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ates of the cimbri, and dietmar of the northmen, will be cited later. epist. bonif 25 (ed. wlirdtw: hoc quoque inter alia crimina agi in partibus illis dixisti, quod quidam ex fidelibus ad immolandum paganis sua vemtndcnt mancipia; masters were allowed to sell slaves, and christians sold them to heathens for sacrifice. tlie captive prince graecus avar de (a) suevis pccudis more litatus (ch. xiii, the goddess zisa^ for evidences of human sacrifice among the norse, see miiller's sagabibl. 2, 560. 3, 93. as a rule, the victims were captive enemies, purchased slaves or great criminals; the sacrifice of women and children by the franks on crossing a river reminds of the greek sta^at7]pla- the first fruits of war, the first prisoner 1 adam of bremen de.'itu daniae cap. 24, of the litlinanians: d

finite or incomplete, that it is impossible to gather from them with any certainty whether the expressions used betoken the ancient cultus or one departing from it. the most weighty and significant passages relating to this part of the subject seem to be the following (see suppl: tac. germ. 40 describes the sacred grove and the worship of mother earth; when the priest in festival time has carried the goddess round among the people, he restores her to her sanctuary: satiatam conversatione mortalium deani templo reddit. tac. ann. 1, 51: caesar avidas legiones, quo latior populatio foret, quatuor in cuneos dispertit, quinquaginta millium spatium ferro flammisque pervastat; non sexus, non aetas miserationem st. benedict found at montecassino vetustissinmm fanuni, in quo ex antiqiio more gentil

ker cap. 17 makes no scruple of translating the lat. fanis by chilechon, just as bishop does duty for heathen priest as well. in the earliest times temple was retained. is. 382. 395. t. 15,4. 193,2. 209,1. diut. 1, 195^ the hut which we are to picture to ourselves under the term fanum or pirr (a.s. bur, bower) was most likely constructed of logs and twigs round the sacred tree; a wooden temple of the goddess zisa will find a place in ch. xiii. with halla and some other names w^e are compelled to think rather of a stone building. we see all the christian teachers eager to lay the axe to the sacred trees of the heathen, and fire under their temples. it would almost seem that the poor people's consent was never asked, and the rising smoke was the first thing that announced to them the broken

jettha, it would suit the locality better, and perhaps be an echo of the on. heidr. priestesses. 97 their blood in the sacrificial cauldron, appear as frightful witches by the side of the bructerian imaid; together with divination they exercise the priestly oftice. their minutely described apparel, we may suppose, resembled that of the priests. while in tac. germ. 40 it is a 'priest that attends the goddess, and guides the team of kine in her car; in the north conversely, we have handmaids waiting upon gods. from a remarkable story in the olaf tryggv. saga (fornm. sog. 2, 73 seq, which the christian composer evidently presents in an odious light, we at all events gather that in sweden a virgin attended the car of freyr on its travels among the people: frey var fengin til j?ionosto hona un

probably they contained some reference to the nature and attributes of the several deities. the model of a boat, signuni in modura liburnae figuratum (cap. 9, betokened the god of sailing, the formac aprorum (cap. 45) the god to whom the boar was consecrated; and in the like sense are to be taken the ferarum imagines on trees and at certain sacrifices (see suppl. the vehiculum veste coutectum of the goddess earth will be discussed further on. the absence of statues and temples, considering the impotence of all artistic skill at the period, is a favourable feature of the german cultus, and pleasing to contemplate. but it by no means follows that in the people's fancy the gods were destitute of a form like the human; without this, gods invested with all liuman attributes, and brought into d

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ft per se, but a contemporary neo-pagan religion. it is, however, one of the major forms of witchcraft. it began in its modern form with the teachings of gerald gardner after the repeal of the witchcraft act in 1951, though its descent can be traced to the ancient nature religions. this traditional method of wicca is quite formal, with covens using ritual tools and learned invocations emphasising the goddess and her representative, the high priestess, as their head. the goddess is the archetype or source energy of the ultimate feminine power or principle. all the named goddesses represent aspects of particular qualities of the goddess in different cultures. her consort is the horned god and his representative in the coven is the high priest. though each coven is autonomous, formal wicca fo

gs are as much part of the cycle of life as are birth and beginnings. dark and light, night and day, positive and negative, destruction and creation are two sides of the same coin, a principle that finds expression in eastern taoism and underpins the ancient chinese/ ching (the book of changes, often used for divination. negativity can be transformed into healing energies through positive ritual. the goddess is the source of all creation, from whom, in the original virgin birth, her son-consort, the horned god, came. the horned god and the goddess are the creative male and female principles that act and react, not in opposition to each other, but as complementary and necessary parts of a whole. there are variations on this idea within the teachings of wicca. some traditions consider the go

s to be of greater significance than her male counterpart. others regard them as equal, assuming different aspects according to the season and ritual: she as the earth or moon deity, ruler of the summer months, he as the sun or corn god, ruler of winter and lord of the underworld after his death. along with other nature deities, the horned god became demonised with the advent of christianity, and the goddess was either depicted as a wicked witch or downgraded to the status of a faerie. thus the celtic warrior goddess maeve became the faerie mab, described thus by mercutio in shakespeare's romeo and juliet: she is the fairy's midwife, and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate-stone on the fore-finger of an alderman. contrary to popular belief, wiccans do not 'hex (cast curses) or seek

nd lengthy rituals may act as a powerful aid to focus, but they may, equally, ignore the importance of learning through experience and the heart. witchcraft within covens a coven is a group of members of a unit of witchcraft and, in fact, can number anything from two to 13, or even more. the number 13 is traditionally designated by the 13 moon cycles that make up one year, and 13 is the number of the goddess (hence it became unlucky under christian influence. gardenerian covens generally number 13. some covens are affiliated formally or informally to specific traditions, but they increasingly unite for organisational as well as legal and political strength, particularly in australia and parts of the usa. on-line covens are also springing up and they are an excellent way for solitary practi

of evil influence on innocent minds. in my experience, nothing could be further from the truth. children of wiccans are almost invariably kind to animals and aware of environmental issues. some groups have family celebrations and no responsible parent would introduce their children to any experiences before they were ready, least of all wiccans to whom life is sacred and children the blessing of the goddess. lisa, a wiccan from berkshire, describes how her daughter has grown up 'becoming a mother has touched me more deeply than i could ever have imagined. i am sure that every mother, pagan or otherwise, has felt and appreciated the magical connection between mother and child: eyes and hearts locked together during a breast feed; waking to silence in the middle of the night, only to hear t

ABRAMELIN2

ly, from lux, light, and fugio, to fly from- he who shuns the light. leviatan: from hebrew, lvithn (usually written leviathan instead of leviatan- the crooked or piercing serpent or dragon. satan: from hebrew, shtn= an adversary. belial: from hebrew, bliol= a wicked one. the eight sub-princes. astarot: from hebrew, oshthrvth= flocks, crowds or assemblies. usually written ashtaroth. also a name of the goddess astarte; esther is derived from the same root. magot: may be from hebrew, movth= small stones or pebbles; or from mg= a changing of camp or place; or from greek, magos, a magician. usually written maguth. compare the french word magot, meaning a sort of baboon, and also a hideous dwarfish man; this expression is often used in fairy-tales to denote a spiteful dwarf or elf. this spirit h

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

ther; but she comes right down at the other end of the scale, to be a symbol of the senses themselves, the mere instrument of the registration of phenomena, incapable of discrimination, incapable of choice. the niyama corresponding to her influence, the first of all, is that quality of aspiration, the positive purity which refuses union with anything less than the all. in greek mythology artemis, the goddess of the moon, is virgin; she yielded only to pan. here is one particular lesson: as the yogi advances, magic powers (siddhi the teachers call them) are offered to the aspirant; if he accepts the least of these- or the greatest- he is lost. 15. at the other end of the scale of the niyama of the moon are the fantastic developments of sensibility which harass the yogi. these are all help a

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

he watched me and conveyed intelligence to the old magus of the well. page 7 gulf.txt now then the folly of my guardians appeared in this; that while all day i slept and languished and played idly, at night while they supposed i slept, i slept not. but i rose and gave myself to the most violent exercises. first, i would go into my bathing-pool and hold my breath beneath the water while i invoked the goddess auramoth one hundred times. next, i would walk on my hands around the room; i even succeeded in hopping on one hand. next, i would climb each of the twenty-four smooth pillars. next, i would practise the seventy-two athletic postures. also in many other ways i would strive to make my strength exceeding great; and all this i kept most secret from my guardians. at last on one night i res

e even unto her death, as latter appeared. but the veiled one was wroth with them because of this, and appeared in her glittering veil upon the steps of her temple. there she stood, and called them one by one; and she lifted but the eye-piece of her veil and looked into their eyes; and dead they fell before her as if smitten of the lightning. but those priests who were friendly to me and loyal to the goddess took that virgin courtesan, and led her in triumph through the city, veiled and crowned as is befitting. now after some days he that guarded the sacred goat of khem died, and they appointed her in his place. and she was the first woman that was thus honoured since the days of the evil queen in the eighteenth dynasty, of her that wearied of men at an age when other women have not known

t; i suppose it was quicksilver; for i remember that it was very difficult to immerse me- which is beneath the feet of the veiled one. for this is the page 9 gulf.txt secret of the oracle. standing afar off the priest beholds the reflection of her in the mirror, seeing her lips that move under the veil; and this he interprets to the seeker after truth. thus the priest reads wrongly the silence of the goddess, and the seeker understands ill the speech of the priest. then come forth fools, saying "the goddess hath lied- and in their folly they die. while, therefore, they held me beneath the surface of the pool, the high priestess took the vows on my behalf saying: i swear by the orb of the moon; i swear by the circuit of the stars; i swear but the veil, and by the face behind the veil; i swe

l- and then came the awful penalty of failure. i dare not recall half of it; yet in it were these words: let her be torn by the phallus of set, and let her bowels be devoured by apep; let her be prostituted to the lust of besz, and let her face be eaten by the god. it is not good to write his name. then they loosed me, and i lay smiling in the pool. they lifted me up and brought me to the feet of the goddess, so that i might kiss them. and as i kissed them such a thrill ran through me that i thought myself rapt away into the heaven of amoun, or even as asi when hoor and hoor-pa-kraat, cleaving her womb, sprang armed to life. then they stripped me of my robes, and lashed me with fine twigs of virgin hazel, until my blood ran from me into the pool. but the surface of the silver swallowed up

gs of virgin hazel, until my blood ran from me into the pool. but the surface of the silver swallowed up the blood by some mysterious energy; and they took this to be a sign of acceptance. so then they clothed me in the right robes of a priestess of the veiled one; and they put a silver sistron in my hand, and bade me perform the ceremony of adoration. this i page 10 gulf.txt did, and the veil of the goddess glittered in the darkness- for night had fallen by this- with a strange starry light. thereby it was known that i was indeed chosen aright. so last of all they took me to the banqueting-house and set me on the high throne. one by one the priests came by and kissed my lips: one by one the priestesses came by, and gave me the secret clasp of hands that hath hidden virtue. and the banquet

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

e power raised by the witches. it has always, at least in the past two thousand years, been associated with occultism and essentially with rites of evil magick, or the forbidden magick, of the enemy, and of satan. and the twisting, sacred spiral formed by the serpent of the caduceus, and by the spinning of the galaxies, is also the same leviathan as the spiral of the biologists' code of life: dna the goddess of the witches the current revival of the cult called wicca is a manifestation of the ancient secret societies that sought to tap this telluric, occult force and use it to their own advantage, and to the advantage of humanity as was the original intent. the raising of the cone of power through the circle dancing is probably the simplest method of attaining results in "rousing leviathan

diverse as the dervishes in the middle east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same goddess. that tiamat was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives the researchers a more complex picture. the green dragon and the red dragon of the alchemists are thus identif

ists are thus identified, as the positive and negative energies that compromise the cosmos of our perception, as manifest in the famous chinese yin-yang symbol. but what of inanna, the single planetary deity having a female manifestation among the sumerians? she is invoked in the necronomicon and identified as the vanquisher of death, for she descended into the underworld and defeated her sister, the goddess of the abyss, queen ereshkigal (possibly another name for tiamat. interestingly enough, the myth has many parallels with the christian concept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the chri

cept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christian religion by perhaps as many as three thousand years- a fact that beautifully illustrates the cosmic and eternal nature of this myth. therefore, the goddess of the witches has two distinct forms: the ancient one, goddess of the dragon-like telluric power which is raised in magickal rituals, and the elder goddess, defeater of death, who brings the promise of resurrection and rejuvenation to her followers those who must reside for a time after death and between incarnations in what is called the "summerland. sumer-land? another hallmark of t

s were known to the entire region of the middle east, as they appear on the sphinx in egypt, and have become the symbols of the four evangelists of the christian new testament- an ironic and splendid result of the ignorance of the greek religious historians concerning the ancient mysteries! probable the most inconsistent concept the sumerians possesses with reference to the craft is the naming of the goddess as a deity, not of the moon (as the craft would have it, but of the planet venus. the moon was governed by a male divinity, nanna (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deit

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

work! three master masons out of work! all these sat on their haunches waiting the report of the sojourner; for the word was lost. this is the report of the sojourners: the word was love;(23) and its number is an hundred and eleven. then said each amo;(24) for its number is an hundred and eleven. each took the trowel from his lap,(25) whose number is an hundred and eleven. each called moreover on the goddess nina,(26) for her number is an hundred and eleven. yet with all this went the work awry; for the word of the law is theta-epsilon-lambda-eta-mu-alpha. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 114 [118] commentary( nu-delta) the title of this chapter refers to the duty of the tyler in a blue lodge of freemasons. the numbers in paragraphs 1 to 3 are significant; each master-m

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

g the sky" frontal. heels together and slightly angled apart to the front, flat on floor. head down. arms angled up on either side of head about head 1.5 ft. from head to wrist and crooked as if supporting a ceiling just at head height with the finger tips. the palms face upward and the backs of the hands away from the head. thumbs closed to side of palms. fingers straight and together "3. water: the goddess auramoth" same body and foot position as #2, but head erect. arms are brought down over the chest so that the thumbs touch above the heart and the backs of the hands are to the front. the fingers meet below the heart, forming between thumbs and fingers the descending triangle of water "4. fire: the goddess thoum-aesh-neith" frontal. head and body like #3. arms are angled so that the th

monism and nihilism. it is impossible to enter into a discussion of their relative merits in a popular manual of this sort. they may be studied in erdmann's "history of philosophy" and similar treatises. all are reconciled and unified in the theory which we shall now set forth. the basis of this harmony is given in crowley's "berashith- to which reference should be made. infinite space is called the goddess nuit, while the infinitely small and atomic yet omnipresent point is called hadit<form. i cannot even explain (for instance) that an idea may not refer to being at all, but to going. the book of the law demands special study and initiated apprehension> these are unmanifest. one conjunction of these infinites is called ra-hoorkhuit< more correctly

and the element of surprise. 177 assists the lesser characters to get out of themselves at the supreme moment. following the climax there should always be an unrehearsed ceremony, an impromptu. the most satisfactory form of this is the dance. in such ceremonies appropriate libations may be freely used. the rite of luna (equinox i. vi) is a good example of this use. here the climax is the music of the goddess, the assistants remaining in silent ecstasy. in the rite of jupiter the impromptu is the dance, in that of saturn long periods of silence. it will be noticed that in these rites poetry and music were largely employed- mostly published pieces by well-known authors and composers. it would be better<"perhaps! one can think of certain awful consequences "but, after all, they wouldn't seem

his understanding and ingenium devise a magick lamp that shall burn without wick or oil, being fed by the aethyr. this shall he accomplish secretly and apart, without asking the advice or approval of his adeptus minor. let the dominus liminis keep it when consecrated in the secret chamber of art. this then is that which is written "bring furnished with complete armour and armed, he is similar to the goddess" and again "i am armed, i am armed" hamagic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 1 magic without tears by a l e i s t e r c r o w e y get any book for free on: www.abika.com magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 2 1 magick without tears complete and unabridged, edited with a foreword by karl j. germer 2 (c) 1954 karl j. germer for ordo templi orie

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

hnical, but one really needs to be a hindu to make much use of them. the former is very good indeed, if your remember to switch off when he slides into sloppiness, which luckily is not often. to study magick" book 4, parts ii, iii (magick in theory and practice) and iv (the equinox of the gods) add the book of thoth and the you are "being furnished with complete armour and armed, he is similar to the goddess" of other writers, you have the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage" and any of the works of eliphaz l vi. but that's all. but- i suppose you knew all this long ago. it may help if i try to expound the essence of these two methods in very simple language, and very different language. by contrast and comparison, you should be able, without reading even one of all those books

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

heap, wall dn 55 1-10. the sum of the sephiroth; the mystic number of malkuth. thief; stole bng robbery, pillage hlyzg silence hmwd a footstool mwdh to swell, heave (see 51) myh to walk klh knuckle; member, limb )ylwx bride: a title of malkuth hlk noon; midday bgn ornament; splendour, eminence hn lo; whether, if; they (fem) nh 56 dread, terror hmy) he suffered hn) day mwy beautiful h)n food hlk) the goddess nu wn 57 pisces: fishes mygd rim ndb) consuming lkw) formidable, terrible mwy) we wn) a breaking down, subversion, destruction lw+yb to build; built hnb altar xbzm laying-by, making secret )wbxm strength; wealth; trouble, sorrow; heliopolis (cf. 51) nw) better b+wm species, kind nz 58 loves, amours (see 499) mybh) an ear nz) my strength, power, might ylyx grace, love, kindness, charm (

g (md gracious, obliging, indulgent nwnx science (dm brains nyxwm we wnxn 115 here am i ynnh the heat of the day mwyh mwx to make strong; vehement, eager qzx we wnxn) 116 doves mynwy the munificent ones mybydn primordial h)ly( artificial (counted only with mem final in s.s) mylglg 117 fog, darkness lpw) chief, duke; guide pwl) 118 to pass, renew, change plx to ferment (mx the high priest lwdg nhk the goddess nu (spelt in full :w:n 119 lydian-stone nxwb nb) beelzebub: the fly-god bwbzl(b weeping (subst) h(md abominable lwgp 120 samekh: a prop, support kms master l(k foundation, basis ydswm season; the time of the decree d(wm strengthening nykm prophetic sayings, or decrees: ghis days shall be h (hence gabra- melin h) mylm a veil, covering, screen ksm a name of god n( imaginary, fanciful ynw

ber; burning coal lm#x a week; an oath (wb# 380 hwhy ynd) as) y (d h (n w (y h= n# k y n# k y difficulty, narrowness; egypt myrcm pain, trouble, misery nwbc( bc( thick darkness, fog lpr (see 370 )ry+sq ursa major #y( proverbs yl#m number rpsm folly #p 381 astrologer, enchanter, magician p) clamour, prayer h(w# 383 an oath h(wb# 385 assiah: the material world; action hy( shekinah, divine presence: the goddess of malkuth hnyk# lip hp# 386 tongues nw#l tziruph, combinations: tables of temurah pwryc 387 the milky way (lit. gthe way of milk h; but cf. 525) blxh lyb# 388 the hardest rock (ps 114:8 #ymlx to search out diligently #px table; bread (cf. 394) nxl# 389 realized, materialized, corporeal m#gwm judge; judgment +p# 390 male and female (gn. 1:27) hbqnw rkz retroactively (rpm nourishing, su

; protruding nty) 462 the supernal earth [is binah] hnwyl( cr) a path btyn the abyss of height mwr qmw( 463 the pillar of mildness: the paths gimel, samekh and tau (cf. 26& 48) t s g crystal; glass tykwkz a rod of almond dq#h h+m the special intelligence (i.z.q. 264, et seq) hnwbt caps, crowns, diadems nygt prayer hnxt 464 constant, perpetual ydymt 465 a kiss; a little (or, sweet) mouth hqy#n 466 the goddess nuit (cf. 75) tywn the world of yetzirah (formation; referred to the ruach) hrycyh mlw( skull tlglg kidneys twylk autumn wts 467 path hbytn 469 fillets (i.e. bindings [of the pillars] mhyqw#x 470 eternity (lit. ga cycle of cycles h) myrwd rwd pure wool yqn rm( time; period of time, season t( floor, ground, bottom (qrq 471 the hekaloth: palaces twlkyh 472 was terrified t(b and god made

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LAW OF LIBERTY

me! to me" again she speaks "love is the law, love under will" keep pure your highest ideal; strive ever toward it without allowing aught to stop you or turn you aside, even as a star sweeps upon its incalculable and infinite course of glory, and all is love. the law of your being becomes light, life, love and liberty. all is peace, all is harmony and beauty, all is joy. for hear, how gracious is the goddess "i give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do i demand aught in sacrifice" is not this better than the death-in-life of the slaves of the slave-gods, as they go oppressed by consciousness of "sin" wearily seeking or simulating wearisom and tedious "virtues? with such, we who have accepted the law of thelema

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

eath ware the principal objects of man's thought, and his magical formula is that of sacrifice. now, with mohammed perhaps as its forerunner, comes in the equinox of horus, the young child who rises strong and conquering (with his twin harpocrates) to avenge osiris, and bring on the age of strength and splendour. his formula is not yet fully understood. following him will arise the equinox of ma, the goddess of justice, it may be a hundred or ten thousand years from now; for the computation of time is not here as there. the new comment note the close connexion between leo and libra in the tarot, the numbers viii and xi of their trumps being interchanged with xi and viii. there is no such violent antithesis as that between osiris and horus; strength will prepare the reign of justice. we sho

the victim therein. beneath thee, rejoicing, he lies; he exults as he dies, burning up in the breath of thy kiss. yea, star rushes flaming to star; the blaze burst, splashes the skies. there is a cry in an unknown tongue, it resounds through the temple of the universe; in its one word is death and ecstasy, and thy title of honour, o thou, to thyself high priestess, prophetess, empress, to thyself the goddess whose name means mother and whore! al iii,56 "also for beauty's sake and love's" the new comment it is obvious to the physiologist that beauty (that is, the fitness of proportion) and love (that is, natural attraction between things whose union satisfies both) need for fulfilment absolute spontaneity and freedom from restriction. a tree grows deformed if it be crowded by other trees or

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

beams of opalescent light- mystic and wonderful. in her right hand she holds a sistrum, and chimes forth the music of the earth, and in her left an asp twisted to the prow of a boat of gold, wherein lie the mysteries of heaven. then clear and sweet as the breath of the hillside, i heard a voice, as of the winds across a silver harp, saying: i am the queen of the heavenly ones, of the gods, and of the goddesses, united in one form. i am she who was, who is, and will be; my form is one, my name is manifold; under the palm-trees, and in the deserts, in the valleys, and on the snowy mountains, mankind pays me homage, and thunders forth praises to my name. yet i am nameless in the deep, as amongst the lightsome mountains of the sky. some call me mother of the gods, some aphrodite of the seas of

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

kamailos. there is one in green armour, with green eyes, whose sword is of vegetable fire. that shall avail me. my son is he- and how shall i bear him that have not known man? all this time intolerable rays are shooting forth to beat me back or destroy me; but i am encased in an egg of blue-violet, and my form is the form of a man with the head of a golden hawk. while i have been observing this, the goddess has kept up a continuous wail, like the baying of a thousand hounds; and now her voice is deep and guttural and hoarse, and she breathes very rapidly words that i cannot hear. i can hear some of them now. untu la la ulula umuna tofa lama le li na ahr ima tahara elula etfoma ununa arpeti ulu ulu ulu maraban ululu mahata ulu ulu lamastana. and then her voice rises to a shriek, and there

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

nity, yet are their functions different: the imperator to command the praemonstrator to instruct. the cancellarius to record "even as the flaming fire doth overcome, and the still waters reflect all images, and the all-wandering air receiveth sound" the synthesis of the three chiefs may be said to be in the form of thoth who cometh from behind the veil. yet also the imperator may be referred unto the goddess nephthys from his relationship unto geburah. the praemonstrator unto isis from chesed. and the cancellarius unto thoth in his position as recorder. of the stations of the invisibles. the gods of the elements their stations are at the four cardinal points of the hall without, as invisible guardians of the limits of the temple: and they are placed according to the winds, viz: behind the

of entrance, and the preparer of the ways for the enterer thereby. therefore the reconciler between the light and the darkness, and the mediator between the stations of the hierophant and the hiereus. his symbols and insignia are: the robe of pure whiteness; the mitre-headed sceptre; the lamen. 249 "before the face of the gods in the place of the threshold" is the name of the hegemon; and she is the goddess thmais11 thmaist of dual form as 11 more fiery. s.r.m.d. says thmais contains the letters of hb:shin hb:taw hb:mem hb:aleph and probably is the origin of the greek theta epsilon mu iota sigma, the justice-goddess. thmait.12 "the kerux- the kerux is the principal form of anubis. the sentinel being the subsidiary form. the kerux is the anubis of the east, whilst the sentinel is the anubi

he furniture of the temple. his peculiar insignia of office are the red lamp and the wand.13 "watcher of the gods" is his name, and he is anubis the herald before them "the stolistes- the station of the stolistes is in the midst of the northern part of the hall; without, and to the north-west of the black pillar. he has the care of robes and insignia of the temple. his peculiar ensign is the cup "the goddess at the scale of the balance at the black pillar" is the name of the stolistes; and she is auramooth, or the light shining through the waters upon the earth. illustration "diagram 10. the cup of the stolistes" this is a abstract of three black lineal figures superimposed on a slightly modified tree of life. each sephiroth is represented by a white ring circumscribing a white disk, and n

chos, symbolic of the ending and judging of the world by fire. but also the circumambulation commences with the paths hb:shin and hb:resh, as though bringing into action the solar fire; whilst the reverse commences by those of hb:qof and hb:tzaddi as though bringing the watery reflux into action. this is the order of the circumambulation; first cometh anubis, the watcher of the gods; next themis, the goddess of the hall of truth; then horus; then the remaining members in order of precedence; and lastly, the goddesses of the scales of the balance, as though a vast wheel were revolving, as it is said "one wheel upon the earth beside the kerub" and also note the rashish ha-gilgalim.16 of this wheel the ascending side commenceth from below the pillar of nephthys, and the descending side from b

light from beyond the veils. each member in passing the throne of the east gives the sign of the enterer, projecting forwards the light which cometh from the sceptre of the hierophant "but horus passes only once, for he is the son of osiris, and inheriteth the light, as it were by birthright from him; wherefore he goeth at once unto the station of the hiereus to fix the light there. the hegemon, the goddess of truth, passeth twice because her rule is of the balance of the two scales, and she retireth to her station there to complete the reflux of the middle pillar. but anubis of the east and the others circumambulate 16 the beginning of whirling motions, primum moble. thrice as affirming the completion of the reflexion of the perfecting of the white triangle on the altar."17 the circumamb

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g the sky" frontal. heels together and slightly angled apart to the front, flat on floor. head down. arms angled up on either side of head about head 1.5 ft. from head to wrist and crooked as if supporting a ceiling just at head height with the finger tips. the palms face upward and the backs of the hands away from the head. thumbs closed to side of palms. fingers straight and together "3. water: the goddess auramoth" same body and foot position as #2, but head erect. arms are brought down over the chest so that the thumbs touch above the heart and the backs of the hands are to the front. the fingers meet below the heart, forming between thumbs and fingers the descending triangle of water "4. fire: the goddess thoum-aesh-neith" frontal. head and body like #3. arms are angled so that the th

he hegelian folly. it may, i think, be readily conceded that the reasoning faculty is not apodeictally absolute. it represents a stage in human thought, no more. you cannot convince a savage of the truth of the binomial theorem; should we then be surprised if a mystic fails to convert a philosopher? yet must he try. 51 ix "for being furnished with every kind of armour, and armed, he is similar to the goddess- zoroaster. my dear professor, how can you expect me to believe this nonsense about bacteria? come, saith he, to the microscope; and behold them! i don't see anything. just shift the fine adjustment- that screw there- to and fro very slowly! i can't see- keep the left eye open; you'll see better! ah- but how do i know. oh, there are a thousand questions to ask! is it fair observation t

we behold six certain paths; and in six days did 172 god create the heavens and the earth. and the total numeration of its numbers is the perfect number, even the decade of the sephiroth (1+ 2+ 3+ 4= 10) thus can our science teach us wherefore the door<holy qabalah that alone amongst the shells is nogah, the sphere of venus, exalted unto holiness (venus is the goddess of love> of venus, hb:dalet, is the gateway of initiation: that one planet whose symbol alone embraceth the 10 sephiroth; the entrance to the shrine of our father c.r.c, the tomb of osiris; the god revealer, coming, moreover, by the central path of hb:samekh through the midst of the triangle of light. and the lock which guards that door is as the four gates of the universe. and the key

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le on their thrones, and governed all minds, either by curiosity, or by fear' frank hollings, 7 great turnstile, holborn (near the inns of court hotel. photographs. to be had of the equinox. price ten shillings each. neatly framed in gold. the original panel photographs: the student (a reproduction faces "aha" in no. iii) the interpreter (reproduced on p. 279 of no. iv) the guardian of the flame. the goddess. no student of the mysteries should be without one at least of these remarkable and beautiful studies. their presence serves to remind the possessor of the constant quest and to stimulate to more persistent effort. essay of prentice mulford "crown 8vo. crimson cloth extra "3"s" 6"d. net per volume" the gift of the spirit. a selection from the essays of prentice mulford. reprinted from

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his understanding and ingenium devise a magick lamp that shall burn without wick or oil, being fed by the aethyr. this shall he accomplish secretly and apart, without asking the advice or approval of his adeptus minor. let the dominus liminis keep it when consecrated in the secret chamber of art. this then is that which is written "bring furnished with complete armour and armed, he is similar to the goddess" and again "i am armed, i am armed" 19 i.nsit n.aturae r.egina i.sis (obtained in invocation, june 9-10, 1910 o.s) all the hot summer i lay in the darkness, calling on the winds to pass by me and slay me, slay me with light in the heat of the summer; but the winds had no answer for one who was fallen asleep by the wayside, with no lyre to charm them, no voice of the lyre, and no song t

lies altogether outside the human organism. these six chakkras are: 1 "the m l dhara-chakkra" this chakkra is situated between the lingam and the anus at the base of the spinal column. it is called the adhar-padma, or fundamental lotus, and it has four petals "in the pericarp of the adhar lotus there is the triangular beautiful yoni, hidden and kept secret in all the tantras" in this yoni dwells the goddess kundalini; she surrounds all the nadis, and has three and a half coils. she catches her tail in her own mouth, and rests in the entrance of the sushumn 82 87 58. it sleeps there like a serpent, and is luminous by its own light. it is the goddess of speech, and is called the vija (seed. 59. full of energy, and like burning gold, know this kundalini to be the power (shakti) of vishnu; it

in the heart, it is of a deep blood red colour, and has twelve petals. it is the seat of pr na and is a very pleasant spot; its adept is pinaki and its goddess is kakini. this chakkra is also the seat of the v yu tatwa. he who always contemplates on this lotus of the heart is eagerly desired by the daughters of gods. has clairaudience, clairvoyance, and can walk in the air. he sees the adepts and the goddesses. 89 5 "the vishuddha chakkra" this chakkra is situated in the throat directly below the larynx, it is of a brilliant gold 89 colour and has sixteen petals. it is the seat of the udana and the ak sa tatwa; its presiding adept is chhagalanda and its goddess sakini. 6 "the ajna chakkra" this chakkra is situated between the two eyebrows, in the place of the pineal gland. it is the seat o

d the moon which is above the palate change places. this mudra 94 must be learnt from the guru himself, and though, as we are told in the "pradipika" a theoretical study of crores of shastras cannot throw any light upon it, yet nevertheless in the "shiva sanhita" the difficulty seems to be solved by standing on one's head.109 10 "shakti chalana mudra" let the wise yogi forcibly and firmly draw up the goddess kundalini sleeping in the adhar lotus, by means of the apana-v yu. this is shakti- chalan mudra..110 the "hatha yoga pradipika" is very obscure on this mudra, it says: as one forces open a door with a key, so the yogi should force open the door of moksha (deliverance) by the kundalini. 105 "shiva sanhita" chap iv, 31. this is perhaps the most important of the mudras. the "hatha yoga pr

e golden dawn symbol of the flaming sword. see diagram 12. 147 by this is meant watching the swing of an imaginary pendulum. the difficulty is to keep it in one plane, as it tries to swing round; also to change its rate. 148 in these records "m" means morning and "e" evening. 149 the egyptian key of life. see diagram 61. 150 lamp of the invisible light. 151 in the mind. 152 the visualized form of the goddess isis. 153 that is to say she kept on moving out of the line of mental sight. 154 see diagram 80. a scarlet rose on a gold cross. 155 at this point p. made the following resolve "i resolve to increase my powers very greatly by the aid of the most high, until i can meditate for twenty-four hours on one object" illustration facing page 108 partly approximated and partly described "diagram

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rpio-apophis. children, array yourselves before me, and worship at my feet. aries. our lord is slain. and who art thou that hast assumed his throne? leo. our lord is slain. and who art thou that hast assumed his throne? scorpio-apophis. i am the mother of the gods and the sister of time and the daughter of space. i am nature that holdeth sway when the effort of man is exhausted. brother leo, i am the goddess that cometh forth riding upon the lion. behold! i strike thee with my wand, and inspire thee. i command thee to declare me unto the multitude. leo. lo! in the interstellar space of night clothed with deep darkness, the majestic spaces abide the dawn of deity and light, vibrate before the passionless pale faces 74 shrined in exceeding glory, eremite. the tortoise skies in sombre carapac

great officers? 113 taurus. thyself, the warden of the holy graal. myself, the lord of the bow. a nymph, a satyr- pan. 1. and pan! cancer. brother pan, i command thee to honour our lady artemis. taurus. bear the cup of libation! cancer. 333-333-333 [pan" recites chorus from swinburne's "atalanta" when the hounds of spring are on winter's traces. the wolf that follows, the fawn that flies. taurus. the goddess stirs not. cancer. silence is the secret of our lady artemis. pan. hath no man lifted her veil? cancer. no man hath lifted her veil. taurus. bear the cup of libation! cancer. 333-333-333. it is the hour of sealing up the shrine. taurus. let us banish the spirits of the elements["performs the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram and returns] bear the cup of libation! cancer. 333-333

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

the popular editor of a pharmaceutical newspaper and an authority on all matters connecting with pharmacy "the chronicles" would have proved an excellent monument to his memory; unfortunately mr wootton died before his book left the publisher's hands. e. whineray, m.p.s. isalex sanders with his crystal maxine blesses her athame tarot cards the witches' circle. maxine beside the altar alex honours the goddess maxine inside the circle breathing life into the fith-fath the witches' dance walking to covenstead calling down the power the symbolic sex act the witches' altar passing the pentacle around the circle the witches fall to the ground fertility rites the black mass athamll book of shadows coven covens'read esbat esp familiar fith-fath the key of solomon measure pentacle sabbat tarot card

alexwith a shrug, when warned against breaking up happy courtships 'those girls come when i whistle-they've only themselves to blame if they get hurt' not always patiently, alex would expound the ideals of witchcraft and read out extracts from the secret book ofwitch law which demands that all men honour all women, not only because they are the receptacles ofthe future, but because they represent the goddess on earth. he encouraged paul to sit in with the group of theology students from the university who attended classes under alex-now an acknowledged authority on witchcraft-as part of their study of comparative religions. twice a week during the term they visited his chorlton rooms and delved into the dogma, history and beliefs of all forms of witchcraft, both english and egyptian. paul

s.sanctum from all.violations. lord imset, royal son of horus, water god and lord of the south, keeper and guardian of th liver, with the sprinkling of this. sacred water sanctify. and .deanse this holy.sanctum of all its impurities and the vanities of men. cladinwhiterobes which opened down the front, andwith feetbare. they burnt kyphi--incense--during the rites. on the third day, they.prayed to the goddessisis, the earth mother: 0, aset, dark and mighty mother, thou who didst freesethan from his.bondage, thy secret is known to me, therefore bring me that which i desire. now-beholdatmy command thou gatherest together the charm from every place where it is; and front every man with whom ids, swifter than greyhounds and quickerthanjight,rhe charm which created the. forms of being from the m

use today 'i shall be coming to england in the near future' the. priest ofkali continued/and lshould very much like to make your acquaintance. would you do me the honour. of dining with me so that we luay discuss something which, i am sure, will be dear to the hearts of both of us' alex wrote back agreeing to meet him, but forgot all about it after he had looked up details of kali worship. one of the goddesses of hinduism, she represented destruction. her image was an. enormous black-skinned woman with a large blood-red tongue from under which projected fierce tusks. she was garlanded with a necklace of human skulls. modem hindus disapprove of the ancient rites of worship which, in some parts of india, are still performed and. in which live animals are sacrificed. the more alex read, the l

ation' the .man smiled and,assured him.that they. were entirely satisfied with their own. religion and had no wish to become witches 'but we do have need of you: he wellton 'let me explain; kali is the an.cientgoddess of destruction who lends us herpoweisto do our will solongasweworship her in theway she. prefers. during'oneof our .pilgrimages.to old shrines,we came upon a mined temple erected to the goddess .many generations ago andlater desecrated by modern adherents of hinduism who have taken much of the old ritual out of the religion and have chosen to ,neglect kali' alex nodded; this fitted. in with what he had read. but what has all this-to do with me' he asked. tbe.three men e changed glances. then mrg. continued 'for.several years, followers ofour sect have been donating fundsforth

