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against the lord our god; and unto this day the fury of the lord and his wrath is not turned from us. 14 and ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to make confession in the house of the lord, upon the feasts and solemn days. 15 and ye shall say, to the lord our god belongeth righteousness, but unto us the confusion of faces, as it is come to pass this day, unto them of juda, and to the inhabitants of jerusalem, 16 and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers: 17 for we have sinned before the lord, 18 and disobeyed him, and have not hearkened unto the voice of the lord our god, to walk in the commandments that he gave us openly: 19 since the day that the lord brought our forefathers out of the land of egypt, unto this prese

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

minden, on easter sunday, the young people of both sexes used with loud cries of joy to dance a reigen (rig, 1 otlier ms. have' mole' or' metallo. a brazen image on tlie oak is not to be tliought of, as such a thing would have been alluded to in what precedes or follows. 74 temples. circular dance) round an old oak in a thicket near the village of wormeln, paderborn, stands a jioly oak, to which the inhabitants of wormeln and calenberg still make a solemn procession every year.2 i am inclined to trace back to heathenism the proper name of hobj wood so common in nearly all parts of germany. it is not likely that from a christian church situated in a wood, the wood itself would be named holy; and in such forests, as a rule, there is not a church to be found. still less can the name be expla

ons jovis. this name occurs frequently in the prankish annals (pertz 1, 150. 295. 453. 498. 512. 570. 606. 2, 82, in otto fris. de gest. frid. 2, 24, in eadevicus 1, 25, who designates it via julii caesaris, modo mons jovis; in as. writers 7nunt jofes (lye sub. v, in ^ifr. boet. p. 150 muntgiow; in our kaiserchronik 88^ nionte job. the name and the worship carry us back to the time of the komans; the inhabitants of the alps worshipped a fenimis deus, or a pcnina dea: i^eque montibus his ab transitu poenorum ullo veragri, incolae jugi ejus norunt nomen inditum, sed al3 eo (al. deo) quem in summo sacratum vertice -peninum montani adpellant; livy 31, 38. quamvis legatur a poenina dea quae ibi colitur alpes ipsas vocari; servius on virg. aen. 10, 13. an inscription found on the st bernard (jac

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

practicus round the temple and again halts before dais. hiereus: rises with red lamp in his hand. hiereus: the dukes of edom were amazed, trembling took hold of the mighty of moab. lord when thou wentest out of seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. curse ye meroz said the angel of the lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the lord, to the help of the lord against the mighty. the river kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river kishon, o my soul thou hast trodden down strength. he bowed the heavens also and came down and darkness was under his feet. at the brightness that was before him, the thick clouds passed. the lord thundered through the h

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

one has to reckon with unseen forces. the most impossible things begin to happen when once you get going. it is not really satisfactory to start serious yoga unless you are in a country where the climate is reliable, and where the air is not polluted by the stench of civilisation. it is extremely important, above all things important, unless one is an exceedingly rich man, to find a country where the inhabitants understand the yogin mode of life, where they are sympathetic with its practices, treat the aspirant with respect, and unobtrusively assist and protect him. in such circumstances, the exigency of yama and niyama is not so serious a stress. there is, too, something beyond all these practical details which it is hard to emphasise without making just those mysterious assumptions which

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

duly accomplished. nor could any use or worth be found in my body. so therefore i determined to accept my great reward, that was granted unto me as the faithful minister of the god f.i.a.t. that is behind all manifestation of will and of intelligence, of whom isis and osiris and horus are but the ministers. of this, and of my death, i will speak on another occasion. but first i will discourse of the inhabitants of the kingdom that encircleth the world, so that they who fear may be comforted. chapter x but of these matters i am warned that i shall not now become aware, for that there be great mysteries therein contained, pertaining to a degree of initiation of which i am as yet unworthy. page 42 gulf.txt (thus the record comes abruptly to an end) pageomdedication on the one hundredth anniv

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

would be 5 almost entirely unrelated to his experience, and it would certainly not give him sight. a similar phenomenon is observed when a gentleman who has taken an "honours degree" in modern languages at cambridge arrives in paris, and is unable to order his dinner. to exclaim against the master therion is to act like a person who, observing this, should attack both the professors of french and the inhabitants of paris, and perhaps go on to deny the existence of france. let us say, once again, that the magical language is nothing but a convenient system of classification to enable the magician to docket his experiences as he obtains them. yet this is true also, that, once the language is mastered, one can divine the unknown by study of the known, just as one's knowledge of latin and gree

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

ns" 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 remained still. now it is useless for the beginner to take so formidable a vow; he 77 has not yet attained the strength which can defy mara. let him estimate his strength, and take a vow which is within it, but

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

read from heaven' was the "free gift of god. the dead were thrown to the amphibians. each man built his own shelter of the rough stone sponge which abounded. the word 'house' was used only in atlas; the servile race called its huts 'hloklost (equivalent to the english word 'home. discontent was absolutely unknown. it had not been considered necessary to prohibit traffic with foreign countries, as the inhabitants of such were esteemed barbarians. had a ship landed men, they would have been murdered to a man, supposing that atlas had permitted any approach to its shores. that it hindered such, and by infallible means, was due to other considerations, whose nature will form the subject of a subsequent chapter. this then is the nature of the plains beneath atlas, and the character of the servi

g. the only entrance was by an orifice at the top. but the base was tunneled so that from every house was a channel for the zro which having been brought to the highest perfection was thus transferred to headquarters. the receptacle at the base being far below the earth, and the zro further heated by friction, it seethed continually into a bluish or purplish smoke. this was the sole sustenance of the inhabitants of the high house. in early days the old high house, in an island since destroyed by order of the atla, had been called the house of blood, the inhabitants subsisting only on blood sucked from the living. the improvements in zro had changed all that; but the idea was the same, to live on the quintessence of life. hence while the 'houses' ate and drank zro, the high house drank its

orkers intent on their beloved task. the passer-by would gladly join one of such parties, engage in the work for so long as he wished, and then proceed upon his private business. in these same gardens too, were salvers and goblets always filled with zro, and after toil, refreshment fitted the workers to return to labour. now of these workings in the gardens strange tales are told. it is said that the inhabitants falling to repose were visited in sleep by incubi and succubi (whatever the nature of these may be, and i by no means concur in the opinion of sinistrari, and that they welcomed such with eagerness. nay, darker legends tell of infamous commerce and intercourse with demons foul and malicious, and pretend that the power of atlas was devilish, and that the catastrophe was the judgemen

their whole work by commerce with inferiors. if there be any truth whatever in these stories, it will then be more easily supposable that the atlanteans aspiring to journey sunwards to venus, might invoke the beings of that planet, should it be possible for them to travel to us. and that this is impos sible, who can assert? on the theory of the magicians, power increases as the sun is approached, the inhabitants of earth being more highly infused with the magical force of our star than those of mars, and they again more than those of great jupiter, gloomy and disastrous saturn and uranus, or neptune lost in star- dreams. again, the powers of each particular planet may, nay, must be wholly diverse. so fundamental a condition of existence as the value of g being vastly various, must not the

e of zro is another and an open question. in any case, such is the tradition, and numerous parodies of it are still extant in the stories of the births of romulus and remus, bacchus, buddha and many other legendary heroes of modern times; we even catch an echo in the myths of such barbarian lands as syria. so much and no more concerning the underground gardens of atlas, and of their commerce with the inhabitants of venus. vii. of marriage and other curious customs of the atlanteans: and of sacrifices to the gods. i have already adverted to that most singular conception of the duty of the married which opposes the customs of atlas to those of any other race on earth. but the considerations which established it have yet to be discussed. i will not insist on that gross and cynical point of vi

tains, there each to guard his share of the secrets of the holy race, and in due time to discover and train up fit children of other races of the earth so that one day another people might be founded to undertake another such task as that now ended. hardly had the pinnacle of atlas melted into the sea behind them, than the 'catastrophe' occurred. the high house and the column beneath it, with all the inhabitants of atlas, shot from the earth with the vehemence of a million lightnings, bound for that green blaze of glory that scintillated in the west above the sunset. instantly the earth, its god departed, gave itself up to anguish. the sea rushed unto the void of the column and in a thousand earthquakes atlas 'houses' and plains together were overwhelmed forever in the ocean. tidal waves r

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

uritan persecution-mania; perversion is practically unknown, and monogamy is the general custom. even the civilized psychopaths of cities, forced into every kind of excess by the omnipresence of erotic suggestions and the contact of crazed crowds seething with suppressed sexuality, are not wholly past physic. they are no sooner released from the persistent pressure by escaping to some place where the inhabitants treat the reproductive and the respiratory organs as equally innocent than they begin insensibly to forget their 'fixed idea' forced on them by the fog-horn of morality, so that their perversions perish, just as a coiled spring straightens itself when the external compulsion is removed. they revert to their natural sex-characters, which only in rare cases are other than simple, pur

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

e they upon whom he shall look with derision, for nothing shall stand before his face. and every mystery that hath not been revealed from the 62 foundation of the world he shall reveal unto his chosen. and they shall have power over every spirit of the ether; and of the earth and under the earth; on dry land and in the water; of whirling air and of rushing fire. and they shall have power over all the inhabitants of the earth, and every scourge of god shall be subdued beneath their feet. the angels shall come unto them and walk with them, and the great gods of heaven shall be their guests. but i must sit apart, with dust upon my head, discrowned and desolate. i must lurk in forbidden corners of the earth. i must plot secretly in the by- ways of great cities, in the fog, and in marshes of th

in all the parts of the body and the soul. he speaks with such a terrible roaring that it is impossible to hear the words; one catches a a phrase here and there, or a glimpse of the idea. with every word he belches forth smoke, so that the whole aethyr becomes full of it. and now i hear the angel: every particle of matter that forms the smoke of my breath is a religion that hath flourished among the inhabitants of the worlds. thus are they all whirled forth in my breath. now he is giving a demonstration of this operation. and he says: know thou that all the religions of all the worlds end herein, but they are only the smoke of my breath, and i am only the head of the great dragon that eateth up the universe; 130 without whom the fifth aethyr would be perfect, even as the first. yet unless

all the darkness cause by the interference of the opposite waves of thought. it is one of the most suggestive definitions of konx- the lvx of the brethren of the rosy cross- that it transcends all the possible pairs of opposites. nor does this sound nonsensical to those who are acquainted with that lvx. but to those who do not it must remain as obscure and ridiculous as spherical trigonometry to the inhabitants of flatland "the literary guide "he is a lofty idealist. he sings like a lark at the gates of heaven 'konx om pax' is the apotheosis of extravagance. the last word in eccentricity. a prettily told fairy-story 'for babes and sucklings' has 'explanatory notes in hebrew and latin for the wise and prudent- which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing- together with a weird prefac

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

rest poesy, keep me to this vow! and if i turn aside, even for a moment, i pray thee, warn me by some signal chastisement, that thou art a jealous god, and that thou wilt keep me veiled, cherished, guarded in thine harem a pure and perfect spouse, like a slender fountain playing in thy courts of marble and of malachite, of jasper, of topaz, and of lapis lazuli. and by my magick power i summon all the inhabitants of the ten thousand worlds to witness this mine oath. 8.15. i will rise, and break my fast. i think it as well to go on with the mantra, as it started of its own accord. 35 9.0. arrived at panth on, to breakfast on coffee and biroche and a peach. i shall try and describe ritual dclxxi; since its nature is important to this great ceremony of initiation. those who understand a little

all the darkness caused by the interference of the opposite waves of thought. it is one of the most suggestive definitions of konx the lvx of the brethren of the rosy cross that it transcends all the possible pairs of opposites. nor does this sound nonsensical to those who are acquainted with that lvx. but to those who do not it must remain as obscure and ridiculous as spherical trigonometry to the inhabitants of flatland."the literary guide""he is a lofty idealist. he sings like a lark at the gates of heaven.'konx om pax' is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity. a prettily-told fairy-story 'for babes and sucklings' has 'explanatory notes in hebrew and latin for the wise and prudent' which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing together with a weird prefac

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

to be an illusion. 4. we shall correct mysticism (or illuminism) by science, and explain science by illuminism. v 1. we have one method, that of science. 2. we have one aim, that of religion. vi there was once an inhabitant in a land called utopia who complained to the water company that his water was impure. 6 "no" answered the water man "it can't be impure, for we filter it "oh indeed" replied the inhabitant "but my wife died from drinking it "no" said the water man "i assure you that this water comes from the purest springs in utopia; further, that water, however impure, cannot hurt anybody; further, that i have a certificate of its purity from the water company itself "the people who pay you" sneered the inhabitant "for your other points, haeckel has proved that all water is poison, a

croscope" cried the three in chorus "an instrument, your worship, that i have constructed on the admitted principles of optics, to demonstrate by experience what these gentlemen are arguing about "a priori" and on hearsay" then they both rose up against him, and cursed him "unscientific balderdash" said the water man, for the first time speaking respectfully of science "blasphemous nonsense" said the inhabitant, for the first time speaking respectfully of religion "wait and see" said the judge; for he was a just judge. then the man with the microscope explained the uses of this new and strange instrument. and the judge patiently investigated all sources of error, and concluded in the end that the instrument was a true revealer of the secrets of the water. and he pronounced just judgment. b

oncluded in the end that the instrument was a true revealer of the secrets of the water. and he pronounced just judgment. but the others were blinded by passion and self-interest. they only quarrelled more noisily, and were finally turned out of court. but the judge caused the man with the microscope to be appointed government analyst at pounds12,000 a year. now the water man is the believer, and the inhabitant the unbeliever. the judge is the agnostic- in huxley's sense of the word; and the man with the microscope is the scientific illuminist. curious as it may seem, all this was most carefully explained 8 in no. 1 of this review, in mr. frank harris's "the magic glasses" mr 'allett is the materialist, canon bayton the idealist, the judge's daughter is the agnostic, and matthew penry the

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 3

esar pontifex; and esoteric jabs presumably at poor faustina, such as "that biting thing is only precious in the tart" we find some masterly twaddle, regular phillpotts "two thousand years of fooled humanity, christ, they have prostituted thee and raped 317 thy virgin message till at last it stands no more than handmaid to their infamy (phillpotts really means harlot, but he is afraid of shocking the inhabitants of torquay "some flight of years and the inevitable, tireless hand gropes and grips fast, and draws it gently down. to sublimation" what in the name of narcissus is this all about? and yet mr. ford madox hueffer takes for one of his recent texts "we have not got a great poet" well here at least is one, who, if he can do nothing else, can phillpotts! the martyrdom of ferrer. by jose

all the darkness caused by the interference of the opposite waves of thought. it is one of the most suggestive definitions of konx_ the lvx of the brethren of the rosy cross_ that it transcends all the possible pairs of opposites. nor does this sound nonsensical to those who are acquainted with that lvx. but to those who do not it must remain as obscure and ridiculous as spherical trigonometry to the inhabitants of flatland "the literary guide "he is a lofty idealist. he sings like a lark at the gates of heaven 'konx om pax' is the apotheosis of extravagance. the last word in eccentricity. a prettily told fairy-story 'for babes and sucklings' has 'explanatory notes in hebrew and latin for the wise and prudent_ which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing_ together with a weird prefac

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

his little crack that thou hast left" then the great white spirit arose and formulated himself as the pillar of infinitude, even as the mahalingam of great shiva the destroyer, who openeth his eye, and all is not. and behold! he was balanced in the crack, and the void was filled, and nature was content. and elohim gibor, and kamael the mighty and his seraphim, and graphiel, and bartzabel, and all the inhabitants of madim shouted for joy and gave glory and honour and praise to the great white spirit; and the sound of their rejoicing filled the worlds. now for one thousand myriad eternities the great white spirit maintained himself as the pillar of infinitude in the midst of the little crack that he had overlooked; and lo! he was very weary "i cannot stay like this for ever" he exclaimed; an

ed quarters to which these primitive men travelled is carefully indicated on the map at the end of the book. though it may seem strange that they crossed vast oceans, it must be born in mind that the configurations of the globe have changed since those remote periods; besides, primitive man did get about the world in a most extraordinary way, as such islands as madagascar and easter island prove. the inhabitants of the former are polynesian and not african, of the later, seemingly melanesian, judging by their skulls, and the solomon islands, the nearest melanesian islands to easter island, are thousands of miles away. ducie island, the nearest island to easter island, is many hundred miles away, and the coast of south america is no less than 2,300 miles distant. and yet in this tiny island

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 3

all the darkness cause by the interference of the opposite waves of thought. it is one of the most suggestive definitions of konx- the lvx of the brethren of the rosy cross- that it transcends all the possible pairs of opposites. nor does this sound nonsensical to those who are acquainted with that lvx. but to those who do not it must remain as obscure and ridiculous as spherical trigonometry to the inhabitants of flatland "the literary guide "he is a lofty idealist. he sings like a lark at the gates of heaven 'konx om pax' is the apotheosis of extravagance. the last word in eccentricity. a prettily told fairy-story 'for babes and sucklings' has 'explanatory notes in hebrew and latin for the wise and prudentea the probationer's robe is fitted for performance of all general invocations and

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6 2

and are with you, children["she plays<mars "starts up and recites" 1. the dukes of edom were amazed: trembling took hold on the mighty of moab! 51 2. lord, when thou wentest out of seir; when thou marchedst out of the field of edom; the earth trembled, and the heaven dropped: the clouds also dropped water. 3. curse ye meroz, saith the angel of the lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the lord, to the help of the lord against the mighty! 4. the river kishon swept them away: that ancient river, the river kishon! 5. oh, my soul, thou hast trodden down strength! 1. he bowed the heavens also and and came down: and darkness was under his feet: at the brightness that was before him thick clouds passed: hail stones and flas

all the darkness cause by the interference of the opposite waves of thought. it is one of the most suggestive definitions of konx- the lvx of the brethren of the rosy cross- that it transcends all the possible pairs of opposites. nor does this sound nonsensical to those who are acquainted with that lvx. but to those who do not it must remain as obscure and ridiculous as spherical trigonometry to the inhabitants of flatland "the literary guide "he is a lofty idealist. he sings like a lark at the gates of heaven 'konx om pax' is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity. a prettily told fairy-story 'for babes and sucklings' has 'explanatory notes in hebrew and latin for the wise and prudent- which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing- together with a weird prefac

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

and who numbers amongst his pupils a large number of europeans and americans, is a rajput prince, and for many decades held an authoritative position in indian affairs. he works in close co-operation with the manu, and will himself eventually hold office as the manu of the sixth root-race. he dwells, as does his brother, the master k. h, at shigatse in the himalayas, and is a well-known figure to the inhabitants of that far-away village. he is a man of tall and commanding presence, dark hair and beard and dark eyes, and might be considered stern were it not for the expression that lies in his eyes. he and his brother, the master k. h, work almost as a unit, and have done so for many centuries and will, on into the future, for the master k. h. is in line for the office of world teacher when

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

ts rightful inhabitants and perhaps the boston tea party. the heroes of history are all warriors alexander the great, julius caesar, attila the hun, richard coeur de lion, napoleon, george washington and many others. geography is largely history in another form but presented in a similar manner a history of discovery, investigation and seizure, followed frequently by wicked and cruel treatment of the inhabitants of the discovered lands. greed, ambition, cruelty and pride are the keynotes of our teaching of- 25- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust history and geography. the wars, aggressions and thefts which have distinguished every great nation without exception are facts and cannot be denied. surely, however, the lessons of the evils which they wrought (culminating in the war

be eliminated; everywhere there is discussion and planning; there are meetings and forums, and conferences and committees, ranging all the way from the great deliberations of the united nations down to the tiny meetings held in some remote village. the beauty of the present situation is that even in the smallest community a practical expression of what is needed on a worldwide scale is offered to the inhabitants; differences in families, in churches, in municipalities, in cities, in nations, between races and internationally all call for the same objective and for the same process of adjustment: the establishing of right human relations. the technique or method to bring this about remains everywhere the same: the use of the spirit of goodwill. goodwill is the simplest expression of true lo

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

l. in the east, the problem of the teacher or guru is to take negatively polarised people and make them positive. in the west, the races are as a whole positive in attitude and need no such training as is rightly given to the oriental. what exactly do i mean when i make this statement? i mean that in the east, the will factor (the quality of the first aspect) is absent. the oriental, particularly the inhabitant of india, lacks will, dynamic incentive and the ability to exert that inner pressure upon himself which will produce definite results. that is why that particular civilisation is so unadaptable to modern civilisation, and that is why the people of india make so little progress along the lines of regulated municipal and national life, and why they are so behind the times as far as mo

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

oughout the earliest records and writings. there is much misinterpreted testimony to this effect, and when men can read the records more correctly and with right interpretation, they will understand the way out, because they will see more clearly the underlying causes. cancer is a gift to modern man from the atlantean humanity, and the scourge of this disease was the major factor which devastated the inhabitants of old atlantis. the roots of this dire evil are deep-seated in the emotional or desire nature, and are grounded in the astral body. cancer is partially the result of a reaction to the diseases connected with the sex life which became so rampant in later lemurian times and early atlantean days. the people of those times, seeing the fearful evils and the extent of the disease which

ess and isolation; that is why the effects of bad health, when rightly handled, lead to a sweetening of the disposition and a broadening of the sympathies. sharing and a sense of general participation has usually to be learnt the hard way such again is the law. in this law we have the clue to that which will ultimately sweep disease from the earth. let me put it quite simply. when the majority of the inhabitants of the earth are being rapidly oriented towards good, towards righteousness, as the bible expresses it, and when the bulk of human beings are inclined towards goodwill (the second major expression of soul contact and influence in the individual's life and in the life of mankind the first being the sense of responsibility, then ill health will persistently, even if only gradually, d

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

tion in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust tea party. the heroes of history are all warriors alexander the great, julius caesar, attila the hun, richard coeur de lion, napoleon, george washington and many others. geography is largely history in another form but presented in a similar manner a history of discovery, investigation and seizure, followed frequently by wicked and cruel treatment of the inhabitants of the discovered lands. greed, ambition, cruelty and pride are the keynotes of our teaching of history and geography. these wars, aggression and thefts which have distinguished every great nation without exception are facts and cannot be denied. surely, however, the lessons of the evils which they wrought (culminating in the war 1914-1945) can be pointed out and the ancient causes

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

word "spiritual" would not yet apply, except relatively) and in destroying those who were wrongly focussed or oriented and, therefore, dedicated to the life of material aspiration and perception. this nucleus which was saved, formed the basis of our present root race, the aryan. the whole theme of the old testament is built around the development and growth of this nucleus. symbolically speaking, the inhabitants of the ark and their descendants and the jewish race stand for the salvaged remnant of humanity salvaged in spite of themselves and in face of stupendous difficulties by the great white lodge- 81- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust two points warrant attention here. the first and least important from the standpoint of the soul is the disappearance off t

nations; german hegemony and "living space" must dominate europe, and the german superman must be the arbiter of human life; american isolationism would leave humanity defenceless in its hour of need and hand men over to the rule of hitler; russia, in her silence, cannot be trusted; japan is upsetting the balance of power in asia. such is the picture today. anarchy rules the world; famine stalks the inhabitants of europe; the civilian population of cities, the women and children, are in grave danger of injury and death and are forced to live underground; pestilence appears; there is no safety on land or sea or in the air; the nations are on the verge of financial ruin- 121- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust science has turned to the invention of the instrumen

iety and world insecurity in order to create another point of world tension. until these two sources of world tension are recognised and correctly handled, the life of the aspirant, and still more of the disciple, is exceedingly hard. you may retort (and truly) that the life of all who suffered through the war, the fate of the starving people who are still taking the brunt of the attack in europe the inhabitants of great britain, italy, china, poland, and the balkans, plus germany and japan, who are responsible for the difficulty, and all who are engulfed in the results of germany's attack upon the world is hard beyond endurance, and must therefore be shared by all aspirants and disciples. that is indeed true. but the more advanced thinkers and workers have far more than the general fate t

