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.in this lesson we will explain some of the preliminary and basic symbology of the neophyte initiation and the symbology of the hall of the neophyte. a basic understanding of it is necessary and required. in a future grade, we will study indepth the subtle nature of the energies imposed on the candidate in the 0=0 neophyte initiation, but at this time your task is to have a basic understanding of the initiation and the symbology of the temple. the whole purpose of the golden dawn system of magic and the neophyte initiation is to begin the process whereby the candidate can receive exposure to his or her higher self and the knowledge therein. in the hall of the neophyte of the temple of isis mighty mother, the flagship temple of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the walls are draped in

s that is responsible for bringing the infinite white light down into manifestation and into the outer order, or more succinctly, infused into the candidate. the cross is also a fitting symbol for self sacrifice, absolutely necessary and required for achieving knowledge and conversation with our higher genius. so together the cross and triangle represent the forces of life and light. as you study the initiation itself, you will notice that there are times in the ritual where a mystical circumambulation takes place. this is a creation of a vortex and it is symbolic of the rise of divine light from nothingness. it is the cross and triangle that act as a magnet, pulling in this divine light which is initially attracted during the mystical circumambulation. the cross and triangle are very powe

sense, it is used as a fitting symbol in pathworking and in astral projection. the memorization of the banner of the west and projecting it forward becomes a very strong etheric symbol of protection. there are several books that may go deeper indepth on these symbols, but at this time it is unnecessary for these symbols will be studied in depth in a higher grade. it is our hope that you will read the initiation over several times and even highlight it in the neophyte book. various parts of the initiation itself are selfexplanatory, such as the three fold cord around the candidate's waist. by reading the initation you will understand what this means. in a higher grade, an indepth study of the neophyte initiation is required. we will not in this lesson study the robes, vestments or tools of

with the white triangle upon it. now, it is only the higher soul that is able to link with the candidate, if the natural more mundane aspect of the candidate is consenting. for we of the mysteries must always remember that "free will" is always the choice of the candidate. if it is the candidate's will to elevate spiritually and closer to the higher self, the whole action will be strengthened by the initiation and the badge of the neophyte which is a potent symbol of the "light that shineth in the darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth it not" the sash is black and represents the black pillar the feminine current. it also represents the elements of which the candidate will be attempting to master in higher grades. the sash with the white triangle is worn from the left shoulder across th

ng. 5. perform the neophyte grade sign. neophyte initiation 1. how many major officers are there in the neophyte initiation? 2. how many lesser officers are there in the neophyte initiation? 3. although it was not seen by "thine eyes" because of the blindfold on the candidate, the lamp of the kerux went before you. what does this lamp signify? 4. the three fold cord bound around your waist during the initiation means what? 5. why is secrecy as to the order, did its members, its teachings important? knowledge lecture one 1. the triplicities of fire are: 2. the triplicities of water are: 3. the triplicities of earth are: 4. the triplicities of air are: 5. name the seven ancient planets. 6. recite the hebrew alphabet in order beginning with aleph. after each letter, give the literal meaning a

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

great work itself; you are led to aspire to the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel, and this ambition in turn arouses automatically further difficulties the conquest of which confers new powers. in the book of the thirty aethyrs, commonly called 'the vision and the voice, it becomes progressively difficult to penetrate each aethyr. in fact, the penetration was only attained by the initiations which were conferred by the angel of each aethyr in its turn. there was this further identification with yoga practices recorded in this book. at times the concentration necessary to dwell in the aethyr became so intense that definitely samadhic results were obtained. we see then that the exaltation of the mind by means of magical practices leads (as one may say, in spite of itself

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

y deemed her impure, and resorted to many ceremonies, but without avail. at last in despair she went to the temple of set, and gave herself as a victim to that dreadful god. now all men were much disturbed at this, and it was not known at all of them what they should do. now it must be remembered that the ceremonies are always performed by a single priestess alone before the goddess, save only at the initiations. the others also had found themselves rejected of her; and when they learnt of the terrible end of the high priestess, they became fearful. some few, indeed, concealed their failure from the priests; but always within a day and a night they were found torn asunder in the outer courts; so that it seemed page 11 gulf.txt the lesser evil to speak truth. moreover, the affair had become

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

mbols are all shewn in the atu "the hermit. they are the powers of the yod, whose extension is the vau. yod is the hand wherewith man does his will. it is also the virgin; his essence is inviolate. alpha is the babe "who has formulated his father, and made fertile his mother- harpocrates, etc, as before; but he develops to omicron the exalted "devil (also the "other" secret eye) by the formula of the initiation of horus elsewhere described in detail. this "devil" is called satan or shaitan, and regarded with horror by people who are ignorant of his formula, and, imagining themselves to be evil, accuse nature herself of their own phantasmal crime. satan is saturn, set, abrasax, adad, adonis, attis, adam, adonai, etc. the most serious charge against him is that he is the sun in the south. th

he will then rub it with the consecrated oil until it becomes smooth and glistening and golden. he will then wrap it in silk of the appropriate colour- this is the consecration. he will then take it, and imagine that it is that hollow tube in which prometheus brought down fire from heaven, formulating to himself the passing of the holy influence through it. in this and other ways he will perform the initiation; and, this being accomplished, he will repeat the whole process in an elaborate ceremony<magick is an example of mythopoeia in that particular form called disease of language. thoth, god of magick, was merely a man who invented writing, as his monuments declare clearly enough "grammarye, magick, is only the greek "gramma. so also the

e the most efficacious, but that he never did such a thing. on the matter concerning death of the victim in invocation, crowley elsewhere enlarges that this is the ephemeral death of the ego> an example of this sacrifice is given in chapter 44 of liber 333. this mass may be recommended generally for daily practice. one last word on this subject. there is a magical operation of maximum importance: the initiation of a new aeon. when it becomes necessary to utter a word, the whole planet must be bathed in blood. before man is ready to accept the law of thelema, the great war must be fought. this bloody sacrifice is the critical point of the world- 96 ceremony of the proclamation of horus, the crowned and conquering child, as lord of the aeon<summer of

t; adding that this individuality is inscrutable in inviolable. in the neophyte ritual of 274 g. d (as it is printed in equinox i, ii, for the old aeon) the hierophant is the perfected osiris, who brings the candidate, the natural osiris, to identity with himself. but in the new aeon the hierophant is horus (liber ccxx, i, 49) therefore the candidate will be horus too. what then is the formula of the initiation of horus? it will no longer be that of the man, through death. it will be the natural growth of the child. his experiences will no more be regarded as catastrophic. their hieroglyph is the fool: the innocent and impotent harpocrates babe becomes the horus adult by obtaining the wand "der reine thor" seizes the sacred lance. bacchus becomes pan. the holy guardian angel is the unconsc

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

t happens in practice, so far as my own experience goes, is complete dispersion of the mental faculties amounting to suicide; i could quote no less than four cases in which actual physical self-murder was the direct result. chapter lxxv. the a. a. and the planet cara soror, do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. you write "am i to understand that the a. a. has two main lines of work (1) the initiation of individuals (2) action on the world in general- say "weltpolitik? because your letters on the history of magick do imply (2; and yet the a. a. discourages any form of group working. is it that the masters (8= 3 magistri templi) having been admitted to the third order- the a. a. proper; below this are r.r. et a.c. and g. d- are no longer liable to the dangers which make group acti

the way to extinguish the last spark of manly independence- that is, in selfstyled civilized countries- it seems to me that we all should regard with shrewd suspicion any plans for "perfecting" social conditions. the extreme horror is the formula of the gregarious type of insect. inherent in the premises is the impossibility of advance. one may sum the policy of the a. a. as follows: 1. to assist the initiation of the individual. 2. to maintain a form of social order in which the adventure of initiation is easy- to undertake! 3. to work out the magical formula of the new aeon. 28 "ye-e-ss, i s-e-e" i doubt it. but what you are asking is how to decide upon your personal programme. the intelligent visitor from who knows what planet was puzzled. he chanced to have landed in england- to find a

equinox i, 5. the voice a new publication was issued subsequently with the full text, an introduction, and extensive commentary by the master therion. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 337 liber legis- the book of- this book is the foundation of the law the new aeon, and thus of the whole work. liber vii- the book of- gives in magical language an lapis lazuli account of the initiation of a master of the temple. this is the only parallel, for beauty of ecstasy, to the book of the heart girt with the serpent. liber trigrammaton- describes the course of creation under the figure of the interplay of three principles. the book corresponding to the stanzas of dzyan. little essays toward truth (formerly called the wine of the graal- a collection of 17 essays which const

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

gathers he the worlds of light in beauty infinite. by love destroys he all to recreate fresh phantasies to fate. by reason reckons he his governance, the wonder of his chance. by purity absolves he all his will from every image of ill. in silence he resumes each perfect part to rapture of his heart, his, in whose truth of nature all things are, the still and shining star. iii. the temple of truth the initiation. i, khaled khan, beheld that vision and received this voice upon the holy hill of sidi bou said, in the country now called tunisia, but from of old sacred with many sanctities. thus far it is permitted me to speak freely of that which came to me in my long search for the true wisdom; but to me in my long search for the true wisdom; but to declare the mode of mine initiation, whereby

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

ime an almost general consent to replace it by 8, and its 'rapture-combination' 31, by 33. despite the intense preoccupation with such ideas, mathematics as we know them had reached a perfection which if it does not surpass that of our own civilization, fails principally because of its theorems, handed down to euclid and pythagoras, although imperfectly, formed a springboard whence we might leap. the initiation of children was also a matter reserved for the high house. weaned at three months, the children were tended by the lower classes until the age of puberty, an occurrence which fitted them at once for initiation. a legate from the high house was sent for, and in his presence the child was brought, acquainted with zro by its father and mother, and full instruction in 'working' was furt

rred by any member of the 'house' who chose to do so, this in practice meaning by everybody. the ceremonies were frequently long and exhausting; children often enough died in the course of them. this was not regarded as a serious calamity; some schools of magicians even pretended to rejoice. the representatives of the high house had a prior right to the parents of the child; at times he conducted the initiation in person, a high honour, but invariably fatal. on rare occasions male children were sent over to the atla to be devoured. the parents of so fortunate a child were advanced in rank on the spot, and had special privileges conferred on them, sometimes even being transferred to a 'house of houses. all those who dwelt in the high house were veiled whenever they appeared, in order to pre

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

that foam! also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will! but always unto me" the old comment 51. the candidate will be brought through his ordeals in divers ways. the order is to be of freemen and nobles. the new comment the first section of this verse is connected with the second only by the word 'therefore. it appears to describe an initiation, or perhaps the initiation, in general terms. i would suggest that the palace is the 'holy house' or universe of the initiate of the new law. the four gates are perhaps light, life, love, liberty- see "de lege libellum. lapis lazuli is a symbol of nuit, jasper of hadit. the rare scents are possibly various ecstasies or samadhis. jasmine and rose are hieroglyphs of the two main sacraments, while the emblems of

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

that are beneath (symbol, the ark containing the secret of life borne upon the bosom of the deluge beneath the clouds) wn. initiation is guarded on both sides by death ]ms. self-control and self-sacrifice govern the wheel. yu. the secret of generation is death. hp. the fortress of the most high (note p, the lowest reciprocal path. ydx. in the star is the gate of the sanctuary [wq. illusionary is the initiation of disorder. cyr. in the sun (osiris) is the secret of the spirit. yc. resurrection is hidden in death. wt. the universe is the hexagram (other meanings suit other planes and other grades) truly there is no end to this wondrous science; and when the sceptic sneers, with all these methods one ought to be able to make everything out of nothing, the qabalist smiles back the sublime ret

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are beneath (symbol, the ark containing the secret of life borne upon the bosom of the deluge beneath the clouds) nvn. initiation is guarded on both sides by death. smk. self-control and self-sacrifice govern the wheel. oin. the secret of generation is death. ph. the fortress of the most high (note p, the lowest reciprocal path. tzdi. in the star is the gate of the sanctuary. qvp. illusionary is the initiation of disorder. rish. in the sun (osiris) is the secret of the spirit. shin. resurrection is hidden in death. thv. the universe is the hexagram (other meanings suit other planes and other grades) truly there is no en to this wondrous science; and when the sceptic sneers "with all these methods one ought to be able to make everything our of nothing" the qabalist smiles back the sublime

eighteenth-century occultism is strikingly sane and intelligent. knowing nothing of the causes priori, he has judged by the effects, and these have not betrayed him. indeed, had mr trowbridge sworn secrecy to the modern illuminati, i am afraid that he might have his s..l 153 s..n across, and his b..s exposed to the s..g r..s of the s.n before now! i think mr trowbridge is too ready to assume that the initiations of egyptian masonry were ridiculous. on what documents does he base his description? it is always open to a mason to reply to an "exposure" that those who tell don't know, and those who know don't tell. my own small knowledge of the matter assures me that the accounts given on pp. 111 and 112, 120 and 121 are entirely foreign to that knowledge and priori most unlikely. it is incred

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

then at an end, and the next ceremony is "the "admission."18 the candidate is in waiting without the portal, under the care of the sentinel, the "watcher without" that is, under the care of the form of anubis of the west. 252 the hierophant informs the members assembled that he holds a dispensation from the greatly honoured chiefs of the second order, for the purpose of commencing the process of the initiation which shall ultimately lead the candidate to the knowledge of his higher self. but he is first admitted to the grade of neophyte which hath no number, concealing the commencement of all-things under the simulacrum of no-thing. the hegemon, the representative of the gods of truth and justice, is consequently sent to superintend the preparation, thus symbolizing that it is the preside

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of humility and the robe of mourning are removed from the aspirant, and the "third adept" completes the "first point" by communicating verbally the following history of the order of the rose and cross to the aspirant] know then, o aspirant, that the mysteries of the rose and cross have existed from time immemorial, and that its mystic rites were practised, and its hidden knowledge communicated in the initiations of the various races of antiquity_ egypt, eleusis, and samothrace; persia, chaldea, and india alike cherished its mysteries, and thus handed down to posterity the secret wisdom of the ancient ages. many were its 214 temples, and among many nations were they established; though in process of time some lost the purity of their primal knowledge. howbeit the manner of its introduction

(note geomantic angelic symbolism of iao and inri) the l sign is the svastika (see z in 0= 0 ritual for meaning) also svastika hath 17 squares showing iao synthetical.23 and the svastika includeth the cross "even as a child in the womb of its mother to develop itself anew &c &c (cry of 29th aethyr.)24 the cubical svastika hath 78 faces= tarot and mezla. it is also hb:aleph= air and zero. it shows the initiation of a whirling force. the v sign is that of apophis and typhon. it is the y of pythagoras; it is the arms flung up of the drowning man and therefore= 12th key and hb:mem. it is also the horns of the mediaeval devil. it shows the binding and apparent death of the force, without which it cannot come to any perfection. the x sign is that of the pentagram. it showeth the triumph of the l

rit of the living god" of which the two following rituals are part: the book of the spirit of the living god. hb:resh hb:peh hb:samekh hb:chet hb:vau hb:resh hb:heh hb:yod hb:heh hb:lamed hb:aleph hb:heh the casting-out of the evil ones. the consecration of the shrine. the cleansing of the son of man. the drawing together of the elements. the coming of the golden dawn. the indwelling of the isis. the initiation of the whirling force. the chant of mystery. the music of the divine one. the movement of the spirit. the descent of the soul of isis. the night of apophis. the light of osiris. the knowledge of the higher soul. these be duly written; these shall be, unto the glory of thine ineffable name [the aspirant, having fasted for a period of nine days, during which he constantly aspireth unt

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loped state of ours which makes the infinitude of the hasheesh awakening so unendurable, even when its sublimity is the sublimity of delight. we have no 264 longer anything to do with horizons, and the boundary which was at once our barrier and our fortress is removed, until we almost perish from the inflow of perceptions. it would be no hard task to prove, to a strong probability, at least, that the initiation to the pythagorean mysteries, and the progressive instruction that succeeded it, to a considerable extent consisted in the employment, judiciously, if we may use the word, of hasheesh, as giving a critical and analytic power to the mind, which enabled the neophyte to roll up the murk and mist from beclouded truths till they stood distinctly seen in the splendour of their own harmoni

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cover. aleister crowley. 163 the porch. vol. i, no. 8. 3"d" j. m. watkins. the mirror of simple souls. of all this admirable series this is the best. such prose i have rarely found in all my reading. i am beggared of wit to review it; but i implore all who seek the pure light mirrored in flawless imagery to obtain it. aleister crowley. the apocalypse unsealed "being an estoeric interpretation" of the initiation of ioannes. by james m. pryse. new york; john m. pryse, 9-15 murray street, 1910. london: j. m. watkins. 8"s" 6"d" net it is possible to write upon this book in a freer manner, without offence, than upon any other book in the canon of scripture, for there is no other book which has caused so much disquiet to theologians, in all ages, as has the "revelation of st john the divine" and

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

black and red tiles on the floor and the cheerful glow from the fire. but his grandmother would not let him hold it for more than a minute 'you'll make it cloudy' she told him 'later i'll teach you how to use it, but you've had enough for one day. now come and get your tea' it would be years before he discovered that he was the last of a line of witches dating back to the fifteenth century; that the initiation from which he was still smarting was a pale replica of those once carried out in sparta when males were emasculated so as to become priests ofthe moon goddess. ages would pass before he tried turning his powers to evil to gain himself a fortune; before his misuse of them lost him the person he loved. this was 1933 and alex sanders was just a bewildered child who believed he and his

gun to be intereste in girls; his grandmother, noticing this development, decided he was ready for the second- and third-grade initiations. she had already taught him at length about sex, self-control and the ways witches have of harnessing impulses so that the sex force can be used positively towards creating power 'implosion' was the term she used, the antithesis of asturbation. on the night of the initiation ceremony she laid out a new robe she had made for alex. they both bathed themselves before entering the circle. by the light of two candles on the altar-a draught-board table on which the regaliawas arranged -she lay down on the floor and drew the boy to her until their bare bodies touched. then they were united. there were no gestures of affection or passion; it was strictly a rit

tiated into alex's coven and worked diligently until he felt he was ready for the second grade. before taking it, he had to prove that he could really draw down the power; direct it to a successful conclusion and be able to banish it (experienced witches say that they can see the power as a blue light that surrounds the circle) he invited alex to spend the week-end at his home. the evening before the initiation was to take place, they went up to the bedroom which had been prepared. in it was a single bed for alex and a sleeping-bag for the host. the boy wanted to experiment with fire rituals and they invoked the god set to protect them. alex drew the circle-literally with chalk on the bare floorboards, and spiritually with his athame. the perimeter of the circle enclosed the bed but not th

the greatest egyptologistsofthe age, sir william matthew flinderspetrie, whose feats towards the end of the last century included the excavation of the pyramids at giza and the great temple at tanis, as well as the discovery of the greek city of naucratis and the towns of am and daphnae, where remains of the pharaohs had been found. he had given some of his papers to pat's grandfather, among them the initiation ceremony of a religion closely related to witchcraft. the god and goddess had different names, but the instructions on calling down the power and on how to use it were identical. this ceremony included the gilding and symbolic embalming of novices so that they might be reborn, and with it alex swore paul and maxine into the cult, having first had to 'adopt' them as his son and daugh

'now' and the witches fall to the ground. spells are made, magic is worked, and they end the esbat with the mass, which is a meal taken by all within the circle. note: this is the form of meeting practised in alex sanders's covens and taught to him by his grandmother. pptnbix[ 3jnitiation([trtmonit the first-grade initiate, who will have received instruction for some weeks before he is called to the initiation ceremony, is sent to have a bath. in his absence the circle is made and the rest of the coven are within the circle. the initiate is blindfolded and naked. he is led by two other witches to the edge of the circle where he is given the opportunity of changing his mind and withdrawing. if he decides he still wants to be a witch, those inside the circle dance round singing the chant 'e

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

pain the bonds must be loosened slightly; always remember the object being to retard the blood flow enough to induce a trance state. this involves slight discomfort; but great discomfort prevents the trance state, so it is best to spend some little time loosening and tightening the bonds until they are just right. the aspirant alone can tell you when this is so. this, of course, does not apply to the initiation, as then no trance is desired; but for the purpose of ritual it is good that the initiates be bound firmly enough to feel they are absolutely helpless but without discomfort. the measure (in the first degree) is taken thus: height, round neck, across the heart and across the genitals. the old custom is, if anyone were guilty of betraying the secrets, their measure was buried at midn

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

that expansion of consciousness part of the equipment for the practical use of the personality, and in mastering that portion of the path that has yet to be traversed. the place and effect of initiation- 11- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust the ceremony of initiation takes place on the three higher sub-planes of the mental plane, and on the three higher planes, according to the initiation. the five-pointed star, at the initiations on the mental plane, flashes out above the head of the initiate. this concerns the first initiations which are undergone in the causal vehicle. it has been said that the first two initiations take place upon the astral plane, but this is incorrect, and the statement has given rise to a misunderstanding. they are felt profoundly in connectio

he creates thence his body of manifestation. each initiation gives more control on the rays, if one may so express it, although this does not adequately convey the idea. words so often mislead. at the fifth initiation, when the adept stands master in the three worlds, he controls more or less (according to his line of development) the five rays that are specially manifesting at the time he takes the initiation. at the sixth initiation, if he takes the higher degree, he gains power on another ray, and at the seventh initiation he wields power on all the rays. the sixth initiation marks the point of attainment of the christ, and brings the synthetic ray of the system under his control. we need to remember that initiation gives the initiate power on the rays, and not power over the rays, for

the love ray, or the synthetic ray of the system, is the final one achieved. those who pass away from the earth after the fifth initiation, or those who do not become masters in physical incarnation, take their subsequent initiations elsewhere in the system. all are- 12- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust in the logoic consciousness. one great fact to be borne in mind is, that the initiations of the planet or of the solar system are but the preparatory initiations of admission into the greater lodge on sirius. we have the symbolism held for us fairly well in masonry, and in combining the masonic method with what we are told of the steps on the path of holiness we get an approximate picture. let us enlarge somewhat: the first four initiations of the solar system correspo

aware of the need of the present moment. certain great prelates of the anglican and catholic churches are wise agents of his. the master djwhal khul, or the master d. k. as he is frequently called, is another adept on the second ray of love-wisdom. he is the latest of the adepts taking initiation, having taken the fifth initiation in 1875, and is therefore occupying the same body in which he took the initiation, most of the other masters having taken the fifth initiation whilst occupying earlier vehicles. his body is not a young one, and he is a tibetan. he is very devoted to the master k. h. and occupies a little house not far distant from the larger one of the master, and from his willingness to serve and to do anything that has to be done, he has been called "the messenger of the master

nitiate, and affects his head centre. it emanates from that one of the seven stars of the great bear whose ensouling life holds the same relationship to our planetary logos as the ego does to a human being. this energy, therefore, is seven-fold, and differs according to a man's ray or type. it is not possible here to state the order of the application of these varying types of energy, nor to give the initiation during which the man contacts the different types. these facts involve the secrets of the mysteries, and no purpose is served by revealing them. other types of force from certain of the planetary schemes, as well as from cosmic centres, are brought into play by the initiator and transmitted through the medium of the rod to the various centres in the initiate's three vehicles, the me

998 lucis trust privilege to see somewhat into the future, and therefore he realises that the force he has generated will in due course of time bring to fulfillment the plan; he knows also that his name and effort are noted in the archives of the lodge, and that the "silent watcher" over the affairs of men has taken notice. planetary existences. in considering now the personalities taking part in the initiation ceremonies, the first to be dealt with are those who are termed planetary existences. this refers to those great beings who, for a period of planetary manifestation, overshadow or stay with our humanity. they are not very many in number, for the majority of the great ones pass on steadily and increasingly to other and higher work, as their places can be taken and their functions car

subplane force is similarly passed into the remaining atoms of the causal vehicle, producing the final liberation. the work done by the second kumara, with second subplane force, is in this solar system the most important in connection with the egoic body, and produces its complete dissipation, whereas the final application causes the atoms themselves (which formed that body) to disperse. during the initiation ceremony, when the initiate stands before the lord of the world, these three great beings form a triangle, within whose lines of force the initiate finds himself. at the first two initiations, wherein the bodhisattva functions as the hierophant, the mahachohan, the manu, and a chohan who temporarily represents the second department perform a similar office. at the highest two initia

ad to error. the three great lords closely co-operate in the work, and that work is one, just as man, though a triplicity, is yet an individual unit. the human being is a form through which a spiritual life or entity is manifesting, and employing the intelligence under evolutionary law- 64- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust therefore the great lords are closely connected with the initiations of a human unit. they are too occupied with greater affairs and with group activities to have any relationship with a man until he stands upon the probationary path. when he has, through his own effort, brought himself on to the path of discipleship, the particular master who has him under supervision reports to the head of one of the three departments (this being dependent upon a

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equent adequacy; at the close of manifestation it brings about eventually the destruction of the form and its dissolution, and the termination of existence as understood on the lower planes. in terms of buddhistic theology it produces annihilation; this involves, not loss of identity, but the cessation of objectivity and the escape of spirit, plus mind, to its cosmic centre. it has its analogy in the initiation at which the adept stands free from the limitations of matter in the three worlds. the internal fires of the system, of the planet, and of man are threefold: 1. interior fire at the centre of the sphere, those inner furnaces which produce warmth. this is latent fire. 2. radiatory fire. this type of fire might be expressed in terms of physical plane electricity, of light rays, and of

ntually at initiation. at the time that initiation is taken, the centres are all active and the lower four (which correspond to the personality) are beginning the process of translating the fire into the three higher. the dual revolution in the lower centres is clearly to be seen and the three higher are commencing to be similarly active. by the application of the rod of initiation at the time of the initiation ceremony, certain results are achieved in connection with the centres which might be enumerated as follows: a. the fire at the base of the spine is definitely directed to whichever centre is the object of special attention. this varies according to the ray, or the specialised work of the initiate. b. the centre has its activity intensified, its rate of evolution increased, and certa

ng other things, the "sevenfold flaming fire" it was confided to our logos by the lord of sirius and sent to our system from that radiant sun. one of its purposes is for use in emergencies. this great talisman has never yet been employed in this particular manner, though twice it was nearly thus used, once in atlantean days, and once in the third year of the late war. this rod of power is used at the initiation of the seven heavenly men on cosmic levels. it is used also in the initiation of groups, a thing almost incomprehensible to us. it is applied to the centres of the seven heavenly men in the same general way as the lesser rods are applied to the human centres, and the effects are the same, only on a vaster scale. this, needless to say, is a vast and abstruse subject, and concerns not

anes of the triad, this in relation to all the cells in his body. he developed consciousness on the three lower planes of the three worlds during the first solar system, again in relation to the cells in his body. man is repeating his endeavor up to the fifth initiation which will bring him to a stage of consciousness achieved by a heavenly man in a much earlier mahamanvantara. in connection with the initiations this should be carefully borne in mind. c. a solar logos has his origin on a still higher cosmic level, has his main focal point on the cosmic mental plane but is expressing himself through the three lower cosmic planes just as man is seeking self-expression in the three worlds. therefore, the seven major planes of the solar system are in the same relation to him cosmically as the

le co-ordination to effect the necessary steps which enabled the quaternary to succeed in its effort to approximate the triad. g. this fourth ether in this fourth round and on this fourth chain has to be completely mastered and controlled by the human hierarchy, the fourth creative. every unit of the human family has to attain this mastery before the end of this round. h. it is the sphere wherein the initiations of the threshold are undergone, and the fivefold initiations of the physical plane are entered upon. much more might be further added to this list, but i have sought only to point out those which can be easily realised as having a correspondence on the buddhic plane, the fourth cosmic ether. it should be borne in mind that our physical plane in its subplanes has its analogy likewis

ing of man's physical body, for the foetus reproduces all earlier stages and forms till the human is achieved; again, as we know, the fourth round reproduces briefly the earlier three but has its own distinctive quality. b. the method of initiation. in this second method the "rods of initiation" are used to effect certain results. these rods are of four kinds: 1. cosmic, used by a cosmic logos in the initiations of a solar logos, and of the three major planetary logoi. 2. systemic, used by a solar logos in the initiations of a planetary logos. 3. planetary, used by a planetary logos for initiatory purposes, and for the third, the fourth, and fifth major initiations, with the two higher. 4. hierarchical, used by an occult hierarchy for minor initiations, and for the first two initiations of

ch human centre, will a. vibrate to some one key. b. have its own colouring. c. resemble, when seen from the higher planes, a vast lotus. d. possess, according to its vibratory capacity, a definite number of petals. e. be connected in geometrical formation with certain other centres of heavenly men, making systemic triangles.32(116) f. be characterised by different stages of activity according to the initiation towards which the logos may be working. thus, at one period one centre or heavenly man may be the subject of logoic attention, and of specialised stimulation, and at another period a totally different scheme may be the object of vitalisation. for some time the logos has turned his attention to the earth scheme and to saturn, whilst uranus is receiving stimulation. much is therefore

he time is not yet. the different polarities of the schemes will be studied, and information, that is now imparted only to initiates of the third initiation, will eventually become exoteric. in due course of time systemic information along the lines of: a. the vitalisation of the schemes b. interaction between two schemes c. the periods of incarnation of a planetary logos on the physical plane d. the initiation of the planetary logos, will be reduced to law and order. as yet but dim speculations and hints that appeal only to the spiritual and the intuitive are in any way possible. the early part of the next round will see more widespread knowledge and interest in this matter. the planetary angle. this point of view concerns itself with the history of the individual scheme, and with the con

