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f man) i am the great god, begotten of himself. i can never be turned back by the elementary powers: i am the morning, i know the gate (i ever rise again into existence; i know the pathway through death unto life) the father of the spirit, the eternal soul of the sun, he hath examined and he hath proved me; he hath found that i fought on earth the battle of the good gods as he, my father, lord of the invisible world, hath ordered me to do. i know the great god who existeth in the invisible. i am the great phoenix which is in annu, the former of my life and my being am i. the symbols on the columns, beginning at the top of the one with black figures on a white ground, are mystical representations of the various paragraphs of the 17th chapter. they show: the symbols of temu, the setting sun

hpharth beauty gold 7) netzach jxn ntzch victory emerald 8) hod dw h hod splendor orange 9) yesod dwsy ysod foundation violet 10) malkuth twklm mlkuth kingdom citrine, olive, black, russet the pathworking and ritual diary are really two different things. pathworking and dream work on a nightly basis should be part of one of the two diaries. it is the subconscious mind that acts as the doorway to the invisible. it is through the subconscious mind that we are illuminated and enlightened. as it is stated in the neophyte initiation,"let me enter the pathway of darkness and peradventure, there shall i find the light. that pathway of darkness is really our subconscious mind. our egos are but tips of an iceberg. each one of us knows that deep down below our ego, our exterior self, there is alot

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

rength. release is the key at this stage. this release may take the form of a final shout, a leap, or words. as you extinguish your candle of need, you may shout: it is free, the power is mine! or, at the point of release, you may throw your extended hands wide in an arc above your head. if the ceremony is formal and you are using an athame, you can at this moment bring it in front of you to mark the invisible cutting of the knot holding the power. pull your visualised or actual knots tight, cut them, leap into the air, shouting: the power is free! or it is done! sometimes there is just a sudden stillness, as the power leaves. afterwards, you need to ground the energies by sitting or lying on the ground and letting excess energies fade away into the earth as you press down with your hands

f truth, bring love that will last, in age and in youth. in sickness and sorrow, in health and in joy, in wealth and in dearth, may nothing destroy* beginning at the single (top) point of your invisible pentagram, light your first incense, saying: i light this incense to bring love into my life and the one who is right for me* moving deosil, light and place the second incense on the next point of the invisible pentagram, saying: i light this incense that i may give love where it will bring joy and bear fruit* continuing deosil, light and place the third incense at the next invisible point, saying: i light this incense for the increase of that love and for mutual fidelity and respect* light and place the fourth incense, saying: i light this incense for the marriages of mind and soul as well

* sleep with the ring and ivy next to your bed on the cushion and in the daytime surround it with white flowers* when you have time, take the ash to the top of a hill or any windy place and scatter it to the four winds, saying: go free in love and return in joy. you can carry out the spell on a larger scale by placing the ring, the candle and one large incense stick on your altar in the centre of the invisible pentagram. place the other large incense sticks on small tables, chairs or blocks at the other points and work within the pentagram. you could even use garden incense and carry out the ritual in a sheltered spot out of doors, maybe even picking your ivy and white flowers during the ritual. a ritual for harmony this ritual can be used when, for example, a colleague, family member or f

ass, crystal, pottery or metal, traditionally silver, used in ceremonies to represent the water element and to hold wine, juice or water. charge: a declaration of the power and benevolence of the goddess (or god) in wicca, similar to the creed in other religions. it is spoken usually in the first person and is sometimes believed to be the words of the goddess channelled through the speaker. ch'i: the invisible life force, the flow of positive energy through everything, promoting growth, health and vitality. clairaudience: a natural psychic ability to hear sounds beyond the range of the physical sounds and the physical ear, sometimes from other dimensions. mediums often communicate with spirits by hearing their voices and so can convey messages to relatives or friends in whom the ability is

ABRAMELIN1

the production of magical effects. for the classification of divine and angelic names; of hosts and orders of angels, spirits and demons; of particular names of archangels, angels, intelligences, and demons, is to be found carried out even to minute detail in the qabalah, so that the knowledge hereof can give a critical appreciation of the correspondences, sympathies, and antipathies obtaining in the invisible world. therefore what abraham means is, that this system of sacred magic is thoroughly reliable, because correct in all its attributions, and that this being so, there is no chance of the operator using names and formulas on wrong occasions and in error. but also it is notable that abraham the jew (probably again with the intent of confusing lamech as little as possible) speaks only

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

nt. chief stands at east of the altar with arms extended) 25 chief "for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness into the light. i have fought upon earth for good. i have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible. i am the sun in his rising. i have passed through the hour of cloud and of night. i am amoun, the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am the lord of life triumphant over death. there is no part of me which is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light; out of the darkness, let that light arise" aspirant

oun, the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am the lord of life triumphant over death. there is no part of me which is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light; out of the darkness, let that light arise" aspirant "before i was blind, but now i see" chief "i am the reconciler with the ineffable. i am the dweller of the invisible. let the white brilliance of the spirit divine descend (chief raises his hands invoking the divine white brilliance. then pause) chief (to aspirant "arise now as an adeptus minor of the rose of ruby and the cross of gold, in the sign of osiris slain (all rise. second and third adepts raise aspirant, and extend his arms in a cross. he then recrosses his arms on his breasts and turns h

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

owner of a cotton plantation up river. at a round table in the middle of the room sits one of the proprietors with a group of friends; he is burly, rubicund, and jolly, the very type of the shakespearean "mine host" now a party of a dozen merry boys and girls comes in. the old pianist begins to play a dance, and in a moment the whole cafe is caught up in the music of harmonious motion. yet still the invisible line is drawn about each soul; the dance does not conflict with the absorption of the two strange women, or with my own mood of detachment. then there is a "little laughing lewd gamine" dressed all in black save for a square white collar. her smile is broad and free as the sun and her gaze as clean and wholesome and inspiring. there is the big jolly blonde irish girl in the black vel

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

he foundations of my body which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. for i am asar triumphant, even asar un-nefer the justified one! i am her who is clothed with the body of flesh, yet in whom is the spirit of the mighty gods. i am he lord of life, triumphant over death; he who partaketh with me shall page 18 gulf.txt arise with me. i am the manifestor in matter of those whose abode is in the invisible. i am purified: i stand upon the universe: i am its reconciler with the eternal gods: i am the perfector of matter; and without me the universe is not" all this he said, and displayed the sacraments of osiris before them all; and in a certain mystical manner did we all symbolically partake of them. but for me! in the scent of the dying rose i beheld rather the perfection of the love

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

ritten in cairo in the spring of 1904, when he believed himself to be in contact with a praeter-human intelligence called aiwass who dictated to him the three chapters that make up the book. it had influenced him more than any other, and the remainder of his life was spent trying to understand it fully, and to make its message known to the world. it, too, contains the formulae necessary to summon the invisible into visibility, and the secrets of transformations are hidden within its pages, but this is crowley's own necronomicon, received in the middle east in the shadow of the great pyramid of gizeh, and therein is writ not only the beauty, but the beast that yet awaits mankind. it would be vain to attempt to deliver a synopsis of crowley's philosophy, save that its 'leitmotif' is the rabe

guyu nexrraniku ga ya shu shagmuku tu! and they bread burned in the bronze brazier of calling: and the salt scattered about the room, sixty times. and a circle shall be drawn on the ground, in the midst whereof you shall stand while reciting the conjurations set forth, taking especial care not to venture forth from the boundaries of the circle, the holy mandal of calling, lest thou be consumed by the invisible monsters from the egurra of ereshkigal, as was the priest abdul ben-martu in a public square in jerusalem. and the circle shall be drawn in lime, or barley, or white flour. or dug in the ground with the dagger of inanna of calling. or embroidered in the most precious silk, or expensive cloth. and the colours thereof shall be only black and white, and no other. and the frontlet of cal

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

for a mere millionaire to try to bankrupt a man who has the bank of england behind him. 149 to sum up, the first task is to separate the astral form from the physical body, the second to develop the powers of the astral body, in particular those of sight, travel, and interpretation; third, to unify the two bodies without muddling them. this being accomplished, the magician is fitted to deal with the invisible. ii it is now useful to contine with considerations of other planes, which have commonly been classed under the astral. there is some reason for this, as the delimitations are somewhat vague. just as the vegetable kingdom merges into the animal, and as the material plane has beings which encroach upon the boundaries of the astral, so do we find it in the higher planes. the mental ima

re of the universe that the observation of their fall should not enable us to measure all things in heaven and earth. with one piece of curved glass we have discovered uncounted galaxies of suns; with another, endless orders of existence in the infinitesimal. with the prism we have analysed light so that matter and force have become intelligible only as forms of light. with a rod we have summoned the invisible energies of electricity to be our familiar spirit serving us to do our will, whether it be to outsoar the condor, or to dive deeper into the demon world of disease than any of our dreamers dared to dream. since with four bits of common glass mankind has learnt to know so much, achieved so much, who dare deny that the book of thoth, the quintessentialized wisdom of our ancestors whose

ll fling roses upon thee, and the merchants bend their knees and bring thee gold and spices. also young boys shall pour wonderful wines for thee, and the singers and the dancers shall sing and dance for thee. 15. yet shalt thou not be therein, for thou shalt be forgotten, dust lost in dust. 16. nor shall the aeon itself avail thee in this; for from the dust shall a white ash be prepared by hermes the invisible. 17. and this is the wrath of god, that these things should be thus. 18. and this is the grace of god, that these things should be thus. 19. wherefore i charge you that ye come unto me in the beginning; for if ye take but one step in this path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. this path is beyond life and death; it is also beyond love, but that ye know not, for ye kn

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

e magician, so is the magick cup his understanding. this is the cup of which it was written "father, if it be thy will, let this cup pass from me" and again "can ye drink of the cup that i drink of" and it is also the cup in the hand of our lady babalon, and the cup of the sacrament. this cup is full of bitterness, and of blood, and of intoxication. the understanding of the magus is his link with the invisible, on the passive side. his will errs actively by opposing itself to the universal will. his understanding errs passively when it receives influence from that which is not the ultimate truth. in the beginning the cup of the student is almost empty; and even such truth as he receives may leak away, and be lost. they say that the venetians made glasses which changed colour if poison was

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

this appears questionable, as the root of vau and the sun god both pertain to tipheret) these three virtues hath it, yet we cannot describe it as consisting of them; but, mingling them aright, we apprehend the one. 2. above, it shineth not; below, it is not dark. it moveth all continuously, without expression, returning into naught. it is the form of that which is beyond form; it is the image of the invisible; it is change, and without limit((cf. ain, ain soph, ain soph aur. also see 'book of wisdom or folly) 3. we confront it, and see not its face; 15 we pursue it, and its back is hidden from us. ah! but apply the tao as in old time to the work of the present; know it as it was known in the beginning; follow fervently the thread of the tao. 16 chapter xv the appearance of the true nature

rive their essence from the tao. 2. without the tao, heaven would dissolve earth disrupt, spirits become impotent; vehicles empty; living things would perish and rulers lose their power. 3. the root of grandeur is humility, and the strength of exaltation in its base. thus rulers speak of themselves as 'fatherless 'virtueless 'unworthy' proclaiming by this that their glory is in their shame((it is the invisible that is all-important: see cap. ii) so also the virtue of a chariot is not any of the parts of a chariot, if they be numbered((cf 'the questions of king milinda' where is the discussion of what a carriage really is) they do not seek to appear fine like jade, but inconspicuous like common stone((english good manners are similarly inconspicuous, and were so devised as a protection. jad

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

, whether legend or fact, is derived from this ex periment. it is quite possible that some such survive. another school, objecting strongly to the sex-process "which must be transcended as the lemurians overcame gemmation" vivisected men and women, taking various parts of the brain, especially the cerebellum, the pineal gland, and the pituitary body, and cul tivated them in solutions of zro under the invisible rays of black phosphorus. the best results of this work was a race of translucent jelly-folk of great intellectual development; but so far from being able to travel through space, they could hardly move in their own element. another school argued that as zro in vapour combined the virtues of the liquid and the solid zro, so a fiery state might be produced which would so impregnate th

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

ad. they will be reborn into a world where freedom is the air of breath. so then, in all kindness, the christians to the lions! the "babe in the egg" is harpocrates; it is his regular image. i am not very well satisfied with the old comment on this verse. it appears rather as if the amen should be the beginning of a new paragraph altogether. amen is evidently a synthesis of the four elements, and the invisible fifth is spirit. but harpocrates, the babe in the egg, is virgo in the zodiac indeed, but mercury among the planets. mercury has the winged helmet and heels, and the winged staff about which snakes twine, and it is he that goeth. now this letter is beth whose numeration is 2, and aleph-mem-nun is 91, which added to 2 makes 93. amoun is of course jupiter in his highest form. to unders

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emonies and sacred books in general have more or less clearly, as their object of instruction, the interior truths of the sanctuary, by which man will be conducted to the universal knowledge of the one absolute truth. the more the external worship of a people has remained united with the spirit of esoteric truth, the purer its religion; but the wider the difference between the symbolic letter and the invisible truth, the more imperfect has become the religion. 9 finally, it may be, the external form has entirely parted from its inner truth, so that ceremonial observances without soul or life have remained alone. in the midst of all this, truth reposes inviolable in the inner sanctuary. faithful to the spirit of truth, the members of the interior order live in silence, but in real activity

oon set the hunchback lion and the soldier unicorn fighting for your crown. and they shall lie down together at the end, equally glad, equally weary; while sole and sublime that crown of thine (brother) shall glitter in the frosty void of the abyss, its twelve stars filling that silence and solitude with a music and a motion that are more silent and more still than they; thou shalt sit throned on the invisible, thine eyes fixed upon that which we call nothing, because it is beyond everything attainable by thought, or trance, thy right hand gripping the azure rod of light, thy left hand clasped upon the scarlet scourge of death; thy body girdled with a snake more brilliant than the sun, its name eternity; thy mouth curved moonlike in a smile, in the invisible kiss of nuit, our lady of the s

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ne that sitteth between the pillars veiled with a shining veil, and on my lap is the open book of the mysteries of the ineffable light. i am the aspiration unto the higher; i am the love of the unknown. i am the blind ache within the heart of man. i am the minister of the sacrament of pain. i swing the censer of worship, and i sprinkle the waters of purification. i am the daughter of the house of the invisible. i am the priestess of the silver star. and she catches me up to her as a mother catches her babe, and holds me up in her left arm, and sets my lips to her breast. and upon her breast is written "rosa mundi est lilium coeli" and i look down upon the open book of the mysteries, and it is open at the page on which is the holy table with the twelve squares in the midst. it radiates a bl

epax. amri radara poliax armana piliu. amri radara piliu son; mari narya barbiton madara anaphax sarpedon andala hriliu "translation" i am the harlot that shaketh death. this shaking giveth the peace of satiate lust. immortality jetteth from my skull, and music from my vulva. immortality jetteth from my vulva also, for my whoredom is a sweet scent like a seven-stringed instrument, played unto god the invisible, the all-ruler, that goeth along giving the shrill scream of orgasm. every man that hath seen me forgetteth me never, and i appear oftentimes in the coals of the fire, and upon the smooth white skin of woman, and in the constancy of the waterfall, and in the emptiness of deserts and marshes, and upon great cliffs that look seaward; and in many strange places, where men seek me not. a

wned and conquering child, whom thou knewest not! pass thou on, therefore, o thou prophet of the gods, unto the cubical altar of the universe; there shalt thou receive every tribe and kingdom and nation into the mighty order that reacheth from the frontier fortresses that guard the uttermost abyss unto my throne. this is the formula of the aeon, and with that the voice of lil, that is the lamp of the invisible light, is ended. amen. biskra, algeria "december" 19, 1909. 1.30- 3.30 p.m. 172 a comment upon the natures of the aethyrs. 30. without the cube- the material world- is the sphere-system of the spiritual world enfolding it. the cry seems to be a sort of exordium, and external showing forth of the coming of the new aeon, the aeon of horus the crowned child. 29. the disturbance of equil

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bration, the forces that surround him. death he sees, and the life of nature whose name is sorrow, and the word that quickeneth these, and his own self and when he hath recognised these four in their true nature he passes to the altar once more and as the apex of a descending triangle is admitted to the lordship of the double kingdom. thus is he a member of the visible triad that is crossed with the invisible behold the hexagram of solomon the king! all this the hiereus seals with a knock and at the hegemon's new summons he to his surprise finds himself as the hanged man of the tarot. each point of the figure thus formed they crown with light, until he glitters with the flame of the spirit. 38 thus and not otherwise is he made a partaker of the mysteries, and the lightning flash strike

ustice and the hanged man, and i fell into both the pitfalls thereof. instead of the great balance firmly held, i found only libra, the house of venus and of the exaltation of saturn; and these evil planets, smiling and frowning, overcame me. and so for the sublime path of man; instead of that symbol of the adept, his foot set firmly upon heaven, his whole figure showing forth the reconciler with the invisible, i found but the stagnant and bitter water of selfishness, the dead sea of the soul. for all is illusion. who saith "i" denieth adonai, save only if he mean adonai. and daleth the door of the pylon, is that tree whereon the adept of man hangeth, and daleth is love supernal, that if it be inserted in the word ani,"i, giveth adni, adonai. subtle art thou and deadly, o dweller of the th

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triad: and it is the place of the lotus- throned lord of silence, even that great god harpocrates, the younger brother of horus. of isis and nephthys the stations are the places of the pillars in netzach and hod respectively; wherefore these great goddesses are not otherwise shown in this grade, save in connection with the praemonstrator and imperator. of arouerist his secret place is the last of the invisible stations and he standeth with the hierophant as though representing him unto the outer order. for while the hierophant is 5 =6, yet he is only shown as a lord of the paths in the portal of the vault. so that when he moveth from his place on the throne of the east, the seat of aeshuri, he is no longer osiris but arouerist. and the invisible station of arouerist may therefore be said t

les of the balance, as though a vast wheel were revolving, as it is said "one wheel upon the earth beside the kerub" and also note the rashish ha-gilgalim.16 of this wheel the ascending side commenceth from below the pillar of nephthys, and the descending side from below the pillar of isis, but in the "reverse circumambulation" 251 this is contrary. and the nave or axis of the wheel will be about the invisible station of harpocrates; as though that god stood there with the sign of silence, and affirmed the concealment of that central atom of the wheel which alone revolveth not. the object of the mystic circumambulation is to attract and make connection between the divine light above and the temple, and therefore the hierophant quitteth his throne to take part therein, but remaineth there t

dge of that light may be obtained" whereupon the "hierophant" asks the candidate whether he is willing "in the presence of this assembly to take a great and solemn obligation to keep inviolate the secrets and mysteries of our order" to which the candidate himself replies "i am" the hierophant now advances between the pillars as if thus asserting that the judgment is concluded "and he advanceth by the invisible station of harpocrates unto that of the evil triad; so that as arouerist19 he standeth upon the opposer" he thus cometh to the east of the altar, interposing between the place of the evil triad and that of the candidate. at the same time the hiereus advanceth on the candidate's left, and the hegemon standeth at his right, as formulating about him the symbol of the triad, before he be

her soul. the candidate then bows his head, and the hierophant gives one knock with his sceptre; affirming that the symbol of submission into the higher is now complete. only at that moment doth the colossal image of thoth20 metatron cease from the sign of the enterer: and giveth instead the sign of the silence: permitting the first real descent of the genius of the candidate, who descendeth into the invisible station of harpocrates as witness unto the obligation. 19 he is osiris when throned; when he moves he assumes the form of arouerist. 20 thoth is one of the invisible officers. all then rise and the candidate repeats the obligation after the hierophant. in it 254 he pledges himself to keep secret the order, its name, and the names of the members, as well as the proceedings which take

them. then after this connection is established doth the hierophant in the following words raise the candidate to his feet "rise, newly obligated neophyte in the 0 =0 grade of the order of the g. d. in the outer. place the candidate in the northern part of the hall, the place of the greatest symbolic darkness" the candidate is then placed in the north, the place of the greatest symbolic darkness, the invisible station of taaur the bull of earth. but therein dwelleth ahapshi the rescuer of matter, osiris in the sign of the spring. that as the earth emergeth from the darkness and the barrenness of winter, so the candidate may thus affirm the commencement of his emancipation from the darkness of ignorance. the hierophant and hiereus return to their thrones, therefore it is not arouerist but o

at either the station of harpocrates, the place of the evil triad, or at the east of the altar. the hiereus standeth on the left of the candidate, and the hegemon on his right. thus again completing the formulation of the triad of the three supernals. the hierophant and hiereus may hold their banners; anyhow it is done astrally; and the higher self of the candidate will be formulated once more in the invisible station of harpocrates. the "hierophant" than says "let the candidate kneel, while i invoke the lord of the universe" after the prayer has been solemnly repeated,the "hierophant" says "let the candidate rise,"22 and then "child of earth! long hast thou dwelt in darkness! quit the night, and seek the day" then only at the words "let the candidate rise" is the hoodwink definitely remov

ord above the candidate's head, thus formulating the supernal triad, and assert that they receive him into the order of the golden dawn, in the words "frater x y z, we receive thee into the order of the golden dawn" 22 meaning also "let the light arise in the candidate" they then recite the mystic words "khabs am pekht" as sealing the current of the flaming light. but the higher soul remaineth in the invisible station of harpocrates, and to the spirit vision, at this point, there should be a gleaming white triangle formulated above the forehead of the candidate and touching it, the symbol of the white triangle of the three supernals. the "hierophant" now calleth forward the kerux, and turning towards the candidate says to him "in all your wanderings through darkness, the lamp of the kerux

rs is as follows: the hierophant on the throne of the east; the hiereus at the east of the black pillar; and the hegemon at the east of the white pillar. the three again formulating the triad and strengthening it. thus the higher soul will be formulated between the pillars in the place of equilibrium; the candidate at the place of the evil triad. the hiereus now advanceth between the pillars unto the invisible station of harpocrates. the signs having been explained, the hiereus draweth the candidate forward between the pillars, and for the second time in the ceremony the higher soul standeth near and ready to touch him. then the hiereus returneth to the east of the black pillar so that the three chief officers may draw down upon him the forces of the supernal triad. the candidate now there

sseth the throne of the east, the red cavalry cross is astrally formulated above the astral white triangle of the three upon his forehead; so that so long as he belongeth unto the order he may have that potent and sublime symbol as a link with his higher self, and as an aid in his search for the forces of the light divine for ever, if he only "will it" but the higher soul or genius returneth unto the invisible station of harpocrates, into the place of the hidden centre, yet retaining the link formulated with the candidate. the address of the "hierophant" then follows "frater x y z, i must congratulate you on your having passed with so much fortitude through your ceremony of the admission to the 0= 0 grade of the order of the golden dawn in the outer. i will now direct your attention to a b

the salt are as the foundations of my body. which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris the justified. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh: yet in whom is the spirit of the mighty gods. i am the lord of life triumphant over death. he who partaketh with me shall rise with me. i am the manifester in matter of those whose abode is in the invisible. i am purified; i stand upon the universe: i am the reconciler with the eternal gods: i am the perfecter of matter: and without me the universe is not "may what we have this day partaken of, sustain us in our search for the quintessence; the stone of the philosophers; the true wisdom and perfect happiness, and the summum bonum" all then disrobe and disperse. undoubtedly the passing t

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ransmitted as a new gospel for the special use of the men- covers of future times, i opened the second book to put down in it some equally useful aphorisms. but as i took my pencil the white, immaculate page appeared covered with brown characters. i had scarcely time enough to read and they had vanished. but i remember what i saw "you must leave the study of the oyster-shells in order to perceive the invisible, to refine your senses and escape the delusions caused by them" the duty of man is not to believe other men. they speak either truth or untruth; but if they speak truth, even then is it a falsehood "all men are not necessarily obliged to kill their opponents or those who doubt them, or who are not of any use to them; but some men are- all men-covers are" i was interrupted in the prof

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oke was little more than a child; and her answer had the purity and strength of an angel. that even the foul monster who addressed her could support it, unblasted, was matter for astonishment "now the older voice broke into filthy insult, a very frenzy of malice "o heard- o god- the swish of a whip, and the sound of it falling upon flesh "there was silence awhile, save for the hideous laughter of the invisible horror inside "at last a piteous little moan "my blood sang shrill within me. out of myself, i sprang at the railings, and was over them in a second. rapidly, and quite unobserved (for the scene was strenuous within, i climbed up the grating of the lower windows, and, reaching up to the edge of the balcony, swung myself up to and over it "as i stopped to fetch breath, as yet unpercei

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e vast one; and that thou dost deceive us in nothing, and forasmuch as thou has been obedient unto our call, and hast sworn to obey our commands: therefore do thou feel and receive these grateful odours of the fine perfumes of our art, which are agreeable unto thee [magus of fires burns much incense] and now i say unto thee, in the name of ihsvh, depart in peace unto thy habitations and abodes in the invisible. i give unto thee the blessing of god in the name of iahdonhi: may the influx of the divine light inspire thee and lead thee unto the ways of peace! let there be peace betwixt us and thee; and come thou hastily when we invoke and call thee: shalom! shalom! shalom [reverse circumambulations and closing rituals of mercury &c &c] in the order of the golden dawn many consecrations were m

d one. i am the lord of life triumphant over death! there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway: the rescuer unto the light! out of the darkness let the light arise [raise hands to heaven] thou hast been blind and dead, o creature of talismans! now i say unto thee, receive thy life! receive thy sight! i am the reconciler with the ineffable! i am the dweller of the invisible "let the white brilliance of the "divine spirit "descend" 192 [lower hands. touching talisman with white end of wand] be thou a living creature! whose mind is open unto the higher! be thou a living creature! whose heart is a centre of light. be thou a living creature! whose body is the temple of the rosy cross. in the number 21, in the name hb:heh hb:yod hb:heh hb:aleph, in the name

guests are ready, and the feast is spread before thee! come, for the destined spouse awaits thy kiss! with roses and with wine, with light and life and love! the soul of tzedeq waits! come then, o come to me! for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i have fought upon earth for good. i am purified. i have finished my course, i have entered into the invisible! i am osiris onnophris the justified one. i am the lord of life triumphant over death! there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway: the rescuer unto the light! out of the darkness let the light arise [raise hands to heaven] thou hast been blind and dead, o creature of talismans! now i say unto thee: receive thy life! receive thy sight! i am the re

d one. i am the lord of life triumphant over death! there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway: the rescuer unto the light! out of the darkness let the light arise [raise hands to heaven] thou hast been blind and dead, o creature of talismans! now i say unto thee: receive thy life! receive thy sight! i am the reconciler with the ineffable! i am the dweller of the invisible "let the white brilliance of the "divine spirit""descend" part iii "the chymical and hermetic marriage of the eagle of the waters "with the soul of jupiter [purify the talisman with water and fire "q.f.d.r" i am the eagle of the waters, and my power is in the west "t.t.e.g" i am the soul of jupiter: in the sphere of tzedeq is my name confessed "p" i am the reconciler between you "q.f

phthyst. o aeshoori, lord of amennti! thou art the lord of life triumphant over death: there is naught in thee but godhead! toum! toum who art in the great dwelling! sovereign lord of all the gods, save me, and deliver! deliver me from that god that feedeth upon the damn d, dog-faced but human-headed; 200 that dwelleth by the pool of fire in the judgment hall, devourer of shades, eater of hearts, the invisible foe! devourer of immortality is his name! unto thee, sole wise, sole mighty, and sole eternal one, be praise and glory for ever: who hast permitted me to enter so far in the sanctuary of the mysteries. not unto me, but unto thy name be the glory [again finish by laying sword on nape of neck, saying: so help me th e lord of the universe and my own higher soul [rise now, and raise abov

and behold i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and of death! for i know that my redeemer liveth; and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way: the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified: i have passed through the gates of darkness unto light! i have fought upon earth for good: i have finished my work: i have entered into the invisible! i am the sun in his rising: i have passed through the hour of cloud and of night! i am amoun, the concealed one: the opener of day am i! i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am the lord of life triumphant over death: there is no part of me that is not of the gods: i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light! i am the reconciler with the ineffable! i am the dw

ible! i am the sun in his rising: i have passed through the hour of cloud and of night! i am amoun, the concealed one: the opener of day am i! i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am the lord of life triumphant over death: there is no part of me that is not of the gods: i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light! i am the reconciler with the ineffable! i am the dweller of the invisible! let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend [a long pause] thus at length have i been permitted to comprehend the form of my higher self! adoration be unto thee, lord of my life, for thou hast permitted me to enter thus 204 far into the sanctuary of thine ineffable mystery: and hast vouchsafed to manifest unto me some little fragment of the glory of thy being. hear me, ang

vault; all kneel save the "chief adept" who, extending his arms, says] for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified, i have passed through the gates of darkness unto light, i have fought upon earth for good, i have finished my work, i have entered into the invisible. i am the sun in his rising. i have passed through the hour of cloud and of night. i am amoun, the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am the lord of life triumphant over death, there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway; the rescuer unto the light. out of the darkness let that light arise [at these w

one. i am the lord of life triumphant over death, there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway; the rescuer unto the light. out of the darkness let that light arise [at these words the aspirant and the two "adepts" bow their heads and say] before i was blind, but now i see [then the "chief adept" says] i am the reconciler with the ineffable, i am the dweller of the invisible; let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend [a short pause] arise now an adeptus minor of the rose of ruby and cross of gold, in the sign of osiris slain [the "chief adept" then explains to the aspirant the mystic number of this grade_ 21; the pass-word eheieh (hb:heh hb:yod hb:heh hb:aleph; and the key-word, inri, after which he explains to him the diagram of the minutum

. valiantly battling with the elemental forces. as a hoodwinked neophyte he was led into the colossal darkness of malkuth to become a zelator in the hidden mysteries of earth. here he found a kingdom seemingly so balanced in its scintillating intelligence that he little suspected that its overwhelming glory was but the reflection of the supernal flame on the dark face of the waters in which slept the invisible coils of the drowsing serpent of human will. here, on account of its intense darkness, all became to him clear as crystal, in which he could read his own thoughts mirrored in the wavelets of the ever-dancing waters of life. here again existence, as the world mystery, became to him the supreme riddle of the human sphinx; and in his strivings to read it, in his doubts, which minerva -l

the silence of a primal sleep" and the voice of ages answered unto my soul "i am he that formulates in darkness: the light indeed shineth in darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth it not" let the mystic circumambulation take place in the place of darkness [go round, knocks &c. in south formulate pillars as before and imagine self as shrouded [in the west] invisible, i cannot pass by the gate of the invisible save by virtue of the name of darkness [formulate forcibly shroud about thee] darkness is my name and concealment! i am the great one invisible of the paths of the shades. i am without fear though veiled in darkness: for within me, though unseen, is the magic of the light [go round. in north, pillars &c, as before [in the east] invisible, i cannot pass by the gate of the invisible, s

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er soul &c, and command the mystic circumambulation. l. move round as usual to the south, and halt, formulating thyself as shrouded in darkness: on the right hand the pillar of fire, on the left the pillar of cloud: both reaching from darkness to the glory of the heavens. m. now move from between these pillars which thou hast formulated to the west, and say "invisible i cannot pass by the gate of the invisible save by virtue of the name of 'darkness" then formulate forcibly about thee the shroud of darkness, and say "darkness is my name, and concealment: i am the great one invisible of the paths of the shades. i am without fear, though veiled in darkness; for within me though unseen is the magic of the light" n. repeat processes in l. o. repeat processes in m, but say "i am light shrouded

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cent of water. see "777, col. lxxv, p. 16. see diagram 84. 146 the golden dawn symbol of the flaming sword. see diagram 12. 147 by this is meant watching the swing of an imaginary pendulum. the difficulty is to keep it in one plane, as it tries to swing round; also to change its rate. 148 in these records "m" means morning and "e" evening. 149 the egyptian key of life. see diagram 61. 150 lamp of the invisible light. 151 in the mind. 152 the visualized form of the goddess isis. 153 that is to say she kept on moving out of the line of mental sight. 154 see diagram 80. a scarlet rose on a gold cross. 155 at this point p. made the following resolve "i resolve to increase my powers very greatly by the aid of the most high, until i can meditate for twenty-four hours on one object" illustration

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four probationers "mercury is throned between the twins. at the west of the altar is virgo, and his four attendants" 95 the rite of mercury i mercury. 22-333-333["full light" the speech in the silence. the words against the son of night. the voice of mercury in the universe in the presence of the eternal gods. the formulas of knowledge. the wisdom of breath. the radix of vibration. the shaking of the invisible. the rolling asunder of the darkness. the becoming visible of matter. the piercing of the coils of the stooping dragon. the breaking forth of the light["all being seated, the" four probationers "rise from among the other" probationers "and march to the altar] first probationer. 333-333-22. brethren, let us kindle the holy perfumes in honour of the most divine god. all four probatione

with some violet ray; and all the vision flames across the horizon the millionth of no time- and when we say: hail- thou art gone! the moon is dark beside thy crown; the sun seems a pale image of thy body bare; and for thine hair flash comets lustrous with the dewfall rare of tears of that most memorable one, the radiant queen, the veiled paphian. the wings of light divine beneath thy body shine; the invisible rayed with some tangible flame, seeking to formulate a name, 100 a citadel; and the winged heels are fiery with enormous speed, one spurning heaven; the other trampling hell; and thou- recede! o hermes! messenger of inmost thought! descend! abide! swift coursing in my veins shoot dazzling pains, the word of selfhood integrate of nought, the ineffable amen! the wonder wrought. bring d

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fling roses upon thee, and the merchants bend their knees and bring thee gold and spices. also young boys shall pour wonderful wines for thee, and the singers and the dancers shall sing and dance for thee. 26 15. yet shalt thou not be therein, for thou shalt be forgotten, dust lost in dust. 16. nor shall the aeon itself avail thee in this; for from the dust shall a white ash be prepared by hermes the invisible. 17. and this is the wrath of god, that these things should be thus. 18. and this is the grace of god, that these things should be thus. 19. wherefore i charge you that ye come unto me in the beginning; for if ye take but one step in this path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. this path is beyond life and death; it is also beyond love; but that ye know not, for ye kn

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

n them. for a few moments. the. knocking. stopped.and lie believed he had found the trouble" then. it began in .earnest. walls rumbled..as though being kicked,window"panes rattled although there was nowind,and the .brass ornaments on the mantelpiece rocked and shook. boldly alex raised his fist and demanded that the spiritsgoor be destroyed by incense and curses. from room to room he ran, chasing the invisible spectre, encouraged. by mrs .peters who .charged behind hint. crying 'hallelujah. but the noises continued 'yourmagic isn't enough without voodoo' mrs peters concluded 'i know the things you need 'you come back here tomorrow night at nine o'clock and me and myfriends weshall show.you' puzzled at his failure, alex was glad to getaway from the unruly poltergeist. he. spent the ievening

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

initiation is taken and the initiate passes into the hall of wisdom. advanced egos and the spiritually inclined, who are not yet on the probationary path, attend instructions from disciples, and on occasions large classes are conducted for their benefit by initiates. their work is more rudimentary, though occult from a worldly standpoint, and they learn under supervision to be invisible helpers. the invisible helpers are usually recruited from amongst the advanced egos. the very advanced, and those on the probationary path and nearing initiation, work more frequently in what might be termed departmental work, forming a group of assistants to the members of the hierarchy. methods of teaching. three departments of instruction watch over three parts of man's development. first: instruction i

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

th round and fourth chain. compare s. d, i, 70, 95, 107, 227. the four noble truths. the four vedas. the four gospels. the four basic admissions. the four ready elements. the four grades of initiation. a. yajna vidya t he performance of religious rites in order to produce certain results. ceremonial magic. it is concerned with sound, therefore with the akasha or the ether of space. the "yajna" is the invisible deity who pervades space. perhaps this concerns the physical plane? b. mahavidya t he great magic knowledge. it has degenerated into tantrika worship. deals with the feminine aspect, or the matter (mother) aspect. the basis of black magic. true mahayoga has to do with- 817- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the form (second aspect) and its adaptation to spirit and

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

and in the fourth round, the four vidyas and the four noble truths and the four basic elements form the sum total of this knowledge. the four vidyas of the hindu philosophy might be enumerated as follows: 1. yajna vidya. the performance of religious rites in order to produce certain results. ceremonial magic. is concerned with sound, therefore with the akasa or the ether of space. the "yajna" is the invisible deity who pervades space. 2. mahavidya. the great magic knowledge. it has degenerated into tantrika worship. deals with the feminine aspect, or the matter (mother) aspect. the basis of black magic. true maha-yoga has to do with the form (2nd aspect) and its adaptation to spirit and its needs. 3. guhya vidya. the science of mantrams. the secret knowledge of mystic mantrams. the occult

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

e world as merely a world of things is doubtless to fail of something that is significant. the experience of things, to be sure, is good as far as it goes. it enables us to move about our world and to manipulate the life-factors with some success..it is possible, however, to get a different 'feel' of one's world if one is able to develop another habit of mind. it is, in short, the habit of seeing the invisible in the visible reality; the habit of penetrating surfaces- 16- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust of seeing through things to their initiating sources."11(22) men are now perhaps ready to penetrate beneath the surface and to carry their search within the outer form of nature to that which is its cause. we are perhaps, too apt to confuse the religious spirit with t