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

anas, the book of the dead, the zendavesta, the assyrian tiles, and finally the bible, and who has observed the constant occurrence of the number seven, in these records of people living from the remotest times unconnected and so far apart, can regard as a coincidence the following fact, given by the same explorer of ancient mysteries? speaking of the prevalence of seven as a mystic number, among the inhabitants of the "western continent (of america, he adds that it is not less remarkable. for "it frequently occurs in the popul-vuh. we find it besides in the seven families said by sahagun and clavigero to have accompanied the mystical personage named votan, the reputed founder of the great city of nachan, identified by some with palenque. in the seven caves* from which the ancestors of the

re to do, however, with psychology than with physics. we men have learned to live in every climate, whether frigid or tropical, but the first two races had nought to do with climate, nor were they subservient to any temperature or change therein. and thus, we are taught, men lived down to the close of the third root-race, when eternal spring reigned over the whole globe, such as is now enjoyed by the inhabitants of jupiter; a "world" says m. flammarion "which is not subject like our own to the vicissitudes of seasons nor to abrupt alternations of temperature, but which is enriched with all the treasures of eternal spring("pluralite des mondes" p. 69) those astronomers who maintain that jupiter is in a molten condition, in our sense of the term, are invited to settle their dispute with this

ia was developed, it is certain that this civilization did exist, and it is highly important to science to recover its traces, however feeble and fugitive they may be (pp. 13-15. this last tradition corroborates the one given from the "records of the secret doctrine" the war mentioned between the yellow and the black men, relates to a struggle between the "sons of god" and the "sons of giants" or the inhabitants and magicians of atlantis. the final conclusion of the author, who personally visited all the islands of polynesia, and devoted years to the study of the religion, language, and traditions of nearly all the peoples, is as follows "as to the polynesian continent which disappeared at the time of the final geological cataclysms, its existence rests on such proofs that to be logical we

footnote(s* see at the end of this stanza "on the duration of ages and cycles[[vol. 2, page] 332 the secret doctrine. six feet. as pickering shows, there is in the malay race (a sub-race of the fourth root race) a singular diversity of stature; the members of the polynesian family (tahitians, samoans, and tonga islanders) are of a higher stature than the rest of mankind; but the indian tribes and the inhabitants of the indo-chinese countries are decidedly below the general average. this is easily explained. the polynesians belong to the very earliest of the surviving sub-races, the others to the very last and transitory stock. as the tasmanians are now completely extinct, and the australians rapidly dying out, so will the other old races soon follow (b) now, how could those records have be

ths and his night another six months" as the vishnu purana has it "for the north of meru there is, therefore, always night during day in other regions; for meru is north of all the dwipas and varshas (islands and countries (book ii, chap. viii) meru is therefore neither on atlas as wilford suggests, nor, as wilson tried to show "absolutely in the centre of the globe" only because "relatively with the inhabitants of the several portions, to all of whom the east is that quarter where the sun first appears* even the commentaries do not refrain from oriental metaphor. the globe is likened to the body of a woman "mother earth" from her neck downward, means from the inland sea now beyond the impassable barrier of ice. the earth, as parasara says "is the mother and nurse, augmented with all creat

for marcellus, who wrote a history of ethiopian affairs, says that such, and so great an island once existed, and this is evidenced by those who composed histories relative to the external sea. for they relate that in this time there were seven islands in the atlantic sea sacred to proserpine; and besides these, three of immense magnitude, sacred to pluto. jupiter. and neptune. and, besides this, the inhabitants of the last island (poseidonis) preserved the memory of the prodigious magnitude of the atlantic island as related by their ancestors, and of its governing for many periods all the islands in the atlantic sea. from this isle one may pass to other large[[footnote(s* neither atlantis, nor yet sancha dwipa, was ever called "white island" when tradition says that "the white island beca

ogians mercury and the sun are one) and no wonder, they think, since "mercury being so near the wisdom of the verbum (the sun, must be absorbed by and confounded with him" this "pagan" view was accepted from the first century of our era, as shown in the original acts of the apostles (the english translation being worthless. so much is michael the mercury of the greeks and other nations, that when the inhabitants of lystra mistook paul and barnabas for mercury and jupiter "the gods have come down to us in the likeness of men- verse 12 (xiv) adds "and they called barnabas zeus, and paul, hermes (or mercury, because he was the leader of the word (verbum" and not "the chief speaker" as erroneously translated in the authorised, and repeated even in the revised, english bible. michael is the ang

the universe. thence proceed the race of men and beasts, the vital principles of the flying kind and the monsters which the ocean breeds under its smooth crystal plane "all proceeds from ether and from its seven natures- said the alchemists. science knows these only in their superficial effects[[vol. 2, page] 595 noah, an aspect of the creator. darwin, in his "descent of man" p. 164. showing that the inhabitants of the sea-shore are greatly affected by the tides "the most ancient progenitors in the kingdom of the vertebrata. apparently consisted of a group of marine animals. animals living either about the mean high-water mark, or about the mean low-water mark, pass through a complete cycle of tidal changes in a fortnight. now it is a mysterious fact that in the higher and now terrestrial

f life around us. it is either, with voltaire, the men of our own race under a microscope, or, with de bergerac, a graceful play of fancy and satire; but we always find that at bottom the new world is but the one we ourselves live in. so strong is this tendency that even great natural, though non-initiated seers, when untrained, fall a victim to it; witness swedenborg, who goes so far as to dress the inhabitants of mercury, whom he meets with in the spirit-world, in clothes such as are worn in europe. commenting on this tendency, flammarion in his work "sur la pluralite des mondes habites" says "it seems as if in the eyes of those authors who have written on this subject, the earth were the type of the universe, and the man of earth, the type of the inhabitants of the heavens. it is, on th

g to sources, which lie beyond the limit of the traditions most commonly explored for the elucidation of the greek mythology (nineteenth century, july, 1887) the history of latona (leto, apollo's mother, is most pregnant in various meanings. astronomically, latona is the polar region and the night, giving birth to the sun, apollo, phoebus, etc. she is born in the hyperborean countries wherein all the inhabitants were priests of her son, celebrating his resurrection and descent to their country every nineteen years at the renewal of the lunar cycle (diod. sic. ii. 307. latona is the hyperborean continent, and its race- geologically[[footnote(s* to make a difference between lemuria and atlantis, the ancient writers referred to the latter as the northern or hyperborean atlantis, and to the fo

so, several degrees southward, various conditions had always produced the tallest men in every new humanity, or race. we see it to this day. the tallest men now found are those in northern countries, while the smallest are southern asiatics, hindus, chinamen, japanese, etc. compare the tall sikhs and punjabees, the afghans, norwegians, russians, northern germans, scotchmen, and the english, with the inhabitants of central india and the average european on the continent. thus also the giants of atlantis, and hence the titans of hesiod, are all northerners[[vol. 2, page] 778 the secret doctrine. vii. scientific and geological proofs of the existence of several submerged continents. it may not be amiss- for the benefit of those who resolve the tradition of a lost miocene atlantis into an "an

e imagined. for, in a rude state of society, all great calamities are regarded by the people as judgments of god on the wickedness of man. in like manner in the account given to solon by the egyptian priests of the submersion of the island of atlantis under the waters of the ocean, after repeated shocks of an earthquake, we find that the event happened when jupiter had seen the moral depravity of the inhabitants" true; but was it not owing to the fact that all esoteric truths were given out to the public by the initiates of the temples under the guise of allegories "jupiter" is merely the personification of that immutable cyclic law, which arrests the downward tendency of each root-race, after attaining the zenith of its glory* unless we hold with prof. john fiske's singularly dogmatic opi

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ne small parent volume. tradition says, that it was taken down in senzar, the secret sacerdotal tongue, from the words of the divine beings, who dictated it to the sons of light, in central asia, at the very beginning of the 5th (our) race; for there was a time when its language (the sen-zar) was known to the initiates of every nation, when the forefathers of the toltec understood it as easily as the inhabitants of the lost atlantis, who inherited it, in their turn, from the sages of the 3rd race, the manushis, who learnt it direct from the devas of the 2nd and 1st races. the "illustration" spoken of in "isis" relates to the evolution of these races and of our 4th and 5th race humanity in the vaivasvata manvantara or "round; each round being composed of the yugas of the seven periods of hu

ws the commentary on the preceding page, and also the summary of the stanzas in the proem, page 22* many more planets are enumerated in the secret books than in modern astronomical works[[vol. 1, page] 153 descending and re-ascending states. buddhism. for instance, all such planets as mercury, venus, mars, jupiter, saturn, etc, etc, or our earth, are as visible to us as our globe, probably, is to the inhabitants of the other planets, if any, because they are all on the same plane; while the superior fellowglobes of these planets are on other planes quite outside that of our terrestrial senses. as their relative position is given further on, and also in the diagram appended to the comments on verse 7 of stanza vi, a few words of explanation is all that is needed at present. these invisible

nce 'god-spirit (xix "it exists everywhere and forms the first upadhi (foundation) on which our world (solar system) is built. outside the latter it is to be found in its pristine purity only between (the solar systems or) the stars of the universe, the worlds already formed or forming; those in laya resting meanwhile in its bosom. as its substance is of a different kind from that known on earth, the inhabitants of the latter, seeing through it, believe in their illusion and ignorance that it is empty space. there is not one finger's breath (angula) of void space in the whole boundless (universe (xx "matter or substance is septenary within our world, as it is so beyond it. moreover, each of its states or principles is graduated into seven degrees of density. surya (the sun, in its visible

ly period of a manvantara, is long enough to be regarded as eternal, if not endless. the bhagavata (xii, iv, 35) speaks of a fourth kind of pralaya, the nitya or constant dissolution, and explains it as the change which takes place imperceptibly in everything in this universe from the globe down to the atom- without cessation. it is growth and decay (life and death. when the maha pralaya arrives, the inhabitants of swar-loka (the upper sphere) disturbed by the conflagration, seek refuge "with the pitris, their progenitors, the manus, the seven rishis, the various orders of celestial spirits and the gods, in maharloka" when the latter is reached also, the whole of the above enumerated beings migrate in their turn from maharloka, and repair to jana-loka in "their subtile forms, destined to b

ution began, prakriti (nature) was in a condition of laya or absolute homogeneity, as "matter exists in two conditions, the sukshma, or latent and undifferentiated, and the sthula or differentiated condition" then it became anu, atomic. it teaches of sudda-satwa "a substance not subject to the qualities of matter, from which it is quite different" and adds that out of that substance the bodies of the inhabitants of vaikuntaloka (the heaven of vishnu, the gods, are formed. that every particle or atom of prakriti contains jiva (divine life, and is the sarira (body) of that jiva which it contains, while every jiva is in its turn the sarira of the supreme spirit, as "parabrahm pervades every jiva, as well as every particle of matter" dualistic and anthropomorphic as may be the philosophy of th

fulfil the requirements of the age. it knows that its days are numbered. electricity holds back, with bated breath, dependent upon the approach of her sister colleague. air ships are riding at anchor, as it were, waiting for the force which is to make aerial navigation something more than a dream. as easily as men communicate with their offices from their homes by means of the telephone, so will the inhabitants of separate continents talk across the ocean. imagination is palsied when seeking to foresee the grand results of this marvellous discovery, when once it is applied to art and mechanics. in taking the throne which it will force steam to abdicate, dynaspheric force will rule the world with a power so mighty in the interests of civilization, that no finite mind can conjecture the res

resent moving-power and life-principle, the vital soul of the suns, moons, planets, and even of our earth. the former latent: the last one active- the invisible ruler and guide of the gross body attached to, and connected with, its soul, which is the spiritual emanation, after all, of these respective planetary spirits. another quite occult doctrine is the theory of kant, that the matter of which the inhabitants and the animals of other planets are formed is of a lighter and more subtle nature and of a more perfect conformation in proportion to their distance from the sun. the latter is too full of vital electricity, of the physical, life-giving principle. therefore, the men on mars are more ethereal than we are, while those of venus are more gross, though far more intelligent, if less spi

r system, they are yet with us, near us, within our own world, as objective and material to their respective inhabitants as ours is to us. but, again, the relation of these worlds to ours is not that of a series of egg-shaped boxes enclosed one within the other, like the toys called chinese nests; each is entirely under its own special laws and conditions, having no direct relation to our sphere. the inhabitants of these, as already said, may be, for all we know, or feel, passing through and around us as if through empty space, their very habitations and countries being interblended with ours, though not disturbing our vision, because we have not yet the faculties necessary for discerning them. yet by their spiritual sight the adepts, and even some seers and sensitives, are always able to

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

mer and sprenger, nothing daunted, forged the approbation of the whole faculty; a forgery that was not discovered until 1898. gradually the hysteria kindled by kramer and sprenger began to spread. it spread like a fire flashing up suddenly in unexpected places; spreading quickly across the whole of europe. for nearly three hundred years the fires of the persecutions raged. humankind had gone mad. the inhabitants of entire villages where one or two witches were suspected of living, were put to death with the cry "destroy them all. the lord will know his own" in 1586 the archbishop of treves decided that the local witches had caused the recent severe winter. by dint of frequent torture a "confession" was obtained and one hundred twenty men and women were burned to death on his charge that th

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mies are as those who have their knives over (or, on) their heads. they wail and they lament when this great god hath passed them by. the name of the warder of this field is khetra. whosoever knoweth this shall be in the condition of a spirit who hath dominion over his legs" m. maspero, in his description of the third hour, 1 p. 61 includes an extract from the speech which the sun-god ra makes to the inhabitants of net-neb-ua-kheper-aut; as he points out, though three copies of the speech are extant, all are mutilated (see lef bure, le tombeau de seti i er, 1re partie, pll. xv.-xvii, pll. xviii.-xx, and pl. xxii, and it is impossible at present to reconstruct the text, although the general meaning of several sentences is clear enough. footnotes 60:1 the portions rendered by m. maspero read

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

ns of the "nations of carmantee and pappa" together, the group initiated a "riot" with the intent of striking out for their freedom by "destroy[ing] all the whites in the town" this was, according to later testimonies, done in retaliation for "some hard usage they apprehended to have received from their masters" setting fire to a building in one of the central districts, the conspirators attacked the inhabitants as they tried to save the burning structure. after a brief skirmish that left nine white persons dead, the insurrection was crushed by the local militia, and nearly all of its thirty-nine participants were condemned by the court and subsequently executed.[3] of particular relevance here is the new york account's description of supernatural ritual activity. one of the insurrectionis

reeman: observations on his character, condition, and prospects in virginia (new york: g. p. putnam, 1889, pp. 119.22; charles c. jones, jr. negro myths from the georgia coast, told in the vernacular (boston: houghton mifflin, 1888, p. 171. 53. b. a. botkin, lay my burden down: a folk history of slavery (chicago: university of chicago press, 1945, pp. 33.34; john patterson green, recollections of the inhabitants, localities, superstitions, and kuklux outrages of the carolinas (cleveland: library of american civilization, 1880, p. 45; steiner "practice of conjuring in georgia" p. 174. 54. rawick, american slave, indiana narratives vol. 6, pt. 2, pp. 193.94; richmond county folklore folder, n.d, records of the federal writers' project, wpa interviews, manuscripts division, library of congres

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immortality, and it is this that comes into play in the later mythological and literary tradition.5 professor tao tao liu of oxford university tells of a version where the goddess chose, rather than was condemned, to reside in the moon: although chang-o was now a goddess again [after swallowing the elixir, she did not know where to go to enjoy her immortality. she could not go back to heaven, for the inhabitants there rejected her because of her behaviour to her husband. instead, she chose to go to the moon, which was uninhabited by anyone except a rabbit. there she went and lived in cold splendour, and became known as the goddess of the moon.6 the moon goddess 83 8 the unicorn s prophecy introduction confucius was a real man, a famous teacher who lived between 551 and 479 b.c. his birth n

COVENANT OF SAMYAZA

the stars, the servility of the descendants of noah shall not endure forever, as even these have the gift of satanael within them, as bequeathed from thedays of adam- vii- the tyrant god was able to gather greater force, and he destroyed earth with a deluge. i, samyaza, and my companions were bound. we could but helplessly look on as our sons were slaughtered, and earth was engulfed by water, and the inhabitants were drowned, save the servile noah and his family. but the light given to man by satanael resideth as a heritage even in the sons of noah, and became manifest again among their descendants. man again spurned the tyrant god and built civilization by the arts we had imparted, by our inspiration which by spirit remained with man, as i had promised. then did demiurge send m'shiha to i

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the american people had been tricked into fighting in world war i. it said "for some time the issue as to which side the united states would take hung in the balance, the final result was a credit to our british propaganda. there remain the jews. it has been estimated that of the world jewish population of approximately fifteen million, no fewer than five million are in the united states; 25% of the inhabitants of new york are jews "during the great war we bought off this huge american jewish public by the promise of the jewish national home in palestine, held by ludendorf to be a master stroke of allied propaganda, as it enabled us not only to appeal to jews in america, but to jews in germany as well."29 the americans entered the war in 1917. the balfour declaration came on november 6th

onfirmation that the opponents were wrong. it said "the jews demand no privilege, unless it is the privilege of rebuilding by their own efforts and sacrifices a land which, once the seat of a thriving and productive civilisation, has long been suffered to remain derelict. they expect no favoured treatment in the matter of political or religious rights. they assume, as a matter of course, that all the inhabitants of palestine, be they jews or non-jews, will be in every respect on a footing of perfect equality. they seek no share in the government beyond that to which they may be entitled under the constitution as citizens of the country. they solicit no favours. they ask, in short, no more than an assured opportunity of peacefully building up their national home by their own exertions and o

DAVID ICKE RELATED THE HIDDEN GEARS OF FREEMASONRY

onic president, was designed so that both the white house and the capitol face toward it so that the leaders of both branches have to face the spirit of lucifer thought to be residing in it. this is typical occultism. one final interesting note. we reported earlier in this article that the washington monument obelisk was placed directly on a straight line, precisely 900 west of the capitol. thus, the inhabitants of the capitol could face the obelisk daily. however, note that the washington, d.c, obelisk does not lie in a straight line 900 south the white house. why? because it was lined so that it lies in a straight line 900 from the house of understanding, the headquarters of freemasonry! in the mind of the occultist, the true political administrative power resides in this freemasonry hea

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k holmes stories. this sound varies from a dear, bell-like note to a faint click. i have often heard it resemble the sound made by striking a cracked wine-glass with a knife-blade. it commonly announces the advent of an entity that is barely able to manifest, and need not necessarily be a herald of evil at all. it may simply be a knock on the door of the physical world to attract the attention of the inhabitants to the presence of one who stands without and would speak with them. if, however, it occurs in the presence of other symptoms of an astral attack, it would give strong evidence in confirmation of the diagnosis. inexplicable outbreaks of fire are also sometimes seen in this connection. these indicate that elemental forces, not human, are at work. poltergeist phenomena also occur, in

lume of short stories entitled incredible adventures. indeed, this author is exceedingly fond of drawing his inspiration from the deva kingdom, and has some most interesting studies of the subject scattered through his books. any organic geographical unit develops something of an oversoul, and where the differentiation is marked, the over soul may become a very definite entity. if there are among the inhabitants of the district any who are sensitive to the unseen, they may form either an affinity or a repulsion for this oversoul. a great forest has a very marked personality, and there are few white men who can resist its influence, becoming markedly changed and de-humanised if exposed to it for long periods without the companionship of others of their race. natives, on the other hand, seem

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

rking theories regarding them, however strongly supported by the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (2 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:54 am] apparently well-ascertained facts, must be carefully distinguished as theories only, so long as a single ancient necropolis in egypt remains unexplored and its inscriptions are untranslated. whether they were composed by the inhabitants of egypt, who recorded them in hieroglyphic characters, and who have left the monuments which are the only trustworthy sources of information on the subject, or whether they were brought into egypt by the early immigrants from the asiatic continent whence they came, or whether they represent the religious books of the egyptians incorporated with the funeral texts of some prehistori

o mighty youth who hast created thyself. not. my hand (13) thou hast come with thy splendours, and thou hast made heaven and earth bright with thy rays of pure emerald light. the land of punt is (14) established for the perfumes which thou smellest with thy nostrils (15) thou risest, o thou marvellous being, in heaven, the twin serpents are placed upon thy brow, and thou art lord of the world and the inhabitants (16) thereof [the company] of the gods and qenna the merchant, triumphant, adore thee" iii (1, 2) a hymn of praise to ra when he riseth in the eastern part of heaven (3) behold osiris hunefer, triumphant, who saith "homage to thee, o thou who art ra when thou (4) risest and tmu when thou settest. thou risest, thou risest; thou shinest (5) thou shinest, thou who art crowned king of

ELIPHAS LEVI THE CONJURATION OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS

m with the forked wand, or the magic trident; of the eagle for the sylphs, and we command them with the holy pentacles; finally with aquarius for the undines, and we evoke them with the cup of libations. their respective sovereigns are, gob for the gnomes, djiu for the salamanders, paralda for the sylphs, and nicksa for the undines. when an elementary spirit comes to torment, or at least to annoy the inhabitants of this world, we must conquer it by means of air, water, fire and earth, blowing, sprinkling, burning perfumes, and tracing on the earth the star of solomon and the sacred pentagram. these figures should be perfectly regular, and made either with coals from the consecrated fire, or with a reed dipped in diverse colors which we mix of pulverized magnet. then, while holding in the h