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he graduates and passes an initiation. the whole group he teaches is benefited by his step forward, for every disciple carries those he instructs along with him in a curious indefinable sense. the benefit to the unit reacts upon the whole. a master carries his disciples on and up with him in a similar manner. the matter is abstruse and largely one of the secrets of the law of vibratory expansion. the initiation of the logos has a universal effect. you are right in your assumption that the probationary path corresponds to the later stages of the period of gestation. at the first initiation what is called in the new testament "the babe in christ" starts upon the pilgrimage of the path. the first initiation simply stands for commencement. a certain structure of right living, of thinking and o

the one subjective group of conscious living souls behind them, will be too busy with world service and interests to waste time on trifling nonessentials. they will not have the time to play around with group names and insignia and badges and the technicalities of fraternities when they meet together. world needs, world opportunities, and the rapid development of the consciousness of mankind and the initiation of humanity into the spiritual realities will so engross their attention that they will have no interest in purely physical plane arrangements, nor in laying the emphasis upon their own personal growth. they will be well aware that response to world need in service and the life of focussed meditation will promote their growth. their eyes are not upon themselves, upon their own good

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

c astrology iii. the science of triangles iv. the sacred and non-sacred planets v. the three major constellations vi. the three crosses vii. the rays, constellations and planets volume iv i. the basic causes of disease ii. the basic requirements for healing i ii. the fundamental laws of healing volume v i. stanzas for disciples ii. the fourteen rules for disciples and initiates i ii. the rays and the initiations- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all. the secret doctrine vol. i. page 80. third edition three sou

hey affect the form aspect. much, if not nearly all that exoteric science has posited regarding the mineral kingdom can, for ordinary uses, be accepted as relative fact. but two points should be considered, and they are: 1. the consciousness aspect of the mineral world. 2. the transmutation of forms by fire in that kingdom, leading to an ultimate radiation. the best known example of the effect of the initiation of the mineral by fire can be seen in the great transition and transformation, allotropically brought about, from the carbon stage to that of the perfect diamond. a further qualitative stage can be seen as the radiation or the throwing off of rays, as in radium. that there are three stages in the evolutionary processes in the mineral kingdom must be borne in mind, and these (though

logy i copyright 1998 lucis trust an important symbolic happening has been consummated at the close of this piscean age, which is the period of the sixth ray influence. this has been the world-wide devastation of the forests of the world. everywhere they have been sacrificed to the needs of man. thus have been brought under the influence of fire, those vegetable forms of life which were ready for the initiation. the major agency in the development of this kingdom has been water, and this new development, this bringing together of fire and water in this kingdom, has constituted the subjective fact which brought the steam age into being. the vast forest fires, which form such a menace at this time in different parts of the world, are also related to this "initiation by fire" of a kingdom hit

he entity which informs that world, are passing through a major initiation. this was made possible by the personality ray of the entity, manifesting through this kingdom, subjecting itself to the initiatory fire. this is of course expressed symbolically, the only way in which any aspect of this planetary truth can be grasped by man. it is an interesting, though quite unimportant fact, that at all the initiations of the kingdoms in nature, the planetary logos of a particular ray always functions as the initiator. this ray cyclically alters. in the major initiations at this time, for instance, in connection with humanity, not only is the first initiator, the christ, officiating, not only is the ancient of days, the embodiment of our planetary logos, participating (either actively or behind t

urned to the development of physical man, whilst today the attention is not turned to the physical unfoldment of man, but to an effort to enable man to control the physical forces of the planet. one rather striking instance of the similarity of the ray forces should be here noted. in lemurian times, the yoga of the age which produced the required at-one-ing or unification (preceding the taking of the initiation of the time) was hatha yoga, the yoga of the physical body. this gave to the initiate the needed physical control a control which has today been so perfected in the race that it is now automatic and has slipped below the threshold of consciousness. in the great cyclic recapitulations which go on ceaselessly we see today in our aryan race a tremendous emphasis being given to physical

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nd incipient mind. these are symbolised in the animal power to eat and drink. subjective agency. smell or scent, the instinctual discovery of that which is needed, from the activity of ranging forth for food, and the use of the power to scent that food, to the identification of the smell of a beloved master or friend. quality .t amas or inerti .copyright 1998 lucis trust from bethlehem to calvary the initiations of jesus by alice a. bailey copyright 1937 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1965 by lucis trust foreword this book goes out with the earnest wish that its effect may be wholly constructive and result in a deepening of our belief in christ and a broader recognition of the work which he came to initiate. many years of work as an evangelist and as a teacher in the field of christian p

l towards which he strove "i die daily" he said, for only in the practice of death daily undergone can the final death be met and endured."20 5. the resurrection and ascension, the final triumph which enables the initiate to sing and to know the meaning of the words "oh death, where is thy sting? oh grave, where is thy victory?"21 such are the five great dramatic events of the mysteries. such are the initiations through which all men must some day pass. humanity stands today upon the path of probation. the way of purification is being trodden by the masses, and we are in process of purging ourselves from evil and materialism. when this process is completed, many will find themselves ready to make preparation for the first of the initiations, and to undergo the new birth. the disciples of t

so-called esoteric groups are not the custodians of the teaching of initiation, nor is it their prerogative to prepare man for this unfoldment. the best of them can only prepare men for that stage in the evolutionary process which is called "discipleship" the reason why this is sadly the case, and why initiation seems so far away from the membership of most of the groups who claim an insight into the initiation processes, is that they have not laid the needed emphasis upon that mental illumination which perforce lights the way to the gate leading to the "secret place of the most high" they have laid the emphasis upon personality devotion to the masters of the wisdom, and to their own organisation leaders; they have stressed adherence to authoritative teaching and rules of life, and have no

lisation that he had accomplished what he had set out to do. he had fulfilled the plan; the father's business had been done and the "many things" undergone. we read that even on the cross the plan still engrossed his attention, and with his final "it is finished,"25 he passed through the gates of death to a joyful resurrection. the gradual revelation of the plan and its service always accompanies the initiation process; the individual learns to subordinate his life to the will of the father, and to become as christ became the servant of that will. the initiation process itself is only a part of the general plan for the race, and the paths of discipleship and of initiation are but the final stages of the path of evolution. the earlier steps on the path are concerned with human living and ex

d and gave to humanity a vision of god's plan for the world, this plan being the coming of the kingdom. he was god, and the word of god went forth from him. man lives by the incarnation of god in himself. by passing through the gate of the new birth, he can redeem the flesh in which that divinity is encased, and can then help in the redemption of the world. for the race, too, there is the crisis, the initiation and the vision "where there is no vision, the people perish."31 but that vision is never of the whole plan. it is not of the ultimate experience nor of the unfathomable consummation. for that we are not as yet prepared. christ himself did not proclaim the final revelation. he saw and proclaimed the next step for the race. the events immediately ahead are sensed, to be later intellig

ostles supplied the setting and the detail, and apparently did much to bring that detail into conformity with the teaching of the past, as to the environment and lives of the past world-teachers and saviours, for there is a curious identity in events and occurrences. we have fought over the detail connected with the phenomenal appearing of christ, and have overlooked the emphasis laid in three of the initiations upon his words and their meaning. we have taken our stand upon the physical happenings of his life and have struggled to prove the authentic historicity of those physical events, and all the time god himself speaks "hear ye him" another point which is frequently forgotten is that, in so coming to earth and taking human incarnation, god testified to his faith in the divinity which i

sign was seen by the many, and given by the angel of the lord to the shepherds who were watching in the fields by night "and this shall be a sign unto you, ye shall find the babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger."57 here was a sign given to those watching ones, two or three, who were ready to consecrate their all, who perceived the star of initiation flashing forth and hastened to the initiation chamber. the larger number, who were interested and watching, needed a more concrete and more easily interpreted sign and were sent to see the infant with his mother. their attitude is expressed in the words "let us now go even unto bethlehem and see this thing which is come to pass."58 but the three who understood came to worship and to give. when they saw this star shine forth, th

e chose with care those who were to work with him, and whom he had to train to carry forward the mission of the kingdom, and then he began that increased service which is ever the signal to the world that a man has become more inclusive and has passed through another initiation. even though the world may not at the time recognise that signal, it is never again just the same world as it was before the initiation is taken and the service rendered. the emergence of an initiate into the field of the world makes that field different. christ went about doing good "teaching in the synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of disease among the people."50 he had registered before god and man, and to himself, his perfection. he emerged from the wilderness experience tri

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isciples have to pass. this passing is the theme of the coming new religion. mankind has entered into the temples at the great cosmic approach of appropriation in lemurian times. certain of the more advanced sons of men were passed in atlantean times and still more will be passed in the immediate future, whilst a fair number will also be raised to immortality, but from the angle of the race it is the initiation of passing which is ahead for a very large number, and not the initiation of being raised. i am not here speaking of the so-called five major initiations, but of certain group events which are predominantly cosmic in nature. the major initiations which are the goal of human endeavor are individual in nature, and constitute, as it were, a preparatory period of expansions of conscious

that the student can grasp is that the plan will be the dynamic impulse of this third and vital energy which will pervade the outer court of the temple, constituting a temple of initiation upon the physical plane, thus externalising the activities of the hierarchy in certain possible respects. the first initiation will then take place upon earth. it will be then no longer a veiled secret. this is the initiation of the outer court, wherein the approach of the soul upon the way of descent into manifestation, and the subsequent appropriation of the proffered divine energy by the personality upon the way of ascent will take place. the holy place is the place where the second initiation is enacted, and this will some day be given upon the astral plane when the illusion there persisting has been

proffered divine energy by the personality upon the way of ascent will take place. the holy place is the place where the second initiation is enacted, and this will some day be given upon the astral plane when the illusion there persisting has been somewhat dissipated. over this second initiation, the christ presides and, as was said above, it is for us the most difficult and most transforming of the initiations. the acquiescence of the soul to the demands of the personality for spiritual life, and the submission of the personality to the soul, find therein their consummation- 170- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust finally will come the initiation of the transfiguration, wherein the light breaks forth, the touch of enlightenment is g

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tion or emphasis upon authority. growing out of the integration of this new group, there is being formed in the world that "bridge- 27- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust of souls and servers" which will make possible the merging of the inner subjective hierarchy of souls and the outer world of humanity. this will constitute an actual fusion or blending and will mark the initiation of the human family through the achievement of its foremost pioneering members. this is the true "marriage in the heavens" of which mystical christianity speaks and the result of this fusion will be the manifestation of the fifth kingdom in nature, the kingdom of god. in the past history of the race, a great event occurred which brought into manifestation the fourth kingdom in natur

the disciple either awakens suddenly to a wider grasp of reality and a deeper understanding of the plan and his part in it, or the "veils of earth" close over his head; the vision fades and he reverts into the life of an ordinary human being, probably for the period of the incarnation wherein the opportunity was offered to him. should he, however, go forward through that door, then (according to the initiation which becomes possible) will be the revelation and its attendant consequences. the revelation will not be the revelation of possibilities. it is a factual experience, resulting in the evocation of new- 71- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust powers and capacities and the recognition of new modes and fields of service. these powers are conditioned by past

thing surprising in this statement or any particular cause for elation or for pleasure. an immense number of the world aspirants evidence through their aliveness to the spiritual issues, through the intensity of their aspiration and through their struggles to be good, self-sacrificing and wise that the life of the indwelling christ is most definitely moving in them and is present in their hearts. the initiation of "spiritual fixation upon the physical plane (as the birth at bethlehem, the first initiation, is sometimes called) has already been undergone by thousands, and they are sincerely and definitely moving forward upon the way. i would remind you here that many, many lives can elapse between the first initiation and the second long, long interludes of silent and almost unapparent grow

erim stage reports to the master at rare and widely separated intervals; it is only when the aspirant has reached the point where he "can enter into the light of the angel" that the master begins to take over his training. the disciple is now, irrevocably and finally, ready. this takes place at the third stage, that of accepted discipleship. these stages are all of them related to one or other of the initiations. this one, called little chelaship, is related to the first initiation. this initiation is connected with the physical plane and, for a very large number of people (as i have several times pointed out) lies far behind. all true aspirants have taken the first initiation. this fact is indicated by their intensive struggle to grow into the spiritual life, to follow the way of determin

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hat world effort will be on the same scale as the mass education of mankind in the piscean age. materialism as a mass principle will be rejected and the major spiritual values will assume greater control. the culmination of a civilisation, with its special note, quality and gifts to posterity, is significant of the reflection of the spiritual intent, and (through its massed populations) of one of the initiations. history will some day be based and written upon the record of the initiatory growth of humanity; prior to that, we must have a history which is constructed around the development of humanity under the influences of great and fundamental ideas. that is the next historical presentation. the production of the culture of any given period is simply the reflection of the creative abilit

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s the will of god to produce certain radical and momentous changes in the consciousness of the race which will completely alter man's attitude to life and his grasp of the spiritual, esoteric and subjective essentials of living. it is this force which will bring about (in conjunction with second ray force) that tremendous crisis imminent in the human consciousness which we call the second crisis, the initiation of the race into the mystery of the ages, into that which has been hid from the beginning. the first crisis, as you have been taught, was the crisis of individualisation wherein man became a living soul. the second crisis is the immediate one of racial initiation, made possible (if you will but believe it) by the many individual initiations which have lately been undergone by those

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circulates then throughout the etheric body as it is interiorly active within the physical vehicle. the three head centres exist, one just above the top of the head, another just in front of the eyes and forehead, and the third at the back of the head, just above where the spinal column ends. this makes eight centres but is in reality seven, as the centre at the back of the head is not counted in the initiation process, any more than is the spleen. the powerful effect of the inflow of energy, via the energy body, has itself automatically created these centres or these reservoirs of force, these focal points of energy, which the spiritual man must learn to use and through the means of which he can direct energy where needed. each of these seven centres has appeared in the course of human ev

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the great wheel. iii. 4. the fourfold influence of the cardinal cross. 5. life in the seven worlds of our seven planes. 6. fusion of spirit, soul and personality. aries, therefore, starts the process of the "most ancient initiation" which all the human family has already undergone and will undergo. the first great cosmic initiation (as far as humanity is concerned) is initiation into incarnation the initiation of individualisation. this process culminates aeons later in the reversing of the wheel and the attaining of a definite goal in capricorn. it culminates in the achievement of transference from off the fixed cross on to the cardinal cross, which is, in its turn, the logical sequence of the transference from off the mutable or common cross on to the fixed cross. therefore, in its lowe

r to the methods of the piscean age which is just passing. mars and mercury control and mars is particularly active, owing to the fact that mars is both the orthodox planet controlling the personality in scorpio and also the esoteric planet conditioning the unfoldment of the disciple. mars is the dominating factor in the tests and trials of the disciple, prior to the experience in sagittarius and the initiation in capricorn, and this for the following reasons: first, mars is definitely the planet which rules and controls the physical vehicle. mars appears first of all as the orthodox ruler in aries, the sign in which the first move is made towards bringing about objective manifestation, or physical incarnation. in scorpio, the result of all the struggles carried forward during the seemingl

f the ego and to draw up the new types of charts which will demonstrate soul purpose on its own plane and group relations also on the physical plane and so be of aid to the intelligent, dedicated personality. ponder on this. there is one triad of cosmic energy that is of supreme importance upon our planet and it is the united influence of its three constellations which will eventually bring about the initiation of the planetary logos; this will warrant any future planetary expression of his life to be termed a "sacred planet" at present our earth is not regarded as a sacred planet. later, when these three energies have produced adequate effect and the needed planetary changes have been produced, the term "sacred" will be deemed correct and appropriate. this statement of course means little

ere refer, it will be found that three great sons of god have expressed for us the quality, the keynote and the development which is expressive of each decanate: hercules scorpio. strength through testing. buddha taurus. illumination through struggle. christ pisces. resurrection through sacrifice. in a peculiar sense, these three constitute a triangle of initiation and are of paramount potency in the initiation process. they express strength, illumination and love in full expression. leo appears again in this world situation as a part of a triangle of crisis, for the combination of the three constellations involved invariably produces crisis. these three are leo, libra and capricorn. leo, when dominating the triangle, produced in the past the crisis of individualisation. later in human his

ysteries of initiation. it deals with and is related to the spiritual status of the planetary logoi, those great beings in whom all forms of life on all planets live and move and have their being. it is concerned with their point in evolution, with their goals and objectives- 297- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust upon the cosmic path and with the initiation for which they in their incomparable and incomprehensible livingness are preparing. basically it might be said that a planet is regarded as "sacred" when its informing spiritual life has taken five of the major cosmic initiations and that a "non-sacred" planet is one whose planetary logos has not taken these initiations. this is an inadequate definition and is only in any way to be

all forms are made and on which the disciple must firmly stand as he takes initiation. this seventh ray sweeps into organised and directed activity the world of forces upon the outer sphere of manifestation, and produces the precipitation of karma, which, in this case leads to: 1. the working out into expression of all the subjective evil of the life of humanity, thus producing the world war. 2. the initiation of the planetary logos and with him of all who take their stand upon the side of the forces of light. this takes various forms as far as humanity is concerned: a. the initiation of the consciousness of the masses of men into the aquarian age, bringing them under the new influences and potencies, and enabling them to make a response of which they would not otherwise be capable- 317

e of the forces of light. this takes various forms as far as humanity is concerned: a. the initiation of the consciousness of the masses of men into the aquarian age, bringing them under the new influences and potencies, and enabling them to make a response of which they would not otherwise be capable- 317- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust b. the initiation of the aspirants of the world on to the path of accepted discipleship. c. the bringing about of certain major initiations in the case of those world disciples who are ready enough and strong enough to take them. in spite of the vast destruction everywhere, the work of the seventh ray is being increasingly felt; the destruction of the forces of evil is going on even though at great c

asingly demonstrated and this constitutes a veritable initiation for the race. it is the emergence of the glory of the human spirit in a more definite and arresting way and involves an orientation towards freedom which will later stand in the historical records as the outstanding characteristic of this age of major conflict. humanity is today participating in the preparatory tests for initiation, the initiation of the world disciple. great is your privilege to be taking part in this. forget not that eleven is the number of the initiate and that today it is the eleventh house which is so dominant; forget not that aquarius, the eleventh sign, is the sign of- 318- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust universal relationships, interplay and con

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s the result of self-directed integrations, is also studied. 3. the nature of the hierarchy. he learns that the hierarchy can be directly contacted and known by those who undertake the necessary training and submit to discipline. this must be self-imposed and adapted to the nature and point of development of the individual disciple. the various grades in the hierarchy are discussed, the nature of the initiations to be taken is taught, and the work of the christ, as head of the hierarchy, is studied. thus the disciple has a clear picture of the inner group which is his goal. 4. the science of meditation. this with its techniques, and its various stages (alignment, concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination and inspiration) are gradually mastered and by its means the disciple is

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

powerful esoteric school in the orient. it has in it much truth, but also much error- 74- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust i have differentiated between problems and physical reactions and disease because the inflow, distribution and direction of energy do not necessarily produce disease. always, however, during the novitiate which precedes all the initiations, they do produce difficulties and problems of some kind or another, either within the consciousness of the disciple or in his relation to those around him. hence his environment is affected, and consequently his own reciprocal action. it should be remembered in this connection that all disciples are energy centres in the body of humanity and are in process of becoming points of foc

ing to the urge of his soul or of his personality probably the latter in the early stages. eventually, however, he stands with the disciple in full cooperative understanding, and the trying time of difficulty is ended. it is not possible for me to enter into explicit detail in considering these problems connected with the heart and the life energy of the disciple. they are conditioned by his ray, the initiation for which he is being prepared, and the quality, evolutionary status and the ray of those affected. there are also difficulties and problems of a more subtle nature arising from the same cause, but not localised in certain definite human relationships. a disciple serves; he writes and speaks; his words and influence permeate into the masses of men, arousing them to activity of some

ing the nine of initiation the three, the four and the two. this correspondence to the initiatory process is, however, in the reverse direction, for it is initiation into the creative third aspect, the matter aspect and the world of intelligent activity. it is not initiation into the second or soul aspect, as is the case with the hierarchical initiations for which the disciple is preparing. it is the initiation of the soul into the experience of physical incarnation, into physical plane existence, and into the art of functioning as a human being. the door into this experience is the "gate of cancer" initiation into the kingdom of god is entered through the "gate of capricorn" these four attributes and the three aspects of matter, plus their dual activity, are the correspondence to the four

rst major initiation, since the two previous initiations have very little effect upon the soul and only affect the incarnated soul, the "fragment" of the whole. these are facts which are little realised and seldom emphasised in any of the literature hitherto- 303- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust published. the emphasis up till now has been upon the initiations as they affect the disciple in the three worlds. but i am specifically dealing with the initiations as they affect or do not affect the soul, overshadowing its reflection, the personality, in the three worlds. what i have said, therefore, will have little meaning for the average reader. from the angle of the personal self, regarding itself as the dweller on the threshold, the attit

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etration. 4. for the majority of aspirants, the hierarchy itself remains an esoteric realm which demands discovery and which will accept penetration. i am choosing my words with care in an effort to- 45- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust evoke your esoteric response. beyond this point of humanity's destined goal i seek not to go; to initiates and disciples who have not yet taken the initiation of transfiguration, the higher realms of awareness and the "secret place of the most high (the council chamber of sanat kumara) remain deeply esoteric. it is a higher realm of energies planetary, extra-planetary and inter-planetary; with them educators have no concern and with their consideration the teaching staff of an esoteric school is not called upon to deal. the task is to tra

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ntres above the diaphragm into activity, and your lives will become simple and uncomplicated expressions of the second aspect of divinity of which all ashrams are focal points. as you know, it is not my intention to give you any more personal instructions; you no longer need them during the rest of this life, because if you carry out those already given there will be nothing to hinder your taking the initiation which is for you the next step forward. do you realise the import of what i am saying? this initiation which confronts you can be taken either during the remaining years which are left to you; this, in the majority of cases is not probable, though a small minority a very small minority may achieve the goal. or initiation may be taken in the interim period between incarnations, or el

move forward in your thinking and in your ability to grasp abstractions. look for the underlying abstract idea in this invocation. it is there. from your reaction to this invocation, and your ability to use its phrases as "stepping-stones" to certain levels of abstract thought not hitherto attained, i shall be able to judge your readiness, as individuals, for certain specific preparatory work for the initiation which you (again as an individual disciple) should take. the final stanza of the "invocation for power and light" as it is called in the archives of the masters, is apparently simple. it has, in these archives, an indicatory symbol beside it which indicates the era or period in human history during which it can and should be used. it is- 110- discipleship in the new age- volume ii c

ouch with shamballa can contact the hierarchy, and through the hierarchy can impress the new group of world servers; then, and only then, the moment will arrive when the christ will come. already upon the mountains of initiation the sound of his feet can be heard. he works now with his initiates within the hierarchy; their united meditation is hastening the preparatory work and is also leading to the initiation of countless disciples, thus rendering them far more useful than would otherwise be the case. the united meditation of these disciples is collaborating with that of the christ and of the masters, and senior initiates will impress the members of the new group of world servers; those in this latter group who are, as disciples, members of the hierarchy, become the agents of this impres

ce of convincing phenomena, but through an inflow of the intuition. he undergoes, therefore, an expansion of consciousness which may or may not be registered in the brain. every step of the way from that point of recognition onward has to be consciously achieved and must involve a conscious recognition of a series of expansions. these expansions are not initiation. have that clearly in your mind. the initiation lying immediately ahead is simply the effect of the recognition. they might be called "stabilising points of crisis" in which the "occasional becomes the constant and the intended becomes the intentional" ponder on these words. the hierarchy is now a fact in your life and your awareness. what is the next fact or point of integration or consciously achieved inclusiveness? a study of

itely should have ideas. 1. the angle of the individual. 2. the angle of a group of chelas. both these unities utilise the eye of knowledge and the eye of vision. part ii points of revelation i have dealt considerably in my earlier writings with the theme, points of crisis. we can now approach and prove the livingness of our progress from the angle of points of revelation. the entire objective of the initiation preparatory process is to bring about revelation. you must ever bear in mind that that which is revealed is eternally present. there is, therefore, occult truth in the statement that there is "nothing new under the sun" all that is revealed upon the path of discipleship and of initiation is forever there, but that which can perceive, reach out and include has developed with the ages

tion will understand; the others will prefer to interpret these truths to themselves in the easier and well-known formulas of the preparatory stage of the at-one-ing of soul and personality. the stage of recognising the revelation which is accorded to the initiate of the major mysteries is itself divided into lesser phases. these might be described as three in number though much is dependent upon the initiation to be taken and the ray of the prepared disciple. these are: 1. the stage of penetration. this refers to the piercing through the world glamour and thereby effecting two objectives: a. the light of the spiritual triad streams into the consciousness of the initiate, via the antahkarana, so that the plan for humanity and the divine purpose in relation to the planet become increasingly

the kingdom of god, the hierarchy, so the initiate upon a higher turn of the spiral has to establish right relations with the hierarchy and become simultaneously conscious of shamballa. all i can impart here is the desired point of attainment but the phraseology is relatively meaningless, except to those who are experienced in the processes of initiation to a greater or less degree, according to the initiations already taken. this polarisation, this point of focussed effort- 180- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust and this attained orientation is the basic idea lying behind the phrase "the mountain of initiation" the initiate "plants his feet upon the mountain top and from that point of altitude perceives the thought of god, visions the dream within the mind

s to the well-intentioned aspirant, and as relatively unpredictable and unexpected. i have sought here to correct this erroneous impression. part vii it would present a very real problem to would-be initiates if they had to answer certain questions, among them the following: into what are you being initiated? are disciples being initiated into the hierarchy? are there certain secret contacts that the initiation makes possible? is the acquiring of certain mysterious and hitherto unknown knowledge the reward of initiation? there is much vague and loose thinking on these matters. over the years i have given you many definitions of initiation; all of them have been useful and true. today i seek greatly to widen your conception of these matters and to give you an entirely new slant on this engr

