forth into the public. materialists, such as diderot and baron d'holbach, raised the anti-religious banner, and the ancient greek myth of evolution was introduced into the scientific community. erasmus darwin those generally thought to be the founders of the theory of evolution are the french biologist jean lamarck and the english biologist charles darwin. according to the classic story, lamarck first proposed the theory of evolution, but he made the mistake of basing it on the "inheritance of acquired traits" later, darwin proposed a second theory based on natural selection. though, here we must mention the name of another theoret

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

es gnostic theurgy page 162 a certain force or energy. even dance can be used for evocation. in siva s cosmic dance there are 108 poses which embody his nature and invoke the inherent power involved. in individual ritual practise gestures are develop which reflect certain energies, powers and states of mind. this is not as strange as it first seems. in recent research into the nature of the mind, the founders of neuro-linguistic programming found that it is possible to associate certain emotions with hand gestures and movements. a bit like the work of pavlov (the dog salivates when he hears the bell, because the bell is associated with food, but going much further. the founders of nlp found how easy it was to lock emotions into certain gestures. this, surely, is the basis for the age old u

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF AIR

ritual of the pentagram, and the lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram (lbrp/lirp) were the only actual rituals taught to and used by the outer order of the traditional golden dawn. however, here at the sanctuary of ma'at we have incorporated this lesser invoking pentagram ritual as an introduction ritual to the elemental air principle of nature, while still adhering to principles set forth by the founders. this lesser invoking ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. it is recommended to be perfomed in the mornings for as long as one is in the theoricus grafothe sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF EARTH

r commonly called lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram, and the lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram (lbrp/lirp, were the only actual rituals taught to and used by the outer order of the traditional golden dawn. however, we have adapted this lesser invoking pentagram ritual as an introduction ritual to the elemental earth principle of nature, while still adhering to principles set forth by the founders. this lesser invoking ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. it is recommended to be perfomed in the mornings for as long as one is in the zelator grade. relax and perform the fourfould breath perform the qabalistic cross 1. touching the forehead, say atah. 2. touching the breast, say ma

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF FIRE

ritual of the pentagram, and the lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram (lbrp/lirp) were the only actual rituals taught to and used by the outer order of the traditional golden dawn. however, here at the sanctuary of ma'at we have incorporated this lesser invoking pentagram ritual as an introduction ritual to the elemental fire principle of nature, while still adhering to principles set forth by the founders. this lesser invoking ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. it is recommended to be perfomed in the mornings for as long the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 3 of 3 6/27/2004 8:05 am as one is in the practic

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF WATER

itual of the pentagram, and the lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram (lbrp/lirp) were the only actual rituals taught to and used by the outer order of the traditional golden dawn. however, here at the sanctuary of ma'at we have incorporated this lesser invoking pentagram ritual as an introduction ritual to the elemental water principle of nature, while still adhering to principles set forth by the founders. this lesser invoking ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. it is recommended to be perfomed in the mornings for as long as one is in the practicus gra fthe lesser ritual of the hexagram after learning to banish the elements, which is the purpose of the lbrp, one should learn to banish

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

ave virtually no idea of what makes islamic republicanism tick, and we stand appalled not only at the atrocities of islamic government, but at its sheer zeal. the idea of pat robertson driving a truck filled with explosives into an enemy military compound shouting jesus is lord! is ludicrous in our imaginations. put billy graham behind the wheel. but you get the point. yet, it has been shown that the founders of speculative freemasonry in the 18th century, especially in its continental version, were upholders of a radical spiritual, sometimes republican political vision that captured the imagination of many, including early socialists on the one hand and occultists on the other. these tendencies meet and overlap, and explain much about the nature of masonic and occult secrecy, 66 allen h

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

are, beca/use the germans are said to have grown on trees; l we have here the possibility of a complex chain of relationships. the geogr. of eavenna says, the saxons removed from their ancient seats to britain( cum principe suo, nomine anchis. this may be hengist, or still better his son oesc, whom i have identified with askr.2 plainly there existed primitive legends, which made the first men, or the founders of certain branches of the teutonic nation, grow out of trees and rocks, that is to say, which endeavoured to trace the lineage of living beings to the half-alive kingdom of plants and stones. even our leut (populus, ohg. liut, has for its root liotan (crescere, pullulare, os. liud, liodan; 3 and the sacredness of woods and mountains in our olden time is height ened by this connexion

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

ed by the rosicrucian publishing department (amorc, san jose, california, u.s.a [3] in the affairs of the birth of the american nation, as can be seen by records in philadelphia and washington. the ancient law that each 108 years was a cycle of rebirth, activity, rest, and waiting, made the great work in america come to a close, as far as public activities were concerned, in 1801 (108 years after the founders left europe. then for another 108 years the order in the americas was in its rest period with only certain descendants of the last initiates passing to one another the rare records and official documents. then came 1909.108 years after the year 1801.and the time for rebirth and reorganization in a public form was at hand. the story of how h. spencer lewis, first imperator for the pres

n of america into many jurisdictions operating under one american constitution, the said constitution shall embody such changes or modifications as will properly meet the requirements of this jurisdiction. therefore, it is declared that the attached constitution, of which this pronunziamento is a part, was prepared after consultation with all possible authorities and with proper discussion by all the founders of the order in america, and was finally approved and adopted by the charter members of the supreme grand lodge in america and shall be adopted and ratified by all lodges now organized or hereafter to be organized and chartered by the supreme grand lodge or the imperator of the order in america. decreed and issued june, 1915, at a meeting of the first american supreme council held in

