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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

n stept into the host, disguised as kalchas, ii. 13, 45, hermes escorted priam as a myrmidon warrior 24, 397, and athene the young telemachus as mentor, in the same way othin appeared as the chariot-driver bruno (p. 330, or as a one-eyed old man. metamorphoses of gods into animals in teutonic mythology take place only for a definite momentary purpose, to which the character of the animal supplies the key; e.g, o'isinn takes the shape of a snake, to slip throu ,di a 22 338 condition of gods. hole lie has bored (sn. 86, and of an eagle, to fly away in haste (86, loki that of a fly, in order to sting (131, or to creep through a keyhole (356; no larger designs are ever compassed by such means. so, when athene flies away as a bird, it expresses the divinity of her nature and the suddenness of h

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

le is cast, the symbol can be handed round while the person leading the ritual speaks the intention. alternatively, each person can add his or her special interpretation while holding the symbol and so the declaration is worked as part of the ritual. as others are holding the symbol, visualise it within your own hands; this provides the transition to the next stage of the ritual. concentration is the key to this first stage. the action this is the stage where you use actions to endow the symbol with magical energies. this is part of the continuous process of translating your magical thoughts and words from the first stage, the inner plan, to manifestation as the impetus for success or fulfilment in the everyday world. these energies amplify your own. for example, passing incense, represent

or a slow spiral dance around the circle. you could try drumming or tying knots either on individual cords or in a group, creating a pattern with the longer cords of fellow witches, perhaps looped around a tree. the action of the magick is limited only by the environment and your imagination. you may find that improvisation enters quite spontaneously as the energies unfold and spiral. movement is the key to this stage. raising the power this is the most powerful part of the magick, as the magical energies are amplified and the power of the ritual carries you along joyously. ecstasy forms a major part of shamanic ceremony and the old mystery religions; it is akin to the exhilaration you experience riding on a carousel or running barefoot along a sandy shore with the wind lifting your hair

energy. at the point when the climax is reached, comes the release of power. note that for some people the cone concept interferes with their own natural magical abilities- some of the most skilled witches and healers see circles of light, shimmering golden beams or rainbows with their psychic eye. some see nothing at all, but instead feel power pushing their feet almost off the ground. growth is the key to this stage. release of power when you release the power in the final stage, you may see the cone exploding and cascading as coloured stars or light beams, which surge away into the cosmos and break into brilliant rainbow colours. if you wish, you can direct the energy after the final release of power by pointing with your hands, or a wand or knife, so that the energies cascade horizonta

h, you can direct the energy after the final release of power by pointing with your hands, or a wand or knife, so that the energies cascade horizontally and downwards, for example into herbs on the altar that you are empowering to make into herb sachets. or you can direct the cascading energies in a specific direction, perhaps towards a person who is ill or in need of magical strength. 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 cutti

iend, daughter and grandmother of all ages and all places, in joy, for i bring love and plenty. you may also bring me your hopes with the waxing moon and your sorrows on the wane, for i am with you in all states and stages, when you call and when you are silent, when you turn to me as an eager child and when you weep solitary tears in your pillow when your dreams have dissolved into ashes 'i hold the key to the mysteries of existence and the universe, but these i will share with all who come with willing heart and open mind. for they are not hidden from you, but are all round you in every season. i am in the moon as she passes through the sky, in the fertile earth and the mighty waters, for i am them as i am part of you, and you of me, and you too are of the same divine fabric as the moon

ABRAMELIN1

d incredible number of errors in the sigils, pentacles, and hebrew or chaldee names, which have arisen from ignorant transcription and reproduction; this being carried to such an extent that in some cases the use of the distorted formulas given would actually have the effect of producing the very opposite result to that expected from them (i have commented at length on this subject in my notes to the key of solomon, published by me a few years ago) wherefore abraham the jew it appears to me, in his anxiety to save his son from dangerous errors in magical working, has preferred to endeavour to fill him with contempt for any other systems and methods of operation than the one here laid down. for also besides the unintentional perversions of magical symbols i have above mentioned, there was f

perversions of divine names and seals, so as to attract the evil spirits and repel the good. for the third book of this work is crowded with qabalistic squares of letters, which are simply so many pentacles, and in which the names employed are the very factors which make them of value. among them we find a form of the celebrated sator, arepo, tenet, opera, rotas, which is one of the pentacles in the key of solomon. abraham's formula is slightly different: and is to be used for obtaining the love of a maiden. the pentacle in my key of solomon the king is classed under saturn, while the above is applied to the nature of venus. i give the hebrew form (see appendix a, table of hebrew and chaldee letters) of equivalents: introduction xii or in latin letters: in the key of solomon it is (as bei

the world s end. in the hebrew, this versicle consists of exactly twenty five letters, the number of the letters of the square. it will be at once noticed that both this form and that given by abraham the jew are perfect examples of double acrostics, that is, that they read in every direction, whether horizontal or perpendicular, whether backwards or forwards. but the form given as a pentacle in the key of solomon the king is there said to be of value in adversity, and for repressing the pride of the spirits. this example therefore shows clearly that it is not so much the use of symbolic pentacles that abraham is opposed to, as their ignorant perversions and inappropriate use. it is also to be observed, that while many of the symbolic squares of letters of the third book present the natur

traordinary magical effects which faust is said to have produced; who, by the way, as i have before remarked, was in all probability contemporary with abraham the jew. introduction xvi but the mode of their production as given in this work is not the black magic of pact and devil-worship, against which our author so constantly inveighs, but instead a system of qabalistic magic, similar to that of the key of solomon the king and the clavicles of rabbi solomon, though differing in the circumstance of the prior invocation of the guardian angel once for all, while in the works i have just mentioned the angels are invoked in each evocation by means of the magical circle. such works as these, then, and their like, it could not be the intention of abraham to decry, seeing that like his system the

nct similarity between cagliostro's method, and the system of oriental divination called the mendal, to which i have previously referred. introduction xxi (appendix c) examples of other methods of angelic evocation. for the benefit of the occult student i here give two other systems of angelic evocation. the first is taken from that part of the book called barrett s magus (1801, which is entitled the key to ceremonial magic. the second is copied from my key of solomon the king. from the perfection and key of. ceremonial magic; being the second part of the second book of the magus or celestial intelligencer 6 by francis barrett, f.r.c. the good spirits may be invocated of us, or by us, divers ways, and they in sundry shapes and manners offer themselves to us, for they openly speak to those

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hey will find them react terribly against them; and that, if the preliminary period of six months preparation advocated by abra-melin be not observed, the symbols will be practically worthless in their hands; for, as will be observed, the names in the squares for the most part are simply the statement of the ends desired to be accomplished thereby. finally, i will quote the following passage from the key of solomon the king v accursed be he who taketh the name of god in vain! accursed be he who useth this knowledge unto an evil end. be he accursed in this world and in the world to come. amen. be he accursed in the name which he hath blasphemed! of abramelin the mage 208 essential remarks upon the foregoing symbols. it is certain that among all the symbols which i have hereinbefore written

cease from thine operation, so as to finish it on another more favourable occasion, and meanwhile thou shalt devote thyself unto the cure of thy body. and such a case ought in no way to afflict thee, for the secrets of god are impenetrable, and he performeth, permitteth, and operateth all things for the best and for our good, although it may be not understanded of us. hereinafter will i set down the key of this operation, which is the only thing which facilitateth this operation to enjoy the vision of the holy angels, by placing the symbols15 given hereafter upon the brow of the child and of him who performeth the operation, as i have said in the first book, to which one can easily refer. i will say even as much as this, that out of an hundred scarcely five or six persons can attain unto

ADDTLS

s: e m kerubics x a a c r b p d 11 below is an example of the lesser angle of d in the tablet of c.(permutations include both kerubic and sub-servients) the consecration of the four elemental weapons give excellent examples of the spirit or archangelic names formed from the kerubic squares by the addition of letters from the tablet of union. the attribution of the name hwhy. the name is the key to the whole of the enochian attributions of the squares to the elements: the letters are thus referred: y yod d wands h he c cups w vau a swords h (final) he b pentacles the letters of the great name attributed to the four tablets in order together: insert diagram 12 not only are the letters of tetragrammaton attributed to the tablets themselves, and to the lesser angles of the tablets, b

hokmah is the distributor of the power from kether, even as b is the messenger of k of classical mythology. to binah is referred the y and the tarot key, priestess of the silver star, even as binah is the completer of the triad of the supernals, and as it were high priestess to the inferior sephiroth.(compare also, says s.r.m.d. the position of the path of g in the tree of life. to chesed, c, and the key of the empress, the daughter of the mighty ones. chesed is, as it were, the first of the inferiors below binah, and the path of c is thus reciprocal betweeen chokmah and binah, forming, as it were, the base of the triangle of the supernals. to geburah, f, and the tarot key, the blasted tower, the lord of the hosts of the mighty, even as geburah represents strength and fiery power. to tipha

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

ssociate adeptus minor, what is the meaning of this title, abiegnus" 5 c b a f k l e c q n w (temple set up at beginning of ritual) third "it is abiegnus, lamb of the father. it is by metathesis abi-genos, born of the father; bia-genos, strength of our race, and the four words make the sentence,'mountain of the lamb of the father, and the strength of our race" chief "mighty adeptus major, what is the key to this tomb" second "the rose and the cross, which resume the life of nature and the powers hidden in the word i. n. r. i" chief "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem that we bear in our left hand" third "it is a form of the rose and the cross, the ancient crux ansata or egyptian symbol of life" chief "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second "it represents the force of th

d "it represents the force of the ten sephiroth in nature divided into a hexad and a tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth and the tau cross, the lower four, that answer unto the four elements" chief "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which i bear upon my breast" third "the complete symbol of the rose and cross" chief "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second "it is the key of sigils and rituals, and represents the force of the 22 letters in nature, as divided into a three, a seven and a twelve. many and great are its mysteries" 6 chief "associate adeptus minor, what is the wand which thou bearest" third "a simple wand having the colors of the 12 signs of the zodiac between light and darkness and surmounted by the lotus flower of isis. it symbolizes the devel

and crux ansata to the chief adept who then gives in exchange the crook and scourge) 21 crook and scourge chief "quit then this tomb, o aspirant, with thine arms crossed upon thy breast, bearing in thy right hand the crook of mercy and thy left the scourge of severity, the emblems of those eternal forces betwixt which the equilibrium of the universe dependeth; those forces whose reconciliation is the key of life, whose separation is evil and death. therefore thou art inexcusable, whosoever thou art, that judgeth another, for in that thou condemnest another, thou condemnest but thyself. be thou therefore merciful, even as thy father who is in heaven is merciful. remember that tremendous obligation of rectitude and self-sacrifice which thou has voluntarily taken upon thyself, and tremble the

of the name 27 tetragrammaton. also, it has been interpreted as: igne natura revovatur integra; igne natura renovando integrat; igne nitrum roris invenitur; intra nobis regnum dei" chief (indicating diagram of the minutum mundum) behold the diagram minutum mundum sive fundamental coloris- the small universe or foundation of color. treasure it in thy heart, and mark it well, seeing that herein is the key of nature. it is, as thou seest, the diagram of the sephiroth and the paths, with the colors appropriately attributed thereto. see that thou reveal it not to the profane, for many and great are its mysteries "rtk is the highest of all, and herein scintillates the divine white brilliance, concerning which it is not fitting that i should speak more fully. hmkj is gray, the mixture of colors

taken from those of the minutum mundum diagram, and they thus represent the just equilibrium between mercy and severity on the tree of life. the crook therefore is divided into the colors symbolic of: rtk, a, hmkj, b, dsj, e, trapt, a, dwh, j. and the scourge into those symbolizing: jxn, h, trapt, c, hnyb, d, hrwbg, m" third (indicates sword and serpent "the colors of the minutum mundum are also the key to those which compose the admission badge of the sword and serpent; and thus, by their aid it may be the better examined and comprehended. the one is ascending, the other is descending; the one is fixed, the other is volatile; the one unites the sephiroth, the other the paths. furthermore, in the serpent of wisdom is shown the ascending spiral, and in the sword the rush of the descending

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

primitive life-forms on this planet: human beings. unless the gates are secured against attack, unless humanity awakens to both the real danger and the real potential for evolution. well, the vision of the mad arab- ancestor of the muslim princes so much in the news in 1979/1980- is one, certainly of terror. the discovery of this book, however, like the discovery of the typesetters' idol, may be the key, the link in our defence against the possible enemy awaiting us, outside. events of the last two years have shown us that the book is also an amulet, a protective shield, that guards its own from the machinations of evil. extraterrestrial or primevally elemental, alien beings or subconscious repressions, they are powerless against us if we consider deeply the message of this book, and take

primitive life-forms on this planet: human beings. unless the gates are secured against attack, unless humanity awakens to both the real danger and the real potential for evolution. well, the vision of the mad arab- ancestor of the muslim princes so much in the news in 1979/1980- is one, certainly of terror. the discovery of this book, however, like the discovery of the typesetters' idol, may be the key, the link in our defence against the possible enemy awaiting us, outside. events of the last two years have shown us that the book is also an amulet, a protective shield, that guards its own from the machinations of evil. extraterrestrial or primevally elemental, alien beings or subconscious repressions, they are powerless against us if we consider deeply the message of this book, and take

er on zonei, we come to the "book of entrance" which is really a system of self-initiation into the planetary spheres and may have something to do with the planetary arrangement of the steps of the ziggurats of mesopotamia, which were seven storeyed mountains. not much is revealed to the potential candidate for initiation as to how these "gates" work, or what he might find there, save to say that the key of one gate lies in mastering the gate before it. the mad arab was either keeping a sacred secret, or found human language inadequate to the task of describing what other initiates in similar systems have expressed in the vague abstractions of the truly illuminated, likening the experience to an lsd trip. the "incantations of the gates" follow, and are probably meant to accompany the prece

gn of our race from beyond the stars, and is called arra in the tongue of the scribe who taught it to me, an emissary of the elder ones. in the tongue of the eldest city of babylon, it was ur. it is the sigil of the covenant of the elder gods, and when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us. they have sworn! spirit of the skies, remember! the second is the elder sign, and is the key whereby the powers of the elder gods may be summoned, when used with the proper words and shapes. it has a name, and is called agga. the third sign is the sigil of the watcher. it is called bandar. the watcher is a race sent by the elder ones. it keeps vigil while one sleeps, provided the appropriate ritual and sacrifice has been performed: else, if called, it will turn upon you. these sea

in. but, verily, it were better to engrave another. these secrets i give to thee at the pain of my life, never to be revealed to the profane, or the banished, or the worshippers of the ancient serpent, but to keep within thine own heart, always silent upon these things. peace be to thee! henceforth, from that fateful night in the mountains of masshu, i wandered about the country-side in search of the key to the secret knowledge that had been given me. and it was a painful and lonely journey, during which time i took no wife, called no house or village my home, and dwelt in various countries, often in caves or in the deserts, learning several tongues as a traveller might learn them, to bargain with the tradespeople and learn of their news and customs. but my bargaining was with the powers t

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

ave done so because i did not know it. he went to the bookshelves; taking out a copy of the book of lies, he pointed to a passage in the despised chapter. it instantly flashed upon me. the entire symbolism not only of free masonry but of many other traditions blazed upon my spiritual vision. from that moment the o.t.o. assumed its proper importance in my mind. i understood that i held in my hands the key to the future progress of humanity" the commentary was written by crowley probably around 1921. the student will find it very helpful for the light it throws on many of its passages.(1) the ante primal triad which is not-god nothing is. nothing becomes. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 9 nothing is not. the first triad which is god i am. i utter the word. i hear the wor

ll that men call silence is its speech. this abyss is also called "hell, and "the many. its name is "consciousness, and "the universe, among men. but that which neither is silent, nor speaks, rejoices therein. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 29 [30] commentary( iota) there is no apparent connection between the number of this chapter and its subject. it does, however, refer to the key of the tarot called the hermit, which represents him as cloaked. jod is the concealed phallus as opposed to tau, the extended phallus. this chapter should be studied in the light of what is said in "aha" and in the temple of solomon the king about the reason. the universe is insane, the law of cause and effect is an illusion, or so it appears in the abyss, which is thus identified with con

universal lie, o child of truth! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 48 [50] commentary( kappa) samson, the hebrew hercules, is said in the legend to have pulled down the walls of a music-hall where he was engaged "to make sport for the philistines, destroying them and himself. milton founds a poem on this fable. the first paragraph is a corollary of newton's first law of motion. the key to infinite power is to reach the bornless beyond. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 49 [51] 21 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta kappa-alpha the blind webster it is not necessary to understand; it is enough to adore. the god may be of clay: adore him; he becomes god. we ignore what created us; we adore what we create. let us create nothing but god! that which causes us

!-is the sign of the great work, for the great work is accomplished in silence. and behold is not that word equal to cheth, that is cancer. whose sigil is cancer? this work also eats up itself, accomplishes its own end, nourishes the worker, leaves no seed, is perfect in itself. little children, love one another! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 145 [148] commentary( xi-theta) the key to the understanding of this chapter is given in the number and the title, the former being intelligible to all nations who employ arabic figures, the latter only to experts in deciphering english puns. the chapter alludes to levi's drawing of the hexagram, and is a criticism of, or improvement upon, it. in the ordinary hexagram, the hexagram of nature, the red triangle is upwards, like fi

devil when you're one like me" the text need no comment, but it will be noticed that it is much shorter that the title. now, the devil of the tarot is the phallus, the redeemer, book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 162 and laylah symbolises redemption to frater p. the number 77, also, interpreted as in the title, is the redeeming force. the ratio of the length of title and text is the key to the true meaning of the chapter, which is, that redemption is really as simple as it appears complex, that the names (or veils) of truth are obscure and many, the truth itself plain and one; but that the latter must be reached through the former. this chapter is therefore an apology, were one needed, for the book of lies itself. in these few simple words, it explains the necessity of th

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

the scarlet woman is all power given. they shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. i,16: for he is ever a sun, and she a moon. but to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. i,17: but ye are not so chosen. i,18: burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! i,19: o azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! i,20: the key of the rituals is in the secret word which i have given unto him. i,21: with the god& the adorer i am nothing: they do not see me. they are as upon the earth; i am heaven, and there is no other god than me, and my lord hadit. i,22: now, therefore, i am known to ye by my name nuit, and to him by a secret name which i will give him when at last he knoweth me. since i am infinite space, and t

ur armour; go on, go on, in my strength& ye shall turn not back for any! iii,47: this book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no beast shall divine. let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him, whence i say not, who shall discover the key of it all. then this line drawn is a key: then this circle squared in its failure is a key also. and abrahadabra. it shall be his child and that strangely. let him not seek after this; for thereby alone can he fall from it. iii,48: now this mystery of the letters is done, and i want to go on to the holier place. iii,49: i am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

s issued a knowledge lecture which consisted of the names and symbols of the elements, planets and signs along with the hebrew alphabet and the names of the sephiroth in hebrew. 4 the lemegeton is a 17th-century compilation, probably english, of magical texts attributed to solomon. the first book, goetia, describes 72 evil spirits and gives instructions for evoking them (it derives variously from the key of solomon, the heptameron, the fourth book of pseudo-agrippa and the pseudomonarchia d monum of wier. in 777 cols. clv clxvi the spirits are referred to the decans by day and night. the second book, theurgia goetia, describes 27 principal spirits and a very large number of subordinates of whom relatively few are named; of the 27, 16 are referred to the points of the compass and the other

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

hunderbolt of zeus or indra, the god of air "lamed" is the oxgoad, the driving force; and it is also the balance, representing the truth and love of the magician. it is the loving care which he bestows upon perfecting his instruments, and the equilibration of that fierce force which initiates the ceremony<aeon of horus; they are indeed the key of the book of the law. no more can be said in this place than that aleph is harpocrates, bacchus diphues, the holy ghost, the "pure fool" or innocent babe who is also the wandering singer who impregnates the king's daughter with himself as her child; lamed is the king's daughter, satisfied by him, holding his "sword and balances" in her lap. these weapons are the judge, armed with power t

etween what the vulgar call blasphemy and what they call immorality, in the fact that the christian legend is an echo of a phallic rite. there is also a true and positive connexion between the creative force of the macrocosm, and that of the microcosm. for this reason the latter must be made a pure and consecrated as the former. the puzzle for most people is how to do this. the study of nature is the key to that gate> is given a concise account of one of the classical methods of arousing kundalini. this essay should be studied with care and determination. 131- 132 chapter xvi("part ii) of the charge to the spirit with some account of the constraints and curses occasionally necessary i on the appearance of the spirit, or the manifestation of the force in the talisman which is being consecra

an idea that it is something vague and unreal, instead of being, as it is, a direct means of coming into contact with reality. it is these people who pay themselves with phrases, who are always using long words with no definite connotation, who plaster themselves with pompous titles and decorations which mean nothing whatever. with such people we have nothing to do. but to those who seek reality the key of magick is offered, and they are hereby warned that the key to the treasure-house is no good without the combination; and the combination is the magical record. from one point of view, magical progress actually consists in deciphering one's own record<star in the body of nuith, every successive incarnation is a veil, and the acquisition of the magical memory a gradual unveil

his invitation is readily accepted, unless a clean man be present with an aura good enough to frighten these foul denizens of the pit. no spiritualistic manifestation has ever taken place in the 198 presence even of frater perdurabo; how much less in that of the master therion<initiations confer protection. compare the fear felt by d. d. home for eliphas levi. see equinox i, x "the key of the mysteries> of all the creatures he ever met, the most prominent of english spiritists (a journalist and pacifist of more than european fame) had the filthiest mind and the foulest mouth. he would break off any conversation to tell a stupid smutty story, and could hardly conceive of any society assembling for any other purpose than "phallic orgies, whatever they may be. utterly incap

equinox i, p. 4 "liber xxxvi. the star sapphire" an improved ritual of the hexagram. liber cccxxxiii (the book of lies, p.p. 46& 7, and appendix vi of this book "liber xli. thien tao" an essay on attainment by the way of equilibrium. knox om pax, p. 52 "liber xliv "the mass of the phoenix" a ritual of the law. liber cccxxxiii (the book of lies, pp. 57-7, and appendix vi in this book "liber xlvi "the key of the mysteries" a translation of "la clef des grands mysteres, by eliphas levi. specially adapted to the task of the attainment of bhakta- yoga. equinox x, supplement "liber xlix. shi yi chien" an account of the divine perfection illustrated by the sevenfold permutation of the dyad. unpublished "liber li. the lost continent" an account of the continent of atlantis: the manners and custom

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

be made clear, and available to the use of man. is not this a gift beyond price, the fruit of a tree not only of knowledge but of life? for there is that in man which is god, and there is that also which is dust; and by our magick we shall make these twain one flesh, to the obtaining of the empery of the universe. i suppose i might have put it more concisely: classics is itself initiation, being the key of the unconscious; mathematics is the art of manipulating the ruach, and of raising it to neschamah; and science is co-terminous with magick. these are the three branches of study which i regard as fundamental. no others are in the same class. for instance, geography is almost meaningless until one makes it real by dint of honest travel, which does not mean either "commuting" or "luxury c

and some of the fairy folk, as well as certain gods and demi-gods, who act thus paternally. but you are right in the main. the arabs, for example, have "seven heavens" and seven orders of angels, also jinn; but the classes are by no means identical. this, even though certain archangels, notably gabriel, appear in both systems. but then gabriel is a definite individual, a person- and this fact is the key to your puzzle. for, as i have explained in a previous letter, gods are people: macrocosms, not mere collocations of the elements, planets and signs as are most of the angels, intelligences and spirits. it is interesting to note that gabriel in particular seems to be more than one of these; he enjoys the divine privilege of being himself. between you and me and the pylon, i suspect that ga

es phobia is the unreasoning aversion, the shuddering of panic, above all, the passionate refusal to learn anything about "drugs" to analyse the conditions, still less to face them; and the spasmodic invention of imaginary terrors, as if the real dangers were not enough to serve as a warning. now why? surely because in the sub-conscious lies an instinct that in these obscure medicines indeed lies the key of some forbidden sanctuary. there is a fascination as irrational and therefore as strong, as the fear. here is the point at which they link up with sex and magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 302 religion. oh, how well nigh almighty is the urgency to him who reads those few great writers who understood the subject from experience: de quincey, ludlow, poe and baudel

be of sublimest poesy. dairy of a drug fiend, the- a true story of drug addicts who were cured of their affliction by a strict r gime and the constant guidance of a master. equinox, the vol. i, no. 1- 10 vol. iii, no. 1- contains an immense number and variety of official publications, rituals, treatises, etc. also special supplements such as the vision and the voice; translation of eliphas l vi's the key of the mysteries; sepher sephiroth; h. p. blavatsky's the voice of the silence, with a commentary by fr. o.m, etc, etc. vol. iii, 3- the equinox of the gods vol. iii, 4- eight lectures on yoga- the deepest book written on the subject of yoga. vol. iii, 5- the book of thoth- a masterpiece on the egyptian tarot, with appendices, and designs with an entirely new pack of tarot cards, executed

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ity hhlb loss, destruction ylb to cease ldx my glory ydwbk the earth (our world) dlx the greater ldgh 43 great lwdg to rejoice lyg to make faint hlx lion (cf. 340 )ybl hazel, almond zwl together, also mg magus gm one beloved by god hydydy 44 aries: a ram, lamb hl+ aquarius: a bucket yld drops ylg) a pool, pond; sorrow mg) captive, captivity hlwg blood md sand; horror (see the scorpion pentacle in the key of solomon; see also liber 418 10th ayre) lwx flame +hl garment dm 45 the mystic number of yesod adam: man; red md) the fool dm) redemption, liberation hlw)g to grow warm; they (masc) mh hesitated (see 405) lxz she who ruins hlbx hwhy in yetzirah )h w)w )h dwy greatly, strongly, very d)m what, which, why, how; anything, something; yetzitah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39) hm 46 a nam

o them mhl 76 secret, put away; a hiding-place nwybx rest, peace xxyn slave, servant db( goddess hlyl) 77 prayed h(b overflowing (ps. 124:5) nwdyz towers, citadels ldgm the influence through the paths (cf. 78; destiny, fate, luck; constellation, planet (cf. 483& 536; soul-root lzm goat; strength; violence; glory z( 78 1-12. the mystic number of kether as hua; the number of tarot cards; the sum of the key-numbers of the supernal beard aiwass: the angel of ra-hoor-khuit( gincorrect h. cf. 93) s)wy) the breaker; dream (n& v) mlx to pity lmx to initiate knx bread (ps. 78:20= mlx, by metathesis) mxl the influence through the paths (cf. 77 )lzm salt xlm the name of a giant )z( palace of love (referred to chesed) hbh) lkyh before (in front of, over against xkn 79 jachin, the pillar of mercy (chok

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catch three words "the zero hour" they call me back to myself: i know now that i am one of a great army- an army baffled and broken, but yet in being. sharp comes a whisper of swift absolute authority "zero is two" somehow i am aware- like a man stricken of lightning, in the same moment slain and initiated- that the strange phrase declares a final mystery of truth, the word of the plan of battle, the key of the campaign. but in my mind its meaning is most utter darkness. again the solemn stillness. few were they who had heard the voice of the young captain: for the sleep of all but the youngest and strongest was the sleep of death. even of these the fate was ill indeed; for their minds had been distraught by the bitterness of their hearts. so, when they noted the voice, they mocked. i hear

he master, to be made one with him. to answer that, he sendeth forth his will, that, casting shadows on the clouds of life, may be half read by him whose eyes are lightened enough by the manhood of his love. thus then do i learn how best to make myself fit to fulfil my life, in the life of the master, and offer my blood to his heart. 0. know naught! all ways are lawful to innocence. pure folly is the key to initiation. silence breaks into rapture. be neither man nor woman, but both in one. be silent, babe in the egg of blue, that thou mayest grow to the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 11 bear the lance and graal! wander alone, and sing! in the king's palace his daughter awaits thee. i. the true self is the meaning of the true will: know thyself through thy way!