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tective wishes or curses were buried with pisite features: message board email atho the laws the old law the redes various aphorisms the 8 wiccan tenets circle casting circle opening circle closing consecration consecration of sword or athame consecrating other working tools initiations charge to new initiates first degree initiation ritual second degree initiation ritual legend of the descent of the goddess third degree initiation ritual/great rite verse version of priest's declamation in great rite esbats esbat sequence witches' rune charge of the goddess verse version of charge of the goddess drawing down the moon ancient call great god cernunnos invocation esbat cone of power wine blessing cake blessing ritual elements invocation to the horned god besom chant welcome to the public doma

prepared and purified to enter into the presence of the gods. with love and worship in their hearts, they shall raise power from their bodies to give power to the gods. 8. 9. as has been taught of old. for in this way only may men have communion with the gods, for the gods cannot help man without the help of man. 10. hps& hp 11. and the high priestess shall rule her coven as the representative of the goddess. 12. and the high priest shall support her as the representative of the god. 13. and the high priestess shall choose whom she will, be he of sufficient rank, to be her high priest. for, as the god himself kissed her feet in the five-fold salute, laying his power at the feet of the goddess because of her youth and beauty, her sweetness and kindness, her wisdom and justice, her humility

because of her youth and beauty, her sweetness and kindness, her wisdom and justice, her humility and generosity, 14. 15. so he resigned all his power to her. 16. but the high priestess should ever mind that the power comes from him. 17. it is only lent, to be used wisely and justly. and the greatest virtue of a high priestess be that she recognize that youth is necessary to the representative of the goddess. 18. 19. so she will gracefully retire in favour of a younger woman should the coven so decide in council. for a true high priestess realizes that gracefully surrendering pride of place is one of the greatest virtues. 20. and that thereby she will return to that pride of place in another life, with greater power and beauty. 21. security in the old days, when witchdom extended far, we w

gony, they may not tell if they do not know. so be it ordained that no one shall tell anyone not of the craft who be of the wicca, nor give any names or where they bide, or in any way tell anything which can betray any of us to our foes. 31. 32. nor may he tell where the covendom be. 33. or the covenstead. 34. or where the meetings be. and if any break these laws, even under torture, the curse of the goddess shall be upon them, so they may never be reborn on earth and may remain where they belong, in the hell of the christians. 35. disputes let each high priestess govern her coven with justice and love, with the help and advice of the high priest and the elders, always heeding the advice of the messenger of the gods if he cometh. 36. 37. she will heed all complaints of all brothers and str

and old covens should meet in peace and brotherly love to decide the new boundaries. 47. 48. those of the craft who dwell outside both covendoms may join either but not both. though all may, if the elders agree, meet for the great festivals if it be truly in peace and brotherly love, 49. but splitting the coven oft means strife, so for this reason these laws were made of old and may the curse of the goddess be on any who disregard them. so be it ordained. 50. grimoire if you would keep a book, let it be in your own hand of write. let brothers and sisters copy what they will, but never let the book out of your hands, and never keep the writings of another. 51. 52. for if it be found in their hand of write, they may be taken and arraigned. 53. let each guard his own writings and destroy the

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

hat sound, lifted his head; an impulse from the base mounted in time and space. leo within the heart and head shouted aloud and stood whilst saturn did his work. and thus the twain were one. ii. the central light of sirius shone through the eye of the son; the vision came. the light of wisdom penetrated into the waters and cast the radiance of the heavens into the depths. at this attractive call, the goddess rose unto the surface (the fish-goddess, the symbol of pisces. a.a.b) and welcomed the light within the depths and grasped it as her own. she saw the sun, having seen her son, and from that day the sun has never left her. there is no darkness. there is always light. and then the heavens within the ring-pass-not responded to the light from sirius which, passing through the sea of pisces

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

ion of truth and reality which is the high prerogative and potent factor in the life of a liberated son of god. meaning of the story eurystheus, therefore, sent hercules to capture the golden horned keryneian doe or hind. the word "hind" comes from an old gothic word, meaning "that which must be seized, in other words, that which is elusive and difficult to secure. this doe was sacred to artemis, the goddess of the moon; but diana, the huntress of the heavens, the daughter of the sun, also claimed it and there was a quarrel as to ownership. hercules accepted the charge of eurystheus and set out to capture the gentle hind. he was a whole year hunting it, going from one forest to another, just catching sight of it and then again losing [84] it. month after month went by, and he never could c

the amazons worshipped the moon (the form, and mars, the god of war; they too did not understand their true function, for mary is pictured with the moon under her feet, and in her arms the one to be known as the prince of peace. the two ways as always there is a choice for good or evil before the native of a sign, depending on his status of evolution and the degree of sensitivity. virgo is called the goddess of virtue or of vice. but what is the root meaning of "vice "to render ineffective, and that for virgo is to negate the whole purpose of the sign, for it is said that "the christ is to her the purpose of existence" the root of "virtue" is the latin word vir meaning "strength "man, as in "virility. the deep meaning of vice as an ineffectiveness of the spiritual life, reminds one again o

producing crops- 129- the labours of hercules gemini, the twins. simeon and levi "simeon and levi are brothers. cancer, the crab zebulon he "wished for habitation, dwelling at the haven of the sea. the crab carries its habitation on its back, and dwells on the sea shore. leo, the lion judah judah is a lion's whelp "he couched as a lion" virgo, the virgin asher this name is from ishtar. ashera is the goddess of plenty. she is depicted as a virgin, carrying a sheaf of wheat. see gen. 49, 20. libra, the scales or balances dan "dan shall judge his people" scorpio, the serpent or adder dan mentioned twice as two sons are assigned to gemini "dan shall be a serpent. that biteth the horses' heels" sagittarius, the archer joseph "his bow abode in strength. his horse is the one that scorpio follows

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

sir!i am so wearythat i can go no fartherand thou shalt reply as usual,fairy diana, i conjure theet o give to this goat relief and peace! page 73 n r r r r r we implore thee give this sleeper,give unto this good melambothe great gift of understandingwhat all creatures say while talking!this legend contains much that is very curious; among other things an invocation to the firefly, oneto mefitia, the goddess of malaria, and a long poetic prophecy relative to the hero. it is evidently fullof old latin mythologic lore of a very marked character. the whole of it may be found in a forthcom-ing work by the writer of the book, entitled the unpublished legends of virgil. london, elliot stock.diana as giving beauty and restoring strength.diana hath power to do all things, to give glory to the lowl

c queens of heaven, or of night and of sorcery, and it may be that this wasknown to the earliest myth-makers. so far back as the sixth century the worship of herodiasanddianaby witches was condemned by a church council at ancyra. pipernus and other writers havenoted the evident identity of herodiaswith lilith. isispreceded both.dianais very vigorously, even dramatically, set forth in this poem as the goddess of the god-forsak-en and ungodly, of thieves, harlots, and, truthfully enough, of the minions of the moon, as falstaffwould have fain had them called. it was recognised in ancient rome, as it is in modern india, that nohuman being canbe so bad or vile as to have forfeited all right to divine protection of some kind orother, and dianawas this protectress. it my be as well to observe her

, at every turn in life, the vast majority encountereddownright shameless, palpable iniquity and injustice, with no law for the weak who were withoutpatrons. page 61 n r r r r r lavernawas the roman goddess of thieves, pickpockets, shopkeepers or dealers, plagiarists, ras-cals, and hypocrites. there was near rome a temple in a grove where robbers went to divide theirplunder. there was a statue of the goddess. her image, according to some, was a head without abody; according to others, a body without a head; but the epithet of beautiful applied to her byhorace indicates that she who gave disguises to her worshippers had kept one to herself. she wasworshipped in perfect silence. this is confirmed by a passage to horace (epist. 16, lib. 1, where animpostor, hardly daring to move his lips, rep

16, lib. 1, where animpostor, hardly daring to move his lips, repeats the following prayer or incantation: o goddess laverna!give me the art of cheating and deceiving,of making men believe that i am just,holy, and innocent! extend all darknessand deep obscurity oer my misdeeds!it is interesting to compare this unquestionably ancient classic invocation to lavernawith the onewhich is before given. the goddess was extensively known to the lower orders, and in plautus acook who has been robbed of his implements calls on her to revenge him.i call special attention to the fact that in this, as in a great number of italian witch-incantations, thedeity or spirit who is worshipped, be it dianaherself or laverna, is threatenedwith torment by ahigher power until he or she grants the favour demanded

sm introduced by the church since1500 is deficient in italy. but in fact, among the higher class of witches, or in their traditions, it ishardly to be found at all. in christian diabolism the witch never dares to threaten satan or god, orany of the trinity or angels, for the whole system is based on the conception of a church and ofobedience.the herb concordia probably takes its name from that of the goddess concordia, who was repre-sented as holding a branch. it plays a great part in witchcraft, after verbena and rue. page 60 incantation.i boil the cluster of concordiat o keep in concord and at peace with melaverna, that she may restore to memy child, and that she by her favouring caremay guard me well from danger all my life!i boil this herb, yet tis not it which boils,i boil the fear, 2

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o be below; that which is visible, to be invisible; and that which is palpable, to become impalpable. again, let that which is below become that which is above; let the invisible become visible, and the impalpable, palpable. here you see the perfection of our art, without any defect, or diminution. but that in which death and life, destruction and resurrection dwell, is a round sphere, with which the goddess of fortune drives her chariot, and imparts the gift of wisdom to men of god. its proper name here upon earth, and for the human understanding, is all vin vall. let him who would know what this all vin vall is, give the earth great wings, and make it fly upward through the air to the heavenly regions. then singe its wings with fierce heat, and make it fall into the red sea, and there be

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

aehner, new york, 1961 az, which is a female demon related directly to ahriman, is considered a harlot and goddess of death and blood. in this aspect az is related or a blue-print for, lilith, hecate and babalon. she is the vampyre queen, the immortal witch whom creates the alchemical elixir of endless existence, the very core essence of the luciferian and vampyre. az may also be related to kali, the goddess who devours and brings life. the vampyre in this aspect is one who feeds of the blood- lifeforce or the nectar of the mind, the imagination, thus revealing the vampyre as a solitary being who holds no need in the actual draining of blood. the blood itself is symbolic, as an invocation to the dark well of the fallen angels, the subconscious or imagination (iblis, shaitan. az is connecte

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

e karma and food" they347 offered their life-force essence. their karma that was due was the entrustment to protect the buddha s teachings. their food that was due was the relievment of their life-force [by] flesh and blood.348 due to previous karma349 and habitual tendencies [tsiu marpo] is a great obstacle demon of everyone in the royal class, there are seven attendant riders, and his sister is the goddess350 sister ekaj.ti;351 so it is said. this is the second chapter, which reveals the birth lineage from the heart tantra of the red violence demon. chapter 3: ritual materials and preparation (305.4-307.1) following that, the..kin. invoked with these words "alas! great glorious one, body of power, what is the process of accomplishing352 the seven attendant riders who are malicious, these

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xual relations to give life to other dragon children. she was said to have been the reunited with her mate samael (ahriman) after the fall, when he would not be roused by his fellow fallen ones and demons, only the words of az (lilith) could rouse him. he then kissed her form and caused menstruation, which was passed on to all women as lilith is directly connected with their fiery and dark sides. the goddess of luciferian witchcraft is lilith or babalon, as described previously. she is also hecate, the darkened moon goddess of the cunning circle, whose blessing is both youth, imagination and death. the son is within you and that is cain, the baphometic daemon whose magick is the core essence of the religion of sorcery. the very circle casting rite as written by gerald gardner presents the

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, has the same phallic significance as the "tree[[footnote(s* in the esoteric philosophy it is male and female, or hermaphrodite; hence the bearded venus in mythology* therefore, putting aside its religio-metaphysical aspect, the cross of the christians is symbolically far more phallic than the pagan svastica[[vol. 2, page] 31 the horses of sukra's car. of life" in eden anouki, a form of isis, is the goddess of life; and ank was taken by the hebrews from the egyptians and introduced by moses, one learned in the wisdom of the priests of egypt, with many other mystical words. the word ank in hebrew, with the personal suffix, means "my life" my being, which "is the personal pronoun anochi" from the name of the egyptian goddess anouki* in one of the most ancient catechisms of southern india, m

who is ocean? ocean is the immeasurable space (spirit in chaos, which is the deity (see book i; and tethys is not the earth, but primordial matter in the process of formation. in our case it is no longer aditi-gaea who begets ouranos or varuna, the chief aditya among the seven planetary gods, but prakriti, materialised and localised. the moon, masculine in its theogonic character, is[[footnote(s* the goddess who gave birth to these primordial monsters, in the account of berosus, was thallath, in greek thalassa "the sea* see, for comparison, the account of creation by berosus (alexander polyhistor) and the hideous beings born from the two-fold principle (earth and water) in the abyss of primordial creation: neras (centaurs, men with the limbs of horses and human bodies, and kimnaras (men wi

on, 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 exact period of the lunar year and month, by which this cycle (of 19 tropical years and 235 revolutions of the moon) could be calculated, was mount sinai- the lord jehovah coming down thereon. paul speaks (then) as a mystagogue, when he says concerning the freed woman and bond woman of abraham 'for this hagar (the bond-woma

oyed. 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 been purified by fire (the fire of passions and suffering in their life-incarnations, become fit to dwell in ida in eternal peace, then miolnir will become useless. this will be when the bonds of hel (the goddess-queen of the region of the dead) will bind them no longer, for the kingdom of evil will have passed away "surtur's flames had not destroyed them, nor yet had the raging waters" of the several deluges "then came the sons of thor. they brought miolnir with them, no longer as a weapon of war, but as the hammer with which to consecrate the new heaven and the new earth* verily many are its

re he ventures on an interpretation "but there are myths which speak for themselves. in this class we may include the double-sexed first creators of every cosmogony. the greek zeus-zen (aether, and chthonia (the chaotic earth) and metis (water, his wives; osiris and isis- latona- the former god also representing aether, the first emanation of the supreme deity, amun, the primeval source of light; the goddess earth and water again; mithras, the rock-born god, the symbol of the male mundane fire, or the personified primordial light, and mithra, the fire goddess, at once his mother and his wife; the pure element of fire (the active, or male principle) regarded as light and heat, in conjunction with earth and water, or matter, the female or passive element of cosmical generation- all these are

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he light of oeaohoo will never be deceived by the veil of maya" kwan-shai-yin is identical with, and an equivalent of the sanskrit avalokiteshwara, and as such he is an androgynous deity, like the tetragrammaton and all the logoi* of antiquity. it is only by some sects in china that he is anthropomorphized and represented with female attributes* when, under his female aspect, he becomes kwan-yin, the goddess of mercy, called the "divine voice* the latter is the patron deity of thibet and of the island of puto in china, where both deities have a number of monasteries (see part ii. kwan-shai-yin and kwan-yin[[footnote(s* hence all the higher gods of antiquity are all "sons of the mother" before they become those of the "father" the logoi, like jupiter or zeus, son of kronos-saturn "infinite

n ana, heaven, or astral light, anima mundi; whence anaitia, devi-durga, the wife of siva, is also called annapurna[[footnote(s* we find the same expression in egypt. mout signifies, for one thing "mother" and shows the character assigned to her in the triad of that country "she was no less the mother than the wife of ammon, one of the principle titles of the god being "the husband of his mother" the goddess mout, or mut, is addressed as "our lady" the "queen of heaven" and of "the earth" thus "sharing these titles with the other mother goddesses, isis, hathor, etc (maspero[[vol. 1, page] 92 the secret doctrine. and kanya, the virgin "uma-kanya" being her esoteric name, and meaning the "virgin of light" astral light in one of its multitudinous aspects (c) the devas, pitris, rishis; the sur

upon again, the self told her that there are two minds, the 'movable' and the 'immovable 'the immovable is with me' he said 'the movable is in your dominion (i.e. of speech) on the plane of matter. to that you are superior. but inasmuch, o beautiful one, as you came personally to speak to me (in the way you did, i.e. proudly, therefore, o, sarasvati! you shall never speak after (hard) exhalation "the goddess speech (sarasvati, a later form or aspect of vach, the goddess also of secret learning or esoteric wisdom "verily, dwelt always between the prana and the apana. but o noble one! going with the apana wind (vital air, though impelled, without the prana (expirational breath, she ran up to prajapati (brahma, saying 'be pleased, o venerable sir' then the prana appeared again, nourishing spe

ch) which is produced in the body by means of the prana, and which then goes (is transformed) into apana, and then becoming assimilated with the udana (physical organs of speech. then finally dwells in the samana('at the navel in the form of sound, as the material cause of all words' says arjuna misra. so speech formerly spoke. hence the mind is distinguished by reason of its being immovable, and the goddess (speech) by reason of her being movable" this allegory is at the root of the occult law, which prescribes silence upon the knowledge of certain secret and invisible things perceptible only to the spiritual mind (the 6th sense, and which cannot be expressed by "noisy" or uttered speech. this chapter of anugita explains, says arjuna misra, pranayama, or regulation of the breath in yoga p

e "divine voice" literally. this "voice" is a synonym of the verbum or the word "speech" as the expression of thought. thus may be traced the connection with, and even the origin of the hebrew bath-kol, the "daughter of the divine voice" or verbum, or the male and female logos, the "heavenly man" or adam kadmon, who is at the same time sephira. the latter was surely anticipated by the hindu vach, the goddess of speech, or of the word. for vach- the daughter and the female portion, as is stated, of brahma, one "generated by the gods- is, in company with kwan-yin, with isis (also the daughter, wife and sister of osiris) and other goddesses, the female logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in nature, the word, voice or sound, and speech. if kwan-yin is the "melodious voice" so

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me! to me. again she speaks .love is the law, love under will. keep pure your highest ideal; strive ever toward it without allowing aught to stop you or turn you aside, even as a star sweeps upon its incalculable and infinite course of glory, and all is love. the law of your being becomes light, life, love and liberty all is peace, all is harmony and beauty, all is joy. for hear, how gracious is the goddess .i give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do i demand aught in sacrifice. is this not better than the death-in-life of the slaves of slave- gods, as they go oppressed by consciousness of .sin. wearily seeking or simulating wearisome and tedious .virtues? with such, we who have accepted the law of thelema h

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ey have heavy, pendulous breasts, large buttocks, an oftimes swollen belly as though pregnant and exaggerated genitalia. there is invariably complete lack of identity with the rest of the body. the face is not defined and the arms and legs, if there at all, are barely suggested. the reason is that wo/man was solely concerned with the fertility aspect. woman was the bearer and nurser of the young. the goddess was her representative as the great provider and comforter; mother nature or mother earth. with the development of agriculture there was a further elevating of the goddess. she now watched over the fertility of the crops as well as of tribe and of animal. the year, then, fell naturally into two halves. in the summer food could be grown, and so the goddess predominated; in the winter wo

is found cernunnos (literally "the horned one. to the north the same god is known as cerne; a shortened form. and in still another area the name has become herne. by now wo/man had learned not only to grow food but also to store it for the winter. so hunting became less important. the horned god came now to be looked upon more as a god of nature generally, and a god of death and what lies after. the goddess was still of fertility and lesson one: the history and philosophy of witchcraft/ 3 also of rebirth, for wo/man had developed a belief in a life after death. this is evidenced from the burial customs of the period. the gravettians (22,000-18,000 bce) were innovators here. they would bury their deceased with full clothing and ornaments and would sprinkle them with red ochre (haematite, o

ches were being constructed, the only artisans available to build them were from among the pagans themselves. in decorating the churches these stonemasons and woodcarvers very cleverly incorporated figures of their own deities. in this way, even if they were forced to attend the churches the people could still worship their own gods there. there are many of these figures still in existence today. the goddess is usually depicted as very much a fertility deity, with legs spread wide and with greatly enlarged genitalia. such figures are usually referred to as shiela-na-gigs. the god is shown as a horned head surrounded by foliage; known as a "foliate mask, and also sometimes referred to as "jack of the green" or "robin o' the woods. incidentally, these carvings of the old god should not be co

cynically commented that if horses and oxen could carve they would probably represent their gods in animal form! about seven hundred fifty years later maximus of tyre said much the same thing: that men worship their gods under whatever form seems intelligible to them. in lesson one you saw how, in their early development, people came to worship two principle deities: the horned god of hunting and the goddess of fertility. these, then, were our representations our understandable forms of the supreme power which actually rules life. in the various areas of wo/man's development we see that these representations became, for the ancient egyptians, isis and osiris; for the hindus, shiva and parvati; for the christians, jesus and mary. in virtually all instances (there were exceptions) the ultima

both masculine and feminine. broken down into a god and a goddess. this would seem most natural since everywhere in nature is found this duality. with the development of the craft, as we know it, there was also, as we have seen, this duality of a god and a goddess. deities' names as mentioned in lesson one, the names for the deities would vary depending upon locality. and not only locality. with the goddess, especially, the question of names could become quite involved. for example, a young man with problems in his love life might worship the goddess in her aspect of a beautiful young woman. yet a woman in childbirth might feel more at ease relating to the goddess as a more mature "middle-aged" female. then again an elderly person would tend to think of the goddess as herself being elderl

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his hands raised in adoration of ra; they are called the "gods who praise ra" the first three are man-headed, and are called hetch-a, maa-a, and hes-a, the second three are jackal-headed, and are called neb-ta-tesher, ap-uat, and ap-sekhemti, the third three are crocodile-headed, and are called tchat-tuat, seki, and sekhem-hra. iv. twelve divine beings, in the form of women, who are described as "the goddesses who guide the great god" their names are--1. tentenit, 2. sbai, 3. mat-neferu-neb-set, 4. khesefet-smatet, 5. khuai, 6. maket-ari-s, 7. urt-amt-tuat, 8. her-ab-uaa-set, p. 12 [paragraph continues] 9. mesperit, 10. ushem-hat-kheftiu-s, 11. sheset-kerh-maket-neb-s, 12. teset-tesheru, click to view (left) the nine praisers of ra (right) the twelve goddesses who guide ra. in the lower re

s khenti amenti. there is a shout of joy to ra at the entrance to the doors of the earth. praise be to thee and make thou perfect the light, and enter thou [in through the habitations] of the great country. the apes( ambenti) open the doors to thee, the apes (amhetetu) unfold to thee the portals, the serpents sing, and exalt thee, and the divine serpents p. 20 lighten thy darkness for thee. o ra, the goddess of the hour cometh to thee, the two soul goddesses tow thee along in thy form, and thou takest up thy position on the ground of the field of [this] land. thou hast taken possession of the night, and thou wilt bring in the day, and [thou] dost likewise make long the hours, and thy boat cometh to rest. thou seizest the grain of the god henbet in thy secret place) net. thou openest net-ra

o this court, he doeth battle at the fortifications thereof, the doors of this [court] are strong, saying "shut [your doors] by your bolts. come ye to me, advance ye to me, make ye your way [to me, and ye shall abide in your place; take ye up your stand on the banks of the stream [urnes" this great god passeth them by, and they (i.e, the gods) wail when he hath gone by them in the field of urnes [the goddess of] the hour who guideth [this great god] through this court is "ushem-hat-kheftiu-nu-ra" footnotes 16:1 see l febure, op. cit, part iv, pl. 28, and description de l' gypte, tom. v, pl. 41, no. 5. next: chapter ii: the second division of the tuat, which is called urnes sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 21 chapter ii. the second division of the tuat, which is called ur

field and uttereth words" click to view the boat of the full moon. the name of the fore part of the boat appears to be urer, and in front of the boat is written "chief of the gods of the tuat" p. 24 the hieroglyphics above the full moon read, and those above the stern of the boat read "field of him that beareth up urnes" the ends of the second boat likewise terminate in click to view the boat of the goddess hathor. bearded human heads, but each is surmounted by a pair of plumes. in the centre of the boat, between two goddesses, stands a huge sistrum, which is the symbol of the goddess hathor, and indicates that the boat is that of hathor, or of hathor-isis. in the fore part of the boat is a beetle, which is described as "this great god neper" p. 25 [paragraph continues] above the goddess

of a serpent called met-en-asar, i.e "staff of osiris" 15. the term of osiris facing a deity with the head of a lioness, who is called sesent-khu, i.e "terrifier of spirits" 16-18. three goddesses, each of whom has a sceptre in her left hand, and a uraeus on her head; their names click to view second hour. upper register. gods nos. 16-21. are--mest-s-tcheses, amama kheftiu, and hert-tuati. 19-21. the goddesses sekhet, of thebes, am-tcheru, ament-nefert and net-tept-ant. p. 31 in the lower register are the following- 1. a god, standing, called nebaui, 2-4. three gods, each of whom has two ears of corn stuck in his hair; these are called besua, neper, and tepu (or, pan. 5-7. three gods, each holding an ear of wheat in click to view second hour. lower register. gods nos. 1-8. his left hand; t

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temporary neo-pagan religion. it is, however, one of the major forms of witchcraft. it began in its modern form with the teachings of gerald gardner after the repeal of the witchcraft act in 1951, though its descent can be traced to the ancient nature religions. this traditional method of wicca is quite formal, with seite 9 wicca01.txt covens using ritual tools and learned invocations emphasising the goddess and her representative, the high priestess, as their head. the goddess is the archetype or source energy of the ultimate feminine power or principle. all the named goddesses represent aspects of particular qualities of the goddess in different cultures. her consort is the horned god and his representative in the coven is the high priest. though each coven is autonomous, formal wicca fo

gs are as much part of the cycle of life as are birth and beginnings. dark and light, night and day, positive and negative, destruction and creation are two sides of the same coin, a principle that finds expression in eastern taoism and underpins the ancient chinese/ ching (the book of changes, often used for divination. negativity can be transformed into healing energies through positive ritual. the goddess is the source of all creation, from whom, in the original virgin birth, her son-consort, the horned god, came. the horned god and the goddess are the creative male and female principles that act and react, not in opposition to each other, but as complementary and necessary parts of a whole. there are variations on this idea within the teachings of wicca. some traditions consider the go

s to be of greater significance than her male counterpart. others regard them as equal, assuming different aspects according to the season and ritual: she as the earth or moon deity, ruler of the summer months, he as the sun or corn god, ruler of winter and lord of the underworld after his death. along with other nature deities, the horned god became demonised with the advent of christianity, and the goddess was either depicted as a wicked witch or downgraded to the status of a faerie. thus the celtic warrior goddess maeve became the faerie mab, described thus by mercutio in shakespeare's romeo and juliet: she is the fairy's midwife, and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate-stone on the fore-finger of an alderman [insert pic p022- contrary to popular belief, wiccans do not 'hex (cast

nd lengthy rituals may act as a powerful aid to focus, but they may, equally, ignore the importance of learning through experience and the heart. witchcraft within covens a coven is a group of members of a unit of witchcraft and, in fact, can number anything from two to 13, or even more. the number 13 is traditionally designated by the 13 moon cycles that make up one year, and 13 is the number of the goddess (hence it became unlucky under christian influence. gardenerian covens generally number 13. some covens are affiliated formally or informally to specific traditions, but they increasingly unite for organisational as well as legal and political strength, particularly in australia and parts of the usa. on-line covens are also springing up and they are an excellent way for solitary practi

of evil influence on innocent minds. in my experience, nothing could be further from the truth. children of wiccans are almost invariably kind to animals and aware of environmental issues. some groups have family celebrations and no responsible parent would introduce their children to any experiences before they were ready, least of all wiccans to whom life is sacred and children the blessing of the goddess. lisa, a wiccan from berkshire, describes how her daughter has grown up 'becoming a mother has touched me more deeply than i could ever have imagined. i am sure that every mother, pagan or otherwise, has felt and appreciated the magical connection between mother and child: eyes and hearts locked together during a breast feed; waking to silence in the middle of the night, only to hear t

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duals who lived somewhere in africa began to split up. 24,000 bc "black venus" figurine unearthed near the czech village of dolni vestonice in 1924. also one at willendorf. 11 cm tall. discovered in 1908. oldest paleolithic sculptures? oldest known portrayals of women? 100 small statuettes have been found. 6500 bc catal huyuk, neolithic site in turkey (central anatolia) flourished..at catul huyuk the goddess images were shown with the bull horns emerging from her womb (june campbell pg 41) 4242 bce earliest recorded date in history (in ancient egypt. egyptian calendar which is regulated by sun and moon has 360 days with 12 months of 30 days. 4000 bce astrology begins in mesopotamia. sumerians build ziggurats, the first astrological observatories. the sun, moon and 5 visible planets are use

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mony with the tao, or the way, a nature force. later, it evolved into a religious system involving many gods, goddesses, spirits, ghosts, demons, magical powers, and the quest for immortality. 7 preface in a.d. 67 buddhism was introduced to china from india. it contributed two powerful religious and mythical figures: the buddha, a real, historical person who later became a divinity, and kuan yin, the goddess of mercy. it also introduced the concept of reincarnation, the idea that a person may be reborn into another life. myths might contain elements and characters from all of these sources, and for this book we have chosen stories that reflect their influences. many of the ancient myths are from the fabled era of the ten legendary kings, a time before the dawn of history. thereafter, the h

saw every type of fur and fin, feather and scale, horn, hoof, and stinger. creatures lumbered, crawled, and slithered upon the earth. they jumped, darted, and roiled in the sea. scented flowers like jasmine, hyacinth, and narcissus wrapped the entire world in their warm, strong perfume. but as she explored its niches and crannies, nuwa began to feel strangely dissatisfied with the budding world. the goddess found it to be enchanting, but empty. it felt 25 nuwa creates people lonely to nuwa, who sat by a river to ponder her feelings. she gazed at her reflection in the water, and suddenly she knew what was missing: she wanted the world to be filled with thinking, laughing creatures like herself. the river stretched out before her, its waves slapping the shore. the cloudy green waters left a

exture with her fingertips and scooped out a ball of clay. the cool, sticky earth deposited by the river was perfect for her task, and she rolled the damp clay into a doll, giving it a head, shoulders, chest, and arms like her own. for the doll s lower body, she hesitated. nuwa considered giving it scales and claws like a lizard, or fins and tails like a fish. both shapes were quite useful, since the goddess frequently changed the shape of her own lower body to be able to get around the oceans and the heavens quickly. finally, she decided to attach legs to the new creature so it could both walk on land and paddle about in the sea. from the many shades of yellow earth, nuwa made tall dolls and short dolls. she made thin dolls and fat dolls. she made curly-haired dolls and straight-haired do

ellow earth, nuwa made tall dolls and short dolls. she made thin dolls and fat dolls. she made curly-haired dolls and straight-haired dolls. she made dolls with eyes as round and large as cherries, some with eyes as long and narrow as a mosquito s wing. she made some with eyes so dark they looked like the midnight sky, others so light they looked like liquid honey. each creature was different, so the goddess could recognize her creations. then, as she breathed on each doll, it sprang to life, giggling and hopping about. nuwa was so delighted with her handiwork that she wanted to make more. but she needed a quicker method. along the riverbanks, slender reeds arched their graceful stems over the water. nuwa rolled up her sleeves, cut a reed, and dipped it into the river mud like a spoon. exp

lender reeds arched their graceful stems over the water. nuwa rolled up her sleeves, cut a reed, and dipped it into the river mud like a spoon. expertly, she flicked her wrist and dropped blobs of mud chinese mythology 26 on the ground. when they dried, she breathed a huge puff of air into each blob, and instantly they became round, smiling creatures. the cheerful laughter of her creatures filled the goddess with happiness and pride. however, nuwa was tired. as much as she loved her new creations, she knew she could not watch over these humans every second. what would happen to these creatures when they grew old and died? nuwa did not relish making repairs, nor did she wish to repeat the tiring task of making new people. she thought and thought. how could these creatures reproduce without

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gence of female energy is crucial to the harmonising of the earth, and by that, i don't only mean the re-emergence of women into areas of decision-making. i mean the reawakening of female energy within the male form also, and a softening of the indoctrinated desire of so many men to dominate and to follow the macho man programming. this reemergence of female energy is symbolised as 'the return of the goddess. it is highly appropriate that the obelisk (the symbol of male energy) should be so important to the brotherhood over the centuries, because it is, after all, a brotherhood, not a brother-and-sisterhood. the secret societies are almost entirely male-dominated with women excluded from the knowledge and decision making. look at the freemasons as an example. it is a male preserve, with th

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en it was purged in france after 1307. the goat head is also associated with the sirius system. the ancients designed massive temples to point directly at the spot on the horizon where sirius appeared at the "rising" and their key rituals were focused on sirius, just as many of the illuminati's are today. one example of these sirius-aligned structures is the temple of isis at denderah in egypt.24 the goddess, isis, is a symbol of sirius in egyptian myth. robert temple suggests in the sirius mystery that isis is sirius and the "sister-goddess" of isis, nephthys, represents sirius b. isis was said to be visible and nephthys invisible, just like sirius a and b. another sirius symbol was anubis (anpu to the egyptians, the one portrayed as the dog or jackal-headed god and associated with osiris

sirius b- and their word for heavy star metal was close to the words meaning dwarf and weight.27 the sumerian account called the epic of gilamesh tells of a star that is so heavy it cannot be lifted (sirius b. this star was associated with an or anu, the leader of the anunnaki. the chief egyptian god, osiris, was also called an. in sumerian accounts, an, the jackal-dog-headed god, had a daughter, the goddess bau, the goddess of the dog. it has been suggested that bau is the origin of the term "bow wow" for a dog's bark.28 it certainly bears no resemblance to the sound a dog makes. in the sumerian epic, gilamesh is given 50 companions, which could be symbolic of the 50 years it takes for sirius b to orbit sirius. what's for sure, the ancients perceived sirius and sirius b as very important

ildren of the matrix among other danaan settlements and they travelled from atlantis to britain where they became known as tuatha de danaan or the "people of the sea. these carried the anunnaki reptilian bloodlines. the female amazons were another branch of the atlanteans and lemurians and myths say they came from a paradise called hesperides or hespera, a name for atlantis.56 they, too, followed the goddess athene or nieth and venerated her symbol, the double-headed axe. they founded shrines to the serpent goddess in many places, including the famous centre for diana worship at ephesus and other locations along the turkish coast. the "canaanites" also descended from atlantis/lemuria.57 mark amaru pinkham describes the migration of atlanteans to "canaan" in the return of the serpents of wi

the anunnaki (see www.nexusmagazine.com/ringlordsl.html http. names very similar to barat and barati can be found in the indian holy books, the vedas, because these accounts were inspired by the same sumerian (aryan) and atlantean/lemurian sources. the later romans, another empire based on the sumerian/atlantean knowledge and bloodlines, knew barati as "fortune, a reference to barati's legend as the goddess of fortune.36 they symbolised and described her in the same way the phoenicians did with barati and the british do with britannia. the egyptians had a goddess called brith, goddess of the waters, another version of barati, and the minoans (sumerian-egyptians) on crete knew her as brito- martis, who, in turn, is associated with the goddess diana or artemis, other versions of the same th

ess worshipped in atlantis. the city of troy, in asia minor, now turkey, is in the same region as ephesus, a place i have visited, which was the blood brothers 81 centre of artemis (diana) worship. the merovingians founded paris on major vortex points on the earth's energy grid and built underground chambers outside the original settlement to harness that energy in their rituals and sacrifices to the goddess diana. that very site is still an underground chamber. it is called the pont de l'alma tunnel where princess diana, named after the goddess, was murdered on sunday, august 31st, 1997. the goddess diana was symbolically a "moon goddess" and the name pont de l'alma means "bridge or passage of the moon goddess. i tell the story of diana's assassination in great detail in the biggest secre

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a tool used to cutthe umbilical cord. it is shaped like a horseshoe and was used in ancient times. she alsobecame the mother goddess of a stream of religions under names like queen semiramis,isis, barati, diana, mary and many others, which emerged from the legends of this allover the world. she is often depicted as a pregnant woman. the texts say of theanunnaki leadership:they summoned and asked the goddess,the midwife of the gods, the wise birthgiver (saying),t o a creature give life, create workers!create a primitive worker, that he may bear the yoke!let him bear the yoke assigned by enlil,let the worker carry the toil of the gods! 4enlil was commander of the anunnaki and enki was his half-brother. enki andninkharsag had many failures as they sought the right genetic mix, the tablets te

brithad-ana.36 thesuffix ana in hittite-sumerian (aryan) means one. ana in fact evolved into theenglish word one and the scottish ane. barat-ana or briton therefore means one ofthe barats (bruits. it is the same with many other countries occupied by this whiterace. the name iran comes from the earlier airy-ana or air-an, which means land ofthe arrays or aryans.37the indian v edas also acknowledge the goddess barati (belonging to the barats, andshe was known as brihad the divine. they say her special place was on the saras-vatiriver which happens to be the modern sarus river in the hittite-phoenician land of cilicia.the river entered the sea at tarsus, the alleged home of st paul in the new testament, awork written in accordance with aryan sun myths. also, these phoenicians and aryansworshi

e way as the phoenicians symbolisedfigure 12: the phoenician depiction of barati (right) and the britishsymbol of britannia. they are the same deity and alternative namesfor queen semiramis in babylon and isis in egypt. 69barati and the british do with britannia. all were associated with water as you expectwith a sea-faring race like the phoenicians. the egyptians, too, had a goddess calledbirth, the goddess of the waters, and she was another mirror of barati because thearyan-phoenicians were the force behind egypt. birth was described by a babylonianemperor about 680 bc as a phoenician god across the sea38 in crete, anotherphoenician centre under the title minoan, their goddess was brito-martis. she was aphoenician goddess according to greek and roman legend (barati in other words) andthe

cians were the force behind egypt. birth was described by a babylonianemperor about 680 bc as a phoenician god across the sea38 in crete, anotherphoenician centre under the title minoan, their goddess was brito-martis. she was aphoenician goddess according to greek and roman legend (barati in other words) andthe divine daughter of phoenix, the king of phoenicia. brito-martis became identifiedwith the goddess diana, a major deity of the ancient world, and like her she was armedfor the hunt. as earl spencer made a point of emphasising at the funeral of his sisterdiana, princess of wales, she was named after the ancient goddess of hunting.the early british kings called themselves and their race the catti and this appearson their coins. the aryan hittites of asia minor and syria-phoenicia call

ope between 1130 and 1250. the gothic style can beshown to have originated with the aryan race in the middle-near east. the gothiccathedrals which were funded and designed by the templars included westminsterabbey, york minster in northern england, chartres in france not far from paris, andnotre dame in paris itself. notre dame (our lady: isis/semiramis/ninkharsag) wasbuilt on a site dedicated to the goddess diana, and chartres was placed on an ancientsacred site which once attracted druids from all over europe. the famous chapel ofkings college, cambridge which was based upon the cabalistic tree of life symbol,was described as one of the last great gothic structures built in britain.3 its design wasapparently inspired by the 14th century cathedral at albi in the languedoc in southernfranc

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and the dominant religions involved the worship of nature. he was referring, of course, to the pre-christian pagan world. this was followed, he said, by the aeon of osirus, a time of restriction in which man rejected the natural world and in its place chose denial of the ego and mortification of the flesh. he believed that a new aeon, the aeon of horus, had begun. in egyptian mythology, isis was the goddess of fertility, osirus was the god of death, and horus was the god of rebirth. the period of restriction, he said, had ended and the life-energies had returned to the world. the pre-christian pagan world was more, however, than simply a time of nature worship. men lived in greater harmony with the natural world than they did during the cycle of restriction which followed, but they also c

ctor in nature, and unconcerned with human suffering. michael aquino goes a step further in defining satan (or set) as an isolate intelligence within the universe which bestowed upon mankind the gift of consciousness. aleister crowley says the khabs is in the khu, not the khu in the khabs, and again i, hadit, am the complement of nu, my bride. i am not extended, and khabs is the name of my house. the goddess nuit, described in the first part of the book of the law, represents the universal subconscious. the god hadit, described in the second part of the book of the law, represents the dynamic consciousness in a non-active state (horus) and the god ra-hoor-kuit, described in the third part of the book of the law, represents the dynamic consciousness in an active state (set) during a cycle o