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counts of after death contact (adc) in their study and welcome any further accounts. telephone interviews are conducted at the expense of the adc project, po box 536365, orlando, florida 32853. addanc of the lake a monster that figures in the mabinogion legend of peredur. peredur obtains a magic stone that renders him invisible, and he thus succeeds in slaying this monster, which had daily killed the inhabitants of the palace of the king of tortures. addey, john (1920.1982) theosophist and astrologer, born at barnsley, yorkshire, england, on june 15, 1920. addey earned his master s degree from saint john s college, cambridge. he became interested in astrology while at cambridge, and after world war ii he joined the theosophical society s astrological lodge, which brought him into a long-te

he ufo encyclopedia. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1980. ahrimanes the name given to the chief of the cacodaemons, or fallen angels, by the ancient persians and chaldeans. these cacodaemons were believed to have been expelled from heaven for their sins; they endeavored to settle down in various parts of the earth, but were always rejected, and out of revenge they found their pleasure in injuring the inhabitants. xenocritus thought that penance and self-mortification, though not agreeable to the gods, pacified the malice of the cacodaemons. ahrimanes and his followers finally took up their abode in all the space between the earth and the fixed stars, and there established their domain, which is called ahriman-abad. as ahrimanes was the spirit of evil, his counterpart in persian dualism was

told that the emperor aurelius himself conferred with alexander before undertaking an important military enterprise. lucian gives a possible explanation of the paphlagonian prophet s remarkable popularity. alexander, he says, came in the course of his early travels to pella in macedon, where he found a unique breed of serpents, large, beautiful, and so tame and harmless that they were allowed by the inhabitants to enter their houses and play with children. a plan took shape in his brain that would help him attain the fame he craved. selecting the largest and finest specimen of the macedonian snakes that he could find, he carried it secretly to his destination. the temple that the credulous natives of abonotica had raised to apollo was surrounded by a moat, and alexander, ever ready to sei

s. in another sense, the word denotes a spiritual being employed in occasional offices; and lastly, men in office as priests or bishops. the angel of the congregation among the jews was the chief of the synagogue. this later usage is also found in revelation 1 and 2, where the angel of the church is regularly addressed. today, the term is now limited to its principal meaning, and pertains only to the inhabitants of heaven. biblical angels mark, the apostle of the gentiles, speaks of the angels as ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation, in strict keeping with the import of the term itself. in mark 1:2, it is applied to john the baptist: behold i send my messenger (i.e, angel) before my face, and the word is the same( malak) in the corresponding

anish; then he wrung from the bride the confession that she was a vampire. many other similar tales are told of the philosopher s clairvoyant and magical powers. his death is wrapped in mystery, although he is said to have lived to be nearly one hundred years of age. his disciples were quick to say that he had not died at all, but had been caught up to heaven. when he had vanished from the earth, the inhabitants of his native tyana built a temple in his honor, and statues were raised to him in various other temples. the account given by philostratus was compiled from the memoirs of damis the assyrian, a disciple of apollonius, but damis may be a literary fiction. the work seems largely a romance; fictitious stories are often introduced, and the whole account is mystical and symbolical. nev

r of the astral body into sheaths, one is cognizant only of part of one s surroundings at a time, and it is not till after experience, much of which may be extremely painful, that one is able to enjoy the bliss that the higher divisions of the astral world contain. the lowest of these divisions, the seventh, is the environment of gross and unrestrained passions. since it and most of the matter in the inhabitants astral bodies is of the same type, it constitutes a veritable hell and is the only hell which exists. this is avichi, the place of desires that cannot be satisfied because of the absence of the physical body, which was the means of their satisfaction. the tortures of these desires are the analog of the torments of hell-fire in the older christian orthodoxy. encyclopedia of occultis

aterial world, and their inhabitants enjoy a state of bliss of which we can have no conception: worries and cares of earth are altogether absent, the insistence of lower desires has worn out in the lower divisions, and it is now possible to live continually in an environment of the loftiest thoughts and aspirations. the third division is said to correspond to the summerland of spiritualism, where the inhabitants live in a world of their own creation.the creation of their thoughts. its cities and all their contents, scenery of life, are all formed by the influence of thought. the second division is what is properly looked upon as heaven, and the inhabitants of different races, creeds, and beliefs all find it each according to individual belief. hence, instead of it being the place taught of

ooked upon as heaven, and the inhabitants of different races, creeds, and beliefs all find it each according to individual belief. hence, instead of it being the place taught of by any particular religion, it is the region where every religion finds its own ideal. christians, muslims, hindus, and so on, find it to be just as they conceived it would be. here, and in the first and highest division, the inhabitants pursue noble aims freed from whatever selfishness was mingled with these aims on earth. the literary man, without thoughts of fame; the artist, the scholar, the preacher, all working without incentive of personal interest, and when their work is pursued long enough, and they are fitted for the change, they leave the astral world and enter one vastly higher.the mental. however, the

december 6, 1984. sources: barker, gray. the silver bridge. clarksburg, w. va: saucerian books, 1970. they knew too much about flying saucers. new york: university books, 1956. clark, jerome. the emergence of a phenomenon: ufos from the beginning through 1959. vol. 2, the ufo encyclopedia. detroit: omnigraphics, 1992. bar-lgura ancient semitic demon said to sit on the roofs of houses and leap on the inhabitants. people so afflicted were called d baregara. barlow, fred (d. 1964) fred barlow, photography expert for the society for psychical research, became interested in the claims various people made of having taken photographs of spirit entities. he entered his study hopeful that photography might provide evidence of survival after death and for a while he emerged as a staunch defender of

university books, 1974. cesnur see center for studies on new religions chagrin (or cagrino) an evil spirit believed in by european gypsies. it was said to have the form of a hedgehog, to be yellow in color, and to be about a foot and a half in length. heinrich von wlislocki stated: i am certain, that this creature is none other than the equally demoniac being called harginn, still believed in by the inhabitants of northwestern india. horses were the special prey of the chagrin, who rode them into a state of exhaustion, like the guecubu of chile. when horses appeared to be sick and weary, with tangled manes and bathed in sweat, they were believed to have been attacked by chagrin during the night. when this was observed, they were tethered to a stake that had been rubbed with garlic the cer

e higher spheres.and this, too, when the person in the body is unconscious of the influx, and hence cannot be convinced of the fact; and this truth will ere long present itself in the form of a living demonstration. and the world will hail with delight the ushering-in that era when the interiors of men will be opened, and the spiritual communion will be established such as is now being enjoyed by the inhabitants of mars, jupiter, and saturn. in his notes dated march 31, 1848, the following statement occurs: about daylight this morning a warm breathing passed over my face and i heard a voice, tender and strong, saying: brother, the good work has begun.behold, a living demonstration is born. i was left wondering what could be meant by such a message. the publication of the principals of natu

his knee bent backward. she took a crust from her pocket and flung it across the ravine, bidding her little dog go fetch it. the devil was outwitted, as he generally is in such tales. devil s cauldron an abyss at the summit of the peak of tenerife, canary islands. a stone cast into the gulf resounds as though a copper vessel were being struck by a huge hammer; thus the spaniards gave it its name. the inhabitants of the island believed that the infernal regions were there, where the souls of the wicked dwell forever. there is another devil s cauldron in perthshire, scotland, a waterfall on the river lednock near loch earn. devil s chain there is a tradition in switzerland that st. bernard has the devil chained in some mountains in the neighborhood of the abbey of clairvaux. from this comes

at guard subterranean treasure, minerals, and precious stones. they are ingenious, friendly toward men, and easy to command. they provide the children of the sages with all the money they require, asking no other reward for their services than the glory of performing them. the gnomides, their wives, are small of stature but very good-looking, and they dress very curiously. as for the salamanders, the inhabitants of the region of fire, they serve the philosophers, but are not overanxious for their company. their daughters and wives are rarely seen. their women are very beautiful, beyond all the other elementals, since they dwell in a purer element. their habits, mode of life, manners, and laws are admirable, and their mental brillance is even greater than their physical beauty. they know an

disposition characterize the elementals of this planet, the other planets and the stars are also the abode of countless hosts of elementary spirits, differing from those of our world perhaps more than the latter differ from one another. all the forms of beasts, insects, and reptiles, as well as strange combinations of the shapes of different animals, may be taken by the lower elementals of earth. the inhabitants of each element have their peculiar virtues and vices that serve to distinguish them. the sylphs are capricious and inconstant, but agile and active; the undines, jealous and cold, but observant; elementary spirits encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 490 the salamanders, hot and hasty, but energetic and strong; and the gnomes, greedy of gold and treasures, but nevert

ntains. these unfortunate persons were thereupon put to death, along with many others suspected of ties to the sorcerers. the nature of these spirits was collated in the comte de gabalis with the oracles of antiquity, and even with the classic pantheons of greece and rome. pan, for example, was the first and oldest of the nymphs, and the news of his death, communicated by the people of the air to the inhabitants of the waters, was proclaimed by them in a voice that was heard sounding over all the rivers of italy. the great pan is dead! the scholar of occultism and mysticism a. e. waite considered the angels evoked in medieval magic, as well as the devils of the witchcraft sabbat, to be higher or lower elementals. others see in the brownies and domestic spirits of folklore some resemblance

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dom antoine augustin calmet stated in his dissertation sur les apparitions, des anges. et sur les revenaus et vampires (1746; trans. the phantom world, 2. vols, 1850) that the author related a story of a woman that died in a certain village, after having received all the sacraments, and was buried with the usual ceremonies in the churchyard. about four days after her death and for several months, the inhabitants of the village were frightened by unusual noises and many saw a specter, sometimes shaped like a dog and sometimes like a man, who tried to choke or suffocate them. several were bruised all over and utterly weak, pale, lean, and disfigured. the specter took his fury out even on the beasts: cows were frequently found beaten to the earth, half dead, at other times with their tails ti

the law would justify the burning of the body, as is practiced in the case of other specters that come again and molest the living. he related several stories of apparitions of this sort and the mischief done by them. one was of a herdsman of the village of blow near the town of kadam in bohemia, who appeared for a considerable time and called upon several persons, who all died within eight days. the inhabitants of blow dug up the herdsman s body and fixed it in the ground with a stake driven through it. the man, even in this condition, laughed at the people that were employed about him, and told them they were very obliging to furnish him with a stick to defend himself from the dogs. the same night, he extricated himself from the stake, frightened several persons by appearing to them, and

fortean topics. address: john rimmer, john dee cottage, 5 james terrace, mortlake churchyard, london, sw14 8hb england. website: http//www.magonia.demon.co.uk. sources: magonia. http//www.magonia.demon.co.uk. march 8,2000. magpie the chattering of a magpie was formerly considered a sure omen of evil. another folk belief was that the croaking of a single magpie around a house signified that one of the inhabitants would soon die. in parts of britain and ireland it was believed that evil could be averted by being respectful to a magpie. bowing or doffing one s hat. irish folk would sometimes say good morning, your reverence on seeing a magpie first thing in the morning. the magpie also figured in the folklore of the american indians and was a clan animal among the hopis. maguire, father josep

new york: sterling, 1974. medeiros, earl c. the complete history and philosophy of kung fu. rutland, vt: charles tuttle, 1975. nakayama, m. dynamic karate. cedar knolls, n.j: wehman, 1966. tohei, koichi. this is aikido. tokyo: japan publications, 1975. westbrook, a. and o. ratti. aikido and the dynamic sphere. rutland, vt: charles tuttle, 1970. martian language a language purporting to be that of the inhabitants of the planet mars, written and spoken by the medium known as helene smith (pseudonym of catherine elise muller. smith was studied by the celebrated investigator theodore flournoy, professor of psychology at geneva. in 1892 smith joined a spiritualist circle, where she developed marvelous mediumistic powers. in 1896, after flournoy had begun his investigations, smith claimed to hav

they sent to earth to rid it of the titan vukubcakix, were undoubtedly possessed of magical powers. as boys, the twins were equipped with magical tools that enabled them to get through an enormous amount of work in a single day. when they descended into xibalba (the kiche hades) for the purpose of avenging their father and uncle, they took full advantage of their magical propensities in combating the inhabitants of that drear abode. xibalba itself possessed sorcerers, for within its borders were xulu and pacaw, who assisted the hero-gods in many of their necromantic practices. regarding divination, the maya possessed a caste of augurs, called cocomes, or the listeners, while prophecy appears to have been periodically practiced by their priests. in the books of chilan balam, which are nativ

ers all over this land: america s first communes. new york: praeger publishers, 1972. oved, yaacov. two hundred years of american communes. new brunswick, n.j: transaction publishers, 1993. moghrebi arab sorcerer (see semites) mohanes shamans, or medicine men, of the indians of the peruvian andes. joseph skinner described them at the beginning of the nineteenth century: these admit an evil being, the inhabitant of the centre of the earth, whom they consider as the author of their misfortunes, and at the mention of whose name they tremble. the most shrewd among them take advantage of this belief, to obtain respect; and represent themselves as his delegates. under the denomination of mohanes, or agoreros, they are consulted even on the most trivial occasions. they preside over the intrigues

ient mexicans (see ciupipiltin, the burmese had a great dread of the ghosts of women who died in childbirth. the kachins believed such women to turn into vampires (swawmx) who were accompanied by their children when these died with them. the spirits of children were often supposed to inhabit the bodies of cats and dogs. the burmans were extremely circumspect as to how they spoke and acted towards the inhabitants of the spirit world, as they believed that disrespect or mockery would at once bring down upon them misfortune or disease. an infinite number of guardian spirits were included in the burmese demonological system, and these were chiefly supposed to be brahmanic importations. these dwelt in the houses like the evil nats and were the tutelars of village communities, and even of clans

life on all of these planets. earth, the youngest of the planets in this solar system, is plagued by the imbalance caused by its singular moon, which works an alternating influence on people as it moves through the heavens. the other planets are organized into a brotherhood of planets and their monitoring of earth includes the era of atlantis and lemuria. the different races of earth have ties to the inhabitants of the various planets. according to onec, a set of teachings called om-notia zedia, the laws of the supreme deity, exists on venus. these teachings start with the utterly transcendent supreme deity from whom there issues an audible life stream of spirit. this life stream sustains the existence of all worlds and universes. human beings are soul existing in the ocean of spirit. soul

ess of their relation to spirit. as an initial step, she wrote a book published by stevens in 1986. the account included a variety of problems, including claims of significant habitation of all of the planets of the solar system and assertions of conditions existing on these planets that contradict the repeated observations of various space probes. to defend the account, it had to be assumed that the inhabitants resided on something other than the physical plane of existence. sources: onec, omnec. from venus i came. tucson, ariz: w. c. stevens, 1986. oneiromancy term for divination by dreams, possibly the oldest of the divinatory systems. written records exist of dream interpretation in a papyrus ca. 1250 b.c.e. prophetic dreams involving the interpretation of symbolic images and informati

acles of this kind, as their names, huillcariver and great speaker, denote. these oracles often set the mandate of the inca himself, occasionally supporting popular opinion against his policy. as late as the nineteenth century, the peruvian indians of the andes mountain range continued to believe in oracles they had inherited from their fathers. one account of this says they. admit an evil being, the inhabitant of the centre of the earth, whom they consider as the author of their misfortunes, and at the mention of whose name they tremble. the most shrewd among them take advantage of this belief to obtain respect, and represent themselves as his delegates. under the denomination of mohanes, or agoreros, they are consulted even on the most trivial occasions. they preside over the intrigues o

s of astral travel, inner vision, or spirit enlightenment and life on the planets were first given by emanuel swedenborg in the seventeenth to eighteenth century. swedenborg claimed the people of mars were the best in the whole planetary system. physiognomy, with them, was an expression of thought. they judged each other by it. they were god-fearing, and the lord sometimes appeared among them. of the inhabitants of venus and the moon, swedenborg said: they are of two kinds; some are gentle and benevolent others wild, cruel and of gigantic stature. the latter rob and plunder, and live by this means; the former have so great a degree of gentleness and kindness that they are always beloved by the good; thus they often see the lord appear in their own form on their earth. the inhabitants of th

riptions were in accord with those offered by the subjects of joseph ennemoser s experiments. andrew jackson davis followed in the footsteps of swedenborg. victorien sardou reportedly drew automatic sketches of houses and scenes on the planet jupiter. auguste henri jacob executed drawings of fruits and flowers he claimed grew on the planet venus. thomas lake harris, in celestial arcana, described the inhabitants on other planets of the solar system and also some of remote fixed stars. harris claimed to have had conversations with them. statements and disclosures were also exemplified by a revelation of helene smith. theodore flournoy in from india to the planet mars (1900, traced the origin of smith s martian cycle to chance remarks and the desire expressed by georges-henri lemaitre a belg

lies: on a world.mars. helene then began a description of all strange things which presented themselves to her view, and caused her as much surprise as amusement. carriages without horses or wheels, emitting sparks as they glided by; houses with fountains on the roof; a cradle having for curtains an angel made of iron with outstretched wings, etc. what seemed less strange were people exactly like the inhabitants of our earth, save that both sexes wore the same costume, formed of trousers, very ample, and a long blouse, drawn tight about the waist and decorated with various designs. the child in the cradle was exactly like our children, according to the sketch which helene made from memory after the seance. we are struck by two points, the complete identity of the martian world, taken in it

s stupendous bridge is covered with lemena or glass. there is on this bridge 500 drinking fountains, and about 200 filestres or water closets; these are placed over the rivers. there is about 300 approaches to this bridge, which are ascended by 300 steps, with landings and windings, and seats to recline on. in the ascent to the top, there are small houses built in the centre of this bridge, where the inhabitants can take tea or coffee, or what you call luncheon or meals. similar contacts with extraterrestrials and descriptions of their planets appeared throughout the first half of the twentieth century. however, a new era began in 1952 with the public attention being given to flying saucers. claims of contacts with extraterrestrials and accompanying descriptions of their home planets, almo

chnical education. in the 1930s he published science-fiction stories, later serving in the royal air force during world war ii. he was active in promoting fortean ideas at a time when fort s books were little known in britain and difficult to obtain. his first major novel sinister barrier (1943, published serially in 1939, was built around the fortean theme i think we re property, suggesting that the inhabitants of earth may be controlled by alien entities. his story three to conquer (1956) is a science-fiction treatment of the theme of psi powers. other russell books include: dreadful sanctuary (1953, sentinels from space (1954, deep space (1956, men, martians& machines (1956, wasp (1958, the space willies (u.k. title next of kin (1959, far stars (1961, the great explosion (1962, with a s

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he king of the world lived in an underground realm called agharti. whether this king of the world, or even the author s supposed informant, ever existed, he and his kingdom soon entered occult lore. in darkness over tibet (1935) theodore illion recounted his allegedly true adventures in an underground city in a distant valley. at first he thought he had entered a utopia, but soon he realized that the inhabitants, for all their advanced spiritual knowledge and supernatural powers, were cannibals. illion wrote that his reported experiences proved the existence of agharti. in 1946 vincent h. gaddis, a regular contributor to amazing stories who later achieved a degree of fame as the inventor of the concept of the bermuda triangle, picked up on the theme, depicting agharti as a city of evil tha

one in brazil s amazon basin, and they have lived in them, unknown to human beings, for millions of years. they still do not understand humanity s tendency to be violent and prejudiced. the kuran told rolfe that the human race originally occupied a planet located betwe e n mars and ju p i t e r. they visited this planet just b e f o re natural forces we re set to destroy it, offering to re m ove the inhabitants to a suitable place if they agreed to live by kuran law. t h e inhabitants refused, and the kuran withdrew. the residents of the doomed planet managed to escape on their own. some went to a planet in the constellation of pegasus, and the o t h e r, to the ku r a n s displeasure, colonize d e a rth and became our ancestors. eart h p roved an inhospitable place, not sufficiently e vo

so that the lyrans could start over with a new, improved civilization. other, more kindly disposed extraterrestrials, however, warned noah and others, and humanity was saved. travel to earth from the lyran system took generations. thus, once the lyrans arrived here, they could never leave. they lost all contact with their home world and eventually intermarried with native earthlings. back on lyra the inhabitants continued to evolve and advance into highly spiritual beings, but their cousins stranded on earth did not. see also: channeling; germane further reading royal, lyssa, 1994. et civilizations germane. h t t p/ w w w. l e m u r i a. n e t/ a rt i c l e- e t- c i v i l i z a t i o n s. html. 160 lyrans mafu mafu channeled through penny to r res of los angeles, beginning in 1986. t h i

el, 1989. oliver s novel owed much of its inspiration to madame blavatsky s theological writings and to works of mystical fantasy such as edward bulwer-lytton s zanoni: a rosicrucian tale and marie corelli s a romance of two worlds. it was original, however, in setting a secret civilization within mount shasta. the next writer to do so, harvey spencer lewis (writing as wishar c. cerve, identified the inhabitants as survivors of lemuria, the pacific ocean s version of atlantis. according to lewis s lemuria: lost continent of the pacific (1931, when lemuria split and sank, its east coast crashed into part of north america s west coast to become the states of washington, oregon, and california. many of the surviving lemurians took up residence inside shasta. lewis claimed that persons living

es with the features of both human beings and the great apes. ma r s has two advanced insect races, one of ants, the other of praying mantises. jupiter houses giant, intelligent reptilian forms. each species got its light intelligence from a group of traveling extraterrestrials called the watchers who monitor planets looking for species of exc e ptional promise. as earth was being deve l o p e d, the inhabitants of other planets we re asked to contribute re p re s e n t a t i ves, thus fairies, mermen and mermaids, bi gf o o t/ sasquatch, insects, and dinosaurs. ex p l o rers and re f u g e e s f rom star wars live on the other planets. ev idence of the presence of neighboring extraterrestrials can be found in archaeological discoveries and ancient myths. each group tended to concentrate i

g. two aliens emerged, and one introduced himself as vadig. two months later, vadig showed up at the washington restaurant where monteleone worked part-time. he arranged a meeting, ending the encounter, as he had before, with the enigmatic words i ll see you in time. the following sunday night, vadig drove the young man into rural maryland where they boarded a spaceship and flew to lanulos, where the inhabitants walk about naked. one week later monteleone met vadig and another lanulosian for the last time. not long after the initial interv i ew the de renbergers and salkin returned to talk once more, bringing along with them occult journalist john a. keel. keel, who thought monteleone had re vealed information only a real contactee would know, wrote about the vadig encounter in later magaz

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e ordered to be placed a light-house rotunda) the colour of which changed every day until the seventh day after which it returned to the first colour, and so the city was illuminated with these colours. near the city there was abundance of waters in which dwelt many kinds of fish. around the circumference of the city he placed engraved images and ordered them in such a manner that by their virtue the inhabitants were made virtuous and withdrawn from all wickedness and harm. the name of the city was adocentyn' passed through the vivid imagination of the arab of harran, we seem to have here something which reminds us of the hieratic 1 picatrix, lib. iv, cap. 3 (sloane 1305, f. ill recto. in the arabic original, the name of the city is "al-asmunain; see the german translation of the arabic te

f this magical utopia. the colours of the planets flash from the central tower, and these images around the circumference of the city, are they perhaps images of the signs of the zodiac and the decans which hermes has known how to arrange so that only good celestial influences are allowed into the city? the law-giver of the egyptians is giving laws which must perforce be obeyed, for he constrains the inhabitants of the city to be virtuous, and keeps them healthy and wise, by his powerful manipulation of astral magic. the tree of generation in the city may perhaps also mean that he controls the generative powers, so that only the good, the wise, the virtuous and the healthy are born. in his striking passage about the city of adocentyn, the author of picatrix soars above the level of his uti

us admirer of those two "divine" books by the most ancient hermes the pimander and the asclepius might surely have been much struck, by this vivid description of a city in which, as in plato's ideal republic, the wise philosopher is the ruler, and rules most forcibly by means of the priestly egyptian magic such as is described in the asclepius. the city of adocentyn in which virtue is enforced on the inhabitants by magic helps also to explain why, when the magical egyptian religion decayed, manners and morals went to rack and ruin, as is so movingly described in the lament. and in the prophecy in the asclepius, after the lament, of the eventual restoration of the egyptian religion, it is said: the gods who exercise their dominion over the earth will be restored one day and installed in a c

the passage on making an image of the world in the de vita coelitus comparanda is a description of delia volpaia's clock. i do not think that this is the case. ficino is describing three different kinds of objects made to represent the figure of the world, one type being the cosmic mechanism of which della volpaia's clock is an example. 2 ficino, loc. cit. 75 ficino's natural magic influences on the inhabitants in such a way as to keep them healthy and virtuous, so ficino's "figures of the world" would be calculated to regulate the influences in the direction indicated in the libri de vita, towards a predominance of solar, jovial, and venereal influences and towards an avoidance of saturn and mars. the point in the description of the "figures of the world" to which i want to draw particul

rearrangement or purification of the celestial images, of the shapes of the celestial gods who reform the zodiac and the northern and southern constellations. and what does this remind us of? surely of the magical city of adocentyn in picatrix, built by hermes trismegistus, and who placed around the circumference of the city "engraved images and ordered them in such a manner that by their virtue the inhabitants were made virtuous and withdrawn from all wickedness and harm."3 this, as we suggested in chapter iv, provides the connection between hermes trismegistus as magician and hermes trismegistus as the law giver of the egyptians, who gave them their good moral laws and kept them in it. and this, i believe, may be also the connection in the spaccio between the manipulation or reform of t

furor of venus has been made like to god and lives only in the mens. the hebrew and cabalist doctors say that the soul of man is the light of god, created in the image of the word, first pattern of the cause of causes, substance of god, marked with a seal of which the character is the eternal word. having understood this, hermes trismegistus said that man is of such a kind that he is higher than the inhabitants of heaven, or at least possessing with them an equal fate' i think that this gives the answer as to the real meaning of the heroic love furores of the eroici furori, they are the furor of venus interpreted as the means whereby man becomes the magnum miraculum of the asclepius, having miraculous powers and living in consort with the race of demons to which he himself belongs in his

ed spirits. compare this with the four gates and roads of the city of the sun. on the summit of the castle was a lighthouse which flashed over the city the colours of the seven planets. compare this with the seven planetary lamps always burning in the temple of the city of the sun. around the circumference of adocentyn, hermes had placed magic images "ordered in such a manner that by their virtue the inhabitants were made virtuous and withdrawn from all wickedness and harm" compare the celestial images in the city of the sun which, we have suggested, had a similar function. in the midst of adocentyn was a great tree which bore the fruit of all generation. compare the control of generation in the city of the sun. and, in the passage in picatrix describing the city of adocentyn, hermes trism

tionship between planets and zodiac and other constellation of the heaven is established, typified in the city of the sun by the relationship between the star images on the dome of the temple and the altar with its planetary lamps. virtue triumphs over vice in the spaccio as the good sides of astral influences rise as virtues, and the bad sides are thrown out, as vices. so in the city of the sun, the inhabitants are maintained in virtue and vices are expelled. the nature of the reform too is similar with, in both cases, a direction of ethics towards social utility. in spite of the extremely different literary form of the two works there is concordance between them at a deeper level. it may be recalled, too, that bruno in one of his conversations with the librarian of the abbey of st. victo