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e- the moving line is in line 2) 11. the hexagram will look like this: 12. take notice that the hexagram is divided into two trigrams: an upper trigram and a lower trigram. interpretation 13. taking thine key, which is in this book: thou wilst find the upper trigram along the top of the squares. next, find the lower trigram at the left of the chart. 14. follow thee the trigrams into the center of the key- behold the number 33. 15. then, thou shalt read the thirty-third hexagram in this book: yi king. 16. the first two lines refer to the hexagram as a whole, shewing thee the direction of the matter. 17. next, appeareth a six-line poem. the first line of this poem pertaineth to the line number one in the hexagram. the last line of the poem is for number six (the one farthest from thy-self. 1

s wisdom's age. mark well the rules of martial strategy. chief of the host, thy king confers the post. divided counsel- inefficiency! retreat is not an error if need be. seek and destroy bad faith and mutiny! but find good men for posts of dignity. 8 the pi hexagram moon of yoni- pi: union. first examine, art thou right? then the restless join thee; woe the laggard's plight. sincerity of union is the key; from inward mind comes forth true unity. unite not with unworth's iniquity! there's one beyond thyself that yearns for thee. base well thy tower upon the people's power. thy first step missed? disaster shalt thou see. 9 the hsiao chu hexagram air of lingam- hsiao chu: shows small restraint. hence quick success. but clouds indeed, we ask rain's happiness. strayed- come thou back and follow

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, adonai, the holy guardian angel. also hoor, who combines the force of the sun with that of mars. adonai is primarily solar, but 65 is a number sacred to mars. see the "sepher sephiroth ,and "the wake world" in "know om pax" for further details on 65. note moreover, the sixty-five pages of the ms. of liber legis. or, counting nv 56, had 10, we get 66, which is (1-11. had is further the centre of the key-word abrahadabra. the new comment the theogony of our law is entirely scientific, nuit is matter, hadit is motion, in their full physical sense<metaphysical sense, suggest close analogies> they are the tao and teh of chinese philosophy; or, to put it very simply, the noun and verb in grammar. our central truth- beyond other philosophies- is that these two

hat these "fools" are "silent selves, impotent babes unborn; then verse 12 continues "come forth, that is, bring your holy guardian angel from the womb of your subconsciousness. then "take your fill of love; that is, do your true will, whose mode of fulfilment is love, as explained later in this chapter. al i,12 "come forth, o children, under the stars& take your fill of love" the old comment 12. the key of the worship of nu. the uniting of consciousness with infinite space by the exercise of love, pastoral or pagan love. but vide infra. the new comment the whole doctrine of 'love' is discussed in the book "aleph (wisdom or folly" and should be studied therein. but note further how this verse agrees with the comment above, how every star is to come forth from its veils, that it may revel w

her correspondences are yun sic, s.b "yang ?weh and yin, yod and he, etc. but most such dualities have been conceived in very gross and unphilosophical forms. of course, it is impossible to grasp this subject properly by reason; only the understanding developed by meditation and spiritual experience avails. initiation is pantomorphously progressive. note that the secret divine letter sht which is the key of this book is by shape the sun united with the moon c= sh, o= t co= sht. weh note: elsewhere crowley calls this sign "the secret sigil of the beast" and it is depicted by a crescent attached to the left side of a circle. sometimes the circle is dotted. sometimes the greek lower case letters sigma-theta are written connectively for this (vide. liber mcclxiv, value 209, first edition, oton

atic, immortal; winged and hooded, that he may go as a god swiftly and silently. it refers in this place especially to hadit. al i,19 "o azure-lidded woman, bend upon them" the old comment 19. nuit herself will overshadow them. the new comment these two verses 18, 19, seem to be interpolated by aiwaz, invoking the gods to the beast and the scarlet woman, perhaps as a formal consecration. al i,20: the key of the rituals is in the secret word which i have given unto him. the old comment 20. this word is perhaps abrahadabra, the sacred word of 11 letters. the new comment for this word see appendix weh note: the appendix has not yet been recovered. kenneth grant, in his "magical and philosophical commentaries" pp. 105-108 has a lengthy extension here. the providence of the extension is not def

. this word is perhaps abrahadabra, the sacred word of 11 letters. the new comment for this word see appendix weh note: the appendix has not yet been recovered. kenneth grant, in his "magical and philosophical commentaries" pp. 105-108 has a lengthy extension here. the providence of the extension is not definitely known to be crowley at this writing, hence cannot be included here. abrahadabra is "the key of the rituals" because it expresses the magical formulae of uniting various complementary ideas; especially the five of the microcosm with the six of the macrocosm. al i,21 "with the god& the adorer i am nothing: they do not see me. they are as upon the earth; i am heaven, and there is no other god than me, and my lord hadit" the old comment 21. refers to the actual picture on the stele

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s at his pleasure. this formula was used to open the vault of the mystic mountain of abiegnus, within which lay (so the ceremony of initiation supposed) the body of our father christian rosen creutz, to be discovered by the brethren with the postulant as said in the book called fama fraternitatis. there are three officers, and they repeat the analysis of the word as follows: chief. let us analyse the key word i. 2nd. n. 3rd. r. all. i. chief. yod. y 2nd. nun. n 3rd. resh. r all. yod. y chief. virgo (f) isis, mighty mother. 2nd. scorpio (h) apophis, destroyer. 3rd. sol) osiris, slain and rise. all. isis, apophis, osiris, iao. all spread arms as if on a cross, and say: the sign of osiris slain! chief bows his head to the left, raises his right arm, and lowers his left, keeping the elbow and

ight. aub is an illusory thing of witchcraft (cf. obi, obeah; aud is almost= the kundalini force( odic force. this illustrates well the difference between the sluggish, viscous 9, and the keen, ecstatic 11.53 210. pertains to part ii. see liber 418. 214. jwr, the air, the mind. 220. pertains to part ii. the number of verses in liber legis. 231. the sum of the first 22 numbers, 0 to 21; the sum of the key-numbers of the tarot cards; hence an extension of the idea of 22, q.v. 270. i.n.r.i. see 5= 6 ritual. 47 the installment of the temple of solomon the king in equinox i (3) contained an account of the g.d. adeptus minor ritual. see also regardie (ed, the golden dawn t.s. 48 al i. 24-25; 6 50= 0.12. 49 cf. gen vi. 3 t.s. 50 also if we use the same fudge that crowley used to get logos to 93

the reasons given in the apocalypse. i took the beast to be the lion (leo my rising sign76) and sol, 6, 666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary to enter upon in this place. note however that the tarot card of leo, strength, bears the number xi, the great number of the magnum opus, and its interchange with justice, viii; and the key of 8 is 418.77 74 364= inter alia, alpwm rua, the hidden light, a title of kether, and fch, the adversary t.s. 75 vide al i. 22 t.s. 76 this may have been wishful thinking on crowley s part. the time and place of birth accompanying ac s birthchart as printed in equinox i (7) and equinox of the gods actually give cancer, not leo, rising, suggesting the figure had been fudged. the editor of

spelt in full= tyj, 418 t.s. liber lviii 43 this all seemed to me so important that no qabalistic truths were so firmly implanted in my mind at the time when i was ordered to abandon the study of magic and the qabalah as these: 8, 11, 418, 666; combined with the profoundest veneration for 1, 3, 5, 7, 13, 37, 78, 91, 111. i must insist on this at the risk of tautology and over-emphasis; for it is the key to my standard of truth, the test-numbers which i applied to the discernment of the messenger from the sanctuary. that such truths may seem trivial i am well aware; let it be remembered that the discovery of such an identity may represent a year s toil. but this is the final test; repeat my researches, obtain your own holy numbers; then, and not before, will you fully understand their vali

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le and creative power as not, for science cannot help us. true, if we do not use all the methods at our disposal! but we go beyond. we admit that all mental methods known are singularly liable to illusion and inaccuracy of any sort. so were the early determinations of specific heat. even biologists have erred. but to the true scientist every failure is a steppingstone to success; every mistake is the key to a new truth. and the history of our science is the history of all science. if you choose to ape christendom and put the pioneers of rational investigation into the nature of consciousness on the rack (i.e. into lunatic asylums) i doubt not we shall find our bruno. but it will add an additional pang that persecution should come from the house of our friends. let us, however, turn away fr

he was comforted. now came the sudden twittering of heart lest the firmament beneath him were not stable, and lo! he danceth up and down as a very cork on waters of wailing. woman, he bade sternly, be still. cleave that with thy sword: or that must i well work? but she cleft the cords, bitter-faced, smiling goddess as she was; 1 the sacrifices are the ten sephiroth. 2 see table. 3 ancient form of the key of s. 4 considered as the agent of resurrection. 5 in the true key of m the tree is shaped like the letter d= venus or love. the figure of the man forms a cross above a triangle, with apex upwards, the sign of redemption. ambrosii magi hortus rosarum 113 sapientiae lux viris baculum. femina rapta inspirit gaudium. pleiades. dignitates. amicitia. amor. sophia. and he went on. leave thine ox

ries: four fool s bargains hast thou made, and thou art fit to go forth and meet a fool4 for thy mate. but our father counted thrice seven and cried: one for the fool, seeing 1 3, the number of g. 2, the number of the card g. 2 the equality of three and eight is attributed to binah, a high grade of theurgic attainment. 3 scil. juggler, the 1st key. the magical weapons correspond to the kerubim. 4 the key marked 0 and applied to aleph, 1. ambrosii magi hortus rosarum 115 hammer of thor. arcanum. griphus i. griphus ii. griphus iii. griphus iv. griphus v. griphus vi. griphus vii. the serpent should be his at last. none for the fool, they laughed back nay, even his maiden queen. for she would not any should know thereof. yet all were right, both he and they. but truth ran quickly about; for th

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race, the way, the truth, and the life. the interior order was formed immediately after the first perception of man's wider heritage had dawned upon the first of the adepts; it received from the masters at first-hand the revelation of the means by which humanity could be raised to its rights and delivered from its misery. it received the primitive charge of all revelation and mystery; it received the key of true science, both divine and natural. but as men multiplied, the frailty of man necessitated an exterior society which veiled the interior one, and concealed the spirit and the truth in the letter, because many people were not capable of comprehending great interior truth. therefore, interior truths were wrapped in external and perceptible ceremonies, so that men, by the perception of

which he knew nothing himself. to become fit should be the sole effort of him who seeks wisdom. but there are methods by which fitness is attained, for in this holy communion is the primitive storehouse of the most ancient and original science of the human race, with the primitive mysteries also of all science. it is the unique and really illuminated community which is absolutely in possession of the key to all mystery, which knows the centre and source of all nature. it is a society which unites superior strength to its own, and counts its members from more than one world. it is the society whose members form the republic of genius, the regent mother of the whole world. 13 liber librae svb figvra xxx 15 a. a. publication in class b. issued by order: d.d.s. 7= 4 premonstrator o.s.v. 6= 5 i

blind sky that aches (wreathed with the stars, her torturing snakes, for the dead god's kiss that never wakes; shot with golden specks of fire like a virgin with desire. look, the levers! fern-frail fronds of fantastic diamonds, glimmering with ethereal azure in each exquisite embrasure. on the shaft the letters laced, as if dryads lunar-chaste with the satyrs were embraced, spelled the secret of the key "sic pervenias" and he went his wizard way, inweaving dreams of things beyond believing. when he will, the weary world of the senses closely curled like a serpent round his heart shakes herself and stands apart. so the heart's blood flames, expanding, strenuous, urgent, and commanding; and the key unlocks the door where his love lives evermore. she is of the faery blood; all smaragdine flo

d by; then, unannounced, once more hypatia gay knocked at the flat. her virginal eyes still smiled; her purpose was yet deadlier than before. swanoff fenced with her awhile. then she began to tempt him "stay" he said "first you must keep your promise and enter the temple" strong in the trust of her black master, she agreed. the poet opened the little door, and closed it quickly after her, turning the key. as she passed into the utter darkness that hid behind curtains of black velvet, she caught one glimpse of the presiding god. 106 it was a skeleton that sat there, and blood stained all its bones. below it was the evil altar, a round table supported by an ebony figure of a negro standing upon his hands. upon the altar smouldered a sickening perfume, and the stench of the slain victims of t

uestion there will be time enough to assume that all other systems are wrong. start with a clean sheet, and write neatly and beautifully upon it, so that others can read you aright; do not start with some old palimpsest, and then scribble all over it carelessly, for then indeed others will come who will of a certainty ready you awry. if osiris, christ, and mahomet were mad, then indeed is madness the key to the door of the temple. yet if they were only called mad for being wise beyond the sane, then ask you why their doctrines brought with them the crimes of bigotry and the horrors of madness? and our answer is, that though they loved truth and wedded truth, they could not explain truth; and their disciples therefore had to accept the symbols of truth for truth, without the possibility of

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d like to call attention to the immense amount of important material that awaits publication. there is the sepher sephiroth, referred to in this section of the temple of solomon the king; the complete writings of dr dee and sir edward kelly; a tremendous volume on the tarot; du potet's "magic unveiled" translated by john yarker, the venerable grand master general of the a. and p. rite of masonry; the key of the greater mysteries, by eliphas 1 levi, and many other important mss. all this has cost untold labour to me and my colleagues; but the difficulties of editing and publishing still confront us. i am therefore appealing for helpers among those who are interested in the clear and scholarly statement of what the famous adepts of the past have thought and handed down, either by word or pen

ht fades in the glory of the dawn. thus we see that one way- and the best way- of overcoming bad sankh ras is the systematic cultivation, by dint of meditation, of such qualities as are opposed to the evil tendencies we desire to eliminate; and in the central and practical feature of the instance adduced, the practice of definite meditation or mental concentration upon the good sankh ras, we have the key to the entire system of the purification and culture of the mind, which constitutes the practical working basis of the buddhist religion. if we consider the action of a great and complex engine- such a machine as drives a steamship through the water- we will see that there is, first and foremost, one central and all-operationg source of energy; in this case the steam which is generated in

ys at his pleasure. this formula was used to pen the vault of the mystic mountain of abiegnus, within which lay (so the ceremony of initiation supposed) the body of our father christian rosen creutz, to be discovered by the brethren with the postulant as said in the book called fama fraternitatis. there are three officers, and they repeat the analysis of the word as follows- chief. let us analyse the key word- i. 2nd. n. 3rd. r. all. i. chief. yod. hb:yod. 2nd. nun. hb:nun. 3rd. resh. hb:resh. all. yod, hb:yod. chief. virgo (virgo) isis, mighty mother. 2nd. scorpio (scorpio) apophis, destroyer. 3rd. sol (sun) osiris, slain and risen. all. isis, apophis, osiris, iao. all spread arms as if on a cross, and say- the sign of osiris slain! 86 chief bows his head to the left, rises his right arm

ight. aub is an illusory thing of witchcraft("cf" obi, obeah; aud is almost= the kundalini force("odic" force. this illustrates well the difference between the sluggish, viscous 9, and the keen, ecstatic 11. 210. pertains to part ii. see liber 418. 214. rvch, the air, the mind. 220. pertains to part ii. the number of verses in liber legis. 231. the sum of the first 22 numbers, 0 to 21; the sum of the key-numbers of the tarot cards; hence an extension of the idea of 22, q.v. 270. i.n.r.i. see 5= 6 ritual. 280. the sum of the "five letters of severity" those which have a final form- kaph, men, nun, pe, tzaddi. also the number of the squares on the sides of the vault 7 x 40; see 5= 6 ritual. also rp= terror. 300. the letter hb:shin, meaning "tooth" and suggesting by its shape a triple flame

he reasons given in the apocalypse. i took the beast to be the lion (leo my rising sign) and sol, 6,666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary 118 to enter upon in this place. note however that the tarot card of leo, strength, bears the number xi, the great number of the magnum opus, and its interchange with justice, viii; and the key of 8 is 418. this all seemed to me so important that no qabalistic truths were so firmly implanted in my mind at the time when i was ordered to abandon the study of magic and the qabalah as these: 8, 11, 418, 666; combined with the profoundest veneration for 1, 3, 5, 7, 13, 37, 78, 91, 111. i must insist on this at the risk of tautology and over-emphasis; for it is the key to my standard o

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d that the last three aethyrs have ten angels attributed to them, and they therefore represent the ten sephiroth. yet these ten form but one, a malkuth-pendant to the next three, and so on, each set being, as it were, absorbed in the higher. the last set consists, therefore, of the first three aethyrs with the remaining twenty-seven as their malkuth. and the letters of the first three aethyrs are the key-sigils of the most exalted interpretation of the sephiroth. i is therefore kether; l, chokmah and binah; a, chesed; n, geburah; 10 r, tiphereth; z, netzach; n, hod; o, jesod. the geomantic correspondences of the enochian alphabet form a sublime commentary. note that the total angels of the aethyrs are 91, the numeration of amen. the cry of the 28th aethyr, which is called bag there cometh

ies of night, singing, singing prases unto him that is smitten by the thunderbolt of the abyss. is not the sky clear behind the sun? these clouds that burn thee up, these rays that scorch the brains of men with blindness; these are heralds before my face of the dissolution and the night. ye are all blinded by my glory; and though ye treasure in your heart the sacred word that is the last lever of the key to the little door beyond the abyss, yet ye gloss and comment thereupon; for the light itself is but illusion. truth itself is but illusion. yea, these be the great illusions beyond life and space and time. let thy lips blister with my words! are they not meteors in thy brain? back, back from the face of the accursed one, who am i; back into the night of my father, into the silence; for al

aven, thou must accomplish the sevenfold task of the earth, even as thou sawest the angels from the greatest unto the least. and of all this shalt thou take back with thee but a little part, for the sense shall be darkened, and the shrine re-veiled. yet know this for thy reproof, and for the stirring up of discontent in them whose swords are of lath, that in every word of this vision is concealed the key of many mysteries, even of being, and of knowledge, and of bliss; of will, of courage, of wisdom, and of silence, and of that which, being all these, is greater than all these. begone! for the night of life is fallen upon thee. and the veil of light hideth that which is. with that, i suddenly see the world as it is, and i am very sorrowful. bou-saada "november" 28, 1909. 4-6 p.m. 36("note

, that is the sign of the scorpion. the pillars about the neophyte are crowned with flame, and the vault of the adepts is lighted by the rose. and in the abyss is the eye of the hawk. but upon the great sea shall the master of the temple find neither star nor moon. and i was about to answer him "the light is within me" but before i could frame the words, he answered me with the great word that is the key of the abyss. and he said: thou hast entered the night; dost thou yet lust for day? sorrow is my name, and affliction. i am girt about with tribulation. here still hangs the crucified one, and here the mother weeps over the children that she hath not borne. sterility is 73 my name, and desolation. intolerable is thine ache, and incurable thy wound. i said, let the darkness cover me; and be

nd for bread shalt thou eat salt, o thou on the corn of ceres that didst wax fat! for as pure being is pure nothing, so is pure wisdom pure-,11 and so is pure understanding silence, and stillness, and darkness. the eye is called 11 i suppose that only a magus could have heard this word. seventy, and the triple aleph whereby thou perceivest it, divideth into the number of the terrible word that is the key of the abyss. i am hermes, that am sent from the father to expound all things discreetly in these the last words that thou shalt hear before thou take thy seat among these, whose eyes are sealed up, and whose ears are stopped, and whose mouths are clenched, who are folded in upon themselves, the liquor of whose bodies is dried up, so that nothing remains but a little pyramid of dust. and t

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f shining blackness deeper than the night. i then consecrated myself to the operation; cutting the tonsure upon my head, a circle, as it were to admit the light of infinity: and cutting the cross of blood upon my breast, thus symbolising the equilibration of and the slaying of the body, while loosing the blood, the first projection in matter of the universal fluid. the whole formulating the ankh the key of life! i gave moreover the signs of the grades from 0 0 to 7 4 then did i take upon myself the great obligation as follows: i. i, o.m.&c. a member of the body of god, hereby bind myself on behalf of the whole universe, even as we are now physically bound unto the cross of suffering: ii. that i will lead a pure life, as a devoted servant of the order: iii. that i will understand all thi

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 threshold (p.s. this name is a bad one."dweller beside the pylon" is a better term; for he is not in the straight path, which is simple and easy and open. he is never "overcome" to meet him is the proof of having strayed. the key fits the door perfectly; but he who is drunken on the bad wine of sense and thought fumbles thereat. and of course there is a great deal of door, and very little key- hole) who dost use my very love of adonai to destroy me! yet how shall i approach him, if not with reverent 95 joy, with a delicious awe? i must wash his feet with my tears; i must die at his gateway; i must i know not what

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e the sinking sun into the western sea" and we find him now in the goetic kingdoms of sorcery, witchcraft, and infernal necromancy. the bats flit by us as we listen to his frenzied cries for light and knowledge "the spiritual guide" and "the cherubic wanderer" are set aside for "the arbatel" and "the seven mysterious orisons" a hurried turning of many pages, the burning of many candles, and then- the key of solomon for a time is put away, with the grimoires and the rituals, the talismans, and the virgin parchments; the ancient books of the qabalah lie open before him; a flash of brilliant fire, like a silver fish leaping from out the black waters of the sea into 236 the starlight, bewilders him and is gone; for he has opened "the book of concealed mystery" and has read "before there was eq

initiates putrefaction and corruption. the eternal change from life to death, and through death to life, is symbolised in the grass which springs from and is nourished by putrefying and corrupting carcasses. the top of the scythe forms the t, tau-cross of life, showing that what destroys also renews. the scorpion, serpent and eagle delineated before the figure of death in the more ancient form of the key, refer to the mixed transforming (therefore deceptive) nature of this emblem. the scorpion is the emblem of ruthless destruction, the snake is the mixed and deceptive nature, serving alike for good and evil, and the eagle is the higher and divine nature yet to be found herein, the alchemical eagle of distillation, the renewer of life. as it is said "thy youth shall be renewed like the eagl

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pe is an adept, shows conclusively and absolutely the essential unity of body and mind. psychology is still in its infancy; when it attains maturity it will be the most dread enemy that supernaturalism has to face. the subjective view of life is undoubtedly destined to be the predominant one. your reviewer ventures to prophesy that in the science whereof k lpe is a brilliant pioneer will be found the key to the ecstasy that is the vision in all religions. the translator of "outlines" is mr. e. b. titchener. he has succeeded admirably. v.b. neuburg. introduction to philosophy. by oswald k lpe. swan sonnenschein and co, 5"s. an excellent introduction to formal philosophy, explaining clearly the distinctions between the various schools that at present hold the field. the author is extremely c

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control, his concentration of thought and action, his vigour, his patience. you will rarely find them at afternoon tea gossiping about clairvoyance, or even "playing adam" what? you don't know how to play "adam? and you call yourself a sage? tut! the game of "adam" is played as follows. take a key, a bible, an elastic band. 67 open the bible at random till you find a favourable text. there insert the key, leaving the barrel and ring outside. put the elastic band round the book, so as to fix the key firmly in it. balance the whole arrangement by putting your thumb and that of the assistant magus of art under the ring, thumb against thumb (an important but, as i hold, heterodox school of adepts employ the forefinger) keep very still; and ask your question "adam, adam, tell me true! shall i &

nus is the goddess of love> of venus, hb:dalet, is the gateway of initiation: that one planet whose symbol alone embraceth the 10 sephiroth; the entrance to the shrine of our father c.r.c, the tomb of osiris; the god revealer, coming, moreover, by the central path of hb:samekh through the midst of the triangle of light. and the lock which guards that door is as the four gates of the universe. and the key is the ankh, immortal life- the rose and cross of life; and the symbol of venus venus. the following illustration includes a circumscribed equilateral hexagram with solid rays extending to nearly the center. in the original, the hexagram and circle are composed of solid lines. the form given here is an approximation. 3. 6- 5\ x x\ 4/ x x. 1- 2. 7. fig. iii- third symbol. by producing the p

s: 4.3.5.2.5.3.6 (hebrew direction. in the midst is 2, by taro the central will: and this two-lettered word is aleph-taw. on either side of this is the pair of figures 35- 53, balanced one against the other: as though symbolic of the great dawning of life of the "mothers- hb:heh and hb:heh, vitalised by the son (3) as the vice-gerent of his father. these balanced figures together make 16, whereof the key is 7; the total number of letters in the third symbol. then we have left at either end 4 and 6= 10<"vide" sepher yetzirah for this division of the holy sephiroth into a hexad and a tetrad> the perfection of the 177 sephiroth, as if to declare that this verse from, beginning to end thereof reflected the voices from kether even unto malkuth: and 6- 4= 2 again, the central will, hb:bet, thoth

whole universe enclosed in the cosmic egg of hindu and egyptian mythology: and the formulation of the sphere 178 of the universe (or magical mirror in man. as it were the egg of the black swan of time, the kala hamsa, the triune m a u, or word of power or of seb, the bird of life, whose will was heard in the night of time. the total numeric value of the verse is dalet-taw-nun-tet= 4459, of which the key is 22, the number of the paths from hb:aleph to hb:taw; and the key of 22 is 4, the tetractys and the threshold of the universe. now to proceed to what i have termed the time process, the first word of the law then is bet-resh-aleph-shin-yod-taw. now in the hebrew scriptures the first word of a book is also its title. thus genesis is called by the rabbins "b'rasheth" or "in the beginning"

night of brahma was over and done. the next word in the great name of god the vast one: aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal. let us meditate upon its mystery! herein behold 182 five letters: in its centre is the great letter hb:heh, mother supernal. five once more; and its first and last letters are once again aleph-memfinal, 41, the mother, and 5, the maternal essence. and its numeration is 86, whereof the key is 14, whereof the key is 5. wherefore we say that this great name is 5 in its form symbolic. 5 in the heart of its power: the beginning and the end thereof are 5; and 5 is it in its venerable essence! turn now back unto the third symbol; gaze at it steadily for a few moments, and see hidden in the six-fold seal of creation the five-fold star of unconquered will. for this was the divine fo