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

. 841thehusband of mrs everitt(1825-1915)one of the most renowned mediums specializing in physical mediumship and directwriting.everitt was a tailor in pentonville and they began holding"'ancesin 1855.mrs everitt's mediumship was called into question in 1867 but she was vindicated (seespiritualmago:zine,may and june1869).2williamjames hughan(1841-1911),the noted masonic historianandauthor. one of the founders of the quatuor coronati lodge no.1076,the research lodge which established the authentic or scientific .chool of masonic history, he was also an early member of the societas rosicruciana in anglia and contributed to early issues of therosicrucianmago:zine.3 grand stewards lodge, of which hockley was secretary. 4 past master of british lodgeno.8,the lodge in which he had been initiated

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

jew, collected all the writings of his master. porphyry was himself a great author, and gave an allegorical interpretation to some parts of homer's writings. the system of meditation the philaletheians resorted to was ecstasy, a system akin to indian yoga practice. what is known of the eclectic school is due to origen, longinus, and plotinus, the immediate disciples of ammonius. the chief aim of the founders of the eclectic theosophical school was one of the three objects of its modern successor, the theosophical society, namely, to reconcile all religions, sects, and nations under a common system of ethics, based on eternal verities. q. what have you to show that this is not an impossible dream; and that all the world's religions are based on the one and the same truth? a. their comparat

lenishment of his own pocket. but de mortuis nil nisi bonum; his end was a sad one. he had strenuously concealed his epileptic fits-the first and strongest symptom of genuine mediumship-and who knows whether he was dead or in a trance when the postmortem examination was performed? his relatives insist that he was alive, if we are to believe reuter's telegrams. finally, behold the veteran mediums, the founders and prime movers of modern spiritualism-the fox sisters. after more than forty years of intercourse with the "angels" the latter have led them to become incurable sots, who are now denouncing, in public lectures, their own life-long work and philosophy as a fraud. what kind of spirits must they be who prompted them, i ask you? q. but is your inference a correct one? a. what would you

ar to stand second to anybody in anything. so, for instance, one member-a true "sir oracle"-criticized, and almost defamed every member in the t.s. to outsiders as much as to theosophists, under the pretext that they were all untheosophical, blaming them precisely for what he was himself doing all the time. finally, he left the society, giving as his reason a profound conviction that we were all (the founders especially)-frauds! another one, after intriguing in every possible way to be placed at the head of a large section of the society, finding that the members would not have him, turned against the founders of the t.s, and became their bitterest enemy, denouncing one of them whenever he could, simply because the latter could not, and would not, force him upon the members. this was simpl

d their own consciences. the former is but too ready to believe in anything said against a society it hates. the latter-but i will say no more, fearing i have already said too much. q. your position does not seem to me a very enviable one. a. it is not. but don't you think that there must be something very noble, very exalted, very true, behind the society and its philosophy, when the leaders and the founders of the movement still continue to work for it with all their strength? they sacrifice to it all comfort, all worldly prosperity, and success, even to their good name and reputation-aye, even to their honor-to receive in return incessant and ceaseless obloquy, relentless persecution, untiring slander, constant ingratitude, and misunderstanding of their best efforts, blows, and buffets

es-when by simply dropping their work they would find themselves immediately released from every responsibility, shielded from every further attack. q. i confess, such a perseverance seems to me very astounding, and i wondered why you did all this. a. believe me for no self-gratification; only in the hope of training a few individuals to carry on our work for humanity by its original program when the founders are dead and gone. they have already found a few such noble and devoted souls to replace them. the coming generations, thanks to these few, will find the path to peace a little less thorny, and the way a little widened, and thus all this suffering will have produced good results, and their self-sacrifice will not have been in vain. at present, the main, fundamental object of the socie

do the spiritualists hate you? a. from the first day of the society's existence. no sooner the fact became known that, as a body, the t.s. did not believe in communications with the spirits of the dead, but regarded the so-called "spirits" as, for the most part, astral reflections of disembodied personalities, shells, etc, than the spiritualists conceived a violent hatred to us and especially to the founders. this hatred found expression in every kind of slander, uncharitable personal remarks, and absurd misrepresentations of the theosophical teachings in all the american spiritualistic organs. for years we were persecuted, denounced, and abused. this began in 1875 and continues to the present day. in 1819, the headquarters of the t.s. were transferred from new york to bombay, india, and

ine, to which i must again refer you for detailed explanations. to conclude, the very soul of theosophy is dead against phallic worship; and its occult or esoteric section more so even than the exoteric teachings. there never was a more lying statement made than the above. and now ask me some other questions -ooo- is the theosophical society a money-making concern? q. agreed. well, have either of the founders, colonel h.s. olcott or h.p. blavatsky, ever made any money, profit, or derived any worldly benefit from the t.s, as some papers say? a. not one penny. the papers lie. on the contrary, they have both given all they had, and literally beggared themselves. as for "worldly benefits" think of the slanders and vilification they have been subjected to, and then ask the question! q. yet i ha

pers say? a. not one penny. the papers lie. on the contrary, they have both given all they had, and literally beggared themselves. as for "worldly benefits" think of the slanders and vilification they have been subjected to, and then ask the question! q. yet i have read in a good many missionary organs that the entrance fees and subscriptions much more than covered all expenses; and one said that the founders were making twenty thousand pounds a year! a. this is a fib, like many others. in the published accounts of january, 1889, you will find an exact statement of all the money ever received from any source since 1879. the total received from all sources (entrance fees, donations, etc, etc) during these ten years is under six thousand pounds, and of this a large part was contributed by th

rce since 1879. the total received from all sources (entrance fees, donations, etc, etc) during these ten years is under six thousand pounds, and of this a large part was contributed by the founders themselves from the proceeds of their private resources and their literary work. all this has been openly and officially admitted, even by our enemies, the society for psychical research. and now both the founders are penniless: one, too old page 129 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt and ill to work as she did before, unable to spare time for outside literary work to help the society in money, can only write for the theosophical cause; the other keeps laboring for it as before, and receives as little thanks for it. q. but surely they need money to live? a. not at all. so long as they have