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

the will of god to produce certain racial and momentous changes in the consciousness of the race which will completely alter man's attitude to life and his grasp of the spiritual, esoteric and subjective essentials of living. it is this force which will bring about (in conjunction with the energy of love) that tremendous crisis imminent in the human consciousness which we call the second crisis, the initiation of the race into the mystery of the ages, into that which has been hid from the beginning. it might be of value here if we considered the three great planetary centres and their relationships in tabular form and thus get the general idea more clearly in mind. 1. shamballa..will or power..planetary head centre the holy city..purpose..plan..spiritual pineal gland- 70- the externalisat

oming generation. this necessitates on the part of the christ a concentration for which we have no equivalent word and a purely spiritual endeavour (a monadic effort) of which we have no faintest idea. secondly, he is working within the confines of the hierarchy itself, preparing his disciples, the masters, for certain great post-war events. for the war will end. the restoration of the mysteries, the initiation of those disciples who have stood firm and unafraid during the war, the enlargement of their ashrams, owing to the almost unforeseen development of the spiritual sense among the world aspirants who would not normally have become disciples during this incarnation, and also the externalisation of their ashrams during the next one hundred years, preparatory to the reappearance of the h

community of successful men, who earlier submitted themselves to the purificatory fires of daily living, working out their own salvation as men and women of affairs, as business men, as husbands and wives, farmers and rulers and that they know life, therefore, in all its phases and gradation. they have surmounted the experiences of life; their great master is the christ; they have passed through the initiations of the new birth, the baptism, the transfiguration, the final crucifixion and the resurrection. but they still are men and differ from the christ only in the fact that he, the first of our humanity to attain divinity, the eldest in a great family of brothers (as st. paul expresses it, the master of the masters and the teacher of angels and of men was deemed so pure, so holy and so

r and new alignments; problems concerned with human enlightenments and reactions in the face of the darkness which evil initiated; problems of increased personnel, disturbing the rhythm but necessitated by the demand for workers; problems connected with the growth and training of the members of the hierarchy upon the way of the higher evolution; other problems incident to the planetary crisis, to the initiation of the lord of the world himself, and to the amazing demonstration of the success of the evolutionary process up to the present time. this success has been proven by the alignment for direct interplay of the three major planetary centres shamballa, the hierarchy and humanity. hierarchical preparation at the wesak festival april-may 1946 i have delayed writing my usual wesak message

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

tands, and that it has stood for thousands of years, and is the expression of the accumulated wisdom of the ages. you must tell them above all else that god is love, that the hierarchy is love, and that christ is coming because he loves humanity. this is the message which you must give at this time. and with this responsibility i leave you. work, my brothenacopyright 1998 lucis trust the rays and the initiations a treatise on the seven rays volume v by alice a. bailey copyright 1960 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1988 by lucis trust part one the fourteen rules for group initiation preliminary remarks it might be here of value, my brothers, if i again laid emphasis upon the fact that the formless world is only entered when the aspirant has acquired somewhat the capacity to center himself

e purpose of manifestation. human lives demonstrate the quality of rajas, of mobility, of constant and conscious change in order to ascertain what is the real and through the medium of experience demonstrate the true nature of rhythmic response. subhuman lives express the guna of tamas or of inertia. they work blindly and have no ability to- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust respond consciously to the plan. they are the sumtotal of the "units of inertia" just as the human units are called "the points of light moving within the square" this may have its appeal to masons. this subject of the use or misuse of energy is capable of infinite expansion, and in my other books where i give you more upon the centres i have enlarged upo

of mind control, so that the thinker grips and holds steady the mental processes and learns to regard the mind as the interpreter of the states of consciousness, as the transmitter of egoic intent to the physical brain and as the window through which the ego, the real man looks out upon vast and (to the majority) unknown fields of knowledge- 3- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust ii. an emergence into manifestation of the subjective aspect in man. one of the objects of evolution is that the subjective reality should eventually be brought forward into recognition. this can be expressed in several symbolic ways, all of them dealing with the same one fact in nature: the bringing to the birth of the christ within. the shining forth of

g to initiation. when a man is beginning to demonstrate the qualities of his ray and to prove of gradually increasing importance to his group, he will be prepared through tests, through trials, and through temptations for those final stages in development which will put into his power: the knowledge of certain laws governing matter and form- 4- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust the keys of the mysteries connected with energy, with polarity, and with group relation. certain words of power which will give him control over the elemental forces of nature. insight into the planetary plans. upon these i need not enlarge, nor need i take up with you here the subject of initiation (discipleship in the new age, volumes i and ii. the firs

est type of energy inherently possible dominates. if the lower energy of the aggregate of the form-atoms is the controlling factor three things will take place: 1. the form itself will grow by accretion and will become ever more potent, until the dominant voice of its 'lunar lords' will stifle all other voices and the man be swept back into- 5- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust inertia blindness bondage 2. many people are not only under the control of some one or other of their forms but are the captives of all the three. in studying the lower threefold man and the energies or lives that seek to control him it should be remembered that they fall into three categories: a. the individual tiny lives which we call the atoms or cells

spirant to escape from the dominance of matter. this is the true magical work, my brothers, the understanding of the sounds of all beings, and the ability to speak the language of the soul is the clue to the work. these faculties rightly used impose upon these lesser lives that control which will lead to the final liberation, and which will- 6- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust in due time, lead these lives themselves into the realm of self-consciousness. this aspect of the matter is as yet but little comprehended by the sons of men. if they but realised that by a disposition to fall under lunar control they drive the tiny lives in their little system deeper into the darkness of ignorance, they might more rapidly assume their ju

e which is yours and adjust its application to the world's need so that recognition of the truth may be rapid. in the heart of every man lies hid the flower of the intuition. on that you can depend, and no eternal or cosmic fact clothed in a suitable form will fail to receive its meed of recognition and understanding. introductory statement- 7- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust i have called you from refreshment to labour at this time (october 1942) because the coming few days are exceedingly busy ones for me as they are for all members of the hierarchy. i seek to give you some further instructions anent the hierarchy itself*(1) students at this time would do well to remember that all basic and fundamental changes taking place u

e embodiment of the fifth kingdom in nature, and its magnetic attractive rapport with the human kingdom, the fourth. 6. the effect of all these great groups of lives upon humanity, and the inherent consequences as they work out in the subhuman kingdoms. a study of the above in terms of forces and energy will give some idea of the underlying- 8- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust synthesis of relationships and the unity of the whole. there is therefore a line of descending energy which has its origin outside our planetary life altogether; the inflow of this energy, its inevitable effect under cyclic law and its consequences, as they work out upon the physical plane, has produced and is producing all the changes of which mankind is

BALANONES TEMPLE OF SET FAQ

idual the results of xeper become a metaphysical departure point for developing a bond with the prince of darkness by creating a matrix of linked ideas whose path leads towards the genesis of self being. you'll find another comment or two concerning xeper in the ref document. 2.2 initiation- what do those necklaces and medallions mean? the temple of set is an initiatory organization, dedicated to the initiation and growth of its members. that dedication to initiation, to the philosophy of xeper, and to set, is represented by our primary symbol, the pentagram of set (a point-down pentagram within a circle. to help our members identify each other so we can work together, and to help them identify which level of initiation has been achieved by each other, we wear this symbol on different colo

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

iar tenets of their (exoteric) religion. that it was the number of numbers for those initiated into the sacred mysteries, there can be no doubt. pythagoras. calls it the 'vehicle of life' containing body and soul, since it is formed of a quaternary, that is wisdom and intellect, and of a trinity or action and matter. the emperor julian 'in matrem, etc' expresses himself thus 'were i to touch upon the initiation into our sacred mysteries, which the chaldees bacchized, respecting the seven-rayed god, lighting up the soul through him, i should say things unknown to the rabble, very unknown, but well known to the blessed theurgists (p. 141. and who, acquainted with the puranas, the book of the dead, the zendavesta, the assyrian tiles, and finally the bible, and who has observed the constant oc

man knoweth who the son is, but the father; and who the father is, but the son" as added by jesus then and there (ibid v. 22- the church "of christ" less than any one else. the initiates alone understood the secret meaning of the term "father and the son" and knew that it referred to spirit and soul on the earth. for the teachings of christ were occult teachings, which could only be explained at the initiation. they were never intended for the masses, for jesus forbade the twelve to go to the gentiles and the samaritans (matt. x. 8, and repeated to his disciples that the "mysteries of heaven" were for them alone, not for the multitudes (mark iv. 11[[vol. 2, page] 232 the secret doctrine. and religions have committed equal errors in their misinterpretation of this tenet, which is one of th

n, the gnostic saviour, and even with abraxas, is no longer the glyph for abstract creative power, but symbolizes the four adams, or races, the fifth being represented by the five branches cut off from the tree of life on which the old man stands in the gnostic gems. the number of the root-races was recorded in the ancient greek temples by the seven vowels, of which five were framed in a panel in the initiation halls of the adyta. the egyptian glyph for it was a hand with five fingers spread, the fifth or little finger being only half-grown, and also five "n's- hieroglyphs standing for that letter. the romans used the five vowels a e i o v in their fanes; and this archaic symbol was adopted during the middle ages as a motto by the house of the hapsburgs. sic transit gloria[[vol. 2, page] 4

during the first six or seven centuries. there are all forms of the cross except that- the alleged starting-point of the new religion. that was not the initial but the final form of the crucifix* during some six[[footnote(s* quoted in "the natural genesis (p. 427, vol. i* with the christians, most undeniably. with the pre-christian symbologists it was, as said, the bed or couch of torture during the initiation mystery, the "crucifix" being placed horizontally, on the ground, and not erect, as at the time when it became the roman gallows[[vol. 2, page] 587 the cross, a christian afterthought. centuries after the christian era the foundation of the christian religion in a crucified redeemer is entirely absent from christian art! the earliest known form of the human figure on the cross is th

alled trees, as being producers of the fruits. pleasures and pains; the guests are the powers of each sense personified- they receive the fruits above described; the hermitages are the trees, in which the guests take shelter. the seven forms of concentration are the exclusion from the self of the seven functions of the seven senses, etc, already referred to; the seven forms of initiation refer to the initiation into the higher life. by repudiating as not one's own the actions of each member out of the group of seven (see khandagya, p. 219, and com) the explanation is harmless, if unsatisfactory. says the brahmana continuing his description "that forest is filled with trees producing flowers and fruits of four colours. that forest is filled with trees producing flowers and fruits of three c

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

e problem by yourself, it will be my duty to tell you so" but they never were so worked out, and the results were- never-ceasing perplexity and mistakes. even the teaching about the septenary constitution of the sidereal bodies and of the macrocosm- from which the septenary division of the microcosm, or man- has until now been among the most esoteric. in olden times it used to be divulged only at the initiation and along with the most sacred figures of the cycles. now, as stated in one of the theosophical journals* the revelation of the whole system of cosmogony had not been contemplated, nor even thought for one moment possible, at a time when a few bits of information were sparingly given out in answer to letters written by the author of "esoteric buddhism" in which he put forward a mult

ments of the ancients; and because such or another vibration in the air is sure to awaken corresponding powers, union with which produces good or bad results, as the case may be. no student was ever allowed to recite historical, religious, or any real events in so many unmistakable words, lest the powers connected with the event should be once more attracted. such events were narrated only during the initiation, and every student had to record them in corresponding symbols, drawn out of his own mind and examined later by his master, before they were finally accepted. thus was created in time the chinese alphabet, as, before that, the hieratic symbols were fixed upon in old egypt. in the chinese language, the alphabet of which may be read in any language* and which is only a little less anc

such a star of learning. on p. 519, vol. i, we had said, that herodotus when treating of that pyramid "might have added that, externally it symbolized the creative principle of nature, and illustrated also the principles of geometry, mathematics, astrology, and astronomy. internally, it was a majestic fane, in whose sombre recesses were performed the mysteries, and whose walls had often witnessed the initiation-scenes of members of the royal family. the porphyry sarcophagus, which professor piazzi smyth, astronomer royal of scotland, degrades into a corn-bin, was the baptismal font, upon emerging from which the neophyte was "born again" and became an adept" our statement was laughed at in those days. we were accused of having got our ideas from the "craze" of shaw, an english writer who ha

ries[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] final stage of the sacred mysteries" had mr. staniland wake been a theosophist, he might have added that the narrow upward passage leading to the king's chamber had a "narrow gate" indeed; the same "strait gate" which "leadeth unto life" or the new spiritual re-birth alluded to by jesus in matthew vii. 13 et seq; and that it is this gate in the initiation temple, that the writer who recorded the words alleged to have been spoken by an initiate, was thinking of* all we have said in isis is now found corroborated in the "egyptian mystery; or the source of measures" by those readings of the bible with the numerical and geometrical keys thereto[[vol. 1, page] 319 moses copied from sargon. will unveil the evolutions of the human mind and

ractions taken from the old philosophy and transmitted drop by drop through the filter of antecedents. this fact was well known to faraday, and other eminent men of science. atoms, ether, evolution itself- all comes to modern science from ancient notions, all is based on the conceptions of the archaic nations "conceptions" for the profane, under the shape of allegories; plain truths taught during the initiations to the elect, which truths have been partially divulged through greek writers and have descended to us. this does not mean that occultism has ever had the same views on matter, atoms and ether as found in the exotericism of the classical greek writers. yet, if we believe mr. tyndall, even faraday was an aristotelean, and an agnostic more than a materialist. in his "faraday, as a di

BLUE EQUINOX

its sublime virtue. by the master therion. liber lxv. the book of the heart girt with a serpent. this magical treatise describes particularly the pr monstrance of a.a. 13 relation of the aspirant with his higher self. it is, alike in conception and execution, a masterpiece of exaltation of thought, carved in pure beauty. liber vii. the book of lapis lazuli. gives in magical language an account of the initiation of a master of the temple. this is the only parallel, for beauty of ecstasy, to liber lxv. liber xxvii. vel trigrammaton. it describes the course of creation under the figure of the interplay of three principles. this book corresponds to the stanzas of dzyan. liber dcccxiii. vel ararita. this book describes in magical language a very secret process of initiation. liber ii. the messa

yet others may assist him to do both, and they may enable him altogether to avoid many of the false paths, leading no whither, which tempt the weary feet of the uninitiated pilgrim. they can further insure that he is duly tried and tested, for there are many who think themselves to be master who have not even begun to tread the way of service that leads thereto. 5. now the great work is one, and the initiation is one, and the reward is one, however diverse are the symbols wherein the unuterrable is clothed. 6. hear then the history of the system which this lection gives you the opportunity of investigating. the equinox 56 listen, we pray you, with attention: for once only does the great order knock at any one door. whosover knows any member of that order as such, can never know another, u

BOOK T

quarius unstable effort 7 of swords. 4. taurus material success 6 of pentacles. 5. cancer blended pleasure 4 of cups. book t page 12 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 hb:chkmh the four twos symbolize the powers of the king and queen just uniting and initiating the force; but before the prince and princess are thoroughly brought into action. therefore do they generally imply the initiation and fecundation of a thing. hb:bynh realization of action owing to the prince being produced. the central symbol on each card. action definitely commenced for good or evil. hb:chsd perfection, realization, completion: making a matter settled and fixed. hb:gbvrh opposition, strife and struggle: war; obstacle to the thing in hand. ultimate success or failure is otherwise shewn. hb:thp

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

remove all obstacles which may interfere with the completion of the work; this is very important- for, if you cannot do the work in its entirety it is better never to commence. the instruments of the art. the instruments of this art are few, but must be acquired before you begin the convocations of the spirits. these appurtenances may be constructed by the hands of the operator, or bought before the initiation of the experiments. in either case, the instruments should be consecrated as to dedicate their use for the assistance in this operation. the instruments are as follows. the configuration of the temple. this temple is to measure fifteen feet square and may be constructed out of either stone or wood, as is preferred. there should be a window to allow light into the temple, as this is

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

etting started rites of passage a "rite of passage" is a transition from one state of life to another. birth, marriage and death are examples. van gennep, a flemish anthropologist, was the first to so label such rituals, in 1909. the main rite of passage that you will be concerned with is that of initiation. it is important that you be aware, and have some understanding, of the different parts of the initiation ritual and its symbolism. in its most general sense, initiation denotes a body of rites and oral teachings arranged to bring about a very definite change in both the religious and the social status of the person undergoing the ritual. there is a catharsis: a spiritual cleansing. the person becomes, in effect, another person. the central theme of an initiation (any initiation, whethe

h there are several parallels of this renaming to be found in the roman catholic church: a new name is taken at confirmation; on becoming a nun a woman takes a new name; a new name is given to a newly elected pope. on excavating at pompeii, there was found a villa, named the "villa of mysteries. this was where everyone in ancient italy originally went to be initiated into the orphic mysteries. in the initiation room itself there are frescoes painted around the walls showing a woman going through the various stages of initiation. in this instance the symbolic death was a scourging. part of the revelation of knowledge came from the initiand scrying* with a polished bowl. the final scene shows her, naked, dancing in celebration of her new birth. the scenes are typical of the palingenesis of i

s male initiates female and female initiates male. it is usual for the initiate to be naked in this rite. if the coven usually works naked then, of course, this is fine. however, if the coven is usually robed then the initiate should either be the only one naked or should wear a robe that can be opened down the front as and when indicated (even robed covens usually wear nothing under their robes. the initiation can take place with all the coven present; with only the priest, priestess and initiate; or with priest, priestess, one or two assistants and the initiate. the coven should decide which method they prefer. the below ritual is written for priest, priestess, two assistants (whom i shall call maiden and squire) and initiate. in addition to the usual altar furniture, there is a dish of

of healing, of divination, of magick and of all the mystic arts. these shall you learn as you progress" priest "but we caution you ever to remember the wiccan rede. an' it harm none, do what thou wilt" priestess "an' it harm none, do what thou wilt. come now.(name, and meet your kindred" initiate salutes* priest and priestess then moves around to salute and greet all the others in the circle. if the initiation has been taking place without the other coven members being present, they now return to the circle to join the celebrants. if it is the coven custom to present a newcomer with any gift(s) this may be done at this time. bell is rung three times. priest "now is it truly a time for celebration" feasting and merriment follow till the temple is closed. next lesson you will consecrate you

mes. priest "now is it truly a time for celebration" feasting and merriment follow till the temple is closed. next lesson you will consecrate your tools, so that they may be used in future rituals 'when one witch salutes another, it is with an embrace and a kiss. now answer the examination questions for this lesson in appendix b lesson four: getting started 149 1. how did you prepare yourself for the initiation? 2. if you are joining an existing coven, describe the members, priest and priestess, and goals of that coven. why are you joining that particular coven? initiation ritual coven members goals for coven lesson five covens and rituals covens and degrees throughout history there have been individual, or "solitary" witches. witches who worked (and frequently lived) alone. there are stil

simple ceremony, the parents ask the gods to watch over the child and give her, or him, wisdom in choice when older. the child will be fully initiated only when old enough to decide for her/ himself. the exact age will, of course, vary from one child to another. until that time the child should certainly be encouraged to participate in circles and to "get the feel" of the craft. when ready, then the initiation will be conducted by the priest and priestess, or, if they so wish, by the parents acting as priest and priestess. in virtually all branches of the craft, anyone may leave at any time, should they so wish. they are also free to return again, at any time, should they so desire. there would be no need for a second initiation. birth rite (or wiccaning) this may be performed at any of t

ssary thanking of the lady and lord and the official termination of the proceedings. in cakes and ale there is the "connecting link" between the ritual/worship part of the meeting and the working/social part. it is important in that it is found universally and is really the culmination of the worship: the thanking the gods for the necessities of life. the above, along with the self-dedication and the initiation, are the main ingredients, the basic skeleton, of wicca. the construction of ritual the dictionary (webster) defines rite as "a formal act of religion. a religious ceremony" and ritual as "consisting of rites. the manner of performing divine service. a formal act of religion. we need form; we need a definite construction. ritual can be religious or it can be magickal. in either case

CALLING TO THE FIRST OF WITCH BLOOD

has emerged from the boat of the sun-god, and below is the "image of af" that is to say, the body of the night sun-god, which has been cast away. end of vol. i. footnotes 256:1 see lanzone, domicile, pl.knthe calling to the first of witch blood an invocation of cain by michael w. ford a short dedication to the luciferian sabbat and those seeking their own light within the gnosis of the adversary. the initiation of the witch into the circle of cain, the living son of satan and lilith, the great harlot and demoness, the adversarial deific force of dark instinctual desire and willed continual existence. with the pen inked in the blood of abel do i scribe of when the blade fell i knew pain and a blinding heat of falling deep into my own created hell, of knowing a heaven of isolation and self-r

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

probably written from brussels and were addressed to a new member of the society of unknown philosophers of cabala("novo cabalae philosophorum incognuorum dignissimo sodali) in france..linked itself to "les freres d orient" created in constantinople in 1090. the teachings of this society were conveyed from teacher to disciple and the their principle unifying form was the distinction of receiving "the initiation" which gave them the right to be known as "unknown superiors" or "superieurs inconnus" or s.i. as it is written"-mark stavish. there were printed editions of them in french, german and latin. james bonaventure hepburn published at rome his virga aurea "the heavenly golden rod of the blessed virgin mary in seventy-two praises" consists of a list of seventy two alphabets (actually sev

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

, in a windowless mausoleum appropriately known as 'the tomb' where the members meet twice a week during term time. the detailed history of the skull and bones is a mystery, but it is believed to have been introduced into the us more than 150 years ago as chapter 322 of a german secret society and was also known at one time as the brotherhood of death. the illuminati in disguise. the symbolism of the initiation ceremony would appear to indicate at least close links with freemasonry. it was started in 1832-1833 by general william huntington russell and alphonso taft, a famous american family name. in 1876, taft was to be the secretary of war in the grant administration and his son, william howard taft, was the only man to be both president and chief justice of the united states. the skull a

d his son, william howard taft, was the only man to be both president and chief justice of the united states. the skull and bones society is deeply racist and was founded on the fortune made from illegal drugs. the society was incorporated in 1856 as the russell trust and by a special act of state legislation, its trustees are exempted from filing corporate reports to the connecticut authorities. the initiation ceremonies for the skull and bones still take place at deer island in the st lawrence river. the island is owned by the russell trust association, along with most of the land on which yale university stands. the russell family made its enormous wealth from the opium trade in the nineteenth century through the drug syndicate known as russell and company. its business was to take opiu

elected in their junior year, but only become members in their senior year before they go off into the outside world. they can then continue to secretly promote the aims of the skull and bones in the worlds of politics, business, banking, the media, education, and all the other spheres of influence. fear and the threat of blackmail are weapons the society uses to keep its members in line. part of the initiation ceremony is to lie naked in a coffin with a ribbon tied to their private parts while they masturbate and shout out details of their sexual experiences. i must say i have never seen george bush in the same light since i realised that. apparently these sexual discussions continue throughout the lives of bonesmen, although only at the initiation is it done from a coffin. when a student

in the summer of 1994. under the headline "g7 reaches out for new order- un and finance reforms urged, the london guardian reported on july 11th "the west's leading industrial powers yesterday took the first tentative steps towards the creation of a post-cold war economic and political order, calling for a fresh look at the bretton woods financial institutions and a revitalised united nations..at the initiation of president clinton and with the support of president mitterand, the group of seven pledged itself to a revamp of the international monetary fund, world bank, and the g7 itself. the world needed new global economic institutions to 'ensure the future prosperity and security of our people, saturday's communique said" the global currency is not intended to be physical money. it will b

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known as the kumaras, were the leaders of the lemurian civilisation.39 the fellowship says that the kumaras created a mystery school to initiate chosen people into the advanced esoteric knowledge. it was structured as 13 schools (levels of initiation, they say, with each one more advanced than the one below.40 this is the classic structure of secret societies throughout history. those who passed the initiation into the 13th school would then be allowed to teach the knowledge themselves as a member of the "order of the serpents. william bramley in the gods of eden (avon books, new york, 1993) calls this the brotherhood of the snake. you can see snake and serpent symbolism in the logos of llluminati companies and the logo of the leading uk communications network, british telecom, is one exa

nd bones society. interestingly, according to a history channel documentary in february 2001, son bush's skull and bones name was "temporary! in its window less mausoleum across the road from the yale campus, the skull and bones initiates take part in their blood rituals. these involve drinking from a human skull (see..and the truth shall set you free and the biggest secret. jim shaw reveals that the initiation into the 33rd degree of the scottish rite of freemasonry includes drinking wine from a human skull. the knights templar, out of which freemasonry sprang to a large extent, were accused at the time of the purge in 1307 of using skulls in their rituals, and indeed they used to fly the skull and bones flag on their ships. pat robertson's father, senator a.willis robertson, helped to bl

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the name ofsoror h, said of charles manson (he) showed many of us what it is like to actuallycommit the crime wed like to commit. manson went astray where others like theprocess succeeded. he got caught.45 another serial killer, henry lee lucas, who issaid to have murdered 360 people, including his mother, claimed he was a member ofthe hand of death satanic group. he said that murder was part of the initiation and headmitted to drinking the blood of some of his victims. the hand of death, he said, wasinvolved in drug running and the kidnapping of children for slavery and sacrifice. whenthey were killed, the group would drink their blood and eat part of their body, lucassaid. mutilated bodies were found in mexico and arizona which appeared to supporthis story. richard ramirez, the serial k

smen, mediapeople, and entertainers in the world, let alone america. steve bechtel, the head of theworlds biggest construction company, attended bohemian grove in the 1980s while hiscompany enjoyed massive contracts thanks to the spending decisions of the world bankand its president a. w. clausen, another grover. according to researchers, there is awaiting list of some 1,500 people anxious to pay the initiation fee of $2,500 and annualdues of $600. this is a summer camp and satanic centre for the elite who run theplanet and this is where many of the real decisions are made before they become public.i have a picture from 1957 of ronald reagan and richard nixon sitting at a table atbohemian grove listening to dr glenn seaborg, who was involved in the discovery ofplutonium and worked on the m

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e pillar. it must be remembered that mars is a destructive potency, one of the infortunes in astrology. the positive builds up, the negative breaks down; the positive is a kinetic force, the negative is a static force. 9. these aspects appear again in netzach at the base of the pillar of mercy, and hod at the base of the pillar of severity. netzach is venus, the green nature ray, elemental force, the initiation of the emotions. hod is mercury, hermes, the initiation of knowledge. netzach is instinct and emotion, a kinetic force; hod is intellect, concrete thought, the reduction of intuitive knowledge to form. 10. we must remember, however, that each sephirah is negative, that is to say feminine, in relation to its predecessor, whence it emanates and whence it receives the divine influence;

path, the path of saturn, uniting malkuth and yesod, a very difficult and treacherous path. in my horoscope saturn is not well aspected, and i have often experienced his opp9sing influence in my affairs. but after i had succeeded in treading the path of saturn out into the indigo darkness of the unseen until the moon of yesod rose in purple and silver over the horizon, i felt that i had received the initiation of saturn, that he was no longer inimical to me, but a friend who, though candid and stern, was to be trusted to protect me from mistakes and rash judgments. i realised his function mystical qabala page 48 as the tester, and not the antagonist or avenger. i realised him as time with his scythe, but knew also why he was called in hebrew shabbathal, rest "for he giveth his beloved sle

e greater mysteries of the western esoteric traditioh are based upon the principles of the tree of life. each grade corresponds to a sephirah and confers, or should confer, if the order working them is worthy of the name, the powers of that sphere of nature. likewise it opens up the paths leading to that sephirah, so that the initiate is said to be lord of the thirty-second path when he has taken the initiation that corresponds to yesod, or lord of the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth paths when he has taken the initiation corresponding to tiphareth, which constitutes him a full initiate. beyond this lie the higher grades of adepthood. 17. the aim of each grade of initiation of the greater mysteries is to introduce the candidate to the sphere of each sephirah in turn, working

s proved by the fact that after any astral projection the ceremonial return is made to malkuth and normal consciousness re-established therein. mystical qabala page 54 10. yesod, the sphere of levanah, the moon, is taken as psychic consciousness, and also as the reproductive centre. tiphareth is taken as the higher psychism, the true illuminated vision, and is associated with the highest grade of the initiation of the personality, as is evidenced by the fact that to it is assigned, in the system taken by crowley from mathers, the first of the grades of adepthood. 11. daath, the mysterious, invisible sephirah, which is never marked upon the tree, is associated in the western svstem with the nape of the neck, the point where the spine meets the skull, the spot at which the development of the

s sephiroth are derived from the characteristics of the planets associated with them, and will find that in this correspondence a whole new line of approach to astrology is opened up. 22. the spiritual experience as i prefer to call it, or occult power as crowley calls it, is a profound realisation or vision of some aspect of cosmic science. this constitutes the mystical qabala page 66 essence of the initiation of the grade assigned to each sephirah, for in the greater mysteries of the west the grades are associated with the sephiroth. 23. the mediaeval qabalists also assigned a part of the body to each sephirah, but this must not be taken too literally; the real key is to be found in the realisation that the different sephiroth represent factors in consciousness, and if we take geburah as

wer- whereas this term may be rightly assigned to the twentytwo paths, it is misleading when applied to the sephiroth. i have changed the term in relation to the sephiroth themselves, but retained it in reference to the paths for reasons which will presently be seen. 16. section 7. the virtues and vices assigned to each sephirah of the tree.-these indicate the qualities necessary in order to take the initiation of that grade, and the form that is taken by any unbalanced force in that sphere. in the highest grade of all, before form is developed, there is no correspondence. 17. section 8. correspondence in microcosm.-the microcosm- which is man, corresponds with the sephirothic macrocosm, and is important from many practical standpoints, particularly that of spiritual healing and astrology

ack to origins but is always materialistic. they are never able to discern subtle causes, and are the victims of what they call the caprices of chance. they are unable to discern subtle conditions, nor can they work out the line that primary impulses will follow, or can be made to follow, when these are coming down, or being brought down, into manifestation. 11. the occultist who does not possess the initiation of chesed will be limited in his function to the sphere of yesod, the plane of maya, illusion. for him the astral images reflected in the magic mirror of subconsciousness will be actualities; he will make no attempt to translate them into terms of a higher plane and learn what they really represent. he will have made himself a dwelling in the sphere of illusion, and he will be delud

ah the destroyer, the lord of fear and severity, is therefore as necessary to the equilibrium of the tree as chesed, the lord of love, and netzach, the lady of beauty. gebura his the celestial surgeon; he is the knight in shining arinour, the dragon-slayer; beautiful as a bridegroom in his strength to the maiden in distress, though, no doubt, the dragon might have preferred a little more love. 6. the initiations of the infortunes, saturn, mars, and the deceptive lunar yesod, are just as necessary to the evolution and balanced development of the soul as are the mysteries of the crucifixion assigned to tiphareth. it is the one-sidedness of christianity which is its bane, and is responsible for so much that is unsound and pathological in both our national and our private lives. but, equally