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he invoking pentagram of water, he says] in the name of hcoma,5 and by the names empeh arsel gaiol,6 i consecrate ye to the service of the magic of light! he places the wine upon the altar, the water he leaves at the north, the oil towards the south, and the brazen vessel of milk on the tripod in the midst of the circle. the magus of art silently recites to herself the exhortation of the lords of the key tablet of union,7 afterwards saying silently: i invoke ye, lords of the key tablet of union, to infuse into these elements of water and fire your mystic powers, and to cast into the midst of these opposing elements the holy powers of the great letter shin: to gleam and shine in the midst of the balance, even in the cauldron of art wherein alike is fire and moisture [after the consecration

u 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 hb:heh hb:vau hb:shin hb:taw hb:yod 17, in the pass-word inri, i declare that i have created thee, a living spirit of this sphere of tzedeq, to do my will, and work thine own salvation! let us analyse the key-word "chief" i "2nd" n "3rd" r "all" i "chief" yod. hb:yod "2nd" nun. hb:nun "3rd" resh. hb:resh "all" yod. hb:yod "chief" virgo, isis, mighty mother "2nd" scorpio, apophis, destroyer "3rd" sol, osiris, slain and risen "all" isis, apophis, osiris. iota alpha omega (all give the sign of the cross "chief, 2nd and 3rd adepts" the sign of osiris slain("chief" l. the sign of the mourning of isi

in the word i. n. r. i. another form of the rose and cross, the crux ansata, is shown to represent the force of the ten sephiroth in nature, divided into a hexad and tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth, and the tau cross the lower four, answering to the four elements. the complete symbol of the rose and cross, which the chief adept carries upon his breast, is then explained to mean "the key of sigils and of rituals; and that it 209 represents the force of the twenty-two letters in nature as divided into a three, a seven and a twelve "many and great are its mysteries" the explanation of the rose and cross being ended, the third adept first explains his wand as having marked on it the colours of the twelve signs of the zodiac between light and darkness, and that it is surmounte

ese are: mars hb:peh, sun hb:resh, mercury hb:bet, venus hb:dalet, moon hb:gemel, saturn hb:taw, jupiter hb:koph [all then face east; the chief adept opens wide the vault and places himself at the head of the pastos, the second adept to the south, and the third adept to the north; they raise their wands in a pyramid formation over the altar, and their "cruces ansatas" below "chief" let us analyse the key word: i "second" n "third" r "all" i "chief" yod: hb:yod "second" nun: hb:nun "third" resh: hb:resh "all" yod: hb:yod "chief" virgo, isis, mighty mother "second" scorpio, apophis, destroyer "third" sol, osiris, slain and risen "all" isis, apophis, osiris, iao [the wands and crosses are separated, all giving the sign of the cross, and saying] 211 the sign of osiris slain["chief" giving the

e sign of the mourning of isis["second" with head erect, gives the v sign] v, the sign of typhon and apophis["third" with bowed head gives the x sign] x, the sign of osiris risen["all" together with the signs of osiris slain and osiris risen] l v x, lux, the light of the cross["all" quit the vault and return to previous places "chief" in the grand word, yeheshuah hhb:vau hb:shin hb:heh hb:yod, by the key word inri, and through the concealed word lvx, i have opened the vault of the adepts [all present give the lux sign as above""first point [the officers in this part of the ceremony are the second adept, who is now the principal officer, the third adept, who is second, and the introducing adept, who is spoken of as v.h. frater hodos camelionis. the "second adept" opens the first point by bi

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music. and if in earthly things the instructions of his master seem contrary to those of mine, at the end it is all one. shall we cry out if caesar for his pleasure commandeth his servants to take one the spear and the other the net, and slay each other? is not service service? is not obedience a sacrament apart from its accidents? however this may be, clear enough it is that mr. waite has indeed the key to certain royal treasuries. unfortunately, just as to face the title- page he gives us the portrait of a man in a frock-coat, so within the book we have the 311 muse in a dress-improver and a bond street hat. never mind; even those who dislike the poetry may love to puzzle out the meaning. detailed criticism is here impossible for lack of two illusions, time and space! i will only add tha

ucid and complete statement of the work of many noble lives. we believe that the s.p.r. has taken up a most admirable position, and wish greater success to their work in the future. if they would only train themselves instead of exercising patience on fraudulent people, whose exploits no sane person would believe if god himself came down from heaven to attest them, they might get somewhere. a. c. the key to the tarot. by a. e. waite. w. rider and sons, limited. mr. waite has written a book on fortune-telling, and we advise servant- girls to keep an eye on their half-crowns. we have little sympathy or pity for the folly of fashionable women; but housemaids need protection_ hence their affection for policemen and soldiers_ and we fear that mr. waite's apologies will not prevent professional

ns, though our own austerer taste would have preferred the plain cards with their astrological and other attributions, and occult titles (these are all published in the book "777" and a pack could be easily constructed by hand. perhaps we may one day publish one at a shilling a time) but mr. waite has not "betrayed" the true attributions of the trumps. they are obvious, though, the moment one has the key (see "777. still, pamela coleman smith has evidently been hampered; her designs are cramped and forced. i am infinitely sorry for any artist who tries to draw after dipping her hands in the gluey dogma of so insufferable a dolt and prig. mr. waite, i believe, is perfectly competent to produce indefinite quantities of malted milk to the satisfaction of all parties; but when it comes to gett

le through thee, through thee, my strength is but as a dove's down floating forth on the purple nipples of the storm. 5. o thou crown d giant among great giants, thou crimson-sworded soldier of war! yea, as i battle with thee, thou masterest me as a lion that slayeth a babe that is cradled in lilies. 10 6. o thou shadowy vista of darkness, thou cryptic book of the fir-clad hills! yea, as i search the key of thy house i find my hope but as a rushlight sheltered in the hands of a little child. 7. o thou great labour of the firmament, thou tempest-tossed roaring of the aires! yea, as i sink in the depths of thine affliction, mine anguish is but as the smile on the lips of a sleeping babe. 8. o thou depths of the inconceivable, thou cryptic, unutterable god! yea, as i attempt to understand the

ughout, with introduction by a. e. waite. crown 8vo, ornamental cloth gilt, gilt tops, 384 pp, profusely illustrated, 6s. net. a pack of 78 tarot cards: exquisitely drawn and coloured, from new and original designs by pamela coleman smith. each card has a separate allegorical meaning. this is without question the finest and most artistic pack that has ever been produced. price 6s. net, post free. the key to the tarot: giving the history of the tarot cards, their allegorical meaning and the methods of divination for which they are adapted. by arthur edward waite. royal 32mo, cloth gilt, 2s. net. essential to the interpretation of the tarot cards. the cards and key will be supplied in neat box for 8s. post free. psychic philosophy, as the foundation of a religion of natural causes. by v. c

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atural causes, they attributed to it a cause external to man, and even to-day, leaving out of account oneiromancers and the fooleries of a philosophical school which sees in dreams of this type sometimes a reproach, sometimes a warning; in short, a symbolic and moral picture begotten in the spirit itself of the sleeper. it is a dictionary which one must study; a language of which sages may obtain the key. in the intoxication of hashish there is nothing like this. we shall not go outside the class of natural dream. the drunkenness, throughout its duration, it is true, will be nothing but an immense dream, thanks to the intensity of its colours and the rapidity of its conceptions. but it will always keep the idiosyncrasy of the individual. the man has desired to dream; the dream will govern

ned them all like a flash; their joy boiled over "this "r le" may be good for you" said he "but for me, no "it is good for us; that is all we care about" replies egoistically one of the revellers. not knowing whether he is dealing with genuine madmen or only with people who are pretending to be mad, our friend thinks that the part of discretion is to go away; but somebody shuts the door and hides the key. another, kneeling before him, asks his pardon, in the name of the company, and declares insolently, but with tears, that despite his mental inferiority, which perhaps excites a little pity, they are all filled with a profound friendship for him. he makes up his mind to remain, and even condescends, after pressure, to play a little music. but the sounds of the violin, spreading themselves

weak charioteer wins the race; but on account of his weakness he is often carried past the winning-post by the steeds that have given him the victory, and, unable to hold them back, he is dashed against the walls of the arena, whilst the strong man passing the judges turns his chariot round and receives the crown of victory, or if not that, is ever ready to race again. 142 to learn how to will is the key to the kingdom, the door of which as we have seen contains two locks, or rather two bolts in one lock, one turning to the right and the other to the left. either pile up the imagination with image upon image until the very kingdom of god is taken by assault; or withdrawn one symbol after another until the walls are undermined and the "cloud-capped towers" come tumbling to the ground. in ei

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ht- nor counted the cost- for the secret of things. science is baffled, for knowledge hath no wings! religion is baffled, for faith hath no feet! life itself- of what value is all this coil and tumult? who shall give me the secret? what is the secret [todd "whispers in his ear" why, thanks, thanks! what a fool i have been! i have always known who you were, of course, but how could i guess you had the key of things? simple as a b c- or, rather, as a! and nothing to pay after all "for of all gods you only love not gifts["ushers" todd "to the door] i follow you [todd "smiles kindly on him. they go out["the child turns; and, finding himself alone, begins to cry" charley. my nice man has gone away. old todd has taken him away. i think i hate that old todd["enter" todd. 234 i hate you! i hate yo

a poet received her favours, and his head, bowed and weighted with its spongy amorphous magic, rested on me like a honeycomb, all giddy and vibrant with perfume and emotion "and once an old mother's head, gray and weary with its long rolling down the years, found on me the unexpected peace and happiness of the old. for the old are so lonely, and no one is their friend. so, my brothers, i give you the key of all her secrets except that secret which she shares with time and herself "i can make all plain except my own mystery, which is the tragedy of everyone, worm, or man, or god "blaspheme no more in such childish, imitative fashion! 323 you are nearer the world than i, and its weak vanity has stained you. the eye looks at the world, and the world looks at the eye, and though each learns fr

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gift of grace? keep thou yet firm this trembling leaf my soul, dear god who died for men; yea! for that sinner-soul the chief, sir palamede the saracen" 77 xxx starred is the blackness of the sky; wide is the sweep of the cold plain where good sir palamede doth lie, keen on the beast-slot once again. all day he rode; all night he lay with eyes wide open to the stars, seeking in many a secret way the key to unlock his prison bars. beneath him, hark! the marvel sounds! the beast that questeth horribly. as if a thirty couple hounds are in his belly questeth he. beneath him? heareth he aright? he leaps to'sfeet- a wonder shews: steep dips a stairway from the light to what obscurity god knows. still never a tremor shakes his soul (god praise thee, knight of adamant; he plungers to that gruesom

red, and signed by the author. the binding will be half-parchment with crimson sides; the ordinary copies will be bound in crimson cloth. occultism to the readers of "the equinox- all who are interested in occult and masonic lore should write to frank hollings for his catalogue of over 1,000 volumes. sent post free on receipt of name and address, and all future issues. a few selected items below. the key of solomon the king (clavicula salomonis, translated and edited from ancient mss. in the british museum, by s. liddell macgregor mathers, author of "the kabbalah unveiled" the tarot" etc "with plates" crown 4to "cloth" 21"s "net" the key of solomon gives full, clear, and concise instructions for talismanic and ceremonial magic, as well as for the practical part of occultism. besides seals

word, realisation, imitation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the stone of the philosophers, the universal medicine, divination, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram. medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the thaumaturge, the science of the prophets, the book of hermes, etc "occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse, or godmother of all intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities, and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it

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ust now digress in order to five some account of the eastern theories of the universe and the mind. their study will clarify our view of frater p's progress. the reader is advised to study chapter vii of captain j. f. c. fuller's "star in the west" in connection with this exposition. 47 4 lost under dramatic circumstances at frater p. a.'s house in 1909. the agnostic position direct experience is the key to yoga; direct experience of that soul (atman) or essence (purusha) which acting upon energy (pr na, and substance (ak sa) differentiates a plant from a stone, an animal from a plant, a man from an animal, a man from a man, and man from god, yet which ultimately is the underlying equilibrium of all things; for as the bhaga-vad-g ta says "equilibrium is called yoga" chemically the various

shiva sanhita" chap. 1. 36 besides these, there are several lesser known yogas, for the most part variant of the above such as: asht nga, laya, and t raka. see "hatha-yoga pradipika" p. iii. 37 the "bhagavad-g ta" fifth discourse, 2-5. 38 "ibid" second discourse, 53. 39 "ibid" ninth discourse, 27, 34. that p. as yet had never fully experienced; and he, realizing this, it came about that when once the key of yoga was proffered him, he preferred to open the door of renunciation and close that of action, and to abandon the western methods by the means of which he had already advanced so far rather than to continue in them. this in itself was the first great sacrifice which he made upon the path of renunciation- to abandon all that he had as yet attained to, to cut himself off from the world

ne only, manifold, subtle, lively, clear, undefiled, plain, not subject to hurt, loving the thing that is good, quick, which cannot be letted, ready to do good. for wisdom is more moving than any motion; she passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her pureness. for she is the breath of the power of god (chap. vii, 22, 24, 25) 42 "yoga or transformation" p. 196. control, or restraint, is the key to karma yoga; weakness is its damnation. of the karma yogi vivek nanda writes "he goes through the streets of a big city with all their traffic, and his mind is as calm as if he were in a cave, where not a sound could reach him; and he is intensely working all the time "karma yoga" p. 17 "aum tat sat aum "namo shivaya namaha aum" the pranava aum43 plays an important part throughout the wh

here fore it is that all the great masters have set the task of courage before that of endeavour.57 he who "dares" to "will" will "will" to know, and knowing will keep silence;58 for even to such as have entered the supreme order, there is not way found whereby they may break the stillness and communicate to those who have not ceased to hear.59 the guardian of the temple is adonai, he alone holds the key of the portal, seek it of him, for there is none other that can open for thee the door. now to dare much is to will a little, so it comes about that though hatha yoga is the physical yoga which teaches the aspirant how to control his body, yet is it also raja yoga 77 which teach him how to control his mind. little by little, as the body comes under control, does the mind assert its sway ov

e of his body. by (91) drinking it he will fill his whole body with life, and "even though he is bitten by the serpent takshaka, the poison does not spread throughout his body."97 further the "hatha yoga pradipika" informs us that "when one has closed the hole at the root of the palate. his seminal fluid is not emitted even through he is embraced by a young and passionate woman" now this gives us the key to the whole of this lunar symbolism, and we find that the soma-juice of the moon, dew, nectar, semen and vital force are but various names for one and the same substance, and that if the vindu can be retained in the body it may by certain practices which we will now discuss, be utilized in not only strengthening but in prolonging this life to an indefinite period.98 these practices are ca

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word, realsation, initiation, the kabbalah, the magic chain, necromancy, transmutations, black magic, bewitchments, astrology, charms and philtres, the stone of the philosophers, the universal medicine, divination, the triangle of pantacles, the conjuration of the four, the blazing pentagram, medium and mediator, the septenary of talismans, a warning to the imprudent, the ceremonial of initiates, the key of occultism, the sabbath of the sorcerers, witchcraft and spells, the writing of the stars, philtres and magnetism, the mastery of the sun, the thaumaturge, the science of the prophets, the book of hermes, etc. book of the sacred magic (the) of abra-melin the mage, as delivered by abraham the jew unto his son lamech, a.d. 1458. translated from the original hebrew into french, and now rend

evi. nostrodamus- the true prophecies and prognostications of michael nostrodamus, physician to henry ii, francis ii, and charles ix, kings of france, and one of the best astronomers that ever were; a work full of curiosity and learning, translated and commented by theophilus garienceres, m.d. folio "fine portrait frontispiece by dolle, orig. calf, fine sound copy, rare in this state" 1672. 45"s" the key of solomon the king (clavicula salomonis, translated and edited from ancient mss. in the british museum, by s. liddell macgregor-mathers, author of "the kabbalah unveiled "the tarot" etc "with plates" crown 4to "cloth" 21"s. net" the key of solomon gives full, clear, and concise instructions for talismanic and ceremonial magic, as well as for performing various evocations; and it is theref

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at revelation is a book of initiation is not altogether new to freemasons, as the late dr geo. oliver elaborated that view at considerable length, but mr pryse's view is quite a different sort of initiation; it is the development of the semi-miraculous powers of the gnosis of clement, origen, and the early christian church, the birth of the divine three principles, the crestos, in the human soul. the key to this "unsealing" is the text itself, in which is found the nos. 333, 444, 666, 777, 888, 999, 1000, as applied to the seven principal "chakras" of the human body, as taught by greek yogis. apart altogether from the possession of a reliable literal translation of the book, there are seventy-five pages upon the development of the "kundalini" and each subject is followed in the text by a c

e to the conventional theologian, yet easily comprehended by the esoteric initiate "i.e" by him who possesses the gnosis, and that the drama is perfect in all its parts. i may add that most of this class of initiative books had a double interpretation, and hence that the same may be equally found in the apocalypse, but into this mr pryse does not enter. john yarker. mr pryse has undoubtedly found the key of the apocalypse, and many of his interpretations are profound and accurate. but he is afflicted by sexual mania to an extent positively shocking, and does not understand the harmony of the principles. adeptship is balanced growth, not lopping. a rose dies if you remove the root and stalk, mr pryse! he is unfortunately a poor scholar, and has developed the american literary sense to an in

ma-iota-alpha "impotence, lack of control" as "sensuality" gr:alpha-gamma-gamma-epsilon-lambda-omicron-sigma as "divinity" and gives us "saucers" for "vials! unfortunately, too, he has studied eastern mysticism at second-hand, through theosophical spectacles. nor has he kept even to blavatsky the genius, but relied upon her commentators, who had neither her learning nor her experience. but he has the key, and it opens the way for a real study of "st john" by a person of greater ability. it is a very remarkable fact, however, that akrasia (333) and akolasia (333) should so accurately describe choronzon (333. no higher test of the truth of "the vision and the voice" could be desired. again, 666 is gr:'eta phi-rho-eta-nu, not the lower mind, as mr pryse unhellenically says, but tiphereth, the

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itches' circle. maxine beside the altar alex honours the goddess maxine inside the circle breathing life into the fith-fath the witches' dance walking to covenstead calling down the power the symbolic sex act the witches' altar passing the pentacle around the circle the witches fall to the ground fertility rites the black mass athamll book of shadows coven covens'read esbat esp familiar fith-fath the key of solomon measure pentacle sabbat tarot card voodoo warlock wicca witch wizard the witch's black-hilted knife. with book of rules, written in witch's own handwriting and copied by successive generations, group ofwitches. meeting place of a coven small meeting, not necessarily of a full coven. extra-sensory perception a massofenergy or power raised by the witches and sent to work their wil

nstead, anyone claiming to be able to work magic by witchcraft could be sent to prison for a year, during which he had to spend a whole day per quarter in the pillory of the nearest market square. the persecutorsand witch-prickers had done their work well. the books of magic, or 'grimoires' as they were called, were seized upon by collectors-many of the witches' closest secrets were discovered in the key of solomon, a copy of which is preserved in the british museum. clutching the remnants of their faith, the survivors of the witch-hunts went underground. but not for long. eliphas levi was born in france in 1810. roman catholic priest and magician, levi was not ashamed to announce that he was a witch and could conjure up spirits. later he revealed his methods to an english occult group led

his grandmother. when a classmate boasted of a spanish rapier his father had bought, alex could not resist mentioning his grandmother's swords 'go on, you're a liar' jeered his classmate. alex was too small and thin to fight, so he marched his friend to gran's house, told him to keep quiet, and led him into the empty kitchen. he knew how to operate the double-lock on the chest. as he was turning the key, gran came in. she had been in the front room and had seen them coming up the street. she fetched him a clout across his head that made his ears rmg 'you're never to bring boys in here again, do you hear' alex nodded silently, and when his companion had gone, gran made him promise never to open the chest again without her permission. alex did not forget, but not long afterwards his school

friends' house after work to teach and train them, but he wished that he could find means of furthering his witch knowledge. beyond his grandmother's teachingsso that he nlightincorporate witchcraft with magic, making them both.more potent. he voiced his tho.ughts to bill, who advised him to go to the rylands library in manchester 'i've heard they have priceless old manuscripts and even a copy of the key of salomon. isn't that a sort of witches' manual .he asked. alex confirmed that the key of solomon was one of the few storehouses of witchcraft to have come down through the ages very much in its original form, and admitted that he had had no idea there were any copies in existence outside the british museum. the next day alex was called to his manager's office and told that his services w

floor, then he must make his way to the sub-basement where, in a maze of tunnels, each brightly lit and subdivided into smaller tunnels, he could begin his secret work of harvesting the knowledge he sought. it took him a few days to find the egyptian section. from then on few books were dusted, as alex filled notebook after notebook with details of rituals, invocations and plans. the day he found the key of solomon he forgot to go for his lunch, so engrossed was he in the chants, many of which had been used by his grandmother in her esbats and sabbaths. the other books were discarded; this was die real key, for it married the knowledge he had to that which he had hoped for. but he wondered how he would ever manage to copy it all- 62 it would take years to draw the many pentacles and elabor

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goddess, we invite you to our meeting (pause) o thou loving cerridwen. o thou mighty cernunnos, we gather (i stand) before you to (state intent) the circle is now perfect. notes adapted from farrars' eight sabbats for witches, but published all over the place in several versions. l l 'lighting of candle' added by khaled, sekhet& random 'exorcism of water 'blessing of salt' closely follow those of the key of solomon, book 2, chapt. v. l closing the circle when the circle's work is done, r goes to the east, athame in hand, salutes, and draws a banishing earth pentagram, saying: r: ye lords of the watchtowers of the east, ye lords of air, we thank you for attending our rites; and ere ye depart to your beauteous realms, we bid thee hail and farewell. all: hail and farewell (r extinguishes quar

farrar's the witches way l they say it comes from gbg's bos (text b/c version) they say that he derived it from the greater key of solomon, but had dropped the hebrew and other magical names by text b (they were in text a. l see key of solomon book 2, chapt. viii. 1st conjuration follows the text closely, but 2nd and instructions differ. l the farrars say that gbg's text a version can be found in the key of solomon and high magic's aid l consecrating other working tools (except a sword or athame) place tool on pentacle, and lay right hand(s) on it, saying: aradia and cernunnos, deign to bless and to consecrate this white-hilted knife (or whatever) that it may obtain the necessary virtue through you for all acts of love and beauty. magus sprinkles, witch censes. then say: aradia and cernunn

must be purified, clean and properly prepared. when not in use, all tools and weapons should be put away in a secret place; and it is good that this should be near your sleeping place, and that you handle them each night before retiring. notes l published in janet and stewart farrar's the witches' way l they say it comes from gbg's bos (text b/c) l they say gbg's original (text a) may be found in the key of solomon and in high magic's aid. the charge to new initiates o thou who hast declared intent to become one of us, hear then that which thou must know to do: single is the race, single of men and of gods, from a single source we both draw breath, but a difference of power in everything keeps us apart, for we are as nothing but the gods stay forever. yet we can, in greatness of minds, be

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

which we control action. group problems are many; why should there be suffering, starvation, and pain? why should the world as a whole be in the thrall of direst poverty, of sickness, of discomfort? what is the purpose underlying all that we see around us, and what will be the outcome of world affairs viewing them as a whole? what is the destiny of the human race, what is its origin, and what is the key to its present condition? is there more than this one life, and is the sole interest to be found in that which is apparent and material? such queries pass through all our minds at various times, and have passed through the minds of thinkers right down through the centuries. there have been many attempts to reply to these questions, and as we study them we find that the- 3- the consciousnes

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

to seize upon any data that seems to affect our own welfare, and concerns our own evolution, and from the study of the human being in the three worlds seek to understand somewhat the macrocosm. we know not how the one can become the three, the three become the seven, and so proceed to inconceivable differentiation. to human vision this interweaving of the system forms an unimaginable complexity, the key to which seems not to be forthcoming. seen from the angle of a master we know that all proceeds in ordered sequence. seen from the angle of divine vision the whole will move in harmonious unison, producing a form geometrically accurate. browning had hold of a part of this truth when he wrote "all's change, but permanence as well..and continued "truth inside, and outside, truth also; and be

e pairs of opposites are known- 10- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust and the secret of good and evil is revealed. it leads to the cross and to that utter sacrifice which must transpire before perfect liberation is attained, and the initiate stands free of all earth's fetters, held by naught in the three worlds. it leads through the hall of wisdom, and puts into a man's hands the key to all information, systemic and cosmic, in graduated sequence. it reveals the hidden mystery that lies at the heart of the solar system. it leads from one state of consciousness to another. as each state is entered the horizon enlarges, the vista extends, and the comprehension includes more and more, until the expansion reaches a point where the self embraces all selves, including all tha

t into closer relationship with the two masters with whom they are concerned (their own inner god and their personal master, the inability to cooperate and to merge their interests in the good of the group will pass away, and community of endeavour, similarity of object, and mutual co-operation will take the place of what is now so much seen, divergence. we might well ponder on this, for it holds the key to much that is puzzling and, to many, distressing- 47- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust chapter ix the path of initiation after a longer or shorter period of time the disciple stands at the portal of initiation. we must remember that as one approaches this portal and draws nearer to the master it is, as says "light on the path" with the feet bathed in the blood of th

of the second aspect in form building, in social relations, and in family affiliations. he comes to the recognition of sex and its relations, but as yet views this force as something to be controlled, but not consciously and constructively utilised. c. in the hall of wisdom he comes to the knowledge of the first aspect of energy, the dynamic use of will in sacrifice, and to him is then committed the key to the threefold mystery of energy. this energy in its threefold aspect he became aware of, in the other two halls. at the third initiation, and at the fourth and fifth, the three keys to the three mysteries are given to him. the key to the mystery sensed in the first hall, the mystery of brahma, is handed to him, and he can then unlock the hidden energies of atomic substance. the key to t

imparted, and the progress which the initiate has made in the study of the law of analogy, he can comprehend the manipulation of the same forces on a vastly larger scale in the planetary scheme and in the solar system. the method of development in the three earlier rounds is revealed to him, and he understands, practically as well as theoretically, the evolutionary process in its earlier stages. the key to the three lower kingdoms of nature is in his hands, and certain ideas anent the subject of polarity, of at-one-ment, and essential union, are beginning to come within his range of consciousness, only waiting for the fourth initiation to complete the revelation. this secret of electricity, which is essentially triple in its nature, deals with the brahma or third aspect, and is called som

