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(place rose, cup, paten of bread and salt, lamp, cross and triangle upon the altar (the candidate must be blindfolded and tied thrice around the waist (hierophant knocks once) kerux (goes to the east, and faces west "hekas! hekas! este be beloi (returns to the southeast and faces east) bell/ hierophant (holds up the sceptre, faces west, and knocks once "fraters and sorors of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, in the temple of isis mighty mother, assist me to open the hall of the neophyte. kerux, see that the temple is properly guarded, that doors and entrances have been checked and all are present" kerux (knocks on all the doors and checks the portal "very honored hierophant, the hall is properly guarded (salutes hierophant) hierophant "very honored hiereus, guard the other side of the

properly guarded, that doors and entrances have been checked and all are present" kerux (knocks on all the doors and checks the portal "very honored hierophant, the hall is properly guarded (salutes hierophant) hierophant "very honored hiereus, guard the other side of the portal (hiereus turns west. kerux is on his right with his lamp and wand, and assure yourself that all present have witnessed the golden dawn" hiereus "fraters and sorors of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, give the sign of the neophyte (all give the sign of the neophyte to the hierophant, then the hiereus gives both signs after the others have completed it. very honored hierophant, all present are initiated members" hierophant (gives the sign of the enterer, but not the sign of the silence to the west "let the num

their duties. my robe is an image of the darkness that was upon the faces of the water. i carry the sword of judgment and the banner of evening twilight which is the banner of the west. i am called fortitude and i am the master of darkness" hierophant (stands holding the sceptre and banner of the east "my station is on the throne in the east which symbolizes the rise of the sun, and the light of the golden dawn, life and light. the red color of my robe symbolizes light. my insignias are the sceptre of power and the banner of the east which signify power and light, mercy and wisdom. i am called power and mercy, and light and abundance. my office is that of the expounder of the mysteries (sits down. stolistes, i command you to purify the temple and members with water" stolistes (circumambul

re said in the following) hierophant (knocks "khabs" hiereus (knocks "am" hegemon (knocks "pekht" hiereus (knocks "konx" hegemon (knocks "om" hierophant (knocks "pax" hegemon (knocks "light" hierophant (knocks "in" hiereus (knocks "extension (the kerux removes the rose, cup, paten of bread and salt and the lamp from the altar, leaving the cross and triangle only) hierophant "fraters and sorors of the golden dawn of the outer in the temple of isis mighty mother, i have recieved a dispensation from the chiefs of the second order to duly admit_ to the grade of neophyte. honored hegemon, instruct the candidate to hold himself/herself/themselves in readiness for the ceremony of his/her/their admission, and superintend his/her/their preparation (hegemon salutes hierophant and prepares candidates

nto their hands for vengeance or reward. should i willfully violate the sacred oath i have taken, i hearby summit myself to a deadly and hostile current of will set in motion by the chiefs of the order, by which i should fall slain or paralysed without visable weapon as if slain by a lightning flash. so help me, the lord of the universe and my own higher soul. 31 rise, newly obligated neophyte of the golden dawn in the outer. i declare you neophyte of the 0=0 grade of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. honored hegemon, place the neophyte in the north part of the hall, the greatest symbol of darkness (hegemon places the initiate in the north facing east. the kerux goes with the lamp and wand to the northeast. the stolistes and dadouchos stand ready to follow in the procession, and the s

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de sign is made in the direction of movement, except when entering or leaving the hall, when it is made toward the east. the knock is made by rapping the base or shaft of wand or the pommel of sword on a table. hiero (knock) kerux: moves to the right of hierophant, faces west and proclaims. kerux: hekas, hekas, este bebeloi! kerux returns to place. hiero (knock) fraters and sorors of the order of the golden dawn in the outer, assist me to open the hall of the neophytes of the (name the) temple. all rise. hiero: frater kerux see that the temple is properly guarded. kerux (knock) sentinel (knock) kerux: very honoured hierophant the hall is properly guarded. hiero: very honoured hiereus, assure yourself that all present have witnessed the golden dawn. hiereus: fraters and sorors of the order

golden dawn in the outer, assist me to open the hall of the neophytes of the (name the) temple. all rise. hiero: frater kerux see that the temple is properly guarded. kerux (knock) sentinel (knock) kerux: very honoured hierophant the hall is properly guarded. hiero: very honoured hiereus, assure yourself that all present have witnessed the golden dawn. hiereus: fraters and sorors of the order of the golden dawn in the outer give the signs of a neophyte. all give the sign of a neophyte. hiereus (salute) very honoured hierophant all present have been so honoured. hiero: very honoured hiereus, how many chief officers are there in this grade? hiereus: three, very honoured hierophant. namely, the hierophant hiereus and hegemon. hiero: is there any peculiarity in these names? hiereus: they all

ght shineth in the darkness. kerux (knock) hiereus (knock) heg (knock) hiero (knock) khabs. hiereus (knock) am. heg (knock) pekht. hiereus (knock) konx. heg (knock) om. hiero (knock) pax. heg (knock) light. hiero (knock) in. hiereus (knock) extension. ceremony of admission (the candidate is not to be told the name of the order until his admission) hiero (knocks) fraters and sorors of the order of the golden dawn in the outer, i have received a dispensation from the greatly honoured chiefs of the second order to admit (name of aspirant) to the grade of neophyte honoured hegemon instruct (name of aspirant) to hold himself(or herself) in readiness for the ceremony of his (or her) admission and superintend his (or her) preparation. heg: removes his chair from between the pillars, salutes hiero

u wilt kneel on both knees, give me your right hand, which i place on this sacred and sublime symbol. places candidate's right hand on the center of the triangle. place your left hand in mine. bow your head, repeat your full name at length and say after me all rise. the obligation hiero: i (name of aspirant, in the presence of the lord of the universe and of this hall of neophytes of the order of the golden dawn in the outer, regularly assembled under warrant from the greatly honoured chiefs of the second order, do of my own free will and accord hereby and hereon most solemnly pledge myself to keep secret this order. its name, the name of its members, and the proceedings which take place at its meetings, from all and every person in the whole world who is outside the pale of the order, and

m, after the completion of my admission. i will not seek to obtain any ritual or lecture pertaining to the order without due authorization from the praemonstrator of my temple, nor will i possess any ritual or lecture unless it be properly registered and labelled by him. i further undertake that any such ritual or lecture and any case, cover or box containing them shall bear the official label of the golden dawn. i will not copy myself nor lend to any other person to be copied, any ritual or lecture, until and unless i hold the written permission of the praemonstrator to do so, lest our secret knowledge be revealed through my neglect or error. furthermore, i undertake to prosecute with zeal the study of occult sciences, seeing that this order is not established for the benefit of those who

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red lamp salt diagram of the flaming sword fylfot cross required materials for the temple part i banners of the east and west temple pillars hebrew letters: tau, shin, qoph enochian earth tablet lamp part i opening of the zelator grade (the members, having assembled and robed, each is seated in his proper place. hiereus (knock) all rise. hiero (sitting) fraters and sorors of the zelator grade of the golden dawn, assist me to open the temple in the grade of zelator. frater kerux, see that the temple is properly guarded. kerux: knocks, without opening the door. sentinel (knocks) kerux: very honoured hierophant, the temple is properly guarded. hiero: honoured hiereus, see that none below the grade of zelator is present. hiereus: fraters and sorors, give the signs of zelator. all give signs o

ks of the grade. kerux: opens the door to be just ajar) heg: let me enter the portal of wisdom. kerux: i will. kerux: opens door and admits them. sentinel: turns down lights. hiero: except adonai build the house, their labour is but lost that build it. except adonai keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain. frater (sorer) neophyte, by what aid dost thou seek admission to the grade of zelator of the golden dawn? heg (for neophyte) by the guidance of adonai; by the possession of the necessary knowledge; by the dispensation of the greatly honoured chiefs of the second order; by the signs and tokens of the zelator grade. by this symbol of the hermetic cross. kerux: takes cross from him places it on the altar and returns to place. hiero: give the step and signs of a neophyte (neophyte gives t

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

ss and love; as attributes of osinn and thor agree, their wives frigg and sif have also a common signification. sif in the edda is called the fair-haired' it harfagra gos' and gold is sifjar haddr (sifae peplum, because, when loki cut off her hair, a new and finer crop was afterwards forged of gold (sn. 119. 130. also a herb, polytrichum aureum, bears the name haddr sifjar. expositors see in this the golden fruits of the earth burnt up by fire and growing up again, they liken sif to ceres, the ^avot] ai]fn]r't]p (ii. 5, 500; and with it agrees the fact that the slav. siva is a gloss on 'ceres dp.i 310 goddesses. frumenti (hanka's glosses 5* 6; only the s in the word seems to be the slav, zliivete= zh, and v does not answer to the teut. r, b, p. the earth was thor's mother, not his wife, ye

ivingcd shoes, talaria, ov. met; 4, 6g7. 729, and the servian eelia is called krik'it (winged, being in possession of krilo and okrilie (wing and wing-cover, vuk 2, 88. 90. 100. a piece of the wing remaining, or in women a swan's foot, will at times betray the higher nature. the superliuman quality of heroes shines out of their eyes (luminum vibratus, oculorum micatus, saxo gram. 23: ormr i cmga. the golden teeth of gods and heroes have been spoken of, p. 234. in the miirchen sons are born with a star on the forehead, kinderm. 96. straparola 4, 3; or a golden star falls on the forehead, pentam. 3, 10. the dioscuri had a star or fkme shining on their heads and helmets: this may have reference to the rays encircling the head (p. 323, or to constellations being set in the sky. in some cases t

versa, ok buslunga beztan]?yckja. snero]?cer af afli drlogpdito ]7a er borgir braut i bralundi])cet um. greiddo gullinsimo, ok und manasal misjan/esto]?oer austr ok vestr enda falo];ar atti lofsungr land a milli: bra nipt nera a norsrvega einni fcsti. ey bas hon halda. this important passage tells us, that norns entering the castle at night spun for the hero the threads of his fate, and stretched the golden cord (pdttr= daht, docht= s%mi) in the midst of heaven; one norn hid an end of the thread eastward, another westward, a third fastened it northward; this third one is called 'sister of neri^ their number, though^.not expressly stated, is to be gathered from the threefold action. all the region between the eastern and western ends of the line was to fall to the young hero's lot; did the

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7 heavens in assiah 10 adverse sephiroth enochian water tablet 3 red lamps censer 4 chairs 2 sephirotic tablets tablet of 10 sephiroth in 7 palaces 4 worlds of the tree of life 4 worlds of the tree of life showing 4 holy names macroprosopus diagram cup of water part i opening (arrange the temple for the 31st path. members are assembled and robed) hiero (knocks) fraters and sorors of the order of the golden dawn in the outer, assist me to open this temple in the grade of practicus. honoured hegemon, see that the temple is properly guarded (done) heg: very honoured hierophant, the temple is properly guarded. hiero: honoured hiereus, see that none below the grade of practicus is present. hiereus: fraters and sorors give the sign of practicus (done) hiereus (saluting) very honoured hierophant

eoricus between pillars turns to right and halts at foot of hierophant's throne. hiero: rises and takes red lamp in his hand. hiero: axieros the first kabir spake to kasmillos the candidate and said i am the sun in greatest elevation, bringing upon the earth the ripening heat, fructifying all things, urging forward the growth of vegetable nature. life giving, light producing, crowning summer with the golden harvest and filling the lap of plenteous autumn with the purple vintage of the vine. thus far is the voice of axieros. heg: leads theoricus round to seat of hiereus and halts before him in the n.w. hiereus: rises with red lamp in his hand. hiereus: axiokersos the second kabir spake to kasmillos the candidate and said, i am the sun in greatest depression beneath the equator, when cold is

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ttracts good health, money and offers protection for the home and family. ruled by jupiter. st john's wort (hypericum) st john's wort relieves depression, anxiety, neuralgia, headaches and irritability during the menopause. it is good for relief from pain, helping with fibrositis, sciatica and rheumatism. it is an anti-inflammatory, and so speeds the healing of burns and wounds. st john's wort is the golden herb of midsummer and symbol of the longest day, the summer solstice and the full power of the sun. it offers fertility and powers to attract love, especially if picked on the eve of st john, 23 june, at midnight. traditionally, it was worn in battle for courage, and it can also bring decisiveness. use it for protection, especially if combined with dill and vervain. ruled by the sun. ta

t either rainbows or sunbeams, or the silver light of the moon* cast the beams into the water, calling: go forth with love and healing. you can, if you prefer, create your own words* pour the water into a clear glass bottle with a stopper and send or give it to the sick person. they may drink it or use it in a bath* return the energies to the cosmos by placing yellow flowers or seeds in a pot for the golden energies if you used sunlight, and white flowers for the moon. colour healing colour has long been believed to have the power to influence not only our moods, but our physical well-being. the babylonians called the healing power of light 'the medicine of the gods. healing colours have been used for thousands of years in chinese treatments and in ayurveda, an ancient indian medicine. the

the air. in sweden, they still hold a midsummer weekend with a midsummer tree, or pole, decorated with greenery and flowers forming the centrepiece of music and revels. there is feasting in towns as well as the countryside in what is a national event and thousands of people gather as they have for centuries at focal points such as the island of oland on the stockholm archipelago. st john's wort, the golden herb of midsummer and symbol of the summer solstice, was said to offer fertility and powers to attract love if picked at midnight on 23 june, the eve of st john's day, or the eve of the actual solstice. hopeful lovers would carry it or place it under a pillow. the power of the summer solstice can be harnessed for tackling seemingly insoluble problems and bringing light and life and hope

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

rm (carries his grade sash along with the recommendation from the chief of the order, the lamen of the hiereus, and a separate prepared speech) third (opens door "who bringest thou here with thee" 9 aspirant (loudly and firmly gives speech "hear ye all that i, the honored frater/soror, stand before you, being a member of the 4=7 grade of the first order, the highest grade of the hermetic order of the golden dawn in the outer, a philosophus; one qualified to fill the important post of hiereus in a temple of the first order, one who hath passed the five examinations prescribed between the first and second orders, and hath been declared lord of the 24th, 25th and 26th paths in the portal of the adepti. i bear a written recommendation from the chiefs of my temple guaranteeing my qualifications

this day spiritually bind myself, even as i am now bound physically upon the cross of suffering" hmjk "that i will to the utmost lead a pure and unselfish life, and will prove myself a faithful and devoted servant of this order" hnyb "that i will keep secret all things connected with the order, and its secret knowledge, from the whole world, equally from him who is a member of the first order of the golden dawn, as from an uninitiated person, and that i will maintain the veil of strict secrecy between the first and the second orders" dsj "that i will uphold to the utmost the authority of the chiefs of the order, and that i will not initiate or advance any person in the first order, either secretly or in open temple, without due authorization and permission; that i will neither recommend a

tely attributed thereto. see that thou reveal it not to the profane, for many and great are its mysteries "rtk is the highest of all, and herein scintillates the divine white brilliance, concerning which it is not fitting that i should speak more fully. hmkj is gray, the mixture of colors. hnyb is darkness, the absorption of colors. and thus, is the supernal triad completed. in rtk is the root of the golden glory, and thence is the yellow reflected into trapt. in hmkj is the root of blue, and this is reflected into dsj; in hnyb is the root of red, and this is reflected into hrwbg. and thus is the first reflected triad completed. the beams of dsj and trapt meet in jxn and yield green. the beams of hrwbg and trapt meet in dwh and yield a tawny orange. the beams of dsj and hrwbg fall in dwsy

erse and evil sephiroth of the twpylq, the great red dragon of seven heads, and the inverted and evil triangle. thus, in the tomb of the adepti do we tread down the evil powers of the red dragon (chief adept stamps thrice on diagram, and so tread thou upon the evil powers of thy nature" 30 ceiling of the vault floor of the vault "for there is traced within the evil triangle the rescuing symbol of the golden cross united to the red rose of seven times seven petals. as it is written 'he descendeth into hell' but the whiteness above shines the brighter for the blackness which is beneath "thus mayest thou comprehend that the evil helpeth forward the good. and between the light and the darkness vibrate the colors of the rainbow, whose crossed and reflected rays, under the planetary presidency a

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

ight conception of this life as an ordeal of chivalry lies the foundation of every perfection of philosophy "whatsoever ye do, whether ye eat or drink, do all to the glory of god" applies with singular force to the absintheur. so may he come victorious from the battle of life to be received with tender kisses by some green-robed archangel, and crowned with mystic vervain in the emerald gateway of the golden city of god. vii. and now the cafe is beginning to fill up. this little room with its dark green woodwork, its boarded ceiling, its sanded floor, its old pictures, its whole air of sympathy with time, is beginning to exert its magic spell. here comes a curious child, short and sturdy, with a long blonde pigtail, with a jolly little old man who looks as if he had stepped straight out of

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

e-maddened) thrust deep to draw blood, as they played up and down my spine. but i saw nothing; by osiris i swear it! i saw nothing, save only the glare in the eyes of that lost soul that writhed upon the wheel. indeed, as the hangman took out the corpse, we fell back and lay there among the waste of the banquet, the flagons overturned, the napery awry, page 37 gulf.txt the lamps extinct or spilt, the golden cups, chased with obscene images, thrown here and there, the meats hanging over the edge of their bejewelled dishes, their juice staining the white luxury of the linen; and in the midst ourselves, our limbs as careless as the wind, motionless. one would have said: the end of the world is come. but through all that fiery abyss of sleep wherein i was plunged so deep, still stirred the coo

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

che. such books have existed in fact, and do exist. idries shah tells us of a search he conducted for a copy of the book of power by the arab magician abdul-kadir (see: the secret lore of magic by shah, of which only one copy was ever found. the keys of solomon had a similar reputation, as did the magus by barret, until all of these works were eventually reprinted in the last fifteen years or so. the golden dawn, a famous british and american occult lodge of the turn of the century, was said to have possessed a manuscript called "the veils of negative existence" by another arab. these were the sorcerer's handbooks, and generally not meant as textbooks or encyclopedias of ceremonial magick. in other words, the sorcerer or magician is supposed to be in possession of the requisite knowledge a

n startling. azatot is frequently mentioned in the grim pages of the cthulhu mythos, and appears in the necronomicon as azag-thoth, a combination of two words, the first sumerian and the second coptic, which gives us a clue as to its identity. azag in sumerian means "enchanter" or "magician; thoth in coptic is the name given to the egyptian god of magick and wisdom, tahuti, who was evoked by both the golden dawn and by crowley himself (and known to the greeks as hermes, from whence we get "hermetic. azag-thoth is, therefore, a lord of magicians, but of the "black" magicians, or the sorcerers of the "other side. there is a seeming reference to shub niggurath in the necronomicon, in the name of a sumerian deity, the "answerer of prayers, called ishnigarrab. the word "shub" is to be found in

sts to see the necronomicon in its original state. banishings read this section carefully. in the interim period between the translation and the publication of this work, the editor, along with a circle of initiates in another discipline, undertook to experiment with the rituals and forces outlined in the necronomicon. in using the material alone, or within a western ceremonial structure (such as the golden dawn system) we came upon startling discoveries in both cases: there are no effective banishings for the forces invoked in the necronomicon itself! the rituals, incantations, formulae of this book are of ancient origin, comprising some of the oldest written magickal workings in western occult history. the deities and demons identified within have probably not been effectively summoned i

e of these rituals in progress. that would be criminal, and perhaps in suicidal. one of our colleagues was fearfully attacked by his dog directly following a fairly simple and uncomplicated formula from this book. this is definitely not a gilbert chemistry set. the method of the necronomicon concerns deep, primeval forces that seem to pre-exist the normal archetypal images of the tarot trumps and the golden dawn telesmatic figures. these are forces that developed outside the judeo-christian mainstream, and were worshipped and summoned long before the creation of the qabala as we know it today. hence, the ineffectiveness of the golden dawn banishing procedures against them. they are not necessarily demonic or qliphotic in the sense that these terms are commonly understood in the west, they

the burning disk, remember! spirit of the never-ending light, remember! spirit of the rending of the veils of the night, dispeller of darkness, remember! spirit of the opening of the day, open wide thy gate! spirit who rises between the mountains with splendour, open thy gate to me! by the name which i was given on the sphere of ishtar, i ask thy gate to open! gate of the sun, open to me! gate of the golden sceptre, open to me! gate of the life-giving power, open! open! ia uddu-ya! ia russuluxi! saggtamarania! ia! ia! atzarachi-ya! atzarelechi-yu! bartalakatamani-ya kanpa! zi dingir uddu-ya kanpa! zi dingir ushtu-ya kanpa! zi shta! zi daraku! zi belurduk! kanpa! ia shta kanpa! ia! the invocation of the nergal gate spirit of the red planet, remember! nergal, god of war, remember! nergal, va

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

tic interpretation, the lost symbolism of the vault in which christian rosenkreutz is said to have been buried, some of the work of dr. dee and sir edward kelly, some very imperfect tables in cornelius agrippa, the art of raymond lully, some of the very artificial effusions of the esoteric theosophists, and of late years the knowledge of the order ros rube et aure crucis and the hermetic order of the golden dawn. unluckily, the leading spirit in these latter societies1 found that his prayer, give us this day our daily whisky, and just a wee drappie mair for luck! was sternly answered, when you have given us this day our daily knowledge-lecture. under these circumstances daath got mixed with dewar, and beelzebub with buchanan. but even the best of these systems is excessively bulky; modern

in two score. the best of the serious attempts to systematise the results of comparative religion is that made by blavatsky. but though she had an immense genius for acquiring facts, she had none whatever for sorting and selecting the essentials. grant allen made a very slipshod experiment in this line; so have some of the polemical rationalists; but the only man worthy of our notice is frazer of the golden bough. here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. ii this: that when a japanese thinks of hachiman, and a boer of the lord of hosts, they are not two thoughts, but one. the cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambit

astrological images and the medical/ talismanic use of the same (vide walker, spiritual and demonic magic and yates, giordano bruno, and he is occasionally cited as an authority by renaissance writers such as ficino and agrippa; the material specifically attributed to d abano in 777 is from the heptameron, although the images of the decans may be from his genuine works. 3 probably a reference to the golden dawn. after swearing a long and tortuously phrased oath of secrecy, the neophyte was issued a knowledge lecture which consisted of the names and symbols of the elements, planets and signs along with the hebrew alphabet and the names of the sephiroth in hebrew. 4 the lemegeton is a 17th-century compilation, probably english, of magical texts attributed to solomon. the first book, goetia

two or more. 6 the book of the concourse of the forces is the title of a collection of golden dawn papers loosely based on the enochian material which emerged from the ceremonial skrying of john dee and edward kelly. crowley later published a terse and incomplete abstract of this material as a brief abstract of the symbolic representation of the universe in equinox i (7-8. see also regardie (ed) the golden dawn, vol. iv. 7 this would not be a view generally shared by most serious practitioners and students of dee and kelly s magick. unless crowley is talking about the g.d. version of enochian magic in which case he has a point. 8 4 planes: the first consists solely of kether; the second of chokmah and binah; the third of chesed through to yesod; the fourth of malkuth only. these are ident

cific titles or epiphets of isis and nephthys. line 19: pasht (according to budge, op. cit. i, 517) is pekh or pekhit, a minor lioness goddess. mau is onomatopoeic egyptian for cat and appears to have been an epiphet of ra. line 22: ma is more usually spelt maat or ma at. lines 23, 31: auramoth and thoum-aesh-neith were never egyptian deities but were names constructed on qabalistic principles by the golden dawn to refer to water and fire; similarly the name tarpesheth (tharpesht) is unknown prior to g.d. material, although she appears to be a hybrid of bast and sekhet. line 24: typhon was a monster in greek myth, probably a personification of destructive forces of nature, who was identified with set in late classical times. add selket, whose symbol was the scorpion. i have no idea what kh

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

ei meth were redrawn based on material in ben rowe s enochian magic reference and clay holden s pdfs of mysteriorum liber secundus and mysteriorum liber tertius. the general view of the great table was entered from the version in the equinox; the views of the watchtowers and tablet of union as pyramid squares were redrawn, the letters checked against plate iii and the symbols checked according to the golden dawn rules printed in regardie (ed, the golden dawn. the version of the enochian alphabet used in plates iv-ix is the ni enochiana typeface constructed by the present editor, closely based on the final forms of the letters from quinti libri mysteriorum appendix, as printed by laycock (1978. plate x has been redrawn and corrects a few minor errors (omission of some numbers and direction

ey (1984; ed/ trans: enochian evocation of doctor john dee, gillette, nj: heptangle. reprinted as enochian magick of doctor john dee. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications, 1994. laycock, donald (1978: complete enochian dictionary. london, askin. reprinted new york: samuel weiser, 1994. regardie, francis israel (1984; ed: the complete golden dawn system of magic. las vegas: falcon press (1989; ed: the golden dawn. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications. revised 6th edition; originally published chicago: aries press (4 vols, 1937-40. rowe, ben: enochian magick reference. revision 1.0, 1988; online at: http//w3.one.net/ browe/pdf/enochian magic reference.pdf turner, robert (1989: elizabethean magic: the art and the magus. shaftsbury: element (1983; ed/ trans) the heptarchia mystica of john dee

appear in tfr (p. 179) an arrangement of the letters from the black cross as a five by four table, this appears to have been a convenience adopted during the communication of the great table (table of watchtowers; as the letters were immediately afterwards written into the cross between the four tablets, described as the crosse of union, or black cross (ibid, p. 180. the importance it assumed in the golden dawn appears to derive from an intermediate source, possibly sloane ms 307, an edited extract from which became h, clavicula tabularum enochii. 7: i have transcribed this table directly from the equinox version. it does not appear to follow directly any of the versions of the great table in the dee mss; that is, some letters match the 1584 great table as delivered by av, some match the

letter on the same row of the general view of the tablets as the name you were working with; thus only the letters e, x, a, r, p, h, c, o, m, a were thus used. these were used to (a) generate divine names ruling the angels of the four squares above the bar of the cross in each lesser angle, and (b) generate the names of cacodaimons from pairs of letters below the bar of the cross. liber lxxxiv 39 the golden dawn rule, per contra (apparently deriving from sloane 307, was to refer one of the four lines of the tablet of union to each watchtower; thus exarp to air, hcoma to water, nanta to earth and bitom to fire. the first letter of each row was prefixed to names drawn from the kerubic squares of each lesser angle, the second to names drawn from servient squares of the lesser angle of air, th

iah, etc. regardie gives the positions of binah through to geburah differently; zalewski (1990) gives the same reading as chanokh, stating this arrangement appears in westcott s notanda to the g.d. enochian papers. 14: in addition the upper six are referred to the planets according to the scheme in 777 col. cxxiv, the heavenly hexagram, and to the tarot trumps corresponding. 15: see regardie (ed, the golden dawn, vol. iv. 16: suit by element of lesser angle, rank by element of column; so in the lesser angles of water, the square with the left and right sides referred to fire is attributed to the knight of cups. 17: each square is additionally referred to one of the 16 figures of geomancy, and to one of the signs or elements (saturn replacing earth as per the dual attribution of the path of

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eary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to he top of an exceeding high mountain and shew him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams" dr. j. g. frazer "the golden bough "so far, therefore, as the public profession of magic has been one of the roads by which men have passed to supreme power, it has contributed to emancipate mankind from the thraldom of tradition and to elevate them into a larger, freer life, with a broader outlook on the world. this is no small service rendered to humanity. and when we remember further that in another direction ma

th. the first matter of the work was base and primitive, though "natural. after passing through various stages the "black dragon" appeared; but from this arose the pure and perfect gold. even in the legend of prometheus we find an identical formula concealed; and a similar remark applies to those of jesus christ, and of many other mythical godmen worshipped in different countries<golden bough" j.m.robertson "pagan christs" a. crowley "jesus" etc, etc> a magical ceremony constructed on this formula is thus in close essential harmony with the natural mystic process. we find it the 29 basis of many important initiations, notably the third degree in masonry, and the 5 degree= 6square ceremony of the g. d. described in equinox i, iii. a ceremonial selfinitiation may be cons

s the formula of a manvantara, or period of manifested existence, which alternates with a pralaya, during which creation is latent. analysed qabalistically, the word is found to possess similar properties. a is the negative, and also the unity which concentrates it into a positive form. a is the holy spirit who begets god in flesh upon the virgin, according to the formula familiar to students of "the golden bough. a is also the "babe in the egg" thus produced. the quality of a is thus bisexual. it is the original being- zeus arrhenothelus, bacchus diphues, or baphomet. u or v is the manifested son himself. its number is 6. it refers therefore, to the dual nature of the logos as divine and human; the interlacing of the upright and averse triangles in the hexagram. it is the first number of

e text of the kabalah, with commentary. a good elementary introduction to the subject. konx om pax. four invaluable treatises and a preface on mysticism and magick. the pistis sophia. an admirable introduction to the study of gnosticism. the oracles of zoroaster. an invaluable collection of precepts mystical and magical. the dream of scipio, by cicero. excellent for its vision and its philosophy. the golden verses of pythagoras, by fabre d'olivet. an interesting study of the exoteric doctrines of this master. the divine pymander, by hermes trismegistus. invaluable as bearing on the gnostic philosophy. the secret symbols of the rosicrucians, reprint of franz hartmann. an invaluable compendium. scrutinium chymicum, by michael maier. one of the best treatises on alchemy. science and the infin

uable as bearing on the gnostic philosophy. the secret symbols of the rosicrucians, reprint of franz hartmann. an invaluable compendium. scrutinium chymicum, by michael maier. one of the best treatises on alchemy. science and the infinite, by sidney klein. one of the best essays written in recent years. two essays of the worship of priapus, by richard payne knight. invaluable to all students. 210 the golden bough, by j. g. frazer. the text-book of folk lore. invaluable to all students. the age of reason, by thomas paine. excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition. rivers of life, by general forlong. an invaluable text-book of old systems of initiation. three dialogues, by bishop berkeley. the classic of subjective idealism. essays of david hume. the classic of academic s

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lease, with the accent on the "along" i will grin and bear it, or, if it gets so bad that i can't do my work, i will make the necessary effort to abate the nuisance, always most careful to do as little damage as possible to the main current of my total energy. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 217 54 love is the law, love under will. yours fraternally, 666 chapter xxxiii the golden mean cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. you would think that one who like myself has the sun, the lord of his horoscope, in libra, with venus who rules that sign in close conjunction with him, with saturn trine, uranus sextile, mars square and luna quincunx to him, would wear the golden mean as a breastplate, flaunt it on my banneret, quarter it on my escutcheo

en of delights; soon the last bubbles burst from his choked lungs; he is engulfed in the slough of despond. in the passive elements of earth and water is no creative virtue to cleanse themselves from such impurity as they chance to acquire; it is therefore of cardinal importance to watch them, guard them, keep their purity untainted and unsoiled; shall the holy grail brim with poison of asps, and the golden paten be defiled with the bread of iniquity? come fire, come air, cleanse ye and kindle the pure instruments, that spirit may indwell, inform, inspire the whole, the one continuous sacrament of life! we have considered this morality from quite a number of very different points of view; wrought subtly and accurately into final shape, you should find no further difficulty in understanding

i work on gold, and gold must be cleansed with acid. i really cannot understand how you can be so inaccurate, with the very text before your eyes! you write "you write that in jan. 1899 etc" but i don't. captain j. f. c. fuller wrote it. a small point; but you must learn to be careful about every tiniest detail. then you go on about "not only invisible chiefs2 of the a. a. but also the chiefs of the golden dawn" the golden dawn is merely the name for the outer order: see magick pp. 230-231. you have never been taught to read carefully. you write of theoricus as the grade following neophyte: it isn't. back to magick pp. 230-231! you have never taken the trouble to go with me through the rituals of o.t.o, or you would not ask such questions. the o.t.o. is a training of the masonic type; the

any book for free on: www.abika.com 288 kraat (al i, 7) his name implies some such function; for g.b.r. is mercury between the two greater lights, sol and luna. this seems to mean that he is something more than a lunar or terrestrial archangel; as he would appear to be from 777 (there now! that was my private fiend again- the demon of digression. back to our gods) 30 777 itself, to say nothing of the golden bough and the good lord knows how many other similar monuments of lexicography (for really they are little more, is our text-book. we are bound to note at once that the gods sympathise, run into one another, coalesce much more closely than any other of the orders of being. there is not really much in common between a jackal and a beetle, or between a wolf and an owl, although they are g

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ay. you must buy the egg without haggling. in a certain society the members were bound to do certain things, being assured that there was "nothing in the vow contrary to their civil, moral, or religious obligations" so when any one wanted to break his vow he had no difficulty in discovering a very good reason for it. the vow lost all its force<crowley expressly cites this clause in the golden dawn initiations as the third defense for his publishing the golden dawn rituals. see equinox i, 4, page 5 "editorial> when buddha took his seat under the blessed bo-tree, he took an oath that none of the inhabitants of the 10,000 worlds should cause him to rise until he had attained; so that when even mara the great arch-devil, with his three daughters the arch-temptresses appeared, he

e oil, he might miss tending just that one flower which was to be nemo after him! 107 chapter xi the crown the crown of the magician represents the attainment of his work. it is a band of pure gold, on the front of which stand three pentagrams, and on the back a hexagram. the central pentagram contains a diamond or a great opal; the other three symbols contain the tau. around this crown is twined the golden ureaus serpent, with erect head and expanded hood. under the crown is a crimson cap of maintenance, which falls to the shoulders. instead of this, the ateph crown of thoth is sometimes worn; for thoth is the god of truth, of wisdom, and the teacher of magick. the ateph crown has two ram's horns, showing energy, dominion, the force that breaks down obstacles, the sign of the spring. betw

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hnz between nyb 63 abaddon: destruction, ruin (hell, as development of lw, 337; cf. 451) nwdb) dregs, roll; faeces (globular; dung llg fed nwz the nose m+wx fervour hmyx hwhy in briah yh w)w yh dwy briah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39) gs beaver, builder hnwb prophet )ybn 64 shine, glow: the sphere of venus (see s.b. 75) hgwn justice: a title of geburah nyd a sigh, groan, deep breath hxn) the golden waters (i.r.q. 996; cf. 97) bhz ym prophecy h)wbn serenity hnwg stocks ds 65 adonai: my lord (referred to malkuth; cf. 155& 361) ynd) weasels and other terrible animals myxw) palace, temple, mansion lkyh shone, gloried, praised llh silence! sh defective nzx a door post hzwzm a beating, striking hkm a lament, wailing yhn silence, quietness hymwd 66 the mystic number of the qliphoth, and

)m)w )b) to cover; protect ppx 169 the accentuator mym+ 170 wand [david fs] staff lqm cup lps cloud nn( seasons myd(wm fools; the constellation orion mylysk 171 the original seed (lit. gfrom the chief h; scil. groot h) lyc)m emanating from lc)n the face of god: the name of an angel l)ynp 172 cut, divided (qb he affected( gnot h read) bc(y clusters; grapes mybn( the heel; the end bq( qabalist lbqm the golden image [of nebuchadnezzar (dan. 3 )bhd mlc 173 lighten mine eyes yny( lg i am hwhy thy god kyhl) hwhy ykn) 174 torches mydypl the splendour encircling him bybs wl hgwn 175 suction hqyny duplicity hlpkm a slipping, falling hlypn 176 an advisor, counselling c(wy to eternity mlw(l illegitimate lwsp trial, temptation nwysn 177 lord of lords mynwd)h nwd) the garden of eden nd( ng to cry out f

th; atonement t)+x curse iao w)y rr) saving grace dsx rcwn 419 teth: a serpent ty+ hadit, the serpent flame (cf. 28 and liber al 2:49) tydh unity twdx) 420 it was htyh a large earthenware jar; a barrel, tub, cask tybx vapour, smoke n( peace-offerings myml# glowing stones; burning coals mypcr oppression kt the work h#(mh 421 to meditate ddwbth 422 the vast countenance: a title of kether nypn) kyr) the golden line [that encircleth the world] qwry wq 424 living creatures twyx 425 a lion fs whelp (gn. 40:9) hyr) rwg ggazzith h: the stone of the chamber (see 1175) tyzgh be made, done; become; an accomplished fact h#(n hearing h(ym# 426 saviour; deliverer (y#wm medium kwt 428 chashmalim, brilliant ones: the angelic choir of chesed mylm#x they swore [an oath] w(b#n 429 judgment, equity +p#m madne

the earth; by rectification thou shalt find the hidden stone h) l(yrtyw secret, put away; a hiding-place *nwybx 727 overflowing (ps. 124:5 *nwdyz fetters (job 36:8 *myqyz 729 the curse of satan n (rq jachin, the pillar of mercy (chokmah-chesed-netzach; situate in netzach *nyx)y the accentuator *mym+ 730 seasons *myd(wm fools; the constellation orion *mylysk 732 white *nbl clusters; grapes *mybn( the golden image [of nebuchadnezzar (dan. 3*)bhd mlc 733 the white head: a title of kether hrwwh)#yr 734 to bring forth dlt# torches *mydypl 736 contortions, convolutions (cf. 1351) twlqlq( to eternity *mlw(l 737 blaze, flame (live coal) tbhl) vain pride, or the basis of vanity lbh t# oak; oak-wood *nwl) 738 the lower part, the loins *myclx 740 manna; portion *nm 741 the four letters of the elemen

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ocess. now, in this particular sport of suppressing earnest enquirers, it was not much good trying to play on people s greed. for everyone knew that even if the jews had wealth, they managed to hide it very successfully, and that they had a nasty was of arranging for protection with peo le who were too powerful to be bullied, and too good business men to be fooled into killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. so the only motive available was fear, and in those ages where ignorance was fostered with infinite devotion, it was even easier to create a scare about bogies than our propaganda in the recent scrap found it. i was in venice just before the war, when halley s comet was around, and although the pope himself sprinkled holy water over the comet, and sent it his special benediction a

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE GREATER RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM

rference. those in favor of the motion will now please signify the same in the usual manner. any may the lord have mercy on your sourdthe greater ritual of the pentagram by sir aleister crowley pdf version by desolution desolution@nibirumail.com written by sir aleister crowley on may, 1906 e.v. on train to india, edited by david cherubim, 12 january, 1990 e.v. for members of the thelemic order of the golden dawn the true greater ritual of the pentagram as the lesser ritual of the pentagram places the magician on the path of samech, so this greater ritual places him on the path of gimel above, instead of below tiphareth. perform the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram and annoint body with holy oil before performing this greater ritual of the pentagram. take up your position facing the

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wears a helm of ruddy gold, radiant with the light of the star. in the midst of his brows is a black diamond in a circlet of ruby and emerald, set in pure mother-of-pearl, so that it seems the eye of some unknown, some unknowable god. this eye has no lid. but his two human eyes are still half-closed, as if in worship or in wonder of rapture. his arms are folded on his breast: upon his corslet is the golden image of the sun. in his right hand is a rod of amber, crowned with a ruby; in his left an amethyst lotus with a sapphire corolla. lo! from his eyes flow tears of mingled sorrow and joy, of the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 6 joy that burns up sorrow, and with these tears he smites the barren rock beneath his feet. it melts like wax at the touch; roses spri

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ith no self to mar thy vow. advance not; seek again thine ancient clan! advance not; be with those united thou. struggle! friends come to prosecute thy plan. advance not! wait for aid from the great man! 40 the kieh hexagram fire of moon- kieh: loosing; if all's won, return and rest. if partial gain, quick action will be best. begin to loosen- straight and clear the way. rid fields of foxes; fill the golden quiver. beggars on horseback tempt the brigand's play. stand not to oppose the friends come to deliver. remove all wrong; then all men own thy sway. the prince the falcon on the wall shall slay. 41 the sun hexagram earth of water- sun: diminution; be sincere; the price is not the measure of the sacrifice. leave business to help friends, but yet be wary! guard against action; of the cash

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, we are reminded that aleph is the letter of air. as air we find the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight or prince of fairy tales who marries the king's daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs among exogamic tribes, for which see "the golden bough. thus one europa, semele and others claimed that zeus- air<<zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the firmament. there is a great difficulty here, etymologically. zeus is connected with iao, abrasax, and the dental sibilant gods of the great mysteries, with the south and hadit, ada, se

r this and similar matters see the appendix. weh note: the appendix has not yet been recovered. al i,31 "for these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! they feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones" the new comment all this talk about 'suffering humanity' is principally drivel based on the error of transferring one's own psychology to one's neighbour. the golden rule is silly. if lord alfred douglas (for example) did to others what he would like them to do to him, many would resent his action. the development of the adept is by expansion- out to nuit- in all directions equally. the small man has little experience, little capacity for either pain or pleasure. the bourgeois is a clod. i know better (at least) than to suppose that to torture him i

y number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us. the five pointed star, with a circle in the middle& the circle is red. my colour is black to the blind, but the blue& gold are seen of the seeing. also i have a secret glory for them that love me" the old comment 60. nu= 56 and 5+ 6= 11. the circle in the pentagram? see liber nv. the uninitiated perceive only darkness in night; the wise perceive the golden stars in the vault of azure. concerning that secret glory it is not here fitting to discourse. the new comment the general significance of the number 11 is magick, particularly that form of it which is love under will; for it unites the 5 and the 6. thus abrahadabra has 11 letters; and 418= 11 x 38. this number must be thoroughly studied by the qabalah. see appendix weh note: appendix n

e elements and feasts of the times" the old comment 36. a crescendo of ecstasy in the mere thought of performing these rituals; which are in preparation under the great guidance of v.v.v.v.v. the new comment each element- fire, earth, air, water, and spirit- possesses its own nature, will, and magical formula. each one may then have its appropriate ritual. many such in crude form are described in the golden bough of dr. j.g. frazer, the glory of trinity! in particular the entry of the sun into the cardinal signs of the elements at the equinoxes and solstices are suitable for festivals. the difference between 'rituals' and 'feasts' is this: by the one a particular form of energy is generated, while there is a general discharge of one's superfluous force in the other. yet a feast implies per

itiation. weh note: as the current grand treasurer general of the order, i feel it incumbent upon me to offer a defense of general cowie. in point of fact crowley's pro-german involvement in the usa, whether clandestine on behalf of the allies or not, occasioned a police raid on his british office. cowie, a deafmute thousands of miles away from crowley, could hardly prevent the crown from seizing the golden book and such assets as lay about. cowie's letters to crowley were filled with invective against the axis powers out of simple precaution of reputation. crowley also was unable to understand that the british government had seized his book sales stock. crowley instead blamed the management of the warehouse! hrumachis is the dawning sun; he therefore symbolizes any new course of events. t

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, the air, the mind. 220. pertains to part ii. the number of verses in liber legis. 231. the sum of the first 22 numbers, 0 to 21; the sum of the key-numbers of the tarot cards; hence an extension of the idea of 22, q.v. 270. i.n.r.i. see 5= 6 ritual. 47 the installment of the temple of solomon the king in equinox i (3) contained an account of the g.d. adeptus minor ritual. see also regardie (ed, the golden dawn t.s. 48 al i. 24-25; 6 50= 0.12. 49 cf. gen vi. 3 t.s. 50 also if we use the same fudge that crowley used to get logos to 93, 120= l, lux (there are at least two other ways by which lvx can be equated with 120 but they are both hideous fudges) t.s. 51 also laqzjy, ezekiel, and [swy, joseph. elsewhere crowley connects the city of pyramids reference with the 12 by 13 squares on each

we use the same fudge that crowley used to get logos to 93, 120= l, lux (there are at least two other ways by which lvx can be equated with 120 but they are both hideous fudges) t.s. 51 also laqzjy, ezekiel, and [swy, joseph. elsewhere crowley connects the city of pyramids reference with the 12 by 13 squares on each of john dee s tablets of the watchtowers and the pyramids drawn on each square in the golden dawn s book of the concourse of the forces t.s. 52 also arb, he created, second word of genesis t.s. 53 see the remarks on ob, od and aour in the introduction to levi s rituel de haute magie t.s. liber lviii 31 280. the sum of the five letters of severity, those which have a final form kaph, mem, nun, pe, tzaddi. also the number of the squares on the sides of the vault 7 40; see 5= 6 ri

third a name pertaining to the formative world, the fourth a name of a spirit or blind force. for example, mercury has za and dd (love) for 8, yd and ynd for 64, layrif for 260, and trtrtpt for 2080. but in the earlier numbers this is not so well carried out. 136 is both lypwy, the intelligence of jupiter, and lamsh, the spirit. 54 see the sepher yetzirah t.s. 55 in equinox i (2, or regardie (ed) the golden dawn t.s. 56 see the golden dawn z1 document t.s. 57 when the first number is n, the second is n2, the third n (n2+ 1/ 2 and the fourth n2 (n2+ 1/ 2 t.s. liber lviii 33 the mystic numbers of the sephiroth are simply the sums of the numbers from 1 to their own numbers. thus (1) kether= 1 (2) chokmah= 1+ 2= 3 (3) binah= 1+ 2+ 3= 6 (4) chesed= 1+ 2+ 3+ 4= 10 (5) geburah= 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5= 15

into the hand of the magician. see liber capricorni pneumatici. 400. useful only as a finality or material basis. being 20 20 it shows the fixed universe as a system of rolling wheels (20= k, the wheel of fortune. 401. see part i. but azoth is the elixir prepared and perfect; the neophyte has not got it yet. 406. see part i. 68 because u and n are referred to the devil and death in the tarot. in the golden dawn portal ritual this description refers to the path of samekh, but putting a gate on the end of said path also gives us 124 t.s. 69 the reference is to nox spelt in hebrew un t.s. 70 also \ylpn, nephilim= 210. 71 the reference is to one of the golden dawn admission badges t.s. liber lviii 41 414. twgh, meditation, the 1 dividing the accursed 4. also rwa [ws ya, the limitless light.72

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ate in a man s cheek, and darkened utterly. foaming at the fouth the wretched jehjaour clutched at air and fell prone. iii. to what god should he appeal? his own, hanuman, was silent. sacrifice, prayer, all were in vain. so jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and his whole force went out in a mighty current of hate towards his former friend. 1 allan macgragor bennett (whose motto in the hermetic order of the golden dawn, was iehi aour, i.e. let there be light, now ananda metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issued is inscribed. 2 taphtatharath [more usually taphthartharath t.s, the spirit of mercury. now hate hath power, though not the power of love. so it came about that in his despair he fell into a trance; and in the trance mara1 appeared to him. never before had his spells avail

(who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men, in order that the brethren may know what journeys he undertook in pursuit of that knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. it was at his 119th year,1 the star suaconch2 being in the sign of the lion, that our father set out from his castle of ug3 to attain the quintessence or philosophical tincture. the way being dark and the golden dawn at hand, he did call forth four servants to keep him in the midst of the way, and the lion roared before him to bid the opposers beware of his coming. on the bull he rode, and on his left hand and his right marched the eagle and the man. but his back was uncovered, seeing that he would not turn. and the spirit of the path met him. it was a young girl of two and twenty years, and sh

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eosil around the ring. in center is a star surmounted by the eye in the triangle. the star is in two modes: a large gold star of six narrow points with point to top is on top of a smaller silver star of six narrow points with two points dead horizontal. the silver star and the gold star create a sort of compass rose, and the silver star has its points filled with gold. the triangle is centered in the golden star, equilateral and apex at top. the triangle is gold with silver edging. the eye is a horus left, gold on white. there are three silver teardrops edged in white depending from the vertices of the triangle and oblating toward the eye. between eye, sides of triangle and tears are three sets of three each white rays, they touch nothing and the center ray in each set is very short. the p

im holy guardian angel. i adopt this "1. because abramelin's system is so simple and effective "2. because since "all" theories of the universe are absurd it is better to talk in the language of one which is patently absurd, so as to mortify the metaphysical man "3. because a child can understand it. 9 from a letter of fra p "theosophists call him the higher self, silent watcher, or great master "the golden dawn calls him the genius "gnostics say the logos "zoroaster talks about uniting all these symbols into the form of a lion- see chaldean oracles.10 "anna kingsford calls him adonai (clothed with the sun. buddhists call him adi-buddha (says h. p. b "the bhagavad-gita calls him vishnu (chapter xi "the yi "k"ing calls him "the great person "the qabalah calls him jechidah.11 "we also get me

nd upon whose altar flashes the mystic eucharist of god. 169 the miser "god" what a treasure-house of wealth lies buried in that word! what a mine of precious stones- ptah, father of beginnings, he who created the sun and the moon; nu, blue, starry lady of heaven, mistress and mother of the gods; ea, lord of the deep; istar "o thou who art set in the sky as a jewelled circlet of moonstone; brahma the golden, vishnu the sombre, and siva the crimson, lapped in seas of blood. everywhere do we find thee, o thou one and awful eidolon, who as aormuzd once didst rule the sun-scorched plains of euphrates, and as odin the icy waves and the shrieking winds, round the frozen halls of the north. everywhere- everywhere! and yet now thou art again god, nameless to the elect- o thou vast inscrutable pler

ill every pound of human flesh was soaked as a thirsty sponge in a well of blood: and life became a hell, and men and women went singing, robed in the "san-benito" painted with flames and devils, to the stake; to seek in the fire the god of their forefathers- that stern judge who with sworded hand was once wont to read out the names of the living from 171 the book of life, and exalt the humble on the golden throne of tyrants. yet in these ages of crucifix, of skull, and of candle; these ages of "auto-da-f" and "in pace" these ages when the tongue jabbered madness and the brain reeled in delirium, and the bones were split asunder, and the flesh was crushed to pulp, was there still in the darkness a glamour of truth, as a great and scarlet sunset seen through the memory of years. life was a

f joyous laughter arises, which sways the winds from their appointed courses, and rattles down the dead branches from the leafy boughs overhead: or, all is solemn and still as a breathless night; for here life is ever manly in turmoil as in repose. here there is no barter, no usury, no counting of the gains and losses of life; and the great sower leaps over the fields like a madman, casting forth the golden grain amongst the briars, and on the rocks, as well as between the black furrows of the earth; for each must take its chance, and battle to victory in manliness and strength. here there is neither sect nor faction: live or die, prosper or decay! so the great live, and the little ones go back to the roots of life. neither is their obedience outside the obedience which is born of necessit

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or who confuse the higher with the lower, the substance with the shadow. every aethyr is truth, though it be but a shadow, for the shadow of a man is not the shadow of an ape("note- all this has come to me without voice, without vision, without thought (the shew-stone is pressed upon my forehead and causes intense pain; as i go on from aethyr to aethyr, it seems more difficult to open the aethyr. the golden cross has become a little narrow door, and an old man like the hermit of the taro has opened it and come out. i ask him for admission: and he shakes his head kindly, and says: it is not given to flesh and blood to unveil the mysteries of the aethyr, for therein are the chariots of fire. and the tumult of the horsemen; whoso entereth here may never look on life again with equal eyes. i i

se and blessing unspeakable unto him that sitteth upon the holy throne, for he casteth down mercies as a spendthrift that scattereth gold. and he hath shut up judgment and hidden it away as a miser that hoardeth coins of little worth. all this while the angel hath been pushing me backwards, and now he is turned into a golden cross with a rose at its heart, and that is the red cross wherein is set the golden shewstone. bou-saada "december" 1, 1909. 2.30- 4.10 p.m. the cry of the 17th aethyr, which is called tan into the stone there first cometh the head of a dragon, and then the angel madimi. she is not the mere elemental that one would suppose from the account of casaubon. i enquire why her form is different. she says: since all things are god, in all things thou seest just so much of god

fields of sun. so also are they that take unto themselves the masters of the pyramid for servants. now the exceeding light that was behind the pyramid, and the rosy cross that is set thereon, hath fulfilled the whole aire. the black pyramid is like the back of a black diamond. also the rosy cross is loosened, and the petals of the rose are the mingled hues of sunset and of dawn; and the cross is the golden light of noon, and in the heart of the rose there is the secret light that men call midnight. and a voice "glory to god and thanksgiving to god, and there is no god but god. and he is exalted; he is great; and in the sevenfold table is his name writ openly, and in the twelvefold table is his name concealed" and the pyramid casts a shadow of itself into the sky, and the shadow spreads ov

ining waters, glistening in the sun. unfathomable is their beauty, for they are limpid, and the floor is of gold. yet the sense thereof is of fruitlessness. and an angel cometh forth, of pure pale gold, walking upon the water. above his head is a rainbow, and the water foams beneath his feet. and he saith: before his face am i come that hath the thirty-three thunders of increase in his hand. from the golden water shalt thou gather corn. 76 all the aire behind him is gold, but it opens as it were a veil. there are two terrible black giants, wrestling in mortal hatred. and there is a little bird upon a bush, and the bird flaps its wings. thereat the strength of the giants snaps, and they fall in heaps to the earth, as though all their bones were suddenly broken. and now waves of light roll t

or their own blood, because they wanted to keep their personalities) 13 weh note: this is exactly the case in merkabah qabalah. these visions of crowley's are beyond the sephiroth as are the visions of the merkabah or chariot that is a part of them. traditional qabalah is very much in accord with his experience at this point. the sephiroth of the tree of life, as depicted in the standard tree and the golden dawn material, are not compatible with the visions approaching and beyond the abyss. there are other configurations, some including modified conceptions of the sephiroth, that do apply in some degree. see the "thelema lodge "calendar, issues for may and june of 1990 e.v. and a great bell begins to toll. and there come six little children out of the floor of the chariot, and in their han

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early part of the 20th century* the wild ass i the secret of the house of set is hidden in my sevenfold veil; for i am he that doth beget the rood, and bear the holy graal. yet is my manhood woman-frail, barren my motherhood. they now shall men my mystic mountain scale? these ram's-horn thumbs jut from my brow to push them to the miry slough wherein the foes of set are caught. come, let us pluck the golden bough from the brave tree of life and thought! who heareth naught, he heedeth naught. come, we are safely housed and shrined where subtler images are wrought than boast the treasuries of mind! 201 ii the secret of the house of set. as a poor pilgrim clambering toils on the slopes, so i to get halidom for my lord the king. faintly and feebly murmuring i uttered the mysterious runes, and

when b, the 1 at this time p. was leading a hermit's life on a swiss glacier with one whom, though he knew it not at the time, was destined ever and anon to bring him wisdom from the great white brotherhood. this one we shall meet again under the initials d.a. 2 afterwards known as frater c.s. alchemist of note, introduced him to a mr. c (afterwards, as we shall see, frater v. n. of the order of the golden dawn. this meeting proved all-important, as will be set forth in the following chapter. through c, p. had for the time being laid aside von rosenroth, and was now deep in "the book of the 237 sacred magic of abra-melin the mage" a time of transition was at hand, a spiritual renaissance was about to take place, so little wonder is it that we find p. much like st. augustine lamenting his

out, and yet thou hast thy habitation within me, if only i desire thee and pant after thee. i went round the streets and squares of the city of this world seeking thee; and i found thee not, because in vain i sought without for him who was within myself" 238 the neophyte it was on november 18, 1898, that through the introduction of fra. v.n, and under his guidance p. entered the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and became a neophyte in the grade of 0= 0 in the outer. it may be of some interest to the reader, and also it may in some ways help to elucidate the present chapter, if a short account of the origin of this order is first entered upon. but it will be understood that the following historical sketch, as well as the accounts we are about to give of the rituals themselves, are very m

the second, christian "the rituals and secrets are received from the greatly honoured chiefs" the account given in the first paragraph may or may not be correct; and the following "history lection" written by a brother of the order of the a. a. throws considerable light on the origin of the above society; and what is of still more interest to us mentions p. and his final rupture with the order of the golden dawn. it runs as follows "some years ago a number of cipher mss. were discovered and deciphered by certain students. they attracted much attention, as they purported to derive from the rosicrucians. you will readily understand that the genuineness of the claim matters no whit, such literature being judged by itself, not by its reputed sources. 240 "among the mss. was one which gave the

the first order thereto, and who has been duly approved of by the higher powers "the three grades of the second order are entitled: adeptus minor, or lesser adept, 5 =6 answering to tiphereth, the reconciler, in the midst of the sephirotic tree. adeptus major, or greater adept, 6 =5 answering to geburah. and adeptus exemptus, or exempt adept, 7 =4 answering to chesed" the rituals of the order of the golden dawn ritual of the 0 =0 grade of neophyte as the ritual of the grade of neophyte is, with perhaps the exception of the ritual of the grade of adeptus minor, the most important of all the rituals of the g. d, it will be necessary here to enter upon it fully, so that the reader may in some sort initiate himself. but the pathway must be pointed out, and that clearly, so that the pilgrim do

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e pavement of the court. there was a crash, but no cry, no groan. i went to the balcony. she lay still, as the living do not lie, and her white hair was blackening, lapped by a congealing stream "i withdrew into the room. since i have learnt that any death brings with it a strange sense of relief. there is a certain finality "la comedie est jouee- and one turns with new life to the next business "the golden child had never stirred. but now she crouched lower, and fell to soft, sweet crying"'your mother is dead' i said abruptly 'may i offer you the guardianship of my godmother, the duchess of castelnaudary? come, mademoiselle, let us go"'i thank you, sir' she answered, still sobbing 'but jean is awake and at the door. jean is fierce and lean as an old wolf "i pulled the dagger from the floo

yellow ray of the dawning sun of creation; hb:mem, the mother, the blue ray of the great primaeval waters; hb:shin, the son, the red ray: the ruach elohim<yod-memfinal is 300= hb:shin> symbol of the red fire of god, which brooded (v.2) upon the face of the waters: or like the red glory that lights up the heavens at dawn, when the golden sun illumines the waters above the firmament. now this red glory is the 174 ignis dei: which is also the agnus dei, or lamb of god that destroyeth (literally "burns out) the sins of the world. as it is written in the ordinary of the mass: the priest goeth unto the south of the altar and prays "o agnus dei! qui tollis- qui tollis peccata mundi- dona nobis pacem" and this fire, this lamb

e world. as it is written in the ordinary of the mass: the priest goeth unto the south of the altar and prays "o agnus dei! qui tollis- qui tollis peccata mundi- dona nobis pacem" and this fire, this lamb of god, is "aries" symbol of the dawning year: whose colour also is as the red fire, and which is the head of the fiery triplicity in the zodiac. so also in the grade of neophyte in the order of the golden dawn the hierophant weareth a robe of flame-scarlet as symbolic of the dawn. note- it may be objected to this enunciation of the colours that hb:yod, the father, is fire; that hb:heh, the mother, is water; that hb:vau, the son, is air, and yellow instead of red. this also is true, but it relates to the governance of the elemental kingdoms, which are in the astral worlds, and whose monad

astral worlds, and whose monads are on the descending arc of life, whilst man is on the ascending; that scale is therefore inverted. for by the mighty sacrifice of the man made flesh and by his torturous pilgrimage is evolved that glorified son who is greater than his father. in alchemy we have again the descending arc, for we find that the "red" powder cast upon the water of the metals produceth the golden sol. but it is important not to confuse. the christians have terribly muddled their trinity by making the son the second instead of the third principle; whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbolizes the mother and at another the son. thus at the annunciation and at the baptism of the christ the s.s. appeareth as a dove, emblem of venus and the mother: whilst the s.s. that desc

ation would have to be published in a bucket! each of these adorations differs from the others by a single word and occasional article 186 illusion d'amoureux she lay, the gilded lily with geranium lips, in the midst of the flower of night. kindlier than the moon, her body glowed with more than harvest gold. fierier than the portent of a double venus, her green eyes shot forth utmost flames. from the golden chalice of love arose a perfume terrible and beautiful, a perfume strong and deadly to overcome the subtler fragrance of her whole being with its dominant, unshamed appeal. she lay with arms outstretched, as if awaiting the visitation of some god. some ghastly god, for sure? for where she lay, the gilded lily with geranium lips, was, as it were, a flower of night. it was a small square

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baoth, thoth, metatron, raphael, michael, beni elohim, tiriel [chief resumes her seat. the three others pass to the west and point their swords 178 in menace at the veiled and corded sigil. the assistant magus then lifts the sigil on to the edge of the circle, and says] who gives permission to admit to the hall of dual truth this creature of sigils "magus of art" i, s.s.d.d, soror of the order of the golden dawn, theorica adepta minora of the order of the rose of ruby and the cross of gold "i.a" creature of sigils, impure and unconsecrate! thou canst not enter our magic circle "d.p.a.l" creature of sigils, i purify thee with water "ae.a" creature of sigils, i consecrate thee by fire [magus of art in a loud voice cries "seven times" the name of the spirit, vibrating strongly, and then says]

peace unto thy habitations and abodes in the invisible. i give unto thee the blessing of god in the name of iahdonhi: may the influx of the divine light inspire thee and lead thee unto the ways of peace! let there be peace betwixt us and thee; and come thou hastily when we invoke and call thee: shalom! shalom! shalom [reverse circumambulations and closing rituals of mercury &c &c] in the order of the golden dawn many consecrations were made use of upon the lines laid down in book hb:heh, such as the consecration of the lotus wand, the rose cross and the magical sword; these, however, we will omit, substituting in their place one carried out by p. himself, and called: talisman of fire of jupiter with ritual the invocations proper to the consecration of a flashing tablet of the eagle kerub o

ne awful sea rolled in upon the abyss! for thou didst look upon my face and say: thou art my son, this day have i begotten thee! yea, o my father, thou hast spoken unto me and said "sit thou on my right hand" 191 but i have covered my face. i have hidden myself. i have knelt before thee in the glory of thy face! arise, lord god, arise and shine! i am to-day and i am yesterday! i am the brother of the golden dawn! in the chariot of life is my seat, and my horses course upon the firmament of nu! come unto me, o my father, for i know thy name! amoun [vibrate by formulae of the middle pillar and of the mystic circumambulation] 16 during the great invocation of amon and toum maal t.t.e.g. and q.f.d.r. respectively charge the talisman with enterer sign. in part i, t.t.e.g. will imagine herself t

ent of days. o lord of the universe! grant thou that upon me may shine forth the light of my higher soul. let me be guided by the 199 help of my genius unto thy throne of glory, ineffable in the centre of the world of life and light [now go up to the altar: formulating before thee a glittering light: imagine that it demands wherefore thou hast come &c, and say] adoration unto thee that dawnest in the golden! o thou that sailest over the heavens in thy bark of morning! dark before thee is the golden brightness; in whom are all the hues of the rainbow. may i walk as thou walkest, o holiness, who hast no master, thou the great space-wanderer to whom millions and hundreds of thousands of years are but as one moment! let me enter with thee into thy bark! let me pass with thee as thou enterest t

ous of his progress and favour with the chiefs, were attempting to destroy him (see "at the fork of the roads" the equinox, vol. i. no. 1, p. 101) weird and terrible figures were often seen moving about his rooms, and in several cases workmen and visitors were struck senseless by a kind of paralysis and by fainting fits. knowledge, he saw ever more clearly that most of the members of the order of the golden dawn were scarcely worthy of his contempt; yet in spite of the folly of the disciples he remained loyal to their master d.d.c.f. he could not yet know that the chief is as his disciples, though raised to a higher power. for like attracts like. secondly, these practical workings taught him, more certainly than years of study and reading, that there was but one goal to the infinite number