thers-notably many theosophists-do: follow out their respective professions and devote the surplus of their time to the work of the society? a. because by serving two masters, either the professional or the philanthropic work would have had to suffer. every true theosophist is morally bound to sacrifice the personal to the impersonal, his own present good to the future benefit of other people. if the founders do not set the example, who will? q. and are there many who follow it? a. i am bound to answer you the truth. in europe about half-a-dozen in all, out of more than that number of branches. q. then it is not true that the theosophical society has a large capital or endowment of its own? a. it is false, for it has none at all. now that the entrance fee of 1 and the small annual due have

f the stagnant waters of slander. q. then i have been told of several large legacies left to the t.s. one-some 8,000-was left to it by some eccentric englishman, who did not even belong to the society. the other- 3,000 or 4,000-were testated by an australian f.t.s. is this true? a. i heard of the first; and i also know that, whether legally left or not, the t.s. has never profited by it, nor have the founders ever been officially notified of it. for, as our society was not then a chartered body, and thus had no legal existence, the judge at the court of probate, as we were told, paid no attention to such legacy and turned over the sum to the heirs. so much for the first. as for the second, it is quite true. the testator was one of our devoted fellows, and willed all he had to the t.s. but

a. you may laugh, but it is so -ooo- the working staff of the t.s. page 131 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt q. these men, i have heard, are great adepts, alchemists, and what not. if, then, they can change lead into gold and make as much money as they like, besides doing all kinds of miracles at will, as related in mr. sinnett's the occult world, why do not they find you money, and support the founders and the society in comfort? a. because they did not found a "miracle club" because the society is intended to help men to develop the powers latent in them through their own exertions and merit. because whatever they may or may not produce in the way of phenomena, they are not false coiners; nor would they throw an additional and very strong temptation on the path of members and candi

triple adept, and a "mahatma" to boot. it is only her unwillingness to pose in her own sight as a crow parading in peacock's feathers that compels her to this day to insist upon the truth. q. but if you have such wise and good men to guide the society, how is it that so many mistakes have been made? page 137 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt a. the masters do not guide the society, not even the founders; and no one has ever asserted that they did: they only watch over, and protect it. this is amply proved by the fact that no mistakes have been able to cripple it, and no scandals from within, nor the most damaging attacks from without, have been able to overthrow it. the masters look at the future, not at the present, and every mistake is so much more accumulated wisdom for days to co

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

my opinion been asked beforehand, i should have said "don't. somewhere about 30 years ago eliphas levi in one of his works said, that occultism could not be a worldly success, unless some millionaire took it up. the t.s. has not arrived at that yet, nor do i think that e.l. has contemplated such a case as the t.s. my own opinion is that it is destined to survive, at least during the life-time of the founders. beyond that, i cannot see. it has survived a much worse crisis than the present, when it was placed under dr a. k [i.e. archibald keightley. the whole of that was by trusting people who ought, by rights, not even to be admitted as freemasons. notwithstanding all these blunders, i now perceive that the very blunders committed by the agents of the mahatmas tend to carry out their inten

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

imneys and classic portals. on the eastern side they were set high over basements with railed double flights of stone steps, and the young charles could picture them as they were when the street was new, and red heels and periwigs set off the painted pediments whose signs of wear were now becoming so visible. westward the hill dropped almost as steeply as above, down to the old "town street" that the founders had laid out at the river's edge in 1636. here ran innumerable little lanes with leaning, huddled houses of immense antiquity; and fascinated though he was, it was long before he dared to thread their archaic verticality for fear they would turn out a dream or a gateway to unknown terrors. he found it much less formidable to continue along benefit street past the iron fence of st. joh

e town street, in what later became olney court; and in 1761 he replaced this with a larger one, on the same site, which is still standing. now the first odd thing about joseph curwen was that he did not seem to grow much older than he had been on his arrival. he engaged in shipping enterprises, purchased wharfage near mile-end cove, helped rebuild the great bridge in 1713, and in 1723 was one of the founders of the congregational church on the hill; but always did he retain his nondescript aspect of a man not greatly over thirty or thirty-five. as decades mounted up, this singular quality began to excite wide notice; but curwen always explained it by saying that he came of hardy forefathers, and practised a simplicity of living which did not wear him our. how such simplicity could be reco

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

s manner supply the general reservoir with more, however small parts of the vital power, by constant repetition. we shall remember the salute of the german nsdap, consisting in a lifting of the hand and certainly representing a certain gesture of power. but if such an increased collective power reservoir is used for greedy and questionable purposes, this mentally strained power is turning against the founders because of its polarity, and decay and destruction will follow, apart from the fact that the curses of the absolutely innocent victims pining in prisons, sentenced to death or sent to hopeless battles in the field, will invisibly produce an opposite polarity that will also contribute to the decomposition of the power reservoir. the same law works in all the rest of cult practices, no