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their own accord. i actually saw two of them do it. i did not know at the time that the element of air had this sinister reputation. i realised that something queer was afoot, however, and asked my teacher about it. she was much amused, but i was not, because it was my crockery that was supplying the raw material for the phenomena. she advised me to get into sympathetic touch with the sylphs, as the initiation had evidently not been altogether successful. i tried to do this, but i was in london at the time and met with no success, for the elemental contacts, with the exception of fire, cannot be worked successfully in a city. the smashing went on, and i was reduced to a tin mug and a tooth-glass, for i saw it was useless to get any more china until things had settled down. then i went awa

his own petard. the man or woman who, rejecting the steady grade of the way of initiation, chooses to go up with rocket had better come down with the stick. any request for a large sum of money should always be regarded as a danger signal. it is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain. i know of an occultist who charges 300 for one of the initiations he confers; and he will give it to anyone who has got 300. in my opinion, the person who pays out 300 for such a purpose deserves the kind of initiation he is going to get. it is also a bad sign when an occultist makes free with signs and wonders before the uninitiated. no genuine adept ever does this. the person who reads your past incarnations, describes your aura, rolls up his e

offered me initiation into his order. i was taken aback and did not feel the inner consent. i said i must reflect. later on an inspiration) came to me and i said 'is your order the order of the christ' he answered 'it is' i told him of my experience (related above) and accepted initiation; but i had the inner conviction that all was not right "i felt no inner response to several incidents during the initiation, and i began to call mentally and earnestly upon the christ, and kept on doing so until the end of the ceremony (i learned afterwards that he had told one of his disciples that i had accepted initiation but not the master "it would take too long to relate other less important details so i go on to our second interview during which he asked me several times to leave the town where i

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anation than that he saw them coming, and heard them talk on their journey. many additional tales such as these were recorded by later travelers. those nervous conditions associated with the name of franz a. mesmer were also nothing new to the native american magical practioners. rubbing and stroking the sick, and the laying on of hands, were very common parts of their clinical procedures, and at the initiations to their societies they were frequently exhibited. observers have related that among the nez perces of oregon, the novice was put to sleep by songs, incantations, and certain passes of the hand, and that with the dakotas he would be struck lightly on the breast at a preconcerted moment, and instantly would drop prostrate on his face, his muscles rigid and quivering in every fibre

sovereign priestess setting the example unbound her girdle and permitted her drapery to fall to the ground, and the fair initiates following her example exposed themselves in all the nudity of their charms to the magnetic glances of the celestial genius, who then commenced his revelations. he informed his daughters that the much abused magical art was the secret of doing good to humanity. it was the initiation into the mysteries of nature, and the power to make use of her occult forces. the visions which they had beheld in the garden where so many had seen and recognised those who were dearest to their hearts, proved the reality of hermetic operations. they had shewn themselves worthy to know the truth; he undertook to instruct them by gradations therein. it was enough at the outset to in

is mantle from ahmed yesevee, who claimed descent from the father- in-law of mohammed. bektash established a path to spiritual truth consisting nominally of seven degrees, only four of which, however, were essential. these aimed to establish an affinity between the aspirant and the sheik, the latter leading the aspirant, through the agency of the spirit of bektash, and that of mohammed, to allah. the initiation ceremony provided a severe test. the aspirant was tried for a year with false secrets. when his time of probation expired, a lamb was slain, from the carcass of which a cord was made for his neck and a girdle for his loins. two armed attendants then led him into a square chamber, where he was presented to the sheik as a slave who desires to know truth. he was then placed before a st

e egyptologist w. schubart stated: the way to every innovation was closed, and outward knowledge and science could certainly not rise to a high degree of external perfection .they imparted their secret and divine sciences to no one who did not belong to their caste, and it was long impossible for foreigners to learn anything; it was only in later times that a few strangers were permitted to enter the initiation after many severe preparations and trials. besides this, their functions were hereditary, and the son followed the footsteps of his father .for to the uninitiated the entrance was forbidden, and the initiated kept their vows. modern views of egyptian magic beginning in the nineteenth century, scholarship removed much of the mystery surrounding ancient egyptian magic. it also made ma

le several covens may father for the solar festivals (sabbats) to celebrate together, the real work of the coven is done in its esbats. common to all wiccans is the full moon esbats. it is at these meetings that one develops their psychic powers, learns to do magic, and focuses the spiritual life. most covens also meet at the new moon. new moon rituals tend to be for personal growth, healing, and the initiation of new ventures. these tend to be the most intimate meetings of the coven and rarely are outsiders admitted. full moon rituals are for the working of magic, banishing of unwanted influences, and assistance for those in need. central to the esbat is the ritual act of drawing down the moon, magically raising a whirlwind of power and symbolically drawing it into the circle within which

ir evenings (and all of the sabbath) in prayer and biblical exposition. they followed the rites and festivals laid out in the jewish bible (the christian old testament. it may be that a calendar question occasioned by the adoption of a hellenized calendar in jerusalem may have led to the formation of the essenes. membership in the group was by initiation, which was predated by a year s probation. the initiation ceremony included baptism and the beginning of daily purification rites within the group. the purification was followed by the evening meal. the meal had an eschatological significance, a foretaste of the meal to be presided over by the messiah. they believed the soul to be in the midst of a war between good and evil, the angel of darkess viewing with the prince of light. they also

1899, she was the general manager for the production of the countess cathleen, a drama written by fellow order member william butler yeats. in 1896 she began the sphere group, a magical working group that included the inner order adepts. the following year samuel l. macgregor mathers, the international leader of the order, named her the order s chief in anglia. among her duties that year would be the initiation of a young magician encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. farr, florence 545 named aleister crowley. however, her leadership also meant that she would be in the center of the storm that hit the order in 1900 when many of the british members protested the autocratic authority that mathers was attempting to exercise from his office in paris. the controversy led to mathers

tage in the various grades of the egyptian priesthood and the mysteries of eleusis and bacchus. these processes probably consisted of tests of courage and fidelity (as with the ordeals of primitive peoples) and included such acts as sustaining a severe beating, drinking blood, real and imaginary; and so forth. in the popol vuh, the saga of the kiche indians of guatemala, there is a description of the initiation tests of two hero-gods on entrance to the native equivalent of hades. indeed, many of the religious mysteries typified the descent of man into hell and his return to earth, based on the corn mother legend of the resurrection of the wheat plant. initiation into the higher branches of mysticism, magic, and theosophy is largely symbolic and is to be taken as implying a preparation for

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n the altars; and prayers to the sun at dawn, noon, and evening. there were sacrifices, libations, and musical rites including long psalmodies and mystic chants. the days of the week were each sacred to a planet, the day of the sun being held especially holy. there were seasonal festivals: the birth of the sun was solemnized on the 25th of december, and the equinoxes were days of rejoicing, while the initiations were held preferably in the spring, in march or april. it is believed that in the earliest days of the cult, some of the rites were of a savage and barbaric character, especially the sacrificial element, but these, as indicated, were changed and ennobled as the beneficence of mithra took precedence over his warlike prowess. the mithraic brotherhoods were involved with secular inter

h fearful shrieks, that here great fires are seen at night, that formerly the fire flared up in these mysterious woods in all directions, that every outsider who through curiosity was tempted to stray into the woods was mercilessly sacrificed, that foolish people who would have penetrated into them disappeared and were never heard of again. if the candidate stands all the tests, he is admitted to the initiation. but he must first swear to keep all the secrets and without hesitation carry out the decisions of the purrah of his community and all the decrees of the great head purrah. if a member of the society betrays it or revolts against it, he is condemned to death, and the sentence is often carried out in the bosom of his family. when the criminal least expects it, a disguised, masked and

s not offered, or even suggested. just asking for an initiation does not guarantee that the request is granted; one or more teachers may refuse. it may take some years before all on the committee agree that the candidate is ready. if the candidate works in a coven, they usually are simultaneously initiated into the craft and that coven, and any initiates within the coven are invited to be part of the initiation whether they were the candidate s teachers or not. reclaiming initiations are customized to the individual seeker. first, the initiators give challenges to the candidate. the candidate must accept the challenges from each initiators and fulfill them to everyone s satisfaction before the actual ceremony takes place. each initiator creates these challenges according to what that pries

radition in southeastern pennsylvania. early in the eighteenth century another rosicrucian impulse appeared in germany. in 1710 a certain sincerus racatus, or sigmund richter, published a perfect and true preparation of the philosophical stone according to the secret methods of the brotherhood of the golden and rosy cross, and annexed to this treatise were the rules of the rosicrucian society for the initiation of new members. waite considered these rules additional indication of the society s existence at the period, and he believed that richter s group continued the nuremburg group originally established by studion. in 1785 the publication of the secret symbols of the rosicrucians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries took place at altona, showing, in waite s opinion, that the myste

ult society, whose grade system and rituals drew heavily on rosicrucian concepts. s. l. macgregor mathers, another of the golden dawn chiefs, formed a second order known as r.r. et a.c (rose of ruby and cross of gold, supposed to be a british branch of a german occult order known as ordo roseae rubeae et aureae crucis. the golden dawn was regarded as the probationary order of the r.r. et a.c. and the initiation rite dramatized the rosicrucian legend of christian rosenkreutz in his tomb. when executive dissension arose in the golden dawn in 1901, member w. b. yeats privately published a pamphlet titled is the order of r.r& a.c. to remain a magical order? meanwhile, in the united states, a set of rosicrucian orders began to emerge. the first was the societas rosicruciana republicae americae

h the ot levels on a degree basis, the mastering of one level being a prerequisite to the next. scientology s controversy almost from its beginning, scientology has been a controversial religion. soon after his announcement of the discovery of dianetics, hubbard encountered opposition by the american medical association, and in 1958 a two-decade battle with the food and drug administration began. the initiation of these continuing battles had immense consequences, and critics of the church used the actions in one country as a basis for initiating actions elsewhere. also, government files, not checked for accuracy, were passed to other government agencies and to other countries. suddenly, in the 1960s, scientology found itself under attack from a variety of quarters and has spent 30 years i

ontinued tensions she experienced from her interactions with the older, male-dominated magic community. the guest house became a meeting place and social center for those interested in mysticism. after the death of dion fortune, the fraternity continued her teachings virtually unchanged for a time, but eventually its scope broadened, embracing a wider range of occult practices and dispensing with the initiation oath. the society recommenced the publishing of the inner light as a quarterly in 1993. website: http//www.innerlight.org.uk. sources: chapman, janine. quest for dion fortune. york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1993. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. society of the inner light 1431 fielding, charles, and clark collins. the story of dion fortune. york beach, maine: sa

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een the different religions and teachings, and it is possible to find common denominators to unite them. 6) transference. the knowledge can or must be transferred from teacher to student according to a given pattern, often through initiations. the conditions of this second birth is that a) the teachings are respected and not questioned, since one wishes to be a part of this tradition, and b) that the initiation is supervised by a teacher or master. faivre s definition of esoterism corresponds to the draconian philosophy of dragon rouge. correspondences are the basis of ritual magic and for the practice of the left hand path. the first of the five elementary draconian principles is: all is one. this is an alchemical formula which in alchemistical symbols can be found next to ouroborossymbol

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ans (not to mention the literally crippling health problems he suffered at the same time. he worked as a garage mechanic in a waukegan, illinois, car dealership until he was physically incapable of doing so any longer. he was a good husband to his wife, a good father to his two boys, and a good friend to those who were lucky enough to claim him as a friend in turn. his children, in their teens at the initiation of keith s adventures with landa, and his wife vividly recalled the original ufo sighting they too had experienced and keith s conviction that, after they had gone to bed and he had continued watching the object, something had happened. still, they did not believe much in landa, and his older son told me once of his certainty that his father s communications were psychological in or

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ents transpiring were of a similar nature. my journal entries can give more insight into the nature of this initiation. also see appendix iii. vii the binding of the i- this is a highly complicated initiation to explain. it is the summary of all the work to date. it represents the ascension of a master to the temple in one aspect, as well as unity of the angel with it s inverse in another aspect. the initiation took place across time. the specific rite itself is in appendix v, and is a modified mass of chrnzn (with corrections and modifications. see also appendix vi. 6b what are demons? your essence is revealed; abraxis. revelation is the annihilation of self- law of addiction well, there are many types and varieties, legion to be exact. in one facet they are base atavisms, some have evolv

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g; andthatit is formedofthosewhohave opened the iridescent. shellofexternal doctrine and havefoundthatwhichabideswithinit. it is achurch,-the way ofdivineunion137ofmore worlds than one, for some of thecommunityare among us here andnowand some are in a stage beyond the threshold of the physicalsenses (slt; pp.170-1).it is also more than this; itis-inintent wholly and in structurepartly-arecensionofthe initiation ceremony for an adeptusminorin the independent and rectified rite. beforethesecondorderestablished its vaultatactonearly-in 1905, it wasnotpossible toworkthe 5=6 adeptusminorritual;norare there any records to indicatewhenthe first working of the ritual took place,butitwasunlikely to have been beforetheendof1906(earlier reports to the convocationsofthe second order lamentthedifficult

and its terms in symbolism. v ,thatiaccept the obligations imposed by the bonds of the fellowship, subject to my civil, moral and religious duties. vi.thati will at no time and under no circumstances admitanyoneinto the fellowship, save only under the warrant of the imperator. vii.thati will not on my own authority found any temple or chapter of the fellowship, nor make any use of its rituals for the initiation or advancement ofanyone,except by the warrant of the imperator.duringthe ceremony the neophyte also accepted'thesolemn obligationofa novice',whichwas analogous to thatoftheold goldendawnbutwithoutanymentionofpenalties, bloodcurdling or otherwise, to follow a breachofthe obligation.noneofthis was exceptional and was familiar to most new memberswhowere drawn largely from masonic or es

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inabitur astris(jvestcott in hisalteregoof anna sprengel) and vincit omnia veritas (woodman, deputed them255 selves, under their respective firstordermottoesof'srioghail mo dhream, quod scis nescis (westcott as himself, although he normally used the motto sapere aude) and magna est veritas et praelavebit,'toconstitute and rule the isis-urania temple no. 3'.thisthey duly did, their first act being the initiation of nine members at the spring equinox ceremony that same march.thefirst of the new initiates was miss mina bergson, the sister of the philosopher henri bergson, soon to bemrsmathers and thus central to the entire story of the order. mathers himselfis an enigma.hewas born in1854,educated at bedford grammar school and lived with his widowed mother atbournemouth255where he was made a m

ucians and the tombofchristian rosenkreuz.hefound neither,buthe did meet rudolf steiner who impressed him gready, although he later told waite that steiner was uncouth and 'might not be liked in england. as a consequence anthroposophical teachings (steiner's variations on the theosophical theme) rapidly gained prominence amongst the gathered wisdomofthe stella matutina.in1912felkin finally gained the initiation he sought:'injuneand july1912frather f. r. and sororql.(mrs felkin) were abletogo to germany, and altogether visited five rosicrucian templesindifferentpartsofthe continent, and were initiated themselves, sororql.obtaining grades equivalent to our 7=4 and frater f.r. 8=3..therituals not being in ms. form they are memorized.'4felkinhidknown what to expect, for oneofhis adepts, nevill

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ons use the name mac benach with respect. scottish masons, who inherited the templars' heritage, returned it to france many years later and established there the basis of the rite known as the scottish rite."8 again, mimar sinan presents a lot of information about the relationship between the templars and freemasonry. in an article entitled "templars and freemasons" it states that "the rituals of the initiation ceremony of the order of templars are similar to those of present-day freemasonry."9 according to dk global freemasonry the warriors and the bankers: a book about the templars the same article, as in masonry, the members of the order of the templars called each other "brother."10 towards the end of the article, we read: the order of the templars and the masonic organization have inf

aterialism revisited kj at the entrance of the grand masonic lodge in washington d. c. there are two ancient egyptian sphinxes. above, left and below: representations of masonic temples a depiction of the ancient egyptian city of memphis. the masons regard this city, with its numerous pagan temples, as the "source of light" global freemasonry kk kl materialism revisited in ancient times in egypt, the initiation ceremonies in the temple of memphis lasted a long time, were performed with the greatest attention and splendor, and showed many similarities to masonic ceremonies.67 let us examine a few examples of the relationship between ancient egypt and masonry: the pyramid under the eye the most well known masonic symbol is found on the seal of the united states of america, also found on the

in ancient egyptian, stand before columns modeled on ancient egyptian temples in silver aprons, white gloves and even more strange costumes and make profound oaths. if a person who knows nothing about masonry is brought into one of their lodges, he will probably think that he is visiting a comedy film-set, and perhaps not be able to stop himself from laughing when he sees masons in the course of the initiation ceremony, with their eyes blindfolded, ropes around their necks, and walking around with one bare foot. but, masons, living in their secret world, regard these strange ceremonies as very normal, and find psychological satisfaction in the mystical atmosphere of their lodges. after these ceremonies, they sit and talk with one another about their beliefs that "atoms have spirits and co

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e/satan and find wisdom behind it. in the ancient mysteries this was represented in strange initiatic rites. in these secret rituals the neophyte would be lead to a goat, donkey or sometimes a strange statue (baphomet. these animals were made to look as disgusting and obscene as possible. the neophyte would then be asked to kiss the backside of the creature. if they refused they would have failed the initiation, if they went ahead and puckered up, they found they were kissing the lips of the priestess. here clearly is the movement from one mode of saturn to another, from the demiurge to sophia. the knights templar did something similar where their large devil like baphomet figure actually represent the sophia, the goddess of wisdom (indeed, the world baphomet when decoded with the atbash g

to jesus as the fisherman, the ocean of mankind, the fish as christian symbols is also founder as a symbol of horus as fisherman. horus as a semi-solar image is found throughout religions of that period, christianity representing the misapplication of horus to become a violent martial force. maat is aquarius, the outpouring of truth and gnosis. the first date in our heraldic cycle is 1844, it is the initiation whereby the process of change from pisces to aquarius began. there are many other hidden indicators of this date, in the biblical tradition there are specific prophecies that focus on this date. the 2300 year prophecy of the cleansing of the sanctuary, began in 457 bce with the declaration of artaxeres to restore jerusalem and ended in 1844. the prophecy focused on the solar sanctua

iscovery. this is the path of the dove known to the gnostics as the psychic path. it is the path outlined by jesus. after the death of jesus and outpouring of sophia at pentecost, james the just revealed a second path, the path of the serpent or the pneumatic path. this is the path of theosis or deification. the concept of theosis is found in the writings of many church fathers and is embodied in the initiations described in the secret gospel of mark (refer works of morton smith. the path of the serpent involved secret training, occult techniques and death and rebirth rites, it was both a way of life and a ritualised process (as it is today. there were two paths of survival for the doctrine of theosis. as the gnostic cults came and the gnostic handbook page 89 went the doctrine was passed

initiation and the anointing he went into all the country around the jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. luke 3:3 baptism or immersion into water represents the first initiation on the spiritual path. it is a ritual recognition of the process of rebirth that has begun. the rite itself is not the same as the rite of christening, there is no biblical evidence for the initiation of minors. the rite of baptism is by full immersion into water and represents the descent of the old man into death (the water) and rebirth as a new creation. this can be readily seen from luke 3:3 where baptism is specifically referred to as the baptism of repentance. repentance as discussed earlier involves a radical change of life direction and hence can only be recognised in som

light and accelerates the destruction of the "old man" within the gnostic being. as the spark of light grows it attempts to commune with the mind of god (logos) to which the gnostic now has access, however, false perceptions and attachments block the way. as the initiate grows sophia purifies and destroys the blockages between the self and the logos. this process is recognised and accelerated by the initiation of fire. the spirit baptism also recognises the new mind and emotion through which the new man is being formed. accordingly, as sophia acts new gifts and powers are activated. it should be noted that since this baptism initiates new aspects of the transfiguration process, it should be only offered to mature gnostics. an initiate just on the path, so to speak, by taking this baptism

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tion and the anointing he went into all the country around the jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. luke 3:3 baptism (or immersion into water) represents the first initiation on the spiritual path. it is a ritual recognition of the process of rebirth which has been initiated. the rite itself is not the same as the rite of christening (there is no gnostic rite for the initiation of minors. the rite of baptism is by full immersion into water, and represents the descent of the old man into death (the water) and rebirth as a new creation. this can be readily seen from luke 3:3, where baptism is specifically referred to as the baptism of repentance. repentance (as discussed earlier) involves a radical change of life direction, and hence can only be recognised i

spark of light and accelerates the destruction of the "old man" within the gnostic being. as the spark of light grows it attempts to commune with the mind of god (logos) to which the gnostic now has access, however, sin (dialectic facets) block the way. as the initiate evolves sophia purifies and destroys the blockages between the self and the logos. this process is recognised and accelerated by the initiation of fire. the spirit baptism also recognises the new mind and emotions through which the new man is being formed. accordingly, as sophia imparts new gifts and powers. it should be noted that since this baptism initiates new aspects of the transfiguration process, it should be only offered to mature gnostics. a gnostic just on the path, so to speak, by taking this baptism can bring on

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL AURIEL

grade of zelator for this ritual the zelator will need a black robe, black and white striped nemyss,and the outer wand of double power. upon the altar should be a black candle, a paten of bread and salt, and a talismanic emblem with the archangel name of uriel painted white on a black background in hebrew. the temple is to be arranged in accordance with the zelator hall (as in the second part of the initiation ceremony) relax and perform the fourfould breath go to the northeast and say "hekas, hekas, este bebeloi" with the black end of the wand, perform the lbrp (say the following invocation) stoop not down into that darkly splendid world wherein continually lieth a faithless depth and hades wrapped in gloom, delighting in unintelligible images, precipitous, winding, a black ever-rolling

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL

gabriel for the grade of practicus for this ritual the practicus will need a black robe, black and white striped nemyss,and the outer wand of double power. upon the altar should be a blue candel, a cup of wine, and a talismanic emblem with the name of gabriel painted orange on a blue background in hebrew. the temple is to be arranged in accordance with the practicus hall (as in the second part of the initiation ceremony) relax and perform the fourfould breath go to the northeast and say "hekas, hekas, este bebeloi" with the black end of the wand, perform the lbrp (facing east, say the following invocation "so therfore first the priest who governs the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud resounding sea. remain in the east. with the white end of the wand, trace the

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL

el for the grade of theoricus for this ritual the theoricus will need a black robe, black and white striped nemyss,and the outer wand of double power. upon the altar should be a yellow candel, a rose, and a talismanic emblem with the archangel name of raphael painted white on a black background in hebrew. the temple is to be arranged in accordance with the theoricus hall (as in the second part of the initiation ceremony) relax and perform the fourfould breath go to the northeast and say "hekas, hekas, este bebeloi" with the black end of the wand, perform the lbrp (facing east, say the following invocation "such a fire existeth, extending through the rushings of air. or even a fire formless, whence cometh the image of a voice. or even a flahing light, abounding, revolving, whirling forth, c

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for me with all those powers of love, desire, passion, abundance and benignity which rise rank upon rank to the feet of the holy spirit. o ye divine powers of nogah, manifest yourselves through this intelligence, hagiel, to show forth the majesty of your realm, the love and the magnificence of your godhead, so that through this creature of talismans, i may ever pursue the great work and assist in the initiation of my fellow men. in so doing, grant that unto hagiel who shall charge and live within this talismatic bowl f desire, be given a great reward in that day when the crown of the glory of my genius shall be placed upon my head, and that his nature may become more illumined and glorified, more capable of receiving that divine influx which abides in the heart of god and of man" step 17 l

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remony as attracting the support of the light of nature acting upon natural forces. the ceremony of the equinox the whole formulae of the ceremony of the equinox is intended to create a magical link between the sun, as the light of nature, and the order. it should be celebrated within 48 hours at least of the sun s actual entry into aries or libra. the single knock given by the hierophant heralds the initiation of a fresh current. the password, as already explained, is the symbol of the connecting link of the purpose of the ceremony, and therefore, before beginning fresh operation to attract a fresh current, the kerux proclaims that the former password is abrogated. in the whole ceremony, save at the exchange of insignia, the hierophant, hiereus, hegemon, stolistes, and dadouchos remain in

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ink for me with all those powers of love, wisdom, grace, abundance and benignity which rise rank upon rank to the feet of the holy spirit. o ye divine powers of dsj, manifest yourselves through this intelligence, layphy, to show forth the majesty of your realm, the love and the magnificence of your godhead, so that through this creature of talismans, i may ever pursue the great work and assist in the initiation of my fellow men. in so doing, grant that unto layphy who shall charge this talisman, be given a great reward in that day when the crown of the glory of my genius shall be placed upon my head, and that his nature may become more illumined and glorified, more capable of receiving that divine influx which abides in the heart of god and of man" step 17 lift up the talisman in the left

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bbatic mysteries. for the candidate, the deed of walking the circle becomes a journey around the perimeter of the soul, a microcosmic quest to ensorcel the all-possible of his or her own self-existence. having successfully passed through the period of tuition and the various ordeals and austerities which it demands, the novitiate is 'summoned- formally entreated to undergo the rite of initiation. the initiation rite is 'the seal of the mysteries' and serves as the focusing context for all that has passed between the aspirant and the initiating power (the initiator in all its forms: the physical teacher, the spiritual guide, the familiars and guardian-spirits of the path, the diverse lessons of praxis, the dreams, visions, and solitary realisations, et alia. all that constitutes the 'initia

an initiatory procedure intending the entrance of the aspirant into the circle of therionic atavisms: the zodiak of living forms. by passing through its ordeals the skin-leaper's arte is impressed upon the flesh; the bestial ancestry of an individual is 'raised, made self-conscious in his sentient physicality; the animal-headed god is realised! another notable example is 'the devil's masquerade: the initiation rite of draku-ezhu, the 'grand famulus' of the crooked path teachings. this particular mystery-rite obtains the meeting, soul to soul, between the aspirant and the deity. in the stream of sabbatic wisdom descended from yelda paterson through zos vel thanatos (austin osman spare, there is a line of transmission facilitated by the 'passing -on' of a spirit-familiar. in its contemporar