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hese mishaps are most likely mere coincidences, but a coincidence when it happens is quite as awkward as the real thing, and in the case of abramelin the coincidences can be counted by scor " the coming of apollo red roses, o red roses, roses afire, aflame, o burgeon that discloses the glory of desire_ hush! all the heart of fire is mingled in thy name, o roses, roses, roses, red roses of desire. the golden-shafted sunlight beats down upon the sward; the pillared serpent's one light is a flame of red desire; o snake from out the mire, i slay thee with the sword, the strong sword of the sunlight, the sword of my desire! the still strong bird of sorrow keens through the golden blue, and many a bitter morrow is borne upon his wings; 281 the glory that he brings he brings, o king, to you, the

he brown soil seems to harden now the strange spell is fled; and the earth lies cold and dead, and the hot hours hurry on. it is only a quiet garden now that the spell is fled. but the hour, the hour and the token, have passed as a dream away, now that the spell is broken, and the moment's flash is fled. 283 when the secret word was said, ah! what remained to say? no word, but silence' token that the golden god had fled. and the roses, roses, roses flame in their red desire, and every bud uncloses to mark the sign that fled; the wonder-word hath sped to the far olympian fire: the spell of the crimson roses has passed from earth and fled. but still the old silent garden remember the golden flush when the heavens seemed to harden for a moment that came and fled; when the whole green earth gr

ore thee by the twelve affirmations and by the unity thereof. 1. o thou show-clad volcan of scarlet fire, thou flame-crested pillar of fury! yea, as i approach thee, thou departest from me like unto a wisp of smoke blown forth from the window of my house. 2. o thou summer-land of eternal joy, thou rapturous garden of flowers! yea, as i gather thee, my harvest is but as a drop of due shimmering in the golden cup of the crocus. 3. o thou throbbing music of life and death, thou rhythmic harmony of the world! yea, as i listen to the echo of thy voice, my rapture is but as the whisper of the wings of a butterfly. 4. o thou burning tempest of blinding sand, thou whirlwind from the depths of darkness! yea, as i struggle through thee, through thee, my strength is but as a dove's down floating fort

r: o thou who art not the emperor or eternal time; nor the warrior shout that rocketh the byss of space! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; raise me in the unity of thy might, and suckle me at the swol'n breasts of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 7. o thou god of the nothingness of all things! thou who art neither the golden bull of the heavens; nor the crimsoned fountain of the lusts of men: o thou who reclinest not upon the waggon of night; nor restest thine hand upon the handle of the plough! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; urge me in the unity of thy might, and drench me with the red vintage of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy no

but i rejoice in thee, o thou my god; thou self-luminous refulgent brilliance; thou eye of light that hath no eyelid; thou turquoise-studeed sceptre of deed: yea, i rejoice in thee, thou white furnace womb of energy; 40 o thou spark-whirling forge of the substance of the worlds; i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till i mount as a white beam unto the crown, and as a breath of night melt into the golden lips of thy dawn, in the glory and splendour of thy name. o glory be unto thee through all time and through all space: glory, and glory upon glory, everlastingly. amen, and amen, and amen. 41 the chapter known as capricorn the twelvefold humiliation of god and the unity thereof i adore thee by the twelve humiliations and by the unity thereof. 1. o my god, behold me fully and be merciful

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lissful band; mercy, majesty and power, beauty and harmony and strength, triumph and splendour, starry shower of flames that flake their lily length, a necklet of pure light, far-flung down to the base, from which is hung a pearl, the universe, whose sight is one globed jewel of delight. fallen no more! a bowered bride blushing to be satisfied! olympas. all this, of once the eye unclose? marsyas. the golden cross, the ruby rose are gone, when flaming from afar the hawk's eye blinds the silver star. o brothers of the star, caressed by its cool flames from brow to breast, is there some rapture yet to excite this prone and pallid neophyte? olympas. o but there is no need of this! i burn toward the abyss of bliss. i call the four powers of the name; earth, wind and cloud, sea, smoke and flame

e of the soul. 53 so the altar-fires fade as the godhead is displayed. nay, we stir not. everywhere is our temple right appointed. all the earth is faery fair for us. am i not anointed? the sigil burns upon the brow at the adjuration_ here and now. olympas. the air is laden with perfumes. marsyas. behold! it beams_ it burns_ it blooms* olympas. master, how subtly hast thou drawn the daylight from the golden dawn, bidden the cavernous mount unfold its ruby rose, its cross of gold; until i saw, flashed from afar, the hawk's eye in the silver star! marsyas. peace to all beings. peace to thee, co-heir of mine eternity! peace to the greatest and the least, to nebula and nenuphar! light in abundance be increased on them that dream that shadows are! olympas. blessing and worship to the beast, the

the meaning and value of ceremonial magic; and secondly, by somewhat retracing our footsteps, disclose to the reader the various methods and workings p. had undertaken before he set out to accomplish this supreme one. for over a year now he had been living "perdu" in the heart of london, strenuously applying himself to the various branches of secret knowledge that his initiations in the order of the golden dawn had disclosed to him. up to the present we have only dealt with these initiations, and his methods of travelling in the spirit vision, and rising on the planes; but still there remain to be shown the ceremonial methods he adopted; however, before we enter upon these, we must return to our first point, namely_ the meaning and value of ceremonial magic. ceremonial magic, as a means t

of faith, like an ostrich, one should rise like a phoenix of enlightenment out of the ashes of both freethought and dogma. this is the whole of philosophic scientific illuminism. now that we have finished our short disquisition upon the methods of western magic, let us once again 150 turn to frater p. and seen how he applied them to his own labours. shortly after becoming a member of the order of the golden dawn, p, as already mentioned, became acquainted with a certain frater, i.a. by name, a magician of remarkable powers. at once a great friendship sprang up between these two, and for over a year and a half they worked secretly in london at various magical and scientific experiments. during this period p. learnt what may be termed the alphabet of ceremonial magic_ namely, the workings of

n london at various magical and scientific experiments. during this period p. learnt what may be termed the alphabet of ceremonial magic_ namely, the workings of practical evocations, the consecrations and uses of talismans, invisibility, transformations, spiritual development, divination, and alchemical processes, the details of which are dealt with in a manuscript entitled "z.2" of the order of the golden dawn, which is divided into five books, each under one of the letters of the name hb:heh hb:vau hb:shin hb:heh hb:yod. these five books show how the 0= 0 ritual may be used as a magical formula. they are as follow: hb:yod book i practical evocation a. the magical circle. b. the magician, wearing the great lamen of the hierophant, and his scarlet robe. the hierophant's lamen is on the ba

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h p. at once recognized as that in which d.d.c.f. lived. he entered one of the rooms, which he also at once recognized but curious to say, instead of finding d.d.c.f. and v.n.r. there he found theo and mrs. horos. mr. horos (m.s.r) incarnated in the body of v.n.r. and mrs. horos (s.v.a) in that of d.d.c.f. their 176 bodies were in prison; but their spirits were in the house of the fallen chief of the golden dawn. at first frater p. was seized with horror at the sight, he knew not whether to direct a hostile current of will against d.d.c.f. and v.n.r, supposing them to be guilty of cherishing within their bodies the spirits of two disincarnated vampires, or perhaps abramelin demons under the assumed forms of s.v.a. and m.s.r, or to warn d.d.c.f; supposing him to be innocent, as he perhaps w

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other climes and men makes off that strong, persistent fool sir palamede the saracen. 30 xi sir palamede the saracen hath hied him to an holy man, sith he alone of mortal men can help him, if a mortal can (so tell him all the scythian folk) wherefore he makes a caravan, and finds him. when his prayers invoke the holy knowledge, saith the sage "this beast is he of whom there spoke the prophets of the golden age 'mark! all that mind is, he is not" sir palamede in bitter rage sterte up "is this the fool 'od wot, to see the like of whom i came from castellated camelot" the sage with eyes of burning flame cried "is it not a miracle? ay! for with folly travelleth shame, 31 and thereto at the end is hell believe! and why believe? because it is a thing impossible" sir palamede his pulses pause "i

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my lord i have borne in my womb deep-vaulted this babe for ever exalted! aleister crowley 40 the temple of solomon the king iv. the hermit with the seventh stage in the mystical progress of frater p. we arrive at a sudden and definite turning-poinjt. during the last two years he had grown strong in the magic of the west. after having studied a host of mystical systems he had entered the order of the golden dawn, and it had been a nursery to him. in it he had learnt to play with the elements and the elemental forces; but now having arrived at years of adolescence, he put away childish things, and stepped out into the world to teach himself what no school could teach him- the arcanum that pupil and master are one! he had become a 6= 5, and it now rested with him, and him alone, to climb yet

pped out into the world to teach himself what no school could teach him- the arcanum that pupil and master are one! he had become a 6= 5, and it now rested with him, and him alone, to climb yet another ridge of the great mountain and become a 7= 4, an exempt adept in the second order, master over the ruach and king over the seven worlds. by destroying those who had usurped control of the order of the golden dawn, he not only broke a link with the darkening past, but forged so might an one with the gleaming future, that soon he was destined to weld it to the all encircling chain of the great brotherhood. the golden dawn was now but a deserted derelict, mastless, rudderless, with a name of opprobrium painted across its battered stern. p. however did not abandon it to to cast himself helpless

s, with a name of opprobrium painted across its battered stern. p. however did not abandon it to to cast himself helpless into the boiling waters of discontent, but instead, he leapt on board that storm-devouring argosy of adepts which was destined to bear him far beyond the crimsoning rays of 43 this dying dawn to the mystic land where stood the great tree upon the topmost branches of which hung the golden fleece. long was he destined to travel, past lemnos and samothrace, and through colchis and the city of aeea. there, as a second jason, in the temple of hecate, in the grove of diana, under the cold rays of the moon, was he to seal that fearful pact, that pledge of fidelity to medea, mistress of enchantments. there was he to tame the two bulls, whose feet were of brass, whose horns were

he ploughed the double field- the east and the west. he sowed the dragons' teeth- the armies of doubt; and among them did he cast he stone of zoroaster given to him by medea, queen of enchantments, so that immediately they turned their weapons one against the other, and perished. and then lastly, on the mystic cup of iacchus he lulled to sleep the dragon of the illusions of life, and taking down the golden fleece accomplished the great work. then once again did he set 44 sail, and sped past circe, through scylla and carybdis; beyond the singing sisters of sicily, back to the fair plains of thessaly and the wooded slopes of olympus. and one day shall it come to pass that he will return to that far distant land where hung that fleece of gold, the fleece he brought to the children of men so

e. thus, at the beginning, i did meditate twice daily, three mediations morning and evening, upon such simple objects as- a white triangle; a red cross; isis; the simple tatwas; a wand; and the like. i remained after some three weeks for 59 1/2 minutes at one time, wherein my thought wandered 25 times. now i began also to consider more complex things: my little rose cross;4 the 46 complex tatwas; the golden dan symbol, and so on. also i began the exercise of the pendulum and other simple regular motions. wherefore to-day of venus, the 22nd of february 1901, i being in the city of guadalajara, in the hotel cosmopolita, i do begin to set down all that i accomplish in this work: and may the peace of god, which passeth all understanding, keep my heart and mind through christ jesus our lord. le

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beheld! that bore it onwards, ministers of peace within the house of wrath, servants of him that cometh forth at dawn with many-coloured lights, mounting from underneath the north, the shrine of the celestial heights["at altar" 58 he is in me, and i in him! mine is the crystal radiance that filleth aether to the brim wherein all stars and suns may dance. i am the beautiful and glad, rejoicing in the golden day. i am the spirit silken-clad that fareth on the fiery way. i have escaped from him, whose eyes are closed at eventide, and wise to drag thee to the house of wrong- i am armed! i am armed! i am strong! i am strong! i make my way: opposing horns of secret foemen push their lust in vain: my song their fury scorns; they sink, they grovel in the dust["he turns to" sol. hail, self-created

t goddess is delivered["he kneels to" sol. happy, yea, happy! happy is he that hath looked forth upon the bier that goeth to the house of rest! his heart is lit with melody; peace in his house is master of fear; his holy name is in the west 59 when the sun sinks, and royal rays of moonrise flash across the day's["he rises and faces altar" i have risen! i have risen! as a mighty hawk of gold! from the golden egg i gather, and my wings the world enfold. i alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light; companies of spirits follow me; adore the lords of night. yea, with gladness did they paean, bowing low before my car, in my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. i have risen! i am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold, i the first-born of the mother in her ecstasy of

the earth's before the sun, as the earth's before the sunset, and the god and i are one. i who entered in a fool, gain the god by clean endeavour; i am shaped as men and women, fair for ever and for ever["he turns and falls clasping" sol's "feet. all prostrate themselves in adoration" sor. scorpio "plays her solar chant<sol "in" aries "recites" the world's great age begins anew, the golden years return, the earth doth like a snake renew her winter weeds outworn; heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, like wrecks of a dissolving dream. a brighter hellas rears its mountains from waves serener far; a new peneus rolls his fountains against the morning star. where fairer tempes bloom, there sleep young cyclads on a sunnier deep. 60 a loftier argo cleaves the main, fraugh

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even i will take you unto me. 20. i ask you to sacrifice nothing at mine altar; i am the god who giveth all. 21. light, life, love; force, fantasy, fire; these do i bring you: mine hands are full of these. 22. there is joy in the setting-out; there is joy in the journey; there is joy in the goal. 23. only if ye are sorrowful, or weary, or angry, or discomforted; then ye may know that ye have lost the golden thread, the thread wherewith i guide you to the heart of the groves of eleusis. 20 24. my disciples are proud and beautiful; they are strong and swift; they rule their way like mighty conquerors. 25. the weak, the timid, the imperfect, the cowardly, the poor, the tearful- these are mine enemies, and i am come to destroy them. 26. this also is compassion: an end to the sickness of earth

liber cheth vel vallvm abiegni svb figvra clvi 23 a. a. publication in class a. imprimatur: n. fra a. a. liber cheth vel vallum abiegni svb figvra clvi 1. this is the secret of the holy graal, that is the sacred vessel of our lady the scarlet woman, babalon the mother of abominations, the bride of chaos, that rideth upon our lord the beast. 2. thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication. 3. thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. thou shalt keep not back one drop. 4. then shall thy brain be dumb, and thy heart beat no more, and all thy life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out upon the midden, and the birds of the air shall feast upon thy flesh, and thy bones shall whiten in the sun. 5. then shall the winds gather themselves

itude is one with the sigil of our fate. 44 pallid, a mummy throned, she sits; the egyptian eyes, the egyptian hair, the band on her brows, the slender hands, all hieroglyphs of a god's commands beyond the rimes that a poet knits with fruitless travail, sterile care! marvellous! marvellous, marvellous! and again a marvel, a lotus-bud dropt from the brows of a goddess unknown on the ivory steps of the golden throne, virginal brows and luminous with the star-stream flowing therein for blood. ah, but electric thrills the host of the esoteric eucharist! the pagan power of the corn and wine mystical, magical, hers and mine, the dove-plumed snake of the holy ghost that wings and writhes in the wounds unkissed! lie there, love- if i love you indeed who adore and wonder and faint for drouth of the

ing noble in that house seemeth vile to them that are swimming in the stream; and everything vile to them appeareth noble. thus they endure not the delicate stuffs with rough and impure handling; and the rubbish they carry away with them, and devour. thus wisely hath the master of the house ordained. now of the silver radiance that issueth from the darkness of the house i will say nothing; nor of the golden ray that illuminateth the darkness of the house. but for the sake of one that may come to share my bed-chamber will i speak of the last adventure. upon the breast of the river came a wild swan, singing, and for a moment rested upon mine image reflected in the water. and i said "come up hither" and the wild swan said "how shall i come up thither "i" i will guide thee "the swan" who art t

d i will break your head["she has unloosened a stone from the well and strikes him. his cheek bleeds] rinaldo["unmoved] sit there. so this is my reading of the future. i who met you in hate shall leave you in love. and there an end of the crusades! laylah. love["bitterly sarcastic] rinaldo. love["enthusiastic] laylah. i had rather a scorpion stung me. rinaldo. my crest is a scorpion["he points to the golden bejewelled crest upon his light helmet] i am thirsty. give me water. laylah. i would give water to a thirsty dog["she pours water into his hands] 77 rinaldo. for water i will give you fire. twelve hundred years ago came peace on earth and goodwill toward men through a virgin sacrifice. history repeats itself. laylah. i am on the edge of the well; but i shall not fall in. you are a reneg

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

e members dabbled in magic and witchcraft, blackand white, the former for revenge and even murder, the latter for healing, divination and self-preferment. by the time levi died in 1875, he had paved the way for a renaissance in witchcraft. aleister crowley was born in the same year and he came to consider himself the reincarnation of levi. when crowley was in his twenties he joined the society of the golden dawn, of which w. b. yeats was a member, and he became a skilled magician. before long he was recognized as an incurable practitioner of black witchcraft, by which means he indulged 7 of competent writers have already dealt with this subjectdr margaret murray, for one, in her witch cult in western europe. i have merely attempted to portray the world of alex sanders, to describe the life

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

them. it is the effort in the abstract mind to pass an examination. it is the honour class in the master's school, and is within the attainment of those souls whose karma permits and whose efforts suffice to fulfil the aim. initiation leads to the mount whence vision can be had, a vision of the eternal now, wherein past, present, and future exist as one; a vision of the pageant of the races with the golden thread of pedigree carried through the many types; a vision of the golden sphere that holds in unison all the many evolutions of our system, deva, human, animal, vegetable, mineral, and elemental, and through which the pulsating life can be clearly seen beating in regular rhythm; a vision of the logoic thoughtform on the archetypal plane, a vision that grows from initiation to initiatio

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

oint of the eternal now, and from the unity of the all-self. the vishnu or the love-wisdom aspect is latent in the self, and is part of the monadic content, but the brahma aspect, the activity-intelligence aspect precedes its manifestation in time. the tabernacle in the wilderness preceded the building of the temple of solomon; the kernel of wheat has to lie in the darkness of mother earth before the golden perfected ear can be seen, and the lotus has to cast its roots down into the mud before the beauty of the blossom can be produced. the second period, wherein the egoic ray holds sway, is not so long comparatively; it covers the period wherein the fourth and fifth triangles are being vivified, and marks the lives wherein the man throws his forces on the side of evolution, disciplines his

lved in the building process, or the occupiers of forms of some degree of density or another. hierarchy i. the first great hierarchy is emanated from the heart of the central spiritual sun.32(297) it is the son of god himself, the first born in a cosmic sense, even as the christ was the "eldest in a vast family of brothers" and the "first flower on the human plant" the symbol of this hierarchy is the golden lotus with its twelve petals folded. it should be remembered that this hierarchy is literally the sixth, for five hierarchies have passed on, being the product of the earlier system, that wherein intelligence or manas was the goal. the five liberated hierarchies are in their totality the sumtotal of manas. it is the hierarchy which is the fifth in order, and which we are told is in proc

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

the yoga sutras of patanjali with commentary by alice a. bailey copyright 1927 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1955 by lucis trust "before the soul can see, the harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion. before the soul can hear, the image (man) has to become as deaf to roarings as to whispers, to cries of bellowing elephants as to the silvery buzzing of the golden fire-fly. before the soul can comprehend and may remember, she must unto the silent speaker be united, just as the form to which the clay is modelled is first united with the potter's mind. for then the soul will hear, and will remember. and then to the inner ear will speak the voice of the silence. from the voice of the silence. introductory remarks the science of raja yoga, or the "ki

alted one. when the happy one had thus spoken, the master added this further: blind to the fourfold aryan truths of things, and blind to see things as they really are, long was our journeying thro' divers births. gone is the cord of life when these are seen. no more becoming when ill's root is cut" the four elements have been stated for us in the following extract from the secret doctrine (i. 95 "the golden egg was surrounded by seven natural elements, four ready (ether, fire, air, water, three secret" 11. their activities are to be done away with through the meditation process. the "opposing mental attitude" referred to in the previous sutra has distinct reference to the seeds or the latent tendencies as they subsist in the mental body and in the body of desire. this mental attitude has t

he one sentient existence; back of objective nature, the sum total of all forms in all the kingdoms of nature is found the subjective reality which is essentially a unified whole or unity, producing the diversified many. the homogeneous is the cause of the heterogeneous, unity produces diversity, the one is responsible for the many. this the student can appreciate more intelligently if he follows the golden rule which reveals the mystery of creation and studies himself. the microcosm reveals the nature of the macrocosm. he will find that he, the real or spiritual man, the thinker, or the one life in his tiny system, is responsible for the creation of his mental, emotional and physical bodies, his three lower aspects, the "shadow" of the trinity, just as his spirit, soul and body are the re

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

y emotional and sensory awareness and in this state millions remain at this time. but other millions are progressing beyond this into another and higher field of awareness which we call that of the mind. still another group, much fewer in number, are passing into a sphere where a universal range of contacts becomes possible. these we call the knowers of the race. through all methods employed runs the golden thread of divine purpose, and the way by which the transfer of the human consciousness into that of soul realization and soul awareness is effected is that of meditation. this process of unveiling the self through the negation of the form-side of life and the eventual inability of the various sheaths to hide it, can be described in terms of transmutation as well as in those of transfere

perception, a brotherliness for one's co-disciple, a readiness to give and receive advice and instruction..a willing obedience to the behests of truth..a courageous endurance of personal injustice, a brave declaration of principles, a valiant defence of those who are unjustly attacked, and a constant eye to the ideal of human progression and perfection which the secret science depicts; these are the golden stairs up the steps of which the learner may climb to the temple of divine wisdom" h. p. blavatsky the meditation work outline in the previous chapter constitutes a good concentration exercise for the beginner and will eventually lead him if he possesses persistence to the genuine practice of meditation. a concentration that lasts one minute is difficult to achieve but is a real step up

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

le of prana which is the body of golden light, or rather the flame coloured vehicle. there is the body of "dark light, which is the occult way of referring to the hidden light of the physical body, and to the light latent in the atom itself. these three types of energy are referred to in the old commentary under the following symbolic terms "when the radiant light of the solar angel is fused with the golden light of the cosmic intermediary, it awakens from darkness the rush light of anu, the speck" the "cosmic intermediary" is the term given to the etheric body, which is part and parcel of the universal ether. it is through the etheric body that all the energies flow, whether emanating from- 63- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the soul, or from the sun, or from a plane

im slowly and surely that the deciding factor in the struggle is his divine will, in contradistinction to his selfish will. thus the dual forces play their part until they are seen as two great streams of divine energy, pulling in opposite directions, and he becomes then aware of the two paths, mentioned in our rule. one path leads back into the dreary land of rebirth, and the other leads through the golden gate to the city of free souls. one is therefore involutionary and involves him in deepest matter; the other leads him out of the body nature, and makes him eventually aware of his spiritual body, through which he can function in the kingdom of the soul. one path, later on (when he is a true and pledged chela) is known to him as the left hand path and the other the path of right activit

the race and their contribution to the pageant of the progress of mankind stands out with clarity. i have not the time to take this procession of groups, each custodian of a special contribution, and trace for you the work they did or the subjective impulses under which they worked. i can but indicate the trend of their endeavour, and leave to some illumined student of history the delineation of the golden thread of their spiritual work as they raised the mental standard of the race and put man en rapport with the world in which he lived, opening his eyes not only to the nature of matter and of form but also to the hidden depths of his own being. through their activities we now have a humanity in close relation, though not at-one, and a humanity characterised by three things: 1. an amazin

are willing to become as little children they will be found to be a safe guide into truth and will eventually make them able to pass the tests for adeptship. some are couched in terms symbolic, others are necessarily blinds, still others express the truth just as it is. 1. view the world of thought, and separate the false out of the true. 2. learn the meaning of illusion, and in its midst locate the golden thread of truth. 3. control the body of emotion for the waves that rise upon the stormy seas of life engulf the swimmer, shut out the sun and render all plans futile. 4. discover that thou hast a mind and learn its dual use. 5. concentrate the thinking principle, and be the master of thy mental world. 6. learn that the thinker and his thought and that which is the means of thought are d

lace. they have, as i oft times have said, to learn to work subjectively, and this they must do in order to preserve in this cycle of activity and exoteric expression the power, latent in all, to withdraw into the centre. they constitute the door, speaking symbolically. capacities and powers can die out for lack of use; the power of divine abstraction and the faculty to find what has been called "the golden path which leads to the clear pool and from thence to the temple of retreat" must not be lost. this is the first work of the group of world mystics, and they must keep the path open and the way clear of obstructions. otherwise white magic might temporarily die out and the selfish purposes of the form nature assume undue control. this dire event happened in atlantean days and the then gr

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

e human being emerges, a son of god incarnate in form, with one hand (as the old commentary says) holding firmly to the rock of matter and with the other hand plunged into a sea of love. an ancient scripture puts it thus "when the right hand of the man of matter grasps the flower of life and plucks it for himself, the left hand remains in emptiness "when the right hand of the man of matter grasps the golden lotus of the soul, the left descends seeking the flower of life, though he seeks it not for selfish ends "when the right hand holds the golden lotus firm and the left hand grasps the flower of life, man finds himself to be the seven-leaved plant which flowers on earth and flowers before the throne of god" the purpose of deity, as it is known to the creator, is totally unknown to all sav

is the seven goes forth a word. that word reverberates along the line of fiery essence, and when it sounds within the circle of the human lives it takes the form of affirmation, an uttered fiat or word of power. thus there is impressed upon the living mold the thought of (the hidden, inexpressible ray name) let dynamic power, electric light, reveal the past, destroy the form that is, and open up the golden door. this door reveals the way which leads towards the centre where dwells the one whose name cannot be heard within the confines of our solar sphere. his robe of blue veils his eternal purpose, but in the rising and the setting sun his orb of red is seen. his word is power. his light, electric. the lightning is his symbol. his will is hidden in the- 44- a treatise on the seven rays- v

g five names, which are an attempt on my part to interpret symbolically the ancient name or sign: 1. the mineral kingdom. the secret of the brilliance of the light. 2. the vegetable kingdom .t he secret of the sacred perfume. 3. the animal kingdom. the secret of the following scent. 4. the human kingdom. the secret of the double path or of the double breath. 5. the kingdom of souls..the secret of the golden rose of light. the symbolic forms in which these five secrets are hidden, and so conveyed to the intelligence of the initiate, are as follows: 1. the mineral secret .a diamond, blue white in colour. 2. the vegetable secret. a cube of sandalwood in the heart of the lotus. 3. the animal secret. a bunch of cypress, over a funeral urn. 4. the human secret. a twisted golden cord, with seven

to the door of that peculiar initiatory process which we call for lack of a better term individualisation. they wait in that condition until the word goes forth that that door may- 164- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust be passed which will admit them to..the triple way that leads to the dual road, by treading which they stand at last before the golden door. this final door ushers them upon that path which is the one, alone and single, and disappears into the light. old commentary. the factors which determine individualisation are several in number, and some of them might be enumerated as follows: 1. the response of the instinctive nature of the animal to the mental atmosphere of the human being, or beings, with which it is surrounded

should govern the life of man, particularly where sex is concerned, and by indicating as far as i can and dare why and how the present peculiar and unique conditions have been brought about. i may also be able to make certain suggestions which, when duly considered, may help to clear from the mind those false and illusory views which prevent man from seeing truly, and i may thus help him to find the golden thread of light which will lead him to his solution in due time. one thing i will say, sad though it may seem to you to be. there is no immediate solution of the problem of sex with which we are at this time confronted. for ages men have misused and wrongly employed a god-given function; they have prostituted their birthright, and through their laxity and license, and through their lack

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

three friends upon the mount of transfiguration. in one of the ancient scriptures of india, quoted by dr. otto, there is an attempt to express or reveal that divine essential spirit manifested at the transfiguration- 93- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust "finer than the fine yet am i greatest, i am the all in its complete fullness, i, the most ancient, the spirit, the lord god. the golden-gleaming am i, of form divine. without hand and foot, rich in unthinkable might, sight without eyes, hearing without ears, free from all form, i know. but me none knows. for i am spirit, am being" 9 the mass of literature that has been written in an attempt to portray the wonder of the transfiguration and the vision of god, is an outstanding phenomenon of the religious life, and one of

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

resence felt. this will at first increase the world difficulty; hence the need to make the meaning of these laws clear, their objectives simple and their potencies understandable. 1. the law of sacrifice the section upon which we now enter in our studies will be difficult and controversial. the thread which will guide us out of the bewildering maze of thought into which we must perforce enter, is the golden one of group love, group understanding, group relations and group conduct. no. exoteric esoteric name name symbol ray energy 1. the law of the law of those a rosy cross outpouring fourth sacrifice. who choose to die. with a golden ray, at-one-ing bird. energy. this law of sacrifice, which is the first of the laws to be grasped by the human intelligence, and is therefore the easiest for

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

it is foundational in nature and will have to be accepted and somewhat understood prior to successful work in all these pioneering groups. think outwardly towards each other in love. just simply that, my brothers simply and humbly that and no more than that at present. can you accept such a simple rule apparently simple? in this way the etheric body of this group of disciples will be animated by the golden energy and the light of love and thus a network of light will be- 62- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust established which will form a focal point of energy in the etheric body of humanity itself and eventually in the planetary etheric body also. 3. the general group objective. this is the shifting of consciousness of all integrated human beings in increasi

nities to aid and help. this expansion should continue and should evidence a growing sensitivity on your part to world need. third, you are conscious (are you not, my brother) of a fresh source of illumination and inspiration and that the past year has greatly strengthened your realisation. speaking symbolically, the path of discipleship is now real to you; the hitherto dim and distant portals of the golden gate which lie ahead are not so dim and distant. their outline is more clear and the "sound which issues forth" conveys now somewhat to your inner sense of hearing. you are, as i believe i earlier told you, a pledged sannyasin. that carries with it joy, but responsibility; discipline but realised gain. the work to be done by a sannyasin lies ever in the realm of increasing realisation

ading from where you stand to a vast two-leaved door. b. then see, rolling along this path a disk or wheel of rose, which you send forth and which eventually disappears through the door. c. then send along the same track a disk of vivid green, and follow it by a disk of golden yellow, both of which disappear the same way. d. then send a disk or wheel of a radiant, electric blue, which rolls along the golden path but which does not enter through the door but remains there, hiding the door from sight. e. picture then yourself as standing before the electric blue disk, having traversed the golden path- 230- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust and there meditating upon the following words "i am the way myself, the door am i. i am the golden path and in the light of

next say "may the light of the soul direct" and visualise that light pouring upon your daily path. bring into that light your group problems which you may have to solve and face, and face them and handle them in the light. 7. finish the rest of the invocation, saying the words with all the power of your soul behind them. add the mantram i earlier gave you "i am the way myself, the door am i. i am the golden path and in the light of my own light i tread that way. i enter through the door. i turn and radiate the light" 8. sound the a.u.m. as before. let not the things of the personality upset in any way your equilibrium, my brother. preserve as heretofore that inner silence that guards the secrets of the soul, and the way your soul has indicated the way that you should go. detachment from th

nts which are undertaken on higher levels of astral awareness. the problem of the disciple is to reach a point where he is not hindered or held back by any human being and yet so to handle himself as far as attitude is concerned that he hurts no one in the process of withdrawal. the outer personality claims of attachment are oft so powerful that their clatter and their rattle prevent awareness of the golden thread which links us with another soul. likewise, overestimation of another person can act as a real hindrance. the chains must break, leaving only a golden thread between each soul a golden thread which cannot break. two things i would impress upon you at this time, and upon them i would ask you to work until the next period comes around. first, deepen your power of expression and beg

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

right 1998 lucis trust or national thievery, then education will concern itself with the right perception and use of ideas, of their transformation into working ideals and their application as the will-to-good, the will-to-truth and the will-to-beauty. thus a much needed alteration of humanity's aims from our present competitive and materialistic objectives into those that will more fully express the golden rule will come about and right relations between individuals, groups, parties, nations and throughout the entire international world will be established. increasingly, education should be concerned with the wholes of life as well as with the details of daily individual living. the child, as an individual, will be developed and equipped, trained and motivated and then taught his responsi

derstanding of right human relations, an international group of men of goodwill trusted and chosen by the people should safeguard these potencies. if this energy is released into constructive channels and if it remains safely guarded by the right men, the capitalistic system is doomed. the problem of labour will then be the major problem of unemployment a dreaded word which will be meaningless in the golden age which lies ahead. the masses will then be faced by the problem of leisure. this is a problem which when faced and solved will release the creative energy of man into channels undreamed of today- 48- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust the release of atomic energy is the first of many great releases in all the kingdoms of nature; the great release still ahead of humanity

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

yet, in the new testament, that recognition is clearly revealed and colours the presentation of the entire gospel story. it is found also in the old testament. what was the sin of the children of israel in the desert but a reversion to the old mithraic worship which distinguished the time when the sun was "in the sign of taurus, the bull" as it is technically called. they fell down and worshipped the golden calf and forgot the new teaching of the age of aries, the ram, into which they were entering, the teaching of the scapegoat which colours jewish history. the fact that christ was the teacher of the new period into which the sun was entering, the period of pisces, is forgotten, but is clearly evidenced in the fish symbology which runs consistently through all four gospels; the symbol of

, and as the theme of food occupies the attention of legislators everywhere. this sharing, beginning on the physical plane, will prove equally true of all human relations and this will be the great gift of the aquarian age to humanity. this the church has ignored and yet their ecclesiastics cannot explain away the fact that the jews demonstrated their liking for the taurian worship of the bull in the golden calf, that the jewish dispensation used the symbol of the scapegoat or ram in the age of aries, the ram, and that the christian emphasises the fish in the piscean era, the christian era. christ came to bring to an end the jewish dispensation which should have climaxed and passed away as a religion with the movement of the sun out of aries into pisces. he, therefore, presented himself to

ed to the world as the living scapegoat, bearing away the sins of the people, and thus originating the doctrine of the vicarious at-one-ment. it was st. paul who was responsible for this emphasis. a paralleling instance of a similar distortion was also of jewish origin and appeared in the early stages of the cycle of aries, the ram. we are told that the children of israel fell down and worshipped the golden calf, the symbol of taurus, the bull; this was the preceding astronomical cycle. these are astronomical cycles and not a presented astrology. in the early stages of aries, the teaching reverted to that of taurus and in the early stages of pisces, it reverted to that of aries and thus set the seal of retrogression upon the teaching which now controls so many orthodox christians. buddha a

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

his heart and show his fellowmen the nature of his hidden life; a purse of gold, which he scatters not upon the road but shares with others; a sealed vase, wherein he carries all his aspiration to cast before the feet of him who waits to greet him at the gate a sealed vase. vi. the pilgrim, as he walks upon the road, must have the open ear, the giving hand, the silent tongue, the chastened heart, the golden voice, the rapid foot, and the open eye which sees the light. he knows he travels not alone. the illusion of power is perhaps one of the first and most serious tests which comes to an aspirant. it is also one of the best examples of this "great mistake" and i therefore bring it to your attention as being one against which i beg you most carefully to guard yourself. it is rare indeed for

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

se involved in the building process, or the occupiers of forms of some degree of density or another. hierarchy i. the first great hierarchy is emanated from the heart of the central spiritual sun. it is the son of god himself, the first born in a cosmic sense, even as the christ was the "eldest in a vast family of brothers" and the "first flower on the human plant" the symbol of this hierarchy is the golden lotus with its twelve petals folded. the secret doctrine i. 233-250. iii. 565. it should be remembered that this hierarchy is literally the sixth, for five hierarchies have passed on, being the product of the earlier system, that wherein intelligence or manas was the goal. the five liberated hierarchies are in their totality the sum total of manas. it is the hierarchy which is the fifth

carried a little further, it might be stated that: 1. the ram leads us into the creative life of earth and into the darkness of matter. this is the blue of midnight- 94- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. the bull leads into the places of desire in search of "wrathful satisfaction" this is the red of greed and anger, changing eventually into the golden light of illumination. 3. the goat leads us into arid ways in search of food and water. this is the "need for green" but the goat is equal also to climbing to the mountain top. this is the experience of the mutable cross in connection with these three signs. upon the fixed cross: 1. eventually the ram becomes the scapegoat and the will of god in love and salvage is demonstrated. 2. the

nary man. in libra, the point of balance or equilibrium is attained between material personal desire and intelligent spiritual love, for the two qualities of cosmic desire are brought to the fore in the consciousness in libra and balanced one against the other. in capricorn, it stands for spiritual love, expressing itself perfectly when the work in taurus and libra has been accomplished. thus can the golden thread of evolutionary progress be traced throughout the zodiacal path from sign to sign, and thus the history of humanity can he seen and its goal visioned. at some later date, the same golden thread can be traced in connection with the other kingdoms in nature, but the time is not yet and such a theme would prove profitless and unimportant. when, however, the consciousness of man is o

reaches our solar system primarily through gemini, which forms, with the constellation of the great bear and the pleiades, a cosmic triangle. this is the triangle of the cosmic christ and is the esoteric symbol lying behind the cosmic cross. there is ever the eternal triangle to be found behind the fourfold phenomenal appearance. speaking symbolically and in the words of the old commentary "upon the golden triangle, the cosmic christ appeared; his head in gemini; one foot upon the field of the seven fathers and the other planted in the field of the seven mothers (these two- 206- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust constellations are sometimes called the seven brothers and the seven sisters. a.a.b. thus for aeons, the great one stood, his

e outer body of humanity, viewing all human beings as a unit. again, gold is the symbol which today governs man's desires whether national, economic or religious; it is connected with this sign and this is one of the indications that today the conflict in the world economic situation is based upon the upwelling of desire. in an esoteric way, therefore quoting from a very ancient book of prophecy "the golden eye of taurus points the way to those who likewise see. that which is gold will some day, too, respond, passing from east to west in that dire time when the urge to gather gold shall rule the lower half (i.e, the personality aspect of men and of nations a.a.b. the search for gold, the search for golden light divine, directs the bull of life, the bull of form. these two must meet; and me

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

the children of israel out of egypt the sun was in the sign taurus. it was passing through the sign of the bull. we then had the appearance on earth of the mithraic mysteries which centered around the sacrifice of the sacred bull. the sin of the children of israel in the wilderness which so aroused the anger of moses when he descended from the mount of the lord and found them falling down before the golden calf was that they had reverted to a past and obsolete religion which they should have left behind. the jewish dispensation itself was governed by the sign of aries, the ram, through which the sun was passing for the next 2,000 years. then we have the appearance of the scapegoat in jewish history. we have the bible story of the ram caught in the thicket and all this was due to the influ

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

bject of attention, retrogression is indicated; and this is why all profound attention to the physical disciplines, to vegetarianism, to diet and to fasting, and to the present modes of (so-called) mental and divine healing, are undesirable and not in line with the projected plan. therefore undue consideration and excessive emphasis upon the physical body is reactionary and is like the worship of the golden calf by the children of israel; it is reversion to that which at one time was of importance but today should be relegated to a minor position and below the threshold of consciousness. i have dealt with this here because in law vii the fact of the endocrine glands is brought to our attention, and it is necessary that we approach this subject from the right point of view. the endocrine gl

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

wars and international or national thievery, then education will concern itself with the right perception and use of ideas, of their transformation into working ideals and their application as the will-to-good, the will-to-truth and the will-to-beauty. thus a much needed alteration of humanity's aims from our present competitive and materialistic objectives into those that will more fully express the golden rule will come about and right relations between individuals, groups, parties, nations and throughout the entire international world will be established. increasingly, education should be concerned with the wholes of life as well as with the details of daily individual living. the child, as an individual, will be developed and equipped, trained and motivated and taught then his responsi

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

d with a constant realisation of a retreat inward, a heightening of his vibration, and a raising of his consciousness. b. on the day of the full moon, you were asked to go through a symbolic performance in the realm of the creative imagination, and through the medium of its agent, visualisation. this performance involved the following steps: 1. the recognition that in the blue disk, at the end of the golden pathway, was an ivory door which was slowly opening into a room with three windows. 2. the recognition that the group, as a unit, was advancing into that room and there, united in an- 40- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust act of solemn dedication, stands ready for revelation. 3. the recognition, by the group, of me, your teacher and tibetan brother, and t

s upon your monthly reports. i am also going to change the words spoken and am choosing phrases which will convey a pictorial connotation to your minds; in this way the power- 51- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust of visualisation will be evoked and aid you in registering what i say. here are the phrases among which i shall choose one for each full moon contact. 1. the golden lotus of the heart. 7. the triangle of fire. 2. the burning ground of fiery red. 8. the golden way to god. 3. the mountain top, bathed in the morning sunrise. 9. the ocean and the rocky shore. 4. the uplifted hand. 10. the silver torch. 5. the equal four-armed cross. 11. the iridescent cube. 6. the open door. 12. the burning bush. i shall picture these to you and name them in your heari

ymbolic sentences as your theme for reflection, during the next few years. they will suffice to meet your need and to evoke in you the necessary spiritual attitudes. i. the cross, erected high, reaches from the pinnacle upon which i stand into the place of light- 456- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust where dwells my master. against that cross there rests a ladder. the golden cross and the ladder of pure light are one, and by their means i rise. upward i look and see an outstretched hand. downward i look and see the many hands demanding aid. with gladness and with hope, i recognise the purpose of the two hands i possess. i climb the ladder, hard as it may seem, with both my hands outstretched the one above my head to find it clasped with strength, the other

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

tionary and has not followed the evolutionary passage of the sun through the zodiac. that passage should and does symbolise human evolution, and just as the sin of the children of israel in the wilderness was their reverting to a dispensation and religious ritual which had passed and gone (the religion of the people in the time of taurus, the bull, symbolised by their falling down and worshipping the golden calf, so today modern masonry is in line to do the same; and the ancient usages and forms, consistent and right in the jewish dispensation, are now obsolete and should be abrogated. it is equally true of the jewish race that in the rejection of the christ as the messiah they have remained, metaphorically and practically, in the sign of aries, the ram, or of the scapegoat; they have yet

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

the meaning of the myth the sign the three initial impulses in aries the sign of the mind constellations in aries the crux of the test labor ii the capture of the cretan bull the myth the meaning of the labor four symbolic words the story of the labor the theme of illumination the theme of sex significance of the constellations nature of the tests the disciple and sex labor iii- part 1 gathering the golden apples of the hesperides the myth the nature of the test- 1- the symbols labor iii- part 2 gathering the golden apples of the hesperides the field of the labor the three symbolic constellations the lesson of the labor labor iv- part 1 the capture of the doe or hind the myth synthesis of the signs meaning of the story labor iv- part 2 the capture of the doe or hind qualities of the sign

hercules reposed upon the grass and rested from his labor. later the teacher turned to hercules and said "labor the second is performed, and easy was the task. learn from this task the lesson of proportion. strength to perform the arduous task; a willingness to do the task which taxes not your powers; such are two lessons learnt. rise soon and seek the country, guarded by gate the third, and find the golden apples. bring them here. the tibetan (djwhal khul- 27- the labours of hercules the meaning of the labor in spite of all initial partial failure, hercules has made his start. in line with the universal law he has begun his work oil the mental plane. in the working out of the creative plan, thought-impulse is followed by desire. that state of consciousness, which we call mental, is succee

hysical plane life. these divine aspects constitute the controlling factor and once they have gained possession of the sacred bull, the problem of hercules is solved. the two keywords of taurus are (from esoteric astrology, p. 403: 1 "let struggle be undismayed (the form aspect) 2 "i see and when the eye is opened, all is light (the soul aspect [54- 34- the labours of hercules labor iii gathering the golden apples of the hesperides- part 1 (gemini, may 21st- june 20th) the myth the great presiding one, within the council chamber of the lord, had watched the labors of the son of man who is a son of god. he and the teacher saw the third great gate, opening before the son of man, revealing a new chance to tread the way. they noted how the laborer arose and prepared to enter on his task "send

to tread the way. they noted how the laborer arose and prepared to enter on his task "send out the word to guard the sacred tree. let hercules unfold the power to search without discouragement, deception or too great a speed. let perseverance now be called upon. he has done well so far" and thus the word went forth. far in a distant country grew the sacred tree, the tree of wisdom, and on it grew the golden apples of the hesperides. the fame of these sweet fruits had gone to distant lands, and all the sons of men who knew themselves to be likewise the sons of god desired them. hercules, too, knew of these fruits, and when the word went forth to seek for them he sought the teacher, asking him the way to go and find the sacred tree and pick the apples "tell me the way, o teacher of my soul

s faded from mind; he only sought to aid the giant and that without delay; forward he rushed and eagerly removed the load, lifting it off the shoulders of his brother onto his own back, shouldering the burden of the worlds himself. he closed his eyes, bracing himself with effort, and lo! the load rolled off, and he stood free, and likewise atlas. before him stood the giant and in his hand he held the golden apples, offering them, with love, to hercules. the search was o'er. the sisters three held still more golden apples, and pressed them likewise into his hands, and aegle, that fair maid who is the glory of the setting sun, said unto him, placing an apple in his hand "the way to us is always marked by service. deeds of love are signposts on the way" then erytheia, who keeps the gate which

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

rtitioned by stages, framed by an introduction and a concluding statement on the secret text. the introduction outlines four so-called scrolls that are the four stages by which tsiu marpo and his retinue are summoned and directed toward the ritual goal. the first stage, the outer offerings, initially attracts tsiu marpo and his riders, who assemble before the ritual performer. these offerings are the golden and turquoise drinks, signified by bowls of colored water or beer. 2.22. second stage [summon] by means of the inner cane whip the second stage, the inner cane whip, lures the deities further by striking a ritual whip during the mantra recitation, followed by other ritual activities. it is at this point that the deities are entreated to perform specific deeds that the practitioner expre

teachings and perform proper activities. the next offering is of food, specifically raw meat. again, most of these offerings are symbolic and thus represented by colored water or tormas. however, actual tibetan beer (chang) is used for the beer offerings, and many g nkhangs, which house the statues of fierce deities such as tsiu marpo, are filled with the overpowering scent of alcohol that fills the golden chalices placed in front of the statues. once these offerings are made and, presumably, accepted, the performer confesses all his faults and misdeeds. this confession is necessary before the performer s monastic vows as well as tsiu marpo s vow to protect the buddhist teachings can be properly amended. to secure this, amendment offerings are then made to tsiu marpo. these offerings are

became angry and summoned his servants and attendants. they311 departed in order to kill the monk. then the princess related the story of what had happened.312 the ministers and retinue did not listen to her words. because of this, with a malicious mind, she made an evil prayer.313 leaping314 into an abyss,315 she committed suicide. then the monk heard that. upon being incited,316 he fled, riding the golden powerful one.317 due to malicious, evil intentions, he318 regressed in his practice. he went toward the him.layas319 and in the kingdom of that king,320 the monk killed321 the men and raped the 300 which has past (tib. rdzogs ldan; skt. k.tayuga. this is the first of four eras in the indo-tibetan cosmological timeline. the three that follow are the gnyis ldan, sum ldan, rtsod ldan (ages

ct without hesitation" entrust this praise and the enlightened activities; carry the tormas to the pure site. 529 this represents angry laughter. 530 unknown. 199 1.7 departing food and drink offerings (8b.3-9b.3 "depart, depart, great war deity! having taken the thanksgiving torma, depart! having taken the drinks of blood, depart! having taken the drinks of the might demons, depart! having taken the golden food and drink, depart! having taken the red food offerings, depart! having taken the delicious foods, depart! since you destroyed the enemy, swiftly depart" saying this, make the departing torma and departing request, and when you ve made the petition offering for many days, perform it at a later time "kye (9a) receive these the fierce intense radiance endowed with the power of the end

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power them; either subconsciously or consciously, thus by the adept becoming does the godform become. deific energy is a source not only based within the blood of the practitioner, of the atavistic or primal recesses of the human mind. this deific energy or power may be recalled into the flesh and conscious mind of the practitioner, thus one finds the knowledge undertaken by earlier sects such as the golden dawn, the maskhara of the arabic and asian tribes, austin osman spare s zos kia cultus, etc. there are numerous rituals explored by luciferian sabbat practitioners within the order of phosphorus and the black order of the dragon which utilize old methods of lycanthropy and the shedding of flesh, of shape shifting by dream in therion form to go forth to the erotic convulsions of the infe

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

auteous daughter of the ether, passed for ages her existence in the great expanse of heaven. seven hundred years she wandered, seven hundred years she laboured, ere her first-born was delivered. ere a beauteous duck descending, hastens toward the water-mother. lightly on the knee she settles, finds a nesting-place befitting, where to lay her eggs in safety, lays her eggs within, at pleasure, six, the golden eggs she lays them, then a seventh, an egg of iron (kalevala, rune i[[vol. 2, page] 15 stanzas from the book of dzyan. anthropogenesis in the secret volume (verbatim extracts) i. 1. the lha which turns the fourth is subservient to the lha of the seven, they who revolve driving their chariots around their lord, the one eye. his breath gave life to the seven; it gave life to the first. 2

dance upon the sun in its course; and he was called the nuntis, or sun-wolf "solaris luminis particeps" he was the leader of and the evocator of souls, the "great magician" and the hierophant. virgil depicts him as taking "his wand to evoke from orcus the souls plunged therein- tum virgam capit, hac animas ille evocat orco (see also the 21st fargard of the vendidad on the celestial militia) he is the golden-coloured mercury, the[[chrusophaes hermes] whom the hierophants forbade to name. he is symbolised in grecian mythology by one of the dogs (vigilance, which watch over the celestial flock (occult wisdom, or hermes anubis, or again agathodaemon. he is the argus watching over the earth, and which the latter mistakes for the sun itself. it is through the intercession of mercury that the emp

t and the most wise of all the gods, which is not to be wondered at, since mercury is in such close proximity to the wisdom and the word of god (the sun) that he was confused with both (idolatry, vol. ii, p. 373) vossius utters here a greater occult truth than he suspected. the hermes-sarameyas of the greeks is closely related to the hindu saram and sarameya, the divine watchman "who watches over the golden flock of stars and solar rays" in the clearer words of the commentary "the globe, propelled onward by the spirit of the earth and his six assistants[[footnote(s* copernicus wrote his theories on the "revolution of the heavenly bodies" in the xvith century, and the zohar, even if compiled by moses de leon in the xiiith century, states that "in the book of hammannunah, the old, we learn

th. but the true esoteric meaning is that most of them were destined to incarnate as the egos of the forthcoming crop of mankind. the human ego is neither atman nor buddhi, but the higher manas: the intellectual fruition and the efflorescence of the intellectual self-conscious egotism- in the higher spiritual sense. the ancient works refer to it as karana sarira on the plane of sutratma, which is the golden thread on which, like beads, the various personalities of this higher ego are strung. if the reader were told, as in the semi-esoteric allegories, that these beings were returning nirvanees, from preceding maha-manvantaras- ages of incalculable dura[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] yogis are shown in the puranas to be far more powerful than the gods. secondary gods or

creative progenitors, having of course neither astral nor physical bodies of their own- this race never died. its "men" melted gradually away, becoming absorbed in the bodies of their own "sweat-born" progeny, more solid than their own. the old form vanished and was absorbed by, disappeared in, the new form, more human and physical. there was no death in those days of a period more blissful than the golden age; but the first, or parent material was used for the formation of the new being, to form the body and even the inner or lower principles or bodies of the progeny (c) when the shadow retires, i.e. when the astral body becomes covered with more solid flesh, man develops a physical body. the "wing" or the ethereal form that produced its shadow and image, became the shadow of the astral

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

a of israel" fatally glowed. over the portals of our own, the future seer may discern other words, that will point to the karma for cunningly made-up history, for events purposely perverted, and for great characters slandered by posterity, mangled out of recognition, between the two cars of jagannatha- bigotry and materialism; one accepting too much, the other denying all. wise is he who holds to the golden mid-point, who believes in the eternal justice of things. says faigi diwan, the "witness to the wonderful speeches of a free-thinker who belongs to a thousand sects "in the assembly of the day of resurrection, when past things shall be forgiven, the sins of the ka'bah will be forgiven for the sake of the dust of christian churches" to this, professor max muller replies "the sins of isla

rgin mother- chaos or the primeval deep. the male creator (under whatever name) springs forth from the virgin female, the immaculate root fructified by the ray. who, if versed in astronomy and natural sciences, can fail to see its suggestiveness? cosmos as receptive nature is an egg fructified- yet left immaculate; once regarded as boundless, it could have no other representation than a spheroid. the golden egg was surrounded by seven natural elements (ether, fire, air, water "four ready, three secret" it may be found[[vol. 1, page] 66 the secret doctrine. stated in vishnu purana, where elements are translated "envelopes" and a secret one is added "aham-kara (see wilson's vishnu purana, book i, p. 40. the original text has no "aham-kara" it mentions seven elements without specifying the la

onymic name, as they spring from the "four-fold mystery" to make the whole clearer we have to turn for our illustrations to tenets more familiar to some of our readers, namely, the brahminical. according to manu, hiranyagarbha is brahma the first male formed by the undiscernible causeless cause in a "golden egg resplendent as the sun" as states the hindu classical dictionary "hiranyagarbha" means the golden, or rather the "effulgent womb" or egg. the meaning tallies awkwardly with the epithet of "male" surely the esoteric meaning of the sentence is clear enough. in the rig veda it is said "that, the one lord of all beings. the one animating principle of gods and man" arose, in the beginning, in the golden womb, hiranyagarbha- which is the mundane egg or sphere of our universe. that being i

showed himself either unwilling to give out more, because he knew that truth which has to be kept from the profane, or else he was really puzzled. still, what he does give out makes the septenary principle in men and nature plain enough. let us begin with chapter 1. of the "ordinances" or "laws" after the self-existent lord, the unmanifesting logos of the unknown "darkness" becomes manifested in the golden egg. it is from this "egg" from (11) that which is the undiscrete (undifferentiated) cause, eternal, which is and is not, from it issued that male who is called in the world brahma. here we find, as in all genuine philosophical systems, even the "egg" or the circle (or zero, boundless infinity, referred to as it* and brahma, the first unit only, referred to as the male god, i.e, the fru

in principalities, powers, angels, etc, etc" by these (angels) the 365 aeons were created "amongst the lowest, indeed, and those who made this world, he (basilides) sets last of all the god of the jews, whom he denies to be god (and very rightly, affirming he is one of the angels (ibid. here, then, we find the same system as in the puranas, wherein the incomprehensible drops a seed, which becomes the golden egg, from which brahma is produced. brahma produces mahat, etc, etc. true esoteric philosophy, however, speaks neither of "creation" nor of "evolution" in the sense the exoteric religions do. all these personified powers are not evolutions from one another, but so many aspects of the one and sole manifestation of the absolute all. the same system as the gnostic prevails in the sephiroth

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abalah, with commentary. a good elementary introduction to the subject. konx om pax. four invaluable treatises and a preface on mysticism and magick. the pistis sophia. an admirable introduction to the study of gnosticism. the oracles of zoroaster. an invaluable collection of precepts mystical and magical. the equinox 22 the dream of scipio, by cicero. excellent for its vision and its philosophy. the golden verses of pythagoras, by fabre d.olivet. an interesting study of the exoteric doctrines of this master. the divine pymander, by hermes trismegistus. invaluable as bearing on the gnostic philosophy. the secret symbols of the rosicrucians, reprint of franz hartmann. an invaluable compendium. scrutinium chymicum by michael maier. one of the best treatises on alchemy. science and the infini

invaluable as bearing on the gnostic philosophy. the secret symbols of the rosicrucians, reprint of franz hartmann. an invaluable compendium. scrutinium chymicum by michael maier. one of the best treatises on alchemy. science and the infinite, by sidney klein. one of the best essays written in recent years. two essays on the worship of priapus, by richard payne knight. invaluable to all students. the golden bough, by j.g. frazer. the textbook of folk lore. invaluable to all students. the age of reason, by thomas paine. excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition. rivers of life, by general forlong. an invaluble textbook of old systems of initiaiton. three dialogues, by bishop berkeley. the classic of subjective idealism. essays of david hume. the classic of academic scept

a generally suggestive and helpful kind zanoni, by sir edward bulwer lytton. valuable for its facts and suggestions about mysticism. a strange story, by sir edward bulwer lytton. valuable for its facts and suggestions about magick. the blossom and the fruit, by mabel collins. valuable for its account of the path. petronius arbiter. valuable for those who have wit to understand it. the equinox 24 the golden ass, by apuleius. valuble for those who have wit to understand it. le comte de gabalis. valuable for its hints of those things which it mocks. the rape of the lock, by alexander pope. valuable for its account of elementals. undine, by de la motte-fouqu. valuable as an account of elementals. black magic, by marjorie bowen. an intensely interesting story of sorcery. le peau de chagrin, by

st wandered as a painted harlot, ravishing with sweet scent and chinese colouring, in the streets; thou hast darkened thine eyepits with kohl; thou hast tinted thy lips with vermilion; thou hast plastered thy cheeks with ivory enamels. thou hast played the wanton in every gate and byway of the great city. the men of the city have lusted after thee to abuse thee and to beat thee. they have mouthed the golden spangles of fine dust wherewith thou didst bedeck thine hair; they have scourged the painted flesh of thee with their whips; thou hast suffered unspeakable things. 9. but i have burnt within thee as a pure flame without oil. in the midnight i was brighter than the moon; in the daytime i exceeded utterly the sun; in the byways of thy being i flamed, and dispelled the illusion. 10. theref

ment is like the thick black smoke of the evil abode. the equinox 98 63. but the chosen ones drank thereof, and became even as my lord, my beautiful, my desirable one. there is no wine like unto this wine. 64. they are gathered together into a glowing heart, as ra that gathered his clouds about him at eventide into a molten sea of joy; and the snake that is the crown of ra bindeth them about with the golden girdle of the death-kisses. 65. so also is the end of the book, and the lord adonai is about it on all sides lie a thunderbolt, and a pylon, and a snake, and a phallus, and in the midst thereof he is like the woman that jetteth out the milk of the stars from her paps; yea, the milk of the stars from her paps. liber cl vel l u n a sandal de lege libellum l.l.l.l.l v a.a. publication in c

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ides of the cross-arms and the base upright sides: to left an upright pentagram with the dot-in-circle sun symbol in its pentagonal center. to right the same, but with a crescent moon, horns to right. 2. a handbook of geomancy. book t page 26 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2 tthe book of the black serpent [note: this is a version of an essay published c. 1900 for initiates of the golden dawn isis- urantia temple. the original essay, concerning the qlippoth can be found in r.a.gilbert's "the sorcerer and his apprentice" and steve savedow's "goetic evocation- the magician's workbook volume 2. the following text was provided in trident's edition of "grimoirium verum, several additions have been made and some editing has taken place- phil] the foundation of the work. the o

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

same; all that differs is the method of teaching. there are different rituals, different festivals and even different names for the gods. notice that i say "different names for the gods" rather than, simply "different gods. friedrich max muller traced religion back to "an ineradicable feeling of dependence" upon some higher power that was innate in the human mind. and sir james george frazer (in the golden bough) defines religion as being "a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man, which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. this higher power the "ultimate deity" is some genderless force which is so far beyond our comprehension that we can have only the vaguest understanding of its being. yet we know that it is there and, frequently, we

er. in this sense a rosary, crucifix, st. christopher medal, etc, is a talisman. but, as you know, the most powerful magick is that done by the person affected. in the same way, the most powerful talisman is one actually made by the person who needs it. a talisman made by one person for another can never be as strong as a personally made one. according to the magickal order, the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a talisman is "a magickal figure charged with the force which it is intended to represent. it is so charged by (i) inscription, and (ii) consecration. it can be of any shape, but let's first look at the material of the talisman. a talisman can be of virtually any material paper, silver, copper, lead, stone but traditionally some substances are more appropriate than others, and the

dreams and myths angus, s. the religious quests of the graeco-roman world bowra, c.m. primitive song bracelin, j.l. gerald gardner: witch breasted, j.h. development of religion and thought in ancient egypt budge, sir e.a.w. amulets and talismans eliade, mircea birth and rebirth; the sacred and the profane; myths, dreams and mysteries fitch, ed magical rites from the crystal well frazer, sir james the golden bough freud, sigmund totem and taboo gardner, gerald b. a goddess arrives glass, justine witchcraft, the sixth sense and us harrison, jane e. ancient art and ritual hooke, s.h. myth and ritual leland, charles g. aradia, gospel of the witches of italy lethbridge, t.c. gogmagog the buried gods scire (g.b. gardner) high magic's aid valiente, doreen where witchcraft lives; abcs of witchcraf

ve magick by raymond buckland one of the most compelling forms of magick perhaps the most sought after is love magick. it is a positive form of working, a way to true delight and pleasure. the gypsies have long been known for the successful working of love and magick. in this book you will find sections on love magick for those who are courting (the thrill of the chase, love magick for newlyweds (the golden rings, and love magick for the family unit (the family circle. there is also a section on gypsy love potions, talismans, amulets, and charms. included are spells and charms to discover your future spouse, to make your lover your best friend, to bring love into a loveless marriage, and to cause a runaway to return home. you will learn traditional secrets gathered from english gypsies tha

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money and offers protection for the home and family. ruled by jupiter. st john's wort (hypericum) seite 70 wicca01.txt st john's wort relieves depression, anxiety, neuralgia, headaches and irritability during the menopause. it is good for relief from pain, helping with fibrositis, sciatica and rheumatism. it is an anti-inflammatory, and so speeds the healing of burns and wounds. st john's wort is the golden herb of midsummer and symbol of the longest day, the summer solstice and the full power of the sun. it offers fertility and powers to attract love, especially if picked on the eve of st john, 23 june, at midnight. traditionally, it was worn in battle for courage, and it can also bring decisiveness. use it for protection, especially if combined with dill and vervain. ruled by the sun. ta

t either rainbows or sunbeams, or the silver light of the moon* cast the beams into the water, calling: go forth with love and healing. you can, if you prefer, create your own words* pour the water into a clear glass bottle with a stopper and send or give it to the sick person. they may drink it or use it in a bath* return the energies to the cosmos by placing yellow flowers or seeds in a pot for the golden energies if you used sunlight, and white flowers for the moon. colour healing colour has long been believed to have the power to influence not only our moods, but our physical well-being. the babylonians called the healing power of light 'the medicine of the gods. healing colours have been used for thousands of years in chinese treatments and in ayurveda, an ancient indian medicine. the

the air. in sweden, they still hold a midsummer weekend with a midsummer tree, or pole, decorated with greenery and flowers forming the centrepiece of music and revels. there is feasting in towns as well as the countryside in what is a national event and thousands of people gather as they have for centuries at focal points such as the island of oland on the stockholm archipelago. st john's wort, the golden herb of midsummer and symbol of the summer solstice, was said to offer fertility and powers to attract love if picked at midnight on 23 june, the eve of st john's day, or the eve of the actual solstice. hopeful lovers would carry it or place it under a pillow. the power of the summer solstice can be harnessed for tackling seemingly insoluble problems and bringing light and life and hope

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

s magick is formed from many traditions, in the current age it seems almost perfect. there is nothing which would be denied or ignored due to dogma. the system of chaos implements the foundation of change and progression. while the foundations of chaos are within the components of aleister crowley (who might have been a chaos magician himself, austin osman spare and macgregor mathers (default for the golden dawn and his various translations of manuscripts) chaos has spawned from the information these individuals have unknowingly given. it was later when peter carroll, ray sherwin and christopher bray took up the various magical traditions and ran with them, did chaos magick form from the proverbial ashes. chaos magick is not a system within itself. it is actua lly a definition of action, c

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

st: the making of an african american woman's film (new york: the new press, 1992, pp. 74.164. 2. suzanne preston blier "truth and seeing: magic, custom and fetish in art history" in africa and the disciplines: contributions of research in africa to the social sciences and humanities, ed. robert bates, v. y. mudimbe, and jean o'barr (chicago: university of chicago press, 1993. 3. james g. frazer, the golden bough (london: macmillan, 1922, p. 59. following frazer, a number of writers have given attention to the magic-religion dichotomy. emile durkheim and marcel mauss placed magic and religion within distinctive social contexts, while bronislaw malinowski emphasized the functional elements that distinguished magic from religious ritual (durkheim, the elementary forms of religious life, tran