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

the fire within, the fire without, meet with the fire ascending. the guardians of the cosmic fire, the devas of fohatic heat, watched o'er the forms that formless stood, waiting a point in time. the builders of a lesser grade, devas who work with matter, wrought at the forms. they stood in fourfold order. upon the threefold levels in empty silence stood the forms. they vibrated, they responded to the key, yet useless stood and uninhabited "aum" said the mighty one "let the waters too bring forth" the builders of the watery sphere, the denizens of moisture, produced the forms that move within the kingdom of varuna. they grew and multiplied. in constant flux they swayed. each ebb of cosmic motion increased the endless flow. the ripple of the forms was seen "aum" said the mighty one "let the

races have been influenced, and certain kingdoms of nature troubled by planetary etheric congestion, or the destruction of- 61- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust planetary etheric tissue. we have dealt with the functional and organic ills of the etheric, giving certain indications for the extension of the concept to other realms than the purely human. in the human kingdom lies the key, but the turning of that key opens up a door to a wider interpretation as it admits one into the mysteries of nature. though that key has to be turned seven times, yet even one turn reveals untold avenues of eventual comprehension.47,(43)48 we have considered the reception and distribution of pranic emanations in man, the planet, and the system, and have seen what produces temporary disord

will or power are synthesised on the atomic subplane of the atmic. all three groups of monads work in triple form on the mental plane under the mahachohan, the manu, and the bodhisattva, or the christ; on the second or monadic plane they work as a unit, only demonstrating their dual work on the atmic plane, and their essential triplicity on the buddhic plane.55(50) the fourth etheric plane holds the key to the dominance of matter, and it might be noted that: on the fourth physical ether man begins to co-ordinate his astral, or emotional body, and to escape at ever more frequent intervals into that vehicle. continuity of consciousness is achieved when a man has mastered the four ethers. on the fourth subplane of the mental plane, man begins to control his causal or egoic body, and to polar

or purpose, hid in the will consciousness of the supreme being, which perforce will be later demonstrated when the present objective is attained. the dual alternation of objective manifestation and of subjective obscuration, the periodic out-breathing, followed by the in-breathing of all that has been carried forward through evolution embodies in the system one of the basic cosmic vibrations, and the key-note of that cosmic entity whose body we are. the heart beats of the logos (if it might be so inadequately expressed) are the source of all cyclic evolution, and hence the importance attached to that aspect of development called the "heart" or "love aspect" and the interest that is awakened by the study of rhythm. this is true, not only cosmically and macrocosmically, but likewise in the s

ascribed to the lowest plane of evolution, and of each of the five planes. on this seventh or lowest plane man has to come to full cognisance of the effect of the sacred word as it is in process of sounding forth. as it reverberates throughout the system, it drives matter into its appointed place, and on the physical plane finds its point of deepest materiality and of most concrete demonstration. the key for man to discover and turn, concerns itself with the revealing of the mystery of: a. his own sound. b. his brother's sound. c. his group sound. d. the sound of that one of the heavenly men with whom he is connected. e. the sound of the logos, or the sound of nature; of the solar system, of the grand man of the heavens. therefore, we note that on the physical plane a man has to find his o

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

with those forms of unfoldment and of control which eventuate in what has been called "gracious peace" we have seen that correct group relations and rhythmic living will produce that condition wherein stillness of the vehicles or of the sheaths is attained, and the lower man can then adequately reflect the higher or spiritual man. now we touch upon certain aspects of the raja yoga philosophy and the key to the understanding of this sutra is found in the word detachment. the aspirant (as he makes his sense contacts and through the medium of the five senses comes into touch with the phenomenal world) will gradually assume more and more the position of onlooker. his consciousness therefore shifts slowly out of the realm of the sense vehicles into that of the "dweller in the body" it is inter

hich is not the mind nor any of the sheaths, can transmit to the physical brain unerringly, accurately and without mistake, that which is perceived in the light of the shekinah which streams from the holy of holies into which the man has succeeded in entering. the truth is known and the cause of every form in all the kingdoms of nature stands revealed. this is the revelation of the true magic and the key to the great magical work in which all true yogis and adepts participate. 49. this particular perception is unique and reveals that which the rational mind (using testimony, inference and deduction) cannot reveal. the meaning here might be stated to be that the mind of man in its various aspects and uses can reveal those things which concern objectivity, but only identification with the sp

man, the spectator, perceiver or thinker is the sum total of all perception, be it through the avenues of the senses or of the lower mind; he is in himself knowledge, clear vision or true perception. all that exists in the three worlds exists because of and for him; he is the cause of its being and when he no longer seeks it or endeavours to vision it, for him it exists not. this sutra is one of the key verses in the book, and gives the clue to the entire science of yoga. certain thoughts lie hid in its formulation which cover the whole ground of this science and students would do well to give much attention to this. it has a mantric effect and if stated as an affirmation and used constantly by the aspirant will eventually demonstrate to him the truth of the statement that "as a man think

the most important parts of the etheric body (the centres up the spine) so will be the corresponding activity of the physical body. similarly and symbolically, according to the wholeness of the breathing apparatus, and according to the ability of that apparatus to oxygenate and render pure the blood, so will be the health or wholeness of the dense physical body. it should also be remembered that the key to the just response of the lower to the higher, lies in rhythm, and in the ability of the physical body to respond or vibrate in rhythmic unison with the etheric body. students have found out that this is much facilitated by steady even breathing, and the majority of the breathing exercises when emphasized to the exclusion of the previous three means to yoga (the commandments, rules and p

the other means also. the study of the parallelism in nature is of value here. ii. the astrological significance is also hinted at here in the three words "place, time, and number" in these words the universal triplicities must be recognized, and right control of the life currents must be seen to be related to karma, opportunity and form; there are certain words which when rightly understood give the key to all practical occultism and make the yogi a master of life. they are: sound. number. colour. form word. life. light. body and these are recognized as subject to the space-idea and the time-element. it should be borne in mind, in this connection, that "space is the first entity (secret doctrine i. 583) and that cyclic manifestation is the law of life. when this is recognized, the entity

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

discovers his relation to the universe; he finds that his physical body and his vital energies are part and parcel of nature itself, which is, in fact, the outer garment of deity; he finds that his ability to love and to feel makes him aware of the love that pulses at the heart of all creation; and he discovers that- 24- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust his mind can give him the key which unlocks for him the door of understanding and that he can enter into the purposes and the plans which guide the mind of god himself. in fact, he arrives at god and discovers god as the central fact. knowing himself to be divine, he finds the whole is equally divine. dr. f. kirtley mather of harvard university has said in a most illuminating article "that there is an administration of

word psychology will return to its original meaning is at hand. education will then have two functions. it will fit man to handle his worldly contacts with the greatest efficiency and use intelligently that apparatus which the behaviorists have done so much to explain, and it will also initiate him into the realm to which the mystics have always testified and to which the mind rightly used holds the key. in the preceding chapter the method was dealt with through which a man could begin to be master of his instrument, the mind, and learn so to focus his thought upon a chosen theme or idea that he could close out all outer concepts and shut the door entirely on the phenomenal world. we shall consider the manner how he could carry his focussed thought higher and higher (to use the language o

l. we refuse the passage of any information from the world of ordinary phenomena. this has been brought about through right concentration and meditation. this achieved, there ensues the interlude wherein the man knows himself to be a soul, dwelling in the eternal and freed from the limitations of form. this interlude is necessarily brief at first but as progress in control develops, it lengthens. the key to the whole process is the sustained concentration and attention of the mind "whilst the soul, the spiritual man, the perceiving being, contemplates" in a former book i have dealt more fully with this use of the mind as the instrument of the soul, and will repeat one paragraph here "it should be made clear, however, that the perceiver on his own plane has always been aware of that which i

too direct and efficacious until such time as the workman knows exactly what he is about. one cannot play up to the ego and continue long to act the part before men. the end of that is disease and desperate fatigue and loss of the way while shouting it to others. this is not a matter of getting something to show men. it is a matter of understanding what we are made of as personalities; of sensing the key to a new potency altogether and of rendering with ardent entirety the whole human nature to the game of reaching and turning that key. i realize that this paragraph touching the 'i am god' meditation contains a lure as well as a warning. it is quite true that the time must come for all of us when we shall operate from the office of the ego, instead of from the personality, but a fine integ

just as divine as feeling? of course, this way- 103- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust does involve hard work, particularly at first. but it can be done, if the initial laziness can be overcome, and those who have achieved know of its supreme value. in concluding this attempt to indicate the initial work that the aspirant to this way has to undertake, it should be noted that the key to success lies in constant and unremitting practice. often, in our work with students all over the world, we find the brilliant mind coming out second, because it lacks persevering effort, and the more ordinary mind suddenly breaking through into the realm of ascertained knowledge and leaving its more brilliant brother behind, because it possesses the capacity to keep on going on. sporadi

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

is at the disposal of the earnest aspirant; and the wideness of the vision which i can impart (owing to my having climbed higher up the mountain than some) is my main contribution. upon these points the students are at liberty to ponder, omitting idle speculation as to the exact details of unimportant personalities, and environing conditions. our theme is to be that of the magic of the soul, and the key thought, underlying all that may appear in this book, is to be found in the words of the bhagavad gita which runs as follows "though i am unborn, the soul that passes not away, though i am the lord of beings, yet as lord over my nature i become manifest, through the magical power of the soul" gita iv.6. the statistical and the academic is a necessary basis and a preliminary step for most s

erature, painting, music, or in group organization and executive work there is no harm wrought, for the energy finds a normal creative outlet. these points should he remembered by the aspirant. he is facing a most complex problem. he enters blindly into a situation which is- 117- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the result of a long evolutionary process and to which he has not the key. especially in the early stages and prior to the first initiation is this the case, for he has no knowledge of the history of the past, nor any prevision as to the future. he has simply to take his equipment and his opportunity and do the best he can, guided by the age-old rules of raja yoga, and the light of his own soul. as the heart centre is awakened and the throat centre swings into c

opens; they are driven forth and lose their master- 123- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the work of the eye the work of the eye we have for consideration now one of the simplest of the rules for magic yet at the same time one of the most practical, and one upon which the entire success of all magical work depends. i would like to point out to the investigating aspirant that the key to the situation depicted in the rule lies in the word contemplation found in the preceding one. let us therefore study that word with care and seek its accurate definition. to contemplate involves steady vision, one-pointedly directed towards a specific objective. the soul or solar angel might be regarded as gazing in three directions. 1. towards the light supernal, towards that central l

scension takes place. as the pulsating life progresses its rate of vibration changes, and in this changing of vibration lies hid the secret of form-shattering and form-building. forms are of four kinds in this era of the fourth round: 1. the form of the personality, that vehicle of physical, astral and mental matter that provides the means of contact in the three worlds. it is built in each life, the key of the vibration being set up in the life preceding the present. that form proves adequate for the average man and serves him till death. the man who is entering on the occult path starts with the vehicle provided, but during incarnation builds for himself ever a newer and better vehicle, and the more progressed he- 151- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust is the more cons

he astral. higher still may be the form of his devotion, love of art, or science or philosophy, the life religious, scientific, or artistic to them he consecrates his energies, physical, astral and mental, and always the form is that of devotion. always the vibration measures up to the goal, finds that goal, passes it and disintegrates. pain enters into all shattering of the form, and changing of the key. many lives, for millennia of years, are spent under the lower vibrations. as evolution progresses, more rapid is the development, and the key changes from life to life, whereas in the earlier stages one key or tone might be sounded for several lives in their entirety. as a man nears the path, the probationary path becomes strewn with many shattered forms, and from lesser cycle to lesser c

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

dynamic intensity that we call it the ray of the destroyer. it is not as yet functioning actively. it will come into full play only when the time comes for the purpose to be safely revealed. its units of energy in manifestation in the human kingdom are very few. as i earlier said, there is not a true first ray type in incarnation as yet. its main potency is to be found in the mineral kingdom, and the key to the mystery of the first ray is to be found in radium. in the vegetable kingdom the second ray is peculiarly active, producing among other things the magnetic attractiveness of flowers. the mystery of the second ray is found to be hidden in the significance of the perfume of flowers. perfume and radium are related, being emanatory- 32- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric ps

r of wrath the keeper of the magical word the temple guardian the representative of god the one who lifts to life the lord of death the one who feeds the sacred fire the whirling sphere the sword of the initiator- 61- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the divine alchemical worker the builder of the square the orienting force the fiery unifier the key to the mystery the expression of the will the revealer of beauty this ray lord has a peculiar power on earth and on the physical plane of divine manifestation. his usefulness to his six brothers is therefore apparent. he makes their work appear. he is the most active of all the rays in this world period, and is never out of manifestation for more than fifteen hundred years. it is almost as

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

murder, and he is duly punished. father christmas is the embodiment of that which is selfless; he is the symbol of giving and of the christ spirit; he therefore stands to man as a reminder of god, just as this other figment of the imagination, the devil with horns and tail, is a reminder of that which is not god, that which is- 71- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust not divine "the key is supplied by mythology. the myths demand a serious interpretation in correspondence with objective reality, they must not be treated as pure poetry without any solid truth behind them, a mere play of the imagination! the garment which clothes the substance may be as fabulous, as fantastic, as inconsistent and as patchy as you please. but this does not alter the fact that popular mytholog

d a refusal of love. the psychologists do not escape from this view of sin when they deal with it as moral disease, for their one hope of treating such moral disease successfully rests in an attempt to awaken the latent personal resources of the ego, through processes in themselves personal. where, as in certain of the major psychoses, this appeal cannot be made, there is no human hope of a cure. the key to psychological healing lies in the transference and there is the closest possible parallel between this and the christian way of forgiveness. both methods are wholly personal, both depend upon a readjustment of relationships which begins at priest or physician and passes out into every relationship of the social environment [italics are mine. a.a.b.]35 the sense of responsibility for one

and the terror which the angel of death inspires, will disappear. they will vanish because we shall regard death as only another step on the way towards light and life, and shall realise that, as the christ life expresses itself in and through human beings, they will demonstrate to themselves, and in the world, the reality of immortality- 143- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust the key to the overcoming of death and to the processes of realising the meaning and nature of eternity and the continuity of life can with safety be revealed only when love holds sway over the human consciousness, and where the good of the whole, and not the selfish good of the individual, comes to be the supreme regard. only through love (and service as the expression of love) can the real messa

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

om for the spirit of criticism and the spreading of destructive discussion. it is for this reason and in order to develop a group of servers who can work along true and spiritual lines, that there must be increasing emphasis upon the need for harmlessness. harmlessness prepares the way for the inflow of life; harmlessness dissipates the obstructions to the free outpouring of love; harmlessness is the key to the release of the lower nature from the grip of the world illusion- 80- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust and from the power of phenomenal existence. we have expressed our belief that one of the major sciences of the coming age will be built up around the active rendering of service. we have used the word "science" because servic

er spiritual laws, finding their way into the lower consciousness via the egoic lotus and the antaskarana. this statement is the second basic postulate in connection with our study of this law of repulse, the first postulate being the earlier statement that unless there is a thread of light to act as a channel, that which this law conveys will remain unknown and unrealised. these six laws give us the key to the entire psychological problem of every human being, and there is no condition which is not produced by the conscious or unconscious reaction of man, to these basic influences the natural and spiritual laws. if psychologists would accept the three basic laws of the universe, and the seven laws through which they express their influence, they would arrive at an understanding of the hum

the toil severe. dim passages, in steady progress, led upward to the summit. there a wide window stood, open unto the blue of heaven, and carrying one clear ray down to the worker in the depths..he worked and toiled. he struggled onwards toward his dream, the vision of an ultimate discovery. he sometimes found the thing he sought, and sometimes failed; but never found that which could give to him the key to all the rest..in deep despair, he cried aloud unto the god he had forgot 'give me the key. i alone can do no more good. give me the key' then silence reigned. through the opening on the summit of the pyramid, dropped from the blue of heaven, a key came down. it landed at the feet of the discouraged worker. the key was of pure gold; the shaft of light; upon the key a label, and writ in b

when the wide sweep of human unfoldment down the ages is understood, and when the soul is seen to be functioning through all parts of all forms. at present, man alone is really credited with a soul, and the soul of all things is overlooked. yet man is but the macrocosm of the other kingdoms in nature. the seven rules which we are now studying are, therefore, of supreme importance, for they embody the key ideas which will reveal deity in operation as the soul of all things; they will- 140- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust reveal the nature and method of activity of the cosmic christ, and will indicate the governing qualitative tendencies which determine the psychical life of all forms from a universe to an atom in the body of any so

stinctual psychical nature of deity in world affairs and in his own life, for it is happening all the time. he must ever remember that he himself possesses a psychical nature which is a part of a greater whole, and, therefore, subject to impression from divine sources. let him cultivate in himself the trend to synthesis; let him make the words "i will not be separative in my consciousness" one of the key thoughts of his daily- 144- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust life. one point here should be noted. this instinct to synthesis (concerning as it does the psychical nature of deity) has nothing to do with the physical expression of sex. this is governed by other laws and is under the control of the physical nature. let us not forget t

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

right elimination of non-essential activities (with a consequent intensification of the essential and a certain measure of physical discipline) becomes possible to you. as i told you in my last communication, the path of the world saviours is a hard one, owing primarily to the power to suffer which the second ray type embodies. this is of course in itself the principle of manifestation and holds the key to existence. hence, therefore, the ability of the person upon this ray to "agonise towards the goal, carrying the burden of the world, learning through identification with others a detachment which, as time proceeds, negates all pain" note the paradox here involved and learn its meaning which, my brother, is your task this life. how to discipline your physical body and how to strengthen i

hat capacity. you need, however, to employ the line of force which you have succeeded in establishing between the soul and the personality with greater frequency and more facility. the result of this would be that the significance of two other words would become apparent and you would radiate light and love and become increasingly an inspiration to others. this second word, radiation, should form the key of your life until next i instruct you. the peculiar type of radiation which i want you to endeavour to express is that light which reaches others upon the wings of joy. i would remind you here that happiness is the result of achieved personality desire; joy is the expression of the soul's surety, whilst bliss is the consummation which the monad bestows upon the initiate- 135- discipleship

tion which will cause you the most trouble and along which glamour will easily enter. it is, for instance, your personality fanaticism and your personality devotions (both to people and to ideas) which need tempering if your first ray power is to manifest. your fanatical devotee will must be superseded by the purpose, ordered and steadfast, of your first ray soul. in this last sentence is for you the key to your future unfoldment. the steely, brittle, determined, dynamic will of the devoted aspirant must change into the steadfast, powerful, calm purpose of the soul, working through the disciple. the soul is fluid in adjustment but undeviating in aim. likewise, the brilliant fanatical devotion to this, that or the other person or ideal must give place to the gentle unchanging love of the so

ach of your fellow disciples. 3. study with care the instructions given to your fellow disciples, and seek to fit more definitely into the general plan. you are inwardly freer than heretofore and must endeavour to keep your personality life free and simple. i think you will know within yourself wherefore i am emphasising to you, at this time, the two words: freedom. simplicity. they are, for you, the key to successful service. let nothing and no one remove you from your achieved inner poise. yet turn not your back on aught of joy or happiness which may come your way and that may increase your efficiency in the work the place wherein your soul, your karma and your link with my group have placed you. the speeding up of your vibratory capacity has proceeded satisfactorily. if you can maintain

it will be possible to change the thought of humanity where money is concerned so that it will be regarded as a great spiritual asset, as a definite spiritual responsibility and as a means to real world work. the custodians of money will then shoulder their responsibility without fear and with due understanding. at present, they hold on to it through fear of the future and distrust of each other. the key to the right expenditure of money and to its correct use can be summed up in the following statement to which i would ask all of you to pay attention: as money has in the past ministered to personal and family need, so in the future it must minister to group and world need. each unit has, in the past, attempted to act as a magnet and to attract to itself that which will meet what it regard

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

results on earth will be peace. it is so simple and practical that people fail to appreciate its potency or its scientific and dynamic effect. one person sincerely practising goodwill in a family can completely change its attitudes. goodwill really practised among groups in any nation, by political and religious parties in any nation and among the nations of the world can revolutionize the world. the key to humanity's trouble (focussing as it has in the economic difficulties of the past two hundred years and in the theological impasse of the orthodox churches) has been to take and not give, to accept and not share, to grasp and not to distribute. this has involved the breaking of a law which has placed humanity in a position of positive guilt. war is the dire penalty which mankind has had

one in whom we live and move and have our being; they have interpreted god in terms of themselves; therefore when men unthinkingly accept a dogma, they are only accepting the point of view of some other fallible human being, and are not accepting a divine truth at all. it is this truth that theological seminaries must begin to teach, training their men to think for themselves and to remember that the key to truth lies in the unifying power of comparative religion. only those principles and truths which are universally recognized and which find their place in every religion are truly necessary to salvation. the secondary and controversial line of presented truths is usually unnecessary or significant only in so far as it buttresses the primary and essential truth. it is this distorted prese

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

that he was; he told them in many symbolic ways who and what he was and assured them that they could do even greater things than he had done, because they were divine as he was. these greater things, humanity has already accomplished upon the physical plane and in its control of nature, as christ knew men would, because he knew the workings of the law of evolution. he taught them that service was the key to the life of liberation, teaching them the technique of service through his own life as he went about doing good, healing the sick, as well as preaching and teaching the things of the kingdom of god and feeding the hungry, both physically and spiritually. he made the life of every day a divine sphere of spiritual livingness, thus emphasising the teaching of the buddha, through desiring n

, the truth is preserved and can be recovered. this christ will do. he will also revive these mysteries in other ways; not all will seek the church or masonry for the revitalising of their spiritual life. the true mysteries will also reveal themselves through science and the incentive to search for them there will be given by the christ. the mysteries contain, within their formulas and teachings, the key to the science which will unlock the mystery of electricity the greatest spiritual science and area of divine knowledge in the world, the fringes of which have only just been touched. only when the hierarchy is present visibly on earth and the mysteries of which the disciples of the christ are the custodians are given openly to the world, will the true secret and nature of electrical pheno

ept the doctrines presented for their belief? why is death and not life stalking the world today? why do so many new cults arise and sidetrack the people away from orthodox organisations of a religious nature? why does mental science, the unity movement and the new thought presentation attract people away from the better established organisations? note the use of the word "organisations; it holds the key to the problem. why is there a growing emphasis upon the eastern theologies, upon the various yogas, upon buddhistic teachings and oriental faiths? why do such teachings as astrology, numerology and various magical rituals find so many adherents whilst the churches remain empty or are only attended by old people, the conservatives and reactionaries or by those who go there by force of habi

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

ming civilisation. from this display of energy, unthinking humanity draws back in fear and likes it not. when full of personality hate and self-will, human beings seek often to turn this energy to their own selfish ends. if human beings (even the best of them) were not so undeveloped and so superficial in their judgments and their vision, they would be able to penetrate behind what is going on in the key countries in the world and see the gradual emergence of new and better conditions, and the passing away of the loved, but slowly decaying forms. the energy of shamballa is, however, so new and so strange that it is hard for human beings to know it for what it is the demonstration of the will of god in new and potent livingness. 2. the second way in which this dominant will impulse makes it

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

found in all the world scriptures, commentaries and theological dissertations on the subject of light that the simple truth and a few basic principles are lost to sight in a welter of words. in my various books i have given much anent this subject and in the book, the light of the soul, which i wrote in collaboration with a.a.b, an effort was made to indicate the nature of the light of the soul. the key to this technique is to be found in the words: in that light shall we see light. a simple paraphrase of these apparently abstract and symbolic words could be given as follows: when the disciple has found that lighted centre within himself and can walk in its radiating light, he is then in a position (or in a state of consciousness, if you prefer) wherein he becomes aware of the light withi

en, known and appropriated. this light puts out the lesser lights through the pure radiance of its power. you have therefore the light of knowledge, the light of wisdom and the light of the intuition, and these are three definite stages or aspects of the one light. they correspond to the physical sun, the heart of the sun, and the central spiritual sun. in this last sentence you have the clue and the key to the relation of man to the logos. these stages and their corresponding techniques are apt to be misunderstood if the student fails to remember that between them lie no real lines of demarcation but only a constant overlapping, a cyclic development and a process of fusion which is most confusing to beginners. just as the result of innate reaction to environment produces the apparatus nee

world that has yet been given and its true meaning is intended to be revealed in the next two generations. the word "faith" is a good instance of the method of rendering "blind" some of the ancient truths so that their significance may not be prematurely revealed. light and substance are synonymous terms. soul and light are equally so, and in this equality of idea light, substance, soul you have the key to fusion and to the at-one-ment which christ expressed so fully for us in his life on earth. when, therefore, students and aspirants have made progress in soul contact, they have taken one of the first important steps towards the comprehension of light and its uses. they must however be careful not to confuse the light which they can bring to bear on life, circumstance, events, and on env

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

e here interpolate a remark which may prove helpful and illuminating. we are dealing (as you will undoubtedly have noted) with the reception of impression by groups or by aggregations of groups composed of living beings who have their own agents of distribution or impression. the entire evolutionary history of our planet is one of reception and of distribution, of a taking in and of a giving out. the key to humanity's trouble (focussing, as it has, in the economic troubles of the past two hundred years, and in the theological impasse of the orthodox churches) has been to take and not to give, to accept and not to share, to grasp and not to distribute. this is the breaking of the law which has placed humanity in the position of guilt. the war is the dire penalty which humanity has had to pa

thin the aspirant's surroundings but to which he remains as yet unawakened and unenlightened. i am seeking to make the matter as simple as i can, for much of the abstract formulations of the occult sciences and the academic psychologists are incident to the over-activity of men's minds and emotional natures. if you can grasp certain broad and relatively simple facts and recognise that you possess the key or the clue in your already developed capacities, then you will go forward with simplicity, making no undue intellectual difficulties when dealing with these more subtle phases of your ever-existent environment. it is, in the last analysis, just a question as to what "impresses" you at any given moment, and then in what manner it conditions you- 32- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyri

asters, working through the new group of world servers. this group is the lower correspondence of the nirmanakayas, the recipients of impression from shamballa. see you, therefore, the beauty and the synthesis, the inter-dependence and the cooperative interplay which is demonstrated right through the chain of hierarchy from the very highest agent to the very lowest recipient of divine impression. the key to all this is energy. energy is substance, and this substance is qualified by divine dynamic will. there is much to be learnt anent the will. will as dynamic energy is not yet understood in its true sense by human beings. mankind usually recognises will as fixed determination; this is in reality their individual effort to impress substance (personal or environing) with their own self-will

lse it has moved out of that phase of limitation and through initiation is drafting human nature into a state of divinity (to use a most inadequate phrase. humanity s key role- 71- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust the keynote, therefore, of the lord of the world is humanity for it is the basis, the goal and the essential inner structure of all being. humanity itself is the key to all evolutionary processes and to all correct understanding of the divine plan, expressing in time and space the divine purpose. why he chose that this should be so, we know not; but it is a point to be accepted and remembered in all study of the science of impression because it is the factor that makes relationship and contact possible and it is also the source of all understanding. th

one expressive livingness conditions the radiation of the form, its responsiveness or non-responsiveness to the environing energies and the general nature of the informing life, plus its creative ability- 103- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust much that i have given you here will serve to elucidate that which i have written upon esoteric astrology*(15) it will give you the key to that science of relationships which is essentially the key to astrology and also to the science of laya yoga. this latter science has (fortunately for the aryan race) fallen into disrepute since later atlantean days; it will, however, be restored and used upon a higher turn of the spiral, during the next five hundred years. when correctly and rightly restored, its emphasis will not be u