ISIS UNVEILED

t, my brethren, though a man aay he hath faith, and have not wotlu? con futr tape himf. likewise also wai not kahab tbe harlot notified by workm, when ihe had received the mesiengera, and had tent tbem out ttoolhet way? jama, ii. i^ 2s clement describes ba^des, the gnostic, as "a philosoplier devoted to the cootemplation of divine things" this very appropriate expression may be applied to many of the founders of the more important sects whidi later were all engulfed in one that stupendous compound of unintelligible dogmas enforced by irenaeus, tertullian and others, which is now termed christianity/ these must be called kereeiea, then early christianity itself must be included in the number. basilides and valentinus preceded irenaeus and tertullian; and the two latter fathers had less fact

and accepted the jehovah of moses, the gnostic ideas would never have been termed hereaiea; once relieved of their dogmatic exaggerations the world would have had a reugious system based on pure platonic philosophy, and surely something would then have been gained. now let us see what are the greatest heresies fd the gnostics. we will select basilides as the standard for our comparisons, for all the founders of other gnostic sects group round him, like a cluster of planets borrowing light from their sun. basilides maintained that be had had all his doctrines from the apostle matthew, and from peter through giaudisciple of the latter* according to eusebius* he published twenty-four vol- umes of commerdaries upon iha gospel^ all of which were burned, 348. c. w. king: tht gnoriici

at purity of his ethics and personal morality. for both of these opinions he is respectfully rebuked by des mousseauz. vexed at this sdentific contradiction of his accusations^ demonolatry against gauta- ma-buddha, he assures his readers that "ce savant distingu^ n'avait point tudi6 cette question "i do not hestate to say" remarks bartbflemy st.-slaire "that ^kmpt christ alone, there is not among the founders of religiods a 6gure either more pure or more touching than that of buddha. his life is spotless. his constant heroism equals his conviction. he is the perfect model of all the virtues he preaches; his abn^ation, his chari, his unalterable sweetness of disposition, do not fail him for one instant; he abandoned, at the age of twenty-nine, his father's court to become a monk and a begga

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

light is material; and being material, it must be dark. for the spirit of god is not material, and therefore, not being material, it cannot be light to us, and therefore darkness to god. just as (until discovered otherwise) the world it is that is at rest, and the sun and the heavenly bodies in daily motion instead of the very reverse being the fact. this is the belief of the oldest theosophists, the founders of magical knowledge in the east, and the discoverers of the gods; also the doctrines of the fire-philosophers, and of the rosicrucians, or illuminati, who taught that all knowable things (both of the soul and of the body) were evolved out of fire, s strange ideas of the fire-philosophers. 75 and finally resolvable into it: and that fire was the last and only-to-be-known god: as that

it is that the last spirit, of which they are composed, is playing before us; and playing, into last extinction, out of its rings of this-side matter; all which hermetic fire. 77 matter, in its various stages of thickening, is as the flux of the supernatural fire, or inside god. it will appear no wonder now, if the above abstractions be caught by the thinker, how it was that the early people (and the founders of fire-worship) considered that they saw god, standing face to face with him that is, with all that, in their innermost possibility of thought, they could find as god in fire. which fire is not our vulgar, gross fire; neither is it the purest material fire, which has something of the base, bright lights of the world still about it brightest though they be in the matter which makes th

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

sense is called kabbalah. a literal meaning (of a scripture) submits to the conditions of time and space. allegorical and kabbalistic- remains for centuries, unbounded by time and space--paulus ricius, introductoria theoramata cabalae philippus aureolus paracelsus (1493-1541) a german-swiss physician and alchemist, paracelsus established the role of chemistry in medicine. he is considered one of the founders of modern science. learn artem cabbalisticam, it explains everything- paracelsus, das buch paragranum k a b b a l a h, s c i e n c e, a n d t h e m e a n i n g o f l i f e 212 christian konrad sprengel (1750 1816) a german botanist and teacher whose studies of reproduction in plants led him to a general theory of fertilization which is still accepted today. adam, the first man, was ve

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uents within himself which correspond to the higher. this will be made clearer by fig. 13, and its accompanying diagram. 398. therefore for our work we need forces of all these different levels, and each officer of a masonic lodge has, besides his duties on the physical plane, the function of representing one of these levels, and acting as a focus for its special energies. the arrangement made by the founders of freemasonry is that the enumeration of the officials and the recitation of their positions and duties shall act as an evocation of the devas or angels belonging to and working on those respective levels. the fact that thousands of r.w.m.s have asked the appointed questions without the faintest idea of producing an effect in unseen worlds has not deprived them of angelic assistance

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

ed. probably it was due to both, and also of course to certain movements, social and political, which were bound to favour immensely any such new enthusiasm; for a new national consciousness was rapidly gaining strength, especially in france, and cities and communes were beginning to vie in erecting vast buildings- first cathedrals and later civic edifices- the architects being now mostly laymen, the founders and donors often municipal bodies and rich citizens, and the workmen not seldom volunteers from the people. the old monastic era of romanesque suddenly gave way to that of a new, popular, and civic architecture, and in a surprisingly short time much the same had happened as that which we noted after the passing of the fateful year a.d. 1000, when, according to old raoul glaber, christ

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

t occult organization in america. the cloven hoof, edited initially by lavey and later by others, was the newsletter of the church. the church of satan was a rich source of splinter groups. in 1973 the church of satanic brotherhood was formed by grotto leaders from ohio, and had templums (their terminology for grottos) in michigan, ohio, and florida. the church lasted only until 1974, when one of the founders announced his conversion 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. lavey subsequently disbanded the remaining grottos, the local units of the church of satan, and decided to reorganize the church as a fellowship of individuals. accor

were taken from crowley s periodical equinox. in 1898 he was initiated into the hermetic order of the golden dawn (ogd, an occult group focused on ritual magic or magick, as crowley liked to spell it. in 1903 he married rose edith kelly. he seemed destined for leadership in the ogd, but was denied higher grades of initiation because of his homosexual activities. samuel (macgregor) mathers, one of the founders of the ogd, gave crowley the higher grades anyway, thus causing a split in the organization. by 1904 crowley decided to exit the ogd and was seeking another avenue of expression. visiting in cairo, egypt, in april 1904, he reportedly received a communication lasting several days from a spirit entity named aiwass. the result was the book of the law, an outline of his egyptian brand of