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ves only in late old slavonic manuscripts. it may have been composed originally in aramaic or hebrew, later being translated into greek, and later still being translated into old slavonic. 80 (n.t) gospel of matthew. 80 (n.t) gospel of luke. c.86 apollonides archprophet orapis of memphis wrote in greek on egyptian religion. 90 (n.t) gospel of john. 81-96 revelation of st. john. 123-170? apuleius, the golden ass 100-300 ce composition of corpus hermetica 100-185? pistis sophia 120-189 r. judah the prince, redactor of the mishnah. gave merkabah teachings to r. yochanam. c.120 r. akiba ben joseph 130 theon of smyrna: biblion- natural square often cited as magic. d. 132 rabbi ishmael. attributed to him is 3 enoch, or the hebrew apocalypse of enoch, supposedly written after his visionary ascens

society of england. 3rd edition samuel wesier, inc. translated from the hebrew. follows golden dawn. translates hebrew into english, and collated with latin versions of pistorius, postellus and rittangelius, following the latter, rather than former commentaries. 1887-1961 ren schwaller 1888 anna kingsford (annie bonus) dies papus' trait el mentaire de science occulte published; hermetic order of the golden dawn established in london 1889 mathers' edition of kabbalah unveiled published. mathers' edition of key of solomon published. eleazar b. judah of worms, one of the several hasidei ashkenaz who wrote on the "sefer yetzirah" in its entirety in przemysl. papus (gerard encausse) publishes "le tarot des bohemiens. oswald wirth, a swiss occultist writing in french, publishes a majors only de

h unveiled published. mathers' edition of key of solomon published. eleazar b. judah of worms, one of the several hasidei ashkenaz who wrote on the "sefer yetzirah" in its entirety in przemysl. papus (gerard encausse) publishes "le tarot des bohemiens. oswald wirth, a swiss occultist writing in french, publishes a majors only deck. 1890 dion fortune (i.e. violet mary firth) born; w.b. yeats joins the golden dawn 1890-1922 the golden bough by frazer. 1891 helena petrovna blavatski (helena petrovna von hahn, cofounder of the theosophical society, dies 1891 or 92 mayer lambert, paris, arabic edition "commentaire sur le sefer yetzirah par le gaon saadya, edited french version of sadaaya gaon on display in bodleian library, translated into french and printed in paris from the ms oxford 1533 man

, 19:1928. goldschmidt constructed a poor text from four existing versions instead of any one version. 1896 publication of les xxii lames herm tiques du tarot divinatoire by r. falconnier. peter davidson english version sefer yetzirah, which adds the "50 gates of intelligence" and "32 paths of wisdom" 1897 levi's le clef des grandes myst res published 1898 julius evola born aleister crowley joins the golden dawn; mathers publishes the book of the sacred magic of abra-melin the mag [abramelin] 1899 c.g. leland publishes aradia, the gospel of the witches 1900-1973 valentine tomberg. meditations on the tarot..the tarot is a system or organism of spiritual exercises" 1900 crowley expelled from the golden dawn 1901 manly palmer hall born 1902 a.e. waite "doctrine and literature of the kabalah"

vol 1 papyri graecae magicae. manly r. hall published a compilation of the "sefer yetsirah" in his "secrect teachings of all ages. 1932 "jezirah" by g. scholem in encyclopedia judaica (berlin, vol. 9, col. 104ff. 1933 annie besant (n e wood, author and noted theosophist dies 1933 god of the witches by m. murray. 1936 the brotherhood of light tarot -the sacred tarot 1937 israel regardie publishes the golden dawn, which includes the bulk of the golden dawns' rituals and teachings. 1939 william butler yeats dies 1942 arthur edward waite dies 1944 arcanum 17 andre breton 1945 discovery of nag hammadi scriptures. 1946 dion fortune (i.e. violet mary firth) dies 1947 aleister crowley (crowley, edward alexander) dies 1947-56 discovery of qumran (dead sea) scrolls. 1948 the white goddess by r. gra

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

nevertheless we comforted them as well as we could, drinking with them to see if the wine might make them any more cheerful. our table was covered with red velvet, beset with drinking cups of pure silver and gold, which the rest could not behold without amazement and very great anguish. but before we had seated ourselves, in came the two pages, presenting everyone on the bridegroom s behalf with the golden fleece with a flying lion, requesting us to wear them at the table, and as became us, to observe the reputation and dignity of the order which his majesty had now page 28 vouchsafed us; and we should be ratified with suitable ceremonies. this we received with profoundest submission, promising obediently to perform whatsoever his majesty should please. besides these, the noble page had a

the same on the king s behalf, saying that it was brought from his majesty, and that in honour of him we should cause it to go round. upon the cover of this goblet stood fortune curiously cast in gold, who had in her hand a red flying ensign, because of which i drunk somewhat more sadly, having been all too well acquainted with fortune s waywardness. but the virgin as well as us was adorned with the golden fleece and lion, from which i observed that perhaps she was the president of the order. so we asked of her how the order might be named. she answered that it was not yet the right time to reveal this, till the affair with the prisoners was dispatched. and therefore their eyes were still veiled; and what had hitherto happened to us, was to them only like an offence and scandal, although

eady, wanting to return again into the tower; but the dark passages in the wall were so many and various, that i wandered a good while before i could find the way out. the same happened to the rest too, till at last we all met again in the nethermost vault, and entirely yellow apparel was given to us, together with our golden fleeces. at this time the virgin declared to us that we were knights of the golden stone, of which we were before ignorant. after we had made ourselves ready, and taken our breakfast, the old man presented each of us with a medal of gold. on one side were these words: ar. nat. mi (art is the priestess of nature) on the other these: tem. na. f (nature is the daughter of time) he exhorted us moreover that we should try to take nothing more than this token of remembrance

he ladies and virgins, were to sit. after this, a very handsome page opened the above-mentioned glorious little book, and atlas immediately placed himself in the midst, and began to speak to this purpose: that his royal majesty had not forgotten the service we had done him, and how carefully we had attended to our duty, and therefore by way of retribution had elected all and each of us knights of the golden stone. and that it was therefore further necessary not only once again to oblige ourselves towards his royal majesty, but also to vow to the following articles; and then his royal majesty would likewise know how to behave himself towards his liege people. upon which he caused the page to read over the articles, which were these (i) you my lords the knights shall swear that you shall at

and this was afterwards ratified in a little chapel (to which we were conducted in procession) and thanks returned to god for it. i also hung up there at that time my golden fleece and hat, and left them there for an eternal memorial, to the honour of god. and because everyone had to write his name there, i wrote thus: the highest wisdom is to know nothing. brother christian rosenkreutz knight of the golden stone a.d. 1459. others wrote likewise, each as it seemed good to him. after this, we were again brought into the hall, where, having sat down, we were admonished quickly to think what we each one would wish. but the king and his party retired into a little closet, there to give audience to our wishes. now each man was called in separately, so that i cannot speak of any man s own wish

COMMENTARY ON THE SEAL OF THE NINE ANGLES

etc. a temple with five trihedrons is a four-faced pyramid (as giza, the 4/5/9 seal is the seal of the order of the trapezoid: a marvel of integrated, interrelated 4/5/9 values. as noted elsewhere, even the addition of 4+5+9= 18, which takes you into the "returning' qualities of 9 as expounded upon in anton lavey's "unknown known' in the satanic rituals. in geometry 5 creates the pentagram, hence the golden section, hence the concept of perfection. this is why to pythagoras (and his priestly mentors) 5 was the most sublime of numbers, and why the pentagram was used as the seal of the pythagorean brotherhood. sixth angle: if crowley considered his tenth aether to be accursed, then this would be the accursed (or should i say "hexed) of the nine angles. it is the hexagon and hexagram (also th

lime of numbers, and why the pentagram was used as the seal of the pythagorean brotherhood. sixth angle: if crowley considered his tenth aether to be accursed, then this would be the accursed (or should i say "hexed) of the nine angles. it is the hexagon and hexagram (also the seal of the jews, authors and proponents of the world's most nihilistic and self- hating monotheism) the hexagon corrupts the golden rectangle; it adds an angle and a line to the pentagram and pentagon, thus destroying them. six is symmetry obese and unnecessary (two and four are quite adequate for the principle. the seeds of the destruction of the hexagonal forms are carried within them, however, for they necessarily embrace two trapezoids (the four) and the pentagrams defined by those trapezoids (the five; hence 4+

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lso had the esoteric name, the knight of pythias, and wore the red fez of the ancient arabic order of nobles of the mystic shrine. this organisation claimed to be connected with the illuminati.1 winston churchill, the british prime minister, was a freemason and had several meetings with the satanist aleister crowley, another esoteric guru and a high initiate of many orders, including the order of the golden dawn and the order of oriental templars (more on him later. churchill's meetings with crowley do not, of course, constitute proof that the british prime minister was a satanist, but it does show that behind the scenes, esoteric knowledge in all of its forms is taken far more seriously than it is in public. this was the case during elizabethan times and has been throughout human history

acles. these underground supermen would, according to bulwer-lytton's novel, emerge on the surface one day and take control of the world. many nazis believed this. lord bulwer-lytton is often referred to by madame blavatsky in her book, isis unveiled. the themes of underground supermen or hidden masters can be found in most of the esoteric secret societies. certainly this was true of the order of the golden dawn, formed in 1888 by dr wynn westcott, a freemason, and s.l. mathers. they called their 'masters' the 'secret chiefs. the theme of extraterrestrials living underground fits in with the 1960s survey of contactees which detailed the stories of the pure melchedekan race with their blond hair and blue eyes. they were also said to be living inside the earth. mathers devised a series of ri

he believed, however, that this gift was only for the few and he was a supporter of authoritarian government. these rituals, no doubt, would have attracted the dark energies which allowed vibrational synchronisation- possession- by the warders. in the mid-1890s, there were temples of the order in london, edinburgh, bradford, weston-super-mare, and paris, where mathers made his home. the order of the golden dawn also spoke of the vril force and one of the order's secret signs was the salute which the 206. and the truth shall set you free nazis would use when saying "heil hitler. the esoteric foundations on which nazism was created continued to build. mathers had known madame blavatsky and so had the master of the order's london temple, the poet, william butler yeats, who would go on to win

n. the poet spoke of..an aristocratic civilisation in its most completed form, every detail of life hierarchical, every great man's door crowded at dawn by petitioners, great wealth everywhere in few men's hands, all dependent upon a few, up to the emperor himself, who is a god dependent upon a greater god and everywhere, in court, in the family, an inequality made law."3 remnants of the order of the golden dawn continue to this day, but the original version splintered after a row between yeats, mathers, and aleister crowley, which split the membership into quarrelling factions. other significant esoteric thinkers and groups which influenced the gathering nazi philosophy included the order of the oriental temple, which used sex as part of its rituals to create and harness the energy known

ncluded the order of the oriental temple, which used sex as part of its rituals to create and harness the energy known as the vril, and two german esoteric 'magicians, guido von list and lanz von liebenfels. in his summer solstice celebrations, list used wine bottles on the ground to form the symbol of the hermetic cross, also known as the hammer of thor. it was the badge of power in the order of the golden dawn, and we know this symbol as the swastika. lanz von liebenfels (real name adolf lanz) featured the swastika on the flag which flew over his 'temple' overlooking the danube, and for these two black magicians it symbolised the end of christianity and the dawning of the age of the aryan supermen. they believed in the racial inferiority of those they called the "dark forces" such as the

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had again reached an advanced level of society after the upheavals. i have no doubt that it was a mixture of both. in the light of the rapidly emerging evidence, and the 16 children of the matrix fundamental re-assessment of timescales in the wake of that evidence, at least some of the world's greatest ancient wonders go back to the pre-cataclysmic global society known in legends and accounts as the golden age. they are far, far, older than previously imagined. inca accounts, compiled by fernando montesinos, one of the earliest spanish chroniclers in south america, say there were two inca empires. the first established their headquarters at cuzco in the andes mountains and, after they fled to a mountain-top sanctuary (machu picchu) in the wake of devastating land upheavals, they returned

d towards mars, destroying the atmosphere and life on that planet (the mars pathfinder mission established that martian rocks lack sufficient erosion to have been on the surface for more than 10,000 years).55 after devastating mars, the "venus" comet was caught by the gravitational pull of the earth, they said. it made several orbits of the earth, causing the tidal wave and devastation that ended the golden age, and hurled vast quantities of ionised ice at the poles. its momentum then hurled it into its present orbit as "venus" the planet. synchronistically, the most ancient mesopotamian and central american records don't include venus in their planetary accounts, but the later ones do, and there was a focus on venus with human sacrifices made to it. the biggest secret goes into this whole

counts, but the later ones do, and there was a focus on venus with human sacrifices made to it. the biggest secret goes into this whole story in greater detail and you will see that it explains so many "mysteries. these include the sudden freezing of mammoths standing up in the process of eating because the ice did not slowly develop, it arrived in an instant. the ancient legends and myths of how the golden age ended are confirmed in every way by the scientific explanation of the geological and environmental affects of this "walk-about" by venus. most important in relation to our story, these conclusions by people like velikovsky, the boeing physicists, and increasing numbers of other researchers today, bring the time scale for the end of life on mars to within the period that saw the end

vironmental affects of this "walk-about" by venus. most important in relation to our story, these conclusions by people like velikovsky, the boeing physicists, and increasing numbers of other researchers today, bring the time scale for the end of life on mars to within the period that saw the end of atlantis and lemuria-mu. brian desborough suggests, along with many others, including myself, that the golden age was the result of many extraterrestrial and other dimensional races visiting the earth and operating openly among the human population in a long period of at least hundreds of thousands of years. he believes, like those boeing physicists he knew and worked with, that the earth was much closer to the sun before these events and that mars orbited in the area the earth now resides. two

istory as sumer. i think, however, that many parts of the sumerian tablets are actually referring to events on lemuria and atlantis. some researchers suggest that remains of the anunnaki's preflood cities can be found today under the persian gulf, which became much wider and deeper after the upheavals.63 depending on the location and the effects of the devastation, some of the great structures of the golden age survived and can be seen to this day. these could be anything from tens to hundreds of thousands of years old. other famous sites and structures were built or rebuilt by the sumerians from around 6,000 years ago. my feeling at the moment is that stonehenge and avebury were among the latter, but not necessarily the pyramids of the giza plateau, and certainly not some of the breathtak

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0 yearsthe earth is tilted towards the black sun, the light source, and for the second 13,000years it is tilted away, some researchers believe. these cycles are therefore verydifferent as the planet is bathed in positive light for 13,000 years and then moves intothe darkness for the next 13,000. this fundamentally affects the energy in which weall live. interestingly, it was 13,000 years ago that the golden age would appear to haveconcluded in cataclysm and conflict, and today, with the 13,000 year cycle of darknessreaching its conclusion, there is a rapid global spiritual awakening and incredible eventsawait us in the next few years. we are entering the light again. so there was a fantasticcataclysm around 13,000 years ago which brought an end to the high-tech civilisationsof the golden a

irst marked the start of spring and the second wasthe end of the year in the celtic calendar.34 the holy grail stories of king arthurconnect with this theme, also. camelot apparently jneans martian city or city ofmars.35i think there is truth in all the views summarised in this chapter of the cataclysmicupheavals the earth has suffered in the period between 11,000 and 1,500 bc. the firstone ended the golden age and obliterated the high-tech civilisations that had existedbefore then. the extraterrestrial races either left the planet beforehand or survived athigh altitudes or by going deep within the earth. the same with the later cataclysm.many of the extraterrestrials, and most earth humans, did not survive these events.those that did were left with the job of starting all over again witho

am established. he alsodiscovered that this mars city was built according to the same laws used to createother similar complexes on the earth. the same mathematics, alignments and sacredgeometry can be found in cydonia on mars and in the great structures of the ancientworld like those at stonehenge, the pyramids at giza in egypt, teotihuacan in mexicoand in zimbabwe. these mathematics accord with the golden mean geometry asdepicted by the italian artist, leonardo da vinci (1452-1519, in his picture of the maninside a circle (see figure 9. da vinci, as we shall see, was a leading initiate of thesecret society network and this is how he was able to predict the coming of thetelephone, design flying machines and tanks, and design bicycles in the 15th and 16thcenturies which look basically like

and 16thcenturies which look basically like the modern version today.another constant is the latitude of 19.5 degrees. this is the latitude on which thepyramids, many ancient temple complexes, and other sacred structures were built.it is also where you will find the volcanoes on hawaii, the schild volcanoes onfigure 9: leonardo da vincis depiction of man according to the sacred geometry known as the golden mean. 66v enus, the massive olympus mons volcano on mars, the dark spot on neptune, the redspot on jupiter and the main area of sunspot activity, north and south, on the sun.33 thisall fits like a glove, because sunspots are emissions of incredibly powerfulelectromagnetic energy from the sun, and volcanoes are obvious emissions of energyfrom the planets. not surprisingly, therefore, 19

,could name sixteen tribes in ireland. the irish sport of hurling is mirrored by the gamecalled takourt in morocco. irish ritual was, like all the cultures inspired by thephoenician-aryans, focused on the sun. the earth mound at newgrange in ireland hasa narrow passageway of some 62 feet which is perfectly aligned with the sun as it riseson december 2lst/22nd, the winter solstice. so much so that the golden sunlight fillsand illuminates the whole passage and the chamber at the centre. the entrance tostructures in the mediterranean, particularly the one at the palace of minos in crete, arethe same. the distinctive round towers of ireland are, according to some orientalists,of phoenician origin.43 again all this fits perfectly into the story i am revealing here.the phoenicians came from the

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omb nor has it ever been. as a minimum, it is a testimony that advanced technology existed on the earth, rivaling our own, over 6000 year ago. a recent test case by japanese scientists to duplicate the effort with modern construction technology and engineering failed. 4.3 mathematical relationship of the great pyramid the great pyramid has a base to height ratio of 2 to sqrt(phi- fi, where phi is the golden ratio and is equal to (1+sqrt(5)/2. phi is a transcendental number in that it is a non-terminating decimal. because of this, phi, from a resonance point of view, would have an infinite number of harmonic resonance points. resonance is a key factor in all areas of physics, including nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, electrical engineering, antenna design, etc. phi is also related to th

is a number which cannot be defined as the ratio of two whole numbers and the resultant division is a non-terminating number. pi is approximately equal to 3.14159. pi is built into the geometry of the great pyramid in egypt with amazing accuracy and proves the builders were technologically advanced enough to signal later civilizations that advanced technologists were on the earth long ago. 5.3.2 the golden mean (phi) the golden mean or golden ratio, referred to by the greek letter phi is another transcendental or irrational number. this number was also built into the geometry of the great pyramid. the golden mean occurs naturally in nature such as the shape of chambered nautilus shell, and the spiral of sunflower seeds in the flower. phi is approximately equal to 1.618034. the golden mean

er. phi is approximately equal to 1.618034. the golden mean is defined by splitting a straight line in such a way that the ratio of the line to the larger portion of the line, equals the larger portion of the line divided by the smaller portion of the line. some of the aspects of phi were mentioned in the chapter on pyramid energy so we will not repeat them here. one of the interesting aspects of the golden mean is the fact that it was utilized by many artists in their paintings, because it was believed to provide a sense of aesthetically pleasing proportion. related to phi is the phenomena of phylotaxis which is the tendency in nature to grow in spiral patterns.1 there are special spiral patterns that are related to phi mathematically. for example, plants and trees tend to have branches a

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recy led to more myserious (and occasionally more sinister) occult lodges being established. one such group was the rosicrucians, the brethren of the rosy cross. among them was the magician francis barrett, author of the magus, a classic on the subject of ceremonial magic, and eliphas levi, author of numerous books on the cabala. this was followed a century later by another occult order, known as the golden dawn, of which the magician aleister crowley was a member. the golden dawn, like the earlier rosicrucian brotherhood, explored the study of the jewish cabala, egyptian magic, and the enochian keys of dr. john dee. the cabala is a system of hebrew mysticism which identifies ten sephiroth, or emanations of god in graduated order from pure spirit to the course material world. even the shel

words held the power to change reality and names compelled obedience from elemental beings. grimoires, or books of ceremonial magic based on cabalistic belief, cataloged the names and sigils of countless demons over which it was said the magician could exercise power. many of these books were attributed to biblical figures such as solomon, moses, or enoch. the enochian system of magic adopted by the golden dawn was based on the enochian evocation of dr. john dee. dee, an elizabethan astrologer and magician, working with another man, edward kelly, produced a series of 18 keys in what they claimed was the original angelic language and apparently revealed to enoch, the first man after the fall to walk with god. the english translation of the keys bear a striking similarity to invocations in

and love is the law, love under will. the word of the aeon of horus was thelema, the greek word for will. the will in this context was a magical will, the true will of the magician s higher self or his holy guardian angel. crowley s magick, as embraced by the order of oriental templars (oto) and order of the silver star (aa) combined eastern mysticism and yoga with the western ceremonial magic of the golden dawn. in practice, however, crowley s magick largely involved sex and drug use. it was the sexual aspects of tantric yoga crowley adopted together with some of the more deviant practices of black magicians and satanists of middle ages europe. the age of satan begins on april 30, 1966, former lion-tamer and carnival calliope player anton lavey, ritually shaved his head and declared the f

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join as one to beget the son of filth, yet he grows strong by his will and emerges as baphomet. the illustration of cain as the adversary32 presents him holding the trident or stave above, symbolizing the sun and celestial region, and a hammer below representing the forge and the infernal region. you shall thirst for water and for blood; both in dreaming shall be held from the dual gnosis. i hold the golden cup to your lips, that the dragon s elixir hold strong i then hand to you the skull bowl of my flowing blood, that you may taste the bitter sweetness of it s coppered kiss then in your ecstasy and thy devil s phallus reaching towards the sun shall my serpent s tongue enflame you to me. the book of cain by michael w. ford as written cain is slowly transforming into a manifestation of bot

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e roughly "sibling" in the order of the astral star [o.a.s (q.v, an adelphon is the title of the first degree of membership, and correlates to the fire of earth in the sephiroth of malkuth (i.e. the russet colored quarter of malkuth. the primary principle of this grade is based on christian knighthood. adeptus minor: a term used to describe a learned and skilled magician. in the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) the student of the order was first taught ritual magick once they entered into this degree, which was the first degree of the inner order, the roseae rubeae et aureae crucis [r.r. et a.c (q.v. aeon of horus: the age of oneness between human beings and god that follows after the aeon of osiris where human-god was a duality. according to aleister crowley (q.v, it begin in

an expression meaning your higher self. to some practitioners, a more knowledgeable non-physical entity. contacting your holy guardian angel [h.g.a] is known as "the knowledge and conversation of your holy guardian angel" establishing this relationship is considered to be the same as achieving enlightenment or cosmic consciousness. the principle work of an "adeptus minor" in the hermetic order of the golden dawn. apport: from the french meaning "to bring. in spiritism (q.v, any object brought to a seance by a spirit (q.v) or entity from the spirit world or the astral plane (q.v. aquarius "the water-bearer" in astrology (q.v, the eleventh sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of fixed (q.v) and air (q.v) and is ruled by the planet uranus (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lo

s the altar, and other noxious substances is used including excrement, urine, and blood. black magick (q.v) is said to be practiced at these services. it had it's origins in decadent france but was so rare as to be virtually mythical. blavatsky, helena petrovna: a ukrainian woman who was the principle founder and guiding force behind the theosophical society. many members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) were also members of this society. her importance is also due to two large books she wrote, isis unveiled and the secret doctrine. many mystical and occult writings or so-called "channeling" are directly or indirectly based on these two books. blood of the red lion: in sex magick (q.v) the semen. body, etheric: an emanation of all created things. halfway between the astr

ation compiled by a witch (q.v) or group of witches. it varies from coven (q.v) to coven. the books of shadows of gerald b. gardner (q.v.)and alex sanders (q.v) serve as the guides for their followers. b.o.t.a; builders of the adytum: an american mystical/magickal order/organization still in existence to this day, founded by paul foster case. paul foster case was a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v. the b.o.t.a. was the first organization to present a deck of tarot (q.v) cards with the g.d. correspondences of hebrew letters to each major arcana (q.v) card. breaks: refers to interruptions in concentration. aleister crowley (q.v) gave techniques to develop concentration and overcome these breaks. many occultists feel that his techniques are too severe, and have modifi

accomplishment and of respect, and means "enlightened one" buddhism teaches freedom from attachment to worldly things by getting rid of suffering caused by one's desires- c- calls (keys, enochian: invocations (q.v) to the enochian (q.v) angels (q.v) dictated to john dee through his seer, the alchemist and rouge, edward kelley. the calls were used extensively in the magick of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v, aleister crowley (q.v, and anton lavey. cancer "the crab" in astrology (q.v, the fourth sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of cardinal (q.v) and water (q.v) and is ruled by the planet luna (the moon (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color orange-yellow. keywords include: home, indistinct, protectively, sensitive

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zohar: a huge, mystical commentary on the torah (q.v) first written down in the fourteenth (14th) century by the rebbe and kabbalist moses de leon *finis- the encceremonial magic unveiled by dion fortune this article first appeared in the occult gazette in january i933 and has not been available for a wider audience since. it is of particular relevance in revealing d.f's considered opinion about the golden dawn as well as aleister crowley. if i read the signs of the times aright, the veil of the temple of the mysteries is being drawn back at the present moment. there are phases in the spiritual life of mankind just as there are weather cycles extending over periods of years, and the tide which began to move during the first decade of the twentieth century is gathering head as it proceeds

iroth and the twenty-two paths between them. these attributions have been among the special preserves of certain occult schools; but mr. regardie gives them, even to the jealously guarded secret of the correct attribution of the tarot trumps. there will certainly be heartburnings! mr. regardie does not specifically state his authorities, but it is unquestionably the system taught in the "order of the golden dawn, founded by the late s. l. mcgregor mathers, that he is using. if i have been a rehoboam who has scourged occult secrecy with whips, mr. regardie is a jeroboam who is using scorpions! however, he has my unqualified blessing, for what it is worth to him. there is no legitimate reason that i have ever been able to see for keeping these things secret. if they have any value as an aid

tery school he founded, and intimates that admission may be obtained thereto by applying to her, care of her publishers, and when she publishes a pamphlet for propaganda purposes in the united states which is even more explicit, who am i that i should plead ignorance of the existence of such an order? and when w b. yeats says, in his autobiography, that the order founded by mr. mathers was called the golden dawn, am i to pretend that i do not know what the mysterious initials g. d. stand for? am i also to pretend, in view of what he has to say of his experiences while he was a member, and of the confirmatory remarks of george moore in his autobiographical book, ave atque vale, that i do not know that the golden dawn concerns itself with ceremonial magic? does my initiation oath require me

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will then be seen how the twentytwo letters of the hebrew alphabet can be associated with the paths without discrepancy or overlapping. with them also are associated the twenty-two tarot trumps, the atus, or abodes of thoth. concerning the tarot cards there are three modern authorities of note: dr encausse, or "papus" the french writer; mr a. e. waite; and the mss. of macgregor mathers' order of the golden dawn, which crowley published upon his own authority. all three are different. concerning the system mr waite gives, he himself says "there is another method known to initiates" there is reason to suppose that this is the method used by mathers. papus disagrees with both these writers in his method, but as his system does violence to many of the correspondences when placed upon the tree

the moderns the same material is found scattered through the works of knorr von rosenroth; wynn westcott; eliphas levi; mrs atwood; mme blavatsky; anna kingsford [page 104] mabel collins; papus (encausse; st martin; gerald massey; g. r. s mead, and many others. to some of these it is probable he was indebted; others may have been indebted to him; some of them were actually members of the order of the golden dawn which he founded. 4. other sources of information are frazer's golden bough; the works of wallis budge; the writings of drs jung and freud; the translations of dr jowett from the greek; the sacred books of the east series, the loeb classical library; the translation of plotinus by stephen mackenna; the translation of tbe zohar issued by the soncino press; and last, but by no means

e organs, and intimately connected with them and controlling them, is the greatest network of nerves in the body, known as the solar plexus, aptly so named by the ancient anatomists. the lungs maintain a singularly intimate relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm by determining the ceaseless tidal motion of the atmosphere, in and out, in and out, that never ceases day or night, until the golden bowl is broken and the silver cord is loosed and we cease to breathe. the heart determines the circulation of the blood, and the blood, as paracelsus truly said, is a "singular fluid" modern medicine knows well what sunlight means to the blood. it has also discovered that chlorophyll, which is the green substance in the leaves of plants which enables them to utilise the sunlight as thei

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ere you will find a link to the complete text of lovecraft's brief bogus history of the necronomicon. concerning the curious connnecting thread that links gnostic theology, the book of enoch, the new testament book of revelation, the elizabethan magician dr. john dee and his communications with the enochian angels, the victorian era secret society of practical magic known as the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the magician and great beast aleister crowley, the dreamer and writer h. p. lovecraft, and the writer and magician kenneth grant (and perhaps i should not exclude myself from this list) read the essay "dr. john dee, the necronomicon, and the cleansing of the world- a gnostic trail" by colin low, to be found at a miscellany of essays. return h ahome resources demons bios fiction ty

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st form was a pentagram. given its ancient history, the modern use and understanding of the symbol are surprisingly recent. it was not until the 19th century that the pentagram assumed the prominent place it now occupies in western practical magic. it was popularized by french occultists such as eliphas levi, and from this venue found its way into the system of magic used by the hermetic order of the golden dawn. the technique for using the pentagram in golden dawn magic has become almost a universal feature of all systems of magic in english-speaking nations over the past century. in the golden dawn, the quintessence or fifth element of light or spirit is associated with the single upper point of the pentagram. the remaining four elements are assigned the lower points in the same pattern

ked with fire, so fire is placed on the right leg of the pentagram. the sign taurus, on the lower-left of the zodiac, is linked with earth, so earth is placed on the left leg of the pentagram. once the elements are related to the points of the pentagram, it becomes possible to use this figure to invoke or banish the powers and spirits of each element by inscribing the pentagram in different ways. the golden dawn system for invoking and banishing the elements is, in my opinion, unnecessarily complicated, but i will describe it here since it is employed almost universally in modern magic, and many readers will want to learn it. during rituals, it is customary to inscribe the pentagram upon the air in the direction that is associated with the element being invoked or banished. to invoke is to

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

e sure to connect the end of the continuous line that forms the pentagram with its starting point. the pentagram is a closed figure. there is a general rule for golden dawn invocation and banishing by the pentagram, which helps somewhat to remember the method "invoke towards, and banish from, the point to which the element is attributed" spirit is unique and separate from the other four elements. the golden dawn method to invoke and banish it is involved, and different from the method for invoking and banishing the lower elements. according to the golden dawn teachings, the occult currents running on the pentagram from the active elements of fire and air, and the occult currents running from the passive elements of water and earth, are the currents of elemental spirit. two pentagrams are d

tack. it is important to understand that all pentagrams of the elements are drawn in the same way, with a continuous line that ends at its starting place. it is only that different pentagrams begin at different points, and proceed around the figure either clockwise or counterclockwise. when invoking spirit, first the active, then the passive invoking pentagram is drawn. spirit is never invoked in the golden dawn method by only one pentagram. likewise, when banishing spirit, first the active, then the passive pentagram of banishing is drawn. these are always used together. this is not true of the four lower elements, which are invoked or banished by only a single pentagram, not two. remember the rule, invoke toward the element and banish away from it- this will make the following easier to

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speculum veritatis, 17th century) an emblem is a graphic symbol employed in magic and alchemy to express an abstract idea or principle. an example of an emblem is john dee's famous hieroglyphic monad. other example are the representation of a serpent nailed to a cross, or a green lion devouring the sun. personal symbols of gods, angels, spirits and demons are usually not called emblems (lamen of the golden dawn office of kerux, from israel regardie's golden dawn) in the western tradition, the magician often has a personal symbol known as a lamen that expresses his or her higher or magical identity. when constructed correctly, it links the magic name of the magician with the supreme name of divine authority recognized by the magician, allowing the magician in his higher persona to channel

he magic name of the magician with the supreme name of divine authority recognized by the magician, allowing the magician in his higher persona to channel the power of the divine name. often it bears the sigil of the magician's magic name along with the sigil or signature of the divine name. its shape depends upon the principles and practices of the magician who bears it- in the hermetic order of the golden dawn, each officer had his or her own lamen that way symbolically related to the tree of the sephiroth- but customarily it is worn as a medallion or pendent around the neck, over the heart-center. through the lamen the magician invokes the authority of god during ritual work. the lamen is both an expression of the magician's higher identity and a power object through which spirits and b

is a power object with a specific function, and may be used for offensive or defensive magic as the need arises. some amulets and talismans are inscribed with sigils or other occult symbols, but others derive their power from natural substances and objects, or from specific shapes, without the use of esoteric symbols (tibetan thunderbolt dagger talisman, for use against evil spirits) for example, the golden arrow of the scythian magician abaris was a talisman that conferred magical flight. both amulets and talismans are physical things, as opposed to sigils, which are symbols- an amulet or a talisman that does not have a material body does not exist, but a sigil exists even when it is not written down or inscribed on anything, provided it is held in the mind("circle or pentacle of solomon"

ew paper or some other appropriate material at an astrologically auspicious time, and to ritually bind astaroth to the seal by means of his sigil, so that the seal becomes astaroth in a magic sense, and what is done to the seal is done to astaroth. it is a form of sympathetic magic similar to the use of a small doll or poppet to represent a living individual in traditional european witchcraft. in the golden dawn ritual of evocation, mathers advised that the seal of the spirit to be evoked be kept covered with black cloth in the initial stages of the ritual. as the ritual progressed, the seal was unbound and gradually uncovered in stages, to symbolize the gradual materialization of the spirit within the triangle. care must always be exercised when working with the sigils of demons. mathers

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st living thing worshipped by the early egyptians; already in the pyramid texts the hawk on a standard is used indiscriminately with# to represent the word "god" the principal forms of horus the sun-god, which probably represent the sun at various periods of the day and night, are--heru-ur( greek a?rwh`rei "horus the great; heru-merti "horus of the two eyes" i.e, of the sun and moon;[1] heru-nub "the golden horus; heru-khent-khat; heru-khent-an-maa "horus dwelling in blindness; heru-khuti "horus of the two horizons"[2] the type of which on earth was the sphinx; heru-sam-taui "horus the uniter of the north and south; heru-hekenu" horus of heken; and heru-behutet "horus of behutet"[3] the cippi of horus, which became so common at a late period in egypt, seem to unite the idea of the physical

ELLIS LOW TWELVE 1907

the abduction of william morgan tive of monroe county in the legislature. no language was too inflammatory for this and the other papers. on october 7, 1827, the body of a drowned man was found on the beach of lake ontario, forty miles from niagara. it was so decomposed that recognition was impossible, and the coroner's jury, having rendered a verdict of accidental death, the remains were buried. the golden opportunity was not lost by weed. he and several men, including david c. miller, had the grave reopened. at the second inquest, mrs. morgan and other witnesses identified the body of her husband. the fact that the clothing was such as morgan had never been known to wear, and that he had been missing for more than a year, and that no perceptible physical resemblance could be noted, did n

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ture editions are encouraged to contact the editor. please address dr. melton either c/o gale group, 27500 drake rd, farmington hills, mi 48331-3535, or at his office: dr. j. gordon melton institute for the study of american religion box 90709 santa barbara, ca 93190.0709 a a a a secret society founded by aleister crowley (1875.1947) comprised of three orders: the silver star, the rosy cross, and the golden dawn. this society is also described as the great white brotherhood, although that is a term more properly applied by theosophists. the initials a a indicate argenteum astrum, and the triangle of dots signify a secret society connected with ancient mysteries. during his period in the hermetic order of the golden dawn (gd, crowley believed that he had reached the exalted stage of the sil

scribed as the great white brotherhood, although that is a term more properly applied by theosophists. the initials a a indicate argenteum astrum, and the triangle of dots signify a secret society connected with ancient mysteries. during his period in the hermetic order of the golden dawn (gd, crowley believed that he had reached the exalted stage of the silver star and was thus a secret chief of the golden dawn. after 1906 crowley launched his own order of the silver star, or a a, using rituals and teachings taken from the golden dawn. in march 1909 he began publishing the magazine the equinox, as the official organ of the a a, including rituals of the outer order of the society in the second number. this alarmed members of the golden dawn, who wished their rituals to remain secret, and s

wley launched his own order of the silver star, or a a, using rituals and teachings taken from the golden dawn. in march 1909 he began publishing the magazine the equinox, as the official organ of the a a, including rituals of the outer order of the society in the second number. this alarmed members of the golden dawn, who wished their rituals to remain secret, and s. l. macgregor mathers, one of the golden dawn chiefs, took legal action to restrain crowley from continuing to publish the rituals. although a temporary injunction was granted, mathers did not have funds to contest an appeal setting this aside, and crowley continued to publish his own version of gd secret rituals. in addition to the publicity from this legal action, crowley also gained additional notice through public performa

ited by william eisen. two years after zenor s death, rev. geary salvat, also a channel, was chosen to succeed him. salvat channels the master teacher ayuibbi tobabu. both agasha and ayuibbi tobabu have articulated what they consider a universal philosophy based on the acceptance of individual responsibility and a spiritual democracy within the larger context of universal laws. basic laws include the golden rule (do unto others as you would have them do unto you) and the law of compensation (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. the temple is headquartered at 7525 fallbrook ave, west hills, ca 91307. it has several centers in the united states and one in japan. sources: crenshaw, james. telephone between two worlds. los angeles: devorss, 1950. eisen, william. agasha, ma

ures throughout history.has been traced to the ancient doctrine generally called animism, which endowed everything in nature, from human beings to the smallest insect, from the heavenly bodies to an insignificant plant or stone, with a separable soul. it is not difficult to understand how the conception of souls may have arisen. nineteenth-century anthropologist james frazer, in his classic work, the golden bough, states, as the savage commonly explains the processes of inanimate nature by supposing that they are produced by living beings working in or behind the phenomena, so he explains the phenomena of life itself. if an animal lives and moves, it can only be, he thinks, because there is a little animal inside which moves it. if a man lives and moves, it can only be because he has a lit

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. arthur machen: a short account of his life and work. london, 1963. 951 sullivan, jack, ed. the penguin encyclopedia of horror and the supernatural. new york: viking, 1986. macionica slavonic name for a witch (see slavs) mackenzie, kenneth r(obert) h(enderson (1833.1886) prominent british occultist, an honorary magus of the societas rosicruciana in anglia, and a member of the hermetic society of the golden dawn. during 1858.59 he edited four issues of biological review, devoted to spiritualism, homeopathy, and electro-dentistry. mackenzie was born on october 31, 1833, in london. the following year his family lived in vienna, where his father, dr. rowland h. mackenzie, was assistant surgeon in the midwifery department at imperial hospital. mackenzie and his wife returned to england about 1

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

s in the history of european magic are those of paracelsus and agrippa, who outlined the science of medieval magic. they were also the greatest practical magicians of the middle ages.apart from pure mystics, alchemists, and others.and their thaumaturgic and necromantic experiences were probably never surpassed. theories regarding the nature of magic according to sir james george frazer, author of the golden bough (1890, magic and religion are one and the same thing, or at least are so closely allied as to be almost identical. frazer s anthropologist successors in the early twentieth century, most notably malinowski and marcel mauss, regarded magic as entirely distinct from religion. magic possessed certain well-marked attributes that could be traced to mental processes differing from those

f magic during the 1890s there was a revival of interest in ritual magic in europe among both intellectuals and traditional occultists. this occult underground permeated much of the intellectual life and progressive movements in europe, in contrast to the more popular preoccupation with spiritualism and table turning. symbolic of this magic revival was the founding of the famous hermetic order of the golden dawn, which numbered among its members such individuals as annie horniman (sponsor of the abbey theatre, dublin, florence farr (mistress of george bernard shaw, s. l. macgregor mathers, william butler yeats, arthur machen, and arthur edward waite. another famous member was the magician aleister crowley, who left the order to found his own organization, a a, and then become head of the g

or adept. the magi, or magicians (plural form of magus, were the wise men of the ancient persian priesthood. it is noted in the christian new testament that three magi brought gifts to the infant jesus. in the later tradition they were given names.kaspar, melchior, and balthasar. and their bones are said to rest in cologne cathedral, germany. the term magus is also used in magical societies like the golden dawn to indicate one of its highest grades, between the master of the temple and the ipsissimus. sources: king, francis. the rites of modern occult magic. new york: macmillan, 1970. magus a spirit control of william stainton moses, supposed to be a member of the mystic band that delivered occult teaching in moses s scripts. magus did not disclose his name on earth, but he said that he l

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opposer; the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse; the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou, therefore, the celestial serpent as of brass; glistening with green and gold, the colors of vegetation and of growth. banish thou, therefore, the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst know the life of ages, thou who would follow in the footsteps of our master, o brother of the order of the golden dawn! for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up and raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of eternal life. and when, like our master, thou art extended upon the tree through suffering and through pain, let thy countenance be raised up towards the light of the holy one, to invoke the divine brightness

power extendeth over many and numberless orders. behemoth and leviathan are two evil forms of which the first is the synthesis of the twpylq already described under the head of behemiron in the twpylq of the months of the year. the leviathan are, as it were, numberless dragon forms united together. so that each of his scales is like a separate evil serpent (an instructional paper for students of the golden dawn isis-urania temple. transcribed by w.e.h. humphreys, july 2,190n extraordinary encounters have been reported for as long as human beings have been around, and they are richly documented in the world s folklore and mythology. a full accounting of traditions of otherworldly belief would easily fill many fat volumes. this book, however, is not about traditions but about experiences, o

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further reading cayce, edgar, 1968. edgar cayce on atlantis. new york: paperback library. de camp, l. sprague, 1970. lost continents: the at- lantis theme in history, science, and literature. new york: dover publications. donnelly, ignatius, 1882. atlantis: the antediluvian world. new york: harper. ellis, richard, 1998. imagining atlantis. new york: alfred a. knopf. omar, steve, 1996. history of the golden ages, volume i. http//www.nii.net/ obie/historygold. htm spence, lewis, 1924. the problem of atlantis. london: rider. steiner, rudolf, 1968. cosmic memory: prehistory of earth and man. west nyack, ny: paperback li- brary. aura rhanes heavy-equipment operator truman bethurum encountered the beautiful aura rhanes, captain of a scow (spaceship) from the idyllic planet clarion, on the other

in fontana, california, she felt a strange warmth come over her. after the meeting, several audience members rushed up to her to say that they had seen an apparition of a young diane 87 woman transposed over howard s body. one audience member, eleanor warner, described the figure of a beautiful woman, very young, with long golden hair, a very slim body, and small waistline. she seemed to glow in the golden light. another witness, trudy allen, was overcome by the transcendent beauty that was shining forth. in howard s account, diane appeared to her, in full view of twenty-seven witnesses, for the first time on april 29, 1955, and identified herself as a venusian. that same week ufos appeared on four occasions over palm springs, california, howard s hometown. see also: contactees further re

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see creative nature s self before my soul appear. now first i understand what he, the sage, has said: the world of spirits is not shut away; thy sense is closed, thy heart is dead! up, student! bathe without dismay thy earthly breast in morning-red" he contemplates the sign. into the whole how all things blend, each in the other working, living! how heavenly powers ascend, descend, each unto each the golden vessels giving! on pinions fragrant blessings bringing, from heaven through earth all onward winging, through all the all harmonious ringing! what pageantry! yet, ah, mere pageantry! where shall i, endless nature, seize on thee? thy breasts are- where? ye, of all life the spring, to whom both earth and heaven cling, toward whom the withering breast doth strainye gush, ye suckle, and sha

essed. oh, never learn to know the other! two souls alas! are dwelling in my breast; and each is fain to leave its brother. the one, fast clinging, to the world adheres with clutching organs, in love s sturdy lust; the other strongly lifts itself from dust to yonder high, ancestral spheres. oh, are there spirits hovering near, that ruling weave, twixt earth and heaven are rife, descend! come from the golden atmosphere and lead me hence to new and varied life! yea! were a magic mantle only mine, to bear me to strange lands at pleasure, i would not barter it for costliest treasure, not for the mantle of a king resign. wagner oh, call them not, the well-known swarms that streaming spread throughout the murky air; in every quarter they prepare a danger for mankind in a thousand forms, sharp sp

t many arts doth far transcend. by way of welcome then you touch all matters for sake of which, long years, another flatters. learn how the little pulse to squeeze and then with sly and fiery glances seize her freely round the slender hips to see how firmly laced up she may be. student now that looks better! now one sees the where and how! mephistopheles dear friend, all theory is grey, and green the golden tree of life. student i vow, it s all just like a dream to me. another time i ll bore you, if i may, to hear your wisdom through and through. mephistopheles all that i can i ll gladly do. student it is impossible for me to go away before i hand my album here to you. will your grace grant this favour to me too? mephistopheles oh, very well! he writes and gives it back. student [reads] er

dest one. thou art experienced, wise, seem st well disposed to us, although this brainless troop, misjudging, struck at thee. say, then, what rescue thou mayst know as possible. phorkyas tis easy said! upon the queen alone it rests if she will save herself, you adjuncts too with her. determination s needful and the speediest. chorus most revered of all the parcae, wisest of the sibyls, thou, hold the golden shears wide open, then proclaim us life and health; for we feel our precious limbs already swinging, swaying, dangling undelightfully, for they in dancing rather would delight them, resting then on lover s breast. helena let these be anxious! pain i feel but naught of fear; but if thou know st of rescue, grateful be t received. for to the wise, far-seeing, oft in very truth impossible s

hen it is struck. all at once, though, in the crevice of a rugged gorge he s vanished, and he now seems lost to us. the mother wails, the father comforts, anxiously i shrug my shoulders. but again now what a vision! are there treasures lying hid there? garments striped with broidered blossoms he has donned becomingly. from his arms are tassels waving, round his bosom flutter ribbons, in his hands the golden lyre; completely like a little phoebus, he steps boldly to the brink, then to the precipice. we marvel and the parents in their rapture clasp each other, heart to heart, for around his head what splendour! it is hard to say what glitters, is it gold-work or the flame of some transcendent spirit-power? and he moves and gestures even now though but a boy, proclaiming him the future master

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

ance in the hermetic qabalah is the sefer yetzirah (book of formation. however, from what is written in many of the books of hermetic qabalah, it is apparent that the structure of the tree of life, nature of the inner court, and function of the lettergates as explicated by the sefer yetzirah are widely misunderstood. the two most prominent contemporary schools of practical or hermetic qabalah are the golden dawn and the ordo templi orientis (o.t.o, which still exist and continue to attract followers today. the golden dawn was founded in the late nineteenth century in the heyday of the victorian period. the document reputed to be at the foundation of the golden dawn system was the cypher manuscript attributed to fraulein sprengel. the sacred magic of abramelin the mage was also an important

n and the ordo templi orientis (o.t.o, which still exist and continue to attract followers today. the golden dawn was founded in the late nineteenth century in the heyday of the victorian period. the document reputed to be at the foundation of the golden dawn system was the cypher manuscript attributed to fraulein sprengel. the sacred magic of abramelin the mage was also an important document for the golden dawn and a significant influence on the controversial aleister crowley, who broke with the golden dawn and formed the order templis orientis. the o.t.o was founded primarily upon works of sexual mysteries and masonic charters, and incorporated the abramelin material at a later date. until very recently, almost all books in english on the subject of the qabalah, regardless of their title

f the covenant, and more. in zohar b reshith 21a-21b, several verses in the torah are cited as meditation images for abraham( sitting at the door of his tent at noon),2 yitza aq( meditating in the field at sunset),3 and ya aqov( limping down the road at sunrise, after wrestling with paniel all night).4 the reader is referred to figure 7.3. the books of the prophets yield images such as king david the golden one whirling in ecstatic absorption before the ark of the covenant as it was brought to jerusalem (ii samuel, jeremiah bearing a yoke upon his neck, ezekiel ascending in the fiery chariot, the merkabah visions of isaiah and ezekiel, etc. the books of the writings provide our imaginations with images from the travails of job, the story of yonah in the belly of the leviathan, daniel in th

st of the two remaining books of enochian literature traced to the reign of sheba in ethiopia. i enoch was translated by r.h. charles in the late nineteenth century. in the qur an, metatron is referred to as al khidr. 13 s.l. macgregor mathers translated the sacred magic of abramelin the mage, the greater and lesser keys of solomon, and the grimoire of armadel. these books were drawn upon by both the golden dawn and ordo templis orientis for some of their rituals and experiments. aleister crowley incorporated material from them in his writings as well. mathers also brought attention to the sifra detzniyutha and the idra rabba with his english translation of knorr von rosenroth s latin translation of those texts. 14 rabbi israel ben eliezer is often referred to as the besht, which is an acr

l column of the tree in general, and the gate of the gimel in particular. organ of the tongue: a term for the alef of unity, and the root of small face in the throat center of the sefirah knowledge/ first in the sefer yetzirah. organ of nakedness: a term for the ayin of vast face in the sefer yetzirah. o.t.o: order templis orientis, a school of the practical qabalah that was a breakout group from the golden dawn. pagan: latin-based appellation given to the indigenous spiritual traditions of western europe that preceded the colonization by christianity. paniel (hebrew: face of el: name of vast face; the angel with whom ya aqov wrestled in the torah. partzufim (hebrew: veils, curtains, faces: a term prominent in lurianic teachings for vast face, ancient father, ancient mother, small face, an

FIRE OF QAYIN RITE

pping it as the light of the horned goat-angel and also contemplating it as the fiery essence of the daimon/genius within. horned father of the hidden craft, mighty tubal qayin, o brother of naamah-lilith, who didst descend as a serpent of the lightning upon earth s ancient mountains, o bringer of light, hear the prayer. in the brazen citadel, in the hall of flames i call upon thee, goat-angel of the golden horns, master of the primal fire, azael-qayin, appear in thy brilliance. thou art he: who fell from the sun to consecrate humankind with sacred heat. thou art he: who led the hosts of the watchers, the fair sons of the gods to mingle their fiery seed with the beauteous daughters of men in the world s morning. thou art he: king of the daemons of wisdom, thine ministers who are the elder

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

culture of the graeco-roman world who, weary of the stale teachings of the schools, sought for salvation in the occult, and particularly in the egyptian type of the occult. born circa 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

tral influences with the three graces may be derived from a passage in the emperor julian's hymn to the sun.3 gold is a metal full of solar and jovial spirit and therefore beneficial in combating melancholy. green is a health-giving and life-giving colour, and the reader is urged to come to "alma venus"4 and to walk in the green fields with her, plucking her flowers, such as roses, or the crocus, the golden flower of jupiter. ficino also gives advice on how to choose a non-saturnian diet, and thinks that the use of pleasant odours and scents is beneficial. we might be in the consulting room of a rather expensive psychiatrist who knows that his patients can afford plenty of gold and holidays in the country, and flowers out of season. talismans are not mentioned until the third book, which i

let us draw up some comparisons. there is, for example, the comparison with which we began the first chapter of this book. the latin humanist's chronology is correct. he knows the correct date of the civilisation to which he 1 martin del rio, disquisitionum magicarum, libri sex, first edition louvain, 1599-1600. see walker, pp. 178-85. 159 against magic (2) the humanist tradition wants to return, the golden age of latin rhetoric as represented by cicero, the proficiency in literary and historical studies which a ciceronian speech represents, its exquisite latin style, the dignified way of life in a well-organised society, which is its framework. this world really did exist at the date at which the latin humanist thinks it existed. he is not transposing its date to some misty antiquity just

tions. it is for the latin humanist that the middle ages are "barbarous, using bad latin and having lost the true sense of romanitas. it is the humanist's mission to restore good latin, which he thinks will in itself help to restore a universal romanitas, and so to lead the world out of the ages of barbarism and into a new golden age of classical culture.2 for the follower of the other tradition, the golden chain of pia philosophia, running from the prisca theologia to the present, threads its way through the middle ages and he finds some of his most revered platonists in the ages of barbarism. scholastic philosophy (for the other school the acme of barbarism) is for him an important source of pia philosophia, to be collated with his neoplatonic and other sources. ficino makes much use of

needed. gohorry lived in paris until his death in 1576 and seems to have run a kind of medical-magical academy, not far from the site of baif's academy of poetry and music.3 the thought also occurs that the blame for the magic of the asclepius which the pious hermetists were casting on apuleius of madaura might have had the effect of attracting confirmed magicians to that author, whose romance of the golden ass had been extremely popular in the italian renaissance. the novel recreates for the reader with wonderful vividness the late antique society riddled with magic of all kinds. the experiences of the hero, turned into an ass by bad witches, suffering all the blows and 1 kristeller, studies, p. 223; walker "the prisca theologia in france, p. 209; quotations from vergerius' preface in sco

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

lls of the qliphoth could it be that lovecraft may have subconsciously communicated the book of dead names from the same source? in his realisation of the cthulhu mythos, lovecraft also drew upon a wide range of sources from the historical occult tradition, and from the literary material pertaining to it. in his essay, supernatural horror in literature, he mentions academic works such as frazer s the golden bough, and margaret murray s the witch cult in western europe, as well as authentic grimoires such as the keys of solomon and dr. john dee s book of enoch, or liber logaeth. he had also read waite s collection of medieval texts, the book of black magic and pacts, macgregor mathers translation of the sacred magic of abra-melin the sage, and cotton mathers, wonders of the invisible world

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

will and on imagination. connected with these are analogous thinking and symbolic images. for example, agrippa uses a special sigil for each of the planetary intelligences. these are not, as has been assumed for quite some time, arbitrarily constructed, nor were they received by grevelation, h but rather they are based on cabbalistic considerations.5 4/ practical sigil magic the hermetic order of the golden dawn also employed sigils as gimages of the souls' of magical entities, which enabled the magician to establish contact with them; nonetheless, the technique of their construction was not explained. the same may be said for o.t.o. under crowley's leadership and for the fraternitas saturni under gregorius. the name agrippa already hints at the fact that magical sigils have a long histori

uently criticized sixth and seventh books of moses basically applies the same procedure of''select ingredients, pour in and stir h, and these practitioners believed in the following principle: to know the gtrue' name and the''true' sigil of a demon means to have power over it. pragmatic magic, which developed in the anglo-saxon realms, completely tidied up this concept.6 often crowley's revolt in the golden dawn.at first in favor of but soon against mathers.is seen as the actual beginning of modern magic. it would certainly not be wrong to say that crowley himself was an important supporter of pragmatic thought in modern magic. but in the end, the master therion preferred to remain within the hierarchical dogmatic system due to his aiwass-revelation in liber al vel legis. his key phrase gd

at we may describe his philosophy, without undue exaggeration, as a mixture of lao-tse, wicca and max stirner. english magic of the turn of the century was also influenced by an important young science which would actually achieve its major triumphs only after the second world war.the psychology of sigmund freud. before that. blatvatsky's isis unveiled and the secret doctrine, as well as frazer's the golden bough, had given important impulses to the occult in general. william james's comparative psychology of religion influenced deeply the intellectuality of this time, but freud, adler, and especially carl g, jung eventually effected major breakthroughs. from then on, people started to consider the unconscious in earnest. this apparent digression, which had to be kept very short due to lac

and demons have been cabbalistically construed with the help of these cameas. since this technique belongs to yet another important branch of sigil magic and is relatively unknown, it shall be covered here. the following explanations are based on israel regardie fs excellent book how to make and use talismans, which contains a very clear summary, though the author refers to the older material of the golden dawn and other writers have explained the system elsewhere.14 to be able to use these systems, however, you need a sound basic knowledge of cabbalism and planetary magic. unfortunately, these cannot be taught here and would lead away from our main topic. readers who are quite unfamiliar with these disciplines should refer to the relevant literature listed in the bibliography. the basis

individual fs spiritual development as well. it can open completely new universes to us.an unlimited number of universes of experience.and eventually it will lead us back to the sources of magical power itself. salve atque vale! ubique daemon. ubique deus. 123 glossary a. a..astrum argentum or silver star. a magical group founded by aleister crowley based on the teachings of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. abramelin system.a potent cabbalistic system of magic. it involves six months in prayer, following which you achieve gthe knowledge and conversation of your holy guardian angel h this angel provides information on how to control demons so that they will bring you whatever you desire. agrippa.henry cornelius theophrastus bombastus agrippa von nettesheim (1486-1535) was a famous alc

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

so richly shed on zion's sacred hills. iii.for there the lord of light and love, a blessing sent with power; o may we all this blessing prove, e'en life for evermore. iv. on friendship's altar rising here, our hands now plighted be, to live in love, with hearts sincere, in peace and unity. the lambskin, or white leather apron. is an emblem of innocence, and the badge of a mason; more ancient than the golden fleece or roman eagle; more honorable than the star and garter, or any other order that can be conferred upon you at this or any future period, by king, prince, potentate, or any other person, except he be a mason, and which i hope you will wear with pleasure to yourself and honor to the fraternity. the twentyfour inch gauge. is an instrument made use of by operative masons to measure a

d apt to teach; though not for the time a workman, yet be master of the work and qualified to earn his wages; be prompt to aid and relieve, and slow to demand it; be ever mindful, that though elevated for a time above his fellows, that he is elevated by them, and that he is yet a craftsman, more sacredly bound by a craftsman's obligation; and that he should cultivate everywhere, and at all times, the golden tenets of brotherly love, relief and truth. maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (72 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:56 am] as an officer, he should remember, first of all, that he is an individual mason, sharing in that respect a common lot with his brethren, and therefore interested in the welfare of each and all: be devoid of undue ostentation and haughty overb

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL 2

nhabit the air. but we know that our dense body gravitates towards the center of the earth, therefore, a change must take place; also paul tells us that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. but he also points out that we have a soma psuchicon (mistranslated natural body) a soul body, and this is made of ether, which is lighter than air and therefore capable of levitation. this is the golden wedding garment, the philosopher's stone, or the living stone, spoken of in some of the ancient philosophies as the diamond soul, for it is luminous, lustrous, and sparkling--a priceless gem. it was also called the astral body by the mediaeval alchemists, because of the ability it conferred upon the one who has it to traverse the starry regions. but it is not to be confounded with the d

n his name by faith, and he will eventually unite the scattered churches in the kingdom of christ. christian rosenkreuz was given charge of the sons of cain who seek the light of knowledge at the sacred fires of the mystic shrine. as the creative energy implanted by their divine ancestor samael caused cain to work out their own salvation through the fire of tribulation, and fashion for themselves the golden wedding garment, which is the "open sesame" to the invisible world. and though the cleansing blood of jesus is an absolute necessity to millions of weaker brothers, there can scarcely be any question when we assert that the more men and women who engage in mystic masonry to consciously build this temple of the soul, the sooner we shall see the second advent of christ, and the stronger w

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

o mind a measure, through many experiences in the school of life, they are gradually freeing themselves from bondage to the martial lucifer spirits and the war god jehovah, whose colors are scarlet and red; also by obeying consciously or unconsciously the unifying altruistic christ spirit whose vibrations produce a yellow color which is thus mingling with the red and will gradually obliterate it. the golden aureole painted by the artists gifted with spiritual sight around holy men is a physical representation of a spiritual promise which applies to humanity as a whole, though it has only been realized by a few who are called saints. after lives of battle with their passions, after patient persistence in well-doing, high aspirations and steadfast adherence to lofty purposes these people hav

round holy men is a physical representation of a spiritual promise which applies to humanity as a whole, though it has only been realized by a few who are called saints. after lives of battle with their passions, after patient persistence in well-doing, high aspirations and steadfast adherence to lofty purposes these people have raised themselves above the red ray and are now entirely imbued with the golden christ ray and its vibration. this spiritual fact has been embodied by mediaeval artists gifted with spiritual sight, in their pictures of saints whom they represent as surrounded by a golden aureole, indicating their emancipation from the power of the lucifer spirits of mars who are the fallen angels, as well as from jehovah and his angels, who belong to an earlier stage of evolution a

fer spirits of mars who are the fallen angels, as well as from jehovah and his angels, who belong to an earlier stage of evolution and are warders of national and race religions. the lucifer spirits find expression in the iron in our blood. iron is a mars metal, difficult to start into high vibration, so difficult that it takes many lives of great effort to change the product of its combustion to the golden color which designates the saint. when that has been achieved, the greatest feat of alchemy has been performed; the base metal has been changed to gold, the wonderful alloy of the molten sea has been made from the dross of the earth. all that then remains is to "pull the plugs" and pour it. the natural golden color is the christ ray finding its chemical expression in the oxygen, a solar

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

uncovered his father's nakedness he was cursed; so also was prometheus punished for stealing fire from heaven. thus it happens that a people or a civilization is cursed when its rulers uncover the mysteries in the public places. when the symbols are made cheap they are misunderstood, they cease to be symbolical and become real, idols in the eyes of the multitudes. when the multitudes dance round the golden calf, then are the tables of the law cast upon the ground. all this may seem strange to us today, when everything is trumpeted abroad and sold for gold and there is no righteousness in the land; when love and lust, sorrow, tragedy, and excitement are sold for a penny in the newspapers, and when all that is sacred and vicious is broadcasted around for much less. the exploitation of the m

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

ent on supernaturalism for its origin and maintenance, is, with a better and clearer understanding of the past history of the development of the human race, being gradually dispelled. on one point we may reasonably rest assured that the knowledge of right and wrong and our sense of justice and right-living have been developed quite independently of all religious beliefs. the moral law embodied in the golden rule is not an outgrowth of mysticism, or of man's notions of the unknowable; but, on the contrary, is the result of experience, and was formulated in response to a recognized law of human necessity--a law which involves the fundamental principle of progress. the history of human development shows conclusively that mankind grew into the recognition of the moral law, that through sympath

an abstract creative principle, mankind had lapsed into worshippers of the symbols under which this principle had been veiled. although at certain stages in the history of the human race the evils, which as a result of the supremacy of the ruder elements developed in mankind had befallen the race were lamented and bewailed, they could not be suppressed. man had become a lost and ruined creature. the golden age had passed away. chapter ii. tree, plant, and fruit worship. when mankind first began to perceive the fact of an all-pervading agency throughout nature, by or through which everything is produced, and when they began to speculate on the origin of life and the final cause and destiny of things, it is not in the least remarkable that various objects and elements, such as fire, air, wa

e firing of guns accompanied these solemn acts in all their stages, and wherever the grave procession moved, it always did so with measured tread, chanting sacred verses to the old, old deity of our race, and surrounded with all the pomp of war; whilst at intervals, peals of christian bells and the booming of near and distant guns added to the solemnity of this water pageant. after the filling of the golden cup, which, of course, represents the earth and its fulness, and, at this season, the now expected increase, the high priest placed a golden crucifix on the virgin water and blessed its return from wintry death, invoking the precious fluid to vernal life and productiveness, when lo! a holy child suddenly appears upon the scene, reminding us that this is everywhere the outcome of the 'wa

emblems, banners, guns, etc. men and women, aye, wise as well as foolish, of every rank, now crowded forward, and on bended knee besought their patriarch to sprinkle and to bless them. finally, the great czar put the cup to his lips, humbly and reverently, and then filled it to overflowing with a wealth of golden pieces, for it is the still living representative in the nineteenth century a.c. of 'the golden boat' of hea of the nineteenth century b.c'[77 [77] forlong, rivers of life, vol. ii, p. 95. the symbol of neith or muth, athene or minerva, the great universal female principle of the egyptians, greeks, and romans, was the shield and serpent. in celtic druids i find that nath, the egyptian neith, the "goddess of wisdom and science whose symbol was the shield and serpent, was worshipped

of christians called prodiceans whose leader, prodicus, about a.d. 120, boasted that they had the sacred books of zoroaster. from an extant fragment of the chronography of africanus is the following "christ first of all became known from persia. for nothing escapes the learned jurists of that country, who investigated all things with the utmost care. the facts, therefore, which are inscribed upon the golden plates, and laid up in the royal temples, i shall record; for it is from the temples there, and the priests connected with them, that the name of christ has been heard of. now, there is a temple there to juno, surpassing the royal palace, which temple cyrus, that prince instructed in all piety, built, and in which he dedicated, in honor of the gods, golden and silver statues, and adorne