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

l in any particular sign, for a study of these will indicate the three phases of the path with its involutionary cycle of becoming increasingly involved in matter, or life upon the mutable cross, the interlude of readjustment or struggle for liberation which leads to the mounting of the fixed cross, and the period of liberation with the final mounting of the cardinal cross. 8. the significance of the key words for the modes of progress through the signs. 9. the underlying theme of any specific zodiacal sign, covered by the ideas of re-creation, regeneration, reorientation and renunciation. before taking up these matters in connection with pisces, there are one or two points upon which i would like to touch. i have to take up certain problems as they may arise in the consciousness of the en

e "whole body to be full of light" then capricorn, the goat, related particularly and closely to aries, but hiding (as an esoteric blind) the symbolism of the unicorn in which the two horns and the single eye are blended and depicted by the long straight horn of the unicorn in the centre of the forehead. behind all the above lies the dual mystery of leo, for leo is as far as humanity is concerned the key or clue to the entire zodiac and around the constellation leo two great mysteries are found: 1. the mystery of the sphinx, connected with the relation of leo and virgo, and tied up with the secret of the solar angels. this is not the mystery of soul and form, but the mystery of the higher and the lower mind and their relation to each other. 2. the mystery of the lion and the unicorn. this

the lower mind and their relation to each other. 2. the mystery of the lion and the unicorn. this secret is preserved for us in the ancient nursery rhyme about the "lion and the unicorn going up to town" and contains in a peculiar way the secret of initiation and the "going up" of the human being to the portal of admittance into the hierarchy as well as the "mystic raising" of which masonry holds the key. this deals with the emergence of the consciousness of the initiate (white and one-pointed) and the defeat of the king of beasts (the personality) leading to the triumph of group and world consciousness, of selflessness and illumination over self-consciousness and selfishness. in the true rendition of this ancient myth the king of beasts is blinded and killed by the piercing of his eye and

ich reveals divinity at the time of the third initiation. you will note how, in this great sign of initiation, saturn reveals the nature of the third aspect of divinity, the nature of intelligent substance; venus reveals the nature of the second aspect, which is consciousness or intelligent love, whilst the sun the physical sun and the heart of the sun together reveals the synthesis of these two. the key words upon the ordinary wheel are "and the word said: let ambition rule and let the door stand wide" here we have the key to the evolutionary urge, to the secret of rebirth, and of that word which reverberates from cancer to capricorn. the door of initiation stands ever open, but for aeons of time man prefers the open door in cancer. ambition urges him on from life to life until he has dis

y of the 6th and the 3rd rays and their energies, and when these are rightly employed there comes liberation from form control and the release of the conscious individual. again, astrologers would do well to work with this line of fused forces, studying its implications and effects in the life of the disciple. aquarius relates humanity to the pleiades and therefore to taurus in an unusual manner. the key to this relation is to he found in the word desire, leading, through the transmutative processes of life experience, to aspiration and finally the relinquishing of desire in scorpio. aquarius, alcyone and humanity constitute a most interesting triangle of force. alcyone is one of the seven pleiades and is called the "star of the individual" and sometimes the "star of intelligence" it was p

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

don't send in an order i shall have to send up what i think you need and you wouldn't like that, would you" so i turned in an order. when the groceries arrived at the rectory that morning i found an envelope with ten dollars "incidental cash" in it which he had sent up, in case i was short of ready money, and which he had added to the bill as he knew i would not accept charity. he also asked for the key to our mail-box, so he could look after my mail for me. i have felt and still feel deeply indebted to him. it took me over two years to pay off his bill but it was paid, and each time i sent him five dollars on account i would get back a grateful letter from him just as if i had done him a favor. apart from the fact that i had been brought up in england where no anti-jew feeling has prevai

nt. the time will come when we shall be- 86- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust liberated from all the ills of the flesh, but when it does come we shall have learned a different sense of values and will not be using our divine powers to get material good for ourselves. all good things come to those who live harmlessly, who are kind and considerate as well. but harmlessness is the key and i leave you to find out for yourselves how difficult it is to be harmless in word and deed and thought. life in hollywood was now easier for me. the children were old enough to go to school and kindergarten. i had many friends and the grounds at krotona, the theosophical headquarters, were delightful. krotona was a community of about five hundred people, some living on the grounds and

know, that the detailed instructions given by a master to his group of disciples have ever been published and so put into the hands of the general public. in the above paragraphs i have attempted very briefly to describe some of the activities which the- 136- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust tibetan initiated in an effort along with other members of the hierarchy to strike the key-note of the new age, and it is upon these things in the senior degrees of the arcane school that we seek to lay the emphasis. some of the students have been with us twenty years or more. they have faithfully done their work and are definitely getting results. later we hope to develop certain groups that will use some of the techniques with which the tibetan has dealt in what will probably

ty is little evolved or is only of an average development, it can be and often is amazingly correct. it is not so correct, however, in the case of highly developed people, aspirants, disciples and initiates who are beginning to control their stars and consequently their actions; the events and the happenings in their lives then become unpredictable. the new and future astrology endeavours to give the key to the horoscope of the soul, as it is conditioned by the soul ray and not by the personality ray. enough has been given by me to enable astrologers, who are interested and of the new inclination, to work out the future from the angle of this new approach. astrology is a fundamental and most necessary science. a.a.b. knows nothing about astrology; she cannot even set up a chart nor could s

for people who can use their minds or who show at least a willingness to develop and use their mental processes. the need of the more emotional and aspirational types and of the devotees can well be met in other groups and esoteric schools, and is thus being met. running through all the work of the arcane school is the theme of service. service to one's fellowmen is the hallmark of a disciple and the key also which opens for him the door of initiation. therefore, all who enter the school and face the new cycle of training find us saying to them: study, think and prove to yourself and to us that you have grasped the teaching by writing your study papers; learn to meditate and so make a contact with your true spiritual self, the soul, and make service the expression of what you know. these t

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

y is connected with the problem of healing. it will be apparent, therefore, how important it is before real healing can take place that the healer should know the point in evolution reached by the patient, and should also know his ray type, both personality and egoic. if to this you add some knowledge of his astrological inclinations and indications, a far more accurate diagnosis can be produced. the key to all release (either through the physical cure of disease or through death) lies in the understanding of the condition of the centres in the etheric body. these determine the rate of the bodily vibratory activity and the general responsiveness of the physical body. they even condition the activity and accuracy of the instinctual nature and its relation to the outer plane life and the "wh

art of functioning as a human being. the door into this experience is the "gate of cancer" initiation into the kingdom of god is entered through the "gate of capricorn" these four attributes and the three aspects of matter, plus their dual activity, are the correspondence to the four aspects of the personality and the spiritual triad and their dual active relationship. in this statement is hidden the key to liberation. the seven major centres it would be of value here if we consider for a moment the nature of the centres themselves, summarising somewhat the teaching already given in my other books, and so presenting a clear picture of the energy body which underlies the dense physical vehicle. there are many focal points of force within the body, but we shall deal only with the major seven

eir inevitable inter-relations you have again only in the case of disciples a most amazing picture story or symbol of the ninefold of initiation: 1. the head centre the ajna centre the throat centre 2. the third eye the right eye the left eye 3. the pineal gland the pituitary body the carotid gland thus presenting the mechanism through which the spiritual triad, the soul and the personality work. the key to a right understanding of process lies in the relation of the three planets: uranus, mercury and saturn, as they pour their energies through these nine "points of spiritual contact" upon the physical plane into the "grounded sphere of light and power which is the man- 92- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust in time and space" b. this centr

e basic centre. in the relation of these two triangles lies the clue to the instinct of self-preservation, the survival of the subtle bodies after death, and the principle of immortality which is seated in the soul and functions when self-preservation and survival no longer hold sway. this constitutes a triplicity of ideas which requires most careful study and which if i might so express it gives the key to the spiritualistic movement. d. the sacral centre is also connected with the ajna centre in the last analysis; the two together create a functioning duality which is productive of that subtle quality which we call personality. there is a wide field for investigation in the theme of personality as an integrated whole and in the quality of personality, which is the aroma, the influence, t

with forces and energies, functioning through the etheric body; that we are dealing with the tertiary world of causes, which is responsible for the organic world of the dense physical manifestation. this physical manifestation is itself subject to the influence of the secondary world of conscious life, which in its turn is responsive in time and space to the dynamic world of purpose and of being. the key to the full life of the soul lies hidden in my words, but it takes the dedicated life and the- 114- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust illumined mind to profit by the knowledge conveyed, and to see behind the form of words the key thought which gives it life and occultly speaking generative warmth. have clearly in mind the concepts of stimu

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

en of bridging the gap between the soul and the spiritual triad, so that there can be the free play of consciousness and complete identification with the one life, thus leading to the loss of the sense of separateness and to the merging of the part with the whole, with no loss of identity but with no recognition of self-identification. here an interesting point should be carefully noted. it holds the key to future racial unfoldment. for it the new science of psychology, which has developed so remarkably during the past thirty years, is preparing us. students should train themselves to distinguish between the sutratma and the antahkarana, between the life thread and the thread of consciousness. one thread is the basis of immortality and the other the basis of continuity. herein lies a fine

tween the triad and the personality. the power of the ego can begin to make itself felt. applicants for initiation and initiates up to the third initiation use both the sutratma and the antahkarana, employing them as a unit. the power of the triad begins to pour through, thus energising all human activities upon the physical plane, and vitalising in ever increasing degree the man's thought forms. the key to the formation of the mayavirupa is found in the right comprehension of the process. a treatise on cosmic fire, pp. 959-960. it should be noted here that the bridging has to be done in the consciousness aspect, and concerns the continuity of man's awareness of life in all his various aspects. the energy which is used in connecting, in consciousness, the physical man and the astral body i

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

st from this type of error. part of my task within my ashram is to train disciples to recognise the new, emerging ideas and translate them into the concepts which will condition human thinking in the cycle just ahead. the second stage of this training involves the cultivation of a correct sense of timing. this will prevent the disciple from taking precipitate or premature action; it will give him the key to the real meaning of the eternal now the synthesis of past, present and future. he will next be taught the art of precipitation, or the mode of conveying these ideas to the minds of the intellectuals in the world. through these concrete and receptive minds the presented ideas are transformed into ideals and then are brought to the attention of humanity. the place and the responsibility o

ting kingdoms in nature, great cyclic expressions of life, are controlled by them, and all this is produced through the potency of their creative meditation which impresses the needed inspiration (another phrase for the breath of life itself) upon the nirmanakayas and through them upon the spiritual hierarchy. their link with all these planetary groups (and it is real and vital) can be grasped in the key statement that "all lives upon or within the aura of the planetary logos and of his manifested body, the earth, have been, are or will be in the future human being, thereby establishing and demonstrating their past, present or future identity with humanity, the fourth kingdom in nature" this kingdom is the planetary group or centre which expresses in time and space all the divine aspects s

"plants his feet upon the mountain top and from that point of altitude perceives the thought of god, visions the dream within the mind of god, follows god's eye from central point to outer goal and sees himself as all that is and yet within the whole" 3. the stage of precipitation. having thus identified himself through penetration and polarisation with the plan and with the will of god (which is the key to shamballa, he then proceeds as a result of this triple recognition to do his share in materialising the plan and in bringing through into outer manifestation and expression as much of that plan as he can. he thus becomes first of all an outpost of the hierarchy (which of necessity means sensitivity to the shamballa energy, and then increasingly an agent of light the light universal, or

found in the secret doctrine, i.80, where we find the words "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit and these three are a trinity, synthesised by life, which pervades them all" you can see, therefore, upon careful reflection how simple this matter is, exoterically considered, and how the key to understanding lies in conscious identification with all three, both sequentially through growth and simultaneously through initiation. i have here given you an occult hint. secondly, i would have you note how this formula refers to the antahkarana: 1 "a line of fire between two blazing points" the monad and the soul. 2 "a line, emerging from the earth and ending in the ocean" referring

"points of divine expression" you can see, therefore, why it is not possible for those in process of grasping the need for right human relations to understand more than that a great possibility lies ahead. of the nature of this possibility only the higher ranks of initiates are aware, and towards it they strive. the formulas we now come to the second of the great formulas which give the initiate the key to the next stage of his work. these curious and ancient sets of phrases or symbols are endowed with power, owing to the potency of the minds which have reflected upon them, which have constructed thoughtforms anent them, and which have used them as modes or methods of focussing triadal light upon the personality. i would call your attention to the form of words just used. these formulas d

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

and we attempted a slight analysis of their planned undertakings. now we can do the same with the remaining groups, particularly with the fourth and fifth which have education and political work as their projects. and then we will only briefly indicate the triple intended purpose of the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth groups. we will not take time to consider the tenth, which will be composed of the key people in the other groups, beyond stating that when its twenty-seven members (three from each group) are chosen and put in rapport with each other, there should come to all the groups such a quickening of their life that they will become one living vibrant organism. the fourth group has ahead of it a rich and most interesting course of study and an illuminating objective. its instructions

be the major theme. soul sensitivity and reaction to the energy in any form will be the training objective of the group members. owing to the difficulty of this task, the members of this eighth group will be chosen from the personnel of the other groups, for they will have had a fair measure of training in their preliminary work. two groups will then be interlocking groups that which is formed of the key people in all the groups, and this one. the ninth group, whose project is financial service, will be one of the most practical and interesting from the standpoint of the present world situation and modern conditions. i may begin to organise this group before long, provided some of my disciples show me the subjective signs for which i look, which involves a right understanding and spiritual

d modern conditions. i may begin to organise this group before long, provided some of my disciples show me the subjective signs for which i look, which involves a right understanding and spiritual appreciation of money. by this i do not mean that any of you who do show such signs will be in this group, but you will provide the right conditions which will make its inception possible; one or two of the key people- 40- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust however, may form part of the financial service group if the plan works out as hoped and intended. the task to be undertaken by this group is to study the significance of money as directed and appropriated energy. this direction of force produces concretisation, and the work is then in the field of magical endeavou

inst this and say nothing which could inflame hate and suspicion in connection with any race, any person, any group or any leaders of groups and nations. you will have to guard yourselves with care, so that even in defense of that which you may personally or nationally approve you do not find yourselves full of hate and breaking the law of love the only law which can truly save the world. perhaps the key to your success along this line will be the silence of a loving heart. it will be good also to cultivate the joy that brings strength. this is not the time for gloom, despair or depression. if you give way to these, you become negative and destructive focal points in your environment. if you truly believe that the spiritual life is fundamental in the world today, if you do believe that div

eady spreading of the group influence and ideals. it is therefore ultimately very far-reaching in its effectiveness, providing the work is done as indicated. this will be due eventually to two factors: one, the power of the groups upon the subtler planes of thought and desire, and finally upon egoic levels; this will become steadily more potent; secondly, to the activity of those who form part of the key groups; they will themselves form corresponding groups of nine, or seven or five, and thus there will be a gradual spreading throughout the world of an esoteric network. for this the majority are not yet ready, but i would have you bear it in mind. true interest and acceptance of that which is indicated as essential to the disciple and to the work must first of all be patiently evidenced

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

urning bush or the burning tree of life of biblical symbolism. this highest of all the fires, this deeply spiritual and hitherto seldom recognised burning-ground, has its effects summed up for us in the next phrase or sentence of rule i. 3. the clear cold light shines forth and cold it is and yet the heat evoked by the group love permits the warmth of energetic moving out. in these words you have the key to group initiation. the light of the higher initiations can stream in when it is evoked by the group love. that light is clear and cold, but produces the needed "heat" which is a symbolic word used in many of the world scriptures to express living, spiritual energy. i said "spiritual energy" and not soul force, and herein lies a distinction which you will some day have to grasp. this grou

d the word which came forth to him when he was irrevocably committed to hierarchical purpose. he has heard the voice from shamballa just as he earlier heard the voice of the silence and the voice of his master. occult obedience gives place to enlightened will. he can now be trusted to walk and work alone because he is unalterably one with his group, with the hierarchy, and finally with shamballa. the key to this whole rule lies in the injunction to the initiate that he add to his application three demands, and only after they have been voiced and correctly expressed and motivated by the dynamic will, does the further injunction come that he move forward. what are these three demands, and by what right does the initiate make them? hitherto the note of his expanding consciousness has been vi

ssed 666 and found it naught; who has dropped the 6 and become the 66, and thus has found himself upon the way; later, again, he drops the 6 and becomes the perfected 6 form, the instrument and expression of spirit" the number 24 is of deep interest, expressing as it does the double 12 the greater and the lesser zodiac. just as the number 6 expresses space, so the number 24 expresses time, and is the key to the great cycle of manifestation. it is the clue to all cyclic appearance or incarnation. its two figures define the method of evolution; 2 equals the quality of love-wisdom, working under the law of attraction and drawing man from one point of attainment to another; whilst 4 indicates the technique of conflict and the achieving of harmony through that conflict; 4 is also the number of

lower to the higher. it therefore behooves the individual disciple to decide whether he is an applicant, and consequently to be controlled by the "rules in time and space" or a candidate for initiation who knows that life is one and that the form is of no material significance, except as a field of experience for the soul. we now come to the most important part of this particular rule; it conveys the key to the immediate goal for those who have attained a certain measure of understanding. the words of importance are: 3. let then the group merged in the fifth be nourished by the sixth and seventh- 84- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust in other words "then let the group which is identified with the soul find its sustenance and vit

age of the path of the higher evolution. it is to that path what experience in the mineral kingdom of the life of god is to that same life when it reaches the fourth or human kingdom. you can see, therefore, how significant is the coming science of comparison; not yet has this science of comparative analysis been turned into a definitely recognised line of approach to truth. the law of analogy is the key which unlocks the understanding. something of the quality and the revelatory power of the intuition is known by all disciples; it constitutes at times (from its very rarity) a major "spiritual excitement" it produces effects and stimulation; it indicates future receptivity to dimly sensed truths and is allied if you could but realise it with the entire phenomena of prevision. a registratio

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

rtions of its writings it brings forth a perverted image of itself. but in eighteen we have the vision of the straight and narrow path: the dot has unfolded into the one and become the axis around which our life turns. at this step the initiate has faced this one divine truth and felt the mighty urge of the one life. henceforth he strives to make the twisted line subservient to the straight line (the key of destiny, h. a. and f. h. curtiss. pp. 246- 247. it is interesting to note also that we are told in the kabalah "the eighteenth path is called the house of influence. and from the midst of the investigation the arcana and hidden sense are drawn forth which dwell in its shade and which cling to it from the cause of all causes (sepher yetzira, no. 30. this is what hercules, at the age of e

ngdom in nature, came into being when mind emerged and differentiated man from the animals. the aspirant begins his labors when he truly becomes the thinker, and in full awareness proceeds to function as the arbiter of his own destiny. it is apparent, consequently, that in aries right direction and right orientation have their beginning, and hercules, the newly-thinking disciple, begins his work. the key to this labor and to the significance of the sign is to be found in the words of an ancient indian scripture "man does not rightly know the way to the heavenly world, but the horse does rightly know it" in the very ancient days in india, the horse sacrifice was linked with the sun god, and, yearly, we are told, the sun god, as the zodiacal horse, was supposed by the vedic aryans to die to

ire. it is one of the most interesting labors and one that is [42] told us in fullest detail. some of the accounts given of the various tests to which hercules was subjected are exceedingly sketchy and brief in outline, but the tests in taurus and gemini, in scorpio and pisces, are related at greater length. they were drastic in their application and tried out every part of the aspirant's nature. the key to the labor in taurus is the right understanding of the law of attraction. this is the law that governs that magnetic force and that principle of coherence which builds the forms through which god, or the soul, manifests. it produces the stability which demonstrates in the persistence of the form throughout its cycle of existence, and concerns the interrelation between that which builds t

use all sun gods are occupied with the problems of humanity and because desolate they go down into hell alone to save humanity; hence all sun gods are born in the sign of capricorn (lecture by a.a.b, condensed and edited) epilogue the great swing in capricorn is epitomized by the keywords. upon the ordinary wheel these are "and the word said: let ambition rule and let the door stand wide" this is the key to the evolutionary urge and the secret of rebirth (the tibetan. when a true sense of reality supersedes both earthly and spiritual ambition the man can say with truth "lost am i in light supernal, yet on that light i turn my back" so goes the world disciple, initiate in capricorn, on his way to serve humanity in [179] aquarius. in that sign he cleans the augean stables (of the karma of al

ANALYSIS OF THE 5 6 INITIATION

hyha. this is, the divine name of rtk. the descent of the light from rtk to twklm formulates the flaming sword and descendeth from the above to the below. in that trapt is a reflection of rtk and that which is in rtk is reflected in trapt, the rose and cross exists in rtk as a beam of brilliance and is made manifest and pronounced in trapt. the rose and cross is a symbol of the crux ansata and is the key to the opening of the seven-sided vault of the adepti. the vault is a mystical symbol of that which is truly alive and yet buried and beyond the range and comprehension of animal man. the vault cannot be approached by the candidate unless, first, he be scourged and his physical body be likened to christ. second, he must be crucified and die with christ "for if ye will die with christ, ye s

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

arding the connection of dianawith witchcraft, and how many of her attributes became those ofthe madonna. the worship of diana, as he says, prevailed very extensively. so much so, thatwhen christianity superseded paganism, much of the heathen symbolism was adapted to the newrites, and the transition from the worship of diana to that of the madonna was made comparativelysimple. mr. rolfe speaks of the key, rue, and verbena as symbols of diana; of all of these i haveincantations, apparently very ancient, and identified with diana. i have often found ruein houses inflorence, and had it given to me as a special favour. it is always concealed in some dark corner,because to take any away is to take luck. the bronze frog was an emblem of diana; hence the latinproverb, he who loves a frog regards

BANISHING THE SLAVE GODS

s just plain witnessing to you with their chosen "faith. to intiate an offensive attack- which is actually a blessing in disguise- you will imagine this inverse pentagram slightly between your eyebrows at the center of your forehead. in the same manner that said pentagram is projected out during the rite, you may project this onto the center of the forehead of the person you are cursing/blessing. the key to the efficacy of this attack lies in the ability to open ones own "third eye chakra" which provides the force behind the actual symbol. here is a brief sex magical rite to open the "third eye. obtain crowley's book of thoth: tarot take out the devil and tower cards. you can: a. masturbate while gazing upon the tower card equating its symbology with the procreative force you are generatin

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

the sabbat or al-zabbat, the freedom from the trappings of flesh and the awakening of the nightside consciousness. this is the primal gnosis of sorcery itself, which is the dark well of the elixir of the adept, the one who drinks of the dual ecstasies of the sun and the moon[4. the arcanum of the luciferian path is a resounding voice of the king and queen of witchblood, being samael and lilith[5. the key to the gnosis of the fallen angels is within their very essence, being of the sun and the moon. the sorcerer may seek the sexual union of both within his or her self, allowing the pleasure of the waking and waning moon to be brought forth through the sun, which is the gateway for demons and angels in copulation. if one seeks not the sexual genii, the antinomianian path is brought forth by

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

t theory of causation (skt. prat.tyasamutp.da. 17 plurality of body and soul plays an integral part in the understanding of the tibetan worldview and is important in the monastic context so that it may be utilized toward buddhist ends. ritual texts tibet has an extensive literary tradition. the vast array of genres and textual categories is too grand to cover briefly, but a description of some of the key textual types that will be encountered in this study is necessary.28 tantra (rgyud) is a sanskrit word that refers to a specific category of texts. these are the central texts studied and practiced within vajray.na buddhism since its conception in north india. they are considered to be composed or inspired by great bodhisattvas and in some instance..kin.s. richard payne notes that, despite

ned ones stated that the six might demons who emanated from tsiu marpo s body actually arose from the six body parts of the murdered chorwa. whether these specific incongruities can be substantiated is irrelevant; they detail the degree to which variations pervade this narrative as well as similar narratives. such details are not as important as the buddhist elements and plot direction, which are the key features necessary to explain and warrant the birth and evolution of tsiu marpo as the king of the violence demons. tsiu marpo in history tracing the narrative history of tsiu marpo lends itself to analysis far more than does tracing his textual history or the history of his cult within actual recorded time. understandably, the further back in time we go, the more uncertainties approach an

in the intermediate spaces there tend to be other buddhas and bodhisattvas or various ornate gardens and animals, and an array of important buddhist symbols. david snellgrove provides the most succinct examination of the ma..ala, stating that it is a metaphysical representation of the mind and pure realm of the central buddhist deity. this buddhist deity belongs to a five-part buddha family, with the key deity at the center, the four other buddhas in the immediate surroundings facing all four directions, and the consorts of these four buddhas residing in the intermediate quadrants between the cardinal directions. other bodhisattvas representing the retinues of each of these buddhas are depicted further outward. central to snellgrove s interpretation is that the ma..ala is a sacred space in

ing a complete cosmogram (photo: wesley borton 2005) 70 4 text and ritual tsiu marpo s mythic history and iconographic paradigm are important in order to understand how he is represented in the religious environment of tibet; however, his central purpose is one of ritual. since ritual is so important in tibetan buddhism as well as the entirety of religious traditions118 it is necessary to examine the key texts that are the foundation of this study along their ritual programs. however, due to the grand variety of ritual forms in tibetan buddhism, i will restrict my focus to those ritual forms and aims of the texts studied herein, only to make passing references to other significant ritual expressions for the purposes of contrast and understanding. visually and spatially establishing a ritua

s well as other disciplines. 119 beyer 1978, pp. xii, 175-177, and bentor 1996, pp. vii-x. see chabpel tseten phuntsok 1991 for an exploration of the structure and history of deity invocation rituals similar to those explored in this chapter. 120 see especially samuel 1993, pp. 270-308, 499-524. 71 ritual materials before discussing the ritual programs, it is necessary to describe briefly some of the key ritual materials that are constructed and used during these activities. these ritual implements are found in many tibetan rituals and their purposes vary depending on their symbolic significance and role within the specific junctures of a ritual. most of these materials are offerings and thus represent various magical and precious objects. in the texts, these materials, represented symboli

BLACK SERPENT1

have its benefits because you can witness firsthand how the group works and you can meet members one on one. you also have the opportunity to ask questions and enjoy the social atmosphere of informal group meetings. it could take you years to find the right group. in the meantime there is nothing wrong with being solitary. i believe that those who are meant to belong to groups will find a match. the key to finding the right group is to keep looking and to not be discouraged. 20 a pantheon of dark gods by- s. connolly first published as "eon pantheon van duistere goden" in religie& mystiek magazine, 1998 not surprisingly, perhaps one of the most common questions posed to people practicing traditional left hand path religions is "why would anyone choose to work with such dark gods; such evi