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e lesser ones. may one be 70 allowed to come and go within the magical universe. may one's ka not stray through the cates of the tuat. the following is a translation from a vignette in the papyrus of hunefer. it can be used in watchtower squares presided over by the god anubis: may royal peace be given by os ris-khenti amenti, lord of eternity, wise one throughout all duration; and may be invoked the initiation of the company of the gods; and may be invoked anubis, the subtle dweller, the divine initiator of the temple, who allows the followers of osiris to enter finto and to come forth from the magical universe, and who rewards the lords and masters so that their light will be strengthened and nourished. 71 astrological influences astrology in education is usefui as geology is to the pros

have a sexual experience in zen but not in pop. the experiences themselves wi ll, of course, be highly personal and no two are likely to be identical. the guide in pop is known as the priestess of the silver star. this title refers to the goddess isis in her role as feminine initiator. on the qabalistic tree of li fe the priestess is on the path of gimel, the camel, located just above tiphareth. the initiation in pop thus has to do with raising consciousness above the human mind. this guide personifies the spiritual impulse in its feminine aspect (somewhat like the dakini of tibetan buddhism. she wi ll appear as extremely lovely and sexually alluring. crowley called her the "arch-harlot, always ready to seduce and to intoxicate him who lusts after her" if you accept that these words are t

is a sexually attractive male (sometimes, but not always, seen as the god horus) who will lead you to an imposing vault crowley's interpretat ion was an egypt ian scene complete with pyramids and egyptian deities. zen need not be seen this way. this aethyr is located near the path of the hanged man on the tree of life (i.e, just below geburah) and it is the hanged man that you must become in zen. the initiation in zen involves the disolution of 222 personality as a necessary preparation for an encounter with the individuality. sacrifice need not be a terrifying business nor even unpleasant. no one will hold a gun to your head and demand that you sacri fice yourself for others. your own desire will impel you. you will lie in the vault of zen, however you care to interpret or experience it

e able to leave your astral body in the same way that you must leave your physical body to enter tex or any other aethyr above tex. your astral body cannot enter tor or any aethyr above tor. in the same way, your mental body cannot enter zax or any aethyr above zax. what does in fact pass through these aethyrs is your consciousness divorced of personality. this divorcing process is the purpose of the initiation in zen. 223 tan,the balance karma neither punishes nor rewards; it is simply 'the one' universal law which guides unerringly and, so to say, blindly, all other laws productive of certain effects along the grooves of their respective causation. h.p. blavatsky, glossary to the key to theosophy the doctrine of karma is plain common sense. aleister crowley, magick without tears after th

. as you enter deeper into the aethyr you will see that it contains an important initiation that you must undergo. it is the mystery of the rose and the cross. the rosy cross is a symbol for the union of the masculine and feminine currents. these currents rhythmically swirl through oxo. the feminine current is the strongest and is emphasized, but enough of the masculine current is here to provide the initiation. a successful initiation in oxo will furnish an understanding of the true purpose of life. it is a divine dance, the tila' of hinduism, a creative expression of the 230 music of the spheres. the ultimate purpose of life is to live. the purpose of being is to be. from the viewpoint of the serious and time-oriented ego, such an initiation is an abomination to be avoided. many who ente

his holy guardian angel and is now actively trying to help others do the same. he has no thought of any reward. although his goal is to grow and cultivate another nemo, he tends the garden (a symbol for the earth) without trying to single out any special plant (candidate. zim contains not just one garden but many. in fact, there is a special garden waiting for everyone who enters this aethyr. if the initiation here is successful, you will become a nemo yourself. as a nemo you will have three possible paths to take: 1. the adherent. this is the path of one who does his best to live his remaining days on earth adhering to the principles and concepts that he learned in enochian magick he puts those lofty principles into daily practice in his life. 2. the lover this is the path of one who vow

ut into the abyss for ever; and thou shalt be the lonely one, the eater of dung the afflicted in the day of be-with-us. aleister crowley, liber cheth the cup of babalon, the sangreal, can be seen in the 12th aethyr, loe. the 12th aethyr has the same gematric number as the 19th aethyr (loe=48=pop) and thus shares in its characteristics. in loe the feminine current is stronger than it is in pop and the initiation is similar, but of a higher order. you will see the cup of babalon (the enochian word for cup is talho which also has the gematric value of 48) or its equivalent in this aethyr. the governors of loe are: tapamal tah-pah-mal gedoons geh-doh-oh-ness ambriol ah-embeh-ree-oh-leh you are advised to carefully study the formula of ztztzt before attempting to enter loe. the 12th aethyr lies

re small structures standing right on the brink of a tremendous precipice. if you pass these gray but proud outposts you will find yourself standing on the very edge of the known universe. if you detect the faintest trace of fear within you at this point you are advised to turn back immediately. however, you should face the outermost abyss several times in ikh before you attempt its crossing. 243 the initiation of zax-crossing the abyss the abyss is passed by virtue of the mass of the adept and his karma. two forces impel him:(1) the attraction of binah (2) the impulse of his karma: and the ease and even the safety of his passage depend on the strength and direction of the latter. aleister crowley, liber thisharb exoterically it (ie, the word tcshetra9 means simply-"field" while esoterical

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n earthly master by means of books, lectures, papers, or diagrams. this is why we urge those who have gone fairly high in the development of their psychic bodies, and have attained certain knowledge and powers in our order, to maintain a close contact with the order, with its class masters, and its imperator, for through such contact these members may find at any time, unannounced and unexpected, the initiation that will take them into the great white brotherhood. the last three degrees of study and preparation in the rosicrucian order are designed especially to prepare the members, in the most minute and varied details, for the ultimate goal.[146] what, then, do we suggest to our members to aid them in attaining this ultimate goal? that, above all else, they be loyal and devoted to the id

.rosicrucian records tell us that there actually was such a character as hermes or thoth. he was not a god, but a sage born in thebes in 1399 b.c. he received the appellation "thrice illustrious"(trismegistus) because he participated in the organization of the great mystery school, had the experience of seeing the illustrious amenhotep iv initiated as a grand master, and the honor of assisting in the initiation of the successor to amenhotep iv. the best known work attributed to hermes is the divine pymander, or the shepherd of men. hierarchy.a group of persons or things arranged into a progressive order according to their authority or other determined qualities. mystically, this alludes to the celestial hierarchy or a group of spiritual or allegorical beings arranged into nine orders of th

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" lasts through a period of 311,040,000,000,000; after which the pralaya or dissolution of the universe becomes universal. with the egyptian and greeks the "great age" referred only to the tropical, or sidereal year, the duration of which is 25,868 solar years. of the complete age-that of the gods-they said nothing, as it was a matter to be discussed and divulged only at the mysteries, and during the initiation ceremonies. the "great age" of the chaldeans was the same in figures as that of the hindus. guhya-vidya (sans) the secret knowledge of mystic-mantras. page 153 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt gupta-vidya (sans) the same as guhya-vidya. esoteric or secret science, knowledge. gyges "the ring of gyges" has become a familiar metaphor in european literature. gyges was a lydian, wh

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originally made by these individuals so that the materials might be legitimately copyrighted as anthologies. in every instance, the materials so copied were presented without credit to any of these individuals. in fact, the homsi/hogdi for years made highly derogatory references to dr. regardie, i.e. that he was an "oath breaker" and had never attained a grade higher than practicus. nevertheless, the initiations in these materials were copied directly from the regardie anthology, references to the "stella matutina" and existing errors inclusive. as to this version of the materials themselves, they were, to the best of my knowledge, compiled primarily between 1992 and 1994 by john brawl, sonya nieman zink, zack ramsey and robert a. zink. the materials in my possession printed prior some poi

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they think they have explained to themselves. they know witchcraft works, but how much untapped power there is in the human mind, and where it comes from, may be things beyond explanation in terms of mere supernormal energy forces. the mysteries of the mind are as vast and unknown as the farthest star in the darkest skies. and it is only recently that man has learned to fhethe induction charm and the initiation (initiation stream i) copyright 2005 by robin artisson from the witching way of the hollow hill this initiation is the key to gaining the bond between the powers and the witch who wishes to access the workings described in this book on a deeper level. this is the pact you must take with the old powers, from the master-spirits, all the way to the powers of the land, and even the spir

eness for you. you should have performed the rite of arriving, given later, if you can. there should really be no if you can- effort is always rewarded. open yourself, go simply; be aware, be clear. the fire of love that burns in your heart for the old ways and the land and the old powers is what draws you to this pact. you begin by making a compass round, as well and as perfectly as you can- for the initiation, it should, if possible, have at least one implement to each direction. you then invoke the witch-mother and witch- father, and, before you make the oath, you strip bare and put on new clothes. the old clothes should be clothes that you have worn often, which you will never wear again- they must be burned later. after you have changed, you pierce one of the fingers of your left hand

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ation i theory the great secret of the tetragrammaton or the quabbalistical yod-he-vau-he device: that which is above is also that which is below (hermes trismegistus) 1. about the elements everything that has been created, the macrocosm as well as the microcosm, consequently the big and the small world have been achieved by the effect of the elements. for this reason, right from the beginning of the initiation, i shall attend to these powers and underline their deep and manifold significance in particular. in the occult literature very little has been said about the powers of the elements up to now so that i made it my business to treat this field of knowledge still unknown and to lift the veil covering these rules. it is absolutely not very easy to enlighten the uninitiated so that they

with respect to the analogous laws of the four-pole magnet. this happens to be a very meritorious work which never ought to be neglected, because it will lead to great success and secure results. these three chapters relating to body, soul and spirit have represented man in his most perfect form. by now, the disciple ought to have realized how very important it is to know one s own microcosm for the initiation and especially for the magic and the mystic practice, as a matter of fact, for the whole of the secrets. most of the authors, from sheer ignorance or for other cogent reasons, have omitted this extremely important part, the foundation. 14. the mental plane as the body ahs its earthly plane, and the astral body or the soul owns the astral plane, the spirit too has its own plane, the

for this would overstep the frame of this book. sticking to a carefully planned, step-by-step development, there will be neither a mishap nor a failure nor bad consequences, for the simple reason that ripening takes place slowly but surely. it is quite an individual matter whether the adept will choose as his idea of god, christ, buddha, brahma, allah, or someone else. all depends on the idea, in the initiation. the pure mystic wishes to approach his god only in the all-embracing love. the yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of god. the bhakti-yogi keeps to the road of love and devotion, the raja and hatha yogi choose the path of self-control or volition, the jnana yogi will follow that of wisdom and cognition. now let us regard the idea of god from the magic standpoint, according to

lets& gems 3. wish realization through electromagnetic balls in akasa( volting) step x magic mental training 1. elevation of the spirit to higher levels step x magic psychic training 1. conscious communication with the personal god 2. communication with deities &c step x magic physical training 1. several methods for acquiring magic faculties epilog step i let us now turn to the practical side of the initiation. we must always be aware of the fact that the body, soul and mind are to be trained simultaneously, for otherwise it would be impossible to gain and maintain the magic equipoise. in the theoretic part i already called attention to the dangers possibly rising from one-sided training. it is not advisable to hasten development, because everything needs time. patience, perseverance and

r and with many difficulties and obstructions. a great number of people, if not most of them, will prefer to become convinced first of the truth of the rules to have faith, and only then will they make up their minds to enter the path of initiation. the honest magician will realize that this attitude of man is the wrong one. he is convinced that one has to be trained and educated for the faith by the initiation. by the mere reading of this work one can of course achieve an intellectual knowledge, but not wisdom. knowledge can be gained by transference, but wisdom must be acquired by experience and recognition, the latter depending on the spiritual maturity of the individual. and this maturity again is determined by the spiritual development that is formed on the path to initiation. anybody

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r suspicion 176. confiiel, etc. p. 60. 177. ibid, p. 66. 178. put ii, cfa. v. digitizec by google 90 isis unveiled iiaa been strengthened by an able article, entitled 'paul and plato* in one of the new york periodicals* in which the author puts forward one remarkable and, for us, very precious observation. he shows paul, in bis eputua to the corinthuitu, abounding with "expressions sug- gested by the initiations of sabazius and eleusis, and the lectures of the [greek] philosophers. he [paul] designates himself an idiota a person unskilful in the world, hut not in the gnosit or philosophical learning 'we speak wisdom among the perfect or initiated' he writes 'not the wisdom of this worid, nor of the archons of this world, but divine wisdom in a mystery, secret which none of the arehone of t

oes not necessarily imply that there was no simon magus individuady distinct from fau. it may have become a generic name of abuse. theodoret and chiysostom, tbe mtrliest and most prolific commentators on tbe gnosticism of those days, seem actually to make u simon a rival of paul, and to state that between them paswd frequent ir digitizecoy google 92 isis unveiled tablets used by the hierophant at the initiations, during the final mys- tery. in this, perhaps, ties concealed the whole secret of the claims of the vatican. as professor wilder happily suggests "in the oriental coun- tries the designation idd, peter [in phoenician and chaldaic, an i nter- preter] appears to have been the title of this personage [the hierophant. ttiere is in these facts some reminder of the peculiar circumstances

sed the noblest ends by the worthiest means" in these celebrated rites, although peisons of both sexes and all classes were allowed to take a part, and a participation in them was even obligatory, very few indeed attained the higher and final initiation. the gradation of the mysteries is given us by proclus in the fourth book of bis theplato "the perfective rite ttamj, precedes in order the initiation muetia, and the initiation epopteia, or the final apocalypse (revelation" theon of smyrna, in mathematica, also divides the mystic rites into five parts "the first of which is the previous purification; for neuher are the myateries communicated to all who are willing to re- ceive them; but there are certain persons who are prevented by the voice of the crier (v^pu. since it is neces

stagna- tion, it has most certainly become difficult if not altogether impossible to substantiate the claims of either party, llie old greeks, who had 205. mj/ileria rf the eggpfioti, chakbuaiu, and auyriant, ch. zi. 206. dtniu legatum c^ motet iemonttrom, tie, ii. p. 172. 207. on at theol. of plato, p. 200 (taylor'i edit: london. 1816. 208. this eipreanon must not be understood literallyi for in the initiation of certain brotberhoods it has a secret meaaing. hbted at by i^4bagoras, when he describes hia fcdingb after the initiation and telle that he was crowned by the goda in whaa preaence he had drunk 'the wateta of life' in hinduatani, db-i-haj/dt, fount of life. cf. taylor: bwtman and bacdae mj/rtma. ed. a. wilder, pp. 82-3; 4th edit. digitizecoy google 102 isis cntedled once crowded a

a pure light" this sent^ce shows that they saw visions, gods, spirits. as taylor correctly observes, from all such passages in the worl^ of the initiates it may be inferrefl "that the most sublime part of the epopteia. consisted in beholding the gods themselves invested with a resplendent light* or the highest planetary spirits. the statement of proclus upon this subject is un- equivocal "in all the initiations and mysteries, the gods exhibit maiqr forms of themselves, and appear in a variety of shapes, and sometimes indeed a formless light of themselves is held forth to the view; sometimes this hght is according to a human form, and sometimes it proceeds into a different shape "whatever is on earth is the resemblance and shxnow of something that is in ike sphere, while that resplendent t

a distance. and yet that very hght is the shadow of something still more resplendent than itself" thus speaks desdslir, the persian book of shet the prophet zirtusht' thereby showing its identity of esoteric doctrines with those of the greek philosophers. the second statement of plato confirms our belief that tiie mysteries digitizecoy google 114 isis unveiled of the ancients were identical vitb the initiations, as practised now among the buddhists and the hindi! adepts. the highest visions, the most trvihful, are produced, not through natwrtd ecstatics or 'mediums' as it is sometimes.erroneously asserted, but through a regular discipline of gradual initiations and development of psychical powers. the mystae were brought into close union with those whom proclus calls "mystical natures "re

it is tliat which, together with tlic fontal soul or purely astral body, directly con- nected with the imidortal spirit, codstitutea the trinity of man. digitizecoy google how human spmrrs can be conpeebbd with 115 whm ibia trinitf, in anticipation of the final triumphant reunion beyond the gates of corporeal death becomes for a few seconds a unitt. that the candidate is allowed, at the moment of the initiation, to behold his future self. thus we read in the ferdan detmr, of the 'resplendent one; in the greek philosopher-initiates, of the augoeidea the self< shining "blessed vision resident in the pure li^t; in porphyry* that plotinus was united to his *god* four times daring his lifetime; and so on "in andent india, the mystery of the triad, known only to the initiates, could not, under t

re, after participating in the mysteries, obliged to fast and remain in solitude for some time. there was strict fasting and preparation before as well as after the bacchic, adonian, and eleuainian orgies; and herodo- tus hints, with fear and veneration, about the lake of bacchus, in which "they [the priests] made at night exhibitions of his life and sufferings* in the mithraic sacrifices, during the initiation, a pre- liminary scene of death was simulated by the neophyte, and it pre- ceded the scene showing him himself "being bom agiun by the rite of bapti m" a portion of this ceremony is still enacted at the pres- ent day by the masons, when the neophyte, as the grand master hiram abiff, ues dead, and is raised by the strong grip of the lion's paw. the priests were circumcised. the neoph

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

on and proof of the innate intelligence that we possess that allows us to learn and grow. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 38 one of the joys of life is that we do all learn and that we can refine things and we can make them better. the fact that there have been problems for some people, due to lack of preparation and other reasons, when they have attempted the initiation i discussed in book 1, has led me to search for a simpler, less challenging program for people to undergo to ensure their success in accessing the divine nutrition field. before we move on to look at the different forms of nourishment that we have available to us, i would like to clarify the difference between the living on light and divine nutrition: food of gods reality. this can

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

and also for four great orders of devas connected with the elements earth, water, air and fire, and their great rulers, the four devarajas, agents of the law of karma, which is always balancing and adjusting the affairs of man, and seeing that there is no injustice between living creatures in god fs universe, just as there is no maladjustment in the relations of material substances and bodies. at the initiation of candidates in co-masonic lodges these four rulers of the elements are invoked, and the consequences of that are very real and beneficial, little as many members of the fraternity may be aware of the fact. 219. the blazing star 220. the blazing star is properly six-pointed, and is made of glass, set in the middle of the ceiling and illuminated from inside by artificial light. belo

ect to the limits of human possibility. that star represents also the logos, the supreme consciousness of our solar system, god fs consciousness, which is already perfected in a degree altogether beyond human comprehension. 276. the ladder has many steps, which indicate the virtues by means of which we may ascend to the perfection symbolized by the star. in egypt those steps were taken to express the initiations leading upwards; but of course these are only two interchangeable methods of expressing the same thing. if we take them to mean initiations, they represent definite steps taken, but if we regard them as indicating the virtues, they are the qualifications for initiation. in all cases the idea of degrees leading up to a condition of perfection is quite definitely recognized. or it ma

ifficulties sometimes exist in india with regard to bangles and other ornaments. 466. direction on this point was asked from the h.o.a.t.f, and he said very definitely that modification of this rule should not be permitted, though he also said that in several cases in the past, where an official was ignorant of the stringency of the rule, he had himself performed an act of healing which validated the initiation. otherwise; he requires its strict fulfilment, and intimates that those who feel unable to comply with this requirement should not join the co-masonic order. we had a case in which a man inadvertently went through the ceremony with a gold charm or medal sewn into the lining of one of his garments. this was not remembered until the conclusion of the ceremony, which of course had to b

sewn into the lining of one of his garments. this was not remembered until the conclusion of the ceremony, which of course had to be repeated from the beginning. 467. there was another instance in which by an un-worthy subterfuge a feminine candidate succeeded in retaining a wedding ring until the conclusion of the ceremony and, when this was discovered, absolutely refused to have it removed that the initiation might be repeated. the question then arose as to the status of this candidate, who had irregularly received certain secrets. the decision of the h.o.a.t.f. was clear and uncompromising, that in spite of the ceremony of initiation she was not a mason, and could not in any way be recognized as such. there have been cases in my mother lodge in which it has been found necessary to file

stick of brahma; and the drawing given in fig. 14(d) shows that it is also the original of the caduceus of mercury, the two snakes which symbolize the kundalini or serpent-fire which is presently to be set in motion along those channels, while the wings typify the power of conscious flight through higher planes which the development of that fire confers. fig. 14(a) shows the stimulated ida after the initiation into the first degree; this line is crimson in colour. to it is added at the passing the yellow line of the pingala, depicted in fig. 14(b; while at the raising the series is completed by the deep blue stream of the sushumna, illustrated by fig. 14(c. 686. the stimulation of these nerves and the forces which flow through them is only a small part of the benefit conferred by the r.w

ot be; 748. i am here to aid the plan. 749. we may see in the degrees of craft masonry a prophecy or adumbration of the true initiations that lie far ahead on the path of the neophyte, taking the e.a. degree as imaging the entry upon the probationary path, the f.c. as representing that entering upon the stream which is the first of the great initiations, and the m.m. as typifying the fourth step, the initiation of the arhat. 750. the characteristic of the f.c. degree is service; all its five stages are forms of service, and they lead up to that condition in which the candidate fs hands are perpetually free to take up whatever tools may be needed at the moment in the work of helping others. as the mark degree is recognized as having originally been part of the f.c, ex. and perf. bro. wood t

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

f that temple with the enormous power called down at the consecration of the sacred elements. a somewhat similar result is achieved during the ceremonies performed by the masonic lodge, although the plan is not exactly the same, being indeed far older; and each of our rituals, when properly carried out, likewise builds a temple in the inner worlds, through which the spiritual power called down at the initiation of the candidate is stored and radiated. thus masonry is seen, in the sacramental sense as well as the mystical, to be an art of building spiritualized, and every masonic lodge ought to be a channel of no mean order for the shedding of spiritual blessing over the district in which it labours. 39. sometimes orders and rites which were once channels of great force have admitted, as th

at lay on the other side of death. in later days, when there was less knowledge among the hierophants, elaborate mechanical devices were shown to him, representing the realities of the astral world as far as such resources would allow. still later, the characteristic points of these pictures were reproduced in a system of symbolic ceremonies, the main outline of which has come down to us today in the initiation ceremony of masonry, although in some obediences only a mere vestige of the original procedure remains. 123. the mystery language 124. besides the teaching upon the life after death- which was elaborated by countless stories of imaginary individuals, showing the results in the astral plane after death of certain courses of action during life- a fine course of education was also give

of m.m; through the portal of death he is raised to the everlasting glory of the resurrection. 195. certain portions of the ritual of this fourth initiation according to the egyptian rite were curiously entangled with the christian teachings, and became utterly materialized and distorted in somewhat the same way as the legend of osiris became distorted in egypt itself. the rubric of this part of the initiation was as follows: 196. then shall the candidate be bound upon the wooden cross, he shall die, he shall be buried, and shall descend into the underworld; after the third day he shall be brought back from the dead, and shall be carried up into heaven to be the right hand of him from whom he came, having learnt to guide (or rule) the living and the dead(*the christian creed, by the rt. r

the privilege of initiation. elias ashmole, the celebrated student of alchemy, who collected certain texts upon this abstruse science in his theatrum chemicum britannicum, was initiated into a non-operative lodge at warrington in lancashire in 1646(*ibid, p. 112) in 1682 he received a summons to attend a lodge at masons hall in london- which was almost certainly the acception- and was present at the initiation of six candidates, two of whom were not members of the masons company(*ibid, p. 116) 575. elias ashmole has sometimes been cited as the real founder of speculative masonry, and also as a bro. of the rosy cross; the latter suggestion is possible, although no evidence exists upon the point, but the former cannot of course be accepted by those who hold that masonry has descended from t

vilescunt, et gratiam prophanata amittunt. ergo: ne margaritas objice porcis, seu asino substernere rosas* published secrets become valueless, and things profaned lose their grace. therefore cast not pearls before swine, nor strew roses before an ass. op. cit, p. 99- showing clearly that it was meant to be taken in a mystical sense. it is a long and cryptic account, lit with gleams of humour, of the initiation of christian rosenkreutz into the mysteries of the rosy cross, commencing from his invitation, or awakening to the inner life, and ending with his final triumph or regeneration as a knight of the golden stone. this is the most curious of all the rosicrucian documents, and it will repay the close study necessary to its comprehension; for within it are contained some of the deepest se

ish rosicrucian philosopher, author of the tractatus apologeticus, the tractatus theologo-philosophicus, and other works; sincerus renatus, or sigmund richter, who published in 1710 the curious work, the perfect and true preparation of the philosophical stone, according to the secretof the brotherhoods of the golden and rosy cross, with which is included the rules of the above-mentioned order for the initiation of new members; and, lastly, the author of the secret symbols of the rosicrucians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a rare book containing a number of occult engravings which enshrine much inner teaching. 708. the traditional history of the rosicrucians 709. the traditional history of christian rosenkreutz is contained in the fama fraternitatis, but it obviously cannot be

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

continue to communicate with their loved ones. in most such cases, the possessed proffers his or her body voluntarily and the possessing entity leaves voluntarily. in demonic possession, however, the disembodied entity usually takes over and refuses to leave, and special techniques of exorcism are required to eject the invader. enthusiasm s (greek en theos, to be in god) and ecstasy characterized the initiation and purification process of the cult of dionysus in ancient greece. women, and to a lesser extent men, who were possessed by the god and surrendered to the possessed state could become free forever. this ritual was widespread in the ancient hellenistic world, and became so popular that in rome it was legally suppressed in 186 b.c. this phenomenon was not limited to the mediterranean

satanic or at least spiritual. ritual can refer to a prescribed religious ceremony, but in its broader meaning refers to any customarily-repeated act or series of acts. the need to repeat these acts can be cultural, sexual, or psychological as well as spiritual. cultural rituals could include such things as what a family eats on thanksgiving day, or when and how presents are opened at christmas. the initiation ceremonies of fraternities, sororities, gangs, and other social clubs are other examples of cultural rituals. since 1972 i have lectured about sexual ritual, which is nothing more than repeatedly engaging in an act or series of acts in a certain manner because of a sexual need. in order to become aroused and/or gratified, a person must engage in the act in a certain way. this sexual

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yet others may assist him to do both, and they may enable him altogether to avoid many of the false paths, leading no whither, which tempt the weary feet of the uninitiated pilgrim. they can further insure that he is duly tried and tested, for there are many who think themselves to be masters who have not even begun to tread the way of service that leads thereto. 5. now the great work is one, and the initiation is one, and the reward is one, however diverse are the symbols wherein the unutterable is clothed. 6. hear then the history of the system which this lection gives you the opportunity of investigating. listen, we pray you, with attention: for once only does the great order knock at any one door. whosoever knows any member of that order as such, can never know another, until he too ha

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escape from the ruin thereof. 17. transformed, the holy virgin appeared as a fluidic fire, making her beauty into a thunderbolt. 18. by her spells she invoked the scarab, the lord kheph- ra, so that the waters were cloven and the illusion of the powers was destroyed. 19. then the sun did appear unclouded, and the mouth of asi was on the mouth of asar. 20. then also the pyramid was builded so that the initiation might be complete. 21. and in the heart of the sphinx danced the lord adonai, in his garlands of roses and pearls making glad the concourse of things; yea, making glad the concourse of things. liber ccxxxi 4 the genii of the 22 scales of the serpent and of the qliphoth a a .u-iao-u .a. o[ b be .qaoooabitom. g gitwnosapfwllois. d dhnaxartarwq [x= st. h hoo-oorw-ix. w vuaretza.[a secr

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entum astrum be completed, and that there be a retirement from all active work in the order involving contact with groups. there were several other and more stringent requirements that also had to be undergone according to the constitution: pledge forms had to be signed and other work completed. several papers were attached to this, which includes the opening and closing of the temple, as well as the initiation ritual for zelator (which has to be performed under four eyes. these were: schedule a: opening, closing, initiatiation ritual of zelators (this paper. schedule b: the form of initiation of adepti (it is explicitly stated that there shall be no form of initiation for magisters. schedule c: gives the conditions by which magisteri appoint adepti to help zelators, and notes that the gen