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

d respectable an investigation as any scientific problem, such as research into the nature of the atom. the investigation of the soul and its governing laws will, before long, engross the attention of our finest minds. the newer psychology will eventually succeed in proving the fact of its existence, and the paralleling intuitive and instinctive response of mankind to soul nurture, emanating from the invisible side of life, will steadily and successfully prove the existence of a spiritual entity in man, an entity all-wise, immortal, divine and creative. but the process would be slow were it not for the work now being done by a group of disciples- 73- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust and initiates working in collaboration with the mast

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

lied sciences politics and economics and sociology are, in their turn, dealing with ideas and ideals. even in the realm of social disorders and wars general, sporadic or civil we see the conflict of differing ideals, and no longer wars of aggression or for the defense of property. these distinctions between the objective and the subjective, between the tangible and the intangible, the visible and the invisible, christianity has fostered, because it was these differences which the kingdom of god and the kingdom of man presented. christ came to give to life a meaning and a value, just as the buddha came to make clear to us the false values upon which our modern world is based. a study of the teachings earlier given will show that every teaching, and every suffering son of god who antedated c

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

98 lucis trust will. 2. next comes his statement to his disciples "i must go up to jerusalem" after which we read that he "steadfastly set his face to go" to that city. this was the intimation to them that he now had a new objective. the only place of complete "peace (which is the meaning of the name "jerusalem) is the "centre where the will of god is known" the spiritual hierarchy of our planet (the invisible church of christ) is not a centre of peace but a very vortex of loving activity, the meeting place of energies coming from the centre of the divine will, and from humanity, the centre of divine intelligence. christ had oriented himself to that divine centre which has, in the ancient scriptures, been called the "place of serene determination and of poised, quiescent will" this stateme

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

note) 19 "the sun was the image of divine intelligence or wisdom. the word `sol (sun) was derived from `solus' the one or he alone, and the greek name `helios' meant most high (s.d. iii. 279) 20 "the visible sun is only the central star but not the central spiritual sun (s.d. iii. 280) 21 "the sun was the life-giving and the death-giving luminary (s.d. iii. 288) 22 "the sun is the substitute for the invisible inter-mercurial planet (s.d. iii. 459) 23 "the pure energy of solar intelligence proceeds from the luminous seat occupied by our sun in the centre of the heavens, that pure energy being the logos of our system (s.d. iii. 213) 24. there is "the sun of initiation in a triple form two of which are the `day-sun' and one the `night-sun (s.d. iii. 212) 25 "all initiates are `epitomisers of

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

, the path to god. to this all the world scriptures bear witness and to this all spiritual knowers testify. i have not time today to enlarge upon this theme. i simply ask for your acceptance of the hypothesis (an hypothesis which is a fact to many millions and a proved event to many thousands) that spiritual guidance is accorded to mankind and that behind the veil which separates the visible from the invisible there stand those who are working strenuously and, i might add, scientifically to meet the present dire need. two things are occupying their attention: 1. the need to bring the present strife and warfare to an end and so release mankind from an evil past and open the door to a better future. 2. the opportunity to lay the foundations for that new world religion which will suffice to m

APOCALYPSE MOSES

to her he saith 'what is thy trouble? why weepest thou (and) she saith to him: 2 'look up and see with thine eyes the seven heavens opened, and see how the soul of thy father lies on its face and all the holy angels are praying on his behalf and saying 'pardon him, father of all, for he is thine image 'pray, my child seth, what shall this mean? 3 and will he one day be delivered into the hands of the invisible father, even our god? 4 but who are the two negroes who stand by at the prayers for thy father adam' chapter 36. 1 and seth telleth his mother, that they are the sun and moon and themselves fall down and pray on behalf of my father adam. 2 eve saith to him 'and where is their light and why have they taken on such a black appearance' 3 and seth answereth her 'the light hath not left t

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

d to teach you concerning the unwavering race of the perfect man. now, therefore, lift up your face, that you may receive the things that i shall teach you today, and may tell them to your fellow spirits who are from the unwavering race of the perfect man" and i asked to know it, and he said to me "the monad is a monarchy with nothing above it. it is he who exists as god and father of everything, the invisible one who is above everything, who exists as incorruption, which is in the pure light into which no eye can look "he is the invisible spirit, of whom it is not right to think of him as a god, or something similar. for he is more than a god, since there is nothing above him, for no one lords it over him. for he does not exist in something inferior to him, since everything exists in him

s water-light which is in the spring of the pure light-water which surrounds him "and his thought performed a deed and she came forth, namely she who had appeared before him in the shine of his light. this is the first power which was before all of them (and) which came forth from his mind, she is the forethought of the all- her light shines like his light- the perfect power which is the image of the invisible, virginal spirit who is perfect. the first power, the glory of barbelo, the perfect glory in the aeons, the glory of the revelation, she glorified the virginal spirit and it was she who praised him, because thanks to him she had come forth. this is the first thought, his image; she became the womb of everything, for it is she who is prior to them all, the mother-father, the first man

the glory of the revelation, she glorified the virginal spirit and it was she who praised him, because thanks to him she had come forth. this is the first thought, his image; she became the womb of everything, for it is she who is prior to them all, the mother-father, the first man, the holy spirit, the thrice-male, the thrice-powerful, the thrice-named androgynous one, and the eternal aeon among the invisible ones, and the first to come forth" requested from the invisible, virginal spirit- that is barbelo- to give her foreknowledge. and the spirit consented. and when he had consented, the foreknowledge came forth, and it stood by the forethought; it originates from the thought of the invisible, virginal spirit. it glorified him and his perfect power, barbelo, for it was for her sake

forth, and it stood by the forethought; it originates from the thought of the invisible, virginal spirit. it glorified him and his perfect power, barbelo, for it was for her sake that it had come into being "and she requested again to grant her indestructibility, and he consented. when he had consented, indestructibility came forth, and it stood by the thought and the foreknowledge. it glorified the invisible one and barbelo, the one for whose sake they had come into being "and barbelo requested to grant her eternal life. and the invisible spirit consented. and when he had consented, eternal life came forth, and they attended and glorified the invisible spirit and barbelo, the one for whose sake they had come into being. the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apo

barbelo requested to grant her eternal life. and the invisible spirit consented. and when he had consented, eternal life came forth, and they attended and glorified the invisible spirit and barbelo, the one for whose sake they had come into being. the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 3 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm "and she requested again to grant her truth. and the invisible spirit consented. and when he had consented, truth came forth, and they attended and glorified the invisible, excellent spirit and his barbelo, the one for whose sake they had come into being "this is the pentad of the aeons of the father, which is the first man, the image of the invisible spirit; it is the forethought, which barbelo, and the thought, and the foreknowledge, and the i

the pentad of the aeons of the father, which is the first man, the image of the invisible spirit; it is the forethought, which barbelo, and the thought, and the foreknowledge, and the indestructibility, and the eternal life, and the truth. this is the androgynous pentad of the aeons, which is the decad of the aeons, which is the father "and he looked at barbelo with the pure light which surrounds the invisible spirit, and (with) his spark, and she conceived from him. he begot a spark of light with a light resembling blessedness. but it does not equal his greatness. this was an only-begotten child of the mother-father which had come forth; it is the only offspring, the only-begotten one of the father, the pure light "and the invisible, virginal spirit rejoiced over the light which came fort

come forth; it is the only offspring, the only-begotten one of the father, the pure light "and the invisible, virginal spirit rejoiced over the light which came forth, that which was brought forth first by the first power of his forethought, which is barbelo. and he anointed it with his goodness until it became perfect, not lacking in any goodness, because he had anointed it with the goodness of the invisible spirit. and it attended him as he poured upon it. and immediately when it had received from the spirit, it glorified the holy spirit and the perfect forethought, for whose sake it had come forth "and it requested to give it a fellow worker, which is the mind, and he consented gladly. and when the invisible spirit had consented, the mind came forth, and it attended christ, glorifying

it glorified the holy spirit and the perfect forethought, for whose sake it had come forth "and it requested to give it a fellow worker, which is the mind, and he consented gladly. and when the invisible spirit had consented, the mind came forth, and it attended christ, glorifying him and barbelo. and all these came into being in silence "and the mind wanted to perform a deed through the word of the invisible spirit. and his will became a deed and it appeared with the mind; and the light glorified it. and the word followed the will. for because of the word, christ the divine autogenes created everything. and the eternal life his will and the mind and the foreknowledge attended and glorified the invisible spirit and barbelo, for whose sake they had come into being "and the holy spiri

l and the mind and the foreknowledge attended and glorified the invisible spirit and barbelo, for whose sake they had come into being "and the holy spirit completed the divine autogenes, his son, together with barbelo, that he may attend the mighty and invisible, virginal spirit as the divine autogenes, the christ whom he had honored with a mighty voice. he came forth through the forethought. and the invisible, virginal spirit placed the divine autogenes of truth over everything. and he subjected to him every authority, and the truth which is in him, that he may know the all which had been called with a name exalted above every name. for that name will be mentioned to those who are worthy of it "for from the light, which is the christ, and the indestructibility, through the gift of the spi

over the fourth light eleleth. and there are three other aeons with him: perfection, peace, and wisdom. these are the four lights which attend the divine autogenes (and) these are the twelve aeons which attend the son the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 4 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm of the mighty one, the autogenes, the christ, through the will and the gift of the invisible spirit. and the twelve aeons belong to the son of the autogenes. and all things were established by the will of the holy spirit through the autogenes "and from the foreknowledge of the perfect mind, through the revelation of the will of the invisible spirit and the will of the autogenes perfect man (appeared, the first revelation, and the truth. it is he whom the virginal spiri

om the foreknowledge of the perfect mind, through the revelation of the will of the invisible spirit and the will of the autogenes perfect man (appeared, the first revelation, and the truth. it is he whom the virginal spirit called pigera-adamas, and he placed him over the first aeon with the mighty one, the autogenes, the christ, by the first light armozel; and with him are his powers. and the invisible one gave him a spiritual, invincible power. and he spoke and glorified and praised the invisible spirit, saying 'it is for thy sake that everything has come into being and everything will return to thee. i shall praise and glorify thee and the autogenes and the aeons, the three: the father, the mother, and the son, the perfect power "and he placed his son seth over the second aeon in

e of the second light oriel. and in the third aeon the seed of seth was placed over the third light daveithai. and the souls of the saints were placed (there. and in the fourth aeon the souls were placed of those who do not know the pleroma and who did not repent at once, but who persisted for a while and repented afterwards; they are by the fourth light eleleth. these are creatures which glorify the invisible spirit "and the sophia of the epinoia, being an aeon, conceived a thought from herself and the conception of the invisible spirit and foreknowledge. she wanted to bring forth a likeness out of herself without the consent of the spirit- he had not approved- and without her consort, and without his consideration. and though the person of her maleness had not approved, and she had not f

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

nd be buried, yet vulcan causes me to be born anew. therefore, hungary is my native land, and my mother encloses the whole world. when all that were present had received these his sayings, he thus continued: cause that which is above to be below; that which is visible, to be invisible; and that which is palpable, to become impalpable. again, let that which is below become that which is above; let the invisible become visible, and the impalpable, palpable. here you see the perfection of our art, without any defect, or diminution. but that in which death and life, destruction and resurrection dwell, is a round sphere, with which the goddess of fortune drives her chariot, and imparts the gift of wisdom to men of god. its proper name here upon earth, and for the human understanding, is all vin

which the ignorant herd look upon as dead may be brought back to permanent, visible, twelve keys of basil valentine 41 of 95 and spiritual life, if but the spirit be restored to the body v v the spirit which is supported by heavenly nutriment, and derived from heavenly, elementary, and earthly substances, which are also called formless matter. moreover, as iron has its magnet which draws it with the invisible bonds of love, so our gold has its magnet, viz, the first matter of the great stone. if you understand these my words, you are richer and more blessed than the whole world. let me conclude this chapter with one more remark. when a man looks into a mirror, he sees therein reflected an image of himself. if, however, he try to touch it, he will find that it is not palpable, and that he

re, as they are both of a spiritual essence, twelve keys of basil valentine 54 of 95 and exercise an irresistible mutual attraction. in the next place, there issues water from the earth, and the earth, in which is the precious salt, remains by itself at the bottom of the vessel. when water is distilled, air and fire issue from it, and the water and material earth remain at the bottom. again, when the invisible part of elementary fire is extracted, you get water and earth by themselves. nor can any of the three other elements exist without air. it is air that gives to earth its power of production, to fire its power of burning, to water its power of generating fruit. again, air can consume nothing, nor dry up any moisture, without that natural heat which must be imparted to it by fire. for

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he mysteries of theogony can be found only in the later glossaries, which accompany the stanzas. in the apocalyptic slokas of the archaic records, the language is as symbolical, if less mythical, than in the puranas. without the help of the later commentaries, compiled by generations of adepts, it would be impossible to understand the meaning correctly. in the ancient cosmogonies, the visible and the invisible worlds are the double links of one and the same chain. as the invisible logos, with its seven hierarchies (represented or personified each by its chief angel or rector, form one power, the inner and the invisible; so, in the world of forms, the sun and the seven chief planets constitute the visible and active potency; the latter "hierarchy" being, so to speak, the visible and objecti

e worlds are the double links of one and the same chain. as the invisible logos, with its seven hierarchies (represented or personified each by its chief angel or rector, form one power, the inner and the invisible; so, in the world of forms, the sun and the seven chief planets constitute the visible and active potency; the latter "hierarchy" being, so to speak, the visible and objective logos of the invisible and (except in the lowest grades) ever-subjective angels. thus- to anticipate a little by way of illustration- every race in its[[vol. 2, page] 24 the secret doctrine. evolution is said to be born under the direct influence of one of the planets: race the first receiving its breath of life from the sun, as will be seen later on; while the third humanity- those who fell into generatio

become cognizant of the logos through the demi-urge, regarding the latter as the creator of our planet and everything pertaining to it, and the former as the guiding force of that "creator- good and bad at the same time, the origin of good and the origin of evil. this "creator" is neither good nor bad per se, but its differentiated aspects in nature make it assume one or the other character. with the invisible and the unknown universes disseminated through space, none of the sun-gods had anything to do. the idea is expressed very clearly in the "books of hermes" and in every ancient folk lore. it is symbolised generally by the dragon and the serpent- the dragon of good and the serpent of evil, represented on earth by[[footnote(s* for a clearer explanation of the origins, as contained in th

o be created by a class of lower divine beings, the elohim, who are so jealous of their personal prerogatives as reasonable and intelligent creatures, that they will not allow man to become "as one of us" this is plain, even from the dead-letter meaning of the bible. the gnostics, then, were right in regarding the jewish god as belonging to a class of lower, material and not very holy denizens of the invisible world[[vol. 2, page] 96 the secret doctrine. darkness in the realms of truth. good and evil are twins, the progeny of space and time, under the sway of maya. separate them, by cutting off one from the other, and they will both die. neither exists per se, since each has to be generated and created out of the other, in order to come into being; both must be known and appreciated before

d them, nor yet had the raging waters" of the several deluges "then came the sons of thor. they brought miolnir with them, no longer as a weapon of war, but as the hammer with which to consecrate the new heaven and the new earth* verily many are its meanings! in the macrocosmic work, the "hammer of creation" with its four arms bent at right angles, refers to the continual motion and revolution of the invisible kosmos of forces. in that of the manifested kosmos and our earth, it points to the rotation in the cycles of time of the world's axes and their equatorial belts; the two lines forming the svastica[[diagram] meaning spirit and matter, the four hooks suggesting the motion in the revolving cycles. applied to the microcosm, man, it shows him to be a link between heaven and earth: the rig

om the mammals instead of the reverse, are fatal to the completeness of evolution as taught in modern schools on darwinian lines, and they will have to be abandoned in view of the insuperable difficulties which they encounter. occult tradition- if the terms science and knowledge are denied in this particular to antiquity- can alone reconcile the inconsistencies and fill the gap "if thou wilt know the invisible, open thine eye wide on the visible" says a talmudic axiom. in the "descent of man* occurs the following passage; which shows how near darwin came to the acceptance of this ancient teaching "it has been known that in the vertebrate kingdom one sex bears rudiments of various accessory parts appertaining to the reproductive system, which properly belong to the opposite sex. some remote

such as is found in the ant and the beaver, which produces the long series of physiological differentiations. apart from this his "ancient and general process of creation" from proto-organisms is as occult as any theory of paracelsus or khunrath could be. moreover, the kabalistic works are full of the proof of this. the zohar, for instance, says that every type in the visible has its prototype in the invisible universe "all that which is in the lower (our) world is found in the upper. the lower and the upper act and react upon each other (zohar, fol. 186) vide infra, part ii "esoteric tenets corroborated in every scripture- 20. their fathers were the self-born. the self-born, the chhaya from the brilliant bodies of the lords, the fathers, the sons of twilight (a (a) the "shadows" or chhaya

t yet at the same time the 'light-bringer' the lucifer, the 'morning star' the 'son of the morning- the very highest title 'out of heaven 'for in heaven it cannot be, but out of heaven it is everything. in an apparently incredible side of his character- qualities are of no sex- this archangel, st. michael, is the invincible, sexless, celestial 'energy- to dignify him by his grand characteristics- the invisible 'virgin combatant' clothed. and at the same time armed, in the denying mail of the gnostic 'refusal to create' this is another 'myth within myths. a stupendous 'mystery of mysteries' because it is so impossible and contradictory. unexplainable as the apocalypse. unrevealable as the 'revelation"(p. 213. nevertheless, this unexplainable and unrevealable mystery will now be explained an

assimilates the ferouer (memoires a l'academie, vol. v, p. 516) this is almost correct. among other absurdities, the kabalists maintain that the word metatron being divided into[[meta, thronon, means near the throne. it means quite the reverse, as meta means "beyond" and not "near" this is of great importance in our argument. st. michael, then, the quis ut deus, is the translator, so to speak, of the invisible world into the visible and the objective. they maintain, furthermore, along with the roman catholic church, that in the biblical and christian theology there does not exist a "higher celestial personality, after the trinity, than that of the archangel or the seraphim, michael" according to them, the conqueror of the dragon is "the archisatrap of the sacred militia, the guardian of th

words "cosmic circle" which stand symbolically in the original inscription, by the word theos. with the ancients both words were synonymous- a. cross and circle. something of the divine and the mysterious has ever been ascribed, in the minds of the ancient philosophers, to the shape of the circle. the old world, consistent in its symbolism with its pantheistic intuitions, uniting the visible and the invisible infinitudes into one, represented deity and its outward veil alike- by a circle. this merging of the two into a unity, and the name theos given indifferently to both, is explained, and becomes thereby still more scientific and philosophical. plato's etymological definition of the word theos has been shown elsewhere. he derives it from the verb[[theein (see cratylus "to move" as sugge

which were their visible bodies or coverings, and of which they were the souls. it was certainly a universal teaching in antiquity (see ezekiel, ch. 1 "before the mathematical numbers" says proclus (in quinto libro, euclid "there are the self-moving numbers; before the figures apparent- the vital figures, and before producing the material worlds which move in a circle, the creative power produced the invisible circles" deus enim et circulus est, says pherecydes, in his hymn to jupiter. it was a hermetic axiom, and pythagoras prescribed such a circular prostration and posture during the hours of contemplation "the devotee must approach as much as possible the form of a perfect circle" prescribes the secret book. numa tried to spread among the people the same custom, pierius* tells his reade

gram, not[[diagram) plunged in a deep sleep (the "sleep of siloam" it is called to this day among the initiates in asia minor, in syria, and even higher egypt. he was allowed to remain in this state for three days and three nights, during which time his spiritual ego was said to confabulate with the "gods" descend into hades, amenti, or patala (according to the country, and do works of charity to the invisible beings, whether souls of men or elemental spirits; his body remaining all the time in a temple crypt or subterranean cave. in egypt it was placed in the sarcophagus in the king's chamber of the pyramid of cheops, and carried during the night of the approaching third day to the entrance of a gallery, where at a certain hour the beams of the rising sun struck full on the face of the en

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91 "creation" in the fourth round. 191 the "curse "sin" and "war. 193 the struggle for life and the birth of the worlds. 202 the adepts and the sacred island. 207- stanza vii- the parents of man on earth. 213 divisions of the hierarchies. 214 correlations of beings. 223 what incarnates in animal man. 233 formation of man: the thinker. 238 occult and kabalistic pneumatics. 243 akasa and ether. 257 the invisible "lives. 259 occult vital chemistry and bacteriology. 261[[vol. 1, page] xii contents. page. the watcher and his shadow. 265 earth peopled by the shadows of the gods. 267- summing up. 269 the pith and marrow of the secret doctrine. 273 hermes in christian garb. 285 some occult aphorisms. 289 the seven powers of nature. 293- book i- part ii. the evolution of symbolism in its approximat

ather, mother and son were once more one, and the son had not awakened yet for the new wheel, and his pilgrimage thereon. 6. the seven sublime lords and the seven truths had ceased to be, and the universe, the son of necessity, was immersed in paranishpanna, to be outbreathed by that which is and yet is not. naught was. 7. the causes of existence had been done away with; the visible that was, and the invisible that is, rested in eternal non-being- the one being. 8. alone the one form of existence stretched boundless, infinite, causeless, in dreamless sleep; and life pulsated unconscious in universal space, throughout that all-presence which is sensed by the opened eye of the dangma. 9. but where was the dangma when the alaya of the universe was in paramartha and the great wheel was anupada

three clumsy words- past, present, and future- miserable concepts of the objective phases of the subjective whole, they are about as ill-adapted for the purpose as an axe for fine carving" one has to acquire paramartha lest one should become too easy a prey to samvriti- is a philosophical axiom- stanza i- continued. 7. the causes of existence had been done away with (a; the visible that was, and the invisible that is, rested in eternal non-being, the one being (b (a "the causes of existence" mean not only the physical causes known to science, but the metaphysical causes, the chief of which is the desire to exist, an outcome of nidana and maya. this desire for a sentient life shows itself in everything, from an atom to a sun, and is a reflection of the divine thought propelled into objecti

ion and repulsion- the three great factors of motion- are the conditions under which all the members of all this primitive family are born, developed, and die, to be reborn after a "night of brahma" during which eternal matter relapses periodically into its primary undifferentiated state. the most attenuated gases can give no idea of its nature to the modern physicist. centres of forces at first, the invisible sparks of primordial atoms differentiate into molecules, and become suns- passing gradually into objectivity gaseous, radiant, cosmic, the one "whirlwind (or motion) finally giving the impulse to the form, and the initial motion, regulated and sustained by the never-resting breaths- the dhyan chohans- stanza iv- continued. 6. then the second seven, who are the lipika, produced by the

ing as a ray into the spirit, then into the soul, and finally into the human physical form of man, in which it becomes life* ormazd is the logos, the "first born" and the sun[[vol. 1, page] 114 the secret doctrine. is identical with kronos, in his aeolian form, that of a circle. for the circle is sar, and saros, or cycle, and was the babylonian god whose circular horizon was the visible symbol of the invisible, while the sun was the one circle from which proceeded the cosmic orbs, and of which he was considered the leader. zero-ana, is the chakra or circle of vishnu, the mysterious emblem which is, according to the definition of a mystic "a curve of such a nature that as to any, the least possible part thereof, if the curve be protracted either way it will proceed and finally re-enter upon

e be protracted either way it will proceed and finally re-enter upon itself, and form one and the same curve- or that which we call the circle" no better definition could thus be given of the natural symbol and the evident nature of deity, which having its circumference everywhere (the boundless) has, therefore, its central point also everywhere; in other words, is in every point of the universe. the invisible deity is thus also the dhyan chohans, or the rishis, the primitive seven, and the nine, without, and ten, including, their synthetical unit; from which it steps into man. returning to the commentary (4) of stanza iv. the reader will understand why, while the trans-himalayan chackra has inscribed within it[[diagram[[diagram[[diagram (triangle, first line, cube second line, and a penta

s physical and material agents to carry out her decrees, such as the four kinds of winds, for instance, professedly admitted by science to have their respective evil and beneficent influences upon the health of mankind and every living thing. there is occult philosophy in that roman catholic doctrine which traces the various public calamities, such as epidemics of disease, and wars, and so on, to the invisible "messengers" from north and west "the glory of god comes from the way of the east" says ezekiel; while jeremiah, isaiah, and the psalmist assure their readers that all the evil under the sun comes from the north and the west- which proposition, when applied to the jewish nation, sounds like an undeniable prophecy for themselves. and this accounts also for st. ambrose (on amos, ch. iv

stence of intellectual and conscious spiritual beings in the universe, limiting full consciousness to man alone, and that only as a "function of the brain" many are those among the spiritual entities, who have incarnated bodily in man, since the beginning of his appearance, and who, for all that, still exist as independently as they did before, in the infinitudes of space. to put it more clearly: the invisible entity may be bodily present on earth without abandoning, however, its status and functions in the supersensuous regions. if this needs explanation, we can do no better than remind the reader of like cases in spiritualism, though such cases are very rare, at least as regards the nature of the entity incarnating[[footnote(s* creation is an incorrect word to use, as no religion, not ev

created appear- namely, fire (light, air, water, and man (or the earth. for the sentence "in the beginning god created heaven and earth" is a mistranslation; it is not "heaven and earth" but the duplex or dual heaven, the upper and the lower heavens, or the separation of primordial substance that was light in its upper and dark in its lower portions- or the manifested universe- in its duality of the invisible (to the senses) and the visible to our perceptions. god divided the light from the darkness (v. 4; and then made the firmament, air (5 "a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters (6, i.e "the waters which were under the firmament (our manifested visible universe) from the waters above the firmament" or the (to us) invisible planes of being. i

b of the field before it grew; for the elohim('gods) had not caused it to rain upon the earth, etc (v. 5- an absurdity unless the esoteric explanation is accepted. the plants were created before they were in the earth- for there was no earth then such as it is now; and the herb of the field was in existence before it grew as it does now in the fourth round. discussing and explaining the nature of the invisible elements and the "primordial fire" mentioned above, eliphas levi calls it invariably the "astral light" it is the "grand agent magique" with him; undeniably it is so, but- only so far as black magic is concerned, and[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] philadelphia. for others, however, it is discovered, yet must remain almost useless "so far shalt thou go" all the ab

l spring from the "mysterium magnum (philosophia ad athenienses) compare this with vishnu purana "from pradhana (primordial substance) presided over by kshetrajna (embodied spirit) proceeds the evolution of those qualities. from the great principle mahat (universal intellect, or mind. proceeds[[footnote(s* the eastern occultist says "are guided and informed by the spiritual beings" the workmen in the invisible worlds and behind the veil of occult nature, or nature in abscondito[[vol. 1, page] 285 hermes christianized. the origin of the subtle elements and from these the organs of sense (book i, ii. thus it may be shown that all the fundamental truths of nature were universal in antiquity, and that the basic ideas upon spirit, matter, and the universe, or upon god, substance, and man, were

i.e "unenlightened by intellect, which they obscure" we have now to exhaust the question of the mystical meaning of "primordial chaos" and of the root-principle, and show how they were connected in the ancient philosophies with akasa, wrongly translated aether, and also with maya (illusion- of which ishwara is the male aspect. we shall speak further on of the intelligent "principle" or rather of the invisible immaterial properties, in the visible and material elements, that "sprung from the primordial chaos" for "what is the primordial chaos but aether" it is asked in "isis unveiled" not the modern ether; not such as is recognised now, but such as was known to the ancient philosophers long before the time of moses; but aether, with all its mysterious and occult properties, containing in i

BLUE EQUINOX

utterance is light. liber lxv liber cordis cincti serpente sub figur ynda v a.a. publication in class a 93 10 =18 666 9 =28 pro coll. summ. 777 8 =38 d. d. s. 7 =48 o. m. 7 =48 o. s. v. 6 =58 parzival 5 =68 pro coll. int. v. n. pr monstrator p. imperator pro coll. ext. achad cancellarius 65 liber lxv liber cordis cincti serpente sub figur ynda i 1. i am the heart; and the snake is entwined about the invisible core of the mind. rise, o my snake! it is now is the hour of the hooded and holy ineffable flower. rise, o my snake, into brilliance of bloom on the corpse of osiris afloat in the tomb! o heart of my mother, my sister, mine own, thou art given to nile, to the terror typhon! ah me! but the glory of ravening storm enswathes thee and wraps thee in frenzy of form. be still, o my soul! th

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

ng the seed of a name of a subservient order; thus thamiel (thamal) is served by thadekiel, abraxiel, mahaziel, azazael and lufugiel and the rest of the crowns likewise in the same manner. the relationship between the archdaemons and the qliphoth is that the qliphoth rule on earth in temporal form and the archdaemons rule the earth in a transcendent manner. one is visible and the other invisible. the invisible can be compelled to appear in divers shapes; as we will find out. both the archdaemons and the qliphoth are entirely evil and are only to be overcome by the aid of celestial powers and virtues, both visible and invisible, and so the pious man will have nothing to fear from these 'intelligences' but the unwise and impious man may already be the victim of their assaults. the sustenance

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

ower locked in the atom it's all there, but you have to learn to release it and apply it constructively. if you can see it. in your mind's eye. you will have it! it's true: you can have whatever you want but there are "laws" to mental creation that must be followed. the power of the mind is not limited to, nor limited by, the material world creative visualization enables man to reach beyond, into the invisible world of astral and spiritual forces. some people apply this innate power without actually knowing what they are doing, and achieve great success and happiness; most people, however, use this same power, again unknowingly, incorrectly, and experience bad luck, failure, or at best unfulfilled life. this book changes that. through an easy series of step-by-step, progressive exercises

BUDGE E

st, and ye live. hail to osiris, the lord of the living, that is to say, of the gods who are with osiris, and who came into being with him the first time' those who are behind this hidden image in this circle wherein he liveth have their nourishment from the words of this god in their own tuat" p. 277 click to view the exit of ra from the tuat, i.e, sunrise. p. 278 4. he who is in this picture in the invisible form of horus in the thick darkness, is the hidden image which shu lifteth up beneath the sky, and keb-ur cometh forth in the earth in this image" 24. the end of the tuat, which is represented by a semi-circular wall or border formed of earth and stones, or perhaps granite. at the middle point of this border is the disk of the sun which is about to rise on this world, and joined to i

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

e key at this stage. seite 21 wicca01.txt this release may take the form of a final shout, a leap, or words. as you extinguish your candle of need, you may shout: it is free, the power is mine! or, at the point of release, you may throw your extended hands wide in an arc above your head. if the ceremony is formal and you are using an athame, you can at this moment bring it in front of you to mark the invisible cutting of the knot holding the power. pull your visualised or actual knots tight, cut them, leap into the air, shouting: the power is free! or it is done! sometimes there is just a sudden stillness, as the power leaves. afterwards, you need to ground the energies by sitting or lying on the ground and letting excess energies fade away into the earth as you press down with your hands

* sleep with the ring and ivy next to your bed on the cushion and in the daytime surround it with white flowers* when you have time, take the ash to the top of a hill or any windy place and scatter it to the four winds, saying: go free in love and return in joy. you can carry out the spell on a larger scale by placing the ring, the candle and one large incense stick on your altar in the centre of the invisible pentagram. place the other large incense sticks on small tables, chairs or blocks at the other points and work within the pentagram. you could even use garden incense and carry out the ritual in a sheltered spot out of doors, maybe even picking your ivy and white flowers during the ritual. a ritual for harmony seite 88 wicca01.txt this ritual can be used when, for example, a colleagu

ass, crystal, pottery or metal, traditionally silver, used in ceremonies to represent the water element and to hold wine, juice or water. charge: a declaration of the power and benevolence of the goddess (or god) in wicca, similar to the creed in other religions. it is spoken usually in the first person and is sometimes believed to be the words of the goddess channelled through the speaker. ch'i: the invisible life force, the flow of positive energy through everything, promoting growth, health and vitality. clairaudience: a natural psychic ability to hear sounds beyond the range of the physical sounds and the physical ear, sometimes from other dimensions. mediums often communicate with spirits by hearing their voices and so can convey messages to relatives or friends in whom the ability is

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

concern in black american spirituality, so much more was healing. chapter 4 considers african american understandings of the supernatural as both theoretical and practical ideas by which members of black communities interpreted suffering. like the\ 8\ african roots on which they drew, black american supernatural traditions promoted authorities and practitioners who bridged the physical realm and the invisible world. these spiritual professionals were competent at dealing with affliction and its prevention; they provided diagnoses and cured intractable ailments. as theophus smith has noted, the "curative intention" of practices such as conjure can be seen in african american practices and beliefs that "revised and re-visioned" conditions such as violence and racial victimization. similar t

the field, never to return to it again as a laborer.[23] many supernatural specialists were "born with the gift".marked, or chosen, at the start of their lives. anomalous births were considered significant in the conjuring tradition. being born with a caul, the amniotic veil covering the face of the newly delivered infant, was interpreted as evidence that one was gifted with enhanced insight into the invisible realm. another wellknown belief held that the seventh child of a seventh son or daughter would enjoy an auspicious spiritual lineage "if you are a double-sighted person and can see ghosts, if you happen to have been born on christmas day, or are a seventh son, you are born for magic" claimed one folklorist.[24] these anomalies sometimes led the depiction of conjurers as outsiders, in

that were expected of a faithful christian. similar ideas of piety and moral behavior were reflected in more recent accounts, as noted by the anthropologist norman whitten, who found that clients and neighbors generally believed hoodoo practitioners in north carolina's piedmont village in the mid-1960s to be morally righteous "good" persons.[34] african american conjure practitioners experienced the invisible world as a reality rather than as a theological abstraction. it is in this sense that black magic page 20 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006\ 29\ a supernatural perspective truly interpenetrated the beliefs of many black believers, churchgoing christians or not. in the african american religious imagination there were a host o

beings. these conceptions of the supernatural held firm for their free black descendants in\ 45\ america, who glimpsed the power of god in catastrophic earthquakes, lunar eclipses, and meteor showers.[19] the informal nature of european-derived supernaturalism may have facilitated its integration into african and african american cosmologies. parallels can be seen in both groups f perceptions of the invisible world. many anglo-american christians, for example, believed the celestial domain to be occupied by an almighty, benevolent deity and a host of spirits, including angels, archangels, and other more malevolent entities, powers, and principalities. similarly, west and central africans would have viewed the cosmos as a heavily populated world in which a reciprocating traffic of invisibl

eved to be adept at treating sickness, cunning persons functioned as popular spiritual seers, diviners, and fortune-tellers in anglo-american communities. african american conjurers were also sought out for their abilities to read the future. divination was a system of sacred disclosure that had been a common religious specialty in africa, where it was viewed as a reliable procedure for mediating the invisible realm. other methods of divination such as augury, geomancy, and spirit mediumship were practiced by religious authorities in indigenous african societies. in his seventeenth-century description of the "fetu country" on the gold coast, wilhelm muller wrote of priests who "boast[ed] of their ability to foretell the future" who traveled "all over the country for the sake of gain" accor

as a necessary protection that ensured their invulnerability. the oath, by which the group had "ty[ed] themselves to secrecy" involved a ritual in which blood was drawn and shared among members "by sucking c of each others hands" like many african rituals, this oath was a form of spiritual invocation. the conspirators were bound together by the act, having sealed a covenant between themselves and the invisible forces of the supernatural world.[4] such rituals were well known in precolonial africa, where oaths were administered by priests and other religious functionaries. oaths were sworn in order to detect thieves, to find social malefactors, or to adjudicate cases with conflicting claims. often, oaths functioned as sacred ordeals by which a person's guilt or innocence could be determined

as still running around. then he"hoodooed" me so that i couldn't leave him" then, one night, she recalled "something" told her to look inside of his pants pocket. there she discovered the conjuring charm that she believed had captured her will. destroying it, she was able to leave her husband. addie made her way to a church. it was a spiritualist congregation, a sanctuary where divine spirits and the invisible dead regularly fellowshiped with believers "i black magic page 57 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 fasted and prayed two days and on the second day i was praying c when the holy ghost came upon me and i spoke in tongues. i felt so glad and pure and clean that i just had to tell it" thus addie began her life anew as a preache

ists established churches that integrated supernaturalism into their practice and theology. like the pentecostals and like the conjurers, spiritualists utilized spiritual power for healing. spiritualists and conjurers alike explained the presence of disease and misfortune as products of both supernatural agents and social actors, acknowledging the human potential for evil and the intransigence of the invisible forces that battered body and soul. connecting both of these traditions was their promotion of physical well-being through invocation of the supernatural. supernatural therapy brought resolution in the physical and spiritual arenas and further allowed for the prevention of future afflictions. through healing, conjure and spiritualism intersected with the social and cultural forces th

the verdict is still black magic page 95 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 out on whether it is methodologically sensible to separate magic from religion. while this book does not ultimately resolve this problem, it does suggest that there are alternative ways to view the complex of practical strategies by which human beings interact with the invisible realm. i still believe that fixed assumptions constrain attempts to understand religious life. spiritual practices and beliefs are dynamic and possess their own autonomy. religion helps human beings make sense of their world, even as it explains why things might happen in that world. this much is also true of the tradition known as conjure. despite its "magical" orientation conjure h

published in several editions during his lifetime and later translated into dutch, french, and german. for background on equiano see angelo costanzo, surprising narrative: olaudah equiano and the beginnings of black autobiography (westport, conn: greenwood press, 1987. for the context of the religious thought and views of the world of which equiano was a part, see paul edwards and rosalind shaw "the invisible chi in equiano's interesting narrative" journal of religion in africa 19, no. 2 (1989: 146.56. 2. africans were taken as slaves from the western and central-western regions of the continent, areas broadly designated by europeans as upper guinea (the present-day senegambia, guinea-bissau, and sierra leone, lower guinea (ghana, togo, benin, nigeria, cameroon, and the ivory coast) and a

ical archeology 21 (1987: 115.17. for references, see thomas alvord, the devil in britain and america (ann arbor: gryphon books, 1971; tom peete cross "witchcraft in north carolina" studies in philology 16, no. 3 (1919: 219; m. drake patten "african-american spiritual beliefs: an archeological testimony from the slave quarter (proceedings of the dublin seminar for new england folklife, wonders of the invisible world: 1600.1900, ed. peter benes, june, 1992, pp. 44.52; leland ferguson, uncommon ground: archeology and early african america, 1650.1800 (washington, d.c: smithsonian institution press, 1992. 15. with respect to africans and anglican settlers in colonial virginia, mechal sobel argues forcefully that resemblances between the two groups' perceptions of time, space, and the natural w

the survival of african music (1899, in the negro and his folklore in nineteenth-century periodicals, ed. bruce jackson (austin: university of texas press, 1967, p. 335; b. a. botkin, lay my burden down: a folk history of slavery (chicago: university of chicago press, 1945, p. 30; raboteau, slave religion, p. 82. 30. as john thornton has noted, such communications between humans and entities from the invisible world often functioned as the basis of religious knowledge in precolonial africa (thornton, africa and africans in the making of the atlantic world, 1400.1680 [cambridge: cambridge university press, 1992, p. 236; see muller "description of the fetu country" p. 172; atkins, voyage to guinea, p. 102; and jones, german sources for west african history, p. 256. 31. maryland journal and b