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

is study of modern-day voodoo, cults of the shadow, kenneth grant describes a ritual practised by the cult with the intention of making contact with the deep ones at a deserted lake in wisconsin, the cult of the deep ones flourishes in an atmosphere of moisture and coldness, the exact opposite of the fire and heat generated by the initial ceremonies which include the lycanthropic rites that evoke the inhabitants of the lake. the participants at this stage actually immerse themselves in the ice-cold water where a transference of sex-magical energy occurs between priests and priestesses while in that element. 10 through the use of this magical rite, bertiaux claims to have established contact with these creatures, which assume an almost tangible substance. perhaps lovecraft himself has left

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

of jehovah, they must work out their own salvation in their own manner. how this has been accomplished by lucifer, their great leader will be made plain in the following articles; for the present, suffice it to say, that in the earth period, when various planets were differentiated to provide proper evolutionary environment for each class of spirits, the angels under jehovah were set to work with the inhabitants of all planets having moons; while the lucifer spirits have their abode upon the planet mars. the angel gabriel is representative on earth, of the lunar hierarchy, presided over by jehovah; the angel samael is ambassador of the martial forces of lucifer. gabriel (who announced the coming birth of jesus to mary) and his lunar angels are therefore the givers of physical life, while s

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

shows the extent to which the idea of female supremacy in nature and in the deity had taken root. notwithstanding the efforts which during numberless ages were made to dethrone the female principle in the god-idea, the great mother, under some one of her various appellations, continued, down to a late period in the history of the human race, to claim the homage and adoration of a large portion of the inhabitants of the globe. and so difficult was it, even after the male element had declared itself supreme, to conceive of a creative force independently of the female principle, that oftentimes, during the earlier ages of their attempted separation, great confusion and obscurity are observed in determining the positions of male deities. zeus who in later times came to be worshipped as male wa

e news of the custer massacre reached fort abraham lincoln the sioux had communicated it to their brethren. the scouts in crook's column to the south knew of it almost immediately, as did those with gibbon farther northwest. the same writer says that several years ago a naval lieutenant ran short of provisions. he pushed on to a settlement as rapidly as possible and upon arriving there found that the inhabitants had provided for his coming and had a bounteous store awaiting him. the people in the village were of a different tribe from those whose domain he had passed, and so far as could be learned were not in communication with them. the earliest accounts which we have of egypt and chaldea reveal the fact that at a very remote period they were old and powerful civilizations, that they had

nies as practiced by their immediate successors, and from the pure significance attached to their emblems, we are justified in the conclusion before referred to, that the sensuous element, which became so prominent in later religious developments, constituted no part of their worship. the number of ages during which the most primitive religion, namely, that of pure nature-worship, prevailed among the inhabitants of the earth may not be conjectured, and the exact length of time during which earth and sun adoration unalloyed by serpent and phallic faiths remained is not known. it is probable, however, that its duration is to be measured by that of the supremacy of the altruistic or mother element in human affairs, and that the gradual engrafting of the later-developed sensuous faiths upon th

es and priests of the idols were assembled" upon the image being interrogated concerning the "consternation and dread which had fallen upon all our country" it answered them as follows "the unknown god has come hither, who is truly god; nor is there anyone besides him, who is worthy of divine worship; for he is truly the son of god" and at the same instant this idol fell down, and at his fall all the inhabitants of egypt, besides others, ran together.[127] a similar story is related of crishna. this indian god, the same as christ, cured a leper. a woman, after having poured a box of precious ointment on the head of crishna, was healed; so also a woman anointed the head of jesus. crishna when but a lad displayed remarkable mental powers and the most profound wisdom before the tutor who was

which were applied to christ, all appear attached to former in- carnations of the sun, the first named standing for the sun in aries. the effigies of a crucified savior found in ireland and scotland in connection with the figure of a lamb, a bull, or an elephant, the latter of which is not a native of those countries, shows that they do not represent christ, but a crucified sun-god worshipped by the inhabitants of the british islands ages before the birth of the great judean philosopher and teacher. it is plain that crishna of india and the persian mithra furnished the copy for the jesus of the romish church, all of whom mean one and the same thing--the second person in the solar trinity. by the jews, who attempted to ignore the female principle, this god is called the "lord of hosts" and

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

what weapon should we expect to find chosen? whatbutthe threat of death?nota perfect116themagical masonweapon possibly, not an ideally perfect one, not a heavenly one;butone applicable and competent to protect against evil doers. now freemmasonry has, it has appeared, a grand central idea, a creator, a one god. does history give us any record that the holders of such a dogma have been the mass of the inhabitants, or the greatest men throughout the world or throughout the centuries? or does history show us that believers in a unique impersonal deity, pure and undefiled, not consenting unto iniquity, have ever been aughtbuta minority, often persecuted, and always reviled?theminority has doubt255 less been a growing one, and has of late been too important to be crushed by threats of death, an

urce of astronomy variously to egypt, to chaldea, and to persia, and the papyri recently discovered in egypt also show astronomical allusions; while of course the pyramids of egypt and the towers of babylonia have led students to postulate that their builders possessed a deep astronomic knowledge. modern researches into sanscrit literature have also led students of eastern lore to the belief that the inhabitants of india in the earliest times must have made long and accurate observations of the heavenly bodies. according to isaac meyer there is a reason to think that the akkadian observations of the stars date back to about 4310b.c.,when the vernal equinox occurred in the sign of taurus.theearliest allusion to actual divination by the stars in greek literature is found in thetimeusof plato

anifestation of the initiate, which latter was not deemed a grade' this ritual is of great interest, and one can only regret thatitis founded on so much imagination, and so little history or even legend. greece no definite date can be given for the origin of the eleusinian mysteries. several more orless mythical founders are named in works on mythology. diodorus siculus and isocrates tell us that the inhabitants of athens and eleusis believed that thean essay ontheancient mysteries 277goddess demeter (ceres) herself founded the institution.thecredit has been given also in a fabulous mannertoinachos, a sonofoceanos, the ancestoroftheargives and pelasgians, and called the first king of argos, about 1800b.c.others refer to eumolpus, a poetofthrace, sonofposeidon orneptune.his descendants, the

enturies ofthehistory of greece, at agroe, on the river iiyssus, duringtheninthmonth,called elaphebolion, which corresponded toourmarch (plutarch gives anthesterion or february).theywere ceremonialsofa religious nature, associated with the legendary historyofproserpine, kore or persephone,thedaughter of demeter, who was called bytheromans, ceres. at the origin278themagical masonof the institution the inhabitants of attica were alone eligiblefor admission. the candidate received was called mystes, meaningsilenced,and the ceremony was called a pro-catharsis, a cleansing or preparation.themystes received moral and religious instruction, and was taught such details of theology and cosmogony as would fit him to comprehend the secrets of the greater mysteries.thepresident, or mystagogus, adminis

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

ties. there, then, lies the difference between our two bottomthetatwas219planes, between prana all,dmanas. and in manas must. reside somehow or other the cogniser, that which knowsthemachine,thatwhich recognises it.butnow again we aremetwith a peculiarity, becauseinmanas also is every human individual separate. 11 is not one mind looking down upon thousands and millionsofhuman beings constituting the inhabitants of these planets and watchinghowthey all go, conscious with the consciousness of every brain,butitis one individual manifestation of manas conscious of thegoingof one particular human body,andconscious also, or.witha potential consciousnessitmay'be;of infinity above..now why is itthatweshould apply the naniesofhigberllnd lower to different functions of the mere physical body? well

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

olition. we may build complex theories regarding their movements, even creating laws and theories to explain why they move in certain ways. we can classify the different pieces chapter two: the great chain of being the gnostic handbook page 14 and marvel at their characteristics. however, due to our own limitations we cannot conceptualise that someone or something may be moving them "flatland. to the inhabitants of space in general and h.c. in particular this work is dedicated by a humble native of flatland in the hope that even as he was initiated into the mysteries of three dimensions having been previously conversant with only two so the citizens of that celestial region may aspire yet higher and higher to the secrets of four five or even six dimensions thereby contributing to the enlar

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

e land. enamoured of the light and beauty of the sun they determined to build a tower so high that its summit should reach the sky. having collected materials for the purpose they found a very adhesive clay and bitumen with which they speedily commenced to build the tower. and having reared it to the greatest possible altitude, so that it reached the sky, the lord of the heavens, enraged, said to the inhabitants of the sky, have you observed how they of the earth have built a high and haughty tower to mount hither, being enamoured of the light of the sun and his beauty? come and confound them, because it is not right that they of the earth, living in the flesh, should mingle with us. immediately the inhabitants of the sky sallied forth like flashes of lightning; they destroyed the edifice

s? the heliopolitan priests who spoke to the greek historian diodorus siculus in the first century bc put forward the thought-provoking suggestion that chaos was a flood identified by diodorus with the earth-destroying flood of deucalion, the greek noah figure:4 in general, they say that if in the flood which occurred in the time of deucalion most living things were destroyed, it is probable that the inhabitants of southern egypt survived rather than any others. or if, as some maintain, the destruction of living things was complete and the earth then brought forth again new forms of animals, nevertheless, even on such a supposition, the first genesis of living things fittingly attaches to this country..5 why should egypt have been so blessed? diodorus was told that it had something to do w

ditions which attributed the construction of the three giza pyramids to a mythical antediluvian king: 10 the ancient egyptian pyramid texts, p. 70, utt. 261. 11 the complete works of josephus, kregel publications, grand rapids, michigan, 1991, p. 27. 12 ibid. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 469 the occasion of this was because he saw in his sleep that the whole earth was turned over, with the inhabitants of it lying upon their faces and the stars falling down and striking one another with a terrible noise. and he awaked with great feare, and assembled the chief priests of all the provinces of egypt. he related the whole matter to them and they took the altitude of the stars, and made their prognostication, and they foretold of a deluge. the king said, will it come to our country? t

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

e hunt he disappeared, das man den edeln keiser her sind gesach (saw) nyemer mer; also ward der silver belt i'ound it, it would have shot up into the air as the birch did. another account makes the blind giant ask the sailors if the jiyiglhig-cow by the church (meaning the bell or belfry) were uill alive 1 they answered yes, and he challenged one of them to hold out his hand, that he might see if the inhabitants had any strength left. they handed him a boat-bar made redhot, which he crushed together, saying there was no great strength there (faye p. 17. a story in odman's bahuslan 153-4 has similar variations: a ship's crew, driven out of their course to an out-of-the-way coast, see a fire burning at night, and go on shore. by the fire sits only one old man, who asks a sailor' whence be ye

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

eadth of the valley was an easy throw for them. one of these men leant his staff against the head farmer s house, and the whole house shook. their dwelling was an inaccessible cavern on the left bank of the ache, at the entrance to the klamm; outside the cave stood some appletrees, and with the apples they would pelt the passers-by in fun; remains of their household stuff are still to be seen. to the inhabitants of the valley they were rather friendly than otherwise, and often put a quantity of butter and milk before their house-doors. this last feature is more of a piece with the habits of dwarfs and elves than of giants. just as the elves found the spread of agriculture and the clear ing of their forests an abomination, which compelled them to move out; so the giants regard the woods as

s coll. nos. 86-88 (184-8 of ed. 2) runs thus: to god doth our doda call, oy dodo oy dodo le! that dewy rain may fall, oy dodo oy dodo le! and drench the diggers all, oy dodo oy dodo le! the workers great and small, oy dodo oy dodo le! even those in house and stall, oy dodo oy dodo le! and they are sure that rain will come at once. in greece, when it has not rained for a fortnight or three weeks, the inhabitants of villages and small towns do as follows. the children choose one of themselves who is from eight to ten years old, usually a poor orphan, whom they strip naked and deck from head to foot with field herbs and flowers: this child is called trvptrrjpovva. the others lead her round the village, singing a hymn, and every housewife has to throw a pailful of water over the pyrperuna s h

ight post so as to press it against the auger, which by the friction soon becomes ignited. from this the needfire is instantly procured, and all other fires being immediately quenched, those that are rekindled both in dwelling house and offices are accounted sacred, and the cattle are successively made to smell them/ let me also make room for martin s description, 2 which has features of its own: the inhabitants here did also make use of a fire called tinegin, i.e. a forced fire, or fire of necessity, 3 which they used as an antidote against the plague or murrain in cattle; and it was performed thus: all the fires in the parish were extinguished, and then eighty-one (9 x 9) married men, being thought the necessary number for effecting this design, took two great planks of wood, and nine of

before.1 the like is told, but less completely, of monks crossing the khine at spire* in neither story can we detect the purpose of the voyage; they seemjto be early heathen reminiscences, which, not_to_perish entirely, had changed their form (see suppl^ procopius de_bellq^goth. 4, 20 (ed. bonn. 2, 567, speaking of the island of j3rittia, imparts a legend which he had often heard from the lips^f the inhabitants. they imagiiie__that__fche_spuls of the deadjire transportedjo that island. on the coast of the continent there dwell under frankish sovereignty, but hitherto exempt from all taxation, fishers and farmers, whose duty it is to ferry the souls over. 5 this duty they take in turn. those to^ neue volksmarchen dtr deutschen, leipz. 1792. 3, 45-7- d.s. no. 275; earliest auth. an account

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

utieeof her operations in myriads of by-gone ages, revelling in the deepest profundities of geologic specula255 tions and central-sun systems in the technical phraseology of the day, but stopping short precisely where his revelations would be most useful and most convincing-the limits of our present knowledge and ideas,t-detailingto a nicety the vegetation of the planet saturn, the complexions of the inhabitants of jupiter, and the very forms of the cerebrum and cerebellum of the inhabitants of mars, but unable to give us the diameter of the sun to withinii4,ooqmiles-'itsdiameter has not been as yet correctly determined' becoming dogmatical upon theoriginof the asteroids, but stating'theirrotations have been scarcely decided upon, their revolutions have beennearlycorrectly calculated' but

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

olently rebelled against his parents. he seized the throne from shu and forced tefnut to be his queen. geb assumed most of the divine regalia of ra but was bitten by the fiery serpent who guarded the sun god and all legitimate rulers. deities, themes, and concepts 135 it was more common to regard geb as the appointed heir of the gods and the leader of the great ennead. he was seen as the chief of the inhabitants of earth. egyptian kings were said to sit on the throne of geb. geb was usually the main judge in the great dispute between the rival gods horus and seth. geb continued this role as a judge of the dead in the afterlife. those found guilty of being enemies of ra were tied to the stakes of geb to be executed. as the father of osiris, geb could be invoked to provide fatherly help to a

HEAVEN HELL

bseni being weighed against his heart p. 159 the scales of osiris, with weights p. 159 the judgment hall of osiris p. 161 nekht spearing the pig of evil p. 163 the apes working the net p. 184 next: chapter i. origin of illustrated guides to the other world sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 1 the egyptian heaven and hell chapter i. origin of illustrated guides to the other world. the inhabitants of egypt during the dynastic period of their history possessed, in common with other peoples of similar antiquity, very definite ideas about the abode of departed spirits, but few, if any, ancient nations caused their beliefs about the situation and form, and divisions, and inhabitants of their heaven and hell, or "other world" to be described so fully in writing, and none have ill

not consolidated, and whose power was ineffective except in the immediate neighbourhood of the towns in which they lived, who were unable to wage wars in syria and sinai and to bring back much spoil, could neither establish colleges of priests nor endow new temples; for in ancient egypt, as elsewhere, the fortunes of the gods and the wealth of their sanctuaries increased or declined according as the inhabitants of the land were prosperous or otherwise. similarly also, when the community was suffering from the evil effects of a long period of civil wars, and business was at a standstill, and farmers were unable to carry on the usual agricultural operations on which both the government and the priesthood ultimately depended for support, it was impossible for men to bury their dead with all

tuat, much as the nile flowed through egypt, and we see that there were inhabitants on each of its banks, just as there were human beings on each side of the nile. at one place the river of the tuat joined the great celestial waters which were supposed to form the source of the earthly nile. how, or when, or where the belief arose it is impossible to say, but it seems that at a very early period the inhabitants of egypt thought that the souls of the dead when they departed from this world made their way into the tuat, and took up their abode there, and long before the dynastic period the tuat was regarded throughout egypt as the kingdom of the dead. certain sections of it were considered to belong by traditional right to certain cities, e.g, heliopolis, memphis, herakleopolis, abydos, etc

god, osiris, who straightway creates these secret boats and sends them p. 122 to bring afu-ra to the place where he is. the abode of osiris is situated on the net-asar i.e, the "stream of osiris" a name given to the river of the tuat in the third division, and it is at the head of this river that the throne of osiris rests according to some copies of the theban recension of the book of the dead. the inhabitants who are seen on both banks of the stream are called pertiu, and they live on lands which have been allotted to them by afu-ra; in return for these they serve osiris and defend him from the attacks of all his enemies. as the boat in which afu-ra stands and the three other boats move on, the gods on the banks move with them and guard them, and when they have escorted the great god to

ch they were confirmed by afu-ra, these gods have certain duties to perform, viz, to take vengeance upon the fiend seba, to make nu to come into being, and to cause hapi to flow. from this it appears that seba possessed at times power over nu, that is to say, the great celestial watery mass which was the source of the river nile in egypt; to destroy this fiend was all-important, for without water the inhabitants of the tuat could not live, and the cessation of the flow of the nile would cause the ruin and death of the people of egypt. it is interesting to note the connexion of the nile with the chief domain of osiris, and it is, no doubt, a reminiscence of the period in the history of the god when he was a water-god. a knowledge of the beings in these pictures and of the texts of this divi

is in it" now this description tells us at once that the lake of boiling water is no other than a collection of water which resembles that of the famous "asphaltitis lacus" or, which is described by diodorus siculus (ii. 48; xix. 98. the water of this lake is said to be very salt, and of an extremely noxious smell, and the fire which burns beneath the ground, and the stench of the bitumen render the inhabitants of the neighbouring country sickly and short-lived. the country round about is nevertheless well fitted for the cultivation of palms, wherever it is traversed by fresh water. it is quite clear that the author of the egyptian text cannot have borrowed his p. 129 description of the lake from later writers, and it is equally clear that his account of it represents the tradition of the

in or near one of the oases. at kharga, for example, there are several springs the waters of which reach a temperature of 97 fahrenheit. as we see in the picture (vol. ii, p. 112) a large plant, or small tree, growing before each of its inhabitants, it is evident that some kind of vegetation flourished in the neighbourhood of the lake, and the quaint costume of the gods, who, of course, typified the inhabitants of the region, suggests that they were not egyptian. the dwellers in the lake of boiling water entreat afu-ra to come to them, saying "send forth thy light upon us, o thou great god who hast fire in thine eye (vol. ii, p. 113. in answer, the god decrees that their food shall consist of loaves of bread and green, herbs, and that their beer shall be made from the kemtet plant. this p

ered so many difficulties to the passage of the boat of afu-ra, that special means had to be found for overcoming them, and p. 132 for enabling the god and his followers to proceed northwards to the house of osiris. as there was no river in the land of seker a boat was useless to afu-ra, and as the god was unable to travel through the fourth division boldly, and to allow himself to be seen by all the inhabitants thereof, it was arranged that he should pass through a series of narrow corridors, which were provided with doors. the pictures which illustrate the passage of the god through this division, or hour, are arranged in three registers, but the actual corridors through which he travelled are drawn across these obliquely. the main corridor is called re-stau. at the end of the first sect

place of abode in his own presence with peace and the food of maat thereon to live (vol. ii, pp. 177 .186. to the left of the path of afu-ra are twelve gods, each of whom is tending a colossal ear of wheat, and twelve gods provided with sickles, engaged in reaping. the ears of wheat here growing are the "members of osiris (hat sar, that is, they are regarded as parts of the god's own body, 1 and the inhabitants of the kingdom of osiris and human beings on earth alike ate the body of the god when they ate bread of wheat. the wheat which grew in the kingdom of osiris was, of course, larger, and finer in every respect than that which grew on earth, and it is expressly said that the "khu" i.e, beatified spirits, feed upon the divine grain (nepra) in the land of the light-god (vol. ii, p. 188

afu-ra. regains his powers as a living god, and becomes ready to emerge into the light of a new day with glory and splendour. it must be understood that the constitution of this division is quite different from that of any which we have seen hitherto, and that the gods who are in it are peculiar to the region of akert. it is impossible to say where akert p. 173 began or ended, but as the tuat of the inhabitants of heliopolis was represented by it, it follows, perhaps, that it was believed to be situated quite near that city. it is pretty certain that it comprised a part of the eastern delta, and that it extended along the eastern bank of the nile some considerable distance to the south of memphis, in fact, so far as bakhau, the mountain of sunrise; if this be so, it follows that when the

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ary or solar system-one sui generis, we are told. q. what do you mean by sui generis? a. i mean that, though the fundamental law and the universal working of laws of nature are uniform, still our solar system (like every other such system in the millions of others in cosmos) and even our earth, has its own program of manifestations differing from the respective programs of all others. we speak of the inhabitants of other planets and imagine that if they are men, i.e, thinking entities, they must be as we are. the fancy of poets and painters and sculptors never fails to represent even the angels as a beautiful copy of man-plus wings. we say that all this is an error and a delusion; because, if on this little earth alone one finds such a diversity in its flora, fauna, and mankind-from the se

HP LOVECRAFT THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH

it was because the land of mnar is very still, and remote from most other lands, both of waking and of dream. as the men of sarnath beheld more of the beings of lb their hate grew, and it was not less because they found the beings weak, and soft as jelly to the touch of stones and arrows. so one day the young warriors, the slingers and the spearmen and the bowmen, marched against lb and slew all the inhabitants thereof, pushing the queer bodies into the lake with long spears, because they did not wish to touch them. and because they did not like the gray sculptured monoliths of lb they cast these also into the lake; wondering from the greatness of the labor how ever the stones were brought from afar, as they must have been, since there is naught like them in the land of mnar or in the lan

HP LOVECRAFT THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN

etimes bare earth with struggling greenish-grey vegetation. the houses were tall, peaked-roofed, incredibly old, and crazily leaning backward, forward, and sidewise. occasionally an opposite pair, both leaning forward, almost met across the street like an arch; and certainly they kept most of the light from the ground below. there were a few overhead bridges from house to house across the street. the inhabitants of that street impressed me peculiarly; at first i thought it was because they were all silent and reticent; but later decided it was because they were all very old. i do not know how i came to live on such a street, but i was not myself when i moved there. i had been living in many poor places, always evicted for want of money; until at last i came upon that tottering house in the

HP LOVECRAFT THE STREET

ough men talked of great changes, the street felt them not, for its folk were still the same, speaking of the old familiar things in the old familiar accounts. and the trees still sheltered singing birds, and at evening the moon and stars looked down upon dewy blossoms in the walled rose-gardens. in time there were no more swords, three-cornered hats, or periwigs in the street. how strange seemed the inhabitants with their walking-sticks, tall beavers, and cropped heads! new sounds came from the distance first strange puffings and shrieks from the river a mile away, and then, many years later, strange puffings and shrieks and rumblings from other directions. the air was not quite so pure as before, but the spirit of the place had not changed. the blood and soul of their ancestors had fashi