LIBER LVII

that are beneath (symbol, the ark containing the secret of life borne upon the bosom of the deluge beneath the clouds) wn. initiation is guarded on both sides by death ]ms. self-control and self-sacrifice govern the wheel. yo. the secret of generation is death. hp. the fortress of the most high (note p, the lowest reciprocal path. ydx. in the star is the gate of the sanctuary [wq. illusionary is the initiation of disorder. cyr. in the sun (osiris) is the secret of the spirit. yc. resurrection is hidden in death. wt. the universe is the hexagram (other meanings suit other planes and other grades* inspiration, equilibrated produces material energy [note added by ac to a copy of equinox i (5, as transribed by yorke. in the seed of the magus the universe is latent [note by ac, source as above

LIBER LXI VEL CAUSAE

yet others may assist him to do both, and they may enable him altogether to avoid many of the false paths, leading no whither, which tempt the weary feet of the uninitiated pilgrim. they can further insure that he is duly tried and tested, for there are many who think themselves to be master who have not even begun to tread the way of service that leads thereto. 5. now the great work is one, and the initiation is one, and the reward is one, however diverse are the symbols wherein the unuterrable is clothed. 6. hear then the history of the system which this lection gives you the opportunity of investigating. liber lxi 2 listen, we pray you, with attention: for once only does the great order knock at any one door. whosover knows any member of that order as such, can never know another, unti

LIBER LXXVIII

the first decan that of f in e. a description of the cards of the taro 27 here follow the general meanings of the small cards of the suits, as classified under the nine sephiroth below kether. hmkj the four twos symbolize the powers of the king and queen just uniting and initiating the force; but before the prince and princess are thoroughly brought into action. therefore do they generally imply the initiation and fecundation of a thing. hnyb realization of action owing to the prince being produced. the central symbol on each card. action definitely commenced for good or evil. dsj perfection, realization, completion: making a matter settled and fixed. hrwbg opposition, strife and struggle: war; obstacle to the thing in hand. ultimate success or failure is otherwise shewn. trapt definite a

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hierophant is the perfected osiris, who brings the candidate, the natural osiris, to identity with himself. but in the new aon the [see al ii, 22] any such formula should be used only when the adept has full knowledge based on experience of such matters. liber samekh svb figvra dccc 12 hierophant is horus (liber ccxx i, 49* therefore the candidate will be horus too.13 what then is the formula of the initiation of horus? it will no longer be that of the man, through death. it will be the natural growth of the child. his experiences will no more be regarded as catastrophic. their hieroglyph is gthe fool h: the innocent and impotent harpocrates babe becomes the horus adult by obtaining the wand. gde reine thor h seizes the sacred lance.14 bacchus becomes pan. the holy guardian angel is the u

LIBER XLI THIEN TAO

and two windows, all in the eye of the sunset. one cannot describe the inside of the building, because to do so would spoil the fun for other people. it must be seen to be understood, in any case; and there it stands to this day, open to anybody who is strong enough to force in the door. but when they asked for kwaw, he was not to be found. he had left trained men to carry out the discipline and the initiations, these last being the chief purpose of the building, saying that he was homesick for the lions and lizards of wei-hai-wei, and that anyway he hadn ft enjoyed a decent swim for far too long. there is unfortunately little room for doubt that the new and voracious species of sharks (which japanese patriotism had spent such enormous sums in breeding) is responsible for the fact that he

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

rungnir, h arkiv for nordisk filologi 61 (1946: 284.285, proposes an etymology for hrungnir meaning gbig person, strong man. h in his gods of the ancient northmen, ed. einar haugen, publications of the ucla center for the study of comparative folklore and mythology, 3 (berkeley and los angeles: university of california press, 1973, 68.71, georges dumezil makes the argument that the story involves the initiation of thjalfi by thor, in the killing of the made monster, and several eminent scholars have accepted this hypothesis. my analysis of the story is to be found in gthor fs duel with hrungnir, h alvissmal: forschungen zur mittelalterlichen kultur scandinaviens 6 (1996: 3.18. hugin (thought) and munin (mind) odin fs two ravens. in eddic poetry, hugin and munin are mentioned in grimnismal

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t. the child of asmodeus (called often samael) and lilith, is considered the bringer of gnosis to humanity. other legends give tubal cain as the child of samael and eve, and that in congress the dragon spit filth into her and bore cain. tubal cain was demonized as the brother who killed abel, his so-called brother. it was cain, within the region of the middle east, sparked the forge which brought the initiation given to man by shaitan the opposer, or in a modern context, lucifer. 2 see the book of cain by michael w. ford. 7 the history of the witches sabbat path is one of shadowed presence. such a witchcraft linage speaks through the blood and dreams of those whom with an open mind, invite it in and seek to absorb its essence. consider the egregore of luciferian spirits, those that speak t

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

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

his in the etext for legibility--john bruno hare, june 11, 2004. title page preface table of contents introduction the ancient mysteries and secret societies which have influenced modern masonic symbolism the ancient mysteries and secret societies, part two the ancient mysteries and secret societies, part three atlantis and the gods of antiquity the life and teachings of thoth hermes trismegistus the initiation of the pyramid isis, the virgin of the world the sun, a universal deity the zodiac and its signs the bembine table of isis wonders of antiquity the life and philosophy of pythagoras pythagorean mathematics the human body in symbolism the hiramic legend the pythagorean theory of music and color fishes, insects, animals, reptiles and birds (part one) fishes, insects, animals, reptiles

myth of the dying god-the rite of tammuz and ishtar--the mysteries of atys and adonis-the rites of sabazius--the cabiric mysteries of samothrace. 33 the life and writings of thoth hermes trismegistus suppositions concerning identity of hermes--the mutilated hermetic fragments--the book of thoth--poimandres, the vision of hermes--the mystery of universal mind- the seven governors of the world. 37 the initiation of the pyramid the opening of the great pyramid by caliph at mamoun--the passageways and chambers of the great pyramid--the riddle of the sphinx--the pyramid mysteries--the secret of the pyramid coffer-the dwelling place of the hidden god. 41 isis, the virgin of the world the birthdays of the gods--the murder of osiris--the hermetic isis--the symbols peculiar to isis--the troubadour

tic rituals, was restored to life. there were three degrees of the druidic mysteries, but few successfully passed them all. the candidate was buried in a coffin, as symbolic of the death of the sun god. the supreme test, however, was being sent out to sea in an open boat. while undergoing this ordeal, many lost their lives. taliesin, an ancient scholar, who passed through the mysteries, describes the initiation of the open boat in faber's pagan idolatry. the few who passed this third degree were said to have been "born again" and were instructed in the secret and hidden truths which the druid priests had preserved from antiquity. from these initiates were chosen many of the dignitaries of the british religious and political world (for further details, see faber's pagan idolatry, albert pik

tomatically became a priest and the temporal head of the state religion (see wilkinson's manners and customs of the egyptians) a limited number were admitted into the greater mysteries: these preserved their secrets inviolate. much of the information concerning the rituals of the higher degrees of the egyptian mysteries has been gleaned from an examination of the chambers and passageways in which the initiations were given. under the temple of serapis destroyed by theodosius were found strange mechanical contrivances constructed by the priests in the subterranean crypts and caverns where the nocturnal initiatory rites were celebrated. these machines indicate the severe tests of moral and physical courage undergone by the candidates. after passing through these tortuous ways, the neophytes

celebrated every five years in the city of eleusis to honor ceres (demeter, rhea, or isis) and her daughter, persephone. the initiates of the eleusinian school were famous throughout greece for the beauty of their philosophic concepts and the high standards of morality which they demonstrated in their daily lives. because of their excellence, these mysteries spread to rome and britain, and later the initiations were given in both these countries. the eleusinian mysteries, named for the community in attica where the sacred dramas were first presented, are generally believed to have been founded by eumolpos about fourteen hundred years before the birth of christ, and through the platonic system of philosophy their principles have been preserved to modern times. the rites of eleusis, with th

eheld or seen directly. for this reason also initiation was termed autopsy. the epoptes was then given certain sacred books, probably written in cipher, together with tablets of stone on which secret instructions were engraved. in the obelisk in freemasonry, john a. weisse describes the officiating personages of the eleusinian mysteries as consisting of a male and a female hierophant who directed the initiations; a male and a female torchbearer; a male herald; and a male and a female altar attendant. there were also numerous minor officials. he states that, according to porphyry, the hierophant represents plato's demiurgus, or creator of the world; the torch bearer, the sun; the altar man, the moon; the herald, hermes, or mercury; and the other officials, minor stars. from the records avai

the goddess of the earth, but more correctly she is the deity protecting agriculture in general and corn in particular. the poppy is sacred to ceres and she is often shown carrying or ornamented by a garland of these flowers. in the mysteries, ceres represented riding in a chariot drawn by winged serpents. p. 31 click to enlarge the processional of the bacchic rites. from ovid's metamorphosis. in the initiation, of the bacchic mysteries, the r le of bacchus is played by the candidate who, set upon by priests in the guise of the titans, is slain and finally restored to life amidst great rejoicing. the bacchic mysteries were given every three years, and like the eleusinian mysteries, were divided into two degrees. the initiates were crowned with myrtle and ivy, plants which were sacred to ba

o father! the man thou hast fashioned would be sanctified with thee as thou hast given him power to sanctify others with thy word and thy truth" the vision of hermes, like nearly all of the hermetic writings, is an allegorical exposition of great philosophic and mystic truths, and its hidden meaning may be comprehended only by those who have been "raised" into the presence of the true mind. next: the initiation of the pyramid sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 41 the initiation of the pyramid supreme among the wonders of antiquity, unrivaled by the achievements of later architects and builders, the great pyramid of gizeh bears mute witness to an unknown civilization which, having completed its predestined span, passed into oblivion. eloquent in its silence, inspiring in its majes

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anin" conjuring to visible appearance is most inadvisable. it is unnecessary in most cases and quite undesirable in this one. if ever a demonic manifestation could be classified as satanic, that of flauros can. in order to further enforce the obedience of the demon, after performing the initial identification ritual with fire, water, and wand, many practitioners incorporate into the spell part of the initiation ritual to be found in the last chapter. the sigil is taken from the operator's breast, bound with the cingulum and "hooded" with a black cloth, and then carried around to the various quarters of the circle to the "challenged" with the sword, or athame, at each quarter. it receives further consecration of fire and water and is finally unveiled and placed within the altar triangle, at

le to draw from the coven "energy pool" most coven initiations are performed at one of the eight sabbats if possible, preferably one of the grand sabbats of beltane or hallows, when the whole coven, such as it exists, is present. those ceremonies performed at esbats are just as valid however, though usually of a less spectacular nature. in accord with the magical orientation of the coven, so will the initiation ritual, and indeed all the other rites, differ. because of this factor, coven initiation ceremonies such as they exist today contain many divergencies from one another. in fact, it would be almost true to say that there are as many different witch cults as there are covens! some covens follow formal cabalistic and hermetic patterns of ceremonial, while others advocate the more exube

s, the myth of the goddess is implied, where the witch goddess andred, aradia, habondia, or whatever other name you may care to know her by, descends into the world of the dead somewhat like persephone in hades or ishtar in the realm of ereshkigal, and receives the scourge and fivefold kiss of the horned god of death and subsequent conferment of power. sometimes this myth itself is enacted during the initiation rite, in the manner of a mystery, but this is a supernumerary addition, the myth itself being implicit in the entire initiation ceremony. as you can see, both rituals have many things in common, as well as their considerable differences, all or any of which can be incorporated into an initiation ceremony by the resourceful practitioner; he should also include any additional coven sy

aining to isis, the great egyptian mother goddess and consort of osiris. as such, the magister and high priestess are the human representatives of the two great archetypal poles of life, whether you conceive of them as isis and osiris, summer and winter, life and death, or yin and yang. having called down the two powers, such magical operations as required by the coven, if any, are now performed. the initiation of new members follows this, in order that the new initiates may be able to join in the ceremonial dances afterwards. the witch dances these dances are many and varied, differing from coven to coven and allowing for considerable invention and renovation. the two main witch dances are the spiral dance, known otherwise as the maze, meeting dance, wheel, or round dance; and the chain d

MEANING OF MASONRY

having never left himself, or the way of return to him, without witness in this outer world. as much has been said about the ceremony of the third degree in other papers it is unnecessary here to expound it further. it may be stated, however, that it alone constitutes the masonic initiation. the first and second degrees are, strictly, but preparatory stages leading up to initiation; they are not the initiation itself; they but prescribe the purification of the bodily and mental nature necessary to qualify the candidate for the end which crowns the whole work. to those unacquainted with what is really involved in actual as distinct from merely ceremonial initiation, and who have no notion of what initiation meant in the old schools of wisdom and still means for those who understand the the

rred, and with what effect upon the candidate. initiation, we have already said, is something which but few are fit to receive, even after long and rigorous preparation, and fewer still are competent to impart. it was an experience of which a writer has said in regard to the candidate, vel invenit sanctum, vel facit--it either finds him holy or makes him so. virgil's account in the sixth aneid of the initiation of aneas into elysium (or the supernatural light, or that of lucius (again a name signifying enlightenment) in the "golden ass" of apuleius, when he was permitted to" see the sun at midnight" are instructive instances. so also the exclamation of clement of alexandria, who had been received into the gnostic school" o truly sacred mysteries! o pure light! i am led by the light of the

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

hts of my father s realm, being the air and fire. i was also shown and taught the arts of the lower realm, called a secret place known as arezura, that shadow and flame was the mastery over the earth. i was blessed again with the mark of cain which is the distinct mark of our lord the devil, which is the self in perpetual opposition which breeds strength and development. the mark of the devil was the initiation mark of azazel and lilith, which may come as caul or birth mark, this may be passed through the circle from my being touching the initiate, or lilith who is strong in both shadow and flame. i then took forth to the great deserts, with the blessing of lilith and the dragon itself. i was the lord of the forge, the blacksmith of infernal and celestial fire, the rider of the dragon and

t. the child of asmodeus (called often samael) and lilith, is considered the bringer of gnosis to humanity. other legends give tubal cain as the child of samael and eve, and that in congress the dragon spit filth into her and bore cain. tubal cain was demonized as the brother who killed abel, his so-called brother. it was cain, within the region of the middle east, sparked the forge which brought the initiation given to man by shaitan the opposer, or in a modern context, lucifer. from sabbatic sorcery, michael w. ford. casting the shadow of cain phosphorus solitary circle casting this is a small ritual designed to imbibe the sorcerer with a focused current of being, the dedication of the path of cainnite antinomianism. one may use the grand sabbatic (luciferian) circle as a means of antino

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

once one has developed their own personal convictions and developed a sense of honor it should be adhered to, save for a paradigm shift which would render the sorcerer useless for true magick, being that of growth and progression. spirits will seek to destroy an individual with no honor. unable to keep his or her word, they fall prey to that which lurks forever in the shadows of the subconscious. the initiation into the luciferian witchcraft is based on pushing the self, tearing away all masks which make up the outside of the individual until the basic essence remains. this is the way in which one begins building something strong and honorable. the essence of the initiation is to dedicate the sorcerer to the life long path of magick, wherein a great and beautiful flower awaits those of awa

sence must exist to reach the desired goal. initiation into the sethanic mysteries is based on a loose but well practiced doctrine. the witch requires an area of land, preferably wooded, in which solitude is possible. the mentor or partner can be present to give direction and guidance. the witch has a small bonfire going and is draped in traditional garments, hooded robes of white, appropriate to the initiation process. any other objects such as pentacles, sigils and other talismans can be worn as well, depending on the individuals interest and alignment. the color white represents purity, and humility or novice status. it is thus suited to those who have not 45 45 tasted the mysteries of light and dark. thus it precedes the gray of the magickal current that flows towards the toad s moon

whole body. at first he put it in the natural orifice and ejaculated the spoiled yellowing sperm, collected from nocturnal emissions or elsewhere, then in the anus, and in this manner inordinately abused her. the text explains the possibilities of the experiences of the dreaming infernal sabbat, to be undertaken by will of the sorcerer or witch. this ecstasy may be explored and used to strengthen the initiation of the individual, and to allow communion with ones familiars and servitors. 47 47 osculum infame and the sigilium diabloi the kiss or shame or devil s kiss has represented since the medieval times the kissing of the devil s behind, or end quarters as a dedication to the left hand path. the context of defining this ritual dedication was propagated by the church and was a charge ofte

. that eye sight grows in the weavings of dusk and dawn. the gates of the dead are opened! bless my mark, which is the sigillium diaboli, the new flesh emerges! so it shall be! witch name in blood cut from left hand vibrate in a hissing tone, until it forms as an unrecognizable mantra: zazas, zazas, nasatanada zazas! face now the altar, holding the dagger: widdershins around the circle and recite the initiation words: nema, live morf reviled tub! noitatpmet ton dael su tsniaga ssapsert ohw seoht rvigrof ew sa sessapsert ruo su evigrof, daerb yliad yad siht su evig nevaeh ni si ti sa htrae no enod eb lliw yht, emoc modgnik yht eman yht eb dewolloh, nevaeh ni tra ohw rehthaf rou! the conjuration of asmodeus into the mirror and through the conscious is the first steps of successful sorcery an

at in holy light of the cunning fire shall you become in the illumination of seth. four: the earthly journey of the sorcerer, the path of the adversary and devil in flesh. the individual shall move through the dual ecstasies to work with both shadow and light. this is the development of the bestial and angelic familiar; the holy guardian angel and evil genius-congressus cum daemone. five: this is the initiation by magickal retirement for a period, from which one observes sethian isolation and the various aspects of self. the initiate shall receive instructions of the coven, and may then seek the discarnate who reside in the lands of the gast for selfintrospection. six: the infernal induction. the initiate shall embrace the daemonic essence and enjoy the pleasures of the earth. the initiate

pproaches, from which all is distilled, forming into a new vision. a night sky above, dark as the wings of an eagle of shadow, letting cascades of blood: it calls to us at crossroads lost, with bounded knowledge of seasons to be! the dream is the backwards gateway to the witches' sabbat, wherein desire is formed into flesh. belief exists on the consistency of experience. the following formula for the initiation of the astral sabbath is derived from ao spare and his experiences with ms. paterson, who was descended from a line of salem witches. from the methods of zos, non-gardnerian and gardnerian english craft (14, as well as our own experience and work with this lineal stream, comes this new "old" system of witchcraft and sorcery. before one attempts this initiation, a creative and spirit

deadly nightshade, henbane, and hemlock. these herbs would be mixed in a base of lard and be smeared upon the body. the intention should then be bound into the ointment, by focused concentration, before taking to the night sky in dream. the webs of belief are always formed out of inspiration, a flash of consistent desire which in turns recovers in the incarnation of lust. astral sabbat initiation the initiation into the witches sabbat mysteries are the primary focus of the symbol of all magick, that of a hidden or shadowed nature. to reveal and understand is the very essence of what humans are and what their varied individual goals are. study now and practice more. the astral sabbat is a calling towards the dreaming self, that of which will be opened unto the gates of the watcher, all thin

and faith are planted in the comfortable area of which we feel 'at home. the altar should be adorned with an image or representation of hecate, lucifer, asmodeus and lilith (15. the sigil of dreaming should be upon the altar near a chalice filled with the appropriate elixir. this is a rite which is meant to open the subconscious channels or dream control and the shadowy sister/brotherhood. 94 94 the initiation into the witches sabbat mysteries is the focus of all magickal symbolism involving things of a hidden or shadowed nature. to unveil this is to know the very essence of what humans are, and what their varied individual goals are. study now and practice more. the astral sabbat ever calls to the dreaming self, with its dark promise to open the gates of the watcher. all things have thei

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

f horses, meaning also ten plagues on humanity. this is a name of azhi dahaka or zohak. black flame the gift of shaitan/set, being individual perception and deific consciousness. the 80 black flame or black light of iblis is the gift of individual awakening which separates the magician from the natural universe, being an antinomian gift of luciferian perception. the black flame is strengthened by the initiation of the black adept, who is able to balance a spiritual path with the physical world. black magick the practice of antinomian and selffocused transformation, self-deification and the obtainment of knowledge and wisdom. black magick in itself does not denote harm or wrongdoing to others, rather describes black as considered to the arabic root word fhm, charcoal, black and wisdom. blac

MORALS AND DOGMA

ee miles. the grand periods for initiation into the druidical mysteries, were quarterly; at the equinoxes and solstices. in the remote times when they originated, these were the times corresponding with the 13th of february, 1st of may, 19th of august, and 1st of november. the time of annual celebration was may-eve, and the ceremonial preparations commenced at midnight, on the 29th of april. when the initiations were over, on may-eve, fires were kindled on all the cairns and cromlechs in the island, which burned all night to introduce the sports of may-day. the festival was in honor of the sun. the initiations were performed at midnight; and there were three degrees. the gothic mysteries were carried northward from the east, by odin; who, being a great warrior, modelled and varied them to

honor of thor, the prince of the power of the air. that being the longest night in the year, and the one after which the sun comes northward, it was commemorative of the creation; and they termed it mother-night, as the one in which the creation of the world and light from the primitive darkness took place. this was the _yule, juul_ or _yeol_ feast, which afterward became christmas. at this feast the initiations were celebrated. thor was the sun, the egyptian osiris and kneph, the ph nician bel or baal. the initiations were had in huge intricate caverns, terminating, as all the mithriac caverns did, in a spacious vault, where the candidate _was brought to light. joseph was undoubtedly initiated. after he had interpreted pharaoh's dream, that monarch made him his prime minister, let him rid

e use of hieroglyphics was preceded in egypt by that of the easily understood symbols and figures, from the mineral, animal, and vegetable kingdoms, used by the indians, persians, and chald ans to express their thoughts; and this primitive philosophy was the basis of the modern philosophy of pythagoras and plato. all the philosophers and legislators that made antiquity illustrious, were pupils of the initiation; and all the beneficent modifications in the religions of the different people instructed by them were owing to their institution and extension of the mysteries. in the chaos of popular superstitions, those mysteries alone kept man from lapsing into absolute brutishness. zoroaster and confucius drew their doctrines from the mysteries. clemens of alexandria, speaking of the great mys

cal ideas, with difficulty comprehended by the mass of the initiates, were represented by figures, by symbols, and by allegorical analogies; no idea being so abstract that men do not seek to give it expression by, and translate it into, sensible images. the attraction of secrecy was enhanced by the difficulty of obtaining admission. obstacles and suspense redoubled curiosity. those who aspired to the initiation of the sun and in the mysteries of mithras in persia, underwent many trials. they commenced by easy tests and arrived by degrees at those that were most cruel, in which the life of the candidate was often endangered. gregory nazianzen terms them _tortures_ and mystic _punishments. no one can be initiated, says suidas, until after he has proven, by the most terrible trials, that he p

ed to purify us into immortality, are ever in this world interrupted at the moment of their anticipated completion. life is a mirror which reflects only to deceive, a tissue perpetually interrupted and broken, an urn forever fed, yet never full. all initiation is but introductory to the great change of death baptism, anointing, embalming, obsequies by burial or fire, are preparatory symbols, like the initiation of hercules before descending to the shades, pointing out the mental change which ought to precede the renewal of existence. death is the true initiation, to which sleep is the introductory or minor mystery. it is the final rite which united the egyptian with his god, and which opens the same promise to all who are duly prepared for it. the body was deemed a prison for the soul; but

of the ceremonial were passed in sorrow and anxious silence, in fasting and expiatory or lustral offices. on a sudden, the scene was changed: sorrow and lamentation were discarded, the glad name of iacchus passed from mouth to mouth, the image of the god, crowned with myrtle and bearing a lighted torch, was borne in joyful procession from the ceramicus to eleusis, where, during the ensuing night, the initiation was completed by an imposing revelation. the first scene was in the [greek: p??a, or outer court of the sacred enclosure, where amidst utter darkness, or while the meditating god, the star illuminating the nocturnal mystery, alone carried an unextinguished torch, the candidates were overawed with terrific sounds and noises, while they painfully groped their way, as in the gloomy cav

n of the universal cause into an active and a passive cause; of which two, osiris and isis--the heavens and the earth were symbols. these two first causes, into which it was held that the great universal first cause at the beginning of things divided itself, were the two great divinities, whose worship was, according to varro, inculcated upon the initiates at samothrace "as is taught" he says "in the initiation into the mysteries at samothrace, heaven and earth are regarded as the two first divinities. they are the potent gods worshipped in that island, and whose names are consecrated in the books of our augurs. one of them is male and the other female; and they bear the same relation to each other as the soul does to the body, humidity to dryness" the curetes, in crete, had builded an alt

ades and was restored to life; of which he had spoken before. we are reminded, by this passage, of the tomb of khir-om, his death, and his rising from the grave, symbolical of restoration of life; and also of the brazen sea in the temple at jerusalem. herodotus adds "i impose upon myself a profound silence in regard to these mysteries, with most of which i am acquainted. as little will i speak of the initiations of ceres, known among the greeks as thesmophoria. what i shall say will not violate the respect which i owe to religion" athenagoras quotes this passage to show that not only the statue but the tomb of osiris was exhibited in egypt, and a tragic representation of his sufferings; and remarks that the egyptians had mourning ceremonies in honor of their gods, whose deaths they lamente

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

d does not dwell in malkuth, but in the qliphoth. the probationer of the a. a. must pass through his first initiation before he is permitted a glimpse of the palace. for it is the palace of the king's daughter, which only the ipsissimus can reach, and live in. the first section of this verse is connected with the second only by the word 'therefore. it appears to describe an initiation, or perhaps the initiation, in general terms. i would suggest that the palace is the 'holy house' or universe of the initiate of the new law. the four gates are perhaps light, life, love, liberty--see "de lege libellum. lapis lazuli is a symbol of nuit, jasper of hadit. the rare scents are possibly various ecstasies or samadhis. jasmine and rose are hieroglyphs of the two main sacraments, while the emblems of

nguish, is customarily recited when one is about to make an appeal to a head of state. queen esther recited it when she entered the court of the king to appeal to him for mercy. wherever god is present, there is mercy. wherever there is no mercy, god is absent and we are forsaken" abraham joshua heschel jewish theological seminary, new york city serious students should remember the description of the initiation of the master of the temple in liber 418. they should remember the commentaries to al ii, vv. 5, 7, 8, 21, 23, 48, 49, 59, 60. we quote now three passages from the case of the drowsy mosquito, by mr. erle stanley gardner [inserted footnote* copyright 1943 erle stanley gardner, william morrow and co, inc "the desert is the best mother a man ever had. you do what she wants you to and

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

ng demeter and persephone; but the most important belief inculcated was the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. that the lessons taught were of the highest moral character is universally admitted "the souls of those who participated in them were filled with the sweetest hopes both as to this and the future world" and it was a common saying among the athenians "in the mysteries no one is sad" the initiation into these solemn rites (which was originally the exclusive privilege of the athenians) was accompanied with awe-inspiring ceremonies; and secrecy was so strictly enjoined that its violation was punished by death. at the conclusion of the initiation great rejoicings took place, chariot-races, wrestling matches &c, were held, and solemn sacrifices offered. the initiation into the les

