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ther hath it been seen in theman. 23 the agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth, the merchants of meran and of theman, the authors of fables, and searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remember her paths. 24 o israel, how great is the house of god! and how large is the place of his possession! 25 great, and hath none end; high, and unmeasurable. 26 there were the giants famous from the beginning, that were of so great stature, and so expert in war. 27 those did not the lord choose, neither gave he the way of knowledge unto them: 28 but they were destroyed, because they had no wisdom, and perished through their own foolishness. 29 who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds? 30 who hath gone over the sea, and found

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

: thor, inquiunt, praesidet in aere, qui tonitrua et fulmina, ventos imbresque, serena et frugcs guhernat. here then the worship of thor coincides with that of wuotan, to whom likewise the reapers paid homage (pp. 154 7, as on the other hand thor as well as osinn guides the events of war, and receives his share of the spoils (p. 133. to the norse mind indeed, thor's victories and his battles wdth the giants have thrown his peaceful office quite into the shade. nevertheless to wuotan's mightiest son, whose mother is earth herself, and who is also named perkunos, we must, if only for his lineage sake, allow a direct relation to agriculture^ he clears up the atmosphere, he sends fertilizing nandten baclie in liefland wohhanda. dorpt. 1644, pp. 362-4. even in his time the language of the praye

ewalte in siner pflege, ms. 2^ 166^ again lohazan (micare, coruscare, goth, lauhatjan, presupposes a lohen, goth, lauhan. from the same root the goth forms his idnhmuni aatpa-m, while the saxon from blic made a llicsmo (fulgur. as. icoma (jubar, fulgur, on. liomi, swed. ijungeld, dan. hjn. a prussian folk-tale has an expressive phrase for the lightning' he with the uue whip chases the devil' i.e. the giants; for a hhie flame was held specially sacred, and people swear by it, north pris' donners hlosjcen (blue sheen) help' in hansens geizhals p 123; and schiirtlin's curse was hlau feuer (see suppl. beside dona% the ohg. would have at its command capreh (fragor) from prelihan (frangere, gl. hrab. 963, for which the mhg. often has mac, troj. 12231. 14693, and krach from krachen (crepare: mit

bat, ingenti aere complexa fuerat (see suppl. to jupiter too the silex (flins) was sacred, and it was held by those taking an oath. from the mention of' elf-shots' above, i would infer a connexion of the elf-sprites with the thundergod, in whose service they seem to be employed. the norse mythology provides tliorr with a wonderful hammer named miolnir (mauler, tudes, contundens, which he hurls at the giants, seem. 57^ 67^ 68; it is also called pru&hamar, strong hammer, sam. 67^ 68^ and has the property of returning into the god's hand of itself, after being thrown, sn. 132, as this hammer files tlirough the air (er hann kemr a lopt, sn. 16, the giants know it, lightning and thunder precede the throwing of it: j?vi naest sa hann (next saw he, giant hrungnir; cldingar oc heyrsi prumur storar

with it, ssem. 74^ sn. 49. 66; men blessed with the sign of the hammer^ as christians did with the sign of the cross, and a stroke of lightning was long regarded in the^ as zeus's lightning was by the curetes or cyclopes^ that in ancient statues of the thundergod the hammer had not been forgotten, seems to be proved by pretty late evidence, e.g. the statue of a dorper mentioned in connexion with the giants (ch. xviii, quotation from fergut. and in the as. solomon and saturn, thunor wields ajiery axe (ch. xxv, mus^ in the old germ, law, the throwing of a hammer ratifies the acquisition of property. thunar. 181 mid. ages as a happy initiatory omen to any undertaking. thorv with his hammer hallows dead bones, and makes them alive again, sn. 49 (see supph. but most important of all, as vouchi

g, distinct from the ve, gen. vea on p. 163; the ohg. form must have been wihor, wihar (see suppl. as osinn was represented journeying abroad, to the eastern land (p. 163, so is thorr engaged in eastward travels: thorr var i austrvegi, saem. 59, a austrvega 68; for or austrvegi, 75; ec var austr, 78; anstrforom jjinom scaltu aldregi segja seggjom fra, 68. in these journeys he fought with and slew the giants: var haim 1 to the bori;\t mongols beyond l. baikal, fairy-rings in f^rass are "where the sons of tlie ivjldninfj have danced" trans. 188 thunar. f((rinn i anstcrvcg at berja troll, sn. 46. and tliis again points to the ancient and at that time still unforgotten connexion of the teutonic nations with asia; this' faring east-ways' is told of other heroes too, sn. 190. 363; e.g, the race

e danced" trans. 188 thunar. f((rinn i anstcrvcg at berja troll, sn. 46. and tliis again points to the ancient and at that time still unforgotten connexion of the teutonic nations with asia; this' faring east-ways' is told of other heroes too, sn. 190. 363; e.g, the race of the skilfingar is expressly placed in that eastern region (sii kynslos er i austrvegum, sn. 193; and lotunheim, the world of the giants, was there situated. tlwrr was considered, next to osinn, the mightiest and strongest of all the gods; the edda makes him osin's son, therein differing entirely from the eoman view, which takes jupiter to be mercury's father; in pedigrees, it is true, thorr does appear as an ancestor of osinn. thorr is usually named immediately after osinn, sometimes before him, possibly he was feared m

here mean tree, and imply a priestly function? osinvisr does not occur, but tyvi&r is the name of a plant, ch. xxxvii. it is thor's hammer that hallows a mark, a marriage, and the runes, as we find plainly stated on the stones. i show in ch. xxxiii how thorr under various aspects passed into the devil of the christians, and it is not surprising if he acquired some of the clumsy boorish nature of the giant in the process, for the giants likewise were turned into fiends. the foe and pursuer thunar. iso of all giants in the time of the ases, he himself appeared a lubber to the christians; he throws stones for a wager with giants (conf. eh. xviii. but even in the eddie thrymsqvisa, he eats and drinks immoderately like a giant, and the norwegian folk-tale makes him take up cask after cask of a

sorge im was so verre entriten, sie mohte erreichen niht ein sper, fear was fled so far from him, a spear could not reach it, wh. 280, 10 (see suppl. but further on, we shall get acquainted with a female ililta, comparable to the lat. bellona and the gr. enyo and eris, who is really one with war and the war-god. tyr is described in sn. 105 as a son of osinn, but in the hymisqvisa as a kinsman of the giants. his mother, whose name is not found, but whose beauty is indicated by the epithet all-gullin, all-golden, ssera. 53% must have been a giant's daughter, who bore to osinn this immortal son (see suppl. chaptee x. fro (feeyr. the god that stands next in power and glory, is in the norse mythology frcijr (landn. 4, 7; with the swedes he seems even to have occupied the third place. his name

brelion' trans, of irish acad. 14, 1(57. aki, uoki, oit.ir. 237 speeclies of bragi. it is with great propriety, no dcniht, that tliese narratives, during which oegir often interrupts him witli questions (8n. 93, as gangleri does har when holding forth in the first part of the edda, were put in the mouth of the patron of poetry. 3. aki, uoki (oegir, hler. fifel, geofon. this oegir, an older god of the giant kind, not ranked among the ases, but holding peaceable intercourse with them, bears the name of the terrible, the awful. the root' aga 6g' had given birth to plenty of derivatives in our ancient speech: goth, agis 06/3o9, 6g
and the notion of snow and ice giants. and the north itself furnishes some names which are synonymous with oegir. in the fundinn noregr (sn. 369. fornald. sog. 2, 17) we read: forniotr fitti 3 syni, hett einn hler, er vcr kollum ocgi (one hight hler, whom we call oegir, annarr logi, jnidji kari (liask, afh. 1, 95: kari. hler, gen. hies, appears from this to have been the older name, in use among the giants, by which oegir is spoken of in sn. 79, and after which his dwelling-place was named hles-cy (sicm. 78^ 159^ 243, now liissoe in the cattegat. 4 (forniotr. of this hler i have nothing more to tell (see suppl, but his father forniotr. has left a notable trace of himself behind; he belongs even less than oegir to the circle of ases, being one of the older demonic giants, and proving that

n the as. liber medicinalis, from which wanley, pp. 176 80 gives insufficient extracts, there is according to lye's dictionary a plant of healing virtue spoken of (twice apparently, from the various spelling) by the name of forneotcs folnic, foriictcs folme i.e. forneoti manus. as none of the on. writings allude to this herb, its name must be a remnant of the saxon people's own mythology. in ohg. the giant may have been called firnez, and the plant firnezes folma. we remember how, in beow. 1662, grendel has torn off the hand of a water-sprite, and presents it as tacen of his victory, just as tristan chops off the giant urgan's hand, and takes it with him to certify the deed, 16055-65-85. the amputation of the huge giant-hand seems therefore part of an ancient myth, and to have been fitly l

sit to the only god whom the teaching of the edda represents as wicked and malevolent, though it still reckons him among the ases. 5 (loki, grendel, saturn. lofji, as we have seen, was a second son of forniotr, and the three brothers hler, logi, kari on the whole seem to represent water, fire and air as elements. n"ow a striking narrative (sn. 54. go) places logi by the side of lohi, a being from the giant province beside a kinsman and companion of the gods. this is no mere play upon words, the two really signify the same tiling from different points of view, logi the natural force of fire, and loki, with a shifting of the sound, a shifting of the sense: of the burly giant has been made a sly seducing villain. the two may be compared to the prometheus and the hephajstus (vulcan) of the gre

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

sh, and its red little mouth, impudently smiling. around these islands seems to flow as a general tide the more stable life of the quarter. here are honest good-wives seriously discussing their affairs, and heaven only knows if it be love or the price of sugar which engages them so wholly. there are but a few commonplace and uninteresting elements in the cafe; and these are without exception men. the giant big business is a great tyrant! he seizes all the men for slaves, and leaves the women to make shift as best they can for--all that makes life worth living. candies and american beauty roses are of no use in an emergency. so, even in this most favored corner, there is dearth of the kind of men that women need. at the table next to me sits an old, old man. he has done great things in his

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

nity. 31. eternity is the storm that covereth me. 32. i am existence, the existence that existeth not save through its own existence, that is beyond the existence of existences, and rooted deeper than the no-thing-tree in the land of no-thing. 33. now therefore thou knowest when i am within thee, when my hood is spread over thy skull, when my might is more than the penned indus, and resistless as the giant glacier. 34. for as thou art before a lewd woman in thy nakedness in the bazaar, sucked up by her slyness and smiles, so art thou wholly and no more in part before the symbol of the beloved, though it be but a pisacha or a yantra or a deva. 35. and in all shalt thou create the infinite bliss and the next link of the infinite chain. 36. this chain reaches from eternity to eternity, ever i

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

fic for any of childhood's troubles. a third, an ancestor of our hippopotamus, was really tamed, and was employed by the serviles for preparing the ground for the corn, trampling through the fields while they were covered with sea- water, and thus leaving deep holes in which the seeds were cast. its flesh was not unlike bear, but more delicate. notable, too, was the great quantity of turtle; also the giant oysters, the huge deep sea crabs, a kind of octopus whose flesh made a nutritious and elegant soup, and innumerable shell-fish, added to the table. the waterways were haunted by shoals of a small and poisonous fish* whose bite was immediate death to man, a fact which altogether cut off communication between one island and another except by air, as the hippopotamus-animal, although immune

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

hathayoga pradipika. unfortunately, i am unable to say where (or even whether) a copy of this latter work exists. 331, 332. stand (stephen) or sit (paul).50 acts vii. 36; heb. xii, 2. 337. samadhi-dak.51 ecstasy-of-meditation mail. 338. maha-meru.52 the mystic mountain of the hindus. see southey s curse of kehama. 339. gaurisankar.53 called also chomokankar, devadhunga, and everest. 341. chogo.54 the giant. this is the native name of k2; or mount godwin-auster, as col. godwin-austen would call it. it is the second highest known mountain in the world, as devadhunga is the first. 356. the history of the west.55 de acosta (jos) natural and moral history of the indies. alison, sir a. history of scotland. benzoni. history of the new world. buckle. history of civilisation. burton, j. h. history

perplexed; and he knew not what he would do. for the children left their foulness and came soliciting with shameless words his acquiscence in their sport; and he, knowing the law of courtesy and pity, rebuked them not. but master ever of himself he abode alone, about and above. so he saw his virginity deflowered, and his thoughts were otherwere. now loosed they his body; he bade it leap the wall. the giant flower of ocean bloomed above him! he had fallen headlong into the great deep. as the green and crimson gloom disparted somewhat before his eyes, he was aware of a beetle that steadily and earnestly moved across the floor of that sea unutterable. him he followed; for i wit well, thought the adept, that he goeth not back to the gross sun of earth. and if the sun hath become a beetle, may

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

derived from the various qualities of the experimenter. 9. thus let the work be accomplished duly; yea, let it be accomplished duly [if any really important or remarkable results should occur, or if any great difficulty presents itself, the a. a. should be at once informed of the circumstances] 34 the wizard way 35 the wizard way velvet soft the night-star glowed over the untrodden road, through the giant glades of yew where its ray fell light as dew lighting up the shimmering veil maiden pure and aery frail that the spiders wove to hide blushes of the sylvan bride earth, that trembled with delight at the male caress of night. velvet soft the wizard trod to the sabbath of his god. with his naked feet he made starry blossoms in the glade, softly, softly, as he went to the sombre sacrament

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

hou that thou dost abandon the kingdoms of this world, as a wanton woman her nightly lovers; and that they depart from thee, and remember and regret thee not? yet thou art so vast that i cannot grasp thee; time flees before thee, and space is as a bauble in thine hands. o monstrous vacancy of vastness! thou surpassest me, and i am lost in the contemplation of thy greatness. the old gods slew ymer the giant; and from his blood they poured out the seas; and from his flesh they dug the 179 land; and the rocks were fashioned out of his bones; and asgard, fair dwelling-house of gods, was builded from the brows of his eyes; and from his skull was wrought the purple vault of immensity; and from his brains were woven the fleecy clouds of heaven. but thou art more than ymer; thy feet are planted de

victory. the very soul of life lies ravished, and the breath has left me. a small warm hand touches my lips- o fragrance of love! o life. is there a god? 183 the prude a fly once sat upon the axle-tree of a chariot, and said "what a dust do i raise" now a swarm of flies has come- the fourth plague of egypt is upon us, and the land is corrupted by reason of their stench. the mighty ones are dead, the giants are no more, for the sons of god come not in unto the daughters of men, and the world is desolate, and greatness and renown are gone. to-day the blue blow-flies of decay sit buzzing on the slow-rolling wheel of fortune, intoxicated on the dust of the dead, and sucking putrefaction from the sinews of the fallen, and rottenness from the charnel-house of might. o reason! thou hast become a

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r foams beneath his feet. and he saith: before his face am i come that hath the thirty-three thunders of increase in his hand. from the golden water shalt thou gather corn. 76 all the aire behind him is gold, but it opens as it were a veil. there are two terrible black giants, wrestling in mortal hatred. and there is a little bird upon a bush, and the bird flaps its wings. thereat the strength of the giants snaps, and they fall in heaps to the earth, as though all their bones were suddenly broken. and now waves of light roll through the aethyr, as if they were playing. therefore suddenly i am in a garden, upon a terrace of a great castle, that is upon a rocky mountain. in the garden are fountains and many flowers. there are girls also in the garden, tall, slim, delicate and pale. and now i

rs. the seer is lost in wonder, which is peace. and the ring of the horizon above her is a company of glorious archangels with joined hands, that stand and sing: this is the daughter of babalon the beautiful, that she hath borne unto the father of all. and unto all hath she borne her. this is the daughter of the king. this is the virgin of eternity. this is she that the holy one hath wrested from the giant time, and the prize of them that have overcome space. this is she that is set upon the throne of understanding. holy, holy, holy is her name, not to be spoken among men. for kor they have called her, and malkuth, and betulah, and persephone. and the poets have feigned songs about her, and the prophets have spoken vain things, and the young men have dreamed vain dreams; but this is she, t

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malice had the worst, till strong sir bors his prowess played- and all his might avail d nought. now once sir bors had been betrayed to paynim; him in traitrise caught, they bound to four strong stallion steers, to tear asunder, as they thought, the paladin of arthur's peers. but he, a-bending, breaks the spine of three, and on the fourth he rears his bulk, and rides away. divine the wonder when the giant fails to stir the fatuous dwarf, malign who smiles! but boors on arthur rails that never a knight is worth but one "by goddes death (quod he "what ails 20 us marsh-lights to forget the sun? there is one man of mortal men worthy to win this benison, sir palamede the saracen" then went the applauding murmur round: sir lancelot girt him there and then to ride to that enchanted ground where

un himself they flew, piercing the borders of the night, passing the irremeable blue. far into space beyond the stars at last they came. and there he knew all the blind reasonable bars broken, and all the emotions stilled, and all the stains and all the scars left him; sop like a child he thrilled with utmost knowledge; all his soul, with perfect sense and sight fulfilled, 88 touched the extreme, the giant goal! yea! all things in that hour transcended, all power in his sublime control, all felt, all thought, all comprehended "how is it, then, the quest (he saith "is not- at last- achieved and ended? why taste i not the bounteous breath, receive the goodly gift of grace? now, kind king-eagle (by god's death, restore me to mine ancient place! i am advantaged nothing then" then swooped he fr

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y. 31. eternity is the storm that covereth me. 32. i am existence, the existence that existeth not save through its own existence, that is beyond the existence of 37 existences, and rooted deeper than the no-thing-tree in the land of no-thing. 33. now therefore thou knowest when i am within thee, when my hood is spread over thy skull, when my might is more than the penned indus, and resistless as the giant glacier. 34. for as thou art before a lewd woman in thy nakedness in the bazaar, sucked up by her slyness and smiles, so art thou wholly and no more in part before the symbol of the beloved, though it be but a pisacha or a yantra or a deva. 35. and in all shalt thou create the infinite bliss, and the next link of the infinite chain. 36. this chain reaches from eternity to eternity, ever

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

nsciousness of man is removed from that of a crystal. the knowledge thus appreciated by the chohans is naturally but theoretical and conveys only to their relatively limited consciousness the general nature of the group of constellations, and the force occasionally emanating from them which has at times to be taken into calculation. for instance, the interest awakened in the public mind lately by the giant star betelgeuse in the constellation of orion is due to the fact that at this particular time there has been an interplay of force between our tiny system and this giant one, and communication between the two informing existences. systemic wheels or the atomic life of individual constellations. these again are divided into 343 groups, known to the adept again through a series of characte

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

load of worlds upon his back. his face was lined with suffering; his limbs were bowed with pain; his eyes were closed with agony; he asked no help; he saw not hercules but stood bowed down with pain, with the weight of worlds. hercules. trembling, watched and gauged the measure of the load and pain. he forgot about his search [58] the sacred tree and apples faded from mind; he only sought to aid the giant and that without delay; forward he rushed and eagerly removed the load, lifting it off the shoulders of his brother onto his own back, shouldering the burden of the worlds himself. he closed his eyes, bracing himself with effort, and lo! the load rolled off, and he stood free, and likewise atlas. before him stood the giant and in his hand he held the golden apples, offering them, with lo

ction in which the apples should be sought, sending him on his way alone and somewhat discouraged, with only a vague idea as to what he would have to do and where he would have to go. all he knew was that he had to turn south; a symbol of going back into the world, the opposite pole of spirit. he had no sooner done so than he met the serpent with whom he had to wrestle [known in mythology also as the giant, antaeus, the son of poseidon, god of waters, and gea, the earth. hence when in touch with the earth, his mother, he was invincible] in his search for the golden apples on the physical plane, hercules had to conquer, as do all disciples, glamor and illusion; for in the carrying forward of spiritual aspiration, the disciple is very apt to be taken in by astralism and lower psychism in one

was the task. again and yet again some cattle strayed, and hercules would leave the herd in search of errant wanderers. across the alps he drove his cattle, and into italy. wherever wrong had triumphed he dealt the powers of evil a deadly blow, and righted the balance in favor of justice. when eryx the wrestler challenged him, hercules cast him down so forcefully that there he stayed. again, when the giant alcyoneus threw a rock that weighed a ton at hercules, the latter caught it [197] on his club, and hurled it back to kill the one who sent it forth. at times he lost his way, but always hercules turned back, retraced his steps, and journeyed on. though wearied by this most exacting labor, hercules at last returned. the teacher awaited his coming "welcome, o son of god who is also a son o

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

r r r r it would be a great gratification to me if any among those into whose hands this book may fall, whomay possess information confirming what is here set forth, would kindly either communicate it orpublish it in some form, so that it may not be lost.the children of diana, or how the fairies were born.all things were made by diana, the great spirits of the stars, men in their time and place, the giantswhic were of old, and the dwarfs who dwell in the rocks, and once a month worship her with cakes.there was once a young man who was poor, without parents, yet was he good.one night he sat in a lonely place, yet it was very beautiful, and there he saw a thousand littlefairies, shining white, dancing in the light of the full moon.gladly would i be like you, o fairies! said the youth, free

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

tsiu marpo at tengy ling monastery, lhasa. 13. a common iconographic representation of tsiu marpo. 14. a colored drawing of tsiu marpo at tengy ling monastery, lhasa. 15. a statue of tsiu marpo at the jokwukhang. 16. a general representation of a ma..ala diagram. 17. a grand ma..ala painted on the wall of the but n temple, gyantse. 18. more ma..alas on the walls of the but n temple, gyantse. 19. the giant demoness pinned by thirteen buddhist temples. 20. the jokhang temple at the center of lhasa. 21. samy monastery. 22. torma offerings kept behind glass at tengy ling monastery. 23. torma offerings in the g nkhang at k ndeling monastery. 24. title page of the warlord s tantra. 25. tibetan page from the warlord s tantra (1) 26. tibetan page from the warlord s tantra (2) xi 25 26 27 28 42 42

ally that of the initiate who must be disciplined in their tantric practice by their teacher. however, culturally, the concept relates back to the era of padmasambhava, who tamed the various demonic deities of tibet including tsiu marpo as part of the effort to establish buddhism. still further back through the curtains of legend, there is the first buddhist king songtsen gampo. this king subdued the giant demoness who represented the entire land of tibet as a wild and unpredictable environment. songtsen gampo, impelled by his two queens, constructed thirteen buddhist temples throughout tibet in order to pin down this wild demoness and help firmly establish buddhism, which was under constant attack by such demonic influences (figure 19. these temples were constructed in concentric circles

ground by which the entire tibetan landscape is transformed and reestablished as a land of buddhist agency. the ma..ala s origins were pragmatic and political, and its later buddhist symbolism developed a thoroughly religious capacity. however, it has come to incorporate the elements within the political institutionalization of buddhism during the yarlung dynasty symbolized by the subjugation of the giant demoness. tsiu marpo and other protector deities represent this on a small but constant scale. they were once subjugated by padmasambhava to serve the buddhist teachings and must now constantly be propitiated and reminded of their vow in order to advance the ritual service. this service is initiated by drawing the ma..ala associated with these deities who are situated within a specific r

re duplicate ma..alas in the interstices. the four colors filling the middle ma..ala suggest a radiating outward from the center (photo: c. bell 2005) figure 18. more ma..alas found on the walls of the but n temple, gyantse. notice the difference in pattern. the right ma..ala illustrates well the central buddhas and their individual entourages expanding outward (photo: c. bell 2005) 68 figure 19. the giant demoness pinned by thirteen buddhist temples (drawing by khempo sangyay tenzin 1970; blondeau and gyatso 2003, p. 17) 69 figure 20. the jokhang temple at the center of lhasa; believed to have been built over the heart of a giant demoness (photo: c. bell 2005) figure 21. samy monastery. this monastery was intentionally constructed in the shape of a ma..ala. the central temple, called the

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

pecific demands of animal sacrifice. the tale continues with cain being cursed to wander the earth as a vagabond, with the ground he tills never giving bounty. nathaniel j. harris, the mark of cain, the first satanist and first murder. in certain rabbinical literature, the daughters of cain were those who joined in sexual union with the fallen angels, the watchers, and gave birth to the nephilim, the giants who were war like and brutal. they were said to have populated the earth in plenty, and attacked the children of seth. in manichaean lore, the queen of demons and spiritual initiator of cain, lilith az, taught the fallen angels to form physical bodies and join with others sexually. it is suggested also by writers 7 kaufmann kohler, w.h. bennett and louis ginzberg that the children of ca