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m. included commentary by abraham ben david ha levy the younger (dior. titled "liber jesirah quie abrahamo patriarchae adscribitur, una cum commentario rabbi abraham f.d (ie, ben dior) super 32 semitis sapientiae..translatus et notis illustratus a joanne stephano rittanhelio..amstekodami, 1642" 1644 latin version of the 1562 "sefer yetzirah" with a commentary by vorstius. 1645 theodor haak founds the invisible college. 1646 franckenberg's edition of clavis absconditorum by postel 1650 arthur dee fasciculus chemicus issued in english 1651 dr. john pordage founds philadelphians "angelic brethren" clavis apocaliptica, an analysis of the books of daniel and revelation in order to predict the date of the lord's return, determined as 1655- michael guhler. 1652 ashmole theatrum chemicum britannic

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er order, and its hidden and secret link to the true order of the r.r. et a.c. the qabalistic cross is done in unison. this indicates our unity as one body of christ under the light divine. it is also a symbol of bringing forth and invoking the higher genius. there is a much more hidden meaning in the symbology of the cross as it relates to corpus cristi and the solstice. the cross is a symbol of the invisible middle pillar. this is covered in early order documents "the law of the convoluted revolution of the forces" the cross relates to the central axis of the l that receives the rays of the a. remember, in our system, it is this axis that we measure. the center point of the l rather than the equator. thus, we see in the qabalistic cross the symbology of the sun and its' life giving rays

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ed a series of meetings between three children and some strange being, which, they said, sometimes manifested as the virgin mary. the being promised to produce a miracle to open the eyes of humanity, and those tens of thousands of people who turned up to witness it did, indeed, see a fantastic sight. but what was it? ufo researcher, jacque vallee, believed he knew when he wrote, in his 1976 book, the invisible college "not only was a flying disc or globe consistently involved, but its motion, its falling leaf trajectory, its light effects, the thunderclaps, the buzzing sounds, the strange fragrance, the fall of 'angel hair' that dissolves on the ground, the heat wave associated with the close approach of the disc, all of these are constant parameters of ufo sightings everywhere. and so are

e to control destinies on earth openly because governments would resist, this mystic alliance can act only through secret societies .these, gradually created as the need for them arises, are divided into distinct groups, groups seemingly in opposition, sometimes advocating the most contradictory policies in religion, politics, economics, and literature; but they are all connected, all directed by the invisible centre that hides its power as it thus seeks to move all the sceptres of the earth" the opposition by the american colonies led the british government to withdraw the new taxes, except for those on tea, but the brotherhood was not going to let the anger subside. members of the st. andrews freemasons lodge in boston, led by the junior warden, paul revere, dressed up as native american

by the order of the rosy cross in the reign of charles ii. another famous scientific' influence, sir isaac newton, was a rosicrucian and grand master of the priory of sion, the inner core of the knights templar. he was an inspiration behind the founding of the royal society. researchers into the background of the lunar society have shown that it mirrored (with remarkable accuracy) a group called the invisible college, described in the francis bacon work, the new atlantis. it was known as the lunar society because it met once a month at the time of the full moon. among its members were benjamin franklin, one of the founders of the united states and close associate of french revolutionaries, and .erasmus darwin, the grandfather of charles darwin, the man who would later be the frontman for

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a runaway slave and offering an extra tendollars for every 100 lashes the captor gave the slave. edmund randolph, a closeassociate and aide to george washington, and later grand master of the grand lodge ofvirginia, was appointed the first attorney general and secretary of state of the unitedstates. it was randolph who proposed a system of central government based on thestructure long proposed by the invisible college and the francis bacon network.most americans believe the constitution was compiled to ensure freedom, but it wascarefully worded to create loopholes through which the brotherhood agenda could beridden. for a start it says that if the president vetoes a bill passed by congress thelegislation goes back to the house of representatives and the senate and to override thepresidenti

l hill and the white house, are astrological symbols (which relateexactly to where certain constellations appear in the sky, hexagrams, satanicpentagrams, squares, a masonic compass, a spear of destiny, a skull and bones andscores of others. for more information and illustrations i strongly recommend anexcellent book by charles l. westbrook jr called the talisman of the united states,signature of the invisible brotherhood. roads in washington relate to the points wherethe sun rises at the winter and summer solstice, just as the ancient mounds, temples and357stone circles like stonehenge, were designed to do (see figure 30. other streets crossat precisely 33 degrees and still others mark the precession of the equinoxes, and thereis a hexagram or star of david (see figure 31).i described ear

the 1001 club: a nature trust (el r, p 15.48mark burdman, martin palmer, prince philips guru (el r, p 91. he was quoting frompalmers book, dancing to armageddon.49globalized grizzlies, the new american magazine, august 18th 1997.50the times, july 21st 1997, p 23.51prince philips friends ran get larouche plot (el r, p 17.52the anglo-dutch corporate empire, pp 125-12653ibid.54ibid.55joseph brewda, the invisible empire of the ngos (eir) p 91.56ibid, pp 89-90.57lbid,p90.58linda de hoyos, world wide fund for nature commits genocide in africa (eir, p 24.59the oligarchs real game is killing animals and killing people (eir, p 34.60ibid.61ibid, p 35.62lbid,p34.63ibid, pp 35-36.64ibid, p 36.65linda de hoyos, the british royal familys policy at work: mass death in rwanda (eir, p38.66ibid.67ibid.68ri

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ed themselves to us through the books they have written. he is also aware of the luciferic design in washington d.c. and all the other secrets associated with world control. two organizations, one visible, the other invisible researching this subject is like stripping away the paint and plaster from the walls of freemasonry (school building. take out a couple of bricks and you will see the truth, the invisible gears of freemasonry. the engine which powers their global control system. as they turn, they mesh together to accomplish their agendas. the reason why politicians never seem to do what the people who voted them into office want is because of these agendas. an agenda is consistent with a secret society. a secret society whose plan is already laid out. predetermined. those gears were

t society whose plan is already laid out. predetermined. those gears were turning all through history right out in the open for all to see but very few even noticed. just look at how many masonic presidents the united states has had. to the voter all a politician is is someone who follows their own agendas. this is perfectly consistent with a secret society, an organization which operates through the invisible gears of freemasonry. the visible "good works" organization is deliberately lied to and mislead with false interpretations by the invisible organization. the invisible organization knows the truth and is comprised of elite masons. this two dimensional organization is described by manly p. hall (who is a mason himself. hall was honored by the scottish rite journal, who called hall 'th

hin a fraternity- an outer organization concealing an inner brotherhood of the elect. it is necessary to establish the existence of these two separate and yet interdependent orders, the one visible and the other invisible. the visible society is a splendid camaraderie of 'free and accepted' men enjoined to devote themselves to ethical, educational, fraternal, patriotic, and humanitarian concerns. the invisible society is a secret and most august [defined as 'of majestic dignity, grandeur] fraternity whose members are dedicated to the service of a mysterious arcannum arcandrum [defined as 'a secret, a mystery [hall, lectures on ancient philosophy, p. 433] there are many men within freemasonry who are well-meaning and they make up the visible or "good works" organization of freemasonry. they

secret and most august [defined as 'of majestic dignity, grandeur] fraternity whose members are dedicated to the service of a mysterious arcannum arcandrum [defined as 'a secret, a mystery [hall, lectures on ancient philosophy, p. 433] there are many men within freemasonry who are well-meaning and they make up the visible or "good works" organization of freemasonry. they also have no knowledge of the invisible organization within freemasonry. albert pike said something very interesting concerning the brethren in the visible society "masonry, like all the religions, all the mysteries, hermeticism, and alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the adepts and sages, or the elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misl

on "deserve only to be mislead. if a man were to make it known to his fellow brethren that he believes in jesus christ he would immediately be placed into the visible organization of freemasonry. he would never learn the truth either unless he researched this subject independently. this man wouldn't be considered an adept, or a sage, or on of the elect. those terms are reserved for the members of the invisible organization. you would be one of those who were deliberately lied to about the doctrines of masonry, and given deliberate misinterpretations of its symbols, so that you would merely think you knew the truth "so masonry jealously conceals its secrets and intentionally leads conceited interpreters astray [ibid, p. 105] with that pike completes his instructions to intentionally mislead

if a person is not capable of accepting the truth that inner-core, invisible freemasonry really worships and serves satan, then such truth would become "deadly" to you. therefore "fictions are necessary" so visible masons would not be so devastated that they would leave freemasonry and expose its inner secrets. there is one short paragraph that properly and concisely defines the heart and soul of the invisible fraternity of freemasonry. let us return to manly p. hall for this quote "when a mason learns the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. the seething energies of lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy [the lost keys

mpany, inc, richmond, virginia, 1976, p. 48; emphasis added] the scottish rite journal praised manly p. hall in 1990 as "masonry's greatest philosopher. some masons may not have ever heard of manly p. hall; yet you can see his book was published by the macoy publishing and masonic supply company. the only reason this high-ranking mason had never heard of manly p. hall is that hall was a leader of the invisible fraternity, while this mason was participating in the visible fraternity! i hope you understand just what it is i am teaching you here. a majority of masons have been kept in ignorance all along. if you would like to go further you can go to the publishing and distribution house of invisible freemasonry, kessinger's freemasonry and occult publishing; kessinger's publishes all the old

on was participating in the visible fraternity! i hope you understand just what it is i am teaching you here. a majority of masons have been kept in ignorance all along. if you would like to go further you can go to the publishing and distribution house of invisible freemasonry, kessinger's freemasonry and occult publishing; kessinger's publishes all the old, formerly very secret masonic books of the invisible society. you are encouraged to pursue the subjects they have listed at the very bottom of their home page, noting the extremely satanic, anti-christian subjects of which the invisible fraternity is comprised. below are a few of these subjects as kessinger's has listed them: this is the heart and soul of the invisible, inner fraternity. the absolute darkest part of this heart is phall

e to stop being deceived, don't you think! listen to albert pike speak of the obelisk "hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of the resurrection by the tomb of buried deity [morals and dogma, p. 393] now, you know why you see so many obelisks atop the graves of freemasons, for it is "an emblem of the resurrection of buried deity; the invisible mason believes he is becoming a god throughout his life, so the obelisk at his grave is simply the visible manifestation of that belief. the obelisk was originally created by the egyptian mysteries of the pharaohs, and is spoken of in the bible. listen" king jehu said to the guards and to the officers 'go in and slay them; let none escape. and they smote them with the sword; and the

them with the sword; and the guards before the king threw their bodies out, and went into the inner dwelling of the house of baal. they brought out the obelisks of the house of baal and burned them [2 kings 10:26, amplified bible] god almighty ordered the satanic obelisks burned, but only after he ordered king jehu to slaughter the worshippers of the obelisk, also known as baal worshippers. thus, the invisible freemasonry is devoted to the obelisk worship so forbidden by god as to be worthy of the death penalty. keep this in mind the next time you contemplate the washington monument! finally, serpent worship takes us directly into hell itself, for satan stands directly behind this form of worship. this is the invisible fraternity of freemasonry, and i bet you never knew it existed, did you

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his obscure 15 the book of the serpent, draconian and persian sorcery by michael w. ford, succubus publishing. 14 figure was said to be a powerful sorcerer who was a manifestation of the power of the daevas, he could astrally project into hell and communicate with ahriman, and was considered a nomadic demon. it is owing to the passions of wolves and khrafastras that men are like devs; and hesham, the invisible power of the perverted path, prevailing in them, they become the source of darkness unconnected with light, of evil intelligence unconnected with wisdom, and of evil unmixed with good denkard book 3 akhtya was said in the denkard to have enunciated ten specific points on the practice of the yatuk dinoih or witchcraft. to be mentioned in the denkard as enunciating admonitions meant th

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and none are used lightly or for the sake of idle poetic imagery; all are as precise as scientific terms, which, in fact, is what they are. 3. the meaning of the word kether, we have already noted, is crown. chokmah means wisdom, and binah means understanding. but pendent to these two latter sephiroth is a curious and mysterious third, which is never represented in the glyph of the tree; this is the invisible sephirah, daath, knowledge, and it is said to be formed out of the conjunction of chokmah and binah and is situated astride the abyss. crowley tells us that daath is in another dimension to the other sephiroth, and forms the apex of a pyramid of which kethet, chokmah, and binah form the three basal angles. to me, daath presents the idea of realisation and consciousness. 4. let us now

t the messiahs and saviours of the world are assigned to tiphareth in the symbolism of the tree, for they were the light-bringers to humanity; and as all who bring fire from heaven must do, they died the sacrificial death for the sake of mankind. it is here, too, that we die to the lower self in order that we may rise in the higher self 'in jesu morimur" 13. the middle pillar rises through daath, the invisible sephirah, which we have already seen is knowledge according to the rabbis, and conscious awareness or apprehension according to the terminology of the psychologist. at the head of this pillar is kether, the crown, the root of all being. consciousness, theri, reaches from the spiritual essence of kether, through the realisation of daath, which carries it across the abyss, into the tra

rik anpin, the vast countenance. this is manifested as abba, the supernal father, chokmah, and ama, the supernal mother, binab, these being the positive and negative aspects of the three in one. these two differentiated aspects, when united, are, according to mathers, elohim, that curious divine name which is a feminine noun with a masculine plural attached to it. this union takes place in daath, the invisible sephirab. mystical qabala page 41 11. the next six sephiroth are conformed into zaur anpin, the lesser countenance, or microprosopos, whose special sephirah is tiphareth. the remaining sephirab, malkuth, is called the bride of microprosopos. 22. microprosopos is also sometimes called the king; malkuth is then called the queen. she is also called the lesser mother or terrestrial eve a

l phenomena surrounding him, attributed them to the agency of beings akin to himself in nature and type, but transcending him in power. as he could not see them, he not unnaturally called them mystical qabala page 57 invisible; and as he could not see his own mind during life, or his friend's soul after death, he concluded that the beings that produced natural phenomena were of the same nature as the invisible but active mind and soul. 2. now all this sounds very crude as it is put by the anthropologists, but that is only because when translating savage ideas they choose words that have crude associatiohs. for instance, the standard translation of one of the chief scriptures of china refers to the venerable philosopher lao tse as "the old boy" this sounds comical to european ears, yet it i

innermost spiritual essence of anything, whether man or world, is never in actual manifestation, but is always the underlying, behind-standing basis or root whence all springs, belonging in fact to a different dimension, a different order of being. it is this concept of the different types of existence which is fundamental to esoteric philosophy) and must always be borne in mind when considering the invisible kingdoms of the magician, or operative occultist. mystical qabala page 75 6. in the vedantan philosophy kether would undoubtedly equate with parabrahman, chokmah with brahman, and binah with mulaprakriti. in the other great systems of human thought kether equates with their primary concept and may be taken as the father of the gods. if for them the universe originated in space, then

al plane. we have, then, the father (kether, the king, and the bride, and in this con figuration of the tree there is profound symbolism and great practical importance in both philosophy and magic. 2. the abyss, the gulf fixed between macroprosopos and microprosopos, marks a demarcation in the nature of being, in the type of existence prevailing upon the two levels. it is in the abyss that daath, the invisible sephirah, has its station, and it might aptly be named the sephirah of becoming. it is also called understanding, which might be further interpreted as perception, apprehension, consciousness. 3. these two types of existence, macroprosopos and microprosopos, serve to indicate the potential and the actual. actual manifestation, as our finite minds can conceive it, begins with micropro

la page 130 9. exoteric religion goes no farther up the tree than tiphareth. it has no understanding of the mysteries of creation as represented by the symbolism of kether, chokmah, and binah; nor of the modes of operation of the dark and bright archangels as represented in the symbolism of geburah and gedulah; nor of the mysteries of consciousness and the transmutation of force as represented in the invisible sephirab daath, which has no symbolism. 10. in tiphareth god is made manifest in form and dwells among us; i.e. comes within range of human consciousness. tiphareth, the son "shows us" kether, the father. 11. in order that form may be stabilised, the component forces out of which it is built must be brought into equllibrium. therefore do we find the idea of the mediator, or redeemer

e tree is essentially the pillar of consciousness, just as the two side pillars are the pillars of the active and passive powers. when considered microcosnuc-ally, that is to say from the point of view of psychology instead of cosmology, kether, the divine spark round which the individualised being builds up, must be regarded as the nucleus of consciousness rather than consciousness itself daath, the invisible sephirah, is also on the central pillar, though, strictly speaking, it always belongs to another plane to that on which the tree is being considered. for instance, as we are considering the tree microcosmically at the moment, daath would be the point of contact with the macrocosm. it is not until we come to tiphareth that we get clear-cut, individualised consciousness. 29. tiphareth

and the son. 60. but although a lesser manifestation and a younger generation as viewed from above, tiphareth is also adam kadmon, the archetypal man, when viewed from beneath-from the side, that is to say, of yesod and malkuth. tiphareth is malek, the king, the husband of malkab, the bride, which is one of the titles of malkuth. 61. it is in tiphareth that we find the archetypal ideas which form the invisible framework of the whole of manifested creation formulating and expressing the primary principles emanating from the subtler sephiroth. it is, as it were, a treasure-house of images on a higher arc; but whereas the astral plane is peopled by images reflected from forms, the images of the sphere of tiphareth are those formulating, and as it were crystallising out, from the spiritual ema

gy, and by breaking up the form that imprisons it, put it into free circulation in the cosmos. that which we sacrifice in one form turns up again in due course in another form. apply this concept to the religious and ethical ideas of sacrifice and some very valuable clues are obtained. mystical qabala page 141 68. the god-name of this sphere is aloah va daath, which associates it intimately' with the invisible sephirah that comes between it and kether. this sephirah, as we have already seen, may best be understood as apprehension, the dawning of consciousness; and we may interpret the phrase "tetragrammaton aloah va daath" as "god made manifest in the sphere of mind" 69. in the microcosm tiphareth represents the higher psychism, the mode of consciousness of the individuality, jr higher sel

es a co-worker with the great artificer. it is this realisation of the spiritual forces manipulating all manifestations and appearances which is the key to the powers of hod as wielded in the magic of light. it is by making himself a channel for these forces that the master of white magic brings order into the disorder of the spheres mystical qabala page 170 of unbalanced force, not by deflecting the invisible powers to his personal will. he is the equilibrator of the unbalanced, not the arbitrary manipulator of nature. 37. in this sphere, which is the sphere of mercury-hermes, god of science and books, how clearly can we see that the supreme virtue is truthfulness, and that the obverse aspect of this sephirab is that which reveals mercury in his aspect as the god of thieves and cunning ro

on a celestial level. 69. these are things difficult to elucidate to those who have not seen the sun at midnight. they yield much to meditation, but little to disputation. v mystical qabala page 196 70. in the sphere of malkuth are worked all divinations. now the object of any method of divination is to find a set of things on the physical plane which correspond accurately and comprehensively to the invisible forces in the same way that the movements of the hands of a clock correspond to the passage of time. 71. for revealing general trends and conditions it is agreed by universal experience of those who have studied such matters that astrology is the best system of correspondences. but for obtaining an answer to a single questio i it is not sufficiently specific, for too many factors may

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tragedy in iona gives point to this assertion. no occultist is under any illusion as to that death being from natural causes. in my own experience i have known of similar deaths. in my novel, the secrets of dr. taverner, there were presented, under the guise of fiction, a number of cases illustrative of the hypotheses of occult science. some of these stories were built up to show the operation of the invisible forces; others were drawn from actual cases; and some of these were written down rather than written up in order to render them readable by the general public. so much first-hand experience, confirmed by independent evidence, should not go unregarded, especially since rational explanations are difficult to find save in terms of the occult hypotheses. it may be possible to explain awa

r instruments of precision, many things can happen that are not without their echo on the physical plane. there are beings that live in this invisible world as fish live in the sea. there are men and women with trained minds, or special aptitudes, who can enter into this invisible world as a diver descends to the ocean-bed. there are also times when, as happens to a land when the sea-dykes break, the invisible forces flow in upon us and swamp our lives. normally this does not occur. we are protected by our very incapacity to perceive these invisible forces. there are four conditions, however, in which the veil may be rent and we may meet the unseen. we may find ourselves in a place where these forces are concentrated. we may meet people who are handling these forces. we may ourselves go ou

ated it. therefore we should never respond to attack by attack, thus bringing ourselves down to the moral level of our attackers, but rely upon more humane methods, which are, in reality, equally effectual and far less dangerous to handle. people also come into touch with the unseen through the influence of places. someone who is not actually psychic, but who is sufficiently sensitive to perceive the invisible forces subconsciously, may go to a place where they are concentrated at a high tension. normally, although we move in the midst of these forces (for they sustain our universe, we are oblivious of them. where they are concentrated, however, unless we are very dense-minded, we begin to be dimly conscious of something that is affecting us and stirring our subliminal self. it may happen

ll these modes of suggestion enter the mind behind the censor; that is to say, they are independent of consciousness, which is neither asked to co-operate, nor has the power to inhibit them. in most cases, suggestions made in this way are never recognised as coming from outside, but are only discovered after they have matured in the subconsciousness and are beginning to take effect. we do not see the invisible seed, that has been sown in our mind by the mind of another, but in due course germination takes place and the strong-growing shoot appears above the threshold of consciousness as if it were a native growth. the skillful suggestionist always aims at 13 of 103 making his suggestions harmonise with the bias of the personality; for if they do not, the established sub-conscious complexes

tric sentence or formula. i came across an invocation once in which the word of power was tegatoo. on investigation this turned out to be the battered remains of the great architect of the universe. even an experienced occultist may get into difficulties if he attempts magical work when he is in bad health, over-tired, or has had even a moderate amount of alcohol, for very little is too much when the invisible forces are being handled. equally does this apply to each of his assistants. a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. a ritual lodge is no place for the well- meaning ineffectual. there is an immense amount of dabbling in occultism going on today. most of it is innocuous because it is totally 44 of 10

considerable mental confusion, which will gradually wear off. unless there is some organic defect, such as hereditary mental instability, a bad heart, or hardened arteries, there will be a complete recovery, given time; but naturally it is a bad outlook should one of these conditions be present, and those who have them should not take part in occult experiments. personally, i do not believe that the invisible forces alone will ever actually cause the loss of life or permanent disability in the absence of any physical lesion. the person who goes out of his mind as the result of a psychic shock would have gone out of his mind if he had been in a railway disaster or any other drastic emotional experience. unless the psychic atmosphere indicates otherwise, it is not necessary to do any banish

precautions against obsession, because the power has dispersed itself in the very act of inflicting the shock. during my early days of occultism i developed my powers very rapidly because i recovered the memories of previous incarnations en bloc, and with them the capacities acquired in previous lives, and i shook myself up severely on numerous occasions before i learnt the technique of handling the invisible forces. i never experienced any permanent ill-effects from my mishaps, though i admit that upon occasion i have been extricated by my friends from a considerable amount of debris. during the early days of my occult career a girl was brought to me by a mutual friend, who told me that the mother of this girl, an ardent student of occultism, seemed to have a terrible effect upon her dau

f-preservation instinct keeps him on his feet. having considered the physical and subjective bases of mental disturbances, we are now in a position to assess accurately the part played by the unseen. what happens when a neurotic takes up occultism? we can best answer this question by considering what happens when a normal person takes up occultism. he learns for the first time of the existence of the invisible worlds and begins to think about them. immediately he does this he comes into touch with them. at first he may not be able to perceive them consciously; nevertheless he is feeling them subconsciously and they are affecting him. his life shows this to the close observer in a thousand ways. there are great forces moving like currents in the unseen and we are drawn into these according

els which is the equivalent of the pagan pantheons. it is through these etherial messengers that the all-father formed the worlds. let us consider once more the qabalistic doctrine of the qlippoth, for it has an intimate bearing upon the problem of insanity. the doctrine of the ten holy sephiroth, arranged in their correct pattern to form the tree of life, is invaluable in enabling us to conceive the invisible. the first sephira is concentrated out of the unmanifest, the point within the circle. this emanates the second, which in its turn emanates the third. as soon as one has emanated another, these two are said to be equilibrated; but when emanation is in process, there is a period of unbalanced force. this, as it were, goes off by itself in the cosmos and establishes a sphere of its own

ll on or about the equinoxes or solstices. note also the days of the week upon which they occurred. if you found that all the crises of the case occurred on thursdays, or round about the vernal equinox, or at the full moon, you would have a piece of information which was of 77 of 103 considerable significance. you would be sure of one thing, at any rate, that you were dealing with a case in which the invisible psychic tides played a part. information should also be sought concerning the place or places in which the different crises of the trouble took place, and especially the circumstances attending its first onset. it is exceedingly useful if possible to visit the place and sense its atmosphere. a very great deal can also be learnt from visiting the place where the patient is living. hav

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ww.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (3 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:58 am] sun, in company with the god khepera; between them are the beetle and sun's disk in later times the egyptians called the feminine form of tmu temt.[2] ra was the name given to the sun by the egyptians in a remote antiquity, but the meaning of the word, or the attribute which they ascribed to the sun by it, is unknown. ra was the invisible emblem of god, and was regarded as the god of this earth, to whom offerings and sacrifices were made daily; and when he appeared above the horizon at the creation, time began. in the pyramid texts the soul of the deceased makes its way to where ra is in heaven, and ra is entreated to give it a place in the "bark of millions of years" wherein he sails over the sky. the egyptians attri

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rk more freely in the post-newtonian environment. in addition, largely as a result of the new age movement of the 1980s, metaphysical and occult religions enjoy an acceptability in the west not seen since the scientific revolution. this acceptability is evident in the amount of favorable press given to psychic and occult phenomena. the new age and beyond the hidden underlying reality described as the invisible spiritual structure of the universe is known as esotericism. this structure is enlivened by the cosmic energy or power that energizes the world at a more abstract level than the various forms of energy defined in classical physics. the esotericist characterizes the reality beyond that depicted by physicists in their observations of the world; these descriptions are termed meta-physic

n bleeze is made in the following fashion. heath, broom, and dressings of flax are tied upon a pole. the torch is lit; a youth takes it and carries it upon his shoulders. when the torch is burned out, a second is tied to the pole and kindled. several of these blazing torches are often carried through the villages at the same time. hallowe en is believed by the superstitious to be a night on which the invisible world has peculiar power. further, it is thought that there is no such night in all the year for obtaining insight into the future. his satanic majesty is supposed to have great latitude allowed him on this anniversary, in common with witches, who are believed to fly on broomsticks. others less aerially disposed ride over by-road and heath, seated on the back of cats that have been t

and two who were pregnant survived and were freed. five joined the 55 people who confessed and were later freed. reaction to the trials was widespread. among the most vehement detractors was thomas brattle, an educated citizen of boston, who attacked the proceedings and termed the whole affair utter nonsense. mather published a reply, defending the court and the idea of witchcraft, the wonders of the invisible world (1693, but the tide of public opinion was slowly turning against the complex of ideas underlying the trials. mather continued the debate in his later writings, but his reputation was severely damaged by robert calef s attack in more wonders of the invisible world (1700. eventually, on january 15, 1697, the jurors who had brought in the guilty verdicts joined in a day of fasting

al research. new york: paragon house, 1991. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. america, united states of 39 boyer, paul, and stephen nissenbaum. salem possessed. cambridge, mass: harvard university press, 1974. salem-village witchcraft. belmont, calif: wadsworth publishing, 1972. brinton, daniel g. the myths of the new world. leypoldt and holt, 1868. calef, robert. more wonders of the invisible world. london, 1700. christopher, milbourne. esp, seers and psychics. new york: thomas y. crowell, 1970. clark, jerome. the emergence of a phenomenon: ufos from the beginning through 1959. the ufo encyclopedia. vol. 2. detroit: omnigraphics, 1992. demos, john putnam. entertaining satan: witchcraft and the culture of early new england. new york: oxford university press, 1982. ebon, ma

niversity press, 1975. reprint, new york: new american library, 1976. khalsa, parmatma singh, ed. spiritual community guide no. 4, california: spiritual community publications, 1979. kittredge, g. l. witchcraft in old and new england. cambridge, ma: harvard university press, 1929. la barre, weston. ghost dance: the origins of religion. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1971. mather, cotton. wonders of the invisible world. boston, 1693. reprint, anherst, wis: amherst press, n.d. mather, increase. cases of conscience concerning evil spirits. boston, 1693. melton, j. gordon, and isotta poggi. magic, witchcraft, and paganism in america: a bibliography. new york: garland publishing, 1992. mooney, james. the ghost-dance religion. in annual report of bureau of american ethnology. 14, 2 (1893. needlema

s sons, 1894. telepathic hallucinations: the new view of ghosts. london, 1909. pollock, james s. dead and gone. london, 1874. price, harry. the end of borley rectory. london: harrap, 1946. the most haunted house in england. london: longmans, green, 1940. salter, w. h. ghosts& apparitions. london: g. bell& sons, 1938. savile, bourchier w. apparitions; a book of facts. london, 1874. the secrets of the invisible world laid open, or an universal history of apparitions, sacred& profane. london, 1770. snell, joy. the ministry of angels. london, 1918. stead, william t. real ghost stories. london, 1892. rev. ed. 1897. reprinted as borderland: a casebook of true supernatural stories. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1970. tregortha, john. news from the invisible world. u.k: burslem, 1808. twe

70, emma hardinge britten remarks on the singular docility of apported birds and says: numerous other instances can be cited in which spirits have manifested their power of influencing birds with a degree of readiness and intelligence as unaccountable as it is interesting. theories of explanation ever since britten s report of larkin s experience, the dove has remained a favorite apport object of the invisible operators. the average apport manifestation, however, is less impressive, though, from the viewpoint of experimental research, the appearance of the smallest object in a closed space to which there is no normal access is of immense import. unfortunately, observations under strict test conditions are all but nonexistent, and psychical research has classified the phenomenon as among th

the law of the transmutation of energy, a thermic reaction should be expected. spiritualists have suggested that just such a reaction exists. stone and metallic apports, especially bigger objects, are often burning or scorching hot on arrival. this sudden increase of heat was noticed by zollner in the claimed passage of matter through matter. other objects were nevertheless found cold. in answer the invisible operators replies that they sometimes prefer to disintegrate a portion of the wood of the door or part of the ceiling to facilitate the entrance of the object in its original state. one would have had to suppose that this is the procedure employed when living things are brought in. some spirit operators make no claim for the unobstructed passage of matter through matter. they say a c

arge pears, a pomegranate, two crystallized greengages, a pile of dried currants, a lemon, and a large bunch of raisins. they were brought in the order they had been wished for. signor g. damiani made the curious observation of guppy- volckman s apports before the dialectical committee that the ends of the stems of the flowers presented a blackened and burnt appearance. when the reason was asked, the invisible intelligences answered that electricity was the potent nipper employed. in her seance before the florence spiritual society, a sudden noise was heard as if the chandelier had fallen down; a light was struck, and a thick block of ice, of about a square foot in size, was found upon the table. henry wadsworth longfellow had a sitting with her at naples. he held both her hands, and while

unced imitations and the coins genuine but of no rarity or value. sir arthur conan doyle related his personal experiences with bailey in the history of spiritualism (1926, adding that on further inquiry it was found that these forgeries were made by certain jews in a suburb of baghdad. he voiced the opinion that a forgery, steeped in recent human magnetism, may be more capable of being handled by the invisible operators than the originals, which have to be searched for in mounds. bailey produced at least 100 such tablets and told doyle that they were passed as genuine by the british museum. at the sitting in question, besides an assyrian tablet, bailey apported a jungle sparrow s nest with an egg in it. the nest was two inches high and showed no sign of any flattening, which ought to have

s in wooden frames were held up, face to face, against the window, the lower edges resting on a table and the sides gripped by each medium with one hand. a short curtain was hung on either side and an opaque blind was drawn over the canvases. with the light streaming from behind, the canvases were translucent. after a quarter of an hour, the outlines of shadows began to appear and disappear as if the invisible artist were making a preliminary sketch, then the picture began to grow at a feverish rate. when the frames were separated the portrait was found on the paper surface of the canvas next to the sitter. although the paint was greasy and stuck to the finger on being touched, it left no stain on the paper surface of the other canvas, which closely covered it. the sitters were requested t

dropped on to a sort of gridiron arrangement that lay on the carpet. it was promptly drawn backward under a slit in the door into the next room, where lizzie bangs, the other sister, steamed the envelope. in the meantime the ink in the cup had time to evaporate so that it appeared to have been used. a number of testimonies vouching for the bangs sisters are printed in james coates s photographing the invisible. but there is no doubt that some of the charges of fraud brought against them in their early career were well borne out. in 1880 and in 1891 they were seized as masquerading materialized spirits under very damaging circumstances, and in 1890 a colonel bundy charged them in the religio-philosophical journal with fraud in slate writing. dr. richard hodgson made a thorough investigation