HP LOVECRAFT THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN

sign of angelo ricci and joe czanek and manuel silva to call on the terrible old man. this old man dwells all alone in a very ancient house on water street near the sea, and is reputed to be both exceedingly rich and exceedingly feeble; which forms a situation very attractive to men of the profession of messrs. ricci, czanek, and silva, for that profession was nothing less dignified than robbery. the inhabitants of kingsport say and think many things about the terrible old man which generally keep him safe from the attention of gentlemen like mr. ricci and his colleagues, despite the almost certain fact that he hides a fortune of indefinite magnitude somewhere about his musty and venerable abode. he is, in truth, a very strange person, believed to have been a captain of east india clipper

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

n foote as well as on horseback. one thing more [i.e. something supernatural] by mrs. mary burke with twelve servants yes in the house, and never one hurt, onley they must dance with them every night; they say, mrs. mary come away, p. 95 telling her she must be wyfe to the inchanted earl of desmond. uppon a mannour of my lord bishoppe of lymerick, loughill, hath been seen upon the hill by most of the inhabitants aboundance of armed men marching, and these seene many tymes--and when they come up to them they do not appeare. these things are very strange, if the cleargie and gentrie say true" 1 during the rebellion an appalling massacre of protestants took place at portadown, when about a hundred persons, men, women, and children, were forced over the bridge into the river, and so drowned; t

ible for any match to keep fire, or any sojor to handle his musket or yet to stand. yea, severalls of them dyed that night of meere cold. our sojors, and some of our officers too (who suppose that no thing which is more than ordinarie can be the product of nature, attributed this hurrikan to the divilish skill of some irish witches" 2 apparently the english were not as wise in their generation as the inhabitants of constance in switzerland were on the occasion p. 100 of a similar ebullition of the elements. the latter went out, found a witch, persuaded her to confess herself the guilty author of the storm, and then burnt her--by which time, no doubt, the wind had subsided! much in the same strain might be added, but, lest we should weary our readers, we shall content ourselves with giving

up at the assizes, but was discharged by proclamation. her version of the story was, that a black man had appeared in the house armed with a huge club, with which he killed the three persons and stunned herself. lamentable though the whole affair was, as well for the gross superstition displayed by the participants as for its tragical ending, yet it seems to have aroused no other feelings amongst the inhabitants of carnmoney p. 228 and carrigfergus than those of risibility and derision. a clever racy ballad was made upon it by a resident in the district, which, as it is probably the only poem on the subject of witchcraft in ireland, we print here in its entirety from the ulster journal of arch ology for 1908, though we have not had the courage to attempt a glossary to the "braid scots" it

r, of loughcrew, co. meath. they entered the house, armed with a dead man's hand with a lighted candle in it, believing in the superstitious notion that if such a hand be procured, and a candle placed within its grasp, the latter cannot be seen by anyone except him by whom it is used; also that if the candle and hand be introduced into a house it will prevent those who may be asleep from awaking. the inhabitants, however, were alarmed, and p. 233 the robbers fled, leaving the hand behind them. 1 no doubt the absolute failure of this gruesome dark lantern on this occasion was due to the fact that neither candle nor candlestick had been properly prepared! the orthodox recipe for its preparation and consequent effectual working may be found in full in mr. baring gould's essay on schamir in hi

given her cong so easily, while the annals of irish witchcraft would be the richer by nearly as extraordinary a case as that of florence newton, and one which would have lost nothing in the telling or the printing. shorn of their pomp and circumstance, no doubt many witch-stories would be found to be very similar in origin to the above. as is only to be expected in a country where the majority of the inhabitants are engaged in agricultural pursuits, most of the tales of strange doings are in connection with cattle. at dungannon quarter sessions in june 1890, before sir francis brady, one farmer sued another for breach of warranty in a cow. 1 it was suggested p. 240 that the animal was "blinked" or in other words was under the influence of the "evil eye" or had a pishogue put upon it. the d

ISIS UNVEILED

iicting death for witchcraft were found to be itill unrqwaled. it ia not a bimdred yean aiace they have beeo enforoed to the munierou* letter of their toct- digitizecoy google the fhysico-f5ychol0g1cal american type 19 ot men from tarioua climates and of different constitutions and habits, have, since 1492, invaded north america, and by intermarrying have substantiauy changed the physical type of the inhabitants. in what country in the world do the women's constitutions bear comparison with the delicate, nervous, and sensitive constitutions of the female portion of the population of the united states? we were struck on our arrival in the country with the semi-transparent delicacy of skin^ the natives of both sexes. compare a hard-working irish factory girl or boy with one from a genuine am

er was he the first to teach the unity of god, for he taught only what he himself had learned with the br&hmanos. and that zarathustra and his followers, the zoro- astiiims" had been settled in india before they immigrated into persia" is also proved by max muller" that the zoroastrians and their ances- tors started from india" he says "during the vedic period, can be proved as distinctly as that the inhabitants of massilia started from greece. many of the gods of the zoroastrians come out. as mere reflexions and deflexions of the primitive and authentic gods of the veda" if now we can prove and we can do so on the evidence of the kabala and the oldest traditions of the wisdom-rehgion, the philosophy of the old sanctuaries that all these gods, whether of the zoroastrians or of the veda, ar

eared first in the other syatenu. zoroastrianism anticipated far more than has beat imagined. ute cross, the priestly robes and symbols, the sacraments, the sabbath, the festirals and annivenariei, are all anterior to tbe christian era by thousands of yean. titt ancient wotsfaip, after it had been excluded from its former shrines, and from the metropolitan towns, was maintained for a long time by the inhabitants of humble localities. to this fact it owes its later designation. fvom b^ng kqit up in the pav^ or ratal districts, its 'votaries woe denomuwted pofons, or provianals" digitizecoy google 180 isis unveils) fast therefore in the libeiiy wherewith christ hath made ua free, and be not entan^ed agun with the yoke of bondage. behold. i paul say unto you, that if ye be cireumcised, christ

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s, or angel-defenders, camped, as it were, and were sure to be met with thickly, where these flames upon the altars, and these torches or lights about the temples, invited them and were studiously and incessantly maintained. thus the custom seems to have been general from the earliest antiquity to maintain a constant fire, as conceiving the gods present there. and this was not only the opinion of the inhabitants in jud a, but it extended all over persia, greece, italy, egypt, and most other nations of the world. porphyry imagined that the reason why the most ancient mortals kept up a constant, ever-burning fire in honour of the immortal gods, was because fire was most like the gods. he says that the ancients kept an unextinguished fire in their temples to the gods because it was most like

e good to the general system of being; and that every animal is some way or other the better for the pain of every other animal. this opinion he carries so far as to suppose that there passes some principle of union through all animal life, as attraction is communicated to all corporeal nature; and that the evils suffered on this globe may by some inconceivable means contribute to the felicity of the inhabitants of the remotest planet. contemporary review of the nature and origin of evil. without subordination, no created system can exist: all subordination implying imperfection; all imperfection, evil; and all evil, some kind of inconveniency or suffering. soame jenyns: free enquiry into the nature and origin of evil. whether subordination implies imperfection may be disputed. the means r

king, whose sister herze -lo de was the mother of parsival, the third king of the san greal (these are the three kings of cologne, or the three magi or astrologers) a great many towns pretended to possess this holy relic. in 1247 the patriarch of jerusalem sent the san gr al to king henry the third of england, as having belonged to nicodemus (see the gospel of nicodemus) and joseph of arimathea. the inhabitants of constantinople, about the same time, also fancied that a vessel which they had long esteemed as a sacred relic was the san gr al. the genoese also felt certain that their santo catino (catillo: v. a (l) to lick dishes; catinus, i. m (l) a dish) was nothing else than the san gr al. the same (or similar) modifications of the myth are to be noticed in a romance, in prose, entitled

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ew insects. most of these have high reproductive rates, simple living habits, and require a minimum of attention to raise. in case someone is thinking "hoax" why was it, or would it be, confined to these lower forms? why not rabbits or groundhogs or cats? why snails, fish, worms? accepting as i do the veracity of the many reports of live things having fallen from the skies, i submit that they are the inhabitants of celestial hydroponic tanks and that their falls come from one of two things (1) when the tanks are dumped and cleared for refilling, for whatever reason there might be (2) that the falls may be the residue from the collection from earth while the monitors of the tanks are replenishing their supplies. some of both& of wrecks& repair-jobs on most ships. again we are faced with the

ountry people called "butter "soft, clammy, and of a dark yellow" that cattle fed "indifferently" in fields where this substance lay "it fell in lumps as big as the end of one's finger" it had a "strong, ill scent" his grace called it a "stinking dew" in mr. vans's letter, it is said that the "butter" was supposed to have medicinal properties "and was gathered in pots and other vessels by some of the inhabitants of the place" the yellow substance at kourianof, combustible (organic_ covering six or seven hundred square feet about the size area we have so often noted some characteristics of pine pollen but who ever saw pine pollen of fibrous nature which "when torn had the tenacity of cotton? two inches thick means tons! i am inclined to think that there is something of an indication in thes

e proceeded from a small cloud of rectangular form, the largest side being in a direction from east to west. it appeared motionless all the time the phenomenon lasted, but the vapor of which it was composed was projected momentarily from the different sides by the effect of the different explosions. the cloud was about half a league to the northeast of laigle, and was at so great an altitude that the inhabitants of two hamlets a league apart saw it directly overhead. a multitude of meteoric stones fell amid a hissing sound. thunderbird, dragon of lao fzu, p. 27, saucer, all the same thing, all rumble when "hit" hard or when in need of repairs. the shape of that "cloud" is important. it seems to be the only sure clue that this could be anything more than an ordinary exploding meteor. rectan

one the line of single, exactly spaced imprints? one ingenious correspondent suggested that a hopping toad was the mischief-maker! the hopping would explain the single track, and the imprint of the toad's belly and claws the mark there is one single argument against all explanations of the tracks being made by any common animal or bird. the tracks left by such creatures were perfectly familiar to the inhabitants of devon and if such tracks had been anything like those made by well-known animals nobody would have thought twice about it. two unfamiliar species of animals were suggested as possible makers of the tracks: two kangaroos and a raccoon, these allegedly having escaped from near-by captivity. but simple arithmetic is fatal to the hypothesis that one or even two animals could have ma

KETAB E SIYAH

left because of the children of israel: and there shall be desolation. iv piscatores the fishers et maerebunt piscatores et lugebunt the fishers also shall mourn. v apocalypsis apocalypse ecce dominus dissipabit terram et nudabit eam et adfliget faciem eius et disperget habitatores eius behold, the lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. vi dissolutio destruction quia indignatio domini super omnes gentes et furor super universam militiam eorum interfecit eos et dedit eos in occisionem 397 for the indignation of the lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. vii urina urine ut comedant stercora sua et bibant urinam t

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

erent way. 351. the christian service begins by building a great thought-form to act as a kind of storage-battery or condenser for this force, in order that as it is gradually generated it may be stored up for use instead of being allowed to dissipate itself uselessly in the ambient air; and we in freemasonry have to take the same precaution. in both cases we invoke the aid of non-human entities- the inhabitants of those subtler planes, who are thoroughly accustomed to deal with and control the forces belonging to their respective levels; but there is a certain difference between the methods adopted in the christian religion, and in the old egyptian mystery-faith from which masonry is derived. 352. in christianity we invoke great angels who are far above us in spiritual unfoldment, and pla

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

and in all probability ceremonies analogous to those worked in masonic lodges to-day. 13. the anthropologists do not confine their studies to the past alone, but have investigated the initiatory rites of many existing tribes, both in africa and australia, and have found them to possess signs and gestures still in use among masons. striking analogies to our masonic rites have also been found among the inhabitants of india and syria, interwoven with their religious philosophy in a way which renders entirely impossible the idea that they were copied from european sources. masonic scholars have by no means exhausted the facts which may be discovered in this most interesting field of research, but even with our present knowledge it is clear that rites analogous to those we call masonic are amon

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

tanic cult movie, with the twist that the devil-worshipers are teenaged girls and the setting is a seventeenth-century english village. bogeyman our term bogeyman derives from the term boggart or bogy, a type of fairy related to brownies. some accounts portray them as a kind of goblin, an unpleasant but not necessarily evil creature. however, whereas a brownie would adopt a house in order to help the inhabitants, a boggart would adopt a home in order to torment and generally bosch, hieronymus 31 make mischief with the residents. they are said to delight in tormenting small children by stealing their food and by almost suffocating them at night, which is where we derive the vague notions that we pass on to our children in threats about how the bogeyman will get you if you don t watch out. f

abandon all hope, all ye who enter here, which dante portrayed as inscribed above the gates of hell, begin to haunt him. after the attraction collapses and his wife abandons him, tracy is arrested and held responsible for the disaster and death his attraction caused. dark angel: the ascent a very unusual movie directed by linda hassani about an evil angel who is tired of inflicting punishment to the inhabitants of the underworld. the visual effects for the atmosphere and flavor of the underworld in this 1994 film were created in a romanian castle with torches instead of electrical lighting. the fallen angel veronica is played by angela featherstone, who escapes from hell through a secret passage just before her bloodthirsty father slashes her with his sword. featherstone arrives on the ea

LIBER CXX

center and crieth "i am armed! i am armed! i am strong! i am strong (he goes to the west, where dwell the undines "with my wand i drive back the dwellers of water (to the south, where are salamanders "let the dwellers of fire cower before the fire of my sword (in the east, the home of the sylphs "let the winds draw back at the waving of the spear (in the north, among the gnomes "i have imprisoned the inhabitants of earth. let them keep silence before me (returns to center "i am armed! i am strong! let them bow, before the splendor of ra-hoor-khuit (next he performeth the 4 adorations as taught unto the outer world "i am the lord of thebes, and i the inspired forth-speaker of mentu; for me unveils the veiled sky, the self-slain ankh-af-na-khonsu whose words are truth. i invoke, i greet thy

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rest poesy, keep me to this vow! and if i turn aside, even for a moment, i pray thee, warn me by some signal chastisement, that thou art a jealous god, and that thou wilt keep me veiled, cherished, guarded in thine harem a pure and perfect spouse, like a slender fountain playing in thy courts of marble and of malachite, of jasper, of topaz, and of lapis lazuli. and by my magick power i summon all the inhabitants of the ten thousand worlds to witness this mine oath. 8.15. i will rise, and break my fast. i think it as well to go on with the mantra, as it started of its own accord. 9.00. arrived at pantheon, to breakfast on coffee and biroche and a peach. i shall try and describe ritual 671;1 since its nature is important to this great ceremony of initiation. those who understand a little abo

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

edda. when king gylfi resolves to set off for his encounter with high, equally-high, and third, it is because he is curious about the knowledge and power of the asa-folk, which must refer to gasians h; the intended euhemerism may even explain snorri fs choice of gasa-folk, h which clearly retains the root of asia, here instead of gasir. h in the frame to skaldskaparmal, however, he just refers to the inhabitants of asgard as asir, and there the ambiguity may be deliberate. see also asir-vanir war; almattki ass; asa-thor; gods, words for references and further reading: andreas heusler, die gelehrte urgeschichte im 50 norse mythology altislandischen schrifttum, abhandlungen der koniglichen preussischen akademie der wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische klasse [jahrg] 1908, abh. 3 (berlin

der to adorn herself with gold, frigga despoils a statue of othinus and then gives her- 128 norse mythology self to a servant in order to enlist his aid in taking down the statue. in shame, othinus goes into self-imposed exile, and during his exile a sorcerer called mithothyn takes his place and institutes a change in cult procedures. upon othinus fs return mithothyn flees to fyn and is killed by the inhabitants there. loki knew a version of this story and was not above reminding frigg about it. in lokasenna, stanza 26, when frigg tries to silence loki, he rebukes her. shut up, frigg! you are fjorgyn fs daughter and have ever been most eager for men, when ve and vili you allowed, wife of vidrir [odin, to embrace you. frigg does not dispute the charge, but in response she says that if she h

e gesta danorum: in order to adorn herself with gold, frigga despoils a statue of othinus and then gives herself to a servant in order to enlist his aid in taking down the statue. in shame othinus goes into self-imposed exile, and during his exile a sorcerer called mithothyn takes his place and institutes a change in cult procedures. upon othinus fs return, mithothyn flees to fyn and is killed by the inhabitants there. loki knew a version of this story and was not above reminding frigg about it. in lokasenna, stanza 26, when frigg tries to silence loki, he rebukes her: shut up, frigg! you are fjorgyn fs daughter and have ever been most eager for men, when ve and vili you allowed, wife of vidrir, to embrace you. see also bur, bor; frigg vingolf (friend-hall) hall at asgard. vingolf is known

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

20 which is a beautiful representation of the chapter of the royal figure 19. tracing board of the royal arch degree, john harris, c. 1820. figure 20. a representation of a chapter of the royal arch, john harris, c. 1820. arch. there are many openly kabbalistic symbols here. in the east there are banners depicting the four sacred beasts, the ox, the lion, the eagle, and the man: the archetypes of the inhabitants of the four worlds taken from the vision of ezekiel. arranged down the sides of the picture are banners with the devices of the twelve tribes of israel, they are analogous to the twelve signs of the zodiac, and they represent the twelve archetypal human groups. the central feature of this space is the pedestal surrounded by six candles. kabbalisticaly, the archetypes shown here are

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

earth; and (9) hel-heim, the world of cold and the abode of the dead, which is located at the very lowest point of the universe. it is to be understood that all of these worlds are invisible to the senses, except midgard, the home of human creatures, but during the process of initiation the soul of the candidate--liberated from its earthly sheath by the secret power of the priests--wanders amidst the inhabitants of these various spheres. there is undoubtedly a relationship between the nine worlds of the scandinavians and the nine spheres, or planes, through which initiates of the eleusinian mysteries passed in their ritual of regeneration. next: the ancient mysteries and secret societies, part three sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 29 the ancient mysteries and secret societies

oth the universe and the human body. the ten kings of atlantis are the tetractys, or numbers, which are born as five pairs of opposites (consult theon of smyrna for the pythagorean doctrine of opposites) the numbers 1 to 10 rule every creature, and the numbers, in turn, are under the control of the monad, or 1- the eldest among them. with the trident scepter of poseidon these kings held sway over the inhabitants of the seven small and three great islands comprising atlantis. philosophically, the ten islands symbolize the triune powers of the superior deity and the seven regents who bow before his eternal throne. if atlantis be considered as the archetypal sphere, then its immersion signifies the descent of rational, organized consciousness into the illusionary, impermanent realm of irratio

ssaults made upon the persons of the priestesses by the profane. during the early history of the delphian oracle the god spoke only at each seventh birthday of apollo. as time went on, however, the demand became so great that the pythia was forced to seat herself upon the tripod every month. the times selected for the consultation and the questions to be asked were determined by lot or by vote of the inhabitants of delphi. it is generally admitted that the effect of the delphian oracle upon greek culture was profoundly constructive. james gardner sums up its influence in the following words "it responses revealed many a tyrant and foretold his fate. through its means many an unhappy being was saved from destruction and many a perplexed mortal guided in the right way. it encouraged useful i

m their functions--limited to one element--has resulted a specialized type of intelligence far ahead of man in those lines of research peculiar to the element in which they exist. the terms incubus and succubus have been applied indiscriminately by the church fathers to elementals. the incubus and succubus, however, are evil and unnatural creations, whereas elementals is a collective term for all the inhabitants of the four elemental essences. according to paracelsus, the incubus and succubus (which are male and female respectively) are parasitical creatures subsisting upon the evil thoughts and emotions of the astral body. these terms are also applied to the superphysical organisms of sorcerers and black magicians. while these larv are in no sense imaginary beings, they are, nevertheless

nd, and determined to reform the medical science of his day. when twenty years old he began a series of travels which continued for about twelve years. he visited many european countries, including russia. it is possible that he penetrated into asia. it was in constantinople that the great secret of the hermetic arts was bestowed upon him by arabian adepts. his knowledge of the nature spirits and the inhabitants of the invisible worlds he probably secured from the brahmins of india with whom he came in contact either directly or through their disciples. he became an army physician, and his understanding and skill brought him great success. upon his return to germany, he began his long-dreamed-of reformation of the medical arts and sciences. he was opposed on every hand and criticized unmer

nd multiplication of metals. his life of wandering continued, and during the course of it he arrived at tunis, where he began to debate with the mohammedan teachers, and nearly lost his life as the result of his fanatical attacks upon their religion. he was ordered to leave the country and never to return again upon pain of death. notwithstanding their threats he made a second visit to tunis, but the inhabitants instead of killing him merely deported him to italy. an unsigned article appearing in household words, no. 273, a magazine conducted by charles dickens, throws considerable light on lully's alchemical ability "whilst at vienna he [lully] received flattering letters from edward the second, king of england, and from robert bruce, king of scotland, entreating him to visit them. he had

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

e made bitter (rev 8:7 9:1) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation7 earths first deluge and the fourth angel sounded and a third part of the sun was smitten and the third part of themoon and the third part of the stars, so as the third part of them was darkened (rev 8:7 9:1)and i beheld and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loudvoice, woe, woe, woe, to the inhabitants of the earth (rev 8:7 9:1) for this they are willingly ignorant of..the world that then was, being overflowed withwater, perished (2 peter 3:5) celtic records also speak of the deluge: i have been in the bark of dylan, son of the wave, when the waters rose as lances, fallingdown from the skies, into the exposed abyss (book of taliesin) the indians of lake missoula, washington, have

refuge under water in their crafts. no craft they knew, with woven brick and jointed beam to pile the sunward porch; but in thedark earth burrowed and housed like sunless ants in sunless caves (aeschylus)and the king said to her, be not afraid: for what sawest thou? and the woman said untosaul, i saw gods ascending out of the earth (i samuel 28:13) dead things are formed from under the water, and the inhabitants thereof.(job 12:5) with this kind of phenomena occurring, we can perhaps make sense of one of the mostenigmatic edicts from the yahwistic commandments:y ou shalt not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heavenabove, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is under the water of the earth (exodus 20:4)in edward bulwer-lyttons book, the coming race

a war of the godsdid indeed take place in pre-diluvian times, when ferocious weaponry was possessedand used by both sides.there is good reason to believe that the terms sodom and gomorrah originallyreferred to atlantis (appalachia) and lemuria.then the lord rained upon sodom and upon gomorrah brimstone and fire from the lord outof heaven. and he overthrew those cities, and all the plains, and all the inhabitants of the cities, andthat which grew upon the ground (genesis 24-26) and again, mention of weapons:o my people that dwellest in zion, be not afraid of the assyrian: he shall smite thee with arod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of egypt.he shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow shall strike him through (job 14:24) the world falls dead46atlantis, alien

rn parts of the continent, changed the climate to arctic conditions -although, strangely enough, much of our fauna and flora survived despite it- and compelledall the survivors to flee? no lengthy periods of ice alternated with warm and even sub-tropi-cal climatical interludes? no. nothing of the sort. there was admittedly a tremendous con-vulsion of nature, which had the most direful effect upon the inhabitants of scandinavia, thebritish isles, and those in northern asia. it resulted in giving us, it is true, bitter cold, tre-mendous floods, and cruel dampness. that it affected the climate in the north adversely andpermanently cannot be denied. it did other things as well. but no ice age (comyns beaumont, riddle of prehistoric britain)it was an eventsudden, rapid, devastating, and appalli

ed manner, records it thus: the earth is utterly broken downmoved exceedingly (book of isaiah) for this they are willingly ignorant of..the world that then was, being overflowed withwater, perished (2 peter 3:5) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation55 i shall reverse the world behold the lord maketh the earth empty and maketh it waste and turneth it upside down andscattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof (isaiah 24) i saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passedaway; and there was no more sea (john 21, 22) the laplanders of northern sweden preserved these accounts. their ancient bookshave god saying:i shall reverse the world. i shall bid the rivers flow upward; i shall cause the sea to gathertogether itself up into a huge towering w

e canon of knowl-edge)if one is in true connection with nature, it follows that there is no gender dichotomy.women are not only treated as equals but are regarded as living agents (even portals)to the mysteries of nature and being. the very word mystery comes from mestameaning woman in egyptian. the scholar max muller wrote:no people ancient or modern has given woman so high a legal status as did the inhabitantsof the nile v alley.the egyptian women were entrusted with the civilization. the woman (princess, and not themale, was the legal heir to the throne, and the man she chose to marry would become theruling pharaoh (moustapha gadalla, historical deception..and the kingdom became dead and desert, for they lost the voices of the wells and the dam-sels that were therein (the elucidation)as

tivity was bequeathed which is far from over, a new land drainage pattern was instituted,and completely different oceanic and atmospheric circulatory regimes were established (p. 263)and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and everybondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains.the flood watersinevitably, the inhabitants of high latitudes experienced the most massive rising of the deluge waters asthey became piled up into a gargantuan water mountain submerging all land. salvation in arks andother floating refuges was the sole means of escape for those communities (p. 303)the phaeton disaster proper marked the singlemost momentous point in intelligent humanitys historyso far the deluge of global tra

isture in suspension in the atmo-sphere was condensed and fell down in torrents (p. 62)the bronze menbehold these bronze folk have filled the earth with deceit and violence and there is not one righteousman among them (p. 63)sodom and gomorrahthen the lord rained upon sodom and upon gomorrah brimstone and fire from the lord out of heaven: and he overthrew those cities, and all the plains, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. but his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt (genesis 24-26)(the word salt, is really a mistranslation. the term is nearer to the englishvapor.)radioactive tektitesglass-like substances known as tektites found in the libyan desert and containing radioactive isotopesof aluminum and beryllium may have be