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

(venus-lucifer's) is said to be drawn by an ogdoad of "earth-born horses" while the steeds of the chariots of the other planets are different "every sin committed on earth is felt by usanas-sukra. the guru of the daityas is the guardian spirit of the earth and men. every change on sukra is felt on, and reflected by, the earth" sukra, or venus, is thus represented as the preceptor of the daityas, the giants of the fourth race, who, in the hindu allegory, obtained at one time the sovereignty of all the earth, and defeated the minor gods. the titans of the western allegory are as closely connected with venus-lucifer, identified by later christians with satan. therefore, as venus, equally with isis, was represented with cow's horns on her head, the symbol of mystic nature, and one that is con

de to the shunamite, as to her going to the man of god "for it is neither the seventh day nor the day of the new moon (2 kings, iv, 23) the living spiritual powers of the constellations had mighty wars, marked by the movements and positions of the stars and planets, and especially as the result of the conjunction of the moon, earth, and sun. bentley comments on the hindu "war between the gods and the giants" as marked by the eclipse of the sun at the ascending node of the moon, 945 b.c, at which time was born* or produced from the sea, sri (sarai, s-r-i, the wife of the hebrew a-bram. sri is also venus-aphrodite the western emblem "of the luni-solar year or the moon (as sri is the wife of the moon; vide foot-note, the goddess of increase" therefore "the grand monument and landmark of the e

is that of the all-deity itself. the svastica is found heading the religious symbols of every old nation. it is the "worker's hammer" in the chaldean book of numbers, the "hammer" just referred to in the "book of concealed mystery (ch. i, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc "which striketh sparks from the flint (space, those sparks becoming worlds. it is "thor's hammer" the magic weapon forged by the dwarfs against the giants, or the pre-cosmic titanic forces of nature, which rebel and, while alive in the region of matter, will not be subdued by the gods, the agents of universal harmony, but have first to be destroyed. this is why the world is formed out of the relics of the murdered ymir. the svastica is the miolnir, the "storm-hammer; and therefore it is said that when the ases, the holy gods, after having

which gave them their outer bodies. in his turn, man grew more physical, by re-absorbing into his system that which he had given out, and which became transformed in the living animal crucibles through which it had passed, owing to nature's alchemical transmutations. there were animals in those days of which our modern naturalists have never dreamed; and the stronger became physical material man, the giants of those times, the more powerful were his emanations. once that androgyne "humanity" separated into sexes, transformed by nature into childbearing engines, it ceased to procreate its like through drops of vital energy oozing out of the body. but while man was still ignorant of his procreative powers on the human plane (before his fall, as a believer in adam would say) all this vital en

they were rupa or material spirits, these dhyanis were not always good. their king thevetata was one of the latter, and it is under the evil influence of this king-demon that. the atlantis-race became a nation of wicked magicians "in consequence of this, war was declared, the story of which would be too long to narrate; its substance may be found in the disfigured allegories of the race of cain, the giants, and that of noah and his righteous family. the conflict came to an end by the submersion of the atlantis, which finds its imitation in the stories of the babylonian and mosaic flood. the giants and magicians. and all flesh died. and every man' all except xisuthrus and noah, who are substantially identical with the great father of the thhnkithians in the popol-vuh, or the sacred book of

hindu books. compare these with the faces of some other colossal statues in central asia- those near bamian for instance- the portrait-statues, tradition tells us, of buddhas belonging to previous manvantaras; of those buddhas and heroes who are mentioned in the buddhist and hindu works, as men of fabulous size* the good and holy brothers of their wicked co-uterine brothers generally, as ravana, the giant king of lanka was the brother of kumbhakarna; all descendants of the gods through the rishis, and thus, like "titan and his enormous brood" all "heaven's first born" these "buddhas" though often spoilt by the symbolical representation of the great pendent ears, show a suggestive difference, perceived at a glance, between the expression of their faces and that of the easter isle statues

edonian greeks; these and other such cock-and-bull hypotheses, are threatened with ruin. it is the ghost of old chaldea that comes to the rescue of truth. in his third hibbert[[footnote(s* thus we are shown one hero, to give an instance, first born as the "unrighteous but valiant monarch (purusha) of the daityas, hiranyakasipu, slain by the avatar nara-sinha (man-lion. then he was born as ravana, the giant king of lanka, and killed by rama; after which he is reborn as sisupala, the son of rajarishi (king rishi) damaghosha, when he is again killed by krishna, the last incarnation of vishnu. this parallel evolution of vishnu (spirit) with a daitya, as men, may seem meaningless, yet it gives us the key not only to the respective dates of rama and krishna but even to a certain psychological my

st will be satan incarnate (pp. 56-59. the pioneers of the coming apollyon have already appeared- they are the theosophists, the occultists, the authors of the "perfect way" of "isis unveiled" of the "mystery of the ages" and even of the "light of asia! the author notes the "avowed origin (of theosophy) from the "descending angels" from the "nephilim" or the angels of the vith ch. of genesis, and the giants. he ought to note his own descent from them also, as the present secret doctrine endeavours to show- unless he refuses to belong to the present humanity[[vol. 2, page] 230 the secret doctrine. to christianity; furthermore, he believes that this book was written "at the beginning of the christian era, when. the customs and religion of the egyptians fell into decadency! this is hardly pos

6 the secret doctrine. the allegorical and symbolical meaning of the serpent of genesis is found explained by the "sons of wisdom (or angels from higher spheres, though all and each pertain to the kingdom of satan, or matter) revealing to men the mysteries of heaven. hence, also, all the so-called myths of the hindu, grecian, chaldean, and jewish pantheons are found to be built on fact and truth. the giants of genesis are the historical atlanteans of lanka, and the greek titans. who can forget that troy was once upon a time proclaimed a myth, and homer a non-existing personage, while the existence of such cities as herculaneum and pompeii was denied, and attributed to mere fairy legends? yet schliemann proved that troy had really existed, and the two cities, though buried for long ages und

gy, labours to prove that the atlanteans were a very ancient northern nation, long prior to the hindoos, the phoenicians, and the egyptians("a dissertation on the kabiri" p. 284) in this faber is in agreement with bailly, who shows himself more learned and intuitional than those who accept biblical chronology. nor is the latter wrong when saying that the atlanteans were the same as the titans and the giants (see "lettres sur l'atlantide) faber adopts the more willingly the opinion of his french confrere, as bailly mentions cosmas indico-pleustes, who preserved an ancient tradition about noah- that he "formerly inhabited the island atlantis (ibid. this island, whether it was the "poseidonis" mentioned in "esoteric buddhism" or the continent of atlantis, does not much matter. the tradition i

th root-race. it is so stated in the puranas; in adi parvan (p. 115) and brahma purana, etc. in one portion of the pushkara mahatmya, moreover, the separation of the sexes is allegorized by daksha, who, seeing that his will-born progeny (the "sons of passive yoga, will not create men "converts half himself into a female by whom he begets daughters" the future females of the third race which begat the giants of atlantis[[footnote(s* it is, perhaps, with an eye to this degradation of the highest and purest spirits, who broke through the intermediate planes of lower consciousness (the "seven circles of fire" of pymander, that st. james is made to say that "this wisdom (psuche in the original) descended not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish; and psuche is manas, the "human soul" th

hed, was the result of man's eyes and senses being opened; which made him see that the daughters of his brethren were fairer than his own, and their wives also. there were rapes committed before that of the sabines, and menelauses robbed of their helens before the fifth race was born. titans or giants were the stronger; their adversaries, the wiser. this took place during the fourth race- that of the giants. for "there were giants" in the days of old, indeed* and the evolutionary series of the animal world is a warrant that the same thing took place within the human races. lower still in the order of creation we find witnesses for the same in the flora going pari passu with the fauna in respect of size. the pretty ferns we collect and dry among the leaves of our favourite volumes are the d

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[[diagram, and some other variations, the kabalistic circle of the elohim reveals, when the letters of the word[[hebrew (alhim or elohim) are numerically read, the famous numerals 13514, or by anagram 31415- the astronomical (pi) number, or the hidden meaning of dhyani-buddhas, of the gebers, the geborim, the kabeiri, and the elohim, all signifying "great men "titans "heavenly men" and, on earth "the giants" the seven was a sacred number with every nation; but none applied it to more physiologically materialistic uses than the hebrews. with these it was pre-eminently the generative number and 9 the male causative one, forming as shown by the kabalists the[[hebrew with numbers above] or otz "the tree of the garden of eden* the "double hermaphrodite rod" of the fourth race. whereas with the

egion of night and desolation, nebelheim (the mist-place, the nebular as it is called now, in the astral light) dropped a ray of cold light which overflowed this cup and froze in it. then the invisible blew a scorching wind which dissolved the frozen waters and cleared the mist. these waters (chaos, called the streams of elivagar, distilling in vivifying drops, fell down and created the earth and the giant ymir, who only had "the semblance of man (the heavenly man, and the cow, audhumla (the "mother" or astral light, cosmic soul) from whose udder flowed four streams of milk (the four cardinal points: the four heads of the four rivers of eden, etc, etc) and which "four" allegorically are symbolized by the cube in all its various and mystical meanings. the christians- especially the greek an

with the cainites "the accursed" the cause of the noachian deluge (see the work of abbe gorresio, who "etymologises" pulastya's name as meaning the "rejected" hence cain, if you please. pulastya dwells in kedara, he says, which means a "dug-up place" a mine, and cain is shown in tradition and the bible as the first worker in metals and a miner thereof! while it is very probable that the gibborim (the giants) of the bible are the rakshasas of the hindus, it is still more certain that both are atlanteans, and belong to the submerged races. however it may be, no satan could be more persistent in slandering his enemy, or more spiteful in his hatred, than the christian theologians are in cursing him as the father of every evil. compare their vituperations and opinions given about the devil with

e 'abyss (space) and willed, and what was willed came into being (see "asgard and the gods) as in the hindu cosmogony, the evolution of the universe is divided into two acts: called in india the prakriti and padma creations. before the warm rays pouring from the "home of brightness" awake life in the great waters of space, the elements of the first creation come into view, and from them is formed the giant ymir (also orgelmir- primordial matter differentiated from chaos (literally seething clay. then comes the cow audumla, the nourisher* from whom is born buri (the producer) who, by bestla, the daughter of the "frost-giants (the sons of ymir) had three sons, odin, willi and we, or "spirit "will" and "holiness (compare the genesis of the primordial races, in this work) this was when darknes

brew[[hebrew "who is (like unto, or the same) as god- the manifested representation[[vol. 1, page] 435 antiquity of the pyramids. commentary* thus we are taught that the great pyramids were built under their direct supervision "when dhruva (the then pole-star) was at his lowest culmination, and the krittika (pleiades) looked over his head (were on the same meridian but above) to watch the work of the giants" thus, as the first pyramids were built at the beginning of a sidereal year, under dhruva (alpha polaris, it must have been over 31,000 years (31,105) ago. bunsen was right in admitting for egypt an antiquity of over 21,000 years, but this concession hardly exhausts truth and fact in this question "the stories told by egyptian priests and others of time-keeping in egypt, are now beginni

ey are accused of superstition and credulity, those ancient sages; and this by those very nations, which, learned in all the modern arts and sciences, cultured and wise in their generation, accept to this day as their one living and infinite god, the anthropomorphic "jehovah" of the jews. what were some of the alleged "superstitions? hesiod believed, for instance, that "the winds were the sons of the giant typhoeus" who were chained and unchained at will by aeolus, and the polytheistic greeks accepted it along with hesiod. why should not they, since the monotheistic jews had the same beliefs, with other names for their dramatis personae, and since christians believe in the same to this day? the hesiodic aeolus, boreas, etc, etc, were named kadim, tzaphon, daren, and ruach hajan by the "cho

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demonstrates it very much as i have myself done in many places. but how are people to use the eyes of the spirit, unless they are taught? the a.a. offers a technique of attainment infinitely subtle and varied, so that the need of every man is met by processes of actual practice, scientifically tested and confirmed. it is not enough merely to accept mr. klein s explanation of the universe. that is the giant s robe. you must get your own clothes made to fit you. you cannot persuade yourself to think in any way contrary to your experience. thought must be the expression of experience. for the average man to adopt mr. klein s ideas would be as futile a formality as subscription to the thirty- nine articles. the equinox 306 i am sure that mr. klein knows all this perfectly well, and i hope, as

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s for themselves and everyone chose for himself one each. and they began to go into them and were promiscuous with them. and they taught them charms and spells, and they showed them the cutting of roots and trees. 7.2] and they became pregnant and bore large giants. and their height was three thousand cubits. 7.3] these devoured all the toil of men; until men were unable to sustain them. 7.4] and the giants turned against them in order to devour men. 7.5] and they began to sin against birds, and against animals, and against reptiles, and against fish, and they devoured one another's flesh, and drank the blood from it. 7.6] then the earth complained about the lawless ones. 8.1] and azazel taught men to make swords, and daggers, and shields, and breastplates. and he showed them the things af

nd for this reason i give men wives; so that they might sow seed in them, and so that children might be born by them, so that deeds might be done on the earth. 15.6] but you, formerly, were spiritual, living an eternal, immortal life, for all the generations of the world. 15.7] for this reason i did not arrange wives for you; because the dwelling of the spiritual ones is in heaven. 15.8] and now, the giants who were born from body and flesh will be called evil spirits on the earth, and on the earth will be their dwelling. 15.9] and evil spirits came out from their flesh, because from above they were created, from the holy watchers was their origin and first foundation. evil spirits they will be on earth and spirits of the evil ones they will be called. 15.10] and the dwelling of the spirit

and evil spirits came out from their flesh, because from above they were created, from the holy watchers was their origin and first foundation. evil spirits they will be on earth and spirits of the evil ones they will be called. 15.10] and the dwelling of the spirits of heaven is heaven, but the dwelling of the spirits of the earth, who were born on the earth, is earth. 15.11] and the spirits of the giants do wrong, are corrupt, attack, fight, break on the earth, and cause sorrow. and they eat no food, do not thirst, and are not observed. 15.12] and these spirits will rise against the sons of men, and against the women, because they came out of them during the days of slaughter and destruction. 16.1] and the death of the giants, wherever the spirits have gone out from their bodies, their

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n every part of the world, and they consumed trees and made a devastation throughout the wilderness. but seth taught his sons to hunt as he had learned from abel, because god told them that children must learn from their elders' wisdom. then the daughters of cain married the sons of seth and, after the death of eve, they scattered to find the lands that cain had seen. so the human children killed the giant beasts, and the trees spread over all the lands, until a squirrel could run from sea to sea without touching the ground. then the whole world was like a garden in the sight of god. the cold years came, and ice flowed over the north. god watched as the great glaciers slowly melted back, and then looked again for the humanites under the trees. and god was angered, for they were still hunti

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ally in the path of gong s warriors. as gong s battle raft approached, zurong blasted forth a huge, towering pillar of fire. the leaping flames were sucked into the hollow cores of the raft s bamboo poles, which burst into flame, plunging gong s soldiers to their watery deaths. gong jumped off the burning raft and dove down into the sea. quickly, the water god called forth all his loyal subjects: the giant turtles, shrimp, crabs, and lobsters of the waters. out of the deep sea, monsters rose with huge horns and wings like bats. the water god smiled as he surveyed his mighty forces. unlike his human army, these water warriors had their own protective armor. they lived in the sea and could not die by drowning. at gong s command, they stirred up waves as high as mountains to quell the fire go

called him master kung. his beliefs taught people how to behave decently toward each other. to learn without thinking is fatal, but to think without learning is just as bad. do not worry if no one knows you, but be worthy of being known. a good man can influence those above him: the inferior man can influence only those below him. do not do to others what you do not wish done to you. master kung, the giant, had indeed fulfilled the unicorn s prophecy. he was a king without a throne, a ruler without a kingdom. yet his ideas were true to the spirit of the chi-lin, and they brought order and peace throughout the land. the unicorn s prophecy 91 questions and answers q: at the time of kung qiu s birth, what were conditions like in china? a: bandits robbed and killed people, and no one could sto

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iately following the second world war there were so many predictions of what the world would be like, particularly as the advances in technology brought by the war reached the public, that it became popular to satrize them and it is difficult to watch the newsreels of the period without laughing at some of the outlandish gadgets that were considered advanced at the time and are now antiques, like the giant computers that had all of one k of memory. anyway, one of the satirists was a cartoonist name j. norwood (ding) darling who was quite famous at the time and of his cartoons showed a scientific-looking gentleman telling an incredibly dumpy looking woman (all women over 30 were incredibly dumpy in those days) a rather complicated box with binoculars affixed to its top and telling her that

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racts such astonishing numbers of people to the science fiction films and literature. some of the places which crop up most often in channelled information relating to these conflicts are the systems of orion, sirius, and the pleiades. interesting, then, that these were at the fore of ancient beliefs and worship on earth over thousands of years, across scores of cultures. the pyramids at giza and the giant spider drawn in ancient times on the plains of nazca, peru, are exactly aligned with orion. i think the star arcturus in the bootes constellation is also significant to the earth's history. the veil of tears 15 the aim of the negative extraterrestrials in relation to the earth was to turn humans into little more than a slave race. this has been a theme all along and it remains so today

ruiting only those producers, journalists, and editors who support your views and aims, and for sacking those who challenge your interference in what is and isn't shown. look at the potential for selling a common line on events and news stories to ensure the american people have no other explanations than those you want them to believe. in july 1995, abc was merged with the walt disney empire and the giant westinghouse electric made its move to buy cbs. two months later, turner broadcasting, the company behind cnn television, announced plans to merge with time warner. the deal was struck between the time warner chairman, gerald m. levin (tc) and ted turner (comm 300, a leading supporter of the new global order. we have seen the history of time warner in chapter 12. the concentration of pow

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events. professor james demeo writes in his book, saharasia (hidden mysteries, texas, 2000) of vast changes in the middle east in this same "window" of time "a massive climate change shook the ancient world, when approximately 6,000 years ago vast areas of lush grassland and forest in the old world began to quickly dry out and convert into harsh desert. the vast sahara desert, arabian desert, and the giant deserts of the middle east and central asia simply did not exist prior to (about) 4,000bc".12 the upheavals of the ancient world destroyed the advanced global society or "golden age" that existed before and this is recorded in the stories of atlantis and lemuria, or "mu. humanity had to start all over again. if you believe that is farfetched, think about today's society. it may be advanc

nds and lore can be found everywhere.7 scores of giant red-haired mummies were discovered in a cave near lovelock in nevada and some were seven feet tall.8 the piute indian legends about these giants say they were cannibals. they would even dig up the piute dead from their graves and eat them, the accounts claim.9 stories of atlantis include tales of red-haired giants who acted like vampires, and the giant nefilim were associated with cannibalism and blood drinking- just like the illuminati bloodlines are today. most accounts say that these giants were unfriendly, even hostile, to the rest of the population. often associated with these giants are strange craft that sound very much like the "flying saucers" of modern ufo accounts. genesis tells us that the sons of the gods married the daugh

work destruction on the 136 children of the matrix earth. the nefilim are fundamentally associated with human sacrifice and blood drinking- just like the illuminati today. the book of enoch describes the behaviour of the nefilim offspring produced with human women "and they became pregnant, and bore great giants..who consumed all the acquisitions of men. and when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. and they began to sin against birds and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh and drink blood. the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones" as then, so now. the blood drinkers "only through blood could they form being, only through man could they live in the world" insiders have told me that the reptilians need

nd sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more."11 there were, and are, physical reptilians and other entities also within the earth, as i outlined earlier, and this biblical passage could relate to the references in the emerald tablets to the reptilians being "driven below to the place whence they came..and."out of the great deep were they called. it is said of the nefilim and the giant titans under their different names that they were banished into the earth and out of the sunlight. one mind-controlled survivor says he learned that the reptilians were the first to colonise the earth and that is why they consider it theirs. credo mutwa, from the african accounts, says precisely the same and i have heard this from many other sources. they suggest, along with other resear

s. indara was the traditional founder of civilisation and was deified by the sumerians.17 he was said to have defeated the demons and slayed the serpent-dragon and the "giants, and his sumerian titles are identical in the sumerian and the edda, where he appears as eindri or thor. like thor, indara was also portrayed with a hammer by the sumerians. the fairy story of jack and the beanstalk or jack the giant slayer comes from the tales of indara/thor. a title for thor in the edda is sig or ygg, which, in sumerian and cappadocian inscriptions, is spelt zagg or zakh. this is the origin of the modern name, jack.18 waddell writes of indara "the sumerian records regarding him date continuously back to the inscription on his sacred trophy bow! or holy grail by his great-grandson, about 3245bc..the

animal-like faces or masks. this was the chinese "hell" and it is said that the lords of hell interacted with the dragon kings on the surface. the japanese "hell" or underground network was similar, and among the non-human entities were the kappa, semi-aquatic reptilian humanoids and other shape-shifters who lived in mountains, under the ground, or under the sea. in viking-norse legend they have the giant serpent, nidhoggr or jormungand, that lived underground and this was similar to the giant serpent apophis in egyptian myth. the scandinavians and germans had their huldre or "hidden folk" who were also known as the elves. one of the codes for the bloodline is "elven" and the beings of folklore like trolls, etins, fairies, elves, troglodytes, nefilim, brownies or braunies, and the "little

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e of the sky vehicles. it was these who interbred with human women. thispassage in genesis, i would suggest, tells of the interbreeding between theextraterrestrials or inner terrestrials with humans to produce the reptile-human hybrids.the term sons of god in fact comes from the hebrew, bene-ha-elohim, which reallytranslates as sons of the gods. the early offspring of these genetic encounters werethe giants of legend and there are many records of such hybrids being born. there arenumerous accounts throughout the ancient world, on every continent, of a giant raceand the biblical goliath could well have been symbolic of these people. the nativeamericans have many tales of the star people coming down from the skies to breedwith human women and alex christopher says that a common denominator i

watchers are very much connected to thedescription of serpents. in the persian teachings they also talk of a being they describeas the old serpent having two feet, just as the book of enoch features walkingserpents. when you consider that the draco royal leadership is said to be up to 12 feettall and white skinned, indeed albino white, whiter than snow, it again relates to the45very white skin of the giant watcher-human hybrid babies described in the book ofenoch and elsewhere. and, i should emphasise, the birth of the human-watcher child inthe book of enoch is that of noah. if this be so, noah is, in fact, a reptile-human hybridand many peoples have sought to claim descendence from noah -descendence from thereptilian watchers and anunnaki. in hebrew myth, the nefilim are described as awwi

hich 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 and, accordingto genesis, the first centres of nimrods kingdom were babylon, akkad and others inthe land of shinar (sumer. later he expanded further into assyria to

ow thesebloodlines across history, you find they use the same rituals and sacrifice to the samedeities, right to the present day. another passage in the book of enoch tells of thewatchers breeding with human women and the behaviour of the offspring theyproduced:and they became pregnant, and they bore great giants. who consumed all theacquisitions of men. and when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turnedagainst them and devoured mankind. and they began to sin against birds and beasts, andreptiles, and fish, and to devour one anothers flesh and drink blood. the earth laidaccusation against the lawless ones.16that passage describes the bloodlines i am highlighting and they came together inthe babylonian brotherhood which has since expanded across the planet. while welook out of our

ied. anamerican researcher, winthrop palmer boswell, wrote a book called irish wizards inthe woods of ethiopia in which she showed the similarities between irish andethiopian folk stories. the baobab tree is held in great reverence by ethiopians andberbers and banba is an old name for ireland.73this reverence for trees in north africa was expressed in the british isles andeurope by the druids and the giant or titan race, the reptilian-human crossbreeds ofthe ancient near east, were often symbolised as trees because of their height. in his1833 book, phoenician ireland, joachim de villeneuve, insisted that irish druidswere the snake priests of the phoenician seafarers. this would certainly explain theorigin of the balor of the evil eye, the irish version of the north african god baal,and the

seems to be one particularlyassociated with eating babies, and one called choronzon. these do seem to beparticularly involved with sacrificing babies.10choronzon relates to chronos, the greek version of nimrod. according to greeklegend, chronos swallowed his children as fast as they were born because he feared theywould overthrow him. chronos was the most powerful of the titans, the greek name forthe giants who resulted from the interbreeding of the reptilians with the human,daughters of men. greek myth symbolically referred to them as children of the unionbetween heaven (extraterrestrials) and earth (humans. chronos was the father of zeuswho survived because his mother hid him from her child-killing husband. zeus laterwaged a victorious war against his father and other titans and then rul

er a 40 footstone owl. the owl is symbolic of moloch or molech, the ancient deity to whichchildren were, and are, sacrificed. the sumerian goddess, lilith, known as the lady ofthe breasts, was also symbolised as an owl.8 lilith is symbolic of the bloodline. thepagan religions knew her as the enchantress. in the picture section you will see thegrovers performing a ceremony at bohemian grove before the giant owl. howinteresting that when i was looking at a map of washington i found that the roadswithin the grounds of the congress building make the very clear symbol of. an owl!you also find that the owl is sitting on a pyramid. the pyramid and all seeing owl (seefigure 32 overleaf. the collective word for owls is a parliament of owls, which isuncannily appropriate. the same owl symbol can be

rotherhood cities,is a mass of esoteric symbolism. thestreets around the congress building aredesigned to mark the places the sunrises and sets at the winter and summersolstice. there is also a hexagram or starof david- figure 31. 358that the nazis reversed theswastika. one pentagrampoints down into capitol hill(see figure 33, another intothe white house (see figure34, and a third extends outfrom the giant obelisk calledthe washington monumentand covers a large area of theinner city. at its centre is thesign for aries, the ram or lamb.similar satanic pentagramscan be identified in the streetplan of rome, the old city ofjerusalem, the land aroundrennes-le-chateau, thepyramid site at giza, and nodoubt over london and othercities and sites. across thepotomac river fromwashington is the home o