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ame lucifer comes from the latin words lux (light) and fer (to bear. lucifer means, literally, light-bearer and was the name given by the romans to the morning star venus when it appeared in the eastern sky in the hours before dawn. lucifer, the light-bearer, the morning star, personified enlightenment, wisdom, and beauty. the cult of lucifer was associated with the worship of venus or aphrodite, the goddess of love and passion, and involved sexual acts of which the early christians did not approve. the acceptance of christianity as the official religion of rome, and subsequent conversion of pagans to the new faith, resulted in the name lucifer becoming associated with the devil satan. if jesus is the light and truth, reasoned the christian, then lucifer must be a false light, a deceiver

l reality which paranormal events suggested. he realized that parapsychologists would never find the scientific and rational explanation they sought since they had blinded themselves to the mystic and spiritual reality which was the cause of the very events these researchers witnessed. at the age of fourteen, he turned his attention to mythology and folklore and has said that he fell in love with the goddess diana of greek mythology. his fascination with mythology quickly combined with his belief in the supernatural and drew him into the study of witchcraft and magic. where parapsychology sought a rational explanation for occult phenomena, magic offered an answer. as sixteen, he read the satanic bible by anton lavey. like many others who have been influenced by satanism, he did not become

hamber; shut out all outside light sources. 3. either celebrant or partner lights candle(s. 4. either celebrant or partner lights incense; places incense in incense burner. 5. wait a few minutes; allow the incense to fill the room; meditate upon intent of ritual. 6. celebrant recites any preliminary statements( i have become the devil incarnate) 7. partner recites any preliminary statements( i am the goddess of darkness) 8. celebrant and initiate recite incantation together three or more times. 9. both drink from chalice as a sign of communion with the forces of darkness. 10. celebrant and partner come together in sexual union. 11. extinguish candles; allow light to once again enter the ritual chamber. the rituals of the demonic bible may be undertaken by a group or coven. if this is the c

ames such as astaroth, kali, and lillith. in studying the names for the devil you will find that most can be traced to ancient goddesses who represented various aspects of tiamat, either as goddess of the earth, goddess of fertility and pleasure, or goddess of death. astaroth is a form of ishtar, the babylonian goddess of pleasure who descends into the underworld to conquer her sister ereshkigal, the goddess of death. in this ancient myth, both ishtar and ereshkigal are forms of tiamat. the dark goddess was also often depicted carrying a phallic object a severed penis. the egyptian god set was originally a female deity and was identified with isis. the goddess set carried as a talisman the severed penis of osiris. isis and set, like the babylonian ishtar and ereshkigal, represent life and

d takes the horned god as her husband and lover. you will find that these rituals are easily adaptable to your particular situation. where the male practitioner says "i have crossed the gates of hell and have become the devil incarnate: i am satan, i am lucifer, i am belial, and i am leviathan" the female practitioner will say something similar to "i have crossed the gates of hell and have become the goddess of darkness: i am astaroth, i am ishtar, i am hela" the distinction between male and female entities need only be made, however, in the symbolic marriage to the "forces of darkness" and the male practitioner should not fear calling both male and female beings into his body. as a spiritual being, the sorcerer is neither male nor female. only in the form which his physical body has taken

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

palmistry (q.v, the tarot (q.v, numerology (q.v, and more recently, the runes (q.v. dowsing: a method for seeking out material objects, and living beings, usually with the use of a "fork" or other instrumental aid. druidism: an ancient celtic brotherhood of scholarly priests that underwent a modern revival in minnesota in the early 1960's. druids worship in groups called groves (q.v) and venerate the goddess through trees, especially the oak. like modern witches (q.v, they believe in reincarnation- e- earth: 1) one of the five magickal elements. it has the qualities of coolness and dryness. the element of the north. 2) one of the planetsof the solar system. the planet that all human beings are from. eastern occultism: the magickal systems of india, china, tibet, japan, and other nations of

wisdom. occult knowledge means hidden knowledge. it does not mean or imply evil. ogham: a magickal alphabet of the celts composed of twenty (20) letters called fews, each standing for a different kind of tree. it is very simple in appearance, being made up of short vertical or diagonal strokes set against or across a horizontal line. old horny: an affectionate name for the horned male consort of the goddess of the witches. early christian priests either mistook this pagan god for satan (q.v) or deliberately misidentified this pagan god for satan for political reasons. old religion: a modern day reference for wicca (q.v) or witchcraft (q.v, which many occultists believe to be the descendant of an ancient pagan goddess religion. order of the argentium astrum, the [a.a: the great white broth

tism, electricity, astrology, scientist, experiment, sudden, discovery, unique, individual, surprise- v- veil of unknowing: a term used by don tyson to indicate the boundary between manifest being and the unknowable source called the unmanifest (q.v) or the ain soph (q.v. venus: the second planet of the terran solar system. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the roman goddess who served as the goddess of beauty. attributed as being the ruler of the zodiac (q.v) signs taurus (q.v) and libra (q.v. on the tree of life (q.v) within the kabbalah (q.v) venus is attributed to the seventh sephirah (q.v, netzach (q.v. keywords include: harmony, relationship, balance, attraction, beauty, love, party, diplomatic, art, music, drama, pleasure, possessions, lovely, candy, sweetness, lazy, indolen

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ion. we get clues to this method in the dream-analysis of analytical psychology. we might describe it as the symbol-using power of the subconscious mind. it is an instructive experiment to toss a mass of irrelevant symbolism into the mind and watch it sort itself out in meditation upon the tree, rising into consciousness in long association-chains like dream analysis. 28. netzach is the sphere of the goddess of nature, venus. hod is the sphere of mercury, the greek analogue of the egyptian thoth, lord of books and learning. observing their opposition, we shall expect to find two different aspects represented in them, these finding their equilibrium in a third, yesod, the sphere of luna. we see then a triangle composed of the lady of nature, the lord of books, and the mistress of witchcraft

chokmah) and binah always refers to the old gods, which every pantheon recognises as the predecessors of those forms of godhead worshipped by the current faith. thus rhea and kronos would be referred to binah and chokmah, and jupiter to chesed. all the corn goddesses refer to malkuth, and all the lunar goddesses to yesod. the war gods and destructive gods, or divine devils, refer to geburah, and the goddesses of love to netzach. the initiator gods of wisdom are referred to hod, and the sacrificed gods and redeemers to tiphareth. so great an authority as richard payne knight in his valuable book, the symbolic language of ancient art and mythology, speaks of "the remarkable concurrence of the allegories, symbols, and titles of ancient mythology in favour of the mystic system of emanations"

ent sephiroth is impracticable. aspects of isis are to be found in binah, netzach, yesod, and malkuth. aspects of osiris are to be found in chokmah, chesed, and tiphareth. this comes out clearly in greek mythology, wherein the different gods and goddesses are given descnptive titles. for instance, diana, the moon-goddess, the virgin huntress, was worshipped at ephesus as the many-breasted; venus, the goddess of female beauty and of love, had a temple where she was worshipped as the bearded venus. these things teach us some important truths. they teach us to look for the principle behind the multiform manifestation, and to realise that it assumes different forms on different levels. life is not quite so simple as the uninformed would like to believe. ii 15. the meaning of the hebrew names o

h all that that implies. translated from the symbolic language of the qabalah into plain english, it means that we are concerned here with the function of polarity, which is a very great deal more than mere sex as popularly conceived. 18. it is important to note in this respect that venus, or in her greek form, aphrodite, is not a fertility goddess at all, such as are ceres and persephone; she is the goddess of love. now in the greek concept of life, love embraced much more than the relationship between the sexes, it included the comr'deship of fighting men and the relationship of teacher and pupil. the greek hetaira, or woman whose profession is love, was something very different to our modern prostitute. the greek kept the simple physical relation of the sexes for his lawful wife, who wa

. the virtue is unselfishness-that is to say, the capacity to polarise from the negative pole. the vices are the obvious ones of love abusedunchastity and lust. 34. the correspondence in the microcosm is with the loins, hips, and legs. these, it will be noted, form the setting of the generative organs, but not the generative organs themselves, and bear out the idea previously shadowed forth, that the goddess of love and the fertility goddess are not one and the same thing. 35. the symbols assigned to netzach are the lamp, the girdle, and the rose. the girdle and rose are self-explanatory, for they are traditionally associated with venus. the lamp, however, requires more explanation, for the classical associations afford us no clue on this point. we must turn to alchemy. 36. the four elemen

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, which followed immediately upon their deaths. the fact that mr. cs first wife died of cancer of the womb does not in itself call for remark, but it is a curious thing that he should lose his second wife from the same disease. cancer is not as common as all that, and in any case, there are many available sites beside the womb. on the other hand, diana, one of the aspects of luna, of whom hecate, the goddess of witches, was another, presides over the female reproductive organs. the illness of mrs. c. began to show itself soon after miss x. was excluded from the house. finally, what shall we say concerning the deaths of the three people most intimately associated with miss x. within a short time of each other, and her immediate break down? in the absence of details any conclusion must be gu

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other goddess who represents for the hindus all manifest things and all energies. the word shakti literally means power. it is through the grace and love of shakti that kundalini is awakened and made to ascend. before this grace and love can be attained the practitioner must establish a close personal relationship with shakti. this is done through repeated visualization of that particular form of the goddess that has been decided upon, through prayers to the goddess, through offerings and sacrifices to the goddess, through contemplation of the qualities and virtues of the goddess, through active inner communication with the goddess, through visualization of interaction and union with the goddess, and by filling the place of ritual communion with the goddess with scents, symbols, forms, col

r caressed on the surface of the skin. the muladhara chakra forms a hardness at the perineum. during the period of contemplation and communion with the chosen aspect of shakti, the penis will rise and fall rhythmically, remaining erect for periods of ten minutes or so, then becoming flaccid for several minutes, then rising again. this goes on for hours at a time- for as long as the communion with the goddess is maintained. in women, the external genitals become inflamed and moist, and the clitoris erect. there is a copious flow of sexual fluids in both men and women. if, during this period, the mind is directed away from the goddess and toward the inflamed genitals, or if the physical state of tumescence causes erotic thoughts to enter the mind, tumescence ceases almost immediately. for ex

e is a copious flow of sexual fluids in both men and women. if, during this period, the mind is directed away from the goddess and toward the inflamed genitals, or if the physical state of tumescence causes erotic thoughts to enter the mind, tumescence ceases almost immediately. for example, the penis can be strongly erect even to the point of discomfort, yet if the mind is allowed to wander from the goddess, erection can completely vanish within the space of five or ten seconds. in recent times there has been an attempt to identify the chakra with nerve centers in the human body. for this reason the chakras are often said to be arrayed along the spinal column. this is incorrect, as anyone who has actually felt the chakras will testify. they are felt near the front of the body, not on the

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

have read here will not be found elsewhere in this detailed and specific form. those who usually write about the chakras have no firsthand knowledge of them, and those with an intimate firsthand knowledge usually consider them too dangerous and powerful, and also too sacred, to write about openly. gurus especially conceal the techniques for establishing an intimate and personal relationship with the goddess, which seems in my experience essential in awakening kundalini. what i have written is based on my own experiments- other practitioners of kundalini yoga may have experienced the chakras somewhat differently. it is repeated endlessly in traditional eastern texts that the oversight of a guru is essential to the awakening of kundalini and the piercing of the chakras. evidently this is un

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n the quote above, must occur through daath. on a lower, shadow level, the blindragon, coronzon, is required to sexually unite samael, the slant serpent, with lilith, the tortuous serpent. the union of the watchers with the beautiful daughters of man was a work of daath. gareth knight is correct in a strict sense that daath is unnumbered, but it is worth noting that eleven is the number linked to the goddess nuit and to all thelemites in crowley's book of the law. nuit is quoted as saying "my number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us" since daath is one sephirah more than the recognized ten, it is natural to assign it the number eleven. this essay is somewhat more complex and difficult than others on this web site, but the importance of coronzon in the more subtle aspects of western

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

pening the doors of the tuat and of coming forth by day. this chapter has no vignette. chapter lxviii. the chapter of coming forth by day. vignette: the deceased kneeling by the side of a tree before a goddess.[1] chapter lxix. another chapter. chapter lxx. another chapter. chapter lxxi. the chapter of coming forth by day. vignette: the deceased with both hands raised in adoration kneeling before the goddess meh-urt.[2] chapter lxxii. the chapter of coming forth by day and of passing through the hall of the tomb. vignette: the deceased adoring three gods. chapter lxxiii (this chapter is now known as chapter ix) chapter lxxiv. the chapter of lifting up the legs and coming forth upon earth. vignette: the deceased standing upright. chapter lxxv. the chapter of travelling to annu (on, and of r

ette: the deceased standing by the side of osiris. p. xlvi theban version: list of chapters. chapter clxxxv. the ascription of praise to osiris, and of adoration to the everlasting lord. vignette: the deceased making adoration to osiris. chapter clxxxvi. a hymn of praise to hathor, mistress of amentet, and to meh-urt. vignette: the deceased approaching the mountain of the dead, from which appears the goddess hathor. the version akin to the theban. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (34 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:56 am] pal ography. the version akin to was in vogue from the xxth to the xxvith dynasty, i.e, about b.c. 1200-550, and was, like the theban, usually written upon papyrus. the chapters have no fixed order, and are written in lines in th

ction of osiris are accepted as facts universally admitted. greek writers have preserved in their works traditions concerning this god, and to plutarch in particular we owe an important version of the legend as current in his day. it is clear that in some points he errs, but this was excusable in dealing with a series of traditions already some four thousand years old.[1] according to this writer the goddess rhea [nut, the wife of helios [ra, was beloved by kronos [seb. when helios discovered the intrigue, he cursed his wife and declared that she should not be delivered of her child in any month or in any year. then the god hermes, who also loved rhea, played at the legend of osiris. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod04.htm (1 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:23:04 am] tables with selene and won f

udes de mythologie et d'arch ologie, t. i, p. 344, note 1. 4. recueil de travaux, t. v, p. 52 (1. 456. 5. ibid, t. iii, p. 165 (l. 169] p. lxxii the deification of the spiritual body. living ones,[1] he becomes "god, the son of god"[2] and all the gods of heaven become his brethren.[3] his bones are the gods and goddesses of heaven;[4] his right side belongs to horns, and his left side to set;[5] the goddess nut makes him to rise up as a god without an enemy in his name "god;[6] and god calls him by his name.[7] his face is the face of ap-uat, his eyes are the great ones among the souls of annu, his nose is thoth, his mouth is the great lake, his tongue belongs to the boat of right and truth, his teeth are the spirits of annu, his chin is khert-khent-sekhem, his backbone is sema, his shoul

teta, l. 307 (maspero, recueil de travaux, t. v, p. 46] p. xcviii the legend of ra and isis. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod07.htm (7 of 10 [8/10/2001 11:23:38 am] heaven nor earth, and when neither gods had been born, nor men created, the god tmu was the father of human beings,[1] even before death came into the world. the first act of tmu was to create from his own body the god shu and the goddess tefnut;[2] and afterwards seb the earth and nut the sky came into being. these were followed by osiris and isis, set and nephthys. dr. brugsch's version of the origin of the gods as put forth in his last work on the subject[3] is somewhat different. according to him there was in the beginning neither heaven nor earth, and nothing existed except a boundless primeval mass of water which

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cerning dreams or enigmas. amaranth a flower that is one of the symbols of immortality. it has been said by occult magicians that a crown made with this flower has supernatural properties and will bring fame and favor to those who wear it. it was also regarded in ancient times as a symbol of immortality and was used to decorate images of gods and tombs. in ancient greece, the flower was sacred to the goddess artemis of ephesus, and the name amaranth derives from amarynthos, a hunter of artemis and king of euboea. there are many species of amaranth, some with poetic folk names such as prince s feather and love-lies-bleeding. the amazing randi stage name of professional conjuring magician james randi (or randall zwinge, who is the self-appointed archenemy of psychics and the paranormal. amdu

nger did a number of films, among which are those with occult themes, stemming from anger s fascination with the writings and philosophy of aleister crowley. notable among these are thelema abbey (1955; lord shiva s dream (1954, released as inauguration of the pleasure dome (1958; scorpio rising (1963; invocation of my demon brother (1969; and lucifer rising (1970.80. anais nin played the part of the goddess astarte in inauguration of the pleasure dome, concerned with crowley-esque rituals. margorie cameron, a member of the ordo templi orientis, who was famous for her participation in some magical child rituals with jack parsons, also appeared in the movie. rock singer mick jagger provided a soundtrack on moog synthesizer for invocation of my demon brother, in which anton lavey played the

catholics, though many have pointed out that similar visitations have been recorded widely within non-catholic christianity and among most or all of the world s religions and peoples. it is natural that sincere devotees envision a divine figure in the form familiar through the iconography of their own religion. the nineteenth-century hindu mystic sri ramakrishna frequently had ecstatic visions of the goddess kali. while the unreligious might dismiss such visions as religious hysteria, contemporary psychology has rescued them from the realms of the abnormal and mapped their ecstatic nature along with other transpersonal psychological states, and religious scholars have noted the predominantly meaningful messages they deliver. one might also group such visitations with phenomena like the app

united states and in canada and australia. founder pete pathfinder and his wife wende (nee graebex) serve as the archpriest and archpriestess for the church. the aquarian tabernacle church teaches what can be thought of as a consensus modern pagan perspective. deity is viewed as both transcendent and immanent and is most likely to manifest as female and male, and in a multiplicity of forms (i.e, the goddesses and gods. members share a deep love of nature, believe that life should be joyous, pleasurable, and loving, and refrain from harming others. the pagan path is seen as leading to growth, evolution, and balance. the church maintains a retreat house in the cascade mountains and a nearby moonstone circle constructed by menhirs where some of the annual major festivals (sabbats) are held f

e to the greek equivalent, artemis, and decided to start a new wiccan group with artemis at the center. like all feminist wicca, artemisian faith affirms the female image of deity, which stands in sharp contrast to the primarily male image with which oriethyia had been raised. unlike most wiccan traditions, she saw no need to balance male-female energies by naming a male consort god to stand with the goddess. she believes that the balancing of energies derives from the assertion of the feminine within a masculine-dominated culture. artemisians also identify with the ancient amazons, the legendary fighters whom even the bravest of male warriors feared and respected. they describe themselves as proud and capable women worshipping the goddess artemis. they submit to no man in the recognition

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g the way of denial. instead of refraining from such things as alcohol and sex in order to attain spiritual realization, tantra suggests using items commonly denied as a tool to enlightenment. sexuality is by far the most controversial of such tools. within tantric systems, the practice of maithuna may be either symbolic (the right-hand path) or actual (the left hand path. tantra seeks union with the goddess shakti and speaks of the male s union with the goddess. in left-hand rites, the woman is seen as the goddess present in flesh. tantra also developed the understanding of occult anatomy in hinduism focused in the seven chakras, or psychic centers, located horizontally in the body from the base of the spine to the top of the head, and kundalini, the mystical energy that is usually pictur

g mantra performed regularly by the sivananda ashram in rishikesh, india, which invokes vishnu (hindu god) to take away illnesses and offenses. shiva hara shankara, as chanted by indira devi s ashram in poona, india, asks the lord shiva to free us from the bondage of life. the shiva mantra implores homage, homage, all homage and glory to you, o lord shiva. similarly, the lakshmi mantra calls upon the goddess lakshmi, we pray to you in benign solemnity to bestow your blessings and shower your wealth upon us. the development of compact discs and digital recordings has made mantra recordings more available in music stores and new age shops. as this technology has fueled western acceptance of yoga, mantras will gain popularity and perhaps take on a new meaning as more and more westerners pract

av- mexico and central america encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1032 eled through space and was able to visit those places of which it desired to have knowledge. it was likely that the seers hypnotized themselves by gazing at certain small, highly-polished pieces of sandstone, or that they employed these in a manner similar to the crystal-gazing practices found around the globe. the goddess tozi was the patron of those who used grains of maize or red beans in divination. on such native group, the cuna people indigenous to panama, believed that the avisua, sang songs of magic that have curative powers.whether it was the healing of the sick, change atmospheric conditions, or inspire a person to act in some oppositive way. the witch doctors, or neles, claimed powers of extra

t that these, supplemented by what the christian fathers were able to glean regarding these mystic cults, give useful hints for further investigations. eleusis the mysteries of eleusis had for their primal adoration demeter and persephone (the mother and the daughter. other nameless divinities appear to have been associated with eleusinian mysteries, usually signified by terms such as the gods or the goddesses. mythological science suggests that such nameless gods are merely those whose higher names are hidden and unspoken. in egypt, for example, the concept of the concealed name was extremely common. the name of the power of a god, if discovered, bestowed on the discoverer control over that deity. dionysus is also a figure of some importance in the eleusinian mystery. it has been thought

tion was in the hands of the athenian city, the royal ruler of which, along with a committee of supervision, undertook the general management. the rites took place at the city of eleusis and were celebrated by a hereditary priesthood, the eumolpedie. they alone (or rather their high priest) could penetrate into the innermost holy of holies, but there were also priestesses and female attendants of the goddesses. the celebration of the mysteries was somewhat as follows: in the month of september the eleusinian holy things were taken from the sacred city to athens and placed in the eleusinion. these probably consisted to some extent of small statues of the goddesses. three days afterward, the catechumens assembled to hearken to the exhortation of one of the priests, during which those who wer

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

earth. each entity receives its assignment, and at the end of that assignment (bodily death) the entity appears before the board once more, this time to have its performance reviewed. the karmic board dispenses justice to this system of worlds, adjudicating karma, mercy and judgment on behalf of every lifestream( lords of karma, n.d. members of the karmic board include the great divine director, the goddess of liberty, ascended lady master nada, cyclopea (elohim of the fifth ray, pallas athena 140 karen a japanese print depicting a kappa (victoria and albert museum, london/art resource, ny (goddess of truth, portia (goddess of justice, and kuan yin (goddess of mercy. further reading lords of karma, n.d. http//www.ascensionresearch. org/karma.html kazik in september 1953, albert k. bender

FAUST

head s too small for me. a fairly young lady just see her foot! how could it clumsier be? a diplomat i have seen princesses of this same kind! she s beautiful from head to foot, i find. a courtier she nears the sleeper, cunningly demure. a lady how hideous by that form so young and pure! a poet by her rare beauty he is beamed upon. a lady a picture! luna and endymion! a poet quite right! and now the goddess seems to sink, bends over him as if his breath to drink. how enviable- a kiss- the cup is full. a duenna before the crowd! my word! that is too cool. faust a fearful favour for the youth! mephistopheles be still and let the phantom do all that it will. a courtier she steals away, light-footed. he awakes. a lady just as i thought, another look she takes. a courtier he is astounded, thin

, by all my people s woe i cry to thee, diana, luna, hecate! thou breast-expanding one, most deeply pensive one, thou peaceful seeming one, mighty intensive one, break from the glooms of thy dark chasm clear, and without magic let thine ancient might appear! pause. am i too quickly heard? hath my prayer to yonder sphere the ordered course of nature stirred? and greater, ever greater, draweth near the goddess throne, her full-orbed sphereto gaze upon, appalling, dire! and ruddier, redder glows its fire. no nearer! threatening orb, i pray, lest thou wilt sweep us, land, and sea away! thessalian witches? can it then be true that thee once from thy proper path they drew, by spells of impious magic sung, and fatal gifts from thee so wrenched and wrung. the brilliant shield, behold, it darkles!

the sea. olympus not, nor yet your soil, can bear a form that is so dainty and so fair. from dragons of the sea, all in most winsome motion, they leap on neptune s coursers; in the ocean, their element, so tenderly at home they seem to float upon the very foam. on venus radiant, pearly chariot drawn, comes galatea, lovely as the dawn. since cypris turned from us her face, she reigns in paphos in the goddess place. and so, long since, the gracious one doth own, as heiress, templed town and chariot-throne. away! it spoils a father s hour of pleasure, harshness of tongue or hate of heart to treasure. away to proteus! ask that wondrous elf: how one can come to be and change one s self. he goes off toward the sea. thales we have gained nothing by this stay. though one finds proteus, straight h

w: fare thee well! and cast myself once more, once only, in thine arms. receive, persephone, receive the boy and me. she embraces faust, she herself vanishes, robe and veil remain in his arms. phorkyas [to faust. hold fast what now alone is left to thee! let not the garment go. already demons are twitching at its skirts and they would like to snatch it to the lower world. hold fast! it is no more the goddess whom thou lost, but godlike is it. make use of the high and priceless boon, and rising soar aloft. swift over all things common will it bear thee away through ether while thou can st endure. we ll meet again, far, far away from here. helena s garments dissolve into clouds, surround faust, lift him in the air, and move away with him. phorkyas [picks up euphorion s robe, mantle, and lyre

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

thing from elohim down to the lowest creature in the lower worlds of manifestation. this supreme, unifying i-ness is worshipped in christianity as christos, in islam as allah, and in the tantras as the divine mother kali. it is worshipped in hinduism as ishvara, in tibetan buddhism as vajradhara or avalokiteshvara, in taoism as the divine mother kwan yin, and in the polynesian kahuna tradition as the goddess pele.9 an individual with this level of awareness directly perceives the innate identity of themselves and all beings with that one indwelling spirit. the perspective of unqualified non-dualism in the qabalah is that the ayn alone exists and all separate existence is illusory, that a manifest creation on all its levels has no basis in reality, and that all the shells of embodied existe

of the ten incarnations of vishnu, including rama, krishna, narasimha (lit. man-lion, and matsya (the fish, who is said to have appeared to noah during the flood. hindus also ascribe messianic stature to chaitanya (sixteenth century ce, ramakrishna (1836- 1886, shirdi sai baba (d.1918) and satya sai baba (1925- present. they assign such status as well as to incarnations of the divine mother i.e. the goddess, such as saradamani devi (1853- 1920, anandamayi ma (1896-1982, amritanandamayi ma (1953-present, known widely as ammachi, and others. buddhism provides detailed descriptions of the incarnations of the buddha, and of the one to come called maitreya. the sage lao tze, to whom is ascribed the tao-te ching, was the revered divine incarnation who sired the development of taoism. and zoroas

world sequences from the eighth wing of the chinese i ching (book of change, titled the shuo qua, are much more abstract diagrams, representing the sefiroth as sets of solid and broken lines. the polynesian kahunas, whose scriptures take the form of sacred hulas recorded on boards in rongo rongo writing, do not have a diagram for their tree, but represent the sefiroth by the different hi iakas of the goddess pele.1 the hi iakas are the same as the dakinis, the female emanations of the goddess kali in the north indian and tibetan tantra, the absorption and synthesis of many eastern mystical ideas into a myriad of new age therapies, holistic psychology, and tantric sexual ecstasy for the masses has made the chakra system the most salient map of consciousness in western culture. the chakric t

t seed sounds (san. bija. the fallen condition is portrayed in the chakric tree by the petals on the lotuses turned downward. when the chakric tree is ascended, the petals of each lotus turn upwards as the consciousness of the traveler awakens in it. as previously mentioned in chapter one, the tantric texts (called shastra) on the chakras describe the chitshakti (energy of consciousness, known as the goddess kundalini, as a coiled snake asleep at the base of the chakric tree. the shekhinah of the qabalah is said to be in exile in the lower worlds. the kundalini and the shekhinah are two distinctly different allusions for the same thing. the snake of the kundalini is said to awaken and ascend the chakric tree, opening the chakric lotuses on her way to unite with her husband shiva in the ajn

on vast face xgod-without-name-and-form. in other traditions, vast face meditation is practiced among the shaivites and advaita vedantins in india, the theravada, tendai, shingon, tibetan, ch an, and zen buddhists, and the wu wei (non- action) taoists.17 the shaivites envision the pure consciousness of vast face as shiva, and the energy of that consciousness as% e2 2 e" 2' 8: h f e 2 his consort the goddess kali. the vedantic philosophy of advaita (non-duality) regards all name and form as illusory, and that brahman (i.e. the ayn) alone exists. theravada, hinayana, tendai, shingon, tibetan, ch an, and zen buddhists perform variations of vast face meditation practices taught by gautama buddha (regarded as the eighth incarnation of vishnu by hindus) and other bodhisattvas (souls who reach e

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

a.d. 123, apuleius was educated at carthage and at athens and later travelled to egypt where he became involved in a lawsuit in which he was accused of magic. he is famous for his wonderful novel, popularly known as the golden ass= the hero of which is transformed by witches into an ass, and after many sufferings in his animal form, is transformed back into human shape after an ecstatic vision of the goddess isis, which comes to him on a lonely seashore whither he has wandered in 1 lactantius, div. inst, ii, xv. 2 augustine, de civ. dei, viii, xxiii-xxvi. he is quoting from asclepius, 23, 24, 37; sec c.h, ii, pp. 325 ff. 3 c.h, ii, p. 259. 4 de civ. dei, viii, xiii-xxii. 5 this is the title of the sixteenth-century english translation by william adlington. 9 hermes trismegistus despair. ev

artamento borgia, in lectures, warburg institute, university of london, i, pp. 174-88; ii, pis. 115-24. 5+g.b. 115 pico della mirandola and cabalist magic juno, who set argus to watch her. argus was killed by mercury, a scene shown in one of the paintings where mercury, with drawn sword, is despatching argus (pi. 4. having been rescued by mercury from argus, io escaped into egypt where she became the goddess isis. after the scene with mercury and argus, there follows in the frescoes, a scene where io-isis is seated on a throne (pi. 5, with a figure on her left identified by saxl as moses. the figure on her right is obviously the same person as the one shown with the zodiac in the room of the sibyls (pi. 3. he is, i suggest, again hermes trismegistus, now shown with moses. the mercury who k

christianity but actually as the true religion. very important, among the new documents in the sommario are the indications of bruno's view of the cross as really an egyptian sacred sign. a fellow-prisoner reports him as having said that the cross on which christ was crucified was not in the form shown on christian altars, this form being in reality the sign which was sculptured on the breast of the goddess isis, and which was "stolen" by the christians from the egyptians.2 in reply to an inquisitorial question about this, bruno acknowledged that he had said that form of the cross on which christ was crucified was different from the way in which it is usually "painted, adding these significant words: i think that i have read in marsilio ficino that the virtue and holiness of this characte

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

tion was present in day to day affairs. now i was left reeling for months after the babalon incident. i cannot emphasize the great deal of truth which was felt at the time of these revelations. now this is treading dangerous territory here, because obsession is sure to follow. thus we get now into the subject of liber chrnzn see now appendix i and ii. afterwards i shall explicate the relations to the goddess-force babalon and the scarlet brotherhood. 6 the rite of suffering death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful. thou art not so- some dead poet being a chaotic interpretation of the holy guardian angel operation, as one summons the angel of light, the reverse impulse is attracted and mastery& integration of the darkness is necessary for unity. a thorough selfex

drank deeply of her cup. this is sure folly. i/3b: 10 being the number of sephira. the face depicted has three blackened lines and one shaded line. a reference to chrnzn and our lady. i/4a: the represents the first excursion. dreamscape, the land of miasmic mists on the border conscious realms. this is (in reality) overlapped completely with perceptions (at times being more apparent than others. the goddess of dreams and silence governs here. as the sum-mind is the gateway of archetypes, it is older than this race itself, but is continually molded by us. an automatic drawing evokes this in the viewer. i/4b: an image of our lady babalon whose gateway is 156. she is her. the number 156 commonly depicted by erisians under the number 23: 2-3= 1, 2+3= 5, 2*3= 6. she being of many faces, both t

ions are of an astral nature (as all true initiations are. the greatest obstacle for the magus is his self. the surrender spoken of is not in a savior sense, but possibly one of the most difficult things to do. iii/5b: a few notes on the nature of the quliphoth, whose origins are of us. also a reference to the protective shield which preserves our leaps into the outer-spaces. iii/6a: the sigil of the goddess of dreamscape. it bears a slight resemblance to the sigil of set. iii/6b: the whole of sorcery and high-magick explained in one sentence and picture. the formula given is for the triangular numbers. which gives us the sum of the first n numbers (this is a magical formula. onze is the word form for the number eleven in french. iii/7a: the shell of the magus aided by the angel comes befo

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

. 212] please note that our symbol of the statue of liberty was the actual terra cota model constructed in 1870 by the masonic sculptor. in satanism, virtually any perpendicular symbol is the phallus, so the torch certainly qualifies; indeed, one might wonder, from the explanation given, above, that the torch is lucifer's phallus, if the occultist really believes the torch is a symbol of the god. the goddess holding the torch would provide a good female symbol. thus, the freemason depicts the sex act every single day of every year, in new york harbor. sex and the masonic gavel "the gavel is an important masonic and eastern star symbol [dr. c. burns, masonic and occult symbols, p326] the first thing i noticed about the symbol of the gavels is that they were always depicted upside down. i wo

FULL MOON RITUALS

figure draped in a long and tattered gray robe and cloak, gray hair hanging lankly to her waist, sharon slowly makes the final few steps left in her journey back to the castle. she has traveled alone, barefoot and without provision, along the spine of the sleeping dragon in the desolate mountain range overlooking the region of grove and castle, her mission to renew her awareness of that aspect of the goddess now reigning in her life. the death hag is a harsh taskmistress, but her wisdom is worth the effort required to absorb even a fraction of it. sharon rests briefly on the strength of the staff that has helped her through the long days and nights of walking, the warm ebony wood almost soft against her palms. she closes her eyes and remembers rock and dirt, frost and ice glittering in the

stle door now, she raises her staff and signals for entrance. given permission, she walks slowly inside, eyes filled with glad tears. so many dear ones here! but she is still held within, not ready to greet or exhibit the joy she feels at this reunion of like minds and spirits. she hopes her hag aspect will teach rather than repel. having no answers, she can only represent the questions and trust the goddess to do the rest. slowly, she moves round the ritual room into the circle and waits her turn to invoke the quarter ruling her now..after all the greetings have been made, hugs shared and stories told, deer leads all assembled in a deosil circle about the room- beginning at the wide doors opening into the great hall. he joins in the "ooh's" and "ah's" at the sight of mama high overhead, h

this. once again, owl wonders at these strong people who come to petition, not for themselves, but for others. and those who have petitioned quietly, without stating aloud their requests, owl understands that they too are forming powerful thoughts of healing, and aiding those who are dear to them. there are those here with us who are taking the opportunity, not to petition, but to say "thanks" to the goddess and the god for things which have happened in their lives, and they were very much aware that miracles were granted to them. it has been nearly a decade since this site was found, and rituals held, and the weaving began once again. as the threads were woven, new colors and textures have been added, and some threads were broken. some could be repaired, and some had to be tied off. there

te pieces of our lives woven here. and with each weaving, the cloth becomes stronger and more beautiful. subtle muted shades of thankfulness, bright glittering streaks of passion and joy, and dark, somber colors of grief and fear. yet each time we come together, and set up our loom, the shared working of the patterns lightens our burdens. for here, we realize that in all the weaving, the hands of the goddess and the god guide our hands, as we weave the patterns of our lives. owl takes a deep breath, and offers her own petition "may all those gathered here find their prayers answered in the way which is most beneficial to all "so mote it be..lyn emerges from the shadows. she was going to just watch this month, feeling that she had little to contribute. now, she finds that her need to petiti

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

cores of other books, the bewildering nature of which may be recognized in a few minutes by glancing through a talmudic miscellany by paul isaac hershon. the word hlbq (qblh) is spelt in many ways, such as qabalah, qaballah, cabala, kaballa, and even, though quite incorrectly- gabella. it is not derived from such fantastic origins as the name of kapila, the indian philosopher, or from the name of the goddess cybele, for the word simply means greception h, something received an oral transmission, an oracle, or the spoken word. and the reason is, as we have already mentioned, that for ages the qabalistic doctrines were not set down in writing or print, the hebrews considering them too secret and sublime a wisdom for the common eye. this wisdom is formed within a vast number of doctrines, suc

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

ust co-operate or work together. in the following descriptions of egyptian emblems, will be perceived some of the changes which finally took place relative to the idea of sex in the god-idea. in the museum of egyptian antiquities in berlin is a sepulchral tablet representing the tree of life. this emblem figures the trunk of a tree, from the top of which emerges the bust of a woman--netpe. she is the goddess of heavenly existence, and is administering to the deceased the water and the bread of life, the latter of which is represented by a substance in the form of cakes or rolls. the time at which this tablet was found is not known, but it is supposed to belong to the period of the xixth dynasty, or about the time of rameses ii, 1400 years b.c. there is also in the berlin museum another rep

red a tree of life which is surrounded by winged spirits, bearing in their hands the pine cone, a symbol indicating life, and which is said to have the same significance as the crux-ansata, or cross, among the egyptians. in later ages, the tree of life, i. e, the divine man, or cross, or both together, furnish immortal food to those who lay hold upon them, exactly in the same manner as did netpe, the goddess of wisdom, or spiritual life, in former times. according to the testimony of barlow, this is the subject "most frequently symbolized on early christian sepulchral tablets and monuments"[13] christ's body was the "bread of life" and his blood was the "wine from the tree of life" of which to partake was life eternal. the cross, as in earlier religions, represented completeness of life. t

r of these nations worshipped the corporeal sun. it was the "centre or body from which the pervading spirit, the original producer of order, fertility, and organization, continued to emanate to preserve the mighty structure which it had formed" it is evident that at an early age, both in egypt and in india, spiritualized conceptions of sun-worship had already been formed. we have seen that netpe, the goddess of light, or heavenly wisdom, conferred spiritual life on all who would accept it. the great mother of the gods in india was not only the source whence all blessings flow, but she was the beginning and the end of all things. of "aditi, the boundless, the yonder, the beyond all and everything" max muller says that in later times she "may have become identified with the sky, also with th

teaches that the divine nature is both female and male. according to proclus, jupiter was an immortal maid "the queen of heaven, and mother of the gods" all things were contained within the womb of jupiter. this virgin within whom was embodied the male principle "gave light and life to eve" she was the life-giving, energizing power in nature, and was identical with aleim, om, astarte, and others. the goddess esta, or vesta, or hestia, whom plato calls the "soul of the body of the universe" is believed by beverly and others to be the self-existent, the great "she that is" of the hindoos, whose significance is identical with the cushite or phoenician deity, aleim. according to marco polo, the chinese had but one supreme god of whom they had no image, and to whom they prayed for only two thin

hich asserts that every morning a melodious sound is emitted from the first named of these two colossal figures as he salutes his rosy-fingered mother whom he acknowledges as the source of all light and wisdom. the bodies are described as being "without motion, the faces without expression, the eyes looking straight forward, yet a certain grand simplicity occasions them to be universally admired" the goddess disa or isa of the north, as delineated on the sacred drums of the laplanders, was accompanied by a child similar to the horus of the egyptians.[29] it is observed also that the ancient muscovites worshipped a sacred group composed of a mother and her children, probably a representation of the egyptian isis and her offspring, or at least of the once universal idea of the deity [29] jen