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

am sure, had now become for him not grey but radiant,witha copy of 'the old house in west street' under his arm. perhapsishould explain. my friend waite,besides taking over all mysticism, occultism, alchemyand transcendentalismfor his province, has a hobby, like most good men. in hiscase,this hobby is the collecting of 'penny dreadfuls' of ancient date: the forties and early fifties are, ibelieve,the golden age of this adventure. and amongst those 'penny dreadfuls, as they are affectionately called, one of the choicest prizes is 'the old house inweststreet. and waite had got it for eighteen pence or half-a-crown: agreasy,old bound volume of the old weeklyparts, vilelyprinted on wretched paperwith amazing woodcuts: and yet a find, adelight. then if recollectionserves,we had some gin. it was

hebritishmailbut concerned almost exclusively'withtheaffairsof local government. it also. published biographies .of assorted worthies .which 'included, under waite's editorship, a flattering 'municipal portrait' of frederick horniman, withespecialpraise heaped upon his museum. it is tempting to think that this eulogy of her father encouraged anniehorniman to look on waitewithfavourwhen he entered the golden dawn laterthatyear,but she is unlikely to haverecognized waite's hand, for contributors and editors alike of bottomley journals remained anonymous. indeed, waite cultivated anonymity to such an extent inthebritishmailthat in oneissue, april 1890, he devotedfour columns to an unsigned, mocking review of his own anonymous prospectus forazoth:orthestar in theeast-e-ebook he had yet to writ

end ofmead-totheend ofitsdays.butwhile the quest society flourished another esoteric body, and one much dearer to waite's heart,floundered-itstroubles due, in no small part, to the actions of marcus worsley blackden,whowas the first 'ordinary member' of the quest society's council. he was also a founder memberofanother body, the independent and rectified rite: waite's versionofthe hermeticorderof the golden dawn_ 12_'goldendemonsthatnonecanstay'-anhermeticorderofthegoldendawnearlyin 1867, at a timewhenthe young a. e. waite was preparing for his first communion, the prehistory of the goldendawnwas being acted out. two english freemasons,r.w. little and w.j.hughan, were advanced through a series of grades in the rosicrucian society in scotia (they had been admitted to the first, or zelator g

thewindowend of the room. i observed the flagon of funchal wine partially emptied. a vast female [yeats's housekeeper, mrsold]was preparing the meal in aroomwhichopened towards the back part of the house and is, i believe, on ordinary occasions the poet's bedroom.he made excuses to avoid long discussions on lady gregory and ancient irish romances,butdiscussed the grail legends, waite's books and the golden dawn_'goldendemonsthatnonecanstay'115 he told me that the unfortunate frater-[waite omits the name] of the house of the hidden stairs had suddenly lost his wife and he evidently found that this was irreparable otherwise than in the conventional way for she had looked after him most faithfully in the periodic fits of drink-craving which came over him. this scandal i had not heard previou

ellowship was also different; there was one head of theorderonly: the imperator,whowas waite; and none of the offices calledfor a masonic qualification.thedaysof a 'triple masonic headship' were over. in future waite's masonic activities would be confined to their proper place.125_'brotherhoodisreligion--14 'brotherhoodisreligion'-anadeptamongthemasonsatthetime the independent and rectifiedriteof the golden.dawnwas declaring its independence from the old order, waite had been a freemason for barelytwoyears;buthis enthusiasm for freemasonry was boundless, for he saw it,notas did grandlodge-as'a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated by symbols-s-but as yet another aspect ofthesecret. tradition, and thus one more secret path to a direct experience of god. in his ear

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

avelling in the spirit vision130appendixfastral travelling132appendixgthe manifesto ofjuly19031356thegoldendawnappendixhconstitution of ther.r.et a.c, november1903138seleabibliographyi4jforewordtwo major streams of thought have influenced the development and dissemination of west em occultism. h. p. blavatskyand the theosophical society represent one stream; the other is s.l.macgregor mathers and the golden dawn. regardless of the intemecine conflicts, scandals and doctrinal schisms that occurredinboth of them, all modem thinking on occult matters has been profoundly influenced by these seminal systems. i cannot conceive of any form of occultism without thinking of madame blavatsky.herinfluence may not be admitted or appreciated on the surface; nonetheless a little enquiry will reveal it

ous systems, are able to do so largely because madame blavatsky did so much on behalf ofhindumystical thinking. and i cannot help but remem255 ber the picture of oppenheimer, the father of the hydrogen bomb, sitting on his desk in padmasana reading the bhagavad gita. on the other hand, there is hardly a legitimate occult order in europe or america that has not borrowed directly or indirectly from the golden dawn. one has only to glance casually through francis king'sritualmagicinenglandto realize the enormous influenceofthe golden dawn. it was certainly not a wealthy organization; nor did it have a vast multitude of members. yet whatitstood for has percolated down through almost every level of modem occult belief.8thegoldendawnarthur edward waite was amemberfor abriefintervalofboththese or

itualmagicinenglandto realize the enormous influenceofthe golden dawn. it was certainly not a wealthy organization; nor did it have a vast multitude of members. yet whatitstood for has percolated down through almost every level of modem occult belief.8thegoldendawnarthur edward waite was amemberfor abriefintervalofboththese organizations.hehad a rather condescending attitude towardsbothmathersand the golden dawn.hewas indebted more to christian mysticism and to the traditional antecedentsofboththe aforenamed groups than anything else and looked back to the past to dredge up what he could about alchemy, the qabalah, thetarot,the rosicrucians and medieval magic.hecame to write large tomes on allofthese subjects, and credit must be given to him for whatever popularity someofthem have since ac

tructure that will persist and which is still worthy of our attention.francis israel regardiesedona, arizona, october1982introductionduringthe courseofa footnote in his seminal workthemagiciansof thegoldendawn,ellie howe refers to the printingofthe manuscript 'flying rolls' that were circulated within the secondorderand adds 'with the publication of these texts it might be said that the bottom of the golden dawn barrel hasbeenconscientiously scraped.'fromthe viewpointofthe orthodox historian he is quite correct, for his own work, together with the vast moundofstudies on yeats' involvement with theorderthat has built up steadily as a dismaying consequence, is more than enough to keep the most fastidious scholar happy throughout endless future incarnations. equally, the practising magician m

us scholar happy throughout endless future incarnations. equally, the practising magician may play for years with the rites and ceremonies given, in all their oath-breaking glory, in israel regardie's definitive setofpub255lished rituals.butfor the more cautious, armchair studentof'rejected knowledge, and for the merely curious who wish to see what pictures appear on the pieces still missing from the golden dawn puzzle, there is much that remains to be told.theremay even be those who, like myself, are intrigued by yeats' vision of theorderas a taleoflostyouth.hededicatedavisionto vestigia, who was mina mathers, and told herofhis reason for so doing: perhaps this book has been written because a number of youngmen and women, you andiamongthe number, met nearlyforty yearsago in london and in

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say on the ancient mysteries269 26.a recent spiritual development287 27.an essay upon the constitution of man: spirit, soul, body296 28.man's blood and generation310introductionof all the actors in the bizarre pageant of the occult revival, william wynn westcott was the most unlikely: cautious, fearful and altogether too respectable, he yet created its most exotic structure, the hermetic order of the golden dawn.thetask of controlling the order proved, however,tobe far beyond the abilities of this timorous scholar, and it slipped from his grasp to fall into the hands of s.l. macgregor mathers, the magical genius who raised it to its greatest glory. but theorderneeded westcott, for he was its true rosicrucian: the physician and mystic who sought all his life for hermetic wisdom, and, having

ed a deputy coroner, becoming intimecoroner for north-east london, a post that he held until 1918. perhaps his professional preoccupation with death encouraged him to create lifeexnihilo,and this he did with startling success. realizing from his rosicrucian studies that a magical order would need a history, he set about creating a first-class pedigree for his own brainchild, the hermetic order of the golden dawn. his first creation, or contact on the inner planes if one prefers to suspend disbelief, was a rosicrucian adept named anna sprengel, whose address appeared on a collection of manuscript rituals allegedly discov255 ered in freemasons' hall- the famous cypher manuscript that was the foundation of the golden dawn system. westcott promptly wrote to his own creation and was authorized

ess appeared on a collection of manuscript rituals allegedly discov255 ered in freemasons' hall- the famous cypher manuscript that was the foundation of the golden dawn system. westcott promptly wrote to his own creation and was authorized to found a temple in england, which he estab255 lished in march 1888 as the isis-urania temple, with mathers and dr w.r. woodman as his co-chiefs. the story of the golden dawn need not be repeated here" save only the major events that involved westcott. in march 1897 he was obligedtoresign from all office in the order 'owing to my having reed. an intimation that it had somehow become known to the state officers that i was a prominent officialof a society in which i had been foolishly posturing as one possessed of magical powers 255 and that if this becam

consistently refused either to affirm or deny the accusation, and remained surprisingly loyal to mathers after the 'rebellion' of 1900. the true history of the anna sprengelletters will probably never be known,butthere is nointroduction9doubt at all as to their spurious nature and virtually none that westcott was their author. he played only a very minor role in the later alarms and diversions of the golden dawn and concerned himself increa255 singly with the affairs of the s.r.i.a, of which he had been supreme magus since 1892. his dealings with mathers had taught him caution, and when he corresponded with theodor reuss over the setting-up of a berlin college of the s.r.i.a. in 1902 he declined to work reuss' rosicrucian rite 'because it trespasses so much [on the 18th degree of the ancie

t to find some" for forty years westcott poured out a never-ending stream of books and papers on hermetic subjects, translations and editions of alchemical and kabalistic classics, textbooks in his professional field, and learned notes for masonic journals. many of his books are still in print, but the papers have been forgotten, buried in obscure and often privately printed journals.tounderstand the golden dawn, one must read what its creators wrote- not for the world at largebutfor the benefit of their fellow initiates.thepapers in this anthology are just that, fugitive pieces and unpublished manuscripts written for10themagical masonthe aspiring adepts whom westcott sought to serve 'i am likely tobe,like the wheat, ground between the upper and lower millstones, he once wrote" and so he w

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nd was, no doubt, highly amused by mathers' use of the motto of the clan macgregor 's rioghail mo dhream (royal is my tribe, on his election to the zelator grade" but for all the accompanying pretension, this was the most significant move of mathers' life, for within the s.r.i.a. he met both wynn westcott anddrwoodman, and slowly and carefully began to lay the foundations of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. from 1888 the story of macgregor mathers is the story of the golden dawn,butbefore then, in 1885, he had moved to london, joined anna kingsford's hermetic society, in which he delivered his first major lecture" and publishedthe kabbalah unveiled,his most successful and influential work.5and before 1888 he had met mina bergson, the sister of the philosopher henri bergson, who was t

regor mathers is the story of the golden dawn,butbefore then, in 1885, he had moved to london, joined anna kingsford's hermetic society, in which he delivered his first major lecture" and publishedthe kabbalah unveiled,his most successful and influential work.5and before 1888 he had met mina bergson, the sister of the philosopher henri bergson, who was to become successively the first initiate of the golden dawn and mathers' wife. after their marriage, in june 1890, they lived at forest hill close to the horniman museum, of which mathers had been made curator;butby 1892 they had moved to paris, where they remained- save for a prolonged visit to london for theequinoxandlooking glasscases of 1910 and 1911- until mathers' death from influenza in 1918. his career in the golden dawn has been ch

edit. in later years his somewhat tenuous loyalty to mathers strengthened and he was genuinely grieved at mathers' death, five years before his own in 1923. unsure of his own occult connections, he wasyetunwavering in his belief inthereality of an occult world and was an enthusiastic proselytizer; issuing fictional and factualaccounts.of scottish witchcraft, justifications for the magical aims of the golden dawn, and the introduction to eckartshausen'scloud upon the sanctuarythatset aleister crowley upon his magical career. but, as with mathers, his contributions to the occult journals of his day remain virtually unknown. it is both their fugitive nature and their inherent fascination that justifies this anthology of those writings. mathers published comparatively little, apart from his bo

. and a short paper on the kabalah written for arthur machen, who was then, in 1887, the editorofwalford'santiquarian magazine .mathers' papers were written principally for his fellow magicians and are restricted. to a narrow part of the spectrum of occultism, whereas the papers by brodie-innes are more broadly based, providing a valuable insight into the theoretical background of the workings of the golden dawn, and indicatingthebreadth of their author's knowledge and interests. for bothmen;'the magus andhismost eager follower, their writings are their monument, preserving and bringing alive for us the dreams and.visionsthatheld together their remarkable order. nothing of a like stature survives, and nothing is now written that can match the work of its members.theoccultoftoday who squeak

nowledgeofgoodand evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with. green and gold, the colour of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst follow in the footsteps of our master, brother of the golden dawn. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adambelifted up, raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through the pathway of eternal life. and when, like our master, thou art extended on that tree, through suffering and through pain, let thy countenance be raised up towards the light of the holy one to invoke the divine brightness, not f

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ry hare in 1895. westcott s candidates, whom he admitted to hermes lodge, were rather less mundane: samuel liddell macgregor mathers appears as j.w. in 1887; by 1901 he had admitted gerard encausse( papus, the french occultist) and established inri lodge no. 14, at paris; and on 1 september 1902 he admitted a. e. waite. all three had one thing in common: they were members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. westcott was also keen on further foreign expansion with the aid of continental occultists. the presence of such characters was not new col. h. s. olcott and charles sotheran, founding members of the theosophical society, had been representatives of the rite in bombay and new york respectively, since 1880; what is curious about them, and about george fort, the representative in ne

e rite but were mackenzie s outline draft of a series of esoteric intitiation ceremonies. they were written in a cipher derived from trithemius s polycraphiae, and westcott soon translated them, making use of the blank versos of swedenborgian rite summonses. they are better known as the cipher manuscripts that led to the fiction of german adepts and to the undisputed fact of the hermetic order of the golden dawn that westcott unleashed upon the world in 1888. in their fully developed form the ceremonies of the order make full and effective use of a temple filled with symbolic representations. it is an ironic twist of fate that westcott s enthusiasm for an obscure, utterly forgotten, yet wholly respectable masonic rite led by chance to his creation of a magical order more widely written abo

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tes 16[16] the british mail, vol. 20, no. 172, new series, march 1890, pp. 20-1 17[17] ibid, p. 21 18[18] the occult sciences, a compendium of transcendental doctrine and experiment (kegan paul, 1891) entire subject exposed, with the necessary proofs, documents and available sources of knowledge'(p. 214)19[19. shortly before the occult sciences was published waite had joined the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a society of would-be magicians founded in 1887 by westcott, dr. w. r. woodman and s. l. macgregor mathers, on the basis of manuscript rituals written in cipher and produced under highly suspicious circumstances20[20. these were supplemented by a series of letters- of even more questionable authenticity- allegedly emanating from a fraulein anna sprengel of nuremberg (known within

etters- of even more questionable authenticity- allegedly emanating from a fraulein anna sprengel of nuremberg (known within the order as soror sapiens dominabitur astris; each member was obliged to take a pious motto, usually in latin) who gave westcott authority from the german centre of the order to found a temple in london, to be known by the name of isis urania. the hierarchical structure of the golden dawn and its system of grades paralleled those of the s.r.i.a- which was scarcely to be wondered at, given that all three founders were prominent members of the s.r.i.a- and were derived ultimately from the eighteenthcentury german order of the golden and rosy cross. the grades and their symbolism were far from secret as they had been printed in 1877 as 'two tables illustrative of rosic

d orient' on the title-page of his handbook of cartomancy23[23] in 1889. whether the pseudonym and motto were intended to irritate westcott, by the 19[19] this unpublished work was advertised occasionally as 'forthcoming' in others of waite's publications during the 1890s. the manuscript, if one was ever written, has as not survived. 20[20] a full, documented account of the origins and history of the golden dawn is to be found in ellic howe, the magicians of the golden dawn (routledge, 1972. 21[21] the royal masonic cyclopaedia of history, rites, symbolism and biography (john hogg, 1877. the tables are on pp. 617-18. 22[22] according to the golden dawn's address book and record of members' progress, waite had attained the grade of zelator in september 1891. he was no. 98 on the order's rol

cant work on fortune-telling, published by redway. waite never permitted his connection with implication that his german mentor was involved with the grand orient of france, or whether waite hoped that by using the motto he would increase sales of the book is unclear, but they do indicate an irreverent attitude to the order that he was to maintain for a number of years. waite's initial sojourn in the golden dawn was short, apparently because he was unhappy with the activities of some of his superiors 'i began to hear things which, in my several positions at the moment, told me that i should be well out of the whole concern. it was not on the score of morality, seeing that there were fratres et sorores; for on this ground it is just to say that no breath of scandal ever arose in the g'.d. d

on of things which had an equivocal legal aspect and in which leading members of the order should not have been concerned, had 1 been informed accurately, as there seems no doubt that i was'24[24. his scruples were eventually overcome however and, after three years, during which time he issued a series of alchemical translations and edited an occult journal entitled the unknown world, he rejoined the golden dawn on 17 february 1896, although he was not to enter the second order, the ordo rosae rubeae et aureae crucis25[25, until march 1899. waite's account of his return is inaccurate; he states that he was urged to rejoin by ralph palmer-thomas, an enthusiastic collector of masonic degrees, who 'assured me that i was missing things that i should value and of which 1 could have no notion at

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and the beast of the earth, truths 1-2, the western world turns to god, the evolution deceit, precise answers to evolutionists, the blunders of evolutionists, confessions of evolutionists, the misconception of the evolution of the species, the qur'an denies darwinism, perished nations, for men of understanding, the prophet musa, the prophet yusuf, the prophet muhammad (saas, the prophet sulayman, the golden age, allah's artistry in colour, glory is everywhere, the importance of the evidences of creation, the truth of the life of this world, the nightmare of disbelief, knowing the truth, eternity has already begun, timelessness and the reality of fate, matter: another name for illusion, the little man in the tower, islam and the philosophy of karma, the dark magic of darwinism, the religion

h. in the qur'an, in the account of the exodus of the israelites from egypt, as in all other stories related in it, there is not the slightest contradiction; the story is recounted soundly. moreover, as with other stories, god reveals much wisdom and many secrets in the course of what is related. for this reason, when we examine these stories closely, we can extract a number of lessons from them. the golden calf one of the important facts concerning the exodus of the israelites from egypt, as related in the qur'an, is that they rebelled against the religion revealed to them by god in spite of the fact that god had rescued them through moses from the tyranny of pharaoh. the israelites were not able to comprehend the monotheism that moses communicated to them, but tended continually toward i

onotheistic belief, were influenced by the pagan peoples among whom them lived, and began to imitate them, replacing the religion chosen for them by god with the idolatry of foreign nations. when we investigate this matter in light of historical records, we see that the pagan cult that influenced the israelites was that of ancient egypt. an important evidence in support of this conclusion is that the golden calf the israelites worshipped, while moses was on mt. sinai, was actually a replica of the egyptian idols hathor and aphis. in his book, too long in the sun, the christian author richard rives writes: hathor and aphis, the cow and bull gods of egypt, were representatives of sun worship. their worship was just one stage in the long egyptian history of solar veneration. the golden calf a

hathor and aphis. in his book, too long in the sun, the christian author richard rives writes: hathor and aphis, the cow and bull gods of egypt, were representatives of sun worship. their worship was just one stage in the long egyptian history of solar veneration. the golden calf at mount sinai is more than sufficient ev- fj the inside story on the kabbalah another ancient egyptian idol: hathor, the golden calf. idence to prove that the feast proclaimed was related to sun worship 23 the influence of the egyptian pagan religion on the israelites occurred in many different stages. as soon as they had encountered a pagan people, this leaning towards heretical belief appeared and, as the verse maintains, they said "moses, give us a god just as these people have gods (qur'an, 7: 138) what they

rization of education, measures against private christian schools and charitable establishments, the suppression of the religious orders and the spoliation of the church, professedly culminate in an anti-christian and irreligious reorganization of human society, not only in france but throughout the world. thus french freemasonry, as the standard- bearer of all freemasonry, pretends to inaugurate the golden era of the masonic universal republic, comprising in masonic brotherhood all men and all nations "the triumph of the galilean" said the president of the grand orient, senator delpech, on 20 september, 1902 "has lasted twenty centuries. but now he dies in his turn. the romish church, founded on the galilean myth, began to decay rapidly from the very day on which the masonic association w

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tes 16[16] the british mail, vol. 20, no. 172, new series, march 1890, pp. 20-1 17[17] ibid, p. 21 18[18] the occult sciences, a compendium of transcendental doctrine and experiment (kegan paul, 1891) entire subject exposed, with the necessary proofs, documents and available sources of knowledge'(p. 214)19[19. shortly before the occult sciences was published waite had joined the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a society of would-be magicians founded in 1887 by westcott, dr. w. r. woodman and s. l. macgregor mathers, on the basis of manuscript rituals written in cipher and produced under highly suspicious circumstances20[20. these were supplemented by a series of letters- of even more questionable authenticity- allegedly emanating from a fraulein anna sprengel of nuremberg (known within

etters- of even more questionable authenticity- allegedly emanating from a fraulein anna sprengel of nuremberg (known within the order as soror sapiens dominabitur astris; each member was obliged to take a pious motto, usually in latin) who gave westcott authority from the german centre of the order to found a temple in london, to be known by the name of isis urania. the hierarchical structure of the golden dawn and its system of grades paralleled those of the s.r.i.a- which was scarcely to be wondered at, given that all three founders were prominent members of the s.r.i.a- and were derived ultimately from the eighteenthcentury german order of the golden and rosy cross. the grades and their symbolism were far from secret as they had been printed in 1877 as 'two tables illustrative of rosic

d orient' on the title-page of his handbook of cartomancy23[23] in 1889. whether the pseudonym and motto were intended to irritate westcott, by the 19[19] this unpublished work was advertised occasionally as 'forthcoming' in others of waite's publications during the 1890s. the manuscript, if one was ever written, has as not survived. 20[20] a full, documented account of the origins and history of the golden dawn is to be found in ellic howe, the magicians of the golden dawn (routledge, 1972. 21[21] the royal masonic cyclopaedia of history, rites, symbolism and biography (john hogg, 1877. the tables are on pp. 617-18. 22[22] according to the golden dawn's address book and record of members' progress, waite had attained the grade of zelator in september 1891. he was no. 98 on the order's rol

cant work on fortune-telling, published by redway. waite never permitted his connection with implication that his german mentor was involved with the grand orient of france, or whether waite hoped that by using the motto he would increase sales of the book is unclear, but they do indicate an irreverent attitude to the order that he was to maintain for a number of years. waite's initial sojourn in the golden dawn was short, apparently because he was unhappy with the activities of some of his superiors 'i began to hear things which, in my several positions at the moment, told me that i should be well out of the whole concern. it was not on the score of morality, seeing that there were fratres et sorores; for on this ground it is just to say that no breath of scandal ever arose in the g'.d. d

on of things which had an equivocal legal aspect and in which leading members of the order should not have been concerned, had 1 been informed accurately, as there seems no doubt that i was'24[24. his scruples were eventually overcome however and, after three years, during which time he issued a series of alchemical translations and edited an occult journal entitled the unknown world, he rejoined the golden dawn on 17 february 1896, although he was not to enter the second order, the ordo rosae rubeae et aureae crucis25[25, until march 1899. waite's account of his return is inaccurate; he states that he was urged to rejoin by ralph palmer-thomas, an enthusiastic collector of masonic degrees, who 'assured me that i was missing things that i should value and of which 1 could have no notion at

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c. hence of disciples, etc. belonging to the outer circle; not admitted to the esoteric teaching. oxford english dictionary esotericism (the inner teachings) are elusive and hard to find, they have been passed from "mouth to ear" through brotherhoods, sects and orders. they do not evolve, while their appearance may change from age to age, they exist as memories and reflections, transmissions from the golden age (the equivalent in time to the world of ideals) through history. while esotericism can take any form from hindu to buddhist, christian to islamic, it is at the core, distinct from each. it is trans-temporal and yet being in time takes the appearance of the country, tradition or the gnostic handbook page 11 epoch it is clothed by. at the same time we must appreciate the form it takes

ends the cycle and a new heaven and new earth begins. the vedic system outlines this cycle in far more detail, the whole of creation is governed by a series of cyclic processes, these range from the days and nights of brahma (the creative force) to the yugas or epochs. the sanskrit names for the four ages are krita or satya yuga, treta yuga, dvapara yuga and kali yuga. the krita or satya yuga is the golden age, the age of spirit and it is from here that things get successively worse until the kali age, which ends in an apocalypse of water and fire. each age in succession is shorter than its predecessor, is more intense, and more material. the kali age is the shortest, most materialistic and intensely destructive. it is this age we are in now. the kali yuga, or iron age is sometimes descri

lower astral planes, and there will be an intrusion of the malefic inhabitants of this inferior subtle domain. this strange and dark prophecy as found in is also a key to a deeper understanding of the real nature of aquarius. while the new-agers claim it will be an age of love and mung-beans, since the ruler of aquarius is saturn, we can expect a bumpy ride first. while saturn is also the lord of the golden age (the satya yuga, this emphasises the dual nature of the planetary daemon, tester, destroyer and guardian of the the gnostic handbook page 60 garden of eden. the key philosophical emphasis within guenon s historical analysis is on the duality of quantity and quality, quality being the character of the golden age (and indeed the principle of gold see our discussions of this later) and

tly held beliefs. the nexus of evola s "revolt against the modern world" is a exposition on the cycles of history and a intense and insightful consideration of the role of esoteric spiritual values. evola s historial outline takes the yugas a step further, he discusses the cultural focus of each period and the changes that take places within the ideological and spiritual traditions of each epoch. the golden age is that of the polar tradition, it was based in the arctic regions where days and nights were long and the axis mundi was a steady focus within the night sky. at this time the traditions of sky and earth worship were in balance, while the sky had ascendancy, the role of earth (albeit in submission) was acknowledged and relevant. the classes as seen within the divine caste system (wh

that the incoming energy could be utilized for the benefit of egypt. as time progressed the egyptian star-gnosis, the divine rite of rebirth and the secret of planetary and zodiacal mediation was passed from the pharaoh to a separate priesthood. with time and changes in both state and religion, the teachings were held under oath by secret orders and brotherhoods. even within the hermetic order of the golden dawn we can find elements of the mediation rite within its equinox rituals, however, the emphasis has changed to emanating the forces only for those linked to the order and hence joined to its group mind. as we head further into the kali yuga it is the individuals task to use and transform the heavenly energies within him or herself. it is important to realize that energies the zodiac l

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into four ages or yugas. the system itself is in some sense gnostic, as it positions the most cultivated age of man as the first, and the most brutal as the last. the sanskrit names for the four ages are krita or satya yuga, treta yuga, dvapara yuga and kali yuga. these can also be correlated to the greek tradition of dividing history into ages of gold, silver, bronze and iron. the krita yuga is the golden age, the age of spirit and from there onwards things get successively worse until the kali age, which ends in an apocalypse of water and fire. the evolutionary or technological worldview sees human life from a materialistic angle. life has evolved from amoeba to human, becoming more and more complex with related advances in culture and technology. when two worldviews as juxtapositioned

and considered in the light of the alpha event, some interesting things come to our attention. gnostic theurgy page 19 if we decided to draw a chart using the vertical bar to represents degrees of matter and spirit, matter in the lower corner, spirit in the higher, and we use the horizontal bar to represent the flow of time, the conflict between matter and spirit becomes obvious (see fig 3) while the golden age of spirit was occurring in the higher worlds, matter was only just beginning to bubble and burst in the amoebic stew. as matter evolved further and further, spirit in inverse proportion has had less and less influence. as we reach towards the end of our hypothetical timeline (the omega point, matter has reached it highest pinnacle, while spirit is at its lowest ebb. if you doubt the

ciled. this is a strange and unusual adaptation of the theory, and not one found in any of the earlier esoteric traditions. the whole gist of reincarnation in earlier esotericism is that it is a weeding process whereby the awakened achieve immortality and the rest cease to exist. this approach abounds in myth and legend- the twelve labours of hercules, the search for the holy grail, the quest for the golden fleece- all are focused on a tribulation to achieve a goal, with a real sense of ruin if one looses. what is the use of a divine quest if everyone achieves the same end with some simply taking more time than others. no, reincarnation is a process of opportunities, opportunities that if missed, have dire consequences. reincarnation does not go on forever, in the vedic tradition there are

eives the fire of passion as the way to renew the fallen world, the other warns of its danger. both are correct and have something to say about the human condition. another application given to these letters is to attribute them to the four elements (fig 27) this elemental attribution leads to the more esoteric interpretation of this formulae as found within the teachings of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, in this interpretation the letters are related to hebrew letters, astrological signs and the trumps of the tarot (fig 28) since this is a cyclic formulae, starting at i and ending at i, the final i is inferred and hence dropped from the formulae. we are accordingly left with inr. when this is found in the ancient egyptian and gnostic systems, it is in the secret word iao. this for

at potency. since it was only of esoteric value, the correct pronunciations of the various letters and words triggered, and can still trigger, altered states of consciousness. from these communications dee developed a system of elemental squares, calls and aires associated with terrifying visions and prophecies. these were refined and adapted by such later esoteric orders as the hermetic order of the golden dawn and the aurum solis (order of the sacred word. probably one of the most vivid accounts of the visions and experiences that can be triggered by its use are found in the vision and the voice by aleister crowley. he will see the beautiful colours within these enochian names, feel the forces that emanates from them and be transported to a strange world long since passed from this earth

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he mind is clear upon the initiatory intent then this is a building point of character associated with the spirit therein. daemonic spirits/djinn are the phantasms which congress and communicate with those who partake of the infernal sabbat, the conclave of witches and sorcerous beings of night-walking dreaming gnosis. daemonic (demonic) spirits are often fallen angels; those who have tasted from the golden cup of the celestial realm of lucifer, and by falling into the infernal realms have learnt the dark ways of their own sorcerous making. such daemonic forces are but in some ways mirrors of our self, we must gain by association and invocation. this, by this work alone, will strengthen and develop the very self of the sorcerer, the ever changing luciferian and promethean essence from whic

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF AIR

pg. 34 sigils from the crowley edition pg.35 bael by e.i. ford pg.36 amon by e.i. ford pg.39 paimon by e.i. ford pg.40 astaroth by e.i. ford pg.49 asmodeus by e.i. ford pg.51 gaap by e.i. ford pg.52 andrealphus by e.i. ford pg. 68 belial by e.i. ford pg.70 sigils of crowley edition with accents by e.i. ford pg.74 satan cube from abramelin accented by e.i. ford pg. bthe sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 7:54 am the invoking pentagram ritual of air relax and perform the fourfold breath perform the qabalistic cross 1. touching the forehead, say atah. 2. touching the breast, say malkuth. 3. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah. 4. touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah. 5. clasping the h

m extended, trace a line of white light as you turn or move to the north. facing north, with the black end of the wand trace a large lesser invoking pentagram. charge the pentagram as before by thrusting the wand, through the center of the pentagram and vibrate "yhvh (yode-heh-vav-heh. keeping the arm extended, trace a line of white light as you turn or move back to 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 7:54 am the arm extended, trace a line of white light as 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

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF EARTH

ction ritual to the elemental air principle of nature, while still adhering to principles set forth by the founders. this lesser invoking ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. it is recommended to be perfomed in the mornings for as long as one is in the theoricus grafothe sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 8:00 am the invoking pentagram ritual of earth the lesser rituals of the pentagram, or commonly called lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram, and the lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram (lbrp/lirp, were the only actual rituals taught to and used by the outer order of the traditional golden

h the white end of the wand trace again a large lesser invoking pentagram. charge the pentagram as before by thrusting the wand, through the center of the pentagram and vibrate "agla (ah-gah-lah. keeping the arm extended, trace a line of white light as you turn or move to the north. facing north, with the white end of the wand trace a large invoking earth pentagram. 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 8:00 am charge the pentagram as before by thrusting the wand, through the center of the pentagram and vibrate "agla (ah-gah-la. keeping the arm extended, trace a line of white light as you turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "befor

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF FIRE

the archangels are to be facing the zelator in the ritual, and lastly, that it is not necessary to perform the l.b.r.p. after this under normal circumstances. what is meant by normal circumstances is to say that other than conditions of using the ritual for balancing, grounding and conversing with the archangel auriel, it is usually not necessary to banish afterwar uthe sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 3 6/27/2004 8:05 am the invoking pentagram ritual of fire the invoking pentagram ritual of fire relax and perform the fourfold breath perform the qabalistic cross 1. touching the forehead, say atah. 2. touching the breast, say malkuth. 3. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah. 4. touching the left shou

tended, trace a line of white light as you turn or move to the north. facing north, with the white end of the wand trace a large lesser invoking pentagram. charge the pentagram as before by thrusting the wand, through the center of the pentagram and vibrate "adni (ah-doh-nye. keeping the arm extended, trace a line of white light as you turn or move back to the east. the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 2 of 3 6/27/2004 8:05 am extended, trace a line of white light as 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

pentagram ritual as an introduction ritual to the elemental fire principle of nature, while still adhering to principles set forth by the founders. this lesser invoking ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. it is recommended to be perfomed in the mornings for as long the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 3 of 3 6/27/2004 8:05 am as one is in the practicus gra/2the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 8:04 am the invoking pentagram ritual of water the invoking pentagram ritual of water relax and perform the fourfold breath

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF WATER

nded, trace a line of white light as you turn or move to the north. facing north, with the white end of the wand trace a large lesser invoking pentagram. charge the pentagram as before by thrusting the wand, through the center of the pentagram and vibrate "eheieh (eh-hey-yay. keeping the arm extended, trace a line of white light as you turn or move back to the east. 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 8:04 am extended, trace a line of white light as 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

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LBRP

in gold, before you in the air vibrate ararita and end in the sign of silence. turn to the south. trace the banishing hexagram of earth. vibrate ararita turn to the west. trace the banishing hexagram of air. vibrate ararita. turn to the north. trace the banishing hexagram of water. vibrate ararita. turn to the east. perform the analysis of the keyword. perform the rdthe sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 3 6/27/2004 7:51 am lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram (lbrp) introduction to the ritual there is a much employed ritual which utilizes the symbol of the pentagram as a general means to banish and invoke the elemental forces. this ritual is called the lesser ritual of the pentagram. however, it should

t with light by piercing either the dagger, wand tip or index finger through the center of the pentagram and vibrate "yhvh (yode-heh-vav-heh. keep the arm extended while tracing a line of white light as you turn or move to the south (keep the right arm extended throughout; never let it drop) facing south, with the black end of the wand trace another large bannishing the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 2 of 3 6/27/2004 7:51 am facing south, with the black end of the wand trace another large bannishing earth pentagram. charge the pentagram as before by thrusting the wand, through the center of the pentagram and vibrate "adni (ah-doh-nye. keeping the arm extended, trace a line of white light as you turn or move t

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-el (say "for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column shines the six-rayed star" repeat the qabalistic cross. note: the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 3 of 3 6/27/2004 7:51 am note: there are many people who will perform this ritual that have problems visualizing. if you are one who has problems seeing visual pictures, just know in your mind that it is there. for example, like with the pentagrams, although you may not be able to see the lines or the color being

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER INVOKING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LIRP

ual substance, are attracted to the sphere of being, and infused into the very substance of the physical and invisible constitution. thus a vital purification takes place, enabling the influence of the holy guardian angel to penetrate the refined brain and mind to diffuse through out the personality its presence and grace, an important preliminary to magical progrecethe sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 7:53 am lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram (lirp) the lesser rituals of the pentagram, or commonly called lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram, and the lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram (lbrp/lirp) were the only actual rituals taught to and used by the outer order of the traditiona

the white end of the wand trace again a large lesser invoking pentagram. charge the pentagram as before by thrusting the wand, through the center of the pentagram and vibrate "eheih (eh-hey-yay. keeping the arm extended, trace a line of white light as you turn or move to the north. facing north, with the white end of the wand trace a large lesser invoking pentagram. 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 7:53 am charge the pentagram as before by thrusting the wand, through the center of the pentagram and vibrate "agla (ah-gah-la. keeping the arm extended, trace a line of white light as you turn or move back to the east. facing to the east extend both arms out in the form of a cross and say "befor

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL AURIEL

e archangels are to be facing the zelator in the ritual, and lastly, that it is not necessary to perform the l.b.r.p. after the l.i.r.p. under normal circumstances. what is meant by normal circumstances is to say that other than conditions of using the ritual for balancing, grounding and conversing with the archangels, it is usually not necessary to banish afterwar uthe sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 8:01 am meditation with the archangel auriel meditation with the archangel auriel for the grade of zelator for this ritual the zelator will need a black robe, black and white striped nemyss,and the outer wand of double power. upon the altar should be a black candle, a paten of bread and salt, and

wise and bow to each of the other archangels, air, fire, then water. go to the north and give the zelator sign (see the archangel auriel respond by making the sign in return) begin meditation with the archangel auriel "facing north standing or sitting with your eyes closed, visualize as clearly as possible all the details of auriel. the colors he may be wearing, the 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 8:01 am as possible all the details of auriel. the colors he may be wearing, the clothes, the background, etc, but most importantly try to feel his presence. keep in mind that the usual colors of this archetype are citrine, olive, black and russet. once you have your visualization established, le

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL

time. take as much time as you need. perform the reverse circumambulation (go to the east and say "i now release any spirits that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony. depart in peace to your abodes and habitations. go with the blessings of adonai ha aretz! perform the lbrp with the black end of the wand. say: i now declare this temple duly closed. so mote it emthe sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 8:03 am meditation with the archangel gabriel meditation with the archangel gabriel for the grade of practicus for this ritual the practicus will need a black robe, black and white striped nemyss,and the outer wand of double power. upon the altar should be a blue candel, a cup of wine, and a tali

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 presence. keep in mind that the usual colors of this great archangel are flowing blue and orange robes, with a cup in her hand. once you hav

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL

time. take as much time as you need. perform the reverse circumambulation (go to the east and say "i now release any spirits that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony. depart in peace to your abodes and habitations. go with the blessings of elohim tzaboth! perform the lbrp with the black end of the wand. say: i now declare this temple duly closed. so mote it s the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 8:02 am meditation with the archangel raphael meditation with the archangel raphael for the grade of theoricus for this ritual the theoricus will need a black robe, black and white striped nemyss,and the outer wand of double power. upon the altar should be a yellow candel, a rose, and a talismani

of the darkness (sign of silence) stand in one place, pivot clockwise and bow to each of the other archangels, fire, water, then earth. go to the east and give the theoricus sign (see the archangel raphael respond by making the sign in return) begin meditation with the archangel raphael "facing east standing or sitting with your eyes closed, visualize as clearly as 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 8:02 am "facing east standing or sitting with your eyes closed, visualize as clearly as possible all the details of raphael. the colors he may be wearing, the clothes, the background, etc, but most importantly try to feel his presence. keep in mind that the usual colors of this great archangel ar

GOLDEN DAWN PRAYERS OF THE ELEMENTALS

time. take as much time as you need. perform the reverse circumambulation (go to the east and say "i now release any spirits that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony. depart in peace to your abodes and habitations. go with the blessings of shaddai el chai! perform the lbrp with the black end of the wand. say: i now declare this temple duly closed. so mote it s the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 7:59 am the prayers of the elementals from dogme et rituel de haute magie by eliphaz l vi translated by persons unknown the prayer of the gnomes or earth spirits. o invisible king, who, taking the earth for foundation, didst hollow its depths to fill them with thy almighty power. thou whose name

in the cavernous hollows of earth. king of the deluge and of the rains of spring. thou who openest the sources of the rivers and of the fountains; thou who commandest moisture which is, as it were, the blood of the earth, to become the sap of the plants. we adore thee and we invoke thee. speak thou unto us, thy mobile and changeful creatures, in the great tempests, 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 7:59 am thou unto us, thy mobile and changeful creatures, in the great tempests, and we shall tremble before thee. speak to us also in the murmer of the limpid waters, and we shall desire thy love. o vastness! wherein all the rivers of being seek to lose themselves which renew themselves ever in

third order in our elemental empire. there our continual exercise is to praise and to adore thy desires; there we ceaselessy burn with eternal aspirations unto thee, o father! o mother of mothers! o archetype eternal of maternity and love! o son, the flower of all sons! form of all forms! soul, spirit, harmony, and numeral of all things! amen- this translation of the elemental prayers is used in the golden dawn rituals. an alternate english rendition can be found in a. e. waite's dogme et rituel. in part at least, these predate levi; the prayer of the salamanders, for instance, is found in the comte de gabalis and the grimoirum verum, both dating to around the end of the 17th century ee the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?

GOLDEN DAWN SUPREME BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM

aa pedoce" draw the sigil of leo in the center and vibrate "elohim" give the sign of philosophus. then give the projection sign and the sign of silence. go to the west and trace the banishing pentagram of spirit passive while vibrating the name "hcoma" draw the sigil of spirit in the center and intone "agla" give the lvx signs. trace the banishing pentagram of water the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 2 of 3 6/27/2004 7:55 am give the lvx signs. trace the banishing pentagram of water and intone the name "empeh arsel gaiol" draw the sigil of the eagle in the center and vibrate "aleph lamed, al" give the sign of practicus. then give the attacking sign and the sign of protection. go to the north and trace the ban

s [rendering for the sirp, closing for the sbrp. we realize, however, that many students have already been performing these rituals with the traditional lvx signs, and may be reluctant to switch to the portal signs. therefore we have presented the rituals in this course with the traditional lvx signs, and leave the option open for the individual to choose" excerpted from the "self-initiation into the golden dawn tradition" chic and tabatha cicero, 1998, llewellyn publications, st. paul, min. pentagrams used for the supreme banishing ritual pentagram (sbrp) banishing spirit active banishing air the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 3 of 3 6/27/2004 7:55 am banishing spirit active banishing fire banishing spirit a

GOLDEN DAWN SUPREME INVOKING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM

min. pentagrams used for the supreme banishing ritual pentagram (sbrp) banishing spirit active banishing air the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 3 of 3 6/27/2004 7:55 am banishing spirit active banishing fire banishing spirit active banishing water banishing spirit active banishing ea wthe sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 7:57 am the supreme invoking ritual of the pentagram the supreme invoking ritual of the pentagram (sirp) the sirp may be performed using any of the following implements: the hierophant's wand, the lotus wand, the chief adept's wand in the portal, the ur-uatchti, or the four elemental weapons. 1 s

teaa pedoce" draw the sigil of leo in the center of the pentagram and intone "elohim" give the sign of the philosophus. turn to the west and trace a large invoking pentagram of spirit passive. thrust through the center of the pentagram and vibrate "hcoma" trace the spirit sigil in the center and intone "agla" give the lvx signs. then trace the invoking pentagram of 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 7:57 am water and vibrate impeh arsel gaiol" draw the sigil of the eagle in the center of the pentagram and tone "aleph lamed, al" give the sign of the practicus. turn to the north and trace a large invoking pentagram of spirit passive. thrust though the center of the pentagram and vibrate "nanta

s [rendering for the sirp, closing for the sbrp. we realize, however, that many students have already been performing these rituals with the traditional lvx signs, and may be reluctant to switch to the portal signs. therefore we have presented the rituals in this course with the traditional lvx signs, and leave the option open for the individual to choose" excerpted from the "self-initiation into the golden dawn tradition" chic and tabatha cicero, 1998, llewellyn publications, st. paul, mewa general orders r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 preface general orders and index avete fraters et sorors. the following is an index to the z.a.m. subgrade of the adeptus minor grade. the z.a.m. grade is divided into subsections and testing is required on each subsection by the cu

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ension, resignation, demission and expulsion from the second order. every member is expected to attend the annual ceremony on the days corpus christi, or to send to the registrar before the date of assembly a reasonable excuse for absence. the fact of the existence of a home for the second order as well as the address thereof, is to be preserved as a secret from every member of the outer order of the golden dawn as much as from those outside the pale of the order. the adepti assembled at the home form a council which may take congnisance of all matters affecting the welfare of the order of the golden dawn, and of the second order, and may report any resolution arrived at by a majority of two thirds of those present at any council to the registrar, who shall place the resolution before the

not even worthy of the title of an occult order: the black mass is naturally by its own confession of the evil magic school: the martinists, as long as they adhere to the teachings of their founder, should not be out of harmony with the r.r. et a.c (other schools to avoid are all thelemic schools) additional notes 1995 the chiefs of the second order now reside in america where we hold the lamp of the golden dawn and the r.r. et a.c. the current chief of the order is g.h. frater p.c.a. 7=4 and the co-chiefs are g.h. frater b.h. 5=6 and g.h. soror r.d. 7=4. each adept contributes whatever he or she can to the order. the contributions are used to maintain both the golden dawn and the r.r. et a.c. as well as to provide an income for the g.h. chief of the order; thus allowing him to act as a fu

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nor at all meetings of the second order in which he has the right to be present. the lotus wand must be consecrated by himself alone. he can not have the help or assistance of any other individual. we use a temporary or simplified consecration in the zelator grade. remember, at one time, the lotus wand was strictly for the inner order, for zelator adeptus minor on up. but in the hermetic order of the golden dawn in the outer, we do teach the building of the lotus wand and give the student a simplified method of consecrating the wand. many times, this is done by the help or assistance of an adept in the order. again, however, all inner order members must consecrate the wand by him or herself alone. it must remain untouched by any other person once it is consecrated, be wrapped in white silk

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS E

twenty-two paths of the tree of life. the twenty-two petals sit on the cross in trapt. trapt is the receptacle of the forces of the ten sephiroth and the twenty-two paths of the tree of life. the center of the rose is white and this looks no more than just a small dot. it is the reflected spiritual brightness and the unity of rtk. beneath the white center of rtk is the red rose of five petals and the golden cross of six squares with four brightly painted green rays projecting out at the angels of the cross. thus, we have our order, the rosea rubea et aurea crucis. combined together, they are the symbols of the "receiving force" just below the rose and above the bottom l arm is a white section. on it is placed a hexagram with the symbols of the planets. they are placed in the order of the s

zodiac on the twelve petals. they follow the standard order: uppermost h a w b z c j d f e y f 4 lowermost l g n h s i u j x k q l the seven double letters located in the middle row under the outer circle of the zodiac are allotted to the planets. they are listed in order of exaltation. these are as follows: 1. p 2. r 3. b 4. d 5. g 6. t 7. k please note that t and k are incorrect in regardie's, the golden dawn. the inner three petals allude to the three mother letters. these relate to the three elements of m (a, o (c, n (m. notice that o and n are counter changed with m as the reconciler. this gaurantees that the forces of the arms should not over ride the planetary and zodiacal forces in the rose of creation. in other words, the petals of the elements are on the opposite side of the arm

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ll last throughout the day until the next sunrise. should the adept decide to consecrate all four of the tools at the same time, the same opening may be utilized once. should the adept decide to consecrate each tool on a separate day in accordance with its elemental nature, then the adept must repeat the entire opening and closing. please note that if you are utilizing one of the several books on the golden dawn, the names utilized on the tablets may be different. we used the revised version of lapr. this, in fact, was the correct set of tablets used by s.l. macgregor mathers of the golden dawn. it was only later that the stella matutina altered the tablet letter construction with multiple letters. so therefore, the names in this lesson will not match some of the public work. general openi

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS J

o this day spiritually bind myself, even as i am now bound physically upon the cross of suffering. hmkj: that i will to the utmost lead a pure and unselfish life, and will prove myself a faithful and devoted servant of this order. hnyb: that i will keep secret all things connected with the order, and its secret knowledge from the whole world, equally from one who is a member of the first order of the golden dawn as from an uninitiated person, and that i will maintain the veil of strict secrecy between the first and the second orders. dsj: that i will uphold to the utmost the authority of the chiefs of the order, and that i will not initiate or advance any person in the first order, either secretly or in open temple, without due authorization and permission; that i will neither recommend a

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS K

half of the whole second order, even as i am now bound physically upon the cross of suffering. chokmah: that i will to the utmost lead a pure and unselfish life, and will prove myself a faithful and devoted servant of this order. binah: that i will keep secret all things connected with the order, and its secret knowledge from the whole world, equally from one who is a member of the first order of the golden dawn as from an uninitiated person, and that i will maintain the veil of strict secrecy between the first and the second orders. 11 chesed: that i will uphold to the utmost the authority of the chiefs of the order, and that i will not initiate or advance any person in the first order, either secretly or in open temple, without due authorization and permission; that i will neither recomm

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z1

ared. at the threshold of the entrance, between the universe and the infinite, in the sign of the enterer, stood tho-oth, as before him were the aeons proclaimed. in breath did he 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

eshold" 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 hnyb in the tree (and unto aba and ayma through whose knowledge alone that of rtk may be obtained, even so, the sacred rites of the temple may gradually, and as 3 it were, in spite of himself, lead the neophyte unto the knowledge of his higher self. like t

antle of office of the imperator is the flame, scarlet robe of o and severity, as on him do the energy and stability of the temple depend. if he has subofficers to assist him, they partake of his symbolism. his mantle is the symbol of unflinching authority, compelling the obedience of the temple to all commands issued by the second order. upon the left breast thereof, is the cross and triangle of the golden dawn, both white, representing the purification of the temple in the outer order by o. he may wear a lamen similar to that of hierophant. his place in the temple is at the extreme right of the dais, and at the equinox, he takes the throne of hierophant when that office is vacated. the proper mantle of office of the praemonstrator is the bright blue robe of n, representing the reflection

rm of the macrocosmic hexagram, the red triangle of o and the blue triangle of n, the \yhla jwr and the waters of creation" in addition to this explanation, it affirms the mode of action employed by the divine light in its operation by the forces of nature. upon it is the symbol of the macrocosm so colored as to affirm the action of the o of the through the waters of creation under the harmony of the golden cross of the reconciler. within the center of the hexagram is a t cross in white to represent its action as a triad, and the whole is placed on a white field representing the ocean of the rwa [ws ya. the banner is suspended from a gold colored bar by red cords, and the pole and base should be white. the base represents the purity of the foundation, and the shaft, the purified will direc

the reconciler. within the center of the hexagram is a t cross in white to represent its action as a triad, and the whole is placed on a white field representing the ocean of the rwa [ws ya. the banner is suspended from a gold colored bar by red cords, and the pole and base should be white. the base represents the purity of the foundation, and the shaft, the purified will directed to the higher. the golden cross bar is that whereon the manifested law of perfection rests, the banner itself, the perfect law of the universe, and the red cords and tassels, the divine self-renunciation whose trials and sufferings form as it were the ornament of the completed work. the whole represents the ascent of the initiate into perfect knowledge of the light. therefore, in the address of the hiereus, the

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consecrate me who is aeeshoorist, the justified one, lord of life, triumphant over death. upon my brow are arrayed the twelve stars of light. wisdom and understanding are balanced in my neschamah. hrwbg and power are on my right hand, and the thunderbolts of f! dsj on my left hand, and the sweet fountains of magnificence. in my heart is hwchy, the reconciler who is the symbol of the red 5 rose on the golden cross. my two thighs are as mighty pillars on the right and on the left supporting me; splendor and victory, for they cross with the currents reflected from the supernal light. i am established as an eternal rock of righteousness, for dwsy is the foundation of the righteous. the sphere of my nephesch, and the seven palaces of twklm are cleansed and consecrated, balanced and pure, in the

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t course through my nephesh and purify it like mountain rain. let the eternal splendor be absorbed deep within me to my very ruach, unto the core of my very existence and life" step 4 trace the l hexagram with the sigil in the center "i entered this world as one who was alive, yet i was not. then i saw the light that shineth in the night standing upon a lonely hill, the light of the red rose upon the golden cross. oh thou beautiful one, thou red rose of life and light, teach me of death, teach me of life, teach me of self sacrifice, so that i may not shrink in my hour of trial, but that my name may be written upon high and my genius stand in the presence of the holy one, blessed be he" step 5 standing in the east facing west, expand your aura and create an animated shell of yourself from y

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s, sanctify them and glorify them. give unto them the breath of life. amen" second adept "let us draw upon the elements the holy symbols of spirit, for by names and images are all powers awakened and re-awakened (third adept draws invoking pentagrams of spirit, both passive and active, using the lotus wand held by the white band) chief adept "i invite you brothers and sisters of the red rose upon the golden cross, to inhale with me the perfume of this rose as a symbol of air (smell the rose. to feel with me the warmth of this sacred lamp as a symbol of fire (waves hand over the lamp. 5 to eat with me this bread and salt as types of earth (dips the bread into the salt and eats it. and finally, to drink with me this wine, the consecrated emblem of the element of water (makes a cross with the

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ors of a dying world. as we give up ourselves and our hearts, we become the heart of yehashuah, the glory of tiphareth, the reflected light of kether. we shine light on the world, thus giving it life. now, in the divine name of iao, i invoke the great avenging angel hua to lay thy hand upon the aspirant as he/she repeats the solemn obligation of our hidden and secret fraternity of the red rose on the golden cross" obligation "kether: i frater/soror, a member of the body of christ, do this day spiritually bind myself, even as i am now bound physically upon the cross of suffering. chokmah: that i will to the utmost lead a pure and unselfish life, and will prove myself a faithful and devoted servant of this order. binah: that i will keep secret all things connected with the order, and its sec

is day spiritually bind myself, even as i am now bound physically upon the cross of suffering. chokmah: that i will to the utmost lead a pure and unselfish life, and will prove myself a faithful and devoted servant of this order. binah: that i will keep secret all things connected with the order, and its secret knowledge from the whole world, equally from one who is a member of the first order of the golden dawn as from an uninitiated person, and that i will maintain the veil of strict secrecy between the first and the second orders. chesed: that i will uphold to the utmost the authority of the chiefs of the order, and that i will not initiate or advance any person in the first order, either secretly or in open temple, without due authorization and permission; that i will neither recommend

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al work as: eeeee- aaaahh- oooohhh (reference of a deeper understanding of iao can be found in the book of enoch 3) hwchy is a symbol of resurrection and it is only through death that we can rise again unto life "for if you will die with hwchy ye shall rise with him" osiris becomes osiris onnophoris, the justified one, only after death and resurrection. this is symbolized by the light of the sun, the golden dawn, rising in the darkness of early morning. light! the master jesus said "i am the light of the world" so, if we wish to rise into light and illumination, we must be prepared to "carry our cross" and become transformed on the cross of suffering. let us recall the words of the chief adept in the pastos "buried with that light in a mystical death, rising in a mystical resurrection, cle

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group form. any adept who performs this ritual of inner alchemy and spiritual attunement unto the divine genius should first have created and consecrated the following! lotus wand! banishing sword! four elemental tools! tablet of union! four elemental watchtower tablets only after the above have been made and consecrated should this ritual be performed. all z.a.m.'s who are current hierophants of the golden dawn in the outer should place themselves on a regular schedule of performing this ritual. this allows the divine genius to lead in the process of initiation rather than the mundane ego where little, if any initiating force can be projected and maintained. g.h. frater p.c.a. 7= 4 chief adept r.r. et. a.c. items needed! four elements: wine, bread and salt, rose, fire incenser! lotus wand

hat my genius may manifest unto me physically, in me and by me, and thus, also ye shall help forward the great work" step 27 pass forward to between the pillars. with arms in the form of a cross, attract the genius from above, and say "o mighty being, the locks of whose head are formed from the divine white brilliance of the eternal crown, who are clothed with the garment of purity, and girt with the golden girdle of the sun of beauty, in whose right hand are grasped with an absolute rule the seven mighty archangels who govern the seven states of mortal man, grant unto me the power, i beseech thee, to rise above the planetary darkness wherein i must live, here on earth, until my regeneration is accomplished. out of the darkness may the light arise for me. o thou, from whose mouth cometh th

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s elemental tools, plus salt third adept "hekas, hekas, este bebeloi" bell/ chief adept "fraters and sorors of the r.r. et a.c, we are assembled together for the purpose of evoking tangible and penetrating forces of an unlimited magnitude for the specific purpose of protecting and defending this temple, this order, and all loyal and dedicated members of the r.r. et a. c. and the hermetic order of the golden dawn in the outer. in addition, it is to aid us in (state any other purpose. before we dare proceed into such an operation, it is necessary that we should invoke the divine aid and assistance without which our work would be totally in vain. let us kneel down and pray (all kneel) chief adept "from thine hand, oh lord, cometh all good. from thine hands flow down all grace and blessing. th

ing the lotus wand by the leo band "in the name of yhvh tzabaoth, i invoke the protective power of asch in the cardinal point of darom and its great archangel michael, its mighty angel aral, its powerful ruler seraph, its king djin and its salamanders to protect now this holy temple of fire from all opposing forces who would harm or destroy the holy order of the r.r. et a.c. and loyal subjects of the golden dawn. use thy mighty forces of fire to create a wall of invisibility and protection through the radiation of the rosea crucis and in the name of yehashua. stand guard without cessation, and use whatever forces necessary for the defense of (each quarter is stabbed, beginning in the south, and ending in the south) 8 magus of water (moves to the west holding the lotus wand by the scorpio b

us wand by the scorpio band "in the name of elohim tzabaoth, i invoke the protective power of mayim in the cardinal point maarab and its great archangel gabriel, its mighty angel taliahad, its powerful king nichsa, its ruler tharsis and its undines. protect now this holy temple of water from all opposing forces who would harm or destroy the holy order of the r.r. et a.c. and all loyal subjects of the golden dawn. use thy mighty forces of water to first create a wall of invisibility and of protection through the radiation of the rosea crucis and in the name of yehashua. stand guard without cessation, and use whatever force necessary for the defense of (each quarter is stabbed, starting in the west, and ending in the west) 9 third adept (moves to the north altar, holding the lotus wand by th

he lotus wand by the taurus band "in the name of adonai ha aretz, i invoke the protective power of aretz in the cardinal point of tzaphon and its great archangel auriel, its mighty angel phorlakh, its powerful king ghob, its ruler kerub, and its gnomes. protect now this holy temple of earth from all opposing forces who would harm or destroy the holy order of the r.r. et a.c. and loyal subjects of the golden dawn. use thy mighty forces of earth to first create a wall of invisibility and of protection through the radiation of the rosea crucis and in the name of yehashua. stand guard without cessation, and use whatever force necessary for the defense of (each quarter is stabbed, starting in the north, and ending in the north) 10 second adept (moves to the east holding the lotus wand by the aq

s wand by the aquarius band "in the name of shaddai el chai, i invoke the protective power of ruach in the cardinal point of mizrach and its great archangel raphael, its mighty angel chassan, its powerful king paralda, its ruler ariel, and its sylphs. protect now this holy temple of air from all opposing forces who would harm or destroy the holy order of the r.r. et a.c. and all loyal subjects of the golden dawn. use thy mighty forces of air to first create a wall of invisibility and of protection through the radiation of the rosea crucis and in the name of yehashua. stand guard without cessation, and use whatever force is necessary for the defense of (each quarter is stabbed, beginning in the east, and ending in the east) 11 (standing in the proper quarter, each adept creates the god form

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eased creative abilities, and enhancement of the jwr. its greatest potential to the adept of our order is to act as a conduit of solar illumination into the trained adepts sphere of sensation. let the adept never be without conscious thought that the great angel of solar o, lakym, is here attributed as well as the light of christ. it is ra, osiris onnophris and the red rose of self-sacrifice upon the golden cross of perfection. let, therefore, the adept be ever reminded that this talisman should not be made for the uninitiated (save in grave circumstances of life threatening health) in that the forces of solar light could react upon the non-adept in adverse and damaging ways. remember always that the sun is the visible dispenser of light to our world, yet, too much exposure can burn beyond

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h intervenes between us and our rest" second adept "let us work, therefore, my brethren and effect righteousness, because the night cometh" third adept "wherein no man shall labor" chief adept (rises "fratres and sorores of the rosae rubae et aurae crucis, by the power in me vested, i proceed to the installation and investiture of the hierophant of the temple of isis mighty mother in the order of the golden dawn in the portal of the vault of the adepti" second adept (rises "benedictus qui venti" 7 third adept (rises "in nomine domini (the three adepti give the l.v.x. signs, and seat themselves) chief adept "very honoured frater, at the discretion of the chiefs of the second order you have been appointed to the office of hierophant of this temple for the ensuing six months. are you willing

ies" hierophant "i am" chief adept "then i will thank you to advance to the east, giving the grade sign of the order of the r.r. et a.c (done) second adept "benedictus dominus deus noster" third adept "qui dedit nobis hoc signum (touches rose cross on breast) chief adept "very honoured frater, standing in the eastern place of the temple, i will thank you to give me the secret word of the order of the golden dawn (done) second adept "habes verbum" third adept "et verbum caro factum est, et habitavit in nobis" chief adept (rises "wherefore, brethren, let us remember that when the body is assumed by the word, the man becomes a living soul, for which reason we persevere in the pathway of the cross as we look for the assumption of the rose. the very honoured adeptus secondus will now deliver th

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er of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me which is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light; out of the darkness, let the light arise" step 9 as the adept is saying this, let him slowly open up his or her arms from the sign of osiris risen, as if to open up his chest, revealing the golden cross and red rose in the center of his being. step 10 let the adept, now under the guidance of the higher genius, feel a deep and profound connection with the chiefs of the third order and fellow fraters and sorors throughout the world. there should exist no feelings of separateness or individuality. the adept should feel eminently inter-connected to the cosmos. step 11 as the divine w

below him and the earth below luna. let him descend to the sphere of dwsy and unto the heaven of levanah. while doing this, recite the following "i come in the power of light, i come in the light of wisdom, i come in the mercy of light, the light hath healing in its wings" step 13 upon reaching the heaven of levanah, let the adept stand in the sign of the enterer, projecting the healing light to the golden wand of the chief adept, who having purified himself and risen unto his higher genius, will be receiving the light through the gold wand of trapt and projecting it unto the healing petitions surrounded by the four elements (notice that the adept is now in the position of the creative force as tho-oth in the exordium of the enterer of the threshold) step 14 at the pinnacle of projected p

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y the triangle inside the circle. the triangle is the only lineal figure in which all the surfaces can be reduced. what we are saying here is that every polygon can be divided into triangles by simply drawing lines from its angles to its center. the triangle is the simplest of all lineal figures, therefore, it is the first of all lineal figures. in the neophyte initiation of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, we state that in all things there are two opposing forces and a third force uniting them. this would refer to the triad which operates in all things, especially the supernals. it would also refer to hnyb, the third sephira. we see clearly that hnyb is an amalgamation of the top three supernals. this is emphasized in the lesson "understanding of the human personality in the world o