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is plan but to do this thing' they sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it" descending to earth, the watchers take mortal women as their mates, and engender upon them powerful offspring "and they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: who consumed all the acquisitions of men. and when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind" elsewhere these giants are described as evil spirits "and now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies, because they are born from men and from the holy watchers is their beginning and primal origi

spirits "and now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies, because they are born from men and from the holy watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. and the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences. and these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against women, because they have proceeded from them" in gratitude, as a kind of payment for services rendered, the watchers teach mankind all types o

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f him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats; for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. the morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words" the greek poet apollonius of rhodes, who lived in alexandria, egypt, at the end of the first century, wrote of how the sorceress medea destroyed the giant talos with nothing more than the malice of her gaze "then, with incantations, she invoked the spirits of death, the swift hounds of hades who feed on souls and haunt the lower air to pounce on living men. she sank to her knees and called upon them, three times in song, three times with spoken prayers. she steeled herself with their malignity and bewitched the eyes of talos with the evil

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e 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 during world war ii (1939.45. several additional experiences similar to the one he had had in childhood occurred in the years after the war. among the more vivid was a vision of a crack in the earth as a result of an impending atomic war. then in 1957, while attending the giant rock interplanetary spacecraft convention, then the largest annual gathering of flying saucer buffs, he claimed he was lured away, and at a distance of some two miles from the convention site, a saucer landed. once on the ground, the saucer, an object of another dimension, vanished, but aho received telepathic messages presenting him with a mission in life. that evening he had an intense

ress. arthur s end is as strange as his origin, for he is wafted away by fairy hands, or at least by invisible agency, to the isle of avillion, which probably is the same place as the celtic otherworld across the ocean. as a legend and a tradition, that of arthur is undoubtedly the most powerful and persistent in the british imagination. it has employed the pens and enhanced the dreams of many of the giants of english literature from the time of geoffrey of monmouth to the present day. some claim arthur was buried at glastonbury, and tourists who visit are shown a tomb site and may purchase the replica of a cross with an inscription concerning arthur. sources: de troyes, chretien. arthurian romances (erec and enide; cliges; yvain; lancelot. london, 1914. lacy, norris j, ed. the arthurian e

im every day. kings have always used us.and popes! some of those guys were do-it-yourselfers, like fixtus iv and julius ii. others just kept their astrologers in the closet, like nancy did. there has been little new to add to popular belief in astrology in the present revival except its linking with modern technology in the use of an ibm computer for rapid calculation of horoscopes. for some time the giant astroflash computer was a familiar sight to commuters at the lexington avenue entrance to grand central station, new york. in spite of its pseudoscientific basis, deriving from outmoded theories of the planetary system, astrology can point to documented successes, particularly by astrologers who combine their calculations with an intuitive faculty of interpretation. there is also scienti

em of mythological wonders. the folk tales on which the poem is based may date from the fifth century. the epic itself was composed ca. 700 c.e. beowulf was most likely regarded as one of the sons of light or men of the sun whose business it was to fight the powers of darkness until they themselves fell. the legend recounts the tale of beowulf fighting the monster grendel; after losing the fight, the giant escapes only by leaving his arm in beowulf s grip. but grendel s mother, a merwoman (see mermaids, revenges him and slays many people. when beowulf hears of this, he takes up the quarrel. diving to the bottom of the sea, where her palace lay, he kills her after a fierce fight. later on beowulf is made regent and then king of gothland, where he reigns about 40 years. he is eventually pois

hese organizations produced a large body of occult literature and have survived to the present under a second generation of leadership. among the most interesting of the contactee myths was that of ashtar, the spaceship commander originally contacted and introduced to the world by george van tassel (1910.1970. van tasel enjoyed some success as the organizer of the annual convention of contactees, the giant rock interplanetary spacecraft convention, but less success with his college of universal wisdom and his attempt to build the integratron, a large building that would contain a rejuvenation machine. today, the integratron building stands unfinished at giant rock. however, as van tassel faded from the contactee scene, other contactees began to claim contact with ashtar and in the 1980s, s

ilstones, crazed hedgehogs, too much or too little fertilization, and ufos. there was even a suggestion that the circles may have been formed by helicopters flying upside down, but the absence of widespread helicopter wrecks disproved any dangerous practice of this kind. it is well known that small rings in grass meadows and lawns are known to be caused by mushrooms, but there is no evidence that the giant crop circles result from any known fungi. one theory that is distinct from speculations of paranormal effects is that of physicist george t. meaden. he proposes a theory of atmospheric vortices that are electrically charged. in 1991 doug bower and david chorley claimed to have personally produced more than 250 of the circles. with the assistance of the british tabloid today, they created

he study of the existence of known animals in places where they were not expected to occur as well as the persistence of animals presumed to be extinct. the key trait of animals considered the object of cryptozoology is their unexpected nature. the idea of cryptozoology was suggested by the discovery of exotic animals through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. they include the gorilla, the giant squid, and the coelecanth (a fish thought to be extinct for many millenia. the primary interest of present-day cryptozoologists are such animals as the loch ness monster and other lake mon- crumbaugh, james c(harles) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 362 sters, bigfoot and other living hominoids, and the possibility of various dinosaur survivals. heuvelmans established a

hundred and thirty million. the principal are.i. daivuntren or indiren their king; to whom report is made of all that happens among them. his court of audience is so capacious as to contain not only the numerous daivers, but also the prophets, attendants, etc. they are represented in the mythological romances of the hindoos, as having been engaged in bloody wars, and with various success against the giants (assoores. the family of daivuntren consists of his wife inderaunee, and his son seedera-budderen (born from a cow, who records the actions of men, by which they are finally to be judged. ii. the attendants or companions of these daivers are.1. the kinnarer, who sing and play on musical instruments. 2. dumbarim nardir, who also perform on a species of drum. 3. kimprusher, who wait on th

e same form. the orphean concept of a universal soul permeating all nature has something in common with the doctrines of animal magnetism and other pantheistic beliefs. eglamour of artoys, sir an english magic legend of medieval french origin. the story tells of the winning of christabell by eglamour. christabell s father agrees to their union if eglamour will fulfill three tasks. he must conquer the giant sir maroke, bring from a distant land the head of an enormous boar, and kill a powerful dragon that has been devastating the country around rome. in these adventures he is successful, but is kept in rome by illness. in the meantime, christabell has given birth to a son and is banished by her angry father. her son is stolen from her by a griffin and taken to israel, where he is adopted by

egrabell meet in a tournament for the hand of christabell. eglamour is successful, and eventually their identities are revealed. eglamour and christabell are married and return to their native country with their son. versions of this legend survived in the english ballad of sir lionel (child no. 18) and in modern times in the american ballad old bangham. it has been suggested that the conquest of the giant boar has an ancient origin in the hindu myth of lord vishnu in the form of the gigantic boar vahara, who created the mighty himalayan mountain range in his battle with a demon. eglinton, william (1858.1933) famous british medium who convinced statesman w. e. gladstone of the reality of psychic phenomena. eglinton was born in islington, london, july 10, 1858, and showed no sign of psychic

ia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. ekpe 485 the hearts of the people. much of the ceremony and belief of the society remains a secret kept from outsiders. sources: hackett, rosalind i. j. religion in calabar. berlin: mouton de gruyter, 1989. elbegast a dwarf mentioned in the medieval semitraditional sagacycle dietrich of bern. he was friendly toward dietrich and helped him in his search for the giant grim. elberfeld horses the mathematical wonders of the animal world in elberfeld, germany. the case was described by e. clarapede, of geneva university, as the most sensational event that has happened in the psychological world. the discovery of equine mathematical genius was made by william von osten in 1891. the horse kluge hans (clever hans) was taught to count skittles (pins used in

e many different beliefs concerning fairies. peasant traditions said they were fallen angels who were neither good enough to be saved nor bad enough to be lost. folklorists hypothesize that fairies are a folk recollection of an ancient pygmy race, are mythological personifications of natural phenomena, or are remnant figures from ancient religious beliefs. household tales of folk heroes like jack the giant-killer are probably transplanted from ancient indo-european folklore, and folk traditions have been made sophisticated in the tales of the countess d aulnoy and hans christian andersen. different beliefs and folk memories have no doubt merged, but when all this is sifted and evaluated there remains a body of tradition and testimony, even today, of an elusive ghostly order of life on the

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re that has long been part of the folklore of the high himalayan region in asia. the monsters encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1048 popular name abominable snowman derives from the tibetan term metoh-kangmi or wild man of the snows. other names in the himalayan regions of kashmir and nepal are jungli-admi or sogpa. wild men of the woods. there are many stories told by sherpas of the giant yeti that carried away human children or even adults. in 1951, such stories suddenly attracted scientific interest when a photograph of a large yeti footprint taken by mountaineer eric shipton on an everest reconnaissance expedition appeared. the abominable snowman had been reported by westerners as early as 1832 in an article by b. h. hodgson for the initial volume of the journal of the

ogists. apollodorus states that certain writers situated it not in the libyan atlas, but in the atlas of the hyperboreans. others believed the world was originally a paradise, and its first inhabitants were human, whose dwelling was a magnificent hall glittering with fine gold and where love, joy, and friendship presided. but this happiness was soon overthrown by certain women from the country of the giants, to whose seductions the first mortals yielded, losing their innocence and integrity forever. the transgression of eve was the obvious prototype of the fatal curiosity of pandora. the legends of hindustan also supply accounts of the happiness of paradise in the golden age of classic mythology. thomas maurice, author of indian antiquities (1793.1800, observed at the end of the eighteenth

d, as well as her hand in marriage, and went back to the hermit, his former confessor. rocail according to ancient oriental legend, rocail was the younger brother of seth, the son of the biblical adam. the circumstances of his history were picturesque and unique. a dive, or giant, of mount caucasus, finding himself in difficulties, applied for aid to the human race. rocail offered his services to the giant, and these proved so acceptable that the dive made his benefactor his grand vizier. for a long period rocail successfully governed the giant s realm and reached a position of dignity and honor. however, encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. rocail 1315 when he felt himself growing old, he desired to leave behind him a more lasting monument than public respect, so he built a

ebrows, or the yellow muitearteach, and reputed to be a great worker of spells. apparently she figured in a lost creation myth, for fragmentary accounts survive of how she fashioned the hills, brought lochs into existence, and caused whirlpools. echoes of this boar-like hag survive in folk ballads of old bangum and sir lionel (child no. 18, prefigured in ancient hindu legends of the god vishnu as the giant boar vahara. the hag was a lover of darkness, desolations, and winter. with her hammer she alternately splintered mountains, prevented the growth of grass, and raised storms. numerous wild animals followed her, including deer, goats, and wild boars. when one of her sons was thwarted in his love affairs by her, he transformed her into a mountain boulder looking over the sea, a form she re

resembling contemporary astronauts and objects similar to items reported as unidentified flying objects. sitchin started with a somewhat different hypothesis, that ancient mythology should be read as historical documents, as reports of actual occurrences. his starting point was the biblical book of genesis, chapter 6, and the cryptic references to the sons of god marrying the daughters of men and the giants or nephilim who were on earth in the era prior to the biblical flood. using a variety of ancient documents, though primarily the babylonian epic known as enuma elish, he hypothesized the existence of another planet in our solar system, which he named nibiru, that travels an eliptical orbit that brings it into the area between the orbits of jupiter and mars every 3,600 years. the planet

rits, bear any relationship to the israelite king. the name, he said, is found in that of a god of the babylonians. dr. kenealy, the translator of hafiz, said that the earliest aryan teachers were named mohn, bodles, or solymi, and that suleiman was an ancient title of royal power, synonymous with sultan or pharaoh. a persian legend states that in the mountains of kaf, there is a gallery built by the giant arzeak, where there are statues of a race who were ruled by the suleiman or wise king of the east. there is a great chair or throne of solomon hewn out of the solid rock called the takht-i-suleiman or throne of solomon. it is to these older suleimans that we must look for a connection with the tradition of occultism. it is not unlikely that the legend relating to solomon and his temple h

rough life and death. new york: e. p. dutton, 1999. talking to heaven: a medium s message on life after death. new york: e. p. dutton, 1997. van tassel, george w (1910.1978) early flying saucer contactee and author of the pioneering flying saucer volume i rode in a flying saucer (1952. as people responded to his claims of extraterrestrial contact and other contactees emerged, van tassel organized the giant rock space convention, held annually at giant rock airport, near yucca valley, california. van tassel was proprietor of the airport and had some background in aeronautics. van tassel was born on march 11, 1910, in jefferson, ohio. he went into aviation as a young man and worked for both howard hughes and lockheed. he moved to the desert in 1947 where he opened a restaurant, an airport, a

even the softest whisper; a horrifying shriek that penetrates every house on a may evening, caused by the battle between two dragons; and a great giant who carries off all the food from the king s palace. a well-known story is that of the birth of taliesin, chief of the bards of the west. the hero, gwion bach, goes to the land under waves at the bottom of lake bala in north wales. there he finds the giant tegid the bald and his wife ceridwen, goddess of poetry and knowledge. ceridwen owns an immense cauldron in which she brews a mixture of science and inspiration, with the aid of her books of magic. this great brew has to simmer for a year and a day, and she sets the blind man morda to keep the fire going and gwion to stir the brew. it is to yield three magical drops. toward the end of th

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, a planet never visible to humans because it is always on the other side of the moon. clarion, bethurum was informed, is a peaceful, utopian world; fear of nuclear war on earth had led the clarionites to visit and observe earthlings at first hand. bethurum claimed further contacts. in the mid-1950s, bethurum established a communelike sanctuary of thought in prescott, arizona. he was a regular at the giant rock interplanetary spacecraft convention and other contactee venues. he remained active on the circuit until his death in landers, california, on may 21, 1969. two early chroniclers of the contactee subculture found themselves favorably and very deeply impressed with mr. bethurum s unimaginative sincerity (reeve and reeve, 1957. another apparent believer was mary bethurum, his first wif

reaped a significant, and continuing, financial reward from his supposed experiences. he has also been at the receiving end of criticism and debunking efforts. after divorcing him, his exwife told investigators that his claims are without factual basis. in the united states, a major force in the movement has been the annual rocky mountain conference on ufo investigation, which has taken up where the giant rock conventions (the last held in 1977) left off. started in 1980 by r. leo sprinkle, a psychologist and counselor at the university of wyoming, it meets once a year, usually in the summer, and attracts contactees from all over, though most are from ranches, farms, and small towns of the great plains, underscoring the folk or ground-level nature of the movement. contactees are different

istinct, and he was unsure of their meaning. on march 9, 1954, while driving to san bernardino, california, the word pluto sounded inside his brain three times in succession. later that month, after further brief messages from beings he identified as guardians from space, he requested a direct, in-person meeting. a voice replied that one would happen, but he might not recognize it when it did. at the giant rock interplanetary spacecraft convention in the california desert the following year on april 4, he kept company with truman bethurum, whom he had known four years before bethurum began claiming an association with the spacewoman aura rhanes of clarion. he met three young people, a woman and two men, who looked normal and were friendly. it was only later that rowe realized that they had

under- ground alien bases. new brunswick, nj: abelard publications. mount shasta mount shasta in northern california, near the oregon border, is the scene of occult legends that go back to the nineteenth century. even before white settlers arrived in the region in 1827, however, local indian tribes believed that giant creatures, apparently of the sasquatch variety, lived in caves on the mountain. the giants were feared because of their habit of capturing individuals and taking them to their caves, where they would squeeze their victims to death. another race of beings, small, usually invisible entities akin to fairies, also called shasta their home, according to tribal traditions. but it took frederick spencer oliver of nearby yreka, california, to put the mountain on the mystical map. in

ion tied to possible visitors fro m other planets, the houston po s t published a letter from john leander of el campo, te x a s. leander related the story of a local man, i d e n t i fied only as mr. oleson, an elderly, ret i red sailor who once served on danish ve ssels. ac c o rding to leander, in se p t e m b e r 1862 oleson had witnessed the crash of a mysterious craft and seen the bodies of the giant beings who had flown it. at the time the incident took place, oleson was serving as mate on the brig christine on the indian ocean. a furious storm erupted and raged for hours until, finally, a wave washed over the ship, and oleson and five companions were swept onto a small, rocky island. all were injured, and one soon died. the island was devoid of life, and the men resigned themselves

their hair and beards were also long and as 194 oleson s giants soft and silky as the hair of an infant (bullard, 1982. the sight so unsettled one of the men that he was driven mad. he promptly hurled himself off into the sea, where he drowned. the survivors retreated from the scene, and it took them two days to restore their courage sufficiently to return. they rummaged for food and then dragged the giants bodies off the cliff and into the water. using pieces of the spaceship, they built a raft and set out on the now-still ocean. sixty hours later, they came upon a russian vessel heading for australia. before they could reach port, however, three more of oleson s companions died from their injuries and shock. fortunately as a partial confirmation of the truth of his story, leander wrote

riences and messages. further reading hind, cynthia, 1996. ufos over africa. madison, wi: horus house. van vlierden, carl, and wendelle c. stevens, 1986. ufo contact from planet koldas. tucson, az: ufo photo archives. van tassel, george w (1910 1978) besides being a contactee himself, george van tassel made his mark as the foremost promoter of the early contactee movement. every year he sponsored the giant rock interplanetary spacecraft convention at his residence in the high desert between yucca valley and joshua tree, california. he also introduced ashtar, among the most ubiquitous and beloved of channeling entities, to the occult and flying-saucer world. born in ohio, van tassel moved to california in 1930 with his family. he worked as an a i rcraft technician for, among others, how a r

an tassel wrote what may be the first contactee book, in the modern sense, i rode a flying sa u c e r (1952. its title notwithstanding, at that point all of his contacts had been mental ones. not until au g u s t 24, 1953, would van tassel board a spacecraft (or ventla, in the vo c a b u l a ry of his space f r i e n d s. beginning in early 1953, van tassel held weekly public channeling sessions. the giant rock conventions began that spring, attracting the new contactee stars and their followers and affording the emerging movement much publicity. soon van tassel, in person and through his college of universal wisdom, was raising money for the integratron, a machine to be built according to extraterrestrials specifications. it was supposed to rejuvenate tissue and restore youthful vigor. by

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w the earth give way to the straining, vast upheaval. a bushy wood is spreading up the side, while rocks on rocks still roll on like a tide. a sphinx will never let such things perturb her, nor in her sacred seat will aught disturb her. griffins gold a-spangle, gold a-flitter, through the chinks i see it glitter. let none rob you of the prize: up and claw it, emmets! rise! chorus of ants. whereas the giant ones upward could shove it, ye nimble, pliant ones, swift speed above it! scurry ye out and in! in each cranny is every crumb ye win wealth for the canny. ye must discover it, the slightest treasure, swiftly uncover it in every fissure. toil like the busy bees, ye swarms, retrieve it. gold only shall ye seize! what s oreless, leave it! griffins come, come! bring in a heap of gold! beneat

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rses as molecules in space 4. xvr (ruach: gases (note: ruach has been added to the text) 5 ,ym (mayim: liquids. 6 /rah tav (vuh-et ha-aretz: and solids. 7. and the solids were unformed, void, dark, on the face of the deep. these are the cold giant molecular clouds of the galactic disk. 8. and a wind (gas) of natural forces moves over the face of the waters. this is the density wave moving through the giant molecular clouds, causing them to gravitationally collapse. the density wave is generated by a black hole at the center of the galaxy, dissolving red stars of population ii; half of their mass goes into the hole, the rest forms the density wave of the galactic disk. some black holes, aged 10e100 years, are leftover from previous big bangs. 9. and the natural forces said: let there be lig

generated by a black hole at the center of the galaxy, dissolving red stars of population ii; half of their mass goes into the hole, the rest forms the density wave of the galactic disk. some black holes, aged 10e100 years, are leftover from previous big bangs. 9. and the natural forces said: let there be light, and there was light! this was the adiabatic gravitational compression8 in portions of the giant molecular clouds of size over 10e33 gm (suns, causing the temperature of the suns cores to rise over 10e7 degrees kelvin and thus lighting thermonuclear fires in the suns, burning hydrogen into helium. 10. the rest of the earth s evolution follows in order' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8' 1 bar mitzvah (hebrew: son of righteous action) is a formal jewish rite of passage that evolved into its present f

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to you that seek this awful place of satiety. i am the guardian named necrobiosis, in order that there may be mobility" then seeing aaos he laughed hideously, and addressed him thus "but why cometh aaos in the close season? thou old dodger of time, thou eye winking at all things! for thou canst will love in that which is most repulsive. away o aaos, thou too art an arch-slaughterer of sheep" then the giant gave an awful grimace and turned his back, snapping his teeth and howling like a dog. becoming larger and larger till of cosmic vastness, thus he disappeared. when aaos awoke, he muttered to himself "beyond time there is a sensation as of awaking from the utmost impossibility of existence from the mad dreams we call reality; the stupidities we call will" then aaos arose to fill his lungs

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schelling had on mere speculative grounds been brought to lay down as a postulate that typhon, at some early period, had been considered by the egyptians as a beneficent and powerful god" wilkinson says that the character given to seth, who was called baal-seth and the god of the gentiles "is explained by his being the cause of evil" we are assured that formerly "sin the great serpent, or apophis the giant, was distinct from seth who was a deity and a part of the divine system. but after the recondite principles underlying sun-worship were lost or forgotten; when cold and darkness, or the sinking away of the sun's rays, which are necessary to the reappearance of light and warmth, came to be regarded as the destructive element, or the evil principle, woman became identified with this princi

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ame. when applied to traditional models of the universe, the horizontal bar of the cross becomes the earth, midgard, physical reality and the axis mundi becomes the pillar that spans the worlds. it is sometimes images as a vertical series of planes, worlds or dimension, a tree, a ray (the ray of creation of gurdjieff) or a pillar. indeed it is the beanstalk that jack climbed to reach the world of the giants! the axis mundi and the sacred tree the axis mundi is the pillar and at its center is the nexus of earth, the earth turns on this center and its horizontal (physical) reality is formed. the turning marks the cycle of time" if you are calm, clear-headed and rationally decisive, people say you are well centred or focus. in that saying is our instinctive recognition that everything has its

is a prime example of the organic model of the great chain of being. in the elder edda yggdrasil is identified as a sacred ash tree, it becomes obvious that this is no ordinary tree but a tree which glyphs the worlds and which encompasses many strata's of reality. in the grimnismal yggddrasil is described as having three great roots, one lies under hel, the realm of the dead, under another dwell the giants and under the third live human beings. a squirrel runs along its branches, an eagle nets in its crown, four deer browse on its branches and a dragon gnaws at its roots. in the volupsa the sacred ash is described as very tall, always green and moist, the source of dew and as having the well of destiny (urd) as its roots. at ragnorak, the" towering ash trembles, and the world tree howls"

the world serpent (4th c) niflheim is the realm of ice and darkness, while muspellsheim is the world of fire and heat. the interaction between fire and ice, niflheim and muspellsheim (2nd c) is a major dynamic within the activity of the world tree. this interaction occurs in ginnungagap (1st c, an empty abyss, where the fire of muspellsheim mets of the icy rivers of niflheim and from this dynamic the giant ymir is born. odin and his brother, born from giants, carve up the body of ymir to create midgard. ymirs bones become the moutains, his teeth the rocks, his blood the rivers, his skull the vault of the sky, his hair the forests and grasses. like the titans, ymir's death creates mankind. hence midgard is a checkerboard on which fire and ice battle against each other until the game is comp

ext lesson) has a lot in common with the kabbalah and theosophical plane models. together they give us a good overview of the great chain of being. the planes or world below the triune forces of the void, fire and ice are: vanaheim is the world of the vanir. it is the realm of fertility, wealth and fecundity, fields of luscious crops, fruits, wildlife and pastoral beauty. jotunheim is the home of the giants. there are three types of giants, thursar, rises and etins, all children of ymir. ljosalfheim is the home of the light elves or lojosalfar. there are two classes of elves, the light inhabit the lighter realms above midgard, while the dark elves (dwarves) inhabit the subterranean realm. asgard, the home of the aesir of sky gods is above the elven world and is the crown of the world tree

battle within this model becomes more complex when we start to consider its full ramifications. if the watchers interbred with mankind and produced giants, then this is bizarre enough. however, if their hanged genetic make up (due to their fall) has mixed with ours then mind is a mixture of two lifestreams. this mixture is found hinted at in all literature, in norse mythology we are a mixture of the giants and the breath of odin, in some schools of gnosticism were are a mixture of pre-adamite and adamite stock, in others, we are a mixture of the soil of the earth and the divine breath. this biological conflict is important as it explains why we have such different models of experience. there is so much evidence for mans violence and destructiveness, way even beyond that of the animal king