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hat the stone called bloodstone can staunch the flow of blood. the law dealing with antipathy rests on the assumption that the application of a certain object or drug expels its contrary. the idea of contiguity assumes that whatever has once formed part of an object continues to form part of it. thus, if a magician can obtain a portion of a person s hair, he can work harm upon that person through the invisible bonds that are believed to extend between the individual and the hair in the magician s possession. it was commonly believed that if the animal familiar of a witch is wounded, the wound will manifest on the witch herself (see werewolf. this is called repercussion. it was also widely assumed that if the magician procures the name of a person he can gain dominion over that person. this

ontal instead of vertical, the vital power of our medium appeared to absorb and draw in the spirit-form, but at my desire, so gradually that i was enabled quite leisurely thus closely to watch the process. for leaning against, and holding my friend with my left arm at his back and my left ear and cheek at his breast, his heart beating in an alarming way, i saw him receive back the lovely birth of the invisible spheres into his robust corporeal person. and as i gazed on the sweet face of the disintegrating spirit, within three or four inches of its features, i again marked the fair lineaments, eyes, hair and delicate complexion, and kissed the dainty hand as in process of absorption it dissolved and was drawn through the texture and substance of his black coat into our friend s bosom. the a

m was not a lay figure. the drapery observed usually appeared to be white, sometimes of a dazzling whiteness, but could also be greyish in appearance; it was often luminous and so material that it was always the last to disappear when the seance concluded. the reason apparently was that the substance of the drapery, though its texture was finer, withdrawn from the medium s clothes to be molded by the invisible operators, like ectoplasm, into all kinds of patterns. the medium franek kluski noticed that the curtains and carpets of his apartment, where his materialization phenomena were produced, were badly worn in an inexplicable manner. the observation was also made at the british college of psychic science that the lining of the underarms of a medium s jacket used exclusively for seance pu

t had occurred, the mathers were accused by some of the more skeptical voices in the community, such as robert calef, as the real cause of the colony s disgrace. only in the twentieth century, with the massive reevaluation of the whole of the witchcraft phenomenon in new england, has the mathers reputation been somewhat put into a more balanced perspective. sources: calef, robert. more wonders of the invisible world; or, the wonders of the invisible world display d in five parts. london, 1700. mather, cotton. memorable provinces, relating to witchcraft and possessions. boston, 1689. the wonders of the invisible world. observations as well historical as theological, upon the nature, the number, and the operations of the devil. boston: benjamin harris, 1693. mather, increase. essay for the r

ce it implies that there is something present, although not what it seems to be. according to the vedas, the ancient scriptures of india, the divine infinity of brahman (impersonal absolute) or brahma (creative god) is real and is present in empirical reality but is veiled by the illusory power of maya. mayavi-rupa according to theosophy and drawing on hindu religious insights, the mayavi-rupa is the invisible part of the physical body. its appearance is exactly similar to that of the physical body. maynard, henrietta sturdevant (1841.1892) american inspirational speaker known as nettie colburn before her marriage. she was born in bolton, connecticut, in 1841. abraham lincoln had a high opinion of her gift and was, to an appreciable extent, influenced by her trance exhortations in the issu

e, and materializations, which, however, did not progress beyond luminous hands or columns of light vaguely suggesting human forms. moses continuing circle was very small. dr. and mrs. speer and f. w. percival were generally the only witnesses of the phenomena. sergeant cox, w. h. harrison, a dr. thompson, a mrs. garratt, a miss birkett, and sir william crookes were occasional sitters. as a rule, the invisible communicators strongly resented the introduction of strangers. the physical phenomena in themselves were of secondary importance. they were produced in evidence of the supernormal power of the communicators to convince moses and the sitters of the spirits claims. writing in the proceedings of the society for psychical research (vol. 9, pt. 25, f. w. h. myers asserts that. they were n

influence of an intelligent mechanical force. their speed is sometimes alarming. they may come within an inch of some one s face, then suddenly stop. there is no fumbling, no exploration, no accidental collision. if one puts out his hand in the dark for the reception of an object it neatly drops into his palm. the sitters may change seats or posture, yet the objects will seek them out perfectly. the invisible manipulator behind the phenomena seems to have cat s eyes. a table may incline at a considerable angle, yet the objects may remain unmoved on the leaf or they may glide up the slope. a switch may be thrown, gas or electricity turned off, the flame encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. movement (paranormal) 1061 of a candle depressed, cords and handkerchiefs knotted, bond

science, vol. 8, no. 2, july 1929. with the austrian medium maria silbert it was noticed that she seemed to know intuitively movement (paranormal) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1064 a few minutes beforehand what articles would appear, as if the cloud of invisibility that surrounded the objects had been of ectoplasmic nature. the objects that vanish are not necessarily solids. the invisible operators seem to have the same power over liquids. lord adare recorded that brandy was invisibly withdrawn from a glass that the medium d. d. home held above his head. when lord adare held his hands above the glass the liquor fell over and through his fingers into the glass, dropping from the air above him. home explained that the spirit making the experiment was obliged to form a m

home: we ought to add that one of the persons who was quite close to the table [dr. maxwell; see mediums almost completely fainted away, not from emotion, but through weakness, saying that he felt drained of his strength as the result of eusapia s efforts. the nature of the force the method of the liberation of this vital force, the circumstances regulating the quantity of the supply, its use by the invisible operators of the seance room, and its relation to ectoplasm remained elusive. reportedly, the force was subject to an ebb and flow. in some cases fasting or seclusion increased it, in some others a hearty meal. psychological factors also enter to a great extent. in a calm, harmonious atmosphere it is more liberally generated. the operators spoke of lines of force and of a vibratory s

ns of the subject. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. rhine, louisa e. esp in life and lab: tracing hidden channels. new york: macmillan, 1967. hidden channels of the mind. new york: william sloane, 1961. the invisible picture. jefferson, n.c: mcfarland, 1981. mind over matter. new york: macmillan, 1970. psi: what is it? new york: harper& row, 1975. something hidden. jefferson, n.c: mcfarland, 1983. rhine research center the rhine research center is a nonprofit organization devoted to parapsychological research and education. established as the foundation for research on the nature of man in 1962 b

nch. at the age of fifty, he published his book modern mysticism and other essays (1899, followed by the celtic temperament and other essays (1901. the latter work was adopted as a textbook by japanese universities. other publications included the valley of shadows: recollections of the lincoln country, 1858.63 (1909, portraits (1910, la vie and les hommes (1911, the humour of the underman (1911, the invisible alliance (1913, illusions and realities of the war (1918, and abraham lincoln: the practical mystic (1918. the quality of his literary work secured him a place in the prestigious kunitz and haycraft twentieth century authors (1942. many of shepard s readers were unaware of his earlier psychic activities until he published a spiritualist pamphlet, psycho-phone messages, in 1921. in sp

vestigator tomobichi fukurai used the term thoughtography to denote paranormal images on photographic materials. sources: barlow, fred, and w. rampling rose. report on an investigation into spirit-photography. proceedings of the society for psychical research 41 (1933: 121.38. christopher, milbourne. mediums, mystics, and the occult. new york: thomas y. crowell, 1975. coates, james. photographing the invisible: practical studies in supernormal photography, script, and other allied phenomena. london: l. n. fowler, 1911. reprint, new york: arno press, 1973. doyle, arthur conan. the case for spirit photography. london: hutchinson, 1922. reprint, new york: george h. doran, 1923. eisenbud, jule. the world of ted serios: thoughtographic studies of an extraordinary mind. new york: william morrow

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esoterism views it as a possibility. faivre describes it in a colourful way: understood in this way fantasy (imaginato is related to magnet, magia, imagio) is a tool for those who wishes to reach knowledge about the self, the world and the myth. it is the eye of fire which penetrates the shell of the outer appearance to make the true significations appear, and uncovers the connections which makes the invisible visible to expand our mundane seeing; the mundus imaginalis to which the mundane eye of flesh has no access. 4) the experience of transmutation. without the experience of transmutation as an important component esoterism could be mistaken for some form of speculative spirituality. the word transmutation can be found in alchemy and refers to the transcendence or passing over from one

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

een the sefiroth power/fire and understanding/ north. very powerful black magicians, who make it up the column of the left without shattering their shells, are denied access to atziluth (world of emanation) by the action of the gate of the ayin i( gate of the unclean servants) between the sefiroth understanding/north and crown/above. this gate redirects such souls into extinction via the abyss at the invisible sefirah knowledge/first, 6' 7 '0, 6 -07 like the ways of the angels of elohim and the angels of destruction, the working trees known as the way of the saint and the way of the wizard are opposite in nature and intent. the way of the saint involves an arduous progression up the tree in which all the sefiroth of all three columns are traversed one by one through a specific sequence of

g from the nefesh (i.e. dying from the physical body, the soul retains its separation and resides in ecstatic bliss at the feet of their beloved for the duration of the small face universe. through discrimination and the renunciation of a dualistic relationship with one s small face chosen ideal, the individual consciousness can continue to expand and ascend the central column, cross the abyss of the invisible sefirah knowledge/ first, and merge with the neshamah (divine soul) in the sefirah crown/above in the world of atziluth. this is experienced as a witness state the size of the small face universe. in merging with the neshamah, all separation between the individual and small face dissolves. by renouncing the manifestation of mindgenerated universes, face turns toward face and the univ

to return to the central column, since there are no gates connecting the sefiroth vertically up the right and left columns. after passing into sefirah beauty/last, the next step in ascending the central column in the way of hvhy elohenu is to pass through the gate of the alef a. the gate of the alef a connects sefirah beauty/last with sefirah crown/above, traveling across the face of the abyss of the invisible sefirah realization/first at the throat center. in qabalah, the gate of the alef a is called the sword bridge. it is called sirata( straight path) in the fatiha (the opening) of the qur an, and chinuvad( connecting link) in the zend avesta of the zoroastrians. the peshitta describes it as strait is the gate and narrow is the way. by maintaining the balance between the sefiroth mercy/

ast face-centered aspirants are not focusing on a form or attribute of small face, they will generally experience sefirah beauty/last as formless and empty in the world of b riyah. if the bliss of ananda samadhi with small face does arise, it is renounced and ignored as an illusion. they will then continue to move up the central column through the gate of the alef a, over the face of the abyss of the invisible sefirah knowledge/ first, and into the world of atziluth in sefirah crown/above. from atziluth, the movement into the roots of the tree is% e2 2 e" 2' 8: h 2" 5 seamless. in merging with the negatively existent roots, everything, including the idea of the substratum, disappears in the experience of complete extinction (fana il fana in sufism, nirvikalpa samadhi in vedanta. the realiz

ace in sefirah beauty/the last in the world of yetzirah. gan eden alphabet: the source alphabet in the astral world of yetzirah from which differentiate both the hebrew and sanskrit alphabets in the world of asiyah. gate: a passageway associated with one of the hebrew letters that dynamically links one sefirah to another on the tree of life. gate of the alef: letter-gate that crosses the abyss of the invisible sefirah knowledge/first on the fallen tree, and which connects sefirah beauty/last to the visible sefirah knowledge/ first on the perfect tree. called sirata in the qur an, and straight is gate and narrow is the way in the peshitta. gate of the beyt: the letter-gate into the world of b riyah, and the beyt worlds that falls when sefirah knowledge/first becomes sefirah kingdom. this ga

orhood: a central name for the feminine aspect as the energy of consciousness of the lord hvhy, associated with the lower heh and the sefirah kingdom. corresponds to sakinat in the qur an, and to kundalini in the tantra" 40 shell of terror: a term for the experience of getting close to the throne i.e. to the awesome power of small face, when moving through the gate of the alef toward the abyss of the invisible sefirah knowledge/first. shem hameforesh (hebrew: name of brilliant fire: an appellation of the name hvhy, reflecting its appearance as dancing letters of fire. sheol (hebrew: a central name for qabalistic hells. shevarit hakelim (hebrew: shattering of the vessels: a central tenet in lurianic qabalah which says that at the moment of creation, there was an explosion which shattered th

t of three core texts at the root of the sefer hazohar. silsilah (arabic: the chain of spiritual transmission in sufism. simple letters: the twelve hebrew letters that link the directional sefiroth to one another in the sefer yetzirah. sinatic hebrew: original hebrew alphabet that appeared circa nineteenth century bce. sirata (arabic: straight path: name for the gate of the alef over the abyss of the invisible sefirah knowledge/first on the fallen tree in the opening surah of the qur an. siriya latifa (arabic: thoracic center on the sufi tree. corresponds to sefirah beauty/last on the qabalistic tree, the 44' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% anahata chakra on the tantric tree, and the middle tan on the taoist tree. small face: god with attributes; active aspect of the ayn that manifests, preserves, and d

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iris as the chief gods of egypt. in one of his discussions of their meanings he says: the divine dionysius testifies that all created things are nothing else but mirrors which reflect to us the rays of the divine wisdom. hence the wise men of egypt feigned that osiris, having given charge of all things to isis, permeated invisibly the whole world. what else can this signify save that the power of the invisible god penetrates intimately into all ?2 here "egyptian" divine immanence combines with pseudo- dionysian light mysticism to produce that acute sense of the divine in things so characteristic of renaissance hermetism. for kircher, isis and osiris have a meaning which, when found among philosophers of the renaissance such as giordano bruno, is called "panpsychism. kircher's passion for e

n 1623 a detachment of them actually visited paris where they put up placards describing themselves as "invisible ones" and announcing that they were in possession of many deep secrets of wisdom which those who wished might learn from them.3 their visit clashed with the appearance at the same time in paris of an equally strange and mysterious sect from spain, calling themselves "iuuminati".4 that the invisible ones came to paris at the height of the great intellectual battle against all that they represented which mersenne and his friends were waging adds to the drama of the situation, and if, as has been hinted in this book, there may have been an influence of bruno on their formation, it becomes even more clear to which side of the controversy bruno belongs. it might have been as an invi

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

ks such as frazer s the golden bough, and margaret murray s the witch cult in western europe, as well as authentic grimoires such as the keys of solomon and dr. john dee s book of enoch, or liber logaeth. he had also read waite s collection of medieval texts, the book of black magic and pacts, macgregor mathers translation of the sacred magic of abra-melin the sage, and cotton mathers, wonders of the invisible world, which documents the witchcraft phenomena centred around salem in 1692. the titles of these volumes are echoed in those which were created by lovecraft and his fellow contributors to the cthulhu mythos: de vermis mysteriis, the pnakotic manuscripts, les cultes des ghoules, and the book of eibon. however, the most important of these imaginary tomes is lovecraft s own creation, t

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ah freed him also. he yielded his body at that moment to the descending christ spirit and ranged himself with the new leader. religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer catholic, that is to say, universal. sects and "isms" have branched out in one direction and another, but still jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love all the sons of seth who will call upon his name by faith, and he will eventually unite the scattered churches in the kingdom of christ. christian rosenkreuz was given charge of the sons of cain who seek the light of knowledge at the sacred fires of the mystic shrine. as the creative energy implanted by their divine ancestor samael caused cain to work out t

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

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vaporated and propelled outwards, in a ceaseless round for ages and ages, as a shuttlecock between the separate hierarchies of spirits composing the various kingdoms of life, represented in the fire-sphere and cosmic space which is an expression of the homogeneous absolute spirit. the fire spirits are actively striving to attain enlargement of consciousness. but the absolute rests ever clothed in the invisible garment of cosmic space. in 'it' all powers and possibilities are latent, and it seeks to discourage and check any attempt at expenditure of latent power as dynamic energy required in the evolution of a solar system. water is the agent it used to quench the fire of active spirits. the zone between the heated center of the separate spirit sphere, and the point where its individual atm

'light' that by it we may see and know. catholicism is an activity of the hierarchs of water, and places 'holy water' at the temple door to quench the spirits seeking light and knowledge and to inculcate faith in jehovah. as the vernal equinox is said to be at the first point of aries, no matter where in the constellations it falls by precession, so the point where the human seed-atom comes from the invisible world and is taken in hand by the lunar god of generation, jehovah, through his ambassador, the angel gabriel, is esoterically the first point of cancer. this is the cardinal sign of the watery triplicity, and is ruled by the moon. there conception takes place; but were the form built of water and its concretions alone, it could never come to birth, so four months later when the fetu

ifer spirits, rulers of the serpentine sign scorpio. their initiates, even so late as the egyptian dynasty, wore the uraeus or serpent symbol in the forehead as a sign of the source of their wisdom. as a consequence of this unauthorized use of the creative force, humanity ceased to be ethereal and crystallized into the coats of skin or physical body which now hides from them the gods who dwell in the invisible realms; and great was their sorrow at this loss. generation had been originally established by the angels under jehovah. it was then performed in great temples under propitious planetary conditions and parturition was then painless, as it is today among wild animals where the creative function is not abused for the purpose of gratifying the senses. degeneration resulted from the igno

sicrucians and asks for light, when it receives the desired instruction after due qualification by building and ethereal soul-body, a temple or house eternal in the heavens, not made with hands, and without sound of hammer, when its nakedness is clothed with that house (see cor. 4.5) then the neophyte receives "the word" the open sesame to the inner worlds and learns to travel in foreign parts in the invisible worlds. there he takes soul-flights into heavenly regions and qualifies for higher degrees under more direct instruction from the grand architect of the universe, who fashioned both heaven and earth. such is the temperament of the widow's sons inherited from their divine progenitor samael and given by him to their ancestor cain. their past history is a struggle with adverse condition

e temple who thought they ought to be promoted to a higher degree, but who had not the power within; therefore hiram abiff could not initiate them, and as they were unable to see that the lack was in themselves, they felt provoked at hiram, as over-ambitious candidates of today feel slighted and stamp a spiritual teacher a fraud who is unable to give them immediate illumination and induction into the invisible, while they are still eating of the "flesh-pots of egypt" and unwilling to sacrifice themselves upon the altar of self-denial. the dissatisfied among hiram's men entered into a conspiracy to spoil his great masterpiece, the molten sea. part iv casting the molten sea as the spiritual gifts of the sons of seth flowered in solomon, the wisest of men, and enabled him to conceive and desi

ame for the generative act. thus by degrees their eyes were opened and they became aware of the physical world, but lost touch with the spiritual and the guardian angels who had previously been their benevolent guides. only a few of the most spiritual among them retained their higher vision and communion with the divine hierarchs. these were then known as prophets, who acted as messengers between the invisible divine leaders and their respective peoples. but in time mankind desired to select its own leaders and demanded visible kings; at least we know that the israelites repudiated the divine ruler ship and demanded a king, and thus saul was appointed. then the dual office of ruler and priest, including temporal and spiritual leadership, was also divided, for no man sufficiently versed in

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concerning the first of these two dualities, isaac myer writes: secret wisdom of the qabalah page 14 the basic element of most of the ancient, and to this day, of many of the modern religions of the world is, the idea of a perfect invisible universe above, which is the real and true paradigm or ideal model, of the visible universe below, the latter being the reflection, a simulacrum or shadow, of the invisible perfect ideal above. this idea was fully understood by the ancient egyptians, as was shown in their deities nut or neith, the upper world, shu or ma, the intermediary, and seb, the earth.14 in india, the same idea is fully set forth in the esoteric books of the vedas, called the upanishads. it is the supreme ideal brahm which is the only true. it manifests itself first in brama, vish

and through these in the visible, the last being maya, or illusion. the temples of most of the archaic peoples of asia and of egypt were intended to be visible copies of the heavenly temple, the starry firmament called templum, and the same idea is visible in those of the hebrews. philo and josephus represent the temples of the israelites, as typical of the visible universe, and this was based on the invisible universe. 15 amongst the mohammedans we find the same idea: the first thing god created was a pen. indeed the whole creation is but a transcript, and god when he made the world, did but write it out of that copy which he had of it in his divine understanding from all eternity. the lesser worlds (mikrokosmos) or men, are but transcripts of the greater (the makrokosmos, as children and

ve side of a positive-negative existence called life. when the positive equals, or balances, the negative, the result is equilibrium. perfect equilibrium is zero, that is no-thing- bliss. equilibrium equilibrium is the fundamental law, or mystery, of the qabalah; in fact the bulk of the qabalistic doctrines are but a commentary upon it. there is the upper and the lower, the real and the apparent, the invisible and the visible. in the zohar we read: all that which is found [or exists] upon the earth has its spiritual counterpart also to be found on high, and there does not exist the smallest thing in the world which is not itself attached to something on high, and is not secret wisdom of the qabalah page 16 found in dependence upon it. when the inferior part is influenced, and that which is

which is not itself attached to something on high, and is not secret wisdom of the qabalah page 16 found in dependence upon it. when the inferior part is influenced, and that which is set over it in the superior world is equally [influenced, all are perfectly united together. 26 again and again is this idea repeated in different words, and from it is derived the talmudic maxim, gif thou wilt know the invisible, have an open eye for the visible h, which means that this world is the true bible which can lead us back to god or reality; gfor all which is contained in the lower world is also found in the upper [in prototype. the lower and upper reciprocally act upon each other. h 27 or as is written in the sepher shephathal: all that which is on the earth is also found above [in perfect prototy

above, for the fulfilment of the wonders of the one thing. h according to eliphas levi this universal principle is gthe telesma of the world h.32 to symbolize this supreme truth, hermes, so legend affirms, duplicated the serpent on his caduceus and so set it against itself in eternal equilibrium (see plate i on page 18 and 19) in the visible world, man is the centre, just as god is the centre of the invisible world. god created man in his own image. adam was made of the same earth out of which was raised the sanctuary of the earth. and the earth on which was the sanctuary was the synthesis of the four cardinal points of the world. these cardinal points were united at the moment of creation with the four elements fire, water, air, and earth. 33 these elements being od, heh, vau, and heh of

-like pattern before him, he might make the corporeal world agreeable to it h. xenophon says: gthe supreme god holds himself invisible, and it is only in his works that we are capable of admiring him. h 39 and cicero says, gthough you see not the deity, yet by the contemplation of his works, you are led to acknowledge a god h.40 which is similar to st. paul when, speaking of christ, he said: gfor the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and godhead. h 41 and again: gfor in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, for we are also his offspring. h 42 but of all philosophies the closest-allied are those of the vedanta and of lao-tze. the india

e originated from one source, one human philosophical doctrine. the truth is that they are spontaneous, they spring naturally from reason itself once thought is turned upon the world; they are an integral part of man's mind and being. destroy them, and we are plunged into madness; fertilize them, and step by step we are raised towards god. religion, that is the equilibrium between the visible and the invisible, the lower and the upper, is essentially a part of man's nature. when this equilibrium is lost, society, however progressive it may seem materially, is plunged back into chaos from which cosmos and order can only emerge by an illumination, a balancing of forces, which will give life and light to a new world order. man is the microcosm, because he cannot truly and meaningly say gi am

association of ideas. philo names it messiah, and st. john christ. st. paul says: but we speak the wisdom of god in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which god ordained before the world unto our glory: which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the lord of glory. 14 referring to christ as the sun, this same apostle says: who is the image of the invisible god, the firstborn of every creature: for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist [exist. 15 many other comparisons could be given, but the above must suff

of the gentiles are sprung. it would, therefore, appear that the reason for the creation of the kings of edom was to account for the world being peopled with races other than that of israel. adam qadmon. on several occasions already have we made mention of adam qadmon. he is called by various names, such as the primordial man, the archetypal man, microprosopos, the man of the east, the shadow of the invisible macrocosm, the pre-existing soul of messiah, the cosmic son, etc, etc. strictly speaking, he is the form, not the spirit, of deity in atziluth. nevertheless, he is also the emanations of this form in the remaining three worlds; consequently there are four adam qadmons. as regards the first of these isaac myer writes the qabbalah shows the existence of four adams, or rather three cont

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above; the medium is a negative being, the prey of every evil influence, and of anyone with malign passion: he is deceiving and self deceived, the catspaw of every elemental force, and baneful misdirected energy. our existence passes in an atmosphere of material air; matter in the third state. but beyond this, there are other states, even more rare; even science begins to hint at one step beyond the invisible air- the hypothetical ether of the light waves. a true medium indeed, but there is an even rarer state in which we are equally bathed, the akasic so-called astral light, of which our senses are all too gross to form any conception; yet this unseen and almost inconceivable film is ever around us, and takes an impression of every event and form that exists and that ever has existed.iti

al, we may look upon him as already suggested as being of fourfold essence, recognising, for example, a ray of divinity--the spirit, the human soul, the animal soul or the passional element, and the material body; thus showing two higher principles from the celestian world and two from mundane sources. you will recall the harlequin, who is always veiled and is carrying a magic wand; he represents the invisible and highest light beaming over the human soul: he is clothed in a starry costume of many colours, representing the seven divine and planetary forces as they are shown to man in the rainbow of heaven; he is always silent; with his wand he transforms the outward appearance of every object he wills to strike. colum255 bine, named from columba, the dove, is the human soul; she is constan

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rit of man) i amthegreat god, begotten of himself. i can never be turned back by the elementary powers: i am the morning, i know the gate (i ever rise again into existence; i know the pathway through death unto life.)thefather of the spirit, the eternal soul of the sun, he hath examined and he hath proved me; he hath found that i fought on earth the battle of the good gods- ashe,myfather, lord of the invisible world, hath ordered me to do. i know the great god who existeth in the invisible. i am the great phoenix which is in annu, the former of my life and my being ami.the symbols on the columns, beginning at the top of the one with black figures on a white ground, are mystical representa255 tions of the various paragraphs of the 17th chapter. they show:thesymbols of temu, the setting sun

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the sacred image of the yeizidi, a islamic people who followed an ancient gnostic religious tradition. the peacock was melek taus who can be related to the demiurge (our projections regarding matter, but at the same time the eyes of the peacock (eye=ayin in hebrew, the devil tarot card) show us that ultimately dualism has no power, no reality and hence the real source is beyond in the pleroma and the invisible spirit. the gnostic identity message what we know as the gnostic identity message is central to our understanding of the gnostic tradition. it is difficult to summarise such a complex subject as it demands an extensive study of the evolution of religion, history and politics to grasp its meaning and even further thought to consider its ramifications. however, we need to at least exam

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and to a pyramid (three dimensions. it is the development of life in a geometrical form (fig 23. the story of its form begins with no-thing. this is the state beyond all comprehension, it can have no attributes or form. it is absence, since to be some-thing is to be defined. in some sense it is even beyond no-thing, for no-thing is a negation of a thing. in the secret gospel of john it is called the invisible spirit. it is not fitting to think of it as divine or something of the sort, for it is superior to deity, nothing presides over it, for nothing has mastery over it, it does not exist in any state of inferiority, it exists in it alone because it lacks nothing. for it is utter fullness. secret gospel of john 1:33-2:4. at some time, before time (since time and space were not) the invisi

33-2:4. at some time, before time (since time and space were not) the invisible spirit who the kabbalists know as ain began to transform. it began to think, to expand and contract- to move. it is impossible to really describe what occurred, and hence language performs only a symbolic task. this expansion is known as eternity, limitlessness, boundlessness and endlessness and is called ain soph. as the invisible spirit begins to transform further, it becomes blazing endless light. in this creative phase it is known as ain soph aur or limitless light. together these three phases of the invisible spirit are known as the unmanifest or negative existence. from the unmanifest the tree of life manifests. the tree of life is composed of ten centres known as sephira (sephiroth in plural, they are co

are the more refined phases of the mixed worlds. atziluth. fire. kether, binah and chokmah. briah. water. chesed, geburah and tiphareth. yetzirah. air. netzach, hod and yesod. assiah. earth. malkuth. atziluth: the world of fire this is the world of the treasury of light, it is the pleroma, the source of initiative energy forces. in this realm each sephira reflects a facet or the divine energy of the invisible spirit. in this system of attribution malkuth represents the particles of light held captive within matter, rather than the physical shell of earth. the names below are old testament titles which when used in the old testament context relate to the gnostic theurgy page 96 demiurge and the archons, however, when they are removed from their distorted application, a more transcendent in

power inherent in the twenty two hebrew letters that the very universe was formed through their use. the concept of the logos, the divine word and the genesis creation story is based on fiat lux- he spoke and there was light. in the hebrew traditions what he spoke was the letters of the hebrew alphabet. the hebrew alphabet is a system of twenty two letters which is said to form the bridge between the invisible spirit (ain) and the sephira of the tree of life. each gnostic theurgy page 104 of the letters can be related to colours, sounds, images and all manner of correspondences. these correspondence represent the vibration or essence of which each letter is a symbol. the letters are divided into three groups, each representing a different phase of the emanation process. yah, the lord of ho

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the lesser ritual of the pentagram. however, it should not simply be regarded as a mere device to invoke or banish, for it is really the stone of the wise and incorporates within its structure a high magical formula of self-initiation. it is, to all intents and purposes, a ritual of self-initiation. this ritual is given to the neophyte of the order as a means for him/her to come into contact with the invisible forces of nature and to learn how to direct those elementary forces the uses of the pentagram ritual: opening and closing any magical work the lesser ritual of the pentagram can be used to open and close any magical or mystical work, such as a ceremony or meditation. as an exorcism the lesser ritual of the pentagram can be used by the neophyte as a protection against impure magnetism

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the chain upon the ox head. takes the incense, goes to the west of altar, faces east, raises it, and draws equilibrium spirit pentagrams, saying "exarp bitom (draw active pentagram) hcoma nanta (draw passive pentagram) in the names and letters of the mystical tablet of union, i invoke ye, ye divine forces of the spirit of life. i invoke ye, ye angels of the celestial spheres whose dwelling is in the invisible. ye are the guardians of the gates of the universe! be ye also the watchers of our mystic vault. keep far removed the evil and the unbalanced; strengthen and inspire the initiates, so that we may preserve unsullied this abode of the 4 mysteries of the eternal gods. let this place be pure and holy, so that we may enter in and become partakers of the secrets of divine light (he replace

ire the initiates, so that we may preserve unsullied this abode of the 4 mysteries of the eternal gods. let this place be pure and holy, so that we may enter in and become partakers of the secrets of divine light (he replaces the incense upon cand resumes his place saying "the sun daily returning is the dispenser of light to the earth. let us thrice complete the circle of this place, the abode of the invisible sun (chief adept leads, second adept follows, then all the others, and the third adept last. they circumambulate thrice, saluting the east with 5=6 signs as they pass. upon finishing, all resume places. chief adept extends his arms like a cross facing west while all others face east and all say adoration to the lord of the universe) all "holy art thou lord of the universe. holy art t

former positions, chief adept is in center, others are around) chief adept "for i know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto light. i have fought upon earth for good. i have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible. i am the sun in his rising. i have passed through the hour of cloud and night. i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light! out of the darkness, let the light arise (all exit the

of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light! out of the darkness, let the light arise (all exit the vault at this point, and the chief adept reaches the center point between the pastos and lid. he faces towards the vault, with the other adepts around him. they join wands over his head. he raises his face and hands, continues) chief adept "i am the reconciler with the ineffable. i am the dweller in the invisible. let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend (the chief adept lowers face and hands. other adepts withdraw their wands) chief adept (raising his hand "in the name and power of the divine spirit, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtowers of the universe. guard this vault during this revolution of the solar course. keep far from it the evil and the uninitiated that they penet

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declare this temple and rite duly closed" step 34 knock/ belletz1 the enterer of the threshold r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 the general exordium the speech in the silence: the words against the son of night: the voice of thoth before the universe in the presence of the eternal gods: the formulas of knowledge; the wisdom of breath; the radix of vibration; the shaking of the invisible: the rolling asunder of the darkness: the becoming visible of matter: the piercing of the coils of the stooping dragon: the breaking forth of the light: all these are in the knowledge of tho-oth. the particular exordium at the ending of the light: at the limits of the night: tho-oth stood before the unborn ones of time! then was formulated the universe: then came forth the gods there

and salt are the foundations of my body, which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris, the justified one: i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh, yet in whom is the spirit of the great gods. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. he who partaketh with me shall arise with me. i am the manifestor in matter of those whose abode is the invisible: i am purified. i stand upon the universe. i am its reconciler with the eternal gods: i am the perfector of matter: and without me, the universe is not" 6 technically, the door is supposed to be situated behind the seat of hiereus in the west but it may be in any part of the neophyte hall, seeing that the walls represent the barrier to the exterior "the gate of the declarers of judgm

without a chief, preferably the three chiefs or their vice-gerants, present, and on account of the stations on the dais, it is well to have these stations filled by an adept should a chief be absent. these stations and those of the officers are called the visible stations of the gods, and descriptions of the forms which an adept officer builds upon as a focus of force are given in another paper. the invisible stations these are: 1. the stations of the kerubim. 2. the stations of the children of horus. 3. the stations of the evil one. 4. the station of harpocrates. 5. the stations of isis, nephthys, and aroueris. 1. the kerubim: the stations of the man, the lion, the bull and the eagle are at the four cardinal points without the hall, as invisible guardians of the limits of the temple. the

of hiereus. he is a power of the great god tho-om mo-oo, and his operation is by the sign of h, which is called in egyptian szlae-ee. the kerub of l has the face and form of a bull with heavy and darkening wings. he formulates behind the throne of stolistes and he is a power of the great god ahaphshi and his operation is by the sign b, called ta-aur in egyptian. 2. the children of horus: between the invisible stations of the kerubim are those of the four vice-gerants of the elements and they are situated at the four corners of the temple, at the places marked by the four rivers of eden in the warrant; for the body of a warrant, authorizing the formation and establishment of a temple, represents the temple itself of which the guardians are the kerubim and the vice-gerents in the places of

the head of a waterdragon, the body of a lion or leopard, and the hind parts of a water-horse. he is the administrator of the power of the evil triad. 16 the stooping dragon, apophra-l sez the slayer of osiris, szathan toophon. the brutal power of demonic force, bessz. the synthesis of this evil triad "the mouth of the power of destruction" is called ommoo-szathan. 4. the station of harpocrates: the invisible station of harpocrates is on the path of s, between the station of hegemon and the invisible station of the evil triad. harpocrates is the god of silence and mystery, whose name is the word of this grade of neophyte. he is the younger brother of horus, hoor-po-kratt-l st. 5. the stations of isis and nephthys are respectively at the places of the pillars in jxn and dwh, and these grea

of the pillars in jxn and dwh, and these great goddesses are not otherwise shown in the grade, save in connection with the praemonstrator and imperator, as operating through the hierophant, seeing that isis corresponds to the pillar of mercy and nephthys to that of severity. therefore, the positions of the pillars or obelisks are but, as it were, the places of their feet. the station of aroueris: the invisible station of aroueris (horus the elder) is beside the hierophant as though representing the power of osiris to the outer order. for while the hierophant is an adeptus, he is shown only as lord of the paths of the portal so that when the hierophant is on the dais, the station of aroueris is that of the immediate past hierophant who sits on the hierophant's left. aroo-ouerist. this ends

g the limitation of the four cardinal points at the four quarters, and the equation of the elements. this is the baptism of the place and, as it were, the preparation of a fitting shrine for the forces of the divine light. while all this goes forward, especially after the hierophant s for by names and images are all powers awakened and reawakened, the officers become clothed in their godforms and the invisible stations awaken. the procession of officers is then formed in the north in readiness for the mystic circumambulation in the path of light. it is formed in the north, beginning from the station of stolistes, the symbol of the waters of creation attracting the divine spirit, and therefore alluding to the creation of the world by the spirit and the waters. the mystic reverse circumambul

kerub. the name of the sphere of the primium mobile \ylglgh tycar, signifies the heads or beginnings of wwhirling motions or revolutions. of this wheel in the mystic circumambulation, the 19 ascending side begins from below the pillar of nephthys, and the descending side from below the pillar of isis, but in the reverse circumambulation, the contrary. now, the nave or axis of this wheel is about the invisible station of harpocrates- as though that god, in the sign of silence, were there placed affirming the concealment of that central atom of the wheel, which alone revolves not. the mystic circumambulation is symbolic of the rise of light and from it is drawn another formulation for the circulation of the breath. this formula should be preceded by that of the middle pillar as described pr

igation takes place. he has an ibis head, black beak and white throat. his nemyss is yellow bordered with mauve. his collar is yellow with a middle band of squares in mauve and green. his tunic is mauve with yellow stripes, and he has a lion s tail. his limbs are natural color, his ornaments are red and green. he carries a blue ankh, and a stylus and writing tablet. he stands on mauve and yellow. the invisible stations these naturally fall into four groups given below in order of their importance. 1. stations in the path of s in the middle pillar- hathor- ho-or-po-kratt-l st--evil persona. 2. kerubim. 3. children of horus. 4. the forty-two assessors. 23 1. stations in the path of s: hathor: this great goddess formulates behind the hierophant in the east. her face and limbs are of transluce

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l, etc, and then command the mystic circumambulation. l. move around as usual to the south, halt formulating thyself as shrouded in darkness, on the right hand the pillar of o, and on the left the pillar of cloud, but reaching from darkness to the glory of the heavens. m. now move from between the pillars thou hast formulated to the west, face west, and say, invisible i cannot pass by the gate of the invisible save by the virtue of the name of darkness. then, formulating forcibly about thee the shroud of darkness, say, darkness is my name, and concealment. i am the great one invisible of the path of the shades. i am without fear, though veiled in darkness, for within me, though unseen, is the magic of light. n. repeat process in l. o. repeat process in m but say, i am light shrouded in dar

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en nearer death, seeing that he is, as it were, disintegrated into his component parts. the process of symbolic judgment takes place during the speech of the hierophant to the candidate, the answer of the hegemon and his consent to take the obligation. the moment the candidate thus consents, the hierophant advances between the pillars as if to assert that the judgment is concluded. he advances by the invisible station of harpocrates to that of the evil triad, which he symbolically treads down, so that as aroueris, he stands upon the opposer. he then comes to the east of the altar, interposing between the place of the evil triad and the candidate. at the same time, the hiereus advances on the candidate s left, the hegemon on his right, thus formulating about him the symbol of the higher tri

ual, but his right hand is on the white triangle to symbolise his active aspiration towards his higher self. his head is bowed to represent the voluntary submission of the human will to the divine, and for this latter reason, he repeats in the obligation his name in the outer world. the hierophant gives one knock, affirming that the submission unto the higher is perfect. only at this moment, does the invisible and colossal figure of tho-oth cease to be in the sign of the enterer and gives the sign of silence, permitting the first real 5 descent of the genius of the candidate, who descends to the invisible station of harpocrates as a witness of the obligation. the hiereus and the hierophant return to their thrones, and therefore, it is not aroueris, but osiris himself that addresses the spe

ter the kerux comes the hegemon, the translator of the higher self, leadng the candidate. then comes the goddesses of the scales of the balance, the stolistes and the dadouchos. they move once around; the formation in darkness of the hnyb angle of the white triangle of the three supernals. the hierophant knocks once as they pass him in affirmation of mercy, the hiereus in affirmation of severity. the invisible assessors each give the sign of the enterer as the candidate passes on his way. at the second passing by the hierophant, the knock affirms the commencement of the angle of hmkj. the kerux bars the candidate s approach to the west to mark that the natural man cannot obtain the understanding of even the son of osiris unless by purification and equilibrium. again is the candidate purifi

s forming the triad of the supernals. the kerux, stolistes, and dadouchos represent an inferior and supporting triad behind him as if they affirmed that he has passed the judgment of the balance. it is best, though not absolutely necessary, that the hierophant and the hiereus should hold their banners. in any case, it should be done astrally. the higher self of the candidate will be formulated in the invisible station of harpocrates behind the hierophant, who in his present position is aroueris. the hierophant gives a single knock to seal the matter and then invokes the lord of the universe. then only is the hoodwink removed definitely. the hierophant, hiereus, and the hegemon join sceptres and sword above the candidate s head, thus formulating the supernal triad, and assert his reception

ough the operation of self-sacrifice. as he passes the hierophant s throne, the red calvary cross is astrally formed above the astral white triangle on his forehead, so that so long as he belongs to the order, he may bear that potent and sublime symbol as a link with his higher self and as an aid in searching out the forces of the divine light, if he will. the higher soul or genius now returns to the invisible station of harpocrates, the place of the hidden center, yet continuing to retain the link formed with the candidate. the address of the hierophant is intended simply to affect the distinct formulation of the symbols of the 0= 0 grade of neophyte in the candidate. it is 8 therefore, only when this is finished, that the watcher, anubis, announces that the candidate has been duly admitt