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

bodies of brahma. the reader will now be prepared to understand the real, the esoteric significance of what follows. moreover there is an important point to be cleared up. christian theology having arbitrarily settled and agreed that satan with his fallen angels belonged to the earliest creation, satan being the first-created, the wisest and most beautiful of god's archangels, the word was given, the key-note struck. henceforth all the pagan scriptures were made to yield the same meaning, and all were shown to be demoniacal, and it was and is claimed that truth and fact belong to, and commence only with, christianity. even the orientalists and mythologists, some of them no christians at all but "infidels" or men of science, entered unconsciously to themselves, and by the mere force of asso

m his seven esoteric facets, will never be able to fathom certain anthropological, chronological, and even cosmic mysteries. he is one of the fires above-mentioned, and plays a part in the evolution of this kalpa from its incipient, down to its final stage. he is an actor who appears in each of the successive acts (root-races) of the present manvantaric drama, in the world allegories which strike the key-note of esotericism, and are now becoming more familiar to the reader. but shall we turn to other ancient scriptures and documents for the corroboration of the "fires "sparks" and "flames" they are plentiful, if one only seeks for them in the right places. in the "book of the concealed mystery" they are clearly enunciated, as also in the "ha idra zuta qadisha" or the lesser holy assembly

u of any sect whatever. therein asura means "spiritual divine" and the word is used as a synonym for supreme spirit, while in the sense of a "god" the term "asura" is applied to varuna and indra and pre-eminently to agni- the three having been in days of old the three highest gods, before brahmanical theo-mythology distorted the true meaning of almost everything in the archaic scriptures. but, as the key is now lost, the asuras are hardly mentioned. in the zendavesta the same is found. in the mazdean, or magian, religion "asura" is the lord asura visvavedas, the "allknowing" or "omniscient lord; and asura-mazdha, become later ahura-mazdha, is, as benfey shows "the lord who bestows intelligence- asura-medha and ahura-mazdao. elsewhere in this work it is shown, on equally good authority, tha

left pointing to the earth. in the smaragdine tablet of hermes, the uplifted right hand is inscribed with the word "solve" the left with the word "coagula" it is at one and the same time an alchemical, cosmogonical, anthropological, and magical sign, with seven keys to its inner meaning. it is not too much to say that the compound symbolism of this universal and most suggestive of signs contains the key to the seven great mysteries of kosmos. born in the mystical conceptions of the early aryans, and by them placed at the very threshold of eternity, on the head of the serpent ananta, it found[[footnote(s* see "asgard and the gods "the renewal of the world[[vol. 2, page] 100 the secret doctrine. its spiritual death in the scholastic interpretations of mediaeval anthropomorphists. it is the

placed at the very threshold of eternity, on the head of the serpent ananta, it found[[footnote(s* see "asgard and the gods "the renewal of the world[[vol. 2, page] 100 the secret doctrine. its spiritual death in the scholastic interpretations of mediaeval anthropomorphists. it is the alpha and the omega of universal creative force, evolving from pure spirit and ending in gross matter. it is also the key to the cycle of science, divine and human; and he who comprehends its full meaning is for ever liberated from the toils of mahamaya, the great illusion and deceiver. the light that shines from under the divine hammer, now degraded into the mallet or gavel of the grand masters of masonic lodges, is sufficient to dissipate the darkness of any human schemes or fictions. how prophetic are the

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

the zodiacal mysteries as being almost lost to the world, it was remarked by the writer in "isis unveiled" some ten years ago that "the said key must be turned seven times before the whole system is divulged. we will give it but one turn, and thereby allow the profane one glimpse into the mystery. happy he, who understands the whole" the same may be said of the whole esoteric system. one turn of the key, and no more, was given in "isis" much more is explained in these volumes. in those days the writer hardly knew the language in which the work was written, and the disclosure of many things, freely spoken about now, was forbidden. in century the twentieth some disciple more informed, and far better fitted, may be sent by the masters of wisdom to give final and irrefutable proofs that there

rit, but of that of which that spirit is the unconscious cause" is not the above sentence the true key-note of later rosicrucian[[footnote(s* we are told by the western mathematicians and some american kabalists, that in the kabala also "the value of the jehovah name is that of the diameter of a circle" add to this the fact that jehovah is the third sephiroth, binah, a feminine word, and you have the key to the mystery. by certain kabalistic transformations this name, androgynous in the first chapters of genesis, becomes in its transformations entirely masculine, cainite and phallic. the fact of choosing a deity among the pagan gods and making of it a special national god, to call upon it as the "one living god" the "god of gods" and then proclaim this worship monotheistic, does not change

ng to the most secret calculations, in which, in order to arrive at the true total, every figure must be 7x (7 to the power of x; x varying according to the nature of the cycle in the subjective or real world; and every figure or number relating to, or representing all the different cycles from the greatest to the smallest- in the objective or unreal world- must necessarily be multiples of seven. the key to this cannot be given, for herein lies the mystery of esoteric calculations, and for the purposes of ordinary calculation it has no sense "the number seven" says the kabala "is the great number of the divine mysteries" number ten is that of all human knowledge (pythagorean decade; 1,000 is the number ten to the third power, and therefore the number 7,000 is also symbolical. in the secret

nor of his pupil van helmont; for it is again the same archaeus or "father-ether- the manifested basis[[footnote(s* see schwegler's "handbook of the history of philosophy" in sterling's translation, p. 28[[vol. 1, page] 52 the secret doctrine. and source of the innumerable phenomena of life- localised. the whole series of the numberless speculations of this kind are but variations on this theme, the key-note of which was struck in this primeval revelation (see part ii "primordial substance (b) the term anupadaka "parentless" or without progenitors, is a mystical designation having several meanings in the philosophy. by this name celestial beings, the dhyan-chohans or dhyani-buddhas, are generally meant. but as these correspond mystically to the human buddhas and bodhisattwas, known as the

n them. but[[hebrew] is the symbol of the unity and consequently of the unvarying idea of the divine operating through all these. but behind the[[hebrew] in the name hoa are the letters[[hebrew] and[[hebrew, the symbols of the numbers six and five, the male and the female, the hexagram and the pentagram. and the numbers of these three words, hoa atah ani, are 12, 406, and 61, which are resumed in the key numbers of 3, 10, and 7, by the qabalah of the nine chambers, which is a form of the exegetical rule of temura" it is useless to attempt to explain the mystery in full. materialists and the men of modern science will never understand it, since, in order[[vol. 1, page] 79 primeval radiations from the unity. to obtain clear perception of it, one has first of all to admit the postulate of a u

BLUE EQUINOX

of the struggle of the human and divine elements in the consciousness of man, giving their harmony following upon the victory of the latter. liber xvi. liber turris vel domus dei. an instruction for attainment by the direct destruction of thoughts as they arise in the mind. liber clxxv. astarte vel liber berylli. an instruction in attainment by the method of devotion, of bhakta-yoga. liber xlvi. the key of the mysteries. a translation by frater o.m. of the masterpiece of eliphas levi. this course is specially adapted to the task of this grade, the attainment of bhakta-yoga. curriculum of a.a. 37 course vii the dominus liminis will be examined in the following books: liber ccxx. liber l vel legis sub figur ccxx as delivered by xciii unto dclxvi. this book is the foundation of the new on, a

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 41 liber ii the message of the master therion (all quotations in this message are from liber ccxx, the book of the law .do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law .there is no law beyond do what thou wilt .the word of the law is qelhma. qelhma.thelema.means will. the key to this message is this word.will. the first obvious meaning of this law is confirmed by antithesis .the word of sin is restriction. again. thou hast no right but to do thy will. do that, and no other shall say nay. for pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. take this carefully; it seems to imply a theory that if every man and every woman

d be drunken thereon. 51. and v.v.v.v.v. answered and said: o my lord, my dove, my excellent one, how shall this word seem unto the children of men? 52. and he answered him: not as thou canst see. it is certain that every letter of this cipher hath some value; but who shall determine the value? for it varieth ever, according to the subtlety of him that made it. 53. and he answered him: have i not the key thereof? i am clothed with the body of flesh; i am one with the eternal and omnipotent god. 54. then said adonai: thou hast the head of the hawk, and thy phallus is the phallus of asar. thou knowest the white, and thou knowest the black, and thou knowest that these are one. but why seekest thou the knowledge of their equivalence? 55. and he said: that my work may be right. the equinox 70 5

is found in the belly of the cow, so is my lover among lovers. 8. o honey boy! bring me thy cool limbs hither! let us sit awhile in the orchard, until the sun go down! let us feast on the cool grass! bring wine, ye slaves, that the cheeks of my boy may flush red. 9. in the garden of immortal kisses, o thou brilliant one, shine forth! make thy mouth an opium-poppy, that one kiss the equinox 84 is the key to the infinite sleep and lucid, the sleep of shi-loham. 10. in my sleep i beheld the universe like a clear crystal without one speck. 11. there are purse-proud penniless ones that stand at the door of the tavern and prate of their feats of wine-bibbing. 12. there are purse-proud penniless ones that stand at the door of the tavern and revile the guests. 13. the guests dally upon couches of

ght ye beheld, by love ye feel. there is an ecstacy of pure knowledge, and another of pure love. and this love is the force that uniteth things diverse, for the contemplation in light of their oneness. know that the universe is not at rest, but in extreme motion whose sum is rest. and this understanding that stability is change, and change stability, that being is becoming, and becoming being, is the key to the golden palace of this law. lastly, by liberty is the power to direct your course according to your will. for the extent of the univese is without bounds, and ye are free to make your pleasure as ye will, seeing that the diversity of being is infinite also. for this also is the joy of the law, that no two stars are alike, and ye must understand also that this multiplicity is itself u

BOOK OF PLEASURE

interest in us. if you were to dismember its limb, the mutilated part would regrow, etc. so by evoking and becoming obsessed or illuminated by these existences, we gain their magical properties, or the knowledge of their attainment. this is what already happens (everything happens at all times) though exceedingly slowly; in striving for knowledge we repel it, the mind works best on a simple diet. the key to prophecy. the law of evolution is retrogression of function governing progression of attainment, i.e, the more wonderful our attainments, the lower in the scale of life that governs them. our knowledge of flight is determined by that desire causing the activity of our bird etc. karmas. directly our desire reaches the stratum belonginging to those existences that can "fly" without wings

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

ear. this, of course, goes back to what i outlined in the first lesson originating with the reliance on success in the hunt in the winter and nourishment of the crops in the summer. but there is more to it than that, even without getting into the complexities of oak and holly kings. in neither half of the year should you think of the one deity being supreme being there without his or her partner. the key word is predominant. in other words, the emphasis is on the one but not to the total exclusion of the other. it should also be remembered, of course, that each deity as with every individual bears the attributes of both male and female. sabbats start, as do all circle rituals, with the erecting the temple rite. you should follow this with a full or new moon ritual, if appropriate for the s

of time. lord-dweller in the sea, you hear the thunder of my hooves upon the shore and see the fleck of foam as i pass by. my strength is such that i might lift the world itself to touch the stars. yet gentle am i, ever, as the lover. i am he whom all must face at the appointed hour, yet am i not to be feared, for i am brother, lover, son. death is but the beginning of life, and i am he who turns the key" priestess salutes priest. one by one other coven-ers move around. if they wish to, they may place an offering on the altar or before it. they then embrace and/or kiss the priest and move on back to their places. as they pass the burning cauldron, they throw into it their piece of parchment listing their weakness. priest stands for a moment and meditates on his position for the coming half

ill going strong. you're totally baffled at intimate exchanges with people you wouldn't normally go near. you are amazed at dreaming of doing things that are physically impossible in your everyday life. you end up with total frustration in your attemp'ts to make any sense of the strange goings-on in your elusive dreams. yet you still feel that somewhere there must be an answer. but where? what is the key? as an element of the universal consciousness, your super-conscious awareness is totally versed in universal symbolism. since the super-conscious mind tends to speak in its own language, your dreams can be expected to contain some of this language of universal symbols. but even though it has its own language, the super-conscious mind is aware that you will respond best to those symbols wit

examine the dream to see if it fits any of the events of the preceding day. this will explain a few of your dreams. if this test fails, then you must determine whether the dream is literal or symbolic. a literal dream is one in which the main dream character or image is a real person or thing in your life, or on your mind, at the time. if the literal interpretation makes sense, you may have found the key. when the literal interpretation fails to make sense, the dream is obviously symbolic. 88 i buckland's complete book of witchcraft a symbolic dream is one in which the dream character and images cannot be taken literally, as a real person or thing. then the image is that of an aspect of you, the dreamer. then the ancient wisdom of the universal symbols should be applied. as you first begin

however you feel best. you will find this by experimentation. if necessary, draw down the power. take aim: get that picture in your mind and focus it. you will feel the power within you as you focus; you will feel the power trying to burst out. hold it as long as you can, keeping that picture in mind. when you feel you just cannot hold it any more, release it let it burst out of you as you shout the key word. if you are working for money, then shout "money" if for love "love" if for a new job "job" in your earlier deliberations, during cakes and ale, decide what is to be the key word. this is the release; the squeezing of the trigger. and shout it out! don't be self-conscious; don't worry about the neighbors; don't think "what will people think. just shout it out and release all that accu

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

iah, the material world, or world of action and things [48] the meditation on heh* 1 in whatsoever object thou perceivest, know me as the essence, as the idea, and as the interior nature. because of this the wise come easily to me by many paths, yet in truth these different roads are but a single way. if thou canst penetrate into the nature of the simplest thing, there thou shalt find me. this is the key to the mystery of the sacred letters. fix thy mind on the object set before thee by any letter, and hold thy thought to meditate thereon. then shall the inner nature of that object be made known to thee, and by this means shalt thou draw nigh to some aspect of my being. 2 consider then the secret meaning of the letter heh. for even as i am the essence, and idea, and interior nature of ever

the bringing forth of form" is this: the ineffable sephiroth hidden in en soph aur are brought into manifestation as the ten sephiroth forming the tree of life. this is accomplished by means of the self-contemplation of the life-power. thus the power of the ineffable sephiroth is, as it were, multiplied through the manifested sephiroth, and this multiplication is represented by the number 100. 4 the key-word in this paragraph is the noun "place, which, in hebrew, is maqawm, m q v m. the number of this word is 186, the same as that of the letter-name qoph, q v p. 5 this paragraph and the next refer to the 29th path of wisdom, called "corporeal intelligence, i. e "consciousness of body. it is written of this path that it "forms every body which is formed in all the worlds, and is the reprod

d the "collective intelligence, which joins hod, glory or splendor, to yesod, foundation. 2 assiah is the lowest of the four qabalistic worlds. this paragraph begins with the attribution of the physical sun to the letter resh. it goes on to warn us that the physical sun is not to be confounded with the spiritual sun. 3 this paragraph is reminiscent of the great egyptisn symbol of the winged disk. the key-word is kanaphim, k n p i m "wings, which adds up to 200, the numeral value of the letter resh. compare this with the conclusion of the rosicrucian fama fraternitatis, which ends, sub umbra alarum tuarum, jehova "under the shadow of thy wings, jehovah [177] the book of tokens in the last section the key-word is the noun sheer, sh i r "a song. this has the same numeral value, 510, as th. le

ent on shin* s h i n, pronounced sheen. transcribed as "sh. the number 300. meaning: tooth, or fang. the perpetual intelligence. 1 "circle" is used here because every circle has 360 degrees, and 360 is the value of the letter-name shin, sh i n "flame, because of the attribution of the element of fire to the letter shin. note also that the circle is the geometrical symbol of outgoing and return. 2 the key-word in this paragraph is "fang, which is one meaning of the letter-name shin. 3 this paragraph contains a repetition of the reference to the number of the letter-name, 360, as that of the degrees of a circle. 4 this paragraph is based upon the shape of the letter, which resembles three tongues of flame rising from a fire. 5 the key-word in this paragraph is" formation, which is yetzer, i

the voice of god. so is thy body, o aspirant, more, far more, than an earthen clod. it is gimel, token of the intelligence that uniteth thee with the crown; it is vav, the nail that joineth thee to the paternal wisdom; and it is truly peh, the mouth of the lord, for in guph are the letters which uniteth thee forever with the kingdom [198] e p i l o g o s yet is all this naught but words. without the key supplied by the understanding heart. love is that key. love, not reason; for reason followeth after love, and when reason would enslave love, then is reason but a tyrant punishing itself with what it trieth in vain to enslave. love cometh first as thou mayest see in tarot, where the empress cometh before the emperor. without love reason is sterile, for love is the generatrix of true imager

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

le is cast, the symbol can be handed round while the person leading the ritual speaks the intention. alternatively, each person can add his or her special interpretation while holding the symbol and so the declaration is worked as part of the ritual. as others are holding the symbol, visualise it within your own hands; this provides the transition to the next stage of the ritual. concentration is the key to this first stage. the action this is the stage where you use actions to endow the symbol with magical energies. this is part of the continuous process of translating your magical thoughts and words from the first stage, the inner plan, to manifestation as the impetus for success or fulfilment in the everyday world. these energies amplify your own. for example, passing incense, represent

or a slow spiral dance around the circle. you could try drumming or tying knots either on individual cords or in a group, creating a pattern with the longer cords of fellow witches, perhaps looped around a tree. the action of the magick is limited only by the environment and your imagination. you may find that improvisation enters quite spontaneously as the energies unfold and spiral. movement is the key to this stage. raising the power this is the most powerful part of the magick, as the magical energies are amplified and the power of the ritual carries you along joyously. ecstasy forms a major part of shamanic ceremony and the old mystery religions; it is akin to the exhilaration you experience riding on a carousel or running barefoot along a sandy shore with the wind lifting your hair

energy. at the point when the climax is reached, comes the release of power. note that for some people the cone concept interferes with their own natural magical abilities- some of the most skilled witches and healers see circles of light, shimmering golden beams or rainbows with their psychic eye. some see nothing at all, but instead feel power pushing their feet almost off the ground. growth is the key to this stage. release of power when you release the power in the final stage, you may see the cone exploding and cascading as coloured stars or light beams, which surge away into the cosmos and break into brilliant rainbow colours. if you wish, you can direct the energy after the final release of power by pointing with your hands, or a wand or knife, so that the energies cascade horizonta

h, you can direct the energy after the final release of power by pointing with your hands, or a wand or knife, so that the energies cascade horizontally and downwards, for example into herbs on the altar that you are empowering to make into herb sachets. or you can direct the cascading energies in a specific direction, perhaps towards a person who is ill or in need of magical strength. release is the 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 mar

iend, daughter and grandmother of all ages and all places, in joy, for i bring love and plenty. you may also bring me your hopes with the waxing moon and your sorrows on the wane, for i am with you in all states and stages, when you call and when you are silent, when you turn to me as an eager child and when you weep solitary tears in your pillow when your dreams have dissolved into ashes 'i hold the key to the mysteries of existence and the universe, but these i will share with all who come with willing heart and open mind. for they are not hidden from you, but are all round you in every season. i am in the moon as she passes through the sky, in the fertile earth and the mighty waters, for i am them as i am part of you, and you of me, and you too are of the same divine fabric as the moon

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

the luciferian may remain earth bound for some time. it is speculated that eventually something as this may grow boring and it would be time for the spirit to remain and move further into the astral. the tools of chaos magick are specifically anything which one would utilize to achieve her or his goal, the results being designed to correspond with the means. union through opposites essentially is the key, proving the direct descendent of aleister crowley highly commendable thelema system, or 93 curreysgreater opportunities. those who depart will leave behind a community they have been a part of for generations. they will also leave behind the elderly matriarch of their clan, nana peazant. nana beckons her children to join in a communion ceremony, for she wants to give them "a part of herse

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

nds the ladder of being through the elemental to the triune structure of the divine. c. 1285 hugh de digne dies. franciscan joachite hermit of hyeres. c.1285 ya aqob ben elia of venice translated into hebrew the major introduction to the beliefs of astrological science written by abu ma shar. 1286 abulafia, abraham hayei ha olam ha-ba (italy. guiard of cressonart in paris expounding to beguins on the key of david 1285 "or haskel" abulafia's principal work an influence upon villanova. 1288 the mongols invade india. alexander von roes notitia seculi derived from pseudo-joachim of fiore's de semine scripturarum anticipates the antichrist as a 3rd frederich and looks for charlemagne's return. 1288-1339 john dastin 1289 abulafia, abraham commentary on the sepher yetzirah (camino, italy) francis

llico et humano. john dee's hieroglyphic monad 1565-1622 michael maier 1565-1648 michael sendivogius 1565-1628 robert fludd 1568-1631 johann hartmann proto-rosicrucian friend of michael maier, circle of sendivogius. 1568-1639 tommaso campanella 1568-1614 tobias hess proto-rosicrucian lawyer and a practicing paracelsian doctor who identified mystical numbers and particular times of chronology with the key of david. conduit for the promotion of simon studion's ideas. 1569 mercator's 1569 polar map. 1571-1640 sadr al-din shirazi(mulla sadra) iranian sufi transcendent philosophy (al-hikmat al-muta`aliyah)continues suhrawardi's theosophy of light 1572 isaak luria dies 1572 tycho brahe de nova stella. 1573 john dee de stella admiranda, in cassiopeae asterismo. 1574-1637 robert fludd "therefore t

es; accession of james i 1603-1678 john junior winthrop 1604-1657 manasseh ben israel. 1604 basil valentine's triumphal chariot of alchemy by rosicrucian johann tholde july 26 john dee meets simon forman. michael sendivogius's novum lumen chemicum. simon studion s unpublished latin manuscript naometria("measurement of the temple, a naked and prime opening of the book written within and without by the key of david and the reed like unto a rod (cf. revelation xi. divided into 2 parts and 4 sections, consisting of a dialogue between "nathaniel" and "cleophas, having a crudely shaped rose design with a cross in the centre, containing 1790 pages with the dedication to the duke of wurttemberg adding yet another 205 pages. its author was particularly interested in the dates in the life of henry o

DANCE OF THE WITCHES

or use both as you feel the need. you will discover that these two bits of advice greatly increase any rite's power and affect: the rewarding feeling of any rite is increased when the rite participants are resting in the secure awareness of the interconnectivity of all things, and celebrating every word and motion of a holy rite with the ultimate pure, focused awareness and deliberate steadiness* the key to the witch's dance is right there. not only do you have to have faith that your position in fate echoes your actions, intentions, and words into every other portion of fate, you must also take this steady. every single movement and motion in the witch's dance is to be done with full awareness. that means that from the start, you empty your mind of any desire to enter into a trance state

DARK GODS

thways within which lead to the dark gods. binan ath: as above. said to mean `behold the fire' lidagon: symbolic representation of the union of the two sexual opposites (darkat and dagon) in their darker aspects. abatu: an earth bound form of destructive/negative energy. associated with rites of sacrifice. f sharp major key for chant. karu samsu: word of power along the 12th path to be chanted in the key of a flat major. according to tradition it means `i invoke the sun' nemicu: bringer of wisdom. to be vibrated. mactoron: word of power of 14th. path chanted in key of a minor. legend recalls it as representing the name for one of the planetary homes of the dark gods, later famed as an early star gate. atazoth: the most powerful of the dark gods. the name itself (which correctly describes t

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

wn reality. the prison warder consciousness knows all about this process. our physical reality is the creation of the thoughts we hold onto, past and present. these create a pattern within us which is then cast around us in the form of a magnetic cape/aura. this attracts to us a physical reality in terms of people, places, and events which exactly reflects our inner pattern, how we see ourselves. the key to this reality is thought. if you can manipulate someone's thoughts and view of themselves, you are creating that person's reality and, as a result, their physical experience. more than that, people will generally pass onto their children large chunks of their own views and beliefs, thus manipulating- often with the best of intentions- how the children view themselves and their potential

states. it was all arranged by the rothschilds, probably even down to the warburg's marriage partners. these banking and elite families like to interbreed whenever possible. it keeps the genes up to scratch, you know, and keeps the money (control) in the family. when jacob schiff arrived in america to join kuhn, loeb, and co, he married the daughter of solomon loeb. jacob schiff was to be one of the key manipulators in the first half of this century. the schiff and rothschild families were as one and shared the same house in frankfurt in the days of mayer amschel. the federal reserve bill became known as the 'aldrich bill' and it was warburg and aldrich who organised the covert meeting on jekyl island. many years later, frank vanderlip, the rockefellers' agent at the time, would say: pape

sed to be wealth measured in lands, crops, herds and minerals; but a new standard had now been introduced, namely, a form of money to which the title 'credit' had been given."18 debts were measured in gold or silver, neither of which france produced. therefore their debts were bound to grow and become even more impossible to pay. the brotherhood had people on the inside as usual, including one in the key position of chief finance minister to king louis. his name was necker, a man who claimed to be a swiss of german extraction. mcnair wilson wrote of him "necker had forced his way into the king's treasury as a representative of the debt system and owing allegiance to that system".19 necker had a reputation of being a daring and unscrupulous speculator before joining the king's administratio

thought was, after all, the main point of the war. dodd reported that..they came to the conclusion that, to prevent a reversion, they must control education. and then they approached the rockefeller foundation and they said 'will you take on the acquisition of control of education as it involves subjects that are domestic in their significance. and it was agreed. then together, they decided that the key to it was the teaching of american history and they must change that. so, they then approached the most prominent of what we might call american historians at that time with the idea of getting them to alter the manner in which they presented the subject."13 this is why most of the information in this book about the real background to world events has never been taught in the schools or un

ation to the re-emerging love vibration. we know this at a subconscious level and, for rapidly increasing numbers, at a conscious level too. most people at this time can't remember why they are here, but they will. the prison warders on the fourth dimension know what is happening too, and the last thing that consciousness wants is' for its prison and negativeenergy- production-unit to be no more. the key to breaking out of this spiritual prison is the awakening and expansion of our consciousness to the point where its vibratory rate will be so high and powerful that it can, collectively, dismantle the blocking frequency. the prison warders, via the global elite, have been doing everything possible to close our minds and to divide us so that we do not work together as one. as i describe the