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ssessed to inscribe their gigantic signatures on the plateau? it seems, for a start, that they were pretty good observational astronomers at least according to dr phillis pitluga, an astronomer with the adler planetarium in chicago. after making an intensive computer-aided study of stellar alignments at nazca, she has concluded that the famous spider figure was devised as a terrestrial diagram of the giant constellation of orion, and that the arrow-straight lines linked to the figure appear to have been set out to track through the ages the changing declinations of the three stars of orion s belt.3 the real significance of dr pitluga s discovery will become apparent in 3 personal communications with dr pitluga. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 47 due course. meanwhile, let us note t

l, dark-skinned quechua indians dressed in ponchos, balaclavas and colourful woollen hats. more distant were slopes canopied in fir trees and exotic eucalyptus. my eye followed the rising contours of a pair of high green mountains, which then parted to reveal folded and even more lofty uplands. beyond these soared a far horizon surmounted by a jagged range of radiant and snowy peaks. casting down the giants it was with understandable reluctance that i turned at last to my reading. i wanted to look more closely at some of the curious links i thought i had identified connecting the sudden appearance of viracocha to the deluge legends of the incas and other andean peoples. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 61 before me was a passage from fr. jose de acosta s natural and moral history of

m from lake titicaca. he then created the sun and moon and stars. after that he renewed the human population of the earth..2 in another myth the great creator god, viracocha, decided to make a world for men to live in. first he made the earth and sky. then he began to make people to live in it, carving great stone figures of giants which he brought to life. at first all went well but after a time the giants began to fight among themselves and refused to work. viracocha decided that he must destroy them. some he turned back into stone. the rest he overwhelmed with a great flood.3 very similar notions were, of course, found in other, quite unconnected, sources, such as the jewish old testament. in chapter six of the book of genesis, for example, which describes the hebrew god s displeasure w

as the jewish old testament. in chapter six of the book of genesis, for example, which describes the hebrew god s displeasure with his creation and his decision to destroy it, i had long been intrigued by one of the few descriptive statements made about the forgotten era before the flood. according to the enigmatic language of that statement, there were giants in the earth in those days .4 could the giants buried in the biblical sands of the middle east be connected in some unseen way to the giants woven into the fabric of pre-colombian native american legends? adding considerably to the mystery was the fact that the jewish and peruvian sources both went on, with many further details in common, to depict an angry deity unleashing a catastrophic flood upon a wicked and disobedient world. o

all into which was set an impressive geometrical gateway made of large stone slabs. silhouetted in this gateway by the afternoon sun was the figure of a giant. the wall, i knew, enclosed a parade-ground- 4 bolivia, p. 156 (map. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 80 sized area called the kalasasaya (a word in the local aymara language meaning simply place of the upright standing stones 5. and the giant was one of the huge time-worn pieces of sculpture referred to by garcilaso de la vega. i was eager to take a look at it, but for the moment my attention was diverted southwards towards an artificial hill, 50 feet high, which lay almost directly ahead of me as i climbed the steps out of the sunken temple. the hill, which had also been mentioned by garcilaso, was known as the akapana pyram

ncient mexico, university of texas press, lago, p. 103. 5 tiahuanacu, ii, p. 90-1. 6 tiahuanacu, ii, p. 47. 7 ibid, p. 91. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 85 fish-garbed figures there were two massive pieces of statuary inside the kalasasaya. one, a figure nicknamed el fraile (the friar) stood in the south-west corner; the other, towards the centre of the eastern end of the enclosure, was the giant that i had observed from the sunken temple. carved in red sandstone, worn and ancient beyond reckoning, el fraile stood about six feet high, and portrayed a humanoid, androgenous being with massive eyes and lips. in its right hand it clutched something resembling a knife with a wavy blade like an indonesian kris. in its left hand was an object like a hinged and case-bound book. from the

e creation of the human race. at the time of the conquest, it was the fifth sun that prevailed. and it is within that same fifth sun, or epoch, that humankind still lives today. this account is taken from a rare collection of aztec documents known as the vaticano- latin codex: first sun, matlactli atl: duration 4008 years. those who lived then ate water maize called atzitzintli. in this age lived the giants. the first sun was destroyed by water in the sign matlactli atl (ten water. it was called apachiohualiztli (flood, deluge, the art of sorcery of the permanent rain. men were turned into fish. some say that only one couple escaped, protected by an old tree living near the water. others say that there were seven couples who hid in a cave until the flood was over and the waters had gone do

as hewn out of solid basalt in ad 1479. it weighs 24.5 tons and consists of a series of concentrically inscribed circles, each bearing intricate symbolic statements. as in the codex, these statements focus attention on the belief that the world has already passed through four epochs, or suns. the first and most remote of these is represented by ocelotonatiuh, the jaguar god: during that sun lived the giants that had been created by the gods but were finally attacked and devoured by jaguars. the second sun is represented by the serpent head of ehecoatl, the god of the air: during that period the human race was destroyed by high winds and hurricanes and men were converted into monkeys. the symbol of the third sun is a head of rain and celestial fire: in this epoch everything was destroyed by

nd pyramids at san lorenzo and la venta. reconstruction of la venta. note the unusual fluted-cone pyramid that dominates the site. if so, then who are we speaking of when we use the label olmec? the mound-builders? or the powerful and imposing men with negroid features who provided the models for the monolithic heads? fortunately some fifty pieces of olmec monumental sculpture, including three of the giant heads, were rescued from la venta by carlos pellicer camara, a local poet and historian who intervened forcefully when 12 the ancient kingdoms of mexico, p. 28. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 131 he discovered that oil-drilling by the pemex company jeopardized the ruins. by determined lobbying of the politicians of tabasco (within which la venta lies, he arranged to have the sig

r receiving the devotion of many cultures during the historic period. the feathered serpent in this particular sculpture, however, had certain characteristics that set it apart. it seemed to be more than just a religious symbol; indeed, there was something rigid and structured about it that made it look almost like a piece of machinery. whispers of ancient secrets later that day i took shelter in the giant shadow cast by one of the olmec heads carlos pellicer camara had rescued from la venta. it was the head of an old man with a broad flat nose and thick lips. the lips were slightly parted, exposing strong, square teeth. the expression on the face suggested an ancient, patient wisdom, and the eyes seemed to gaze unafraid into eternity, like those of the great sphinx at giza in lower egypt

passage of the sun s rays from south to north resulted at noon in the progressive obliteration of a perfectly straight shadow that ran along one of the lower stages of the western fa ade. the whole process, from complete shadow to complete illumination, took exactly 66.6 seconds. it had done so without fail, year-in year-out, ever since the pyramid had been built and would continue to do so until the giant edifice crumbled into dust.7 what this meant, of course, was that at least one of the many functions of the pyramid had been to serve as a perennial clock, precisely signalling the equinoxes and thus facilitating calendar corrections as and when necessary for a people apparently obsessed, like the maya, with the elapse and measuring of time. another implication was that the masterbuilder

n vain for entrances so long familiar but now disappeared. abandoned by the gods, men were driven from their hearths and the human race was swept from the surface of the earth. the earth itself was beginning to lose its shape. already the stars were coming adrift from the sky and falling into the gaping void. they were like swallows, weary from too long a voyage, who drop and sink into the waves. the giant surt set the entire earth on fire; the universe was no longer more than 24 folklore in the old testament, p. 101. 25 maya history and religion, p. 336. 26 the mythology of south america, pp. 140-2. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 202 an immense furnace. flames spurted from fissures in the rocks; everywhere there was the hissing of steam. all living things, all plant life, were bl

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hipped before wuotan. for, like jupiter, he is a father, he is grandfather of many nations, and, as grandfather, is a god of the hills, a god of the rocks, a hammer, sits in the forest, throned on the mountain top, and hurls his old stone weapon, the lightning's bolt. to him the oak was sacred, and his hammer's throw measured out land, as did afterwards wuotan's wand. he rather flies furiously at the giants than fights battles at the head of heroes, or meditates the art of war. i think it a significant featui'e, that he drives or walks, instead of riding like wuotan: he never, preface. xix presents himself in the wild hunt, nor in women's company. but his name is still heard in curses (wuotan's only in protestations, p. 132; and as redbeard, donar might sit in the mountain too. the heroes

kes the devil dionysus, and warms up again the stale explanation of hexe (witch) from hecate. this is allowing the devil a great antiquity in comparison with those heroes; to me eeinhart and isengrim seem to reach up far higher than the -ninth century, and siegfried even beyond arminius, therefore a long way before the time when the term devil first came into our language. several designations of the giants are unmistakably connected with the names of surrounding nations; mone's view applies them to indians, frisians, persians, according as the words ent and wrise suit his purpose; let no one be startled to find that caucasus comes from our gouchsberg (cuckoo's hill! a later work, whose merits i acknowledge on p ]070n, comes in not unseasonably here. soldan agrees in my opinion on the atro

d they did, and he 1 hraki, better perh. liraki, is strictly matter ejected from the raclien (tbroat, ohg. hraclio, as the as. hraca is both guttur and tussis, sputum; conf. ohg. hrachison screare, fr. cracher, serv. rakati, euss. kharkat. creating out of spittle and blood reminds one of the snow and blood m fan-ytales, where the wife wishes for children; of the snow-child in the modus liebmc; of the giants made out of frost and ice (pp. 440. 465; aphrodite's bemg generated out of sea-foam is a part of the same thing. 3 the technical term' inn dyri mio'sr' recurs in saem. 23. 28. a drink. od-heceri. 903 pulled a whetstone^ out of his belt, and gave them an edge; they cut so much better now, that the mowers began bargaining for the stone, but 05inn threw it up in the air, and while each was

thus we see dietrich, ekliart, artlivr, charles, waldemar, palnatohe, nay, king christian, significantly incorporated in the roving company, without the slightest detriment to their dignity or repute among the people. at the same time its due weight must be allowed to another view, which degrades the gods into devils, the goddesses into hags and witches: here the devil might easily spring out of the giant of old. the last lodgment found by the fable is when it settles on individual hunters and lovers of hunting of modern times, such as hackelberg, the heath-rider bdren, squire marten, mansherg the baron &c. these look almost like historic personages, but narrowly examined they will in every case melt into mythic ones. the people^s conscientious care to point out hakelnbernd's tomb seems t

loved kings and heroes out of their mountain-sleej: of frederick and charles, of siegfried and doubtless dietrich too. this is the true hall-mark of the epos, to endow its leading characters with a lasting inextinguishable life. but siegfried is also wuotan (pp. 26n. 134, dietrich is wuotan^ other signs that the end of the world is at hand: when the swan drops the ring from his bill (p. 429; when the giant's rib, from which a drop falls once a year, has all trickled away (deut. sag. no. 140; when the tongue of the balance stands in (ib. 294; when, says a swed. song, the stone in the green valley falls; when the ship made of men's 7iails is built (p. 814* p. 822-3; even the particles ever, once, one day, olim, apply to both states of being. heroes inside hills. 961 future. in the castle-cel

my mind a fundamental feature of polytheism, that the good and beneficent principle in the divine preponderates; only some isolated deities, subordinate to the whole, incline to the evil or hurtful, like the norse loki, whose nature even then is more on a par with that of hephgestus (vulcan) than of the christian devil. goodness predominates even in elvish sprites: to the nix, the homesprite, nay the giant, it is but partially that cruelty and malice are attributed. in harmony with this is the mild way in which our antiquity pictures death and the underworld. but for all that, amid the vast variety of character and colouring in these mythologies, the dualistic antagonism need not altogether be silent: it does break out in individual features, without greatly affecting the whole. under this

ay be regarded as a parodi/ or aping of the true god, as the left or wrong-side (taken mildly, the foil p. 515) of the divine being ^i he wants to have the same power, enjoy the same honour, and mimic god in everything; but his contrivances miscarry and come to nought. so the idea of a devifs-mother might have arisen as counterpart to mary the mother of god, though she had an earlier prototype in the giant's-mother (see suppl. all these influences so diverse in kind have joined to produce such popular notions of the devil's being and character, as have existed from the n. t. to our own times. the devil is jewish, christian, heathen, a false god, an elf, a giant, a spectre, all in one. by the addition of him, christianity could not but receive, just as heathen polytheism was expiring, a vis

an with animal forms is extremely common in the indian mythology; in the greek and teutonic it is rare, and then but barely hinted at. huldra comes before us with a tail (p. 271, berhta with the goose-foot (p. 281, the nix with a slit ear, and the nixie with wet skirt (p. 491, the hero with a swan's wing (p. 428) like hermes with his winged feet, the water-wife with a snake's or fish's tail; even the giant has [only] a finger and toe above the common (p. 52 7n. the devil's horse-foot may suggest the semi-equine centaurs, as well as the on. nennir (p. 490. conversion into complete animal form might easily arise out of this; or it might be regarded as a prerogative of the higher being to transform himself into an animal for a time. the devil in retiring is compelled unawares to let his horse

window as a flij, and gets a leg chopped off; and one in acta bened. sect. 1, p. 238 of a devil being cast out' in muscae similitudinem prorumpens cum sanguine de naribus egressus est inimicus' as a fly, loki finds his way into locked rooms through the keyhole, he can slip even through a needle's eye (norske folkev. no. 31, which puts me in mind of his insinuating mother (p. 246. the devil, like the giant (p. 555, has the power to make himself great or small, n. folkev. 1, 134. 192. of the elvish nature of butterflies, which as psyches (p. 829) may be spirits of good or evil, we have more to say in the sequel. when stagheetles and dungbeetles are taken as devils, it gives assurance of a heathen point of view (see suppl. but also, and that from early times, the devil has been likened to tw

gend tells of giants who, when frightened at thor's lightning darting through the air, come rolling down the mountain into the meadows in various shapes, mostly as bundles of thread or balls, and seek shelter with the mowers; but these, well knowing the dangei, keep them back with their scythes, and it is said to have often happened that the lightning came down and shivered the scythes, whereupon the giants with rueful moans rushed back into the mountain (afzelius 1, 10. it recalls to my mind the ivindball of the demons^ p. 640 (see suppl. iii. from the devil's abode in hell, whence he has dislodged^ the moravian peasant calls the -whirlwind hammer (meinert in the vienna jahrb. yoi. 48. anz. bl. p. 55, which may refer to donar as well as the devil, and thus agree with the fancies iinfolded

s of the positive, it was teutonic to the core for ulphilas to translate saifmoviov by unlndjjo, and not to form a neutei, which would have been just as easy. to the converted goths this feminine unholda fills the place of what their fathers had believed in as holda. it is no slight confirmation of the diabolic nature of grendel in beowulf, that he has a mother at his elbow, one with even more of the giant in her than he; that she tries to avenge his death, and the hero's exploit is not complete until her discomfiture: grendel's modor 2517-64. 3076. it is a very ancient feature in our nursery-tales, that in the devil's dwelling sits likewise his grandmother (mother, or sister, and when the hero turns in for shelter, she takes pity on him and befriends him against the monster, kiuderm. 1, 1

with stupendous feats of huilding and stonethroiving: here he puts on completely the burly, wrathful, spiteful and loutish nature of the iotunn (pp. 534. 543-54; stupid devil is used like stiqnd giant (p. 528, the building of christian churches is hateful to him, and he tries to reduce them to ruins; but his schemes are sure to be foiled by some higher power or by the superior craft of man. like the giant, he often shews himself a skilful architect, and undertakes to build a castle, bridge or church, only bargaining for the soul of him who shall first set foot in the new building. what was once told of the giant is now told of the devil, but a harsher crueller motive usually takes the place of milder ones. the giant in building has commonly some sociable neighbourly purpose (pp. 535-54, t

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f, tr)v kovprjv /nopfj.ijo aetai 17 5 ff<j) ko\ttovs sprites. genii. 517 and the solemn fates of mortals. they feel themselves drawn to men, and repelled by them. the downfall of heathenism must have wrought great changes in the old-established relationship: the spirits acquired a new and terrible aspect as ministers and messengers of satan.1 some put on a more sava.ge look that savours of the giant, especially the woodsprites. grendeps nature borders on those of giants and gods. not so with the females however: the wild women and female nixes drop into the class of fortune-telling swan-maids who are of human kind, while the elfins that present the drinking-horn melt into the circle of valkyrs; and here again we recognise a general beauty pervading all the female spirits, and raisin

riar rush) a veritable goblin, is without hesitation [described as being] despatched from hell among the monks; his name is to be derived from russ= fuligo (as kohlrausch was formerly spelt kolruss. chapter xviii. giants. the relation in which giants stand to dwarfs and men has been touched upon in p. 449. by so much of bodily size and strength as man surpasses the elf or dwarf, he falls short of the giant; on the other hand, the race of elves and dwarfs has a livelier intellect and subtler sense than that of men, and in these points again the giants fall far below mankind. the rude coarse grained giant nature is defiant in its sense of material power and might, the sly shy dwarf is conscious of his mental superiority. to man has been allotted a happy mean, which raises him above the giant

d subtler sense than that of men, and in these points again the giants fall far below mankind. the rude coarse grained giant nature is defiant in its sense of material power and might, the sly shy dwarf is conscious of his mental superiority. to man has been allotted a happy mean, which raises him above the giant s intractableness and the dwarf s cunning, and betwixt the two he stands victorious. the giant both does and suffers wrong, because in his stupidity he undervalues everybody, and even falls foul of the gods; j the outcast dwarf, who does discern good and evil, lacks the right courage for free and independent action. in order of creation, the giant as the sensuous element came first, next followed the spiritual element of elvish nature, and lastly the human race restored the equili

ues everybody, and even falls foul of the gods; j the outcast dwarf, who does discern good and evil, lacks the right courage for free and independent action. in order of creation, the giant as the sensuous element came first, next followed the spiritual element of elvish nature, and lastly the human race restored the equilibrium. the abrupt ness of these gradations is a good deal softened down by the giants or dwarfs forming frequent alliances with men, affording clear evidence that ancient fiction does not favour steep contrasts: the very earliest giants have sense and judgment ascribed to them (see suppl. on one side we see giants forming a close tie of brotherhood or servile dependence with human heroes, on the other side shading off into the type of schrats and woodsprites. there is a

faye 7 (see suppl. 3 our second term is likewise one that suggests the name of a nation. the on. purs seems not essentially different from iotunn; in sn. 6 yniir is called ancestor of all the hrim]?urses, in saem. 118a all the iotnar are traced up to him. in particular songs or connexions the preference is given to one or the other appellative: thus in the enumeration of dialects in the alvismal the giants are always iotnar, never)?ursar, and there is no thursaheimr in use for lotunheimr, lotnaheimr; but thrymr, thbugh dwelling in lotnaheimr, is nevertheless called]?ursa drottinn (saem. 70. 71) and not iotna drottinn, but he summons the iotnar (73 a, and is a iotunn himself (74 a. in seem. 85b both iotnar and hrim]?ursar are summoned one after the other, so there must be some nice distinc

oi diirsen (hahn 3254 tursen =play of a d, from which passage we gather that tiirse-shows as well as wihtel-shows (p. 441n) were exhibited for pastime: ls. 3, 564 says, alluding to a well-known fable, des kunt der dursch, und sprichet schuo! the d. knows that, etc, where the notion of satyr and wild man (p. 482) predominates. the latin poem of wilten monastery in tyrol, which relates the story of the giant haimo, names another giant thyrsis, making a proper name of the word: forte habitabat in his alius truculentior oris cyclops, qui dictus nomine thyrsis erat, thyrsis erat dictus, seveldia rura colebat.1 the name of a place tursinriut, tursenriut (doc. of 1218-9 in lang s reg. 2, 88. 94) 2 contains our word unmistakably, and so to my thinking does the earlier tuzzinwanc near neugart, stan

rm for giant is ent, pi. entas: alfred in his orosius p. 48 renders hercules gigas by ercol se ent. the poets like to use the word, where ancient buildings and works are spoken of: enta geweorc, enta rergeweorc (early work of giants, eald entegeweoro/ beow. 3356. 5431. 5554. cod. exon. 291, 24. 476, 2. so the adj: entischelm, beow. 5955; lipsius s glosses also give eintisc avitus, what dates from the giants days of yore. our ohg. entisc antiquus does not agree with this in consonantgradation [t should be 2; it may have been suggested by the latin word, perhaps also by the notion of enti (end; another form is antrisc antiquus (graff 1, 387, and i would rather asso ciate it with the eddie inn aldni iotunn (grandsevns gigas, seem. 23*46b 84m89b. the bavarian patois has an intensive prefix enz

nown to me; it cannot belong to reisan surgere, therefore the ohg. riso does not mean elatus, superbus, excelsus.3 again, lubbe, lubbe seems in parts of lower saxony to mean 1 strange that the latin language has no word of its own for giant, but must borrow the greek gigas, titan, cyclops; yet italy has indigenous folk-tales of campanian giants. 2 the biblical view adopted in the mid. ages traced the giants to cain, or at least to mixture with his family: gigantes, quales propter iracundiam dei per filios seth dejiliabus cain narrat scriptura procreates, pertz 2, 755. for in genesis 6, 4 it is said: gigantes autem erant super terram in diebus illis; postquam enim ingressi sunt filii dei ad filias hominum, illfeque genuerunt, isti sunt potentes a seculo viri famosi. the same view appears in

s three (invisible) heads, fornald. sog. 3, 574, where also it is said: f]?a 1 schafarik explains obor by the celtic ambro above (p. 520n; but in that case the polish would have been a,br. 2 briareus or ^gaeon has a hundred arms (e/faro-yxei/sos, ii. 1, 402) and fifty heads, geryon three heads and six hands; in hesiod s theog. 150, kottus, gyges and briareus have one hundred arms and fifty heads. the giant in the hebrewstory has only an additional finger or toe given to each hand and foot: vir fuit excelsus, qui senos in manibus pedibusque habebat digitos, i.e. viginti quatuor (instead of the human twenty, 2 sam. 21, 20. bertheau s israel, p. 143. 0. fr. poems give the saracen giant four arms, two noses, two chins, ogier 9817. 528 giants. fell margr (many a) tvijiofffaffr iotunn. trolds wi

312) was of giant kin. hrungnir, a giant in the edda, has a head of stone (seem. 76b, sn. 109, another in the fornald. sog. 3, 573 is called larnliaus, iron skull. but giants as a rule appear well-shaped and symmetrical; their daughters are capable of the highest beauty, e.g. geroy, whose gleaming arms, as she shuts the house-door, make air and water shine again, sasm. 82a, sn. 39 (see suppl. in the giants as a whole, an untamed natural force has full swing, entailing their excessive bodily size, their overbearing in solence, that is to say, abuse of corporal and mental power, and finally sinking under its own weight. hence the iotunn in the edda is called skrautgiarn (fastosus, saem. 11 7b; sa inn dmdttki (praspotens) 41 b 82h; storu&gi (magnanimu) 76b; firungmo&gi (superbus) 77a; hardrd

tosus, saem. 11 7b; sa inn dmdttki (praspotens) 41 b 82h; storu&gi (magnanimu) 76b; firungmo&gi (superbus) 77a; hardrdffr (saevus) 54a; our derivation of the words iotunn and]?urs finds itself confirmed in poetic epithet and graphic touch: kostmo&r iotunn (cibo gravatus, saem. 56b; oh (ebrius) ertu geirrosr, hefir]?u ofdruccit (overdrunk) 47a (see suppl. from this it is an easy step, to impute to the giants a stupidity contrasting with man s common sense and the shrewdness of the dwarf. the on. has ginna alia sem pussa (decipere omnes sicut thursos, nialssaga p. 263. dumm in our old speech was mutus as well as hebes, and dumbr in on. actually stands for gigas; to which dumbi (dat) the adj. pumbi (hebes, inconcinnus) seems nearly related. a remarkable spell of the llth cent, runs thus &

z kint, der heilego tumbo versegene tisa wunda! i.e. dummy sat on hill with d. child in arm, d. was 1 popular rhymes, fireside stories, and amusements of scotland, edinb. 1842. giants. 529 called the hill and d. the child, the holy d. bless this wound away [the posture is that of humpty dumpty. this seems pointed at a sluggish mountain-giant, and we shall see how folk-tales of a later period name the giants ditmme dutten; the term lubbe, lubbe likewise indicates their clumsy lubberly nature, and when we nowadays call the devil dumm (stupid, a quondam giant is really meant (see suppl. 1 yet the norse lays contain one feature favourable to the giants. they stand as specimens of a fallen or falling race, which with the strength combines also the innocence and wisdom of the old world, an intel