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s a fortress, and as a sure defense. and, i now declare that it is so formulated, to be a basis and receptacle for the shroud of darkness, the egg of blue with which i shall now girdle myself" step 12 trace active and passive invoking spirit pentagrams. vibrate hyha, alga. vibrate the enochian invocation of the portal grade. say "and unto ye, o ye forces of the spirit of life whose dwelling is in the invisible, do i now address my will. in the great names of your ruling angels elexarph, comananu, tabitom, and by all the names and letters of the holy tablet of union, by the mighty names of god: hyha, alga \yhla hwhy, and by the great lord of silence, hoorpokratist, by your deep purple darkness, and by the white and brilliant light of the crown above my head, do i conjure ye. collect yoursel

the light that shineth in darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth it not. let the mystic circumambulation take place in the place of darkness go round, knock when passing east and west and east again. pass to the south, halt, formualte the pillars of fire and cloud, reaching from darkness to the heavens. formulate shroud between them, and pass to the west. invisible, i cannot pass by the gate of the invisible save by virtue of the name of darkness" step 18 formulate forcibly the egg of dark blue-black. say "darkness is my name, and concealment. i am the great one invisible of the paths of the shades. i am without fear, though veiled in darkness, for within me, though unseen, is the magic of the light divine" go round, knock as before, halt in north, formulate pillars, and the blueblack eg

des. i am without fear, though veiled in darkness, for within me, though unseen, is the magic of the light divine" go round, knock as before, halt in north, formulate pillars, and the blueblack egg between them. then pass to east. step 19 do the rose cross, keeping your hands close to your body. dedicate it to containing your aura within the black egg. say "invisible, i cannot pass by the gate of the invisible, save by the virtue of the name of light" step 20 formulate the shroud forcibly. say" i am the light shrouded in darkness. i am the wielder of the forces of the balance" 9 step 21 concentrate the shroud mentally. go to the west of the altar, and remain standing. say "o thou divine creature of the creative darkness of spirit, formulate thou about me. i command thee by the name of hwch

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pon very honored frater/soror_ in the name of isis (make 'l, apophis (make 'v, osiris slain (make cross) and risen (make sign of osiris risen. iao! let the divine light descend" see the divine light descend upon your spiritual body "buried within the light in a mystical death, rising again in a mystical resurrection, cleansed and purified through the brilliance of the light divine thou dweller of the invisible. like our master hast thou suffered tribulation, pain, poverty, torture, and sorrows that lead unto the black cross of obligation and death. these sorrows have not been nor will be in vain, but rather the purification of spiritual initiation leading to the pure gold. in the alembic of thy heart, through the athanor of thy affliction, seek ye always the true stone of the wise" step 7

these sorrows have not been nor will be in vain, but rather the purification of spiritual initiation leading to the pure gold. in the alembic of thy heart, through the athanor of thy affliction, seek ye always the true stone of the wise" step 7 pass to the east, face your self face to face and say "peace profound my brother/sister! come with peace in your spirit. pass thou through every region of the invisible into a place wherein thy genius dwelleth, because thou cometh in peace. dwell within that sacred land that far off travellers call naught! be at peace with all the world, remain clothed in the light of purification, dwell within the heart of thy lord ynda forever and ever" step 8 now turn westward facing the altar, kneel, and say: 5 "oh lord of the universe, the vast and mighty one

nophris the justified one, lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me which is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light" step 13 face east standing between the pillars, stomp three times and say "i have overcome the world and the evil, i am purified in the warmth of the divine white light. i am the reconciler with the ineffable, the dweller in the invisible. oh ye qlippoth of night and division, of despair and lust, i have overcome thee. thou art dust beneath my feet" step 14 turn west and separate again from your subtle body, leaving it in the east, facing west. walk to the west "whoever thou art, whatsoever is thy will, thou art of the rosea rubea et aurea crucis, a brethren and loyal member of the body of christ. thou art glorifed an

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bell during iao) all "iao" chief adept "the light of the cross (forms a cross 'for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh, yet in whom is the spirit of the great unknowable one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. he who partaketh with me shall rise with me. i am the manifestor in matter of those whose abode is in the invisible. i am purified; i stand upon the universe, i am reconciler with the eternal gods, i am the perfector of matter, and without me the universe is naught" chief adept (passes from the altar to the east. assumes osiris god form. all assume sign of osiris slain. says the following while moving toward the altar "i come in the power of light! i come in the wisdom of light! i come in the merc

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m the resurrection and the life, he who believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live, and he who believeth in me who liveth shall never die. i am the first and the last, i am he who liveth and was dead, and behold, i am alive evermore. i am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the father but by me. i have passed from the gates of the darkness into the light. i have entered the invisible, i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one, lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light. i am rising higher and higher, i am passing beyond the light of the sun. i pass through the abyss of duality into the infinite reconciliation of unity

his commandment is lord of all things, king, ruler and helper (each adept spends a few minutes in silence) chief adept "out of the darkness, let the light arise. iao. let the divine light descend over us eternally and over all those that we are assigned to teach and council" second adept "before i was blind and now i see" chief adept "i am the reconciler within the ineffable. i am the dweller in the invisible. be our minds open to the higher (chief adept places the crux between the spine and shoulder blades of other adepts, against the left breast of the second adept, and the right breast on the third adept) chief adept "be thy body a temple of the rose and cross (chief adept places the crux on the base of the spine on all the adepts, the second adept on the left hip and the third adept o

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et it be a veil woven from that silent darkness which surrounds your abode of eternal rest, that in this chamber of the divine mystery, i may hear nothing that comes not from on high, and see naught that may distract my vision from the ineffable glory of the supernals. grant unto me, i beseech thee, the power of the spirit to bring the brilliance of the eternal splendor to one who has now entered the invisible. lift me, i beseech thee, lift me up so that i may be made a divine messenger bearing the peace and harmony of higher spheres to_(his/her name_ whose death to this earthly plane we do now commemorate. wherever_(his/her name_ may now be, and on whatever 3 plane he/she may now pursue his/her ideal, let him/her be blessed with a more divine rest and an utter cessation from strife" step

undations of my body, which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. 4 for i am osiris triumphant. even osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh yet in whom flames the spirit of the eternal gods. i am the lord of life. i am triumphant over death, and whosoever partaketh with me shall with me arise. i am the manifester in matter of those whose abode is the invisible. i am the purified. i stand upon the universe. i am its reconciler with the eternal gods. i am the perfector of matter, and without me, the universe is not" step 13 pause for a moment or two, visualizing rtk as a brilliance above the head. step 14 "buried with that light in a mystical death, rising again in a mystical ressurection, cleansed and purified through him our master, o thou

e. i am the purified. i stand upon the universe. i am its reconciler with the eternal gods. i am the perfector of matter, and without me, the universe is not" step 13 pause for a moment or two, visualizing rtk as a brilliance above the head. step 14 "buried with that light in a mystical death, rising again in a mystical ressurection, cleansed and purified through him our master, o thou dweller of the invisible. like him, thou pilgrim of the ages, hast thou toiled. like him hast thou suffered tribulation. poverty, torture, and death hast thou passed through. they have been but the purifacation of the gold. in the alembic of thine heart, through the athanor of affliction, seek thou the true stone of the wise. step 15 pass from the altar to the east. step 16 "come in peace, o beautiful and di

passed through. they have been but the purifacation of the gold. in the alembic of thine heart, through the athanor of affliction, seek thou the true stone of the wise. step 15 pass from the altar to the east. step 16 "come in peace, o beautiful and divine one, to a body glorified and perfected. herald of the gods, knowing_(his/her name_ speech among the living! pass thou through every region of the invisible unto the place wherein thy genius dwelleth because thou comest in peace provided with thy wealth. dwell thou in that sacred land that far-off travellers call naught. o land beyond honey and spice and all perfection! dwell therein with thy lord ynda forever" step 17 turn and look west, raising eyes. step 18 "o lord of the universe, the vast and mighty one, ruler of the light and the d

, i am alive for evermore and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto the light. i have fought upon earth for good, and have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible" step 23 vibrate hwchy by the vibratory formula of the middle pillar. also perform the mystical circumbulation three times while saying "i am the sun in his rising, i have passed through the hour of cloud and of night. i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one, lord of life triumphant over death. there is no part of me which is not

nd of night. i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one, lord of life triumphant over death. there is no part of me which is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light. out of the darkness, let the light arise" step 24 pass between the pillars, face east. 6 "i am the reconciler with the ineffable, the dweller of the invisible. let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend" step 25 visualize the deceased now standing well in front in the east, and address him thus "whoever thou art in reality, and wheresoever thou mayest be now, by the power of the spirit devolving upon me by this ceremony, i do project unto thee this ray of the divine white brilliance that it may bring thee peace and happiness and

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et it be a veil woven from that silent darkness which surrounds your abode of eternal rest, that in this chamber of the divine mystery, i may hear nothing that comes not from on high, and see naught that may distract my vision from the ineffable glory of the supernals. grant unto me, i beseech thee, the power of the spirit to bring the brilliance of the eternal splendor to one who has now entered the invisible (state earthly name. lift me, i beseech thee, lift me up so that i may be made a divine messenger bearing the peace and harmony of higher spheres to (state earthly name) who on this day of (date) has now transcended the veil into the land of the dead and away from the land of the living" step 7 s.i.r.h. of l. trace l hexagram with sigil in the center. step 8 "term of all that liveth

newed" step 11 take on the god form of osiris using middle pillar formula"'for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh yet in whom flames the spirit of the eternal gods. i am the lord of life. i am triumphant over death, and whosoever partaketh with me shall with me arise. i am the manifester in matter of those whose abode is the invisible. i am the purified. i stand upon the universe. i am its reconciler with the eternal gods. i am the perfector of matter, and without me the universe is naught" step 12 call down the light of rtk upon the head of the shell "buried with that light in a mystical death, rising again in a mystical ressurection, cleansed and purified through him our master, o thou dweller of the invisible

the athanor of afflication, seek thou the true stone of the wise. step 13 the shells are walked forth to the place behind the altar facing east. members then return to the east facing west, leaving the shells behind the altar "come in peace, o beautiful and divine one, to a body glorified and perfected. herald of the gods, knowing his/her speech among the living! pass thou through every region of the invisible unto the place wherein thy genius dwelleth because thou comest in peace provided with thy wealth. dwell thou in that sacred land that far-off travellers call naught. o land beyond honey and spice and all perfection! dwell therein with thy lord ynda forever" step 14 "o lord of the universe, the vast and mighty one, ruler of the light and the darkness, we adore thee and we invoke thee

, i am alive for evermore and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto the light. i have fought upon earth for good, and have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible" step 20 begin circumambulating while saying aloud "i am the sun in his rising, passed through the hour of cloud and of night. i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris the justified one, lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me which is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light. out of the darkne

of night. i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris the justified one, lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me which is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light. out of the darkness, let the light arise" 7 step 21 stand between the pillars, facing east "i am the reconciler with the ineffable, the dweller of the invisible. let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend "be thy mind open unto the higher. be thy heart a center of the light. be thy body, whatsoever its nature, a temple of the holy spirit" step 22 pause. make the qabalistic cross "unto thee, sole wise, sole eternal and sole merciful one be the praise and the glory forever, who has permitted (state earthly name, who now standeth hum

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the north. step 10 go to the center altar and face east. replace pantacle. take incense, go west of altar, face east, raise it, and trace the active equilibrating spirit pentagram. say "exarp, bitom" trace the passive equilibrating spirit pentagram, saying "hcoma, nanta. in the names and letters of the mystical tablet of union, i invoke ye, ye angels of the celestial spheres, whose dwelling is in the invisible. ye are the guardians of the gates of the universe; be ye also the watchers of my mystic sphere. remove and banish far the evil; strengthen and inspire me that i may preserve unsullied this my body, as the abode of the mysteries of the holy one. let my sphere be pure and holy so that i may be able to enter into the center of my being, and become a partaker of the secret of the divine

preserve unsullied this my body, as the abode of the mysteries of the holy one. let my sphere be pure and holy so that i may be able to enter into the center of my being, and become a partaker of the secret of the divine light" 5 step 11 pass to the northeast. take the lotus wand and say "the visible sun is the dispenser of light to the earth. let me, therefore, form a vortex in this chamber that the invisible sun of the spirit may shine thereunto from above" step 12 circumambulate with a thrice, saluting with 5=6 signs or sign of the rending of the veil as you pass the east. go to the west of the altar, face east, and perform the adoration to the lord of the universe "holy art thou lord of the universe. holy art thou whom nature hath not formed. holy art thou the vast and the mighty one

old, i am alive for evermore and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter days upon the earth. i am the way, the truth, and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto the light i have fought upon earth for good, and have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible" step 29 circumambulate slowly once in the path of a, saying as you pass around "i am the sun in his rising, passed through the hour of cloud and of night. i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one, lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto

ener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one, lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light. out of the darkness, let the light arise" step 30 at this point, reach the pillars again, facing east, raise hands and eyes, and say "i am the reconciler with the ineffable. i am the dweller of the invisible. let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend. in the name and power of that divine spirit, i invoke thee, o my divine genius, that thou manifest thyself to me and in me, to help me to purify my lower self, to teach and assist me to unite myself unto thee in divine perfection so that i also may be built into the living rock, a pillar of the temple of my god. also, that i may

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o that we, who are weak, may be strong and may enter into and partake of the secrets of divine light (perform rending of the veil (enochian call of the watchtowers is said) second adept (moves to the banner of the east "the visible sun is the dispenser of light to the earth as the rose cross is the symbol of light to the spirit. let us, therefore, form a vortex in this chamber that we may attract the invisible sun within to illuminate the cross of gold and the rose of red (all form the vortex, with chief adept last in line (everyone resumes positions, chief adept moves to east and everyone performs the adoration to the lord of the universe (chief adept moves to the west of the altar of the universe) 6 invocation to the higher chief adept "procol oh procol, este profani. barlasti ompala. in

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h thee, i give thy body the life of spirit. step 14 make the passive and active spirit pentagrams, and the rose cross symbol. vibrate powerfully the enochian exhortation used in the portal ceremony. say: in the name of hyha, alga, and by all the names and letters of the mystical tablet of union, i command ye, o ye forces of eth. i invoke ye, ye angels of the celestial sphere, whose dwelling is in the invisible, to give me of your light forever. bind unto this creature of talismans the ethereal splendour of your realm so that it may become a living creature well fitted to receive the incarnation 18 of the divine. give it life and energy, i beseech thee, so that always it may manifest unto me the glorious quality of trapt. the charge against evil step 1 lift the talisman with the left hand h

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vine white brilliance of rtk, let the adept make the l.v.x. signs (keeping his hands in the form of osiris risen. 4 step 8 let the adept now recite the following "i am the way the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto the light. i have fought upon the earth for good. i have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible. i am the sun in his rising. i have passed through the hour of cloud and of night. i am amoun, the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me which is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light; out of the darkness, let the light arise" step 9 a

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and was dead and behold i am alive evermore and hold the keys to hell, for i know that my redeemer liveth and he shall stand at the latter days upon the earth. i am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto the light. i have fought upon the earth for good, i have finished my work, i have entered into the invisible. i am the sun in its rising, i have passed through the hour of cloud and of night. i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one, i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light. out of the darkness let the light arise. i am the re

passed through the hour of cloud and of night. i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one, i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light. out of the darkness let the light arise. i am the reconciler with the ineffable. i am the dweller in the invisible. let the white brilliance of the spirit descend" step 6 visualize the white brilliance descending through your body through the crown of your head as though it were a wand or shaft of light connecting you from high above your head to below your feet. step 7 vibrate exarp, bitom, hcoma, and nanta. each one should be vibrated a total of five times to symbolize the divine spirit ruling

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o the light-bringer, through the race of the watchers and the companie of faerie, down through the golden chain of hand-to-hand-to-hand..to now. midnight's lightning: the lineage of unique transmission vision an omen-bearing bolt of light held in the hands of the daemonic gods: an intercession trespassing fates, a revelation that brings forth to flesh the link between the visible heart of man and the invisible heart of the mysteries. such is the way of midnight's lightning! the spirit-bestowed vision that reveals itself to the mind of the seeker incepts and passes the power for the lineage which we may call 'the unique transmission. whether within the conclaves of a formal ritual catena of initiates or in the subtil 'cavern' of solitary practice, whether called forth by intent or made mani

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clothing is the robe. there are two main types: black with a hood, and white without a hood. appropriate symbols can be used to decorate the robe according to your wat. the chief function of the black robe is to protect you by concealing. lt offers both silence and secrecy. xt symbolizes your temporary withdrawal from the everyday bustle of iife. the white robe symbolizes your aura. your aura is the invisible sheath or sphere of light that surrounds your physical body. because of its shining nature it is often called the body of light. the magical nature of the' white robe is shining, elastic, and impenetrable. the nature of your specific magical operation will determine which robe you should wear. 58 enochian words for magical instruments all powerful magic is within me. i am one who can

he astral counterpart of the table but can not be sute. suggestions: 1 needto try this esercise again while standing.my mirad wandered tonight and 1 had a hand time concentrarting. 82 invocation vs evocation i invoke thee, the terrible and invisible god: who dwellest in the void place of the spirit. aleister crowley, libersamekh i invokeye, ye angels of the celestial spheres, whose dwelling is in the invisible. ye are theguardians of the gates of the universe, be ye aleo the guardians of this mystic sphere. let my sphere be pure and holy so that i may enter in and become a partaker of the secrets of the light divine. the golden dawn's watchtower ceremony technically, to invoke means to "call in" whereas to evoke means to "call forth" under normal circumstances you will invoke a deity when

he mystical tablet of union, i invoke you, angels who are divine forces of the spirit of life. 91 then vibrate the four names of the elements. feel the angels of the tablet of union rising up from within you. step 7. make the sigas of the rending of the veil (reference "rending and closing the veil" later in this manual) and say, i invoke you, angels of the celestial spheres, whose dwelling is in the invisible. you are the guardians of the cates of the universe. may you also be the guardians of this mystic sphere. keep away the evil and the unbalanced. strengthen and inspire me so that 1 may preserve in purity this abode of the mysteries. let my sphere be pure and holy that i may enter in and become a partaker of the secrets of the light. feel all of the angels of the watchtowers and the t

of astral light, 343 to shroud my form in your substantial night. step 7. the practice. let your body of light enter into you physical body. feel the shroud of darkness surrounding you. face the north and say, i have shrouded myself in mystery and concealment. may i enter the path of darkness. i am the only being in an abyss of darkness. face the west and say, invisible, i now pass by the gate of the invisible by virtue of the name of darkness. darkness is my name. i am the great one, invisible on the paths of the shades. face the east and say, invisible, i now pass by the gate of the invisible by virtue of the name of light. i am light shrouded in darkness. i am the wielder of the forces of the great balance. face the south and say, thus have i formulated this shroud of darkness and of my

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es. the claim that we are ruled by planets. it is advisable that all be acquainted with the history of astrology out of which arose the science of astronomy.[163] aten.a name for the symbol of the "sole everliving god" made understandable by akhnaton after he established a monotheistic religion in egypt. aten was represented by the sun disk, the sun being the symbol of the life-giving radiance of the invisible god. not as god, or even as a sacred symbol, is the sun disk used by modern rosicrucians, but as an objective symbol of the creative mind and divine essence of god. atlantis.the name of the continent once occupying a considerable portion of the space occupied now by the atlantic ocean. atlantis was well advanced in civilization in parts and was the ancient home of mystic culture. mt

til reincarnated. in order that we may sense these masters.not see them with objective eyesight.we must attune ourselves to the psychic plane completely. our physical bodies are dormant or inactive then in all functioning except that of a purely physical nature as when asleep, in a passive state, or in a deep and profound meditation. at such time contacting the personality, minds, and messages of the invisible masters is possible. one cannot expect that a cosmic master will literally be assigned to him as a personal servant and guide combined! until we have prepared ourselves, we are not worthy of the assistance the cosmic master can give. complete functioning on the psychic plane for a few minutes or 185 hours at a time, as desired, and there contacting a personality of the invisible ma

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

mperor of france was a member of that society [what is their purpose/what do theystudy]'they study the occult sciences after an interview with an invisible power, which they have at stated times. the elders travel to jerusalem [where do theymeet]'you have seen their place of meeting in the crystal-it is in the[blank]they then return to the rest of the society with the instructionsthey receivefrom the invisible agent-upon this they act. they are not limitedto thewealthyforjean-jaquesrousseau was one of its firmest supporters. i will showyouvisionsthat will tend to enlighten you, but in the meantime i hope you will not join an english lodge' hockley either met aninvisiblepowerin france (the letters show he hadbeento paris, or chose to disregard his guardian spirit's warning, for on21march186

thyofperusal.hethat wishes to raise, and see any particular spirit,mustprepare himself for it, for some days together, both spiritually and physically.thereare also particular and remark255 able requisites and relations necessary betwixt such a spirit and the person who wishes to see it; relations which cannot be otherwise explained than on the groundofthe interventionofsome secret influence from the invisible world. after all these preparations, a vapour is produced in a room, from certain materials, which eckhartshausen with propriety does not divulge on accountofthe dangerous abuse which might be madeofit, which visibly forms itself into a figure which bears a resemb255 lance tothatwhich the person wishes to see. in this there is no questionofany magic-lantern or optical artifice,butthe

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

creator or even the first manifestations of the creator. in order to become the fathers and mothers of life, they had to change or, in some accounts, to die. several temples claimed to be the burial place of these primeval deities. amun and his female counterpart amunet were often regarded as part of the eight and personified hidden power. when amun became a national god, a new theology made amun the invisible, unknowable force that began the movement toward independent life. in some accounts the eight join together to be fertilized by the seed of the serpent amun kem-atef, the first primeval god who gave birth to the primeval gods. 2 the serpent may have been considered an appropriate form for the spirit of the creator because of its undivided body or because it periodically renewed itsel

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

nd trying to catch everysyllable. with her thin finger on her lips, her eyes nearly starting from their sockets, her frame motionless, theold lady seemed herself transfixed into a statue of attention. the group was a remarkable one, and i regrettedthat i was not a painter. what followed was a scene worthy to figure in macbeth. at one side she, the slendergirl, pale and corpse-like, writhing under the invisible fluid of him who for the hour was her omnipotentmaster; at the other the old matron, who, burning with her unquenched fire of revenge, stood waiting for thelong-expected name of the prince's murderer to be at last pronounced. the frenchman himself seemedtransfigured, his grey hair standing on end; his bulky clumsy form seemed to have grown in a few minutes.all theatrical pretence was

d. the pulls and jerks were becoming more desperate with each moment, and at last something inside the casesnapped violently. the vision of his stradivarius, devoid of its magical strings, flashed before his eyes,throwing him into a cold sweat of mute and unspeakable terror. he made a superhuman effort to rid himself of the incubus that held him spell-bound. but as the lastsupplicating whisper of the invisible presence repeated "do, oh, do. help me to cut myself off" franz sprang to the case with one bound, like an enraged tiger defending its prey, and with one frantic effortbreaking the spell "leave the violin alone, you old fiend from hell" he cried, in hoarse and trembling tones. he violently shut down the self-raising lid, and while firmly pressing his left hand on it, he seized with t

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

dentical, hence coeval, with nature, the eternal and uncreate nature is meant, and not your aggregate of flitting shadows and finite unrealities. we leave it to the hymn-makers to call the visible sky or heaven, god's throne, and our earth of mud his footstool. our deity is neither in a paradise, nor in a particular tree, building, or mountain: it is everywhere, in every atom of the visible as of the invisible cosmos, in, over, and around every invisible atom and divisible molecule; for it is the mysterious power of evolution and involution, the omnipresent, omnipotent, and even omniscient creative potentiality. q. stop! omniscience is the prerogative of something that thinks, and you deny to your absoluteness the power of thought. a. we deny it to the absolute, since thought is something

or karma, which from birth to death every man is weaving thread by thread around himself, as a spider does his cobweb; and this destiny is guided by that presence termed by some the guardian angel, or our more intimate astral inner man, who is but too often the evil genius of the man of flesh or the personality. both these lead on man, but one of them must prevail; and from the very beginning of the invisible affray the stern and implacable law of compensation and retribution steps in and takes its course, following faithfully the fluctuating of the conflict. when the last strand is woven, and man is seemingly enwrapped in the net-work of his own doing, then he finds himself completely under the empire of this self-made destiny. it then either fixes him like the inert shell against the im

rfectly selfless man can elude the gravitation of material life. few have attained this, but it is the goal of mankind. and then the writer quotes from the secret doctrine: those who believe in karma have to believe in destiny, which, from birth to death, every man is weaving, thread by thread, around himself, as a spider does his cobweb, and this destiny is guided either by the heavenly voice of the invisible prototype outside of us, or by our more intimate astral or inner man, who is but too often the evil genius of the embodied entity called man. both these lead on the outward man, but one of them must prevail; and from the very beginning of the invisible affray the stern and implacable law of compensation steps in and takes its course, faithfully following the fluctuations. when the la

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ey- of the undecayed branch- was holding the telescope when the arkham party detoured radically from the swath. he told the crowd that the men were evidently trying to get to a subordinate peak which overlooked the swath at a point considerably ahead of where the shrubbery was now bending. this, indeed, proved to be true; and the party were seen to gain the minor elevation only a short time after the invisible blasphemy had passed it. then wesley corey, who had taken the glass, cried out that armitage was adjusting the sprayer which rice held, and that something must be about to happen. the crowd stirred uneasily, recalling that his sprayer was expected to give the unseen horror a moment of visibility. two or three men shut their eyes, but curtis whateley snatched back the telescope and st

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

tions b. bearings (asanas) c. postures of the fingers (mudras) step v magic mental training 1. space magic step v magic psychic training 1. projection of elements outward a. through one s own body, accumulated through the solar plexus b. accumulated through the hands 2. outward projection without passing through the body step v magic physical training 1. preparation for passive communication with the invisible ones a. release of the own hand b. preparation of the fingers with help of the pendulum &c 2. passive communication: a. with the own guardian genius b. with deceased people& other beings step vi magic mental training 1. meditation on the own spirit 2. becoming conscious of the senses in the spirit step vi magic psychic training 1. preparation to master the akasa principle 2. delibera

to understand any animal and handle it by their will power. in connection with this fact, all we need is to remember the legend of werewolves and other tales i which wizards transmuted themselves into animals. but fairy tales and legends have a far deeper significance to the magician. there is no doubt that these are cases of the so-called black magicians, who adopt all sorts of animal shapes in the invisible world not to be recognized whole doing their wicked work. the good magician will always condemn such actions, and his spiritual faculties allow him to see through such creatures and to recognize the real figure of the artificer. our preliminary exercises do not serve to induce the scholar to wicked deeds, but to prepare him for the higher magic, where he will have to adopt higher div

the health of the person and the success would never come. these facts have to be considered very carefully. but he who does perform one exercise after the other scrupulously can proceed with a clear conscience and can work on the magical development at full speed. magical physical training (v) in this step i shall quote some exercises that render possible a deliberate passive communication with the invisible ones from a magical point of view. in a certain way the methods resemble the spiritualistic ones, but the magician will soon notice that he is not training himself to become a person without any will of his own, called a medium by the spiritualists. the magician may not become a plaything of uncontrollable powers; on the contrary, he directs his powers consciously and also learns to

the methods resemble the spiritualistic ones, but the magician will soon notice that he is not training himself to become a person without any will of his own, called a medium by the spiritualists. the magician may not become a plaything of uncontrollable powers; on the contrary, he directs his powers consciously and also learns to use them deliberately. in this respect, he considers the laws of the invisible world as well as those of the physical world. to further the passive communication with invisible beings, there are recommended mainly the levitation exercises with the purpose to magically prepare any part of the body in such a manner that such beings can manifest themselves with the help of levitation. let us begin the practice at once: sit comfortably in front of a table and put y

er will any magician of a high rank perform phenomena of that kind without an urgent reason, and least of all to satisfy the curiosity of other people. at our stage of development, we shall be content to move the hands and fingers according to our own will. having reached this point, we shall turn to a different preparatory exercise which is absolutely necessary for the passive communication with the invisible ones. i shall demonstrate the practice as follows: sit down at a table and rest your hands calmly on it. now try plastically to imagine that your spiritual hand is protruding from the physical one. put the psychic hand close by the physical one or let it glide through the table to your knees. you have to regard the imaginary spiritual hand as your real one. in the carnal hand there i

the akasa principle. if you did manage this for a short while, go back again with your mental hand into the carnal one and finish the exercise. repeat this several times until you succeed in exteriorizing the hand as described for at least five minutes. you can work on the other hand in the same manner. as soon as you have managed this very well, you are prepared to take up the communication with the invisible ones. we can see by now that the magic preparation is very different from that of the spiritualists who behave passively insofar as they take a pencil into their hands and write or paint. whether the messages that are asked for by the medial writing or painting of the spiritualists are actually coming out of the fourth dimension or the way they say it, from the world beyond or whethe

answer is yes. noticing a success with the forefinger, try it with the other fingers too. one will notice that there is always a certain finger that is particularly easy to get on with. one ought to stick with the finger that is moving best. this of course depends on the flexibility. the magician will appreciate this method very much because it will enable him to operate a passive connection with the invisible world, either with his leader or with a deceased person, even in a situation where a planchette or a pencil cannot be used, such as at a party, outdoors, and so on. if he has acquired a certain skill in this matter, he can even hold his hand in his pocket and get replies of yes or no in a vas crowd. having managed all these experiments, one can take up the mediumistic writing. the me

f exercising. each of the methods is good and reliable, provided you are using it honestly and candidly. practice makes perfect! now i should like to give a comment with regard to the questions one is going to ask the beings and to the answers one can expect. first of all, the magician is not supposed to boast of his exercises and results. the ore silent he is keeping about his communication with the invisible ones, the better for him. furthermore, when choosing the questions to be asked, you always have to consider that the beings you are contacting are subject to laws different from those we have to deal with on this physical plane. besides, beings that have been living before on this earth will soon lose their orientation because our physical plane is tri-dimensional, depending on time

ension. only highly developed beings are capable of giving correct information about time, events, future, etc. consequently the magician will first inquire about the home of those beings and rather prefer messages about the fourth dimension for the sake of his own education. later on, as soon as the scholar has developed his spiritual senses, he will no longer need the passive communication with the invisible ones because he is himself able to achieve anything about which such a being could inform him. the passive communication only serves the purpose to be convinced of the existence of another world which everybody will enter and live in after passing away. summary of exercises of step v i. magic mental training 1. space magic ii. magic psychic training 1. projection of elements outwards

erybody will enter and live in after passing away. summary of exercises of step v i. magic mental training 1. space magic ii. magic psychic training 1. projection of elements outwards: a. through the body, accumulated through the solar plexus b. accumulated through the hands, especially dynamically through the fingers. iii. magic physical training 1. preparation for the passive communication with the invisible ones: a. release of the hand b. preparation of the fingers with the help of the pendulum, pencil, planchette, etc. 2. passive communication: a. with the own guardian genius b. with deceased people and other beings. end of step v step vi before i describe the exercises of step vi, i shall underline once more that all the previous exercise have to be under perfect control in order to k

or seeing deceased people. very few authors describe this power from a psychological or any other point of view, and that is why it shall be out next task to study the phenomenon of clairvoyance very thoroughly. first of all the magician will realize that there are various kinds of clairvoyance. the principle kind is the inborn capacity of clairvoyance which its bearer has been granted whether in the invisible world already, or which he brought with him from a former into his present existence. this kind of clairvoyance is the best, but very few humans enjoy it, being born clairvoyant to such a degree that they can practice it immediately without any effort at all. a second kind of clairvoyance is that which occurs spontaneously and is therefore to be regarded as a pathological symptom. a

ll explain the real procreation of an elementary as thoroughly as possible, demonstrating the manner in which the magician has to create an elementary. the intuition acquired by the previous training certainly will help the magician to contrive his own practice, responsive to the purpose he aims at. according to his ethical development, he will never dare to create elementaries for evil purposes; the invisible world would certainly vow ferocious revenge on him, because through the knowledge of how to create elementaries, the magician has got a plenitude of power which allows him to achieve anything on the mental, astral and material level he chooses. he must always consider that it is he himself who is responsible for his deeds, and not the elementary he has created. the elementaries are c

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

hops, and the celebrated healer, valentine greatrakes. here the malice of the spirits or fairies manifested itself in a different manner. the unfortunate man was suddenly perceived to rise from the ground, and the united efforts of greatrakes and another were unable to check his upward motion--in fact all that the spectators could do was to keep running under him to protect him from being hurt if the invisible power should suddenly relax its hold. at length he fell, but was caught by them before he reached the ground, and so received no harm. that night the spectre, which had twice proved so friendly, appeared at his bedside with a wooden platter full of some grey p. 166 liquid, which it bade him drink, as he had brought it to him to cure him of two sorts of fits he was subject to. he refu

ISIS UNVEILED

" since the day when modern science gave what may be considered the death-blow to dogmatic theology by assuming the ground that religion was full of mystery, and mystery is unscientific, the mental state of the educated class has presented a curious aspect. society seems from that time to have been ever balancing itself upon one leg on an unseen tight-rope stretched from our visible universe into the invisible one; un- certain whether the end hooked on faith in the latter mi^t not suddenly break and hurl it into final amiihilation. the great body of nominal christians may be divided into three unequal portions: materialists, spiritualists, and christians proper. the materialists and spiritualists make common cause against the hierarchical pretensions of the clergy; who, in retaliation, den

f the medieval ages* says jacouiot" what is then this religious philosophy of the orient, which has penetrated into the mystic symbousm of christianity? we an- swer: this philosophy, the traces of which we find among the magians, the cbaldaeans, the egyptians, the hebrew kabalists and the chris- tians, b none other than that of the hindfi br&hmanas, the sectarians of the piirit, or the spirits of the invisible worlds which surround us" but if the gnostics were destroyed, the gnosis, based on the secret science of sciences, still lives. it is the earth which helps the woman, and which is destined to open her mouth to swallow up medieval chris- tianity, the usurper and assassin of the great master's doctrine. the ancient kabala, the gnosis, or traditional aecrh knowledge, has never been with

ction (a these phenomena" and how should they? does not this zealous orientalist confess to us that even he, who had every available means at hand to learn many of thmr rites and doctrines at first hand, failed in his attempts to make the brfthmanas explain to him their secrets "all that our most diligent in- quiries of the pitrdiittu could elicit from them respecting the acts of their superiors (the invisible initiates of the temples) amounts to very little" and again, speaking of one of the books, he confesses that while purport- ing to reveal all that is desirable to know it" falls back into mysterious formulas, in combinations of magical and occult letters, the secret of which it has been impossible for us to penetrate" etc. the fakirs, although they can never reach beyond the first de

rpaa, the supamaa, and the phria" lunar anceatora of the human race (see institviea of manu, i, iloka 37, and also where the pitria are termed "progenitors of mankind" iii, 201. the pitris are a distinct race of spirits belonging to the mytho- logical hierarchy (or rather to the kabalistical nomenclature) and must be included with the good genii, the daemons of the greeks, or the inferior gods of the invisible world; and when a fakir attributes his phe nomena to the pitria he means only what the ancient philosophers and theurgists meant when they maintained that all the 'miracles' were obtained through the intervention of the gods, or the good and bad daemons who control the powers of nature, the eumeniala who are subor- dinate to the power of him 'who knows' a ghost or human phantom would

ll greek words, must be sou^t in its philological origin the sanskrit. in this latter language krit means sacred* and the hindu deity was named kris-na (tbe pitre or the sacred) from that. on the other hand, uie greek carirfot bears several meanings, as anointed (pure oil, ckritm) and others. in all languages, thou^ the ^nonym of the word means pure or sacred essence, it is the first emanation of the invisible godhead, manifesting 356. in hit debate with jacollut upon the ri^t jpdliiig of the hitida ktujidb, mr. teztiw de ravin, an ultmnontane catlidic, tnes to prove that the nune at christna ought t be written kriihna, for u the latter meuu bjack ibcnfey, saiukr. diet ^vca the luual tikualatiob of krishna m" black, darli-bhie" but nys" tbe ocigid of the litfufieatioo itdubioim, and tbe (t

t 'primitive man' and at the same time ennoia, the thought of bythos, the depth, for he b py- mander. the gnostics, as well as the nazarenes, allegorizing on the personifi- cation, said that the first and second man loved the beauty of sophia (sephira) the first woman, and thus the father and the son fecundated the heavenly 'woman' and from primal darkness procreated the visible light (sephira is the invisible, or spiritual li^t "whom they called the anointed christus, or king messiah^ this christus is the adam of dust before his fall, with the spirit of the adonai, his father, and shekhinah-adonai, his mother, upon him; for adam primus is adon, adonu, or adonis. the primal existence manifests itself by its wisdom, and produces the intdligible logos (all visible creation. this wisdom was v

the universal mind, and my origin it in the vidtt q' thf oeean; and therefore do i pervade all beings. originating oil beingii i pass like the brecm [ibly ghost. i am above this heaven, beyond this earth; and toaal it at qmd 0ns that am> litoally, vach is speech, the power of awakemug, through the metrical arrangement contained in the numbs and syllables of the mantras' cor- reqmodiiig powers in the invisible world. in the sacrificial uysteries vtcb stirs up the braluna brakna jiiuali, or the power lying latent at the bottom of every magical eration. it existed &om eternity as the yajlla (its latent form, lying doi^ inant in brahma from' no-bt^nning* and proceeded forth from him as vach (the active power. it is the key to the' trai- tbs. asmthaftrtha gnmiiiua*riaivilaiieta7 bmba oa ear

wtdd within the infinite universe it venal ^lirit. the microcoam within the macrocomn. as toa bn? tb* trinit? ol sum, ud a, in the jewish kabala. it is tbe tymbol of bbht of the womb of the universe, the terreatrial dpk, tli tgg, whose archetype is the golden mun- dpk dane egg. it is from within this spiritual bosom of mother natute that proceed all the great savion of the onivene the avatar* of the invisible deity "of him who it and yet is not, from the not-being, etenial cause, is bom the being^ j n u puruaha" says manu, the legislator. wuntfacis puni^ia i* the 'divine male' the tecond god, and the avatar, or the logos of paia- brahman and his divine ton, who in hit turn produced virij, the ton, or the ideal^^j^ ll^jj type of the univetae "virij" bepns the- work of ca ation by producing

a fresh miracle to match, could have resulted in the finding of a cross where there had never been one before. still, we have ather to believe the phenomenon or dispute it at the risk of being treated as infidels; and this notwithstanding that upon a careful computation we should find that the fragments of the 'true cross' had multiplied them- selves even more miraculously than the five loaves in the invisible bakery, and the two fishes. in all cases like this, vbae miracles can be so conveniently called in, there is no room for dull fact history must step out, that fiction may step in. if the alleged founder of the christian religion is now, after thfe lapse of nineteen centuries, preached more or less unsuccessfully however in eveiy comer of the globe, we are at liberty to think that the