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

masonic points; it refers also to the doctrines of pythagoras whose five pointed star i mention later on. among the masonic points which have been derived from the ancient mysteries, i notice the triple degrees of the system corresponding to the mysteries of serapis, isis, and osiris. now our second degree has feminine suggestions; note, shibboleth, the ear of corn, the water, for corn refers to the goddess ceres, female, or demeter, gemeter, earth mother, and the water is female in all old languages; compare binah, mother deity; andthe religion of freemasonry 119our third is a very close approximation to that which represen255 ted the slaying of osiris.thebattery of acclamation when the candidate is restored to light is a direct imitation of the sudden crash of feigned thunder and lightn

es stand around, a radiated cup hangs upon a pole, and several animals are also drawn in the upper part of the scene.resemblances of freemasonry to mithra 251thetauroctonic sculpture at osterburken is considered the best example extant. in some sculptures these scenes are supplemented by zodiacal figures, by kronos or time, by atlas, oceanus, the fates and zeus with his thunderbolt. at one period the goddess anaitis (astarte, aphrodite) was associated with mithras in sculptures.theancient persian work namedbundahish,which gives a theory of cosmogony after the zoroastrian ideals throws some light upon these mythical scenes. it narrates that the first creation of ormuzd was of goshurun, the heavenly bull, that this bull was killed by the evil ahriman, and that from its side came gayomort, th

to bestonedto death, beyond the camp, notably any man who had cursed god.thechaldeans worshipped a mysterious stone called mniz255 ouris (see my edition of theoraclesofzoroaster)and offered sacrifices to it. the phoenicians worshipped sacred stone pillars which were called baetylia.thethebans of greece worshipped bacchus as a stone pillar, and tacitus in hishistory,book2,3,tells us that at paphos the goddess venus was represented by a conical stone.thegreeks used also to place pillars, consecrated stones, before their temples and gymnasia, and even before the dwellings of the notables: pausanias says that unhewn stones were preferred. cybele, the goddess, was represented by a black stone; and eusebius remarks that a black stone was peculiarly appropriate to a god because of his obscure and

tely developed at a later period,butit appears then to have become widespread. osiris was fabled to be a divine king of egypt, and isis was his mother, sister and wife; horus was their son.themyth told that the king osiris was murdered by his brother typhon or set, and was then received into amenti, the underworld- the abode of the dead- where he reigned as king of the souls of the dead. isis was the goddess of nature, the mother of us all, and horus became the274themagical masontype of the beneficient son and sun. hence arose a public worship of this triad, and to them prayers for future happiness were directed, and to these deities temples were built, and public worship directed. supplementary to the cult of the triad was a system of adoration of sacred animals as emblems of the gods, no

m of further trials and promises to makehimher heir, and bids him beware of fatal curiosity. forgetting her warnings, he sins again, and finds himself changed into an ass, in which condition he has to pass through the vilest conditions. at last he is told he must obtain and eat a rose, the symbol of silence. by his carelessness he nearly dies from eating an unsuitable rose. he is at last saved by the goddess isis, who supplies the needed faith in the gods. he bathes seven times in the sea, and perceives theaporrhetain a vision,*receives the true rose, regains his human form, and is restored to mental and spiritual health. this story should be studied by all freemasons and rosicrucians*'1approached the confines of death, and having trod on the threshold of persephone, i returned fromit,bein

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

oftruthinthe mystical scales ,of ma by anubis. tl).oth, ibis-headed, records the judgement and the devourer stands readytoseizeifthe soul has ledaneviuife.passing through this ordeal, the soul is then introduced into the presence of osiris by horus. osiris sits in his shrine upon a throne, with the crook and scourge. symbols.of mercy and severity, in, his hands; behind him are isis and nephthys, the goddesses()f nature and perfection, and before him are the four genii ofthedead, upon the lotus flower, the emblem of the metempsychosis.thusthe whole of the symbols upon the pillers.represerit the advance and purification of the soul, and its uniting with osiris the redeemer inthatgolden dawn of an infinite light, wherein the. soul is transfigured, knows all and can do all,forithasbecomejoine

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

nderstanding of the gnosis. the gnostic handbook page 29 that which is not divine will sophia the logos awakened by the mind of god (logos) purified by the wisdom of god (sophia) empowered by divine will the christ-state the gnostic handbook page 30 what is sophia? the general understanding of the holy spirit as found in the christian tradition is a desexing of the great feminine power. sophia is the goddess or feminine principle and as such exists from the earliest pagan traditions right through to the greek mysteries and gnosticism. in gnostic literature she is described by many names the all mothers, mother of the living, shining mother and the holy spirit. sophia is seen as the counterpart of the logos and cannot work without. it is hence suggested in esoteric gnostic literature that i

nd most whole of beings, the macrocosmic whole, the living soul of nature and of the universe eternally united and uniting in the process of time with the divine and uniting all that is. the pillar and foundation of the truth, pavel florensky. the importance of sophia can be best understood when we understand the primal myth behind her nature. throughout many cultures there has been the legend of the goddess who is stolen from the world of life and is taken to the underworld. there she is kept captive pinning for her lover who is still in the other world. she waits and pines until at last some salvation is achieved by her hero coming into the underworld to save her. however, this salvation is at a cost and together they end in a battle against the underworld until the completion of the tal

rgei bulgakov, lindisfarne press, 1993. the concept of sophia is alien to many western gnostics and yet when we clearly study the bible in the light of the gnosis, we find she is an integral part of divinity. when we consider how often the concept of sophia is linked to the concept of wisdom, we can achieve a deeper understanding of the power and beauty of the pleroma. the polarity of the god and the goddess while the three principles (sometimes called the triangle or triune principle (singular) work in unison, in many traditions there is a strong emphasis placed on the polarity between the logos and sophia. while many gnostics would tend to avoid overt anthropomorphism and see these more as principles, other traditions place a strong emphasis on the god/goddess nature of the polarity. the

the essence. certainly there is a wide range of god and goddess images which fit nicely on this polarity, they also move down through the planes and have other expressions. if we use the kabbalistic model for a moment we can see how the pagan concept of the horned god and the triple goddess arose. the horned god manifests as the logos in chokmah and then as the sun. these are his two modes. while the goddess manifests as the old crone of saturn (sophia/binah, the midwife (lunar) and the girl child (earth. these images are pregnant with meaning and certainly help us appreciate the power of these principles beyond simple mental speculation. however care must be taken for it is too easy to reduce the gods to images which fit our preconceptions and by using a gender based polarity we can easil

and certainly help us appreciate the power of these principles beyond simple mental speculation. however care must be taken for it is too easy to reduce the gods to images which fit our preconceptions and by using a gender based polarity we can easily end up with both misogynist and homophobic models. the gnostic handbook page 33 that which is not divine will daughter mother crone three phases of the goddess (sophia: earth, moon and saturn (daughter, mother and crone) two horns of the g r e a t g o d (logos, neptune (chokmah& the sun. the gnostic handbook page 34 this ability to show the origins of the symbols of many systems is a unique characteristic of gnosticism. rather than there being conflicts between pagan and so called christian, theism and non theism and related contradictions, w

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to lift her crimson veil, which she does a skull is beneath, the eyes are of blackness. before you this skull becomes flesh and a face which is of great beauty looks at you. her eyes are still black as pitch, and she speaks to you of that which you would tell no one. she knows you more than anyone else, lover friend or family member. this goddess, being lilith called hecate, ruha-az or babalon is the goddess of flame, she is the succubus queen, vampyre and dragon rider. she opens forth her robe and spreads her lips wide, to reveal teeth and a slithering tongue. she invites you in. the teeth retract yet the tongue still slithers as you grow close. you shall go unto her, muse and lover, mother and harlot feel this sensual fire within, open your eyes with her within. she embraces you and you

rcle, is sigillized and charged essentially with the names of luciferian power, being sabaoth (the lord of the sabbat, or the sabbatic god, associated with zabbathi) adonai (the lord of the earth, associated with lucifer) azal ucel (the sigillic word formula of azazel and lucifer, used as the initiator or genius of the holy guardian angel rite presented in this edition) babalon (the power form of the goddess from lilith hecate az, the daemonic feminine) lilith (the queen of the sabbat the vampyre, the lady of the crimson caul, the mother of cain and the creator of succubi) these names as scribed around the circle are in the witch-language commonly known as theban. this provides a yet known but unseen sigillic formula not indifferent from the alphabet of desire, as suggested by austin osman

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF AIR

s you turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me raphael (rah-fahy-el. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you visualize another figure and say "behind me gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword say "on my right hand michael (mee-chai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF EARTH

s you turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me raphael (rah-fahy-el. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you visualize another figure and say "behind me gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword say "on my right hand michael (mee-chai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF FIRE

s you turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me raphael (rah-fahy-el. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you visualize another figure and say "behind me gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword say "on my right hand michael (mee-chai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF WATER

s you turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me raphael (rah-fahy-el. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you visualize another figure and say "behind me gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword say "on my right hand michael (mee-chai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LBRP

s you turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me raphael (rah-fahy-el. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you visualize another figure and say "behind me gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword say "on my right hand michael (mee-chai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER INVOKING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LIRP

s you turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me raphael (rah-fahy-el. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you visualize another figure and say "behind me gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword say "on my right hand michael (mee-chai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL

and of the darkness (sign of silence) stand in one place, pivot clockwise and bow to each of the other archangels, fire, earth, then air. go to the west and give the practicus sign (see the archangel gabrriel respond by making the sign in return) begin meditation with the archangel gabriel "facing west standing or sitting with your eyes closed, visualize the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus. as clearly as possible visualize all the details of gabriel. the colors she may be the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 2 of 2 6/27/2004 8:03 am possible visualize all the details of gabriel. the colors she may be wearing, the clothes, the background, etc, but most importantly try to feel her presenc

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vibrate them: in symbols did he record them: for betwixt the light and the darkness did he stand. this is complete explanation of the symbolism of, and the formulae contained in the 0=0 grade of neophyte of the order of the golden dawn "enterer of the threshold" is the name of the 0=0 grade of neophyte "the hall of the neophyte" is called "the hall of the dual manifestation of truth" that is, of the goddess thmaah, whose name has three forms according to the nature of her operation. this is explained under the chapter concerning the hegemon. of the temple in reference to the sephiroth. the temple, as arranged in the neophyte grade of the order of the golden dawn in the outer, is placed looking towards the hy of hwhy in twklm in hycu. that is, as y and h answer unto the sephiroth hmkj and

ddition to this explanation, it represents the black calvary cross of suffering as the initiator by trial and self abnegation, and the opener of the way into the comprehension of the forces of the divine light. it is therefore suspended from a black collar to show that suffering is the purgation of evil "before the face of the gods in the place of the threshold" is the name of hegemon, and she is the goddess thma-ae-st having the following coptic forms: thma-ae-st- this is as in regards to the middle pillar and the influence from rtk. thma-aesh- this is more fiery as in regards to her influence with respect to the pillar of severity. thmaa-ett- this is more fluidic as in regard to her influence with respect to the pillar of mercy. she is the wielder of the sceptre of dual wisdom from hmkj

with respect to the pillar of severity. thmaa-ett- this is more fluidic as in regard to her influence with respect to the pillar of mercy. she is the wielder of the sceptre of dual wisdom from hmkj, and therefore, is the mitre head split in two and not closed, to indicate the dual manifestation of wisdom and truth, even as the hall of the neophyte is called "the hall of the dual manifestation of the goddess of truth" the three inferior officers do not wear mantles but only lamens suspended from black collars. the designs are in white on a black field to show that they are administrators of the forces of light acting through the darkness, under the presidency of the superior officers. the lamen of the kerux is thus explained in the grade of theoricus "the tree of life and the three mother

were, veiled divinities sending a form to sit before the veil of paroketh, and, like the veils of isis and nephthys, it is impenetrable save to the initiate. the synthesis of the three chiefs may be said to be in the form of tho-outh who cometh from behind the veil at the point of its rending. yet separately, they may be thus referred: the imperator, from his relation to hrwbg, may be referred to the goddess nephthys. the praemonstrator, from his relation to dsj, may be referred to the goddess isis. the cancellarius, from this property of recorder, may be referred to the god thoth. no ceremony of the outer order may take place without a chief, preferably the three chiefs or their vice-gerants, present, and on account of the stations on the dais, it is well to have these stations filled by

dadouchos, as symbolic of the ending and judgment of the world by d. also, the mystic circumambulation commences by the paths of c and r, as though bringing into action the solar d; while the reverse circumambulation commences beside those of q and x as though bringing the watery reflux into action. the order of the mystic circumambulation: first comes anubis, the watcher within; next thmaa-est, the goddess of the hall of truth; then horus; then the goddesses of the scales of the balance, then members, if the hall is large enough, and at the end the watcher without, the sentinel. it is as though a gigantic wheel were revolving, as it is said: one wheel upon earth beside the kerub. the name of the sphere of the primium mobile \ylglgh tycar, signifies the heads or beginnings of wwhirling mo

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s of the second order, to affirm that the effect of the ensuing ceremony upon the candidate is only authorized by the higher powers for the purpose of initiation, which shall ultimately lead to the knowledge of his higher self. he is admitted to the grade of neophyte which has no number, concealing the commencement of all things under the similitude of no thing. the hegemon, the representative of the goddess of truth and justice, is consequently sent to superintend the preparation. this symbolises that it is the presider of equilibrium who is to administrate the process of initiation, by the commencement of the forces of equilibrium in the candidate himself, through the symbols of rectitude and self-control. however, the actual preparation of the candidate should be performed by the sentin

witness, demands authority from the hierophant to admit the candidate into the hall of truth and justice. the hierophant, in granting the permission, seals the candidate with a new name given to the physical body of the outward man, but signifying the aspirations of his soul. as a consequence of the affirmation of the motto as the name of the candidate in the hall of truth, osiris, sends forward the goddess of the scales of the balance to baptise him with n and the companion goddess to consecrate him with d. as it is written, unless a man be born of water and of the spirit, he shall in no way enter the kingdom of heaven. the kerux instantly bars the candidate s passage to mark that though he has been admitted, the natural man of unpurified desires cannot be a dweller in the hall of the tr

oddess of the scales of the balance to baptise him with n and the companion goddess to consecrate him with d. as it is written, unless a man be born of water and of the spirit, he shall in no way enter the kingdom of heaven. the kerux instantly bars the candidate s passage to mark that though he has been admitted, the natural man of unpurified desires cannot be a dweller in the hall of the truth. the goddesses of the scales immediately purifies and consecrates him, which operation calls into action the forces of the pillars in his own sphere of sensation. this is the first of four consecrations because when the pillars of the tree are projected onto the sphere of sensation there are four pillars, of which the middle pillar is the axis. at this point of the ceremony, the astral appearance o

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

hree chief officers may formulate and draw down to the candidate, by their insignia, and the influence of their symbols, the forces of the supernal triad. it is important, therefore, that at this point, they should be in these places. the candidate now stands between the pillars, bound with a rope like the mummied form of osiris, between isis and nepthys. the final consecration now takes place by the goddesses of the scales of the balance. the candidate stands for the first time during the ceremoy at the point representing the equilibrium of the balance. meanwhile, the kerux goes to the north, ready for the circumambulation so as to link that with the final consecration of the candidate. the final consecration is also demanded by the hiereus, horus, the powerful avenger of osiris, as still

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the seasonal circles. the top twelve is high noon, it is the sun at its apex. the bottom twelve is midnight, the time of greatest darkness. observe that these are the physical signs of light, lvx, to be performed with the deepest reverence during the "analysis of the keyword" sign of osiris slain at the equinox of a and g. light and darkness are equal. sign of the mourning of isis; the symbol of the goddess and spiritual fruitation. 5 sign of typhon/apophis; death, darkness, destruction. sign of osiris risen; the illumination of light overcoming death. examine the gematria in regard to the word lvx. l=50, v=5, x=10, for a total of 65. this is the number of yanda which translates into "my lord" lvx= 65= my lord and divinity follow closely the steps, and let the adept commit to memory the a

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osiris lay down comfortably inside. before he had time to get out the conspirators rushed forward, nailed the lid tightly closed and sealed even the cracks with molten lead so that there would be no air. the coffer was then thrown into the nile. it had been intended that it should sink, but it floated rapidly away, drifting for a considerable distance until it reached the sea coast. at this point the goddess isis, wife of osiris, intervened. using all the great magic for which she was renowned, she found the coffer and concealed it in a secret place. however, her evil brother set, out hunting in the marshes, discovered the coffer, opened it and, in a mad fury, cut the royal corpse into fourteen pieces which he scattered throughout the land. once more isis set off to save her husband. she m

.18 the appearance of the whirlpool in homer s odyssey (which is a compilation of greek myths more than 3000 years old, should not surprise us, because the great mill of icelandic legend appears there also (and does so, moreover, in familiar circumstances. it is the last night before the decisive confrontation. odysseus, bent on revenge, has landed in ithaca and is hiding under the magic spell of the goddess athena, which protects him from recognition. odysseus prays to zeus to send him an encouraging sign before the great ordeal: straightaway zeus thundered from shining olympus. and goodly odysseus was glad. moreover, a woman, a grinder at the mill, uttered a voice of omen from within the house hard by, where stood the mills of the shepherd of the people. at these handmills twelve women i

hancock fingerprints of the gods 251 computing the great return the precessional numbers highlighted by sellers in the osiris myth are 360, 72, 30 and 12. most of them are found in a section of the myth which provides us with biographical details of the various characters. these have been conveniently summarized by e. a. wallis budge, formerly keeper of egyptian antiquities at the british museum: the goddess nut, wife of the sun god ra, was beloved by the god geb. when ra discovered the intrigue he cursed his wife and declared that she should not be delivered of a child in any month of any year. then the god thoth, who also loved nut, played at tables with the moon and won from her five whole days. these he joined to the 360 days of which the year then consisted [emphasis added. on the fir

y by the french archaeologist auguste mariette. it was something of a bombshell because its text clearly indicated that both the great sphinx and the great pyramid (as well as several other structures on the plateau) were already in existence long before khufu came to the throne. the inscription also referred to isis as the mistress of the pyramid, implying that the monument had been dedicated to the goddess of magic and not to khufu at all. finally, there was a strong suggestion that khufu s pyramid might have been one of the three subsidiary structures alongside the great pyramid s eastern flank.26 all this looked like damaging evidence against the orthodox chronology of ancient egypt. it also challenged the consensus view that the giza pyramids had been built as tombs and only as only

am hancock fingerprints of the gods 348 the sky had not been created, the earth had not been created, the children of the earth and the reptiles had not been fashioned in that place. i, atum, was one by myself. there existed no other who worked with me..6 conscious of being alone, this blessed and immortal being contrived to create two divine offspring, shu, god of the air and dryness, and tefnut the goddess of moisture: i thrust my phallus into my closed hand. i made my seed to enter my hand. i poured it into my own mouth. i evacuated under the form of shu, i passed water under the form of tefnut. 7 despite such apparently inauspicious beginnings, shu and tefnut (who were always described as twins and frequently depicted as lions) grew to maturity, copulated and produced offspring of thei

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

the "magical universe" a well-known axiom of occultism is that the aura of man is a magical mirror of the universe. in enochian magick, your aura is your personal replica of the magical universe. 18 man is like a circle whose center is nowhere (microscopic) and whose circumference is everywhere (infinite. enochian magick represents this center by the god hadit. the circumference is represented by the goddess nuit. 19 the five elements "the earth is an element, and whatever is produced from it. so is the water and all produced there from. so then that is an element which produces. andan element is a mother, and there are four of them, air, eire, water, earth. from there four matrices everything in the whole world is produced" paracelsus figure 1 shows that the cosmic elements of earth, wate

ance, spiritual protective force, fertility. he is the son of horus and is shown with the head of a jackal. qebhsennuf endurance, physical protective force, physical renewal. he is the son of horus and is shown with the head of a hawk. 68 the following translations frota chapter clia of the book of the dead are included as a further aid in the study of tthese importantdeities: speechof isis (asi "the goddess of the throne "1 have come here to pprotectyou. will fly with you through the air and 1 will initiate you with the north wind. the breath of your flesh has returned to the god tem (le, the setting sun) but will return again to you should you hunger for flesh. you shall be like a god and your enemies shall be cast down under your feet. may you be found truthful before the goddess nuit a

ith some air clearly present. the combinations of water and air can be seen to act and react quickly together. the net result is the appearance of tremors or waves of ag tation throughout the atmosphere. the water and air appear to be acting together to create al l manner of forms. designs and patterns of intricate shapes and delicate pues will appear and then dissolve again. step 7. you will see the goddess isis in this reg an in her capacity as the fire of solidification. she is the power 129 behind the continual formation of shapes and colors in this square. the female sphinx here looks like a huge hawk with human arras and hands. the atmosphere of this square is charged with a strong feminine current. the net result is that the entice square vibrates with creative forces that sculpt an

eteh) alnkvod (ah-len-keh-voh-deh) aapdoke (ah-ah-ped-oh-keh) anodoin (ah-noh-doh-ee-neh) arinnap (ah-ree-neh-nah-peh) 131 step 4. enter your body of light and procede to the sub-quadrant fire of fire and then to the square of a in pali (pah-lee. step 5. you should see a combination of air and fire in this square. there will be turmoil and swiftly changing shapes and forms. step 6. you should see the goddess bastas outwardly soft and feminine yet inwardly hard and stern. the male sphinx here is a lion with a human head. the atmosphere in this square is charged with a strong masculine current which is somewhat balanced by the femininity of bast. step 7. the angel alip (ah-lee-peh) may confront you. her nature is to quickly disperse or dissipate the lower coarser elements of anything enterin

sub-quadrant fire of water and then to the square of l of rnil (rah-nee-el. step 6. you will notice ara almost even mixture of fire and water swirling together in this square. passions are strong creative forces in this region of the tablet of water. you will find many of your strongest fears and desires taking external shape here. step 7. search the square for the egyptian deity. you should see the goddess sothis, a beautiful naked woman. as goddess of evolutionary development, she can initiate you finto the mysteries of the feminine current which is strong in this square. the sphinx that accompanies sothis in this square is a large lion with strong wide wings whose legs end in sharp eagle claws. this sphinx possesses both feminine and masculine characteristics. step 8. the archangel of

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llnigh been overtopt lately by the norwegian (still unfinished) of moe and asbiornsen, with its fresh and full store; and treasures not a few must be lurking in england, scotland, and the netherlands, from all of which mythology may look to receive manifold gain. to indicate briefly the gain she has already derived from the folk-tale (legend: it is plain that to this alone we owe our knowledge of the goddesses holda, berhta and fricka, as also the myth of the wild hunt which leads us straight to wodan. the tale of the old beggar-wife is a reminiscence of grimnir. of the wise-women, of swan-wives, of kings shut up in hills we should have learnt little from written documents, did not legend spread her light over them; even the myths of the sin-flood and xvi preface. the world's destruction s

the study of them hitherto has yielded. divinities form the core of all mythology: ours were buried almost out of sight, and had to be dug out. their footmarks were to be traced, partly in names that had stubbornly refused to be rooted out, yet offered little more than their bare sound; partly, under some altered guise, in the more fluid but fuller form of the folk-tale. this last applies more to the goddesses, the former to the gods. gods and heroes are found in the very names of runes, the first of which in old norse is freyr, others are thor, zio, eor, asc, man, but nowhere goddesses. the gods that have kept the firmest hold are the three marked in the days of the week as mercury, jupiter, mars; and of these, wuotan stands out the most distinct. jonas, fredegar, paulus diaconus and the

he approximates the higher elemental powers, and could the more easily be perverted into a diabolic being. equally lost to germany is the name of the norse loki, who represents fire in another xx peeface. aspect, and was still better qualified to stand for the devil. the stories of his artfulness, his cunning tricks, have reproduced themselves repeatedly in all branches of our race. i now turn to the goddesses. a mother of gods, nerthus, is named to us by tacitus; her name is the exact counterpart to that of a norse god, who confirms her existence, as freyr would confirm that of freyja, had she come down to us only as the high german frouwa, and from the gothic frauja (m) we have the same right to infer a fem. fraujo. say that her name of nerthus has long ago died out, if it ever extended

froho, and still asserts her full power in our present frau. almost all names of the female deities have still a transparent meaning; as compared with those of the male, there is something innocent and inviolable in them, and for that reason they seem to have been treated tenderly or tolerated. the delicacy and inoffensive matter of the myth have shielded it longer in popular legend. pkeface. xxi the goddess hellia has exchanged her personal meaning for a local one, that of hell. ostara, eastre, is preserved at least in the name of the high festival; and hreda, if my conjecture be sound, in the word for a bride's gerada (outfit, as zio was in the name of the sword. folia and sindgund have only come to light through the latest discoveries. this muster of divinities is strong enough to suppo

and sindgund have only come to light through the latest discoveries. this muster of divinities is strong enough to support the whole remaining framework of mythology; where such pillars stand, any amount of superstructure and decoration may be taken for granted. considered in and for themselves, almost all tlie individual deities appear emanations and branches of a single one; the gods as heaven, the goddesses as earth, the one as fathers, the other as mothers, the former creating, governing, guiding, loi'ds of victory and bliss, of air, fire and water, the goddesses nourishing, spinning, tilling, beautiful, bedizened, loving. as all the sounds of language are reducible to a few, from whose simplicity the rest can be derived the vowels by broadening, narrowing, and combination into diphtho

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nt marsh (mem. des antiquaires 7, 31. according to a greek legend, athena was fetching a mountain from pallene to fortify the acropolis, but, startled at the ill news 538 giants. brought by a crow, she dropt it on the way, and there it remains as mount lykabettos. 1 as the lord god passed over the earth scattering stones, his bags burst over montenegro, and the whole stock came down (yuk. 5. like the goddess, like the giants, the devil takes such burdens upon him. in upper hesse i was told as follows: between gossfelden and wetter there was once a village that has now disappeared, elbringhausen; the farmers in it lived so luxuriously that the devil got power over them, and resolved to shift them from their good soil to a sandy flat which is flooded every year by the overflowing lahn. so he

11, p. 110. need-fire. 611 it is still more interesting to observe how nearly the old roman and greek customs correspond. excerpts from festus (0. miiller 106, 2) say: ignis vestae si quando interstinctus esset, virgines verberibus afficiebantur a pontifice, quibus mos erat, tabulam felicis materiae tarn diu terebrare, quousque exceptum ignem cribro aeneo virgo in aedem ferret/ the sacred fire of the goddess, once extinguished, was not to be rekindled, save by generating the pure element anew. a plank of the choice timber of sacred trees was bored, i.e. a pin turned round in it, till it gave out sparks. the act of catching the fire in a sieve, and so conveying it into the temple, is suggestive of a similar carrying of water in a sieve, of which there is some account to be given further on

a great deal older, if only for the contrast with midsummer fires, which never could penetrate into north germany, because the people there held fast by their easter fires. now, seeing that the fires of st. john, as we "shall presently shew, are more immediately connected with the christian church than those of easter, it is not unreasonable to trace these all the way back to the worship of the goddess ostard or edstre (p. 291, who seems to have been more a saxon and anglian divinity than one revered all over germany. her name and her fires, which are likely to have come at the beginning of may, would after the conversion of the saxons be shifted back to the christian feast. 2 those mountain fires of the people are scarcely derivable from the taper lighted in the church the same day:

nians say the old one is putting his fire out; our people ascribe it to animals at least: the hare is boiling [his supper, the fox is bathing, brewing/ keinh. ccxcvi. when shapes keep rising in the mists on the seashore, the italians call it fata morgana, p. 412 (see suppl. the scythians explained drifting snow as flying feathers (herod. 4, 31, and our people see in the flakes the feathers out of the goddess s bed, or goose (p. 268. those snow-women fonn, drifa, mioll (p. 631) appear also to touch one side of holda. the lettish riddles, putns skreen, spahrni pill/ and putns skreen, spalwas putt ;l mean a rain-cloud and a snow-cloud. in switzer land vulgar opinion looks upon avalanches as ravening beasts, on whom (as on fire) you can put a check (see suppl. 4. eaeth. of the goddess, and her

way we take the words. the on. language of law offers another and no less significant name: the piece of turf [under which an oath was taken] is called iarffmen, iar&ar men; now men is literally monile, ohg. mani, meni, as. mene, as we saw in the case of freyjvs neck lace brisinga men/ but iarisar men must once have been larffar men, erda s necklace, the greensward being very poetically taken for the goddess s jewelry. the solemn ganga undir larffar men (ra. 118-9) acquires its true meaning by this. in other nations too, as hungarians (ra. 120, and slavs (bohme s beitr. 5, 141, the administration of oaths took place by the per son who swore placing earth or turf on his head (see suppl. the custom of conquered nations presenting earth and water in token of submission reaches back to remote

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

equent patronage of local cults by each king must have led to some kind of organization of the pantheon at this time. deities began to be grouped into pairs, groups, or hierarchies. the creation of relationships between deities who had previously been worshipped in isolation may have generated myths. among the earliest pairings of deities were the two ladies and the two lords. the two ladies were the goddesses nekhbet and wadjyt. in the symbolic language that had developed to express ideas about kingship, the two ladies represented upper and lower egypt and were identified with the white crown of the south and the red crown of the north. the two lords were horus and seth. most early dynastic period kings associated themselves with horus by showing a horus falcon on the serekh that enclosed

e deities, themes, and concepts. these include most of the deities who make up the ennead of heliopolis, and it is often argued that the pyramid texts largely represent the theology of the solar temple at heliopolis. a stellar element was also important in the pyramid texts. the king was destined to join the imperishable stars, and the god osiris was identified with the constellation of orion and the goddess isis with the dog star, sirius.20 the cult of osiris is hardly known before the fifth dynasty, but he gradually became the most important funerary god. one thing the pyramid texts are not is a collection of narrative myths. they do contain numerous allusions to myths, many of which are difficult to interpret. some passages include what have been called mythical statements. these give t

he latter s great-grandson, amenhotep (amenophis) iii (c. 1390 1352 bce. hatshepsut s famous mortuary temple at deir el-bahri in thebes had many innovative features, such as an open court for solar worship inscribed with a summary of the ruler s secret knowledge about the sun god. 42 both hatshepsut and thutmose iii built special shrines where ordinary people could come to pray to deities such as the goddess hathor in her cow form or amun of the hearing ear. 43 amenhotep iii enlarged or founded numerous temples, and many of the features introduced by his architects remained standard for c. 1,500 years. he commissioned huge numbers of divine statues to stress his identification with all the deities of egypt. amenhotep iii sometimes gave himself the attributes of a lunar deity while his chie

mun of the hearing ear. 43 amenhotep iii enlarged or founded numerous temples, and many of the features introduced by his architects remained standard for c. 1,500 years. he commissioned huge numbers of divine statues to stress his identification with all the deities of egypt. amenhotep iii sometimes gave himself the attributes of a lunar deity while his chief wife, queen tiy, was identified with the goddesses who could play the role of the solar eye (see eye of ra in deities, themes, and concepts).44 introduction 19 amenhotep iii and tiy were the parents of amenhotep iv (c. 1352 1336 bce, who early in his reign changed his name to akhenaten. king akhenaten and his chief wife, nefertiti, were dedicated to the cult of aten, a form of the sun god represented by the solar disk. akhenaten buil

e arts, boston. illustration by peter manuelian used with permission) against deities, temples, or ritual purity, so spell 125 may derive from an initiation ritual for priests.59 the vignette for spell 125 supplements rather than illustrates the text. in one of the most famous of all egyptian images, the heart of the deceased person is shown being weighed against the feather that represents maat, the goddess of truth. if the heart were found to be heavy with sin, it would be devoured by a monster. in origin, this trial was just one of a series of perils that could be overcome by magic, but the popularity of spell 125 in the later new kingdom coincided with a new emphasis on god as a just but forgiving judge. in prayers of this period, people turn to gods such as thoth and amun to help them

HEAVEN HELL

y been made, and the "book of the two ways" the coffins of al-barsha p. 14 contain a number of texts of various lengths, many of which have titles, and resemble in form the chapters of the great theban recension of the book of the dead. examples of these have been published in prof. maspero's recueil de travaux, tom. xxvi, p. 64 ff, by m. p. lacau, e.g "chapter of the seven addresses of homage to the goddess meh-urt [chapter of "the reassembling of the kinsfolk of a man in neter-khert "chapter of driving back kebka "chapter of setting out for orion &c. from the considerations set forth above it is quite clear that the practice of illustrating certain sections of books of the dead existed under the xith dynasty, and there is no good reason for doubting that it continued to be observed durin

ad-cakes shall be shattered, and the white bread-cakes shall be broken in pieces, and verily the meat offerings shall be cut up in the divine chamber of sacrifice, and verily ropes shall be coiled, and verily boats shall be manned, and verily the boat of ra shall journey on its way, being rowed by the mariners of the akhemu-seku and the akhemu-urtchu; now his name is unknown, his name is unknown "the goddess hathor surroundeth sepa with the magical protection of life, but it is seb who equippeth him. 1 the sister of sepa [and] wife [is] the guardian of the wood of the great field. 2 and, moreover, p. 70 the sister of sepa, the guardian of the wood of the great field, saith 'verily thou shalt come with rejoicing, and thy heart shall be glad, and there shall be food to sepa, and winds shall

with gladness, and his heart shall be glad, and his ancestors shall be given unto him. and the great ones of the ancestors of sepa shall come [to meet him] with joy, and their hearts shall be glad when they meet him; and they shall bear in their hands their staves, and their mattocks, and their tools for ploughing, and their metal weapons of the earth, and shall deliver him from the things which the goddess. doeth, and from the actions) of nut, and from the mighty things which the two-lion 1 god doeth to every soul, and to every god. the ancestors of sepa shall make him to be delivered [rubric. may be rejoined ancestors, and father, and mother, and foster-parents, and kinsfolk, and young children, and wives, and concubines, and beloved ones (i.e, friends) male and female, and servants (i

a dead body that osiris first entered the tuat, and those who wished to become what he became subsequently had to enter the tuat as dead bodies and with the attributes wherewith he entered it. the boat then contains the body of the dead sun-god, or afu-ra; he has with him a crew of seven gods and one goddess; one of these acts as guide (ap-uat, another as steersman, another as the "look out" and the goddess, or "lady of the boat" is there as representative of the division through which they are about to pass. besides these we have ka-shu, i.e, the "double of shu" the god of the atmosphere of this world, who is present in the boat in order to supply the god with air; heru-hekenu, who recites magical formulae; and sa and hu, who represent the knowledge and intelligence necessary for the due

the god afu-ra now enters the region urnes which derives its name from that of the river flowing through it; it is 309, or 480 atru or leagues in length, and 120 wide. urnes is a portion of the dominions of osiris-khenti-amenti, the great god of abydos, and it, no doubt, formed a section of the sekhet-hetepet according to the old theology of egypt. the boat of afu-ra is now under the direction of the goddess of the second hour of the night, shesat-maket-neb-s, and the uraei of isis and nephthys have been added to its crew. immediately in front of it are four boats, which move by themselves; the first contains the full moon, of which osiris was a form, the second the emblem of a deity of harvest, the third the symbols of another agricultural deity, and the fourth the grain-god personified

HEKAS

recloth or funeral vestment was the garment used by the aforementioned sect in their rituals; this was indicative of the symbolic interconnection of life and death. sgian-dhu- the scottish knife- speculatively analogous to the skan-do-la, the mandaean ritual knife. sabbat- the witches' rite- stemming from az-sabbat, meaning' the forceful occasion' and from the sa-ba-tu- the sumerian lunar rite of the goddess inanna; this term by means of linguistic confluence equates with the semitic sabbath. note also that the ahl-i-haq, the people of truth- a middle-eastern tribal group, preserve a rite called the sabz which means 'the making green of things; they also sacrifice a cockerel at dawn to mark the liminal edge of night: a custom which has become a glyph of a certain arcanum in sabbatic lore

which is oft' the first word in the magical rite and which i have given as the title for this article 'hekas. here the word existed in the form heka or hekau meaning 'the power of magick; it is believed to derive from the sound of the frog and thus supplies us with a totemic association with the batrachia employed by the witch and the horse-whisperer 'hekas' also gave us hekate- the greek name of the goddess who keeps the gateway of the triple cross-roads, hexe- the spell, mark or charm, hag- the black goddess of the old moon, who in khem was represented as hekt the frog-headed mother of incantation. it was in egypt that the role of stellar worship was at an apotheosis in recorded history; as man looked to the heavens there turned the great dragon about the zenith, marking out the year and

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

ore modern, that might serve as a parallel to theolder one. did not the count ugolino, condemned to die of starvation in his dungeon, eat hisown children "to preserve for them a father? the popular legend of sunahsepha is morebeautiful than the commentary of manu- evidently an interpolation of some brahmans infalsified manuscripts. the pushkara lake* was one of the spots of this earth favoured by the goddess, lakshmi-padma (whitelotus; she often plunged into the fresh waters that she might visit her eldest sister, varuni, the consort of thegod varuna* lakshmi-padma heard the proposal of devarata, witnessed the despair of the father, andadmired the filial devotion of sunahsepha. filled with pity, the mother of love and compassion sent for therishi visvamitra, one of the seven primordial man

onger bear such uncertainty about my sister and her family, i will return by the first steamer toeurope" this final determination upset my old acquaintance altogether. his earnest prayer not to depart before i hadseen the yamabooshi once more, received no attention from me "friend of a foreign land- he cried "i pray that you may not repent of your unbelief and rashness. maythe 'holy one [kwan-on, the goddess of mercy] protect you from the dzins! for, since you refuse tosubmit to the process of purification at the hands of the holy yamabooshi, he is powerless to defend you fromthe evil influences evoked by your unbelief and defiance of truth. but let me, at this parting hour, i beseach nightmare talesv- return of doubts39 you, let me, an older man who wishes you well, warn you once more and

re any better fate? washe not all that he wanted to be, transformed in a second of thought into one or another hero; from orpheus,who held all nature breathless, to the urchin who piped away under the plane tree to the naiads of calirrhoe'scrystal fountain? did not the swift-footed nymphs frolic at his beck and call to the sound of the magic fluteof the arcadian shepherd- who was himself? behold, the goddess of love and beauty herself descendingfrom on high, attracted by the sweet-voiced notes of his violin. yet there came a time when he preferredsyrinx to aphrodite- not as the fair nymph pursued by pan, but after her transformation by the mercifulgods into the reed out of which the frustrated god of the shepherds had made his magic pipe. for also, withtime, ambition grows and is rarely sa

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ants for the benefit and instruction of candidates. the most solemn and occult were certainly those which were performed in egypt by "the band of secret-keepers" as mr. bonwick calls the hierophants. maurice describes their nature very graphically in a few lines. speaking of the mysteries performed in philae (the nile-island, he says: it was in these gloomy caverns that the grand mystic arcana of the goddess (isis) were unfolded to the adoring aspirant, while the solemn hymn of initiation resounded through the long extent of these stony recesses. the word mystery is derived from the greek mu "to close the mouth" and every symbol connected with them had a hidden meaning. as plato and many of the other sages of antiquity affirm, these mysteries were highly religious, moral, and beneficent as

INFERNAL UNION

eminine strength and individualized focus. as samael is considered, according to gender, to be the daemon of wizards and warlocks, lilith is the patroness and queen of witches. through lesser black magick as well as dream magick (dayside and nightside respectively) allows them to seduce and command their wills. her various aspects include az (related to death,blood and darkness),that of lilith as the goddess of the earth, lilith hecate(or lucifera) as air or the bride of lucifer, and of babalon(also sekhet or sekhemet) who is fire, death, blood, passion and life. lilith has an angelic aspect as well as a bestial one. she was depicted by the hebrews as a beautiful woman from the waist up, but from the waist down covered in animal- hair or flame, and with birds feet. her animal is the screec