, there existed what we call muspelheim. it is a world luminous, glowing, not to bedwelt in by strangers, and situate at the end of the earth. surtur holds his empire there. in his hand thereshines a flaming sword.muspel muspel is the lands of the south. connects with tolkiens numenor, with arcadia and ultima thule.viracocha of perucalled the white one. he constructed the sun and moon and created the inhabitants of the earth. thelatter attacked him with murderous intent.he civilized the peruvians, taught them arts and agriculture and religion; they called him the teacher ofall things. he came from the east and disappeared into the western ocean. four civilizers followedhim who emerged from the cave pacarin tampu, the house of birth. these four brothers were alsocalled viracochas, white men

ese legends of a world-embracing conflagration represent a race-remembranceof a great fact, or that they are a colossal falsehood an invention of man (p. 198)the navajosthe navajos, living north of the pueblos, say that at one time all the nations navajo, pueblos, coyot-eros, and white people lived together underground, in the heart of a mountain, near the river san juan.(p. 195)underground livingthe inhabitants of central europe and the teutonic races who came late to england place their mythicalheroes underground in caves, in vaults beneath enchanted castles, or in mounds which rise up and open,and show their buried inhabitants alive and busy about the avocations of earthly men (p. 204)the miztecsbelieved that there ancestors after the deluge built a temple on a high place and waited for

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

so who s out there? i can t believe it s not fiction: false reality the matrix dark city meet the neighbors [2.5] contrary to popular belief, the variety of beings one finds in the spirit world is nearly as rich as the variety of beings in the material world. even though all of these beings are often erroneously clumped together and called spirits, just like those who inhabit the material plane, the inhabitants of the spirit world can fall into general categories. i will use this blanket-label spirits too, although it doesn t do justice to the variety of beings in the other realms. as for the categories themselves, the first is elementals, the second is (astral) spirits, the third is demons, the fourth is larvae, and the last is angels. elementals are those who, unlike many spirits, have

pirit must be exorcized. spirits exist in a hierarchy, and consequently those conducting the exorcism usually call upon the names of god, or entities superior to the possessing spirit, to drive away the pest. the spirit may be cast out during the exorcism, or be confined to an object (which is to be discarded--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 33 do not make the amateur s mistake of associating the inhabitants of the spirit (astral) world with the afterlife of human beings; the entities that reside in the astral plane are not human, and probably never were. simply put, these entities have nothing to do with your dead grandma. although many people imagine spirits as extremely concerned with the activities of humans, in truth many spirits are indifferent to humans. spirits and elementals s

MORALS AND DOGMA

dinal tenets of the old primitive faith, which underlie and are the foundation of all religions. all that ever existed have had a basis of truth; and all have overlaid that truth with errors. the primitive truths taught by the redeemer were sooner corrupted, and intermingled and alloyed with fictions than when taught to the first of our race. masonry is the universal morality which is suitable to the inhabitants of every clime, to the man of every creed. it has taught no doctrines, except those truths that tend directly to the well-being of man; and those who have attempted to direct it toward useless vengeance, political ends, and jesuitism, have merely perverted it to purposes foreign to its pure spirit and real nature. mankind outgrows the sacrifices and the mythologies of the childhood

eece would not close the mysteries, notwithstanding a law of the emperor valentinian, lest the people should be driven to desperation, if prevented from performing them; upon which, as they believed, the welfare of mankind wholly depended. they were practised in athens until the 8th century, in greece and rome for several centuries after christ; and in wales and scotland down to the 12th century. the inhabitants of india originally practised the patriarchal religion. even the later worship of vishnu was cheerful and social; accompanied with the festive song, the sprightly dance, and the resounding cymbal, with libations of milk and honey, garlands, and perfumes from aromatic woods and gums. there perhaps the mysteries commenced; and in them, under allegories, were taught the primitive trut

he visible world to an invisible creator. all the rest of the world regarded as gods those luminous bodies that blaze in the firmament, offered them sacrifices, bowed down before them, and raised neither their souls nor their worship above the visible heavens. the chaldeans, canaanites, and syrians, among whom abraham lived, did the same. the canaanites consecrated horses and chariots to the sun. the inhabitants of emesa in ph nicia adored him under the name of elagabalus; and the sun, as hercules, was the great deity of the tyrians. the syrians worshipped, with fear and dread, the stars of the constellation pisces, and consecrated images of them in their temples. the sun as adonis was worshipped in byblos and about mount libanus. there was a magnificent temple of the sun at palmyra, which

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

uritan persecution-mania; perversion is practically unknown, and monogamy is the general custom. even the civilized psychopaths of cities, forced into every kind of excess by the omnipresence of erotic suggestions and the contact of crazed crowds seething with suppressed sexuality, are not wholly past physic. they are no sooner released from the persistent pressure by escaping to some place where the inhabitants treat the reproductive and the respiratory organs as equally innocent than they begin insensibly to forget their 'fixed idea' forced on them by the fog-horn of morality, so that their perversions perish,just as a coiled spring straightens itself when the external compulsion is removed. they revert to their natural sex-characters, which only in rare cases are other than simple, pure

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

page 97 page 98 oeneus, king of calydon in atolia, had incurred the displeasure of artemis by neglecting to include her in a general sacrifice to the gods which he had offered up, out of gratitude for a bountiful harvest. the goddess, enraged at this neglect, sent a wild boar of extraordinary size and prodigious strength, which destroyed the sprouting grain, laid waste the fields, and threatened the inhabitants with famine and death. at this juncture, meleager, the brave son of oeneus, returned from the argonautic expedition, and finding his country ravaged by this dreadful scourge, entreated the assistance of all the celebrated heroes of the age to join him in hunting the ferocious monster. among the most famous of those who responded to his call were jason, castor and pollux, idas and l

ng in his gait. this latter defect originated, as we have already seen, in the wrath of his father zeus, who hurled him down from heaven[35] in consequence of his taking the part of hera, in one of the domestic disagreements, which so frequently arose between page 106 this royal pair. hephastus was a whole day falling from olympus to the earth, where he at length alighted on the island of lemnos. the inhabitants of the country, seeing him descending through the air, received him in their arms; but in spite of their care, his leg was broken by the fall, and he remained ever afterwards lame in one foot. grateful for the kindness of the lemnians, he henceforth took up his abode in their island, and there built for himself a superb palace, and forges for the pursuit of his avocation. he instru

vine-branches surmounted by a fir-cone, and clashing together cymbals and other musical instruments. seated in a chariot drawn by panthers, and accompanied by thousands of enthusiastic followers, dionysus made a triumphal [126]progress through syria, egypt, arabia, india &c, conquering all before him, founding cities, and establishing on every side a more civilized and sociable mode of life among the inhabitants of the various countries through which he passed. when dionysus returned to greece from his eastern expedition, he encountered great opposition from lycurgus, king of thrace, and pentheus, king of thebes. the former, highly disapproving of the wild revels which attended the worship of the wine-god, drove away his attendants, the nymphs of nysa, from that sacred mountain, and so eff

his arrows, succeeded in considerably thinning their numbers; then, assisted by the heroes, who at length came to his aid, he effectually destroyed the remainder. the argo now steered out of the harbour and set sail; but in consequence of a severe storm which arose at night, was driven back once more to the shores of the kindly doliones. unfortunately, however, owing to the darkness of the night, the inhabitants failed to recognize their former guests, and, mistaking them for enemies, commenced to attack them. those who had so recently parted as friends were now engaged in mortal combat, and in the battle which ensued, jason himself pierced to the heart his friend king cyzicus; whereupon the doliones, being deprived of their leader, fled to their city and closed the gates. when morning daw

and both sides perceived their error, they were filled with [219]the deepest sorrow and remorse; and for three days the heroes remained with the doliones, celebrating the funereal rites of the slain, with every demonstration of mourning and solemnity. page 250 heracles left behind..the argonauts once more set sail, and after a stormy voyage arrived at mysia, where they were hospitably received by the inhabitants, who spread before them plentiful banquets and sumptuously regaled them. while his friends were feasting, heracles, who had declined to join them, went into the forest to seek a fir-tree which he required for an oar, and was missed by his adopted son hylas, who set out to seek him. when the youth arrived at a spring, in the most secluded part of the forest, the nymph of the fountai

nimal, among his own herds, worthy the acceptance of the mighty sea-god. charmed with the splendid animal sent by poseidon, and eager to possess it, minos placed it among his herds, and substituted as a sacrifice one of his own bulls. hereupon poseidon, in order to punish the cupidity of minos, caused the animal to become mad, and commit such great havoc in the island as to endanger the safety of the inhabitants. when heracles, therefore, arrived in crete for the purpose of capturing the bull, minos, far from opposing his design, gladly gave him permission to do so. the hero not only succeeded in securing the animal, but tamed him so effectually that he rode on his back right across the sea as far as the peloponnesus. he now delivered him up to eurystheus, who at once set him at liberty, a

as at this time but a small city surrounded by a number of villages, each of which possessed its own separate form of government; but by means of kind and conciliatory measures theseus induced the heads of these different communities to resign their sovereignty, and to intrust the administration of public affairs to a court which should sit constantly at athens, and exercise jurisdiction over all the inhabitants of attica. the result of these judicious measures was, that the athenians became a united and powerful people, and that numbers of strangers and foreigners flocked to athens, which became a flourishing maritime port and a commercial centre of great importance. theseus renewed the isthmian games, and also instituted numerous festivals, the principal of which was the panathenaa, held

not long after this occurrence the sphinx (full details of whom have already been given) was sent by the goddess hera as a punishment to the thebans. stationed on a rocky height just outside the city, she propounded to the passers by riddles which she had been taught by the muses, and whoever failed to solve them was torn in pieces and devoured by the monster, and in this manner great numbers of the inhabitants of thebes had perished. now on the death of the old king laius, creon, the brother of the widowed queen, had seized the reins of government and mounted the vacant throne; and when at length his own son fell a victim to the sphinx, he resolved at all costs to rid the country of this fearful scourge. he accordingly issued a proclamation, that the kingdom and the hand of his sister jo

meward voyage his little fleet was driven by stress of weather to a land whose inhabitants subsisted entirely on a curious plant called the lotus, which was sweet as honey to the taste, but had the effect of causing utter oblivion of home and country, and of creating an irresistible longing to remain for ever in the land of the lotus-eaters. odysseus and his companions were hospitably received by the inhabitants, who regaled them freely with their peculiar and very delicious food; after partaking of which, however, the comrades of the hero refused to leave the country, and it was only by sheer force that he at length succeeded in bringing them back to their ships. polyphemus..continuing their journey, they next arrived at the country of the cyclops, a race of giants remarkable for having o

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

se it to get fast, precise information on forthcoming events. spirit contact is perfectly safe, and you will never come to any harm using these arcane methods of communicating with the spirit world. secrets of the spirit world spirits, of whom there are millions, reside in what is known as the astral world, an invisible sphere of existence that duplicates the physical world we live in. it is with the inhabitants of this unseen world that mediums make their contacts at seances. until now, access to this unseen world was only possible with astral travel. this is the phenomenon of consciously projecting your astral body from its physical counterpart. the astral body is an exact duplicate of the physical body. it regularly leaves the body during sleep although there is no memory or sensation o

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

born (d. 1036) had a chapel erected in the style of a similar, older monument that he claimed charlemagne had ordered greek craftsmen to construct per operarios groecos.16 according to the chronicle of leon of ostia (iii, 29, didier, abbot of monte cassino, ordered from constantinople at great expense masters in the art of mosaic and hired them to decorate the church. he also desired that some of the inhabitants of the monastery would take pains to learn that art, which was almost lost in italy. so during the first half of the middle ages, byzantium generally paved the way for art for the rest of europe. romanesque architecture itself may owe more to byzantine art than is commonly believed. the principal romanesque innovation was the covering of the church nave the collegia and the barbari

for the order the art of building and geometry. whether they were brother servants or lay workers, everyone contributed to the construction of templar buildings; in short, they labored for the temple. while remaining under templar tutelage, however, these associations soon became more independent of the order. they expanded their field of activity by working not only for the templars but also for the inhabitants of their domains, which continued to develop in both population and wealth. the bond that tied operatives to the temple was now simply one of a manorial order. in this insecure time, tradesmen flocked to the commanderies, where, in addition to its powerful protection, the temple offered to operatives considerable advantages, including the right of asylum, the right of franchise, an

s certain that the benedictines, cistercians, and hospitallers of saint john of jerusalem offered an equal measure, at least originallythe templars, the francs metiers, and freemasonry 83 this right of franchise allowed any craftsman to exercise any craft or commerce within the domain of the temple, despite any rules or regulations promulgated by the sovereign authority of the nation or the city. the inhabitants of the templar commanderies were also exempted from the majority of tariffs and taxes imposed by the king, the lord of the area, or the municipality. in paris this is how they were able to avoid the tallage, the corvee* and a very unpopular kind of servitude, the watch, something in which the bourgeois residents of paris were compelled to participate. the trades that benefited from

charles vii] commanded that the most reliable inhabitant in each parish of the kingdom be elected for training in the bow, and that this individual also be under the obligation to furnish a crew. each of the archers would receive 4 pounds a month when serving in war. but they enjoyed a general exemption from all manner of taxes or fees. it is for this reason that they were known as free archers.2 the inhabitants of towns and cities who had obtained charters of exemption were called the bourgeois in other words, free men. they were, however, distinguished from the francs bourgeois "who did not have to pay and did not pay any to the lord for any bourgeois right, and were free and quit of him" to use the terms employed by the coutume de berry. in paris the bourgeoisie owed the king both the t

articularly propitious for increasing the order's influence and popularity. in the troubled times of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when the craftsmen and bourgeois of the cities sought protection for themselves and their properties by freeing themselves from their cities' control, the temple offered them not only asylum but also the model of a free professional organization. the status of the inhabitants of commanderies could only inspire those outside to benefit from the same rights and to obtain their recognition if need be, by force from the lords. there is no doubt that under these conditions the templars exercised, directly or indirectly, an important influence on the formation of craft communities. this is not to say that the activity of the templars and the example they set

a short digression is necessary to examine several points in the history of public law. in the middle ages, the justice handed down by the lords appeared in two distinct forms: manorial justice and feudal justice.2 manorial justice was an infeudated dismemberment of public power. the lord served as the judge in civil, criminal, and administrative trials within his seigniorial borders and over all the inhabitants of his seigniorial domain. not all lords had an equally extensive authority, however. two degrees were recognized: high and low justice. high justice dealt with every criminal accusation that carried an afflictive penalty and all civil trials in which a legal battle could take place in other words, all major criminal cases. all other cases were the purview of low justice. it could

in the saint merri, saint opportune, and saint honore encloisteres. the temple was not the sole sovereign jurisdiction in paris to exist before the fall of the ancien regime; other abbeys and religious orders in the city enjoyed the same prerogatives+ but the templars' jurisdiction was by far the largest. because of this sovereignty, the temple was independent of the king and he had no power over the inhabitants in this high justice area which we could easily call a state. there the laws of the police were enforced and justice was exercised by a civil officer named by the templar commander. this officer originally held the title of procurator, then mayor, then later, at the time of the hospitallers, the title of bailiff+ his powers corresponded to those held by the king's provost in the re

very extensive franchise to craftsmen. the right of franchise allowed the exercise of any craft or commerce* seine prefecture, commission d'extension de paris apercu historique, 1913, 12, 16, 17. a 1548 edict banned all new construction in the faubourgs [suburban areas, where "an infinite number of folk" were looking to settle "in order to enjoy the franchises and exemptions that were accorded to the inhabitants of these faubourgs" 110 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages outside the ordinary laws of the king, the city, and craft organizations. the exact territorial limits covered by the temple's franchise are not known. it is quite certain that they went well beyond the enclos itself. the 1279 accord stipulates in fact the rights and franchises for those artisa

s did. their efforts were sometimes opposed by the cities' aristocrats, sometimes by the feudal lords, and sometimes by the emperor himself. the burgave of strasbourg had the right to place the masters who headed the arts corporations. in worms all such associations were suppressed in 1233, with the exception of those of the coin minters and the furriers. the statute handed down by frederic ii to the inhabitants of goslar in 1219 expressly forbade mastery associations. a decree issued in 1232 by this same emperor from ravenna banned associations throughout the empire. in 1378, charles iv put a stop to the training and activities of the arts brotherhoods of minden, which prompted no intervention by the episcopal authorities; this decree was later confirmed by charles v. in all these ordinan

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

of these stood on poles outside the medicine lodge. they may represent spirits of the four cardinal points. this cheyenne shield shows the turtle in the earth-diver role taken by the mudhen in the mandan creation myth. earth lodges the mandan lived in earth lodges consisting of a timber frame thatched with willow boughs, covered with a foot or two of clay and gravel. the roofs became so hard that the inhabitants 20 or 30 per lodge could sit out on top of them. the okeepa was an annual ceremony lasting four days. it began with lone man entering the village and smoking a pipe to the initiation of young men and calling to the great spirit to give them the strength to succeed. outside, the buffalo dance, shown above, was performed to ask the great spirit to continue his influence in sending bu

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

ted as job fs mother. nonetheless, job was a non-jew, and the gshells h claimed him as their own and his merit protected them. for all his perfection, job was not part of the line of abraham (being descended from his brother nahor, as we said above, and thus was not a link in the chain of the primogenesis of the jewish people. we are told that when the spies entered the land of israel, they found the inhabitants mourning over job fs passing, since his merit protected them.18 the arizal concludes by saying that this is why satan considered job a fair exchange for the jewish people, and why it was not unjust that g-d offered him as gransom h for israel. before his trial, he was the as yet unrectified terah, the source of the evil of idolatry that the jewish people were in the process of upro

alkut shimoni, isaiah 393; ibid. hosea 522, etc. 4 anno mundi, i.e, since creation. the arizal on parashat lech lecha 92 that the leading sages dispersed, each one establishing his own beis midrash that stood side by side with the sanhedrin. but all these became diminished in standing and authority when compared to the newly arising torah center that was being established in babylonia. h5 many of the inhabitants of the land of israel left at this point.6 thus, this year may be considered to mark the point when the emphasis in judaism shifted from learning torah toward yearning for the redemption from exile, in other words, for the messianic era. the sages also state that before the creation of the world, g-d was gcreating worlds and destroying them. h7 in kabbalah, this is understood to re

re afraid here in judah, how much more if we go against the formations of the philistines in ke filah! h so david consulted g-d again, and g-d answered him, garise, go down to ke filah, for i am going to deliver the philistines into your hands. h david and his men went to ke filah and fought against the philistines; he drove off their cattle and inflicted a severe defeat on them. thus david saved the inhabitants of ke filah. when evyatar son of achimelech fled to david at ke filah, he brought down an ephod with him. saul was told that david had come to ke filah, and saul thought, gg-d has delivered him into my hands, for he has shut himself in by entering a town with gates and bars. h saul summoned all the people for war, to go down to ke filah and besiege david and his men. when david lea

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

mon takes practicus round the tempk, and halts before hiereus who rises with red lamp in hand. hiereus the dukes of edom were amazed, trembling they took hold of the mighty moab, lord, when thou wentest out of seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped- the clouds also dropped water. curse ye meroz, said the angel of the lord- curse ye bitterly, the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the lord- to the help of the lord against the mighty. the river kishon swept them away- that ancient river, the river kishon. 0 my soul, thou hast trodden down strength! he bowed the heavens, also, and came down and the darkness was under his feet. at the brightness that was before him the thick <140> clouds passed- hail-stones and flas

ame forth a mighty hand which gathered these cinders and welded them into a mass, lifeless and vast. then we passed to this earth- to a frigid scene, all snow and huge blocks of ice. the cold was intense, but i felt it not. here were polar bears, and seals, as also many sea gulls. in places, the ice was stationery but again it was violently moved, block crashing against block with deafening roar. the inhabitants of the place were small and bloodless, wrapped chiefly in the skins of polar bears "the influence of this square on man, makes him violently impetuous in the absence of difficulty, but instantly hopeless in the face of an obstacle, abandoning at once every project. the elementals are demure, bird-like creatures with semi-human faces. the spiritual beings are beautiful diaphanous an

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

trident; those of the eagle for the sylphs, who are commanded by the holy pantacles; finally, those of the water-carrier for undines, who are commanded by the cup of libations. their 32 the ritual of transcendental magic respective sovereigns are gob for the gnomes, djin for the salamanders, paralda for the sylphs and nicksa for the undines. when an elementary spirit torments, or at least vexes, the inhabitants of this world, it must be conjured by air, water, fire and earth; by breathing, sprinkling, burning of perfumes; and by tracing on the ground the star of solomon and the sacred pentagram. these figures must be perfectly correct and drawn either with the charcoal of consecrated fire or with a reed dipped in various colours, mixed with powdered loadstone. then, holding the pantacle o

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

er world. kirk saw this world as being close to our own, and not in any way counter to religion or to rational thought. he argued from a metaphysical standpoint, but regarded his concepts as reaching right through into manifestation, into personal and collective experience. he preface xiv frequently emphasized the presence of a fragmentary but coherent world-view held by both the gaelic seers and the inhabitants of that secret commonwealth which they perceived. the reality of this otherworld or dimension was accepted by the celts, and indeed by kirk himself. a re-evaluation of kirk, based upon his own comments and perceptions in addition to related individual items of folklore or belief, is long overdue. when we approach his work in this manner, we find it in keeping with the perennial mys

landers. in the following points kirk's text only is used, and no parallels or variants are drawn in from other sources, though these are abundant. 1. there is another world or dimension that mirrors our own: it is located underground. the cycle of energies and events in that place is a polarized image of our own, thus they have summer when we have winter, day when we have night, and so forth. 2. the inhabitants of this world are real beings in their own right, and have certain substantial supernatural powers. 3. certain people, mainly male seers, are gifted with the ability to see such beings from the mirror or underworld, and to receive communications from them. 4. the subterranean people are able through signs and mimicry or dramatic actions to show seers what will come to pass in the h

ned by some that violently seized the isle [they demanded to know] if she saw them coming or not; she said [that] she saw them coming many hours before they came in view of the isle, but earnestly looking, she sometimes took them for enemies [and] sometimes for friends. moreover they looked [to her second sight] as if they went from the isle [and] not as men approaching it, which made her not put the inhabitants on their guard. the matter [that is, reason] was that the barge wherein the enemy sailed was [that is, had been] taken a little before from the inhabitants of that same isle, and the men [invading] had their backs towards the isle when they were plying the[ir] oars [to row] towards it. thus this old scout and delphian oracle was at last deceived and did deceive [her fellow islander

ertion; which [may] yet, moreover, be illuminated by diverse other instances of the like nature, and [just] as wonderful beside what is [said] above [such] as: 8. the invisible wights which haunt houses seem rather to be of our subterranean inhabitants, which appear often to men of the second sight, than [to be] evil spirits or devils. though they throw great stones, pieces of earth, and wood, at the inhabitants, they hurt them not at all [just] as if they acted not maliciously like devils, but in sport like buffoons and drolls. all ages have offered some obscure testimonies of it [that is, the existence of otherworldly beings] such as pythagoras' doctrine of transmigration; socrates' daemone that gave him precautions of future dangers; plato's classing them into various vehiculated specie

us 12:29, and 2 kings 10:35. they haunt [that is, inhabit] most where there is most barbarity [that is, in isolated non-english-speaking regions, and therefore our ignorant ancestors [in order] to prevent the the secret commonwealth 57 insults of that strange people, used rude and coarse remedies, such as exorcisms, donations, and vows. but as soon as true piety prevailed in any place, it did put the inhabitants beyond the reach and authority of subtle inferior [that is, underground] cohabitants and colleagues of ours [for it is] the father of all spirits and the person himself [that] has the only [true] command of his soul and actions. a concurrence they [the fairy people] have to what is virtuously done, for upon committing of a foul deed [a mortal] one will find a demur upon his soul as