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ous eyes by the world, which is no great conjuror. how is it, that, after centuries of doubt or denial, how happens it, in face of the reason that can make nothing of it, the common sense that rejects, and the science which can demonstrate it as impossible, the supernatural still has such vital hold in the human not to say the modern mind? how happens it that the most terrible fear is the fear of the invisible? this, too, when we are on all hands assured that the visible alone is that which we have to dread! the ordinary reason exhorts us to dismiss our t x preface fears. that thing magic, that superstition miracle, is now banished wholly from the beliefs of this clear-seeing, educated age. miracle, we are told, never had a place in the world only in men s delusions. it is nothing more tha

s close over it like a grave-stone. when we witness fire, we are as if peeping only through a door into another world. into this, all the (consumed into microscopical smallness) things of this world, the compressed and concentrate matter-heaps of defunct tides of being and of time, are in combustion rushing: kingdoms of the floors of the things passed through up to this moment held in suspense in the invisible inner worlds. all roars through the hollow. all that is mastered in the operations of this fire, and that is rushing through the hollow made by it in the partition-world of the knowable across, and out on the other side, into the unknowable seeks, in the fire, its last and most perfect evolution into absolute nothing, as a bound prisoner urges to his feet, in his chains, and shrieks

of the unpronounceable secret, stage on stage and story on story, though it climbed the clouds, and on its top should shine the ever-burning fire, first idol in the world, dark save with neglected stars, what was the tower of babel but a gigantic monolith? perhaps to record and to perpetuate this ground-fire of all; to be worshipped, an idol, in its visible form, when it should be alone taken as the invisible thought: fire to be waited for (spirit-possession, not waited on (idolatry. therefore was the speech confounded, that the thing should not be; therefore, under the myth of climbing into heaven by the means of it, was the first colossal monolithic temple (in which the early dwellers upon the earth sought to enshrine the fire) laid prostrate in the thunder of the great god! and the lan

as the steps of the ladder by which we philosophically descend from god. emotions are also the steps by which alone we can ascend to him. human reason is a possibility, from the line drawn by which either ascent or descent may be made. the things necessity, or fate, and free will, passing into the mind of man (both may be identical in their nature, though opposite in their operation, dictate from the invisible, but persuade from the visible. hume asserts that a uniform experience amounts to a proof. it does not do so, any more than ninety-nine are a hundred. he also says that there is not to be found in all history any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men to be believed. now, we will rejoin to this, that a public miracle is a public impossibility; for the moment it has become pub

nd the world impossible; and across this bridge, in his immortal heroism and newness, he leads the votary out of his dream of life into his dream of temporary death, or into extinction of the senses and of the powers of the senses; which world s blindness is the only true and veritable life, the envelope of flesh falling metaphorically off the now liberated glorious entity taken up, in charms, by the invisible fire into rhapsody, which is as the gate of heaven. now a few words as to the theory of alchemy. the alchemists boasted of the power, after the elimination and dispersion of the ultimate elements of bodies by fire (represented by the absent difference of their weights before and after their dissolution, to recover them back out of that exterior, unknown world surrounding this world:

iant yellow element fire or, golden flame, the flower of the fire. the alchemists maintain that the metals are produced in the secret operations of the planets, that grow them daily in the bowels of the earth; that the sun and moon, red and white, fire and water, light and darkness, male and female, night and day, are active in the generation of the precious metals, of which gold is due wholly to the invisible operation of the sun and moon, and silver is referable to the whitening or bleaching lucidity of the moon; that gold is produced quicker or slower according to the faster or slower operations of nature; that it vivifies and vegetates, bears bright seed and multiplies, germinating as fructifying in the matrix, or the laboratories of the earth; that gold is produced with infinite pains

bitants of the world, who raised pillars and stones in its honour as the first idol. thus man bears in his own body the picture of the triune. reason is the head, feeling is the breast, and the mechanical means of both feeling and reasoning, of the means of his being man, is the epigastric centre, from which the two first spring as emanations, and with which the two first form ultimately but one. the invisible mag196 the rosicrucians. netic, geometrical bases, or latitudes, of these three vital points, whose consent, or coincidence, or identity, forms the microcosm, which is a copy of the same form in heaven, answer magically to their stellar originals. this is astrological ruling by pyramidal culmination, and by trilinear descent or efflux, to an intersecting point in the latitudes of the

parts, if reference be made to it by an attentive inquirer one accustomed to these abstruse studies. fig. 140. monogram of the saviour. these designs supply a variety of early christian symbols or hieroglyphs, drawn from roman originals in all parts of the world. the olian harp, or magic harp, gave forth real strains in the wind. these were supposed to be communi232 the rosicrucians. cations from the invisible spirits that people the air in greater or lesser number. see figs. 141, 142. fig. 141. melody (or melodic expression) of the portico of the parthenon. fig. 142. general melody (or melodic expression) of the pantheon, rome* in fig. 153 we have a representation of bersted church, as seen (magnified) from a rising hill, over a hop-garden, at about the distance of half a mile. bersted is

it is to be understood that he worked with material, or with darkness, which is the blank side, or the other side of light; turned away. these profound metaphysical distinctions are the key of all the theologies. moses, when he describes the creation of the world, is the alchemist, relating in parable the generation of the solids, and the flowing-over into the border-country (out of the flesh) of the invisible-where everything ultimately is. the history of david, solomon (of the temple, jacob (of the ladder; or staircase from earth to heaven, and from heaven to earth &c, job; the accounts of the heroes of the stories of the apocrypha (the most concealed or* the flitting of the flickering flame (consciousness) out of the urn. 342 the rosicrucians. recondite of the things hidden thence its n

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

piritual world spiritual body (soul or kia) intuition mental world mental body (conscious mind) rational thought astral world astral body (subconscious) emotions physical world physical body physical senses the astral body (subconscious) is the intermediary for intuition, magical and psychic phenomena, and is the 'psychic link' to the physical world. most occult and magical phenomena originate in the invisible, non-sensate, the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 10 non-physical realm (ie. without physical senses. each of the four worlds interacts with the other worlds. psychic energy flows from the spiritual to mental to astral to physical. the physical world is a projection (manifestation, reflection, or shadow) of the higher worlds. our center of consciousness is ge

or shadow) of the higher worlds. our center of consciousness is generally within these higher worlds "we are, to quote the rock music group the police "spirits in the material world. there are many similar terms used by other occult groups. for example 'astral light' is another name for astral world, although it may sometimes also refer to the entire non-physical realm, as may 'inner planes' or 'the invisible world. planes are essentially the same as worlds. vehicles or sheaths are the same as bodies. some groups include an etheric or vital body between physical and astral: it is mostly 'physical' with a little of the lower 'astral' besides. and sometimes astral and mental are each divided into two parts (upper and lower. the 'causal body' is the upper 'mental. microcosm and macrocosm we

technique for directing that intention is the bow. you use the bow/technique to poise, balance and guide the intention/arrow with the strength of your arms and hands/ determination and will. 3 what happens when this all works together optimally? the will firmly grasps the clear intention, balances it upon the technique, you gather your emotional and mental force, and then fire the intention into the invisible world to be made manifest. in its own time and way, your wish materializes. 4 conversely, if you haven't got the skill to bring all of these efforts together, things can go askew. your arrow can veer and stray, or it may travel a few feet before losing power. your bow can break, or not be strong enough to propel the arrow. or, you may find that you've got your bow and arrow ready to

KETAB E SIYAH

ce in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil. xii viae perversae crooked ways quorum viae perversae et infames gressus eorum whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths. xiii beatus happy beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam et qui affluit prudentia happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. 401 meshaf i resh the black book in the beginning the invisible one brought forth from its own precious soul a white pearl. and it created a bird upon whose back it placed the pearl, and there he dwelt for forty thousand years. then on the first day, sunday, it created an angel called izrael. he is archangel over all the angels, he who is melek taus, the peacock angel. he is the first to be, and to know that he is; for the one can know nothing. o

erve melek taus on monday he created darda'il, which is sheikh hasan. on tuesday he created israfil, who is sheikh shams. on wednesday he created jibra'il (gabriel, who is sheikh abu bekr. on thursday he created 'azra'il, who is sajadin. on friday he created the angel shemna'il, who is nasiru'd-din. 402 on saturday he created the angel nura'il. he made melek ta'us chief over them all. after this, the invisible one retreated into itself, and acted no more; but melek taus was left to act. seeing the barrenness of the ether, he created the form of the seven heavens, the earth, sun and moon. he created mankind, animals, birds and beasts in the pockets of his cloak. then he brought man up from the pearl accompanied by angels. he gave a great shout before the pearl, after which it split into fou

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

the lesser ritual of the pentagram. however, it should not simply be regarded as a mere device to invoke or banish, for it is really the stone of the wise and incorporates within its structure a high magical formula of self-initiation. it is, to all intents and purposes, a ritual of self-initiation. this ritual is given to the neophyte of the order as a means for him/her to come into contact with the invisible forces of nature and to learn how to direct those elementary forces. the qabalistic cross and lesser ritual of the pentagram 1. touching the forehead, say ateh (thou art) 2. touching the breast, say malkuth (the kingdom) 4. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah (and the power) 5. touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah (and the glory) 6. place the two palms of the hands toge

the sins of his body in passion. he has passed the eternal gate, and has received the new year feast with incense, at the marriage of earth with heaven "tum has built his bridal chamber. rururet has founded his shrine. the procession is completed. horus has purified, set has consecrated, shu made one with osiris, has entered his heritage "as tum he has entered the kingdom to completed union with the invisible. thy bride, o osiris, is isis, who mourned thee when she found thee slain. in isis, thou art born again. from nephthys is thy nourishment. they cleansed thee in thy heavenly birth. youth waits upon thee, ardour is ready at thy hand. and their arms shall uphold thee for millions of years. initiates surround thee and thine enemies are cast down. the powers of darkness are destroyed. th

LAITMAN M KABBALAH REVEALED

reason why they called pleasure light. when the kli xa creature, a person xfeels the creator, it is an experience of great wisdom that dawns on a person, as if something has dawned on me, and now i see the light. when that happens to us, we realize that whatever wisdom has manifested, it has always been there, albeit hidden from the eye. it s as if the night s darkness has turned to daylight and the invisible has been made visible. and because this light brings knowledge with it, kabbalists called it light of wisdom, and the method to receive it, the wisdom of kabbalah. four basic phases let s go back to our story. to put the thought of giving pleasure into practice, the creator designed a creation that specifically wants to receive the. figure 1: the five evolutionary phases of the will

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

the ineffable glory and happi-ness of the father. 139. both the holy ghost and the son are in turn triune; wisdom, strength and beauty are the three qualities of god the holy ghost, and they form the three supports of the objective world, as they also mark out its three divisions. these divisions are (1) the visible world of material objects, founded in beauty- god in things is seen as beauty (2) the invisible energy with which the world is filled, and on which all things that are seen are built- this is the strength of god the holy ghost (3) the universal mind, the world of ideas, the storehouse of archetypes, marking out the possibilities of material forms and relationships, which is seen in what the scientist calls the laws of nature- the wisdom of the divine architect, his settled plan

apter viii 641. the third degree 642. the opening of the lodge 643. when all is ready for the opening of the lodge in the third degree the r.w.m. once more commands the w.j.w. to see that the lodge is properly tyled. this time the forces with which we have to deal in the work of the meeting will be mainly on the higher mental plane, so the defences of the lodge are now reinforced at that level by the invisible hosts, and therefore a blue tinge hence-forward predominates, though the lower levels are by no means neglected. 644. the brn. are then called to order as craftsmen, and the r.w.m. turns to the w.j.w. again, with the question: gare you a m.m? h on his replying that he is, the master asks him by what instrument in architecture he will be proved, and he replies: gby the square and comp

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

racter, a flight of the alone to the alone, as plotinus so beautifully expressed it. to the occultist the exact observance of a form is of great importance, and through the use of ceremonial magic he creates a vehicle through which the divine light may be drawn down and spread abroad for the helping of the world, calling to his aid the assistance of angels, nature-spirits and other inhabitants of the invisible worlds. the method of the mystic, on the other hand, is through prayer and orison; he cares nothing for forms and, though by his union therewith he too is a channel of the divine life, he seems to me to lose the enormous advantage of the collective effort made by the oc-cultist, which is so greatly strengthened by the help of the higher beings whose presence he invokes. both these pa

at white lodge. it offers to its initiates far more than a mere moralization upon building tools, and yet it is founded upon the purest principles of piety and virtue, for without the practice of morality and the living of the ethical life no true spiritual progress is possible. 35. the ceremonies of freemasonry (those at least of its higher degrees) are dramatizations, as it were, of sections of the invisible worlds, through which the candidate must pass after death in the ordinary course of nature- which also he must enter in full consciousness during the rites of initiation into those true mysteries of which masonry is a reflection. each degree relates to a different plane of nature, or to an aspect of a plane, and possesses layer after layer of meaning applicable to the consciousness o

to be a preparation for true initiation, to be a school for training the brn. for the far greater knowledge of the path proper. 36. the sacramental power 37. to the occult student masonry has also another aspect, of the greatest importance, concerning which i have written in the hidden life in freemasonry it is not only a wonderful and intricate system of occult symbols enshrining the secrets of the invisible worlds; it has also a sacramental aspect which is of the utmost beauty and value not only to its initiates but to the world at large. the performance of the ritual of each degree is intended to call down spiritual power, first to assist the bro. upon whom the degree is conferred to awaken within himself that aspect of consciousness which corresponds to the symbolism of the degree, as

far as europe is concerned) may almost be said to have been created by pythagoras, so much did he add to it and systematize it; he found it but a number of scattered and unrelated facts, and left it a science. metempsychosis or reincarnation was an essential part of the pythagorean teaching; the purification of the soul being thus accomplished by repeated descents into matter and withdrawals into the invisible worlds, in order to transmute experience into faculty. 396. the three degrees 397. the pythagorean schools worked in close association with the teaching of the mysteries, but without the ceremonies; they gave a philosophical exposition of the same great facts of the inner worlds. in those schools the pupils were divided into three degrees which corresponded almost exactly with those

d through them; so we see that we are in the presence of a science of spiritual building, of which material architecture is but the reflection in the dense matter of the physical plane. each order of architecture expresses an idea and is the channel of certain types of influence associated with that idea, attracting the attention of certain kinds of angels who work along the lines of that idea in the invisible worlds. each sub-race has its own characteristic type of architecture as well as its own type of music, and these are often utilized by the great ones behind in order to impress upon the people certain characteristics which are necessary for their evolution. 432. the principles of this inner science of building were taught in the ancient mysteries, and the temples of the different fa

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

the moment of death, to determine who may touch the corpse, how it will be disposed of, and what funeral rites should be performed. at the end of the first stage, the corpse is seated upright in a corner of the death chamber. care is taken not to use one of the corners assigned to the household demon. the relatives are summoned and a feast ensues, in which the corpse participates by being offered the invisible essences of all food and drink. the feast lasts for at least two days. the corpse is then removed for disposal, and an effigy of the corpse is made of wood and dressed in the clothes of the deceased. for the remainder of the bardo, it stays in the corner, attended by the lamas who chant by relays the various liturgies at the appropriate time. at the end of the bardo, the effigy is hu

acraments, particularly baptism of water and matrimony, and followed an ascetic lifestyle that included celibacy, vegetarianism, and even ritual suicide.most cathars accepted only the new testament, which they read in its catholic version. the universe was seen by cathars as constituted of two coexisting spheres: the kingdom of the good god who was spiritual and suprasensible, and who had created the invisible heaven, its spirits, and the four elements; and the kingdom of the evil god, satan, creator of the material world, and who, being unable to make the human soul, had captured it from heaven and imprisoned it in the material body. thus, the fundamental aim of their religious practice releasing the soul from the body, by freeing it from satan s power and helping it to return to its orig

LIBER ARCANORUM

cret place of the thunders. between asar and asi he abideth in joy. 1. the lightnings increased and the lord tahuti stood forth. the voice came from the silence. then the one ran and returned. 2. now hath nuit veiled herself, that she may open the gate of her sister. 3. the virgin of god is enthroned upon an oyster-shell; she is like a pearl, and seeketh seventy to her four. in her heart is hadit the invisible glory. 4. now riseth ra-hoor-khuit, and dominion is established in the star of the flame. 5. also is the star of the flame exalted, bringing benediction to the universe. 6. here then beneath the winged eros is youth, delighting in the one and the other. he is asar between asi and nepthi; he cometh forth from the veil. 7. he rideth upon the chariot of eternity; the white and the black

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

e of running a magical order; it may also include, overlap with, or be identical with one or more of the rituals alpha, beta and gamma mentioned in gliber dclxxi vel aort h (a version of the neophyte initiation ritual which survives in typescrip gliber lxv l i b e r c o r d i s c i n c t i serpente svb figvra ynda v a a publication in class a 1 i 1. i am the heart; and the snake is entwined about the invisible core of the mind. rise, o my snake! it is now is the hour of the hooded and holy ineffable flower. rise, o my snake, into brilliance of bloom on the corpse of osiris afloat in the tomb! o heart of my mother, my sister, mine own, thou art given to nile, to the terror typhon! ah me! but the glory of ravening storm enswathes thee and wraps thee in frenzy of form. be still, o my soul! th

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

soon set the hunchback lion and the soldier unicorn fighting for your crown. and they shall lie down together at the end, equally glad, equally weary; while sole and sublime that crown of thine (brother) shall glitter in the frosty void of the abyss, its twelve stars filling that silence and solitude with a music and a motion that are more silent and invisible than they; thou shalt sit throned on the invisible, thine eyes fixed upon that which we call nothing, because it is beyond everything attainable by thought, or trance, thy right hand gripping the azure rod of light, thy left hand clasped upon the scarlet scourge of death; thy body girdled with a snake more brilliant than the sun, its name eternity; thy mouth curved moonlike in a smile, in the invisible kiss of nuit, our lady of the s

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

ces that surround him. death he sees, and the life of nature whose name is sorrow, and the word that quickeneth these, and his own self.and when he hath recognised these four in their true nature he passes to the altar once more and as the apex of john st. john 33 a descending triangle is admitted to the lordship of the double kingdom. thus is he a member of the visible triad that is crossed with the invisible. behold the hexagram of solomon the king! all this the hiereus seals with a knock and at the hegemon fs new summons he.to his surprise.finds himself as the hanged man of the tarot. each point of the figure thus formed they crown with light, until he glitters with the flame of the spirit. thus and not otherwise is he made a partaker of the mysteries, and the lightning flash strikes hi

ustice and the hanged man, and i fell into both the pitfalls thereof. instead of the great balance firmly held, i found only libra, the house of venus and of the exaltation of saturn; and these evil planets, smiling and frowning, overcame me. and so for the sublime path of man; instead of that symbol of the adept, his foot set firmly upon heaven, his whole figure showing forth the reconciler with the invisible, i found but the stagnant and bitter water of selfishness, the dead sea of the soul. for all is illusion. who saith .i. denieth adonai, save only if he mean adonai. and daleth the door of the pylon, is that tree whereon the adept of man hangeth, and daleth is love supernal, that if it be inserted in the word ani .i. giveth adni, adonai. subtle art thou and deadly, o dweller of the th

LIBER DCLXXI VEL PYRAMIDOS

d 1 000. the building of the pyramid. the magus with wand. on the altar are incense, fire, bread, wine, the chain, the scourge, the dagger and the oil. in his left hand the bell he taketh: hail! asi! hail, hoor-apep! let the silence speech beget! two strokes on bell. banishing spiral dance: the words against the son of night tahuti speaketh in the light. knowledge and power, twin warriors, shake the invisible; they roll asunder the darkness; matter shines, a snake. sebek is smitten by the thunder. the light breaks forth from under. he goes to the west, in the centre of the base of the triangle of (m, asi (a, and hoor (c: o thou, the apex of the plane, with ibis head and phoenix wand and wings of night! whose serpents strain their bodies, bounding the beyond. thou in the light and in the n

LIBER ISRAFEL

, the greek magical papyri in translation for a more literal rendition. t.s] 4 [a golden dawn title for tarot trump ii, gthe high priestess. h. t.s] 4 liber israfel 16 (a pause) 17. the speech in the silence. the words against the son of night. the voice of tahuti in the universe in the presence of the eternal. the formulas of knowledge. the wisdom of breath. the root of vibration. the shaking of the invisible. the rolling asunder of the darkness. the becoming visible of matter. the piercing of the scales of the crocodile. the breaking forth of the light!5 18 (follows the lection) 19. there is an end of the speech; let the silence of darkness be broken; let it return into the silence of light. 20. the speaker silently departs; the listeners disperse unto their homes; yea, they disperse unt

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

ra vii 5 48. ah! trickling flow of the stars of the mother supernal, begone! 49. i am she that should come, the virgin of all men. 50. i am a boy before thee, o thou satyr god. 51. thou wilt inflict the punishment of pleasure.now! now! now! 52. io pan! io pan! i love thee. i love thee. 53. o my god, spare me! 54. now! it is done! death. 55. i cried aloud the word.and it was a mighty spell to bind the invisible, an enchantment to unbind; yea, to unbind the bound. 6 ii 1. o my god! use thou me again, alway. for ever! for ever! 2. that which came fire from thee cometh water from me; let therefore thy spirit lay hold on me, so that my right hand loose the lightning. 3. travelling through space, i saw the onrush of two galaxies, butting each other and goring like bulls upon earth. i was afraid

42. o dear my god! what a feast thou hast provided. 43. behold the lights and the flowers and the maidens! 44. taste of the wines and the cates and the splendid meats! 45. breathe in perfumes and the clouds of little gods like wood-nymphs that inhabit the nostrils! 46. feel with your whole body the glorious smoothness of the marble coolth and the generous warmth of the sun and the slaves! 47. let the invisible inform all the devouring light of its disruptive vigour! 48. yea! all the world is split apart, as an old grey tree by the lightning! 49. come, o ye gods, and let us feast. 26 liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli 50. thou, o my darling, o my ceaseless sparrow-god, my delight, my desire, my deceiver, come thou and chirp at my right hand! 51. this was the tale of the memory of al a fin the

LIBER XXXIII AN ACCOUNT OF AA

emonies and sacred books in general have more or less clearly, as their object of instruction, the interior truths of the sanctuary, by which man will be conducted to the universal knowledge of the one absolute truth. the more the external worship of a people has remained united with the spirit of esoteric truth, the purer its religion; but the wider the difference between the symbolic letter and the invisible truth, the more imperfect has become the religion. finally, it may be, the external form has entirely parted from its inner truth, so that ceremonial observances without soul or life have remained alone. in the midst of all this, truth reposes inviolable in the inner sanctuary. faithful to the spirit of truth, the members of the interior order live in silence, but in real activity. y

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ers of which it is composed. in despair, the few who were true sought to preserve the secret doctrines from oblivion. in some cases they succeeded, but more often the arcanum was lost and only the empty shell of the mysteries remained. thomas taylor has written "man is naturally a religious animal" from the earliest dawning of his consciousness, man has worshiped and revered things as symbolic of the invisible, omnipresent, indescribable thing, concerning which he could discover practically nothing. the pagan mysteries opposed the christians during the early centuries of their church, declaring that the new faith (christianity) did not demand virtue and integrity as requisites for salvation. celsus expressed himself on the subject in the following caustic terms "that i do not, however, acc

dualized as the lowest creation out of the substance called pleroma. one group of the gnostics was of the opinion that the demiurgus was the cause of all misery and was an evil creature, who by building this lower world had separated the souls of men from truth by encasing them in mortal vehicles. the other sect viewed the demiurgus as being divinely inspired and merely fulfilling the dictates of the invisible lord. some gnostics were of the opinion that the jewish god, jehovah, was the demiurgus. this concept, under a slightly different name, apparently influenced medi val rosicrucianism, which viewed jehovah as the lord of the material universe rather than as the supreme deity. mythology abounds with the stories of gods who partook of both celestial and terrestrial natures. odin, of scan

lusions of the human environment. the crux of the eleusinian argument was that man is neither better nor wiser after death than during life. if he does not rise above ignorance during his sojourn here, man goes at death into eternity to wander about forever, making the same mistakes which he made here. if he does not outgrow the desire for material possessions here, he will carry it with him into the invisible world, where, because he can never gratify the desire, he will continue in endless agony. dante's inferno is symbolically descriptive of the sufferings of those who never freed their spiritual natures from the cravings, habits, viewpoints, and limitations of their plutonic personalities. those who made no endeavor to improve themselves (whose souls have slept) during their physical l

said that the living are ruled by the dead. only those conversant with the eleusinian concept of life could understand that statement. it means that the majority of people are not ruled by their living spirits but by their senseless (hence dead) animal personalities. transmigration and reincarnation were taught in these mysteries, but in a somewhat unusual manner. it was believed that at midnight the invisible worlds were closest to the terrestrial sphere and that souls coming into material existence slipped in during the midnight hour. for this reason many of the eleusinian click to enlarge the rape of persephone. from thomassin's recucil des figures, groupes, themes, fontaines, vases et autres ornements. pluto, the lord of the underworld, represents the body intelligence of man; and the

been prevented from coming sooner. the ninth and last day was devoted to the deepest philosophical issues of the eleusinia, during which an urn or jar--the symbol of bacchus--was exhibited as an emblem of supreme importance. p. 30 ceremonies were performed at midnight. some of those sleeping spirits who had failed to awaken their higher natures during the earth life and who now floated around in the invisible worlds, surrounded by a darkness of their own making, occasionally slipped through at this hour and assumed the forms of various creatures. the mystics of eleusis also laid stress upon the evil of suicide, explaining that there was a profound mystery concerning this crime of which they could not speak, but warning their disciples that a great sorrow comes to all who take their own li

the divine pymander consists of seventeen fragmentary writings gathered together and put forth as one work. the second book of the divine pymander, called poimandres, or the vision, is believed to describe the method by which the divine wisdom was first revealed to hermes. it was after hermes had received this revelation that he began his ministry, teaching to all who would listen the secrets of the invisible universe as they had been unfolded to him. the vision is the most: famous of all the hermetic fragments, and contains an exposition of hermetic cosmogony and the secret sciences of the egyptians regarding the culture and unfoldment of the human soul. for some time it was erroneously called "the genesis of enoch" but that mistake has now been rectified. at hand while preparing the fol

d adds to the evil deeds that are gone before until finally evil destroys itself. the punishment of desire is the agony of unfulfillment" hermes bowed his head in thankfulness to the great dragon who had taught him so much, and begged to hear more concerning the ultimate of the human soul. so poimandres resumed "at death the material body of man is returned to the elements from which it came, and the invisible divine man ascends to the source from whence he came, namely the eighth sphere. the evil passes to the dwelling place of the demon, and the senses, feelings, desires, and body passions return to their source, namely the seven governors, whose natures in the lower man destroy but in the invisible spiritual man give life "after the lower nature has returned to the brutishness, the high

calls the great pyramid "the house of the hidden places; such indeed it was, for it represented the inner sanctuary of pre-egyptian wisdom. by the egyptians the great pyramid was associated with hermes, the god of wisdom and letters and the divine illuminator worshiped through the planet mercury. relating hermes to the pyramid emphasizes anew the fact that it was in reality the supreme temple of the invisible and supreme deity. the great pyramid was not a lighthouse, an observatory, or a tomb, but the first temple of the mysteries, the first structure erected as a repository for those secret truths which are the certain foundation of all arts and sciences. it was the perfect emblem of the microcosm and the macrocosm and, according to the secret teachings, the tomb of osiris, the black god

ify that isis abounds in humidity, by means of which she nourishes all natural bodies, preserving them from the heat of the sun by humidifying them with nutritious moisture from the atmosphere. moisture supports vegetation, but this subtle humidity (life ether) is always more or less infected by some venom proceeding from corruption or decay. it must be purified by being brought into contact with the invisible cleansing fire of nature. this fire digests, perfects, and revitalizes this substance, in order that the humidity may become a universal medicine to heal and renew all the bodies in nature. the serpent throws off its skin annually and is thereby renewed (symbolic of the resurrection of the spiritual life from the material nature. this renewal of the earth takes place every spring, wh

re of isis is sometimes used to represent the occult and magical arts, such as necromancy, invocation, sorcery, and thaumaturgy. in one of the myths concerning her, isis is said to have conjured the invincible god of eternities, ra, to tell her his secret and sacred name, which he did. this name is equivalent to the lost word of masonry. by means of this word, a magician can demand obedience from the invisible and superior deities. the priests of isis became adepts in the use of the unseen forces of nature. they understood hypnotism, mesmerism, and similar practices long before the modem world dreamed of their existence. plutarch describes the requisites of a follower of isis in this manner "for as 'tis not the length of the beard, or the coarseness of the habit which makes a philosopher

nities. in every instance these represented the threefold form of one supreme intelligence. in modern masonry, the deity is symbolized by an equilateral triangle, its three sides representing the primary manifestations of the eternal one who is himself represented as a tiny flame, called by the hebrews yod. jakob b hme, the teutonic mystic, calls the trinity the three witnesses, by means of which the invisible is made known to the visible, tangible universe. the origin of the trinity is obvious to anyone who will observe the daily manifestations of the sun. this orb, being the symbol of all light, has three distinct phases: rising, midday, and setting. the philosophers therefore divided the life of all things into three distinct parts: growth, maturity, and decay. between the twilight of d

ear after christ three suns were seen at once in the sky and also in the sixty-sixth year. in the sixty-ninth year, two suns were seen together. according to william lilly, between the years 1156 and 1648 twenty similar occurrences were recorded. recognizing the sun as the supreme benefactor of the material world, hermetists believed that there was a spiritual sun which ministered to the needs of the invisible and divine part of nature--human and universal. anent this subject, the great paracelsus wrote "there is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. there is an eternal sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see th

MEANING OF MASONRY

uppositions. it indicates that primitive man, however childish and intellectually undeveloped according to modern standards, was spiritually conscious and psychically perceptive to a degree undreamed of by the modern mind, and that it is ourselves who, for all our cleverness and intellectual developme nt in temporal matters, are nevertheless plunged in darkness and ignorance about our own nature, the invisible world around. us, and the eternal spiritual verities. in all scriptures and cosmologies the tradition is universal of a" golden age" an age of comparative innocence, wisdom and spirituality, in which racial unity and individual happiness and enlightenment prevailed; in which there was that open vision for want of which a people perisheth, but in virtue of which men were once in consc

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

mong men (emerald tablets of hermes. and so in numerous movies, not all of which are created by perverse personages, we see thegreat tale cryptically and repeatedly insinuated (see highlander, the hunger, scanners,superman, the hidden, conan the barbarian, sword and the sorcerer, battle star galac-tica, v, beastmaster, the dark crystal, cocoon, red sonja, lifeforce, invasion of the bodysnatchers, the invisible man, frankenstein, dracula, flash gordon, trancers, bladerunner ,terminator, the omen, the time bandits, the devil rides out, quatermass, dr. who,blake s seven, space 1999, star trek, the last wave, they live, it came from outer space,the brain from the planet arrous, the creature w alks among us, w ar of the worlds, thetripods, six million dollar man, freejack, tron, planet of the a

ars and was seen in india in the year 1700.robert fludd (1574-1637) wrote defending the rosicrucians. said to be the designer of the globe theatre in england.comte de st. germain (1784) mysterious figure to whom all doors opened. moved in the high-est circles of pre-revolutionary france. manufactured precious stones. claimed to be over 4,000 years old.samuel hartlib (1600-1662) prime mover behind the invisible college which attracted the lead-ing personages of the day. his college was given royal approval and became part of royal society.jan battista van helmont (1579-1644) one of the founders of modern chemistry.john fredrick helvetius (1625-1709) athanasius kircher (1602-1680) jesuit alchemist.abraham lambspring (1590) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation267 appendix c: s

MORALS AND DOGMA

prehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, faith and love. prayer is sublime. orisons that beg and clamor are pitiful. to deny the efficacy of prayer, is to deny that of faith, love, and effort. yet the effects produced, when our hand, moved by our will, launches a pebble into the ocean, never cease; and every uttered word is registered for eternity upon the invisible air. every lodge is a temple, and as a whole, and in its details symbolic. the universe itself supplied man with the model for the first temples reared to the divinity. the arrangement of the temple of solomon, the symbolic ornaments which formed its chief decorations, and the dress of the high-priest, all had reference to the order of the universe, as then understood. the temple con