ISIS UNVEILED

ving presented the 'mediatrix' with a green silk parasol, the grateful population of the amtadini, accompanied by the village-priest, went in procession to the spot. they managed to stick the sunshade, opened, between the infant's back and the arm of the virgin which embraced him. the scene and ceremony were both solemn and highly refreshing to our religious feelings. for there stood the image of the goddess in its niche, surrounded with a row of ever-burning lamps, the flames of which, flickering in the breeze, infect god's pure air with an offensive smell of olive oil. the mother and son truly represent the two most conspicuous idols of monoiheittic christianity! for a companion to the idol of the poor amtadini of bari, go to the rich city of bio de janeiro. in the church of the domo da

ove' the oaominaiton in on tyi* qf hu tiord, kccording to the bible propheta "the book in queition" uys the author "codtniu mimeroua ggurea, all resembling dosety the meaopotainun emblem of i^oar. hie ptewnce of the woman tt rnn identifie* tbe two u symbolic of ids, or ut natare; and a man bowing down b adoration thereof ihows tbe mme idea as ii depicted in asiyrian culptiike, whet males offer to the goddess symaajr of la >i(mbm" set anciml pagan and uod m ckrittian symmww, p. 91: 2nd ed. new york. digitizecoy google 110 isis nnteiled whole roman catholic image-worship the madonna element and reforming the faith to protestantism. the enforcement of the late dogma of the immaculation was prompted by this very secret reason. the science of symbology was mulring too rapid progress. blind fait

y, or the androgyne man; the heavenly incarnation, and a perfect representation of ze'ir anptn (short-face, the son of a'tiih anpin (long-face" this likeness is now represented in many lamaseries by gautama-buddha, the last of the incarnated avatars. still lower, under the mem, is the dwelling of the great ndga, who b called naga-r&ja, the king-serpent the serpent of qtnena, the gnostic ophis and the goddess of the earth, mflmaj/t-ivdrt, or y&mi, who waits upon the great dragon, for she ia eve 'the mother of all that hve' still lower is the eighth sphere, the infernal regions. the uppermost r^ona of brahmfl are surrounded by the sun, moon, and pluiets, the 'seven stellara seven impostor-daemons who deceive the sons vx adam

was worshiped, and dared not go to nineveh, v^icre the dose wag revered. hence some commentators believe that when jonah was thrown overboard and was swallowed by a fish, we must understand that he was picked up by one of these vessels, on the prow of which was the figure of ketot. but the kabalists have another legend, to this effect: they say that jonah was a run-away priest from the temple of the goddess where the dove was worshiped, and that he desired to abohsh idolatry and institute monotheistic worship. that, caught near jaffa, he was held prisoner by the devotees of dagon in one of the prison- cells of the temple, and that it is the strange form of the cell whidi gave rise to the allegory. in the collection of mose de garcia, 8 portuguese kabalist, there is a drawing representing

treta-yuga. the age of silver, or that of fire the peri- od of supremat^ of man and of giants and of the sons of god; dv¶- yuga, the age of bronze a mixture already of purity and impurity (spirit and matter, the age of doubt and at last our own, the kah-yugs, or age of iron, of darkbess, niisery and sorrow. in this age vishnu had to incarnate himself in krishna, in order to save humanity from the goddess kali, consort of siva, the all-annihilating the goddess of death, de- struction and human misery. kcdi is the best emblem to represent the 'fall of man; the falling of spirit into the degradation of matter, with all its terrific results. we have to rid ourselves of k(di before we can ever reach mokaha, or nirvdna, the abode of blessed peace and spirit. with the buddhists the last incar

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

ounds, mantras and programming code tools 53 the nourishment of the microcosmic orbit 56 the dow power tool of the violet light& the divine amrita 61& pituitary& pineal gland activation 69 nourishment& our purity of heart 71 the nourishment of ecstasy tool. elemental equilibrium 72 other forms of nourishment 77 divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 9 the food of the goddess 77 7. theta. delta wave feeding: a never-ending source 84 8. nourishing environments. the appropriate ashram 89 9. frequently asked questions 94 our internal organs, lions& lambs weight loss, sensitivity, equilibrium, yogi s& shaman energy reserves, programming& transformation the bigger picture& enlightenment 10. summary& benefits: the madonna frequency attributes 108 divine nutrition

cludes the taoist 6 healing sounds plus the use of specific mantras and the perfect health, balance, weight, image programming code. the nourishment of the microcosmic orbit tool. the dow power tool of the violet light& the divine amrita& pituitary& pineal gland activation. nourishment and our purity of heart. the nourishment of ecstasy tool and elemental equilibrium. nourishment from the food of the goddess. the above are just a few non-conventional sources that we will now focus on as tools of nourishment that can contribute to fulfilling all our hungers. below we will look at each in more detail and provide what you may require to hook into and experience being nourished by each source. where the techniques need greater clarification and more detailed outlines for more perfect practice

understood or utilized by our modern day world. for those of us wishing to understand more of the science of the ancient wisdom and how divine nutrition is possible, we need to explore a little more of feeding via the theta. delta wave. once we ourselves are well nourished then, through our personal energy transmissions, we can influence the nourishment of the world. goddess food 12. the food of the goddess the food of the gods is pure love and wisdom and in its feminine aspect it becomes the food of the goddess. the food of the goddess is cosmic glue, a field of pure unconditional love that allows life to exist in all realms, in all forms. one of the more unconventional modern day sources of nourishment. and the one on which this book is based. is divine mother love. known also as the ma

more unconventional modern day sources of nourishment. and the one on which this book is based. is divine mother love. known also as the madonna frequency, divine mother love has been projecting itself through the fields of earth through eons of time and long before we became a predominantly patriarchal society. i do not wish to get into a feminist type discussion except to say that tapping into the goddess energy brings amazing levels of deep soul nourishment to our lives. i would also like to add divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 78 that one of the major reasons for the high levels of global emotional, mental and spiritual anorexia today is due to the imbalance of the yin/yang. masculine/feminine energies in the earth s fields. this imbalance has b

hose connected on the inner planes are receiving the same message. this is that we all need to radiate more love and more light into the world for only then will we come into balance. so a western world dominated by patriarchal systems and energy field radiations needs to now be flooded with matriarchal so that we can come back to the middle ground. one way to do this is to recognize the gifts of the goddess, understand the common historical connections and work with the relevant energy fields to bring our own lives into balance which will then reflect in the community and global fields. so let s look a little at this now and provide a brief overview of these energies. when researching the history of the goddess and the roles she has played throughout time in nurturing our world, we can id

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

me to mean lion when the lion was the emblem of the sun at his summer solstice, 136 the rosicrucians. when he was in his glory, and the bull and the man were the signs of the sun at the equinoxes, and the eagle at the winter solstice. anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 292. figure 23 is an egyptian bas-relief, of which the ex- fig. 23. planation is the following: a is the egyptian eve trampling the dragon (the goddess neith, or minerva; b, a crocodile; c, gorgon's head; d, hawk (wisdom; e, feathers (soul. the first and strongest conviction which will flash on the mind of every ripe antiquary, whilst surveying the long series of mexican and toltecan monuments preserved in these various works, is the similarity which the ancient monuments of new spain bear to the monumental records of ancient egypt. w

the cabalistic, tutelary, miniature spirits are called, who are supposed to be very jealous of its use. in ireland, green is universally regarded with distrust; but with veneration, in the spiritual sense. it is the national colour; for the patroness of ireland is the female deity, the mother of nature, known in the classic mythology as venus, equally venus the graceful and venus the terrible, as the goddess of life and of death. the various verts, or greens, are the the irish harp. 181 colour-rulers in the emblazonry of the emerald isle. the presiding deity of the land of ierna, or of ireland, is the mythic woman born out of the fecundity of nature, or out of the great deep. this is the genius (with certain sinister, terrible aspects, marked out grandly in the oldforms) who is impaled or

us adoration of forms. the unity of the mythologies found in the bhuddistic and mahommedan temples. eneral note on the sacti puja. power means the good goddess, maya maia (i.e. delusion. she is also called bhagala, vagula, bagala-mukhi. she has neither images nor pictures. the girl in the indian sacred, secret temple rites, who figures as the representative of sacti, is the supposed embodiment of the goddess offered for worship. the word sacti corresponds to genius, or sylph of the rosicrucian creed. the doctrine of guardian angels and of patron saints is conveyed in these hindoo meanings in the machinery of the sylphs. during puja, the yogini is supposed to be in an exalted visionary state (guy na nidra) wherein, like the sibyls among the ancients, and the modern clairvoyantes, she answer

indispensable, according to the end proposed, consisting of various seemingly unmeaning monosyllabic combinations of letters, of great imaginary efficacy* in many of the religious observances solitude is enjoined, but all the principal ceremonies culminate in the worship of sacti, or power, and require, for that purpose, the presence of a young and beautiful girl, as the living representative of the goddess. this worship is mostly celebrated, in all due serious religious formality, in a mixed society; the men of which represent bhairavas, or viras, and the women bhanravis and nayikas. the sacti (or sacred presence) is personified by a naked girl, to whom offerings* the combination of h and s is principal, and is called pr s da-mantra, and described in the kul rnava. wilson, as. res. the f

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

ans honoured ca 1000 gods, about fifty of whom were considered the main gods, and especially important were seven gods. the great seven. the functions of different gods tended to vary by city states, but of the great seven an was universally the god of heaven, enlil. the god of air and earth, and enki. the god of water and wisdom; less important were utu. the sun god, nanna. the moon god, inanna. the goddess of love and war, and ninhursag, the mother of gods (kramer 1977: 122.130; 146.152. the name and status of the main god depended on who had the power. in sumerian times, the greatest god was an, whose son was enki. in the old babylonian period, of course, the city god of babylon, marduk became the main god and was also to be son of enki and grandson of an. as an was more like a deus oti

the only woman among the planets. as the brightest planet it has a special place; often moon, sun, and venus are treated as a triad. the two appearances of venus though acknowledged as the same planet were attributed to two different manifestations of the same god: as the morning star venus was female, as the evening star. male, and the two aspects corresponded to the double character of i.tar as the goddess of love and war (leick 1998: 96. as a male god, i.tar was described as bearded (tablet 61 of en ma anu enlil: gziqna zaqnat h (reiner 1995: 6. we have to remind here that ordinarily the gender of venus fs appearances has been treated by the opposites, according to the specification of the planet genders by ptolemy (tetrabiblos, parts 1.6 and 7. e.g. in southern arabia, a.tar/at ar was

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

self. shri krishna, speaking as the supreme in the bhagavad gita says: even those who worship other gods with devotion, full of faith- they also worship me(*op. cit, ix, 23) 73. wherever devotion is offered through a particular form, we may be sure that there is an intelligence behind that form who acts as a mediator or channel between the suppliant and the deity behind. hathor, for instance, was the goddess of love and beauty, while as we have seen, isis was the queen of truth and the mother of all things; yet both were representatives of the feminine aspect of the deity, as also was nephthys. ptah was the master architect of the universe, the holy spirit who is the creative fire of god; he was the celestial worker in metals, and the chief smelter, caster and sculptor of the gods, the ski

ut offence for the understanding of the profane. 114. when morning came and that the solemnities were finished, i came forth sanctified with twelve stoles and in a religious habit, whereof i am not forbidden to speak, considering that many persons saw me at that time. there i was commanded to stand upon a pulpit of wood which stood in the middle of the temple, before the figure and remembrance of the goddess; my vestment was of fine linen, covered and embroidered with flowers; i had a precious cope upon my shoulders, hanging down behind me to the ground, whereon were beasts wrought of divers colours, as indian dragons, and hyperborean griffins, whom in form of birds the other part of the world doth engender: the priests commonly call such a habit an olympian stole. in my right hand i carri

ersally admitted(*sir e. a. wallis budge, the papyrus of ani, p. 53) it would appear, however, that in ancient times it was not lawful to speak of the tradition in any detail, at least to strangers, for herodotus says: 141. also at sais there is the burial place of him whom i account it not pious to name in connection with such a matter, which is in the temple of athene (isis) behind the house of the goddess, stretching along the whole wall of it; and in the sacred enclosure stand great obelisks of stone, and near them is a lake adorned with an edging of stone, and fairly made in a circle, being in size, as it seemed to me, equal to that which is called the round pool in delos. on this lake they perform by night the show of his sufferings, and this the egyptians call mysteries. of these th

ort the roof of his palace. isis went to byblos and became nurse to one of the king s sons. each night she put the child in the fire to consume his mortal parts, changing herself into a swallow, and bemoaning the loss of her husband. but the queen happened to see her child in flames and cried out in fear, thereby depriving him of the immortality which would otherwise have been conferred upon him. the goddess revealed herself and begged for the pillar which supported the roof. this was granted to her, and she took the chest containing the body of osiris back to egypt, hiding it in a secret place while she sought her son, horus. but typhon, by an unlucky chance, found the chest while hunting in the light of the moon, and recognizing the body as that of osiris, tore it into fourteen pieces, w

dwelling-place of the divinity, but that the spiritual being may enter into the actual worshipper or votary in human form, who for the time becomes a god, just as the baptized christian becomes alter christos. this possession is often marked by soothsaying and ecstatic dances, and an orgiastic dance on a late minoan signet, to be described below, finds its pictorial explanation in the descent of the goddess. musical strains such as those of the lyre or the conch-shell or the sistrum of egyptian cult were a means of invocation. 247. these highly interesting terra-cotta models illustrating the religious structures and ideas of the m.m. ii period are supplemented by an object- the scale of which answers to the same series as the group of columns- in the form of a portable seat (plate ii, 3

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

said to ward off evil spirits, creatures, and spells. in mexico, the ajo macho is a huge garlic, sometimes as big as a baseball, used exclusively as an amulet against evil in general, but not against specific curses. according to custom, the ajo macho will work only if it is given as a gift, not if it is bought. in ancient greece and rome, garlic was placed at crossroads as an offering to hecate, the goddess of witchcraft and the night. odysseus used garlic as protection against the witchcraft of circe, who turned his men into swine. garlic, of course, is also used to ward off vampires. for further reading: lockhart, j. g. curses, lucks, and talismans. detroit, mi: single tree press, 1971. ravenwolf, silver. to ride a silver broomstick: new generation witchcraft. st. paul, mn: llewellyn, 1

anas, the devas and the asuras are locked in ongoing conflict.while the legions of the judeo-christian satan failed to take over heaven in their original rebellion and were cast into hell, in south asian mythology the asuras often storm out of the underworld, succeed in taking over heaven, and drive the devas out. the devas then appeal to the high god (usually vishnu, though occasionally shiva or the goddess, who comes to their aid, defeats the asuras, drives them back into the hell worlds, and reestablishes the deva/asura balance of power. one of the factors at work in the hindu religious ecology that distinguishes it from western religions is the assumption of the notion of reincarnation. as this notion was brought to bear on south asian mythology, devas became capable of ignoble actions

o the underworld of an heroic or divine being, who aimed to rescue a beloved one or to obtain immortality and wisdom. in one of the most ancient accounts of a journey to the underworld, the sumerian goddess inanna (in the akkadian civilization she was called ishtar) experienced a descent into the underworld where she underwent a sort of initiation process of death and rebirth. during the journey, the goddess went through seven gates, gradually taking off all of her clothes and ornaments. at the end of the journey, the goddess died and the vegetation on earth immediately wilted. when sprinkled with the water of life, the goddess came back to life, thus regenerating the earth. a mythical hero of the ancient greek world was orpheus, poet and musician whose wife, eurydice, died from the bite o

lly brought to an end until after alexander the great conquered it in 332 b.c.e. from about 3000 b.c.e, egyptian official religion recognized the pharaoh as the offspring of the sun god, re, and thus as a god himself. there were many other gods and goddesses in the egyptian pantheon, whose domains covered everything from natural phenomena like air (the god shu) to cultural phenomena like writing (the goddess safekht. many gods were represented as e 77 78 egypt an animal or part-human/part-animal, perhaps the residue of earlier animal worship. generally, egyptians gave most prominence to those gods associated with the nile (hapy, sothis, sebek, the sun (re, re-atum, horus, and helping the dead (osiris, anubis, sokaris. during the time of the old kingdom, the sun god re was the dominant god

f the scales. i did not take milk from the mouth of the child. i did not report evil of a servant to his master. i did not catch the fish in their pools. i am purified four times (book of the dead, ch. 125, in nigosian 1990, 30 31) after the talking was done, the heart of the deceased was placed on a scale over against a feather, symbolic of truth. sometimes instead of a feather an image of maat, the goddess of truth, was used. if the heart was too heavy, the sinful party would be considered to have failed the test. according to some accounts, the unfortunate person would then be eaten and destroyed by a demon called ammit. according to other accounts, the person would be placed in a fiery pit, attended by evil-minded demons who tortured them. if, however, the heart balanced the feather, a

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st, for that there is no white eagle to generate the gluten. howbeit, we hold that in this rite is great efficacy; it may be that for certain operations it is equal or superior to that explained to initiates of the ix. but we hold that in this case the priest must be an initiate, for that it is his will which determineth the magical character of his lion; so that if he hath no purpose but that of the goddess adonai he cannot raise agape to her lord thelema, nor will the intention of the priestess, although a lofty initiate, replace this essential power of the priest over that of which he is but the vehicle and guardian. for this reason the ninth degree is not so easy to be made effective by woman initiates. of what may be the result of a development parallel to that indicated above among t

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o the face according to the attributions in agrippa (tom. ii cap. x; hence the duplication of left and right eye, ear and nostril. line 15: budge has hands. line 32 bis: alim chayyim, the living gods. col. xxiii. nothing and neither p nor p) and beaten and scattered corpse each denote two different meditations. col. xxxiv. line 13: add selene who was a personification of the moon as distinct from the goddesses with lunar aspects such as artemis, hekate, etc. similarly helios was a personification of the sun. see betz (ed. the greek magical papyri in translation. col. xxxv. agrippa (de occ. phil. tom ii cap xiv) in his orphic scale of the number twelve refers the twelve principle gods of rome to the zodiac: a pallas (minerva) g vulcan b venus h mars c phoebus i diana d mercury j vesta e jup

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nd ingenium devise a magick lamp that shall burn without wick or oil, being fed by the athyr. this shall he accomplish secretly and apart, without asking the advice or approval of his adeptus minor. let the dominus liminis keep it when consecrated in the secret chamber of art. svb figvra cdxii 3 this then is that which is written: gbeing furnished with complete armour, and armed, he is similar to the goddess. h1 and again gi am armed, i am armed. h2 1 [chaldaan oracles, fragment 171 in westcott/ cory edition; quoted by proclus in platonic theology. the goddess in question is probably hekate. t.s] 2 [this is probably a quote from something, but i have not so far managed to identify it. t.s (c) ordo templi orientis. key entry &c. by frater t.s. for celephais press/ niwg. this e-text last rev

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ven back, and i know the divine souls of the west: tum, and sebek the lord of baklan, and hathoor the lady of the evening (the boat advances "i, even i know the eastern gate of heaven whence ra cometh with a favorable wind. i am the helmsman of the eternal bark; i know the two sycamores of. between which ra showeth himself. i, even i, know the divine souls of the east, heru-khuit, and the calf of the goddess khera, the bright morning star (the boat advances to the first pylon "get thee back! return! get thee back, thou crocodile sui! thou shalt not advance to me, for i live by the magical words of my mouth (the boat circles the temple deosil, leaves it& again faces the pylon. so for each utterance "my front teeth are like knives& my jaw-teeth are like unto his that dwelleth upon the hill o

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perfect number, even the decade of the sephiroth (1+ 2+ 3+ 4= 10) thus can our science teach us wherefore the door* of venus, d, is the gateway of initiation: that one planet whose symbol alone embraceth the 10 sephiroth; the entrance to the shrine of* as above, so below; wherefore saith the holy qabalah that alone amongst the shells is nogah, the sphere of venus, exalted unto holiness (venus is the goddess of love) liber mmcmxi 8 our father c.r.c, the tomb of osiris; the god revealer, coming, moreover, by the central path of s through the midst of the triangle of light. and the lock which guards that door is as the four gates of the universe. and the key is the ankh, immortal life.the rose and cross of life; and the symbol of venus. 4. 1. 2. 3. 6. 5. 7. fig. iii.third symbol. by producin

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olon, or as a focus for the mind. this is the third practice of magick art (ccxx. i. 60. 17. let the aspirant find a lonely place, if possible a place in the desert of sand, or if not, a place unfrequented, and without objects to disturb the view. such are moorlands, fens, the open 4 liber n v sea, broad rivers, and open fields. also, and especially, the summits of mountains. there let him invoke the goddess as he hath wisdom and understanding to do so. but let this invocation be that of a pure heart, i.e. a heart wholly devoted to her, and let him re-member that it is hadit himself in the most secret place thereof that invoketh. then let this serpent hadit burst into flame. this is the fourth practice of magick art (ccxx. i. 61. 18. then shall the aspirant come a little to lie in her boso

, as his imagination may compel him. and at that moment, desiring earnestly the kiss of nuit, let him give one particle of dust, i.e. let hadit give himself up utterly to her. this is the fifth practice of magick art (ccxx. i. 61. 21. then shall he lose all in that hour. this is the fourth indication of the nature of the result (ccxx. i. 61. 22. let the aspirant prepare a lovesong of rapture unto the goddess, or let him be inspired by her unto this. this is the sixth practice of magick art (ccxx. i. 63. svb figvra xi 5 23. let the aspirant be clad in a single robe. an gabbai h of scarlet wrought with gold is most suitable (the abbai is not unlike the japanese kimono. it must fold simply over the breast without belt or other fastening. ed) this is the seventh practice of magick art (ccxx. i

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ecord of all that hath occurred. explicit* this in case of failure. the results of success are so many and wonderful that no effort is here made to describe them. they are classified, tentatively, in .the herb dangerous. part ii, equinox vol. i, no 2, pp. 31-89. liber o vel manvs et sagitta 16 the signs of the grades 1. earth: the god set fighting 2. air: the god shu supporting the sky. 3. water: the goddess auramoth 4. fire: the goddess thoum-aesh- neith 5, 6. spirit: the rending and closing of the veil 7-10. the l.v.x. signs. 7+ osiris slain.the cross. 8. l isis mourning.the svastika. 9. v typhon.the trident. 10. x osiris risen.the pentagram. svb figvra vi. 17 transcriber.s notes. this is based mostly on the edition of .liber o. published in equinox i (2. references to other works publis

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

le because the gods we know from our mythological texts also left traces in such forms as the names of the days of the week (see the entry interpretatio germanica in chapter 3. the foremost witness is the germania of tacitus, from the last years of the first century c.e. tacitus describes several ritual acts carried out by various germanic tribes, of which the most famous is surely the worship of the goddess nerthus described in chapter 40 of his germania. nerthus, mother earth, covered by a cloth, is transported in a cart drawn by cows and accompanied by a priest who recognizes when she is present. this procession takes place in a holy grove on the island on which she lives, and all weapons are laid aside on the days on which it takes place, which are ones of peace and quiet. after the pr

estly class, the introduction 33 term go.i, as suggested above, implies a religious function for the leaders of icelandic society before the conversion to christianity. as a roman, tacitus used the vocabulary of his own era and therefore called the man who accompanied nerthus a gpriest, h but he could easily have been something like a go.i, a person of status and a secular leader on the days when the goddess was not present. it is the ggo.i h who notices when the goddess is present, and unlike the slaves, he survives to preside over the ceremonies another day. most or all cults must have been of this nature, led by the chieftain when public ritual was enacted and by the head of household in the case of private ritual. many historians of religion have argued for a close connection between l

pears to be identical to a noun for gsea h in skaldic poetry, and that noun, or the name of the figure under discussion here, is the base word in many kennings. for example, gagir fs horse h is a ship, and gdaughters of agir h are waves. in skaldskaparmal, snorri says that ran is the wife of agir and that they have nine daughters, most of whom bear names meaning gwave. h since ran is listed 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 hy

s a serving maid to the princess. when rinda falls sick, othinus arranges for her to be tied down so that she can be given some medicine. he rapes her, and she bears bous, who kills hotherus. these stories are indeed quite different, but there are important similarities that go beyond hod killing baldr and having vengeance taken on him. dreams are important in both versions, as is a magic weapon. the goddess of the dead plays a role in each. the rape of rinda is paralleled in medieval icelandic tradition in a skaldic stanza that states that odin used the magic seid on rind, the mother of vali. the differences in the versions may reflect variants in medieval icelandic oral tradition, since saxo learned from icelanders, but he may also be passing along some genuine danish traditions. the sto

alls her gbest of physicians. h her name is identical with the noun eir, gpeace, clemency. h eir plays no role in the mythology, but in fjolsvinnsmal, stanza 38, eir is found in a list of the maidens who serve menglod; none of the others is a deity, and many are just feminine adjectives( gbright, h ghappy, h gfair h. eir is listed among the names of valkyries in the thulur, but not among those of the goddesses. the name is common as a base word in skaldic kennings, but whether we should trust snorri and imagine the existence of a goddess eir is problematic. eiriksmal anonymous poem composed after the death of king eirik bloodax at the battle of stainmoor, westmoreland, england in 954, recounting his glorious arrival in valholl. the poem as we have it is only nine stanzas, and two different

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g, but it does not make the magician. a will to achieve, ambition and the desire and drive make the advancing sorcerer, and through actually practicing the art of magick and witchcraft will the grand awakening occur. there is a path that reveals the manes of the dead, there is a path, from which the wise seek the light, and from the darkness nourish their shades in the dream. this path is born of the goddess of the caves, from which the serpents slither this path is born of the blacksmith who forges the illuminated light of azazel and speaks through the blood of his kin, this is forever a path of fence walking, from which one shall be revealed the great mysteries, spoken in the wind. this is forever a path, from which lilith emerges in the fire of the sabbat, and lucifer emerges as the sun

rking and weaving their webs of sorcery and magickal illumination unseen by outside folk. the sabbat is the meeting place of the feri, lycanthrope, vampire and the sorcerer s shades which act as familiars. it is the great manifestation of the hidden law, and that we may, by imagination, become lucifer in our self. it is through the chalice of lilith, revealed as babalon, that we seek the union of the goddess. the witches sabbath has long been a misunderstood and often misrepresented expression of magickal art. it should be considered that the witches sabbat cult is an expression of not only folk magic and lore, but that of a modern synthesis of advanced ideals of sorcery, psychology and psychic development. the witches sabbath has long been held in arcane lore as the dream meeting of the a

alled ba in egyptian systems) to nourish from the sleepers and achieve a hidden knowledge transmitted only by the path of the unseen. it is from this that we awake, and to be understood clearly, advance us in the image of the prince of darkness whom is ultimately revealed as the lord of light. upon the great meeting of lilith, the witch queen of the sabbat, shall the woman emerge as the model for the goddess to manifest in the earth. therefore shall the woman dress, think and align herself with this positive and balanced image of death and life, that through the witchcraft shall she set herself up as queen and mistress of the beast 666, whom is the solar force of creation and joy. the woman is highly respected in the witches sabbat path, as she is the beauty, life and joy of the feminine w

vehicle of material and spiritual union, the announcement of the path to nature itself should be observed. the initiate should go forth into the woods in the dawn, remove all clothes the cover his or herself in the mud and green of the earth and meditate. the green man and goddess themselves shall make their awakening to the witch, with whom has communed with nature. by being robed in the sky of the goddess, nuit, shall great beauty be revealed. it is by this simple yet important act which will lead one to the initiation of belial, or mastery of the earth. belial is itself, the fallen angel who masters the beasts of the world, the mountains and the forests along with azazel. it is though this exercise of invoking the green man or green woman, that one may proceed later to darker areas of

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rce. iblis/shaitan understood he was unique and powerful within his being, and that by separating himself from the natural order, would become as a god. azothoz presents a cipher in poem on the nature of the adversary and becoming. lilith-az-babalon- hecate the daemonic feminine is the fountain of the witch cult, in it's dreaming and waking aspect. while wicca has taken a more sterile approach to the goddess, a luciferian sorcerer acknowledges the beauty of the daemonic goddess as a well of power and selfdeification. through babalon we drink the blood of saints and emerge as god itself. lilith is the succubus witch queen of the sabbat, whom is the very mother of us all. any within the veil of darkness are from her, we fornicate with her continually in the fruitful imagination of creation

ncluding the work of belarion armiluss al dajjal antichrist, a title of attainment. the essence of witchcraft in its rightful left hand path perspective is the illumination and understanding of the daemonic feminine, which is revealed to each sorcerer who treads this path of darkness. one symbol of coven nachttoter is the sigil of hecate, which is a mirror into the gates of the dead, the abode of the goddess of witches. the sethianic fragments of luciferian witchcraft these god forms are powerful for the sorcerer who summons them, discovers the atavistic aspects which relate to them, and becomes like them. one would seek to create such energy forms that may be closely connected with the psyche, therefore initiating a further speed of ones becoming through manifesting the qualities and trai

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT THE MYSTERY REVEALED

ert dawn, embrace now my way which is our way, that thy mysteries are revealed through dedication! shaitan asmodeus belial lilith hecate eko, eko lucife eluciferian witchcraft-the mystery revealed by michael ford 2001 there is a path which reveal the manes of the dead, there is a path from which the wise seek the light, and from the darkness nourish their shades in the dream. this path is born of the goddess of the caves, from which the serpents slither this path is born of the blacksmith who forges the illuminated light of azazel and speaks through the blood of his kin, this is forever a path of fence walking, from which one shall be revealed the great mysteries, spoken in the wind. this is forever a path from which lilith emerges in the fire of the sabbat, and lucifer emerges as the sun

ontrol ones own initiation into the mysteries. systems are very important to the order, and its works. while some may find interest in the witchcraft tradition developed within toph, some may find especial interest in the medieval black magick systems worked with through the group. finding a strength and beauty in the left hand path allows a balanced and positive ascent into the high mysteries of the goddess and god forms from which flows our inherent myth. much of the doctrine of the order of phosphorus flows directly from the grimoire the book of the witch moon, whic h unites the luciferian witchcraft with the dark and shadow elements of sorcery and magick. written by michael ford, the book of the witch moon is a dangerous tome of black magick that offers a direct gnosis for the individu

MAGIC AND SPELLS

st her foes, transport herself hundreds of miles in the blink of an eye, even reverse death itself. all spells, magic items, spell-like abilities, and even supernatural abilities such as a ghost's ability to walk through walls, depend on the weave and call upon it in different ways. the exact nature of the weave is elusive because it is many things simultaneously. the weave is the body of mystra, the goddess of tragic. mystra has dominion over magic worked throughout toril, but she cannot shut off the flow of magic altogether without ceasing to exist herself. the weave is the conduit spellcasters use to channel magical energy for their spells, both arcane and divine. finally, the weave is the fabric of esoteric rules and formulas that comprises the art (arcane spellcasting) and the power (

h other wizards to develop new spells, improve old ones, and increase their own magical powers as pupils or challengers of the magister. a magister gains special powers and access to many spells s 57 with runes, and the wreckage of ancient dweomers lie scattered across the land in the form of a portal network riddling the fabric of space. the shadow weave during the course of her eternal war with the goddess sel ne, the goddess shar created the shadow weave in response to sel ne's creation of mystra and the birth of the weave. if the weave is a loose mesh permeating reality, the shadow weave is the pattern formed by the negative space between the weave's strands. it provides an alternative conduit and methodology for casting spells. shar, being the goddess of secrets, has mostly kept the s

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enlarge a female hierophant of the mysteries. from montfaucon's antiquities. this illustration shows cybele, here called the syrian goddess, in the robes of a hierophant. montfaucon describes the figure as follows "upon her head is an episcopal mitre, adorned on the lower part with towers and pinnacles; over the gate of the city is a crescent, and beneath the circuit of the walls a crown of rays. the goddess wears a sort of surplice, exactly like the surplice of a priest or bishop; and upon the surplice a tunic, which falls down to the legs; and over all an episcopal cope, with the twelve signs of the zodiac wrought on the borders. the figure hath a lion on each side, and holds in its left hand a tympanum, a sistrum, a distaff, a caduceus, and another instrument. in her right hand she hold

s were dedicated to persephone. in his eleusinian and bacchic mysteries, thomas taylor sums up their purpose as follows "the lesser mysteries were designed by the ancient theologists, their founders, to signify occultly the condition of the unpurified soul invested with an earthy body, and enveloped in a material and physical nature" the legend used in the lesser rites is that of the abduction of the goddess persephone, the daughter of ceres, by pluto, the lord of the underworld, or hades. while persephone is picking flowers in a beautiful meadow, the earth suddenly opens and the gloomy lord of death, riding in a magnificent chariot, emerges from its somber depths and, grasping her in his arms, carries the screaming and struggling goddess to his subterranean palace, where he forces her to

e pomegranate, the fruit of mortality. at last, however, he compromised and agreed to permit persephone to live in the upper world half of the year if she would stay with him in the darkness of hades for the remaining half. the greeks believed that persephone was a manifestation of the solar energy, which in the winter months lived under the earth with pluto, but in the summer returned again with the goddess of productiveness. there is a legend that the flowers loved persephone and that every year when she left for the dark realms of pluto, the plants and shrubs would die of grief. while the profane and uninitiated had their own opinions on these subjects, the truths of the greek allegories remained safely concealed by the priests, who alone recognized the sublimity of these great philosop

nt olympus, where the twelve deities of the greek pantheon were said to dwell together. in his initiatory wanderings the neophyte therefore entered chambers of ever-increasing brilliancy to portray the ascent of the spirit from the lower worlds into the realms of bliss. as the climax to such wanderings he entered a great vaulted room, in the center of which stood a brilliantly illumined statue of the goddess ceres. here, in the presence of the hierophant and surrounded by priests in magnificent robes, he was instructed in the highest of the secret mysteries of the eleusis. at the conclusion of this ceremony he was hailed as an epoptes, which means one who has beheld or seen directly. for this reason also initiation was termed autopsy. the epoptes was then given certain sacred books, probab

s unclothed, being first: given the skin of an animal and later a consecrated robe to symbolize the philosophical teachings received by the initiate. during the course of initiation the candidate click to enlarge ceres, the patron of the mysteries. from a mural painting in pompeii. ceres, or demeter, was the daughter of kronos and rhea, and by zeus the mother of persephone. some believe her to be the goddess of the earth, but more correctly she is the deity protecting agriculture in general and corn in particular. the poppy is sacred to ceres and she is often shown carrying or ornamented by a garland of these flowers. in the mysteries, ceres represented riding in a chariot drawn by winged serpents. p. 31 click to enlarge the processional of the bacchic rites. from ovid's metamorphosis. in

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also known as habondia, hulda, and herodias, and sometimes by other versions of the last name, aradia, ariadne, or arianne. she is mistress of the moon as well as the realm of venus. in all your operations of romantic love it is her presence you must invoke, by any of the aforesaid names you may find significant again a little mythological research will help you here. you should strive to contact the goddess before your spells of romantic love, by visualizing her clad in silvery garments, mantled in darkness wherein the stars dimly gleam, and with long streaming hair. she is crowned with a wreath of flowers and corn, while above her brow shines the lunar disk on either side of which rise two rearing serpents. on her right hand perches her symbolic bird, the white dove. all flowers and blos

hearth" are derived from the last two names. hertha is so closely related to habondia that these two goddesses are often related to one another in magical legend as mother and daughter, thus tying in superficially with the old greek myth of demeter and persephone. however, many modern witches consider habondia and hertha to be but different aspects of the same power, which they refer to simply as the goddess. it was mother hertha that you invoked as the third power in the planetary spell of the last chapter. as a beginner witch who intends to pursue the path, it is essential that you place yourself and your home under some sort of protective spell from the outset. there are a good many amuletic spells for doing this. here are two of them. the first is suitable only if you happen to live in

nk of art, divide the paper up into nine compartments. now, slowly and deliberately fill in the squares with the appropriate numbers, beginning with number i and ending at 9. with each number, as in your square of mercury variety. the square of saturn 4 9 2 3 5 7 8 1 6 concentrate on hertha's image and chant a phrase which suggests the earth power to you. this can, again, be composed of a list of the goddesses' names such as "rhea, ceres, hulda, vesta" or simply "hertha, bless this house and all who live in it" or even a stanza from a poem which evokes the feeling of safety, protection, or prosperity, such as the hertha invocation already mentioned or any other verse you care to choose. it need not be directly connected with the home. if it is, so much the better. when you have completed s

, the norse thunder god of battle, and again of pan and dionysus, the classical gods of ecstatic debauch and revelry. in his alignment with fire, he evokes memories of vulcan (hephaestus) and wayland smith. as vulcan is the suitor of venus and pan of diana, so is the horned one the pursuer of habondia. however, many witches who belong to female-oriented covens which focus their attentions more on the goddess than the god argue that the boot is actually on the other foot. their contention is that it was, and is, the goddess who took the initiative in the chase. examples ranging from the gospel of aradia to the legend of actaeon are cited as chapter and verse here. cursing before embarking upon the ceremonial side of cursing, let us reconsider the more general aspects of overlooking, seen so

ister, the summoner could and would frequently lead the coven. in those covens which concentrate on knowledge and power, the lady or high priestess holds little or no executive power. she sits at the magister's right hand during the feasts, leads some of the dances and ceremonies, and on occasion performs the task of a seer or spiritistic medium under the magister's control. on the other hand, in the goddess-oriented covens, the high priestess is definitely leader, the high priest being merely her consort. the magister may wear furs or pelts, a robe, or nothing at all, depending on the variety of coven he leads. upon his head he may wear the traditional shamanic horned helmet, rather like that of a viking warrior, or a mask covering his whole head and representing one of the coven's totem