RUBY TABLET OF SET

pezoid which serves as the unique vehicle through which the force of the wewelsburg working is remanifest, occupies a unique position on the border separating the lands of initiated and non-initiated humanity. a door opens out onto each respective domain, revealing a maze of angular and mirrored halls within. from these halls issue sights and sounds which sometimes inform, yet more often confound the inhabitants of both lands, though the reactions to such confounding are quite different in each. this has always been a function of the order. from within these flame-lit halls, on ice-laden nights, echoes the sound of laughter, sometimes wild like the howling of wolves, sometimes muffled and indistinct like the dead. one must give close attention to the timbre and pitch of this laughter. one

er strength. he will drink in honor of the inner demons and the dark lord. dagger: the magician will hold up the dagger in thanks for the gift of intelligence that sets him apart from the ignorant mass of humanity, and the blind self-slavery of the oppressed. pantacle: the magician will hold up the pantacle in honor of set's strength rooted in his contact with the empirical, and his commitment to the inhabitants of the physical universe and his willingness to commune with them. 6. close. reading from the book of coming forth by night. closing thanks: the magician should thank the dark lord for coming, even if it's not obvious he was there. the magician may not be able to experience set yet, except in indirect means, so success should not be judged solely on obvious immediate experience. me

and the universe. the pyramid shape describes the hierarchy of the parts. men whom ouspensky called "men nro 1-3"(1) are constantly governed by centres d-g. they do not really possess a distinct, independent, and free consciousness. in other words, they stay on the two lowest levels of consciousness, namely sleep and the waking state. they live in the world of horrors, plato's cave. the 'life' of the inhabitants of which almost entirely consists of reacting to outer stimuli, misunderstanding the shadows on the wall as their true selves. even their natural centres function badly, f.e: because of trying to shift the tasks of one centre to another. the interests and activities of men nro 1-3 are restricted to such phenomena which one inevitably encounters in life, such as health, security, fa

skinwalkers. any dinee can tell tales of witchcraft and murder. some will even make accusations. however, separating the truth from the hysteria is nearly impossible unless you have access to a navajo wolf (skinwalker) who has been initiated. ii. what are skinwalkers? they're known as skinwalkers, navajo wolves, shape-shifters, dinee werewolves, dinee witches, and so on. they're feared by most of the inhabitants of dinetah (the homeland of the classification: v2- c32.a- 1 author: col-lea lane ii date: march, xxviii html revision: nov 29, 1998 ce subject: skinwalking; native american (s.w) black magic reading list: traditional dinee. they are credited with murder, crop failures, incest, miscarriages, illness, too much rain, not enough rain, disasters (natural and not, and communication with

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

om the education of a society and civilization racked with guilt, repression and taboo. one may ask whether society in the latter half of the twentieth century is really as oppressive as the satanist makes out. in answer to this the satanist may cite many examples of political policy that encroach upon individual liberty. the predominance in equal rights- for sex and race- practically forced upon the inhabitants of western society. the continual repression and taboo concerning minority sexual groups, be they for example sado-masochistic, transvestite or homosexual. the forbidding of an individuals right to kill in self defence and the maintenance of the laws against euthanasia are all examples of the (generally unconscious) influence of society upon the individual. it is for these reasons

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

m and menassah, the children of joseph, jacob s favorite son. dan, asher, and naphtali moved to districts in the east. the tribe of jacob s third son, levi, was set apart to serve the holy temple in jerusalem. the bible refers to abraham and his descendants as hebrews, and later, after jacob s change of name to israel, as israelites. the term jew is a shortened version of judahites, which is what the inhabitants of judah s northern tribe were called. 6 world religions: biographies abraham know that you fear god, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son. then god renewed his promise to abraham, saying, i will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. your descendants will take possession of the cities

the nation s population. buddhism was adopted as the 107 national religion in the third century bce, and the island became one of its leading world centers. several centuries of foreign intervention began when the tamil people of south india invaded ceylon in the late third century. then the portuguese conquered much of the island by the late sixteenth century and introduced roman catholicism to the inhabitants. slightly more than a century later, the dutch overthrew the portuguese and occupied ceylon. they were in turn defeated by the british, who made most of ceylon a crown colony in 1798 and installed the anglican religion. in 1815 the entire country was brought under british rule, and the ancient line of sinhalese kings ended. the british established rubber, tea, and coffee plantation

SEPHER HA BAHIR

ribute which causes them to leave aside every good way and choose every evil way. when they see a person directing himself along a good way, they hate him. what is [this attribute? it is the satan. this teaches us that the blessed holy one has an attribute whose name is evil. it is to the north of the blessed holy one, as it is written (jeremiah 1:14, from the north will evil come forth, upon all the inhabitants of the earth. any evil that comes to all the inhabitants of the earth comes from the north. 163. what is this one attribute? it is the form of a hand. it has many messengers, and the name of them all is evil evil. some of them are great, and some are small, but they all bring guilt to the world. this is because chaos is toward the north. chaos (tohu) is nothing other than evil. it

tear down the weak house [so that people would need stones to rebuild them. they could not do so, however, to the strong ones. he said, in the time that it takes to tear down one strong [house, you can tear down ten weak ones. people will then all come and buy stones from me, and i will not be inferior to the other. it is thus written (jeremiah 1:14, from the north will evil come forth, upon all the inhabitants of the earth. the verse then continues (jeremiah 1:15) for i call all the families of the kingdom of the north says god and they will come, and each one will place his throne at the opening of the gates of jerusalem evil will be their business, and the evil urge will also constantly strive. the word satan means turning aside, since he turns all the world aside to the balance of gui

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

w ambition, suddenly gave way. he was taken ill at night. the next morning the doctor pronounced that his disease was a malignant and infectious fever. his wife and viola shared in their tender watch; but soon that task was left to the last alone. the signora pisani caught the infection, and in a few hours was even in a state more alarming than that of her husband. the neapolitans, in common with the inhabitants of all warm climates, are apt to become selfish and brutal in their dread of infectious disorders. gionetta herself pretended to be ill, to avoid the sick-chamber. the whole labour of love and sorrow fell on viola. it was a terrible trial, i am willing to hurry over the details. the wife died first! one day, a little before sunset, pisani woke partially recovered from the delirium

e, but a film, a gossamer that clothes the spirit. hence the rosicrucian's lovely phantoms of sylph and gnome. yet, in truth, these races and tribes differ more widely, each from each, than the calmuc from the greek, differ in attributes and powers. in the drop of water you see how the animalculae vary, how vast and terrible are some of those monster mites as compared with others. equally so with the inhabitants of the atmosphere: some of surpassing wisdom, some of horrible malignity; some hostile as fiends to men, others gentle as messengers between earth and heaven "he who would establish intercourse with these varying beings resembles the traveller who would penetrate into unknown lands. he is exposed to strange dangers and unconjectured terrors. that intercourse once gained, i cannot s

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

formula 1 was composed, the recital of which was supposed to relieve the deceased from the necessity of doing any work whatsoever, and when the deceased himself had said "i lift up the hand of the man who is inactive. i have come from the city of unnu (hermopolis. i am the divine soul which liveth, and i lead with me the hearts of the apes" his existence was thought to be without toil. but, since the inhabitants of sekhet-aaru needed food and drink, provision must be made for their production, and the necessary labours of the field must, in some manner, be performed. to meet the difficulty a small stone figure of the deceased was buried with him, but before it was laid in the tomb the priests recited over it the words of power which would cause it to do for the deceased whatever work he mi

eat with child of horus. i, a goddess, gave birth to horus, the son of isis, upon an island (or nest) in athu the region of swamps; and i rejoiced greatly because of this, for i regarded horus as a gift which would repay me for the loss of his father. i hid him most carefully and concealed him in my anxiety, and indeed he was well hidden, and then i went away to the city of am. when i had saluted the inhabitants thereof i turned back to seek the child, so that i might give him suck and take him in my arms again. but i found my sucking-child horus the fair golden one, well nigh dead! he had bedewed the ground with the water from his eye and with the foam from his lips, his body was stiff, his heart was still, and no muscle in any of his limbs moved. 1 then i uttered a bitter cry p. 134 of g

ved in bekhten, where they were received with great honour. the god khonsu went to the place where bent-ent-resht was, and, having performed a magical ceremony over her, the demon departed from her and she was cured straightway. then the demon addressed the egyptian god, saying "grateful and welcome is thy coming unto us, o great god, thou vanquisher of the hosts of darkness! bekhten is thy city, the inhabitants thereof are thy slaves, and i am thy servant; and i will depart unto the place whence i came that i may gratify thee, for unto this end hast thou come thither. and i beseech thy majesty to command that the prince of bekhten and i may hold a festival together" to the demon's request khonsu agreed, and he commanded his priest to tell the prince of bekhten to make a great festival in

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e shamans to the mysterious, transcendent reality beyond the material 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 80 mediums and mystics shaman s necklace (archives of brad steiger) aspirit guide or spirit helper is received by those who choose to participate in a vision quest. world and lead them into another dimension of time and space wherein dwell the inhabitants of the spirit world. it is through such a portal that mediumistic shamans must pass to gain their contact with the grandfathers and grandmothers who reside there. with their spirit guide at their side in the form of a totem animal, they can communicate with the spirits and derive wisdom and knowledge which will serve their tribe or those who have come to seek specific information f

s the last of the renaissance men he was fluent in nine languages, wrote 150 works in 17 sciences, was expert in numerous crafts, and was a musician, a politician, and an inventor with dozens of major contributions attributed to his name. when his name is recalled today, it is usually as a swedish mystic and medium who courted angels and cursed demons. swedenborg claimed daily communications with the inhabitants of the unseen world, and his manifestations of remarkable psychic phenomena are well documented. emanuel swedberg was born in stockholm, sweden, on january 29, 1688. his father was a professor of theology at the university of upsala, who later became the lutheran bishop of scara in spite of certain opinions which appeared to challenge orthodox religious views. emanuel completed his

mara, who tempted the awakened one on the night of his enlightenment, is said to be an asura or a deva (a being of light) who was jealous of the power that was about to be bestowed on a human, for to become a buddha would be to achieve spiritual status greater than they possessed. tibetan buddhism borrows its demons from hinduism and adds a number of indigenous entities, who are ambivalent toward the inhabitants of the himalayas, sometimes appearing as fierce and malevolent creatures, other times manifesting as teachers of enlightenment. various scriptures state firmly that regardless of their strength, power, and majesty, angels are not to be worshipped, and religious teachers advise that true heavenly beings will immediately discourage any humans from attempting to bow their knees to the

ent countries. rael claimed that on october 7, 1975, the elohim physically contacted him again, and this time he was invited aboard a spacecraft and taken to their home planet. during this extraterrestrial contact experience, rael learned that after the nuclear explosions in 1945, the elohim believed that humans had entered the age of apocalypse. however, they cannot return in large numbers until the inhabitants of earth begin to display a greater ability to live together in peace, love, and brother/sisterhood. and the elohim are awaiting some evidence that the planet can be governed with intelligence and spirit before they fully reveal themselves to earth at large. because the elohim feel that many members of humankind are now able to understand their extraterrestrial creators without mys

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rit watched over him as though she were a guardian angel. furthermore, oberlin claimed that he could see his wife s spirit, talk with her, and make use of her counsel regarding future events. oberlin compiled extensive manuscripts that described in detail a series of manifestations in which his wife appeared to him and dictated information regarding life after death. oberlin became convinced that the inhabitants of the invisible world can appear to the living, and we to them, and that we humans are apparitions to them, as they are to us. the question that may remain is whether the percipients of apparitions actually observe a discarnate entity, which occupies an objective area in time and space, or whether they perceive the result of a successfully implanted telepathic message-image, which

he manifestations did not confine themselves to the abbe s room. loud blows were heard all over the castle. m. de x. armed his servants and conducted a search of the entire building. they could find nothing. it would be a pattern that they would repeat again and again as the haunting phenomena began its siege in earnest. night after night, its hammering fist would pound on doors and rap on walls. the inhabitants of calvados castle would not know a night of unmolested slumber for more than three months. the curate of the parish arrived to witness the phenomena and was not disappointed. nei- 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 ghosts and phantoms 33 ther was marcel de x, who had come to try to determine the origin of the manifestations. t

ing to legend, there was once a dreadful epidemic in which many people died. in a certain household, a brother and sister observed that everyone around them who succumbed to the disease was first seized by a sneezing attack. therefore, when they themselves sneezed they cried, god help me! because of this prayer they were allowed to live, and they spread the story of the healing benediction to all the inhabitants of the district. the icelanders have continued the custom of saying, god help me! when they themselves sneeze and god help you! when others sneeze. in england during the seventeenth century, it was the custom for all those within earshot of someone who sneezed to remove their hats, bow, and shout, god bless you! in nineteenth-century england, someone originated a rhyme regarding th

eated accusations by thousands of researchers and witnesses of aerial phenomena have grown deep roots in the mass consciousness. while numerous science-fiction films and television series have used the theme of alien invaders, certain motion pictures and series seem to have impressed the mass psyche of their audiences far more than those with simple plots dealing with bug-eyed monsters terrifying the inhabitants of earth. in 1951, howard hawks s the thing from another world told the story of a small group of u.s. air force personnel and scientists stationed at an isolated outpost near the north pole who must deal with an alien that needs their blood in order to survive. the film was a thriller that steadily built tension and frighteningly portrayed how helpless humans might be at the hands

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he spirits of the animals they killed for food, to dispel the restless spirits of the humans they had slain in territorial disputes, and to bring peace to the spirits of their deceased tribal kin. throughout the evolving centuries to the present day, humankind continues to seek magical means of improving its lot in life, providing order to the chaos of the physical world, and winning the favor of the inhabitants of the unseen world. 39 chapter exploration alchemy valentine andreae roger bacon. helvetius hermes trismegistus albertus magnus. paracelsus magick abremelin magick black magick enochian magick vodun/vodoun/voodoo white magick magi agrippa count allesandro cagliostro aleister crowley. john dee dr. faust. marie laveau eliphas levi. simon magus pico della mirandola. pythagoras count

came into the possession of the bethsames. a large number of bethsames fell dead when they failed to show respect for the ark. fearful of the ark fs power, 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 objects of mystery and power 201 theark of the covenant was last known to have rested in the temple of solomon in jerusalem. the bethsames offered it to the inhabitants of nearby cariathiarum, who took it in their possession with proper sacraments. later, when david (d. 962 b.c.e) became king of israel and established jerusalem as the holy center of the nation, the ark was to be moved there. along the way, however, a cart carrying the ark was jostled and the ark began sliding off. forgetting about the ark fs strange powers, a man who reached out t

having had the technology to generate electricity, build flying machines, and harness nuclear power for energy and warfare. all developed more than 9,000 years before such things came into being in modern society. other claims have atlanteans knowledgeable about a formidable death ray, secrets for levitation, and pure forms of energy through crystals. many atlantis enthusiasts firmly believe that the inhabitants of the lost continent had cosmic connections with extraterrestrials and may actually have been a colony established on earth by alien explorers. since atlantis was first described, claims have been made that certain members of the civilization escaped destruction during its catastrophic final days and managed to impart their knowledge to other peoples of the world, helping civilize

s called their home te pito o te henua, which has been variously translated as gnaval of the world, h gend of the world, h and glands f end. h the population and land were even more impoverished 50 years later when british explorer james cook (1728.1779) arrived there. islanders were readily willing to trade old, elaborate wood carvings for food and cloth. noting that the statues were not part of the inhabitants f sacred rituals, cook called them gmonuments of antiquity h in his notes. the engineering feat of moving moai from the quarry to their sites remains unexplained, 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 236 places of mystery and power face carvings on easter island (susan d. rock) easter island was reached by dutch explorer jacob ro

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

in his translation of tasso could bracket the fairies with furies and ghosts:"the shriking gobblings each where howling flew, the furies roare, the ghosts and fairies yell."the swedish bishop, olaus magnus, writing in 1555, says that "there were nightwalkers that used to encloseand strangely to disturb the field-keepers looking to their charge, with prodigious and wonderful sights ofdivers kinds, the inhabitants thereabouts call this nightly sport of monsters, the elves dance (plate xiv. 1).in the stories of fairies it is not uncommon to find that the mortal is frightened at meeting the little people:"she was not a little terrified at seeing, though it was midday, some of the old elves of the blue petticoat.[2]but the most alarming of all the fairies was robin goodfellow until shakespeare

pal inhabitants wear crowns it must be the palace of the fairy king and queen. the hut is circular, ispartly sunk below the surface of the ground and is roofed with turf on which shrubs are growing. it is one of agroup of similar huts, which from the outside have the appearance of little hills or mounds, which is perhapswhat john walsh[4] meant when he said that he consulted the fairies on hills. the inhabitants are smaller thanthe man who is speaking to them, but they are not dwarfs or midgets. this then is clear evidence of the beliefin elves and fairies at the date of the picture, i.e. 1555, and is proof not only of the human nature of the fairiesand of their close resemblance to the neolithic people but also of the survival of the neolithic andbronze-age folk and their civilisation as

civic authorities in the reign of charles ii is still extant, praying that the date of the dancemight be changed from sunday to a weekday, as the performance interfered with the attendance at church.this shows that the sanctity of the dance was such that it had to be performed on the sacred day. thedescription of the dance as seen by an eye-witness is published in the sporting magazine for 1803."the inhabitants of shaftesbury have an annual custom of great singularity called the besant, or a may daydance for the waters of mottcomb. the last new married couple of the town come in the morning to themayor's house and are presented, the one with a fine holland shirt, the other with a shift of the samematerial, elegantly adorned with ribbons of all the colours of the rainbow. with these begin

habit. he accompanied the bishop to the castle, where the bishop interrogated her as to the cause of thechange of dress. joan gave the simple explanation that it seemed to her more suitable to wear a man's dressamong men than a woman's. the enormous importance as to the wearing of the male costume is emphasisedby the fact that as soon as it was known in rouen that joan was again dressed as a man the inhabitantscrowded into the castle courtyard to see her, to the great indignation of the english soldiers who promptlydrove them out with hard words and threats of hard blows. this circumstance shows the inaccuracy ofladvenu's statement as to joan's fear of insult, for it is evident that in the day she could be seen from outside,which would in itself be a protection, and massieu's words indica

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

e reader will have a better understanding of the differences and the sirnilarities between the two systems. both methods provide valid psychological and spiritual tools for the balance, healing, and integration of the human psyche. they relate to different parts of the subtle body, and thus each system requires a different method of working. yoga it is presumed that yoga was developed in india by the inhabitants of the indus river valley. the exact methods and philosophy of the practice were gathered into a coherent system by patanjali, a philosopher of the second century b.c.e. the various disciplines of yoga are not restricted to hindus, however, for people of all faiths yoga, chakras, and the wisdom ofthe east 161 have studied and practiced them. the sanskrit word yoga means "union" and

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

ponsible of the earth. in this message there was the "reprimanding" warning to all those responsible, to stop the atomic explosions as well as to grant humanity the well-being of true progress, but with justice, freedom, love and fraternity. following this meeting, we had several conversations during other meetings; i was told that they are part of an inter-galactic confederation, to which adhere the inhabitants of many planets. they are the tutors of human kind, including our planet. we should consider them as thus like big brothers who are concerned about the bad turning we have taken, making us risk to bring the use of the atomic bomb. they come all this way to us to warn us in time of the danger we are heading into, because the cosmic counsel condemns the people of earth for their inhu

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

eracity, honesty, and modesty, and set itself apart to wage an incessant war on vice, lechery, mendacity, immodesty, etc, etc. and what has been the result of this duality? the very fort of virtuous self-sufficiency, the very citadel of chaste-exclusiveness has become fetid with the horrors of besiegement, the moats are filled with the putrid carcasses of an unjust war; fever reigns, vice laughs, the inhabitants starve, sucking the putrid pus from the wounds of the dead, and devouring rats and other vermin. outside in the camp of vice, plague reigns and pestilence rules; yet if the summed evils of virtue and vice were cast into the balance of truth, who dare say which would outweigh the other? everyone knows the degradation as well as the ennoblements of war; the former ever as some leprou

question on landing at new york was his there a government in this country? h and on being told hyes, h instantly replied: gthen i fm agin it, h*1. must have travelled many a league along the road to adeptship, and if ten such men be found in any state at the same time, then a period of decadence may be said to have begun; but it is not every day that ten righteous men can be found in sodom; for the inhabitants of that city of the plains, like those of ephesus, traduce in every way those who threaten their occupation. gtherefore, o ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. be ye a refuge to yourselves. betake yourselves to no external refuge. hold fast to the truth as a lamp. hold fast as a refuge to the truth. look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves. h (mahaparanibbana sutta, ii, 33)

THE BOOK OF GATES

cales is the legend 1 which mr. goodwin renders "the balance-bearer does homage; the blessed spirits in amenti follow after him; the morning, star disperses the thick darkness; there is good will above, justice below. the god reposes himself, he gives bread to the blessed, who throng, towards him" the translation by m. lef bure reads "the bearer of the hatchet and the bearer of the scales protect the inhabitant of amenti [who] takes his repose in hades, and traverses the darkness and the shadows. happiness is above, and justice below. the god reposes and sheds light produced by truth which he has produced" p. 165 the upper part of the space between the roof and the platform on which osiris sits is occupied by two short inscriptions, which are full of difficulty. the meaning of these texts

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

tuals of the o.t.o. part one the birth and development of the o.t.o* chapter one the manifesto of 1917 in the spring of 1917 the russian people, worn out by almost three years of their rulers political and military incompetence, overthrew their czar and installed a provisional government. at about the same time the u.s.a. entered the war on the allied side. neither of these events greatly excited the inhabitants of henri oedenkoven s and ida hoffmann s eccentric vegetarian community situated at ascona in switzerland. they were far more interested in a bombastic encyclical just promulgated by theodor reuss, a temporary guest of the community. let it be known, began this manifesto, that there exists, unknown to the great crowd, a very ancient order of sages, whose object is the amelioration