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

arge number of men on any point of political faith is amazing. you can hardly get two men in any congress or convention to agree--nay, you can rarely get one to agree with _himself. the political church which chances to be supreme anywhere has an indefinite number of tongues. how then can we expect men to agree as to matters beyond the cognizance of the senses? how can we compass the infinite and the invisible with any chain of evidence? ask the small sea-waves what they murmur among the pebbles! how many of those words that come from the invisible shore are lost, like the birds, in the long passage? how vainly do we strain the eyes across the long infinite! we must be content, as the children are, with the pebbles that have been stranded, since it is forbidden us to explore the hidden dep

ation between the things of the intellect and the things of matter. elements and principles are mingled, combined, espoused, multiplied one by another, to such a degree as to bring the material world and the moral world into the same light. phenomena are perpetually folded back upon themselves. in the vast cosmical changes the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, enveloping all in the invisible mystery of the emanations, losing no dream from no single sleep, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and winding in curves; making a force of light, and an element of thought; disseminated and indivisible, dissolving all save that point without length, breadth, or thickness. the myself; reducing everything to the soul-atom; making everything blossom into go

returning to that when freed from the enthrallment of the body; and that it can only return there when purified of all the sordidness and sin which have, as it were, become part of its substance, by its connection with the body. it is not strange that, thousands of years ago, men worshipped the sun, and that to-day that worship continues among the parsees. originally they looked beyond the orb to the invisible god, of whom the sun's light, seemingly identical with generation and life, was the manifestation and outflowing. long before the chald an shepherds watched it on their plains, it came up regularly, as it now does, in the morning, like a god, and again sank, like a king retiring, in the west, to return again in due time in the same array of majesty. we worship immutability. it was th

rue thoughts, amidst all the janglings of controversy and the warring of opinions; that fact from within, outweighs all facts from without. in the visible aspect and action of society, often repulsive and annoying, we are apt to lose the due sense of its invisible blessings. as in nature it is not the coarse and palpable, not soils and rains, nor even fields and flowers, that are so beautiful, as the invisible spirit of wisdom and beauty that pervades it; so in society, it is the invisible, and therefore unobserved, that is most beautiful. what nerves the arm of toil? if man minded himself alone, he would fling down the spade and axe, and rush to the desert; or roam through the world as a wilderness, and make that world a desert. his home, which he sees not, perhaps, but once or twice in a

ible spirit of wisdom and beauty that pervades it; so in society, it is the invisible, and therefore unobserved, that is most beautiful. what nerves the arm of toil? if man minded himself alone, he would fling down the spade and axe, and rush to the desert; or roam through the world as a wilderness, and make that world a desert. his home, which he sees not, perhaps, but once or twice in a day, is the invisible bond of the world. it is the good, strong, and noble faith that men have in each other, which gives the loftiest character to business, trade, and commerce. fraud occurs in the rush of business; but it is the exception. honesty is the rule; and all the frauds in the world cannot tear the great bond of human confidence. if they could, commerce would furl its sails on every sea, and al

lements, to which genius owes the best and proudest of her achievements; nor imagine that qualities so generally possessed as patience and pains-taking, and resolute industry, have no share in upholding a distinction so illustrious as that of the benefactor of his kind. we must not forget that great results are most ordinarily produced by an aggregate of many contributions and exertions; as it is the invisible particles of vapor, each separate and distinct from the other, that, rising from the oceans and their bays and gulfs, from lakes and rivers, and wide morasses and overflowed plains, float away as clouds, and distill upon the earth in dews, and fall in showers and rain and snows upon the broad plains and rude mountains, and make the great navigable streams that are the arteries along

ty and spirituality eludes us. even omnipotence cannot infuse infinite conceptions into finite minds; nor can god, without first entirely changing the conditions of our being, pour a complete and full knowledge of his own nature and attributes into the narrow capacity of a human soul. human intelligence could not grasp it, nor human language express it. the visible is, necessarily, the measure of the invisible. the consciousness of the individual reveals _itself_ alone. his knowledge cannot pass beyond the limits of his own being. his conceptions of other things and other beings _are only his conceptions. they are not those things or beings themselves. the living principle of a living universe must be infinite; while all _our_ ideas and conceptions are _finite, and applicable only to finit

but his word the [greek, and by types which are but his ideas, aided by an intelligence, or wisdom [greek: s?f?a, which gives one of his attributes; in which we see the occult meaning of the necessity of recovering "the word; and of our two columns of strength and wisdom, which are also the two parallel lines that bound the circle representing the universe: that the visible world is the image of the invisible world; that the essence of the human soul is the image of god, and it existed before the body; that the object of its terrestrial life is to disengage itself of its body or its sepulchre; and that it will ascend to the heavenly regions whenever it shall be purified; in which we see the meaning, now almost forgotten in our lodges, of the mode of preparation of the candidate for appren

mnipotence, and types of creation. they are _sovereignty_ or _will, wisdom, intelligence, benignity, severity, beauty, victory, glory, permanency, and _empire. these are attributes of god; and this idea, that god reveals himself by his attributes, and that the human mind cannot perceive or discern god himself, in his works, but only his mode of manifesting himself, is a profound truth. we know of the invisible only what the visible reveals _wisdom_ was called nous and logos [and, intellect or the word _intelligence, source of the oil of anointing, responds to the holy ghost of the christian faith _beauty_ is represented by green and yellow _victory_ is yahovah-tsabaoth, the column on the right hand, the column _jachin: glory_ is the column _boaz, on the left hand. and thus our symbols appe

irst essences are gods, we shall find that this has been divinely said; and since it is probable that philosophy and the arts have been several times, so far as that is possible, found and lost, such doctrines may have been preserved to our times as the remains of ancient wisdom" porphyry says "by images addressed to sense, the ancients represented god and his powers--by the visible they typified the invisible for those who had learned to read in these types, as in a book, a treatise on the gods. we need not wonder if the ignorant consider the images to be nothing more than wood or stone; for just so, they who are ignorant of writing see nothing in monuments but stone, nothing in tablets but wood, and in books but a tissue of papyrus" apollonius of tyana held, that birth and death are only

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

they damned& dead! amen (this is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible& therein am i as a babe in an egg) i am not very well satisfied with the old comment on this verse (published in the equinox i, 7) it appears rather as if the amen should be the beginning of a new paragraph altogether (that is not so; see the facsimile of the mmss) amen is evidently a synthesis of the four elements, and the invisible fifth is spirit. but harpocrates, the babe in the egg, is virgo in the zodiac indeed, but mercury among the planets. mercury has the winged helmet and heels, and the winged staff about which snakes twine, and it is he that goeth. now, this letter is beth, whose numeration is 2, and amen is 91, which added to 2 makes 93. amoun is of course jupiter in his highest form. to understand th

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

tween the living and the dead? an essential part of the esoteric arts is communicating with the spirit world. this is something that occultists have been doing since the beginning of time, and now you can join their ranks. the secret of contacting the spirit world is disclosed in chapter 6. there you ll see how you can make a powerful occult tool in minutes, and use it to make direct contact with the invisible inhabitants of the next dimension to get fast, truthful answers about what lies ahead. here, too, is the meaning of signs and omens, divining the future with dice, and a most unusual psychic technique that will enable you to actually see the invisible world around you. what will you see in this way? that i leave you to find out, but it will be unlike anything you have ever seen or ex

he ancient path toward releasing our magic power, it is possible to attract unfriendly spirits to us. late one evening, derek k. was in his study preparing for an exam and chatting with friends online, when something evil came to visit. the lights in the room started flickering, the temperature dropped, and he felt the presence of something unseen in the room with him. he panicked, and could feel the invisible entity begin to drawn near to him. very quickly he left the room thinking, this can t be happening. upon entering the anteroom, he saw a transparent being looking directly at him. it began to move forward, and as it did the lights began to flicker and eventually went out. by now derek was scared out of his wits, he went back into his study and located an incantation given to him by a

ave meaning. there are many, many books on the market explaining the how to of astral travel, but if you have ever tried any of the many varied techniques to induce astral travel, you will know that it s a very hard thing to do. in fact, for most of us it just doesn t work at all. that is all about to change. i will teach you a new kind of astral travel, a simple method that will allow you to see the invisible world around you. you can master it in just a few attempts and once you do, the astral world will shimmer into view and take shape around you. if you have done any research into the techniques used up to now to induce astral travel, you will recognize that this occult formula is as different from ordinary astral travel as chalk is from cheese. secret of the golden light enter your wi

o bring your desires to you. spirits respond to those who respond to them. only to the uninitiated do things happen by chance. have you ever had an advance warning that something was about to happen in your life and then, later that day, found that you had an unusually good or unusually bad experience? although you may not be aware of it at the time, you had received an omen a direct message from the invisible inhabitants of the astral world. there is a way that you can spot these signs and omens and know what they mean. the signs and omens most people receive are simple everyday occurrences, but the act of noticing them is what makes them significant. the signs and omens that are noticed have a definite relation to the character of the events to come. the key here is you what your normal

f he had succeeded in locating the money source. he smiled, and told me how on the saturday following the visions, he had received $300 from various people for instruction in the occult sciences. the visions had been vindicated. i never saw barry again after that day, but i ll always remember our strange adventure together in every detail. how to make a spirit communication device in contact with the invisible world, when precise information is desired you can turn to a scrying device. this device is a pendulum, and consists of any small object tied to one end of a piece of string. it is easy to set up a code of communication with any spirit by means of this device. many stores that deal in occult supplies will sell you a pendulum, consisting of a small clear plastic ball on the end of a c

help to bring your wishes into the here and now. a secret code of communication dreams, intuitions and hunches, visions and thoughts that will be sent to you from the depths of the astral world during your spells and rituals will show you the future with great accuracy but, like barry, at times you will doubt the impressions of your mind. until you are perfectly sure and confident of the messages the invisible inhabitants of the next dimension send to you, you can employ a powerful occult tool that will give visible evidence of the future, and reveal its secrets to you. the occult arts offers many unique tools that can be used to get in touch with the future, but none is more accurate than the secret code of communication concealed in an ordinary set of dice. your psychic legacy from the p

PATH OF INITIATION

/succubi, the faery marriage between the mortal and the immortal, this world and the next, soul and spirit, or the "wedding chamber" sacrament of the gnostics; this is the final culmination of the divine chain of events set into motion by the call of the initiate, the merging and union of the balanced human nature (a balance achieved by the merging with the puckril) and the divine nature. this is the invisible mystery or the spirit-essence of all. it is strange but true that even though the initiate "travels" or journeys to the locations where these forces interact with him or her, their original call set into motion a chain of events that led seemingly inescapably to those beings or forces- and thus, what looks like personal quest is anything but- it is not even a summoning; it is actuall

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

chinese money peach of immortality the sacred mountain 120 the sacred mountain the shinto religion, the way of the gods, recognizes divine spirits, kami, in all natural phenomena. sengen-sama, the goddess of mount fuji, is the most sacred. mount fuji is so important to the japanese that it has given rise to many myths. it is even believed to be the abode of kunitokotachi, the eternal land ruler, the invisible, all-pervading creator deity who arose as a reed from the primeval ocean of chaos. the legend illustrated below relates how the great 12th-century warrior tadatsune went to mount fuji to confront the monsters who were terrorizing the local inhabitants. with two of his most trusted henchmen, he entered the great cavern at the base of the mountain and followed an underground river. sud

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

re the sins of his body in passion. he has passed the eternal gate, and has received the new year feast with incense, at the marriage of earth with heaven "tum has built his bridal chamber. rururet has founded his shrine. the procession's completed. horus has purified, set has consecrated, shu made one with osiris, has entered his heritage "as tum he has entered the kingdom to complete union with the invisible. thy bride, 0 osiris, is isis, who mourned thee when she found thee slain. in isis, thou art born again. from nephthys is thy nourishment. they cleansed thee in thy heavenly birth. youth waits upon thee, ardour is ready at thy hand. and their arms shall uphold thee for millions of years. initiates surround thee and thine enemies are cast down. the powers of darkness are destroyed. th

s in this book).l all are well worth the time to read carefully. therefore learn not as an unreasoning child, but meditate, search out and compare .ir2 besides the seven officers and their corresponding god-forms, there are invisible stations, with associated deities, which do not move in the temple and are very significant as representing the balance of opposing forces in the hall of two truths. the invisible station corresponding to the yesod, the 9th sephirah on the tree of life, immediately east of the altar which is in the upper region of malkuth in the= el temple, is the abode of a set-like god-form associated with the evil triad and at the same time with a dark reptilian god associated with typhon (see description of three in one, in "z. 3" he is the accusor, the evil genius, who wo

book 5, p. 124 the canopic gods neophyte ritual 115 higher self, steps upon and keeps down the evil triad until the danger is passed. however "well prepared" or knowledgeable before initiation, the critical choice of the aspirant's soul is the same for everyone, and is especially equal in the equilibrating system of the golden dawn. also present for the judgement, disappearing after the oath, are the invisible stations of the 42 assessors. these god-forms are more like accusors than assessors, as the deceased in the book of the dead is required to deny to each one of them a particular crime or fault in the "negative confession" in the= rn temple these gods are represented through visualization by the officers, reinforced by other members present. contemplation of these and the other god-fo

ith heads bent. chief stands at east of altar with arms extended. chief for i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness into light. i have fought upon earth for good. i have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible. i am the sun in his rising. i have passed through the hour of cloud and of night. i am amoun, the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am the lord of life triumphant over death. there is no part of me which is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light; out of <232> the darkness, let that light arise. as

the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am the lord of life triumphant over death. there is no part of me which is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light; out of <232> the darkness, let that light arise. aspirant before i was blind, but now i see. chief i am the reconciler with the ineffable. i am the dweller of the invisible. let the white brilliance of the spirit divine descend. chief raises his hands invoking the divine white brilliance. there is a pause. chief (to aspirant) arise now as an adeptus minor of the rose of ruby and the cross of gold, in the sign of osiris slain. all rise. second and third adepts raise aspirant, and extend his arms in a cross. they then recross his arms on his breast and tu

he watch tower of the north <267> replaces chain upon taurus. takes incense, goes to west ofaltar, faces east, raises it, and describes equilibrium spirit pentagrams. exarp bitom (active pent) hcoma nanta (passive pent) in the names and letters of the mystical tablet of union, i invoke ye, ye divine forces of the spirit of life. i invoke ye, ye angels of the celestial spheres whose dwelling is in the invisible. ye are the guardians of the gates of the universe! be ye also the watchers of our mystic vault. keep far removed the evil; strengthen and inspire the initiates, that so we may preserve unsullied this abode of the mysteries of the eternal gods. let this place be pure and holy, so that we may enter in and become partakers of the secrets of the divine light. he replaces incense upon sh

the initiates, that so we may preserve unsullied this abode of the mysteries of the eternal gods. let this place be pure and holy, so that we may enter in and become partakers of the secrets of the divine light. he replaces incense upon shin and resumes his place, saying: the sun daily returning, is the dispenser of light to the earth. let us thrice complete the circle of this place, the abode of the invisible sun. chief leads, second follows, then all the others, and third last. they circumambulate thrice, saluting the east with= signs as they pass. chief extends arms like cross. holy art thou, lord of the universe. holy art thou, whom nature hath not formed. holy art thou the vast and the mighty one. lord of the light and the darkness <268> chief adept changes place with third adept. thi

s following and all halt in former positions, chief in centre, others round. for i know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto light. i have fought upon earth for good. i have finished my work. i have entered into the invisible. i consecration ceremony 2 65 am the sun in his rising. i have passed through the hour of cloud <278> and night. i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light! out of the darkness, l

t of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light! out of the darkness, let the light arise. at this point, the chief adept reaches the centre point between pastos and lid. he faces towards vault, other adepts round him. they join wands over his head. he raises his face and hands and continues: i am the reconciler with the ineffable. i am the dweller of the invisible. let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend. chief lowers face and hands. other adepts withdraw their wands (raising his hand) in the name and power of the divine spirit, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watch-towers of the universe. guard this vault during thisrevolution of the solar course. keep far from it the evil and the uninitiated that they penetrate not into the abode

der of the golden dawn in the outer, the second order of the r.r. et a.c, and the unnamed third order of masters, whose sephiroth obtain above the abyss- is based upon a natural and a very recondite series of correspondences "as above so below" so that as the tree of life consists of a glyph which represents not only a material 272 the three chiefs 2 73 physical universe but also a uranography of the invisible and spiritual world, so does the order consist, in all actuality, of more than an external order. concealed within and behind the grade system, is the invisible order, of true adepts, unknown and, in most cases, unnamed masters. at the close of the second point of the 5-6 ceremony, there are <292> named, without further reference, the names and ages of the "three highest chiefs of th

consecrating one implement.-i. r) book five (composed of golden dawn official documents labelled z.i, z.2, and 2.3) z. 1 the enterer of the- threshold the general exordium the speech in the silence: the words against the son of night: the voice of thoth* before the universe in the presence of the eternal gods: the formulas of knowledge: the wisdom of breath: the radix of vibration; the shaking of the invisible: the rolling asunder of the darkness: the becoming visible of matter: the piercing of the coils of the stooping dragon: the breaking forth of the light: all these are in the knowledge of tho-0th. the particular exordium at the ending of the night: at the limits of the light: tho-0th stood before the unborn ones of time! then was formulated the universe: then came forth the gods there

and salt are as the foundations of my body, which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris on-nophris, the justified: i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh, yet in whom is the spirit of the great gods: i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. he who partaketh with me shall arise with me: i am the manifestor in matter of those whose abode is the invisible: i am purified: i stand upon the universe: i am its reconciler with the eternal gods: i am the perfector of matter: and without me, the universe is not" technically, the door is supposed to be situated behind the seat of hiereus in the west; but it may be in any part of the hall, seeing that the walls represent the barrier to the exterior 'the gate of the declarers of <88> judgment"

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

esses, whose services of puritywere preserved in the doctrines taught in persia, egypt, greece and italy, and were termed 'perpetualwatches' or 'watch lights, this observance is still maintained in the persian, roman and hebrewfaiths. it is their 'ignis aeternus, the holy ceremony of fire pervades all religious systems, being auniversal symbol in worship, a visible representation of the spirit of the invisible. for as fire iseverywhere, so god is everywhere, about us and in us, and thus we are god-lighted men. this wasthe teaching of the fire-worshippers, who claimed the discovery of the eternal fire, or thus to haveapproached their master in the 'immortal light. the comprehension of all this, and there-embodiment of this truth in their philosophy was the claim of the rosicrucians. as fire

ery metal consists ofmercury as a versatile and flexible base, out of which all metals have their being, and. into whichthey may be ultimately reduced by art. 2nd: that the species of metals and their specific forms arenot subject to transmutation, but only the individual or primal parts, which are visible and can beacted upon. 3rd: all metals differ in their degree of perfection or purity toward the invisible light orlife which is within everything, the 'celestial glory, or primordial base, which has matter for itscover, or exterior, or mask. 4th: art overleaps and transcends nature, accomplishing, quickly thatwhich nature requires periods to attain. 5th: god has created every metal of its own kind, and fixedin them a principle of growth, especially in gold, the superior metal, and which

le kingdoms?4th alchemist:certainly, but under a modified process of nature. the precious metals are nurtured, and subject toincrease through the secret operations of the planets, they gestate and grow daily in the bowels of theearth. the sun and moon, night and day, light and darkness, water and fire are all active in thegeneration of the precious metals. it has been a matter of assumption, that the invisible operation ofthe sun effects the natural production of gold, while the refining and bleaching lucidity of the moonhad its effect on silver. whence their origin, if they do not germinate and fructify in the laboratoriesof the earth as in the womb of their mother, and produce strains of nature in maturing? the purposeof the alchemist is to assist nature and expedite it through the herme

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

nd capacity. but intelligence and will possess as their help-mate and instrument a faculty which is too imperfectly known, the omnipotence of which belongs exclusively to the domain of magic. i speak of the imagination, which the kabalists term the diaphane or translucid. imagination, in effect, is like the soul's eye; therein forms are outlined and preserved; thereby we behold the reflections of the invisible world; it is the glass of visions and the apparatus of magical life. by its intervention we heal diseases, modify the seasons, warn off death from the living and raise the dead to life, because it is the imagination which exalts will and gives it power over the universal agent. imagination determines the shape of the child in its mother's womb and decides the destiny of men; it lends

e of motion and consequently of life, the entire human body is recapitulated in the unity of a sinthe candidate 7 gle organ, which is the brain. all religions are summed up in the unity of a single dogma, which is the affirmation of being and its equality with itself, and this constitutes its mathematical value. there is only one dogma in magic, and it is this: the visible is the manifestation of the invisible, or, in other terms, the perfect word, in things appreciable and visible, bears an exact proportion to the things which are inappreciable by our senses and unseen by our eyes. the magus raises one hand towards heaven and points down with the other to earth, saying: above, immensity: below immensity still! immensity equals immensity. this is true in things seen, as in things unseen. t

ews to enoch, seventh master of the world after adam; by the egyptians to hermes trismegistus; by the greeks to cadmus, the mysterious builder of the holy city: this book was the symbolical summary of primitive tradition, called subsequently kabalah or cabala, meaning reception. the tradition in question rests altogether on the one dogma of magic: the visible is for us the proportional measure of the invisible. now the ancients, observing that equilibrium is the universal law in physics, and is consequent on the apparent opposition of two forces, argued from physical to metaphysical equilibrium, and maintained that in god, that is, in the first living and active cause, there must be recognized two properties which are necessary one to another stability and motion, necessity and liberty, ra

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lism. man is the son of his works; he is what he wills to be; he is the image of the god 148 the ritual of transcendental magic he makes; he is the realization of his own ideal. should that ideal lack basis, the whole edifice of his immortality collapses. philosophy is not the ideal, but ought to serve as its foundation. the known is for us the measure of the unknown; by the visible we appreciate the invisible; sensations are to thoughts even as thoughts to aspirations. science is a celestial trigonometry: one side of the absolute triangle is that nature which is submitted to our investigations; the second is our soul, which embraces and reflects nature; the third is the absolute, in which our soul is magnified. no more atheism possible henceforward, for we pretend no longer to define god

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

herefore: 7. since the things seen by the seers are real entities, the presages and predictions found true [though] but a few [are] endowed with this [second] sight, and those [are] not [people] of bad lives or addicted to malefices [that is, wrong-doing, the true solution of the phenomenon seems rather to be [as follows [they are the result of] the courteous endeavours of our fellow creatures in the invisible world to convince us, in opposition to sadducees, socinians, and atheists, of a deity [and] of spirits [and] of a possible and harmless method of correspondence betwixt men and them, even in this life [and to convince us] of their operations for our caution and warning [and] of the orders and degrees of angels, whereof one order, with bodies of air condensed and curiously shaped, may

inces, whereof who so [of the assistant princes] prevails gives dominion and ascendancy to his pupils [that is, peoples] and vassals, over the opposite armies and countries. so [it is] that every country and kingdom having their topical [that is, local] spirits or powers assisting and governing them [then] the scottish seer banished to america, being a stranger there as well [that is, as much] to the invisible as to the visible inhabitants, and wanting [that is, lacking] the familiarity of his former correspondents, he could not have the favour and warnings [given] by the several visions and predictions, which were once granted [to] him by those acquaintances and favourites in his own country. for if what he [the seer] was used to see were realities, as i have made [clear evidence] appear

sity, on the account of their bodies, as likewise the late doctrine of the preexistence of souls, living into aerial vehicles [these examples] give a singular hint of the possibilities of the thing, if not a direct proof of the whole assertion; which [may] yet, moreover, be illuminated by diverse other instances of the like nature, and [just] as wonderful beside what is [said] above [such] as: 8. the invisible wights which haunt houses seem rather to be of our subterranean inhabitants, which appear often to men of the second sight, than [to be] evil spirits or devils. though they throw great stones, pieces of earth, and wood, at the inhabitants, they hurt them not at all [just] as if they acted not maliciously like devils, but in sport like buffoons and drolls. all ages have offered some o

m et infantum [which] though misapplied, yet are not chimeras or altogether groundless. for, ab origine, it is [likely that these concepts are] nothing but some pale and faint discoveries of the secret republic of ours [as] here treated on, that are described with additional fictions of monks [who are] doting and crazyheads [for] our creed says that our saviour descended to the house of hades, to the invisible place and people. and many divines suppose that the deity appeared in a visible shape seen by adam in the cool of the day, speaking to him with an audible voice, and [that] jesus, probably by the ministry of invisible attendants, conveyed more meat [that is, substance] of the same kind to the five thousand that were fed by him with a very few leaves and fishes, for a new creation it

reate some affrightments and disturbance, because of the strangeness of the [vision] shows, and their unacquaintedness with them. and as for their life, the persons endowed with this rarity are for the most part candid honest and sociable people. if any of them be subject to immoralities, this abstruse skill is not to be blamed for it, for unless [they] themselves be the tempters, the colonies of the invisible plantations with which they do intercommunicate do not provoke them to villainy or maleficence, neither at their first acquaintance, nor after long familiarity. question 5. does not satan interpose in such cases by many subtle unthought-of insinuations, as [he did] to him who let the fly or familiar go out of the box, and yet found a fly of his own putting-in as serviceable as the ot

t more probable. what follows is a careful presentation the theory of guardian beings on a regional or national scale, not in any childish political or symbolic sense, but in terms of the holism of the land, that same concept of sacred and divine land that permeates ancestral religion. the reason, kirk says, that seers lose their second sight when transported to america or other countries is that the invisible entities of those lands do not know them, and therefore will not speak to them. he then says, not unreasonably, that it would presumptuous for the scots alone to claim sole possession of the sight. kirk is, of course, correct in all of this argument, though the modern reader might not appreciate his biblical presentation of certain proofs. otherworld traditions are, as he says, found

RUBY TABLET OF SET

offered during this discussion. symbol: 2: something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance. 5: an act, sound, or object having cultural significance and the capacity to excite or objectify a response. symbolism: 1: the art or practice of using symols esp. by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations; as a: the use of conventional or traditional signs in the representation of divine beings and spirits, b: artistic imitation or invention that is a method of revealing or suggesting immaterial, ideal, or otherwise intangible truth or states. 2: a system of symbols or representations. if symbols are generated and communica

ic characteristics extant in his days. 3. the old gnostics first we have to name menander, also a samaritan by birth, a perfect adept in the practice of magic as the successor of simon. menander in many respects took over the doctrines of simon, and particularly stressed that "the primary power continues unknown to all but that he himself is the person who has been sent forth from the presence of the invisible beings as a saviour, for the deliverance of men" saturnius of antioch as well as basilides are said to have arisen among menander's followers. saturnius promulgated a system of doctrine in syria, basilides in egypt. saturnius followed menander quite closely in cosmological speculations, magical practices and living habits. basilides has given immense development to the doctrines of m

ded the (0=[0] through (7=[4] toward initiation and perfection. it was held that these (8=[3] and above initiates occupied places on the astral plane and lower degrees were advised not to hold their breaths until encountering them [for organizational and administrative reasons, the three (7=[4] initiates, wescott, mathers, and woodman, assumed the positions of visible secret chiefs, operating for the invisible secret chiefs, the (8=[3] and higher] of the third order a ca. 1894 document has this to say: the highest of all in this ancient scheme are the great rulers of the whole system, who severally sustain and govern the third order, which includes three magic titles of honor and supremacy. these represent the supernal triad of the sephiroth and are shrouded to the profane and to all other

weaker, until he stops fearing it. be sure that it is bound to the one that has harmed me, and not to the place. therefore when the person it is bound to is no longer there, it will also go back to the nothingness from which it came [close the gate [ring the bell] so it is done. footnotes 1 pattered after the invocation found in black magic. the mass of terrible justice [bell nine times [call to the invisible assemblage] i call to all those who have minted money with the dread name. i call to the leaders of churches, to therapists, to journalists and hatemongers of all stripes. come and be part of our work. i call you and bind you to this place by the power of the dread name, of which i am master. i call all who have played with the law of the forbidden. all you little witches of the nigh

ossit arte mea [recognitions and namings] let us now recognize the new lords of the left hand path, that their fiery coming into being shall be as blows aimed at the crystal flesh of the world [this was done] classification: v2- c31.d- 2 author: don webb iii date: october 30, xxvii- set-xiii conclave(1) subject: black mass, justice reading list: the petition for justice(2 [petitioner] i speak for the invisible assemblage demanding darkness [representative] their souls are weak and unprepared, the knowledge of the darkness within would drive them into a mad fury of self torment. they would be consumed [petitioner] they have sought darkness; shall they not receive what they seek [chorus] let those who call upon the devil find the devil [representative] if they discover the secret of darkness

contacted just five minutes after he completed his own working. he said that set had revealed the "phi" triangle burned into his xemset rock, and that he was now trying to build a triangular, not quadrangular pyramid around it. during the working itself, we all three received emphatic impressions of "three" in many triadic forms. the most obvious triad was that of amen (father, abstract thought, the invisible air- bushey, mwt (mother, concrete idea, carrier/ nurturer of the cosmic egg- sarris, and xonsu (child, expression of the two ideas joined, the cosmic egg "hatched- reynolds. indeed, in post-ritual discussion, it became clear that the triangle and fertility had some strong connection with visions and impressions we received: mwt, the eye in the triangle; amen, the great white ovoid/

th from within the angles of the mighty trapezoid, for it is i, nyarlathotep, the dark herald and little horn, who stands before you, and the sacrifice has been offered. through the power of your name azathoth, lord of the first angle, present yourself unto me and be detained no longer. let me gaze upon the semblance of the master of chaos, for the door is open and the stars are right. cloaked in the invisible do they move in the world of men. cloaked are we in vestments of evil, so shall we join them. together we shall move within the angles, and only by them shall we be glimpsed. the profane know us not, for their eye sockets have been blotted out by the dark light. a pronouncement of doom upon the croakers with rotten tongues. the spiked and boned vault of the great barrier is the resti

urns away. others use their fetish as a weapon and use it in a symbolic dance to destroy that which they believe prevents them. people dance on into the night until they drop and the drums stop, they rest and contemplate the results of the working. terms: asson, rattle and symbol of the priesthood. hunfor/hounfor, temple/ritual space. houngan, voudoun priest. invisibles (les) generic term for all the invisible spirits, including the loa and the souls of the deceased. loa, a deity, the gods. mambo, voudoun priestess. voodoo/voudoun, the ritual practices of the african and haitian religion. veve, designs generally drawn with flour on the ground, but also painted designs to invoke the loa. the cross-roads/carrefour, access points to the realm of the invisibles. the centre post/poteau-mitan, t

kai! ho zomeis tous aionas- ton aionon! meta tou pneumatos sou [priest barrett then offers the graal, beginning with the master. after the graal is returned to the altar, the priests return to their places, and the first warden strikes the gong three times [master] brother first warden, what is the time [first warden] it is the zero hour [strike the gong loudly, once [master] the end draws nigh- the invisible flame strikes upward. the old rotten world is sinking, and out of the primeval waters the new earth drinks of her first powers [first warden strikes the gong loudly, once [master] we proclaim the joyous news from the outer edge of infinity [first warden strikes the gong loudly, once [master] we sweep away doubt and ease, through the deed [first warden strikes the gong loudly, once [m

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

d sat there smoking a cigarette and drinking coke until the pimps who ran the joint threatened to cut her face, no freelances permitted. she stared them down, finished her cigarette, left. fearless. maybe crazy. now in her middle thirties she was a qualified doctor with a consultancy at breach candy hospital, who worked with the city's homeless, who had gone to bhopal the moment the news broke of the invisible american cloud that ate people's eyes and lungs. she was an art critic whose book on the confining myth of authenticity, that folkloristic straitjacket which she sought to replace by an ethic of historically validated eclecticism, for was not the entire national culture based on the principle of borrowing whatever clothes seemed to fit, aryan, mughal, british, take--the-best-and--lea

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

his followers. xx world religions: almanac words to know haj: pilgrimage to the holy city of mecca. halal: permissible activities for muslims. hanukkah: the jewish festival of lights commemorating the rededication of the first temple. haram: prohibited activities for muslims. heretic: a person whose beliefs oppose his or her religion s official doctrines, or defining principles. ho-no-che-no-keh: the invisible agents, or lesser spirits, of the iroquois. holocaust: the systematic slaughter of jews by the nazi regime in germany before and during world war ii (1939 45. householders: laypeople; jains who are not monks or nuns. idol: a statue or other image that is worshipped as a god. imbolc: neo-pagan holiday generally held on february 2 to mark the lengthening of the days and the emergence o

be popular into the twentieth century. orthodox unity and complete perfection, however, were the two main strands of daoism to survive the twentieth century. basic beliefs the core of daoism is the dao, which maintains order and balance in the universe. there are several levels of the dao. among them are the great dao, the dao of nature, and the dao present in each person s life. the great dao is the invisible force behind all creation. this constant dao is the beginning of everything, and everything returns to the dao in an eternal cycle (in daoism, time itself is cyclical, meaning that everything always comes back to its starting point. this is different from the linear western concept of time, with one starting point and a different ending point) this great dao is also mysterious and ca

ism: the worship of trees, rocks, mountains, and such, which are believed to have supernatural power. bon: an indigenous religion of tibet. candomble: a south american religion with many similarities to santer a, often used synonymously with santer a. ha-ne-go-ate-geh: the evil-minded, the evil spirit of the iroquois nation. ha-wen-ne-yu: the great spirit of the iroquois nation. ho-no-che-no-keh: the invisible agents, or lesser spirits, of the iroquois. indigenous: a word that describes a people, culture, or religion that is native to a particular geographical region. olo du` mare: the name of the supreme god in santer a. orishas: name given to the lesser gods of santer a. regla de ocha: the formal name for the santer an religion. santer a: the way of the saints; an africanbased religion p

urch. one is baptism, a symbolic use of water resulting in admission to the christian community. the second is the lord s supper, or the reenactment of the last supper, which took place between christ and his closest followers before christ was crucified. in many congregations, the faithful stand during the entire service. in calvinism the visible church includes all those who worship christ, and the invisible church includes those chosen by god for salvation. belonging to the visible church and having faith are requirements for being saved, but do not themselves guarantee salvation. also, in calvinism church and state are not considered separate but are both god s creations. the church teaches morality and faith, while the state preserves order and carries out the laws of the church. in 1

eligions: biographies laozi laozi s teachings the term dao had been used for the way of thinking taught by many schools in chinese tradition before laozi. in those cases the word simply referred to their doctrine, or way of teaching. in the dao de jing, an attempt was made to give greater meaning to the word. in the text, the dao, or way, is said to have several levels. at the highest level it is the invisible force behind all creation. this constant force is the beginning and end of everything. the dao creates everything, and everything returns to the dao in an eternal cycle. on another level is the dao of nature, the rhythm of the natural world and the universe. a third level is how the dao exists in each individual and how one s internal energy, or qi (ch i, is kept in balance. laozi, a

SECRET TEACHINGS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS IN THE 16 17C

hat point where all the divided branches return to unity. but even this hand is still far from the roots of the tree, only grasping and holding the secret from the outside and cannot yet see it from the inside. for the root of this tree is understood only by the eye of wisdom, standing in the centro of all spheres. these roots go from the visible world of mingled good and evil, into the sphere of the invisible world. this eye looks with the greatest peace upon the wonders of all movements and also looks through all the other eyes, wandering about outside of the rest in the unrest, all those eyes which want to see for themselves without the right eye of wisdom, from which they have received all their seeing-power. this eye can prove all spirits, how intelligent, pure and acute they be. it u

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

u pwkeanos (ch. 136).33 jesus goes on to cry out the divine name, iao, towards the four corners of the world, obviously manifesting himself as the master of the universe through wielding the proper name of god.34 "then jesus, who is aberamentho, cried out again" this time commanding "all the mysteries of the archons and the powers and the angels and the archangels, and all powers and all works of the invisible god c (ibid. jesus' disciples are now given a revelation of all the cosmic secrets. it is thus clear that jesus aberamentho in the unnamed tractate in codex askewianus is assimilated to thoth-hermes: he is the lord of the waters and the formulas controlling the cosmic powers.35 the fact that also seth-typhon could be given the name of aberamentho throws no light on the phrase "jesus

SEVEN SCROLLS CHILDREN OF THE BLACK ROSE

what the future might hold, all the while figuring out how and when they can improve upon what the winds of fate have cast before them "every time you break your word or fail a trust, you have lost a little of yourself. lose enough of yourself, and you will dry up and blow away in the winds of time, forgotten, because you have never accomplished anything respectable or memorable. you will become the invisible man, and not trouble the memory of the human race" children of the black rose, scroll #7 [scroll#1 putting it all together the time has come once again to pause and catch our breath. we have traveled a fair way up the path, and we must now reflect upon what we once were and what we have currently become

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

seize upon new and airy combinations of a beauty that is to be? see you not that the grander art, whether of poet or of painter, ever seeking for the true, abhors the real; that you must seize nature as her master, not lackey her as her slave "you demand mastery over the past, a conception of the future. has not the art that is truly noble for its domain the future and the past? you would conjure the invisible beings to your charm; and what is painting but the fixing into substance the invisible? are you discontented with this world? this world was never meant for genius! to exist, it must create another. what magician can do more; nay, what science can do as much? there are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to heaven and away from hell, art

f a mind that would escape memory, his repose, that of a mind which the memory seizes again, and devours as a prey. mervale now saw little of him; they shunned each other. glyndon had no confidant, and no friend. chapter 5.iv. ich fuhle dich mir nahe; die einsamkeit belebt; wie uber seinen welten der unsichtbare schwebt. uhland (i feel thee near to me, the loneliness takes life, as over its world the invisible hovers) from this state of restlessness and agitation rather than continuous action, glyndon was aroused by a visitor who seemed to exercise the most salutary influence over him. his sister, an orphan with himself, had resided in the country with her aunt. in the early years of hope and home he had loved this girl, much younger than himself, with all a brother's tenderness. on his re

t speck of the gondola has vanished from the ocean-streets of venice! her infant is sleeping in the cradle at the mother's feet; and she thinks through her tears what tales of the fairy-land, that spreads far and wide, with a thousand wonders, in that narrow bed, she shall have to tell the father! smile on, weep on, young mother! already the fairest leaf in the wild volume is closed for thee, and the invisible finger turns the page. by the bridge of the rialto stood two venetians ardent republicans and democrats looking to the revolution of france as the earthquake which must shatter their own expiring and vicious constitution, and give equality of ranks and rights to venice "yes, cottalto" said one "my correspondent of paris has promised to elude all obstacles, and baffle all danger. he w

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

ving new life and being to the body on which it lies. but the scarab or beetle itself possesses remarkable powers, and if a figure of the scarab be made, and the proper words of power be written upon it, not only protection of the dead physical heart, but also new life and existence will be given to him to whose body it is attached. moreover, the scarab was the type and symbol of the god khepera, the invisible power of creation which propelled the sun across the sky. the particular beetle chosen by the egyptians to copy for amulets belongs to the family of dung-feeding lamellicorns which live in tropical countries. the species are generally of a black hue, but amongst them are to be found some adorned with the richest metallic colours. a remarkable peculiarity exists in the structure and s

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

divine is an experience that cannot be put into the form of thoughts or ideas that express what it is like. it must be experienced. and anyone who has experienced the divine has to admit that it can be conveyed only indirectly, through the living quality of one s words. the cosmos is an image of this mystery-being whose reality is experienced in the deepest strata of the soul. it originated from the invisible and inconceivable god, and the wise ordering of the cosmos directly reflects the divine nature, harmonizing the phenomena of sense perception. in its wisdom and harmony it mirrors spiritually the godhead, the divine spirit or mind that has been poured out into the world; this is the cosmic reason or logos, the offspring or son of god. the logos mediates between the perceptible world