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

dered a solar bird. the great initiate rabelais informs us, in pantagruel, book i, chapter 10, that "the presence of the powers of the sun, which is the organ and storehouse of all terrestrial and sidereal universal freemasonry 219 light, is symbolized and represented by a white cock" subsequently, the rooster came to symbolize daybreak and by extension the resurrection. today it still figures in the initiation skit of the apprentice mason. the decline of masonic universalism the universalism of the medieval builders was closely connected to the catholic religion and the building of its churches. a breech had already been torn in this universalism by the communal movement, when purely local brotherhoods formed without any solid bonds to another brotherhood or ties of origin to the monastic

the tools, he declared "all of this was written by the lord's hand which gave unto me the understanding (chronicles i, 28:19. solomon and hiram were merely executing (albeit perfectly) the will of god. in the commingling of hiram and adoniram, the masons followed the customary interpretation of all the medieval commentaries and interpretations of the bible. but the masonic legend a major theme of the initiation of the mason to the grade of master invented the tragic death of hiram, who was said to have been killed by three evil journeymen to whom he had refused to give the master "word" he was then transfigured and resuscitated in the person of the newly initiated master. in this story, the masons embroidered upon the bible. what's more, as we shall see, adoniram was killed in circumstance

ections that everyone understood in the theophany in which the world lived. to measure the importance of the legend for which hiram's legend is central, it is important to note that despite the existence of three levels in masonry apprentice, journeyman, and master in scotland, england, and on the continent we cannot assume that three separate rituals existed for initiation at these three levels. the initiation ritual among the operative masons should be viewed as a single entity markspeculative freemasonry 235 ing the true entrance of the apprentice into the craft in other words, his graduation to journeyman when he had successfully completed his apprenticeship. in addition to this initiation ceremony, there would be ritual forms of practice. we can see, then, what must have become two tr

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

light. in occult doctrine it is thought that from the union of spirit and matter (the pyramid is made of stone, rock, and earth and represents the unconscious. the capstone is made of an immaterial substance light or spirit and is conscious, a new being a transformed being is created. the seal s reverse depicts a separation state in the separation of the eye the triangle. the pyramid exemplifies the initiation stage. it is the house of initiation, in which the candidate confronts the world of darkness and enters the world of spirit. by passing the tests of the elements, the candidate is initiated into the realm of higher consciousness (heironimus ibid, p.92) after succesfully completing the initiation process, the candidate is reborn, and joins the single eye in the pyramid. the new world

ONYX TABLET OF SET

h have grown up around them, save the passion of humankind to believe that it is more than a mere accident in the ebb and flow of the cosmos. to be a priest or priestess of set, therefore, is an experience completely unique in humanity. without the sacrifice of one's individuality, one apprehends an additional consciousness distinct from the forces of the objective universe and interacts with it. the initiation of each priest and priestess is a function of this interaction, and so their beings and persons are sacred. but incumbent upon such initiates is the responsibility to "translate" this intensely personal experience into thoughts, words, and deeds in the worlds of initiated and non-initiated humanity that has not been so consecrated. thus the wisdom of set shall continue to inspire, e

of the crystal tablet. pylons are conceived somewhat differently. rather than being bound together by a specialization or orientation, they are assemblies of setians who, for whatever reason- locality, compatibility, etc, simply enjoy working regularly with one another. pylons may be localized and/or may operate over great distances as the members prefer. the temple of set is designed to enhance the initiation of all setians. it is expected that all sub-elements of the temple will generally make the fruits of their research or workings available to the entire temple via publications or activities (such as conclave presentations or rituals) which are open to all initiates. correspondingly, however, it is expected that setians who have a particular interest in the activities of a specific o

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

udhen 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 buffaloes as food every year. it was last performed in 1836/37 just before a smallpox outbreak wiped out almost the entire tribe. big canoe this barrel-shaped object made of planks and h

wo vertical lines below it are the bodies of the two dead sons. tracks of the old man the hunting tracks of the old man lead to ngama, the snake cave. it is from the rainbow snake (see p. 105) that the old man derived his magical powers. power over fire is an attribute of aboriginal shamans, or men of high degree. among the kattang-speaking people who occupied the northern shore of port stephens, the initiation ceremony involved a process of death and rebirth, during which the initiate was thrown onto a fire and then lifted up and held over it until it was burned out. emu tracks these arrows represent the tracks of an emu with a broken leg. another warlpiri myth tells of an emu that travels across the fire dreaming country eating bush food and laying eggs. this sacred landscape records its

PHOSPHORUS

nsformation, shape shifting and astral lycanthropy via nox umbra, see correlation between higher grades of toph and the botd. 3. the initiate will undergo the challenges of the necromantical flame, the becoming in the emerald flame of azrael and scribe their own self-designed grimoire of necromantic practice. 4. the guardian of the threshold satanas and the initiatic familiar. rites of phosphorus the initiation of the bloodied caul the birth of the initiate unto the light of phosphorus the initiate will have a robe of white which is symbolic of the light of lucifer before the fall. the virgin initiate shall enter the light of phosphorus to be born in the darkness of the initiator of the path, azal ucel. let the altar be decorated in the manner of which the sorcerer chooses, but with the al

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ced in consciousness. this reaction is calculated to arouse from their dormant condition those hitherto latent faculties represented obiectively in the temple of initiation by the officers. without the least conscious effbrt on the part of fibaspirant, an invofmtary current of sympathy is produced by this external delineation of s irituadl arts which mav be sufficient to accom lishth e purpose of the initiation cerimony. the aesthetic agpeal to the imagination- quite apart from what could be called the intrinsic magical virtue with which the g. d. documents z. 1. and z. 3. deal at some length- stirs to renewed activitythe life of the inner domain. and the entire action of this type of dramatic ritual is that the soul may discover itself exalted to the heights, and during that mystical elev

found in volume 111 of this work. i. r) the neopirye signr sign of iiaiipocratps sign of horus 0 signs of eiementni cradcs slcn of theoricus slgn of zllator slgn of practicvs slcn of philosophus the l.y. x. signz l slgn of mourning tlie sign of oslrls slain of isis- v. sign of apophis and typhon x. slgn of oslrls risen elemenfa1 grade ceremonies 135 introduction to the elemental grade ceremonies the initiation ceremonies of the zelator, theoricus, practicus and philosophus grades are each referred to one of the four elements of tetragrammaton- yhvh-beginning with the last, earth, air, water and fire respectively. as a whole these grades represent the fundamental work of the outer order which is to equilibrate the elemental forces in the working temple and in the psyches of individuals, wh

d a species of shadow of himself thrown forward to the place of the pillars, where the scales of judgment are set. at the same time that the first consecration establishes a semblance of the pillats to his right and left, it also has drawn forth from him a semblance of himself to the place vacated by the hegemon between the pillars (that is, the ceremony induces a species of schizophrenia so that the initiation may be effected. but see jung's commentary to the secret of the golden fher, and also my book on alchemy the philosopher's stone.-i. r) here then stands the shadow of the candidate while the scales of the balance oscillate unseen. unseen also and colossal, there is imaged before him tho-0th) as mettatron, in the sign of the enterer of the threshold, ready, according to the decision

ttracting the support of the light of nature acting upon natural forces. the ceremony of the equinox the whole formulae of the ceremony of the equinox are intended to create a magical link between the sun, as the light of nature, and the order; and it should be celebrated within 48 hours at least of the sun's actual entry into aries or libra. the single knock given by the hierophant <149> heralds the initiation of a fresh current. the password, as already explained, is the symbol of the connecting link of the purpose of the 3 74 the golden dawn: volume iii book five ceremony and therefore, before beginning fresh operation to attract a fresh current, the kerux proclaims that the former password is abrogated. in the whole ceremony, save at the exchange of insignia, the hierophant, hiereus, h

rank to the feet of the holy spirit. 0 ye divine powers of chesed, manifest yourselves through this intelligence yohphiel, to show forth the majesty of your realm, the love and the magnificence of your godhead, so that through *the student should substitute hisher own magical name. 41 6 the golden dawn: volume 111 book six this creature of talismans i may ever pursue the great work and assist in the initiation of my fellow men. and in so doing, grant that unto yohphiel who shall charge this talisman, shall be given a great reward in that day when the crown of the glory of my genius shall be placed upon my head, and that his nature may become more illumined and glorified, more capable of receiving that divine influx which abides in the heart of god and man. lift talisman in left hand, smit

leonis, and therefore is the first decanate that of saturn in leo. here follow the general meanings of the small cards of the suits, as classified under the nine sephiroth below kether. chokmah the four deuces syrnbolise the powers of the king and queen; first uniting and initiating the force, but before the prince and princess are thoroughly brought into action. therefore do they generally imply the initiation and fecundation of a thing. book 't <155> herein are resumed the special characteristics of the 4 court cards of the suit: suit card crest symbols hair eyes king winged black black horse, waving flames. club. red-gold grey or horse's head scarlet gold doak. hazel queen winged leopard. steady flames. wand red-gold blue or leopard with heavy head or end. brown wands prince or winged l

within the confines of a highly charged magickal space, a huge parcel of information to be assimilated before the next initiation. other groups, such as aleister crowley's o.t.o, are not teaching orders and so many turn to the g.d. to found their practice within a coherent system. besides the communication, there is the transmission of the magickal current. magickly, according to the "z" papers, the initiations served to imprint the energies of the system into the aura of the candidate. together. the initiations attempted to build the abalisticm icrocosm called the tree of-me into the soul of the k d i d a t et. he intent was to both evolve the subject soul and to provide an artifice whereby the soul could articulate its will. as a system of thought the golden dawn brought together and en

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

des in his soul. to find or to form such men was the end of all ancient initiations. pythagoras disciplined his pupils by silence and all kinds of self-denial; candidates in egypt were tried by the four elements; and we know the self-inflicted austerities of fakirs and brahmans in india for attaining the kingdom of free will and divine independence. all macerations of asceticism are borrowed from the initiations of the ancient mysteries; they have ceased because those qualified for initiation, no longer finding initiators, and the leaders of conscience becoming in the lapse of time as uninstructed as the vulgar, the blind have grown weary of following the blind, and no one has cared to pass through ordeals the end of which was only in doubt and despair: the path of light was lost. to succe

begins the marvellous symbols of the emerald table of hermes. in the apocalypse of st. john there is reference to two witnesses or martyrs on whom prophetic tradition confers the names of elias and enoch-elias, man of faith, enthusiasm, miracle; enoch, one with him who is called hermes by the egyptians, honoured by the phoenicians as cadmus, author of the sacred alphabet and the universal key to the initiations of the logos, father of the kabalah, he who, according to sacred allegories, did not die like other men, but was translated to heaven, and will return at the end of time. much the same parable is told of st. john himself, who recovered and explained in his apocalypse the symbolism of the word of enoch. this resurrection of st. john and enoch, expected at the close of the ages of ig

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

to veil the secret of natural forces which the initiate has at his disposal. religious formulae are the summaries of those words full of mystery and power which make the gods descend from heaven and become subject to the will of men. judea borrowed its secrets from egypt; greece sent her hierophants and later her theosophists to the school of the great prophets; the rome of the caesars, mined by the initiation of the catacombs, collapsed one day into the church, and a symbolism was reconstructed with the remnants of all worships which had been absorbed by the queen of the world. according to the gospel narrative, the inscription which set forth the spiritual royalty of christ was written in hebrew, in greek and in latin: it was the expression of a universal synthesis. hellenism, in fact

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

known and familiar to men, otherwise, being in a commentary 84 different state and element, they neither can nor will easily converse with them. this sentence is derived from the long-enduring tradition of contact between the worlds, which http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_82.htm (2 of 10 [10/9/2001 12:36:03 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 82-91) seems always to be dependent upon the initiation or adjustment of perception in humanity. kirk asserts elsewhere that though the subterranean people can see us, we cannot easily see them (pages 47-48. conversation or direct contact with your co-walker is one of the chthonic magical techniques, found in underworld or shamanistic initiation worldwide. it has its mirror or reflex in the technique of conversation with the holy guardia

RUBY TABLET OF SET

r this would overstep the frame of this thesis. sticking to a carefully planned, step-by-step development, there will be neither a mishap nor a failure or bad consequences, for the simple reason that ripening takes place slowly, but surely. it is quite an individual matter, whether the adept will choose as his idea of god christ, buddha, brahma, allah, or someone else. all depends on the idea, in the initiation. the pure mystic wishes to approach his god only in the all-em-bracing love. the yogi, too, walks towards one single aspect of god. the bhakti yogi keeps to the road of love and devotion; the raja and hatha yogi choose the path of self-control or volition; the jnana yogi will follow that of wisdom and cognition. let us regard the idea of god, now, from the magic standpoint, accordin

the meaning of set and self will ever fall prey to the addiction of ecstasy, provided he continues to utilize the gift of set, his intelligent life force encountered in ritual as the black flame. 3. initiatory states: to the setian, these may at first glance appear to be the degrees. these however, i believe are but the outward recognition in an objective sense of what is developing on the inner. the initiations happen before the recognitions. each degree also is a cumulative symbol of numerous initiations which result in self moving significantly in response to the subjective reality experienced as set and the mysteries. that the higher degrees are recognition by the council of nine is a rational safeguard to protect the objective purity of the temple of set. the responsibility, the truth

tanic" or at least "spiritual "ritual" can refer to a prescribed religious ceremony, but in its broader meaning refers to any customarily-repeated act or series of acts. the need to repeat these acts can be cultural, sexual, or psychological as well as spiritual. cultural rituals could include such things as what a family eats on thanksgiving day, or when and how presents are opened at christmas. the initiation ceremonies of fraternities, sororities, gangs, and other social clubs are other examples of cultural rituals. since 1972 i have lectured about sexual ritual, which is nothing more than repeatedly engaging in an act or series of acts in a certain manner because of a sexual need. in order to become aroused and/or gratified, a person must engage in the act in a certain way. this sexual

identical with it, i.e: infinite, omnipresent, hence mechanical [from the point of view of any component intelligence. this is a more precise restatement of the famous miltonian paradox: that a conquered god would become satan, and a conquering satan god.25 to make of man a daimon, then, may be to break his self-reference to the bounds in which his semblance must exist. a human who passes beyond the initiation of magus encounters the same paradox that set describes above. he ceases to view himself as a finite intelligence working upon an inertial environment. rather he attains such a strong sense of harmonious interrelationships that there is a strong tendency to perceive the entire objective universe as conforming to his word as a magus. initially this would seem to be immensely satisfyi

is an abstraction which the elect shall attempt to manifest and then transform. there are internal or hidden keys and external or mundane keys, esoteric and exoteric clues which must be used, but before these keys can be used to unlock the secrets, one must take a great step in personal evolution. this step is conscious and willed and is called initiation. this initiation is an ordeal of change. the initiation was shown in the original xem working as the hall of judgment, where the heart of the aspirant was being weighed against ma'at's feather. failure of the heart to be in balance with truth resulted in the aspirant being handed back to osiris. aspiration or good intentions are insufficient to xeper. xeper is never a relaxed will, and only xeper can transform being. xem gives direction

hose who have conquered fear should provoke the ordeal, as stated before. the call to initiation is impossible to not recognize, for it comes as a longing, an inner need demanding to be fulfilled. it shall seem as a need for inner action, and there will be an unceasing impulse to force an esoteric issue. the aspirant will feel an obsession to know truth and to be. this will be unignorable. during the initiation, which may take one evening or one year, the being calls upon its self to reveal itself to its self. this shall require an awakened state from which one may see the truth of self balanced against ma'at, and this must be willed. one's inner vision is carried well beyond normal limitations, and the aspirant may be forced to see a terrifying yet awesome glimpse of man, xem, the neters

truction. the importance is in the function of the neter and not in the name. the neter will be recognized by its nature. if the aspirant has already established or recognized a strong affinity toward a particular neter, the reason or working relationship could quite possibly unfold. more on this shall be discussed in a key concerning the neters and their significance to the initiates and to xem. the initiation into xem is the beginning of the actual quest for the unknown and nameless one. the work is the preparation for and concludes only with the great work- which in itself is but a new beginning, having fulfilled the challenge set forth in the statement of leviathan.(5) for this reason it would not be inappropriate to call the initiates of xem "alxemists" initiation is the preparation f

commentary of the keys of xem [the following comments on the keys of xem were originally done as letters to the iii pyramid of magister james lewis. they comprise pyramid-xix, pyramid-xx, pyramid-xxi, pyramid-xxii, and pyramid-xxiii] classification: v4- a17.26- 2 author: james a. lewis iv date (unknown) html revision: jun 07, 1999 ce subject: xem reading list: key #1 key #1 lays ground rules for the initiation into xem, and is an introduction telling us how, what, where, and who can and shall be elect to xem. it was not written to confuse with vague meanings. in fact, like the book of coming forth by night, it is written in the plainest possible language, and like the book of coming forth by night, its meanings are apparent only for those who work to know what those meanings are. let us e

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

and his bride baphomet. thus if the neophyte is female, then a priest, representing satan will couple with her, or if the neophyte is male a priestess, representing baphomet, will couple with him. the obvious exception is if the neophyte is gay and then he or she must seek out a relevant sapphic or uranian temple. the individual to be initiated may also undergo tests- both during and previous to the initiation ritual- and may be subjected to both humiliation and pain. humiliation may take the form of being stripped naked and bound before the temple into which the neophyte is seeking initiation. the symbology here is of a stripping of personality, wherein the individual is no longer protected by his or her personality as symbolised by his or her clothing and is instead bared to all devoid

d\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 mentioned earlier. once the ritual initiation has been completed there then begins a process of psychological change. to a large extent this change is simply a development of conscious awareness of one's actions, thoughts and feelings. the individual, having successfully passed through the first stage of initiation, as symbolised by the initiation ritual, must then undergo such further development and it is this development that is reflective of a true initiation, not simply satanic but of any religious, occult or mystical path. it is therefore unfortunate that great emphasis is placed upon the external form of initiation together with the exaggerated interpretations of blasphemy, sacrifice and sexual depravity whilst little

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

substances of little value into those of greater value, such as lead into gold. allah: the name of god in islam, derived from the arabic word al-ilah, meaning the one true god. amaterasu: the sun-goddess. amesha spentas: the bounteous immortals, aspects, or sides, of ahura mazda. amrit: a solution of water and sugar, used in the ceremony when sikhs are initiated into the faith. xv amrit sanskar: the initiation ceremony for young sikhs. anand karaj: the sikh wedding ceremony. animism: the worship of trees, rocks, mountains, and such, which are believed to have supernatural power. anthropomorphism: attributing human shape or form to nonhuman things, such as the gods. apathia: stoic belief that happiness comes from freedom from internal turmoil. apeiron: anaximander s term for the first prin

gion in the world. sikhism s members have preserved their cultural identity wherever they have settled throughout the world. words to know akhand paath: any occasion, such as a marriage or a death, when the granth sahib is read in its entirety. anand karaj: the sikh wedding ceremony. amrit: a solution of water and sugar, used in the ceremony when sikhs are initiated into the faith. amrit sanskar: the initiation ceremony for young sikhs. ek onkar: the true god of sikhism. five k s: the five symbols of sikhism that initiates wear: kesh, kungha, kasha, kara, and kirpan. golden temple: the chief sikh temple, located in the city of amritsar in india; more formally, the sri harmandir sahib. gurdwara: a sikh temple or place of worship. guru: a religious teacher. kara: a steel bracelet, worn by si

ineteen he earned a place at a religious college, or madrasa, in nishapur, about 50 miles west of tus. in nishapur he studied with one of the major religious scholars of the generation, the assassins share in some drugged wine before going to carry out their work of murder. the assassins were responsible for the death of al-ghaza l s sponsor, nizam al-mulk. ms fr 2810 f.17 hassan i sabbah leading the initiations at alamut giving his followers drugged wine (vellum, boucicaut master (fl. 1390-1430 (and workshop/ bibliotheque nationale, paris, france,/the bridgeman art library international. abu ha mid muhammad al-ghaza l 146 world religions: biographies abu al-malik al-juwayni (died 1085, also known as imam al-haramayn. al-juwayni was the imam, or religious leader, of the two most sacred cit

y this would not be a terribly frightening experience. most dagara boys who undergo the ritual have spent their entire lives living in the jungle, so the environment is familiar to them. for some, however, the journey was terrifying, as he had spent so long living in an urban area that to him the jungle was a strange and dangerous place. he stated that he almost died during the experience. during the initiation some learned a great deal about his own personal abilities, as well as about the supernatural world of the dagara. he declared that he saw spirits from the underworld and had visions of his grandfather and that he made contact with the beings that inhabit the natural world. in his autobiography he details his first night at the initiation camp, where a fire ritual gave him insight i

on it can that thing be truly brought into being. in some s words, if one can imagine something, then it has at least the potential to exist. to most people a yila tree is simply a biological, or natural, specimen; to the dagara, such a tree can become a green lady. when some focused on and truly saw the green lady, his vision of the natural world was transformed. back to the western world after the initiation the village elders decided that some should leave the village once again in order to tell the western world about the world of africa. some was reluctant to go, but he agreed. he first enrolled at the university in ouagadougou, the capital city of burkina faso, where he earned a bachelor s degree in sociology, literature, and linguistics in 1981, then a master s degree in literature

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

shore, she was brought at last to see the forms and hear the language of her native land. beautiful and true enthusiasm, rich with the promise of genius! boy or man, thou wilt never be a poet, if thou hast not felt the ideal, the romance, the calypso's isle that opened to thee when for the first time the magic curtain was drawn aside, and let in the world of poetry on the world of prose! and now the initiation was begun. she was to read, to study, to depict by a gesture, a look, the passions she was to delineate on the boards; lessons dangerous, in truth, to some, but not to the pure enthusiasm that comes from art; for the mind that rightly conceives art is but a mirror which gives back what is cast on its surface faithfully only while unsullied. she seized on nature and truth intuitively

se "then of what nature was the knowledge that you, once mortal like myself, could safely have sought in that icy atmosphere, which it was death for me to breathe? mejnour" continued glyndon, and his wild desire, sharpened by the very danger he had passed, once more animated and nerved him "i am prepared at least for the first steps. i come to you as of old the pupil to the hierophant, and demand the initiation" mejnour passed his hand over the young man's heart, it beat loud, regularly, and boldly. he looked at him with something almost like admiration in his passionless and frigid features, and muttered, half to himself "surely, in so much courage the true disciple is found at last" then, speaking aloud, he added "be it so; man's first initiation is in trance. in dreams commences all hum

see myself compelled to stand in this low world alone. i have sought amongst my tribe for comrades, and in vain. at last i have found a mate. the wild bird and the wild beast have theirs; and my mastery over the malignant tribes of terror can banish their larvae from the path that shall lead her upward, till the air of eternity fits the frame for the elixir that baffles death "and thou hast begun the initiation, and thou art foiled! i know it. thou hast conjured to her sleep the fairest visions; thou hast invoked the loveliest children of the air to murmur their music to her trance, and her soul heeds them not, and, returning to the earth, escapes from their control. blind one, wherefore? canst thou not perceive? because in her soul all is love. there is no intermediate passion with which

on the boards where illusion counterfeits earth and heaven for an hour, till the weary sense, awaking, sees but the tinsel and the scene-shifter. thy spirit reposes in its own happiness. its wanderings have found a goal. in a moment there often dwells the sense of eternity; for when profoundly happy, we know that it is impossible to die. whenever the soul feels itself, it feels everlasting life. the initiation is deferred, thy days and nights are left to no other visions than those with which a contented heart enchants a guileless fancy. glendoveers and sylphs, pardon me if i question whether those visions are not lovelier than yourselves. they stand by the beach, and see the sun sinking into the sea. how long now have they dwelt on that island? what matters! it may be months, or years wh

e come from a scene where blood flows in rivers, where death stands by the side of the bravest and the highest, and the one monarch is the guillotine; but all the mortal perils with which men can be beset, are nothing to the dreariness of the chamber where the horror that passes death moves and stirs" it was then that glyndon, with a cold and distinct precision, detailed, as he had done to adela, the initiation through which he had gone. he described, in words that froze the blood of his listener, the appearance of that formless phantom, with the eyes that seared the brain and congealed the marrow of those who beheld. once seen, it never was to be exorcised. it came at its own will, prompting black thoughts, whispering strange temptations. only in scenes of turbulent excitement was it abse

yes; i see it on thy brow. but wherefore wouldst thou blame me? did i not warn thee against the whispers of thy spirit; did i not warn thee to forbear? did i not tell thee that the ordeal was one of awful hazard and tremendous fears, nay, did i not offer to resign to thee the heart that was mighty enough, while mine, glyndon, to content me? was it not thine own daring and resolute choice to brave the initiation! of thine own free will didst thou make mejnour thy master, and his lore thy study "but whence came the irresistible desires of that wild and unholy knowledge? i knew them not till thine evil eye fell upon me, and i was drawn into the magic atmosphere of thy being "thou errest! the desires were in thee; and, whether in one direction or the other, would have forced their way! man! th

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

ration does plato speak of the secret teachings in the phaedo: perhaps these people who direct the religious initiations are close to the mark, and all the time there has been an allegorical meaning beneath their doctrine that he who enters the next world uninitiated and unenlightened shall lie in the mire, but he who arrives there purified and enlightened shall dwell among the gods. you know how the initiation practitioners say, there are many who bear the sacred wands, but the bacchoi are few. well, in my opinion these latter are simply those who have lived the philosophic life in the right way; i myself have done my best in every way to join that company, leaving nothing undone which i could do to attain this end.21 the mysteries and pre-socratic philosophy 23 one who speaks about initi

ransitory realm, it is destined to give birth to the eternal. humanity may therefore be termed the tomb of osiris; it is our lower nature typhon, or set that has killed him. the love that is present in his soul isis must cherish and care for the members of his corpse, and then the higher nature or eternal soul horus can be born, and in due course rise to the state of being an osiris. this then is the initiation practiced in egypt. it taught that whoever aspires to the highest stage of being must recapitulate, inwardly microcosmically, the universal and macrocosmic events connected with osiris. plato has described such a cosmic process: the creator had stretched out the world-soul on the world-body in the form of a cross, and the subsequent organization of the cosmos constitutes a redemptio

clear that they cannot be understood in terms of the natural, physical order. it is imperative, then, that we read the gospels in the right way. we shall then understand what they have to tell us about the founder of christianity. the style of the gospels is that used to communicate a mystery, and they speak in the way the mystai spoke of an initiated one. the only difference is that they ascribe the initiation to a unique personality, a single being. and they make the salvation of humanity depend upon a connection with this uniquely initiated being. for the initiates this was the coming of the kingdom of god. 101 the unique one had brought this kingdom to all people who made a connection with him. the separate concern of each individual gave way to a shared concern of all those who were p

of eternal life; the events of initiation had transported them for a time from the world. by speaking them, jesus had revealed the secret of the mysteries. that is why the jews felt that they could not allow such an act to go unpunished, as we may now understand. no more could the greeks have permitted aeschylus to escape punishment if he had betrayed their mystery teachings. jesus had performed the initiation of lazarus before all the people standing by, in a deliberate act revealing the process, that, in the ancient priestly world of the mysteries, had been enacted only in secret. this initiation prepares us for an understanding of the mystery of golgotha. formerly only those who were seers that is, 122 christianity as mystical fact who were initiated could know something of the goal of

diction to the ancient mystery religions principle that spiritual development is based on the development and expansion of consciousness. how then could an unconscious initiation possibly take place? what would be involved? two new principles are responsible for making this possible: the role of the proxy in initiation and the principle of community initiation. the role of a proxy here means that the initiation of one is also a living reality for all those who cling to him. 33 paul accordingly says that a christian should suffer with christ, be crucified, resurrect, live, and be glorified with christ.34 this clinging to christ happens 31. see page 108. 32. see page 98. 33. see page 99. 34. romans 6:6& 8, 8:17; galations 2:19; ii corinthians 7:3; ephesians 2:6. afterword 207 through the pow

of religion often restrict the term mysteries to the greek sphere; but it is legitimately used by steiner wherever we find the combination of secret (esoteric) teachings 212 christianity as mystical fact and initiation-rites. mircea eliade, rites and symbols of initiation: the mysteries of birth and rebirth (spring, woodstock, ct, 1994) stresses the continuity between the classical mysteries and the initiation-rites of the most archaic societies. 3. see aristotle, nicomachean ethics iii, i. 4. plutarch, a fragment preserved in stobaeus, anthology iv.52.49; it is translated in m. w. meyer s book, the ancient mysteries: a sourcebook (harpersanfrancisco, san francisco, 1987, p. 8. 5. descent into the underworld figures in many of the mysteries, whether in the legends of their heroes (such as

secret mark fragment in 1958. for this discovery, and its new version of the lazarus story in the light of steiner s approach, see a.welburn, the beginnings of christianity (floris books, edinburgh, 1991, pp. 249ff. the resurrection of lazarus culminates in the communication of a mysterion, 224 christianity as mystical fact namely jesus taught him the mystery of the kingdom of god. the fact that the initiation-experience is presented as central to the fourth gospel led steiner to develop a detailed argument for its authorship and mystery-character, such as has more recently been urged by such scholars as floyd filson; see further rudolf steiner, the gospel of st. john, pp. 60ff, and for modern developments, welburn, beginnings of christianity, pp. 242ff. 119. all this relates to ancient i