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d e f g h i j k l 18 rtk a b c 5 f k l 5 hmkj hnyb dsj hrwbg jxn trapt dwh dwsy twh recommendation of the adeptus minor r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 official letter of recommendation for admission to the sacred brotherhood of the rose and cross r. r. et a. c. official letter of recommendation and dispensation for advancement to the second order of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. in the name of the lord of the universe, and by special dispensation from the chiefs of the second order of the temple of isis and the supreme chief of the second order of the hermetic order of the golden dawn international, do hearby this date_ recommend_ known as_ to membership in full standing to the second order, and to undergo the adeptus minor inititation on. 3 supreme chief

GOLDEN CHAIN AND THE LONELY ROAD

ic rite and the ability of its central deed, the passing-on, to act as the 'seal of power' for all initiatory relations which is of paramount importance. for those of the path, the reception of the 'power' activates the spiritual bloodline: the legacy of the fire-brand from the elder gods, from old tubalo the light-bringer, through the race of the watchers and the companie of faerie, down through the golden chain of hand-to-hand-to-hand..to now. midnight's lightning: the lineage of unique transmission vision an omen-bearing bolt of light held in the hands of the daemonic gods: an intercession trespassing fates, a revelation that brings forth to flesh the link between the visible heart of man and the invisible heart of the mysteries. such is the way of midnight's lightning! the spirit-besto

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

robert bauval, discussions in egyptology no. 29, 1994. 24 ibid. 25 ibid. see also the orion mystery, p. 172. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 325 exactly half of the length of its floor diagonal (38 feet 2 inches).26 moreover, since the king s chamber formed a perfect 1 x 2 rectangle, was it conceivable that the pyramid builders were unaware that they had also made it express and exemplify the golden section? known as phi, the golden section was another irrational number like pi that could not be worked out arithmetically. its value was the square root of 5 plus 1 divided by 2, equivalent to 1.61803.27 this proved to be the limiting value of the ratio between successive numbers in the fibonacci series the series of numbers beginning 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 in which each term is the

6. see also egyptian mysteries, p. 68. 32 archaic egypt, p. 5; encyclopaedia of ancient egypt, p. 200. 33 archaic egypt, p. 5; encyclopaedia britannica, 1991, 9:81. 34 encyclopaedia of ancient egypt, p. 200. 35 archaic egypt, p. 5. 36 egypt to the end of the old kingdom, p. 12. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 374 palermo stone might have told us about even earlier epochs, notably zep tepi the golden age of the gods. the deeper we penetrate into the myths and memories of egypt s long past, and the closer we approach to the fabled first time, the stranger the landscapes that surround us become. as we shall see. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 375 chapter 44 gods of the first time according to heliopolitan theology, the nine original gods who appeared in egypt in the first tim

ns the only golden box in the ancient world that functioned like a deadly and unpredictable machine. it has a number of quite unmissable similarities to the hebrews enigmatic ark of the covenant (which also struck innocent people dead with bolts of fiery energy, which also was overlaid round about with gold, and which was said to have contained not only the two tablets of the ten commandments but the golden pot that had manna, and aaron s rod )13 a proper look at the implications of all these weird and wonderful boxes (and of other technological artefacts referred to in ancient traditions) is beyond the scope of this book. for our purposes here it is sufficient to note that a peculiar atmosphere of dangerous and quasitechnological wizardry seems to surround many of the gods of the heliopol

cocious agricultural development possibly the earliest agricultural revolution anywhere in the world identified with certainty by historians.1 as we saw in recent chapters, sources such as the palermo stone, manetho and the turin papyrus contain several different and at times contradictory chronologies. all these chronologies nevertheless agree on a very ancient date for the first time of osiris: the golden age when the gods were believed to have ruled in egypt. in addition, the sources demonstrate a striking convergence over the importance they accord to the eleventh millennium bc in particular,2 the precessional age of leo when the great ice sheets of the northern hemisphere were undergoing their final, ferocious meltdown. perhaps coincidentally, evidence unearthed since the 1970s by geo

utline, is the environmental stage upon which the mysteries of egyptian civilization have been played out: rain and floods between 13,000 bc and 9500 bc; a dry period until 7000 bc; rain again (though increasingly less frequent) until about 3000 bc; thereafter a renewed and enduring dry period. the expanse of years is great, but if one is looking for a first time within it which might accord with the golden age of the gods, one s thoughts turn naturally to the mysterious epoch of early agricultural experimentation that shadowed the great rains and floods between 13,000 bc and 10,500 bc. 9 ibid, p. 86. 10 ibid, pp. 97-8. 11 ibid, p. 161. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 400 unseen connections? this epoch was crucial not only for the ancient egyptians but for many peoples in other are

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

introductory remarks by jonathan sellers an unusual book on the early occult origins of ufos and a secret cipher-code used by occultists. veteran ufologist greenfield takes his study down an interesting turn by looking into the ciphers of aleister crowley and other early occultists such as meade layne who founded borderland sciences. an interesting study of numerology, ufo contact, men in black, the golden dawn, the shaver mystery, l. ron hubbard, jpl founder jack parsons, and other material. greenfield delves deep into his thesis that certain aspects of the ufo enigma are connected to a cosmic battle between ancient black and white brotherhoods. the last chapter is on working with the cipher. adventures unlimited catalog, summer-fall, 1995, p. 8. i first encountered this interesting book

en they are cracked. seventh, although in use for some time, an english language cipher, using the 26 letters of the standard alphabet and laid out on a grid or plotted out on a 26- pointed star, was unveiled to a select public by aleister crowley in 1904. he said he received it from the pr terhuman intelligence aiwass1 crowley was a high and highly controversial initiate of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, but he never decoded the cipher, which was built on the number 11. publisher ray palmer told ufologists for years that he had a fact which allowed him to decode cases. palmer s fact is actually the cipher itself; fact= 56 in cipher, or 5+ 6= 11, the 1. aiwass was not crowley s only contact. there is considerable discussion in ufology of lam, the being crowley sketched that so clos

areer. she appears to be the first major historical personality to actively conceal the true names and origins of initiates using the cipher of the ufonauts. 10 allen h. greenfield crowley, aleister, the scribe of the book of the law as dictated to him by the intelligence aiwass. crowley is the most significant figure of the occult revival of the 20th century. an initiate of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and later leader of its successor order, the a. a, crowley was a magus, prophet, poet, mountaineer, author, lecturer and contactee. he wrestled all his adult life with the nature of the higher beings he contacted, such as lam, aiwass and abuldiz. reviled by many as a black magician, he was a late victorian english gentleman to the end of his life. a man intoxicated with god, to bo

e ufonauts 13 layne, meade, founder of the venerable borderland sciences research foundation. layne was for many years the editor of bsrf s round robin and other journals, and he worked closely with trance channeler mark probert. layne was also a student of the work of frater achad. at one time, layne had been a member of the society of the inner light, a direct offspring of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. at the end of the 19th century, this society developed its rituals from certain rosicrucian cipher manuscripts based in the teachings of the third order, or secret chiefs, or ascended masters which are identical with the space people in contact lore. that so much cipher material shows up in and around layne, who was said to be in frequent communication with the great white brother

ctly translatable into english. this would seem to suggest a late date for the cipher, but it corresponds to the key to the much older aiq bakir, the hebrew qabala of the nine chambers, and is an obvious english adaptation of a much older cipher. in its present form it decodes easily and has been so often exposed in the last 150 years that its value as a cipher is actually now greatly diminished. the golden dawn cipher documents are considerably more complex. they were probably drawn up in the 1860s or 1870s, and they seem to be notes rather than a complete system of occult work. into this system aleister crowley was initiated. born edward alexander crowley, he changed his name to aleister at about the same time he joined the golden dawn. he tells us the switch in names is from the g lic f

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ulously recorded all that kelly told him. often angels from the watchtowers or aethyrs would assist them in their work. for example, one of their "guides" was a young elfin girl named madimi who appeared over a period of seven years. 2 little came of dee's psychic investigations until late in the nineteenth century when a group of occultists and magicians took up the magick. the hermetic order of the golden dawn used words and phrases from dee's enochian magick in their magical rituals and writings. however, t was not until a magician rose to the grade of adeptus minor that he was given the keys to this magical system. here enochian invocations for skrying in the spirit-vision (a magical process sometimes called astral traveling) formed a part of their magical work. the golden dawn taught

ick was not created by a single individual but evolved gradually over time which is now lost in history. the enochian alphabet and language may in fact be nearly as old as man, at least in this hemisphere. certainly they bear striking similarities with the necronomicon and with names used by lovecraft and others, whose origins are now lost in our early history. at the turn of this century, one of the golden dawn's members, aleister crowley, published some of the order's magical papers dealing with enochian magick as well as some original work. crowley acting as kelly (a skryer, together with his associate, victor neuburg, who acted as dee (a scribe, traveled through the sahara desert visiting one aethyr each day (except the first two which crowley had visited earlier when in mexico. crowle

associate, victor neuburg, who acted as dee (a scribe, traveled through the sahara desert visiting one aethyr each day (except the first two which crowley had visited earlier when in mexico. crowley wrote of 3 these visions in the vision and the voice, a remarkable work, although somewhat obscure and difficult to read, owing to the poetic and highly symbolic language used. using the works of dee, the golden dawn, and crowley, i attempted to gather together the quintessence of this magick. i presented the basics of it in the book, enochian magic: a practical manual. this new manual is intended as a companion to that first book (hereafter referred to as enochian magic) by llewel lyn publ ications. i have assumed that the reader has studied enochian magic or at least is familiar with the basi

med that the reader has studied enochian magic or at least is familiar with the basic concepts of enochian magick. enochian magic contains the theory of how and why the magick works. this manual, an advanced guide to enochian magick (wi th a final k, explores the many uses and applications of those basic principies. the magical system described here and in enochian magic borrows heavily from both the golden dawn and aleister crowley. students of this magical system are referred to the golden dawn by israel regardie and crowley's the vision and the voice (liber xxx, as well as liber lxxxix vel chanokh, both of which can be found in gems of the equinox by israel regardie. the golden dawn is available from llewellyn publications. in my opinion, enochian magick ranks as one of the most powerfu

be forgotten for a single moment that the central and essential work of the magicians is the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel. anything apart from this course is a side issue and unless so reguarded may lead to the complete ruin of the whole work of the magician" aleister crowley, magick without tears the term holy guardian angel was adopted by crowley from the golden dawn, particularly from s.l. macgregor mathers' translation of the sacred magic of abramelin, the mage. crowley used abramelin to attain the knowledge and conversation of his holy guardian angel. this name is especially appropriate in enochian magick. in each aethyr that you enter, you will encounter at least one governing angel. crowley demonstrated that if you are properly prepared be

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

d on earth, personified as an attractive female. there are colour-associations with the spheres of the tree. again there is a simple up and down and side to side logic to this. the left hand pillar is black, and called the pillar of severity, the right hand one beingwhite and termed the pillar of mercy, while themiddle pillar is gold (or yellow) and called the pillar of mildness. this illustrates the golden rule of life- 7 between extremities always choose the middle way. from top to bottom of the tree the first sphere is just a brilliance beyond being plainwhite. at sphere 2, we have very light grey, and at sphere 3, very dark grey. no colour above the abyss at all since the three spheres there are called the supernals. see figure 6. below the abyss colours appear and the visible spectrum

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

griffin d lamdq laygh t/ab;x] hwhy laynah yhiloa e hgno c thee riittuall magiicc manuall a complete course in practical magic ee--lleessssoonn eeddiittiioonn eexxcclluussiivveellyy ffoorr ssttuuddeennttss ooff tthhee golden dawn school of magic and alchemy magical evocation of the averse forces by david griffin archon basileus, a.+o, chief adept, r.r. et a.c, imperator, h.o.g.d. hermetic order of the golden dawn outer order of the rosicrucian order of alpha et omegar www.golden-dawn.com copyright c 1999 &2008. all rights reserved. david griffin 1 magical evocation of the averse forces copyright 1999, david griffin reprinted by permission of the author from the ritual magic manual introduction magical evocation magical evocation of the averse forces is the most feared, maligned, and misunde

verse forces copyright 1999, david griffin reprinted by permission of the author from the ritual magic manual introduction magical evocation magical evocation of the averse forces is the most feared, maligned, and misunderstood aspect of ceremonial magic. interestingly, it is one of the most potentially valuable as well. many readers will wonder what, if anything, demonic evocation has to do with the golden dawn or with rosicrucian magic. indeed, many rosicrucian adepts have no idea how or where this aspect of magic fits into the system, even though they have stood upon the names of the qlippoth on the floor of the vault of the adepti. the knowledge that follows in this chapter was once reserved exclusively for rosicrucian adepts who not merely had attained the knowledge and conversation o

e, baal and astarte, the great god and goddess of the caananites, appear diabolized in the infernal hierarchy of the goetia, in the lemegeton, as the demons beelzebub and asteroth. other grimoires even include isis, the sublime mother goddess of egypt, as one of the denizens of hell. fortunately, however, the hierarchies of forces attributed to the qabalistic tree of life by the hermetic order of the golden dawn provide a perfect vehicle for magical evocation. these hierarchies descend through all four of the qabalistic worlds and onward into the realm of the averse forces. unto aziluth, the highest of the four qabalistic worlds corresponds a divine name attributed unto each sephirothic, zodiacal, planetary, and elemental force. likewise, unto briah, the next descending world, corresponds

se of action..now then shalt thou begin to understand the saying 'he descendeth into hell' and to comprehend in part this strength, and thus to understand the necessity of evil in material creation. wherefore, also, revile not overmuch the evil forces, for they have a place and a duty, and in this consisteth their right to be. but check their usurpation, and cast them down unto their plane."10 10 the golden dawn (the original account of the teachings, rites, and ceremonies of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [1937, revealed by israel regardie, 6th ed (st. paul: llewellyn, 1989, p. 1 e i'axloitoit' v* fv v* cection..grj5>fe7 teutonic mythology. jacob geimm. teutonic mythology by jacob grimm. translated from the fourth edition. with notes and appendix james steven stallybrass, vol. iii

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(p. 491, a scand. hafs-fru (afzelius2, 150, spirits that likewise need redemption (p. 493. twelve luhite sea-maids come and join in the dancing of men (mone's anz. 5, 93; add the romance legend of melusina. but such mer-women generally assume, wholly or in part, the shape of a fish or snake; and some white women have afisjt's tail, a snake's tail imputed to them: a king's daughter was immured in the golden mount as a snake, and only once in three nights recovered her human form (kinderm, no. 92; in the oselberg by dinkelsbiihl dwells a snake with woman's head and a buuch of keys about the neck (d. sag. no. 221; and snpph. 970 teanslation. with the notion o mountain-banishment is commonly associated that of an enchanted, yet recoverable treasure. where the ancient hero or god sits in his m

d, dragon's couch, who lies brooding on it, so to speak. bui turns into a worm, and lies on his gold-chests, fornm. sog. 11, 158. draco thesauri custos, saxo gram. 101 'incubas gazae ut magnus draco, custos scythici luci' martial 12, 53; miser and dragon have little joy of their wealth. dragons guarding treasure were also known to the orientals and greeks. the hundred-headed sleepless one guarded the golden apples of the hesperian grove (scythici luci, photius, bekk. 150, 6. 16. the ancients were equally familiar with the notion of griffins watching over gold' grtfen golt' parz. 71, 17 seq. sometimes, on the spot where treasures sparkle, a calf is said to lie (reusch no. 47, not in my opinion as keeper, but as part, of the treasure. for treasure-diggers profess to look for the golden calf

n apples of the hesperian grove (scythici luci, photius, bekk. 150, 6. 16. the ancients were equally familiar with the notion of griffins watching over gold' grtfen golt' parz. 71, 17 seq. sometimes, on the spot where treasures sparkle, a calf is said to lie (reusch no. 47, not in my opinion as keeper, but as part, of the treasure. for treasure-diggers profess to look for the golden calf, and for the golden hen and twelve chickens^ by which plainly something mythical is meant (see suppl. a statement in the renner 5100 deserves attention, that all buried, i.e. unlifted unredeemed treasures will one day be anti' pluqnefs coutes populaircs de bayeux. koucn 1834 p. 21. enchanted castle. sunken hoard. 981 christ's, whose coming we have already seen mixing itself up in many ways with the fable o

, et certis noctibus ad ejus servitium evocari' such was the earlier way of thinking about witches' rides^ and the names naht-fard, naht-frouwd, naht-rita, dating doubtless from the heathen time, agreed exactly with the on. qveldri^a, myrkri^a on p. 1053-4. i cannot indeed produce 1 tlie clergy represented dancing as a mimicry of the priestly procession, and likened it to the jewish idolatry with the golden calf- the extract from burchard, superst. c (conf. pref. to my first ed. p. xxiv) can neither have been derived from the council of ancyra a.d. 314, which has no such passage in print or ms; nor from augustine, though it occurs in the tract, de spiritu et anima cap. 28 (opp. d. bened. antv. 1706. 6, 525) with' et minerva' added after herodiade, for this is a spurious work, yet of so ear

aken the place of the old victory in battle. in the mid. ages it was called st. george's shirt, and was spun on a saturday (vintler; conf. sup. i, 333 the thread spun on christmas night; wolfdietrich receives it from siegminne, i.e. from a wise spinning norn or valkyr (p. 434: obviously the old heathen idea was afterwards transferred to the conquering saint of the christian church. not unlike are the golden shirt that defends from drowning, beow. 1096, and the frid-hemede (app. spells x; a woven flag of victory will be mentioned p. 1112. to me these famous shirts of fate seem connected with the threads and webs of the norns and dame holda. a magic weaving and spinning was probably ascribed to witches, who in sup. i, 824 are called field-spinsters; and burchard's allusions to the superstiti

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n (theog. 813) to the fall of the rebel angels into the bottomless pit; so that to the giant element in the titans we may add a daemonic. when the works and days makes the well-known* five races fill five successive ages, the act of creation must needs have been repeated several times; on which point neither the poem itself nor plato (cratyl. 397-8, steph) gives sufficient information. first came the golden race of blissful daimones, next the silver one of weaker divine beings, thirdly, the brazen one of warriors sprung from ash-trees, fourthly, the race of heroes, fifthly, the iron one of men now living. the omission of a metal designation for the fourth race is of itself enough to make the statement look imperfect. dimmest of all is the second race, which also plato passes over, discussi

set on the ground, and often forget and leave them; they watch infants in the cradle, and to bigger children they shew treasures: to kill them is unlucky. every village has its own snakes to tell of. so goes the story in swabia. some hessian stories are collected under kinderm. no. 105, and one from austria in ziska s volksinarchen (vienna 1822, p. 51; nearly all bring in the milk-drinking 2 and the golden crown. if the parents surprise the snake with the child, and kill it, the child begins to fall away, and dies before long (temme s pomm. sagen no. 257. once, when a woman lay asleep, a snake crept into her open mouth, and when she gave birth to a child, the snake lay tightly coiled round its neck, and could only be got away by a milkbath; but it never left the baby s side, it lay in bed

uter schlappes (not only slops) mone s anz. 8, 530; friss auch brocken, nicht lauter briihe! ibid. 6, 175. 3 a similar story of the king of snakes from liibbenau in the spreewald of lausitz (busching s woch. nachr. 3, 342) in reusch no. 74. snake. 687 everytime gave it warm coiu s milk to sup. she suddenly left the place in a tiff, and when the new maid *vent for the first time to milk, there lay the golden crown on the milking-stool, with the inscription: a token of gratitude/ she brought the crown to her master, who gave it to the girl it was intended for; but from that time the snake was never seen again (moneys anz. 8, 537. the adder s crown (atternkronlein) makes any one that wears it invisible (schm. 2, 388) and immensely rich as well. in some districts they say every house has two s

eli dezue. here the chafer, like the snake, is offered milk and crumbs and a silver spoon thereto/ in olden times he must have been regarded as the god s messenger and confidant (see suppl. lastly the bee, the one insect that is tamable and will live among men, and whose wise ways are such a lesson to them, may be expected to have old mythic associations. the bee is believed to have survived from the golden age, from the lost paradise (chap. xxx; nowhere is her worth and purity more prettily expressed than in the servian lay of the rich gavan, where god selects three holy angels to prove mankind, and bids them descend from heaven to earth, as the bee upon the flower/ kako pchela po tsvetu (vuk 1, 128 ed. 2. the clear sweet honey, vol. ii. s 696 teees and animals. which bees suck out of eve

in saxo, king hunding falls into sweet mead, and the greek myth lets glaucus drown in a honey-jar, the bright in the sweet. according to a legend of the swiss alps, 1 sederunt in ore infantis turn etiam platonis, suavitatem illam praedulcis eloquii portendentes. plin. 11, 17 (18. 2 ceram ex floribus, melliginem e lacrimis arborum quae glutinum pariunt, salicis, ulmi, arundinis succo. bee. 697 in the golden age when the brooks and lakes were filled with milk, a shepherd was upset in his boat and drowned; his body, long sought for, turned up at last in the foaming cream, when they were churning, and was buried in a cavity which bees had constructed of honeycombs as large as town-gates (mem. de facad. celt. 5, 202. bees weave a temple of wax and feathers (schwenk s gr. myth. p. 129. herm. mi

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ssurance, and pride in whatever achievement or talents he may have. he stands naked before his own inner vision, seeing his weaknesses and realizing himself as he is, and he does not like what he sees. it is a time of personal readjustment of one's spiritual and mental selves, a reorganization of the whole being. it is the great crucible in which we are purged of our weaknesses in preparation for the golden dawn, the great initiation just ahead. the golden dawn is the new birth into the greater light. occultism.in the popular sense, occultism is held to be a system of hidden methods, of strange practices, whereby man may acquire the way of attaining inexplicable powers by which he may do or accomplish almost anything. such a popular conception is that the occultist is able to witness pheno

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and of practical benefit to the student. if you are interested in knowing more of the history and present- day helpful offerings of the rosicrucians, you may receive a free copy of the introductory booklet (previously called mastery of life) by sending a request to: scribe r.h.m. rosicrucian order, amorc i 542 naglee avenue san jose, california 95191-0001, u.s m (a member of a. successor order to the golden dawn, writing to the late gerald yorke in1950,explained that 'hockley, mackenzie and irwin all disliked and mistrusted s. a [sapere aude, westcott's golden dawn motto, which is why he was refused admission to the fratres lucis" perhaps this refusal was the spur to westcott concocting the golden dawn. in the extant irwin letters hockley never refers to the fratreslucis, which seems a lit

t taking the time essential to make careful preparations. successful and danger-free magical operations required not only great knowledge of the occult but also the freedom of time and action available only to those free of the necessity of working for a living. magical operations were certainly not for the dabbler.theclaims that hockley was a progenitor, member, and even author of the rituals of the golden dawn remain unproven (but see part2).thereis little doubt that the golden dawn came from the fertile brain ofdrw. wynn westcott. conveniently for westcott, hockley, mackenzie, eliphas levi, and the revd a. f. a. woodford were all dead by1888when the golden dawn began to emerge. my own opinion is that hockley, having avoided contact with the group practice of magical rituals, would22ther

a perfect entity. his spiritualist definition of rosicrucianism is perhaps the true explanation of his standing apart from the sria, which has always been a forum for the discussionofideas and hasneverinvolved itself in practical experiments,whatever its members may have indulged in outside its meetings. those membersofthe sria who were drawn more towards practice rather than theory later joined the golden dawn. hockley's firm belief that the rosicrucian path lay through the crystal would probably have met with little support amongst the generality of the sria's membership. hockley is claimed as a memberofanother very shadowy rosicrucian group, which 'may have formed the model for the golden dawn: the fratres lucis, also known either as the brotherhood of the cross of light or the orderof

secretary-general of the sria, whereas mackenzie was simply suggesting that hockley should take his place as amemberof the metropolitan college. 5 irwin appears to have been incapable of making up his own mind about what to purchase from booksellers and regularly sent catalogues to other interested parties for advice. 6therevd william alexander ayton, vicar of chacombe, who was an early member of the golden dawn and a practising alchemist. a collectionofhis letters have been editedbyellichowe in the same series as this volume(thealchemistof thego/delldawn,1985).7 mackenzie is wrong here. ellie howe has identified all those who used the raphael pseudonym to publish the prophetic almanac. 8 mackenzie and irwin are both beingto hockley. once again he was on the move to new rooms, in constant

medical practitioner in stoke newington until 1871 when he inherited a considerable horticultural estate in exeter. a prominent freemason, he had a knowledge of hebrew, cabala, astrology, egyptology, alchemy, and the tarot. secretary-general sria 1868-76; senior substitute magus 1877, and supreme magus 1878-91. with w. w. westcott and s.l.mathers he was one of the founding chiefs of the order of the golden dawn.2unidentified.3 raymond buildings, gray's inn,w.e.28 september 1877 dear bro. irwin, for the last three weeks i have been& still remain in a perfect muddle. i have changed my residence& first had to send off my books&cases&the following week myfurniture-beingutterly helpless as far as doing any thing myself&obliged to depend on others and the wearisome process of putting down carpe

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

drawn on by occult writers such as the theosophist madam blavatsky and the self-styled great beast, aleister crowley. sigmund freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was attracted by the symbolic qualities of ancient egyptian art, and his colleague carl jung was fascinated by egyptian solar mythology.112 sir james frazer, the father of anthropology, devoted several chapters of his influential book the golden bough to the myths of osiris and isis, which he interpreted as primarily relating to the annual growth and decay of vegetation.113 other twentieth-century ce anthropologists and historians of religion used ancient egyptian religion to argue that myths were always linked with rituals or even that all myths evolved to explain existing rituals. extreme advocates of the latter school derive

n of figurines of ancient egyptian deities can be viewed at the freud museum in london. in his autobiography, memories, dreams, reflections (london, 1963, jung wrote of the horus myth: it is a myth which must have been told after human culture that is consciousness had for the first time released men from the darkness of prehistoric times (translated by richard and clara winston. 113. see frazer, the golden bough: a study in magic and religion, abridged ed (london, 1922, 477 507. 114. for the arguments for and against this thesis, see the anthology the myth and ritual theory, edited by r. a. segal (malden and oxford, 1998. 115. see his black athena: the afroasiatic roots of classical civilization, 2 vols (london, 1987 1991. these books have contributed to a new interest in ancient egyptian

magical texts give bes or bes-shu the role of opening the womb to allow a child to be born. the symbolism of birth was reproduced in tombs to help the dead to new life. some royal tombs and sarcophagi show bes with hippopotamus-faced demons protecting the lion-shaped bed on which the deceased hoped to be reborn. a painted statue of bes dominates a tomb chamber in the recently discovered valley of the golden mummies. see also eye of ra; feline deities; hathor; hippopotamus goddesses; horus the child; shu and tefnut references and further reading: m. malaise. bes. in the oxford encyclopaedia of ancient egypt i, edited by d. redford. oxford and new york: 2001, 179 181. j. f. romano. the origin of the bes image. bulletin of the egyptology seminar 2 (1980: 39 56. primary sources: rbm; hmp; meda

himself into two beautiful trees that the queen has cut down. she accidentally swallows a sliver of the wood and falls pregnant. the child turns out to be bata reborn. bata has become the bull of his mother and has fathered himself. in the pyramid texts, the great wild cow of the marshes is the king s mother or wet nurse in the afterlife. in pyramid texts spell 485a, the dead king is described as the golden calf of the milk goddess hesat (hezat. two parallel 124 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 26. the sky goddess in cow form from the book of the heavenly cow. she is supported by shu and the eight heh gods. heavenly bodies sail in boats along her starry belly (art resource) cow and calf myths developed. in one, the cow goddess mehet-weret (the great flood) gave birth to the sun child

so credited with a role in reviving the murdered god osiris, who came back each year with the barley. see also heqet; khnum; nun; osiris; sons of horus references and further reading: j. baines. fecundity figures. warminster, england: 1985. j. lindsay. men and gods on the roman nile. london: 1968, chaps. 3, 6, 17. primary sources: ct 317 321; hapy hymns; famine stela hathor (h.wt-h. r) hathor was the golden goddess who helped women to give birth, the dead to be reborn, and the cosmos to be renewed. this complex deity could function as the mother, consort, and daughter of the creator sun god. many lesser goddesses came to be regarded as names of hathor in her contrasting benevolent and destructive aspects. she was most commonly shown as a beautiful woman wearing a red solar disk between a p

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of pain. the soul-ego beams no longer. it sits still and looks sadly out of what has become its dungeon windows, onthe world which is now rapidly being shrouded for it in the funeral palls of suffering. is it the eve of nighteternal which is nearing? nightmare talesiii13 vbeautiful are the resorts on the midland sea. an endless line of surf-beaten, black, rugged rocks stretches,hemmed in between the golden sands of the coast and the deep blue waters of the gulf. they offer theirgranite breast to the fierce blows of the north-west wind and thus protect the dwellings of the rich that nestleat their foot on the inland side. the half-ruined cottages on the open shore are the insufficient shelter of thepoor. their squalid bodies are often crushed under the walls torn and washed down by wind an

s buddhist, teaching us to shun the pleasures of life, to put to rout one's passions, to renderoneself insensible alike to happiness and suffering, in order to acquire such chimerical powers- seemedsupremely ridiculous in my eyes. on a day ever memorable to me- a fatal day- i made the acquaintance of a venerable and learned bonze,a japanese priest, named tamoora hideyeri. i met him at the foot of the golden kwon-on, and from thatmoment he became my best and most trusted friend. notwithstanding my great and genuine regard for him,however, whenever a good opportunity was offered i never failed to mock his religious convictions, therebyvery often hurting his feelings. but my old friend was as meek and forgiving as any true buddhist's heart might desire. he never resented myimpatient sarcasms

scene for him. village swains and maidens becametransfigured into arcadian shepherds and nymphs. the sand-covered floor was now a green sward; theuncouth couples spinning round in a measured waltz with the wild grace of tamed bears became priests andpriestesses of terpsichore; the bulky, cherry-cheeked and blue-eyed daughters of rural germany were thehesperides circling round the trees laden with the golden apples. nor did the melodious strains of thearcadian demigods piping on their syrinxes, and audible but to his own enchanted ear, vanish with the dawn.for no sooner was the curtain of sleep raised from his eyes than he would sally forth into a new magic realmof day-dreams. on his way to some dark and solemn pine-forest, he played incessantly, to himself and toeverything else. he fiddled

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ould be supreme in their lives. q. how, then, should theosophical principles be applied so that social cooperation may be promoted and true efforts for social amelioration be carried on? a. let me briefly remind you what these principles are-universal unity and causation; human solidarity; the law of karma; reincarnation. these are the page 108 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt four links of the golden chain which should bind humanity into one family, one universal brotherhood. q. how? a. in the present state of society, especially in so-called civilized countries, we are continually brought face to face with the fact that large numbers of people are suffering from misery, poverty, and disease. their physical condition is wretched, and their mental and spiritual faculties are often al

seen in its true relation to ourselves and to others. every mean and selfish action sends us backward and not forward, while every noble thought and every unselfish deed are stepping-stones to the higher and more glorious planes of being. if this life were all, then in many respects it would indeed be poor and mean; but regarded as a preparation for the next sphere of existence, it may be used as the golden gate through which we may pass, not selfishly and alone, but in company with our fellows, to the palaces which lie beyond -ooo- on self-sacrifice q. is equal justice to all and love to every creature the highest standard of theosophy? a. no; there is an even far higher one. q. what can it be? a. the giving to others more than to oneself-self-sacrifice. such was the standard and aboundin

hindus, could only be obtained by initiation into spiritual mysteries of which the ceremonial "mysteries" were a type. gnostics (gr) the philosophers who formulated and taught the "gnosis" or knowledge. they flourished in the first three centuries of the christian era. the following were eminent: valentinus, basilides, marcion, simon magus, etc. golden age the ancients divided the life cycle into the golden, silver, bronze, and iron ages. the golden was an age of primeval purity, simplicity, and general happiness. great age there were several "great ages" mentioned by the ancients. in india it embraced the whole maha-manvantara the "age of brahm" each "day" of which represents the life cycle of a chain, i.e, it embraces a period of seven rounds. thus while a "day" and a "night" represent

re of the occult sciences than any of the works attributed to yaj avalkya. yogi or yogin (sans) a devotee, one who practices the yoga system. there are various grades and kinds of yogis, and the term has now become in india a generic name to designate every kind of ascetic. yuga (sans) an age of the world of which there are four, which follow each other in a series, namely, krita (or satya) yuga, the golden age; treta -yuga, dvapara-yuga, and finally kali-yuga, the black age-in which we now page 171 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt are. zenobia the queen of palmyra, defeated by the emperor aurelianus. she had for her instructor longinus, the famous critic and logician in the third century ad (see longinus) zivo, kabar (or yukabar) the name of one of the creative deities in the nazare

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to the scene, the dominant approach to doing magic (and still is, to a great extent) was the systems approach. so what is a magical system? magical systems combine practical exercises for bringing about change with beliefs, attitudes, a conceptual model of the universe (if not several, a moral ethic, and a few other things besides. examples of systems are qabalah, the different wiccan traditions, the golden dawn system of magic with all its grades, costumes, mottos etc, and the increasing number of westernised shamanic paths that are proliferating nowadays. as far as most magical systems go, before you can start to wave your wand around or bounce up and down on your head til you reach enlightenment, you have to spend a good deal of time reading up on the beliefs associated with the system

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chumbley stealing the fire from heaven- stephen mace by the same author: prime chaos available from chaos international publications bm sorcery, london wc1n 3xx, uk. price $20 including post& why and waste hundreds of dollars on on bogus 'astral' initiations and ridiculously overpriced correspondence courses? the hermetic order of the morning star presently doing business as the esoteric order of the golden dawn, originally known as the eternal golden dawn (then the hermetic order of the golden dawn international, has for years been milking vast sums of money from innocent individuals from remote areas who were seeking traditional initiation in the golden dawn. what many of these individuals actually received (some of whom ended up paying thousands of dollars over the years) was frequently

copyright notice to whom it may concern: while i do not present myself as an expert in copyright law, i am an attorney admitted to the practice of law and may be assumed to have a basic understanding of the matters herein dealt with. moreover, i have very carefully reviewed the 0=0 through 5=6 materials available at this site. i am trained in the western occult tradition, and more specifically in the golden dawn system. as to the 0=0 through 4=7 materials herein presented, i was able to check them against homsi/hogdi gradebooks in my possession. i also have a homsi/hogdi portal gradebook in my possession but as these materials are not herein presented in one specific download section, i did not need to verify these. one of the four original compilers did make available to me his set of 5=6

overwhelming bulk of the materials, i.e, initiations, knowledge lectures, golden dawn papers and rituals circulated among members of specific grades, flying rolls, diagrams such as the garden of eden before and after the fall, and other similar documents, consist of materials prepared by s.l.m. macgregor mathers, w. wynn westcott, florence farr and other members of the original hermetic order of the golden dawn founded by mssrs. westcott, woodman, and mathers in london in 1888. these materials passed into the public domain, if they ever were protected, approximately 100 years ago. in support thereof, i mention that a lawsuit brought by s.l.m. mathers in the second decade of the 20th-century against aleister crowley for publishing substantially these same materials in various volumes of "t

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o occult information, future releases will include submissions from users like you. for some of us, the time h as come to mobilize. if yo u h ave an interest in assis tin g in this p rocess- we all h ave strengths to bring to the table- ple ase email occ u lt .d igit al.mob iliz ation@gmail.com complacency s-erves t h e o ld gods. by the same author: astrology and the third reich the magicians of the golden dawn masonic underworlds (in progress) also in thisseries: the magical mason: forgotten hermetic writings of w. w. westcott editedby r. a. gilbert the rosicrucian seer: the magical work of frederick hockley editedbyjohn hamill the sorcerer and his apprentice: unknown hermetic writings ofs. l. macgregor mathers and j. w. brodie-innes edited by r. a. gilbert ibe 1llebemist of tbe golden '

ibe 1llebemist of tbe golden 'dawn (lhe tetters of the1ivd (1.11. l1jton to 1.t.gardner and tithers 1886-19 6 edited with an introduction by ellie howe the aquarian press wellingborough, northamptonshire contents introduction the letters index ofpersons page 9 19 iii facsimile of letter 7 (see page 28 ff) introduction the revd william alexander ayton and his wife both joined the hermetic order of the golden dawn (hereafter, the g.d) in july 1888, about four months after dr william wynn westcott, a london coroner, founded the order. ayton was, in fact, westcott's twentieth recruit. w. b. yeats, who first encountered him not long after he himself became a member of the order in march 1890, described him (although without identifying him by name) in his autobiographical the trembling ofthe ve

he and his wife moved to a village in the east grinstead, sussex, district. after her death (c. july 1898) he lived briefly in the vicinity of dartford, kent, and was for a time in the shepherd's bush area in london 1900) before finally moving to saffron walden, hertfordshire, where he died on i january 1909 (aet. 92. with a very few exceptions ayton's surviving letters (about 10 thealchemist of the golden dawn i said 'yes, i once made the elixir of life. a french alchemist said it had the right smell and the right colour (the alchemist may have been eliphas levi, who visited england in the 'sixties, and would have said anything. ayton's letters indicate that he had a formidable knowledge of alchemical and occult literature, which he could read in the original latin texts, also that he ex

t trinity hall, cambridge, in 1837 (scholar, latin prize essay 1838-9, ba 1841. he was ordained deacon in the latter year and priest in 1843. he served in various rural parishes in the north midlands before he was appointed vicar ofchacombe in 1873 (aet. 57. whether or not he had any particular vocation for the priesthood is a matter for conjecture, introduction ii introduaion 12 the alchemist of the golden dawn seventy in all) were written to the much younger frederick leigh gardner (his junior by forty years) between march 1889 and november 1905. they are worthy of publication, i believe, because they throw additional light upon the notable expansion of interest in occultism which began when the mysterious madame blavatsky settled permanently in london early in 1887. together with colone

s occult world. sixty years later a. e. waite recalled its 'remarkable account of strange phenomena and yet stranger claims 'i remember very well the strange crew that filled sinnett's drawing room at theosophical gatherings' he continued 'the astrologers, the mesmerists, the readers of hands, and a few, very few only, of the motley spiritualist groups" when westcott founded the hermetic order of the golden dawn in 1888 he intended it to be a secret and highly-exclusive alternative to the theosophical society; in fact a school of occultism based on the western hermetic-qabalistic tradition, and hence without any hindu or buddhist elements. the theosophical society was open to all who wished to join it, but the door that led to the g.d. was closely guarded. the majority of the early male me

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s with leaning, huddled houses of immense antiquity; and fascinated though he was, it was long before he dared to thread their archaic verticality for fear they would turn out a dream or a gateway to unknown terrors. he found it much less formidable to continue along benefit street past the iron fence of st. john's hidden churchyard and the rear of the 1761 colony house and the mouldering bulk of the golden ball inn where washington stopped. at meeting street- the successive gaol lane and king street of other periods- he would look upward to the east and see the arched flight of steps to which the highway had to resort in climbing the slope, and downward to the west, glimpsing the old brick colonial schoolhouse that smiles across the road at the ancient sign of shakespeare's head where the

rs were prospering. he had a virtual monopoly of the town's trade in saltpetre, black pepper, and cinnamon, and easily led any other one shipping establishment save the browns in his importation of brassware, indigo, cotton, woollens, salt, rigging, iron, paper, and english goods of every kind. such shopkeepers as james green, at the sign of the elephant in cheapside, the russells, at the sign of the golden eagle across the bridge, or clark and nightingale at the frying-pan and fish near new coffee-house, depended almost wholly upon him for their stock; and his arrangements with the local distillers, the narragansett dairymen and horse-breeders, and the newport candle-makers, made him one of the prime exporters of the colony. ostracised though he was, he did not lack for civic spirit of a

orting every incident which took place there. 5 the probability that curwen was on guard and attempting unusual things, as suggested by the odd shaft of light, precipitated at last the action so carefully devised by the band of serious citizens. according to the smith diary a company of about 100 men met at 10 p.m. on friday, april 12th, 1771, in the great room of thurston's tavern at the sign of the golden lion on weybosset point across the bridge. of the guiding group of prominent men in addition to the leader john brown there were present dr. bowen, with his case of surgical instruments, president manning without the great periwig (the largest in the colonies) for which he was noted, governor hopkins, wrapped in his dark cloak and accompanied by his seafaring brother esek, whom he had i

s never any gossip, for to even the commonest of mortal instincts there are terrible boundaries. and from that single messenger the party at the shore caught a nameless awe which almost sealed their own lips. very few are the rumours which ever came from any of them, and eleazar smith's diary is the only written record which has survived from that whole expedition which set forth from the sign of the golden lion under the stars. charles ward, however, discovered another vague sidelight in some fenner correspondence which he found in new london, where he knew another branch of the family had lived. it seems that the fenners, from whose house the doomed farm was distantly visible, had watched the departing columns of raiders; and had heard very clearly the angry barking of the curwen dogs, f

toric allegory; just now i wished to put it out of my head. the hour grown perilously late- my watch said 7:15, and the arkham bus left town square at eight- so i tied to give my thoughts as neutral and practical a cast as possible, meanwhile walking rapidly through the deserted streets of gaping roofs and leaning houses toward the hotel where i had checked my valise and would find my bus. though the golden light of late afternoon gave the ancient roofs and decrepit chimneys an air of mystic loveliness and peace, i could not help glancing over my shoulder now and then. i would surely be very glad to get out of malodorous and fear-shadowed innsmouth, and wished there were some other vehicle than the bus driven by that sinister-looking fellow sargent. yet i did not hurry too precipitately, f

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knew not which to believe, yet longed more and more to cross for ever into the unknown land; for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. so when i learned of the drug which would unlock the gate and drive me through, i resolved to take it when next i awaked. last night i swallowed the drug and floated dreamily into the golden valley and the shadowy groves; and when i came this time to the antique wall, i saw that the small gate of bronze was ajar. from beyond came a glow that weirdly lit the giant twisted trees and the tops of the buried temples, and i drifted on songfully, expectant of the glories of the land from whence i should never return. but as the gate swung wider and the sorcery of the drug and the

HP LOVECRAFT POETRY AND THE GODS

river of the sky. out of the mists gleamed godlike the torm ot a youth, in winged helmet and sandals, caduceus-bearing, and of a beauty like to nothing on earth. before the face of the sleeper he thrice waved the rod which apollo had given him in trade for the nine-corded shell of melody, and upon her brow he placed a wreath of myrtle and roses. then, adoring, hermes spoke "0 nymph more fair than the golden-haired sisters of cyene or the sky-inhabiting atlantides, beloved of aphrodite and blessed of pallas, thou hast indeed discovered the secret of the gods, which lieth in beauty and song. 0 prophetess more lovely than the sybil of cumae when apollo first knew her, thou has truly spoken of the new age, for even now on maenalus, pan sighs and stretches in his sleep, wishful to wake and beho

ew age, for even now on maenalus, pan sighs and stretches in his sleep, wishful to wake and behold about him the little rose-crowned fauns and the antique satyrs. in thy yearning hast thou divined what no mortal, saving only a few whom the world rejects, remembereth: that the gods were never dead, but only sleeping the sleep and dreaming the dreams of gods in lotos-filled hesperian gardens beyond the golden sunset. and now draweth nigh the time of their awakening, when coldness and ugliness shall perish, and zeus sit once more on olympus. already the sea about paphos trembleth into a foam which only ancient skies have looked on before, and at night on helicon the shepherds hear strange murmurings and half-remembered notes. woods and fields are tremulous at twilight with the shimmering of w

m far egypt, where at night aurora mourns by the nile for her slain memnon. to the feet of the thunderer flew the rosy-fingered goddess and, kneeling, cried "master, it is time i unlocked the gates of the east. and phoebus, handing his lyre to calliope, his bride among the muses, prepared to depart for the jewelled and column-raised palace of the sun, where fretted the steeds already harnessed to the golden car of day. so zeus descended from his caryen throne and placed his hand upon the head of marcia, saying "daughter, the dawn is nigh, and it is well that thou shouldst return before the awakening of mortals to thy home. weep not at the bleakness of thy life, for the shadow of false faiths will soon be gone and the gods shall once more walk among men. search thou unceasingly for our mess

HP LOVECRAFT THE CRAWLING CHAOS

r and chalcedony. and upon their domes of many facets glisten the images of strange and beautiful stars. under the ivory bridges of teloe flow rivers of liquid gold bearing pleasure-barges bound for blossomy cytharion of the seven suns. and in teloe and cytharion abide only youth, beauty, and pleasure, nor are any sounds heard, save of laughter, song, and the lute. only the gods dwell in teloe of the golden rivers, but among them shalt thou dwell. as i listened, enchanted, i suddenly became aware of a change in my surroundings. the palm tree, so lately overshadowing my exhausted form, was now some distance to my left and considerably below me. i was obviously floating in the atmosphere; companioned not only by the strange child and the radiant pair, but by a constantly increasing throng of

s now some distance to my left and considerably below me. i was obviously floating in the atmosphere; companioned not only by the strange child and the radiant pair, but by a constantly increasing throng of half-luminous, vine-crowned youths and maidens with wind-blown hair and joyful countenance. we slowly ascended together, as if borne on a fragrant breeze which blew not from the earth but from the golden nebulae, and the child whispered in my ear that i must look always upward to the pathways of light, and never backward to the sphere i had just left. the youths and maidens now chanted mellifluous choriambics to the accompaniment of lutes, and i felt enveloped in a peace and happiness more profound than any i had in life imagined, when the intrusion of a single sound altered my destiny

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lls before they managed to reach one of the many doors. the cries were shocking; and as i stood in the brilliant apartment alone and dazed, listening to their vanishing echoes, i trembled at the thought of what might be lurking near me unseen. at a casual inspection the room seemed deserted, but when i moved towards one of the alcoves i thought i detected a presence there- a hint of motion beyond the golden-arched doorway leading to another and somewhat similar room. as i approached the arch i began to perceive the presence more clearly; and then, with the first and last sound i ever uttered- a ghastly ululation that revolted me almost as poignantly as its noxious cause- i beheld in full, frightful vividness the inconceivable, indescribable, and unmentionable monstrosity which had by its s

i became suddenly and agonizingly aware of the nearness of the carrion thing, whose hideous hollow breathing i half fancied i could hear. nearly mad, i found myself yet able to throw out a hand to ward of the foetid apparition which pressed so close; when in one cataclysmic second of cosmic nightmarishness and hellish accident my fingers touched the rotting outstretched paw of the monster beneath the golden arch. i did not shriek, but all the fiendish ghouls that ride the nightwind shrieked for me as in that same second there crashed down upon my mind a single fleeting avalanche of soul-annihilating memory. i knew in that second all that had been; i remembered beyond the frightful castle and the trees, and recognized the altered edifice in which i now stood; i recognized, most terrible of

HP LOVECRAFT THE QUEST OF IRANON

nd while he sang an old man prayed and a blind man said he saw a nimbus over the singer's head. but most of the men of teloth yawned, and some laughed and some went to sleep; for iranon told nothing useful, singing only his memories, his dreams, and his hopes "i remember the twilight, the moon, and soft songs, and the window where i was rocked to sleep. and through the window was the street where the golden lights came, and where the shadows danced on houses of marble. i remember the square of moonlight on the floor, that was not like any other light, and the visions that danced on the moonbeams when my mother sang to me. and too, i remember the sun of morning bright above the many-coloured hills in summer, and the sweetness of flowers borne on the south wind that made the trees sing "oh a

er among the hills of spring. thou shalt shew me the ways of travel and i will attend thy songs at evening when the stars one by one bring dreams to the minds of dreamers. and peradventure it may be that oonai the city of lutes and dancing is even the fair aira thou seekest, for it is told that thou hast not known aira since the old days, and a name often changeth. let us go to oonai, o iranon of the golden head, where men shall know our longings and welcome us as brothers, nor even laugh or frown at what we say" and iranon answered "be it so, small one; if any in this stone place yearn for beauty he must seek the mountains and beyond, and i would not leave thee to pine by the sluggish zuro. but think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the karthian hills, or in any spot t

n strange songs, save in the dreams of mine old playmate iranon who is gone" and in the twilight, as the stars came out one by one and the moon cast on the marsh a radiance like that which a child sees quivering on the floor as he is rocked to sleep at evening, there walked into the lethal quicksands a very old man in tattered purple, crowned wiht whithered vine-leaves and gazing ahead as if upon the golden domes of a fair city where dreams are understood. that night something of youth and beauty died in the elder worbethe shadow over innsmouth by h.p. lovecraft i during the winter of 1927-28 officials of the federal government made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient massachusetts seaport of innsmouth. the public first learned of it in february, when a

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toric allegory; just now i wished to put it out of my head. the hour grown perilously late- my watch said 7:15, and the arkham bus left town square at eight- so i tied to give my thoughts as neutral and practical a cast as possible, meanwhile walking rapidly through the deserted streets of gaping roofs and leaning houses toward the hotel where i had checked my valise and would find my bus. though the golden light of late afternoon gave the ancient roofs and decrepit chimneys an air of mystic loveliness and peace, i could not help glancing over my shoulder now and then. i would surely be very glad to get out of malodorous and fear-shadowed innsmouth, and wished there were some other vehicle than the bus driven by that sinister-looking fellow sargent. yet i did not hurry too precipitately, f

HP LOVECRAFT THE WHITE SHIP

all are gifted with unmarred grace and unalloyed happiness. for the aeons that i dwelt there i wandered blissfully through gardens where quaint pagodas peep from pleasing clumps of bushes, and where the white walks are bordered with delicate blossoms. i climbed gentle hills from whose summits i could see entrancing panoramas of loveliness, with steepled towns nestling in verdant valleys, and with the golden domes of gigantic cities glittering on the infinitely distant horizon. and i viewed by moonlight the sparkling sea, the crystal headlands, and the placid harbor wherein lay anchored the white ship. it was against the full moon one night in the immemorial year of tharp that i saw outlined the beckoning form of the celestial bird, and felt the first stirrings of unrest. then i spoke with

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CHUMBLEY

rms the first volume of a three volume set of grimoire texts; the second of which is the draconian grimoire these three works deal respectively with the teachings of the magical quintessence, the crooked path, and the immediate way. as with all magical works, their birth must await its proper season and i can only ask readers to be patient; i have to be! other works like qutub and the grimoire of the golden toad are specialised adjuncts to the main series of works. kindred to these specialisations is a new project i have begun and which i intend to work on in forthcoming years, namely, the unique or monadic transmission series. these are small grimoire-texts of which one copy only is made. each is hand-written and illustrated, and accompanied by specific ritua l items. these are then eithe

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tals of the kabal- ists; creatures with no intellect of their own, but faithful mirrors of the well which evokes, controls, and guides them. we wiu not waste our time in drawing the reader's attention to doubtful or obscure thauma- turgista and exorcizers, but take as our standard one of the greatest saints of catholicism, and select a bouquet from that same prolific con- servatory of pious lies. the golden legend, of james de voragine* st. dominic, the founder of the famous order of that name, is one of the mistiest saints on the calendar. his order was the first that received a solemn confirmation from the pope* and he is well known in histoty as the associate and counsellor of the infamous simon de montfort, the, papal general, whom he helped to butcher the unfortunate ajbigenses in and

inonlu, with the exception of such as have transgressed the rule of tbeir order. domiiae have you any dominicans? dttiu alas! alas! we have not one yet, but we expect a great number of them after tbrir devotion is a little coded. we do not pretend to give the questions and answers literally, for they occupy twenty-three pages; but the substance is here, as may be seen by any one who cares to read the golden legmd. the full descrip- tion of the hideous bellowings of the demons, their enforced glorification saint, and so on, is too long for this chapter. suffice it to say that as we read the numerous questions offered by dominic and the answers of the demons, we become fully convinced that they corroborate in every detail the unwarranted assertions and support the interests of the chu

chdeacon jortin and gibbon* demonstrated years ago that the early fathers used to select narratives, wherewith to ornament the lives of their apocryphal saints, from ovid* homer, livy, and even from the unwritten popular legends of pagan nations. but sudi is not the case in the above instances. st. bernard lived in the twelfth century, and st. dominic was nearly contemporaneous with the author of the golden legend. de voragine died in 1298, and dominic, whose exor- cisms and life he describes so minutely, instituted his order in the first quarter of the thirteenth century. moreover de voragine was vicar- general of the dominicans himself, in the middle of the same century, and therefore described the miracles wrought by his hero and patron but a few years after they were alleged to have ha

hold it for him until he had done reading. the poor imp did so, and held it until it was consumed to the very end of the wick; and notwithstanding his pitiful cries for mercy the saint compelled him to hold it till his fingers were burned to the bones! enough! the approbation with which this book was received by the 154. see the dediiu and fao, de, ch. xxriii. digitizecoy google the indecency of 'the golden legend' 79 church, and the peculiar sanctity attribated to it, is sufficient to show the^ estimation in wtuch veracity was held by its patrons. we may add, in conclu^on, that the finest quintessence of boccaccio's decameron appears prudery itself by comparison with the filthy realism of the golden legend. we cannot r^ard with too mudi astonishment the pretensions of the catholic church

o translate the word nonna, the aureole of the saints was used by the antediluvian artists of babylonia whenever they desired to honor or deify a mortal's head. in a celebrated picture in moor's hindoo pantheon, en- titled "krishna nursed by devoid, from a highly-finished picture" the hindfi virgin is represented as seated on a loimge and nursing krishna. the hair brushed back, the long veil, and the golden aureole around the virgin's head, as well as around that of the hindfl savior, are striking. no cathohc, well versed as he might be in the mysterious symbousm of iconology, would hesitate for a moment to worship at that shrine the vii^n mary, the mother of his god* in indur subba, the south entrance of the caves of ellora, may be seen to this day the figure of indra's wife, indrdni, sit

ISRAEL REGARDIE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GEOMANTIC DIVINATION

they mislead; and with very few exceptions one may boldly paraphrase the remark made by garibaldi, and say that "a priest knows himself to h an impostor, unless he be a fool, or htue been tavght to lie from boyhood" digitizecoy google digilizocb, google digilizocb, google !cb, google digilizocb, google digilizocb, google digilizocb, google digilizocb, google i digilizocb, gooesby the same author the golden dawn the tree of life the middle pillar the philosopher's stone the eye in the triangle a garden of pomegranates in this series how to make and use talismans a practical guide to geomantic divination by israel regardie the aquarian press 37/38 margaret street, london, w.e first published june 1972 israel regardie 1972 contents introduction 1. the gcomantic symbols 2. method 3. the judge

is matter just as it has with regard to the formulation of the question itself. the presiding genius 43 chapter six the presiding genius all previous exoteric works dealing with geomancy are defective in this one particular area at least, the omission of that procedure which is an initiated technique. geomancy is divination through the element earth. in one of the rituals of the hermetic order of the golden dawn the initiate is sworn to invoke, in his workings, the highest name of god that he knows. in this way, whatever he does will come under the guidance and benediction of the highest spiritual force that he knows. thus the ruler of the element of earth has to be magically invoked so that it may truly govern this work of prognostication. it comprises three separate gestures: 1. the invo

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

we need to download or apply to get what sort of result so that we can then go deep into the science of field weaving of which the violet light is the preferred foundation. the violet light has long been known in esoteric circles to be the most powerful transmuting tool, and it consists of three frequency bands. the first is a pink band of light that carries the energy of divine love; the next is the golden yellow band, which carries the imprinting of divine wisdom, and then a blue band that carries the imprinting of divine power. when divine love, divine wisdom and divine power blend together we all can come into a state of freedom where we can express our divine nature with honor. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 68 divine love, divine wisdom and d

in form and denotes the physical nature of man as a crucible into which the light of the god force is poured. the right arm of the cross denotes the east and the positive charge of the trinity and is qualified by the pink light of divine love which is released when we act appropriately with the challenges of the left arm. the southern section of the cross carries the energies of divine wisdom, or the golden flame of illumination which imbues both the left and right arm with direction and purpose. the violet light ray is the seventh ray of spiritual freedom which is refracted to form the 3 rays of blue, pink and golden light. the cross also symbolizes the perfect integration of god and man and the freedom we find when we release the energies of this trinity within us and allow them to radia

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

rmounted with a fleur-de-lis; at p. 334, fig. 217, the head-dress of the figure in the assyrian standard has a fleur-de-lis; at p. 340, fig. 245, the bronze resembles a fleur-de-lis; at p. 350, fig. 254, an egyptian example of the god nilus, as on the thrones of pharaoh- necho, exhibits the fleur-de-lis. vert, or green, and azure, or blue (feminine tinctures, are the colours on which respectively the golden bees, or the silver lisses, are emblazoned. the egyptian scarab i are frequently cut in stone, generally in green-coloured basalt, the scarab us. 45 or verdantique. some have hieroglyphics on them, which are more rare; others are quite plain. in the tombs of thebes, belzoni found scarab ei with human heads. there is hardly any symbolical figure which recurs so often in egyptian sculptur

ve chart, according to the oldest heraldic systems (no. 2) prismatic colours. valois. bourbon. gaulois. sigma. obeliscus: mystic figure. red. baal bel osiris phoebus-apollo (in manifestation) aphrodite (sexless in this sense) theproducingpower (agent) therefore white, with the lilies, or creature- forms, in white, or the light. or green (charlemagne, emperor, or c sar, or kaisar of the west, with the golden, or bees, in lieu of the lisses, or lilies. napoleon the first and third. scarab us of egypt. lucifera. morningstar. scarabs red therefore the oriflamme (or fire of gold) is red and from this original, the red of the gauls and the red of englandis derived red is the national colour of the welsh as witness the red dragon) ofwales,&c. rouge- dragon therefore the lis, or creature-forms in

fy them-that gold, moreover, which will destroy, but can never satisfy. ye cannot serve god and mammon. these things the alchemists too well know, and therefore they (if any exist now) hide, as they have always hidden, and deny, as they have always denied; being desirous of stealing through the world unknown and of serving god alone, whose inaccessible great glory, as we see, has been imitated in the golden lights of the inexpressibly grand (in the worldly and mortal sense, apostate constructions of the magnificent mammon, lord of the treasures of this world, for which men offer themselves willing victims even to him, king of the visible, whose semblance is that of the most brilliant yellow element fire or, golden flame, the flower of the fire. the alchemists maintain that the metals are p

fancied they might obtain blessings by its mediation, and therefore thought it worthy to be worshipped. our learned dr. jackson observes, that the pious hezekiah was moved with the greater indignation against the worship of this image, because in truth it never was nor was intended to be a type of our saviour, but a figure of his grand enemy &c. the jews relapsed into idolatry by the adoration of the golden calf; set-up, too, not by a few schismatics, but by the entire people, with aaron at their head. the calf-superstition was doubtless a relic of what they had seen in egypt in the worship of apis and mnevis. traditions concerning the ark. 353 one of the jews confessed he never could hear a reason from any of their doctors. according to theodoret, arnobius, and clemens of alexandria, the

had seen in egypt in the worship of apis and mnevis. traditions concerning the ark. 353 one of the jews confessed he never could hear a reason from any of their doctors. according to theodoret, arnobius, and clemens of alexandria, the yoni (then become ioni; thence ioina and ionic) of the hindus was the sole object of veneration in the mysteries of eleusis( demosthenes on the crown. next we have the golden calves set-up by jeroboam at dan and bethel. then follows (judges viii. 22 &c) the worship of gideon s ephod. the ephod made by gideon with the spoil of the midianites became after his death an object of idolatry (ibid. p. 41. we have also micah s images and the teraphim. we learn from st. jerome (who received it by tradition from the ancient jews, and indeed it is so stated in numbers

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

om mme blavatsky s works. fourth revised edition, with hebrew text: volume 3 of darcy kuntz golden dawn studies series (edmonds: holmes publishing group, 1996. westcott s sy is also included in the most recent reprint of collectana hermetica, a series which westcott edited 1893-1911 (weiser, 1998. westcott was an occultist who, with s. l. m. mathers, was a founding member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. both westcott and mathers put several magical and mystical texts into english in the late 1800s and early 1900s. most pertinent to kabbalah are mathers kabbalah unveiled (sections of the zohar after the latin of knorr von rosenroth) and westcott s sy, which, in spite of the claim on the title page that the work was translated from the hebrew, appears to have been totally dependent

from other sources (waite s introduction to stenring for one, we learn that the thirty-two paths is a late addition to sy, appended in some latin versions. in a series of short paragraphs, it tells of the intelligences, powers and virtues of the thirty-two paths, which are the ten sefirot plus the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet. 20073 5 westcott s connections with the hermetic order of the golden dawn afford his treatment of sy a certain pedigree at least in the eyes of those who involve themselves with golden dawn teachings and literature thus, it has been reprinted far more often than any other version (and appears at a large number of sites on the internet; see part 4 below. papus [gerard encausse. the qabalah: secret tradition of the west. french original, paris: 1892. engli

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library of jewish civilization, 2007. rabbi moshe greenes argues that maimonides was gsteeped in kabbalah, h in his brief foreword to six treatises attributed to maimonides, translated and annotated from the hebrew editions by fred rosner, m.d (northvale. london: jason aronson inc, 1991. 20081 19 also see. idel, moshe. gjewish philosophy and kabbalah in spain, h in sephardic& mizrahi jewry: from the golden age of spain to modern times (new york: new york university press, 2005. neoplatonism and jewish thought, edited by lenn e. goodman (albany: state university of new york press, 1992- dillon, john m. gsolomon ibn gabirol fs doctrine of intelligible matter h- mathis, c. k. gparallel structures in the metaphysics of iamblichus and ibn gabirol h- mcginn, bernard. gibn gabirol: the sage amon

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e initiate replies "osiris" and it is immediately proclaimed "the meat shall be from the infinite, and thy drink from the infinite. thou art able to go forth to the sepulchral feasts on earth, for thou has overcome" thus, these two chapters, which are represented by their illustrations upon the pillars, represent the advance and purification of the soul and its union with osiris, the redeemer, in the golden dawn of the infinite light, in which the soul is transfigured, knows all, and can do all, for it is made one with the eternal god. khabs am pekht konx om pax light in extension! source: principally israel regardie, and "the equin: iii third knowledge lecture the soul is divided by the qabalists into three principal parts: neschamah- the highest part, answering to the three supernals, an

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reason route is based on trial and error. everyone who starts to walk in that direction must stumble in it and rise again with one s own strength, and begin to perceive daily circumstances as assistance from above for one s spiritual progress. there are many forces that were created by the creator, such as the evil eye, slander, etc. their one and only purpose is to teach us to control ourselves. the golden rule states: walk humbly with thy god (micah 6:8. one must hide one s goals even from one s own egoism, let alone that of others. however, this does not mean that we should dress or act any differently than is customary where we live, or refrain from contact with people. but when around strangers, conduct only general conversations (small talk. when kabbalah students gather, they should