SYMBOLISM

ymbol and symbolism, including> symbol: 2: something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance. 5: an act, sound, or object having cultural significance and the capacity to excite or objectify a response> symbolism: 1: the art or practice of using symols esp. by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations; as a: the use of conventional or traditional signs in the representation of divine beings and spirits, b: artistic imitation or invention that is a method of revealing or suggesting immaterial, ideal, or otherwise intangible truth or states. 2: a system of symbols or representations. symbolism is an art, a practice, somet

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

ost terrible secret of all but there's also the matter of the most terrible secret of all, the secret that, if 18 codex magica discovered, would sound the death knell for the illuminati and freemasonry. manly p. hall, 33, touched on this in his book, lectures on ancient philosophy: freemasonry is a fraternity within a fraternity an outer organization, concealing an inner brotherhood of the elect. the invisible society is a secret fraternity dedicated to a mysterious secret.7 as hall alludes, freemasonry hides its greatest secret even from its membership at large only an invisible "inner brotherhood" is entrusted with it. robert guffey, writing in the book, the conspiracy reader, reports that the "cryptocrats" as he calls the elite, consider most americans to be mere sheep who must be kept

ove, so below" doctrine. as lavey put it, it represents "the third way" to the illuminati, nothing is static, everything is deceit; the force is dynamic, ever-changing, the quicksand of light that diffuses and reappears only to disappear again. dark is light and light is dark and no one can divine a difference. satan is therefore god and god is satan, and the serpent chases its own tail. forever. the invisible light this is all insanity, of course, but to the illuminist it is reason. thus, francis adams moore, in the lucis trust publication, the beacon, wrote an article entitled'"the invisible sun" in it, moore speaks of "the ageless wisdom: the ageless wisdom teaches that this darkness out of which visible light came, is actually the pure light the light that is so brilliant, radiant, and

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 observing the great secret in operation, the perennial teaching of the hidden god, the god of the mysteries, the god who it is said possesses the key to the invisible world (hell, the god of the arch, the god of cunning, lies and deceit, the two-faced deity, the masonic double-headed eagle. in other words, bluntly stated, you are viewing satan in disguise. among hard-core occultists deep into babylonian and egyptian lore and magic we find the worship of the two-headed mammon ra, the god of prosperity and riches. mammon ra is actually a powerful de

of the feminine and masculine principle is known as "adam kadmon" both adam and eve, a golem. this conjunction of opposites is part of the science of alchemy, or hermeticism, and is especially beloved by occult magicians. in witchcraft, it is known as the joining of sun and moon, and sacred sex rituals are common. janus, roman two-faced "god of the sun" was said to be the "keeper of the keys" to the invisible spirit world. hislop (the two babylons) called him "the source and fountain of all the pagan gods" is the masonic doubleheaded eagle symbolic of his predecessor, janus? thirteen the riddle of the great seal of the united states, and the all-seeing eye of the illuminati's serpent of wisdom and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceivet

THE BOOK OF THE ELDER KINGS GOLDEN DAWN

holy spirit is the life and light of the whole universe. we come as sacred nourishment, as delicious ambrosia and sweet nectar. we come as a blessed sacrament of wisdom and joy unto all. know thou this holy truth! 2. we are the ageless brethren of l.v.x, whose voice is our holy habitation. we are the secret masters of the formless fire who conduct the world's initiation. and know thou that we are the invisible illuminati of the world, whose golden age of illumination is come. 3. thus we say unto thee, fasten thy soul unto our voice of sublime mystery: let all who have ears to hear, listen to the vast symphony of our holy words of illumination; yea, listen to the vast symphony of our holy words of illumination. 4. we come in the power of the light! we come in the light of wisdom! we come in

THE CANOPIC GODS SYMBOLISM

altar, or where the corpse lies on the bier preparatory to the passing over the river towards the west, and the soul stands before osiris, and the goddesses stand by and watch while the beam sways and the decision is taken- the body of the candidate is then, as it were, broken up as the body of osiris was broken, and the higher self stands before the place of the pillars, but the lower self is in the invisible station of the evil persona. then is the candidate nigh unto death, for then, symbolically, his spirit passes through the veils of negative existence, passing from the rtk of hycu to the twklm of hryxy. therefore, unless the genii of the underworld were then present and directing their forces on the vital organs, he must inevitably die. let their symbols then be represented in all op

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

beings, a part that managed to survive the dissolution of the body. many native american tribes believed that the physical body housed two or more souls, which became separated at death. the ancient chinese affirmed three souls set free at death: one remained in the family house to serve as a kind of protector; another watched over the grave site as guardian of the tomb; and the third passed into the invisible realm. the aboriginal people of new zealand, the maori, believe that each of the eyes of the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 36 afterlife mysteries deceased is given a separate immortality: the spirit of the left eye ascends to heaven and is seen as a new dark star in the sky, and the spirit of the right takes flight to reinga

t of movement. later, steiner originated the waldorf school movement, an innovative educational system, which still maintains 80 schools in europe and the united states. rudolf steiner died on march 30, 1925, in dornach, switzerland. m delving deeper melton, j. gordon, jerome clark, and aidan a. kelly. new age almanac. detroit: visible ink press, 1991. shepherd, a. p. rudolf steiner: scientist of the invisible. rochester, vt: inner traditions international, 1983. steiner, rudolf. lecture v, earthly and cosmic man. rudolf steiner publishing, 1948. association for research and enlightenment when edgar cayce (1877 1945) died at the age of 67, he had given nearly 9,000 medical readings while in a state of clairvoyant trance. in addition, the sleeping prophet also gave life readings dealing wit

weather elements. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mediums and mystics 81 totemanimals represent the physical form of one s spirit helper, the guide, who will lead a shaman into the spirit world and return him or her safely to the physical world. the power received in the vision quest enables the practitioner to obtain personal contact with the invisible world of spirits and to pierce the sensory world of illusion which veils the great mystery. m delving deeper harner, michael. the way of the shaman. new york: bantam books, 1982. hirschfelder, arlene, and paulette molin. the encyclopedia of native american religions. new york: mjf books, 1992. spirit mediumship aspirit medium is a person who has become qualified in some special way t

were stationed at her side. they all assured carrington that the medium had not moved since she had asked him to replace the table and that they would prevent her from making any moves at all. once these precautions had been taken, carrington resolutely tried again to replace the stubborn table behind the curtain of the spirit cabinet but each time some unknown force repelled his efforts. at last the invisible entity seemed to grow tired of the game, and with a considerable burst of energy, sent both carrington and the table tumbling out of the cabinet and sprawling to the floor. in 1909, at a later sitting in new york where palladino had been brought by great demand on the part of american psychical t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d

foot, to follow the snappings of her fingers. when the sounds responded in a precise manner, other members of the family began to test the mysterious invisible agency. as word spread that the john fox family had a knocking ghost that could respond to any question answerable with a yes or no (one rap for yes; two for no, people from all over hydesville came to test the spirit s knowledge. although the invisible agency responsible for the initial knockings claimed to be the spirit of a peddler who had been murdered and buried in the basement of the fox home (some accounts have it that investigation produced a skeleton interred in the basement, other spirit entities soon manifested themselves. young katie and her older sister maggie seemed especially suited for the role of medium, for they se

be the spirit of a peddler who had been murdered and buried in the basement of the fox home (some accounts have it that investigation produced a skeleton interred in the basement, other spirit entities soon manifested themselves. young katie and her older sister maggie seemed especially suited for the role of medium, for they seemed pleased and excited by the phenomena and did not appear to fear the invisible communicators as did the other fox children. serious investigators who were attracted to the phenomena soon worked out codes whereby in-depth communication with the spirits might be possible. committees of researchers tracked through the fox home and did considerable knocking and rapping of their own. in order to give their parents a respite from the knocking spirits and the crowds o

d the myth. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1980. murphet, howard. when daylight comes: a biography of helena petrovna blavatsky. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1975. rudolf steiner (1861 1925) rudolf steiner was born in krajevec austria- hungary (now yugoslavia, on february 27, 1861, the son of a minor railway official. by the age of eight, steiner had experienced the unseen worlds, the invisible reality within the everyday world. once he even perceived the apparition of a deceased relative. because of his tendencies toward the spiritual aspects of life, it was thought for a time that steiner might become a clergyman; but his freethinking father argued that he was a bright boy, and he envisioned him following a more practical and materially rewarding occupation as a railway e

establishment of the waldorf school movement, which originated from a request made by emil molt, director of the waldorf-astoria cigarette factory, for a school to which his employees could send their children. steiner died on march 30, 1925, in dornach. m delving deeper mcdermott, robert a, ed. the essential steiner. san francisco: harper& row, 1984. shepherd, a. p. rudolf steiner: scientist of the invisible. rochester, vt: inner traditions international, 1983. steiner, rudolf. an autobiography. blauvelt, n.y: rudolf steiner publications, 1977. emanuel swedenborg (1688 1772) emanuel swedenborg was perhaps the last of the renaissance men he was fluent in nine languages, wrote 150 works in 17 sciences, was expert in numerous crafts, and was a musician, a politician, and an inventor with do

erved as an advisor to three popes, has authored a number of books dealing with demon possession and exorcism, including hostage to the devil. when he was asked why there has been such a spectacular rise in the number of people possessed by demons and in need of exorcism, he replied that it was as st. paul (d. 62 68 c.e) had declared: there is a spiritual war on, a war with the spirits a war with the invisible forces that want men s souls. describing the process of exorcism, martin explained that an exorcism was a confrontation, not a mere exercise in prayer. the exorcist was at war with the demon. once begun, the process must be finished. if the exorcist should stop the rites for any reason, the demon will pursue him. the exorcism continues with a kind of conversation between the demon an

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project one s spiritual essence during an out-of-body experience. a poltergeist is a projection of psychic energy that finds its energy center in the unconscious mind, most commonly in adolescents, and emanates, therefore, from the living rather than from the dead. a poltergeist is a ghost only in common parlance, which links the two because of the spook-like nature of the poltergeist that causes the invisible pseudoentity to prefer darkness for its violent exercises of tossing furniture, objects, and people about the room. accounts of people reporting having seen spirits of the dead are among the most commonly described ghosts in all the cultures of the world. these post-mortem appearances of the dead, in which a recognized ghostly image is seen or heard long after the actual person repre

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

e beach. cautiously peering out of their windows, the two young women saw only the peaceful pre-dawn city. they knew, however, that just nine years previously, nearly 1,000 young canadians had lost their lives in the ill-fated dieppe raid. demonstrating an unusual presence of mind, the young englishwomen kept a record of the frightening sounds of war, noting the exact times of the ebb and flow of the invisible battle. they presented their report to the society for psychical research, whose investigators checked it against detailed accounts of the event in the war office. the times recorded by the women were, in most cases, identical to the minute of the raid that had taken place nine years before. another area which seems to be drenched with the powerful emotions of fighting and dying men

f wood, stone, metal, and gems and just how the furnishings of a room are able to absorb these vibrations, it will be as easy to dehaunt a house as it is to rid it of pests. medical doctors have learned to deal with the unseen world of viruses; physicists have learned to work with such unseen lines of force as electricity; so may it be one day with the psychic germs that infect haunted houses and the invisible field of force that dictates the mechanism of ghosts. in the hauntings described in this chapter, however, there were no psychical researchers available who had the ability to negate the effect of the powerful psychic energies that had been released by entities from other dimensions, spirits of the dead, or unconscious psychokinetic projections of the living. m delving deeper bardens

materialization of fruits and nuts, the witch was especially fond of producing pins and needles. mrs. bell was provided with enough pins to supply the entire county, but sometimes the witch would impishly hide them in the bedclothes or in chair cushions points out. john jr, betsy s favorite brother, was the only member of the family besides the mother who received decent treatment from the witch. the invisible force often whipped joel and richard soundly, and drewry was so frightened of the witch that he never married, fearing that the entity might someday return and single out his own family for particular attention. john jr. was the only one of betsy s brothers who could sass back at the witch and get away with it. the witch even went to special pains to get john jr. to like it, and the

f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 34 ghosts and phantoms the abbe fared the worst throughout the duration of the phenomena. desk. once he tried nailing his windows closed. he returned to find the windows wide open, and by way of punishment, the couch cushions were balanced precariously on the outside windowsill. such pranks the abbe could bear with much more patience than the time the invisible invader dumped every one of his books on the floor. only the holy scriptures remained on the shelves. the most vicious attack on the clergyman occurred once when he knelt at his fireplace stirring the coals, preparatory to placing new kindling on the andirons. without warning, a huge deluge of water rushed down the chimney, extinguishing the fire, blinding the abbe with flying sparks

that such actions could only be the work of his satanic majesty, the devil. the only other person who actually suffered physical pain dealt out by the haunting phenomena was mme. de x, who was in the act of unlocking a door when the key suddenly disengaged itself from her grip and struck her across the back of her left hand with such force that she bore a large bruise for several days. one night the invisible creature roamed the corridors as if it were a lonely wayfarer seeking admittance to the rooms of each of the members of the household. it knocked once or twice on the doors of several bedrooms, then, true to pattern, it paused to deal 40 consecutive blows to the abbe s door before it returned to thump about in the green room. the weary household had its only respite during the long s

that wesley and his wife were forced out of bed to investigate. as they walked through the rectory, the noises seemed to play about them. mysterious crashing sounds echoed in the darkness. metallic clinks seemed to fall in front of them. somehow managing to maintain their courage, the wesleys searched every chamber but found nothing. after he called a family meeting to pool their knowledge about the invisible guest, reverend wesley learned from one of the older girl s observations that the disturbances usually began at about ten o clock in the evening and were always prefaced by a signal noise, a peculiar kind of winding sound. the noises followed a pattern that seldom varied. they would begin in the kitchen, then suddenly fly up to visit a bed, knocking first at the foot, then the head

y, and told him the whole story. the vicar said that he would lead devotions that night and see if the thing would dare to manifest itself in his presence. the thing was not the least bit awed by the vicar of hoxley. in fact, it put on such a good show that night that the clergyman fled in terror, leaving wesley to combat the demon as best he could. the children had overcome their initial fear of the invisible being and had come to accept its antics as a welcome relief from the boredom of village life. old jeffery, as they had begun to call their strange guest, had almost achieved the status of a pet, and it was soon observed that it was quite sensitive. if any visitor slighted old jeffery by claiming that the rappings were due to natural causes, such as rats, birds, or wind, the haunting

door. he flung that one open, too, and finding no one there, walked around the outside of the house in search of the culprit. he found no one on his search, nor could he account for the hollow drumming that sounded on the roof when he went back to bed. from that night on, the drumming came always just after the mompessons had gone to bed. it made no difference whether they retired early or late, the invisible drummer was ever prepared to tap them an annoying lullaby. after a month of being contented with rooftop maneuvers, the disturbances moved inside into the room where mompesson had placed the ex-soldier s drum. once it had established itself in the home, the ghostly drummer favored the family with two hours of martial rolls, tattoos, and points of war each evening. on the night in whi

night in the children s bedroom, the voice shrieked its claim that it was a witch over a hundred times in rapid succession. the next day, the harried mompesson fired his pistol at an animated stick of firewood and was astonished to see several drops of blood appear on the hearth! the firewood fell to the floor and a trail of blood began to drip on the stairway as the wounded ghost retreated. when the invisible thing returned three nights later, it seemed to vent its anger on the children. even the baby was tormented and not t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 46 ghosts and phantoms ballads and poems have been written in celebration of the incredible prowess of the tedworth drummer. allowed to sleep. at last mompesson arranged to have th

t. numerous ufo investigators have searched without success for that tantalizing proof of the philadelphia experiment in invisibility which allende claimed could be found in the philadelphia newspapers. check for a tiny one-paragraph (upper half of sheet, inside the paper near the rear third of the paper, 1944) story describing the sailors actions after their initial voyage, he had teased jessup. the invisible sailors raided a beer joint and caused such shock and paralysis of the waitresses that little of a comprehensible nature could be gotten them. although the newspaper clipping or any other proofs of the philadelphia experiment have never been located, in 1980 writer robert a. goerman managed to find the home and the surviving family of carl m. allen, alias carlos miguel allende. altho

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ife. when those tribal initiates who seek empowerment have displayed the proper attitude of receptivity, they must go alone into the wilderness to fast, to receive their spirit guide, and to receive a secret name and a sacred song. perhaps the guide will also grant special powers of healing or prophecy to the supplicants. the recipient of tribal empowerment is able to obtain personal contact with the invisible world of spirits and to pierce the sensory world of illusion which veils the great mystery. often this gift is heightened by the intoning of the personal mantra, the personal song, the holy syllables that attune him or her with the eternal sound, the cosmic vibration of all creation. a crucial element in tribal empowerment is the ability to rise above linear time. most t h e g a l e

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

ing is that of mr. home, and they make the same mistakes as he does. those present feel themselves touched and seized by invisible hands. these contacts, which seem to select ladies, lack a serious side, and sometimes even propriety. we think that we shall be sufficiently understood. visible and tangible hands come out, or seem to come out, of tables; but in this case, the tables must be covered. the invisible agent needs certain apparatus, just as do the cleverest successors of robert houdin. these hands show themselves above all in darkness; they are warm and phosphorescent, or cold and black. they write stupidities, or touch the piano; and when they have touched the piano, it is necessary to send for the tuner, their contact being always fatal to the exactitude of the instrument. one of

g always fatal to the exactitude of the instrument. one of the most considerable personages in england, sir bulwer lytton, has seen and touched those hands; we have read his written and signed attestation. he declares even that he has seized them, and drawn them towards himself with all his strength, in order to withdraw from their incognito the arm to which they should naturally be attached. but the invisible object has proved stronger than the english novelist, and the hands have escaped him. a russian nobleman who was the protector of mr. home, and whose character and good faith could not possibly be doubted, count a. b, has also seen and seized with 133 vigor the mysterious hands "they are" says he "perfect shapes of human hands, warm and living, only one feels no bones" pressed by an

d the half of our thought: god is light without shadow. the devil is only the shadow of the phantom of god! the phantom of god! that last idol of the earth; that anthropomorphic spectre which maliciously makes himself invisible; that finite personification of the infinite; that invisible whom one cannot see without dying- without dying at least to intelligence and to reason, since in order to see the invisible, one must be mad; the phantom of him who has no body; the confused form of him who is without form and without limit; it is in "that" that, without knowing it, the greater number of believers believe. he who "is" essentially, purely, spiritually, without being either absolute being, or an abstract 232 being, or the collection of beings, the intellectual infinite in a word, is so diff

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

gician, with unique details of the theories and practices of modern magic for the general reader. this book demonstrates the integration of kabbalah with the leading edge of scientific thought in the realms of psychology and cosmology, as well as providing an unparalleled guide to the hidden world of the modern occultist. acknowledgements i acknowledge the lessons of my teachers and colleagues of the invisible college, particularly frater daleth for the operation of sol; soror jasinth for love and company in the circle of the moon; soror brina for reopening eden; and the participants in the illuminated congregation of melchizedek, past, present and future, who seek to maintain and preserve the greatest work of all. propositum perfectio est f.i.a.t (5=6) cognitatione sui secumque colloquio

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ginal martinism as is the case of the majority of the orisons, have as their author, martinez pasqualez, himself. 10. time for the operations: since easter, commemorating in a yearly cycle the resurrection of christ and his victory over death, is an image of the reintegration and resurrection of the whole humanity, it is advantageous to operate choosing a monthly cycle which would reverberate, in the invisible, this solemn commemoration by a sort of a psychic and spiritual echo. this is the reason why the monthly periods for this general operation have been fixed for the sunday following each full moon (easter takes place on sunday following the full moon of the vernal equinoxes) the hour has been set: from 11 p.m. until midnight, standard time. this time has been chosen because the traffi

isted us, we thank you. may there be always peace of god between you and us. deign to continue to assure me, as well as my brothers, of your holy and understanding protection. may we be always- you and myself- forever, inscribed in the book of life. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator replaces the lid of the censer and then extinguishes the central luminary, but first he says the following: may the invisible and spiritual light return into the invisible and spiritual world just as the elementary flame is being returned to its natural elementary source, but may the divine fire and divine light dwell forever in my soul and in the souls of my brothers. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator now takes the poignard (or the sword) and knocks with it, successively, all four corners of the room t

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

ng all the levels of the true consciousness which we, in our complacency and blindness, choose to call the unconscious. reverting back to the technical side of things, there is yet another development of the middle pillar which requires description. having been awakened from latency into some degree of activity, it is necessary that the power that the centers generate should be circulated through the invisible or psychic system. failure to do this is, in my estimation, one of the most potent sources of nervous trouble and disturbance experienced by dabblers in occultism, who have experimented with various amateur or incompletely delineated methods of awakening the psychic centers. the energy thus awakened streams back and forth from the center. but unless some method is devised for distrib

, and hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my redeemer liveth and he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. i am the way, the truth, and the life. the middle pillar exercise 213 no man cometh unto the father but by me. i am the purified. i have passed through the gates of darkness unto light. i have fought upon the earth for good. i have finished my work, i have entered into the invisible. i am the sun in his rising. i have passed through the hour of cloud and of night. i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am lord of life triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light. out of the darkness, let the light arise. i am the reconc

have passed through the hour of cloud and of night. i am amoun the concealed one, the opener of the day. i am osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am lord of life triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light. out of the darkness, let the light arise. i am the reconciler with the ineffable. i am the dweller of the invisible. let the white brilliance of the spirit descend (visualize the brilliance descending into the body) 6. vibrate "exarp, bitom, nanta" and "hcoma (ex-arpay, bay-ee-toh-em, en-ah-en-tah, and hay-koh-mah. part 11: air a 1. see a shaft of light come down, in the skull, to the neck. 2. formulate a flaming sphere of brilliant yellow and see the ball extend all the way through the neck, and

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

ecific area. the big luminous bird of the illinois-st. louis region in 1948 was visiting an area of the mississippi valley that would see continuous ufo and hairy monster activity thereafter. in many instances the witnesses have clearly seen the objects in the process of materialization or dematerialization. a glow is observed first, usually a reddish glow marking the emergence of the object from the invisible band of the spectrum into infrared and then into the narrow band of visible light. or, if the object is passing through the visible band to the higher frequencies it is cyan (bluish-green) before it fades into blue (hard to see at night) and then enters the ultraviolet range. the chills experienced by john flaxton and his group were probably caused by microwaves above the infrared (w

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ritten in cairo in the spring of 1904, when he believed himself to be in contact with a praeter-human intelligence called aiwass who dictated to him the three chapters that make up the book. it had influenced him more than any other, and the remainder of his life was spent trying to understand it fully, and to make its message known to the world. it, too, contains the formulae necessary to summon the invisible into visibility, and the secrets of transformations are hidden within its pages, but this is crowley's own necronomicon, received in the middle east in the shadow of the great pyramid of gizeh, and therein is writ not only the beauty, but the beast that yet awaits mankind. it would be vain to attempt to deliver a synopsis of crowley's philosophy, save that its 'leitmotif' is the rabe

guyu nexrraniku ga ya shu shagmuku tu! and they bread burned in the bronze brazier of calling: and the salt scattered about the room, sixty times. and a circle shall be drawn on the ground, in the midst whereof you shall stand while reciting the conjurations set forth, taking especial care not to venture forth from the boundaries of the circle, the holy mandal of calling, lest thou be consumed by the invisible monsters from the egurra of ereshkigal, as was the priest abdul ben-martu in a public square in jerusalem. and the circle shall be drawn in lime, or barley, or white flour. or dug in the ground with the dagger of inanna of calling. or embroidered in the most precious silk, or expensive cloth. and the colours thereof shall be only black and white, and no other. and the frontlet of cal

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

popular, organised, stateregulated, it ceased to be individual: that is to say, it ceased to exist as a religion, and became a social institution little better than the church which has replaced it. but initiates. men who had themselves seen god face to face, and lived. preserved the vital essence. they chose men, they tested them; they instructed them in methods of invoking the visible image of the invisible. thus by a living chain religion lived in the mysteries of eleusis *eleusis, vol. iii, p. 225. thus true religion consists in a spontaneous outburst of passionless illuminism, and not in the regular ranting of the boundless buncombe of a bawdy book. better be a shaker, or a camp-meeting homunculus, or a chatauqua gurl, or a keswick week lunatic, or an evan roberts revivalist, or even

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

:03:44 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. brain which must suffer in our search for the word. fifth is the fiducial sign, given by &c, and sweeping the hand down and back, as if tearing down a veil (done) behold in silence and adore! blessed are the eyes that have beheld the ineffable (z. h. p. communicate the word as in opening) listen in silence and adore! blessed are the ears that have heard the invisible! you will now retire by seven steps, halting and bowing at the 3rd, 5th and 7th, after which you will take your seat in this l. of p. and attend to the lecture. the lecture closing iv (lodge of perfection) the mystical lecture i brother perfect magician and companion of the holy royal arch of enoch, in the third degree a word was communicated to you which if properly understood, shou

and alway all. now the complete symbol, as hath been said, is triune; yet often have the wise and holy men of old glyphed it as two-in-one, leaving the third invisible. such symbols are the point within the circle, the lingam-yoni, the rose and cross, the divided circle of the chinese, and cross within the circle, of the diamond, the spire and nave of a church, the triple and eleven fold cross in the invisible diamond which a member of our supreme council prefixeth to his signature, and many another. and of these symbols every one sheweth forth the work, the uniting in rapture of the divided. conceive file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c3.html (12 of 18 [12/28/2001 2:05:41 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. of these as: 1. god and man in ma

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t, and also to the greek. 1:17 for therein is the righteousness of god revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, the just shall live by faith. 1:18 for the wrath of god is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 1:19 because that which may be known of god is manifest in them; for god hath shewed [it] unto them. 1:20 for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made [even] his eternal power and godhead; so that they are without excuse: 1:21 because that, when they knew god, they glorified [him] not as god, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 1:22 professing themselves to be wi

power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; 1:12 giving thanks unto the father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 1:13 who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear son: 1:14 in whom we have redemption through his blood [even] the forgiveness of sins: 1:15 who is the image of the invisible god, the firstborn of every creature: 1:16 for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 1:17 and he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 1:18 and he is the head of the body, the church: who is the

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

t the west, d.e. and at the south, e.d. divide the several quadrants into seven parts, that there may be in the whole 28 parts: and let them be again divided into four parts, that there may be 112 parts of the circle: and so many are the true secrets to revealed. and this circle in this manner divided, is the seal of the secrets of the world, which they draw from the onely center a, that is, from the invisible god, unto the whole creature. the prince of the oriental secrets is resident in the middle, and hath three nobles on either side, every one whereof hath 21 four under him, and the prince himself hath four appertaining unto him. and in this manner the other princes and nobles have their quadrants of secrets, with their four secrets. but the oriental secret is the study of all wisdom;

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

s up to twelve, which makes an elegant and pleasing balance: the use of the hexagram in ritual is similar to the pentagram, with the provi- so that whereas the pentagram rules the elements-the natural servants of mankind-the hexagram rules the planets-god-forms of considerable potency. although, as atheists boast, humanity did make the gods, it did not make them from nothing but patterned them on the invisible unformed essences that are the higher emanations of the all. therefore, take care to use the hexagram only for noble and unselfish purposes. planetary forces are invoked by drawing a line of psychic fire from the planet's position on the hexagram in a clockwise direction. this line is to be repeated coun- terclockwise in the reflected triangle, beginning at the point directly opposit

dimensions one side of the octagram may be emphasized by the use of the truncated four-sided pyramid: this elevates one of the squares to heaven, signifying that it is active. the slop- ing sides of the pyramid suggest the disposition of the currents of power that flow upward, due to the prayers of human beings, to the point in the air where the sides converge, then back down the center axis from the invisible gods. the aztecs and mayans used the truncated pyramid to perform their human sacrifices upon in the belief that the blood-force liberated there would reflux down to their cultural works. they did not understand that this force was of the darkness, and it ultimately destroyed them; for when the spanish conquistadors came, the native cultures had no will to resist. the truncated stone

bring the entire dream world crashing down, because the dream is the dreamer's to make or destroy. just as the conscious aware- ness can learn to control the outward expression of the subconscious elements of the mind during waking, so also can it govern them during sleep. in waking life the subconscious often directs the actions of persons, whose self-awareness is not sensitive enough to observe the invisible entities of the hid- den depths of the mind at work. these forces can only be noticed by their effects. during sleep, however, the elements of the subconscious are visible to the aware- ness in symbolic bodies that express their desires. this renders them vulnerable. in the dream, wish becomes reality. the dream landscape is a battleground upon which the war between the subconscious

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

u, each colored band dancing with tiny sparks of brilliant white light. the seven bands are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. on thursday, after passing through the gateway of the blue circle and opening your astral eyes to bright yellow on all sides, visualize beams of sunlight shining down from a blue sky upon swirling white clouds to gild them with golden light, and observe the invisible wind make the clouds tumble and move like living creatures. on friday, after passing through the gateway of the yellow square and opening your astral eyes upon a featureless blackness, see mountains and rolling hills gradually appear in the distance, and become aware all around you of the ripe fruits and vegetables of a garden growing from dark, rich soil. when you have visualized th

other side of the wall in front of you. look through the wall without straining your eyes, as though the wall and the obstructions beyond it were transparent. turn your awareness inward and with your inner sight look upon a colorless void that stretches infinitely away in all directions. reach out with your mind in several directions to verifjr that it has no limits. no matter how far you stretch the invisible hand of your awareness, che void continues to extend forever in the same direction. it is neither dark nor light, but a leaden, transparent gray, like an overcast sky at twilight. contemplate the void for ten seconds or so. visualize an infinitely tiny black speck in the void. it is so small, it is almost invisible to your sight. by extending your mind you can feel its position and s

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

moon, which he explicitly states to be semicircular. below the circle of the sun he places a cross, which he later says corresponds with, among other things, the four elements. below the cross he puts the symbol for the zodiac sign aries. the hieroglyphic monad 57 these parts of the monad may be assigned to the letters of pentagrammaton. the point in the center of the circle of the sun represents the invisible point at the upper tip of the hebrew letter yod, and the circle represents the entire yod, as well as the cardinal quality of astrology. the semicircle of the moon represents the first he( 3) and the mutable quality. the vertical bar of the cross of the elements represents the vau (1) of the name and the horizontal bar the second he. the entire cross stands for the earth and the fixe

the father, saying "i am the servant of the same your god, the true worshiper of the highest" the aspect of christ in the first key is the unifjrlng aspect of christ the lord and king. this is demonstrated by the use of the sun and the moon in the imagery. the sun represents day and the visible creatures-spirits of the right side-who are the angels of consciousness. the moon represents night and the invisible creatures-spirits of the left side-who are the angels of the unconscious. another telling symbol of unity is the balance. reminding the spirits of his power, the messiah says about himself that he "shineth as a flame in the midst of your palace, and reigneth amongst you as the balance of righteousness and truth" still another unifying symbol is that of the clasped hands. the hands ar

ruments, giving rise to words of power that command the wings of the winds. in a sense, the trumpets, which represent the voices of the elders and are all their power, create the wings from chaos by shaping them and giving them names. the wings only exist by virtue of the articulation of the ancient ones. similarly, the twentyfour elders, who are the notes of the trumpets, only exist by virtue of the invisible breath of god "you are become a building, such as is not, but in the mind of the all-powerful" here "building" signifies the names, or personal identities, of the ancient ones. in kelley's vision, these trumpets are "wreathedn with flowers. christ says of the "second of the first (the trumpets "whom i have prepared as cups for a wedding, or as the flowers in their beauty for the cham

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th isn t so. 451 the moon reflects even on dirty water; this realized, our mind clears up. 461 when the water in your mind clears up calm stars can be seen reflected on it. 462 someone else s question, somehow you can answer; but, your mind s question, how can you answer? 538 the jewel is in your bosom; why look for it somewhere else? 557 push aside those leaves heaped on the old path; you ll see the invisible footprints of the sun goddess. 568 pine trees in the wind don t break; they always scatter the snow before it s too heavy for their branches. 569 pine winds, moonlight on the field grasses are all that i have: besides, no visitors. 593 so the full moon is admired like a well-rounded mind but once it was a sharp-edged crescent. 603 be round, thoroughly round, human mind! square minds

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solutism, on the other. critical to abiding in the sway of this stance is the discernment that language, poetically conceived as inherently metaphorical, is always a gesture of translation, a joining of disparate sign-codes rather than a harnessing of similar ones.3 in the particular cultural ambiance of medieval kabbalah, language performs this function by expressing the inexpressible, rendering the invisible visible. the symbol, therefore, brings the unknown into relation with the known, but without reducing the difference that binds the two incongruities into a selfsame identity.4 the obfuscation between story and event displayed in sefer ha-bahir, and even more extremely in sefer ha-zohar, represents an embellishment of the rabbinic parable to the point that one can no longer distingui

particularly in the face, which is where the flesh is most openly visible; yet the unique characteristic of the face is that it is the sole place where precisely nothing can be seen, and thus it delineates the point at which all visible spectacle happens to be impossible, where there is nothing to see, where intuition can give nothing [of the] visible. 356 the impossibility implied in envisaging the invisible visage provides a template by which we can measure the temporal e ux as the incessant becoming of what has everlastingly been, steadfast in its transience, transient in its steadfastness. one never sees the same face twice, because time, in being accumulated, deforms it as much as it shapes it. only time can draw the portrait of a face, since it alone sketches it. time distinguishes

d from the works of kabbalistic theosophy, we may read backward from the psychological to the ontological a turnaround justified by the fact that the onto-theological standpoint of traditional kabbalah (to borrow heidegger s locution) precludes the possibility of these two being severed, since the soul not only participates ontically in the substance of god s being but is the mirror through which the invisible is seen as the true appearance of apparent truth. the discernment at the psychical level that time is always the measure of the inscrutability of the other leads to the realization of time as the mystery of the transcendent other becoming other in relation to itself, the externalization of inner time occasioned by the internalization of exterior space.361 54 chapter one linear circul

is the sum of yhwh (10+ 5+ 6+ 5. i think it unlikely that the author of this text assumes this numerology. i mention it, however, because the principle expressed by this numerological equivalence, the interchangeability of alef and yhwh, is the secret that is being divulged, albeit through a somewhat more circuitous route. alef, representative of the letters more generally, is the palace in which the invisible is rendered visible and the name by which the ineffable is addressed. through the inscription of yhwh in every place where we confront the appearance of this name the holy one is unified and sanctified in the holy palace of alef, first of the letters of the alphabet (the means for the exploit of creation) and first of the letters of the decalogue (the narrative recounting of the even

james richard. postfoundational phenomenology: husserlian reflections on presence and embodiment. university park: pennsylvania state university press, 2001. merkle, john c. the genesis of faith: the depth theology of abraham joshua heschel. new york: macmillan, 1985. merleau-ponty, maurice. phenomenology of perception. translated by colin smith. new york: humanities press, 1962. the visible and the invisible. edited by claude lefort. translated by alphoso lingis. evanston: northwestern university, 1968. minkowski, eug ne. lived time: phenomenological and psychological studies. translated with an introduction by nancy metzel. evanston: northwestern university press, 1970. mohanty, jitendranath n. phenomenology: between essentialism and transcendental philosophy. evanston: northwestern uni

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he angel h.u.a. the second place is when he touches the rose of the representative of c.r. in the vault, when he has taken on himself the symbols of suffering and self sacrifice, and says that his victory is in the cross of the rose. the third place is when he enters the vault in the third point and kneels down, and the chief adept says al am the reconciler with the ineffable: i am the dweller of the invisible: let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend" in these three cases a possible exchange of consciousness from the ruach into the neschamah is initiated, so that whether he understands it or not, the aspirant actually approaches his own genius (there are some cases where the genius may have attained a height and fallen: that is when, having touched the ruach in one incarnatio

n cometh unto the father but by me" this whole passage of the chief adept is formed of a collection of utterances, which are, as it were, the speeches of the great gods, which he can only hear when he is still further exalted into kether "i am the way, the truth, and the life" is the reflected triad. no man cometh unto the father, but by me. then the neschamah speaks; down to "i have entered into the invisible" then it is as if the consciousness went into the genius, which says "i am the sun in his rising, i have passed through the hour of the cloud and night" then follows "i am amon the concealed one, the opener of the day" like the great god in atziluth "i am osiris onnofris, the crucified one" who is perfected in the balance and risen above all considerations that cometh from maya, or i

the divine ones united in the utterance "i am the preparer of the pathway, the rescuer unto the light! out of the darkness let the light arise" then the aspirant is prompted to say "before, i was blind, but now i see" representing again the blindness to the neschamah consciousness and the passage into this. whereupon the chief adept says: am the reconciler with the ineffable! i am the dweller of the invisible; let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend" the aspirant is now told to rise an adeptus minor of the rose of ruby and the cross of gold, in the sign of osiris slain; and then "we receive thee as adeptus minor in that sign of rectitude and self sacrifice" the affirmation of three parts is then proceeded with: the chief adept says "be thy mind opened unto the higher (second

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