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forgotten, while my flesh fades my spirit is immortal! i wear the crimson caul of my mother, lilith, who speaks with me through dreams! i carry the serpent s skin of azal ucel, my holy spirit! i am cain, loner and witch soul of the immortal fire! so it is dodothe book of the witch moon by michael w. ford 2 2 the book of the witch moon is dedicated to hecate, the inspiration behind this grimoire, the goddess of the triple moon, of youth, of wisdom and of darkness..she who resides in the north, whose masks are many, lilith, diana, az, those daughters who shall meet thee in the crossroads blessed is her terrible name, she who blesses and curses with a glance o mother of the bleeding moon, o bride of chaos and darkness born may the pages of this book reveal thy lunar splendor, when shadows en

d enter with care. our basis is to establish a thought process ushering forth in this upcoming age based on balance and ancient values. the subconscious must be explored on numerous levels to understand what is known as the beast within. we do not wish to throw in a new religion, or claim something amazing or revolutionary. this book was conceived after a great personal undertaking which involved the goddess babalon, for which opened the 6 6 gates of hecate and lilith. this work is seen by me personally as a manifestation and gift for these forces, which both myself and elda isela continue to work with. our approach towards witchcraft is based in nature, that each sabbath is a time of tuning ourselves in with its tides and changes as well as reaffirming our paths and sorceries. the sethani

king babalon would implement the seal of babalon, known simply as the seven pointed star of babalon. the athame-dagger, wand, sword and chalice would always be used. ceremonial training is the most demanding in the advanced study and practice of a warlock or witch. each weapon should be consecrated at the appropriate time. the sword is blessed by horus, or baphomet, the chalice by 54 54 hecate or the goddess of the sea (witch queen, the wand by babalon or another fire associated elemental or spirit, the pentagram by the green man, pan or the witches sabbat goat. remember success is based upon an intent focus of will and investment in belief. belief, desire and will are the power points of success in any working. the kangling is an instrument that may be implemented within your own temple

powerful method of scribing ones own magical name on ones instruments of the craft, or inscribing sigils (if you wish a simple means of creating sigils. the witches alphabet, as it is known, is called theban. attributed to honorius, theban is an ancient script of runes from which the sorcerers of old inscribed many of their instruments and the inking of spells to hide from profane eyes. invoking the goddess- manifestation of the lunar current what is the connection between the zos kia cultus, thelema and witchcraft? the answer is the goddess, the all-prevailing woman who is the avatar of the gods, bringer of birth, life and death. through her eros and thanatos are united. the goddess can assume many guises and forms, hecate, lilith, kali, isis and babalon. in these forms she will manifest

n assume many guises and forms, hecate, lilith, kali, isis and babalon. in these forms she will manifest in the witch. the witches sabbat craft recognizes that the witch-goddess is the prime manifestation of individual power and focus upon earth. from the drops of her menstruation spring all apparent points of inspiration, from thence the fulfillment of the will occurs. to those seeking guidance, the goddess- once invoked under one of her many forms- offers an abundance of inspiration and focus through the dreaming state. babalon is represented as both beautiful and ugly, of night black and fire red. she gives the flame essence of the great goddess, her vehicle upon earth being the scarlet woman, the divine manifestation of lust and strength. there is a well known saying 'behind every grea

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mankind who are on the earth die, he shall be safe. and this posterity shallbeget on the earth giants, not spiritual, but carnal. now therefore inform thy son lamechthat he who is born is his child in truth; and he shall call his name noah, for he shall be toyou a survivor .in his work called metamorphoses or the golden ass, we read about the god apollosaying strange words regarding the birth of the goddess psyche: on some high crag, o king, set forth the maid, in all the pomp of funeral robes arrayed. hope for no bridegroom born of mortal seed but fierce and wild and of the dragon s breed there is even some evidence of cloning experiments in the bible: and the lord god caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam, and he slept: and he took one ofhis ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof

e wade in the heavy streams, men- foul murderers and perjurers, and them whoothers wives seduce to sin, brothers slay brothers; sisters children shed each other s blood.hard is the world, sensual sin grows huge. there the sword-ages, axe-ages; shields are cleftin twain; storm ages, murder-ages; till the world falls dead and men no longer spare or pityone another (norse elder edda: the prophesy of the goddess v ala, page 416, norsemythology by anderson. but despite the histories, despite the statistics, and the vehemence of the suppressionand crime, there are still those who think that evil being endemic can be assuagedthrough time, when the good continue to generate enough love and forgiveness andbegin embracing the darkness and even the dark ones themselves. it does not occuratlantis, ali

tition, therespect for ecclesiastical displeasure, the fear of committing sacrilege, and the dread of excommunica-tion and anathema. these are elements of power and government which no statesman in any age, canafford to despise, and which we may feel assured were not permitted to lie unused by so profound a pol-itician as julius caesar (p. 28)caesar was a master astrologer. he claimed decent from the goddess maia. this is somewhat the same as the egyptian pharaohs who claimed to act for maat.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation247 appendix b: book abstracts hesus and the druidsboth in spain and gaul, caesar must have heard of hesus, the messiah, whose effigy stood at everycrossroad, whose crosses were worn upon the breast of every warrior, and whose second coming, whichhad

the serpent demi-gods and even to speak their language, naga-krita. for a place that has no serpents,tibet, they are still known in a symbolic sense and are called lu (naga. nagarjuna called in tibetan,[becomes] lu-trub. in the western traditions we find the same ubiquity for the naga, or serpent. one simple example isthe ancient greek goddess, athena. she is known as a warrior goddess as well as the goddess of wis-dom; her symbol being the serpent as displayed on her personal shield. of course, in genesis the ser-pent is a naga who instructs the new infant (humanity) in what is called the knowledge of good andevil. the christian church has, unfortunately transformed the initiate-teacher into a tempting and neg-ative demon-character. an apocryphal tradition says that apollonius of tyana, w

three peaks of trikutamountain, made of gold, silver and iron; my very pleasing abode [the ocean of milk; the white island,shvetadvipa, which is always brilliant with spiritual rays; my mark of shrivatsa; the kaustubha gem;my v aijayanti garland; my club, kaumodaki; my sudarshana disc and pancajanya conch shell; mybearer, garuda, the king of the birds; my bed, shesha naga; my expansion of energy the goddess of for-tune; lord brahma; narada muni; lord shiva; prahlada; my incarnations like matsya, kurma andv araha; my unlimited all-auspicious activities, which yield piety to he who hears them; the sun; themoon; fire; the mantra omkara; the absolute truth; the total material energy; the cows and brahmanas;devotional service; the wives of soma and kashyapa, who are all daughters of king daksh

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lesh. we are legion yet we come from one source. there is only one from within you. you are the point and the beginning, azothoz as the devourer. in nature can you understand my spirit in all things. in doing such you will understand yourself. in understanding yourself you will be able to utilize all of your senses and develop skills to master what you will in this world. as we see that tiamat is the goddess of chaos, the oceans of the subconscious kingu represents her empowered will to form in life. the dragon is intense possibility, waiting for its means to become real by your desire and belief. with the tiamat foundation of vampirism, you may more easily move through the egyptian or ahrimanic aspects of luciferian sorcery to utilize the predatory spiritual aspects of each. energy and bl

dy astral flight is a powerful state in vampiric development. the luciferian spirit is centered in the element air, thus relating to the astral body itself. the witches sabbat in the luciferian witchcraft tradition is founded in the dreaming or astral conclave, the subjective experience from which a level of initiation occurs. the sabbat is a reality, yet it lies behind a veil found. as tiamat is the goddess of vampires, the method of sorcery of draining astral energy should be practiced in everyday life while secretly, with the intent of immortality. much of the practice of vampyrism or vampirism from a luciferian focus is based around the ahrimanic daevas, yatuk dinoih. one may practice vampirism in the following manner: 1. physical contact (handshake, brush up against, handing something

l sexual hunger, that which eventually devours all things. az is also related to menstruation (the kiss of ahriman causes menstruation in women) and is a destroyer through chaos. az was connected with sexual hunger but also religious doubt, which relates her to a luciferian spirit who broke the chains of dogma by the black light, the torch of self-perception of being. az also represents lilith as the goddess of the beasts of the earth, the very mother of demons and sorcerous beings. az was said to be created in the zurvan myth as a black substance like coal, which would devour all creation, manifesting her as a vampyric being. azazel [hebrew] the first angel who brought the black flame of being to humanity. azazel was the lord of djinn and was said to be made of fire in islamic lore. azaze

disunion to grow in perception and being, strength and the power of an awakened mind. the left hand path from the sanskrit vama marga, meaning left way, symbolizes a path astray all others, subjective only to itself. to truly walk upon the left hand path, one must strive to break all personal taboos and gain knowledge and power from this averse way, thus expand power accordingly. lilith [hebrew] the goddess of witchcraft, magick and sorcery. lilith was the first wife of adam who refused to be submission and joined with the shadows and demonic spirits in the deserts. lilith was also said to be the spiritual mother of cain by her mate, samael (shaitan) the dragon. lilith appeared in sumerian times as a goddess of the beasts of the wild, as well as sorcery and night-fornication. lilith was s

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y. proposing that, over time, two nearby civilizations will begin to absorb the traditions and gods of the other. this theory does not, however, explain how distant and unacquainted civilizations managed to acquire so many corresponding details in their traditions. easily one of the most common gods who transcend the borders of mythology is venus. venus is the roman goddess of love and fertility. the goddess venus is so closely related to the greek goddess aphrodite that one could hardly pull them apart categorically. aphrodite, from whom came the word aphrodisiac, is also a goddess of love and fertility. aphrodite is also associated with another greek goddess astarte. in mesopotamia, this goddess goes by the names ishtar, ashtoreth, and inanna. ishtar is also a fertility and love goddess

at one could hardly pull them apart categorically. aphrodite, from whom came the word aphrodisiac, is also a goddess of love and fertility. aphrodite is also associated with another greek goddess astarte. in mesopotamia, this goddess goes by the names ishtar, ashtoreth, and inanna. ishtar is also a fertility and love goddess who is further associated with the planet venus. the multiple aspects of the goddess inanna, or the concept of multiple aspects, seem to surface in the story of her descent into the underworld. here, inanna descends into the land of the dead, ruled by her dark sister (aspect) ereshkigal. at the end of this story the reader may have the impression that erishkigal, queen of the underworld, absorbed the qualities( or body) of her sister inanna. yet another copy of this go

goddess is queen semiramis. the average american is more familiar with semiramis than they realize; it is her likeness that graces the statue of liberty. even though the statue of liberty is a spiting likeness of queen semiramis of assyria, the french freemasons that funded the statue s construction left subtler clues as to the true identity of our lady liberty. in magic (of coarse, the metal of the goddess venus is copper, her color is green, and her number is 7. the exterior of the statue of liberty is made of copper, the statue is green, and has 7 rays of light reaching out from her head--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 13 then there s satan, who himself has countless names. most christians believe they have a monopoly on the stories regarding this being, but satanists know better

commanding an eagle to peck away at this liver, which regenerated every day. prometheus is depicted as incredibly intelligent, deceptive, and rebellious; prometheus, azazel, lucifer, the torch-bearer, the light bringer. the flame, or torch of the olympics, and it s corresponding tradition, is a commemoration of prometheus theft of fire from zeus. the statue of liberty, whose likeness is based on the goddess ishtar, who was said to have fallen with azazel, also bears the torch of illumination. this flame is a direct reference to magical knowledge and self-deification through magical means. it is important not to mistake this azazel, and those who were with him, for the traveling civilizer spoke of earlier. the fallen angels of eden taught humanity much magic, and did not have the support o

ne would choose objects whose physical qualities lent themselves to jupiter. many people believe that things like rabbit s feet have a natural occult essence of luck( i have not heard an occultist comment on this, but it s no more absurd than spitting into a frog s mouth. the metal copper, for instance, is inclined to the influence of venus. therefore, copper is a venereal metal (venereal..venus. the goddess of lust and sex, go figure) element color direction nature elementals ruler air yellow east separation sylphs paralda water blue west union undines nichsa fire red south energy salamanders djin earth green/brown north stability gnomes ghob sprit white center balance n/a n/a planet color day# characteristics saturn black saturday 3 death; limitation; decay jupiter blue thursday 4 growth

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esh is a gateway of transformation, the ecstasies contained therein and our own means of developing and becoming an illuminated (hence black flame) promethean being. just as we sip at the golden chalice of the luciferian sabbat, the sunlight essence of the fallen seraph, the fire djinn who holds the flame of self-perception, we to sip from the skull-cup of the dead, of hecate. noctulia- hecate is the goddess robed in black, perched upon her shoulder a raven. she appears before the circle, as the encirclement of our being, the gate-keeper of the realms of the ghostroads and the dead. it is noctulia -hecate (named also lilith) whom we sing hymns of the night unto. the ritual of lycanthropy is a two part process. the first involves the making of a belt of symbolic wolf skin, and possibly obta

place of demons. the legends of lilith portray her as having the body of a beautiful woman from head to navel, and below she is flaming fire. this is also comparable to lilith as having the continence of beautiful maiden, and below the navel being as a beast with owl claws for feet. babalon, the enochian goddess and reappearing as the whore who rides the beast in the bible, is revealed as lilith the goddess of fire and beasts. it is barbara koltuv, ph.d. who suggests that the knowledge of lilith is necessary for strengthening man's ego, the shadow of the self. it is lilith who inspires sexual dreams, creative inspiration and sensuality. the daemonic feminine is therefore essential to the development of man and woman. it is also the gateway to the sabbat- the dreaming conclave of the lucif

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ining the body of osiris, and made of it a column for his palace. isis, employed in the palace, obtained possession of the column, took the body out of it, and carried it away. apuleius describes her as "a beautiful female, over whose divine neck her long thick hair hung in graceful ringlets" and in the procession female attendants, with ivory combs, seemed to dress and ornament the royal hair of the goddess. the palm-tree, and the lamp in the shape of a boat, appeared in the procession. if the symbol we are speaking of is not a mere modern invention, it is to these things it alludes [illustration: hieroglyph] the identity of the legends is also confirmed by this hieroglyphic picture, copied from an ancient egyptian monument, which may also enlighten you as to the lion's grip and the maste

he loss of the true word, are an allegory, in which are represented the general ignorance of the true nature and attributes of god, the proneness of the people of judah and israel to worship other deities, and the low and erroneous and dishonoring notions of the grand architect of the universe, which all shared except a few favored persons; for even solomon built altars and sacrificed to astarat, the goddess of the tsidunim, and malcum, the aamunite god, and built high places for kamus, the moabite deity, and malec the god of the beni-aamun. the true nature of god was unknown to them, like his name; and they worshipped the calves of jeroboam, as in the desert they did that made for them by aarun. the mass of the hebrews did not believe in the existence of one only god until a late period i

him all the other gods were but manifestations. the ram was his living symbol; which you see reproduced in this degree, lying on the book with seven seals on the tracing-board. he caused the creation of the world by the primitive thought[[greek??a, ennoia, or _spirit[[greek??e? a, pneuma, that issued from him by means of his _voice_ or the word; and which _thought_ or _spirit_ was personified as the goddess neith. she, too, was a divinity of _light, and mother of the sun; and the feast of lamps was celebrated in her honor at sais. the creative _power, another manifestation of deity, proceeding to the creation conceived of in her, the divine _intelligence, produced with its word the universe, symbolized by an egg issuing from the mouth of kneph; from which egg came phtha, image of the supr

e moment of death. socrates says that those who were so fortunate as to be admitted to the mysteries, possessed, when dying, the most glorious hopes for eternity. aristides says that they not only procure the initiates consolations in the present life, and means of deliverance from the great weight of their evils, but also the precious advantage of passing after death to a happier state. isis was the goddess of sais; and the famous feast of lights was celebrated there in her honor. there were celebrated the mysteries, in which were represented the death and subsequent restoration to life of the god osiris, in a secret ceremony and scenic representation of his sufferings, called the mysteries of night. the kings of egypt often exercised the functions of the priesthood; and they were initiat

sis believed that the sun blazed with a pure splendor for them alone. and, as we see in the case of pericles, they flattered themselves that ceres and proserpine inspired them and gave them wisdom and counsel. initiation dissipated errors and banished misfortune: and after having filled the heart of man with joy during life, it gave him the most blissful hopes at the moment of death. we owe it to the goddesses of eleusis, says socrates, that we do not lead the wild life of the earliest men: and to them are due the flattering hopes which initiation gives us for the moment of death and for all eternity. the benefit which we reap from these august ceremonies, says aristides, is not only present joy, a deliverance and enfranchisement from the old ills; but also the sweet hope which we have in

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are, all of us who aspire to her, bound slaves of immortal beauty; it is a pity that our mortal mistresses, not understanding whom we worship in them, so often think that they rule us! then, when the abuse of their egos finally forces us to seek a new priestess, they accuse us of being cold and unfeeling, forgetting that the temple must keep itself clean and comely, and worthy of the presence of the goddess. the ego is a good servant, but a bad master. that sign, nuit gives to all those who seek her, upon their reaching a certain grade. it is exactly as described. of course, a.c 'knew' who he was, since he called himself, and had been first called so by his own mother, 666 from childhood. see liber iv. part iv. 27. then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely

48. my prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the ox, and none by the book? crowley, who knew the attributions of ain, and its mystical meaning, had become troubled since the dictation of verse 45 "but are not the perfect, all of them, just one" he kept asking mentally as dictation went on. finally aiwass incorporates his doubt in the text, answering it out loud, and speaking for the goddess. the key is, of course, that monotheism is a lie. belief in the oneness of man is a great comfort to the ego "i am the one" cries every 'black brother. the master of the temple answers not, for he is not. the ox aleph is the ox, of course, 1 by the qabalah and zero by the book of thoth, the taro. also, aleph in full alp is 111 "one, one, one. it is also indicative that the two letters

reffects of the act will prove whether it was "moral" or not. this is the 'reason' why adepts often seem to act with complete callousness and lack of consideration for other people's feelings. please do not confuse 'adepts' with 'black brethren; though, who thought everything was sorrow. cf "who am i "thou knowest" in chapter i (an altogether different case. a. c. was asking what star was he, and the goddess answered that he already knew he was 666. again the injured feelings of 666's personality cause confusion. this is all to the good, though, since it provides us with an example of the relationship between an adept's higher triad, his instrument, and his holy guardian angel) i am far from satisfied with either of the above interpretations of this verse. we shall see a little later, vv

he victim therein. beneath thee, rejoicing, he lies; he exalts as he dies, burning up in the breath of thy kiss. yea, star rushes flaming to star; the blaze bursts, splashes the skies. there is a cry in an unknown tongue, it resounds through the temple of the universe; in its one word is death and ecstasy, and thy title of honour, o thou, to thyself high priestess, prophetess, empress, to thyself the goddess whose name means mother and whore! the above commentary was written in the twenties, when the female revolution was getting started. woman has now gained the same rights as man; but she did not ask for the concomitant duties. as a result we find men being conned by women, particularly in the united states of america, where marriage is, to the male, a synonym of bond age. american wives

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lieved that the great god of heaven was angry, and they trembled at his wrath. if the calm and tranquil sea became suddenly agitated, and the crested billows rose mountains high, dashing furiously against the rocks, and threatening destruction to all within their reach, the sea-god was supposed to be in a furious rage. when they beheld the sky glowing with the hues of coming day they thought that the goddess of the dawn, with rosy fingers, was drawing aside the dark veil of night, to allow her brother, the sun-god, to enter upon his brilliant career. thus personifying all the powers of nature, this very imaginative and highly poetical nation beheld a divinity in every tree that grew, in every stream that flowed, in the bright beams of the glorious sun, and the clear, cold rays of the silve

ch drowned the cries of the child and frightened away all intruders. under the watchful care of the nymphs the infant zeus throve rapidly, developing great physical powers, combined with [16]extraordinary wisdom and intelligence. grown to manhood, he determined to compel his father to restore his brothers and sisters to the light of day, and is said to have been assisted in this difficult task by the goddess metis, who artfully persuaded cronus to drink a potion, which caused him to give back the children he had swallowed. the stone which had counterfeited zeus was placed at delphi, where it was long exhibited as a sacred relic. cronus was so enraged at being circumvented that war between the father and son became inevitable. the rival forces ranged themselves on two separate high mountain

loss, when her priests, the corybantes, with their usual noisy accompaniments, marched into the mountains to seek the lost youth. having discovered him[6] they gave full vent to their ecstatic delight by indulging in the most violent gesticulations, dancing, shouting, and, at the same time, wounding and gashing themselves in a frightful manner. ops. in rome the greek rhea was identified with ops, the goddess of plenty, the wife of saturn, who had a variety of appellations. she was called magna-mater, mater-deorum, berecynthia-idea, and also dindymene. this latter title she acquired from three high mountains in phrygia, whence she was brought to rome as cybele during the second punic war, b.c. 205, in obedience to an page 20 injunction contained in the sybilline books. she was represented a

gs, and all that they made. their characters seem to have resembled the metal in which they delighted; their minds and hearts were hard, obdurate, and cruel. they led a life of strife and contention, introduced into the world, which had hitherto known nothing but peace and tranquillity, the scourge of war, and were in fact only happy when fighting and quarrelling with each other. hitherto themis, the goddess of justice, had been living among mankind, but becoming disheartened at their evil doings, she abandoned the earth, and winged her flight back to heaven. at last the gods became so tired of their evil deeds and continual dissensions, that they removed them from the face of the earth, and sent them down to hades to share the fate of their predecessors. we now come to the men of the iron

bandoned the earth, and winged her flight back to heaven. at last the gods became so tired of their evil deeds and continual dissensions, that they removed them from the face of the earth, and sent them down to hades to share the fate of their predecessors. we now come to the men of the iron age. the earth, no longer teeming with fruitfulness, only yielded her increase after much toil and labour. the goddess of justice having abandoned mankind, no influence remained sufficiently powerful to preserve them from every kind of wickedness and sin. this condition grew worse as time went on, until at last zeus in his anger let loose the water-courses from above, and drowned every [24]individual of this evil race, except deucalion and pyrrha. the theory of hesiod,[8] the oldest of all the greek po

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gemini: carrots and fennel. cancer: garlic and peppermint. leo: almonds and celery seed. virgo: apples and thyme. scorpio: ginger, mustard, and onions. sagittarius: sesame seed and nutmeg. capricorn: dates and wintergreen. aquarius: bananas and rye. pisces: mint and oranges. the word aphrodisiac is derived from aphrodite, the love goddess of the ancient greeks whom the romans called venus. of all the goddesses of ancient greece and rome, none was more widely venerated than the goddess of love was. every god -even zeus himself- wanted the beautiful, golden aphrodite as his wife, but she was too proud and rejected them all. one of her children was eros, the winged god of love. the black candle of love< the occult practitioners of ages past were the matchmakers of their day. almost without ex

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e protector of the world, and because of his compassion for humankind, descends to earth in various avatar forms, such as prince rama, to fight evil. whenever vishnu is incarnated, so is lakshmi, to be his bride. here, garuda is taking the loving couple to their own heaven, vaikuntha. introduction 9 female. the egyptians, for example, worshiped geb as god of the earth, and his sister-bride nut as the goddess of the sky. nowhere has worship of the eternal female been so strong as in india, where various goddesses are worshiped under the enveloping spell of mahadevi, the great goddess. devi is the consort of the god shiva (see pp. 112 13, and is worshiped as benign parvati or uma or as ferocious and vengeful durga or kali. sankara wrote of her in the 9th century, your hands hold delight and

u disclose it the world will come to an end. we will all die. the secrecy required of initiates into the mysteries of eleusis was so absolute that we are left to guess from fragments of evidence both what the rituals were and what they meant. culture heroes one of those fragments is the moment in the demeter myth when, having taken a position in a royal household while searching for her daughter, the goddess places the royal prince, her charge, into a divine fire to burn away his mortal parts and give him eternal life, but is interrupted before she can complete the ritual. the same incident occurs in egyptian mythology, when the goddess isis becomes nursemaid to a prince while searching for her husband, osiris (see p. 16. in the egyptian story the prince dies, but in the greek, the boy, tr

rth from nun all the plants, birds, and animals. he spoke their names, and they came into being. shu and tefnut had two children: geb, the earth, and nut, the sky. nut lay on top of geb and the sky mated with the earth. but shu was jealous and wrenched the sky away, holding her aloft, and pinning the earth down with his feet. the children of nut and geb were the stars. shu, the air shu, father of the goddess nut, can be identified by his ostrich plume. he is usually shown holding nut and geb, the sky and the earth, apart. ankh the ankh was the symbol of life and whoever possessed it had the power to give or take life from lesser persons. only gods, kings, and queens had the authority to hold an ankh. god of the western desert ha, the god of the western desert, wears a bull s tail from his

u s staff is in the form of a snake. because snakes have the ability to slough off their skins, they became a symbol of rebirth with lifegiving powers. geb s goose geb is sometimes represented as a goose, and one of his names is the great cackler a reference to the cackle he gave when he produced the great egg from which the benu bird emerged at the dawn of time (see p. 13. goddess of order maat, the goddess of order and justice, who is often described as the daughter of re, accompanies the god, who sits oppposite her. nut, the mother of all nut arches her body to make the dome of the sky. each night she swallowed the sun, giving birth to it again each morning. because of her role as the mother of the life-giving sun, nut was regarded as the universal mother. the dead were entrusted to her

ys to make up the number to 365. however, the egyptians did not add the extra quarter day to make a true solar year. therefore, their calendar drifted slowly out of sync with the astronomical calendar, so that it might officially be summer in the wintertime, or vice versa. the two calendars came back into line every 1,460 years, a mystical cycle for the egyptian priesthood. waters of fruitfulness the goddess nephthys, sister of isis, pours the waters of fruitfulness over the earth, where men hoe the land. the mummified body of osiris (see p. 16) is reborn where the water makes contact with the earth. eye of the sun god the sun was said to be the eye of re, which he sent to seek shu and tefnut. when it returned, another eye had taken its place. the first eye wept, and its tears became the f

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n osman spare via the book of pleasure. you will wish to obtain other titles by spare and seek to understand through practice the essence of zos kia and its view as a practitioner of the left hand path. 2. lilith, hecate, babalon& az. what each goddess represents (and how they are the same) and the results of invoking them within (both male and female. the significance of the feminine (lunar) and the goddess of death and birth. the crimson caul and the birth of lilith within the luciferian circle. a minimum four page essay on the goddess and how this feminine aspect is used within the male or female. see nox umbra, book of cain, book of the witch moon and yatuk dinoih. 3. creation of famulus (familiars) both lesser and greater. submit records and techniques used in creation rites. 4. grimo

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

beyond the abyss (there is a conscious play on words here. the thud is the sexual or generative moon god, who stands in yesod (the sphere of the moon, in the sign of the enterer, leaning forward over the thirty-second path, called, in the tarot "the universe" h.s. 330 enterer of the threshold 331 phyte "the hall of the neophytes" is called "the hall of the dual manifestation of truth" that is of the goddess thmaah, whose name has three forms according to the nature of her operation. this is explained under the chapter concerning the hegemon. of the temple in reference to the sephiroth. the temple, as arranged in the neophyte grade of the order of the golden dawn in the outer, is placed looking towards the yh of yhvh in malkuth in assiah. that is, as y and h answer unto the sephiroth chokm

addition to this explanation, it represents the black calvary cross of suffering as the initiator by trial and self-abnegation, and the opener of the way into the comprehension of the forces of the divine light. it is therefore suspended from a black collar to show that suffering is the purgation of evil "before the face of the gods in the place of the threshold is the name of hegemon, and she is the goddess thma-ae-st having the following coptic forms: thrna-ae-st- this as regards the middle pillar and the influence from kether. thma-aesh- this more fiery as regards her influence with respect to the pillar of severity. thrnaa-ett- this more fluidic with regard to her influence with respect to the pillar of mercy. she is the wielder of the sceptre of dual wisdom from chokmah and therefore

e with respect to the pillar of severity. thrnaa-ett- this more fluidic with regard to her influence with respect to the pillar of mercy. she is the wielder of the sceptre of dual wisdom from chokmah and therefore is the mitre head split in two and not closed, to indicate the dual manifestation of wisdom and truth: even as the hall of the neophytes is called "the hall of the dual manifestation of the goddess of truth" the three inferior officers do not wear mantles, but only lamens suspended from black collars. the designs are in white on a black field to show that they are administrators of the forces of light acting through the dark340 the golden dawn: volume 111 book five ness, under the presidency of the superior officers <97> the lamen of kerux, is thus explained in the grade of theor

were, veiled divinities sending a form to sit before the veil paroketh, and, like the veils of isis and nephthys, impenetrable save to the initiate. the <101> synthesis of the three chiefs may be said to be in the form of tho- 0th who cometh from behind the veil at the point of its rending. yet separately, they may be thus referred: the imperator, from his relation to geburah, may be referred to the goddess nephthys, the praemonstrator, from his relation to chesed, may be referred to the goddess isis, the cancellarius, from his property of recorder, may be referred to the god thoth: no ceremony of the outer order may take place without a chief- preferably the three chiefs or their vice-gerants present- and on account of the stations on the dais, it is well to have these stations filled by

the ending and judgment of the world by fire. but also, the mystic circurnambulation commences by the paths of shin and resh, as though bringing into action the solar fire; while the reverse circumambulation commences beside those of qoph and tzaddi as though bringing the watery reflux into action <108> the order of the mystic ciramambulation. first comes anubis, the watcher within; next thmaest, the goddess of the hall of truth; then horus; then the goddesses of the scales of the balance, then members, if the hall be large enough, and at the end the watcher without, sentinel. it is as though a gigantic wheel were revolving, as it is said "one wheel upon earth beside the kerub" the name of the sphere of the primum mobile, rashith ha-gilgalim, sigrufies the heads or beginnings of whirling m

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

the blazing torch. we are toapproach creation, the breaking away of night, to enter upon the first rays of lux. the chaoticelements of fire and flood are to give place to a serene, calm, passionless and pure existence of allthings terrestrial and celestial; the heavens and. the earth are to take form, system and harmony. therituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus37 fair urania, the goddess of astronomy, by the aid of the divine will, is to guide our mentalfootsteps. as the pure and heavenly teacher appointed 12 apostles to make known his holy laws, soastronomy, through the wondrous mower of the great creator of all things, has 12 instructors called"gates, or signs of the zodiac, which typify the 12 stones of foundation of the holy city. the mindof the father also decreed

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

rfected further by precious indications derived from spanish varieties. the two of cups, for example, the naibi is completely egyptian, showing two archaic vases, with ibis handles, superposed on a cow. a unicorn is represented in the middle of the four of deniers; the three of cups exhibits the figure of isis emerging from a vase, while two ibises issue from two other vases, one with a crown for the goddess and one holding a lotus, which he seems to be offering for her acceptance. the four aces bear the image of the hieratic and sacred serpent, while in some specimens the seal of solomon is placed at the centre of the four of deniers, instead of the symbolical unicorn. the german tarots have suffered great alteration, and scarcely do more than preserve the numbers of the keys, which are c

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.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (4 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds with earth-magic thomas the rhymer is given clothing of green by the queen of elfland. the significance within the tradition is that the wearing of green signifies unity with the land. janet's virgin state, therefore, is no mere human condition, but declares her to be a character such as the epiphanies of the goddess or spirit of the land that occur in appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 130 early celtic poetical convention. it is her true love that later wins tam lin back to humanity. 3. pulling of flowers tam lin is summoned by the pulling of roses and the breaking of branches. he is therefore an otherworld guardian who may be summoned or aroused through magic connected to nature. he states that no

ating in the role of an impersonal agency, fulfilling certain laws. in thomas, however, the queen is directly concerned in an active dialogue with the hero, and becomes his redeemer through the offering of his love. in other words, the role of 'queen' and 'janet' are merged into one entity in the thomas story, wherein she prohibits the hero from worshipping her as 'queen of heaven- for she is not the goddess. in tam lin, the queen, not activated or motivated by true love, can only be a deeper archetype. this concept is central to the practical operation of magic in the underworld, and should be fully understood before any experiments are attempted. indeed, the stories of tam and thomas should be seen as two operative variants of the same magical liberation process. in the first, http//www

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as of responsibility. contingent, of course, upon the maintenance of order, payment of taxes, and general preservation of a harmonious attitude among the people there were no legislated standards of good and evil/right and wrong. justice was meted out ad hoc according to each supervisory official's concept of fairness and equity. the egyptians prized this system very highly; it was personified by the goddess maat. when an egyptian died, a feather from maat's crown would be weighed against his heart to determine whether he would be granted a pleasant repose in amenti or be torn limb from limb by monsters from the tuat. i expect that would-be crooks were inhibited accordingly, since the egyptian religion was taken quite literally. consider the following inscription, dating from one of the ea

of realization, there can be no other answer. paganism 1. deities: a core pantheon. perhaps one particular deity and his consort were designated as the supreme beings. these were all given human traits in super-human proportions, and linked with cosmic forces or perceived realities in a somewhat archetypal manner. archaeological evidence seems to suggest that the first god forms venerated were of the goddess or mother type. it was not until this century that the concept of archetype as a factor of the human subconscious was widely understood through the works of carl jung. so it can't be assumed that this was the intent among the ancients, though in some cases the written evidence of symbolism suggests similar concepts existed. however, when one considers the proliferation of deities, for

hat men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! crowley's ecstatic recognition of the sign, and hope that mankind generally will not transcend inertia by achieving a point of perspective similar to his [from which nuit may be seen "from outside. presumably this follows #i-5 and #i-10, in which only elect initiates may presume to "see the goddess unveiled" 28. none, breathed the light, faint& faery, of the stars, and two. nuit validates the concept that she is all-inclusive, hence cannot be distinguished from any other thing known to her [the set/harwer phenomena are distinct and apart from the objective universe] yet the objective universe is not a homogenous whole; it is everywhere separated into complementary parts- magnetic

solute infinity; lovely maat i come into your house this night, without fear, for i am pure of heart and have subject: harwer reading list: made your blessed throne the center of my self. hear these sounds, for i speak with a pure heart: i will that we shall become as one. my self watched the maati materialize in the hall, then approached them. as i approached the two maati, the double aspects of the goddess maat, i became as one with them. almost instantly i was able to realize/recognize/understand the truth which i sought: man the species is not harwer, whose aeon began in the year 1904 ce and ended in the year 1966 ce (i aes. rather, the objective universal aspect of man the species may be likened to set's harwer aspect- the material, objective aspect of man is: truly fitful and unpredi

learer path in one's quest for the inner temple. this is the road of maat. as maat's name refers primarily to "that which is straight" and as it was probably the name which was given to an instrument by which the work of handicraftsman of every kind was kept straight, so we can with the help of maat have an ever better balance and straight line with respect to our thelemic current, our true will. the goddess, neter maat, is the personification of physical and moral law, and of order and truth. truth is that which as the seekers of the grail we must live in maat, to behold her black mirror and live consistently, so that we would really xeper and endure the initiatory crises which we sometimes face. priest mcatee spoke in his an anubian initiatory diagram of initiatory crises occurring both

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essence "mirror the whole nature in your portrait and see the secret beauty. open eye and mind for this. this is the way of netzasch inspiring the "eye" and "mind" for this task. this cell is the place for the fundamental creation of form. the influence of mercury has stirred up the water and the alchemy has started. in this phase of creation "vac" is important "vac" is an aspect of sarasvati as the goddess of speech, signifying sound, or rather the primordial sounds of creation. breath is air and the component needed for transmutation, as seen in the techniques of pranayama. it is this mercurial air of creation the water has stirred up. the rite of ingress, or the establishment of the point and its adversary into the one. the text itself called the eight steps of the rite of ingress give

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

setting forth the mysteries of the goddess trifold of nature and marks through this synthesis the lesser mystery of the three lunar phases and how the growth, maturity and the old age of the goddess are functioning in the magical arte. the greater mystery, the one concerning the black moon is treated in a different house. this is per definition the house of the moon and through this the abode of the goddess. the connection between gimel and nun is significant int his joining between the moon and the lunar animals, like scorpios, centipedes and the like. in the tarot these letters has been assigned to the priestess and death. since this cell is the lunar abode it is also the cell where they mysteries of the psychosexual fluids are understood. the house it self is concerned with the pure an

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e best-beloved goddesses in jahilia. they bow before all three: uzza of the radiant visage, goddess of beauty and love; dark, obscure manat, her face averted, her purposes mysterious, sifting sand between her fingers- she's in charge of destiny- she's fate; and lastly the highest of the three, the mother-goddess, whom the greeks called lato. ilat, they call her here, or, more frequently, al--lat _the goddess. even her name makes her allah's opposite and equal. lat the omnipotent. his face showing sudden relief, baal flings himself to the ground and prostrates himself before her. abu simbel stays on his feet. the family of the grandee, abu simbel- or, to be more precise, of his wife hind- controls the famous temple of lat at the city's southern gate (they also draw the revenues from the man

of hesitation or doubt, he recites two further verses "have you thought upon lat and uzza, and manat, the third, the other- after the first verse, hind gets to her feet; the grandee of jahilia is already standing very straight. and mahound, with silenced eyes, recites "they are the exalted birds, and their intercession is desired indeed" as the noise- shouts, cheers, scandal, cries of devotion to the goddess al-lat- swells and bursts within the marquee, the already astonished congregation beholds the doubly sensational spectacle of the grandee abu simbel placing his thumbs upon the lobes of his ears, fanning out the fingers of both hands and uttering in a loud voice the formula "allahu akbar" after which he falls to his knees and presses a deliberate forehead to the ground. his wife, hind

k hair, letting it fly about her like a storm, or trail in the dust, erasing her footsteps so that she seems like an incarnation of the spirit of vengeance itself. they have all fled the city, and hamza, too, is lying low; but the word is that abu simbel has not, as yet, acceded to his wife's pleas for the blood that washes away blood. he is still calculating the odds in the matter of mahound and the goddesses mahound, against his followers' advice, returns to jahilia, going straight to the house of the black stone. the disciples follow him in spite of their fear. a crowd gathers in the hope of further scandal or dismemberment or some such entertainment. mahound does not disappoint them. he stands in front of the statues of the three and announces the abrogation of the verses which shaitan

, glowing with blackness, is a mythological apparition with vast black wings, her hair streaming loose, as long and black as the imam's is long and white: al--lat, gibreel understands, bursting out of ayesha's shell "kill her" the imam commands. gibreel sets him down on the palace's ceremonial balcony, his arms outstretched to encompass the joy of the people, a sound that drowns even the howls of the goddess and rises up like a song. and then he is being propelled into the air, having no option, he is a marionette going to war; and she, seeing him coming, turns, crouches in air, and, moaning dreadfully, comes at him with all her might. gibreel understands that the imam, fighting by proxy as usual, will sacrifice him as readily as he did the hill of corpses at the palace gate, that he is a

great obstacle on the way to the top, and the route they had taken to the summit was scored deeply into the wood. when gibreel turned it upside down he found a message, scratched into the base in painstaking english _to ali bibi. we were luck. not to try again. what allie did not tell gibreel was that the sherpa's prohibition had scared her, convincing her that if she ever set her foot again upon the goddess-mountain, she would surely die, because it is not permitted to mortals to look more than once upon the face of the divine; but the mountain was diabolic as well as transcendent, or, rather, its diabolism and its transcendence were one, so that even the contemplation of pemba's ban made her feel a pang of need so deep that it made her groan aloud, as if in sexual ecstasy or despair "the