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

corners, others sitting on their heels staring vacantly into space, engaged, as we were informed, in meditationon their invisible deity. they appeared to have lost all power of sight and hearing, for none of themresponded to our questions until a great gaunt figure, wearing a tall cap that made him look at least seven feethigh, emerged from an obscure corner. informing us that he was their chief, the giant gave us to understandthat the saintly brethren, being in the habit of receiving orders for additional ceremonies from allah himself,must on no account be disturbed. but when our interpreter had explained to him the object of our visit, whichconcerned himself alone, as he was the sole custodian of the "divining rod" his objections vanished and heextended his hand for alms. upon being grat

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and humans until he was thoroughly spock-ified. and he got an a, so there! and so, back to the cthulhu mythos. lovecraft himself was of the opinion that fear, particularly fear of the unknown, was the strongest emotion attached to the great old ones. the reason why i like to work with that mythos occasionally is that the great old ones are outside most human mythologies, reflecting the shadows of the giants in norse myths, the pre- olympian titans in greek myths, and other groups of universebuilders who are thought to be too chaotic for the polite company of the gods of the ordered universe. for me too, the nature of the great old ones as shadowy beings who can only be partially glimpsed is attractive- they can t be assimilated and bound into any orthodox systems of magick and i get much f

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

eams in a manner none could mistake. they and their subconscious residuum had influenced his art profoundly, and he shewed me a morbid statue whose contours almost made me shake with the potency of its black suggestion. he could not recall having seen the original of this thing except in his own dream bas-relief, but the outlines had formed themselves insensibly under his hands. it was, no doubt, the giant shape he had raved of in delirium. that he really knew nothing of the hidden cult, save from what my uncle's relentless catechism had let fall, he soon made clear; and again i strove to think of some way in which he could possibly have received the weird impressions. he talked of his dreams in a strangely poetic fashion; making me see with terrible vividness the damp cyclopean city of sl

to the place where my terrible work was still unfinished. and in the end i went, wet, hatless, and dazed in the morning light, and entered that awful door in benefit street which i had left ajar, and which still swung cryptically in full sight of the early householders to whom i dared not speak. the grease was gone, for the mouldy floor was porous. and in front of the fireplace was no vestige of the giant doubled-up form in nitre. i looked at the cot, the chairs, the instruments, my neglected hat, and the yellowed straw hat of my uncle. dazedness was upper most, and i could scarcely recall what was dream and what was reality. then thought trickled back, and i knew that i had witnessed things more horrible than i had dreamed. sitting down, i tried to conjecture as nearly as sanity would le

HP LOVECRAFT EX OBLIVIONE

nless stream under the earth till i reached another world of purple twilight, iridescent arbours, and undying roses. and once i walked through a golden valley that led to shadowy groves and ruins, and ended in a mighty wall green with antique vines, and pierced by a little gate of bronze. many times i walked through that valley, and longer and longer would i pause in the spectral half-light where the giant trees squirmed and twisted grotesquely, and the grey ground stretched damply from trunk to trunk, some times disclosing the mould-stained stones of buried temples. and alway the goal of my fancies was the mighty vine-grown wall with the little gate of bronze therein. after a while, as the days of waking became less and less bearable from their greyness and sameness, i would often drift i

than the daily torture of the commonplace. so when i learned of the drug which would unlock the gate and drive me through, i resolved to take it when next i awaked. last night i swallowed the drug and floated dreamily into the golden valley and the shadowy groves; and when i came this time to the antique wall, i saw that the small gate of bronze was ajar. from beyond came a glow that weirdly lit the giant twisted trees and the tops of the buried temples, and i drifted on songfully, expectant of the glories of the land from whence i should never return. but as the gate swung wider and the sorcery of the drug and the dream pushed me through, i knew that all sights and glories were at an end; for in that new realm was neither land nor sea, but only the white void of unpeopled and illimitable

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

eams in a manner none could mistake. they and their subconscious residuum had influenced his art profoundly, and he showed me a morbid statue whose contours almost made me shake with the potency of its black suggestion. he could not recall having seen the original of this thing except in his own dream bas-relief, but the outlines had formed themselves insensibly under his hands. it was, no doubt, the giant shape he had raved of in delirium. that he really knew nothing of the hidden cult, save from what my uncle's relentless catechism had let fall, he soon made clear; and again i strove to think of some way in which he could possibly have received the weird impressions. he talked of his dreams in a strangely poetic fashion; making me see with terrible vividness the damp cyclopean city of sl

HP LOVECRAFT THE UNNAMABLE

t wind, saying over and over again "oida! oida -i know! i know" 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:45:4the unnamable by; howard phillips lovecraft 1923- first published in the vagrant not dated. we were sitting on a dilapidated seventeenth- century tomb in the late afternoon of an autumn day at the old burying ground in arkham, and speculating about the unnamable. looking toward the giant willow in the cemetery, whose trunk had nearly engulfed an ancient, illegible slab, i had made a fantastic remark about the spectral and unmentionable nourishment which the colossal roots must be sucking from that hoary, charnel earth; when my friend chided me for such nonsense and told me that since no interments had occurred there for over a century, nothing could possibly exist to nou

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d; that they were one in two and two in one from the very moment id their conception. with mutually convertible attiibutes, science was spiritual and religion was scientific. like the androgyne man of the first chapter of genxsis 'male and female' passive and active; created in the image of the elohim. omniscience developed onmipo- tency, the latter called for the exercise of the former, and thus the giant had dominion given him over all the four kingdoms of the worid. but, like the second adam, these androgynes were doomed to 'fall and lose their powers' as soon as the two halves of the duality separated. the fruit of the tree of knowledge gives death without the fruit of the tree of ijfe. man must know kimself before he can hope to know the ultimate genesis even of beings and powers less

he 'lord god' op the hebrews 301 the fourth, generally the upper one, or at the ri^t, holds on his forefinger, extended as the cipher 1, the cholera, or discus, which resembles a ring or b wheel, and might be taken for the nought. in his first avatar, the mataydvatara, when emerging from the fish's mouth, he is represented in the same position* the ten-armed durg& of bengal; the ten-headed r&eana the giant; p&naa as durgd, indra and /tt^rdnt are found with this attribute, which is a perfect representation of the may-pole* the holiest of the temples among the hindfis are those of jagan- natha. this deity is wor^ped equally by all the sects of india, and yo^an-n&tha is named 'the lord of the world' he is the god of the mysteries, and his temples, which are most numerous in bengal, are all of

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t of the special insignia of their origin, are all oriental in their character, like the bells of the wandering zingari, morris, or moresque, or gypsy, or bohemian fantastical dancers. deep-lying in the magical ideas of the eastern peoples was the sacredness, and the efficacy against evil spirits, of their small bells, like the bells of the chinese pagodas. all bells, in every instance, even from the giant bell of the dom-kirche or duomo, or the cathedrals of kasan or casan, moscow or muscoyia generally, down to the knell, or the sacring or warning bell of the romish mass (which latter signal has a signification overpowering in its profundity, are held to disturb and to scare and drive off evil spirits. these were supposed, according to the old superstitious ideas, to congregate thickly, w

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

osed of only three stones is nearly 300 feet in length. they are thirteen feet square, two of them are each 64 feet and a third 69 feet long. they are built into the massive wall twenty feet above the ground. we went to the quarry from whence these stones of baalbek were taken. it was a quarter of a mile off, down-hill. in a pit lay the mate of the largest stone in the ruins. it lay there just as the giants of the old forgotten time left it when they were called hence; to remain for thousands of years an eloquent rebuke to such as are prone to think slightingly of the men who have lived before them. this enormous block lies there squared and ready for the builder's hands, a solid mass 14 feet by 17 feet wide and 70 feet long. one could use the same words almost to describe the massive unfi

KETAB E SIYAH

not so and that my once beloved brother, yet in his treason brother to me no more, is truly guilty of all that i disclosed. if you have any reason to doubt my word or if my judgement and understanding of my brothers speech and deed is not satisfying to your discernment then summon to yourself all your sons, all the elohim that serve you in heaven and upon the earth below, the ancient dominion of the giants that we vanquished so long ago, and call upon their testament for none of us cannot recount an instance where our false brother came to us, perverting by his deceitful tongue. lord, all heaven cries 'vengeance! 18 vengeance against the evil one who brings ruinous contention to our most beautiful dominion which we both love and serve devotedly' tarry no longer, liege. it serves us not. r

us soul determines all that is good and ill and his mighty sceptre exalts and lays low in accordance with the dictates of his will. those who serve with faith and fervour are rewarded with the sublimest treasures, unequalled by all the deep vaults of earth that are filled with many stones, shining with the light of stars, and that run with rivers of molten gold, the bones and blood of mighty gog, the giant and father of giants who lead his children in gross rebellion against us, the most noble elohim, until he was defeated you, my brother, when you caused the stone of earth to yawn open, like a maw of blackest night, beneath the serpent-feet of the giant-father thus casting the beast into the heart of the earth and then, in mighty upheaval, crushed the skull of that titanic brute between t

their three charges, two am i guilty of and soon shall be guilty of the third. as i stand here i plot rebellion against my father and my liege who has wronged me here so greatly. now do i petition my brothers thus, this great host that has gathered here, all the elohim armies of heaven and earth that once triumphed over great leviathan and wreaked terrible destruction, beneath my captaincy, upon the giant children of gog and magog, the king and queen from whom we seized dominion of the earth: my brothers! my dear brothers! you have gathered here in the sway of michael who has won you with promise of my wealth, divided amongst you like the unclean spoils of war, and though you know it not you stand at a junction in your history and must decide upon the path of your future. now is the time

il. by my perfection and mercy, i have put life into you and favoured you above all others, bringing you closest to my unity and filling your souls with faith and virtue that flow from me in abundace as i sit upon my throne, the cosmic hub. do not let your pride deceive you, leading you from this seat of supremacy and amongst the thorny woods of blasphemy. do you not see, having become blind like the giants that you overcame by my permission and mandate, that i am the one true king and all that turns away from me is perverted and worthless. 61 so far i have been forgivng of these wrongs that you do me, grieving for your souls, knowing that you wrong only yourselves, but, i warn and advise you, persist not in this apostasy, seeking to oppose that which is fundamental. my wrath is terrible

t so and that my once beloved brother, yet in his treason brother to me no more, is truly guilty of all that i disclosed. if you have any reason to doubt my word or if my judgement and understanding of my brothers speech and deed is not satisfying to your discernment then summon to yourself all your sons, all the elohim that serve you in heaven 79 and upon the earth below, the ancient dominion of the giants that we vanquished so long ago, and call upon their testament for none of us cannot recount an instance where our false brother came to us, perverting by his deceitful tongue. lord, all heaven cries 'vengeance! vengeance against the evil one who brings ruinous contention to our most beautiful dominion which we both love and serve devotedly' tarry no longer, liege. it serves us not. rath

us soul determines all that is good and ill and his mighty sceptre exalts and lays low in accordance with the dictates of his will. those who serve with faith and fervour are rewarded with the sublimest treasures, unequalled by all the deep vaults of earth that are filled with many stones, shining with the light of stars, and that run with rivers of molten gold, the bones and blood of mighty gog, the giant and father of giants who lead his children in gross rebellion against us, the most noble elohim, until he was defeated you, my brother, when you caused the stone of earth to yawn open, like a maw of blackest night, 88 beneath the serpent-feet of the giant-father thus casting the beast into the heart of the earth and then, in mighty upheaval, crushed the skull of that titanic brute betwee

their three charges, two am i guilty of and soon shall be guilty of the third. as i stand here i plot rebellion against my father and my liege who has wronged me here so greatly. now do i petition my brothers thus, this great host that has gathered here, all the elohim armies of heaven and earth that once triumphed over great leviathan and wreaked terrible destruction, beneath my captaincy, upon the giant children of gog and magog, the king and queen from whom we seized dominion of the earth: my brothers! my dear brothers! you have gathered here in the sway of michael who has won you with promise of my wealth, divided amongst you like the unclean spoils of war, and though you know it not you stand at a junction in your history and must decide upon the path of your future. 103 now is the t

by my perfection and mercy, i have put life into you and favoured you above all others, bringing you closest to my unity and filling your souls with faith and virtue that flow from me in abundace as i sit upon my throne, the cosmic hub. do not let your pride deceive you, 122 leading you from this seat of supremacy and amongst the thorny woods of blasphemy. do you not see, having become blind like the giants that you overcame by my permission and mandate, that i am the one true king and all that turns away from me is perverted and worthless. so far i have been forgivng of these wrongs that you do me, grieving for your souls, knowing that you wrong only yourselves, but, i warn and advise you, persist not in this apostasy, seeking to oppose that which is fundamental. my wrath is terrible, ind

were of such age, in times so young, to remember any of that time: satanael, michael, gabriel, raphael, auriel; this is how i know of such arcane secrets. when the spawn of gog and magog threatened also to gain the garden adonai yahweh gave instruction to his children to make war upon the race of giants 140 that they would not eat of those fruits and oppose and rival the power of his nation. thus the giants were destroyed before the prize was won. now for the same prize we must play and, if our creation is to be fulfilled, at least the fruit of knowledge of consequences must be won by the hand of shedim. yet, not for the shortest moment, do i contemplate that this garden is not watched, by the jealous eye of michael or some lackey. therefore i and my appointed companions must go alone in g

ed universe, speaking themselves the word of creation to accomplish this end. in the new-made universe they contended, brothers and sisters, for command of their creation. to avail himself in this conflict yahweh spoke once more the word of creation. thus came the elohim who ruled in heaven and were ruled by adonai yahweh. the elohim made war upon the foes of their king, destroying upon the earth the giant-spawn, born of gog and magog, and bound beneath the ocean's tumult great leviathan. all that was created, save mot's sheol, was made theirs. yet their was yet greed in their hearts and it was there undoing. their dominion was all creation but they turned upon themselves in their ambition. from that ruin there was born new hope. from that self-doomed race arose the champions of tomorrow

d great nephilim were born to the earth. yet the labours of any birth are sore and this was a great birth indeed. the last hours of history are now close but they are yet someway distant in the telling. the first contraction of the labour came as vienna's empire fell most bloody and dragged all europe to such a war as the nephilim had never known. even that great struggle at the start 369 betwixt the giants and the elohim was near rivalled by the letting of blood. the land itself was wounded by the weapons, new and terrible to man, that were employed. the were as iron beasts that belched flame and thunder upon the foe or cackling demons that struck men down. poisoned smoke destroyed the breath of men and fire made black the land and sky. five years endured that unequalled war and the nephi

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

caesar that the druidic method of instruction was by symbols, enigmas and allegories, and that they taught orally, deeming it unlawful to commit their knowledge to writing. it is said that their ceremonies of initiation required much physical purification and mental preparation. in the first degree the aspirant s symbolical death was represented, and in the third his regeneration from the womb of the giant goddess ceridwin and the committal of the newly-born to the waves in a small boat, symbolical of the ark. their doctrines were similar to those of pythagoras- including reincarnation and the existence of one supreme being. apart from a few stray references in classical authors, we know of them today chiefly through the bardic songs attributed to the welsh poet taliesin, of the sixth cent

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

musser, a christian writer. musser explained that the beast computer was a fiction he created as part of his novel, beyond a pale horse, and for the screenplay for the rapture, a film by david wilkerson. the confusion seems to have arisen from promotional flyers that were propagated in the form of realistic-looking mock newspapers containing stories that supposedly reported such endtime events as the giant computer. see also hellhole for further reading: robinson, b. a. christian urban legends. http//www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul.htm. ship of fools. the beast of belgium. http//ship-of-fools.com/myths/06myth.html. beast of the yellow night in this 1970 film, a man makes a deal with the devil a plump, cheerful chap for the usual goodies, money, and power. he doesn t realize until it s t

conceiving brought forth giants; whose stature was each three hundred cubits. these devoured all which the labor of men produced; until it became impossible to feed them; when they turned themselves against men, in order to devour them (7:10 13) when earth was in complete anarchy, god sent the archangel michael down from heaven to confine the corrupt angels in the valleys of earth until doomsday. the giants that these angels had fathered (the nephilim) went on wreaking havoc until (according to such sources as the book of jubilees) they were wiped out in the flood. scripture, however, records later, post-flood tribes of giants who were descendants of the nephilim (e.g, num. 13:33; deut. 2:11; josh. 12:4; etc. this story, which at one time was widely known, eventually disappeared from popul

vritra. despite the proliferation of demon slaying, however,hinduism does not posit any master devil or any other conception of absolute evil. instead, 114 hinduism demons play an essential role in the overall harmony of the cosmos, providing an important counterpoint to the gods. thus, for example, in the story of krishna s defeat of the serpent demon kaliya, krishna is in the process of killing the giant snake when kaliya begs him for mercy: i am not capable of honoring nor of praising you, overlord of the gods, but please take pity on me, o god whose sole thought is compassion! the race of snakes into which i was born is a cruel one; this is its proper nature. but i am not at fault in this matter. for it is you who pour forth and absorb the whole world; classes, forms and natures have a

purely spiritual beings and thus could not engage in sexual intercourse. the chief distinguishing characteristic of the nephilim was their gigantic size. the descendants of these giants are mentioned a number of times in both the canonical and the noncanonical books. there is a particularly vivid image in the book of numbers, at a point where the wandering israelites come upon a land occupied by the giants. the hebrew scouts give the following report: all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. and there we saw the nephilim (the sons of anak, who come from the nephilim; and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them (num. 13:33. other groups of exceptionally tall people who appear to have been descendants of the nephilim, such as the anakim and the r

nd joshua (12:4; 13:12; 15:8; 17:15; 18:16 (the tallness of these peoples is clearer in the king james version of the bible, which translates rephaim as giants) there were still descendants of the nephilim around during king david s time. four enormous members of the philistine army are mentioned in 2 samuel and in parallel verses in 1 chronicles. the identification of these men as descendants of the giants clearly marks their ancestry as traceable to the nephilim. these passages observe that at least one of these four men had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, traits that may have marked the entire race. the author of 2 samuel also notes that these four were descended from the giants in gath (21:22) which was the homeland of goliath, the most famous giant in the bible mak

ther. this is according to the book of enoch, which goes on to describe how the mortal women gave birth to many giants who were so huge that they ate all the food on earth, then went on to eating humans, and eventually started to eat each other. when earth was in complete anarchy, god sent the archangel michael down from heaven to confine the corrupt angels in the valleys of earth until doomsday. the giants that these angels had fathered were destroyed, but their evil spirits went on wreaking havoc until they were wiped out by the flood sent by god. according to hebrew myths, by robert graves, semyaza is now eternally residing in the sky in the form of the constellation orion, hanging between heaven and earth, with his head pointing downwards. see also fallen angels; nephilim for further r

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nity. 31. eternity is the storm that covereth me. 32. i am existence, the existence that existeth not save through its own existence, that is beyond the existence of existences, and rooted deeper than the no-thing-tree in the land of no-thing. 33. now therefore thou knowest when i am within thee, when my hood is spread over thy skull, when my might is more than the penned indus, and resistless as the giant glacier. 34. for as thou art before a lewd woman in thy nakedness in the bazar, sucked up by her slyness and smiles, so art thou wholly and no more in part before the symbol of the beloved, though it be but a pisacha or a yantra or a deva. 35. and in all shalt thou create the infinite bliss, and the next link of the infinite chain. 4 liber a fash vel capricorni pnevmatici 36. this chain

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

worst, liber cxcvii 18 till strong sir bors his prowess played. and all his might availed nought. now once sir bors had been betrayed to paynim; him in traitrise caught, they bound to four strong stallion steers, to tear asunder, as they thought, the paladin of arthur.s peers. but he, a-bending, breaks the spine of three, and on the fourth he rears his bulk, and rides away. divine the wonder when the giant fails to stir the fatuous dwarf, malign who smiles! but bors on arthur rails that never a knight is worth but one .by goddes death (quod he .what ails us marsh-lights to forget the sun? there is one man of mortal men worthy to win this benison, sir palamede the saracen. then went the applauding murmur round: sir lancelot girt him there and then to ride to that enchanted ground where amid

t sun himself they flew, piercing the borders of the night, passing the irremeable blue. far into space beyond the stars at last they came. and there he knew all the blind reasonable bars broken, and all the emotions stilled, and all the stains and all the scars left him; sop like a child he thrilled with utmost knowledge; all his soul, with perfect sense and sight fulfilled, touched the extreme, the giant goal! yea! all things in that hour transcended, all power in his sublime control, sir palamedes, the saracen knight 79 all felt, all thought, all comprehended .how is it, then, the quest (he saith .is not.at last!.achieved and ended? why taste i not the bounteous breath, receive the goodly gift of grace? now, kind king-eagle (by god fs death, restore me to mine ancient place! i am advant

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ayoga pradipika. unfortunately, i am unable to say where (or even whether) a copy of this latter work exists. 331, 332. stand (stephen) or sit (paul).50. acts vii. 36; heb. xii, 2. 337. samadhi-dak.51..ecstasy-of-meditation mail. 338. maha-meru.52.the .mystic mountain. of the hindus. see southey.s curse of kehama. 339. gaurisankar.53.called also chomokankar, devadhunga, and everest. 341. chogo.54.the giant. this is the native name of .k2; or mount godwin-austen, as col. godwin-austen would call it. it is the second highest known mountain in the world, as devadhunga is the first. 356. the history of the west.55. de acosta (jos) natural and moral history of the indies. alison, sir a. history of scotland. benzoni. history of the new world. buckle. history of civilisation. burton, j. h. histor

perplexed; and he knew not what he would do. for the children left their foulness and came soliciting with shameless words his acquiscence in their sport; and he, knowing the law of courtesy and pity, rebuked them not. but master ever of himself he abode alone, about and above. so he saw his virginity deflowered, and his thoughts were otherwere. now loosed they his body; he bade it leap the wall. the giant flower of ocean bloomed above him! he had fallen headlong into the great deep. as the green and crimson gloom disparted somewhat before his eyes, he was aware of a beetle that steadily and earnestly moved across the floor of that sea unutterable. him he followed .for i wit well. thought the adept .that he goeth not back to the gross sun of earth. and if the sun hath become a beetle, may