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f into another state of existence, is not only real, clear, simple, but that it is also infinite in vision and eternal in duration. 707. another bro. of the craft has written: 708. you know everything and understand the stars and the hills and the old songs. they are all within you, and you are all light. but the light is music, and the music is violet wine in a great cup of gold, and the wine in the golden cup is the scent of a june night. 709. the star 710. even after the symbolic resurrection has taken place we are still warned that any light which can penetrate to these lower planes is but darkness visible, and that for true light and fuller information we must lift our eyes to that bright and morning star whose rising brings peace and salvation to the faithful and obedient among men

d had died away, the r.w.m. raised his arms again and said with deep feeling: 921. gblessing and peace and love and life be yours from amen for ever. h 922. and all stretched forth their hands, and replied: 923. gso mote it be. h 924. then the lodge was lowered and closed in due and antient form* 925. at a convenient time after the whole ceremony was over, the r.w.m. and some of the officers took the golden bowl to the bank of the nile. they embarked upon a boat, and were rowed out to the middle of the river, and there the r.w.m. broke his seals, and emptied out the entire contents of the bowl into deep water. then he carefully washed it and it was borne back to the sanctuary. 926. the ceremony of the holy angels 927. the h.o.a.t.f. holds a lodge of his own in one of the halls of his castl

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before swine, nor strew roses before an ass. op. cit, p. 99- showing clearly that it was meant to be taken in a mystical sense. it is a long and cryptic account, lit with gleams of humour, of the initiation of christian rosenkreutz into the mysteries of the rosy cross, commencing from his invitation, or awakening to the inner life, and ending with his final triumph or regeneration as a knight of the golden stone. this is the most curious of all the rosicrucian documents, and it will repay the close study necessary to its comprehension; for within it are contained some of the deepest secrets of spiritual alchemy. 704. the authorship of these pamphlets has always been a matter of speculation. they have all been attributed to johann valentine andreas, a cultured and travelled german scholar

into english the fama fraternitatis and the confessio. there were robert flood, a great english rosicrucian philosopher, author of the tractatus apologeticus, the tractatus theologo-philosophicus, and other works; sincerus renatus, or sigmund richter, who published in 1710 the curious work, the perfect and true preparation of the philosophical stone, according to the secretof the brotherhoods of the golden and rosy cross, with which is included the rules of the above-mentioned order for the initiation of new members; and, lastly, the author of the secret symbols of the rosicrucians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a rare book containing a number of occult engravings which enshrine much inner teaching. 708. the traditional history of the rosicrucians 709. the traditional history

ll parts of the world, constituting him a grand inspecter of the rite of perfection. the patent authorized him to form and establish a lodge in order to admit to and multiply the royal order of masons in all the perfect and sublime degrees, and gave him power to create other inspectors. the original of this document has not yet been found, and the world knows of it only from the copy preserved in the golden book of the comte de grasse-tilly, founder of the supreme council 33 of france. bro. r. r gould, however, has a right intuition in the matter, for he is by no means prepared to deny its authenticity, and a complete transcription of it is given in his history of freemasonry(*iii, p. 125ff) it is signed by chaillon de joinville, prince de rohan, brest-de-lachaussee, comte de choiseul, and

hat more advanced egos had come into possession of the degrees, a fuller manifestation of the power behind was permitted; and since then the scottish rite, though its rituals have been altered in various countries and in various interests, has become the most important and splendid of all masonic obediences. 768. the spread of the scottish rite 769. we may here refer back to the third document in the golden book, the patent granted to de grasse-tilly by the new supreme council 33 in charleston in 1802, only a few months after its formation, which certifies that he has been tested in all the degrees of the rite and authorizes him to erect lodges, chapters, councils and consistories in both hemispheres, creating him sovereign grand commander of a supreme council for the antilles for life. it

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

ook of the dead. 3rd ed. london: oxford university press, 1960. rahula,walpola. what the buddha taught. 1959. 2nd expanded edition, new york: evergreen, 1974. zimmer, heinrich. philosophies of india. new york: bollingen, 1951; new york:macmillan, 1987. builders of the adytum the builders of the adytum (bota) was established in 1922 by paul foster case (1884 1954, a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. he was known as an expert in the study of the tarot and cabala, and was said to have been asked by the inner school to reinterpret the ageless wisdom for the western audience. bota s name originated from the greek term meaning holy of holies, and referring to the metaphysical building of one s inner temple.members of bota regard jesus as a carpenter, a builder, and a teacher of th

rom heaven, and imprisoned in a box, the clockwork. centuries later, it opens in the home of a college student. her christian buddies get together to put the fallen angel back in his box. chaos magic when anton lavey founded the church of satan in the 1960s, he adapted his ritual material from literary accounts of satanic rituals and from the ceremonial magic tradition as embodied in the order of the golden dawn and aleister crowley. lavey s approach was eclectic and his attitude pragmatic if it works, use it. although very different, contemporary chaos magic developed from the same roots as lavey s magical practices and it shares lavey s pragmatic attitude. this similarity of spirit may be one of the reasons why many contemporary satanists are attracted to chaos magic. austin osman spare

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

evelation english author, magician, and occultist, aleister crowley with a selection of occult instruments (archive photos) 56 curse of the demon and is the principal source for modern satanism s magical practices. one measure of this influence is that the enochian keys in anton lavey s satanic bible were taken from crowley s periodical equinox. in 1898 he was initiated into the hermetic order of the golden dawn (ogd, an occult group focused on ritual magic or magick, as crowley liked to spell it. in 1903 he married rose edith kelly. he seemed destined for leadership in the ogd, but was denied higher grades of initiation because of his homosexual activities. samuel (macgregor) mathers, one of the founders of the ogd, gave crowley the higher grades anyway, thus causing a split in the organi

of babylon, in which daniel sees the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea. out of the sea emerge, one after the other, a series of beasts, four in number, all of fabulous form. the fourth beast, in particular, is especially terrible and has ten horns. the four beasts represent in succession the babylonian, median, persian, and hellenistic empires. in classical legend, the dragon guarded the golden apples in the garden of hesperides.among the most famous encounters between a christian warrior and a dragon is that of st. george, who slays the dragon or tames the animal and frees the maiden. it has been argued that the story of st. george and the dragon owe much to the greek myth of perseus and andromeda. see also leviathan; satan for further reading: cavendish, richard, ed.man,myth

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tic interpretation, the lost symbolism of the vault in which christian rosenkreutz is said to have been buried, some of the work of dr. dee and sir edward kelly, some very imperfect tables in cornelius agrippa, the art of raymond lully, some of the very artificial effusions of the esoteric theosophists, and of late years the knowledge of the order ros rube et aure crucis and the hermetic order of the golden dawn. unluckily, the leading spirit in these latter societies1 found that his prayer, give us this day our daily whisky, and just a wee drappie mair for luck! was sternly answered, when you have given us this day our daily knowledge-lecture. under these circumstances daath got mixed with dewar, and beelzebub with buchanan. but even the best of these systems is excessively bulky; modern

in two score. the best of the serious attempts to systematise the results of comparative religion is that made by blavatsky. but though she had an immense genius for acquiring facts, she had none whatever for sorting and selecting the essentials. grant allen made a very slipshod experiment in this line; so have some of the polemical rationalists; but the only man worthy of our notice is frazer of the golden bough. here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. ii this: that when a japanese thinks of hachiman, and a boer of the lord of hosts, they are not two thoughts, but one. the cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambit

astrological images and the medical/ talismanic use of the same (vide walker, spiritual and demonic magic and yates, giordano bruno, and he is occasionally cited as an authority by renaissance writers such as ficino and agrippa; the material specifically attributed to d abano in 777 is from the heptameron, although the images of the decans may be from his genuine works. 3 probably a reference to the golden dawn. after swearing a long and tortuously phrased oath of secrecy, the neophyte was issued a knowledge lecture which consisted of the names and symbols of the elements, planets and signs along with the hebrew alphabet and the names of the sephiroth in hebrew. 4 the lemegeton is a 17th-century compilation, probably english, of magical texts attributed to solomon. the first book, goetia

two or more. 6 the book of the concourse of the forces is the title of a collection of golden dawn papers loosely based on the enochian material which emerged from the ceremonial skrying of john dee and edward kelly. crowley later published a terse and incomplete abstract of this material as a brief abstract of the symbolic representation of the universe in equinox i (7-8. see also regardie (ed) the golden dawn, vol. iv. 7 this would not be a view generally shared by most serious practitioners and students of dee and kelly s magick. unless crowley is talking about the g.d. version of enochian magic in which case he has a point. 8 4 planes: the first consists solely of kether; the second of chokmah and binah; the third of chesed through to yesod; the fourth of malkuth only. these are ident

f isis and nephthys. see above for heru-ra-ha. line 19: pasht (according to budge, op. cit. i, 517) is pekh or pekhit, a minor lioness goddess. mau is onomatopoeic egyptian for cat and appears to have been an epiphet of ra. line 22: ma is more usually spelt maat or ma at. lines 23, 31: auramoth and thoum-aesh-neith were never egyptian deities but were names constructed on qabalistic principles by the golden dawn to refer to water and fire; similarly the name tarpesheth (tharpesht) is unknown prior to g.d. material, although she appears to be a hybrid of bast and sekhet. line 24: typhon was a titan in greek myth (son of tartaros and gaia, probably a personification of destructive forces of nature, who was identified with set in late classical times. add selket, whose symbol was the scorpion

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ars in her space. nor is there any one law of her nature, but in her are all laws, so that each thing or each truth that thou perceiveth is as it were one gesture of her dance. shut up the book of thy questions, o my son, concerning nature, her way, her origin, or her purpose, except in those matters which concern thee and thine own orbit, o thou star, begotten of my loins in my lust of hilarion, the golden rose, mystic and joyous, the lily of a thousand petals and one petal, subtle and perverse, that thou mightest fulfil his work of a magus which i cam to accomplish, robing myself in flesh of man, as was my nature and the will of my nature, the name of my star that flameth in the body of nuith our lady. m liber aleph vel cxi 204 zu de ratione huius epistol scribend (of the reason of writi

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ra-a-gioselahladnaimawa-ix. c shabnax-odobor. t thath.th.thith .thuth-thix. amprodias baratchial gargophias dagadgiel hemethterith uriens zamradiel characith temphioth yamatu kurgasiax lafcursiax malkunofat niantiel saksaksalim a.ano.nin parfaxitas tzuflifu qulielfi raflifu shalicu thantifaxath liber ccxxxi 5 [note: x (coptic ksi) is probably an error for (sou) the coptic letter rendered .st. by the golden dawn, attributed to kether and accordingly used to terminate divine names. in accordance with this text.s .class a. status i have not corrected this. ac diary, december 1907: tuesday 3] about now wrote arcana in atus of tahuti, sigils of genii, etc] saturday 14. liber trigrammaton, and copied sigilla 22] monday] curious vague depression most of day. i think the sigilla 22 have a very un

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whole of the law. firstly, let thine attention be directed to this planet, how the aon of horus is made manifest by the universal war. this is the first great and direct result of the equinox of the gods, and is the preparation of the hearts of men for the reception of the law. let us remind you that this is a magical formula of cosmic scope, and that it is given in exact detail in the legend of the golden fleece. jason, who in this story represents the beast, first fits out a ship guided by wisdom or athena, and this is his aspiration to the great work. accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the fleece, but they can do nothing until medea, the scarlet woman, puts into his hands a posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the dragon. then ja

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rcy, majesty and power, beauty and harmony and strength, triumph and splendour, starry shower of flames that flake their lily length, a necklet of pure light, far-flung liber ccxlii 24 down to the base, from which is hung a pearl, the universe, whose sight is one globed jewel of delight. fallen no more! a bowered bride blushing to be satisfied! olympas. all this, of once the eye unclose? marsyas. the golden cross, the ruby rose are gone, when flaming from afar the hawk fs eye blinds the silver star. o brothers of the star, caressed by its cool flames from brow to breast, is there some rapture yet to excite this prone and pallid neophyte? olympas. o but there is no need of this! i burn toward the abyss of bliss. i call the four powers of the name; earth, wind and cloud, sea, smoke and flame

rapture of the soul. so the altar-fires fade as the godhead is displayed. nay, we stir not. everywhere is our temple right appointed. all the earth is faery fair for us. am i not anointed? the sigil burns upon the brow at the adjuration.here and now. olympas. the air is laden with perfumes. marsyas. behold! it beams.it burns.it blooms* olympas. master, how subtly hast thou drawn the daylight from the golden dawn, aha! 37 bidden the cavernous mount unfold its ruby rose, its cross of gold; until i saw, flashed from afar, the hawk fs eye in the silver star! marsyas. peace to all beings. peace to thee, co-heir of mine eternity! peace to the greatest and the least, to nebula and nenuphar! light in abundance be increased on them that dream that shadows are! olympas. blessing and worship to the b

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ei meth were redrawn based on material in ben rowe.s enochian magic reference and clay holden.s pdfs of mysteriorum liber secundus and mysteriorum liber tertius. the general view of the great table was entered from the version in the equinox; the views of the watchtowers and tablet of union as pyramid squares were redrawn, the letters checked against plate iii and the symbols checked according to the golden dawn rules printed in regardie (ed, the golden dawn. the version of the .enochian. alphabet used in plates iv-ix is the ni enochiana typeface constructed by the present editor, closely based on the final forms of the letters from quinti libri mysteriorum appendix, as printed by laycock (1978. plate x has been redrawn and corrects a few minor errors (omission of some numbers and directio

ey (1984; ed/ trans: enochian evocation of doctor john dee, gillette, nj: heptangle. reprinted as enochian magick of doctor john dee. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications, 1994. laycock, donald (1978: complete enochian dictionary. london, askin. reprinted new york: samuel weiser, 1994. regardie, francis israel (1984; ed: the complete golden dawn system of magic. las vegas: falcon press (1989; ed: the golden dawn. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications. revised 6th edition; originally published chicago: aries press (4 vols, 1937-40. rowe, ben: enochian magick reference. revision 1.0, 1998. web-published. the copy previously linked to no longer exists; however this work has been mirrored on various sites across the web; www.hermetic.com which has a section of rowe.s enochian writings is probab

appear in tfr (p. 179) an arrangement of the letters from the black cross as a five by four table, this appears to have been a convenience adopted during the communication of the great table (table of watchtowers; as the letters were immediately afterwards written into the cross between the four tablets, described as the .crosse of union, or black cross (ibid, p. 180. the importance it assumed in the golden dawn appears to derive from an intermediate source, possibly sloane ms 307, an edited extract from which became .h, clavicula tabularum enochii. 7: it is stated (see, e.g. the working of 26th june 1584, tfr p. 180) that this name and the following should be reversed to call forth and compel the kakodaimons (the three-letter names. 8: examples in this and the two following are taken from

the black cross letter on the same row of the general view of the tablets as the name you were working with; thus only the letters e, x, a, r, p, h, c, o, m, a were thus used. these were used to (a) generate divine names ruling the angels of the four squares above the bar of the cross in each lesser angle, and (b) generate the names of kakodaimons from pairs of letters below the bar of the cross. the golden dawn rule, per contra (apparently deriving from sloane 307, was to refer one of the four lines of the .tablet of union. to each watchtower; thus exarp to air, hcoma to water, nanta to earth and bitom to fire. the first letter of each row was prefixed to names drawn from the kerubic squares of each lesser angle, the second to names drawn from servient squares of the lesser angle notes 44

iah, etc. regardie gives the positions of binah through to geburah differently; zalewski (1990) gives the same reading as chanokh, stating this arrangement appears in westcott.s notanda to the g.d. enochian papers. 14: in addition the upper six are referred to the planets according to the scheme in 777 col. cxxiv .the heavenly hexagram. and to the tarot trumps corresponding. 15: see regardie (ed, the golden dawn, vol. iv. 16: suit by element of lesser angle, rank by element of column; so in the lesser angles of water, the square with the left and right sides referred to fire is attributed to the knight of cups. 17: each square is additionally referred to one of the 16 figures of geomancy, and to one of the signs or elements (saturn replacing earth as per the dual attribution of the path of

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ente svb figvra ynda 23 harlot, ravishing with sweet scent and chinese colouring, in the streets; thou hast darkened thine eyepits with kohl; thou hast tinted thy lips with vermilion; thou hast plastered thy cheeks with ivory enamels. thou hast played the wanton in every gate and by-way of the great city. the men of the city have lusted after thee to abuse thee and to beat thee. they have mouthed the golden spangles of fine dust wherewith thou didst bedeck thine hair; they have scourged the painted flesh of thee with their whips; thou hast suffered unspeakable things. 9. but i have burnt within thee as a pure flame without oil. in the midnight i was brighter than the moon; in the daytime i exceeded utterly the sun; in the byways of thy being i flamed, and dispelled the illusion. 10. theref

, and their torment is like the thick black smoke of the evil abode. 63. but the chosen ones drank thereof, and became even as my lord, my beautiful, my desirable one. there is no wine like unto this wine. 64. they are gathered together into a glowing heart, as ra that gathered his clouds about him at eventide into a molten sea of joy; and the snake that is the crown of ra bindeth them about with the golden girdle of the death-kisses. 65. so also is the end of the book, and the lord adonai is about it on all sides like a thunderbolt, and a pylon, and a snake, and a phallus, and in the midst thereof he is like the woman that jetteth out the milk of the stars from her paps; yea, the milk of the stars from her paarliber cxcvii the high history of g o o d s i r palamedes the saracen knight and

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

other climes and men makes off that strong, persistent fool sir palamede the saracen. 26 xi sir palamede the saracen hath hied him to an holy man, sith he alone of mortal men can help him, if a mortal can (so tell him all the scythian folk) wherefore he makes a caravan, and finds him. when his prayers invoke the holy knowledge, saith the sage .this beast is he of whom there spoke the prophets of the golden age .mark! all that mind is, he is not. sir palamede in bitter rage sterte up .is this the fool .od wot, to see the like of whom i came from castellated camelot. the sage with eyes of burning flame cried .is it not a miracle? ay! for with folly travelleth shame, and thereto at the end is hell believe! and why believe? because it is a thing impossible. sir palamede his pulses pause .it i

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k upon me. hail, for i am he whose voice is silence. i have opened the way; i have made light the darkness; i am come, having made an end of the darkness, which hath become light indeed (the lights are turned fully on. the candidate is led from the temple to the. of the boat. this boat is 7 cubits in length. it is of green porcelain, and canopied with a heaven of stars, consecrated. at the bow is the golden disk of ra, with his image. the officer says "the paths which are above are laid unto rest. hail thou great god who art in thy boat, bring thou me into thy boat (the officer puts the candidate into the boat "i have entered the boat and i sail by the command of ra (place canopy of heaven over the boat "get thee back o serpent dwellers in fire, that maketh to cease the motion of my boat

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r adaptation of this ritual to the purpose of self-initiation. 1 [the ritual published as .liber 671. is not the ritual which crowley is here describing, but the adaptation for self-initiation that he prepared during this magical retirement. one revision of the earlier form, a scripted initiation ritual with two officers and a candidate, adapted from the neophyte ceremony of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, survives in typescript as .liber dclxxi vel aort. but is unpublished. t.s] john st. john 31 oh, how soft is the air, and how serene the sky, to one who has passed through the black rule of apophis! how infinitely musical are the voices of nature, those that are heard and those that are not heard! what understanding of the universe, what love is the prize of him that hath performed

the eye, let thine eye be ever open upon me! for he that watcheth israel doth not slumber nor sleep! lord s.iva, open thou the eye upon me, and consume me altogether in its brilliance! 1 [this is obscure: saturn in libra suggests the three of swords (sorrow) and the goetic demons purson and gremory, but crowley.s reference is perhaps better explained by the entry for the second decan of libra in the golden dawn paper on the magical images of the decans (in regardie, complete g.d; abbreviated in 777 cols. cxlix-cli .a man dark and of unpleasant face. a .face. of ill-deeds yet of singing and mirth, gluttony, sodomy and following of evil pleasures. cf. the long note on the formula of alim at the end of chapter iv of magick in theory and practice. t.s] liber dccclx 60 destroy this universe! e

(once they were loose) quite out of proportion to all human wit or courage or address. and he held on his course, humbly, not hopelessly, not fearfully, but with an abiding certainty that he would endure unto the end. and now? in this great magical retirement he has struck many rocks, sprung many leaks; the waters of the false sea 1 [this lecture .the microcosm: man. is published in regardie (ed) the golden dawn] 2 [joseph mccabe, a rationalist writer of the period] john st. john 87 foam over the bow, ride and carry the quarter.is he perchance already wrecked, his hopeless plight concealed from him as yet by his own darkness? for, dazzled as he is by the blinding brilliance of this morning fs spiritual sun, which yet he beheld but darkly, to him now even the light of earth seems dark. reas

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en dawn instruction, and equinox iii (5, the book of thoth, a largely original work of crowley fs (sometimes also designated liber 78. 11 liber 536, gbatracoboofrenokosmomacia. h 12 gliber turris vel domus dei h (xvi. 13 see gliber iii vel jugorum, h i. 14 see gliber astarte vel berylii h (175) 15 no published a a instruction treats directly of talismans or evocation, although ritual outlines (in the golden dawn z2 paper) and two examples were printed in the equinox in the gtemple of solomon the king h serial; and much suggestive material may be found in part iii of book 4. liber xiii 8 16 some of the practices in gliber yod (formerly called vesta) h (831) may be here referred to. the gsheaths of the self h are the five skandhas (or kandhas, approx. gcategories h or gaggregates h) describe

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ing of the scales of the crocodile. the breaking forth of the light!5 18 (follows the lection) 19. there is an end of the speech; let the silence of darkness be broken; let it return into the silence of light. 20. the speaker silently departs; the listeners disperse unto their homes; yea, they disperse unto their homes. 5 [this section is a slight adaptation of the ggeneral exordium h which opens the golden dawn z1 paper. t.s [this ritual is an adaptation by crowley of an invocation of thoth put together by allan bennett from golden dawn material, egyptian texts and miscellaneous sources, a few only of which are noted. the earlier version (corresponding to points 5-13 only of the present text) was published in equinox i (3) as part of bennett fs ritual for the evocation to visible appearan

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she hangs out in the centre of bliss. 3. these loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the feet of osiris, so that the flaming god may rage through the firmament with his fantastic spear. 4. but of pure black marble is the sorry statue, and the changeless pain of the eyes is bitter to the blind. 5. we understand the rapture of that shaken marble, torn by the throes of the crowned child, the golden rod of the golden god. 6. we know why all is hidden in the stone, within the coffin, within the mighty sepulchre, and we too answer olalam! imal! tutulu! as it is written in the ancient book. 7. three words of that book are as life to a new aon; no god has read the whole. 8. but thou and i, o god, have written it page by page. 9. ours is the elevenfold reading of the elevenfold word. 10

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no sect, therefore take heed that thou blaspheme not the name by which another knoweth his god; for if thou do this thing in jupiter thou wilt blaspheme hwhy and in osiris hwchy. ask and ye shall have! seek, and ye shall find! knock, and it shall be opened unto you [this text is a slight adaptation by crowley of an instruction originally circulated in the practicus grade of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, titled gon the general guidance and purification of the soul. h the g.d. version may be studied in regardie (ed, the golden dawn and the complete golden dawn system of magick. gliber libra h was first published in equinox i (1) and reprinted in gems from the equinox and equinox iii (10, in the latter case with a questionable author credit to gthe master therion. h key entry &c. by

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y important name of god.51 46 [matthew xxiv.27; cf. luke xvii, 24] 47 [elsewhere crowley renders aum in hebrew as \wa= 47, e.g. in the formula of aumgn discussed in mtp, which thus enumerates to 100, or \wawm= 93 (not counting the concealed yod) in liber dclxxi] 48 [the installment of .the temple of solomon the king. in equinox i (3) contained an account of the g.d. adeptus minor ritual. see also the golden dawn. t.s] 49 [al i. 24-25; 6 50= 0.12] 50 [cf. gen vi. 3. t.s] 51 [also if we use the same fudge that crowley used to get logos to 93, 120= l, lux (there are at least two other ways by which lvx can be equated with 120 but they are both hideous fudges. t.s] 36 liber lviii 124. do, eden. 131. lams, satan so-called, but really only samael, the accuser of the brethren, unpopular with the

tual. also [r= terror. 300. the letter c, meaning .tooth. and suggesting by its shape a triple flame. refers yetziratically to fire, and is symbolic of the holy spirit \yhla jwr 52 [also laqzjy, ezekiel, and [swy, joseph. elsewhere crowley connects the .city of pyramids. reference with the 12 by 13 squares on each of john dee.s .tablets of the watchtowers. and the pyramids drawn on each square in the golden dawn.s .book of the concourse of the forces. t.s] 53 [also arb .he created, second word of genesis. t.s] 54 [see the remarks on ob, od and aour in the introduction to levi.s rituel de haute magie. t.s] on the qabalah 37= 300. descending into the midst of hwhy, the four inferior elements, we get hwchy jeheshua, the saviour, symbolised by the pentagram. 301. ca, fire. 314. ydc, the almigh

he number 6, both because 6 111([la= 111= 1= 6, and because the sun, whose greatest number it is, is 6 (i here interpolate a note on the .mystic numbers. of the planets. the first is that of the planet itself, e.g. saturn, 3. the second is that of the number of squares in the square of the planet, e.g. saturn, 9. the third is 56 [see the sepher yetzirah. t.s] 57 [in equinox i (2, or regardie (ed) the golden dawn. t.s] 58 [see the golden dawn z1 document. t.s] on the qabalah 39 that of the figures in each line of the .magic square. of the planet, e.g. saturn 15. a .magic square. is one in which each file, rank, and diagonal add to the same number, e.g. saturn is 8 1 6, 3 5 7, 4 9 2, each square being filled in with the numbers from 1 upwards. the last of the magic numbers is the sum of the

adepts. cf. abraha-melin.73 214. jwr is one of the most seductive numbers to the beginner. yet its crown is daath, and later one learns to regard it as the great obstacle. look at its promise 21, ending in the fearful curse of 4! calamity! 69 [but see note to this number in part i. t.s] 70 [see the equinox of the gods. t.s] 71 [because o and n are referred to the devil and death in the tarot. in the golden dawn portal ritual this description refers to the path of samekh, but putting a gate on the end of said path also gives us 124. t.s* 165= nemo [note added by ac in a copy of equinox i (5, transcribed by yorke. nemo (165 by greek numeration) is the symbolic name of a master of the temple, see liber 418. t.s] 72 [the reference is to nox spelt in hebrew on. t.s] 73 [also \ylpn, nephilim= 2

tyj, cheth. arbadahabra, the great magic word, the word of the aon. note the 11 letters, 5 a identical, and 6 diverse. thus it interlocks pentagram and hexagram. ah tyb, the house of he the pentagram; see idra zuta qadisha, 694 .for h formeth k, but j formeth dwy..77 both equal 20. 74 [marcelo motta took this number on declaring himself a master of the temple. t.s] 75 [the reference is to one of the golden dawn admission badges. t.s] 76 [co is also the hebrew names for the constellation of the great bear. t.s] 77 [comparing this with the mathers translation, this appears to be a loose paraphrase of von rosenroth.s glosses rather than a direct quote; the relevant paragraphs are 696 and 697. t.s] 50 liber lviii note 4+ 1+ 8= 13, the 4 reduced to 1 through 8, the redeeming force; and 418= j=

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te in a man.s cheek, and darkened utterly .foaming at the fouth the wretched jehjaour clutched at air and fell prone. iii .to what god should he appeal? his own, hanuman, was silent. sacrifice, prayer, all were in vain. so jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and his whole force went out in a mighty current of hate towards his former friend. 1 allan macgregor bennett (whose motto in the .hermetic order of the golden dawn. was iehi aour, i.e .let there be light, now ananda metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issued is inscribed. 2 taphtatharath [sic, s.b. taphthartharath. t.s, the spirit of mercury .now hate hath power, though not the power of love. so it came about that in his despair he fell into a trance; and in the trance mara1 appeared to him. never before had his spells availed

(who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men, in order that the brethren may know what journeys he undertook in pursuit of that knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. it was at his 119th year,1 the star suaconch2 being in the sign of the lion, that our father set out from his castle of ug3 to attain the quintessence or philosophical tincture. the way being dark and the golden dawn at hand, he did call forth four servants to keep him in the midst of the way, and the lion roared before him to bid the opposers beware of his coming. on the bull he rode, and on his left hand and his right marched the eagle and the man. but his back was uncovered, seeing that he would not turn. and the spirit of the path met him. it was a young girl of two and twenty years, and sh

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a.c, probably compiled or written by s.l. gmacgregor h mathers. remarks in square brackets embedded in the text are presumably by crowley. the tarot papers go h and gp, h a rather abstruse astrologico-qabalistic treatise concerning the projection of the tree of life into a solid sphere and the mapping of the 78 cards to the celestial heavens, are omitted. versions may be studied in regardie (ed) the golden dawn and the complete golden dawn system of magic. the most significant change in the divination method is that in the golden dawn version one counted 5 rather than 11 for aces; also, the g.d. paper instructed selection of the significator based on the appearance of the querent (c) ordo templi orientis this e-text last revised 25.08.2olliber mmcmxi a note on genesis from the paper writt

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cant, indeed. let us take the primal three and convert those numbers into colours. so we get a, the father, the yellow ray of the dawning sun of creation; m, the mother, the blue ray of the great primaval waters; c, the son, the red ray: the ruach elohim* symbol of the red fire of god, which brooded (v. 2) upon the face of the waters: or like the red glory that lights up the heavens at dawn, when the golden sun illumines the waters above the firmament. now this red glory is the ignis dei. which is also the agnus dei, or lamb of god that destroyeth (literally burns out) the sins of the world. as it is written in the ordinary of the mass: the priest goeth unto the south of the altar and prays .o agnus dei! qui tollis.qui tollis peccata mundi.dona nobis pacem. and this fire, this lamb of god

the world. as it is written in the ordinary of the mass: the priest goeth unto the south of the altar and prays .o agnus dei! qui tollis.qui tollis peccata mundi.dona nobis pacem. and this fire, this lamb of god, is aries, symbol of the dawning year: whose colour also is as the red fire, and which is the head of the fiery triplicity in the zodiac. so also in the grade of neophyte in the order of the golden dawn the hierophant weareth a robe of flame-scarlet as symbolic of the dawn. note..it may be objected to this enunciation of the colours that y, the father, is fire; that h, the mother, is water; that w, the son, is air, and yellow instead of red. this also is true, but it relates to the governance of the elemental kingdoms, which are in the astral worlds, and whose monads are on the de

e astral worlds, and whose monads are on the descending arc of life, whilst man is on the ascending; that scale is therefore inverted. for by the mighty sacrifice of the man made flesh and by his torturous pilgrimage is evolved that glorified son who is greater than his father. in alchemy we have again the descending arc, for we find that the red powder cast upon the water of the metals produceth the golden sol. but it is important not to confuse. the christians have terribly muddled their trinity by making the son the second instead of the third principle* remember that the enumeration of the name \yhla jwr is 300= c [lat .fire of god [lat .o lamb of god! who takest away.who takest away the sins of the world.give us peace] liber mmcmxi 10 whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbo

th the exception of those signed .p. which are by crowley, and any others in square brackets, which are by the present editor. issues which cannot be dealt with in a brief footnote are discussed below. the text and footnotes contain a number of allusions to golden dawn rituals; summaries of these appeared in the temple of solomon the king in equinox i (2. they may also be studied in regardie (ed) the golden dawn and the complete golden dawn system of magic .daughter of the firmament .child of the sons of the mighty .spirit of the primal fire &c. are g.d. titles of the various tarot trumps: see 777 col. clxxx. as usual in the work of crowley and his associates .zoroaster. is here the author of the chaldaan oracles. most quotations are from an edition prepared by w. wynn westcott and publish

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grams shown in this part are all the invoking form. to make the banishing forms, trace the triangles in the same order and starting from the same point, but trace each triangle in the opposite direction. 13 see 777, col. v. generally for the planets use the name for the sephirah corresponding, and for the signs, the name of the sephirah corresponding to the ruling planet. in the version taught in the golden dawn, the letters of ararita were attributed to the points of the hexagram in .lightning flash. order (a to saturn, r to jupiter, a to mars, etc) and the particular letter was to be vibrated along with the other names. 14 the print editions read. as in plate on preceding page. the hexagram of sol is formed by tracing the hexagrams of the other six planets in order, thus twelve triangles

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o keep ready in a flask of crystal within the altar, holy anointing oil made of myrrh and cinnamon and galangal.39 and even if he be of higher rank than a probationer, he shall yet wear the robe of the probationer, for the star of flame showeth forth ra-hoor-khuit openly upon the breast, and secretly the blue triangle that descendeth is nuit, and the red triangle that ascendeth is hadit. and i am the golden tau in the midst of their marriage.40 also, if he choose, he may insread wear a closeliber viii 42 fitting robe of shot silk, purple and green, and upon it a cloak without sleeves, of bright blue, covered with golden sequins, and scarlet within. and he shall make himself a wand of almond wood or of hazel, cut by his own hands at dawn at the equinox, or at the solstice, or on the day of

e goetia derives from that publication (and possibly from private magical work by crowley, bennett and others in which the two were combined. there is no evidence that the gbornless one h ritual in itself was an official g.d. paper; it may have been, but the evidence normally adduced for this, the gbornless ritual for the invocation of the higher genius h printed by israel regardie in vol. iii of the golden dawn, was compiled by regardie himself from the versions published by crowley, incorporating elements of other g.d. rituals, as regardie himself clearly stated in his ceremonial magic. according to his diaries published in equinox vol. i, crowley used this ritual for various purposes in private magical work between 1901 and 1906, most notably the extended series of gaugoeides invocation

arginal doodles, thame, oxon: first impressions, 1992. re-set reprint with additional editorial material, york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1995 (ed. by william breeze. preisendanz, karl (ed: papyri graca magica: die griechischen zauberpapyri (2 vols. leipzig: teubner, 1928-31; second edition stuttgart: teubner, 1973. regardie, francis israel: ceremonial magic. wellingborough: aquarian, 1980 (ed) the golden dawn (full title: the teachings, rites and ceremonies of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (4 vols) chicago: aries press, 1937-1940; 6th edition in one volume, st. paul, minnesota: llewellyn, 1989. waite, arthur edward: the book of black magic and of pacts, including the rites and mysteries of goetic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy. london: 1898. second edition as the book

e goetia version of the invocation has gosorronophris h( fosoronnwfrij) which in any case is generally regarded as a greek corruption of asar un-nefer( gosiris the beautiful h, as the standard early 20th-century transliteration went. see also crowley fs remarks on this line in point ii. 2 the goetia version has giabas h( fiabaj. besz (bec) is a coptic spelling of the dwarf-god bes, as employed in the golden dawn, where for some inexplicable reason he had become one of the three elements making up the gevil persona h and was described as the gbrutal power of demonic force h (i am unaware of any evidence for bes being regarded as a demonic or malignant power in egypt) oddly, in some of the graco-egyptian magical papyri, bes is identified with the headless one. 3 the goetia version has giapos

have lost their light and the lamp of the moon is veiled, the earth abideth not, and around thee darts the lightning flame and all things appear amid thunders. 199: when thou shalt behold that holy and formless fire shining flashingly through the depths of the universe: hear thou the voice of fire( gall the phantasms are vanished h is possibly a gloss by someone in the g.d (the phrase appears in the golden dawn practicus ritual in the course of a long speech by the hierophant consisting of extracts and paraphrases from the oracles, on gno longer is visible unto thee c the earth abideth not h; it is not in the westcott edition. 32 crowley, tannhauser, act iv, scene ii. emphasis added in mtp. 33 g c we fll tear your soul apart h. the lead cenobite in hellraiser. 34 c until the angel finally

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temple contains (i) an altar of some kind, probably in the west (near the entrance to the room (ii) seven thrones for the planetary stations, probably arranged in a heptagon, with the fourth in the east (iii) a dais of seven steps in the east, beyond the station of sol, with a throne atop it, and (iv) a small side room, a dark dungeon. 2 they should also have appropriate masks and weapons. 3 see the golden dawn adeptus minor ritual. 4 the traditional emblems of osiris. the scourge was probably a flail used for threshing grain. the script also has one speech given by the hierophant who is mentioned nowhere else. 2 (note: this ceremony can be adapted for working by two officers, the hegemon assuming each time a different coloured cloak& the appropriate god-form. but it is most desirable tha

ant who is mentioned nowhere else. 2 (note: this ceremony can be adapted for working by two officers, the hegemon assuming each time a different coloured cloak& the appropriate god-form. but it is most desirable that the full complement of nine should assist) hail unto thee, osiris, triumphant, lord of amennta, lord of enenet! hail unto thee, all glorious sun of mercy& justice, upon whose head is the golden crown of light that is invisible to men! hail unto thee, hail unto thee, sole light in our darkness! hail unto thee through whom alone.)5 may attain unto the brotherhood immortal. deign to guide this aspirant in the straight path& let him not fall into the way of those who err (there is no answer. let us arise& seek osiris (they come to the first throne) saturn welcome. welcome, welcome

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even i will take you unto me. 20. i ask you to sacrifice nothing at mine altar; i am the god who giveth all. 21. light, life, love; force, fantasy, fire; these do i bring you: mine hands are full of these. 22. there is joy in the setting-out; there is joy in the journey; there is joy in the goal. 23. only if ye are sorrowful, or weary, or angry, or discomforted; then ye may know that ye have lost the golden thread, the thread wherewith i guide you to the heart of the groves of eleusis. 24. my disciples are proud and beautiful; they are strong and swift; they rule their way like mighty conquerors. 25. the weak, the timid, the imperfect, the cowardly, the poor, the tearful.these are mine enemies, and i am come to destroy them. svb figvra xc 3 26. this also is compassion: an end to the sickne

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to lower right. 7 .no doubt this is all implied in the ritual which i started to write, but it hardly suitable as part of the patter. damn the man that isolated cocaine (ac diary, july 1921, quoted in the editor.s introduction to the 1994 .blue brick. edition of magick, p. lxiii. 8 a name sometimes used for tarot trump xx, more usually called .judgement. or .the last judgement. attributed to c in the golden dawn correspondences. in crowley.s thoth deck it is called the aon. 9 tarot trump xi (viii in some packs, attributed to f in the golden dawn correspondences. in crowley.s thoth deck it is called lust. 10 an allusion to the opening of the .siphra dtzenioutha. or .book of concealment. a kabbalistic text translated by mathers from the latin of von rosenroth.s kabbala denudata and published

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lso keep ready in a flask of crystal within the altar, holy anointing oil made of myrrh and cinnamon and galangal. and even if he be of higher rank than a probationer, he shall yet wear the robe of the probationer, for the star of flame showeth forth ra hoor khuit openly upon the breast, and secretly the blue triangle that descendeth is nuit, and the red triangle that ascendeth is hadit. and i am the golden tau in the midst of their marriage. also, if he choose, he may instead wear a close-fitting robe of shot silk, purple and green, and upon it a cloak without sleeves, of bright blue, covered with golden sequins, and scarlet within. and he shall make himself a wand of almond wood or of hazel cut by his own hands at dawn at the equinox, or at the solstice, or on the day of corpus christi

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y prince. so this is the poem i did to worship the ring, part is in words, part is in pictures. you must pick out what the pictures mean, and then it all makes poetry. the invocation of the ring adonai! thou inmost d, self-glittering image of my soul strong lover to thy bride.s desire, call me and claim me and control! i pray thee keep the holy tryst within this ring of amethyst. for on mine eyes the golden! hath dawned; my vigil slew the night. i saw the image of the one; i came from darkness into l.v.x. i pray thee keep the holy tryst within this ring of amethyst. i.n.r.i..me crucified, me slain, interred, arisen, inspire t.a.r.o. me glorified, anointed, fill with frenzied d! i pray thee keep the holy tryst within this ring of amethyst. i eat my flesh: i drink my blood i gird my loins: i

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axo, arguing essential similarity, is margaret clunies ross, gmythic narrative in saxo grammaticus and snorri sturluson, h in the volume saxo grammaticus: tra storiografia e letteratura: bevagna, 27.29 settembre 1990 (rome: editrice gil calamo, h 1992, 47.59. sir james frazer fs reading of the baldr myth.still a classic of garmchair anthropology h.may be studied in his gbalder the beautiful, h in the golden bough: a study in magic and religion, 3rd ed, 2 vols (new york: st. martin fs press: 1990 [1890, part 7; see also john stanley martin, gbaldr fs death and the golden bough, h in iceland and the medieval world: studies in honour of ian maxwell, ed. gabriel turville-petre and john stanley martin (victoria, australia: the organizing committee for publishing a volume in honour of professor

articiple of the verb gala, gcrow, yell. h although some commentators distinguish galdrar from ljo. as spoken rather than sung, it is difficult to find any primary source material that enforces the distinction. interestingly, one of the meters of eddic poetry is called galdrar meter. it is an extended form of ljo.ahattr, gsong or chant meter. h see also seid game of the gods motif associated with the golden age of the gods and with the survival of the race of gods after ragnarok. the key passages are in voluspa, which gives a synopsis of the entire mythology. in stanza 8 the gods have just completed their creation and ordering of the cosmos and their building of cult sites and tools: 8. they played a game in the home field, were merry for them there was no lack of gold. at this point their

ndeed a giant, and how ty lr got a giant for a father is one of the true mysteries of this mythology. the identity of his mother also poses a problem. she is mentioned in stanza 8: the son met the mother, much loathsome to him, she had nine hundred heads. another still went forth, all in gold, white about the brows, to bear beer to her son. is ty lr fs mother the loathsome multiheaded creature or the golden one bearing beer? neither possibility is attractive. if the monster is ty lr fs mother, he would appear to be wholly of giant stock. if the golden one is his mother, she may be one of the asir, and a union between giant and goddess violates every principle of the mythology. however, we can console ourselves with the notice in the skaldskaparmal section of snorri sturluson fs edda that a

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the theory and practice of alchemy, part ii the alchemical prayer--the emerald tablet of hermes--a letter from the brothers of r. c--the magical mountain of the moon--an alchemical formula--the dew of the sages. 157 the chemical marriage christian rosencreutz is invited to the chemical wedding--the virgo lucifera--the philosophical inquisition--the tower of olympus--the homunculi--the knights of the golden stone. 161 bacon, shakspeare, and the rosicrucians the rosicrucian mask--life of william shakspere--sir francis bacon--the acrostic signatures--the significant number thirty-three--the philosophic death. 165 the cryptogram as a factor in symbolic philosophy secret alphabets--the biliteral cipher--pictorial ciphers--acroamatic ciphers--numerical and musical ciphers--code ciphers. 169 fre

r of the beast. 185 the faith of islam the life of mohammed--the revelation of the koran--the valedictory pilgrimage--the tomb of the prophet--the caaba at mecca--the secret doctrine of islam. 189 american indian symbolism the ceremony of the peace pipe--the historical hiawatha--the popol vuh--american indian sorcery--the mysteries of xibalba--the midewiwin. 193 the mysteries and their emissaries the golden chain of homer--hypatia, the alexandrian neo-platonist--the "divine" cagliostro--the comte de st.-germain--the designing of the american flag--the declaration of independence. 197 conclusion 201 bibliography 205 index 207 next: introduction p. 12 p. 13 introduction philosophy is the science of estimating values. the superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by phi

ile to the ignorant the figure remains inscrutable. hence, he who seeks to unveil the secret doctrine of antiquity must search for that doctrine not upon the open pages of books which might fall into the hands of the unworthy but in the place where it was originally concealed. far-sighted were the initiates of antiquity. they realized that nations come and go, that empires rise and fall, and that the golden ages of art, science, and idealism are succeeded by the dark ages of superstition. with the needs of posterity foremost in mind, the sages of old went to inconceivable extremes to make certain that their knowledge should be preserved. they engraved it upon the face of mountains and concealed it within the measurements of colossal images, each of which was a geometric marvel. their knowl

o many other ancient schools of philosophy, apparently consisted of three important degrees. preparation for these degrees consisted of selfpurification, the building up of the intellectual powers, and the control of the animal nature. in the first degree the candidate was given a crown upon the point of a sword and instructed in the mysteries of mithras' hidden power. probably he was taught that the golden crown represented his own spiritual nature, which must be objectified and unfolded before he could truly glorify mithras; for mithras was his own soul, standing as mediator between ormuzd, his spirit, and ahriman, his animal nature. in the second degree he was given the armor of intelligence and purity and sent into the darkness of subterranean pits to fight the beasts of lust, passion

was a lofty mountain which cast a shadow five thousand stadia in extent and whose summit touched the sphere of ther. this is the axle mountain of the world, sacred among many races and symbolic of the human head, which rises out of the four elements of the body. this sacred mountain, upon whose summit stood the temple of the gods, gave rise to the stories of olympus, meru, and asgard. the city of the golden gates--the capital of atlantis--is the one now preserved among numerous religions as the city of the gods or the holy city. here is the archetype of the new jerusalem, with its streets paved with gold and its twelve gates shining with precious stones "the history of atlantis" writes ignatius donnelly "is the key of the greek mythology. there can be no question that these gods of greece

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manner as best suited to time and geographical circumstance, and which was said to have been in existence from time immemorial; the old wisdom of the watchers, in fact. in madame blavatsky's society it was the oriental branch of this wisdom, comprising the teachings of vedanta and esoteric buddhism, which was the main inspiration. closely paralleling this movement, however, the hermetic order of the golden dawn was formed in england a few years later, similar in ideal but pursuing a western, rosicrucian path bound up with a system of ceremonial magic comprising invocation of ancient egyptian gods, cabalistic formulae, and dr. john dee's sixteenth-century enochian research. this erudite institution attracted many fertile minds including the poet w. b. yeats, arthur machen, and algernon bla

ochian research. this erudite institution attracted many fertile minds including the poet w. b. yeats, arthur machen, and algernon blackwood, all on the fringe or involved with the "celtic twilight" and all greatly preoccupied with the rediscovery of the old gods, as will be readily discerned if one acquaints oneself with their writings. a later, christianized development of the original order of the golden dawn was the "stella matutina" this offshoot attracted such minds as a. e. waite, evelyn underhill, and charles williams to its ranks. however, in magical circles, it is chiefly the names of aleister crowley and dion fortune that are best remembered as members of these mysterious schools, both, like yeats before them, deeply involved with the reconstruction of the old mysteries, and the

the four elements of the wise: michael and mark of fire; raphael and john, air; gabriel and matthew, water; and last, uriel and luke, earth. however, you as a witch will bypass these later accretions and return to the old-style symbolism, namely, that of the four watchtowers of the world. some occultists trace their use solely back to the nineteenth-century rosicrucianism of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, others to the experiments of the elizabethan magnus dr. john dee. to a witch, however, they are a direct representation of the four "castles" of pre-celtic lore, which are said to stand at the four corners of the world. each castle or watchtower is referred to one of the elements, that of the east to air and childhood; south to fire and youth; west to water and maturity; and north

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rsion of a sidereal or constellation-oriented zodiac. the example seals can only be produced if the tropical zodiac is used. benjamin rowe june 22, 1 t5 that such is to be fulfilled by you, if it please god, adding further the particulars of your request, praying with humility for what is lawful and just: and that thou shall obtain from him. but if he do not appear presently, then you must obtain the golden seal, and make with it three or four marks upon the candles, by which means the angel will presently appear as aforesaid. and when the angel departeth he will fill the whole place with a sweet and pleasant smell, which will be smelled for a long time. and note the golden seal will serve and is used in all the operations of all four altitudes. the colour of the altitude belonging to the

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ape, veiled from the eyes of the blind. hold this skull and behold the spirits which walk with you, by self-transformation on the meeting path shall this mark be evermore your father, the dragon djinn of old forever walk with you, and in rapt meditation shall we pass from the clay of mortal hands you shall thirst for water and for blood; both in dreaming shall be held from the dual gnosis. i hold the golden cup to your lips, that the dragon s elixir hold strong i then hand to you the skull bowl of my flowing blood, that you may taste the bitter sweetness of it s coppered kiss then in your ecstasy and thy devil s phallus reaching towards the sun shall my serpent s tongue enflame you to me. i then found myself wandering in the wilds, sleeping beneath the stars hunting and learning nature wit

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es this path must be well disciplined and of a sound mind. the significance of the rites of da'ath is that having entered the reverse side of the tree of life, and passed through the da'athian gates, a plethora of psychic and hidden knowledge becomes available. da ath is a conjunction and child of the qabalistic zones of chokmah (wisdom) and binah (understanding. as israel regardie pointed out in the golden dawn (llewellyn 1971: but fundamentally it is the ascent of the dragon or, if you wish, an upwelling of the unconscious archetypes- a highly dangerous and unbalancing ascent, until they are assimilated to consciousness- which first renders da ath a possibility. it is the fall which is responsible for the acquisition of self-knowledge. thus it stands proven claims blavatsky that satan or

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tis. the reference is tothe coils of dna, to the alien and human strands and their incompatibility. the folk-tales which have to do with the evil and good twin, the dark and fair sisters, the whiteand black witches, the twin towers, the true and false knights, the heroes descent andascent, etc, also conceal the same meta-theme. from robin hood to swan lake, fromhercules and the hydra to jason and the golden fleece, from the odin hanging on thewinding tree to conan the barbarian, from alice through the looking glass todungeons and dragons, the themes are one. what is the tree of the east and the treeof the west? what are the two seraphim who guard the ark of the covenant? what arethe gates of v alhalla? why are there twin columns at the portals of illustrious edifices?what do the swastika

is born to you shall survive on the earth, and his sons shall be saved withhim. when all 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

t at the end of the universe mark lerner -the big bang never happened michael talbot the holographic universe zacharia sitchin earth chronicles series (10 v ols) robert temple the sirius mystery graham hancock fingerprints of the gods/the sign& the seal thomas mallory la morte darthur alfred lord tennyson idylls of the king chretien de troyes the grail wolfram v on eisenbach parsifal james frazer the golden bough robert graves the white goddess l. a. waddell phoenician origins of the britons/ makers of civilization/ egyptian civilization/ the british edda. c. s lewis that hideous strength /perelandra (v oyage to venus)/out of the silent planet j. r. r. tolkien lord of the rings /the silmarillion/the hobbit. george macdonald phantastes/lilith ursula le guin the earthsea trilogy john christo

ien visitation, and genetic manipulation187 appendix b: book abstracts men among mankind by brinsley le poer trenchnoah and the floodit is probable that the serpent people and not jehovah were the ones who warned of the coming cata-clysms and got mankind to build the ark. seen from outer space, the planet earth has a rainbow likehalo.olympian periodzeus overthrows the titan kronus, who ruled over the golden age. this act initiated the olympianage. kronus is said to have been banished from the city of the gods and was interred, chained, inbritain. same as saturn, who was said to have been sent in chains to albion. he was the oldest of thegods. could it be that this was one of the original galactic invaders that was captured by the serpentpeople. is this where the legend of the chaining of s

people america, he came fromthe east. he brought seven families with him. he had been preceded in america by two others, igh andimox. he built a great city in america called nachan, city of the serpents. the serpent that temptedeve was nahash, from his own race, which was named chan, a serpent (p. 313) coming of the snake cultthe lenni-lenapi (delaware) indians preserve a legend of the decline of the golden age, when apriest, powako, brings to earth worship an evil snake-god, wakon. after which, there is much sadness,crime, and debauchery (see p. 109)retrograde development of humanityit is probable that the ships of the atlanteans, when they returned after the tempest to look for theircountry, found the sea impassable from the masses of volcanic ash and pumice. they returned terrifiedto th

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orm fiend has six eyes, three heads and three pairs of fangs. in human form, he was zohak, an ancient babylonian/scythian/assyrian king or shah, who according to zoroastrian mythology, was transformed into the immortal storm fiend by a pact with ahriman. azhi dahaka is said to be filled with serpents, scorpions, toads and other insects and reptiles. azothoz a sigillic word formula which represent the golden dawn definition of the beginning and end, alpha and omega. azothoz is a reversed form which is a symbol and glyph of the adversary, shaitan/set and lilith. this is a word which signifies self-initiation and the power which is illuminated by the black flame within. bevarasp [avestan/pahlavi] myraid of horses, meaning also ten plagues on humanity. this is a name of azhi dahaka or zohak. b

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repeat this exercise 5 times. there was once an age where i would have declared this a buncha new age crap. i m here to inform you that there is something very real about this ritual. for hours after the ritual, i have this sensation that energy is flowing around me and that i can reach into objects. the effects of this ritual are accumulative, while the ritual itself is derived from the order of the golden dawn. you may find it helpful to create an audio recording of you walking yourself through the steps, but be sure to allow yourself plenty of time for visualizations. this means that the recording should be at 20 minutes long, because neglecting the visualizations is not an option--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 29 on the inside looking out [2.4] being a computer programmer, it s p

ensions right next to my dirty-clothes hamper, i was afraid of dealing with alien beings when i can hardly navigate dealings with my own race, and i was afraid of adding even more sin to the copious globs i was already holding on to. i know who i am, i m weak and pathetic, and to sum it all up, i was afraid of going "darth vader" despite all this, i started doing rituals derived from the order of the golden dawn and have been practicing for some time. all roads lead to whackyland [3.2] until now i ve have resisted an urge many authors fail to resist, inundating their books with personal stories. here i believe one is order, but if i play my cards right, you can still keep learning about important topics. how s that sound? at first, my research was completely geared to the illuminati and sa

root story, rather than intense memorization on their part. the fact that they so liberally use the names and storylines from multiple beliefs so interchangeably is proof of this. what else i found interesting was how some magicians referred to osiris (and yahweh) as lord; except, when they spoke of him, or identified him in any way, it was always in terms of jesus christ. famous phrases: sun of the golden dawn sign of osiris slain: extend arms out to the sides, legs together, palms forward, hang head down. represents sacrifice, balance, and transformation. sign of osiris risen: cross arms over chest, right over left, legs together. represents resurrection and transcendence. excerpt from the ritual of the hexagram: virgo, isis, mighty mother. scorpio, apophis, the destroyer. sol [sun, osi

escend! excerpt from closing ritual: do sign of osiris slain and say in the great name of strength through sacrifice! yeh-heh-shu-wah! yeh-heh-wah-sha! i now release any spirit that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony. depart in peace unto your habitations, and peace be between us now, and in a time to come this represents only a small taste of the many references members of lodges based on the golden dawn make regarding this jesus-like osiris. although it s worth noting that the real egyptian god osiris died not by sacrifice, but was instead murdered by the conspiracy of his brother set (typhon. further, the real osiris was no more associated with the cross than any other egyptian god. more still, it s worth noting that yeh-heh-shu-wah and yeh-heh-wah-sha are references to yahweh [g

luck; justice mars red tuesday 5 violence; change; success; disease sun gold sunday 6 power; creative energy; goodness venus green friday 7 love; socialization; sex; the arts mercury purple wednesday 8 intellect; business; communication; travel moon silver monday 9 the unconscious; mysteries; childbirth note: the color property in the 2 tables of correspondences above are specific to the order of the golden dawn. other traditions have used different correspondences with equal results, however most of the correspondences in the tables are standard. but planetary or spiritual properties aren t the only hidden properties an object, or given space, has. there are also threads that permanently bind every material particle to every other particle that it has ever come in contact with. imagine fo

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explore the bestial aspects of the mind may be considered. the werewolf since medieval times (and earlier) is a most feared demonic essence, known as the lord of the forest. the atavistic elementals within our own flesh 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

ilith, the sigillic creative formula ofsuccubi and dreaming servitors -the triple hermetic circle ofhamara 't, by charles pace, redesigned by elda isela ford shaitan of midnight, unto which the grave thy spirit shall rise all who read this book, and envision the tracing of this sigil of entry, shall then all open the gates to the dreaming place by the adversary of noon and midnight, who drinks of the golden chalice and blood filled skull, so it isspmidnight s circle a commentary of azothoz a book of the adversary presented by the night ravener (akhtya seker arimanius michael w. ford- a brother in the pact of witchblood azothoz presents in poetic form the antinomian concept of separation from the natural order. this is clear throughout the various grimoires such as nox umbra, book of cain

MIDNIGHTS CIRCLE A COMMENTARY OF AZOTHOZ

sential to balance both, as one feeds the other, be it masculine and feminine qualities. the union of the sun and the moon defines the essence of being, thus separates by will the isolate consciousness of the adept. azothoz a book of the adversary by michael w. ford illustrated by elda isela ford published by succubus publishing http//algol.chaosmagic.com azothoz is a formula used specifically in the golden dawn and is a work combined from the first and final letters of the latin, hebrew and greek alphabet alpha& omega, aleph and tau. this work symbolizes the beginning and the end, the dawn and twilight, thus as azothoz is a reverse partly, signifying the adversary. azothoz is a poetic grimoire which sigillizes in lyric and image the essence of set/shaitan the adversary, lilith and the sor

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ing on it. the addition of the three principal rounds to the symbolism, is wholly modern and incongruous. the ancients counted seven planets, thus arranged: the moon, mercury, venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, and saturn. there were seven heavens and seven spheres of these planets; on all the monuments of mithras are seven altars or pyres, consecrated to the seven planets, as were the seven lamps of the golden candelabrum in the temple. that these represented the planets, we are assured by clemens of alexandria, in his stromata, and by philo judaeus. to return to its source in the infinite, the human soul, the ancients held, had to ascend, as it had descended, through the seven spheres. the ladder by which it reascends, has, according to marsilius ficinus, in his commentary on the ennead of p

ude as it is, the great cable falls down and snaps at last. but this dimly resembles the dominion of the creator. it does not need a subject like that of peter the hermit. if the stream be but bright and strong, it will sweep like a spring-tide to the popular heart. not in word only, but in intellectual act lies the fascination. it is the homage to the invisible. this power, knotted with love, is the golden chain let down into the well of truth, or the invisible chain that binds the ranks of mankind together. influence of man over man is a law of nature, whether it be by a great estate in land or in intellect. it may mean slavery, a deference to the eminent human judgment. society hangs spiritually together, like the revolving spheres above. the free country, in which intellect and genius

ho in the cities would be only the clerks of notaries, or practitioners in the disreputable courts, are made national legislators, the country is in her dotage, even if the beard has not yet grown upon her chin. in a free country, human speech must needs be free; and the state _must_ listen to the maunderings of folly, and the screechings of its geese, and the brayings of its asses, as well as to the golden oracles of its wise and great men. even the despotic old kings allowed their wise fools to say what they liked. the true alchemist will extract the lessons of wisdom from the babblings of folly. he will hear what a man has to say on any given subject, even if the speaker end only in proving himself prince of fools. even a fool will sometimes hit the mark. there is some truth in all men

other of the ancient serpent, and the light-bearer or _phosphor, of which the poets have made the false lucifer of the legend. gold, to the eyes of the initiates, is light condensed. they style the sacred numbers of the kabalah "golden numbers" and the moral teachings of pythagoras his "golden verses" for the same reason, a mysterious book of apuleius, in which an ass figures largely, was called "the golden ass" the pagans accused the christians of worshipping an ass, and they did not invent this reproach, but it came from the samaritan jews, who, figuring the data of the kabalah in regard to the divinity by egyptian symbols, also represented the intelligence by the figure of the magical star adored under the name of _remphan, science under the emblem of anubis, whose name they changed to

nerable forms of the hoary mountains, great water-falls, and galleries of art. and yet the world-wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth; the wonder of the infinite divinity and of his boundless revelation. there is no splendor beyond that which sets its morning throne in the golden east; no dome sublime as that of heaven; no beauty so fair as that of the verdant, blossoming earth; no place, however invested with the sanctities of old time, like that home which is hushed and folded within the embrace of the humblest wall and roof. and all these are but the symbols of things, far greater and higher. all is but the clothing of the spirit. in this vesture of time is w

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lord of air, we are reminded that aleph is the letter of air. as air, we find the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight of fairy tales who marries the kings daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs among exogamic tribes, for which see the golden bough. thus, once europa, semele and others claimed that zeus--air [inserted footnote* zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the firmament. there is a great difficulty here, etymologically. zeus is connected with iao, abrasax, and the dental sibilant gods of the great mysteries, with the sou

ays "every man and every woman is a star 'come unto me 'is a foolish word; for it is i that go? reader, the choice is yours; the kings of the earth shall be kings for ever; the slaves shall serve. there is no law beyond do what thou wilt. while we are on the subject of kings, we must touch upon that lie "that thou must die" verse 49 of chapter one should be consulted in connection with this; also the golden bough, the new testament of the bible, and the mystery of osiris in any good textbook of egyptology. for ten thousand years tribes all over the world sacrificed their kings. compassion being the vice of kings, the kings were, quite often, willing to be sacrificed. this was a magickal operation to buy energy for the people, but it was based on a wrong interpretation of the bloody sacrifi

. for ten thousand years tribes all over the world sacrificed their kings. compassion being the vice of kings, the kings were, quite often, willing to be sacrificed. this was a magickal operation to buy energy for the people, but it was based on a wrong interpretation of the bloody sacrifice, for which see book four, part three. the result of these ten thousand years of killing the goose that lay the golden eggs if alchemists will pardon the atrocious pun is that aspirants may become obsessed by the idea that they must die for the benefit of the "lower brethren; or "mankind; or what not. they are enthusiastically encouraged in this illusion by the 'black brethren; who are only too eager to get rid of aspirants. the 'savior complex; as wilhelm stekel called it, is extremely insidious becaus

ty are the evidence that our functions are free and fit; when we take no pleasure, and find nothing to admire, in our work, we are doing it wrong. 36. there are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. each element fire, earth, air, water, and spirit possesses its own nature, will, and magical formula. each one may then have its appropriate ritual. many such in crude form are described in the golden bough of dr. j. g. frazer, the glory of trinity! in particular the entry of the sun into the cardinal signs of the elements at the equinoxes and solstices are suitable for festivals. the difference between 'rituals' and 'feasts' is this: by the one a particular form of energy is generated, while there is a general discharge of one's superfluous force in the other. yet, a feast implies p

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ricultural divinity saturn. they believed that after his defeat in the [18]titanomachia and his banishment from his dominions by zeus, he took refuge with janus, king of italy, who received the exiled deity with great kindness, and even shared his throne with him. their united reign became so thoroughly peaceful and happy, and was distinguished by such uninterrupted prosperity, that it was called the golden age. saturn is usually represented bearing a sickle in the one hand and a wheat-sheaf in the other. a temple was erected to him at the foot of the capitoline hill, in which were deposited the public treasury and the laws of the state. rhea (ops. rhea, the wife of cronus, and mother of zeus and the other great gods of olympus, personified the earth, and was regarded as the great mother a

religious teachers whatever; but in course of time temples were raised in honour of the different gods, and priests appointed to offer sacrifices to them and conduct their worship. these priests were looked upon as authorities in all religious matters, and the doctrine they taught was, that man had been created by the gods, and that there had been several successive ages of men, which were called the golden, silver, brazen, and iron ages. life in the golden age was one unceasing round of ever-recurring pleasures unmarred by sorrow or care. the favoured mortals living at this happy time led pure and joyous lives, thinking no evil, and doing no wrong. the earth brought forth fruits and flowers without toil or labour in plentiful luxuriance, and war was unknown. this delightful and god-like e

ehind on earth. the men of the silver age[7] were a long time growing up, and during their childhood, which lasted a hundred years, they suffered from ill-health and extreme debility. when page 23 they at last became men they lived but a short time, for they would not abstain from mutual injury, nor pay the service due to the gods, and were therefore banished to hades. there, unlike the beings of the golden age, they exercised no beneficent supervision over the dear ones left behind, but wandered about as restless spirits, always sighing for the lost pleasures they had enjoyed in life. the men of the brazen age were quite a different race of beings, being as strong and powerful as those of the silver age were weak and enervated. everything which surrounded them was of brass; their arms, th

awaited his decision. each fair candidate endeavoured [40]to secure his favour by the most tempting offers. hera promised him extensive dominions; athene, martial fame and glory; and aphrodite, the loveliest woman in the world. but whether he really considered aphrodite the fairest of the three, or preferred a beautiful wife to fame and power, we cannot tell; all we know is that to her he awarded the golden apple, and she became ever after universally acknowledged as the goddess of beauty. hera, having fully expected that paris would give her the preference, was so indignant that she never forgave him, and not only persecuted him, but all the family of priam, whose dreadful sufferings and misfortunes during the trojan war were attributed to her influence. in fact, she carried her animosity

ions which she exercised in connection with the state, athene presided over the two chief departments of feminine industry, spinning and weaving. in the latter art she herself displayed unrivalled ability and exquisite taste. she wove her own robe and that of hera, which last she is said to have embroidered very richly; she also gave jason a cloak wrought by herself, when he set forth in quest of the golden fleece. being on one occasion challenged to a contest in this accomplishment by a mortal maiden named arachne, whom she had instructed in the art of weaving, she accepted the challenge and was completely vanquished by her pupil. angry at her defeat, she struck the unfortunate maiden on the forehead with the shuttle which she held in her hand; and arachne, being of a sensitive nature, wa