or neophytes and beginners; the second order, with three advanced levels for humans; and the third order, the order of the secret chiefs. each of these levels had its own rituals. to attain each degree, the candidate had to prove he had acquired competence in magical works, such as invocation, evocation, crystal-reading, making symbolic talismans, and astrology. fraulein sprengel conferred all of the founders of the ogd with the degree of adeptus exemptus, the highest degree that human beings could attain. the most famous member of the ogd was aleister crowley, whose magical thought has come to dominate modern magical practice. reared in hinduism 113 an exclusive plymouth brethren home, crowley had been introduced to magic in a book by occult historian a. e.waite.his cabalistic studies led

ing interest in the satanic tradition, members of the temple typically emphasize that they are not satanists, particularly not in the christian understanding of the term. by the 1970s, the church of satan had become a rich source of splinter groups. in 1973, the church of satanic brotherhood was formed by group leaders in michigan, ohio, and florida. the church lasted only until 1974, when one of the founders announced his conversion 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 ind

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

is the symbol of the transmutation and regeneration of the creative energy--commonly called the accomplishment of the great work. the double-headed phoenix is the prototype of an androgynous man, for according to the secret teachings there will come a time when the human body will have two spinal cords, by means of which vibratory equilibrium will be maintained in the body. not only were many of the founders of the united states government masons, but they received aid from a secret and august body existing in europe, which helped them to establish this country for a peculiar and particular purpose known only to the initiated few. the great seal is the signature of this exalted body--unseen and for the most part unknown--and the unfinished pyramid upon its reverse side is a trestleboard s

ed any mystic character, nor has it a clear notion how it came by its symbols" many of those connected with the development of freemasonry were suspected of being rosicrucians; some, as in the case of robert fludd, even wrote defenses of this organization. frank c. higgins, a modern masonic symbolist, writes "doctor ashmole, a member of this fraternity [rosicrucian, is revered by masons as one of the founders of the first grand lodge in london (see ancient freemasonry) elias ashmole is but one of many intellectual links connecting rosicrucianism with the genesis of freemasonry. the encyclop dia britannica notes that elias ashmole was initiated into the freemasonic order in 1646, and further states that he was "the first gentleman, or amateur, to be 'accepted" on this same subject, papus, i

inks connecting rosicrucianism with the genesis of freemasonry. the encyclop dia britannica notes that elias ashmole was initiated into the freemasonic order in 1646, and further states that he was "the first gentleman, or amateur, to be 'accepted" on this same subject, papus, in his tarot of the bohemians, has written "we must not forger that the rosicrucians were the initiators of leibnitz, and the founders of actual freemasonry through ashmole" if the founders of freemasonry were initiated into the great arcanum of egypt--and the symbolism of modern masonry would indicate that such was the case--then it is reasonable to suppose that they secured their information from a society whose existence they admitted and which was duly qualified to teach them these symbols and allegories. one the

sir francis bacon. the planetary signs which appear in the clouds opposite the marginal figures 4, 5, 6, and 7 signify the planetary configurations, which produce the forms of mania depicted. the seated man, with his head resting upon his hand. is declared by baconian enthusiasts to represent sir francis bacon. p. 166 of modern law, editor of the modem bible, patron of modem democracy, and one of the founders of modern freemasonry, sir francis bacon was a man of many aims and purposes. he was a rosicrucian, some have intimated the rosicrucian. if not actually the illustrious father c.r.c. referred to in the rosicrucian manifestoes, he was certainly a high initiate of the rosicrucian order, and it is his activities in connection with this secret body that are of prime importance to students

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

e of the same machinery. in the final analysis, itmatters little what weapons are used and what field is chosen for battle. it mattersgreatly thoughto know the enemy. in its education of these matters, humanity has con-tinually been helped, even occasionally from those behind the veils of secrecy. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation75 this place is terrible! not only were many of the founders of the u.s. masons, but they received aid from a secretand august body existing in europe, which helped them to establish the united states for apeculiar and particular purpose known only to the initiated few (peter tompkins quotingm. p. hall in secrets of the great pyramid)i have been convinced that we, as an order, have come under the power of some very eviloccult order, profoundly

sterious figure to whom all doors opened. moved in the high-est circles of pre-revolutionary france. manufactured precious stones. claimed to be over 4,000 years old.samuel hartlib (1600-1662) prime mover behind the invisible college which attracted the lead-ing personages of the day. his college was given royal approval and became part of royal society.jan battista van helmont (1579-1644) one of the founders of modern chemistry.john fredrick helvetius (1625-1709) athanasius kircher (1602-1680) jesuit alchemist.abraham lambspring (1590) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation267 appendix c: suggested areas of research leonardo da vinci (1452-1519) creator of many ideas for machinery and weaponry. under patronage from the most powerful families of the renaissance of which he wa

citizens. v accination was made compulsory without state legislation providing foranalysis of its history. 1905 assassination of ohio governor steunenberg. 1905 anglo-chinese agreement. chinese agree to reduce domestic opium production. 1905 british fabian society opens an american branch, the intercollegiate socialist society (iss).changed name to league for industrial democracy in 1921. one of the founders was john dewey, whowould travel to russia in the late 1920's to help organize a marxist educational system. 1905 first communist revolution in russia fails. lenin sent to switzerland. funds used for this firstattempt provided by john d. rockefeller through standard oil representatives. 1905 einstein formulates his special theory of relativity and photon theory of light. 1905 benedicti

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enown. and if the benefactors of mankind, when they rest from their noble labors, shall be permitted to enjoy hereafter, as an appropriate reward of their virtue, the privilege of looking down upon the blessings with which their exertions and charities, and perhaps their toils and sufferings have clothed the scene of their former existence, it will not, in a state of exalted purity and wisdom, be the founders of mighty dynasties, the conquerors of new empires, the c sars, alexanders, and tamerlanes; nor the mere kings and counsellors, presidents and senators, who have lived for their party chiefly, and for their country only incidentally, often sacrificing to their own aggrandizement or that of their faction the good of their fellow-creatures--it will not be they who will be gratified by c