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

in the mythic present. as dwarfs, humans, and occasionally elves look on and are sometimes drawn into the struggle, the asir and the jotnar fight over resources, precious objects, and, especially, women. the flow of such wealth is all in one direction, from the jotnar to the asir, and in fact one might divide the narratives of the mythic present into those in which the gods acquire something from the giants and those in which an attempt by the giants to acquire something from the gods is foiled. in the mythic future, this world order will come to a fiery end as gods and giants destroy each other and the cosmos, but a new world order is to follow in which the world will be reborn and inhabited by a new generation of asir. the historical background scandinavia consists of the low-lying danis

mal (words of vafthrudnir, which describes the context of wisdom between odin and the wise giant vafthrudnir; and grimnismal (words of grimnir, which describes odin fs ecstatic wisdom performance at the hall of the human king geirrod. the next poem, skirnismal (words of skirnir) or for skirnis (skirnir fs journey, belongs to frey, in that it describes the journey of frey fs servant skirnir to woo the giantess gerd. the following four poems are probably to be assigned to thor. the first of these is harbardsljod (song of harbard, in which thor and a disguised odin exchange insults and anecdotes. the next is hymiskvida (hymir fs poem, an account of thor fs journey to the giant hymir and fishing up of the midgard serpent. lokasenna (loki fs verbal duel) follows, and in it loki insults all the

is hymiskvida (hymir fs poem, an account of thor fs journey to the giant hymir and fishing up of the midgard serpent. lokasenna (loki fs verbal duel) follows, and in it loki insults all the gods. it is a thor poem because it is thor who finally chases loki away. the last of the thor poems is thrymskvida (the poem of thrym, a burlesque in which thor, disguised as freyja, retrieves his hammer from the giant thrym. the last two mythological poems are volundarkvida (volund fs poem) and alvissmal introduction 13 pages from the famous codex regius of the poetic edda (british library (the words of all-wise. volundarkvida has no gods in it and to us today looks like a heroic poem, but the compiler of codex regius of the poetic edda must have thought that volund fs elfish background was good reaso

tion 13 pages from the famous codex regius of the poetic edda (british library (the words of all-wise. volundarkvida has no gods in it and to us today looks like a heroic poem, but the compiler of codex regius of the poetic edda must have thought that volund fs elfish background was good reason to situate the poem here, elves being creatures from the glower mythology h (neither of the gods nor of the giants. alvissmal has another such creature in alviss, the gall-wise h dwarf who sues for the hand of thor fs daughter and is kept dispensing synonyms by the god until the sun comes up and turns the dwarf to stone. at this point the heroic poems begin, but the gods are by no means wholly absent, especially from the poems telling the early parts of the story of sigurd the dragon-slayer. odin, h

they were buried. the poem clearly originally served a dynastic purpose, but, especially in its discussion of the earliest kings, it has much to tell us about mythology and religion. thjodolf also composed the shield poem haustlong (autumn-long, which may refer to the poem fs gestation period. he describes two mythological scenes that adorned the shield: loki fs betrayal of idun and her apples to the giant thjazi and her rescue, and thor fs duel with hrungnir, the strongest of the giants. from the earliest skaldic tradition come three geddic praise poems, h poems in eddic meters (but in which the meters are ordinarily more strictly adhered to than in eddic poems proper, composed to honor not gods or ancient heroes but recently deceased kings. two of these describe valholl in connection wit

r a choice of husband among the gods, letting her select based on an observation of just their lower legs. she chooses what she thinks are baldr fs but ends up with old njord. according to the reasoning of this narrative, then, njord fs marriage to skadi preceded the death of baldr. however, frey fs marriage to gerd appears to have followed baldr fs death. in skirnismal, stanza 21, skirnir offers the giantess gerd gthe ring which was burned with the young son of odin, h and this can only be draupnir. if it was burned with the son of odin, baldr must already be dead, and frey and gerd fs marriage has yet even to be arranged, much less consummated after the nine nights that must intervene after the arrangement is made. i 40 norse mythology think snorri must have had this sequence of events i

art of the mythic present: already mentioned are the mead of poetry, war and peace with the vanir, oath of bloodbrotherhood with loki, and disposition of loki fs children. in addition there is odin fs self-sacrifice, which gained him much of the rest of the wisdom he uses in the mythological present. odin myths in the mythological present would include in particular the stories of his visits with the giant vafthrudnir and the human king geirrod, in each of which wisdom plays an important role. nearly all of the thor myths take place in the undifferentiated mythic present. these include, besides his fishing up of the midgard serpent, his encounters with hrungnir, hymir, and geirrod. time 41 some events must be fairly late in the mythological present, and the foremost of these is the death o

74: 57.78, and kirsten hastrup, culture and history in medieval iceland: an anthropological assessment of structure and change (oxford: clarendon, 1985. both these authors sought to distinguish the vertical from the horizontal axes, the first manifesting itself in the world tree linking heaven and the underworld, and the second, in the disk of the earth on which asgard, midgard, and the worlds of the giants are located. meletinskij argued that cosmogony and eschatology were distinguished by the axes and that this distinction had a chronological aspect. hastrup described the difference as one of reversibility: events on the vertical axis were girreversible, h for they were fated; those on the horizontal axis were greversible, h in that the balance between gods and giants was so close. both

isted among the goddesses in the thulur and agir has a peaceful relationship with the gods, his inclusion in the thulur as a giant seems questionable. the eddic poems often show agir as host to the gods. hymiskvida is set in motion because the gods expect to visit agir and will need a huge cauldron in which to brew the beer that will be consumed. the poem tells how thor acquires the cauldron from the giant hymir. the next poem in codex regius of the poetic edda is lokasenna, loki fs flyting (that is, verbal duel) with the gods, and it is set at a feast hosted by agir. indeed, paper manuscripts call the poem agisdrekka (agir fs drinking party. according to the prose header to the poem, gagir, who was also called gymir, had prepared beer for the asir. h after enumerating the guest list (most

st, h and some scholars seek an association with wooden idols or the equivalent. the rune poems, which are relatively late, give ass or its equivalent as the name of the a-rune. in medieval icelandic the term asir is the one most often found when the gods are being described as a group, in prose and in poetry. in thrymskvida, for example, when it is revealed that thor fs hammer has been stolen by the giant thrym and that he will exchange it only for freyja, the poet writes: deities, themes, and concepts 49 then all the asir were at an assembly, and all the asynjur in discussion (stanza 14) often the term alfar, gelves, h is used as a parallel, probably because of the alliteration that the poetic form required, but also perhaps because of a fundamental association between the two groups. as

ups of beings in the mythology. the groups are not always quite the same, but humans, gods, and giants are constants, and vanir (as opposed to the gods in general, elves, dwarfs, and the dead occur frequently. generally the everyday word is assigned to humans and the other terms are from the poetic vocabulary. frequently the words assigned to the gods have an elegant feel, while those assigned to the giants feel heavy or clumsy, although admittedly such feelings are to a certain extent subjective. the categories thor requests are as follows: earth, heaven, moon, sun, clouds, wind, calm, sea, fire, wood, night, seed, and ale. these categories and the order in which they appear can hardly be arbitrary. the first five are cosmic, and they are presented in the order in which they appear in the

ad cut a great deal when they got him to agree to do the job within half a year with only the help of his horse svadilfari. they were mistaken, and when three days were left it appeared all but certain that the wall would be completed. the gods blamed loki and threatened him. loki changed himself into a mare and distracted svadilfari. the wall was never completed, and when thor returned he killed the giant builder. loki subsequently gave birth to sleipnir. references and further reading: the medieval and folklore analogues to the story of the construction of the wall were long ago pointed out by c. w. von sydow, gstudier i finnsagnen och beslaktade byggmastarsagner, h fataburen, 1907: 65.78, 199.218; and 1908: 19.27; lotte motz fs discussion, gsnorri fs story of the cheated mason and its f

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organic materials to earth, or underwater volcanic activity driving complicated chemical reactions. these are also plausible scenarios, but at the risk of irritating some colleagues, we think they are less developed than the sequence we explain below. hydrogen is by far the most abundant element in the universe. it is present in its molecular form (h2) in high concentrations in the atmospheres of the giant gas planets, notably jupiter and saturn. thus, hydrogen is thought to have been part of the primeval atmosphere of all planets right after the formation of the solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago. hydrogen is no longer found at significant concentrations in the atmospheres of rocky planets such as venus, earth, and mars. this is because the low gravity of these planets compared to

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

chambers, or caverns, the candidate advancing through them in sequential order. these chambers of initiation represented the nine spheres into which the drottars divided the universe (1) asgard, the heaven world of the gods (2) alf-heim, the world of the light and beautiful elves, or spirits (3) nifl-heim, the world of cold and darkness, which is located in the north (4) jotun-heim, the world of the giants, which is located in the east (5) midgard, the earth world of human beings, which is located in the midst, or middle place (6) vana-heim, the world of the vanes, which is located in the west (7) muspells-heim, the world of fire, which is located in the south; 8) svart-alfa-heim, the world of the dark and treacherous elves, which is under the earth; and (9) hel-heim, the world of cold an

came from a place where the sea now is. h. p. blavatsky thus sums up the causes which precipitated the atlantean disaster "under the evil insinuations of their demon, thevetat, the atlantis-race became a nation of wicked magicians. in consequence of this, war was declared, the story of which would be too long to narrate; its substance may be found in the disfigured allegories of the race of cain, the giants, and that of noah and his righteous family. the conflict came to an end by the submersion of the atlantis; which finds its imitation in the stories of the babylonian and mosaic flood: the giants and magicians* and all flesh died* and every man' all except xisuthrus and noah, who are substantially identical with the great father of the thlinkithians in the popol vuh, or the sacred book o

the world of assiah. this is the grand man of the zohar, of whom eliphas levi writes "it is not less astonishing to observe at the beginning of the zohar the profundity of its notions and the sublime simplicity of its images. it is said as follows 'the science of equilibrium is the key of occult science. unbalanced forces perish in the void. so passed the kings of the elder world, the princes of the giants. they have fallen like trees without roots, and their place is found no more. through the conflict of unbalanced forces, the devastated earth was void and formless, until the spirit of god made for itself a place in heaven and reduced the mass of waters. all the aspirations of nature were directed then towards unity of form, towards the living synthesis (if equilibrated forces; the face

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whose height was three thousand ells" some of these nephelim, as the descendants of the house of azael were known, were, like nimrod, men of renown and great in wisdom. others, however, turned in the opposite direction and increasingly devoted themselves to the pursuit of hideous delights and necromantic pastimes besides which gilles de rais' antics are said to pall into insignificance. and they [the giants] began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones] book of enoch, ibid- legend has it that the watchers, in despair at the evil that had been unleashed upon the world by their hand, took counsel among themselves and wielded their power to cast down the lands whe

as well ,as the recurring legends of the flood and atlantis current throughout the western hemisphere. the early christian writer of the tale of beowulf recounts how, written in runes upon the hilt of an enchanted sword said to have been made by the nephelim themselves, king hrothgar of the danes reads. the story of ancient wars between good and evil, the opening of the waters, the flood sweeping the giants away, how they suffered, and died, that race who hated the ruler of us all, and received judgement from his hands, surging waves that found them wherever they fled] beowulf, translated by burton raffel (mentor books u.s.a. 1963- we again find traces of this lore in the norse legend of the giants' revolt, and similarly in greek mythology concerning the gods' dealings with the rebellious

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

the doll is either dissolved by the heat if it is a waxen one or, if it is made of dried clay, shattered to small pieces! those practitioners who would rather not rely merely upon their own witch power, fortified though it be with the magical images of cernunnos or other witch entities, may also supplement their bewitchment by a separate conjuration of that demonic being of fire and destruction, the giant flauros, of whom it is said in the lemegeton. a strong and mighty duke, appearing primarily as a terrible leopard, but assuming the body of a man with burning eyes and dreadful aspect at the command of the operator. he will destroy and incinerate those who be enemies of the operator, should he so desire it. needless to say, there is the greatest peril attendant upon performing this conju

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

tic forcesthat sought to eradicate the bent ones from this planet, or at least restrict their cor-rupting operations. whatever the actual truth, it appears the rebels decided that itwould be futile to go into the individual colonies throughout the earth to depose theatlantean demigods. better to strike at the root of the problem, atlantis itself. many world myths and legends speak of wars between the giants. the stories have uncannysimilarities and may refer to this attempt of earth inhabitants to eradicate strange demonicvisitors. it has been noted for instance that the mahabharata in india, the trojan wars andthe gaelic wars in ireland, all occurred relatively simultaneously (see immanuel v elik-ovsky. in the story of beowulf, one of the first romances of the later anglo-saxon period,we

find the story of demonic forces that live in the wild places and prey off the people.the romances have the same refrain wherever they are found. all speak of the banishedhybrids, living on islands or under the earth. is this a mere story that is put before us? was itall just creative license? grendel this monster grim was called,march-river mighty, in moorland living,in fen and fastness; fief of the giantsthe hapless wight a while had keptsince the creator his exile doomed.on kin of cain was the killing avengedby sovran god for slaughtered abel.ill fared his feud, and far was he driven,for the slaughter's sake, from sight of men.of cain awoke all that woful breed,etins and elves and evil-spirits,as well as the giants that warred with godweary while: but their wage was paid them!(beowulf

lena blavatsky, who spent her liferesearching the actual origins of mankind, are more than appropriate: the appellation satan, in hebrew, and adversarybelongs by right to the first and cruelestadversary of all other gods jehovah, not in the serpent which spoke only words of sym-pathy and wisdom. under the evil insinuations of their demon thevetat, the atlantis race became a nation ofevil magiciansthe giants and magicians and all flesh died and every man.and author jack barranger also expresses the travesty of mans perplexity:we have been lead to believe that the entity that the old testament describes as a mass mur-derer and heinous leader is the god of the universe. we have been lead to think that theslaughter of human beings in the name of god is a divine act. and all through these passa

wrote of the tribulations: it sounds like the cry not of a man but of a race, a great, religious, civilized race, who couldnot understand how god could so cruelly visit the world.and from comyns beaumonts the riddle of prehistoric britain: the prehistory of the atlanteans and the race of adam possessed peculiar similarities. thesupermen of plato s island were drowned in a flood like the adamites, the giants of old time,men of renown, the men whose thoughts became wholly evil, destroyed in what is called theflood or universal deluge. the cause advanced for their destruction was in effect the samein both cases, they being accused of having mastered too many of the divine secrets of, as weshould say, science, as the ancients named it, the gods.the world falls dead38atlantis, alien visitation

er slays brother, mighty battles occur in theworld. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation39 the world falls dead their adversarial presence was termed the midgard serpent: the midgard serpent blows so much poison that the whole sky and sea are splattered with it. strange flying craft bringing destruction are described: the mighty flood frees the ship known as naglfar, a vessel that the giants were so long inbuildingloki steers the ship of hel with the fenris wolf aboard.they also speak specifically of ragnarok, the war between the gods: the head of mimir (fountain of all wisdom, counsels odin to meet on the field of vigrid, andto wage there such a war that the power of evil would be destroyed forever, even though hisown world would be destroyed with them. now death is the po

atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation73 chapter 11this place is terrible!the world is run by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are notbehind the scenes (benjamin disraeli) because they are born from men and from the holy watchers in their beginning and primalorigin, they shall be evil spirits on earth and evil spirits they shall be calledand the spiritsof the giants will afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on theearth and cause troubleand these spirits shall rise up against the children of men andagainst the women(book of enoch)now we must come to the present and seek to discover how active these alien mastersand their progeny are in the seemingly diverse and complex human arena. is the greatwar still going on and is

according to the traditions of many isolated peoples, the first great emperors in asia weregod-kings who came down from the sky, displayed amazing superhuman abilities, and tookover (john keel, our haunted planet. because they are born from men and from the holy watchers in their beginning and primalorigin, they shall be evil spirits on earth and evil spirits they shall be calledand the spiritsof the giants will afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on theearth and cause troubleand these spirits shall rise up against the children of men andagainst the women(book of enoch, chapter 15. when all mankind who are on the earth die, he shall be safe. and this posterity shall begeton the earth giants, not spiritual, but carnal.(book of enoch)i am offspring of the serpe

t centuries ago andthey are intending to move on back out into the nether as soon as the technologyallows. they are tired of this planet and are exhausting all the natural resources. andatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation105 from the sword to the syringe again, we were warned of what was to come by those on the front lines in bygonedays: and when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devouredmankind. and they began to sin against birds and beasts and reptiles and fish and to devourone another s flesh. then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones(book ofenoch) they have polluted the oceans and the atmosphere, reduced the oxygen and the elec-tron count, burned holes in the ozone, devastated the forests, relentlessly annihilatedthe fl

like fossilized footprints discovered in mud-stone in april 1970 near penrith at the base of the eastern escarpment of the blue mountains of nsw.the size of the tracks, spaced two metres apart, suggested the monster that made them must have beenat least four metres tall.bathurst nswidentical fossil tracks have been found in the bathurst district to the west of the blue mountains in thevicinity of the giant megatool discoveries of mine. could we be looking at the fossilized tracks ofmeganthropus, or as i have suggested earlier, a 'home-grown' race of giant people? atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation297 appendix d: scientific evidence townsville-rockhampton queenslandanother giant fossil footprint, identical to the penrith and bathurst examples and measuring 61 cm longby 46

mountainsthereabouts in the long ago dreamtime. orange nswsouth-west of orange, nsw, embedded in a 3.6-metre by 6.6 metre lump of solid mudstone is an appar-ent giant manlike footprint, an astounding 1.6 metres long by one metre wide across the toes. the ques-tion is whether the footprint is an actual fossilized track or an example of ancient weathered rock artdepicting a footprint of the bulloo, the giant men and woman known to the aborigines of western newsouth wales in ancient times. apart from the fossil footprints of manlike beings, there are also fossil tracks of giant creatures thatappear more ape-like than manlike. could these tracks be those of gigantopithecus, the giant manlikeape that roamed mainland asia and java half a million years ago? much smaller, although still quitelarge

two huge, obliquely-tilted slabs situated either side of a deep cutting overlookinga wide, deep gully. although, it is difficult to visualize now, the whole area once had been swampland.groups of giant creatures and their children had walked, squatted and sat upon the edge of this swamp,then, soon afterwards, the peace was shattered. v olcanic ash and lava poured out of a nearby crater andforced the giants to flee for their lives, covering the tracks. in great ages past, a river cut its way throughthe swamp, gradually cutting a deep into the earth below the layers of lava and ash and forming a deepgully.heat and rain gradually re-exposed the tracks, while wind and erosion cut away at the base of thenearby cliffs, hollowing out deep rock shelters beneath the fossil tracks. this gradually h

mb to little finger, by 35 cm lengthfrom mid-finger to palm! some footprints look like giant human tracks, whereas others are more ape-like, but it is obvious that the monsterous beings who made these tracks in the sands of time stood any-where from 4 to 6.6 to even 8.3 metres tall. aborigines who have seen the fossil tracks and handprints say they were made by two different races ofgiant beings: the giant goolagah, and the half-man, half-animal forefathers of the yowies. the evi-dence suggests that giant hominids shared the region with gigantopithecus-type creatures in the begin-ning of the last ice age when volcanic eruptions were commonplace in northern new south wales.blacktown nswon thursday 27th, july 1989, my wife heather and i stumbled upon two fossilized giant-man trackspreserved

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alone they crave satisfaction. yet even these may be employed. the lowly sand we trample upon, cast into the furnace, melted, purified by fire, may become resplendent crystal. they have the brute force of the hammer, but their blows help on the great cause, when struck within the lines traced by the rule held by wisdom and discretion. yet it is this very force of the people, this titanic power of the giants, that builds the fortifications of tyrants, and is embodied in their armies. hence the possibility of such tyrannies as those of which it has been said, that "rome smells worse under vitellius than under sulla. under claudius and under domitian there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the ugliness of the tyranny. the foulness of the slaves is a direct result of the atrocious ba

as been well said, that when tamerlane had builded his pyramid of fifty thousand human skulls, and wheeled away with his vast armies from the gates of damascus, to find new conquests, and build other pyramids, a little boy was playing in the streets of mentz, son of a poor artisan, whose apparent importance in the scale of beings was, compared with that of tamerlane, as that of a grain of sand to the giant bulk of the earth; but tamerlane and all his shaggy legions, that swept over the east like a hurricane, have passed away, and become shadows; while printing, the wonderful invention of john faust, the boy of mentz, has exerted a greater influence on man's destinies and overturned more thrones and dynasties than all the victories of all the blood-stained conquerors from nimrod to napoleon

e beautiful reign triumphant and eternal. it teaches, as it feels and knows, that evil, and pain, and sorrow exist as part of a wise and beneficent plan, all the parts of which work together under god's eye to a result which shall be perfection. whether the existence of evil is rightly explained in this creed or in that, by typhon the great serpent, by ahriman and his armies of wicked spirits, by the giants and titans that war against heaven, by the two co-existent principles of good and evil, by satan's temptation and the fall of man, by lok and the serpent fenris, it is beyond the domain of masonry to decide, nor does it need to inquire. nor is it within its province to determine how the ultimate triumph of light and truth and good, over darkness and error and evil, is to be achieved; no

other abel, and went forth to people parts of the earth with an impious race, forgetters and defiers of the true god. the other descendants of the common father of the race intermarried with the daughters of cain's descendants: and all nations preserved the remembrance of that division of the human family into the righteous and impious, in their distorted legends of the wars between the gods, and the giants and titans. when, afterward, another similar division occurred, the descendants of seth alone preserved the true primitive religion and science, and transmitted them to posterity in the ancient symbolical character, on monuments of stone: and many nations preserved in their legendary traditions the memory of the columns of enoch and seth. then the world declined from its original happy

makes love emerge, who with night organizes chaos. thus the balance, the scorpion, the serpent of ophiucus, and the dragon of the hesperides became malevolent signs and evil genii; and entire nature was divided between the two principles, and between the agents or partial causes subordinate to them. hence michael and his archangels, and satan and his fallen compeers. hence the wars of jupiter and the giants, in which the gods of olympus fought on the side of the light-god, against the dark progeny of earth and chaos; a war which proclus regarded as symbolizing the resistance opposed by dark and chaotic matter to the active and beneficent force which gives it organization; an idea which in part appears in the old theory of two principles, one innate in the active and luminous substance of h

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ht, he being considered the source and fountain of all light, and their children were eos (aurora, the dawn, and hemera, the daylight. nyx again, on her side was also doubly united, having been married at some indefinite period to erebus. in addition to those children of heaven and earth already enumerated, uranus and gaa produced two distinctly different races of beings called giants and titans. the giants personified brute strength alone, but the titans united to their great physical power intellectual qualifications variously developed. there were three giants, briareus, cottus, and gyges, who each possessed a hundred hands and fifty heads, and were known collectively by the page 12 name of the hecatoncheires, which signified hundred-handed. these mighty giants could shake the universe

ted those active subterranean forces to which allusion has been made in the opening chapter. the titans were twelve in number; their names were: oceanus, ceos, crios, hyperion, iapetus, cronus, theia, rhea, themis, mnemosyne, phoebe, and tethys. now uranus, the chaste light of heaven, the essence of all that is bright and pleasing, held in abhorrence his [14]crude, rough, and turbulent offspring, the giants, and moreover feared that their great power might eventually prove hurtful to himself. he therefore hurled them into tartarus, that portion of the lower world which served as the subterranean dungeon of the gods. in order to avenge the oppression of her children, the giants, gaa instigated a conspiracy on the part of the titans against uranus, which was carried to a successful issue by

sed his rebellious son, and foretold to him a similar fate. cronus now became invested with supreme power, and assigned to his brothers offices of distinction, subordinate only to himself. subsequently, however, when, secure of his position, he no longer needed their assistance, he basely repaid their former services with treachery, made war upon his brothers and faithful allies, and, assisted by the giants, completely defeated them, sending such as resisted his all-conquering arm down into the lowest depths of tartarus. second dynasty. cronus (saturn. cronus was the god of time in its sense of eternal duration. he married rhea, daughter of uranus and gaa, a very important divinity, to whom a special chapter will be devoted hereafter. their page 13 children were, three sons: aides (pluto

deep interest. hence we see that what to other nations were merely strange phenomena, served this poetical and imaginative people as a foundation upon which to build the wonderful stories of their mythology. the division of the world being now satisfactorily arranged, it would seem that all things ought to have gone on smoothly, but such was not the case. trouble arose in an unlooked-for quarter. the giants, those hideous monsters (some with legs formed of serpents) who had sprung from the earth and the blood of uranus, declared war against the triumphant deities of olympus, and a struggle ensued, which, in consequence of gaa having made these children of hers invincible as long as they kept their feet on the ground, was wearisome and protracted. their mother's precaution, however, was ren

although poseidon ruled with absolute power over the ocean and its inhabitants, he nevertheless bowed submissively to the will of the great ruler of olympus, and appeared at all times desirous of conciliating him. we [104]find him coming to his aid when emergency demanded, and frequently rendering him valuable assistance against his opponents. at the time when zeus was harassed by the attacks of the giants, he proved himself a most powerful ally, engaging in single combat with a hideous giant named polybotes, whom he followed over the sea, and at last succeeded in destroying, by hurling upon him the island of cos. these amicable relations between the brothers were, however, sometimes interrupted. thus, for instance, upon one occasion poseidon joined hera and athene in a secret conspiracy

polias, the guardian of the state. there were two festivals of this name, the lesser and the greater panathenaa. the former was held annually, and the latter, which lasted several days, was celebrated every fourth year. for the greater panathenaa a garment, embroidered with gold, called the peplus, was specially woven by athenian maidens, on which was represented the victory gained by athene over the giants. this garment was suspended to the mast of a ship which stood outside the city; and during the festival, which was characterized by a grand procession, the ship (with the peplus on its mast) was impelled forward by means of invisible machinery, and formed the most conspicuous feature of the pageant. the whole population, bearing olive branches in their hands, took part in the procession

they also informed them that the golden fleece was guarded by a fearful dragon, that king aetes was extremely cruel, and, as the son of apollo, was possessed of superhuman strength. arrival at colchis..taking with them the four new-comers they journeyed on, and soon came in sight of the snow-capped peaks of the caucasus, when, towards evening, the loud flapping of wings was heard overhead. it was the giant eagle of prometheus on his way to torture the noble and long-suffering titan, whose fearful page 253 groans soon afterwards fell upon their ears. that night they reached their journey's end, and anchored in the smooth waters of the river phases. on the left bank of this river they beheld ceuta, the capital of colchis; and on their right a wide field, and the sacred grove of ares, where t

ror to their subterranean stables. meanwhile armed men had sprung up out of the furrows, and the page 256 whole field now bristled with lances; but jason, remembering the instructions of medea, seized an immense rock and hurled it into the midst of these earth-born warriors, who immediately began to attack each other. jason then rushed furiously upon them, and after a terrible struggle not one of the giants remained alive. furious at seeing his murderous schemes thus defeated, aetes not only perfidiously refused to give jason the fleece which he had so bravely earned, but, in his anger, determined to destroy all the argonauts, and to burn their vessel. jason secures the golden fleece..becoming aware of the treacherous designs of her father, medea at [226]once took measures to baffle them

vein of blood. as he saw the argo [230]nearing the coast, he hurled huge rocks at her, which would inevitably have sunk the vessel had not the crew beat a hasty retreat. although sadly in want of food and water, the argonauts had decided to proceed on their journey rather than face so powerful an opponent, when medea came forward and assured them that if they would trust to her she would destroy the giant. page 260 enveloped in the folds of a rich purple mantle, she stepped on deck, and after invoking the aid of the fates, uttered a magic incantation, which had the effect of throwing talus into a deep sleep. he stretched himself at full length upon the ground, and in doing so grazed his vulnerable ankle against the point of a sharp rock, whereupon a mighty stream of blood gushed forth fro

voking the aid of the fates, uttered a magic incantation, which had the effect of throwing talus into a deep sleep. he stretched himself at full length upon the ground, and in doing so grazed his vulnerable ankle against the point of a sharp rock, whereupon a mighty stream of blood gushed forth from the wound. awakened by the pain, he tried to rise, but in vain, and with a mighty groan of anguish the giant fell dead, and his enormous body rolled heavily over into the deep. the heroes being now able to land, provisioned their vessel, after which they resumed their homeward voyage. arrival at iolcus..after a terrible night of storm and darkness they passed the island of agina, and at length reached in safety the port of iolcus, where the recital of their numerous adventures and hair-breadth