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

no, the fear is for what their mother or father will think, or their friends and workmates- the very people who are conditioned by the system to stay in the pen. the sheep are keeping the other sheep in line and making life unpleasant for anyone who tries to escape. it is so easy for a small group of interbreeding family bloodlines to control the lives- in other words the minds- of billions, once the key institutions of "information" are in place, as they have been for thousands of years in their various forms. there are not enough of these manipulators and their stooges to control the population physically and so they have had to create a structure in which humans control themselves through mental and emotional imposition. once you have the herd mentality policing itself, there is a third

the other two. when he walked out of freemasonry, the opposite happened. he found his bosses far less supportive to say the least. this is just one small example of how the illuminati and their secret society web ensure that their guys are in the positions that matter. it is actually astonishing how few people you need to control to dictate your agenda through the whole system if they are (a) in the key positions of decision-making and (b) they have the power to appoint those in the important positions below them. an example: you control the chief of police who decides the policy and he can appoint the heads of the various departments in his force. he introduces illuminati policy and chooses his major subordinates from the secret society initiates. they, in turn, can appoint the people wi

ve centralisation of power. the united nations, like its predecessor, the league of nations, was an illuminati creation to act as a trojan horse or stalking horse for world government. the media play their part to perfection in these "p-r-s" scenarios. at ownership level, people like conrad black at the hollinger group know what is going on and use their newspapers to pursue the uluminati agenda. the key editors they appoint might know something of it and also certain columnists. but most of the journalists will have no idea. the editor is always there to block anything they write that is against the interests of the uluminati and if they insist on pursuing an unwelcome story they find themselves looking for another job. and, anyway, most of what journalists write comes from official (ulum

or is it rather more probable that these institutions of human enslavement were purposely created by these very same illuminati to advance their agenda? but religion is not the conspiracy, and nor are economics, 10 children of the matrix politics, and all the rest. they are part of a vast web of interconnected manipulation designed to persuade the masses to put themselves in prison and throw away the key. the illuminati work through every belief system- religious, political, economic, racial, and cultural- and through every side in the major "debates. the reason is simple: if you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control all sides. the manager of a football team cannot dictate the result if he only controls one side. if, however, he is managin

a. interestingly, the dogon call sirius "the land of the fish" and "the pure earth, and the day the nommo landed on our earth is known as the "day of the fish".31 the babylonian priest berossus wrote that the origin of humans in babylonian belief could be traced to the "fish god" oannes, who was known as dagon to the philistines. what they said about oannes, the sumerians said about "enki, one of the key leaders of their reptilian anunnaki. enki was symbolised as closely connected with water and it was said that he rode in a ship that could go under the water or fly in the sky. he was described as a giant who had scales like a fish or reptile. in the babylonian legend, oannes was one of the "annedoti("the repulsive ones) who had the heads and legs of men, but the body and tail of a fish.32

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

here is tremendous internal strife, conflict and competition. one researcher describedthem as a gang of bank robbers who all agree on the job, but then argue over how thespoils will be divided. that is an excellent description and through history differentfactions have gone to war with each other for dominance. in the end, however, they areunited in their desire to see the plan implemented and at the key moments theyoverwhelmingly join forces to advance the agenda when it comes under challenge.you will probably have to go back hundreds of thousands of years to find thestarting point of this story of human manipulation and of the family lines whichorchestrate the great work. the more i have researched this over the years, the moreobvious it has become to me that the origin of the bloodlines

xtremely white skin. the father of nimrod in the text ofgenesis was cush, also known as bel or belus, who was the grandson of noah and sonof ham. cush became known as the deity, hermes, which means son of ham.1 ham orkhem means the burnt one and may have been connected to sun worship.2 a greatnetwork of deities emerged from babylon and its connections with egypt.nimrod and semiramis have remained the key deities of the brotherhood to this dayunder many different names and symbols. nimrod was symbolised as a fish and queensemiramis as a fish and a dove. semiramis is likely to be symbolic of ninkharsag, thecreator of the reptile-human crossbreeds. nimrod was the fish-god dagon who wasdepicted as half man, half fish.3 it is possible that this was symbolic of him being halfhuman, half scaled r

satan: thou art an offence unto me: forthou savourest not the things that be of god, but those that be of men.20 the rock isclassic mystery school symbolism, as is the corner stone associated with jesus and stillused in freemasonic symbolism today. peter is supposed to be the custodian of the keysto heaven, but this is just a rerun of the mystery school symbol of the two-faced janus,custodian of the key to the temple of wisdom and the keys to heaven held by mithra.and janus was eannus, a title for nimrod in babylon. the gold and silver keys of stpeters alleged successor, the pope, are more symbols of the secret doctrine. the popesand those who control them know what all this stuff really means. gold and silver are theprecious metals used to symbolise the sun and the moon. peter and paul a

le. here we have yet another religionoriginating from the same source and another perpetuation of the jesus myth. the goldplates, smith said, were written in reformed egyptian. from this came the book ofmormon two years later and his followers became the mormon church in 1830. thepillars of the early church were smith and another guy called brigham young. theywere both high degree freemasons from the key new york lodge and the expansion ofthis church was funded by kuhn, loeb and company, the rothschild bank in theunited states30 which also helped to fund the russian revolution and both sides in thefirst world war. the mormons were a brotherhood creation. mormons recognise thebible, but claim that smiths writings are equally divine. they set up communitiescalled stakes of zion (sion, the su

alliol, graham, lindsay, cameron and comyn, arrived in this period.these flemish people were bloodlines from sumer, babylon, asia minor and thecaucasus, who had made their way across land to europe. within 150 years of theirarrival in scotland they were running the show. one of the most famous of scottishkings, robert the bruce, came from the line of robert of bruges in what is nowbelgium, one of the key brotherhood centres today. the battles between the scots andthe english were, although the people never knew, merely battles between differentbranches of the same elite for supremacy in the agenda. some were reptile-aryans,some were not. bruce and the st clairs/sinclairs were reptilian for sure. it was one ofbruces descendants, the scottish nobleman james bruce of kinnaird, who left britai

DAVID ICKE RELATED THE HIDDEN GEARS OF FREEMASONRY

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 to freemasonry, manly p. hall, published by the macoy publishing and masonic supply company, inc, richmond

may please him, and in return lucifuge promises to bestow upon me the treasures of the earth and fulfil my every desire for the length of my natural life. if i fail to bring him each year the offering specified above, then my own soul shall be forfeit to him. signed. invocant signs pact with his own blood" page civ 'the lost keys of freemasonry' by manly palmer hall 33 "when the mason learns that 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 this energy" page 48 'the secret doctrine' by helena petrovna blavatsky "lucifer represents..life..thought..progress..civilization

DAVIDSON DAN SHAPE POWER

stianity) in the teachings of the order of the eastern templars or o.tur147 preface by jerry w. decker www.keelynet.com po box 111786 carrollton, tx 75011 there are fields of study which are relatively unknown to the general public. though 'pyramid power' is well known, few have pursued it to other geometric forms and the phenomena which can be produced by understanding what is happening. some of the key early researchers into shape power and the more specific pyramid power include pavlita, belizal, turenne, drbal and flanagan. practical aether engineering is accomplished in nature by the use of various geometric forms and patterns as witnessed in the fibonacci series, fractals, tiles, cones and tetrahedral shapes. entomologist phil callahan has shown how insects and some plants use geomet

DEMONIC BIBLE

d rather rule in hell than serve in heaven. this combined with the philosophy of nietzche, who says plainly, god is dead, made the philosophy of the church of satan attractive to the rebel and the outcast. the second beast in 1975, michael aquino, a magister templi in the church of satan, along with several other members, resigned from the church of satan and established the temple of set. one of the key issues in the schism was the alleged sale of titles within the church of satan. members of the church of satan who felt they had earned recognition for their knowledge of the black arts and their commitment to the organization were greatly distressed to see titles being awarded to people who did nothing more than give funds to the church. the argument for the awarding of the titles was tha

surrection of corpses as well as magical seals, charms, and spells have been omitted from this book in order to avoid such things being used foolishly by those who have no interest in magic beyond the acquisition of wealth and the satisfaction of vain ambitions. if you desire it the spirits will reveal to you all manner of sorceries whereby you may attain that which you desire. this book provides the key to crossing the gates of hell and becoming one with the forces of darkness. rather than give you spells, charms, and seals for material benefit, this book provides you with the means to acquire these things yourself. initial to performing these rituals, you must take a "bath of purification, a bath in salt water. the reason for this is that salt is a universal purgant. taking a bath in sal

preceding sections, you may realize that the rituals of the demonic bible contain several fallacies. i have said that the devil is female, not male. how then can a man become the devil incarnate if the devil is female? i have also said that the names satan, lucifer, belial, etc. are titles for the dark goddess. how can the magician cross the gate of satan or the gate of lucifer? i have said that the key to understanding deitus is the realization that man is a god and yet the first ritual of the demonic bible is a renunciation of all gods. there are many apparent fallacies in the demonic bible. i came to realize the fallacies after many years of performing the rituals. i have left the rituals as they are, however, for the benefit of the novice practitioner. just as a child learns to call a

DIABOLUS

ulture to culture, there is a specific correlation of the essence of azazel, being fire. while melek ta us is the chief angel over all he is considered to be created of a higher intellect than the other angels. that by the essence of flame, of which motion is always present, the peacock angel does not remain the same. it is by this principle that he changes through us as we become something else. the key to this is the imagination itself. peter lamborn wilson made reference to a text by aziz ad-din nasafi26 which referred to satan or iblis as the imagination. it is because of the imagination that he refused to be prostrate before mankind, as fire was superior to clay. while it is first considered a sin of pride, satan acknowledged his true nature as flame and could not bring himself to bow

am presently at hand to such as trust in me and call upon me in time of need, neither is there any place void of me where i am not present. kitab el-jelwa therein is perhaps one of the most significant representations of shaitan in the form of the inner guide, holy guardian angel or daemon/genius which is attainable through magick. that the imagination holds keys to self-creation so does it hold the key to conversation of the holy guardian angel, the luciferian spirit which guides and which is considered our true self. it can be called a true self or higher self as this is the daemonic aspect of the mind, the gift of the black light as iblis gave humanity is inherent in our higher self, thus the imagination is a helper and beneficial ability that humanity must choose to master. all action

s shall call to each other; there too lilith shall repose and find a place to rest. there shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow. isaiah 34:14 the nature of samael and lilith is to seek copulation, separate and return again. they are guided by leviathan, called also the blinddragon who by his essence, cause their sexual union. in luciferian witchcraft circles leviathan holds the key to controlled sexual magick and the possibilities therein. leviathan essentially is the encircler, the possibilities of the self as well as knowledge of the self. here we see a connection between lilith and leviathan, that in many ways they are nearly the same- you already know that evil samael and wicked lilith are like a sexual pair who, by means of an intermediary, receive an evil and w

is a great defiled serpent in the sea in the literal sense. the same holds true above in a hidden way. the heavenly serpent is a blind prince, the image of an intermediary between samael and lilith. treatise on the left emanation by r. isaac b. jacob ha- kohen 28 aleister crowley in his work de arte magica describes in certain terms the use of sexual magick within the image of lilith, that she is the key to creations of night born servitors or demons. such workings crowley considered highly dangerous- among the jews are certain instructed initiates of their qabalah who hold, as we understand, the view that in the zraa or semen itself lies a creative force inherent which cannot be baulked. thus they say that before eve was made, the dreams of adam produced lilith, a demon, and that from his

DION FORTUNE CEREMONIAL MAGIC UNVEILED

ts origin to the discovery by mathers of a set of mysterious cipher manuscripts; these manuscripts exist, for i have talked with trustworthy persons who have seen them; but as they were in cipher, they were not able to bear testimony concerning their contents. in these manuscripts mathers is supposed to have found the outline of the "golden dawn" rituals and the system of correspondences which is the key to its teaching, including the correct attribution of the tarot trumps on the tree of life, which enables them to be linked lip with the astrological signs, a secret that students have iong sought to discover. it is this system which crowley uses in his equinox, 777, book four, and his recently published magick; which regardie uses in both his books, and which i am using in my mystical qab

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

e admitted absence of a medical qualification debar one from going to his assistance and giving him what help one could, pending the arrival of qualified attention? my work upon the qabalah is of the nature of first aid. i find an invaluable system lying neglected, and ill-qualified for the task as i may be, i am stnving to draw attention to its possibilities and restore it to its proper place as the key to western occultism; and it is my chief hope in so doing that it may attract the attention of scholars, and that they will continue the task of translation and investigation of the qabalistic manuscripts, which are as yet a vein of which only the outcroppings have been worked. 7. one qualification for my task i can plead in justification, however. for the last ten years i have lived and m

ss they convey an impression to the mind, and in themselves they cannot do that. they must be related to other ideas before they have any significance. we only begin to understand kether when we study chokmah, the second sephirah, its emanation; it is only when we see the full unfoldment of the ten sephiroth that we are ready to approach kether, and then we approach it with the data that gives us the key to its nature. in working with the tree it is wisest to keep on going over it, rather than to concentrate upon a single point until it is mastered, for one thing explains another, and it is out of the perception of the relationships between the mystical qabala page 23 different symbols that enlightenment arises. again we say, the tree is a method of using the mind, not a system of knowledg

and through the whole body are they expanded and diffused" 19. when it is recalled that daath is situated at the point where the abyss bisects the middle pillar, and that up the middle pillar lies the path of the arrow, the way by which consciousness goes when the psychic rises on the planes, and that here also is kundalini, we see that in daath is the secret of both generation and regeneration, the key to the manifestation of all things through the differentiation into pairs of opposites and their union in a third. 20. thus doth the tree unfold its secrets to the qabalists, 21. the second triangle upon the tree of life is formed of the sephiroth chesed, geburah, and tiphareth. chesed is formed by the overflowing of binah, and is situated in the right-hand pillar of mercy, immediately bel

on, but the basic idea of the system of cosmic mathematics unquestionably enshrines great truths and contains great possibilities. using this system, it is possible to unravel the relationships of all manner of cosmic factors if the correct hebrew spelling of the names of power is known, for these names were formulated in accordance with the principles of gematria, and therefore gematria supplies the key to them. but this aspect of our subject, fascinating as it is, we cannot enter upon now. 5. in the archetypal world of atziluth there are assigned to the ten sephiroth ten forms of the divine name. anyone who has read the bible cannot fail to have observed that god is referred to under divers titles, as the lord, as the lord god, as the father, and by several other appellations. now these

under them, thus enabling us to see their relationships among themselves. these are the four worlds of the qabalists; the four elements of the alchemists; the fourfold classification of the signs of the zodiac and the planets into triplicities, employed by the astrologers; and the four suits of the tarot pack used in divination. this fourfold classification resembles the rosetta stone which gave the key to the egyptian hieroglyphs, for on it were inscriptions in egyptian and greek; greek being known, it was possible to work out the meaning of the corresponding egyptian hieroglyphs. it is the method of arranging all these sets of factors on the tree which gives the real esoteric clue to each of these systems of practical occultism. without this key they have no philosophical basis and beco

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ons of our warfare are not carnal may as truly be said of the practitioners of black magic as of the church. my own case belongs more to the realm of psychology than to occultism, the method employed being an application of hypnotic power to improper ends; i have given it, however, because i am convinced that hypnotic methods are very largely used in black magic, and that telepathic suggestion is the key to a large proportion of its phenomena. i cite my own case, painful as it is to me to do so, because an ounce of experience is worth a pound of theory. it was this experience which led me to take up the study of analytical psychology, and subsequently of occultism. as soon as i touched the deeper aspects of practical psychology and watched the dissection of the mind under psycho-analysis

ttacking entity. if we can inhibit that instinctive emotional reaction, the edge of the aura will remain impenetrable, and will be as sure a defence against psychic invasion as the healthy and unbroken skin is a defence against bacterial infection. it happens sometimes, however, that a rapport has been formed with the attacking entity in a previous incarnation, and therefore it holds, as it were, the key to the postern. such a problem is a very difficult one, and external assistance is needed for its solution. the difficulty is increased by the fact that the victim is often disinclined to allow the break to be made, being bound to the attacking entity, whether discarnate or incarnate, by bonds of fascination, or even genuine affection. a case with which i was acquainted throws so much ligh

are called in the qabalah. in order to understand their significance we must make a further excursion into qabalistic philosophy. the creator is conceived of as bringing the universe into manifestation through a series of divine emanations, ten in number. these are called the ten holy sephiroth, and are represented in a diagram as arranged in a particular pattern. this is the famous tree of life, the key to all symbolism. the sephiroth were not emanated independently, each from the divine source; but overflowed, the one from the other. as soon as one sephira has emanated another, these two are said to be in equilibrium, compensating each other. but there is a period during the emanation of a sephira when the force is not yet in equilibrium, but is pushing out unsupported, like an incomplet

on. our love of art has its roots in the instinct of love, beauty and creative expression which, upon its lowest arc, is called sex. each of these instincts has its high spiritual aspect and its elemental physical aspect, and transmution from one plane to another takes place freely, so that unless we understand the significance of these manifestations we shall be misled. in their understanding is the key to the science of life. if one of these great instincts is so thwarted that all attempts at compensation break down; or if the temperament is so inelastic and unaccommodating that it will not modify its demands, the ego makes a final desperate attempt at adjustment which goes outside the limits within which harmonious relations with the environment can be maintained. communications with th

about the time of my interview with z, of which she was unaware, she was told to join our spiritual teacher in helping me. she withdrew from the outer planes, and then she realised that strong hypnotic forces were playing upon me in waves. again and again she had to use all her spiritual power to help me withstand them, but finally 'we stood on a rock, bathed in light and free' my letter gave her the key to it; but she replied 'take care, z. will try again. he realised that he was baffled; he will try on the inner planes next time "now comes the great experience. a few weeks later, at night, i had a very vivid vision, it seemed; but it was a real experience. i was in the middle of a group of seven or eight persons of whom i saw two clearly. on my left was a woman entirely veiled in black

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lavey and his los angeles based church of satan, founded in the 1960s, in the sense that these rituals were performed in honor of the devil and involved a parody of the church mass. however, lavey always asserted that his black mass was not intended to defile the christian god, because he denied the existence of such a god. since the deliberate degradation and defilement of christianity is one of the key features of the true black mass, the mass performed in the church of satan falls short of perfection. the concept of the black mass has no meaning outside of christianity. it was a fantasy created by the priests of the inquisition as the worst thing they could possibly accuse supposed witches of doing. after it became a part of the literature of the witch craze in various incomplete forms

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ng, food and medicine for the needy. it was agreed that the federal soldier who was a mason should receive the same care and attention as the confederate soldier, whenever it was possible to reach him. the existence of this association was known to masons only. the good which it did will never be fully known in this world. as bearing upon this interesting subject, the following is an extract from the key stone, a masonic paper published in raleigh during the war "masonic dinner to prisoners.-on or about february 22, 1865, several hundred prisoners of war were stopped at raleigh for a few days. a large number were quartered at camp holmes, and on the day designated the masons who a typical lodge 127 were prisoners, we are informed, were given a bountiful dinner by masons of the guard who st

eaching significance, national complications, threatened revolutions, startling discoveries in science, and the promise of still greater discoveries in the fields of investigation, the unveiling of nature's most mysterious secrets, the broadening spheres of knowledge-all these fill the mind of man with awe and wondering expectancy. we stand upon the verge of the mightiest achievements of mankind. the key to the limitless storehouses lies in the history of the deeds of peoples who have risen to the loftiest heights of splendor and then have faded out and left only a memory, or are still pressing to the goal that will mark the furthest bounds of human power and attainment. what a wonderful record is comprehended in the story of the greatest nations" it is a monumental work-accurate, graphic

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e, elector of saxony, the earl of surrey, erasmus, and other eminent people. cicero duly appeared, delivered his famous oration, and left his audience deeply moved. agrippa was supposed to have a magic glass in which it was possible to see objects distant in time or place. one other story concerning the magician is worthy of record. about to leave home for a short time, he entrusted his wife with the key of his museum, warning her to permit no one to enter. but a curious boarder in their house begged for the key, till at length the harassed hostess gave it to him. the first thing that caught the student s attention was a book of spells, which he began to read. a knock sounded on the door. the student took no notice, but went on reading, and the knock was repeated. a moment later a demon en

part of a ritual for the evocation of evil spirits. al was also a word of considerable importance to magician aleister crowley. it was the name given to the revelation he received in 1904 that became the basis of his new system of thelemic magic, usually called the book of the law or liber al. crowley placed great store in numerology. in his system, al equated to 31, the number which he felt held the key to unlocking the meaning of liber al. aksakof, alexander n. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 20 sources: crowley, aleister. the law is for all. edited by israel regardie. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1975. levi, eliphas. the history of magic. 1913. reprint, new york: samuel weiser, 1969. alain of lille (ca. 1128.1203) also known as alanus de insulensis, doctor

s the opinion of certain savants who affirmed that artephius was identical with apollonius of tyana, who was born in the first century under that name and who died in the twelfth century under that of artephius. many extravagant and curious works are attributed to artephius: de vita propaganda (the art of prolonging life, which he claims, in the preface, to have written at the age of 1,025 years; the key to supreme wisdom; and a work on the character of the planets, on the significance of the songs of birds, on things past and future, and on the philosophers stone. jerome cardan spoke of these books and believed that they were composed by some practical joker who wished to play on the credulity of the partisans of alchemy. some scholars have identified artephius with the arabic poet and al

disposition is warm, hasty, and passionate. the aspects of the planets however, may materially alter these traits (aspects are the angular relationships between various points in a boroscope; in a natal chart the planets represent the various facets of one s psyche, and aspects between them indicate how these facets conflict or work together) this sign rules the head and face. as the first sign, the key phrase for aries is i am, representing the birth of awareness. taurus, the second sign of the zodiac, is a fixed earth sign. it is a negative, feminine sign, ruled by the planet venus. its symbol is the bull, and its glyph is said to represent a bull s head and horns. it takes its name from the greek word for bull. a sign known for its stubbornness, it is the source of our expressions bull

er neck problems. taurus is cold and dry, melancholy, nocturnal, and southern. when influential in a nativity, it usually produces a person with a broad forehead, thick lips, dark curling hair, and melancholy, slow to anger, but when once enraged, violent, furious, and difficult to appease. places ruled by taurus are stables, cowhouses, cellars and low rooms, and all places used for or by cattle. the key phrase for taurus is i have. gemini, the third sign of the zodiac, is a mutable air sign. it is a positive, masculine sign, ruled by the planet mercury. its symbol is the twins, and its glyph is said to represent a set of twins. it takes its name from the latin word for twins. gemini is associated with the shoulders, arms, hands, and lungs. the native is tall and straight with long arms an

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three or four leading mediums is enough to remove even the faintest shadow of suspicion. of all the explanations conceivable, the one which attributes everything to imposture and trickery is unquestionably the most extraordinary and the least probable. from the moment that one enters upon this study, all suspicions are dispelled without leaving a trace behind them; and we are soon convinced that the key to the riddle is not to be found in imposture. less than fifty years ago most of the hypnotic phenomena which are now scientifically classified were likewise looked upon as fraudulent. it seems that man is loathe to admit that there lie within him many more things than he imagined. maeterlinck considered survival proved but was uncertain as to the possibility of communication with the dead

given the name mahavira or great hero. he eventually reached a state thought of as complete isolation from harmful karma, called kevela. he was acknowledged as the 24th great teacher of his tradition, and his mahatma letters encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 968 new title, jaina or victor, gave the name to the jaina community. mahavira concluded early in his spiritual quest that the key to spiritual advancement was the avoidance of injury to any life form, a difficult process as life was everywhere. after attaining kevala, mahavira took a student, makkhali gosala, who had attained some magical powers. mahavira questioned the equation of his powers with spiritual enlightenment, and the two went their separate ways. before their parting, makkhali gosala tried to use his pow

ns of key magical texts, which he rescued from the obscurity into which they had fallen. sources: colquhoun, ithell. the sword of wisdom: macgregor mathers and the golden dawn. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1975. mathers, s. l. macgregor. astral projection, ritual magic, and alchemy. rochester, vt: destiny books, 1987. the kabbalah unveiled. 1907. reprint, london: routledge and kegan paul, 1926. the key of solomon the king. 1889. reprinted as: the greater key of solomon. chicago: de laurence, 1914. mathers, s. l. macgregor, trans. the book of the sacred magic of abra-melin the mage. 1898. reprint, chicago: de laurence, 1932. reprint, new york: causeway books, 1974. mathur, raghuvansh b(ahadur (1918) indian educator who has investigated parapsychological subjects. he was born september 17

em again. in a seance with the italian medium francesco carancini, a dinner plate, covered with soot and out of the medium s reach, was placed in a padlocked wooden box held by one of the sitters. in experiments with mary baker thayer, robert cooper found a japanese silk handkerchief belonging to one of the sitters and flowers that came from nowhere in the locked box he brought to the seance, and the key of which he retained (light, march 15, 1902. gambier bolton (author psychic force, 1904) noted: during my sixteen years of experiments, investigation into the question of the existence of this psychic force the apparent penetration of matter by matter had been such a common occurrence at our experimental meetings, that unless this happens to take place in connection with some unusually lar

ters representing a vital and creative number. just as a language is formed from the letters of its alphabet, so from the secret powers that resided in the hebrew alphabet were magical variations evolved [comparable concepts existed in esoteric hinduism (see aum] there are many species of angels and powers. more exalted intelligences were conjured by rites to be found in the ancient book known as the key of solomon the king, and perhaps the most satisfactory collection of formulae for the invocation of the higher angels is that included in the anonymous theosophia pneumatica, published at frankfurt in 1686, which bears a strong family resemblance to the treatise on magic by arbatel. the names in this work do not tally with those that have been already given, but as it is admitted by occult

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would write, if the questions astounded us, so did the answers. salvador passed his examination at the hands of a man who, having seen a saucer himself, knew how to ask about certain things which no mere imaginary contact could give the answers to (reeve and reeve, 1957. desmond leslie, adamski s associate and co-author, visited villanueva later that year. leslie claimed that adamski had confided the key to him, explaining that every man who has received a true and physical contact with men from other worlds has been given a certain key whereby it shall be known that he is speaking truly. no man. could ever stumble upon this key by guess or chance. villanueva gave it without hesitation (good, 1998. unlike adamski and other contactees of the period, vi l l a n u e va did not embark on a pro

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mes read that men have tortured themselves everywhere, and that a happy man was here and there?why grinnest thou at me, thou hollow skull? save that thy brain, confused like mine, once sought bright day and in the sombre twilight dull, with lust for truth, went wretchedly astray? ye instruments, ye surely jeer at me, with handle, wheel and cogs and cylinder. i stood beside the gate, ye were to be the key. true, intricate your ward, but no bolts do ye stir. inscrutable upon a sunlit day, her veil will nature never let you steal, and what she will not to your mind reveal, you will not wrest from her with levers and with screws. you, ancient lumber, that i do not use, you re only here because you served my father. on you, old scroll, the smoke-stains gather, since first the lamp on this desk

the door is open, you ve a passage free. but what is this i now must see! can that happen naturally? is it phantom? is it reality? how long and broad the poodle grows! he rises up in mighty pose, tis not a dog s form that he shows! what spectre have i sheltered thus? he s like a hippopotamus with fiery eyes, jaws terrible to see. oh, mine you are most certainly. for such as your half-hellish crew the key of solomon will do. spirits[in the corridor] captured is someone within! stay without, none follow in! like a fox in a snare quakes an ancient hell-lynx there. but now give heed! hover hence, hither hover, under, over, and he soon himself has freed. can ye avail him, oh, do not fail him! for he has already done much to profit us, each one. faust first, to deal with this beast s core, i wil

ers. none shall sing about forgiving! to the rocks my cause i m crying. echo, hark! revenge! replying. for the unstable, death! not living! herald. now, if it please you, stand aside a pace, for what comes now is not your kind or race. ye see a mountain pressing through the throng, its flanks with brilliant housings proudly hung, a head with long tusks, snake-like snout below. a mystery! but soon the key i ll show. a dainty woman on his neck is sitting and with her wand subjects him to her bidding; another stands aloft, sublime to see, girt by a radiance dazzling, blinding me. beside them chained, two noble women near, fearful the one, the other blithe of cheer. one longs for freedom and one feels she s free. let each declare now who she be. fear. lamps and lights and torches smoking throu

fathom it, whatever may befall, in this your naught i hope to find my all. mephistopheles i praise you, truly, ere you part from me, since that you understand the devil i can see. here, take this key. faust that tiny, little thing! mephistopheles seize and esteem it, see what it may bring! faust it s growing in my hand! it flashes, glows! mephistopheles will you see now what blessing it bestows? the key will scent the right place from all others; follow it down, twill lead you to the mothers. faust [shuddering. the mothers! like a blow it strikes my ear! what is that word that i don t like to hear? mephistopheles so narrow-minded, scared by each new word? will you but hear what you ve already heard? let naught disturb you, though it strangely rings, you! long since wonted to most wondrous

in torpor there s no gain for me; the thrill of awe is man s best quality. although the world may stifle every sense, enthralled, man deeply senses the immense. mephistopheles descend, then! i might also tell you: soar! it s all the same. escape from the existent to phantoms unbound realms far distant! delight in what long since exists no more! like filmy clouds the phantoms glide along. brandish the key, hold off the shadowy throng. faust [inspired. good! gripping it, i feel new strength arise, my breast expands. on, to the great emprise! mephistopheles when you at last a glowing tripod see, then in the deepest of all realms you ll be. you ll see the mothers in the tripod s glow, some of them sitting, others stand and go, as it may chance. formation, transformation, eternal mind s eternal