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

uished the powers of winter, and encouraged the peaceful arts of agriculture. but with the romans, who were an page 126 essentially warlike nation, mars gradually loses his peaceful character, and, as god of war, attains, after jupiter, the highest position among the olympic gods. the romans looked upon him as their special protector, and declared him to have been the father of romulus and remus, the founders of their city. but although he was especially [115]worshipped in rome as god of war, he still continued to preside over agriculture, and was also the protecting deity who watched over the welfare of the state. as the god who strode with warlike step to the battlefield, he was called gradivus (from gradus, a step, it being popularly believed by the romans that he himself marched before

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

re pupils in a sense, much like today s powerful elite have masters and gurus, following the teachings of the great plan. according to the rosicrucians and theosophists, supporting the divine plan are great beings referred to as masters of the physical and spiritual planes. the evolution of america owes much to the seed thoughts of four masters kuthumi, el morya, rogoczy, and djwhal khul. some of the founders of america may have been consciously or unconsciously students of these teachers, just as some contemporary americans are pupils of these masters. in fact, the motto of the hierarchy of world teachers is identical with america s destiny the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of god (p. 95) another writer, from the opposite camp, confirms the assertions of heironimus. willy peterson

hand of the mysteries controlled in the establishment of the new government for the signature of the mysteries may still be seen on the great seal of the united states of america. careful analysis of the seal discloses a mass of occult and masonic symbols chief among them, the so-called american eagle. the american eagle upon the great seal is but a conventionalised phoenix. not only were many of the founders of the united states government masons, but they received aid from a secret and august body existing in europe which helped them to establish this country for a peculiar and particular purpose known only to the intiated few (manly p. hall, the secret teachings of all ages, pp. xc and xp.on communication with set by don webb v, high priest the nature of communication between set, god o

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

power and the means of communication with the powers. as these structures endure beyond the minds of their creators they are available to those who use the names and images as published in such a work as this. in fact these natural forces, anthropomorphised into entities, are accessed by the newcomer through a relatively minute amount of concentration for these symbols were sturdily formulated by the founders of the system. this ease of application is a major attraction to the users of the golden dawn system of magick. the energies that would have otherwise been necessary to make contact with spiritual powers could then be used toward creative application of the essences invoked. today, the task of the practitioner is to induce, through the rites and formulae, the trancendental spirit of t

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

cience. instruct us in the purity of its truths.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliasecond section colour blue21 1st chemist:he who seeketh for purity of truth in chemistry must take the more direct though tedious road ofbending before the crucible, study and handle the alkalies, the minerals and the gases; for though youmay become possessed of much through the remaining manuscripts of the founders and their lattersuccessors, yet you cannot detect their errors which lead to confusion and false theories, therebycausing you to insidiously drink in their imperfections.your preceptor, our immediate master, has doubtless instructed you in the four steps of wisdom, theessentials of chemical theory, and whence your name theoricus. having reliance in your fortitude,the simple elements f

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

nst several of the points made in it. as has been suggested in the introduction (page 3) this letter may have part of the curiosity shown towards seership in terms of military intelligence: perhaps the most important general aspect of it is that tarbett began by disbelieving in the sight, but was convinced by so many examples both in his own experience and as reported to him. robert boyle, one of the founders of modern chemistry developing out of alchemy, was interested in apparitions at that time, and is known to have written a paper on encounters experienced by miners while working underground. page 39 many highlanders [and] yet. more islanders were qualified with this second sight. men women and children indistinctly [that is indiscriminately] were subject to it. it is a trouble to most

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

odite was the goddess of love and beauty. ares was the god of war. in warlike sparta he was held in high regard, but in athens he was worshipped in the same building where people were tried for murder. athena was the goddess of wisdom. according to greek myth, she was not born the way that her fellow gods were born, but sprang heraclitus while socrates, plato, and aristotle are usually considered the founders of modern western thought, earlier thinkers also significantly influenced western civilization. one of the most interesting of these thinkers was heraclitus, who was born to a noble family in ephesus in about 535 bce. though he came a generation later than the milesian school, heraclitus continued their tradition of looking for the fundamental substance of all matter. unlike the other

ple, sacrifices at the sacred altars, athletic contests, and huge feasts. one the most important annual festivals in athens was the anthesteria, which was held in february and honored athena. even more important, however, was the panathenaea, held every four years in honor of athena. this world religions: almanac 231 greco-roman religion and philosophy plato s dialogues plato is considered one of the founders of modern western thought. most of his writings use socrates s method of seeking truths through questions and answers of opposing beliefs. this question-and-answer style is known as the socratic method. in the passage below, plato s train of thought seeks to reason out how states and societies began. he begins with the question of whether humankind was destroyed in a flood and then tr

SEVEN SCROLLS CHILDREN OF THE BLACK ROSE

shining empire to its knees, it's lofty ideals shattered like glass, and its citizens scattered on the winds like so many seeds. in as little as forty winters of the first little gray cloud seen upon the horizon of social and political corruption, a mighty empire may well lie in ashes. all successful civilizations start out with the lessons of the last great failure hot and fresh in the minds of the founders. they know what went wrong with the last attempt and try to model their new nations on foundations that won't crumble, proof against decadence and corruption. therefore, the founders establish a reasonable form of government with a solid constitution, a strong defensive military force, and a sensible educational system to teach their offspring the correct way to live and avoid ruinati