, and when the monster appeared, opening his terrible jaws to receive his prey, the hero, sword in hand, attacked and slew him. but the perfidious monarch once more broke faith, and heracles, vowing future vengeance, departed for mycena, where he presented the girdle to eurystheus. page 277 10. the oxen of geryones..the tenth labour of heracles was the capture of the magnificent oxen belonging to the giant geryon or geryones, who dwelt on the island of erythia in the bay of gadria (cadiz. this giant, who was the son of chrysaor, had three bodies with three heads, six hands, and six feet. he possessed a herd of splendid cattle, which were famous for their size, beauty, and rich red colour. they were guarded by another giant named eurytion, and a two-headed dog called orthrus, the offspring

to east, and thus heracles crossed over safely to the island of erythia. no sooner had he landed than eurytion, accompanied by his savage dog orthrus, fiercely attacked him; but heracles, with a superhuman effort, slew the dog and [247]then his master. hereupon he collected the herd, and was proceeding to the sea-shore when geryones himself met him, and a desperate encounter took place, in which the giant perished. heracles then drove the cattle into the sea, and seizing one of the oxen by the horns, swam with them over to the opposite coast of iberia (spain. then driving his magnificent prize before him through gaul, italy, illyria, and thrace, he at length arrived, after many perilous adventures and hair-breadth escapes, at mycena, where he delivered them up to eurystheus, who sacrifice

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ht of actaeon. artemis maids of honor the six nymphs depicted here are crocale, nephele, hyale, rhanis, psecas, phiale just a handful of artemis huge retinue which included 60 ocean nymphs, who acted as maids of honor, and 20 river nymphs, who looked after her clothes and her dogs. artemis, goddess of hunting, used her skills to protect her mother leto in the sacred grove at delphi, striking down the giant tityus who was trying to rape her. water nymphs of artemis artemis was always attended by water nymphs, both naiads spring, river, and lake nymphs and nereids, or sea nymphs. in classical mythology, every principal spring and river was inhabited by one or more naiads. unarmed godd ess unprotected, her bow and arrow in the care of her nymphs, artemis could do nothing but dash spring water

is lover. she bore him a son, melanippus. theseus iron club bull of poseidon theseus the hero 55 minotaur soon after theseus reached athens, the city had to send young men and women to crete to be fed to the minotaur, a monster half-man, half-bull. theseus volunteered, faced the monster, and killed him (see pp. 54 55. the bed of procrustes triumphant from defeating king cercyon, theseus came upon the giant procrustes (sinis father) who lived near the road to athens. as evil as his son, he used to offer travelers a bed for the night. but he only had one bed, and to make sure it was the right size for all comers, he stretched short men on a rack (or beat them out with a hammer) and chopped off the feet of tall men. theseus made him lie down on his own bed and, as he was too tall, he cut off

d says that there were three of them, the sons of uranus (cronos) and gaia, and that they forged zeus thunderbolts these cyclopes were killed by apollo for the death of asclepius (see p. 39. the ones odysseus meets tend sheep and live on an island now thought to be sicily. landing there, odysseus and his men were shut in a cave by the cyclops polyphemus, who ate several of them. odysseus who told the giant that his name was nobody made him drunk and blinded him with a sharpened tree trunk heated in the ashes of the fire. the next day he and his crew escaped hidden under the giant s sheep as they went to pasture. bird-women the sirens were conceived of as harpylike creatures, part-bird, part-hag. while they were singing, they seemed like beautiful maidens but those who succumbed to their so

dess of battle, love affairs, and soothsaying. thor, god of thunder this bronze statuette depicts thor, the thunder god whose weapon was the hammer mjollnir. mjollnir was given to thor by the god loki (see p. 71, who had tricked the dwarves into giving it to him. it could never miss its mark, and returned to the thrower s hand. thor s hamm er, mjollnir, enabled the aesir to protect asgard against the giants. a giant did once steal it and would only return it if the goddess freya would marry him. so thor and loki dressed up as freya and her maid. when mjollnir was placed in thor s lap to bless the union, he discarded his disguise and killed all the giants. thor, god of thunder thor the thunder god was odin s eldest son; his mother was the earth. he was immensely strong and famed for his eno

uld only return it if the goddess freya would marry him. so thor and loki dressed up as freya and her maid. when mjollnir was placed in thor s lap to bless the union, he discarded his disguise and killed all the giants. thor, god of thunder thor the thunder god was odin s eldest son; his mother was the earth. he was immensely strong and famed for his enormous appetite. in a contest in the land of the giants, he drank so much of the sea at one gulp that he created the tides. he traveled in a chariot drawn by two goats. viking ta pestr y this picture shows a detail from a viking tapestry dating from the 12th century. it shows the aesir gods odin and thor, and freyr, who was one of the vanir. it used to hang in a church in halsingland. early germanic peoples worshiped odin as wotan or woden

battle god, is the source for tuesday. tiw survives as tyr in norse mythology, but most of his functions seem to have been transferred to odin. hammer rav en friends of odin odin is often depicted with his two ravens, huginn and muninn (thought and memory) perched on his shoulders. he sent them flying abroad each day from his chair in asgard, from which he could survey all of the worlds. loki and the giant after the war between the aesir and the vanir, asgard was left without a defensive wall. one day, a man came on horseback and offered to rebuild the wall even stronger than before. but his price for the job was the sun, the moon, and the goddess freya for his wife. on the advice of the trickster god loki, the gods agreed but only on condition that the work was done in six months which th

re he could seize the runes of power. yggdrasil supported nine worlds, set in three layers. at the top was asgard, the realm of the aesir, or warrior gods, vanaheim, the realm of the vanir, or fertility gods, and aflheim, the realm of the light elves. in the middle, linked to asgard by the rainbow bridge bifrost, was midgard (middle earth, the realm of mortal men, and also jotunheim, the world of the giants, nidavellir, the home of the dwarfs, and svartalfheim, the land of the dark elves. below was niflheim, the realm of the dead, and its citadel hel. the ninth world is sometimes said to be hel and sometimes the primeval fire of muspell, which will devour creation at the end of time. yggdrasil itself will survive, and will protect in hoddmimir s wood the man and woman who will re-people th

man, lif and lifthrasir, who will feed on the sweet morning dew, and be the source of new life in the age to come. although it was prophesied that at ragnarok, fenrir would swallow the sun and devour odin before being killed in turn by odin s son vidar the gods refused to profane the holy ground of asgard by killing him, so they chained him up instead. spawn of loki fenrir was the son of loki and the giantess angrboda. his brothers, also fathered by loki, were jormungand, the world serpent, which encircled middle earth, and was once fished up by thor, and hel, ruler of the dead. three roots spread three ways under the ash yggdrasil. hel is under the first, frost-giants under the second, mankind under the last. the lay of grimnir loki, the trickster god capable of good and evil, loki is an

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61. the emperor. rules the whole of aries. stars. legs of aries, part of body of taurus, head and fore-part of cetus, part of fornax and of eridanus. 62. the hierophant. rules the whole of taurus. 600 the golden dawn: volume n book eight <227> stars. head and forepart of taurus the bull. the bull sent by neptune to frighten the horses of sol and those of the hippolytus. the greater part of orion the giant, and hunter. the beginning of the river eridanus into which phaeton was hurled when attempting to drive the horses of the sun, greater part of lepus, the hare. 63. the lovers. rule the whole of gemini. stars. legs of castor and pollux, the gemini, canis minor, a small part of cancer. the whole of monoceros, the unicorn, except the hind-quarters. head and forepart of canis major, the grea

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and nameless one. the work is the preparation for and concludes only with the great work- which in itself is but a new beginning, having fulfilled the challenge set forth in the statement of leviathan.(5) for this reason it would not be inappropriate to call the initiates of xem "alxemists" initiation is the preparation for the work toward finding the philosopher's stone- xem! initiation then is the giant step toward true understanding of the mysteries and secrets of xem. xem's foundation is in the abstract. to the uninitiated, xem will always be veiled in mystery and will seem to them very much like the second foundation did to outsiders in asimov's foundation trilogy. and they won't be entirely wrong. as was true of the orders and temples of ancient egypt and greece, there must be two v

l through time and hint at our journey into setamorphosis. hear now the thoughts that we have captured out of the void. 12. shades [the celebrant will ring the bell once before each shade recites] shade# 1- imhotep i am the shade of imhotep, son of ptah and nut. my realm was memphis, where the triad of ptah, sekhmet, and nefertum-imhotep dwelled. i later became the greek aesculapius. i am seed of the giants of old who dwelled in greater kingdoms than yours. i brought with my heredity knowledge and crafts of all the sciences. i gave to khem my stepped pyramid for which zozier's peace was never realized. i gave to the ancients medicine and my calendar. my architecture was later taught to the greeks and foreigners from the far reaches of my kingdom. today even you study my edifices of old wit

ameter, flanking the sides of the throne-chair are large braziers which have a small flame burning within them. regardless of this, the room is remarkably well lit. at the base of the raised platform rests several sheets of paper and two pens. i walk to where the paper lies and sit down upon the warm floor. i place the paper upon my lap and pick up one of the pens. as i raise my eyes to look upon the giant pentagram i notice a yellow haze- almost a cloud- slowly develop in front of the throne chair. a shape not yet fully defined begins to appear inside the cloud; i am also aware of a series of low tones filling the air. the braziers flash brightly for a second, and then return to their low burning. the shape within the cloud begins to solidify, and before me stands a figure i am now able t

ffers. ptah: i easily see the beauty in line and color, and i remember some of the laws of geometry. the message at present eludes me. set: do not be too concerned about the message: we shall discuss the message a little, but an in-depth discussion shall be between myself and my magi. ptah: i understand. set: i know that you do. now let us return our attention to the golden section. the images on the giant card now vanish leaving in their place a single giant triangle. set: this triangle is a phi triangle. what has come to be known as the pythagorean triangle in your time. this line ac, is one-half the length of this line ab. the angle is defined as 90 degrees making this a right triangle. this triangle must be laid out with precision as all the remaining measurements are dependent upon th

, and enough time to pursue working magic, studying the black arts, rock climbing, swimming, running, cycling, whatever else i will, as much as i choose. i thor hold the hammer of the north, and also groud the hammer of hell. in the northern cosmic universe, the sky was made from the skull of a felled giant, therefore defining a limit or end of the u(u)niverse. i hold the hammer with which i slay the giants of unconsciousness, with which i split wide a great mountain in a test of strength. i aim it at the area of the cosmic egg, the limiting u(u)niverse, where i determine the crack of strong direction, and its split called "apathy" lie. i thor, the giants' bane, swing my hammer, and strike this crack with the force of ur, the primal fire, and with the power of sowilo, with every bit of str

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fight scene set at the point on cape comorin where it seems that three oceans are truly smashing into one another. three sets of waves rolled in from the west east south and collided in a mighty clapping of watery hands just as gibreel took a punch on the jaw, perfect timing, and he passed out on the spot, falling backwards into tri-oceanic spume. he did not get up. to begin with everybody blamed the giant english stunt-man eustace brown, who had delivered the punch. he protested vehemently. was he not the same fellow who had performed opposite chief minister n. t. rama rao in his many theological movie roles? had he not perfected the art of making the old man look good in combat without hurting him? had he ever complained that ntr never pulled his punches, so that he, eustace, invariably

f time: this was matilda, the australien, and there were the three grotesquely pneumatic, singing space sirens known as the alien korns, maybe because you could lie down among them, and there was a team of venusian hip-hoppers and subway spraypainters and soul-brothers who called themselves the alien nation, and under a bed in the spaceship that was the programme's main location there lived bugsy the giant dung-beetle from the crab nebula who had run away from his father, and in a fish-tank you could find brains the super-intelligent giant abalone who liked eating chinese, and then there was ridley, the most terrifying of the regular cast, who looked like a francis bacon painting" of a mouthful of teeth waving at the end of a sightless pod, and who had an obsession with the actress sigourn

m hit, stands above the treasury well, hubal the shepherd, the waxing crescent moon; also, glowering, dangerous kain. he is the waning crescent, blacksmith and musician; he, too, has his devotees. hubal and kain look down on grandee and poet as they stroll. and the nabataean proto-dionysus, he-of-shara; the morning star, astarte, and saturnine nakruh. here is the sun god, manaf! look, there flaps the giant nasr, the god in eagleform! see quzah, who holds the rainbow. is this not a glut of gods, a stone flood, to feed the glutton hunger of the pilgrims, to quench their unholy thirst. the deities, to entice the travellers, come- like the pilgrims- from far and wide. the idols, too, are delegates to a kind of international fair. there is a god here called allah (means simply, the god. ask the

demand "who the hell are you? how did you get in my bed- when, just in time, the memory returned "i'm hoping it's temporary" she told him. but kept to herself, even now, the appearances of maurice wilson's ghost on the rooftops surrounding the fields, waving his inviting arm. o o o she was a competent woman, formidable in many ways: very much the professional sportswoman of the 1980s, a client of the giant macmurray public relations agency, sponsored to the gills. nowadays she, too, appeared in advertisements, promoting her own range of outdoor products and leisurewear, aimed at holidaymakers and amateurs more than pro climbers, to maximize what hal valance would have called the universe. she was the golden girl from the roof of the world, the survivor of "my teutonic twosome, as otto cone

notion where that husband of yours has gotten to- which pamela answered, with english awkwardness _yes er but. mimi got the whole story out of her in less than half an hour, which wasn't bad, and concluded triumphantly "sounds like your life is looking up, pam. bring "em both; bring anyone. it's going to be quite a circus) the location for the party was another of sisodia's inexplicable triumphs: the giant sound stage at the shepperton film studios had been procured, apparently at no cost, and the guests would be able, therefore, to take their pleasures in the huge re-creation of dickensian london that stood within. a musical adaptation of the great writer's last completed novel, renamed _friend, with book and lyrics by the celebrated genius of the musical stage, mr. jeremy bentham, had pr

home. o o o moths had eaten the punkahs of peristan and the library had been consumed by a billion hungry worms. when he turned on the taps, snakes oozed out instead of water, and creepers had twined themselves around the four-poster bed in which viceroys had once slept. it was as if time had accelerated in his absence, and centuries had somehow elapsed instead of months, so that when he touched the giant persian carpet rolled up in the ballroom it crumbled under his hand, and the baths were full of frogs with scarlet eyes. at night there were jackals howling on the wind. the great tree was dead, or close to death, and the fields were barren as the desert; the gardens of peristan, in which, long ago, he first saw a beautiful young girl, had long ago yellowed into ugliness. vultures were t

im that he was starving to death, because he could smell his body reeking of nail-varnish remover; but as he felt neither hungry nor thirsty, he decided there was no point bothering to find food. for what? much better to rock in this chair, and not think, not think, not think. on the last night of his life he heard a noise like a giant crushing a forest beneath his feet, and smelled a stench like the giant's fart, and he realized that the tree was burning. he got out of his chair and staggered dizzily down to the garden to watch the fire, whose flames were consuming histories, memories, genealogies, purifying the earth, and coming towards him to set him free- because the wind was blowing the fire towards the grounds of the mansion, so soon enough, soon enough, it would be his turn. he saw

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the dimensions may pass. it matters little. the procedures and results are the same. through the study of the angelic and demonic forms, we can begin to see the traces of a strange evolution of belief. what began on the whole as spirits of nature grew to become the gods of the pagan age. these in turn were reinterpreted and demonised as one culture dominated another. the most ancient gods become the giants and titans, whilst younger conquering religions build new temples. these in turn became subjugated to monothiesm, and their nature is reinterpreted yet again. in our modern day we no longer like to speak of god or the devil, and perhaps even feel a slight embarrassment at the superstitions of our forebears. instead we are more comfortable to reduce such ideas to psychological concepts

how he and the fallen came to be. his name probably derives from the egyptian horus. hecate (greek. triple headed queen of sorcery, who dwells where the roads meet. known also as enodia, trioditus, and antaia, she who encounters you. identified in some witch traditions as the mother of lucifer. hel (old norse. the queen of the underworld, and the name of the realm itself. the daughter of loki and the giantess angrboda, sister of fenrir and the midgard serpent. even the gods must tread the way of hel. helel ben shachar (hebrew, morning star, shining one. the phrase as it appears in the original hebrew, isaiah 14:12. thus taken to be a name of lucifer. heramael (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. teaches the art of medicine, gives absolute knowledge of all diseases, with th

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ndfather, a cane to walk with and a people s heart; and by your powers you shall make it blossom. then when he had been still a little while to hear the birds sing, he spoke again: behold the earth! so i looked down and saw it lying yonder like a hoop of peoples, and in the center bloomed the holy stick that was a tree, and where it stood there crossed two roads, a red one and a black. from where the giant lives (the north) to where you always face (the south) the red road goes, the road of good, the grandfather said, and on it shall your nation walk. the black road goes from where the thunder beings live (the west) to where the sun continually shines (the east, a fearful road, a road of troubles and of war. on this also you shall walk, and from it you shall have the power to destroy a peo

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to the lower ones, and that is why it is written and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. d vy is perfect and not is perfect. yod y on its own is one hundred. and if two letters are put, twice reckoned and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. yod y, on its own, when manifest in the small one, extends into 10,000 years. thus it is written and you have placed upon me your hand.141 the giants were in the earth.142 this is that which is written: and from there it was parted and became four heads.143 from the place whence the garden was parted, it is called the giants, as it is written: and from there it was parted. they were in the earth in those days. but not afterwards. when yehoshua came. and the sons of elohim were hidden,144 when solomon came, and the daughters of adam w

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

norman; there gleam the columns of capua, above the vulturnian stream. hail to ye, cornfields and vineyards famous for the old falernian! hail to ye, golden orange-groves of mola di gaeta! hail to ye, sweet shrubs and wild flowers, omnis copia narium, that clothe the mountainskirts of the silent lautulae! shall we rest at the volscian anxur, the modern terracina, where the lofty rock stands like the giant that guards the last borders of the southern land of love? away, away! and hold your breath as we flit above the pontine marshes. dreary and desolate, their miasma is to the gardens we have passed what the rank commonplace of life is to the heart when it has left love behind. mournful campagna, thou openest on us in majestic sadness. rome, seven-hilled rome! receive us as memory receives

s of war. can you guess that to these italian shores, to the old circaean promontory, came the wise from the farthest east, to search for plants and simples which your pharmacists of the counter would fling from them as weeds? the first herbalists the master chemists of the world were the tribe that the ancient reverence called by the name of titans (syncellus, page 14 "chemistry the invention of the giants) i remember once, by the hebrus, in the reign of but this talk" said zanoni, checking himself abruptly, and with a cold smile "serves only to waste your time and my own" he paused, looked steadily at glyndon, and continued "young man, think you that vague curiosity will supply the place of earnest labour? i read your heart. you wish to know me, and not this humble herb: but pass on; you

t wild and magnificent gloom of nature which frowned on him from the canvas, the very leaves on those gnome-like, distorted trees seemed to rustle sibylline secrets in his ear. those rugged and sombre apennines, the cataract that dashed between, suited, more than the actual scenes would have done, the mood and temper of his mind. the stern, uncouth forms at rest on the crags below, and dwarfed by the giant size of the matter that reigned around them, impressed him with the might of nature and the littleness of man. as in genius of the more spiritual cast, the living man, and the soul that lives in him, are studiously made the prominent image; and the mere accessories of scene kept down, and cast back, as if to show that the exile from paradise is yet the monarch of the outward world, so, i

d at resina. here they quitted their horses, and took mules and a guide. as the sky grew darker and more dark, the mountain fire burned with an intense lustre. in various streaks and streamlets, the fountain of flame rolled down the dark summit, and the englishmen began to feel increase upon them, as they ascended, that sensation of solemnity and awe which makes the very atmosphere that surrounds the giant of the plains of the antique hades. it was night, when, leaving the mules, they ascended on foot, accompanied by their guide, and a peasant who bore a rude torch. the guide was a conversable, garrulous fellow, like most of his country and his calling; and mervale, who possessed a sociable temper, loved to amuse or to instruct himself on every incidental occasion "ah, excellency" said the

ed to him of the mystery of sympathies and attractions. he was about to enter into the same law as those mute children of the forests. he was to know the renewal of life; the seasons that chilled to winter should yet bring again the bloom and the mirth of spring. man's common existence is as one year to the vegetable world: he has his spring, his summer, his autumn, and winter, but only once. but the giant oaks round him go through a revolving series of verdure and youth, and the green of the centenarian is as vivid in the beams of may as that of the sapling by its side "mine shall be your spring, but not your winter" exclaimed the aspirant. wrapped in these sanguine and joyous reveries, glyndon, quitting the woods, found himself amidst cultivated fields and vineyards to which his footstep

them on. tramp! tramp! over the craven and scattered crowd! here, flying in disorder, there, trampled in the mire, the shrieking rescuers! and amidst them, stricken by the sabres of the guard, her long hair bloodbedabbled, lies the italian woman; and still upon her writhing lips sits joy, as they murmur "clarence! i have not destroyed thee" on to the barriere du trone. it frowns dark in the air, the giant instrument of murder! one after one to the glaive, another and another and another! mercy! o mercy! is the bridge between the sun and the shades so brief, brief as a sigh? there, there, his turn has come "die not yet; leave me not behind; hear me hear me" shrieked the inspired sleeper "what! and thou smilest still" they smiled, those pale lips, and with the smile, the place of doom, the

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ordered it to be deposited in the temple of god. and i ordered another spirit to come before me [1. cp. john ii. 6] 70. and there came before my face another enslaved spirit, having obscurely the form of a man, with gleaming eyes, and bearing in his hand a blade. and i asked "who art thou? but he answered "i am a lascivious spirit, engendered of a giant man who dies in the massacre in the time of the giants" i said to him "tell me what thou art employed on upon earth, and where thou hast thy dwelling" 71. and he said "my dwelling is in fruitful places, but my procedure is this. i seat myself beside the men who pass along among the tombs, and in untimely season i assume the form of the dead; and if i catch any one, i at once destroy him with my sword. but if i cannot destroy him, i cause hi