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rhythm should be used as you use the chant< you are now ready to begin. enter your witching circle. awaken your magic power. chant the magic word, misabu, over and over again for at least five minutes. ideally, the chant should begin as a shout and gradually fade away to a whisper. the magic word is pronounced: me-sah-boo. i would suggest you begin the chant on a sunday, at or near the full moon. the golden square spell gnomes are the elemental spirits of the earth. they have the general appearance of grotesquely deformed dwarfs, but despite their appearance gnomes are benevolent in nature. one occult belief is that gnomes are the guardians of buried treasure, and inhabit the darkest depths of mines. their essence can be found in the earth, wood and metals. this spell will help you to enli

omes, and adds power to the spell. awaken your magic power. imagine a golden square directly in front of you. now enlarge the image until it is several feet high, and pulsating with mystic force. see it as clearly as you can. imagine yourself bathed in its mystic light. try and actually breathe in this light. imagine it circulating within you. now, in your mind, pretend that you are reaching into the golden square. feel around inside until your hands touch two moneybags, bulging with gold coins. pick the bags up and bring them out of the golden square. feel the coins with your mind, get involved with the coins, they re real. now spend a few moments thanking the gnomes for their help. repeat for seven consecutive days, or until the money arrives, or until you are stopped from casting the sp

es, or until you are stopped from casting the spell, whichever happens first. spell brings needed money this particular case history was told to me over the telephone, so i will have to relate it using my own words. laura d. was by no means rich, and when she received a phone bill for $300 had no idea where she could get the needed money. she was at her wit s end. so when i suggested that she use the golden square to draw money to her, she was only too happy to give it a try. she followed my instructions. one week later, laura s mother-in-law came to visit and handed her an envelope. a gift, she told laura. it contained $300 in cash. the elemental forces worked for laura, and they will work for you. the devil s treasurer this is a very potent black magic spell to bring money. if black magi

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f the ribbed vault was perhaps invented by the same masters who had spread the romanesque vault, just as the 44 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages romanesque vault was a return of the roman, influenced by the byzantine style. gothic and romanesque also coexisted chronologically. the first applications of the ogival rib, in durham and saint denis, were coincident with the golden age of romanesque art, a period to which the great cathedrals of the second half of the twelfth century still belong. some still see significance in the geographical rift between the two styles. romanesque churches are the exception rather than the rule north of the loire, in those regions where the gothic style first made its appearance. there are concrete reasons for the fact that the

corporations in italy, germany, and switzerland 171 were also guilds of the four crowned martyrs in flanders, notably in brussels and anvers, that consisted of masons, stonecutters, sculptors, and others* given the importance of these patrons to the builders, it is probably helpful to recall the legend of the four crowned martyrs. it varies according to version, but this is how it was recorded in the golden legend: the four crowned martyrs were severus, severianus, carpoforus, and victorinus, who, by the commandment of diocletian, were beaten with plummets of lead unto the death. the names of whom could not be found, but after a long time they were shown by divine revelation, and it was established that their memory should be worshipped under the names of five other martyrs, that is to wit

rving special mention is the handsome sixteenth-century triptych that once graced either the corporative hall of the craft of the four crowned martyrs in brussels or the altar of saint catherine church in the chapel of the crowned martyrs. today it is housed in the municipal museum and is reproduced in p. du colombier's book, les chanters des cathedrales, plates xxiv and xxv+ jacobus de voraique, the golden legend or lives of the saints, ed. by f. s. ellis (edinburgh: t. and a. constable/ university press, 1900. the 1942 french translation of this book reproduces an engraving that depicts the saints holding a mallet, rule, square, and prybar. 172 from the art of building to the art of thinking seen in the cathedral of pavia on the front of the monument to saint augustine. there they are ca

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inanna, also combined the roles of goddess of love and goddess of war. these dual aspects are explored in the epic of gilgamesh, in which she first desires gilgamesh and then, when he rejects her, exacts a terrible revenge (see p. 18. the egyptian isis became absorbed into roman myth, and it is she who speaks, with the unmistakable voice of the great goddess, to lucius, the hero of apuleius novel the golden ass, when he is initiated into her cult: i am nature, the universal mother, mistress of all the elements, primordial child of time, sovereign of all things spiritual, queen of the dead, queen also of the immortals, the single manifestation of all gods and goddesses that are. holding the world together in the mysteries of eleusis in ancient greece, the great goddess formed the central fo

, although other sources name the god hephaestus (vulcan. sickness and misery prometheus passed on only good gifts to mankind; the ills of the world he shut up in a jar. until these were released by pandora, the first woman, men lived carefree lives with no sorrow, hard work, or disease. pandora by dante gabriel rossetti (1828-82) according to one greek tradition there have been five ages of man: the golden age during the time of the titan cronos, when humankind lived in ease and harmony; a silver age; two bronze ages (the second in the time of the heroes; and then the present iron age. prometheus steals fire when zeus was cheated out of the meat of sacrificial animals, he decided to withhold the gift of fire so that humankind would have to eat the meat raw. but prometheus, guided up into

le of apollo concerned for psyche, her father consulted the oracle of apollo at miletus. he was told that psyche must dress for her wedding, climb a mountain, and there await a nonhuman suitor. cupid and psyche a fairy tale t he story of cupid and psyche shows myth shading into fairy tale. it is included as a story-within-the-story in a latin novel, the metamorphoses of apuleius, usually known as the golden ass. although apuleius presents the story as an allegory of the soul (psyche) in search of love (cupid, and sets the story in the world of the roman gods, it is recognizably a version of a fairy tale widely distributed in the indo-european tradition, known to folklorists as the search for the lost husband or the animal bridegroom. variants include beauty and the beast and the black bull

burial. furious, creon shut her up in a cave to die, refusing the pleas of haemon, his son and antigone s betrothed, to forgive her. on the advice of the seer teiresias, he finally relented. but on opening the cave, he found that antigone had hanged herself. cursing his father, haemon killed himself. the labors of hercules 50 hercules did not know where to find the garden of the hesperides where the golden apples grew. the nymphs of the river eridanos told him that the shapeshifting sea god nereus knew the answer. hercules wrestled with nereus to force him to answer his question. the god transformed himself into all kinds of creatures, but hercules held him fast, and at last he had to reveal the secret. hercules was a semi divine hero, the child of zeus (roman jupiter) by alcmene, a morta

las to stagger under the sudden extra weight. lyre singing was the chief recreation of the hesperides. here, one of them dreamily strums on an upside-down lyre (it was by playing the lyre upside-down that apollo vanquished his challenger marsyas in a musical contest [see p. 41) garden of the hesperides the garden of the hesperides was at the edge of the earth, enclosed behind a high wall. inside, the golden-apple tree was guarded by a terrifying serpent. it took hercules a long time to discover the whereabouts of the garden and reach it. on the way he had many adventures, which included freeing prometheus (see pp. 24 25) and killing the eagle that daily fed on his liver. cranes of vigilance cranes are a symbol of vigilance. however, as the hesperides seem to be asleep, and the apples that

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

is is similar to the time beginning with the exodus from egypt until the destruction of the first temple. during this period, there was great influence from above to below, from g-d to the jewish people, but little reciprocation from below to above. because of this, immediately after receiving the torah directly from g-d and hearing him speak at mt. sinai, the jewish people were capable of making the golden calf. likewise, during the time of the first temple, though there were many prophets of g-d and many open miracles which occurred on a regular basis, the jewish people, nevertheless, were drawn to idolatry, etc. another possibility is the reverse of this stage. this is the stage of achor b panim (back to face. in this case, there is influence from below to above but no reciprocation fro

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

hi on genesis 11:28, from bereishit rabbah 38:13. the arizal on parashat vaeira 2 abraham fs days until abraham was saved, and did not sacrifice himself for the sanctification of g-d fs name as he should have, this act did not help him, for he only threw himself in because he thought he would be saved as was abraham. therefore, when he was reincarnated as aaron, he was faced with the situation of the golden calf. g-d presented him with the people fs request gget up and make us a god, h4 which he should have refused and on account of which been killed [thus sanctifying g-d fs name in public. this in fact is exactly what hur, miriam fs son, did [his soul] was a soulspark that was intermixed with the soul of haran, even though [the soul of haran] was not actually its source (it has been expla

son, did [his soul] was a soulspark that was intermixed with the soul of haran, even though [the soul of haran] was not actually its source (it has been explained that soul-sparks can intermix with one another even though they do not derive from the same root [hur] understood in his prophetic inspiration that he had to rectify this sin [i.e, that of haran, and therefore [protested the building of the golden calf] and gave himself over to be killed [by the mob on this account. this accords with the statement of our sages5 on the verse gand [aaron] built an altar before him h:6 gaaron understood from he who was slain before him. h the word for gand [aaron] built h is va-yiven, which may also be interpreted to mean gand he understood. h the word for galtar h is mizbeiach, which may also be re

ore him h:6 gaaron understood from he who was slain before him. h the word for gand [aaron] built h is va-yiven, which may also be interpreted to mean gand he understood. h the word for galtar h is mizbeiach, which may also be read mi-zavuach, meaning gfrom the one who was slain. h the sages thus indicate that aaron understood from the fact that the mob had killed hur for opposing the building of the golden calf that it was pointless for him to oppose it as well, since they would then simply kill him, too, and proceed to make it anyway. our sages derived this from the word gand he built, h but in truth [had this word been meant to merely imply that aaron saw that it would be pointless to resist the mob] it should have said gand he saw. h rather, the [deeper] implication [in our sages f wor

uld be considered in a subtle sense an act of gforeign service h or idolatry. in this sense, they were perpetuating their father fs sin of not opposing idolatry at all costs. still, they would not have been liable to death by burning on account of their sin alone, but [being aaron fs sons] they were liable to be burnt on account of his sin in not submitting himself to be burnt [in the incident of the golden calf. the combination of both [their own sin and their father fs] caused their death, and thus g-d fs wrath found its place to rest. in the case of elazar and itamar, however, who did not sin, moses f prayer was effective. understand this, as well: just as haran was burnt and died during the lifetime of his father, terah, so did nadav and avihu die during the lifetime of their father, a

o egypt. f h7 the words gthe people h in this verse refer to the mixed multitude. all the more so was this a concern at this point, when they were still at home. as we see later, when the mixed multitude saw the pillar of cloud traveling in front of the israelites and not in front of them, they said, garise, make us gods that will go before us, h as taught in the zohar.8 [this was the incident of the golden calf] thus, moses was justified in taking the reaction of the mixed multitude into consideration, for we see that g-d also took it into consideration when choosing the escape route from egypt, and that their resentment of their secondary status precipitated the sin of the golden calf. thus, since it was moses f goal to bring them under the wings of the divine presence, and that they sho

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

lls with and combines z feir anpin and nukva. h this is the epitome of coupling, for thus gall h [yesod] dwells with vav-hei [z feir anpin and nukva. understand this, for coupling is actualized through gall, h i.e, the gwhite coriander seed. h 1 deuteronomy 33:20. 2 1 chronicles 29:11. 3 proverbs 10:frdawn 7 1 as revealed by israel regardie the 6th edition, revised complete in one volume with new the golden dawn "howbeit we know after a time there will now be a general reformation, both of divine and human things, according to our desire and the expectation of others; for it is fitting that before the rising of the sun there should appear and break forth aurora, or some clearness or divine light in the sky. and so, in the meantime, some few, which shall give their names, may join together

ophical canons, prescribed to us by our brother r.c, and be partakers with us of our treasures (which can never fail or be wasted) in all humility and love, to be eased of this world's labours, and not walk so blindly in the knowledge of the wonderful works of god" fama fraternitatis (1614) foreword and appreciation just about 100 years ago (in 1887) we had the beginnings of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. it was then that (according to history and "myth) dr. william westcott discovered a cipher manuscript that led to the founding of an english branch of die goldene dammerung in 1888. it was this golden dawn that attractedsome of the most talented personalities of the time- including w. 8. yeats, algernon blackwood, arthur machen, florence farr, annie horniman, a. e. waite, s. l. ma

l "structured"experience of magic- whether it be attained through group or solitary work- that is vital to the accelerated evolution of human consciousness beyond present limitations, and to the expansion of human awareness from communal to global dimensions. and it is this that is essential to avoida ceof nuclear rw3r and to the restor tiono f nature to the environment and of humanity lo nature. the golden dawn is a curriculum of study, a workbook to the great work, and cris monnastre has provided guidelines to the practical approach to the work. i cannot emphasize enough the importance of personal work, for it is that- whether undertaken alone or with a group- that is important. only personal work can accomplish true initiation. and the golden dawn is a valid curriculum for personal work

d important materials to this new edition, but i also want to give personal appreciation to israel regardie for having recognized in 1937 that the "time for secrecy" was over. the twentieth century is a time in which the knowledge of the past has to be brought forward and integrated into a new "common sense" upon which a new humanity can be built. once, years ago, when i first talked about buying the golden dawn copyrights from the aries press, another occult writer made a statement to the effect that no one could "own" this knowledge -for it all came originally from god! i think that concept describes exactly what we are dealing with: true spiritual technology, treat it as such! throughout this edition we have retained the original pagination so that references to the original four volume

untry. presently he is involved in generating grimoires for egyptian and thelemic magicks. as a poet and storyteller, he attends festivals and gatherings to share his art. george wilson, 39, b.a. philosophy, b.s. nursing. professionally was an rn with a psychiatric specialty. recently retired to devote full time to occult studies. a student of mysticism for 20 years "kabbalah led to g.d. obtained the golden dawn in 1970 and this was the focus of occult interests from that time on" currently engaged in projects focusing on color scales, the outer order rituals, and the generation of magic squares. ma dhyan anupassana, aka suzan wilson, born august 26, 1954, sannyasin of bhagwan shree rajneesh, has studied eastern religion at san diego state university and practiced various occult systems si

REGARDIE TALISMANS

raft. for the purpose of this manual, the word talisman will be the preferred term. in passing, it should be emphasized that i have no fundamental objection to the theory of suggestion so long as it is clearly understood that suggestion cannot implant in or evoke from the psyche what is not already there. suggestion is evocative only of those psycho-spiritual factors that are innate. according to the golden dawn s somewhat larger frame of reference, a talisman is a magical figure charged with the force which it is intended to represent. in the construction of a talisman, care should be taken to make it, as far as is possible, so to represent the universal forces that it should be in exact harmony with those you wish to attract, and the more exact the symbolism, the more easy it is to attra

il intent, would abuse those secrets which he hath given and revealed unto me the traditional magical squares and sigils and hierarchical names have come down to us through the abbot trithemius, pietro d abano, and henry cornelius agrippa, derived from much earlier but unknown sources. for the most part, these have been reprinted in the magus by barrett, were appropriated by the hermetic order of the golden dawn in the last century, and were once more reprinted by me when compiling the material for the fourth volume of the golden dawn. i would like to suggest that the interested student study this system at the very least, so that he will come to understand the classical basis of the method. the magic squares of the planets found in the appendix of this book are an important part of the sc

to be carried patiently on the shoulders. it also represents balance, equilibrium, and stability. it is the third sephirah on the tree of life, binah, the symbol of which is the triangle, the basic geometric figure representing harmony and order. the mind of the father said into three, and immediately all things were so divided. so stated the chaldean oracles. then there is the cardinal tenet of the golden dawn: there are always two contending forces, and a third which eternally reconciles them. thus, logically, a saturn talisman would be a superb characterological corrective to an over-balanced natal chart which stresses airy signs too much. the first step would be to collect all the symbols of saturn that would be available. the astrological symbol, the geomantic and geometric symbols

nd spiritually. the planetary talismans the appropriate one worn on the person daily are calculated to induce the same results, with far less effort and bother in their preparation. the principles already described will cover their construction. these personally designed talismans are much preferred to those copied from this or any other text. chapter three words of power in the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a most interesting anachronism was employed to serve as the basis for the construction of sigils. it related to the old symbol of a rose upon a cross not necessarily a new symbol in itself. however, it is not any antecedently known type of rose-cross symbol. it has no parallels in occult or symbolic history. the novelty consisted of drawing the twenty-two hebrew letters in the pet

were found the three mother letters so-called, referred to the three prime elements of fire, water and air. this resulted in the development of a simple but ingenious schema from which could be drawn an entirely new set of sigils, vastly different from those originally derived from the traditional magical squares. this complete symbol of the rose on the cross may be seen in one of the volumes of the golden dawn (llewellyn publications, st. paul, 1969, though the rose itself, which is only part of the symbol that concerns us here, may be found in the appendix. the student will find himself amply repaid by experimenting with the drawing of sigils of every conceivable type of name on this rose of twenty-two petals. he may find such sigils of more practical value than those made from the trad

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

t forswear. for i am the transgressor of the void eternal azal- abad in whom all is opposition. i am the bridge across the abyss that hath but a single edge. my way is lighting- bright and swift. these words are but the echo that marketh mine absence. silence- the birth-cry to herald the presence: of otherness entire made fleircan make the following observations. they arestrikingly different from the golden dawn ceremonies for the equivalent grades. clearly whoeverwrote the golden dawn cipher manuscripts was not deriving them on the sria.the ceremonies tell a four part story concerning a member of the original order, frater gualdi. hardat work trying to find the elixir vitae, he rang the ceremonial bell in the middle of the night 226 whichannounced his success. however, when the other bret

ace right hand upon palm against the other as he makes sign.password: chymia (chemistry or alchemy).secret word: ignis (fire).battery (cross and rosa).the initials of the passwords of the ancients with my own form 'i.g.n.i.s.'you will now repair under the guidance of your conductor to where you may be properly qualifiedto enter upon the discharge of your new duties, for now you are to prepare for the golden duty ofbecoming man's benefactor, to assist and minister to the unfortunate from disease, or cruel accident,or the greater sufferings from man222s inhumanity to man through conflicting passions.you will, therefore, remove the raiment of blue of hope, of the science of chemistry, and replace itwith that of the higher class: of the science of alchemy and hermeticism, of which, yellow thro

the societas rosicrucianis in angliapracticus29 second sectionpracticus is robed in yellow or colour of gold, and is conducted to the entrance of the 3 apartment,the laboratory of the hermeticists; in which there are five companions deeply immersed in study orwork, and a vacant seat and chemists desk, the conductor of novices taps 4 then 3 lightly at theentrance, which is promptly responded to by the golden notes of a bell within in correspondingmeasure. the door opens, and one of the five, in yellow robes :approaches the newly initiated, whostill carries the rose and cross.1st alchemist:god222s greeting to man. for the holy purpose of humanity, an unknown influence directs the pure inspirit, the noble in sentiment, and the true in soul, to yield their time and toil, as benefactors of thei

er search. incharge of your conductor, therefore, follow the bearer of the torch.the guard. of c. retires to his station, and the torch bearer precedes the conductor of n. andpracticus, as they make four circuits of the hall, during the hymn.wake the lute and quiv222ring stingsmystic truths urania brings,friendly visitant, to theewe owe the depths of rosary.fairest of the virgin choir,warbling to the golden lyre,welcome, here they art prevail,hail, divine urania, hail.here in friendship's sacred bower,the downy-winged and smiling hournirth invites, and social song,nameless mysteries amongcrown the bowl, and fill the glass,to every virtue, every grace,to the brotherhood resoundhealth, and let it thrice go round.we restore the times of old.,the blooming glorious age of gold;as the new creati

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

which may be called the keystone of the whole edifice of occult science, are grouped innumerable legends that are either its partial translation or its commentary reproduced perpetually, under a thousand varied forms. sometimes the ingenious fables combine harmoniously into a great epic which characterizes an epoch, though how or why is not clear to the uninitiated. thus, the fabulous history of the golden fleece resumes and also veils the hermetic and magical doctrines of orpheus; and if we recur only to the mysterious poetry of greece, it is because the sanctuaries of egypt and india to some extent dismay us by their resources, leaving our choice embarrassed in the midst of such abundant wealth. we are eager, moreover, to reach the thebaid at once, that dread synthesis of all doctrine

orces which maintain it in equilibrium, being the force which attracts and that which repels. they exist alike in physics, in philosophy and in religion; in physics they produce equilibrium, in philosophy criticism, in religion progressive revelation. the ancients represented this mystery by the conflict between eros and anteros, the struggle between jacob and the angel, and by the equilibrium of the golden mountain, which gods on the one side and demons on the other encircle with the symbolic serpent of india. it is typified also by the caduceus of hermanubis, by the two cherubim of the ark, by the twofold sphinx of the chariot of osiris and by the two seraphim respectively black and white. its scientific reality is demonstrated by the phenomena of polarity, as also by the universal law o

ving on this earth. these are vicious and imperfect men. we shall return to this subject in the fifteenth chapter, which treats of enchantments and demons. that is also an occult tradition by which the ancients were led to admit the existence of four ages in the world, only it was not made known to the vulgar that these ages are successive and are renewed, like the four seasons of the year. thus, the golden age has passed, and it is yet to come. this, however, belongs to the spirit of prophecy, and we shall speak of it in the ninth chapter, which is concerned with the initiate and the seer. if we now add the idea of unity to the tetrad, we shall have, together and separately, the conceptions of the divine synthesis and analysis, the god of the initiates and that of the profane. here the do

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

intact and scrupulous cleanliness. the ceremony should begin with a prayer suited to the genius of the spirit about to be invoked and one which would be approved by himself if he still lived. for example, it would be impossible to evoke voltaire by reciting prayers in the style of st. bridget. for the great men of antiquity, we may use the hymns of cleanthes or orpheus, with the oath terminating the golden verses of pythagoras. in our evonecromancy 73 cation of apollonius, we used the magical philosophy of patricius for the ritual, containing the doctrines of zoroaster and the writings of hermes trismegistus. we recited the nuctemeron of apollonius in greek with a loud voice and added a conjuration beginning: glet the father of all be counsellor and thrice-great hermes guide. h for the ev

either they had not yet loved or else they loved no longer. things that are external are for us what our word internal makes them. to believe that we are happy is to be happy; whatsoever we esteem becomes precious in proportion to the estimation itself: this is the sense in which we can say that magic changes the nature of things. the metamorphoses of ovid are true, but they are allegorical, like the golden ass of rare apuleius. the life of beings is a progressive transformation, and its forms can be deter-mined, renewed, prolonged further, or destroyed sooner. if the doctrine of metempsychosis were true, might one not say that the debauch represented by circe really and materially changes men into swine, seeing that, on this hypothesis, the retribution of vices would be a relapse into ani

ies superposed; next, the antagonism of colours expressed by the dove and the dragon; the circle or rota, formed by the dragon or serpent to typify length of days; finally, the kabalistic divination of the entire tarot, as practised in later days by egyptian bohemians, whose secrets were divined and recovered imperfectly by etteilla. we see in the bible that the high priests consulted the lord on the golden table of the holy ark between the cherubim, or bull-headed and eagle-winged sphinx; that they consulted by the help of the teraphim, urim and thummim, and by the ephod. now, it is known that the ephod was a magical square of twelve numbers and twelve words engraved on precious stones. the word teraphim in hebrew signifies hieroglyphs or figured signs; the urim and thummim were the above

nated; the apocalypse of st. john is a the book of hermes 139 kabalistic book the sense of which is indicated rigorously by the figures and numbers of the urim, thummim, teraphim and ephod, all resumed and completed by the tarot. the old sanctuaries contain no further mysteries, and the significance of the objects of the hebrew cultus is comprehensible for the first time. who does not perceive in the golden table, crowned and supported by cherubim which covered the ark of the covenant, the same symbols as those of the twenty-first tarot key? the ark was a hieroglyphical synthesis of the whole kabalistic dogma; it included the jod or blossoming staff of aaron, the he or cup, the gomor containing the manna, the two tables of the law. an analogous symbol to that of the sword of justice. and t

thus: gand thou shalt make two calves or sphinxes of beaten gold on each side of the oracle. and thou shalt make the one looking this way and the second that way. h the cherubim or sphinxes were, in fact, coupled by twos on each side of the ark, and their heads were turned to the four corners of the mercy-seat, which they covered with their wings inclined archwise, thus overshadowing the crown of the golden table, which they sustained upon their shoulders, facing one another at the openings and looking at the propitiatory, as shown in the figure above. the ark, moreover, had three parts or stages, representing atziluth, yetzirah and briah. the three worlds of the kabalah: the base of the coffer, to which were fitted the four rings of two levers, analogous to the pillars of the temple, jaki

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because it is a mean between the two extremes of democracy and oligarchy. in the ethics aristotle cites the "golden mean (i.e. the middle course between two theoretical extremes of action) as a more practical measure of goodness than plato's agathon. power, he accordingly suggests, should be vested in the middle class in order to moderate the extremism of the high and low classes. the doctrine of the golden mean is thus one of relativism rather than one of the absolutism of the egyptian, pythagorean, and platonic philosophical systems. in his magick without tears(#9d) aleister crowley mounts a tongue-in-cheek attack on the concept of the golden mean, based on his objection to compromise as a device for seeking answers or virtues "there is great danger in this golden mean, one of whose main

yes, i hate so-and-so like hell; i want to exterminate the very memory of the bastard from the earth, after i have personally superintended having him seven years a-killing winding up by hanging, disemboweling, and quartering him. but of course i'm not necessarily right about this in any sense; it is merely that i happened to be born the kind of man who feels like that "of course, in no case does the golden mean advise hesitating, trimming, hedging, compromising; the very object of ensuring an exact balance in your weapon is that its blow may be clean and certain "you know how all our faults love to disguise themselves as virtues: very often as what our neighbors call virtues, not what we ourselves think them. we are all ashamed to be ourselves, and this is sheer, stark stultification. for

ay from it; all our hypocrisies and shams are just as much a part of ourselves as what we like to think is the real man. all that we do when we make these pretenses is to set up internal strain and conflict; there is nothing objective in it. instead of adding to our experience, which is the great work, we shut ourselves up in this citadel of civil turmoil; it is the formula of the black brothers "the golden mean is more valuable as the extremes which it summarizes are distant from each other; that is the plain mechanics of the lever. so don't pay too much attention to these remarks; they are no more than the quiet, fireside reflections of a man who has spent all his life breaking records. the golden mean, at its best, can only keep you from extravagant blunders; it will never get you anywh

highly developed in setian philosophy. while the prologue to the white people stands pretty well on its own for the most part, it does fall short in significant respects which will be self-evident to iii+ setian readers. viewed in historical context, the scope of machen's vision and its ultimate failure can both be seen as almost inevitable. arthur machen was an initiate of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the british magical society in which aleister crowley received his preliminary training. the g:.d. was a white magical order in the precise sense understood by the temple of set, involved in the quest for initiatory harmony with the existing state of the natural universe. as such, its operative magical methodology and the state of being of its membership can be regarded as prototy

ipt in cypher and discover it to purport to be sketches of mystical/pseudo-masonic rituals. in the present day this manuscript is suspect and the indications are that it probably was forged- certainly dr. wescott's correspondence with the manuscript's author, fraulein springel, is even more highly suspect. a well-written account of the finding of the manuscript can be found in howe's magicians of the golden dawn, and we shall not concern ourselves overly with that account now. what we will be looking at are those foreshadowings of the temple of set. it is often difficult to untangle facts and motives as time progresses for the most noble of organizations will be comprised of people, thereby making them open to the chances of a bad seed rising. let us be alert for patterns in time in our qu

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nces the lethal chuckling of their weapons. the imam sighs heavily "done" the lights of the palace are extinguished as the people walk towards it, at the same measured pace as before. then, from within the darkened palace, there rises a hideous sound, beginning as a high, thin, piercing wail, then deepening into a howl, an ululation loud enough to fill every cranny of the city with its rage. then the golden dome of the palace bursts open like an egg, and rising from it, 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 t

eks later, and by now the unspoken precedents had been set; she didn't ask for, he didn't give his whereabouts, and it was plain to them both that an age had ended, they had drifted apart, it was time to wave goodbye. it was still all billy with mimi: his plans to make hindi movies in england and america, importing the top stars, vinod khanna, sridevi, to cavort in front of bradford town hall and the golden gate bridge "it's some sort of tax dodge, obviously" mimi carolled gaily. in fact, things were heating up for billy; chamcha had seen his name in the papers, coupled with the terms _fraud squad_ and _tax evasion, but once a scam man, always a ditto, mimi said "so he says to me, do you want a mink? i say, billy, don't buy me things, but he says, who's talking about buying? have a mink. i

an, formidable in many ways: very much the professional sportswoman of the 1980s, a client of the giant macmurray public relations agency, sponsored to the gills. nowadays she, too, appeared in advertisements, promoting her own range of outdoor products and leisurewear, aimed at holidaymakers and amateurs more than pro climbers, to maximize what hal valance would have called the universe. she was the golden girl from the roof of the world, the survivor of "my teutonic twosome, as otto cone had been fond of calling his daughters _once again, yel, i follow in your footsteps. to be an attractive woman in a sport dominated by, well, hairy men was to be saleable, and the "icequeen" image didn't hurt either. there was money in it, and now that she was old enough to compromise her old, fiery idea

ty, with a strikingly aquiline nose and longish black hair, oiled, with a central parting, he knew that his instincts had been correct, that here, standing on a busy street corner watching the crowd in case he saw himself going by, was a soul in search of its mislaid body, a spectre in desperate need of its lost physical casing- for it is known to archangels that the soul or ka cannot exist (once the golden cord of light linking it to the body is severed) for more than a night and a day "i can help you" he promised, and the young soul looked at him in wild disbelief. gibreel leaned forward, grasped the ka's face between his hands, and kissed it firmly upon the mouth, for the spirit that is kissed by an archangel regains, at once, its lost sense of direction, and is set upon the true and ri

ia became agitated "damn damn damn "ladies present" gibreel, still a little drug-woozy, warned; but sisodia windmilled his arms, indicating that he was trying to force words past his overexcited teeth. finally "damage limitation. my intention. not betrayal, you mumust not thithithink" to hear sisodia tell it, nobody back in bombay really wanted to sue gibreel, to kill in court the goose that laid the golden eggs. all parties recognized that the old projects were no longer capable of being restarted: actors, directors, key crew members, even sound stages were otherwise committed. all parties further recognized that gibreel's return from the dead was an item of a commercial value greater than any of the defunct films; the question was how to utilize it best, to the advantage of all concerned

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ctive would fail him in almost every "category" of his magical system. he would see trees with unprecedented clarity; he would be blind to forests. such was the unfortunate atmosphere of the aeon of harwer. in order to approach the degree of magister templi as it is now constituted within the aeon of set, let me describe the "forest. first of all, onlookers will note that the first five grades of the golden dawn system have given way to the single i t s, and the three adeptus grades [minor/ major/ exemptus] have given way to the single ii t s. also the priesthood of set iii has been added- a credential entirely alien to the nonunified atmosphere of the aeon of harwer. a glance through the criteria of the first eight grades of the a:.a. will make it quite evident why they were consolidated

s the word of the new aeon amidst the onrushing inertia of the expiring one, few will understand him. at worst he may be considered a criminal and be killed [like pythagoras, socrates, christ, or gandhi. at best he may be considered only an eccentric [like dee, rosenberg, gurdjieff, crowley, or lavey. rarely will he live to see the blossoms of the trees he has planted. a last question remains. in the golden dawn/a:.a. there was a final degree beyond that of magus (9=[2- that of ipsissimus (l0=[l. and the book of coming forth by night also reveals the advancement of anton lavey to daimon (vi) at approximately the north solstice of ix. what is this concept, and how does it fit into the "forest [crowley, when discussing it in magick in theory and practice, states that it is a degree "wholly f

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ctive would fail him in almost every "category" of his magical system. he would see trees with unprecedented clarity; he would be blind to forests. such was the unfortunate atmosphere of the aeon of harwer. in order to approach the degree of magister templi as it is now constituted within the aeon of set, let me describe the "forest. first of all, onlookers will note that the first five grades of the golden dawn system have given way to the single i t s, and the three adeptus grades [minor/ major/ exemptus] have given way to the single ii t s. also the priesthood of set iii has been added- a credential entirely alien to the nonunified atmosphere of the aeon of harwer. a glance through the criteria of the first eight grades of the a:.a. will make it quite evident why they were consolidated

s the word of the new aeon amidst the onrushing inertia of the expiring one, few will understand him. at worst he may be considered a criminal and be killed [like pythagoras, socrates, christ, or gandhi. at best he may be considered only an eccentric [like dee, rosenberg, gurdjieff, crowley, or lavey. rarely will he live to see the blossoms of the trees he has planted. a last question remains. in the golden dawn/a:.a. there was a final degree beyond that of magus (9=[2- that of ipsissimus (l0=[l. and the book of coming forth by night also reveals the advancement of anton lavey to daimon (vi) at approximately the north solstice of ix. what is this concept, and how does it fit into the "forest [crowley, when discussing it in magick in theory and practice, states that it is a degree "wholly f

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eads onwards. the merging of catholic and pagan beliefs in witchcraft and magick generally may also be observed in vodu, macumba, the sorceries of malysia, in the secrets of the princes of little egypt, in the observances of the bonesmen, horse whisperers and blacksmiths, the toad witches, in the satanic cults of russia and teutonia, the luciferian traditions, brujeria, stregeria, rosicrucianism, the golden dawn, thelema, and (according to some) in the rites and observances of freemasonry, as it may be seen in what might be patronisingly called folk magic across europe. this same syncretism is evident in the classical grimoire in the rites, signs, seals; even in the names of the angels and devils themselves. here we find numerous survivals of assyrian, babylonian, hebrew, greek, roman, egy

evoked called in the formation of the circle in preparation for further work. in the sorcery of the grimoire, their names and seals are inscribed upon the floor about the circle. the purpose of such ritual will be discussed in further detail later in this book. for now, i give a simple form of such ritual. the arrangement and correspondence of the archangels may be recognised as that employed by the golden dawn in the lesser and greater rituals of the pentagram, upon which this is loosely based. it is also reflected as that given within many of the traditional grimoire, most notably faust s magia naturalis et innaturalis, as follows; 1) stand facing towards the east. make the sign of the cross, visualising it as formed from golden sunlight, saying; in thy hands is the kingdom, the power a

ear to have sound grammatical basis, with many words that seem related to hebrew, arabic, and latin. whether divined or constructed, their employment effectively appeals to some deeper part of our consciousness, like a deeply buried memory. the first published source of the enochian calls was in a biography of dee by meric casaubon in 1659. they were employed during the late nineteenth century by the golden dawn, and in the twentieth by the church of satan. aliester crowley combined the employment of enochian easily with that of the goetia. many others have written calls to the spirits since, such as the enochian call to baphomet employed by the illuminates of thanateros. its power, purpose and place within the subversive theology of the black arts is well established. their employment in

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ciences, and the business world. eventually a "magic circle" evolved from this group. the major purpose of the circle was to meet for the performance of magical rituals lavey had discovered or devised. he had accumulated a library of works that descibed the black mass and other infamous ceremonies conducted by groups such as the knights templar in fourteenth-century france, the hell-fire club and the golden dawn in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century england. the intent of some of these secret orders was to blaspheme, lampoon the christian church, and address themselves to the devil as an anthropomorphic deity that represented the reverse of god. in lavey's view, the devil was not that, but rather a dark, hidden force in nature responsible for the workings of earthly affairs, a force for wh

ey feel that altruism is sinning on the lay-away plan. it is unnatural not to have desire to gain things for yourself. satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness. this does not mean that you never do anything for anyone else. if you do something to make someone for whom you care happy, his happiness will give you a sense of gratification. satanism advocates practicing a modified form of the golden rule. our interpretation of this rule is "do unto others as they do unto you; because if you "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" and they, in turn, treat you badly, it goes against human nature to continue to treat them with consideration. you should do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but if your courtesy is not returned, they should be treated with the w

leman. this was the era of "experts" on the black arts, such as eliphas levi and countless trance-mediums who, with their carefully bound spirits and demons, have also succeeded in binding the minds of many who call themselves parapsychologists to this day! as far as satanism is concerned, the closest outward signs of this were the neo-pagan rites conducted by macgregor mathers' hermetic order of the golden dawn, and aleister crowley's later order of the silver star (a. a- argentinum astrum) and order of oriental templars (o.t.o, which paranoiacally denied any association with satanism, despite crowley's self-imposed image of the beast of revelation. aside from some rather charming poetry and a smattering of magical bric-a-brac, when not climbing mountains crowley spent most of his time as

"angels" because occultists to this day have lain ill with metaphysical constipation. now the crystal clears, and the "angels" are seen as "angles" and the windows to the fourth dimension are thrown open- and to the frightened, the gates of hell. i have presented my translation of the following calls with an archaic but satanically correct unvarnishing of the translation employed by the order of the golden dawn in the late nineteenth century. in enochian the meaning of the words, combined with the quality of the words, unite to create a pattern of sound which can cause tremendous reaction in the atmosphere. the barbaric tonal qualities of this language give it a truly magical effect which cannot be described. for many years the enochian keys, or calls, have been shrouded in secrecy. the f

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s of laboring breath? but if you would not this poor life fulfil, lo, you are free to end it when you will, without the fear of waking after death. how the moon triumphs through the endless nights! how the stars throb and glitter as they wheel their thick processions of supernal lights around the blue vault obdurate as steel! and men regard with passionate awe and yearning the mighty marching and the golden burning, and think the heavens respond to what they f eel [ceremony follows progression described in procedure for performance [priest closes ceremony in standard manner] the seventh satanic statement das tierdrama should the subduing talisman, the cross, break, then will come roaring forth the wild madness of the old champions, that insane berserker rage, of which the northern poets si

cs and magic ritual do not mix. masonic orders have contained the most influential men in many governments, and virtually every occult order has many masonic roots. the rites of the illuminati became the basis of the curriculum of the later ordo templi orientis, founded in 1902 by karl kellner and adolf wilbrandt a similar curriculum, with strong rosicrucian overtones, was in the english order of the golden dawn in 1887. the teachings of the illuminati hold that all is material, that all religions are of human invention, that god is man, and man is god, and the world is his kingdom. the tierdrama reinforces this message. it was first performed by dieter hertel in munich, 31 july 1781; the present manuscript dates from 1887. many authors have written segments of the litany into literature a

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

land: oneworld publishers, 2000. confucius. confucian analects, the great learning, and the doctrine of the mean. edited by james legge. mineola, ny: dover publications, 1971. confucius. confucius: the analects. translated by d. c. lau. new york: penguin classics, 1998. creel, h. g. chinese thought from confucius to mao tse-tung. new york: new american library, 1960. freedman, russell. confucius: the golden rule. new york: arthur a. levine books, 2002. hobbler, thomas, and dorothy hobbler. confucianism: world religions. new york: facts on file, inc, 1993. mencius. the works of mencius. translated by james legge. mineola, ny: dover publications, 1990. world religions: almanac 175 confucianism oldstone-moore, jennifer. confucianism: origins, beliefs, practices, holy texts, sacred places. new

written over a large span of time by a number of different authors. they were meant to be sung during religious rites. hesiod furthered the process of collecting the myths and defining the gods with his theogony, which supplies more information about the relationships between the gods and goddesses. also, in his works and days, he provides a history of what he called the five ages of humans, from the golden age, ruled by the god chronos, to the silver age of zeus, the warlike bronze age, the heroic age of the trojan war, and ending with hesiod s own time, the iron age. virgil and ovid provided a similar service for the romans. in his aeneid, virgil transforms the sometimes bickering and petty couple zeus and hera into the thundering and all-powerful roman god jupiter and the angry juno. ov

e turban. women may choose to cover their hair. texts. the chief scripture of sikhism is the sri guru granth sahib, a collection of hymns and sacred writings first compiled by guru arjan dev. the granth sahib fulfills the role of the eleventh and final guru of sikhism. sites. the most important sacred site for sikhs is the city of amritsar, founded in 1577 by guru ram das. amritsar is the site of the golden temple, the focus of sikh authority and the spiritual center of sikhism. observances. most of the observances of sikhism focus either on key events in a sikh s life (naming, initiation, marriage) or on key historical events, such as the birth of the first guru. phrases. no particular phrases are associated with sikhism, though words and phrases from the granth sahib are an important par

ading of the entire granth sahib. on the day itself, the granth sahib is carried in an elaborate procession through the streets. the holiday takes place in the sikh month of kartik, which corresponds to october november. also important are the birthday of guru gobind singh and the days remembering the martyrdom of gurus arjan dev and tegh bahadur. martyrdom is suffering and death for one s cause. the golden temple like holidays, pilgrimages do not occupy an important place in sikhism, for sikhs regard every place on earth as holy. nonetheless, the spiritual center of sikhism is the city of amritsar in india. this city holds considerable historical interest for sikhs worldwide. originally amritsar was the name of a lake, then the name of the sikh temple complex, then the name of the entire

00s to the mid-1700s the site was repeatedly attacked by muslim armies, and the temple was repeatedly destroyed. each time it was rebuilt, and each new temple was more magnificent than the last. it took its present form under the leadership of ranjit singh, who imported marble and precious stones to ornament the temple. he also had it covered in gold-plated copper, so the temple came to be called the golden temple. the golden temple is a mixture of hindu and muslim styles. while muslims believe that a temple (mosque) should be entered from the west and hindus believe a temple should be entered from the east, the golden temple has four doors so that one can enter from any direction, a practice carried out in sikh gurdwaras. as arjan dev said, my faith is for the people of all castes and all

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in all, earth and heavens in one together, look well at it, it is to thy good, and pondering over, thou wilt not rue it. notice nature in its strength, look at its great life-power from god it, and all things spring and return to their centers again. friend thoughtfully look at this mirror, see how nature is revealed, always watch the inner center, turn the outer spheres around it. look well for the golden magnet. if thou findest it thou wouldest get rid of thy sorrows. study well the law 'know thyself, that thou may not be deceived any more. unum sunt omnia, per quod omnia. make known to thee the terra sancta, so that thou mayest not go astray. figurative image of how within this world three worlds in each other, namely this earth sun-world, and also the heavenly and the hellish world ha

SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

aken the heart with understanding make the heart shine with brilliance. the bahir 57 inde the sepher yetzirah (translated from the hebrew by wm. wynn westcott (note: the sepher yetzirah is one of the most famous of the ancient qabalistic texts. it was first put into writing around 200 c.e. westcott's translation of the sepher yetzirah was a primary source for the rituals and knowledge lectures of the golden dawn. this is the third edition of westcott s translation, first published in 1887. a fourth revised edition of the sepher yetzirah by darcy k ntz, complete with hebrew text, notes and bibliography, is available from holmes publishing group, p.o. 623, edmonds, wa 98020) introduction the "sepher yetzirah" or "book of formation" is perhaps the oldest rabbinical treatise of kabalistic phil

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lowing of energies according to the greater wyrd and destinies of those directly and indirectly involved- thus, the presence of unforeseen factors and the pitfalls implicit in this which may create errors of judgement. the maintaining of an ethos or tradition via timeless acts. v the depths of the sea a tunnel of knives there is a union here while he directs the chosen rage in the eye of the goat the golden triangle stands against a sky of fire master- atazoth manipulation- actions based on a knowledge of the sinister dialectic as revealed by practical experience: a rational, to some cold, observation beyond the stage of adeptship/individuation. control of all the many and varied factors within a situation- in other words, the achievement of a stage in individual evolution that goes beyond

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

art of us indulge. they seemed like the orama of the greeks, prophets while phantasma. chapter 1.ii. fu stupor, fu vaghezza, fu diletto "gerusal. lib" cant. ii. xxi("desire it was 't was wonder 't was delight" wiffen's translation) now at last the education is accomplished! viola is nearly sixteen. the cardinal declares that the time is come when the new name must be inscribed in the libro d'oro, the golden book set apart to the children of art and song. yes, but in what character? to whose genius is she to give embodiment and form? ah, there is the secret! rumours go abroad that the inexhaustible paisiello, charmed with her performance of his "nel cor piu non me sento" and his "io son lindoro" will produce some new masterpiece to introduce the debutante. others insist upon it that her for

memories ye awaken, compared with those that speak to the heart of man on the heights of phyle, or by thy lone mound, grey marathon! we stand amidst weeds and brambles and long waving herbage. where we stand reigned nero, here were his tessellated floors; here "mighty in the heaven, a second heaven" hung the vault of his ivory roofs; here, arch upon arch, pillar on pillar, glittered to the world the golden palace of its master, the golden house of nero. how the lizard watches us with his bright, timorous eye! we disturb his reign. gather that wild flower: the golden house is vanished, but the wild flower may have kin to those which the stranger's hand scattered over the tyrant's grave; see, over this soil, the grave of rome, nature strews the wild flowers still! in the midst of this desol

oni's brow darkened "and were this so" he said, after a pause "would it be so sweet a lot to outlive all you loved, and to recoil from every human tie? perhaps the fairest immortality on earth is that of a noble name "you do not answer me, you equivocate. i have read of the long lives far beyond the date common experience assigns 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

longer wonder why the heart ripens into fruit so sudden and so rich beneath the rosy skies and the glorious sunshine of the south. the eyes of the actress were fixed on the broad blue deep beyond. in the unwonted negligence of her dress might be traced the abstraction of her mind. her beautiful hair was gathered up loosely, and partially bandaged by a kerchief whose purple colour served to deepen the golden hue of her tresses. a stray curl escaped and fell down the graceful neck. a loose morning-robe, girded by a sash, left the breeze. that came ever and anon from the sea, to die upon the bust half disclosed; and the tiny slipper, that cinderella might have worn, seemed a world too wide for the tiny foot which it scarcely covered. it might be the heat of the day that deepened the soft bloo

could he, who saw nothing in the soul but a combination of matter, prate of schools that should excel a raphael? yes, art was magic; and as he owned the truth of the aphorism, he could comprehend that in magic there may be religion, for religion is an essential to art. his old ambition, freeing itself from the frigid prudence with which mervale sought to desecrate all images less substantial than the golden calf of the world, revived, and stirred, and kindled. the subtle detection of what he conceived to be an error in the school he had hitherto adopted, made more manifest to him by the grinning commentary of nicot, seemed to open to him a new world of invention. he seized the happy moment, he placed before him the colours and the canvas. lost in his conceptions of a fresh ideal, his mind

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

the ladder. pepi hath gathered together his bones, be hath collected his flesh, and he hath gone quickly into heaven by means of the two fingers 1 of the god of the ladder (i.e, horus. elsewhere 2 the gods khonsu, sept, etc, are invoked to bring the ladder to pepi, and the ladder itself is adjured to come with its name, and in another place 3 we read, homage to thee, o thou ladder that supportest the golden vase of the spirits of pe and the spirits of nekhen, stretch out thy hand to this pepi, and let him take his seat between the two great gods who (care in the place of this pepi; take him by the hand and lead him towards sekhet-hetep (i.e, the elysian fields, and let him take his seat among the stars which are in the sky" in the theban recension of the book of the dead the importance of

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ad a large movement in his name. the theory of the death posture, first described in the book of pleasure, was developed independently of the experiences of the above mentioned masters about whom nothing was published in any european language at that time. the rosicrucian mystique of the pastos containing the corpse of christian rosencreutz- dramatized by macgregor mathers in the 5 =6 ceremony of the golden dawn- resumes the mystery of this 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, d

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

stic sybylline records "the entire quotation is as follows 'the last age of cumaen song now comes (novus ordo seclorum altered from magnus soeclorum ordo, a mighty order of ages is born anew. both the prophetic virgin and saturnian kingdoms now return. now a new progeny is let down from the lofty heavens. favor, chaste lucina, the boy soon io be born in whom the iron age shall come to an end, and the golden one shall arise again in the whole earth" virgil was a pagan philosopher of rome.16 the literalure on the mystic meaning of the seal is extensive and amazing. it appears that almost every secret fraternity, society and movement in the country has claimed the seal's reverse side as its own. celestia root lang wrote:17 "the reverse side must have been designed by a mystic, one versed in s

o seclorum provides the ciue as to the nature of the "new order of the -34- ages" referred to. i( is a "golden" age during which the "saturnian" kingdom shall return. saturn was the father of osiris. the other motto, annuit coeptis "favor my daring undertaking" was not a supplication to god; in conjunction with the other motto it can only refer to saturn or osiris. the reign of saturn was called "the golden age" even though he received human sacrifices and devoured his own children. he was symbolized by the serpent biting its own tail.60 the sun and the serpent ophiolatry is the worship of serpents. the religion of ancient egypt was closely interwoven with the worship of sun and serpent. the deity, kneph, was pictured as a serpent in a fiery circle''he was regarded as the first emanation o

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

re of christ was in fact a complex creation, molded by biblical and extra-biblical ideas, expectations, and hopes. scholarship had turned up parallels to the redeemer s life and death in eastern religions, and in the paganism contemporary with christian origins. was christ perhaps just another dying-and-rising god such as adonis or attis, or the others surveyed in james frazer s monumental study, the golden bough? not at all, declared others, hastily dissociating jesus from anything of the sort by turning him into the simple man of nazareth, an image equally inappropriate as an interpretation of the new testament sources. closer to our own day, these issues have been sharpened still further by the discovery of essene and gnostic texts from the early christian time and milieu. in many of th

t of eternity and the divine (r.st) 77. for more on the background of the mythology of osiris, see steiner, egyptian myths and mysteries (anthroposophic press, hudson, ny, 1990; also mysteries of the east and christianity (rudolf steiner press, london, 1972, which relates it to the stages of initiation-experience which are hinted at in the account of his voluntary death and new birth by apuleius, the golden ass or, metamorphoses xi. the latter text is translated in meyer, the ancient mysteries, pp. 176ff. at the climactic moment he says: i crossed the threshold of persephone; i was caught rapt through all the elements; i saw the sun shining at midnight with a radiant light; i stood before the upper and the lower gods, drew near and adored (xi, 23) 78. empedocles, fragment 26. 79. empedocle

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

tual service between men. alchemically speaking, the cross is the hieroglyph of the crucible, which used to be called in french cruzol, crucible and croiset. indeed it is in the crucible that the first matter suffers the passion, like christ himself. it is in the crucible that it dies to be revived, purified, spiritualized and transformed. through the grades of initiation in the hermetic order of the golden dawn international, we notice variable usage of the calvary cross with various number of squares. these crosses have varied meanings than those on the banners, but their meaning allows a deeper understanding. thus, here is a list: a f b j d h l i e a g k c a c b k d h e f g i j l 6 rtk hnyb hrwbg trapt dsj hmkj jxn dwh dwsy twklm 10 9 8 7 3 5 6 4 2 1 7 triangle and the hexagram taking a

e a simple example of those concepts. for i am the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end' saith the lord, god who liveth in light, since none can come to him, or near him" hwchy hwhy 8 this is the manifestation of the three mother letters in the equilbrium of the hexagram, as could also be seen on the banner of the east with o represented by the red triangle, n by the blue triangle, and m by the golden cross of trapt. a m c in looking at the triangles and the microcosmic and macrocosmic man, see the following "o man, know god and thyself, so thou mayest know what is in heaven and on earth" what god was before the beginning in eternity: what man was before the beginning in eternity: 9 what god was in the beginning \yhla what man was in the beginning: q b p what god is after time: what

of the macrocosmic hexagram, the red triangle of o and the blue triangle of n "the \yhla jwr and the waters of creation" in addition to this explanation, it affirms the mode of action employed by the divine light in its operation by the forces of nature. upon it is the symbol of the 12 macrocosm so colored as to affirm the action of the o of the through the waters of creation under the harmony of the golden cross of the reconciler. within the center of the hexagram is a t cross in white to represent its action as a triad; and the whole is placed on a white field representing the ocean of the rwa [ws ya. the banner is suspended from a gold colored bar by red cords, and the pole and base should be white. the base represents the purity of the foundation- the shaft, the purified will directed

s of the reconciler. within the center of the hexagram is a t cross in white to represent its action as a triad; and the whole is placed on a white field representing the ocean of the rwa [ws ya. the banner is suspended from a gold colored bar by red cords, and the pole and base should be white. the base represents the purity of the foundation- the shaft, the purified will directed to the higher. the golden cross-bar is that whereon the manifested law of perfection rests; the banner itself, the perfect law of the universe, the red cords and tassels, the divine self-enunciation, whose trials and sufferings form, as it were, the ornament of the completed work. the whole represents the ascent of the initiate into perfect knowledge of the light. therefore, in the address of the hiereus, the ne

he corners, and are hung from a gold bar. on the black banner, the bar is suspended from a black cord, and on the white banner the cord is red. the simplest way to suspend the banners is to attach them with heavy thread. in those illustrated, a metallic gold embroidery thread is used. the cross bars here are nothing more than simple 3/4 inch dowel rods, with small wooden drawer pulls at the ends. the golden dawn papers state merely that the stand for the banner of the east should be white, and that of the banner of the west black. very simple stands can be 14 made of round or square wood mounted on a base plate. twisted columns of the stands are a commercially available decorative dowel often used as curtain rods. the finials are actually ready-cut in many hardware and lumber stores. the b

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teractions upon the psyche of various angular forms.the visual form of the geometric shape is only one of a number of angular formats. proportion is not limited to the purely geometric, but refers also to audio and wave form (electrical, magnetic) phenomena. equivalent proportional mechanisms exist between various types of stimulus. thus, i can have a pentagram whose proportions are equivalent to the golden section, but i can also have a frequency that achieves the same proportion. in a short essay written in 1986 (prior to my development and understanding of neuronics) the concept was developed as follows: in 1986, i coined a term which described the ability of particular frequency ratios which could polarize the contents of an individual's personal, subjective impressions to+ or- degrees

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aise of satan, the candy man who brings his disciples gifts, such as illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine, and sexual favors. that ravenous dark bird 253 this article in newsweek (july 27, 1998, p. 31) speaks for itself. under orders from bolshevik communist butcher vladimir lenin, the russian oar and his entire family were slaughtered. in the center of this photo, above the windows you will see the golden, double-headed eagle. 254 codex magica mirror image: in 2002, two snipers terrified washington, d.c. suburbs with deadly and accurate shooting of innocent citizens. police chief charles moose, of montgomery county, maryland, led some 1,000 investigators in a 22-day manhunt. the press and media made chief moose into a celebrity and hero, though clearly his police skills were not just ina

many unseen spirits (i.e. devils, and the third centre is the human masses.8 at the close of the age, bailey assures us "the three major centres will be in complete unified and synchronized activity" controlling all manifestations of life.9 aleister crowley, the late british satanist and freemason, was also a devotee of the triangle as symbol. as a high-level officer of the occult group, order of the golden dawn, crowley used for one of his emblems the eye of horus in the pyramid of fire, radiated by the sun's rays. it was horus, in the form of a spirit guide named aiwass, that allegedly gave crowley the book of the law, a book of prophecy crowley claimed he received by automatic writing.10 abracadabra not just childish fun witches and deep occult magicians join bailey in use of the triang

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ot be conscious of his learning, he would not repeat the vital mistake; without fear he would accomplish with ease. the only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes. not by obscuring his vision and intention by righteousness. 56 57 58 59. 60 61 62 63 64 65lathe book of the elder kings issued by the thelemic order and temple of the golden dawn official holy book of the novus ordo aureae aurora concerning the great white brotherhood received by sir david cherubim copyright (c) 1989 e.v. 0. there is silence. and now the elder kings make speech: 1. we come in the name of the most beloved one, the most mysterious one, whom is the grand lord of the aeon, and whose holy spirit is the life and light of the whole universe. we co

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rd] was loosed the reentry into the body would have been impossible. she said, this is what death means. those men and women of a judeo-christian belief construct who have undergone the near-death experience (nde) sometimes quote ecclesiastes 12:5 7 as scriptural testimony to the reality of the spiritual body and its ability to separate itself from the flesh: or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern: then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return to god who gave it. one frequently observed quality of the silver cord which appears to connect the soul body to the physical body is its elasticity. numerous persons who have undergone neardeath experiences have

the pontiffs in the middle ages did exercise great power over the rulers and the people of the emerging european nations, contemporary popes wield little political influence, surely none that would place them in world-threatening positions. 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 religious phenomena 181 aleister crowley (1875 1947) of the order of the golden dawn (corbis corporation) there have been such men as aleister crowley (1875 1947, who actually appeared to seek the position by calling himself the beast and 666. the numerical value of franklin delano roosevelt s (1882 1945) name reportedly added up to 666, and since he held the office of president of the united states for 12 years and during the great depression and world war ii many

raditions teach that each human individual has a good and a bad angel that remain with him or her throughout his or her entire earthly lifespan. others maintain that there are two unseen angels that hover near each person, and it is the task of the one to record the good deeds; the other, the bad. the american poet henry wadsworth longfellow (1807 1882) gave expression to this concept in his poem the golden legend (1851: he who writes down the good ones, after each action closes his volume and ascends with it to god. the other keeps his dreadful day-book open until sunset, that we may repent. the sacred writings of islam also proclaim that every human is guarded by two angels one taking the day watch, the other, night duty. as in longfellow s poem, these two vigilant guardians record their

divine spirit, the mahanta, the living eck master, provides spiritual exercises and guidance available to all sincere seekers. because the mahantas emphasize that eckankar is a living faith that changes constantly, eckists must pay close attention to the teachings and revelations of the living master, who comes from a long line of masters from the vairagi order, whose spiritual essences reside in the golden temple of wisdom on higher dimensions of being. the living master is never worshipped, but he is highly revered by all eckists. according to official eckankar records, there are approximately 50,000 members in more than 100 countries. shortly before twitchell s death in 1971, critics accused him of fabricating the religious origins of eckankar, borrowing concepts from other spiritual gr

er of the solar temple was founded in 1984 by joseph di mambro (1924 1994) and luc jouret (1947 1994. by 1989, the cult had gathered about 500 members, most of them in switzerland, france, and canada. joseph di mambro, of pont-saint-espirit, france, had a fascination with the occult dating back to his childhood. in 1976, he became a self-appointed spiritual master, and by 1978, he had established the golden way foundation in geneva. about then he made a hard assessment of own appeal, deciding that if his cult was to expand, he needed to find a more charismatic individual to share its leadership. in 1981, luc jouret, a physician who had been grand master of the renewed order of the temple, another group that combined concepts of the knights templar and the rosicrucians, left that order over

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many individuals who have undergone out-of-body experiences have made mention of a kind of cord of silver color that seems to attach their soul or mind to the physical body. such glimpses of the silver cord have prompted those experiencers and researchers of a religious orientation to recall the verses in the book of ecclesiastes which refer to the time of death when the silver cord is loosed and the golden bowl be broken. then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto god who gave it (kjv ecclesiastes 12:5 7. in tibetan buddhist tradition, out-of-body experiencers have also long observed that a strand exists between the astral double and the physical body. in diverse cultures, many individuals who have undergone out-of-body phenomena have noticed that

level to the ancient instinct of self-preservation. in the early days of transition from marriage by abduction to relationships developed by individuals with a mutual attraction for one another, most marriages were arranged and wives could be purchased. the evolution of romance would create great conflicts with these old traditions. according to many social historians, the greeks invented love in the golden age of greece (about 480 to 399 b.c.e. the greeks gave love two names: eros (physical love) and agape (spiritual love. yet for all its familiar aspects, love in classic greece was still quite different from the concept of mutual attraction between man and woman that serves as the standard for marriage in the modern western world. marriages were still arranged by parents, and a solemn be

ride conceived the idea of throwing her bridal bouquet. the custom has endured, along with the tradition that the fortunate maiden who catches the bouquet will be the next to marry. m delving deeper armand, denis. taboo: sex& morality around the world. london: w. h. allen, 1996. fielding, william j. strange customs of courtship and marriage. london: souvenir press, 1961. frazer, sir james george. the golden bough. new york: collier/macmillan, 1950. gelber, carol. love and marriage around the world. brookfield, conn: millbrook press, 1998. hunt, morton m. the natural history of love. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1959. lewinsohn, richard. a history of sexual custom. new york: harper& brothers, 1958. spencer, linda. knock on wood. new york: gramercy books, 1995. taylor, g. rattray. sex in histo

d customs of rural england. devon, uk: david& charles, 1974. caldwell, mark. a short history of rudeness, manners, morals and misbehavior. london: pan macmillan publishers, 2000. elias, norbert. the history of manners. translated by edmund jephcott. new york: random house, 1982. fielding, william j. strange customs of courtship and marriage. london: souvenir press, 1961. frazer, sir james george. the golden bough. new york: collier/macmillan, 1950. grant, michael. the world of rome. cleveland, ohio: world publishing, 1960. grimal, nicolas. a history of ancient egypt. cambridge, mass: blackwell, 1994. hazlitt, w. c. dictionary of faiths and folklore. london: bracken books, 1995. jones, prudence, and nigel pennick. a history of pagan europe. london and new york: routledge, 1995. power, eilee

l dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harpersanfrancisco, 1989. davies, jon. death, burial and the rebirth in the religions of antiquity. london and new york: routledge, 1999. dickerson, jr, robert b. final placement. algonac, mich: reference publications, 1982. elias, norbert. the history of manners. translated by edmund jephcott. new york: random house, 1982. frazer, sir james george. the golden bough. new york: collier/macmillan, 1950. grant, michael. the world of rome. cleveland, ohio: world publishing, 1960. grimal, nicolas. a history of ancient egypt. cambridge, mass: blackwell, 1994. hazlitt, w. c. dictionary of faiths and folklore. london: bracken books, 1995. jones, prudence, and nigel pennick. a history of pagan europe. london and new york: routledge, 1995. opie, iona