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

r the which thou hast spoken. 19:22 haste thee, escape thither; for i cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. therefore the name of the city was called zoar. 19:23 the sun was risen upon the earth when lot entered into zoar. 19:24 then the lord rained upon sodom and upon gomorrah brimstone and fire from the lord out of heaven; 19:25 and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 19:26 but his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 19:27 and abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the lord: 19:28 and he looked toward sodom and gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a fur

city, because they had defiled their sister. 34:28 they took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which [was] in the city, and that which [was] in the field, 34:29 and all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that [was] in the house. 34:30 and jacob said to simeon and levi, ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the canaanites and the perizzites: and i [being] few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and i shall be destroyed, i and my house. 34:31 and they said, should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? 35:1 and god said unto jacob, arise, go up to bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto god, that appeared unto t

s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of goshen. 50:9 and there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. 50:10 and they came to the threshingfloor of atad, which [is] beyond jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 50:11 and when the inhabitants of the land, the canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of atad, they said, this [is] a grievous mourning to the egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called abel-mizraim, which [is] beyond jordan. 50:12 and his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: 50:13 for his sons carried him into the land of canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of machpelah, which a

e unto thee, o lord, among the gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing wonders? 15:12 thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. 15:13 thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people [which] thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided [them] in thy strength unto thy holy habitation. 15:14 the people shall hear [and] be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of palestina. 15:15 then the dukes of edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of canaan shall melt away. 15:16 fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be [as] still as a stone; till thy people pass over, o lord, till the people pass over [which] thou hast purchased. 15:17 thou shalt

23:29 i will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. 23:30 by little and little i will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. 23:31 and i will set thy bounds from the red sea even unto the sea of the philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for i will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. 23:32 thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 23:33 they shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. 24:1 and he said unto moses, come up unto the lord, thou, and aaron, nadab, and abihu, and seventy of th

th, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou [art] shall see the work of the lord: for it [is] a terrible thing that i will do with thee. 34:11 observe thou that which i command thee this day: behold, i drive out before thee the amorite, and the canaanite, and the hittite, and the perizzite, and the hivite, and the jebusite. 34:12 take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: 34:13 but ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: 34:14 for thou shalt worship no other god: for the lord, whose name [is] jealous [is] a jealous god: 34:15 lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacri

e, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. 25:9 then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. 25:10 and ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. 25:11 a jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy vine undressed. 25:12 for it [is] the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the

t us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. 13:31 but the men that went up with him said, we be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. 13:32 and they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the page 87 numbers children of israel, saying, the land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it [are] men of a great stature. 13:33 and there we saw the giants, the sons of anak [which come] of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. 14:1 and all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 14:2 and all the children of israel murmured against mo

ke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which i have shewed among them? 14:12 i will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. 14:13 and moses said unto the lord, then the egyptians shall hear [it (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them) 14:14 and they will tell [it] to the inhabitants of this land [for] they have heard that thou lord [art] among this people, that thou lord art seen face to face, and [that] thy cloud standeth over them, and [that] thou goest before them, by daytime in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. 14:15 now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, sa

er him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people. 32:16 and they came near unto him, and said, we will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: 32:17 but we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 32:18 we will not return unto our houses, until the children of israel have inherited every man his inheritance. 32:19 for we will not inherit with them on yonder side jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side jordan eastward. 32:20 and moses said unto them, if ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the lord to war, 32:21 and w

pitched in the plains of moab by jordan [near] jericho. 33:49 and they pitched by jordan, from beth- jesimoth [even] unto abel-shittim in the plains of moab. 33:50 and the lord spake unto moses in the plains of moab by jordan [near] jericho, saying, 33:51 speak unto the children of israel, and say unto them, when ye are passed over jordan into the land of canaan; 33:52 then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: 33:53 and ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants] of the land, and dwell therein: for i have given you the land to possess it. 33:54 and ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families [and] to the more ye shall give the

n: for i have given you the land to possess it. 33:54 and ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families [and] to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man s [inheritance] shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit. 33:55 but if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them [shall be] pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. 33:56 moreover it page 101 numbers shall come to pass [that] i shall do unto you, as i thought to do unto them. 34:1 and the lord spake unto moses, saying, 34:2 command the children

ord thy god, which brought thee out of the land of egypt, from the house of bondage. 13:11 and all israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. 13:12 if thou shalt hear [say] in one of thy cities, which the lord thy god hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 13:13 [certain] men, the children of belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; 13:14 then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold [if it be] truth [and] the thing certain [that] such abomination is wrought among you; 13:15 thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that [is] therein

lax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. 2:7 and the men pursued after them the way to jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate. 2:8 and before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof; 2:9 and she said unto the men, i know that the lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. 2:10 for we have heard how the lord dried up the water of the red sea for you, when ye came out of egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the amorites, that [were] on the other side jordan, sihon and og, whom ye utterly destroyed. 2:11 and as soon as we had heard [these things] our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in

d abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought [them] throughout all the way, but found [them] not. 2:23 so the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to joshua the son of nun, and told him all [things] that befell them: 2:24 and they said unto joshua, truly the lord hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us. joshua page 126 3:1 and joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from shittim, and came to jordan, he and all the children of israel, and lodged there before they passed over. 3:2 and it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host; 3:3 and they commanded the people, saying, when ye see the ark of the covena

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bove 40 yeers. therefore it is most safe for the young practisers of art, that they work by the offices of the spirits alone, without their names; and if they are pre-ordained to attain the art of magick, the other parts of the art will offer themselves unto them of their own accord. pray therefore for a constant faith, and god will bring to pass all things in due season. aphorism 19. olympus and the inhabitants thereof, do of their own accord offer themselves to men in the forms of spirits, and are ready to perform their offices for them, whether they will or not: by how much the rather will they attend you, if they are desired? but there do appear also evil spirits, and destroyers, which is caused by the envy and malice of the devil; and because men do allure and draw them unto themselve

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

cedere coe lo.6 1 see plate ix. fig. 1. 2 plate ix. fig. 2, from pellerin. similar medals are in the hunter collection, and are evidently of phoenician work. 3 recherches sur les arts, lib. i. c. 3. 4 plutarch, de is. et osir. 5 see hymn vii. 6 georgic. lib. iv. ver 221. 30 on the worship the ethereal spirit is here described as expanding itself through the universe, and giving life and motion to the inhabitants of earth, water, and air, by a participation of its own essence, each particle of which returned to its native source, at the dissolution of the body which it animated. hence, not only men, but all animals, and even vegetables, were supposed to be impregnated with some particles of the divine nature infused into them, from which their various qualities and dispositions, as well as

e xiii, fig. 11, from a medla of seleucus i. beloning to me. 2 page 26. 3 see plut. de orac. defect. 4 page 113. of priapus 59 crescent representing the moon, whose power over the waters of the ocean caused her to be regarded as the sovereign of the great nutritive element, and whose mild rays, being accompanied by the refreshing dews and cooling breezes of the night, made her naturally appear to the inhabitants of hot countries as the comforter and restorer of the earth. i am the moon (says the deity in the bagvat geeta) whose nature it is to give the quality of taste and relish, and to cherish the herbs and plants of the field.1 the light of the sun, moon, and fire, were however all but one, and equally emanations of the supreme being. know, says the deity in the same ancient dialogue, t

y inclosures like these of the persians, with an altar in the centre. the temples dedicated to the creator bacchus, which the greek architects called hyp thral, seem to have been anciently of the same kind; whence probably came the title perikionion (surrounded with columns) attributed to that god in the orphic litanies.1 the remains of one of these are still extant at puzzuoli near naples, which the inhabitants call the temple of serapis: but the ornaments of grapes, vases &c. found among the ruins, prove it to have been of bacchus. serapis was indeed the same deity worshipped under another form, being equally a personification of the sun.2 the architecture is of the roman times; but the ground plan is probably that of a very ancient one, which this was made to replace; for it exactly res

me, by mr. bonnet. 3 orph. hymn. 45. 4 mystica vannui iacchi. georg. i, ver. 166. 5 plot. ennead. vi, lib. iv, ch. 16. mosheim, not. y in cudw. syst. intell. ch. v. sect. 20. 100 on the worship the clergy afterwards introduced purgatory, instead of abstract meditation and study; which was the ancient mode of separation by fire, removed into an unknown country, where it was saleable to all such of the inhabitants of this world as had sufficient wealth and credulity. it was the celestial or therial principle of the human mind, which the ancient artists represented under the symbol of the butterfly, which may be considered as one of the most elegant allegories of their elegant religion. this insect, when hatched from the egg, appears in the shape of a grub, crawling upon the earth, and feedin

oni pouluboteirh aqanatoi zenous, fulakej qnhtwn anqrwtwn.1 an adequate knowledge of these they never presumed to think attainable, but modestly contented themselves with revering and invoking them whenever they felt or wanted their assistance. when a shipwrecked mariner was cast upon an unknown coast, he immediately offered up his prayers to the gods of the country, whoever they were; and joined the inhabitants in whatever rites they thought proper to propitiate them with.2 impious or prophane rites he never imagined could exist, concluding that all expressions of gratitude and submission must be pleasing to the gods. atheism was, indeed, punished at athens, as the obscene ceremonies of the bacchanalians were at rome; but both as civil crimes against the state; the one tending to weaken t

re de lancre. this man was a conseiller du roi, or judge in the parliament of bordeaux, and was joined in 1609 with one of his colleagues in a commission to proceed against persons accused of sorcery in labourd, a district in the basque provinces, then celebrated for its witches, and apparently for the low state of morality among its inhabitants. it is a wild, and, in many parts, desolate region, the inhabitants of which held to their ancient superstitions with great tenacity. de lancre, after arguing learnedly on the nature and character of demons, discusses the question why there were so many of them in the country of labourd, and why the inhabitants of that district were so much addicted to sorcery. the women of the country, he says, were naturally of a lascivious temperament, which was

enting the fertilizing, protecting, and saving powers of nature, apart from these secret rites, prevailed universally, as we have traced it fully in the preceding pages, and we only recur to that part of the subject to state that perhaps the last traces of it now to be found in our islands is met with on the western shores of ireland. off the coast of mayo, there is a small island named inniskea, the inhabitants of which are a very primitive and uncultivated race, and which, although it takes its name from a female saint (it is the insular sanct geidhe of the hibernian hagiographers, does not contain a single catholic priest. its inhabitants, indeed, as we learn from an interesting communication to notes and queries by sir j. emerson tennent,1 are mere idolaters, and their idol, no doubt t

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

underworld, or hell, in which the evil impulses and inclinations of humanity take on murky shapes "most students find the investigation of this section an extremely unpleasant task, for there appears to be a sense of density and gross materiality about it which is indescribably loathsome to the liberated astral body, causing it the sense of pushing its way through some black, viscous fluid, while the inhabitants and influences encountered there are also usually exceedingly ndesirable" level six is identical in appearance to the physical world. those who project their astral bodies into this level may not know that they are on an astral plane, but may believe themselves to be traveling through the ordinary material environment of everyday life. levels five and four are similar to level six

its component parts in the abstract. many other ritual structures might be devised, but the form presented here contains the basic requirements needed for success and security. the parts of the ritual have been divided into two groups. the column on the left pertains to the house of ritual, which is erected around what is perceived as the boundary of the body. the column on the right pertains to the inhabitant of that house, and what is done with the body and mind during the enactment of the ritual. 162 soul flight 1. chamber 6. posture 2. door 7. gesture 3. key 8. sound 4. corridor 9. imagery 5. elevator 10. will chamber the ritual is conducted on the astral level, its parts created and sustained in the imagination. these astral components are reinforced by a physical space, material obj

tickle on the skin. since they are not inhabiting their astral bodies with their consciousnesses, which function in their physical bodies while they are awake, they usually remain unaware of your presence. those with an uncommon degree of psychic ability may become aware of you. sometimes a person with whom you share a close personal connection will see you. on higher levels, the spirits that are the inhabitants will be aware of you, but may not take any notice of you if they decide that you are not of sufficient interest or importance to engage in dialogue. if you demand their attention, most spirits will give it-very much as a human being might take notice of a particularly noisy and insistent child. those spirits who are closer to your own level of development, or who have some personal

ve imagination rather than astral journeys. even at this level, they are an excellent way to understand the meanings of the picture cards of the tarot. if you persevere and are successful with this technique, at some point it will no longer be necessary for you to deliberately create details in the astral landscape you imagine, but details will occur spontaneously, and you will begin to encounter the inhabitants of the astral world of the trumps. every person who enters the trumps will experience different aspects of the tarot worlds, because these landscapes are not fixed and unchanging, but are modified by the expectations and responses of the person who enters them. there is a certain objective level of experience that is enforced by the actual symbolism used in the tarot image, but muc

of the forces of nature. his world is a public market square in an old-fashioned country town of cobblestone streets and shops and houses with steeply pitched roofs. it is possible to wander out of the square through its four gates, but the streets beyond, closed on both sides by the fronts of buildings and by high stone walls, bend and twist back upon themselves like the windings of a labyrinth. the inhabitants of the town are sly and knowing in their manner toward strangers, and the children enjoy playing tricks. even the animals that may be encountered, such as horses, dogs, or cats, have a knowing light in their eyes. the ruling intelligence of this trump is hermes, the greek god of commerce, communication, and wisdom. his oracle is a square pillar that has the bearded head of the god

ter: pe (mouth) correspondence: mars path: twenty-seventh a tall tower of stone built upon a peak and accessible only by a steep and winding road is struck by a bolt of lightning during a storm. the crown of the tower catches fire and the blaze, driven by strong wings, begins to work its way down to the lower levels, its progress indicated by the flames that issue from successively lower windows. the inhabitants of the tower leap to their deaths from its windows to avoid the heat of the flames. there is no way for you to go to their aid because the entrance at the rear of the tower remains barred. the townspeople who climb the hill to watch the progress of the flames are as helpless as you are. they inform you that the owners of the tower, a wealthy nobleman and his wife, were so fearful o

handed dealings, evil the land of thurisaz is a land of shadows, an infernal realm of darkness in vast caverns beneath the surface. steam and smoke rise from fissures in the rocks. those who dwell in this place live in fear of the monstrous creatures that haunt the fathomless black pools and hidden clefts. the place has a strange greenish glow that emanates from fungus on the walls and rocks, and the inhabitants subsist on fish and on mushroom-like plants that sprout in abundance from the soil on the cavern floors. these dwellers in darkness have white skin, white hair, and large black eyes adapted to see in the dim glow. they are surly and not to be trusted. the god is a scaled creature that resembles a dragon, with a long tail, clawed feet, and many sharp teeth. the inhabitants and lesse

esembles a dragon, with a long tail, clawed feet, and many sharp teeth. the inhabitants and lesser creatures of the land flee its approach. 4. ansuz literal meaning: the wise god, woden general sense: wisdom, eloquence, persuasiveness, authority, law-giving, magic knowledge ansuz is a land of gently rolling, wooded hills and lush meadows crossed by streams. snow-capped mountains line the horizon. the inhabitants are a hardy northern folk who herd cattle and hunt wild beasts with spears. within the depths of the forest is found a timber hall composed in part of still-living trees. a great tree rises at each of its corners. its walls are rough logs with their bark still clinging to them, its roof thick shingles of enormous size split from the trunks of forest giants. the double doors of the

uest, illumination on the path, truth, revelations, a guide or teacher the rocks of the seacoast in kano are crystalline, and shot through with the many colors that pulse in the sky like the moving bands of a vast rainbow, illuminating the sparkling crests of the waves on the ocean. trees, grass, and other vegetation seems to glow from within as though the leaves were tiny panes of stained glass. the inhabitants of this strange iridescent coast are fisher folk, slender and elf-like in appearance, moving with grace along the stony beach, where they dwell beside their upturned boats in huts made of sod and woven grasses. on the rise of a headland stands a stone lighthouse. the god is a woman who keeps the light. she comes floating upon the air across the surface of the bay, a flaming torch i

wooden pallet laden with large stones resting on his chest. another stands on one foot, his raised leg withered to thinness from long disuse. yet a third holy man lashes his back with a flail so that the blood flies off in shining red droplets. another sits naked and stares directly into the sun with unwinking eyes. another plays the flame of a burning torch across the skin of his arms and torso. the inhabitants of the nearby village who come to the river to bathe and wash their garments scarcely notice the devotions of the men, so accustomed are they to witnessing such self-abuse. the god of the place is a mystic bound to the trunk of a withered tree that stands on the crest of a hill. his body is suspended by his bonds from the earth-his arms spread and tied to lowhanging, leafless bough

o explore all of it and it is easy to become lost. servants move silently about, perpetually cleaning the house and maintaining it. they will not notice the traveler unless they are directly addressed, and their responses are usually unhelpful. some of the doors are locked and others are open, but this cannot be known until they are tried. each opened door leads into a different tableau, in which the inhabitants of the chamber enact a drama for the traveler as he enters. if they are questioned, they will respond and explain what they are doing. the scene out of each window in different-some show cityscapes, others mountains, others the seashore, others forests or country scenes. the god of this place is the keeper of the keys, the owner of the house who selects what rooms the traveler may

twelve ridges of earth, like low walls, extend away from the standing stone in twelve spokes, so that the construction has the form of a great wheel. the sun never sets in this strange world, but moves around the horizon in a complete circle each day, just as it does in the high arctic during summer, so that the shadow of the standing stone is cast into all twelve partitions of the wheel in turn. the inhabitants of the land do not live near this solar temple, but come to present offerings of wheaten cakes and ale in the various sections. which section they choose appears to depend on their purpose, although it is not obvious why they should choose one over another. they come to pray and to present their offerings when the shadow of the stone enters the boundary of that part of the temple s

ith your mind. it is not necessary to visualize your astral hand. it can be left invisible. feel whether the object you have created in your mind on the astral level is cool or warm, rough or smooth, dry or damp. this kind of visualization exercise just before sleep each night is easy to do, and extremely useful in developing astral perception. as i have mentioned, it is also a way to announce to the inhabitants of the lower astral world that you are open to interactions with astral entities. there is no particular danger in such preliminary communications from spirits, which may be viewed as a polite way for these astral beings to announce their existence-a tap on the shoulder or a wave of the hand, so to speak, intended to attract your attention. these beings are always present all aroun

ation device. it should come as no surprise when astral spirits notice this sort of activity, and respond to it. nor is it dangerous. those who proclaim the dread powers of the ouija, and offer ominous warnings that you will be taken over and tormented if you dare to use it, are repeating a superstition. what happens is that, when you do something specifically designed to attract the attention of the inhabitants of the astral world, they will respond in kind by attempting to attract your attention, as a way of letting you know that you have reached them. there is seldom any malicious intention on the part of the spirits, but human beings playing around with a ouija board or similar device who do not believe that such things as spirits truly exist become terrified when they chapter fifteen:

astral travel, but during a normal dream we automatically act in accordance with the dream, and for this reason never violate the integrity of the dream no matter how outrageous our actions appear. during soul flight, we function independent of the milieu that surrounds us, and may, if we choose, violate its natural laws. when we act irresponsibly, the result is confusion, fear, and outrage among the inhabitants of that astral plane. every astral environment has its own natural laws that can be learned by observation. some are limited by their level of technology-there are many astral landscapes 292 soul flight that appear medieval. they have somehow fallen out of synchronization with the time period of the physical world. others, such as simple woodlands that contain no manmade structures

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

d for all the burnt offerings which are offered up daily "and, moreover, the gift of one tenth shall be levied upon the gold, ivory, ebony, spices, carnelians, sa wood, seshes spice, dum palm fruit, nef wood, and upon woods and products of every kind whatsoever, which the khentiu [fn#197] and the khentiu of hen- resu,[fn#198] and the egyptians, and every person whatsoever [shall bring in [fn#197] the inhabitants of the northern sudan, probably as far to the south as napata [fn#198] the people of the island of mero, and probably those living on the blue and white niles "and [every] hand shall pass them by, and no officer of the revenue whatsoever shall utter a word beyond these places to demand (or, levy on) things from them, or to take things over and above [those which are intended for] t

d by eudoxus in the second book of his travels, as he had them from the priests themselves [fn#271] called anu in the egyptian texts; it was the centre of the great solar cult of egypt. it is the "on" of the bible [fn#272] the sun-god was called ra. vii. as to sea-fish, the egyptians in general do not abstain from all kinds of them, but some from one sort and some from another. thus, for example, the inhabitants of oxyrhynchus[fn#273] will not touch any that have been taken with an angle; for as they pay especial reverence to the oxyrhynchus fish,[fn#274] from whence they derive their name, they are afraid lest perhaps the hook may be defiled by having been at some time or other employed in catching their favourite fish. the people of syene[fn#275] in like manner abstain from the phagrus f

, and isis is not different from proserpine [sec. xxx. typhon is held by the egyptians in the greatest contempt, and they do all they can to vilify him. the colour red being associated with him, they treat with contumely all those who have a ruddy complexion; the ass[fn#324] being usually of a reddish colour, the men of koptos are in the habit of sacrificing asses by casting them down precipices. the inhabitants of busiris and lycopolis never use trumpets, because their sounds resemble the braying of an ass. the cakes which are offered at the festivals during paoni and paopi are stamped with the figure of a fettered ass. the pythagoreans regarded typhon as a daemon, and according to them he was produced in the even number fifty-six; and eudoxus says that a figure of fifty-six angles typifi

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

the law is easy to recognize because on the day of the wedding, the bride appears bald. since hair is the symbol of chastity for the woman, on wedding days of nahemah it is prohibited to display hair, thus, she instinctively covers her hair with the veil (as if she is trying to conceal it. thus, the abyss is divided into two large infrasexual spheres. these are the spheres of lilith and nahemah. the inhabitants of the sphere of lilith do not have any hope for salvation, whereas the inhabitants of the sphere of nahemah still have hope for redemption. sphere of lilith here we find those who abhor sex, for example, monks, anchorites, mystics, spiritualists people from different pseudo-esoteric organizations, etc. all types of infrasexual people hate sex and consider themselves to be highly s

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irable, also to keep out the cold, but it is unlikely that there was any special advantage in building a long passage where it would be necessary to walk in a bent position; it therefore seems that the average height of the users must have been under four and a half feet. the norse bishop of orkney, writing at kirkwall in 1443, says 'when harold haarfaga conquered the orkneys in the ninth century the inhabitants were of two nations, the papae (irish catholics) and the peti (picts or pehts, and he exterminated them both' he goes on to say 'these picts of orkney were only a little exceeding pygmies in stature and worked wonderfully in the construction of their cities evening and morning, but at midday they hid themselves in little underground houses, fearing light (horum alteri scilicet peti

ed who refused to conform, though this point does not seem clearly proved. the shape of the templar churches, circular outside, octagonal within, is peculiar to them. it is said to be copied from the mosque of the dome in jerusalem, which they thought was the temple of solomon, and it is possible that this may have influenced them; but the templars, of all the crusaders, had more intercourse with the inhabitants of palestine; they should very soon have learnt when and by whom that mosque was built; that is, by omar, the mosque always being known as the mosque of omar. so it appears to me that these churches were built for some special ritual purpose, and that purpose involved working in a circle. it may be noted the grand master of the templars always carried a wand of office, crowned with

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

the hierophants of egypt, the oracle of delphi, the idaen cave, and from the kabalah of the hebrew rabbis and chaldean magi. for nearly forty years he taught his pupils, and exhibited his wonderful powers; but an end was put to his institution, and he himself was forced to flee from the city, owing to a conspiracy and rebellion which arose on account of a quarrel between the people of crotona and the inhabitants of sybaris. he succeeded in reaching metapontum, where he is said to have died about the year of 500 b.c. 12. among the ancient authors from whom we derive our knowledge of the life and doctrines of pythagoras and his successors, the following are notable- 1. b.c. 450. herodotus, who speaks to the mysteries of the pythagoreans as similar to those of orpheus. 2. b.c. 394. archytas o

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

hor of the bahiric passage renders the aggadic motif of the god of israel bemusing and amusing himself with torah by the parable of a king who happens upon an abundant spring as he cuts through the quarry of stone he is using to build his palace. the latter, we are to suppose, will be surrounded by a garden, but only if there is a flow of living water can the king plant the garden in which he and the inhabitants of the world will delight.65 the fullness of wisdom encompasses both the source of irrigation and the garden that is irrigated. the poetic images convey in visual terms the two principles that depict the basic dialectic within the divine nature, according to kabbalistic theosophy:66 the outpouring power of mercy and the constraining force of judgment.67 although not stated explicit

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