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here he and wife yoko ono lived. it was at the gothic dakota house condominium complex that the deeply satanic movie, rosemary's baby, was filmed. the crowd at a boxing match at austin convention center, austin, texas (photo: page 1 of austin american statesman newspaper, august 16, 2003 "el diablo" shows his horns-the devil rides out 143 canadian ross rebagliati celebrates his gold medal, won in the giant slalom event at the '98 winter olympics (usa today, february 9, 1998, p. e1) 144 codex magica tour de france champion bicyclist lance armstrong gestures heavenward with the index finger of his left hand while, with his right hand, armstrong seems to be beckoning to a strange god known in the bible as the "prince of the power of the air" lance armstrong is a resident of austin, texas, and

ber 20, 1999) had this rather unusual photograph picturing two compusa e-commerce subsidiary managers, michael laskoff (left) and stephen polly. the caption and article gave no clue as to why the two men are crossing their legs("x) nor was there an explanation for the bizarre staging of what should have been your usual, stock business photo. james erwin, vice chairman of bank of america, heads up the giant financial institution's dallas, texas, operations. is the "x" crossing of his legs just a "good old boy" gesture or an illuminist fraternal sign? 218 codex magica allen ginsberg, in an enigmatic example of the x. with this photopublished in the obituary column of newsweek (december 22, 1997! there was no caption, only ginsberg's laudatory obit. the magazine touted ginsberg's "genius" and

black muslims while giving the masonic sign. both malcolm x and black muslim leader louis farrakhan were initiated into the 33rd degree of prince hall freemasonry, an order exclusively made up of african ethnics. 444 codex magica magical signs of the jewish cabala 445 446 codex magica edgar bronfman, jr, son of billionaire edgar bronfman, sr, head of the world jewish congress, is ceo of seagram, the giant liquor and entertainment industry conglomerate. seagram's logo is subtly placed on the wall and includes a white horse (shades of revelation 6) and other interesting features (photo: usa today, december 14, 1998) in cabala, the sacred tree of the sephiroth is claimed to represent the cosmos, including god (male, his shekinah (anna, the goddess/female, and the kingdom of zion. as shown he

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with a great military victory over the ammonites, but he, who had once been a humble man, allowed his early successes to go to his head. when it becomes apparent to king saul that david, once a mere shepherd boy whose musical talents eased his troubled mind, has found favor in god s eyes and will soon claim the throne of israel, saul tries to kill him. but david has evolved from the boy who slew the giant warrior goliath with a sling-shot and the giant 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 a

the claimed ability of swedenborg to communicate with angels and spirits as heresy at worst and insanity at best, he barely noticed such criticism and continued to write book after book and do god s work as it was specially revealed to him. while critics of steiner were astonished by the depths of his scholarship, they were appalled by his belief in atlantis and his suggestions that the seeds of the giants of old are ripening in certain modern humans, and that he went on to establish a model of scholastic education that thrives to this day. when blavatsky, bailey, and besant insisted that their wisdom was being astrally communicated to them by great mahatmas and masters in india, they ignored the psychical researchers who cried fraud, and continued to build the theosophical society, which

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ve been extinct for 65 million years until one was caught off the coast of south africa in 1938. since that time, more than 200 have turned up in fishnets from indonesia to kenya. 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 58 mysterious creatures if the coelacanth survived for over 380 million years, cryptozoologists maintain, why couldn t certain of the giants from the relatively recent jurassic era, roughly 150 million years ago, be hiding in our deepest forests, seas, and lakes? michael shermer, founder of the skeptics society and author of why people believe weird things (1997, says that people believe in monsters and other things that go bump in the night because they satisfy a human search for significance and a desire to have meaning in

ightening encounters with hairy giants stories that they had repressed for decades for fear of being ridiculed. not to be outdone, canadians began telling of their own startling encounters with sasquatch, a tribal name for bigfoot, that had been circulating in the accounts of trappers, lumberjacks, and settlers in the northwest territories since the 1850s. long before the frontier folk discovered the giant of the woods, the sasquatch had become an integral element in many of the myths and legends of the native people. perhaps the most remarkable and most thoroughly documented account of a sasquatch from those early days in canada occurred in 1884 and was recorded in the daily british colonist, july 4, 1884. in the immediate vicinity of number 4 tunnel, 20 miles from yale, british columbia

k ape peeping in their windows at night. others said that they had had garbage cans upset by a huge creature that retreated into the night when they clicked on yardlights. the more observant eyewitnesses described the nocturnal marauder as standing between six and seven feet tall and weighing somewhere between 300 and 400 pounds. nearly every witness mentioned the terrible stench that accompanied the giant intruder. according to some of its pursuers, the creature lives in muddy and abandoned alligator caves deep in the steamy everglades swamp. the alligators leave the rotting remains of their kills behind to putrefy in the heat of their hideaways, and the skunk apes absorb the stench into their hair, thus accounting for their awful smell. although the skunk ape is said to be primarily a ve

doned alligator caves deep in the steamy everglades swamp. the alligators leave the rotting remains of their kills behind to putrefy in the heat of their hideaways, and the skunk apes absorb the stench into their hair, thus accounting for their awful smell. although the skunk ape is said to be primarily a vegetarian and often steals produce from area gardens, everglades hunters claim to have seen the giant kill a deer and split open its belly to get at the liver and entrails. in 1980, large footprints, complete with the impression of toes, were found in the ocala national forest. the sheriff s department estimated that the unknown creature that had made the prints was about 10 feet tall and weighed around 1,000 pounds. on monday evening, july 21, 1997, vince doerr, chief of the ochopee fir

2. freddy krueger, the slayer of teenagers with the razor-sharp metal talons on his fingers, from a nightmare on elm street (1984. 3. the frankenstein monster, the original version with boris karloff, frankenstein (1931. 4. godzilla, the prehistoric giant reptile that spews radioactive rays and stomps cities to rubble, from the original japanese film, godzilla of the monsters (1954. 5. king kong, the giant ape, from the original king kong (1933. 6. chucky, the possessed, murderous doll, from child s play (1988. 7. michael myers, the masked murderer, who is described in the film halloween (1978. 8. hannibal lecter, the erudite, cannibalistic serial killer from the silence of the lambs (1991. 9. jason, the unstoppable monster in the hockey mask, from friday the 13th (1980. 10. the alien, the

served concerning some of the monsters reported roaming the forests and jungles. in recent decades a large number of animals previously unrecognized by the experts, although well-known to the aboriginal inhabitants of the locales that were the creatures natural habitat, have been officially discovered. although hunters in kamchatka, manchuria, and sakhalin had long been telling excited stories of the giant carnivorous brown bear they had encountered, european scientists did not accept the existence of the bear until 1898. the largest land animal next to the african elephant is the white rhinoceros, which remained officially unacknowledged 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 mysterious creatures 85 until 1900. the largest of the apes, th

re exists a brownishgray, elephant-sized creature with a reptilian tail and a long, flexible neck. the native people call it mokele-mbembe( the one who stops the flow of rivers) or emela-ntuka( the one who eats the tops of trees. in 1980, dr. roy mackal led an expedition into african swamps that are mokey s hangouts and stated later that the descriptions of the beast would fit that of a sauropod, the giant plant-eating reptile that supposedly became extinct about 60 million years ago. j. richard greenwell, an expedition member from tucson, arizona, told of having discovered huge tracks that led into the likouala river. in his opinion, no animal smaller than an elephant could have left such a path through the thickets near the river, and, greenwell noted, elephants always leave an exit trai

rs from a time even before the age of reptiles. then, after nearly 200 of the supposedly extinct living fossils had been discovered on the southeast african coast, the fourth coelacanth, a female almost five and a half feet long, was caught off the coast of madagascar in march 2001. if a number of coelacanth, whose species preceded the dinosaurs, have survived, why not some aquatic descendants of the giant reptiles? a popular theory to explain the existence of sea monsters is that they may be survivors of one of the giant reptiles of the mesozoic age. philip gosse, the famous nineteenthcentury naturalist, was an avid exponent of the possibility that plesiosaurs could still be thriving in the earth s oceans. while the mesozoic age ended tens of millions of years ago, he argued, there was no

e dark ages. the discovery of even just a few of these great reptiles would have given rise to a far-reaching legend. a more palatable theory is that the ancient historians were actually describing huge snakes such as the python, which often reaches a length of more than 30 feet. a number of dragon stories from the middle ages tell how the dragon wound itself about its prey and slowly crushed it. the giant snake theory does not account for descriptions of the dragon s feet or its ability to walk on all fours, but some species of giant lizard, such as the komodo dragon, attains a length of 10 12 feet. the komodo presently resides in the east indies, but in ancient times, it is possible that st. george and his fellow dragon-killers might have fought some unknown species of monster lizard in

ve proof for the existence of dragons. it is 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 88 mysterious creatures lynne cherry s illustration from the dragon and the unicorn (harcourt, inc) afew scientists hold the theory that a number of dinosaurs might have survived into the age of man. likely that the bones of the mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, and the giant cave bear were not that uncommon in early europe. the tusk of the mammoth was often called for in the recipes of medieval love potions. in the marketplace of the austrian city of klagenfurt, there is a statue of a giant killing a dragon. the dragon s head has quite obviously been modeled on the skull of a woolly rhinoceros. the connection can be proven by the fact that old records note t

ters that the sea serpent was black, smooth rather than scaly, with a pointed head, small eyes, and a white line around its mouth. 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 94 mysterious creatures sea serpent (mary evans picture library) 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 mysterious creatures 95 the giant squid, one of the most terrifying monsters of the sea, has never been seen alive. a member of the class cephalopoda, which includes the octopus and the nautilus, the giant squid is the largest invertebrate in the world. the statement that the monster has never been seen alive should be amended to read that no marine zoologist or other scientist has been able to observe the giant squid in

e should be amended to read that no marine zoologist or other scientist has been able to observe the giant squid in its natural habitat. the huge creature, commonly known as the kraken, has been reported throughout nautical history. there have been frightening reports of people snatched from their boats or the seashore by the tentacles of the kraken, numerous sightings of whales being attacked by the giant squid, and stories of entire ships being pulled beneath the surface by a beast with tentacles more than 200 feet long. some scholars of marine lore insist that the great giant squid fight scene in jules verne s (1828 1905) 20,000 leagues under the sea (1870) was based on an actual encounter with a kraken that involved the french battleship alecton in 1861. on a weekend in july 2002, earl

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new york: meridian books, 1960. enochian magick the apocryphal book of enoch told of the order of angels called gwatchers, h or gthe sleepless ones. h the leader of the watchers was called semjaza (in other places, azazel, the name of one of the hebrews f principal demons, who led 200 watchers down to earth to take wives from among the daughters of men. it was from such a union that the nephilim, the giants, the heroes of old, as well as the ancient practitioners of sorcery, were born. the fallen angels taught their wives to cast various spells and to practice the arts of enchantment. they imparted to the women the lore of plants and the properties of certain roots. semjaza did not neglect human men, teaching them how to manufacture weapons and tools of destruction. in enochian magick, the

entists and science fiction writers. jules verne (1828. 1905) published journey to the center of the earth (1864, in which characters enter the earth fs interior through the chimney of an inactive volcano in iceland. in 1873, the coming race, a novel by the occultist edward bulwer-lytton (1831.1891, was set in the earth fs interior, where an advanced civilization of giants thrived. in this story, the giants had built a paradise and discovered a form of energy so powerful that they outlawed its use as a potential weapon. the paradise is threatened, nevertheless; not by weapons, but by a lack of conflict that has resulted in general boredom. one of the more interesting variations on the hollow earth theory during the late nineteenth century was expounded by cyrus read teed (1830.1908. in the

unt, merlin was asked by ambrosius aurelianus, brother of uther pendragon and uncle of king arthur, to erect a monument to commemorate the site where several hundred british nobles were murdered by saxons. merlin used magic to transport the stones from ireland, where they had been erected in the form of stonehenge after having been brought from africa by giants. the formation of stones was called the giants dance. later theories emerged to overshadow geoffrey fs tale. stonehenge was credited as the work of the mycenae, a civilization that thrived in the aegean sea area of the eastern mediterranean region before the rise of greece in the first millennium b.c.e. the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 272 places of mystery and power mycen

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

p heat which ripens the harvest, it rapidly develops the principles of life and the principles of death, it kills and it vivifies. it is like the angel of the judgment who separates the wicked from the good. civilization transforms men of good will into angels of light, and lowers the selfish man beneath the brute; it is the corruption of bodies and the emancipation of souls. the impious world of the giants raised to heaven the soul of enoch; above the bacchanals of primitive greece rises the harmonious spirit of orpheus. socrates and pythagoras, plato and aristotle, resume, in explaining them, all the aspirations and all the glories of the ancient world; the fables of homer remain truer than history, and nothing remains to us of the grandeur of rome 56 but the immortal writings which the

days afterwards, the professor of transcendental magic was awakened, about two o'clock in the morning, by an acute pain in the head. for some moments he feared a cerebral congestion. he therefore rose, relit his lamp, opened his window, walked to and fro in his study, and then, calmed by the fresh air of the morning, he lay down again, and slept deeply. he had a nightmare: he saw, terribly real, the giant with the fleshless ox's head of which the workman had spoken to him. the monster pursued him, and struggled with him. when he woke up, it was already day, and somebody was knocking at his door. eliphas rose, threw on a dressing- gown, and opened; it was the workman "master" said he, entering hastily, and with an alarmed air "how are you "very well" replied eliphas "but last night, at two

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roke into a vivid story about a man who could fly in the air. hunters often saw his tracks, tracks that appeared suddenly and vanished suddenly, in such a. way that they could only be possible if the "man" alighted on the ground, then took off again into the air. in mexico there are stories of the ikals, tiny black men endowed with the power of flight who live in caves and kidnap humans. in india the giant bird known as the garuda is an important part of the mythology. the gods vishnu and krishna traveled around the heavens on the back of a great garuda. north american indians have extensive legends about the thunderbird, a huge bird said to carry off children and old people. it was accompanied by loud noises, hums, buzzes and, apparently, rumbles from the infrasonic and ultrasonic levels

explanations in the society's journal, doubt. obviously the government was determined to cover up the true facts in this new situation. mystics and cranks quickly appeared, explaining the phenomenon as the work of people from outer space. the press gave the sensation a two-week run, then went back to the intricacies of the cold war. no one, not even the beady-eyed forteans, paid much attention to the giant birds and machines with flapping wings that returned to our skies in 1948. early in january 1948, mrs. bernard zailowski reported seeing a "sizzing and whizzing" man with silver wings maneuvering about 200 feet above her barn in chehalis, washington. the air force scoffed. four months later, two laundry workers in longview, washington, about forty miles south of chehalis, claimed to see

es an hour. as it drew closer they realized it was not a plane but was some kind of enormous bird with an unusually long neck. it seemed to be turning its head from side to side as if it were taking in the scenery. the wings were not flapping "my god! it's something prehistoric" one of the men cried. everett wedge grabbed his camera and sprinted to his small plane. but by the time he was airborne the giant creature had vanished somewhere sown river. three days later, on december 7, i arrived in point pleasant for the first time. i found a sleepy little town, clean, well-managed, prosperous. the ohio valley is a busy industrial area and the river is lined with chemical factories and thriving businesses. it is a far cry from the dreary coal mining towns of appalachia further east. the neat

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id, we be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. 13:32 and they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the page 87 numbers children of israel, saying, the land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it [are] men of a great stature. 13:33 and there we saw the giants, the sons of anak [which come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. 14:1 and all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 14:2 and all the children of israel murmured against moses and against aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, would god that we had died in the land of egypt!

non, and from the middle of the river, and from half gilead, even unto the river jabbok [which is] the border of the children of ammon; 12:3 and from the plain to the sea of chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain [even] the salt sea on the east, the way to beth-jeshimoth; and from the south, under ashdoth-pisgah: 12:4 and the coast of og king of bashan [which was] of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at ashtaroth and at edrei, 12:5 and reigned in mount hermon, and in salcah, and in all bashan, unto the border of the geshurites and the maachathites, and half gilead, the border of sihon king of heshbon. 12:6 them did moses the servant of the lord and the children of israel smite: and moses the servant of the lord gave it [for] a possession unto the reubenites, and the gadi

iver, and all the plain of medeba unto dibon; 13:10 and all the cities of sihon king of the amorites, which reigned in heshbon, unto the border of the children of ammon; 13:11 and gilead, and the border of the geshurites and maachathites, and all mount hermon, and all bashan unto salcah; 13:12 all the kingdom of og in bashan, which reigned in ashtaroth and in edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did moses smite, and cast them out. 13:13 nevertheless the children of israel expelled not the geshurites, nor the maachathites: but the geshurites and the maachathites dwell among the israelites until this day. 13:14 only unto the tribe of levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the lord god of israel made by fire [are] their inheritance, as he said unto them. 13:15

s] on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of en-shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at en-rogel: 15:8 and the border went up by the valley of the son of hinnom unto the south side of the jebusite; the same [is] jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that [lieth] before the valley of hinnom westward, which [is] at the end of the valley of the giants northward: 15:9 and the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount ephron; and the border was drawn to baalah, which [is] kirjathjearim: 15:10 and the border compassed from baalah westward unto mount seir, and passed along unto the side of mount jearim, which [is] chesalon, on the north side, and went down to

not utterly drive them out. 17:14 and the children of joseph spake unto joshua, saying, why hast thou given me [but] one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing i [am] a great people, forasmuch as the lord hath blessed me hitherto? 17:15 and joshua answered them, if thou [be] a great people [then] get thee up to the wood [country] and cut down for thyself there in the land of the perizzites and of the giants, if mount ephraim be too narrow for thee. 17:16 and the children of joseph said, the hill is not enough for us: and all the canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron [both they] who [are] of beth-shean and her towns, and [they] who [are] of the valley of jezreel. 17:17 and joshua spake unto the house of joseph [even] to ephraim and to manasseh, saying, thou [

kirjath-baal, which [is] kirjath- jearim, a city of the children of judah: this [was] the west quarter. 18:15 and the south quarter [was] from the end of kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of nephtoah: 18:16 and the border came down to the end of the mountain that [lieth] before the valley of the son of hinnom [and] which [is] in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of hinnom, to the side of jebusi on the south, and descended to en-rogel, 18:17 and was drawn from the north, and went forth to en-shemesh, and went forth toward geliloth, which [is] over against the going up of adummim, and descended to the stone of bohan the son of reuben, 18:18 and passed along toward the side over against arabah northward, a

buried they in the country of benjamin in zelah, in the sepulchre of kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. and after that god was intreated for the land. 21:15 moreover the philistines had yet war again with israel; and david went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the philistines: and david waxed faint. 21:16 and ishbi-benob, which [was] of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear [weighed] three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword] thought to have slain david. 21:17 but abishai the son of zeruiah succoured him, and smote the philistine, and killed him. then the men of david sware unto him, saying, thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of israel. 21:18 and it came

david. 21:17 but abishai the son of zeruiah succoured him, and smote the philistine, and killed him. then the men of david sware unto him, saying, thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of israel. 21:18 and it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the philistines at gob: then sibbechai the hushathite slew saph, which [was] of the sons of the giant. 21:19 and there was again a battle in gob with the philistines, where elhanan the son of jaare-oregim, a bethlehemite, slew [the brother of] goliath the gittite, the staff of whose spear [was] like a weaver s beam. 21:20 and there was yet a battle in gath, where was a man of [great] stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and h

d there was again a battle in gob with the philistines, where elhanan the son of jaare-oregim, a bethlehemite, slew [the brother of] goliath the gittite, the staff of whose spear [was] like a weaver s beam. 21:20 and there was yet a battle in gath, where was a man of [great] stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. 21:21 and when he defied israel, jonathan the son of shimeah the brother of david slew him. 21:22 these four were born to the giant in gath, and fell by the hand of david, and by the hand of his servants. 22:1 and david spake unto the lord the words of this song in the day [that] the lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of saul: 22:2 and he said

he brought out the people that [were] in it, and cut [them] with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. even so dealt david with all the cities of the children of ammon. and david and all the people returned to jerusalem. 20:4 and it came to pass after this, that there arose war at gezer with the philistines; at which time sibbechai the hushathite slew sippai [that was] of the children of the giant: and they were subdued. 20:5 and there was war again with the philistines; and elhanan the son of jair slew lahmi the brother of goliath the gittite, whose spear staff [was] like a weaver s beam. 20:6 and yet again there was war at gath, where was a man of [great] stature, whose fingers and toes [were] four and twenty, six [on each hand] and six [on each foot] and he also was the son of

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are so entangled in the accounts we have of him, that it is scarcely possible to separate them. he appears however, like all the other gods, to have been originally a personified attribute of the sun. the eleventh of the orphic hymns2 is addressed to him as the strength and power of the sun; and macrobius says that he was thought to be the strength and virtue of the gods, by which they destroyed the giants; and that, according to varro, the mars and hercules of the romans were the same deity, and worshipped with the same rites.3 according to varro then, whose authority is perhaps the greatest that can be cited, hercules was the destroying attribute represented in a human form, instead of that of a lion, tiger, or hippopotamus. hence the terrible picture drawn of him by homer, which always

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valent to the chakra located at the lower bowel, which has been linked in this work with yesod and the planet saturn (see chapter 14. t. earth is a mixture of the three higher elements, or more precisely, is their pre- i cipitate in the physical world. the elemental earth principle is used to empower* the three higher elements. it is significant that in the myth of hercules where the god wrestles the giant named antaeus, the giant gains his immense physical power from his repeated contacts with his mother, the earth. hercules only defeats antaeus by holding him aloft and crushing him. here is a lesson for the magus, who will take care that his or her earth center is never cut off when employing the weapons, as this will deprive them of all their power. the following is an exercise designed

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g at the tops of their voices. most of them are drunk. the townspeople watch them with amusement from the sidewalks. now and then, the painted revelers seize one of the onlookers and refuse to release him until he ransoms his freedom with a coin. when the procession reaches the town square, the chains are symbolically struck off the necks of the naked man and woman by an imp wielding a sword, and the giant devilish figure is set on fire. the ruling intelligence is pan, god of nature. the flutes invoke his presence at the celebration in the form of a goat that is led along after the statue. for the price of a coin, the masked revelers will let you ask your questions of the goat, who will bleat to indicate an affirmative response. xvi the blasted tower hebrew letter: pe (mouth) correspondenc

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

xception among the inverted letters is the inverted l that occurs at the bottom of the last column of the mph, arsl, gaiol watchtower. this letter begins the set of three spirit names numbered 28 to 30, derived from the upper and right arms on the black cross that runs through the center of the great table. since each spirit name must have seven letters, and since there are only twenty letters in the giant l of the black cross, the inverted l must be placed at the head of the first of these three names: l;exarph, comanan, tabitom. the importance of these geographical spirits is not generally recognized among enochian scholars. these are the spirits promised to dee by the angels that were to allow him to rule over the sovereigns of all the world for the greater glory of his own queen elizab

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

as of the perceptions of the soul, and consequently liable to pain as well as pleasure, and to such other appetites and affections, as flow from their various combinations. such affections, however, have a greater power and influence over some of them than over others, just as there are different degrees of virtue and vice found in these daemons as well as in mankind. in like manner, the wars of the giants and the titans which are so much spoken of by the greeks, the detestable actions of kronos, the combats between apollo and the python, the flights of dionysos, and the wanderings of demeter, are exactly of the same nature as the adventures of osiris and typhon. therefore, they all are to be accounted for in the same manner, and every treatise of mythology will readily furnish us with an

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

f her. and whenever i see her, emotions of pleasure roll in my breast, and swell and burst like waves on the shores of the ocean, in prayer and praise to him who has placed me in her hand. it is thought great to be born in palaces, surrounded by wealth but to be born in nature s wide domain is greater still! i would much more glory in this birthplace, with the broad canopy of heaven above me, and the giant arms of the forest trees for my shelter, than to be born in palaces or marble, studded with pillars of gold! nature will be nature still, while palaces shall decay and fall in ruins. yes, niagara will be niagara a thousand years hence! the rainbow, a wreath over her brow, shall continue as long as the sun, and the flowing of the river while the work of art, however carefully protected an

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

is there to be seen on an old public building. sicily was anciently named trinacria, from its three promontories. three is a notable number in the mythology of the norseman. the great ash-tree ygddrasil supported the world. it had three roots, one extended into asgard, the numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott abode of the gods. one into jotenheim, the home of the giants and the third into nifleheim, the region of the unknown. the three norns (fates) attend to the root in asgard. they were urda--the past; verdandi- the present; and skulda--the future. the talmuds are crowded with quaint conceits concerning the triad and many are very curious. the ancient hebrews said there are three night watches, in the first the ass brays, in the second the dog barks

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