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rming a wicca ceremony (archives of brad steiger) today fs practitioners of wicca come from a complete spectrum of men and women. 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 76 magic and sorcery at the time of his death on march 10, 1985, dr. francis israel regardie was considered by many occultists to be the last living adept of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a magical tradition that had numbered among its members william butler yeats (1865.1939, aleister crowley (1875.1947, and dion fortune. regardie had demystified many esoteric mysteries surrounding the occult and presented understandable texts on practical magic. by age 19, he began to correspond with aleister crowley. in 1928, he accepted the position of crowley fs personal secret

surrounding the occult and presented understandable texts on practical magic. by age 19, he began to correspond with aleister crowley. in 1928, he accepted the position of crowley fs personal secretary, hoping that the magician would tutor him in the mystic arts; however, crowley left him to independently study magic. when crowley fs publisher declared bankruptcy, regardie lost his job. although the golden dawn had ceased to exist as a functioning magical society as early as 1903, it continued to exist in various descendant orders, such as the stella matutina and the alpha et omega. in 1932, regardie fs distillation of the teachings of the golden dawn was published in the tree of life, and at once he was embroiled in controversy with those occultists who associated him with crowley. while

e fs distillation of the teachings of the golden dawn was published in the tree of life, and at once he was embroiled in controversy with those occultists who associated him with crowley. while some demanded he never again dare to mention the name of the society, others, such as dion fortune, invited him to join the order of stella matutina. in 1937 regardie published four volumes entitled simply the golden dawn. it was regardie fs belief that the heritage of magic was the spiritual birthright of every man and woman and that the principles of such magical systems as the golden dawn should be made available to all who wished to pursue the ancient wisdom teachings. regardie fs work the philosopher fs stone (1937) was written from the perspective of jungian symbolism. in 1941, he took up prac

ts left the organization, and the druidic publication that he had established, the druid chronicler (later pentalpha journal, soon folded without his involvement. in 1979 he married selene kumin, but that relationship ended in 1982. in 1983 he 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 78 magic and sorcery was initiated into the new reformed order of the golden dawn, and in that same year he married actress sally eaton. bonewits and eaton became heavily involved in the california revival of the ordo templi orientis, or go.t.o, h best known for its most important historical figure, aleister crowley. in 1986 bonewits and eaton separated. bonewits worked for a few months as a computer consultant in kansas city, then moved to new york with his int

ng. from the teeth and bones of the slaughtered animals, they fashioned simple tools and weapons. when the hunting was bad, they knew that their own existence was threatened. why was the hunt successful at times and not at others? perhaps there was a spirit who decided these things. if so, perhaps that spirit could be persuaded to control the hunt in favor of the human hunter. in his classic work the golden bough (1890, sir james george frazer points out two factors influencing the nature of primitive religion: 1. the older concept of a gview of nature as a series of events occurring in an invariable order without the intervention of personal agency h; and 2. the later development that the gworld is to a great extent worked by supernatural agents, that is, by personal beings acting on impu

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hat you are. subduing people s awareness, telling them that they must wait until after death or until the end of the world to be renewed, cuts them off from even using their basic senses or awareness, here and now. it is a miracle deferred, so that the powerful can control them with promises of golden heavens later on. but there is no later on, when it comes to the realization that transforms. if the golden light of regeneration, which transforms the limited, sorrowful, and painful world into a perfected place is not experienced in life, it will not be waiting for the soul in death. without the conscious will, effort, and awareness on the part of the individual to actively discover this reality here and now, later will never come. the people who defer their spiritual initiative, and wait t

ing the loop, which purifies and renews you. the renewed earth and waters, the regenerated mortal, have become earths and waters and mortals of fire- they have had their mortal appearances and elements burned away in the fire of the transcendent, leaving only the pure essence, leaving only what the child represents. all that is left is the perfection that was before fate began a new world system; the golden age is restored, the world made anew. in the ballad of thomas the rhymer, the fruit on the trees of elfhame are considered to be poisonous in their natural state. they had to be transformed by the queen of elfhame into wine and bread, to make them safe for thomas to eat. the primal force of the fruit was deadly, until it was transformed, by thomas devotion to the redeeming feminine, int

we truly are suddenly becomes a new way of experiencing everything. we are the eternal stillness in the midst of motion, and we can recognize that and experience it, right now. in this state, we can fully experience our own lives and deaths, without ever living or dying. and a state of reality, of existence, where one does not live or die, sounds a good deal like the mythological descriptions of the golden age at the beginning of the cosmos, when humans lived happily and free with no old age or death. in this manner, using our special fire-endowed understanding and awareness, we can reexperience all things in our life, see them again for the first time, from a new perspective, which is very much like the old one, but with an added transcendental twist of cunning. how can we achieve the pr

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yields to the efforts of labour, and shows herself to science; the material side of dogma is alone immolated. this is the meaning of the ram caught by its horns in a thicket. the history of abraham is, then, a symbol in the ancient manner, and contains a lofty revelation of the destinies of the human soul. taken literally, it is an absurd and revolting story. did not st. augustine take literally the golden ass of apuleius? poor great men! 33 the history of isaac is another legend. rebecca is the type of the oriental woman, laborious, hospitable, partial in her affections, shrewd and wily in her manoeuvres. jacob and esau are again the two types of cain and abel; but here abel avenges himself: the emancipated intelligence triumphs by cunning. the whole of the genius of the jews is in the c

rub (a bull-headed sphinx "vide" the hieroglyphs of assyria, of india and of egypt) is placed at the gate of the garden of truth in order to prevent the profane from destroying the tree of life. here we have mysterious dogma, with all its allegories and its terrors, replacing the simplicity of truth. the idol has replaced god, and fallen humanity will not delay to give itself up to the worship of the golden calf. the mystery of the necessary and successive reactions of the two principles on each other is indicated subsequently by the allegory of cain and abel. force avenges itself by oppression for the seduction of weakness; martyred weakness expiates and intercedes for force when it is condemned for its crime to branding remorse. thus is revealed the equilibrium of the moral world; here i

> and one finds there the same combinations and the same symbols: the king, the queen, the knight, the soldier, the fool, the tower, and houses representing numbers. in old times, chess-players sought upon their chess-board the solution of philosophical and religious problems, and argued silently with each other in manoeuvring the hieroglyphic characters across the numbers<order of the golden dawn may have designed enochian chess on this suggestion> our vulgar game of goose, revived from the old grecian game, and also attributed to palamedes, is nothing but a chess-board with motionless figures and numbers movable by means of dice. it is a tarot disposed in the form of a wheel, for the use of aspirants to initiation. now, the word tarot, in which one finds "rota" and "tora"

rary, in that of the "galilean" as an illustrious and too unfortunate emperor called him. and yet julian in his time attempted more than voltaire could accomplish; he wished to oppose miracles to miracles, the austerity of power to that of revolt, virtues to virtues, wonders to wonders; the christians never had a more dangerous enemy, and they recognized the fact, for julian was assassinated; and the golden legend still bears witness that a holy martyr, awakened in his tomb by the clamour of the church, resumed his arms, and struck the apostate in the darkness, in the midst of his army and of his victories. sorry martyrs, who rise from the dead to become hangmen! too credulous emperor, who believed in his gods, and in the virtues of the past! when the kings of france were hedged around wit

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lly as a part of the grimoire as the text. each drawing by soror davcina (elda isela ford) presents an adversarial sigil of isolated obtainment, that each embodies a staota (see yatuk dinoih- second illustrated edition) which empowers the mind of the witch or sorcerer. a z o t h o z a book of the adversary by michael w. ford illustrated by elda isela ford azothoz is a formula used specifically in the golden dawn and is a work combined from the first and final letters of the latin, hebrew and greek alphabet alpha& omega, aleph and tau. this work symbolizes the beginning and the end, the dawn and twilight, thus as azothoz is a reverse partly, signifying the adversary. azothoz is a poetic grimoire which sigillizes in lyric and image the essence of set/shaitan the adversary, lilith and the sor

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of christian knorr von rosenroth's (1636-89 "kabbala denudata" in latin in 1677 and 1684, which provided translations from the zohar and extracts from the works of issac luria. it was this work which, when translated into english by macgregor mathers (1854-1918) in 1887 as "the kabbalah unveiled, alongside already existing translations of the sepher yetzirah, provided the kabbalistic backbone of the golden dawn society, from which issued many of the more recent occult kabbalists, such as dion fortune (1891-1946, who summarised the sephiroth in her "mystical kabbalah (1935) and aleister crowley (1898-1947. the christian occultist, and golden dawn member, a.e. waite also produced many works examining the secret tradition of kabbalah, although of all of these occultists, gershom scholem says

t many others. he also became a student of tarot through the writings of court de gebelin (1725-84, who ascribed to the tarot an ancient egyptian origin. from de gebelin and rosenroth, levi synthesised a scheme of attribution of the tarot cards to the twenty-two paths of the tree of life, a significant development in that it provided a synthetic model of processes to be later modified and used by the golden dawn as mapping the initiation system of psychological, occult, and spiritual development. levi wrote "qabalah. might be called the mathematics of human thought. aleister crowley continued levi's work to some extent in his seminal work on the tarot "the book of thoth. in summary, the kabbalah passed from judaic tradition through to christian tradition, and through other flowerings such

hich totals to 10 (1+9, which can be broken down to 1 as well. thus, malkuth (10) and kether (1) are within the value of malkuth itself. kether, on the other hand, values 620 (the zohar speaks of the 620 pillars of light, which breaks down to 8 (6+2, the number of the sephirah hod (an interesting attribution in respect of the initiatory experiences associated with hod in the grade of practicus of the golden dawn system. a full cross-referencing of the sephiroth by their numerical reduction is given in figure 2. a final point of gematria is that the value of the word swan, the symbolic bird of kether and illumination, is brbvr= 410, which is also the value of magic (mqa'ar) and the confession of god's unity (the shema, shma'a. the triune crown the triple crown worn by the pope can be viewed

mirror of the divine will and the mystic achieves chockmah by becoming a pure interface of god. finally, the way is completed (yod as symbolic of the way depicted on the hermit tarot card) by recognising the unity of all things, and hence the same letter covers both kether and chockmah. incidentally, the hermit tarot card to which yod is attributed is also associated with the neophyte ceremony of the golden dawn, and demonstrates that even from the first step on the path, the goal is always already there if we could but be aware of it. resh in binah resh refers to consciousness and light through the tarot card of "the sun, and in the context of binah affirms that the three supernal sephiroth reside in the "white head (resh means "head) of kether. the hemispheres of the brain may be divided

is symbolism at length. resh is also (via the sun card) allocated to the sephirah tiphareth, which is to say "consciousness" and is the state of mind dealt with physically by the "front of the head (a more accurate translation of resh. it can be deduced from this current attribution that "understanding" is a transcendent form of consciousness (the sun of tiphareth arising from the sea of binah as the golden dawn image depicts it) preceding the final synthesis in chockmah of the magician before god. this is resumed under the symbolism of the "bornless ritual" as recorded by aleister crowley in "liber samekh. the original greek text of the ritual("fragments of a graeco-egyptian work upon magic, trans. goodwin 1852) uses the phrase "the headless one, or "the headless spirit, but the hebrew wo

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o hold the central luminary and will be placed, at the proper time, in the centre of the pantacle. another candlestick, a smaller one, will also be required, to hold the ordinary candle- used to light the central luminary. the candles should be made of pure beeswax, or of so called liturgical wax (30% 7 approx. 25 inches is 635 mm and it is very curious to note that this is, approx, the length of the golden section of the meter. 9 pure beeswax, and can be obtained from specialized stores. a bronze or copper censer, or better, an earthenware cassolette, will also be required, and will be furnished with live coals at the proper time. the self burning charcoal for that purpose can be obtained from the same stores as the candles. the incense must be pure olibanum (frankincense, called male inc

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

f western ceremonial magic due to the veil of secrecy which had shrouded these practices. unless a person happened to be a member of a magical organization, there was little chance of leaning the procedures and initiatory practices of high magic. this changed in 1937 when israel regardie published four volumes titled the glh d m, a collection of ceremonies and teachings from the hermetic order of the golden dawn. earlier, regardie had published two books d-g i3-w magical prinapjes of the golden dawn system. i'le middle pik, published in 1938, gave step-by-step details on how to perform practical exercises of ceremonial magic, something which was quite revolutionary for its time. perhaps even more radical was regardie's daring attempt to correiate these magical techniques to the (then) new

theses of psychoanalysis. since the object of study in both magic and psychology was the human mind, it was regardie's belief that magic could be regarded as a subdivision of the science of psy &logy. such a thing was quite unheard of in 1938. in fact, regardie postulated that psychotherapists could use the techniques of magic, such as the lesser banishing ritual and the middle pillar exercise of the golden dawn, in a d i n i d setting for the benefit of patients. goal of both magic and psychotherapy is the his or her growth and health on every and psychological. magic, however, well-being. regardie sought to tear down the been built up between the ancient art and the regardie's die middle pillar was a milestone these ideas long before they became popular. the middle pillar, as a techruque

adition. the middle pillar shows expertise, and love for teaching that regardie to this day it remains a classic among magical who was israel regardie and why did the following brief biography should of regardie's prominent place in the history and occultism, as well as his interest in psychology. before his death in 1985, israel regardie many to be the last living adept of a prestigious known as the golden dawn. the tradition golden dawn and its sister spin-off groups, and the alpha et omega, attracted many the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. were dr. william w. westcott, samuel l. arthur edward waite, william butler yeats, aleister crowley. yet among this extraordinary knowledgeable magicians, regardie ranks of prominence. born on november 17,1907, in london, israel regard

ed apart though for a time regardie, who had settled in for thomas burke, the novelist. in 1932, regardie published h s first of pomegranates and the tree of life. regardie's own qabalistic studies, while the latter is usually considered regardie's magnum opus and one of the most comprehensive texts on practical magic ever written. the book was primarily a restatement of the original teachings of the golden dawn and contained very little "crowleyanity" the tree of life was dedicated to crowley under the name of marsyas, a pseudonym that crowley used in his poem aha. about five years later in 1937, regardie sent his old friend a copy of the tree of life with a warm note. unfortunately, crowley's response to regardie's kindness was less than kind-chiding the sensitive young author with an an

crowley in his later years (in 1970, when he wrote the eye in the triangle: an interpretation of aleister crowley, regardie's charitable nature and his ability to be forgiving toward his old friend was evident) the publication of the tree of lz$e caused quite a stir in magical circles of the time. in the book regardie outlined a few of the magical practices and teachings of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. although the original order had ceased to exist in 1903, it continued to live on in its successors, the stella matutina and the alpha et omega. many members of both orders remembered crowley as a disruptive insurgent from years before, therefore regardie's previous connection to crowley caused some members to lash out at him. other members, most notably dion fortune, defended hm

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

ed like large birds tor cranes" cranes on the sun? crows 250 miles long on the moon? black-garbed men swimming through the skies over coney island? ornithopters over kentucky and san diego [1] harold t. wilkins, flying saucers on the attack (new york: citadel press, 1954, chapter iii- on december 30, 1946, ella young, an american writer, saw one of our bats at dusk near morrow bay, california "on the golden sky it looked very black" she reported "it came forward head on, and had a batlike appearance, owing to the curvature of its wings. i am not sure if there were motions at the extreme tip of the wings; but the strange machine seemed to stand still for several minutes, and its form was very distinct. suddenly, it either lowered itself toward the horizon, or the bank of cloud-mist made an

uneasiness was overtaking me; a dark suspicion that dr. asimov's tongue-in-cheek observation may have contained more truth than even he knew. the year of the garuda was at hand. a dark force was closing over a little town i had never even heard of: point pleasant, west virginia. in a matter of months i would be arriving there like some black-suited exorcist, lugging my tattered briefcase, waving the golden cross of science. my life would become intertwined with the lives of the people of the ohio valley. in march 1966, a shapely housewife, whom i will call mrs. kelly because she asked that her name be withheld, was waiting in her car for her children near the point pleasant school when she saw an unbelievable apparition low in the sky. it looked like a glistening metal disk and was hoveri

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

che. such books have existed in fact, and do exist. idries shah tells us of a search he conducted for a copy of the book of power by the arab magician abdul-kadir (see: the secret lore of magic by shah, of which only one copy was ever found. the keys of solomon had a similar reputation, as did the magus by barret, until all of these works were eventually reprinted in the last fifteen years or so. the golden dawn, a famous british and american occult lodge of the turn of the century, was said to have possessed a manuscript called "the veils of negative existence" by another arab. these were the sorcerer's handbooks, and generally not meant as textbooks or encyclopedias of ceremonial magick. in other words, the sorcerer or magician is supposed to be in possession of the requisite knowledge a

n startling. azatot is frequently mentioned in the grim pages of the cthulhu mythos, and appears in the necronomicon as azag-thoth, a combination of two words, the first sumerian and the second coptic, which gives us a clue as to its identity. azag in sumerian means "enchanter" or "magician; thoth in coptic is the name given to the egyptian god of magick and wisdom, tahuti, who was evoked by both the golden dawn and by crowley himself (and known to the greeks as hermes, from whence we get "hermetic. azag-thoth is, therefore, a lord of magicians, but of the "black" magicians, or the sorcerers of the "other side. there is a seeming reference to shub niggurath in the necronomicon, in the name of a sumerian deity, the "answerer of prayers, called ishnigarrab. the word "shub" is to be found in

sts to see the necronomicon in its original state. banishings read this section carefully. in the interim period between the translation and the publication of this work, the editor, along with a circle of initiates in another discipline, undertook to experiment with the rituals and forces outlined in the necronomicon. in using the material alone, or within a western ceremonial structure (such as the golden dawn system) we came upon startling discoveries in both cases: there are no effective banishings for the forces invoked in the necronomicon itself! the rituals, incantations, formulae of this book are of ancient origin, comprising some of the oldest written magickal workings in western occult history. the deities and demons identified within have probably not been effectively summoned i

ne of these rituals in progress. that would be criminal, and perhaps in suicidal. one of our colleagues was fearfully attacked by his dog directly following a fairly simple and uncomplicated formula from this book. this is definitely not a gilbert chemistry set. the method of the necronomicon concerns deep, primeval forces that seem to preexist the normal archetypal images of the tarot trumps and the golden dawn telesmatic figures. these are forces that developed outside the judeo-christian mainstream, and were worshipped and summoned long before the creation of the qabala as we know it today. hence, the ineffectiveness of the golden dawn banishing procedures against them. they are not necessarily demonic or qliphotic in the sense that these terms are commonly understood in the west, they

the burning disk, remember! spirit of the never-ending light, remember! spirit of the rending of the veils of the night, dispeller of darkness, remember! spirit of the opening of the day, open wide thy gate! spirit who rises between the mountains with splendour, open thy gate to me! by the name which i was given on the sphere of ishtar, i ask thy gate to open! gate of the sun, open to me! gate of the golden sceptre, open to me! gate of the life-giving power, open! open! ia uddu-ya! ia russuluxi! saggtamarania! ia! ia! atzarachi-ya! atzarelechi-yu! bartalakatamani-ya kanpa! zi dingir uddu-ya kanpa! zi dingir ushtu-ya kanpa! zi shta! zi daraku! zi belurduk! kanpa! ia shta kanpa! ia! the invocation of the nergal gate spirit of the red planet, remember! nergal, god of war, remember! nergal, va

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

he above reason route is based on trial and error. everyone who starts to walk in it must stumble in it and rise again with his own strength, and begin to perceive the daily circumstances as assistance from above to one s spiritual progress. there are many forces that were created by the creator such as the evil eye, slander etc. their one and only one purpose is to teach us to control ourselves. the golden rule states: walk humbly with thy god (micah 6, 8. one must hide one s goals even from his own egoism, let alone other people s. however, this does not mean that we should dress or act any different than is customary where we live, or refrain from contact with people. but when around strangers, conduct only general conversations (small talk. not keeping this rule could lead to attractio

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

t sun of flame! i adore the insuperable might: i bow before the unspoken name. for i am yesterday, and i to-day, and i to-morrow, born now and again, on high, on high travelling on dian fs naked horn! i am the soul that doth create the gods, and all the kin of breath. i come from the sequestered state; my birth is from the house of death. i have risen! i have risen! as a mighty hawk of gold! from the golden egg i gather, and my wings the world enfold. i alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light; companies of spirits follow me; adore the lords of night. yea, with gladness did they paan, bowing low before my car, in my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. i have risen! i am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold, i the first-born of the mother in her ecstasy of

of archais. h there are many mysteries in this poem. charicles the desire striving after archais the ideal, failing, and the ideal seeking the lost desire; but outwardly we have, and visible to all, a true poem of the self-sacrifice of love, and as such i think we should principally read it, the poetry of life and hope, and not the mystic throbs of some deep aspiration. charicles and archais are the golden children of the tree of life; she is under the curse of jove. as all pure love has been under the anathema of some god. and he, blinded by his love, sets the mystic key in the secret lock, opening to his desire the hidden corridor of knowledge; the spell falls hissing as a snake. the picture of their meeting is beautiful indeed. thus we find archais: she lay within the water, and the su

hais, vol. i, pp. 9, 10. these last two lines contain the whole secret of this story. the beauty of the clinging love of childhood is tinged with a glowing desire, the pink desire of the bud bursts into the passionate crimson of the rose, and as in galice, h gthe dove gave place a moment to the swine; h. and yet hardly so! the pure desire of man and woman in whatever state of life, the weaving of the golden web of twain into one entity, is not lust, never was lust, never will be lust. according to the conventional meaning of that word, lust expresses something unhealthy, unclean; and the love charicles bore archais was certainly not that. this love, to use a good old english word, was a glusty h love, that is a healthy love, and not a lustful or perverted desire. the beauty of nature, the

reflected the passion of his own, as they smiled back on him all the love he bore her, yielding, he caught her up as a flame would another, and the giron rod of law h grew misty, for they were one, one in body, mind and soul; alone for that moment, sole inhabitants of this world. infinite. the moment is over, the girl rises up a woman, the wreath of lilies is now a crown of roses, she has plucked the golden fruit of eden, henceforth she is a priestess of sorrow; the crushed and bruised flowers cry to her gsuch as we were we are not, such as thou wert thou canst never be again. h the horrid spell falls upon her, and she writhes from his arms a snake. charicles trembling, fearful, at last becomes aware that fate has overtaken them; then all the fury of manhood rises in him: erect, sublime, h

, mesdemoiselles! women marry for title, clothing, shelter, and food; men because they think it is cheaper to keep a cow, and once and for all have done with it, than to be constantly running round the corner for a penny-worth of milk; and the lower stratum. the blessed poor. spend most of their lives in the act of engendering the elite of heaven and the scum of this earth, gmere shells, husks of the golden wheat that might grow even here, h*2. if it were not for our prudery, our religion, and our laws *1. why jesus wept, vol. iii, p. 42 *2. the poem, vol, i, p. 57. percy. the percy of gthe poem, h and not of gwhy jesus wept, h is optimistic enough concerning that vast army of unsexed women who are degraded by want of food and surfeit of marriage; for it is to these two that their existenc

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

truth of the practical and the truth of the ideal. the fluid is poured from a silver cup into the sea to indicate that the loving, emotional side of man's nature must be nourished if he is to grasp the inner truth. and it is poured from a golden cup upon the land to denote the necessity of cultivating the positive, reasoning intellect if he is to possess the external truth. the fluid flowing from the golden cup represents the forces of man, and that from the silver cup the forces of woman; together revealing the truth of soul-matehood, and indicating how the finer energies of man rejuvenate woman and how the finer energies of woman rejuvenate man; their forces mutually sustaining each other and making a joint immortality possible. the eight-point star symbolizes the law of equilibrium, the

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

s magick is formed from many traditions, in the current age it seems almost perfect. there is nothing which would be denied or ignored due to dogma. the system of chaos implements the foundation of change and progression. while the foundations of chaos are within the components of aleister crowley (who might have been a chaos magician himself, austin osman spare and macgregor mathers (default for the golden dawn and his various translations of manuscripts) chaos has spawned from the information these individuals have unknowingly given. it was later when peter carroll, ray sherwin and christopher bray took up the various magical traditions and ran with them, did chaos magick form from the proverbial ashes. chaos magick is not a system within itself. it is actually a definition of action, co

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

le above the pastos of our father christian rosencreutz. it must be frankly recognized that almost the whole of this manifesto was intended to deceive. the majority of its readers would have assumed for example, that the mysterious master thirion was either some discarnate entity, similar to those who supposedly manifested themselves to macgregor mathers and other members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, or a himalayan superman, like madame blavatsky s mahatmas.2 again, the statement that the o.t.o. in no way conflicts with or infringes the just privileges of the united grand lodge of england 3 displayed on reuss s part either what lenin, in another connection, called a naivete which in a child would be touching, but is repugnant in a person of mature years, or a capacity to tell

urse of time however, schisms the bane of all secret societies arose, the order went into decline and ultimately flickered out. in spite of its brief life the stricte observance was of importance for three reasons (1) it left a permanent mark on the masonic rituals of scandinavia (2) its unknown superiors were the forerunners of madame blavatsky s mahatmas, the third order of macgregor mathers of the golden dawn, and the secret chiefs of aleister crowley (3) there seems to have been a substantial amount of cultural cross-fertilization between the stricte observance and the order of elect cohens (elus coens, i.e. chosen priests, the first masonic association to be deeply involved in the practice of ceremonial magic. the elect cohens were founded by martines de pasqually, a somewhat mysterio

why he should have done this if he had been no more than an unorthodox freemason (d) crowley, who as we shall see, was on friendly terms with reuss, specifically stated that steiner had been an o.t.o. initiate. it is worth adding that crowley was usually accurate on matters of fact outside his own personal affairs (e) dr. felkin, the chief of the stella matutina (a magical fraternity derived from the golden dawn) and a disciple of steiner was also a member of the british section of the o.t.o. this, of course, was led by crowley regarded by the stella matutina as a black magician. it is impossible to explain felkin s membership of the o.t.o, and consequent association with crowley, except on the assumption that either steiner or one of his german lieutenants had suggested it to him (f) desc

uently crowley visited berlin where he received copies of the order s instructional manuscripts and had the title of supreme and holy king of ireland, iona and all the britains within the sanctuary of the gnosis conferred upon him.19 while crowley was impressed with the magical teachings he received from reuss he found the o.t.o. s techniques far simpler than the long-winded ceremonial methods of the golden dawn reuss seems to have been equally impressed by crowley and, indeed, to have been converted to crowleyanity, the new religion of thelema. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c4.html (2 of 3 [12/28/2001 2:01:45 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. the nature of thelemite religion and the story of how it came into existence are now too we

ow confer upon you by name the corresponding degrees of the reduced rite of memphis or ancient and primitive rite. discreet master. sublime master. knight of the sacred arch. knight of the secret vault. of which the rituals are now open to you for study. they comprehend in themselves the absolute degrees of perfect master of balahate. sublime epopt. knight of the iris. sublime minerval. knight of the golden fleece. grand elect mysophilote. knight of the triangle. finally, i confer upon you, the corresponding degrees of the oriental rite of mizram. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c5.html (11 of 22 [12/28/2001 2:03:44 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. secret master. perfect master. master by curiosity or intimate secretary. provost and ju

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

ny, tables of stone, written with the finger of god. 32:1 and when the people saw that moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto aaron, and said unto him, up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for [as for] this moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 32:2 and aaron said unto them, break off the golden earrings, which [are] in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring [them] unto me. 32:3 and all the people brake off the golden earrings which [were] in their ears, and brought [them] unto aaron. 32:4 and he received [them] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, these [be] thy gods, o israel, w

the covering of rams skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers skins, and the vail of the covering, 39:35 the ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat, 39:36 the table [and] all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread, 39:37 the pure candlestick [with] the lamps thereof [even with] the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light, 39:38 and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door, 39:39 the brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot, 39:40 the hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent

f the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail. 40:23 and he set the bread in order upon it before the lord; as the lord had commanded moses. 40:24 and he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. 40:25 and he lighted the lamps before the lord; as the lord commanded moses. 40:26 and he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail: 40:27 and he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the lord commanded moses. 40:28 and he set up the hanging [at] the door of the tabernacle. 40:29 and he put the altar of burnt offering [by] the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the lord commanded mose

at, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound [it] unto him therewith. 8:8 and he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the urim and the thummim. 8:9 and he put page 61 leviticus the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre [even] upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the lord commanded moses. 8:10 and moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that [was] therein, and sanctified them. 8:11 and he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them. 8:12 and he poured of the anointing oil upon aaron s head, and anointed

dgers skins, and shall put in the staves thereof. 4:9 and they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, numbers page 80 and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it: 4:10 and they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers skins, and shall put [it] upon a bar. 4:11 and upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers skins, and shall put to the staves thereof: 4:12 and they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put [them] in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers skins, and shall put [them] on a bar: 4:13 and they shall take away the ashes from the

THOUGHTS ON SETH

uncle, and implies simply that horus kicked seth's butt and that makes him the baddest god of all and the avenger of evil, etc. etc. the mythology we discussed on saturday morning tells how horus made peace with seth after thoth helps him rediscover his true nature. this is nowhere in any gd materials i can find. as far as the stella matutina (as recorded in regardie's books) goes, seth is simply the golden dawn's "satan" in the christian sense of the word. this won't do (note: the idea that horus could ever completely defeat and destroy seth is nonsense anyway. seth is the foundation of the material realm. seth is form and structure. he unlies malkuth in such a way that were he removed, reality itself would collapse into the primal chaos. according to his legend, every night seth rides th

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

ast between texts a, b and c were naturally the three initiation rituals; because these, above all, would be the traditional elements which would have been carefully preserved, probably for centuries (emphasis added) but what does one mean by "traditional materials" the three initiation rites, now much-described in print, all smack heavily of the crypto-freemasonic ritual of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the oto, and the various esoteric neorosicrucian groups that abounded in britain from about 1885 on, and which were, it is widely known, the fountainhead of much that is associated with gardner's friend crowley. the third degree ritual, perhaps wicca's ultimate rite, is, essentially, a nonsymbolic gnostic mass, that beautiful, evocative, erotic and esoteric ritual written and publ

, date from his days in the 1930s when he linked up with a neorosicrucuian grouping that could have included among its members the legendary dorothy clutterbuck, who set gardner on the path which led to wicca. thinking on it, what emerges from ye book of ye art magical is a developmental set of ideas. much of it is straight out of crowley, but it is clearly the published crowley, the old magus of the golden dawn, the a.a, and the o.t.o. somewhere along the line it hit me that i was not exactly looking at the "original book of shadows" but, perhaps, the outline gardner prepared over a long period of time, apparently in secret (since valiente, a relatively early initiate of gardner's, never heard of it nor saw it, according to her own account, until recent years, about the time aidan kelly u

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

od. the same thing happened to a certain woman about franckford at odera, in our times, who would scrape together& devour mony of any thing. would that men would diligently weigh this precept, and not account the histories of midas, and the like, for fables; they would be much more diligent in moderating their thoughts and affections, neither would they be so perpetually vexed with the spirits of the golden mountains of utopia. therefore we ought most diligently to observe, that such presumptions should be cast out of the minde, by the word, while they are new; neither let them have any habit in the idle minde, that is empty of the divine word. aphorism 47. he that is faithfully conversant in his vocation, shall have also the spirits constant companions of his desires, who will successivel

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ll the symbols both of bacchus and apollo, and with the initials of most of the epithets to be found in the orphic litanies. of priapus 41 universe, with the planets moving round, was, by his attractive force, the cause of all union and harmony in the whole; and, by the emanation of his beams, the cause of all motion and activity in the parts. this system is alluded to by homer in the allegory of the golden chain, by which jupiter suspends all things;1 though there is every reason to believe that the poet himself was ignorant of its meaning, and only related it as he had heard it. the ammonian platonics adopted the same system of attraction, but changed its centre from the sun to their metaphysical abstraction or incomprehensible unity, whose emanations pervaded all things, and held all th

all the nations of antiquity, except the3 egyptians and their reformed imitators the jews,4 who being governed by a hierarchy, endeavoured to make it awful and venerable to the people by an appearance of rigour and austerity. the people, however, sometimes broke through this restraint, and indulged themselves in the more pleasing worship of their neighbours, as when they danced and feasted before the golden calf which aaron erected,5 and devoted themselves to the worship of obscene idols, generally supposed to be of priapus, under the reign of abijam.6 the christian religion, being a reformation of the jewish, rather increased than diminished the austerity of its original. on particular occasions however it equally abated its rigour, and gave way to festivity and mirth, though always with

hose of the greek, and that their god was no other than the creator and generator bacchus,4 who, being viewed 1 symmach. ep. 10& 61. themist. orat. ad imperat. 2 odyss. z, ver. 207. 3 see pope s odyssey. 4 tacit. histor. lib. v. of priapus 113 through the gloomy medium of the hierarchy, appeared to them a jealous and irascible god; and so gave a more austere and unsociable form to their devotion. the golden vine preserved in the temple at jerusalem,1 and the taurine forms of the cherubs, between which the deity was supposed to reside, were symbols so exactly similar to their own, that they naturally concluded them meant to express the same ideas; especially as there was nothing in the avowed principles of the jewish worship to which they could be applied. the ineffable name also, which, ac

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

duce a completely revised and updated edition. a number of minor errors in the original text have been corrected. some of the more difficult passages that provoked inquiries from readers over the years have been expanded and clarified. readers of the present edition will find it much easier to understand and simpler to use. the differences between the new millennium magic system and the system of the golden dawn, which forms the basis for most of the magical currents in the modern west, have been explicitly stated to avoid any confusion between the two. wherever the ritual techniques of the new magic differ from the magic of the golden dawn, an attempt was made to explain and justify these differences. it is assumed that most readers will already have some background in magic, or at least

s of the new magic differ from the magic of the golden dawn, an attempt was made to explain and justify these differences. it is assumed that most readers will already have some background in magic, or at least will be eager to broaden their understanding of ritual techniques. this work should prove most useful when it is studied in conjunction with more conservative books on magic that adhere to the golden dawn pattern. most of the living magical currents that flow through english-speaking nations sprang from the fountain of the golden dawn. several members of that hermetic magical society exerted an enormous influence on occult practices and beliefs during the 20th century, and their influence continues unabated into the new millennium. most prominent among them were aleister crowley, di

h of these three not only founded new occult orders, but wrote innumerable teaching texts on golden dawn magic. their writ- ings formed the basis for the ritual techniques and many of the occult beliefs cur- rent in the pagan religion of wicca, or witchcraft, as well as those used by most practitioners of ceremonial magic and enochian magic. there is no attempt made here to discredit the magic of the golden dawn, which has exerted such a powerful influence on the modern west. new millenni- um magic is an attempt to understand the essential principles of magic through which golden dawn magic, and all other types of magic, operate. it explains why magic works the way it does in rational terms and sets forth the symbolic building blocks of the art, which function in a way that is similar to t

dern west. new millenni- um magic is an attempt to understand the essential principles of magic through which golden dawn magic, and all other types of magic, operate. it explains why magic works the way it does in rational terms and sets forth the symbolic building blocks of the art, which function in a way that is similar to the rules of grammar in creative writing. where specific techniques in the golden dawn system appear to conflict with the internal logic of this universal grammar of magic, these discrep- ancies have been pointed out and examined. this work provides a fundamental guide to all magical systems that allows the reader to determine when specific practices make sense and when they are non- sense. the book can also be used as a template in the construction of unique, per- s

re- ness into that object while making the cross. therefore, the cross is inscribed over the object as it would be if the object resided within the heart of the magus. remember, always draw the beam from the left side to the right side from the per- spective of the thing to which the cross is applied. it is necessary to point out here that in the system of magic developed by the hermetic order of the golden dawn, which forms the foundation for ninety per- cent of the magic being worked in the modern west, the magus is taught to inscribe the arm of the cross on his or her own body from the right shoulder to the left shoulder. this is due to the way golden dawn magicians applied the kabbalis- tic tree of the sephiroth to the human body. in the golden dawn, the left side of the tree was appli

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

iousness. there is also an echo here of the gnostic myth of sophia, goddess of wisdom, who incarnated as a mortal woman in order to aid human souls mired in ignorance to regain their divine birthright to dwell among the stars. witch's power of flight witchcraft is ancient in italy, and even in its pagan beginnings involved soul flight. the second-century roman writer lucius apuleius, in his novel the golden ass, described the flight of the witch pamphile, who smeared her body with a magic ointment and transformed herself into the form of an owl: and when midnight came, she led me softly into a high chamber and bid me look thorow the chink of a doore: where first i saw how shee put of all her garments, and took out of a certain coffer sundry kindes of boxes, of the which she opened one, and

nd, and always remain part of the mind. it is the conscious awareness that shifts from one mental state to another, from physical to astral. muldoon and carrington were obsessed by the silver cord. they believed it was the same as the silver cord described in the bible. muldoon probably derived the expression, and perhaps the concept, from the biblical verse "or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern (ecclesiastes 12:6. carrington wrote: the astral and the physical bodies are invariably connected by means of a sort of cord, or cable, along which vital currents pass. should this cord be severed, death instantly results. the only difference between astral projection and death is that the cord

its content the condescending attitude with which they regarded the spiritualist movement. it is related by charles webster leadbeater (1854- 1934) in his book the astral plane: its scenery, inhabitants and phenomena. according to leadbeater, the modern spiritualism movement began as an experiment conducted by the enlightened spiritual chiefs of a secret occult lodge known as the divine rulers of the golden gate, which leadbeater claimed was associated with atlantis. appalled by the creeping materialism of the nineteenth century, these powerful spirits decided to make it possible for the average person to converse with the dead, and thereby gain direct proof of the survival of the soul after death: the method adopted was to take some ordinary person after death, arouse him thoroughly upon

ds to seek freedom from its maker's authority.'03 chapter six: theosophy 89 there are other astral inhabitants and visitors recognized in theosophy, but these are the most important classes. it is useful to have an overview of them in order to see how the theosophical concept of the astral world differed from that of the spiritualists who came before them, and from that of the ritual magicians of the golden dawn who followed. the astral body theosophy divided the human body into seven degrees or levels. we need only concern ourselves with the lowest three. the lowest body is the material or physical body of flesh and blood. next above it is what is called the etheric body, which resembles the material body closely but is formed of a more subtle substance. slightly more refined than the eth

while, the scene faded and the fairy gave a nod and a smile before vanishing. all these early experiences of fox are connected. they were attempts by spiritual beings to awaken and develop his natural psychic abilities. the dreams of his mother's double directed his mind toward astral projection. the dreams and impressions of being stretched resulted from partial separation of his astral double. the golden light that suffused the air is an event i have experienced during soul flight, and it indicates an astral rather than a physical perception of the scene. the faces in the blue circles, although terrifying to the young boy, were intended to call his attention to the circles and to inform him "that is it, you see"-that when he became aware of the background of nebulous blue circles, he wa

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

mponents previously practiced and perfected, so that the reader is not overwhelmed by them, as happens too often in ritual texts, but recognizes in them known procedures. because these exercises are intended to develop skills and teach techniques rather than achieve results, they are general rather than specific, and may be adapted to a wide variety of purposes. xiv introduction essential role of the golden dawn some are training exercises and ritual methods developed independently in my own practice. others are standard techniques and rituals of western occultism that were first used by the original hermetic order of the golden dawn, a secret lodge of english magicians that flourished at the end of the nineteenth century. still others are original rituals, but based on golden dawn compone

eeping perceptions and abilities. they work, or i would not have included them. readers of my other works will know that i do not agree with every aspect of golden dawn symbolism. these disagreements are described and justified at length in my book new millennium magzc, where my personal system of magic is presented. to avoid confusing beginners, all of the exercises in the present work adhere to the golden dawn system of occult correspondences. golden dawn associations are used by the majority of ritual magicians and pagans practicing magic today, even though many of them have no idea where these symbolic relationships originated. the most important of these correspondences is the assignment of the four philosophical elements, spirits, angels and names of power to the four points of the c

ionship between the twenty-two tarot trumps and the twelve zodiac signs, seven astrological planets, and three simple elements. it is essential that beginners learn both the occult correspondences and the basic ritual techniques taught by the original golden dawn, even if they have no special interest in the order and no intention of studying its complex ceremonies and system of magic as a whole. the golden dawn correspondences are the nearest thing to a standard that exists in modern western magic. as for the basic rituals of the order, no techniques are more effective in awakening latent magical ability. they form the backbone of modern magic, and must be thoroughly understood in a practical way by every serious magician. the golden dawn material in the present work includes the invocati

hnique of centering by the kabbalistic cross, the technique for vibrating words of power, the way of charging objects with elemental force, both the lesser ritual and the greater rtual of the pentagram, the middle pillar exercise, the rose cross ritual, the invocation of the guardians of the quarters, the use of the tattwas in scrying, and other essential introduction xv techniques. in presenting the golden dawn rituals, i have kept closely to the original structures, but have expanded their descriptions, rendering the rituals much more accessible and effective for the average user. even those who have been doing magic for years and know the golden dawn system may find this presentation of the essential golden dawn rituals illuminating. arrangement of the exercises the exercises fall into

reas of magic. it is impossible to write a simple book on enochian magic without leaving out 95 percent of the subject. similarly, there is no way to explain the kabbalah in a handful of paragraphs. these subjects are complex and require complex treatments. israel regardie's great work 177e golden dawn is over 800 pages of fine print, and needs every page to cover the full system of magic used by the golden dawn. however, once the beginner has acquired practical knowledge of the basic techniques of ritual magic, these challenging texts become much easier to understand. at the other extreme of the scale, there is a distressing abundance of books on magical topics that simplifj. their subject to such a degree, nothing of practical value remains. these works advocate a sort of "shake-and-bake

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

ountryman alphonse louis constant, who wrote under the name eliphas levi, spent entire chapters of his popular books on magic wrestling with the meaning of tetragrammaton. the speculations of these and many other occult writers have been collected together for the first time in appendix b. it is fascinating to compare the words of levi with those of papus; of s.l. macgregor mathers, the leader of the golden dawn, with those of aleister crowley, his former student and the self-proclaimed great beast of the apocalypse; of helena p. blavatsky, the leader of the theosophists, with paul foster case, the founder of builders of the adytum; of p.d. ouspensky, the disillusioned former pupil of the mystic gurdjieff, with frater achad, a rebellious student of crowley. even in modern times, tetragramm

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

ists recognized that they were not infallible. they worked from a limited number of flawed sources, and sometimes they made mistakes. rather than slavishly follow the rules laid down by them nearly a century ago, i have preferred to analyze my sources independently, and where i disagree with the golden dawn, i have not hesitated to make changes in the occult correspondences. these departures from the golden dawn system have been pointed out to avoid confusion. much of the work i am doing is completely new, and i sometimes make mistakes myself. in my book the new magus? where i presented the correct order of the twelve banners of tetragrammaton for the first time, i applied each elemental trine of banners to its corresponding elemental trine of signs counterclockwise around the zodiac, in t

ge of the name that has been handed down from master to disciple through the centuries. the higher degrees of freemasonry purport to possess it. there are many occultists of the present day who are convinced that they, and they alone, preserve the true way of speaking it, which is the only way to release the awesome power of the word. samuel l. macgregor mathers, the head of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, boasted "i myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it (the kabbalah unveiled [london: routledge and kegan paul, 19621, p. 30. it is the custom in modern magic to pronounce the name by sounding out each of its hebrew letters fully: yod-he-vau-he (pronounced "yod-hayvav- hay) in order to more accurately express its compound esoteric meaning and also to acknowl

t associations branch forth. the most important of these is the four suits of the tarot, a set of seventy-eight picture cards widely used in modern magic. the symbols of the suits are related to the elements, and through them to the letters of the name. there is some disagreement over the correct relationship, as indeed there is for many of the secondary occult associations of the letters, but in the golden dawn arrangement, which is the most widely accepted, the suit of wands stands for fire, and thus the yod of the name. the suit of cups is water and the first he. the suit of swords is air and the vau. the suit of pentacles is earth and the second he. within each suit of the tarot are four face cards, and these are subdivided into elements. kings are fiery (i, queens are watery (first h

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me pursuing his passions of writing and mountain climbing. during his cambridge years, he would also adopt the name "aleister" a gaelic form of his middle name, alexander, and an homage to the hero of shelley's poem "alastor, the spirit of solitude" his first real initiation into the world of esotericism and magic occurred until 1898, when he was introduced to group known as the hermetic order of the golden dawn. founded by william westcott and macgregor mathers in 1887, the golden dawn was an eclectic blending of a number of older western esoteric traditions, including hermeticism, freemasonry, rosicrucianism and theurgic arts derived from jewish kabbalah. an affluent and elite group, the golden dawn attracted a number of prominent artists, poets and intellectuals, including w.b. yeats. e

eric traditions, including hermeticism, freemasonry, rosicrucianism and theurgic arts derived from jewish kabbalah. an affluent and elite group, the golden dawn attracted a number of prominent artists, poets and intellectuals, including w.b. yeats. eventually crowley and mathers would part ways, and finally become mired in a lawsuit when crowley published a full description of the secret rites of the golden dawn in his journal, equinox.xvii revealing secrets and sparking controversy, we will see, was something of an obsession throughout crowley's life. beginning in 1899, crowley also began to explore a variety of eastern spiritual traditions. after studying yoga in mexico, he traveled to ceylon and india in 1901-2, during which time he studied various forms of buddhism and hinduism. as we

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ns the blood of life, hungering for flesh, devouring and copulating, spreading her sexual knowledge to her children. yet she is also beautiful and all knowledgeable, the age of one thousand aged crones, infinite, youth maiden and hag. approach the bride of chaos in honesty, seeking her cold kiss and warmth in the sabbat fire, where you shall drink of both her skull cup of menstrual blood and from the golden chalice of the beast, the life of the sun22. cain cain or tubal-cain is the anthropomorphic child of the spiritual union of samael (the dragon) and lilith (the mother of demons) through adam and eve. 22 in some christian gnostic texts, such as the apocryphon of john cain is called the sun. vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 34 cain is the wanderer, the first murderer who tasted blood and b

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

t of osiris, who acted as administrators of the god, and even as task-masters [fn#147 "he who is the lord to the end (or, limit) of the world" a name of osiris [fn#148] i.e, in the house of keb [fn#149] or perhaps "take their seats in the house of keb" a legend of ptah nefer-hetep and the princess of bekhten. the horus "mighty bull, the form) of risings[fn#150, stablished in sovereignty like tem" the golden horus "mighty one of strength[fn#151, destroyer of the nine nations of the bow"[fn#152] king of the south and north "the lord of the two lands, user-maat-rasetep- en-ra son of ra: of his body, ra-meses-meri-amen, of amen- ra;[fn#153] the lord of the thrones of the two lands, and of the company of the gods, the lords of thebes, the beloved one. the beneficent god, the son of amen, born o

he] king of the south and north, user-maat-en-ra-setep-en-ra, the giver of life, like ra, for ever [fn#165] the month mekhir of the copts; the season pert is the egyptian spring. a legend of the god khnemu and of a seven years' famine. in the eighteenth year of the horus, neter-khat, of the king of the south and north, neter-khat, of the lord of the shrines of uatchit and nekhebit, neter-khat, of the golden horus tcheser,[fn#166] when matar was ha prince, and erpa, and governor of the temple-cities in the land of the south, and director of the khenti[fn#167] folk in abtu,[fn#168] there was brought unto him the following royal despatch "this is to inform thee that misery hath laid hold upon me [as i sit] upon the great throne by reason of those who dwell in the great house.[fn#169] my heart

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

he three principle-elements are the three mother letters of the hebraic alphabet. when one is practicing the arcanum a.z.f. one is working with these three principle-elements within the great laboratory of nature. one works with mercury, sulfur and salt when one practices the arcanum a.z.f; this is how the lead of the personality is transmuted into the gold of the spirit; this is how we elaborate the golden child of alchemy within ourselves. these three principle-elements become manifested within the four elements of nature. there exists the heat of fire and air, the humidity of air and water, and the dryness of fire and earth. these are the three principle-elements, the i.a.o, the sulfur, mercury and salt contained within the four elements of nature. the elemental paradises of nature are

ial employed in this work dies, it becomes rotten, corrupted and becomes blackened within the philosophical egg, then it becomes marvelously white. the entire summary of the great work is found within the philosophical egg. the masculine and feminine sexual principles are contained within the egg. thus, like the fledgling that emerges from the egg, or like the universe of brahma that emerges from the golden egg, the master emerges the same way from the philosophical egg. in the eighth key an illustration of the viridarium chymicum, death is represented by a corpse, putrefaction is represented by crows, the crop is represented by a humble farmer, the growth by a wheat stalk, and the resurrection by a deceased person who rises from the grave [sepulcher] and by an angel that plays the trumpet

ema. the entire power is found enveloped within the seed that is symbolized in the wheat stalk. the sacred angel that we carry within, plays his trumpet and the two witnesses rise from the grave. two archers, one who hits the bull s eye and the other who misses, symbolize the two alchemical interpretations that can occur, the right and the wrong. the white sexual magic and the black sexual magic. the golden alchemy and the erotic satanism. the ejaculation of the ens seminis does not exist in the golden alchemy, whereas in erotic satanism there exists the ejaculation of the ens seminis. in india, the black yogis (asura samphata) ejaculate the ens seminis (shuhsra) in order to criminally mix it with the feminine raja within the vagina, thereafter; by handling the vajroli in a negative way, t

osicrucian alchemical school that became secret in the year 1620. likewise, it comes into our memory the schools of aryavarta ashrama of tibet, as well as the sect of the manicheans of persian origin, and the famous sufis with their sacred dances, the templars, etc. all of these were schools of regeneration; the coitus reservatus is practiced in all of them. the schools of regeneration constitute the golden chain of the white lodge. escuelas de regeneraci n regenerarse, significa generarse nuevamente, es decir recrearse, volver a crearse. esto de nacer nuevamente, es un problema absolutamente sexual. las escuelas de regeneraci n est n gobernadas por neptuno. este planeta tiene un ciclo de 165 a os. dicho ciclo controla las pocas de actividades p blicas y secretas de estas escuelas. el esot

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elcomes correspondence on magical squares. about the illustrator after studying buddhism for five years, lloyd nygaard turned to the esoteric traditions of the west and spent seven years in a fourth way school practicing the inner disciplines of spiritual evolution. he has studied the writings of paul foster case for the past eleven years with other students from a variety of traditions that have the golden dawn as their common source. he works as a design engineer in the aerospace industry, and is currently writing a thesis on transfinite numbers, the mathematics of infinity. to write to the author if you would like to contact the author or illustrator, or would like more information about this book, please write to them in care of llewellyn worldwide. we cannot guarantee every letter wil

d. p. cm (llewellyn golden dawn series) isbn 1-56718-170-8 (pbk: akl. paper) l. mandala. 2. talismans. 3. magic squares. 4. tree of life. 5. magic. i. title. ii. series. bf1442. m34c66 1995 135. 4.dc20 95-44525 cip llewellyn publications a division of llewellyn worldwide, ltd. p. o. box 64383, st. paul, mn 55164-0383 about llewellyn's golden dawn series one hundred years ago the original order of the golden dawn initiated a powerful rebirth of interest in the western esoteric tradition that has lasted through this day.this series of books adds new impetus to the great work itself among an ever broadening base of sincere students. i further promise and swear that with the divine permission, i will from this day forward, apply myself to the great work.which is: to purify and exalt my spiritu

tely, that which was ordained as the birthright of all humanity: to become more than human! this is the ultimate message of esotericism: that evolution continues, and that the purpose of each life is to grow into the image set for us by our creator: to attain and reveal our own divinity. these books and tapes will themselves make more easily accessible the spiritual technology that is inherent in the golden dawn system. it is a system that allows for individual as well as group endeavor; a system based on universal principles that are global in their impact. and practical. the works in this series are practical in their applications and requirements for application. you need neither to travel to the mountain top nor obtain any tool other than your own consciousness. you need no garment oth

ither case. the problem centers on whether one believes there are actually spirits out there who work through the charged talisman, or whether these forces are primarily projections. both approaches are incorporated in this book, and the reader will find this discussion moving in different directions, depending on context. if we are talking about invocation, we will identify ourselves squarely in the golden dawn tradition, believing that an actual force is being summoned, and this energy can be very personal, including the taking of a physical form. for the most part, however, we will follow the interpretations of the great 1 qabalist and master of gematria, dr. paul foster case, whose orientation is primarily psychological. at any rate, the talismans in this book are not meant to be worn

r. we don't put an angelic name on a talisman because we like the way it sounds, or even because of past associations from childhood. in qabalah, talismanic images, symbols, or names are in no way arbitrary. if you don't know qabalistic correspondences well, study the charts given here and choose carefully. the tattwa images are less-rigid in terms of categories, i. e, they were incorporated into the golden dawn tradition late and have been used as symbols for the planets, tarot keys, and elements, as well as elemental combinations, by different people with different variations in meaning. correspondences relating to the tree.which have a much longer history.will have a greater tendency to be interpreted by most qabalists in the same way. some seals and sigils (if they are not blinds or mi

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so alien to his ideas and expressions that i am sure he had nothing to do with writing them, though i fancy from some of his works that he knew something about them. there is much evidence that in its present form the rites were worked long before kipling and crowley were born. the people who certainly would have had the knowledge and ability to invent them were the people who formed the order of the golden dawn about eighty years ago, but knowing their aims and objects i think it is about the last thing they would have done. hargrave jennings might have had a hand in them, but his writings are so involved that i hardly think he could have devised anything so simple and clear-cut. grandfathers and grandmothers have told folk still living of meetings they attended about a hundred and forty

tically on a lyre. in the myth the child dionysus was transformed into a kid to hide him from the wrath of hera. this kid which is being suckled symbolises the infancy of dionysus, and silenus is present because he is to be the pedagogue of the god; the scene represents symbolically the new birth of the neophyte. she is seen again in zagreus under the form of a kid, which is why there is found on the golden tablets buried with the initiated at sybaris the soul of the dead appearing before persephone and saying "i am born again '5. the neophyte is born again in zagreus; she has begun to live the life of the god, but terrible tests await her. silenus seated on a double plinth shows her a hemispherical silver case on which a youth gazes in ecstasy while his companion holds on high behind him

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

bear teton sioux silent vigils in my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts. they listened to the warbling of birds and noted the grandeur and the beauties of the forest. the majestic clouds which appear like mountains of granite floating in the air the golden tints of a summer evening sky, and all the changes of nature, possessed a mysterious significance. all this combined to furnish ample matter for reflection to the contemplating youth. francis assikinack (blackbird) ottawa simple truth i believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. i will tell you in my way how the indian sees things. the white man has more

sically or mentally. if they really want peace, friendship, love, and a life of usefulness, they must empty their precious bags of dust and illusions to realize the spirit of freedom, the ideal of this country. thoughts from confucius editor s notes: confucius helped to stabilize the chaotic chinese political scene by promoting a new religion based on honor and patriarchy. the term benevolence is the golden quality of the gentleman that is perhaps wisdom of attunement with the way. the numbers refer to passages in the analects, which are a collection of sayings of confucius by his disciples and grand-disciples. i like the penguin classics edition of the analects. i also recommend the writings of mencius who further built on the confucian tradition. tseng tzu said, every day i examine mysel

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

true wisdom, and perfect happine hcollectanea hermetica, of which it seem to form a suitable part, numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott and i am hopeful that it may be as well received by students of mystic philosophy as the previous volumes which treated of alchemy, in the hermetic arcanum, hermetic art, euphrates and aesch metzareph; the dream of scipio and the golden verses of the pythagoreans, the pymander of hermes and egyptian magic. i have added in this edition many notes on the notions of the rabbis of israel, both from those who contributed to the mishnah and gemara of the talmuds of jerusalem and of babylon, and from the rabbis who made a special study of the kabalah. only a few talmudic treatises have as yet appeared in the english language

completed. after 28 we cease to grow, at 35 is greatest strength, at 49 is the greatest discretion, and 70 is the natural end of life. the moon passes through stages of 7 days in increase, full, decrease, and renewal. naaman was ordered by elisha (an adept) to take seven dips in jordan, to cleanse himself from leprosy. 77. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the golden candlestick of seven branches was a notable emblematic ornament of the tabernacle of moses, exodus xxv. 31. note the seven years for repentance; 7 churches of asia (or assiah, 7 angels with trumpets, 7 candlesticks of the holy places, 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 kings, 7 thousands slain, 7 vials of wrath to be poured out, pace the apocalypse. 7 members make a freemasons lodge perfect, althou

hour and the figure xii. the author of the hymns of orpheus, the scholiast on hesiod, and porphyry state that the 12 labors of hercunumbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott les are said to be emblems of the sun in its passage through the 12 signs, and this is repeated by the mystagogus poeticus, 1653, and they have been allotted as follows- to aries, the quest of the golden apples of the hesperides; to taurus, the slaying of the cretan bull; gemini, hercules and his twin brother strangle the serpents; cancer, the taking of the herds of geryon; leo, the slaying of the nemaean lion; virgo, the victory over the amazon queen; libra, the death of the erymanthean boar; scorpio, the death of the lernaean hydra; sagittarius, the shooting of the five stymphalian bi

an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott from that reason, the egyptians abominate the number 17, and so did the pythagoreans they called in antiphraxis (obstruction, because it falls between the square number of 16 and the oblong number 18. 18 was deemed a protection against thieves. 18. isaiah made 18 denunciations against israel. at 18, years of age a girl should go to the nuptial colony. the golden candlestick of the temple was 18 handsbreadths tall. there are 18 blessings in the hebrew liturgy. there were only 18 high priests during the existence of the first or solomonic temple at jerusalem. 19. the number 19 is famous as being the number of years in the metonic cycle. the cycle of the revolutions of the moon, after which she returns to have her changes on the same day of the so

s number is 666. 3 woes, ix. 12. 1/ 3 part of vegetation killed, viii. 7 do. of sea became blood and do. of fish died, viii. 8 do. of waters became bitter, viii. 11-do. of sun, moon, stars, viii. 12. 3 days, bodies lay unburied, xxi. 9. 4 quarters of the earth, xx. 8. 4 beasts, full of eyes and have 6 wings, iv. 6-9( beasts should be living beings. w. 4 horses, white, red, pale, black. 4 horns of the golden altar before god, ix. 13. 4 angels of the euphrates, ix. 14. 4 angels of the winds of the 4 corners of the earth, vii. i. 5 months, the locusts had power to hurt men, ix. 5-10. 6 wings of the beasts (living beings, full of eyes, iv. 8. 7 churches, i. 20. 7 candlesticks, i. 20. represent the 7 churches. 7 stars, i. 20; ii. 1. represent 7 angels of the churches. 7 angels of the churches

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

science of causing change to occur in conformity with will" the llewellyn high magick series shows how to affect that change and details the steps necessary to cause it. magick is a tool. high magick is a potent tool. learn to use it. learn to put it to work to improve your life. this series will help you do just that. forthcoming books by pat zalewski z-5: secret instructions for initiation into the golden dawn enochian chess the tarot of the golden dawn enochiana table of contents preface ix introduction advanced enochian magic of the golden dawn xi author's introduction xv chapter 1 the book of truth 1 chapter 2 the twelve gates 29 chapter 3 the tablets of bonorum 75 chapter 4 the holy table 129 chapter 5 visionary experiences 157 appendix a the four elemental weapons 171 appendix b 173

calls were also derived by the use of these large tablets. dee and kelley had at their disposal a highly sophisticated system of magic which apparently neither of them comprehended. it remained just a collection of channeled messages in an archaic language, recorded in a series of obscure manuscripts, until macgregor mathers discovered them in the british museum. he introduced enochian magic into the golden dawn system, and for the first time it became something other than theory and speculation. this vast collection of material became the crown jewel of the order's work. the vast amount of material collected by dee and kelley indicates that they transcribed an entirely new language with its own grammar and syntax. occultists have called this language "enochian" because the dictating angel

theory and speculation. this vast collection of material became the crown jewel of the order's work. the vast amount of material collected by dee and kelley indicates that they transcribed an entirely new language with its own grammar and syntax. occultists have called this language "enochian" because the dictating angel, ave, was said to have originally given the tablets to enoch. as we look at the golden dawn by regardie, it is evident that the enochian work is not studied until all of the preliminary outer order work has been completed. the students are exposed to the watchtower tablets in ritual, and they do commit fundamentals of the system to memory, but no actual enochian ritual is performed in the outer order. regardie himself warned against approaching the advanced work without a

arned against approaching the advanced work without a sound foundation. i might add that it is of the utmost importance that the student be balanced emotionally, mentally and physically before undertaking any magical work. when one attains the level of 5=6 (adeptus minor, s/he begins the inner order work. enochian study, ritual and research become one of the primary pursuits. enochian material in the golden dawn consists of the four watchtower tablets, the tablet of union, the angelic calls and enochian chess. in reality this is just the beginning and only an introduction to the system. we must remember that when regardie published the gd in 1940, he had left the hermes temple at the level of zelator adeptus minor (z.a.m. what is written in his book represents the course of study in that s

variety who merely theorizes about magic. pat and his wife, chris, have spent the last 10 years dedicated to the research, preservation, and development of the gd material placed in their care, much of it from the elder adepts of the whare re temple in new zealand. they are both practicing magicians. together they are in the process of writing a number of books which detail their experiences with the golden dawn work. shortly before his death, regardie traveled to new zealand to meet with zalewski. he told a number of us on his return that he had finally found a "golden dawn man" we at ra horakhty temple feel fortunate to have worked with the zalewski's through regardie's efforts, and have enjoyed a working relationship with them ever since. they have generously funneled information to our

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

oing this book originally came from a conversation between israel regardie and myself during 1983 in new zealand. the decision to publish the inner order rituals of the 6=5 and 7=4 did not come lightly for either of us, but regardie and i both thought that these were better out in the open for all to use. both of our feelings were adequately summed up in regardie's book what you should know about the golden dawn (falcon press, in which he wrote: obligations to personal allegiance, whether tacit or avowed, is the ideal method of enhancing the personal reputation of those who for many years have sat resolutely and persistently upon the pastas of the hidden knowledge. if by any chance the hidden knowledge were removed from their custody, their power would be gone. for in most cases their domi

y, their power would be gone. for in most cases their dominion does not consist in the gravitational attraction of spiritual attainment or even ordinary erudition. their power is vested solely in the one fact, that they happen to be in possession of the private documents for distribution to those to whom they personally wish to bestow a favour as a mark of their esteem. regardie also hated to see the golden dawn system abused. he thought that the publication of the 6=5 and 7=4 grade rituals, in their original fcem, might minimize that abuse by those who would change the rituals at a later date. it is hoped that publication of these grade rituals will free others who wish to explore the grades above the 5=6 of the stella matutina in the outer. in so doing, i hope to break the shackles of so

the publication of the 6=5 and 7=4 grade rituals, in their original fcem, might minimize that abuse by those who would change the rituals at a later date. it is hoped that publication of these grade rituals will free others who wish to explore the grades above the 5=6 of the stella matutina in the outer. in so doing, i hope to break the shackles of some temples that claim legitimate descent from the golden dawn and the stella matutina. they use these grades, whether their claims be legitimate or not, as a source of secrecy to protect what regardie has called the "hidden knowledge" with these rituals and the formulation of the golden dawn foundation, which has a legitimate and chartered temple, we can now bring much additional teaching of the order out into the light. what is published in

. they use these grades, whether their claims be legitimate or not, as a source of secrecy to protect what regardie has called the "hidden knowledge" with these rituals and the formulation of the golden dawn foundation, which has a legitimate and chartered temple, we can now bring much additional teaching of the order out into the light. what is published in this volume is by no means the last of the golden dawn material papers and manuscripts are currently being prepared for other volumes which will contain many of the past order teachings as well as the later ones. enclosed with the order rituals are a number of flying rolls lectures of the old golden dawn (as well as later ones) that i unearthed from the new zealand order. these lectures may shed new light on many of the more obscure as

g prepared for other volumes which will contain many of the past order teachings as well as the later ones. enclosed with the order rituals are a number of flying rolls lectures of the old golden dawn (as well as later ones) that i unearthed from the new zealand order. these lectures may shed new light on many of the more obscure aspects of g.d. teachings. it was regardie's wish (and my own) that the golden dawn be allowed to spread out and not be restricted. publication of previously unpublished material is a start in that direction. i hope that this publication will help those temples struggling for higher knowledge and put a bomb under other temples which have this material and have not yet released it due to their own brand of secret elitism. what is needed in the golden dawn today is

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