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

the hellenes, whose origin has bewildered your dreaming scholars, were of the same great family as the norman tribe, born to be the lords of the universe, and in no land on earth destined to become the hewers of wood. even the dim traditions of the learned, which bring the sons of hellas from the vast and undetermined territories of northern thrace, to be the victors of the pastoral pelasgi, and the founders of the line of demi-gods; which assign to a population bronzed beneath the suns of the west, the blue-eyed minerva and the yellow-haired achilles (physical characteristics of the north; which introduce, amongst a pastoral people, warlike aristocracies and limited monarchies, the feudalism of the classic time, even these might serve you to trace back the primeval settlements of the hel

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

troublesome and displeasing to those assiduously striving for solitude, nor yet far apart, because of the fellowship to which they cleave, and in order to render each other aid in the event of a piratical attack. in each house there is a sacred chamber or monasterion, in which in isolation they are initiated into the mysteries of the holy life..157 they have also writings of men of old, who were the founders of their sect, and had left behind many memorials of the type of treatment employed in allegory..158 142 christianity as mystical fact their interpretations of the holy scripture are made in accordance with the deeper meanings conveyed in allegory.159 here we see a democratization of the aims of the mysteries though inevitably such a democratization brought a softening of the original

symbolic, and philo is the interpreter of its symbolism, reading the bible as the story of the soul. it may rightly be said that philo s method of exegesis christian and pagan wisdom 157 corresponds to contemporary techniques pioneered by mysteriosophy. he himself draws attention to the same approach to the ancient scriptures among the therapeutae: they have also writings of men of old, who were the founders of their sect, and had left behind many memorials of the type of treatment employed in allegory. their interpretations of the holy scriptures are made in accordance with the deeper meanings conveyed in allegory. philo s aim was likewise to uncover the deeper meaning hidden in the old testament allegories. it is worth considering where such exegesis could lead. reading the creation sto

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iately began attempts to communicate with her. according to some sources, he did receive messages from her spirit that he felt constituted proof of contact with the other side. others say that an alleged spirit photograph of lady crookes appeared to have been manipulated in the developing process. crookes died on april 4, 1919, survived by four of his eight children. m delving deeper gauld, alan. the founders of psychical research. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1968. hall, trevor. the spiritualists. london: duckworth, 1962. medhurst, r. g, and k. m. goldney. crookes and the spirit world. new york: taplinger, 1972. harry houdini (1874 1926) although harry houdini died in 1926, his name remains synonymous with incredible demonstrations of stage magic and daredevil escapes. for spiritualists

wife s friend as being the likeness of the specter that had appeared at her bedside. the results, speculations, and conclusions of frederic w. h. myers s many years of research were published posthumously in human personality and its survival of bodily death (coauthored with edmund gurney and frank podmore, 1903. myers died in rome in 1901 and was buried in keswick. m delving deeper gauld, alan. the founders of psychical research. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1968. oppenheim, janet. the other world: spiritualism and psychical research in england. cambridge: cambridge university press, 1985. spence, lewis. an encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. society for psychical research (spr) in 1882, a distinguished group of cambridge scholars founded the british

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ational directory of haunted places. new york: penguin, 2000. sitwell, sacheverell. poltergeists. new york: university books, 1959. epworth rectory one of the most famous cases in the annals of noisy hauntings is the one that visited the reverend samuel wesley and his family at epworth rectory in 1716. among the 19 children of the reverend wesley who witnessed the phenomena were john and charles, the founders of methodism and the authors of some of christendom s best-loved hymns. it was on the first of december that the children and the servants began to complain of eerie groans and mysterious knockings in their rooms. they also insisted that they could hear the sound of footsteps ascending and descending the stairs at all hours of the night. reverend wesley heard no noises for about a wee

e called parapsychology. william james (1842 1910, the foremost american psychologist of the nineteenth century, explored the nonphysical realm of psychic phenomena and mysticism in his classic work the varieties of religious experience (1902. sir william barrett (1844 1925, professor of physics and fellow of the royal society of london, became convinced of the reality of telepathy and was one of the founders of the british society for psychical research in 1882. frederic myers (1843 1901, a classical lecturer at cambridge, wrote human personality and its survival of bodily death, which was published posthumously in 1903. psychologist william mcdougall (1871 1938, fellow of the royal society, provided sponsorship to drs. j. b (1895 1980) and louisa e (1891 1983) rhine, which allowed them t

g at the massachusetts institute of technology before deciding to become a psychologist. he received his doctorate in psychology from the university of north carolina in chapel hill in 1963 and while a member of the faculty at the university of california at davis for 28 years became internationally known for his research on the nature of consciousness, particularly altered states. tart is one of the founders of the field 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 164 mysteries of the mind espresearch remains a source of constant controversy. of transpersonal psychology and has authored such classic books as altered states of consciousness (1969, transpersonal psychologies (1975, and learning to use extrasensory perception (1976. tart consider

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ry, posnansky determined that it pointed precisely to solstice alignments in 15,000 b.c.e. taking into account the very gradual shifting of earth fs axis, posnansky postulated that arid plain was once below water, part of lake titicaca, and that tiahuanaco was once a major port city. the ancient citizens of tiahuanaco were members of a superior culture who had introduced a golden age to the area. the founders of tiahuanaco were taller and had distinctive facial characteristics quite apart from the high-cheekboned visages of today fs dwellers of the high plateau. in posnanksy fs view, the most startling tale told by the few artifacts left in the city was of a new world civilization that was amazingly similar to that of ancient egypt. the calassassayax (house of worship, he believed, was so

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

and supreme royalty, he indicated him finally as his successor; so the order of the knights templar was stained from its origin with schism and conspiracy against kings! 10 by the last decade of the nineteenth century certain german occultists, most of them high-grade freemasons, had been stimulated by their study of l vi s writings on magic to take an interest in templarism. these men were to be the founders of the o.t.o. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c2.html (5 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:01:22 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part one the birth and development of the o.t.o* chapter three the early years of the o.t.o. somewhere about the year 1896 karl kellner, a wealthy german iron-master who had journeyed through india and the middle eas