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me readers may be a little surprised and possibly even upset to see the good book included in a list of grimoire, its use as a source of witchcraft has a long tradition. in particular the psalms, hand copied, torn out, or recited aloud, have been used in many spells throughout the ages. various other passages are also considered to possess their own power. in those traditions where the worship of the goddess has continued, often under the guise of the three marys, the song of solomon has particular importance. whilst modern witches are lucky enough to have all the theological history books at their disposal, and may thus consider themselves to have rediscovered their pagan heritage, the witches of the middle ages had only those few snippets that were preserved in their lineage. much of the

d a ram, with the tail of a serpent. rides a bear, carries a goshawk, speaks hoarsely. tells fortunes, gives invisibility, makes men witty. baphomet this character has long been identified with the devil and the goat of mendes, and as purely male. such has played its part in the continuation of that myth which states that the templars were the agents of darkness. the name baphomet is also that of the goddess of the gnostics, sophia. it is hidden through the cabbalist codes of temurah. in this, the letters of words are substituted, transposed and altered, so that any word may yield a hidden meaning. in writing the twenty two letters of the hebrew alphabet in a special order and in two lines, the letters above and below are substituted for each other. in the most direct form of this code the

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

an african-based religion practiced primarily in haiti and in other central and south american countries. vodouisant: an uninitiated practitioner of vodou. wakan: the incomprehensibility of life and death for the sioux. wakan tanka: the world s motivating force for the sioux. wen: the arts of music, poetry, and painting. wicca: the name of a neo-pagan religion that generally worships the god and the goddess. wu wei: nonaction, or deliberate and thoughtful action that follows the dao. yahweh: one of the names for god in the tanakh. yazata: guardian angel. yin and yang: literally, shady and sunny; terms referring to how the universe is composed of opposing but complementary forces. yom kippur: the day of atonement. zakat: annual charitable giving. ziggurat: a stepped foundation or structure

olism for a clan or tribe. even on a small scale, ancestor worship was a logical extension of the summoning of deities and spirits to help living humans control their environment. this belief not only reassured the living, but also gave them hope that someone they knew was waiting for them after death. the third type of deity was one that could provide some specific service or protection, such as the goddess of the home or the god of war. over time one god in this group of competing deities usually assumed more power than the rest. sometimes this may have been because competing gods represented different cities or communities. when a city conquered one of its neighbors, its god was believed to have conquered the defeated city s god. something like this may have happened in ancient egypt, w

milarities in both traditions. many gods and goddesses personified elements of nature. in the mesopotamian pantheon, or collection of gods, the most important were the trio of the sky god, an (or anu; the god of storm and the earth, enlil; and the water god, ea (or enki. these were followed in importance by a second triad comprised of the moon god, nanna (or sin; the sun god, utu (or shamash; and the goddess of fertility and war, inanna 37 (also called ishtar. in the later stages of mesopotamian civilization the local god marduk became head of the pantheon. in egyptian religion the primary god was amen (amon or amun, king of the gods. next in importance was ra (or re, the sun god. these two were eventually joined in the cult of amen-ra. a cult is a religion considered to be outside the mai

ans felt that nature was dangerous and far beyond the control of mere humans. the earliest mesopotamian deities thus represented different aspects of nature and were honored in hopes of winning their favor. world religions: almanac 39 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia for instance, anu, the god of the sky, might have been worshipped to keep violent storms from damaging the crops. hursag, the goddess of mountains and foothills, would be invoked by priests to stop an invasion of barbarian tribes. deities were often represented as human beings and some symbolic natural object. once given human form, a process called anthropomorphism, the gods were then grouped in families. mesopotamian gods were worshipped in temple complexes that formed the center of every city. built of mud bricks

d is a type of tall, slender grass. the gods were thought to be housed in statues; these statues were purified, fed, and clothed daily, and annual festivals were held. the afterlife was also important for egyptians from the earliest times, and pharaohs and queens were buried with material to make their lives easier after death. early gods included ptah; anubis, the protector of the tomb; and nit, the goddess of war. different cities in the united nation of egypt held different creation myths, each centered on its own local creator god. heliopolis, for instance, was a center near present-day cairo where atum was worshipped. here, it was thought that atum created himself out of the void, and then either spit or sneezed out shu, the god of air, and tefnut, the goddess of moisture. these two i

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ns to man" persisted glyndon "which some of the alchemists enjoyed. is the golden elixir but a fable "if not, and these men discovered it, they died, because they refused to live! there may be a mournful warning in your conjecture. turn once more to the easel and the canvas" so saying, zanoni waved his hand, and, with downcast eyes and a slow step, bent his way back into the city. chapter 2.viii. the goddess wisdom. to some she is the goddess great; to some the milch cow of the field; their care is but to calculate what butter she will yield. from schiller. this last conversation with zanoni left upon the mind of glyndon a tranquillising and salutary effect. from the confused mists of his fancy glittered forth again those happy, golden schemes which part from the young ambition of art, to

thought. far more intense than the passion of the gamester was the frantic yet sublime desire that mastered the breast of glyndon. he would be the rival of zanoni, not in human and perishable affections, but in preternatural and eternal lore. he would have laid down life with content nay, rapture as the price of learning those solemn secrets which separated the stranger from mankind. enamoured of the goddess of goddesses, he stretched forth his arms the wild ixion and embraced a cloud! the night was most lovely and serene, and the waves scarcely rippled at his feet as the englishman glided on by the cool and starry beach. at length he arrived at the spot, and there, leaning against the broken pillar, he beheld a man wrapped in a long mantle, and in an attitude of profound repose. he approa

eerily swell, ye sails; away from the land where death has come to snatch the sceptre of love! the shores glide by; new coasts succeed to the green hills and orange-groves of the bridal isle. from afar now gleam in the moonlight the columns, yet extant, of a temple which the athenian dedicated to wisdom; and, standing on the bark that bounded on in the freshening gale, the votary who had survived the goddess murmured to himself "has the wisdom of ages brought me no happier hours than those common to the shepherd and the herdsman, with no world beyond their village, no aspiration beyond the kiss and the smile of home" and the moon, resting alike over the ruins of the temple of the departed creed, over the hut of the living peasant, over the immemorial mountaintop, and the perishable herbage

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powers of the egyptian magician. saint stephen boasts that the great legislator moses "was learned in all the wisdom of the egyptians" and declares that he "was mighty in words and in deeds" 1 and there are numerous features in the life of this remarkable man which shew that he was acquainted with many of the practices of p. 5 egyptian magic. the phrase "mighty in words" probably means that, like the goddess isis, he was "strong of tongue" and uttered the words of power which he knew with correct pronunciation, and halted not in his speech, and was perfect both in giving the command and in saying the word. the turning of a serpent into what is apparently an inanimate, wooden stick, 1 and the turning of the stick back into a writhing snake, 2 are feats which have been performed in the east

h, and my two legs to walk therewith, and my two hands and arms to overthrow my foe. may the doors of heaven be opened unto me; may seb, the prince of the gods, open wide his p. 30 two jaws unto me; may he open my two eyes which are blindfolded; may he cause me to stretch apart my two legs which are bound together; and may anpu (anubis) make my thighs to be firm so that i may stand upon them. may the goddess sekhet make me to rise so that i may ascend into heaven, and may that which i command in the house of the ka of ptah be done. i shall understand with my heart, i shall gain the mastery over my heart, i shall gain the mastery over my two hands, i shall gain the mastery over my legs, i shall have the power to do whatsoever my ka (i.e, double) pleaseth. my soul shall not be fettered to my

rds of power, and there is a legend to the effect that she smote the sun-god ra with severe sickness by the magical power which she possessed. another object of the buckle was to give the deceased access to every place in the underworld, and to enable him to have "one hand towards heaven, and one hand towards earth" 4. the amulet of the tet. this amulet probably represents the tree trunk in which the goddess isis concealed the dead body of her husband, and the four cross-bars indicate the four cardinal points; it became a symbol of the highest religious importance to the egyptians, and the setting up of the tet at busiris, which symbolized the reconstituting of the body of osiris, was one of the most solemn of all the ceremonies performed in connexion with the worship of osiris. the tet re

deceased vigour and renewal of youth; it was made of mother-of-emerald, or of light green or blue porcelain, and, when the words of the clixth chapter of the book of the dead had been recited over it, it was placed on his neck on the day of the funeral. in the xxvith dynasty and later it seems as if the amulet represented the power of isis, who derived it from her father, the husband of renenet, the goddess of abundant harvests and food. at an earlier period, judging from the text of the clxth chapter, the amulet is put by the god p. 50 [paragraph continues] thoth into the hands of the deceased, who says "it is in sound state, and i am in sound state; it is not injured, and i am not injured; it is not worn away, and i am not worn away" 9. the amulet of the soul, this amulet was made of go

etc, and represents a musical instrument; it was made of carnelian, red stone, red porcelain, and the like, and was a very favourite form for the pendants of necklaces and strings of beads. 15. the amulet of the serpent's head, this amulet was placed on the dead body to keep it from being bitten by snakes in the underworld or tomb. it is made of red stone, red jasper, red paste, and carnelian. as the goddess isis is often typified by a serpent, and red is a colour peculiar to her, it seems as if the idea underlying the use of this amulet was to vanquish the snakes in the tomb by means of the power of the great snake-goddess isis. this power had been transferred to it by means of the words of the xxxivth chapter of the book of the dead, which are often inscribed upon it. the text reads "o s

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efore me. 64. and there came before my face another spirit, as it were a woman in the form she had. but on her shoulders she had two other heads with hands. and i asked her, and said "tell me, who art thou" and she said to me "i am en psigos, who also have a myriad names" and i said her "by what angel art thou frustrated" but she said to me "what seekest, what askest thou? i undergo changes, like the goddess i am called. and i change again, and pass into possession of another shape. and be not desirous therefore to know all that concerns me. but since thou art before me for this much, hearken. i have my abode in the moon, and for that reason i possess three forms. at times i am magically [1] invoked by the wise as kronos. at other times, in connexion with those who bring me down, i come do

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are's system of sorcery, as expressed in zos kia cultus, continues in a straight line not only the petro tradition of voodoo, but also the vama marg of tantra, with its eight directions of space typified by the yantra of the black goddess, kali: the cross of the four quarters plus the inbetweenness concepts that together compose the eightfold cross, the eight-petalled lotus, a synthetic symbol of the goddess of the seven stars plus her son, set or sirius. the mechanics of the new sexuality are based upon the dynamics of the death posture, a formula evolved by spare for the purpose of reifying the negative potential in terms of positive power. in ancient egypt the mummy was the type of this formula, and the simulation by the adept of the state of death- in tantric practice- involves also th

s essentially egyptian formula of the mummified osiris. spare was acquainted with this version of the mystery. he became a member of crowley's a^.a, for a brief period, in 1910, and the golden dawn rituals- published shortly afterwards in the equinox- may have been available to him. the concepts of death and sexuality are inextricably connected. saturn, death, and venus, life, are twin aspects of the goddess. that they are, in a mystical sense, one idea is evidenced by the nature of the sexual act. the dynamic activity connected with the drive to know, to penetrate, to illumine, culminates in a stillness, a silence, a cessation of all effort which itsel dissolves in the tranquillity of total negation. the identity of these concepts is explicit in the ancient chinese equation 0=2, where nau

connected with the drive to know, to penetrate, to illumine, culminates in a stillness, a silence, a cessation of all effort which itsel dissolves in the tranquillity of total negation. the identity of these concepts is explicit in the ancient chinese equation 0=2, where naught symbolizes the negative, unmanifest potential of creation, and the two the two polaritites involved in its realization. the goddess represents the negative phase: the atmospheric 'i' symbolized by that -asleleing eye with all its ayin symbolism; and the twins- set-horus- represent the phase of 2, or duality. the lightning-swift alternations of these terminals, active-passive, are positive emanations of the void, i.e. the manifestation of the unmanifest, and the hand is the symbol of this creative, power-manifesting

al meanings in chinese, but in this particular case it denotes a peculiar form of sorcery involving elements which spare had already incorporated in his conception of the new sexuality. the adepts of ku worshipped a serpent goddess in the form of a woman dedicated to the cult. during an elaborate ritual she would become possessed, with the result that she threw off, or emanated, multiple forms of the goddess as sentient shadows endowed with all the charms possessed by her human representative. these shadow-women, impelled by some subtle law of attraction, gravitated to one or other of the devotees who sat in a drowsy condition around the entranced priestess. sexual congress with these shadows then occurred and it was the beginning of a sinister form of dream-conrtol involving journeys and

d in aleister crowley& the hidden god (10) i.e. the assumption of the 'go-dform' of death (11) see arthur osborne: ramana maharshi and the path of self knowledge, london, 1954 (12) see shri haranath: his play and precepts, bombay, 1954 (13) i.e. 1913 (14) the 5 =6 ritual was published in volume i, no.3. in 1910 (15) see chapter i (16) by qabalah, hand=yod=10; eye=ayin=70. the total, 80=pe (mouth, the goddess, uterus, or utterer of the word (17) crowley's definition of magick. see magick, p.131 (18) i.e. the true will (19) crowley defined the great work in terms of the 'next step, implying thahte t great work is not a remote and mysterious thing, unattainable by humans, but the realization of the 'here and now, and attention to immediate reality. both spare and crowley castigated the prevar

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st win through to a further platonic mysteries 61 understanding. we must be able to take the divine creative power that is present in ourselves from which the images of the gods are derived and form that power itself into divine images, so that behind the world of the gods we shape an image of the divine mother. this is none other than the archetypal power of the human soul. thus mythology places the goddesses alongside the male gods. our interpretation of this may be exemplified in a study of the myths about dionysus. dionysus is the son of zeus and a mortal mother, semele. but the mother is killed by lightning. zeus, however, snatches the still unformed child and allows it to grow within his own thigh where it lies concealed. hera, the mother of the gods, stirs up the enmity of the titan

e world. this appears in empedocles four elements. god osiris is slain. human beings, with their knowledge (which is divine in nature) will restore him to life. we are to rediscover him in the form of horus (son of god, logos, wisdom) in the opposition between strife (typhon) and love (isis. in a greek way, empedocles expresses his basic ideas in terms that still have a mythical ring; his love is the goddess aphrodite, his strife is neikos, divine beings who bind and loose the elements. myths of initiation the style in which the content of myth has been described here should not be equated with a symbolic or allegorical approach to myth. nothing of that kind is myth and mysteriosophy 73 intended. the images that form the content of the myth are not invented symbols for abstract truths. the

ne. at home, on the other hand, nothing good awaits him. his wife penelope is besieged by a crowd of suitors, and has promised them that she will choose a husband when she has completed a garment she is weaving. she evades keeping her promise by unraveling every night what she has woven during the day. before he can rest, united again with his wife, odysseus therefore has to overcome the suitors. the goddess athene changes him into a beggar, so that he can enter unrecognized, and in this way the suitors are conquered. what odysseus is seeking is his own deeper consciousness, the divine powers in the soul. it is with these that he wishes to be united. but before the mystai can discover them, they must conquer everything that comes as a suitor for the favor of their consciousness that is, th

the divine powers in the soul. it is with these that he wishes to be united. but before the mystai can discover them, they must conquer everything that comes as a suitor for the favor of their consciousness that is, the world of mundane reality, transient nature, from which the horde of suitors stems. the logic that pertains to them is a weaving that unravels itself when it has been spun. wisdom the goddess athene is a sure guide to the deepest powers that the soul possesses. she turns one into a beggar, meaning that she divests one of all that is transitory in origin. the myth and mysteries of eleusis the spirit of mysteriosophy is all-pervasive in the festivals celebrated at eleusis in greece in honor of demeter and dionysus. a sacred way stretched to eleusis from athens, lined with mys

ized the cosmic events governing the fate of the divine in the world and of the human soul. the lesser mysteries took place in february, the greater mysteries in september. initiation into the mysteries took place in connection with these festivals. the climax of the initiatory proceedings was a symbolic enactment of the human and cosmic drama on the site. the temples at eleusis were dedicated to the goddess demeter. she is a daughter of kronos, and before his marriage to hera, zeus had by her a daughter, persephone. once while persephone was out playing, pluto, the god of the underworld, carried her off. demeter went wandering through the world lamenting and seeking for her. at eleusis she sat down on a stone, and there she was found by the daughters of celeus, a governor of eleusis. in t

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tselling books. featured in newsweek (january 28, 2002, p. 56, koolhaas apparently is communicating an esoteric message. the parallel vertical lines are undeniably reminiscent of horns. the nude images on either side of the architect cry out lust and sex, while the face, arms and body posture are also meaningful. baphles me! 117 a well-known witchcraft newspaper carried this illustration (top) of the goddess and her consort and master, the horned god (lucifer. the cupid-like angel is their son. below is an ad offering "magick" products for the "new aeon (new age. the magnetic (e.g. magical) powers of lucifer and his goddess mate are boastfully shown to uphold planet earth. 118 codex magic a the demon, mephistopheles, shown being conjured up by a magician in masonic scholar and 33rd degree

hristian god. for example, dr. burns quotes albert mackey, 33, former sovereign grand commander of the scottish rite, who admits: the right hand has in all ages been deemed an emblem of fidelity, and our ancient brethren worshipped deity under the name of fides or fidelity, which was sometimes represented by two right hands joined. numa was the first who erected an altar to fides under which name the goddess of oaths and honesty was worshipped.1 burns points out that this reference to the worship of the roman pagan goddess is literally repeated by the initiate in the very first degree of the masonic ritual. yet the holy bible commands "thou shalt have no other gods before me (exodus 20:3) and goes on to emphatically state "make no mention of the names of other gods, neither let it be heard

n's monitor of freemasonry (1860) shows the master mason giving the "first sign, or due guard" with his hands upright "in the manner of giving the grand hailing sign of distress" compare this with the image inscribed on the cave stone above. this goddess statuette was on display in the chambers of alex sanders, well-known british warlock (witch) as he led a witchcraft ritual. witches worship both the goddess and the horned, male god (photo: witchcraft, magic and the supernatural, octopus books, hong kong, 1974) a show of hands 187 instructional material for educators in the fort worth, texas, independent school district included this drawing of 13 goddess worshippers (13 comprise a witches coven) on a succession of six circle platforms paying homage to the sun. the illustration originally

wing of 13 goddess worshippers (13 comprise a witches coven) on a succession of six circle platforms paying homage to the sun. the illustration originally came from an italian foundation dedicated to the work of new age evolutionist and educator maria montessori. in the babylonian religion, as the initiate entered into the "mysteries" part of the ritual was the drinking from the cup of the woman (the goddess. here, in this ancient woodcut we find a supplicant kneeling while raising his hands in submissive fashion after just drinking from the cup. the priest (at right) appears to be administering an oath while offering an oblation perhaps a wafer, piece of bread, or honycomb with his left hand (kittos' biblical cyclopedia; reprinted in alexander hislop's the two babylons, first edition 1916

ining the body of osiris, and made of it a column for his palace. isis, employed in the palace, obtained possession of the column, took the body out of it, and carried it away. apuleius describes her as "a beautiful female, over whose divine neck her long thick hair hung in graceful ringlets" and in the procession female attendants, with ivory combs, seemed to dress and ornament the royal hair of the goddess. the palm-tree, and the lamp in the shape of a boat, appeared in the procession. if the symbol we are speaking of is not a mere modern invention, it is to these things it alludes. the identity of the legends is also confirmed by this hieroglyphic picture, copied from an ancient egyptian monument, which may also enlighten you as to the lion's grip and the master's gavel. in his classic

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ce of breath. kabexnuv is guarded by sakhet, the sun at the western equinox, the opening of amenti, who wears the scorpion on her head- and these guardianships were often painted on the canopic jars. when, therefore, the candidate kneels at the foot of the altar, or where the corpse lies on the bier preparatory to the passing over the river towards the west, and the soul stands before osiris, and the goddesses stand by and watch while the beam sways and the decision is taken- the body of the candidate is then, as it were, broken up as the body of osiris was broken, and the higher self stands before the place of the pillars, but the lower self is in the invisible station of the evil persona. then is the candidate nigh unto death, for then, symbolically, his spirit passes through the veils o

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cl copyright beltain 2000 by parker torrence, version 1.2 all rights reserved, all wrongs returned three fold. grimoire of eclectic magick in 1996, the craft was released in theaters and a new standard for movies about witchcraft was established. this was in part due to the technical advice of pat devin, an elder and the first officer of the southern california local council of c.o.g (covenant of the goddess) established in california in 1975, an incorporated, religious, non-profit organization[ in 1996, there were approximately 250,000 wiccans in the united states] while much of the technically correct information in the movie was a fresh relief for many of us, hollywood also had filled the movie with the normal amount of special effects. you know, the kind that have nothing whatsoever to

within a coven, order or group, the teachings of that tradition. altars can take any form, from a ritual table, to the top of your bedroom dresser. it is the place for you to honor the lord and lady, and to work your magick. basic ritual tools are, the chalice, the athame (pronounced, ath-ah-may, the pentacle, and the wand. chalice this tool, more then any other, represents the creative aspect of the goddess. it is the symbol of the womb. in ritual, it is used for the sharing of wine, juice, or herbal potions. it can also be employed for scrying. it is associated with the element of water. athame this tool represents the active principle of the god. usually it is black handled, with a double-edged blade. in ritual, it is used to cast the circle, as well as to evoke or banish energies. it i

o be employed for scrying. it is associated with the element of water. athame this tool represents the active principle of the god. usually it is black handled, with a double-edged blade. in ritual, it is used to cast the circle, as well as to evoke or banish energies. it is associated with the element of air. pentacle often made of wood, stone, ceramic, wax, glass, or metal, this tool represents the goddess in a passive, supporting role. in ritual, it is used to support, protect, and contain the energies being used. it is associated with the element of earth. wand the most personal of the basic tools. traditionally made of wood, and a cubit in length (the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, it frequently has in its construction a drop of its owner blood. modern wands

the lord& lady maiden bring thy flowers, mother bring thy child, grandmother bring thy wisdom, dana, hail and welcome youth bring thy swiftness, father bring thy strength, grandfather bring thy guidance, cernunnos, hail and welcome lord& lady, enter this circle in peace, make an altar of my body, and grant me wisdom& guidance as i perform my rites. calling the quarters, is done while standing in the goddess posture. the wording for this sample ritual, has been taken from the invocation scene of the craft. facing east say, hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the east. powers of air and invention. hear us(me! facing south say, hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the south. powers of fire and feeling. hear us(me! facing west say, hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of th

guardians of the watchtowers, we(i) thank you for your services, and wish you depart now in peace. hail and farewell! if you used invoking pentagrams to call the quarters, you should now use banishing pentagrams to dismiss the quarters. opening the circle. start in the east and walk widdershins (counter-clockwise) around the circle, chanting may the circle be open, but unbroken. may the peace of the goddess be ever in your heart. merry meet, and merry part, and merry meet again! suggested reading list amber k, covencraft: witchcraft for three or more ian corrigan, the portal book: basic teachings of celtic witchcraft aleister crowley, magick in theory and practice scott cunningham, earth power (natural magick book 1) earth, air, fire& water (natural magick book 2) melita denning& osborne

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e god of resurrection. the second period extended from the time of the pyramid texts to the common era, when he was primarily god of the dead and king of the underworld. when an ancient egyptian died, the deceased expected to appear before osiris, who would be sitting upon his throne, waiting to pass judgment on him or her. the deceased would be led in by the jackal-headed god anubis, followed by the goddess isis, the divine enchantress, representing life, and the goddess of the underworld, nephthys, representing death. there were 42 divine judges to assess the life of the one who stood before them, and the deceased would be allowed to deny 42 misdeeds. once the deceased had presented his or her case, osiris indicated a large pair of balances before them with the heart of the deceased and

x p l a i n e d afterlife mysteries 33 the eleusinian rites were held at a fixed time in the early fall after the seeds had been entrusted to the fields, and were conducted by a hereditary priesthood called the eumolpedie. the eleusinian drama reenacted the myth of the rape, abduction, and marriage of kore (persephone) by hades, god of the underworld, and her separation from her mother, demeter, the goddess of grain and vegetation. when, in her despair, demeter refuses to allow the earth to bear fruit and brings about a time of blight and starvation that threatens to extinguish both humans and the gods, zeus recalls persephone from hades. filled with joy at the reunion with her daughter, demeter once again allows the earth to bear fruit. persephone, however, will now divide the days of ea

y abbot regino of prum (d. c. 915) condemned as heretical any belief in witchcraft or in the power of sorcerers to transform people into animals. the consensus of the christian clergy was that those individuals who believed that they could fly through the air or work evil magic on another person were allowing satan to deceive them. the clergy was more concerned with stamping out all allegiance to the goddess diana and any other regional deities, and they regarded as primitive superstition any suggestion that witches possessed any kind of magical powers. in 1000, deacon burchard (d. 1025, later archbishop of worms, published corrector, which updated regino s canon episcopi and stressed that god alone had 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

g witches, sorcerers, shapeshifters, and other heretics to confess their alliance with satan. with the albigensian heresy destroyed, the inquisition began to direct more of its attention toward witches. in 1320 bernard gui (c. 1261 1331) published practica, an influential instructional manual for inquisitors, in which he urged them to pay particular heed to arresting those women who cavorted with the goddess diana. four years later, in 1324, ireland s first witchcraft trial convened when alice kyteler was found guilty of consorting with a demon. separate from the inquisition that extended its jurisdiction over all the rest of europe, in 1478, at the request of king ferdinand ii (1452 1516) and queen isabella i (1451 1504, papal permission was granted to establish the spanish inquisition. m

temple where he had received his elementary instruction. in a brief but revealing interrogation, if the student was found unworthy of the mysteries, he would be sent quickly away. if the seeker appeared to be one who sincerely desired to learn the truth of the mysteries, he would be led through a corridor to an underground crypt where a large statue of isis hid the doorway to an inner sanctuary. the goddess s face was veiled, with an inscription that advised all initiates that no mortal could ever lift her veil and look upon her true features until the moment of death. within the hidden sanctuary were two columns, one colored black, the other red. the priest explained to the novice that the red column represented the ascension of the spirit into the light of osiris, while the black one si

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the greek word acro to denote a great height. arachnophobia, a fear of spiders, is an extremely common fear that undoubtedly has its basis in the reality that some spiders are poisonous or inflict painful bites. the name for this phobia comes from the greek word for spider, arachne. there is also the greek myth of arachne, a woman from the ancient city of lydia, who had the boldness to challenge the goddess athena to a weaving contest. as a punishment, arachne was changed into a spider. claustrophobia, a fear of being enclosed in a small or tight place, was experienced by the great escape artist houdini, who often accepted the challenge of freeing himself from very small and tight boxes and trunks. disciplining himself to conquer his phobia was one of his greatest feats. the name of this

dical possibilities for psychedelic drugs. u.s. food and drug administration [online] http//www.fda.gov/fdac/features/795_ psyche.html. masters, r. e, and jean houston. the varieties of psychedelic experience. new york: dell/delta, 1966. mckenna, terrence, and tom robbins. archaic revival speculations on psychedelic mushroom, the amazon, virtual reality, ufos, evolution, shamanism, the rebirth of the goddess& the end of history. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1992. merkur, daniel. psychedelic sacrament manna, meditation& mystical experience. rochester, vt: inner traditions international, 2001. pearce, joseph chilton. the biology of transformation: a blueprint of the human spirit. rochester, vt: inner traditions international, 2002. psychedelic library [online] http//www.psychedeliclibr

arly people, the making of such a circle was to create a symbol of the sun. in ancient persia, dogs were believed to be able to protect the dying soul from possession by evil spirits. when a person was dying, a dog was stationed by the bedside to keep away the negative spirits that hovered near newly released souls. the greeks believed that dogs had the ability to perceive the presence of hecate, the goddess of darkness and terror. while this malign entity remained invisible to human eyes and was thus able to work her evil undetected, dogs were able to see her and warn their human companions by barking and growling at her unseen presence in darkened corners. there is an old superstition that good luck will be granted to a person who is followed by a stray dog. if the dog should follow some

ks believed that to wear the sapphire was to invite the favor of the gods. the diamond was also considered lucky, particularly among the romans. in many arabian countries the favorite good-luck amulet is turquoise, which is often engraved with the name of allah or a verse from the koran. while certain people believe that pearls bring bad luck, the romans and greeks wore pearls to win the favor of the goddess venus. asians generally esteem pearls to have medicinal properties and believe that to wear them greatly improves the clearness and beauty of the skin. the custom of wearing one s birthstone as a lucky gem still exists. following are the birthstones that are traditionally believed to bring good luck to the wearers: january, garnet; february, amethyst; march, bloodstone; april, diamond;

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arpenters, blacksmiths, maimed or leprous persons, ganges water-carriers, and women. despite the restriction against the murder of females, however, the presence of wives traveling with their husbands often necessitated the strangling of a woman to protect the secrecy of the society. the strongest rule of the brotherhood was the one prohibiting the shedding of blood. according to thuggee beliefs, the goddess kali taught the fathers of thuggery to strangle with a noose and to kill without permitting the flow of blood. all victims of the thuggee were sacrificed to kali, and the members of the secret society would have been greatly incensed by an accusation that they killed only for booty. with the exception of a small number of boys who may have been captured or spared during a raid, a man h

it.931. when asked if he experienced any feelings of remorse or guilt, he answered sharply that no man should ever feel compunction in following his trade. although isolated cases of a thug fs proficiency with a noose still exist in india and in 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 secret societies 33 other parts of the world, the stranglers of the goddess kali no longer exist as a secret society. the designation of gthug, h however, remains as a negative term applied to brutish criminals. the violent chapter imprinted in india fs history by the cult of the thuggee has been portrayed quite often in motion pictures, notably gunga din (1939) with cary grant, douglas fairbanks, jr, and victor mclaglen; terence fisher fs stranglers of bombay

natural about the manifestations and phenomena associated with this extrasensory area of the mind. they believe that psychic powers lie dormant in everyone, to a greater or lesser degree, and the disciplines of wicca are designed to develop these to the fullest. wicca is a polarized religion, embodying within its worship the male principle in the figure of the horned god and the female in that of the goddess. thus its adherents believe that wicca presents a truer picture of the nature and workings of the universal creative principle than do those religions that overemphasize either the male or the female values and relegate the other to a subordinate status. wicca incorporates both cognates of the universal creative principle. in witchcraft here and now, sybil leek defined witchcraft as a

nscious of the religiously minded. texts about witchcraft were published by christian scholars, and portrayed the craft as devil worship or demonic possession. then, in 1897, charles godfrey leland (1824.1903, an american who moved to england in 1870 to study gypsy love, published aradia: the gospel of the witches, which detailed the rites and beliefs of the old religion that centered upon diana, the goddess of the moon, and her daughter, aradia. although the book presented the sabbats, rituals, spells, charms, and practices of witchcraft from the viewpoint of its ancient practitioners, the book went largely unnoticed by either scholars or the general public. however, a little over 20 years later, dr. margaret alice murray (1863.1963, an egyptologist on staff at the university college in l

and dying: practical rituals, prayers, blessings, and meditations on crossing over (1997, and she is the author of witchcraft and the web: weaving pagan traditions online (2001. in addition to her books, her articles have appeared in many periodicals, and she has spoken on behalf of the craft to electronic and print media. nightmare holds elder and ministerial credentials through the covenant of the goddess (cog, the oldest and largest nondenominational organization of witches in the united states. a member since 1981, she is a former 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 magic and sorcery national first officer and has served the covenant in many other capacities. she is on the teaching faculty of cherry hill [pagan] seminary in beth

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ltimate natures are parts of her being. but the dame also has children by the father: all life, from gods, plants, animals, and humans, are her children by her consort. however, this section focuses on mythologyand the divine/mythological figure of the daughter of the mother is central to this discussion. the mother s daughter is called by the clan of orvendale tara de rosilea, but the concept of the goddess of all having a daughter is as old as the hills- demeter s daughter kore or persephone springs to mind here, and this example is particularly apt in this case, because persephone was seen, in the classical world, as the queen of the dead, or the queen of the underworld- the queen of elfhame. before we continue this short discussion on the daughter, something has to be clarified: the ti

read the myths, you will see that freya was also a child of the earth mother, and bore all the attributes of the daughter, up to and including a shared rulership over half the dead, along with queen hel (a figure that is cognate with dame hyldor) and freya was the queen of wanahame- the home/spiritual dimension of the wans, the land spirits or elder gods of the land and nature. freya was likewise the goddess of witchcraft. as the dame represents the darker and more passive mysteries and realities, this daughter shows the active and fiery essence that acts in tandem with them. whe n the mother is encountered, it is normally the daughter that is met, though by meeting the daughter, one is meeting the mother after another manner of speaking. as we will see below, in our analysis of the housle

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edges of his cope, which was 168 thus thrown off, and drawn backwards, in such a manner that the prelate presented his breast uncovered, and protected only the by crossed embroideries of his stole. then those who were behind the archbishop saw him tremble, and we heard an interruption in a loud and clear voice; but without shouting, or clamour. what had been said? it seemed that it was "down with the goddesses" but i thought i had not heard aright, so out of place and void of sense it seemed. however, the exclamation was repeated twice or thrice; then some one cried "save the archbishop" other voices replied "to arms" the crowd, overturning the chairs and the barriers, scattered, and rushed towards the doors shrieking. amidst the wails of the children, and the screams of the women, eliphas

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n path is indeed based in the shadow. the luciferian is one who begins in darkness, masters the infernal aspects of his/her being and then seeks to illuminate further the light of imagination; the 3 flame of consciousness and isolate being this is known as the black flame. god forms associated with the black flame and self-illumination are lucifer (called azal ucel, set (the egyptian god, lilith (the goddess of the luciferian path, cain (the isolate one, lord of magicians and witches) and ahriman (the dragon of darkness who takes many forms. such god forms span various cultures and ages, but their essence lives in the idea of the sabbat and luciferian witchcraft and sorcery. the initiate begins the path of shadow, from which he or she models from the legend of lucifer falling from light. i

y the arcana of the subconscious. the daemonic feminine or goddess is indeed lilith hecate. she has many names and masks, but revealed is something more terrible and beautiful than would be expected. she is the mother of all magick, she lives in the blackened flame of both man and woman. you cannot walk the path of magick and shut her out. she devours or blesses, her kiss means everything. invoke the goddess and listen well to her words. she is babalon, the crimson harlot who rides the infernal beast of the sun. she is az, the primal instinct of sexual hunger, she is the white goddess, who would caress you before removing the flesh of her pale face to reveal a ravenous wolf. lilith hecate is the triple mooned initiator, she who guides upon the path. in inspired lore, cain was initiated by

s, and a manual of how one may in a balanced manner, work with the shades of the dead. featured in nox umbra is the cultus of akhtya, the persian path of sorcery in relation to ahriman, the beast dragon of darkness. this entails vampyric dream shape-shifting, vampyric self-transformation (without the use of blood or predatory workings, servitor creation and egyptian god forms. explored equally is the goddess archetype in relation to vampyrism, including the methods and process of evoking and summoning forth lilith, the lilitu (succubi) for dreaming congress. nox umbra brings to light a new perception of witchcraft and sorcery, how it may be explored in a positive manner and a challenging path way into the shadow. nox umbra contains a sigillic formula which opens the reader to the spirit of

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the "nought" card. however, it should be seen that the fool is not a "zero" in the same way that the ain is "negative" rather than "nothing. the negative in this case is that of the finite glyph of kether, the point (having position but not magnitude) as created from the infinite ain (having infinite magnitude and no position. kether can be represented as the god hadit and the ain represented by the goddess nuit in the thelemic system developed by aleister crowley. in magick, chapter 0 (hence, the ain) he states "infinite space is called the goddess nuit, while the infinitely small and atomic yet omnipresent point is called hadit. this is the basis of all cosmology, which refers to the known, the unknown, and ultimately, their interaction. yod in chockmah the "first swirlings" of chockmah

ightly different format (this is the same process as found in fractal patterns. 2. make a list of apparent opposites, such as day and night, hot and cold, black and white, and so forth. try in each case to find the merging point between them, and observe that all dualities are in fact points along a sliding scale. note how the two of pentacles in the tarot demonstrates this fact. chapter three 1. the goddess is often represented as a triad of personifications; maiden, mother and crone. make a list of the characteristics of each of these three forms, and observe how closely these three categories describe the activities and behaviour of the goddess, or nature, or women, or the feminine aspect of men. 2. binah is the sephirah of "form. observe and enjoy the various ways in which humanity has

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

lossary. keep the arm extended. turn to face the east. extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "before me, raphael (rah-fayel. visualize before you the great archangel of air rising out of the clouds in flowing yellow and violet robes, carrying a caduceus wand. behind you, visualize another figure and say "behind me, gabriel (gah-bree-el. see the archangel stepping out of the sea like the goddess venus, dressed in robes of blue and orange, with cup in hand. the pentagram 177 see to your right another figure in flaming red and green robes carrying a sword. say "on my right hand, michael (mee-kai-el. see another great archangel at your left, who rises up from the vegetation of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left

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e power raised by the witches. it has always, at least in the past two thousand years, been associated with occultism and essentially with rites of evil magick, or the forbidden magick, of the enemy, and of satan. and the twisting, sacred spiral formed by the serpent of the caduceus, and by the spinning of the galaxies, is also the same leviathan as the spiral of the biologists' code of life: dna the goddess of the witches the current revival of the cult called wicca is a manifestation of the ancient secret societies that sought to tap this telluric, occult force and use it to their own advantage, and to the advantage of humanity as was the original intent. the raising of the cone of power through the circle dancing is probably the simplest method of attaining results in "rousing leviathan

diverse as the dervishes in the middle east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same goddess. that tiamat was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives the researchers a more complex picture. the green dragon and the red dragon of the alchemists are thus identif

ists are thus identified, as the positive and negative energies that compromise the cosmos of our perception, as manifest in the famous chinese yin-yang symbol. but what of inanna, the single planetary deity having a female manifestation among the sumerians? she is invoked in the necronomicon and identified as the vanquisher of death, for she descended into the underworld and defeated her sister, the goddess of the abyss, queen ereshkigal (possibly another name for tiamat. interestingly enough, the myth has many parallels with the christian concept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the chri

cept of christ's death and resurrection, among which the crucifixion (inanna was impaled on a stake as a corpse, the three days in the sumerian hades, and the eventual resurrection are outstanding examples of how sumerian mythology previewed the christian religion by perhaps as many as three thousand years- a fact that beautifully illustrates the cosmic and eternal nature of this myth. therefore, the goddess of the witches has two distinct forms: the ancient one, goddess of the dragon-like telluric power which is raised in magickal rituals, and the elder goddess, defeater of death, who brings the promise of resurrection and rejuvenation to her followers those who must reside for a time after death and between incarnations in what is called the "summerland. sumer-land? another hallmark of t

s were known to the entire region of the middle east, as they appear on the sphinx in egypt, and have become the symbols of the four evangelists of the christian new testament- an ironic and splendid result of the ignorance of the greek religious historians concerning the ancient mysteries! probable the most inconsistent concept the sumerians possesses with reference to the craft is the naming of the goddess as a deity, not of the moon (as the craft would have it, but of the planet venus. the moon was governed by a male divinity, nanna (like inanna but minus the initial 'i, and was considered the father of the gods by the earliest sumerian religion. it should be noted, however, that all of the planetary deities, termed "the zoned ones" or zonei in greek, and indeed all of the sumerian deit