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

advanced initiatory approach towards obtaining expanded levels of consciousness. the dynamic potential of self individuation through the left hand path is reflected by the egyptian word xeper (pronounced keh-fer. this can be understood in many integrated ways, but for the focus of personal initiation, xeper will be dealt with as a process. it is this process- if willfully enacted- that results in the initiation of the individual. immediately, we are faced with the question what is initiation? from the standpoint of the xeper process it can be most easily be described as a separation of the psyche into very distinct components. for ease of visualizing this concept, liken each component to a packet of specialized knowledge. these components are then synchronized consciously into differing ar

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

satan. many laugh at least publicly at the notion of a real entity known as the devil. the masonic lodge not only publicly disavows worship of satan, but also vainly attempts to cast lucifer, pseudonym for the devil, in the mold of a good angel, ostensibly sent here on earth only to assist man and introduce man to the "better angels" the one about whom naught may be said in her eye-opening book, the initiation of the world, occultist vera stanley alder reinforces this pretense of the elite. she remarks that it is "deity" without a name that is admired and worshipped. furthermore, this mysterious deity is esoterically described by her as the "one about whom naught may be said" ironically, alder does have a lot to say regarding the "one about whom naught may be said" in fact, she praises th

orld. the megalomania and rage of the psychopaths 43 rebellion the illuminated elitist does not regard himself as a man, but as a god. as such, he is, in fact, a rebel, engaged in rebellion against the one, true god. collectively, the elite fancy themselves to be god. how does a mere human being arrive at such an imagined exalted state of existence? vera stanley alder, in her celebrated textbook, the initiation of the world, writes that once the illuminist has been raised to become a "unit within a great brotherhood" he progresses toward fusion and unity with the all-consciousness. in this state. man is no longer worshipping god, asking things of god, trying to become like god. he knows that he is god..he is.23 they hate without a cause here, then, we find an arrogant expression of hubris

also have communists karl marx, vladimir lenin, and joseph stalin giving the sign, plus napoleon, salomon rothschild, and many others whose images and pictures you will find in the ensuing pages, as they perform this devilish sign. wine from a human skull many other facets and activities pertaining to this degree's ritual stamp it as pure luciferian and its holder as a lucifer worshipper. during the initiation into the seventh degree royal arch mason (york rite) or 13th degree (scottish rite, the candidate drinks wine from a human skull. by this monstrous act, he reinforces the fact that he has taken an oath swearing to "have his skull struck off and his brains exposed to the scorching rays of a median sun" should he ever divulge masonic secrets. he goes on to demand that if he does divul

the other on the rug in opposite directions, the illuminati is reproducing, or mimicking, the symbol of the double-headed eagle in freemasonry. a ravenous bird from the east to the illuminati, the eagle is a symbol of overriding importance and, in its doubleheaded form, the eagle represents the illuminati's principal luciferian doctrine of as above, so below. it also represents the great work of the initiation of the world. how prophetic, then, is the bible verse found in isaiah 46:11 which reveals that in the last days, a "ravenous bird from the east" shall be called forth by god to wreak havoc and destruction on rebellious mankind and the fallen world. so when you see the duality principle("as above, so below) represented in the photos and illustrations in this section, remember: you're

yet in front of all. various occult symbols are on rice's shirt. the statues of mary give evidence of rice's veneration of the virgin in the form of the eternal pagan goddess (photo: associated press in austin american-statesman, january 31, 2004, p. a2) chaim potok, hasidic jewish writer and novelist, creates a headcovering of cabalistic magic. this sign is also reminiscent of the fourth sign in the initiation for the select master's degree (see richardson's monitor of freemasonry, p. 85 (photo: newsweek, august 5, 2002) mr. spock, a star trek character played by actor leonard nimoy, became famous for giving the vulcan greeting with his right hand. nimoy, a jew, says that the sign is the same gesture given in jewish synagogues when the rabbi and elders bring out the holy of holies. it is

a master mason. the fists are both clenched, in allusion to one of the penalties of the obligation, which is to have both hands chopped off to the stumps.15 how interesting. ironically, according to the masons, the symbol of the clenched fist relates to having the hand chopped off at the stump. communists out there: maybe you should listen to what your cronies in freemasonry are teaching you. in the initiation for the secret monitor degree of the lodge, the sign of the clenched fist is given in remarkably similar fashion to the communist salute, with one hand and arm. hammer and sickle the sickle is a universal symbol of the grim reaper; that is, a symbol of death. however, the communists would maintain that the hammer and sickle represent workers, or laborers, the proletariat, or common

THAGIRION

of the dark side. for everyone this level is illumination. this is the sun sphere, the mental plane and here the magician meets his/her higher self or daemon who on the sephiroth takes the form of the holy guardian angel. on the qliphoth it takes the form of the totem animal. the illumination on the sephiroth is of an intellectual nature and on the qliphoth it is an illumination of the instincts. the initiation of light brings an intellectual distance to the here and now and the material while the dark initiation brings total awareness in the here and now-in the flesh and the material. the tiphereth illumination is usually reached through ascetism while the thagirion illumination is reached through sex or ecstatic dance. through the typhonian alchemy a draconian magician reaches an illumin

THE CRAFT GRIMOIRE OF ECLECTIC VERSION 2

100% certain that you are doing what is best for you, you have the freedom to find the door. some traditions, still practice the great rite in the traditional form. there are just as many traditions that do not have such requirements in their initiations. find the tradition that meets your needs, and encourages you to grow as an independent person! magick is after all about freedom! in the craft, the initiation ritual the girls preform does not involve sex, but they do share a chalice of wine that has drops of their blood in it. at one point in time this may have been an acceptable practice. at this point in time, with the aids plague still running uncontrolled in the world, it s not only unacceptable. it is down right deadly! magick is about responsibility. be responsible, don t take need

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

e, golden hair, deep blue eyes, and a powerful magnetism that exerted a kind of magic upon all those with whom he came into contact. then, so the legend goes, he disappeared, and many presumed him dead. in reality, he had traveled to memphis, where he spent the next 20 years studying in the egyptian mystery schools. when he returned to greece, he was known only by the name that he had received in the initiation rites, orpheus of arpha, the one who heals with light. orpheus next changed the cult of bacchus/ dionysus and set about restructuring the spiritual soul of greece, recreating the mysteries by blending the religion of zeus with that of dionysus. orpheus taught that dionysis zagreus, the horned son of zeus and persephone, the great god of the orphic mysteries, was devoured by the evil

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law unto itself, passing judgment on all those whom they decided should receive a death sentence. because the society began with only a handful of members and violent retaliation could be expected from any gang of outlaws who might learn the identities of those commoners who dared to oppose them, an oath of secrecy was imposed upon all those with the courage to join the ranks of the vehm. during the initiation ceremonies, candidates vowed to kill themselves and even their spouses and children, rather than permit any society secrets to be betrayed. once the oath had been made, one of the vehm fs stuhlherren or judges, would move his sword across the initiates f throats, drawing a few drops of blood to serve as a silent reminder of the fate that awaited all traitors to the society. after th

s friends got in touch with a group of witches in penzance, who agreed to initiate a few students if they met certain conditions. frost was among a group of four who were blindfolded and taken out to a place they later identified as boskednan, a nine-maidens circle (the breath of nine maidens heats the celtic goddess cerridwen fs cauldron of inspiration) they went through an initiation similar to the initiation that would appear many years later in the witch fs bible and it was on that occasion when frost got the scar on his wrist, the spirit-through-fire scar that is still visible. roots of that coven fs practice have always intrigued frost because they seemed to owe nothing to gerald gardner fs work and because the order of service (the same as that shown later in gavin and yvonne frosts

high priestess of a new forest coven, initiated him into a secret group of wiccans. throughout his writings, gardner would always refer to the magical religion as wica, rather than wicca, as the word is spelled in common usage today. in his book the meaning of witchcraft (1959, gardner wrote that when he found wicca, he knew that he had discovered something interesting, but he was nearly through the initiation when it struck him that the old religion did truly exist and that he had become a part of the great circle that had existed since time immemorial. to be a gardnerian witch would thenceforth be to become a witch who had undergone an initiation that could hearken back to gerald gardner and through him to an unbroken lineage that had been hidden and kept secret by sacred oaths and the

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

me a student of tarot through the writings of court de gebelin (1725-84, who ascribed to the tarot an ancient egyptian origin. from de gebelin and rosenroth, levi synthesised a scheme of attribution of the tarot cards to the twenty-two paths of the tree of life, a significant development in that it provided a synthetic model of processes to be later modified and used by the golden dawn as mapping the initiation system of psychological, occult, and spiritual development. levi wrote "qabalah. might be called the mathematics of human thought. aleister crowley continued levi's work to some extent in his seminal work on the tarot "the book of thoth. in summary, the kabbalah passed from judaic tradition through to christian tradition, and through other flowerings such as the polish jewry kabbali

e. thus, the "bornless ritual" is an ascent up the middle pillar of consciousness from the "bound lights" of malkuth and ultimately, to the "boundless light" of the ain soph aur. resh in full is resh-yod-shin, and relates to the cards of the sun, hermit and last judgement. these could be transliterated into the phrase "the awareness (sun) of the true (hermit) will (judgement, which takes place in the initiation process at two key points, the first on crossing the veil and attaining to the sephirah tiphareth, and the second on crossing the abyss and attaining to the sephirah binah. the following extensions can be drawn: will in malkuth: the way of nature, the "entelechy" of aristotle in the unfolding of blossoms and the formation of galaxies. the "selfish gene" or "blind watchmaker" aspect

ckmah is the essence of this aspect of manifestation, in that there is no differentiation of events at this stage of the creative process. hanged man the "drowned man" or sacrificed god aspect of this card links with the nature of chockmah as showing the sacrifice of the point of singularity by extending its essence towards manifestation. the card is also symbolic of initiation, and hence mirrors the initiation of the creative process through chockmah. in symbolic form, showing the reversal of the man, it refers to the mystic state of the magus (the grade assigned to chockmah) which is utterly opposite to the uninitiated state in that it is connected directly to the divine (wise one of chockmah) rather than the normal state of being connected to malkuth (ego state of yesod. emperor the emp

hich bears one upwards through the letter heh, meaning "window. vi. lovers: operating at the same level as the emperor, but on the other side of the tree, the lovers represent the "impact of inspiration" from binah "understanding. regardie also notes that one interpretation of the card is "the liberating effect of the descent of the higher genius, a specific experience attributed to tiphareth. b. the initiation of the heart ix. hermit: the hermit connects awareness to the expansive force of chesed, love or mercy. the hermit embodies the contemplation of the heart on the mysteries of creation in the inner silence of devotion. as the sufi saying states "the worker is hidden in the workshop. xi. justice: the atu of justice is the balance of tiphareth with respect to geburah, discrimination. l

and as pythagorous stated "nature, all things hid reveals" if we take this card as symbolic of the individuals relationship with nature (as in "everything, not just "landscapes and bunny rabbits, then that relationship is revealed as being based on; awareness (hanged man; balance (justice; and synchronicity "meaningful coincidence (wheel, which are all aspects of the middle pillar and the opus of the initiation system. finally, we arrive at tau, which is, quite neatly, the universe card itself. this somewhat selfreferential termination of the set demonstrates admirably the nature of the card itself and the whole synthesis (being a meaning of the card, of course) of the previous cards in manifestation. thus, the formula of malkuth can be expressed as initiation, adjustment, synchronicity, r

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

on. jesus conferred evangelical initiation on his apostles and disciples. how this mystic christianity had supposedly passed on to the templars was recounted in the order s legend: file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c2.html (4 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:01:22 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. up to the year 1118 the mysteries and the hierarchic order of the initiation of egypt, transmitted to the jews by moses, then to the christians by jesus christ, were preserved by the successors of st. john. these mysteries and initiations. were a sacred trust. preserved from all adulteration. these gnostic christians, appreciating the courage and piety of the templar knights. held it their duty to trust to hands so pure the knowledge acquired over so many ce

s that castration of man called chastity, the atrophy of those noblest parts of the body which are the proper organs of redemption both gaian and ouranian. we then who in the seventh degree were sworn most solemnly to chastity in the inmost as in the outermost, who have now as epopts of the illuminati beheld with our eyes, and as perfect, pontiffs of our noble order administered with our members, the initiation whose name is resurrection unto the light, we therefore are able to lighten the darkest places of the earth, and to consider wisely what lieth in the empire of the evil ones. read therefore these passages in the forgery called the epistle of paul to the file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c2.html (1 of 12 [12/28/2001 2:05:25 pm] the se

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

gu rard, cartulaire de l abbate de saint-p re de chartres, vol. i, p. 112. 1 see before, p. 146, and plate xxxiii. 184 on the worship of the bulls against the offending stedingers, in both of which he charges them with various heathen and magical practices, but in the second be enters more fully into details. these stedingers, the pope (gregory ix) tells us, performed the following ceremonies at the initiation of a new convert into their sect. when the novice was introduced, a toad presented itself, which all who were present kissed, some on the posteriors, and others on the mouth, when they drew its tongue and spittle into their own mouths. sometimes this toad appeared of only the natural size, but sometimes it was as big as a goose or duck, and often its size was that of an oven. as the

p which is said still to exist among the nossarii, or nessarenes, the druses, and other sects in the east. in the middle of the scene on one side, a human skull is seen, raised upon a pole. on another side an androgynous figure is represented as the object of worship of two candidates for initiation, who wear masks apparently of a cat, and whose form of adoration reminds us of the kiss enacted at the initiation of the templars.1 this group reminds us, too, of the pictures of the orgies in the worship of priapus, as represented on roman monuments. the second of the coffers in the cabinet of the duc de blacas was found in tuscany, and is rather larger than the one just described, but made of the same material, though of a finer grain. the lid of this coffer is lost, but the sides are covered

word, but that he knew to what language it belonged. again, the epithet germinans, applied to mete, or baphomet, is in accord with the statement in the formal list of articles of accusation against the templars, that they worshipped their idol because it made the trees to flourish and the earth to germinate. 2 the abjuration of the formula on the monuments seems to be identical with the denial in the initiation of novices to the order of the temple; and it may be added, that the closing words of the formula involve in the original an idea more obscene than is expressed in the translation, an allusion to the unnatural vice in which the templars are stated to have received permission to indulge. there is another curious statement in the examinations which seems to point directly to our 1 du

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l-arm'd i ride, whate'er betide, until i find the holy in the calling the candidate has no wish to enter the circle-often just the oppo- site-but the secret currents of his or her life conspire to lead the candidate contin- dy to the gates of the temple. no matter how hard he or she strives against them, there is no rest or happiness until the candidate accepts his or her destiny and sub- mits to the initiation. the mystical poem by robert browning, childe roland to the dark tower came, gives an example of the unwilling spirit of the calling: for, what with my whole world-wide wandering, what with my search drawn out through years, my hope dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope with that obstreperous joy success would bring- i hardly tried now to rebuke the spring my heart made, finding fai

g his quest, the seeker theseus enters the twisting darkness where lurks the monster of his bodily fears and desires waiting to devour him. yet with courage he overcomes the minotaur and follows the threads of ariadne, his faith, into the light of day. he has been transformed and elevated from the man he was, who remains as a shad- ow entombed within the bowels of the earth. these legends bear on the initiation into a modern magical school. no seeker can enter a true secret lodge so long as he or she lives in the material world of con- ceits and delusions. the philosophy of the world is material; the philosophy of magic is mystical. the two are oil and water. they will not mix. true, trained magi are easily able to take their chosen places in the world, even as they are able to adapt their

tance. there is no going forward and no escape behind. the lamp flickers. then suddenly he notices a small aperture in the side of the pit near the lad- der, just wide enough to admit the body of a man. hope surges within him. can this narrow avenue lead to salvation? with a trembling and thankful heart he pulls himself into the opening, which ultimately leads to the inner temple and the place of the initiation ritual. whether this is a true description of the ancient egyptian initiation or, as seems more probable, is a fiction based on esoteric practices familiar to the chris- tian, does not matter. the meaning is clear. the clanging door is the gate of death. the sloping dark passage is the birth canal, and the dark pit is the abyss that every soul must cross when it moves from one life

rage intelligence and courage, they will readily be able to accomplish what is expected of them. it is not the desire of any legitimate lodge to turn candidates away, but to find those who will bear refinement and tempering into a useful instrument for the light. how far the candidates will advance in the art is another question, but they should have little difficulty with the physical aspects of the initiation rite itself. if, on the other hand, the would-be magician is utterly alone, learning the ele- ments of the art from books and, it is to be hoped, guided by intuition, his or her task is more difficult. this is all too often the case in the western world. it is not that secret organizations offering initiation do not exist, but it is seldom worth the while of the magus to join them

your thoughts and desires and actions to one purpose: the preparation of your soul for death, where it will be weighed in the great scales and found either acceptable or lacking. during all this time the self-composed ritual has been prepared and memo- rized. illuminations brought about by prayer and meditation will certainly neces- sitate modifications, but the basic format should be fxed before the initiation is begun, the result of months of study and thought. at the time of the rite, which must take place apart from interruption, wash and anoint yourself with clean oil. don a robe you have hand-made of clean white linen. draw a circle of protection about yourself and invoke the guardians of the quarters-the angel, eagle, lion, and bull. purify the circle with fire and water. cre- ate a

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lity. the altaic shaman climbs a tree or a post notched with seven or nine tapty, representing the seven or nine celestial levels. the "obstacles (pudak) that he must overcome are really, as anokhin remarked, the heavens that he must enter. when the yakut make blood sacrifices, their shamans set up a tree with nine notches outdoors and climb it to carry the offering to the celestial god ai toyon. the initiation of shamans among the sibo (related to the tungus) includes, as we have seen, the presence chapter one: shamanic soul flight 7 of a tree with steps; another, smaller tree notched with nine tapty is kept in his yurt by the shaman. it is one more indication of his ability to journey ecstatically through the celestial regiom3 the tree represents the living axis of the world that has its

ld protect him. another manchu initiation involved fire walking. if the candidate was able to achieve contact with his tutelary spirits, it was believed they would shield his feet from the glowing ember^ a member of the jivaro tribe of south america is forced to go for days without food, and drinks large amounts of tobacco juice. when a spirit finally appears to him, the master who is controlling the initiation proceeds to beat the initiate into unconsci usness. in ceremonies of initiation, there are two factors at work. one is the use of pain, hunger, and fatigue to induce an altered state of consciousness that is conducive to the 8. eliade, 112. 9. ibid, 84. 10 soul flight perception of spiritual beings. the other factor is the ordeal as a barrier that must be overcome in order to demons

ed "the windy tree" that it was windswept suggests that it was located on a high place, such as the top of a hill, even as the cross of jesus was located on a hill. as jesus was a sacrifice to himself, in that as god incarnate in human form he gave his life to god the father, so did woden who was known as the high one and the all father give himself to himself in the form of the shaman undergoing the initiation ritual, who assumed the identity of woden for the purpose of receiving the runes. almost all of the practices of early germanic shamans have been lost, and there is no way to know with assurance that this poem reflects an actual initiation ritual. yet so practical is it in its details, from an esoteric standpoint, that i cannot regard it as other than an outline of the initiation ri

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compasse of nature, and of all things which are subject to an end (a due& faithful relation, p. 77) dee may not have been deceived at all. as a good christian, who might be fairly confident that he did not carry the mark of the beast, he could view the final destruction of the world with eager joy as one of the select. he may have recognized that the angels intended him to be an unwitting tool in the initiation of the final armageddon, but may have welcomed the role as a humble servant of christ. on the other hand, dee never worked the magic of the keys in any serious, sustained way during his lifetime. perhaps he was afraid of it. the tenth key the thunders of judgement and wrath are numbered and are harbored in the north in the likeness of an oak, whose branches are nests 22 of lamentati

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

letters: iod, he, vau, he. iod is the man, he is the woman, vau is the phallus, he is the uterus. yet, we can also state: iod is the man, he is the woman, vau is the fire, he is the water. the profound study of the four letters of the eternal one takes us inevitably to the ninth sphere (sex. we must lift our serpent through the medullar channel and carry it up to her heart s temple. the cross of the initiation is received in the heart temple. the magnetic center of the father is found between the eyebrows. the sanctuary of the mother is found within the heart temple. the four points of the cross symbolize the fire, the air, the water and the earth (also spirit, matter, movement and repose. remember beloved disciple that the four elements of alchemy are: salt, mercury, sulfur and azoth: th

e fecundar el mercurio de la filosof a secreta para que la sal se regenere. s lo as podr amos escribir el libro del azoth. si t quieres la iniciaci n, escr bela sobre una vara. en el lingam yoni se halla la clave de nuestra liberaci n. 27 the cross has four points. the cross of initiation is phallic. the insertion of the vertical phallus into the formal ecteris forms a cross. this is the cross of the initiation that we must place upon our shoulders. the four sacred animals of alchemy are: the lion that hides the enigma of fire; the man that represent the mercury of secret philosophy; the eagle that corresponds to the air; the bull that symbolizes the earth. egypt s sphinx (as well as ezekiel s sphinx) has the sacred symbolism of the four creatures of alchemy. the water contained in the lak

antes que quieran conocer los misterios de chiram (el fuego) deben buscar a los alkimistas medievales. la gran maestra fue una verdadera yoguina disc pula de kout humi y sin embargo despu s de haber enviudado del conde blavatsky se cas con el coronel olscott, para trabajar con el arcano de la magia sexual. s lo as logr realizarse a fondo. 49 the great yogi-avatar sri lahiri lahasaya was called to the initiation by the immortal babaji when he already had a spouse. thus, this is how the yogi-avatar was self-realized. in hindustan, sexual magic is known by the sanskrit term urdhvareta9 and the yogis who practice it are named urdhavareta yogis. authentic yogis practice sexual magic with their spouse. there are two types of brahmacharya (sexual abstinence, solar and lunar. the solar type is for

us. when we liberate the solar electronic matter enveloped within the seminal atoms, we grasp the flaming sword. perseus descends into the flaming forge of vulcan in order to decapitate the sinful adam (the medusa) with his flaming sword. john the baptist is decapitated and christ is crucified in order to save the world. the slaughter of the innocent children (the initiates) is the repetition of the initiation. then the solar consciousness is born within us; this consciousness contains in itself the knower, knowledge and the known things. three in one and one in three. the solar consciousness is omni-present and omnipenetrating. the solar consciousness liberates the human being from the fatal wheel of the centuries. sexual cycles uranus is the octave of venus. it governs the masculine and

.a.o. de los grandes misterios. en estos sagrados mantrams de la k bala se esconde y combina i.a.o. el disc pulo debe dormirse vocalizando mentalmente estos cuatro mantrams kabal sticos. al despertar de su sue o normal es necesario practicar un ejercicio retrospectivo para recordar que vimos y o mos durante el sue o. 76 initiation flee from those who sell initiations. remember, good devotee, that the initiation is your own life. if you want the initiation, write it upon a golden rod16 (whosoever understands this let him understand it for there is wisdom within. the path of liberation is represented by the life, passion, death, resurrection and ascension of our adorable savior. remember the ego does not receive initiations. thus, you must not boast of being an initiate; do not say, i have t

igual a 18. en este arcano se repite la novena esfera dos veces. ya sabemos que el n mero 1 es positivo, y que el n mero 2 es negativo. as que si repetimos la novena esfera, por primera vez, y por segunda, tendremos al sexo en sus dos aspectos, positivo y negativo. 117 now our disciples will understand why the arcanum xviii is light and darkness, white magic and black magic. the secret enemies of the initiation are found in the eighteenth arcanum. you must know, beloved disciples, that the kundalini rises very slowly through the medullar canal, the ascension of the kundalini, from vertebra to vertebra, is performed very slowly according to the merits of the heart. each vertebra represents certain virtues. the ascension to a certain vertebra is never acquired without having achieved the con

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th dionysus. it is she who is the protagonist of the entire liturgy '2. draped in the sindon the maiden reverently approaches a nude youth evidenced to be a priest by the high dionysiac boots he is wearing. this embades, under the tender guidance of a priestess, is reading a charge or ritual from a roll in order that the neophyte may be made cognisant of the rules, or maybe of the significance of the initiation '3. thus instructed and enabled now to share in the rite, the maiden, still draped in the sindon and now wearing a crown of myrtle, moves to the right bearing on a ritual dish food in slices to take part in a lustral repast. before a sacrificial table is seated a priestess assisted by two attendants; with her left hand she uncovers a dish brought by one attendant and in her right ha

cal bride of dionysus, and to signify symbolically this wedlock she is about to uncover a huge phallus which she has brought in a sacred basket. she places this on the ground and seems humbly to crave the assent of a winged semi-nude figure, shod with the dionysiac boot, a ritual roll in her girdle and a rod in her hand. it is talate, the daughter of dionysus, the personification and executrix of the initiation '7. talate stays her gesture with her hand and lifts the rod whilst the maiden kneels bewildered and terrified with her face well-nigh hidden in the lap of a compassionate priestess, to endure the ritual flagellation which replaces and symbolises death. physically she does not die, but she passes symbolically through death and dies mystically as the stigmatists die crucified in chri

cula, rearranging and adorning them with paintings suited to their new purpose, and it was not without good reason that this basilica was placed in a suburban villa. the orphic mysteries were as we know prohibited by the senatus consultum (de bacchanalibus) after they had given rise to scandals; but the most curious point is that according to livy these scandals happened precisely in campania and the initiations were by women and took place by day. our liturgy shows us the initiation of a woman and the enormous window proves that the initiations were made in the daytime. this orphic basilica, in days of old the secret meeting place of the initiated, enables us today to penetrate the secrets of the greek mysteries' more recent investigations have shown that this villa belonged to some of th

o pieces of leather thonged at the sides. they are said to sacrifice animals to the moon, or at least to hold ceremonies in honour of the full moon, with dances regulated by a moon dial. i am told that they have one very beautiful dance, the dance of the four winds, which is usually held round a standing stone or something which has four sides; but i can obtain no details. it is said that part of the initiation ceremony of the man is called diana's hunt, when all the single and unattached girls chase the initiate and whoever catches him beats him and then takes him under her guidance, it having usually been arranged beforehand who should catch him. i was told that blood was sometimes used in the rites and curses were put on people, but my informant knew nothing of the rites, or of their le

a woman, but a high priestess (whom they may borrow from another coven, if they have not got one of their own available) must be present to celebrate the rites. in the old days there were numbers of people who would come to the meetings who were of the faith but were uninitiated (not received into the circle, or taught the secrets. i think that in the old days there was no real secrecy about what the initiation consisted of; anyone could see and hear it much as one may see a baptism or marriage. but unless you undergo the marriage or baptismal rites you are not married or baptised; neither does knowing how a marriage is performed give you power to marry someone else. secondly, a coven can also mean the people who celebrate the rites in the circle. traditionally, this consists of six perfec

nate power of hyperaesthesia or prevision which can be developed with practice. in the olden days one would see examples everywhere and know positively how it worked and could easily obtain the necessary herbs; and nowadays, even though everything is against it, this practice still goes on. a very common but untrue charge against witches was that initiates were required to abjure christianity. at the initiation a long charge was read which told the candidate what would be required of him; but there was no question of giving up any other faith. he was told that he would obtain benefits and help in the future life by the aid of the goddess, who asked nothing in return. the pact with the devil is nonsense; the only promise is one of secrecy and to help one's brothers and sisters when in need

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