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

s was made to replace; for it exactly resembles that of a celtic temple in zeeland, published in stukeley's itinerary.3 the ranges of square buildings which inclose it are not properly parts of the temple, but apartments of the priests, places for victims and sacred utensils, and chapels dedicated to subordinate deities introduced by a more complicated and corrupt worship, and probably unknown to the founders of the original edifice.4 the portico, which runs parallel with these buildings5 inclosed the temenos, or area of sacred ground, which in the pyr thia of the persians was circular, but is here quadrangular, as in the celtic temple in zeeland, and the indian pagoda before described. in the centre was the holy of holies, the seat of the god, consisting of a circle of columns raised upon

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

d the hebrew words "ve-gebu- rah (and the power) are spoken, and as the left shoulder is touched the words "ve- gedulah (and the glory) are spoken. geburah is the name of the fifth sephirah, located on the left side of the tree; gedulah is an alternate name of the fourth sephirah, which is more usually called chesed, on the right side of the tree. it is impossible to know what was in the minds of the founders of the golden dawn when they made this assignment. it may simply have been a mistake. the tree of the sephiroth is usually depicted from the back, in the same way that mod- ern medical illustrations of the human heart are depicted, with the left side of the tree on the left side of the page, and the right side of the tree on the right side of the page, from the perspective of the obse

e depicted, with the left side of the tree on the left side of the page, and the right side of the tree on the right side of the page, from the perspective of the observer. the golden dawn founders may have wrongly assumed that the tree was depicted from the front, which would require its inversion from left to right before it could be applied to the human body. alternatively, it is possible that the founders of the golden dawn understood the depiction of the tree, but chose to invert it left to right when applying it to the human body on the assumption that the microcosm is the mirror inversion of the macrocosm. ancient woodcuts show adam kadmon, the heavenly adam and macrocosm, with geburah on his left shoulder and gedulah on his right shoulder. adam kadmon is an anthropomorphic represen

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

on was not made in the golden dawn documents. when the pentagram of earth is employed alone to invoke the four archangels, it should be understood that it invokes the guardians of the quarters in their lower, more material guise, not in their higher, more spiritual nature. the higher elemental energies of the archangels are invoked by the supreme invoking ritual of the pentagram (see exercise 39. the founders of the golden dawn provided this ritual of invocation and banishing to new initiates in the order because the simple act of going through the steps, even when there is little or no understanding of their meaning, awakens awareness of occult forces. in the beginning of magic study, it is important to open your consciousness to the presence of subtle currents and spiritual entities. the

ore complex golden dawn ceremonies, such as the golden dawn method of evocation. the various texts quoted play a prominent role in golden dawn magic. the invocation pronounced during the triple circumambulation to draw down the light, which begins "see that holy and formless fire" was modified somewhat from its golden dawn model. this was not a sacrilegious act on my part. the text was derived by the founders of the golden dawn from the chaldean oracles ofzoroaster and was modified by them from that older source to suit their purposes. i have merely carried on this traditional practice in magic of taking what you need and making it your own. it is important for beginners to shake off the superstition that rituals are inviolable patterns that must never be altered. rituals are created by in

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

this potential apocalypse (which will not happen unless we make it happen) that the angels gave the patterns of the watchtowers and the keys to dee, who never grasped their true purpose during his lifetime. many of the occult correspondences found in this book differ from those in the widely used golden dawn system of magic. although i have a high respect for the magical ability and knowledge of the founders of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, it is time modern occultists recognized that they were not infallible. they worked from a limited number of flawed sources, and sometimes they made mistakes. rather than slavishly follow the rules laid down by them nearly a century ago, i have preferred to analyze my sources independently, and where i disagree with the golden dawn, i have not

of the so-called tablet of union arranged in a cross. the golden dawn associated the watchtowers with the four elements and with the letters of tetragrammaton. the enochian magic of the the watclztowers and the keys 165 golden dawn is too complex to present here. those interested should study regardie's golden dawn, 6th edition, pp. 624-96 (llewellyn, 1990. for decades, it was widely assumed that the founders of the golden dawn had created this system based upon a few hints from dee and kelley. regardie writes: but this stands out very clearly, that in these diaries [of dee and kelleyl is a rudimentary scheme which bears only the most distant relation to the extraordinary developed system in use by the order. whoever was responsible for the order scheme of the angelic tablets-whether it wa

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

original end, the desired objective, forgotten. selection from: robert e. ornstein. the psychology of consciousness. new york, the viking press, 1972. pp. 97-98. so ends the first volume of the green book 246 a green book of meditations volume two: celtic, native american, african, hindu and greek writings i assembled this volume during one of my more nativist phases. there is a good reason that the founders of the rdna originally chose a celtic flavor to their group, because celtic literature is full of beautiful observations of nature, as did the native americans, africans, hindus and greeks. each of the other groups have had to deal with the approach of westernization and the destruction of traditional ways. however, i feel that these selections may provide useful solitary pondering an

mulla could not lift it. i thought you said that you were as strong as you were twenty years ago, said the sage. i am, answered nasrudin, exactly as strong. twenty years ago i could not have lifted it, either! the value of the past nasrudin was sent by the king to investigate the lore of various kinds of eastern mystical teachers. they all recounted to him talks of the miracles and the sayings of the founders and great teachers, all long dead, of their schools. when he returned home he submitted his report, which contained the single word carrots. he was called upon to explain himself. nasrudin told the king: the best part is buried; few know except the farmer by the green that there is orange underground; if you don t work for it, it will deteriorate; and there are a great many donkeys as

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