THE PAGAN BOOK OF WORDS PRAYERS CHANTS AND RHYMES

heed the call. take the action. feel the flow. become oneness. eyes wide open. calmness within. you see all. you feel all. say my name: hecate, hecate, hecate. i will guide you. a crones hand out of darkness. wisdom older than the ages. i am here for you, my child. say my name. we will take the journey together. hecate, hecate, hecate. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com life affirmation i am the goddess being born. i am the goddess full of life. i am the goddess shedding skin. i am the goddess, three times three. i will. i am. i was. and i will be again. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com mother hecate come mother hecate come to me. mother hecate come. spider s web and blackened tree. at the crossroads we shall meet. mother hecate come to me. mother hecate come. eliza fegley http

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s you all seek certain destruction. araqiel brings the gifts of knowledge and joy through the respect of the land, and those creatures which dwell upon it. araqiel communicates the wisdom of a balanced mind to work according to his or her own design. by dream and by waking do we hear the voice of araqiel. sariel knows the motions and phases of the moon, and by seeking him one may know the path of the goddess in her beautiful and horrifying aspects. always know, we are both demon and angel in the skull of man, we are of beast and of higher spirit. it is our duty to balance and seek a perfection of both according to the path of lucifer, who holds the mask of the devil. know all forms and choices accordingly. kokabel knows too the stars and the great seven heads of the dragon. by your initiat

THE STAR IN THE WEST BY CAPTAIN FULLER A CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

y, greater than knowledge, greater than wisdom, greater than the power of the gods themselves; for they too must worship at the shrine of love, the shrine of the great world mother, the mystic isis, goddess of beauty, mother of love, queen of laughter, mistress of pleasure. gi am all that has been, that shall be, and none among mortals has hitherto taken off my veil. h *inscribed on the statue of the goddess. innocent friendship or platonic love can never be a success where the rapture of a kiss is burning on the lips of two lovers; the first spells ignorance and the second failure, for love will out, and if not as a limpid and sparkling stream, then as a turbid and roaring torrent, reckless and horrible. this extraordinary phase of diverted* love is very strongly illustrated in gthe fatal

d to dethrone jupiter .the mysteries of magic, p. 120. such is the power of love, undaunted, infuriated in the cause of freedom, justice, and truth. charicles plunges into the waves of destiny, gand with his strenuous hands the emerald water gripped. h onward he swims striving against poseidon, god of the ocean, who heaps the sea foam against him, as he makes for the paphian isle to seek aid from the goddess of love; and in his blinding anger he sees her not, though she is by his side journeying homeward from rome. she raises the swimmer to her pearly car and carries him to her fair home, where in the following beautiful symbolic action she promises to restore him his lost love. archais. then aphrodite loosed a snake of gold from her arm fs whiteness, and upon his wrist clasped it. its gli

es her not, though she is by his side journeying homeward from rome. she raises the swimmer to her pearly car and carries him to her fair home, where in the following beautiful symbolic action she promises to restore him his lost love. archais. then aphrodite loosed a snake of gold from her arm fs whiteness, and upon his wrist clasped it. its glittering eyes of amethyst fascinate him. geven so, h the goddess cried, gi will bind on thy arm the serpent bride freed from her fate, and promise by this kiss the warmer kisses of thy archais. h *the tale of archais, vol. i, pp. 13, 14. the handmaidens of aphrodite gather round them, and their silver voices rise in one of those sweet clear songs, already so familiar to our ears, set like a gem in the gold of the narrative. the following rondel i ch

ries. good attracts bad, and bad good, in the love-history of life over and over again shall we find this: have they divined this simplest spirit-bond, the joy of some bad woman fs deadly kiss *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 104. in the glesbian hell h we see those white unsated women, and in gthe fatal force h one so flushed with lust, that she has become blind to reality: then said the goddess: gi indeed am pure in my impurity; immaculate in misconception; maiden in my whoredom; chaste in my incest, being made a god through my own strength *the fatal force, vol. i, p. 143. thus she spoke to the assembled princes and peoples of egypt, when sixteen seasons past she sat crowned, naked, exultant, pregnant with the child of her own son fs begetting. awed by the enormity of her lu

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and their secret shapes (kheperu) neither know, nor look upon, nor see this image (or, similitude) of seker (or, the hawk) himself. whosoever shall make these representations according to the image which is in writing in the hidden places of the tuat, at the south of the hidden palace, and whosoever shall know them shall be at peace, and his soul shall unite itself to the offerings of seker, and the goddess khemit shall not hack his body in pieces, and he shall go on his way towards her in peace. whosoever shall make offerings to these gods upon earth-[these offerings, i say, shall act as magical protectors to that man upon earth, and in neter-khert, regularly and unfailingly. sem-her-ab-uaa-s is the name of the hour of the night which guideth this great god through this field. next: the

hour. the majesty of this great god taketh up his position in this circle at the limits of the thick darkness, and this great god is born under the form of khepera in this circle. the gods nu and ammui, and heh and heh[ut] are in this circle at the birth of this great god, when he maketh his appearance from the tuat, and taketh up his place in the matet boat, and riseth from between the thighs of the goddess nut. thenen-neteru is the name of the gate of this city. kheper-kekui-kha-mesti is the name of this city [this is] the secret circle of the tuat, wherein this great god is born, when he maketh his appearance in nu, and taketh up his place in the body of nut. whosoever shall make [a copy] of these [representations] according to the figures which are depicted on the east [wall] of the pa

ine of hieroglyphics are five large scenes, each of which is divided into three registers, and these are enclosed between two dotted bands which are intended to represent the borders of the "valley of the other world" on the inside of the sarcophagus are also five scenes, but there is no line of hieroglyphics running along the upper edge. on the bottom of the sarcophagus is a finely cut figure of the goddess nut, and round and about her are texts selected from the theban recension of the book of the dead; on the inside of the cover is a figure of the goddess nut, with arms outstretched. on the outside of the p. 48 cover, in addition to the texts which record the names and titles of the deceased, are inscribed two large scenes, each of which is divided into three registers, like those insid

eth, the tortoise dieth! let enter the bones of osiris, king men-maat-ra, whose word is maat, the son of the sun, seti mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat, let them enter into their foundations. pure is the dead body which is in the earth, p. 53 and pure are the bones of osiris, king men-mast-ra, whose word is maat, like ra [for ever" on the bottom of the sarcophagus is a large, full-length figure of the goddess nut who is depicted in the form of a woman with her arms ready to embrace the body of the king. her face and the lower parts of the body below the waist are in profile, but she has a front chest, front shoulders, and a front eye. her feet are represented as if each was a right foot, and each only shows the great toe. one breast is only shown. the hair of the goddess is long and falls o

she wears a deep collar or necklace, and a closely-fitting feather-work tunic which extends from her breast to her ankles; the latter is supported by two shoulder straps, each of which is fastened with a buckle on the shoulder. she has anklets on her legs, and bracelets on her wrists, and armlets on her arms. the inscriptions which are cut above the head, and at both sides, and under the feet of the goddess contain addresses to the king by the great gods of the sky, and extracts from the book of the dead; they read- p. 55 inscription on the bottom of the sarcophagus of seti i. i. the words of osiris the king, the lord of the two lands, men-maat-ra, whose word is maat, the son of ra (i.e, the sun, seti mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat, who saith "o thou goddess nut, support thou me, for i a

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er their gods: solomon clave unto these in love. 11:3 and he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. 11:4 for it came to pass, when solomon was old [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the lord his god, as [was] the heart of david his father. 11:5 for solomon went after ashtoreth the goddess of the zidonians, and after milcom the abomination of the ammonites. 11:6 and solomon did evil in the sight of the lord, and went not fully after the lord, as [did] david his father. 11:7 then did solomon build an high place for chemosh, the abomination of moab, in the hill that [is] before jerusalem, and for molech, the abomination of the children of ammon. 11:8 and likewise did he fo

id to jeroboam, take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the lord, the god of israel, behold, i will rend the kingdom out of the hand of solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee: 11:32 (but he shall have one tribe for my servant david s sake, and for jerusalem s sake, the city which i have chosen out of all the tribes of israel) 11:33 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped ashtoreth the goddess of the zidonians, chemosh the god of the moabites, and milcom the god of the children of ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do [that which is] right in mine eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my judgments, as [did] david his father. 11:34 howbeit i will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but i will make him prince all the days of his life for david my servant s sake, w

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

image from ancient times" wiccan apologists frequently refer to the (apparently isolated) tenth century church document which states that "some wicked women, perverted by the devil, seduced by the illusions and phantasms of demons, believe and profess themselves in the a true history of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 5 hours of the night to ride upon certain beasts with diana, the goddess of pagans, or with herodias, and an innumerable multitude of women, and in the silence of the dead of night to traverse great spaces of earth, and to obey her commands as of their mistress, and to be summoned to her service on certain nights (quoted in valiente, witchcraft for tomorrow, hale, 1978, p 32) i do not doubt that bits of pagan folklore survived on the continent through the f

nte, witchcraft for tomorrow, hale, 1978, p 32) i do not doubt that bits of pagan folklore survived on the continent through the first millenium- northern europe remained overtly pagan until the high middle ages. but what has this to do with wicca? farrar, for his part, explains the lack of references to a goddess in the testimony at the infamous witch trials by asserting that "the judges ignored the goddess, being preoccupied with the satan-image of the god (what witches do, p 33. but it is the evidence of that reign of terror which lasted from roughly 1484 to 1692 which brings the whole idea of a surviving religious cult into question. it is now the conventional wisdom on the witchburning mania which swept like a plague over much of europe during the transition from medieval world to mod

e the wiccan religion of today in only the most cursory fashion. though wicca may have been framed with the "confessions" extracted by victims of the inquisitors in mind, those "confessions- which are more than suspect, to begin with, bespeak a cult of devil worshipers dedicated to evil. one need only read a few of the accounts of the time to realize that, had there been at the time a religion of the goddess and god, of seasonal circles and the book of shadows, such would likely have been blurted out by the victims, and more than once. the agonies of the accused were, almost literally, beyond the imagination of those of us who have been fortunate enough to escape them. the witch mania went perhaps unequaled in the annals of crimes a true history of witchcraft get any book for free on: www

the notations on the "confession" of one woman from germany dated in late 1637. after days of unspeakable torment, wherein the woman confesses under pain, recants when the pain is removed, only to be moved by more pain to confess again, she is asked "how did she influence the weather? she does not know what to say and can only whisper, oh, heavenly queen, protect me" was the victim calling upon "the goddess? or, as seems more likely, upon that aforementioned transfiguration of all ancient goddesses in christian mythology, the virgin mary. one more quote from dr. robbins, and i will cease to parade late medieval history before you. it comes from yet another priest, father cornelius loos, who observed, in 1592 that "wretched creatures are compelled by the severity of the torture to confess

ltimately, only the ain sof aur of the cabbalah; the limitless light of which we are but a frozen spark. evil, in this system, is the mere absence of light. all else is illusion. the goal of the occult path of initiation is balance. in freemasonry and high magick, the symbols of the white pillar and black pillar represent this balance between conscious and unconscious forces. in gardnarian wicca, the goddess and horned god- and the priestess and priest, represent that balance. there is nothing, nothing of pacts with the "devil" or the worship of evil in any of this; that belongs to misguided exchristians who have been given the absurd fundamentalist sunday school notion that one must choose the christian version of god, or choose the devil. islam, judaism and even catholicism have at one t

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ssive productive powers of each, subdivided and diffused. of the same class are the genetullidej, mentioned by pausanias as companions to venus,3 who, as well as ceres, juno, diana, isis &c, was only a personification of nature, or the passive principle of generation, operating in various modes. apuleius invokes isis by the names of the eleusinian ceres, celestial venus, and proserpine; and, when the goddess answers him, she describes herself as follows: i am, says she, nature, the parent of things, the sovereign of the elements, the primary progeny of time, the most exalted of the deities, the first of the heavenly gods and goddesses, the queen of the shades, the uniform countenance; who dispose, with my nod, the luminous heights of heaven, the salubrious breezes of the sea, and the mourn

brahman perfected in knowledge, in the ox, and in the elephant. what peculiar attributes the elephant was meant to express, the ancient writer has not told us; but, as the characteristic properties of this animal are strength and sagacity, we may conclude that his image was intended to represent ideas somewhat similar to those which the greeks represented by that of minerva, who was worshipped as the goddess of force and wisdom, of war and counsel. the indian gonnis is indeed male, and minerva female; but this difference of sexes, however important it may be in a physical, is of very little consequence in metaphysical beings, minerva being, like the other greek deities, either male or female, or both.1 on the medals of the ptolemies, under whom the indian symbols became familiar to the gre

hey are in all ancient orthography, we should think the author placed the god of love amongst the cattle; which he would naturally do, 1 see plate xiii, fig. 7. 2 see plate xiii, fig. 5 and 6. 3 see plate xii. 4 page 80. 5 page 86. 62 on the worship if it were the custom of his religion to represent him by an animal symbol. among the egyptians, as before observed, the cow was the symbol of venus, the goddess of love, and passive generative power of nature. on the capitals of one of the temples of phil we still find the heads of this goddess represented of a mixed form; the horns and ears of the cow being joined to the beautiful features of a woman in the prime of life;1 such as the greeks attributed to that venus, whom they worshipped as the mother of the prolific god of love, cupid, who w

manship, belonging to me, the ivy of bacchus is placed over the back of the goat, to denote the power which he represents.4 the mutual operation which was the result of this contention was signified, in the mythological tales of the poets, by the loves of mars and venus, the one the active power of destruction, and the other the passive power of generation. from their union is said to have sprung the goddess harmony, who was the physical order of the universe personified. the fable of ceres and proserpine is the same allegory inverted; ceres being the prolific power 1 plate ix, fig. 4& nummi vet. pop& urb. table i, fig. 16. 2 plate ix. fig. 12, from one of aspendus in the same collection. see nummi vet. pop& urb. table viii. fig. 20. 3 nummi vet. pop& urb. table xvi, fig. 13. 4 plate ix, f

foecundis imbribus ther conjugis in gremium l t descendit& omnes magnus alit, magno commixtus corpore, foetus.4 ther and water are here introduced by the poet as the two prolific elements which fertilize the earth, according to the ancient system of orphic philosophy, upon which the mystic theology was founded. proserpine, or perstfonieia, the daughter of ceres, was, as her greek name indicates, the goddess of destruction, in which character she is invoked by althaea in the ninth iliad; but nevertheless we often find her on the greek medals crowned with 1 see s. c. marcian, and the medals of gela and agrigentum. 2 as in the word epidoutoj, usually written by him epigdoutoj. 3 see plate viii. 4 georgic. lib. ii, v. 324. of priapus 73 ears of corn, as being the goddess of fertility as well

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hey were naturally reluctant to give it up. they pro- ceeded to fashion gods in their own image. archeological evidence suggests that many stone age societies were ruled by women and worshipped a female supreme deity. fertility fetishes with exaggerated female attributes, such as the famous venus of willendorf, have been unearthed at numerous sites of ancient human habitation. cultures devoted to the goddess tend to be stable and agrarian, inward-seeking and secretive in their rites. they build no empires, but are subject to the empire-building of more aggressive neighbors. cults of female gods, existing away from the center of societies, can still be observed. remnants of goddess worship are evident in the adoration of the virgin mary among christians, the veneration of the matronit and s

are subject to the empire-building of more aggressive neighbors. cults of female gods, existing away from the center of societies, can still be observed. remnants of goddess worship are evident in the adoration of the virgin mary among christians, the veneration of the matronit and shekhinah among jews, the worship of shakti among hindus. the women's movement has sparked a revival of interest in the goddess. the contemporary pagan religion of wicca wor- ships the earth mother in her many guises. as for the worship of god as a child, christianity is the most obvious example. in the middle ages, jesus was often depicted as a babe in arms with a wise adult head, or as a slender effeminate figure with a narrow waist and broad hips. child- god cultures are characterized by an ambivalence betwe

n the section on centering, above. the magus reaffirms his or her position at the heart of the universe. the ritual is clearly and unequivocally stated by the magus to be at an end. this pronouncement is made with the authority of tetragrammaton, or other divine names of power that are appropriate to the nature of the ritual. for example, wic- cans might conclude their rituals by the authority of the goddess. the wand is struck against the floor sharply four times to indicate the earthing of all magical potentials. then the wand is set on the altar, and the magic ring removed. immediately after the ritual is concluded, the instruments are reverently wrapped and put away in the reverse of the sequence by which they were brought out. they are elevated to the south and kissed, the magus stand

e of the attributes and associations of the god. he or she wears a symbol of the god next to the skin over the heart. an image of the god is placed upon the altar. the symbol and the image of the god should be formed in part from a common substance con- nected most closely with the god; they are then, in effect, two parts of a single whole. to summon isis, for example, the symbol and the image of the goddess might be cast from the same piece of silver. calling upon the god to descend into the circle, the magus offers the induce- ment of appropriate food and drink. here a sacrifice of the blood of the magus may, in certain cases, be made. the magus fkes his or her gaze upon the figure of the god on the altar and wills the god to merge with his or her body. success is often signaled when the

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' a like opinion."i5 guazzo substituted the ubiquitous devil in place of the lunar goddess diana, as referred to in the much older ninth-century decree of the council of ancyra, recorded in the canon episcopi, which mentions that "certeine wicked women following sathans provocations, being seduced by the illusion of divels, beleeve and professe that in the night times they ride abroad with diana, the goddesse of the pagans, or else with herodias, with an innumerable multitude, upon certeine beasts, and passe over manie countries and nations, in the silence of the night, and doo whatsoever those fairies or ladies command."16 herodias is the daughter of diana, the moon, by her brother lucifer, the sun, according to the italian witches' gospel published in 1897 under the title aradia by the f

walter scott as the "merlin of scotland" at other times she passes by travelers in a splendid procession, composed of hundreds of guards and courtiers and ladies in waiting. the prominent, active role of the fairy queen, in contrast to the more authoritative yet passive role of the king, expresses the feminine nature of all energy or force, which is recognized in the tantra texts of the hindus as the goddess shakti. the god shiva, the initiating spark, is essential and yet to some extent impotent, in the sense that he acts only in a secondary way through his agents, whereas shakti acts directly of her own accord. we see exactly the same dynamic in the game of chess. the king is the most important piece on the board-when the king is lost the game is forfeited-yet he has little power of his

ew was believed to fall from the moon as a kind of lunar sweat, making dew lunar in nature. the cow is particularly lunar not only due to its curved horns that resemble the horns of the moon, but by virtue of its white milk. the cat is lunar because the pupils of its eyes resemble the lunar crescent, but can open into full disks just as the moon expands to show a full face. it is no accident that the goddess of witches was held to be diana, goddess of the moon, or that one of the primary activities of witches was the use of the flying ointment for travel to the sabbat gatherings. the active ingredients in the flying ointment were highly lunar substances. all narcotic or soporific plants such as monkshood and nightshade are lunar because they induce sleep or dreams and visions. it is no acc

up toward it. imagine it spinning and bobbing in the tiny currents of air stirred by your own gentle breathing. as you drift into sleep, recite this little verse, either aloud in a low voice or mentally: diana of the silver bow, my soul has wings; diana of the coursing hounds, my soul flies up; diana of the leaping mare, my soul soars free. needless to say, you may compose your own invocation to the goddess of the moon. to be effective, it should be brief and rhythmic. it is a way of indicating to your unconscious mind that you are preparing to project your astral double while asleep, and of opening your mind to those influences that will contribute to this separation of awareness. as chapter eleven: astral doorways 187 you recite this invocation, visualize the moon above the clouds in th

ive, it should be brief and rhythmic. it is a way of indicating to your unconscious mind that you are preparing to project your astral double while asleep, and of opening your mind to those influences that will contribute to this separation of awareness. as chapter eleven: astral doorways 187 you recite this invocation, visualize the moon above the clouds in the night sky and see the wild hunt of the goddess pass as though racing across the tops of the wind-borne clouds-diana on her pale mare rushing after her pack of hounds, her silver bow drawn to launch an arrow at her unseen quarry. another trigger that historically has been effective in inducing specific dream events is a charm placed under the pillow just before going to sleep. this can also be employed to produce a lucid dream state

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embedded in the psalm. the prayer can also be used as a preliminary to ritual work. it frees the mind from the distractions and common concerns of the day and prepares it to concentrate solely on the work at hand. it is best to follow the cleansing prayer with the kabbalistic cross. the two are in harmony, since both are based on traditional judeo-christian texts. wiccans and other worshippers of the goddess will prefer to change the wording of the prayer slightly to reflect their beliefs. instead of the words "have mercy upon me, 0 lord they should use "have mercy upon me, 0 lady" or "0 goddess" instead of the words "create in me a clean heart, 0 lord" the words "create in me a clean heart, 0 lady" or "0 goddess" may be substituted. those who conceive the highest creative power in an abst

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flames" and who figure so prominently in keys fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen. geoffrey james points out (the enochian magick of dr. john dee, p. 78) that the enochian for "flames of the first glory" is ialpirgah, a contraction of two words-ialprg (burning flame) and gah (spirit. a literal translation might be "spirits of burning flame" the "first glory" perhaps refers to the rosy dawn, the goddess aurora, who had many lovers. the "house of virgins" would seem to be a reference to the biblical book of esther, which describes the sexual habits of king ahasuerus. it was the custom of ahasuerus to keep two houses. in one house all the fairest virgin girls in his kingdom were gathered together for purification. after twelve full months of ritual cleansing (six months with oil of myrr

ength were needed, such as the axles upon which millstones turned, the frames of houses, and the keels and ribs of ships. thus the oak is an excellent tree from which to construct the axle of the universe. when we consider that mistletoe is a symbol of life, we can appreciate how perverse is the imagery in the key of "nests" upon the tree of life which lament the sorrow "laid up" or reserved, for the goddess of the earth, she who is called the soul of the world. these nests "vomit out the heads of scorpions and live burning] sulphur mingled with poison" the seven woes that afflict the soul of the world as a punishment for her "iniquities" proceed out of the twenty-two nests of lamentation upon the branches of the northern oak. there is clearly a correlation here between the seven woes of t

e be to the earth, for her iniquity is, was, and shall be, great" aleister crowley, who did considerable work with the keys and with the enochian language, made babylon (spelled "babalon) one of the prime figures in his personal apocalyptic mythology and considered himself to be the great beast incarnate. it is possible that he grasped the connection between the lady babylon in the apocalypse and the goddess of the world in the keys, although i have not myself seen any explicit mention of this link in his writings. it should be noted that the enochian word for "wicked" is babalon and the word for "harlot" is babalond. the observations made about the end of the ninth key also apply to the end of this one "come away, but not your noises" is another attempt to evoke the dread angels that will

dispenses mercy. however, this apparent contradiction is not as puzzling as might first appear, both the sons of fury and the daughters of justice belong to the left side of the tree. they represent, respectively, the severe justice of punishment and the equitable justice that restores a correct balance. in the familiar statue of blind justice, the sons are represented by the sword in the hand of the goddess justice, while the daughters are the balance. both are contained within the fifth sephirah, which carries the two names din (rigorous judgment) and geburah (binding strength. the daughters of the just would seem to fall under din and the sons of fury under geburah. on the tree as a whole, it is the left (female) side that is severe and the right (male) side that is merciful. but if we

ents of the stone tablets delivered to moses on mt. sinai, and the fragments themselves were only considered sacred because of the words inscribed upon them. ultimately, everything comes down to the written word. when god speaks in the fourteenth key, his words become visible upon the air, written in enochian characters of fire. since he is the god of fury, his "promise" is a severe judgment upon the goddess of the world for her sinful multiplicity of forms. she is to be punished for her diversity, which pollutes her primordial simplicity and bars her from heaven. in the keys, this is the true reason given for the apocalypse-not the sins of men, but the sin of diversity committed by the soul of the world. in the original english text of the key, kelley received the words "which is called a

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s in 1904 that crowley would receive his first great revelation and the knowledge that he was to be the herald of a new era in human history. according to his own account, crowley's guardian angel, aiwass, appeared to him and dictated the book of the law (liber al vel legis).xviii his most famous work, the book of the law announces the dawn of the third aeon of mankind: the first aeon was that of the goddess isis, centered around matriarchy and the worship of the great mother; the second aeon was that of osiris, during which the patriarchal religions of suffering and death- i.e, judaism and christianity- rose to power. finally, with the revelation of the book of the law, a new aeon of the son, horus, was born "in this aeon the emphasis is on the self or will, not on anything external such

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his first creative acts; and we may assume that he thought out in his heart what manner of thing be wished to create, and then by uttering its name caused his thought to take concrete form. this process of thinking out the existence of things is expressed in egyptian by words which mean "laying the foundation in the heart" in arranging his thoughts and their visible forms khepera was assisted by the goddess maat, who is usually regarded as the goddess of law, order, and truth, and in late times was held to be the female counterpart of thoth "the heart of the god ra" in this legend, however, she seems to play the part of wisdom, as described in the book of proverbs,[fn#3] for it was by maat that he "laid the foundation [fn#3 "the lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his wo

e men and women whom his eye had created were murmuring against him. he then asked them to consider the matter and to devise a plan of action for him, for he was unwilling to slay the rebels without hearing what his gods had to say. in reply the gods advised ra to send forth his eye to destroy the blasphemers, for there was no eye on earth that could resist it, especially when it took the form of the goddess hathor. ra accepted their advice and sent forth his eye in the form of hathor to destroy them, and, though the rebels had fled to the mountains in fear, the eye pursued them and overtook them and destroyed them. hathor rejoiced in her work of destruction, and on her return was praised by ra, for what she had done. the slaughter of men began at suten-henen (herakleopolis, and during the

translation of tataat may be used provisionally. the mandrakes were given to sekti, a goddess of heliopolis, to crush and grind up, and when this was done they were mixed with human blood, and put in a large brewing of beer which the women slaves had made from wheat. in all they made 7,000 vessels of beer. when ra saw the beer he approved of it, and ordered it to be carried up the river to where the goddess hathor was still, it seems, engaged in slaughtering men. during the night he caused this beer to be poured out into the meadows of the four heavens, and when hathor came she saw the beer with human blood and mandrakes in it, and drank of it and became drunk, and paid no further attention to men and women. in welcoming the goddess, ra, called her "amit" i.e "beautiful one" and from this

tway "sekhet-hetep" or the "field of peace" came into being. he next said "let there be reeds (aaru) in it" and straightway "sekhet aaru" or the "field of reeds" came into being. sekhet-hetep was the elysian fields of the egyptians, and the field of reeds was a well-known section of it. another command of the god ra resulted in the creation of the stars, which the legend compares to flowers. then the goddess nut trembled in all her body, and ra, fearing that she might fall, caused to come into being the four pillars on which the heavens are supported. turning to shu, ra entreated him to protect these supports, and to place himself under nut, and to hold her up in position with his hands. thus shu became the new sun-god in the place of ra, and the heavens in which ra lived were supported an

g that they slew each other, and in a very short time they were all dead. thoth, seeing this, told ra that because horus had appeared as a great winged disk he must be called "heru- behutet" and by this name horus was known ever after at edfu. ra embraced horus, and referred with pleasure to the blood which he had shed, and horus invited his father to come and look upon the slain. ra set out with the goddess ashthertet(`ashtoreth) to do this, and they saw the enemies lying fettered on the ground. the legend here introduces a number of curious derivations of the names of edfu &c, which are valueless, and which remind us of the derivations of placenames propounded by ancient semitic scribes [fn#23] i.e, ra on the horizon. plate v. horus standing on the back of the hippopotamus-fiend, and spe

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o a.z.f, aquellos que quieran excluir el arcano a.z.f. de toda su yoga est n violando la ley del arcano ocho. esos son los fracasados. el viejo saturno balancea al padre de los dioses, j piter tonante. esa es la ley del equilibrio. 61 arcanum 9 in this lesson, we will study the ninth key of basil valentine in the illustration of viridarium chymicum. the ninth key represents old saturn falling and the goddess moon victoriously rising. saturn is the lead and the moon is the silver (the terrestrial adam, the psychological i. it must fall and die so that the adam christ can be born within us. we need to transmute the lead into gold. the lead of our personality must be transmuted into the gold of the spirit. the moon-mercury-sophic (the ens seminis) must rise and return inwardly and upwardly. t

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ated with chokmah root: absolute life, absolute being 15: hvd hod, splendor, the 8th sephira 15: zub, zabe: to flow; menstrual flow 15: abib, abib: the first month of spring; month of passover and resurrection 15: gavh: pride, exaltation 15: abvha, aboha, angel of third decante of sagittarius 15: gbhh: high 15: zch: to move, to impel root: movement made with effort; tenacious spirit 15: number of the goddess gaia in greek. 45: theosophic extension of numbers in kamea 45: adm, adam: generic humanity 45: agial, agiel: intelligence of saturn 45: hm, hame: abundance, multitude, themselves root: universalized life, vital power of the universe 45: amd, ahmad: to appraise, value, estimate 45: zbvl, zebul: habitation, dwelling place 45: zzal, zazel: the spirit of saturn 45: mad, meode: strength, f

hiel: intelligence of the sun 111: ovla, avela: a sacrifice 111: olva, olvah: duke of edom, a hidden reference to daath("and they call to me from edom, watchman, how much longer the night" is. 21: 11) 111: msvh: a veil, or face covering (ex. 34: 33. 666: theosophic number of the magic planetary line 666: the square of the first 7 prime numbers *666: alhikm, elohikam: your god 666: asthhr, isthar, the goddess ishtar (aramaic) 666: ihi marth, yehi meoroth: let there be luminaries 666: svrth, sorath: spirit of the sun 666: shm ihshvh: the name of jesus 666: shmsh ihvh, shemash tetragrammaton: sun of jehovah 666: ho seraphas: greek for serapis, egyptian god 666: euporia: greek for material wealth, gold 666: the heart or soul in greek 666: the number of the beast in rev. 13: 18 (a certain wisdo

ted star enclosed within the heart of the design, which, in qabalah is the symbol for mars, showing again their playful complementarity. i discovered quite by accident a design in waite's book of ceremonial magic (p. 204) called "the seal of astaroth" which looks remarkably like this seal (see figure 9-i. in fact, astaroth, also called astarte and ashtoreth by the ancient hebrews, was the same as the goddess ishtar, the morning star, or venus. she represented the spirit of sexuality and fertility. figure 9-f: agrippa's kamea figure 9-g: alternate kamea the keywords for seven are equilibrium and mastery. on the tree of life, netzach means victory. the pillars on the tree, jahkin-boaz, which represent balanced equilibrium, have a value of 175, one of the magical numbers of the kamea, and the

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that of jesus. and to make matters worse, many of them pre-dated the christian savior. ultimately, of course, the holiday is rooted deeply in the cycle of the year. it is the winter solstice that is being celebrated, seed-time of the year, the longest night and shortest day. it is the birthday of the new sun king, the son of god- by whatever name you choose to call him. on this darkest of nights, the goddess becomes the great mother and once again gives birth. and it makes perfect poetic sense that on the longest night of the winter 'the dark night of our souls, there springs the new spark of hope, the sacred fire, the light of the world, the coel coeth. that is why pagans have as much right to claim this holiday as christians. perhaps even more so, as the christians were rather late in la

orld. perhaps we see this most clearly in the christian tradition. beginning with his death on the cross on good friday, it is said that jesus 'descended into hell' for the three days that his body lay entombed. but on the third day (that is, easter sunday, his body and soul rejoined, he arose from the dead and ascended into heaven. by a strange 'coincidence, most ancient pagan religions speak of the goddess descending into the underworld, also for a period of three days. why three days? if we remember that we are here dealing with the lunar aspect of the goddess, the reason should be obvious. as the text of one book of shadows gives it..as the moon waxes and wanes, and walks three nights in darkness, so the goddess once spent three nights in the kingdom of death' in our modern world, alie

so the goddess once spent three nights in the kingdom of death' in our modern world, alienated as it is from nature, we tend to mark the time of the new moon (when no moon is visible) as a single date on a calendar. we tend to forget that the moon is also hidden from our view on the day before and the day after our calendar date. but this did not go unnoticed by our ancestors, who always speak of the goddess's sojourn into the land of death as lasting for three days. is it any wonder then, that we celebrate the next full moon (the eostara) as the return of the goddess from chthonic regions? naturally, this is the season to celebrate the victory of life over death, as any nature-lover will affirm. and the christian religion was not misguided by celebrating christ's victory over death at thi

laid claim to this theme much later. the very fact that we are dealing with a three-day period of absence should tell us we are dealing with a lunar, not solar, theme (although one must make exception for those occasional male lunar deities, such as the assyrian god, sin) at any rate, one of the nicest modern renditions of the harrowing of hell appears in many books of shadows as 'the descent of the goddess. lady day may be especially appropriate for the celebration of this theme, whether by storytelling, reading, or dramatic re-enactment. for modern witches, lady day is one of the lesser sabbats or low holidays of the year, one of the four quarter-days. and what date will witches choose to celebrate? they may choose the traditional folk 'fixed' date of march 25th, starting on its eve. or

on the wheel of the year, they separate the year into halves. halloween (also called samhain) is the celtic new year and is generally considered the more important of the two, though may day runs a close second. indeed, in some areas- notably wales- it is considered the great holiday. may day ushers in the fifth month of the modern calendar year, the month of may. this month is named in honor of the goddess maia, originally a greek mountain nymph, later identified as the most beautiful of the seven sisters, the pleiades. by zeus, she is also the mother of hermes, god of magic. maia's parents were atlas and pleione, a sea nymph. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 17 the old celtic name for may day is beltane (in its most popular anglicized form, which is de

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sometimes they succeed. the only-way to find the truth or falsity of this would be to experiment (i should think that slips or bikinis could be worn without unduly causing loss of power. it would be interesting to try the effect of one team in the traditional nude and one in bikinis) at the same time one might heed the witches' dictum 'you must be this way always in the rites 'tis the command of the goddess' you must be this way so that it becomes second nature; you are no longer naked, you are simply natural and comfortable. the cult, whether in england or elsewhere, starts with several advantages. first, it usually obtains recruits very young and slowly trains them so that they come to have the sense of mystery and wonder, the knowledge that they have an age-old tradition behind them. t

wadays it is held on the nearest day to that date that is convenient for the members. the ceremony starts in the usual way. the circle is cast and purified, the celebrants also being purified in the usual manner, and the ordinary business of the cult is done. then the small ceremony is performed (sometimes called 'drawing down the moon) so that the high priestess is regarded as the incarnation of the goddess. the cakes and wine ceremony follows. then a cauldron (or something to represent one) is placed in the middle of the circle, spirit is put in and ignited. various leaves, etc, are cast in. then the priestess stands by it in the pentacle (goddess) position. the high priest stands on the opposite side of the cauldron, leading the chant the others stand round in a circle with torches. the

and love them again. the god who rules this paradise must, i think, have been death, but somehow he is identified with the hunting god and wears his horns. this god of death and hunting, or his representative, seems at one time to have taken the lead in the cult, and man became the master. but it is emphasised that because of her beauty, sweetness and goodness, man places woman, as the god placed the goddess, in the chief place, so that woman is dominant in the cult practice. what probably happened was this: there was an organised tribal religion, with a male tribal god, and an order of priestesses and their husbands who looked after the magic. the chief priest of the tribal cult was dominant when he attended their meetings, but in his absence the priestess ruled. my witches speak of him a

le; it may be pleasant or unpleasant according to your nature. according to your merits you may be reincarnated in time, and take your chance where and among whom this takes place; but the god has a special paradise for his worshippers, who have conditioned their bodies and natures on earth, who enjoy special advantages and are prepared more swiftly for reincarnation which is done by the power of the goddess in such circumstances as to ensure that you will be reborn into your own tribe again. this is taken nowadays to mean into witch circles. it would seem to involve an unending series of reincarnations; but i am told that in time you may become one of the mighty ones, who are also called the mighty dead. i can learn nothing about them, but they seem to be like demigods- or one might call

ight have anything to do with. it is quite possible that it was several of these things at different times and in different parts of the country. my own impression is that it was thought of as the religion of the pre-celtic peoples with their own gods, and the druids thought it good and right that people should have and worship their own gods. but slowly celtic ideas crept in. i think the myth of the goddess is clearly such. that is, a minor celtic goddess crept in and by her beauty and sweetness wrought great changes in a primitive hunters' cult. this is simply a wild guess on my part, and i give these personal opinions because i am not permitted to detail the rites and prayers on which i base them. and, of course, the reverse may have happened; it may have been an orthodox celtic cult in

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allen from the sky, awakened shall illuminate the essence of self primordial form of azothoz, i stand in the center of time to behold thy gift! i walk the solitary path and announce my birth! hekas, szurru prozaza hekas, umpesha usha szurru! open the gates before me, lucifer arise from within! zazas zazas nasatanada zazas! 14 i give thee thanks, initiator of magick, whom upon the path shall bring the goddess and god the flesh shall be eternal from my sacred word. i seek now to become as shadow and light, from which i walk between! for each sigil is the very mark of the fallen seraphim, who tasted shadow to unite with light! shall we know this secret glory, visible and esteemed in the glory of those who hold this banner high! so this promethean flame be lit before me! meditate upon the sigi

ilith is one of the hebraic sources of evil, reflective of the female ability to not only produce children, but to their very nature itself. women are attributed to the moon, luna, and thus their natures are centered around the phases of the moon. lilith is thus a night daemon, considered such because of he ability to seduce, take what she wishes, and disregard those whom displease her. lilith is the goddess whose top half is feminine beauty, her bottom half is that of an animal with bird like feet. the torah mentions lilith in an interesting phrase, wildcats shall meet with hyenas, goat-demons shall call to each other; there too lilith shall repose, and find a place to rest. there shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow (isaiah 34:14) jewish folklore mentions that lil

e security in trying to persuade her back to adam. considering the lunar qualities and the connection to screech owls, lilith is the queen of witches. by witch i do mean cunning woman who is able, by the abilities of command to look, by her own dayside attributes and her concise desire to dress for success, is able to seduce and command by her will of appearance alone. by the nightside attribute, the goddess is the manifestation or channel of lilith, she becomes the witch queen herself, and able to work sorcery, attend the sabbat upon the steed kundak through the web of dreams itself. this is the complete witch, whom by dayside and nightside is able to master each by her own will. lilith is thus revealed as babalon, the goddess of death, blood, passion and life itself! let her mysteries be

path of the wise, reveal your bestial and angelic essence to me. do manifest through me now, join in union with your mate, samael. join through me the union of opposites! allow the lunar energy to flow through you, catching the visions of lilitu and such succubi, bestial and hair covered below their waste seeking the sexual union of others in great fornication and abandonment. lilith is babalon, the goddess who bathes in the blood of the moon. face now the altar, take the wand and recite while focusing upon lilith: she howls upon the desert winds, as the moon brings the cloak of darkness. the shadow radiate her essence, blood drinker, devouress of the sleeping, fornicate in the spilt veins of those who come to you! lilith, la-kal-il-li-ka, i invoke thee by your sacred names: abeko, batna

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