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

of power not intended for superficial consumption. such books are alive, full of light, with hidden gates and abundant treasures. the life, light, and secrets of any book of power must grow like seeds in the mind. with proper cultivation under suitable conditions, those seeds bear fruit over time. with repeated recitation and perhaps the scribing of a text, one can feel the patterns and identify the key phrases, power names, imagery, and diagrams upon which the book is built. when you properly intone and scribe the key power names and phrases, and visualize the principal imagery and diagrams, you activate deep archetypes in the mind. these archetypes expand in one s consciousness and trigger associations and flashes of perception- 0' the core teachings of any mystical tradition constitute

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oclast of logos: the sun-satyr of chaos! thunder and lightnings? yea, a vital gaiety to drowsy dust, to blase souls. ecstatic laughter that reverberates and awakens. i am the shuddering heights and suffocating depths of ego, slipping and becoming. inconceivable women am i. a clouded vista of abyss, wherein to visit naked, my vampire self. wherein to write a cryptic language of my sexes, that i am the key. wherein to belch forth venomous atmosphere towards the highest. wherein to drench my thirsted tongue on thy goat's milk; to battle with thy cataleptic kisses, to swoon in thy consuming subtilty. o my mistress, i am unutterably drunk striving thy depths. i am the great cypher of love and hate knotted. the sphinx surviving, never sufficiently imagined. i am the grotesque refractions of form

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

is an offence to religion to propagate among the multitude a "discourse so full of the divine majesty".2 (this is from the opening of the asclepius) plato, pythagoras, porphyry, and orpheus, and the cabalists also enjoin secrecy in religious matters, and christ hid the truth in parables. there is moreover a most necessary and secret thing which is absolutely necessary for a magician, and which is the key to all magical operations, and this is "the dignification of man for such high virtue and power".3 it is through the intellect, the highest faculty of the soul, that miraculous works are done, and it is by an ascetic, pure, and religious way of life that is to be achieved the dignification necessary for the religious magus. certain ceremonies, such as the laying on of hands, give this dign

asoli, with many quotations from the de harmonia mundi and other of his works in proof of it.2 the intense concentration on the complexities of universal harmony, which is one of the most characteristic aspects of renaissance thought from giorgi onwards, though it used number in a pythagorean or qualitative sense and not as mathematics proper, yet by so forcefully directing attention on number as the key to all nature it may be said to have prepared the way for genuine mathematical thinking about the universe. as is well known, kepler still saw his new astronomy in a context of harmonies, and he was well aware that the pythagorean theory was also implicit in the hermetic writings, of which he had made a careful study.3 heliocentricity the cult of the prisca theologia laid a greatly increas

old now, standing before you, the man who has pierced the air and penetrated the sky, wended his way amongst the stars and overpassed the margins of the world, who has broken down those imaginary divisions between spheres the first, the eighth, the ninth, the tenth or what you will which are described in the false mathematics of blind and popular philosophy. by the fight of sense and reason, with the key of most diligent enquiry, he has thrown wide those doors of truth which it is within our power to open and stripped the veils and coverings from the face of nature. he has given eyes to blind moles, and illuminated those who could not see their own image in the innumerable mirrors of reality which surround them on every side; he has loosened the mute tongues which cared little for intricat

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

r-form) is devoted to allow for manifestation. the angel has access to knowledge (both mundane and magical) that is currently beyond the magicians scope and can reveal all manner of things. there is a self which underlies self and transcends the temporary ego manifestation of the magician. this ego is a mask of the self(aka kia, shhh. the ego is of the self and by the self. identification is both the key and the cage here. thee angel is the thin silver cord of the horizon; demarcation zos-kia. the angels unity with chrnzn is explosion of duality to a continuous transformation. see also appendix vi. subscribing to all of the above can be of great benefit to the magician because it offers him/ her a handle in the formulation/ invocation of the angel, as well as a magnificent channel with whi

cope of 45 minutes (images& all. this chapter offers more advice and references along this particular pathway. iii/1a: an automatic drawing of ecstasy. iii/1b: the pain of division burns thee. a face of pain and bliss. burning. iii/2a: when following the pathway of a scarlet brother, when treading congress with the angel. there comes a time of suffering (see detailed above, the rite of suffering. the key is given for unleashing the denizens of hell upon the aspirant (opening the doorway of the abyss, this must be resonated. this is a win or lose situation as demonic forces attempt to tear the initiate apart for the duration of this trial. we see a doorway on it s side in the shape of daleth, with some form of monster coming out of it. iii/2b: this being the first explicit reference to the

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and mankind. yog-sothoth is the outer manifestation of the primal chaos, the gate though which those outside must enter. in the dunwich horror, lovecraft writes, the old ones were, the old ones are, and the old ones shall be. not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. yog-sothoth knows the gate. yog-sothoth is the gate. yag-sothoth is the key and the guardian of the gate. past, present, future, all are one in yog-sothoth. he knows where the old ones broke through of old, and where they shall break through again. his order of existence parallels the concept of the universe as exposited in hindu and oriental mysticism, an all-in-one and one-in-all of limitless being and self. as such, a particular physical from cannot be ascribed

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

entation to the aforementioned procedure and not as an a1ternative here again are some examples for 90/ practical sigil magic ism .th1s my wish to experience the stages b our ile are m n. the incarnation of a bird sentences of desire .this my wish to experience my ata- v s. efore my birth .this my wish to experience the s ce of my life .this my wish to experience my rep- t incarnations in ritual. the key words greptile incarnations h show that we oving close to another technique of regression.reincarnation therapy. but the intention of the sigil magician is different insofar as s/he employs atavisms to charge sigils further or to start magical operations. for example, a talisman charged while one is in a greptile consciousness h will work more powerfully than a talisman charged while in a

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make a generous mind cautious and gentle in its exercise. to rule has been the lot of many, and requires neither strength of intellect or soundness ofjudgment; to rule well has been the fortune of but few, and may well be the object of an honorable ambition. it is not by the strong arm or the iron will, that obedience and order, the chief requisites of good government, are secured,but by holding the key to the hearts of men. the office of grand master is of great antiquity and respect, and is one of the highest dignities to which we may aspire. its incumbent, to rule well, should possess and practice several important requisites. as a man, he should be of approved integrity and irreproachable morals; freed from the dominion of hasty temper and illgoverned passions; of good repute in the w

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e phrase to know "seething energies of lucifer within your hands "the day has come when fellow craftsman must know and apply their knowledge. the lost key to their grade is the mastery of emotion, which places the energy of the universe at their disposal. man can only expect to be entrusted with great power by proving his ability to use it constructively and selflessly. when the mason learns that 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. he must follow in the footsteps of his forefather, tubal-cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his s

witches wear the pentacle with the point up. satanists reverse it with the point down" once we examine the two symbols above, both masonic, we can only conclude that freemasonry admittedly serves both the "good lucifer" and the "evil satan" cabot has more to say on page 93, about the significance of the pentagram to witchcraft "it [pentagram] consists of a five-pointed star inside a circle. it is the key symbol of the craft. it is the witch's mandala [emphasis added] the pentagram, inside a circle or with no circle, is the key symbol of witchcraft. both "good" and "evil" pentagrams are within freemasonry in abundance. the triangle- continued from previous article the triangle wasn't the first subject mentioned on this page because the pentagram is far more important to their practice of wi

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

oga: a study of the mystical philosophy of the brahmins and buddhists h gthe beings who live below, say that god is on high; while the angels in heaven, say that god is on earth. h-zohar. agnz secret wisdom of the qabalah page 2 preface this small book is in no sense a treatise on the qabalah. instead, it is a speculative study on one of several secret doctrines which it contains, and, i believe, the key-doctrine of all the others. should this be correct, then it follows that, unless this doctrine is understood, the whole symbolism of jewish mysticism must remain obscure, and it is this mysticism, so it seems to me, which constitutes the foundations of jewish culture and jewish aspirations. granted that this is so, then it follows that the idea elaborated in this book is one of considerabl

a new human form: the shadow of a humanity in which the physical, the moral, and the intellectual are balanced between the material and the spiritual. what the world demands is a new microcosmic idea, a new five-fold messianic force, a new dispensation of balance which will establish within it a new equilibrium. as science is a universal understanding of things, and as the qabalah purports to be the key to universal wisdom, then, if this wisdom fits this understanding, will this key unlock the door before which we blindly stand. what then is there common between science and the qabalah? before answering this question we will attempt to reduce much of what we have as yet tried to explain to its simplest form (1) man is a mystery shrouded in a mystery which we call the universe; and this my

and differentiates him from and also unites him to all things which surround him. whilst this vision lasts he is the messiah, but once it has faded away he is again man, yet charged with a terrific power which according to his will is a power for good or for evil. the existence and possible employment of this force constitute the great secret of practical magic; it is the wand of thaumaturgy and the key of black magic. it is the edenic serpent who transmitted to eve the seductions of a fallen angel. the astral light warms, illuminates, magnetizes, attracts, repels, vivifies, destroys, coagulates, separates, breaks and conjoins everything under the impetus of powerful wills. god created it on the first day, when he said: glet there be light. h this force of itself is blind but is directed

loser to the divine thought which created him. this breaking away from the inert towards the living is called an act of will. glet there be light! h but in its restricted human form. obviously, then, it is a personal endeavour; that is to say, it can only be accomplished by the individual, for though one individual can obtain guidance from another, the toil and the labour is his and his only. now the key to the unlocking of the mystery of revolutions, human upheavals, is to be discovered in this word gguidance h. if the guide points out the way, leaving it to the free will of the individual to travel along it, then he is a true light unto the guided. but if instead he blindfolds the individual and then forces him in a certain direction, in place of a guide he becomes a tyrant; for in actua

h page 81 the mystic way. from the above very brief excursion into the zohar says: gtruly, wisdom is not acquired by a man save when he sits and rests, as it says of moses that he esat on the mountain forty days f. h 16 the conclusion is, and this quotation supports it, that normally it is passivity and not activity of mind which unlocks the doors of the mysteries, retirement from the world being the key-hole of the door. whilst in the passive state, when all mental activities are stilled and the brain itself becomes a spotless mirror, a vision is seen or a voice is heard, and in the twinkling of an eye the whole of man's being is changed and his outlook upon life altered. modern medical science generally rejects the reality of these visions and classes them under various forms of madness

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

to the duke-king, but he has not obeyed it, and now he would endow me with this place! very far is he from understanding me"[118 [118] quoted by amberley, analysis of religious belief, vol. i, p. 197. the fact seems evident that confucius had not sufficient strength of character to attempt a change in the social conditions of his time. he had not that grandeur of soul which enabled him to strike the key-note of reform. monarchical institutions and social distinctions he did not rebuke. the brotherhood of man and the levelling processes in human society were probably never thought of by him; certainly they were never attempted. by certain writers confucius has been accused of insincerity in a few minor matters; still, the wisdom contained in his religious doctrines, the philosophical value

nciples are recognized as the foundation of human conduct unselfishness, purity of life, and the brotherhood of man will never be realized so long as man shifts the responsibility of his wrong-doing upon another. quite recently the fact has been proved that the progressive principle originated in the female constitution; that in sympathy, a character which has its root in maternal affection, lies the key to human progress. conscience and the moral sense are outgrowths of sympathy; therefore, that which distinguishes man from the lower orders of life originated in and has been developed through the female organization. when these plain scientific truths, which are so simple as scarcely to need demonstration, become popularized, doubtless our present god-idea will undergo a process of recons

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

general of the s.r.i.a; by1892he was coroner for north-east london, and in the same year was elected supreme magus of the rosicrucians. and during that same decade he made the discovery that was to bring him a doubtful kind of immortality. in1887,according to his own story, westcott acquired and translated a strange manuscript that had been written in a cipher, to which, fortunately, he possessed the key.themanuscript contained the rough draft of a series of initiatory rituals of a quasi-masonic nature.italso contained the name and address of a german adept to whom westcott wrote and from whom he received the authority to found the isis-urania temple of 'die goldene dammerung; in westcott's english this became the golden dawn.thetale of the magical manuscripts upon which the order based it

bols are valuable as an equilibrated and fitting basis for the reception of magical force; but unless the operator canreallyattract that force to them, they are nothing but so many dead, and to him worthless, diagrams. but used by the initiate who fully comprehends their meaning, they become to him a powerful protection and aid, seconding and focussing the workings of his will" in an earlier work,the key ofsolomontheking(1889),hepower63warns against the evil use of magic:'lethim who..determines10work evil be assured that this evilwill recoil on himself and that he will be struck by the reflex current' dion fortune, however, thought that working any kind of magical, as opposed to initiatory, rituals was always fraught with danger 'i cannot say much upon these subjects, for they are among th

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of you, my hearers, the duty of forming your own opinion on matters of religion: be not blindly led of any man: search the scriptures, whether of the jew, christian, or of madame blavatsky, and hold fast that which seemstoyou good. the unpardonable sin is knowingly to reject spiritual truth: whether from bigotry, self255 interest, or from a policy oflaisseralleris not important: the rejection is the key of the position. i congratulate you who are present, as those who have come out from among the masses of unthinking beings, and are seeking fortruth,earnest of purpose, and not to be dismayed by the disapprobation of those who prefer the easy,buthumiliating path of the many who allow others to do their thinking for them, and of those who are content with the ideal of a happy home to be obt

testament read by their light becomes a volume worthy of the acceptance of a nation. i speak of the essentials of the kabalah, of what i deem the ancient substra255 tum of the kabalah; without any delay i hastentogrant that in all extant treatises these primal truths have been obscured by generations of editors, by visionary and often crude additions, and by the vagaries of oriental imagery; but the key-notes of a great spiritual divine concealed power, of its emanations in manifestation, of its energizing of human life, of the prolonged existence of human souls, and of the temporary state of corporeal existence, are fundamental doctrines there fully illustrated; and these are the points of contact between the kabalah of the jew and the so-called esotericism of the teachings of buddha and

with this world?'tosleep, to die, perchance to dream; ay, there's therub.'theaim of each mortal, then, is to grasp at an ideal life, to prepare for another stage of existence; and how? how but through one's creator? who else could make or mar mylife-buti and my creator? religion is the name we mortals give to our aspirations towards our creator, and to our schemes to read him. religion, then, is the key to try in this secret lock; a secret religion might need hiding, what from? whom from? from one's creator? no; from one's fellow man, who in time past as far as history can reach, has never failed to sully the face of this fair earth with blasphemies, with idolatry, with persecutions, with religious martyrdom. religious zeal and intolerance have been too oftenbutconvertible terms. to comba

ibution.themedieval latin phrase,demonestdeusinversus,was penned after the word had lost its old signification. other words relating to evil powers have also been thus curiously debased, note the word lucifer, originally meaning light-bearer and allotted to venus as a morning star, has been degraded into its present use as a title of the modern christian conception of the one evil spirit. perhaps the key to an occult truth lies hid in this fact of the change of attribution in names from one extreme to the other, from divinity to malignancy.therecent revision of the new testament led to a controversy as to what was the modern position of the church regarding evil ones, evil, and the evil one.theresult being that the words of matthew vi. 13 'deliver us from the evil, have become changed to '

to the use of hewn pillars, and still later to pillars fashioned by sculpture into the likeness of animals and men to become objects of reverence and worship as representing gods or deified ancestors. in later times, when the art of building had made progress, particular stones and portions of a building received special workmanship as well as particular names; for example, note the corner stone, the key stone, and the cape stone; and at last complete buildings of stone were erected for the worship of god- altars, temples and churches. at the period of our masonic initiation we are made to represent the foundation stone always placed at the north255 east corner of the building; one side facing to the north representing darkness and ignorance, and. the other to the rising sun of knowledge i

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i allude. the deuce of swords forms a species ofvesicapiscisenclosing a mystic rose of the. primary colours. the deuce of pentacles is bound together by a continuous band in such a manner as to form a figure 8, and represents the one as being the reflection of theother,asthe universe is thatofthe divine idea. the four aces stand out by themselves from the restofthepack, each forming, as it were, the key of its respective suit. the ace of sceptres recalls the club of -hercules;itis surrounded by eight detached leaves,whose shape recalls that of the hebrew letter yod, ori,and is crowned with the symbol of the triad represented by the three lopped branches; itisthesymbol of almighty strength within the cube of the universe, which latter is shown by the eightle bateleur..thejuggler or magicia

e hanged man no. 12 which he considered was simply the mistake of some illiterate card255 manufacturer instead of being a hieroglyph fraught with deep meaning, or in other words, that its inverted position was not intentional. eliphaz levi, not only a clever man, but a deep occult student, and an initiate of the hidden knowledge, rated these singular cards at an inestimable value; and saw in them the key of alltheqabalistic and egyptian knowledge. furthermore, be it remembered that he had in his possession those cypher80thesorcerer and his apprenticemss of the order of the ar.0, as a cypher note of recent date signed with the initials a.l.c. testifies; further stating that he had made use of some of the knowledge contained therein in his occult works. but he probably felt he was not at lib

ion of all the minutest traces of evidence available. it may be perfectly true to say there is no evidence of the egyptian origin either of the cards or the people. but like other negations it takes us no farther.itmay be right to deprecate the hasty dogmatism and superstition of those who proclaim loudly, on the very slenderest authority, that the secrets of the universe have been laid bare, and the key to universal knowledge is in the hands of some certain mystic writer or teacher, who poses as a divinely inspired final authority and revealer of mysteries. there be many such nowadays, specially of the discredited german brand. but in this deprecation we should beware offalling into the opposite error, and because there is no proof, rashly assume that there is no evidence.itis by the pati

ular and diligent in his devotions.iwouldhere.caution the student to beware of the very common errorofassumingthat old mythologies are nothingbutweather myths, and. the old ceremonial magic no morethanan attempttocontrol the weather, in fact a sort of glorified prayer for rainorfine weather, a matter whereinan african witch-doctor can usually give many points to the parson. arcient egypt gives us the key. the old wisdom255 religions go right to the heart of things, to the inner spiritualegyptianritual and modernwitchcraff135causes of outward material phenomena. and operating there by means of ceremonial formulae the outward effect followed. weatherwasone of the commonest examples,and,it was said,one..of the easiest .thesecond chapter of the papyrus relates to the method of dealingwithenemi

but no more, of the 'moon paste. but what it was, and how prepared, no testimony in this country gave the smallest clue. hints in hesiod, and other classical authors, showed that the formula was used in thessaly, and medieval italians spoke of bringing the moon down from heaven. still they eluded me, till at last i ran it to earth in morocco, as recorded in the notes of emile mauchamp and others. the key fitted exactly: not only isabel goudie but the thessalian witches were justified by the experience of a modern scientific traveller. but great patience is needed to compare the tales of one country with another, to sift out imposture, and to bring out the residuum of real occult knowledge and power. yet from my own experience i can say it is well worth while. it is a branch of occultism we

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recently issued the bull in eminenti apostalatus specula, unleashing the inquisition against the lodges. by early 1740, the pontiff was dead, and dashwood went to rome for the conclave that would elect the new pope. there he playfully assumed the identity of cardinal ottiboni, one of the chief persecutors of the masons, and lampooned him publicly in a scurrilous mock ritual. the "chapter-room" is the key to understanding the monks' activities. its furnishings remain unknown, and consequently the use to which it was put remains a mystery. sensationalist authors assume it was a satanic sanctuary, although it seems more reasonable to conclude that it was used for masonic ceremonies. john wilkes, an important member of the medmenham circle who did not become a freemason until after his parting

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n the blackened visage of the assyrian or egyptian sphinx, in the monstrous or marvellous paintings which interpret to the faithful of india the inspired pages of the vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at receptions of all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed. the key of all divine obscurities and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and kings. transcendental magic, eliphas levi. gnosticism and other ways of knowing in these days of science, technology and the rule of rationalism it is hard to grasp the ancient view of wisdom. knowledge was not simply to know about something, but to kn

ote and considered his message. guenons view of history is that it is comprised of a series of cycles, these he takes directly from the vedic tradition. in practise this means that history is a record of degeneration. accordingly, since the earliest times man has been sinking deeper and deeper into the mire of matter. while view is not popular with materialists and secularists, it is nevertheless the key focus of guenon s work. in his magnum opus "the reign of quantity and the signs of the times, guenon succinctly outlines the process of spiritual degeneration. as man thinks he is evolving, he is simply accelerating his own destruction- living standards and technology may advance, but only at the cost of spirit. this metaphysical entropy causes matter to become successively more physical

deeper understanding of the real nature of aquarius. while the new-agers claim it will be an age of love and mung-beans, since the ruler of aquarius is saturn, we can expect a bumpy ride first. while saturn is also the lord of the golden age (the satya yuga, this emphasises the dual nature of the planetary daemon, tester, destroyer and guardian of the the gnostic handbook page 60 garden of eden. the key philosophical emphasis within guenon s historical analysis is on the duality of quantity and quality, quality being the character of the golden age (and indeed the principle of gold see our discussions of this later) and quantity, the kali yuga attribute. whether it be the decay of the nature of currency, or the clash between craftsmanship and the rule of the machine, this cycle of decay c

xts on its origins (both by jewish and non-jewish sources, they all tend to agree that the kabbalah had it roots in greek and hellenistic philosophy, gnosticism and alexandrian hermeticism, and furthermore, that it was only later adapted by judaic sources. an authority as respected as gershom scholem clearly suggests a strong greek influence, if not greek origin for the kabbalah. indeed he posits the key kabbalistic glyph of the tree of life as having obvious greek and gnostic origins. nag hammadi texts such as the secret book of john and the writings of the valentinian gnostic sect all elucidate a hierarchical structure which could be seen as a precursor to later kabbalistic glyphs and figures. if in turn we take our exploration further and give due consideration to the origins of greek p

0 bce. this is when the feet of the sphinx would be aligned with leo on the horizon. it also fits well with the erosion evidence. many see this period, when great cataclysms such as the onset of the last ice age changed the face of the earth and arctic man was driven to migration as the source from which later scattered esoteric traditions are the reverberations. this polar culture held within it the key perennial wisdom of its people. this tradition was carried throughout northern europe and asia and it is said that many of the early vedic hymns can be dated from this period of wandering (5000-3000 bce. however, by the time the later vedic texts were written, circa 3000-1400 bce, the origins of their tradition had been forgotten. intricately related to the idea of a polar homeland (there

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

hich interpret to the faithful of india the inspired pages of the vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at reception of all secret societies, there are found gnostic theurgy page 12 indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed. occult philosophy has been the nurse or godmother of all intellectual forces, the key to all divine obscurities and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and of kings. transcendental magic, eliphas levi. x gnostic theurgy page 13 the timeline where to begin? that is the question. the logical place might be at the beginning, but that opens the biggest can of worms within the gnostic system. for the gnostic

ce of experience until either one awakens- or the cycle ends (eternity in this sense is the existence of time and space, the timeline we spoke of earlier, it is not forever, simply for as long as time and space exists. if our lives are eternally repeating then how can we break the cycle? how can we escape the inevitable cessation of existence at the end of the age? gnostic theurgy page 57 here is the key to solving the riddle of the wave and the particle dilemma. the alpha event (or in more gnostic terms, the fall of man) has caused the wave of creation to be brought into action. we are carried along with it and naturally head towards destruction. only by breaking away from this wave can a real self be created. only by forcing a particle or point outside of the wave, beyond space and time

rought into action. we are carried along with it and naturally head towards destruction. only by breaking away from this wave can a real self be created. only by forcing a particle or point outside of the wave, beyond space and time, can a true identity be forged. the process by which this revolution is made is that of transfiguration. the mechanism is the will to power. the will to power this is the key to the reality of reincarnation. the self only exists as a projection of the karmic factors that are around it, and these factors repeat age after age, re-animating consciousness and recreating life as we understand it. at the omega day all consciousness is dissolved, for there will no longer be lower forms to contain it, only those who have been transfigured, those who have developed the

on of these centres locks the organism into the static currents of the treasury of light. the characteristic of the city is that of change, the change from earthly to gnostic worship. this represents the transmutation of purely "nature" oriented vibrations into forces that serve the spiritual goal. this technology includes the correct use of passion and desire with the process of transfiguration. the key here is that all drives and goals must be directed towards the treasury of light. the commendation of the church is given for its patience and labour and it is especially commended because it has not fainted. these images refer to the immense effort and perseverance required to keep control over the energies of the base centre. the ideal situation would be total awareness or in more biblic

tion which expresses this process of re-creation is found hidden within the creation tale of genesis. emanuel swedenborg, the great swedish mystic, taught that hidden with the seven days of creation was a description of our regeneration. though he did not relate these to the chakras, if we link them together we can gain a picture of the spiritual regeneration that takes place in the gnostic life. the key however is to realise that since man is being re-created through the seven days of creation, the actions described are being examined from the perspective of the transfiguration, not the fall of man. the seven days of creation basic church correlations of colour, consciousness and creative principles church. colour. consciousness. day of creation. ephesus. red. action, sensation. coming of

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works on the self, building and defining the character of i or being. the sorcerer is thus one who encircles energy and the spirits of the dead and the subconscious around the self; to strengthen and explore the avenues of a strong and open mind. the black magician also understands the respect which is necessary with working with exterior forces which often relate in an interior context. this is the key to the goetic sorcery path which is for this reason considered dangerous. the path of magick is that godform of lucifer, the angel perfected. the luciferian spirit is fire born, alive, vigorous and strong in will and pride. lucifer ascends in the sun, and falls with the darkening of the moon. this is the path of magick itself as above, so below. the luciferian model is presented strongly i

llumination of the angelic guide, the solar and luciferian blade of the divine will. the white hilted knife is used in such works such as workings of the divine will, or angelick holy guardian angel. the athame is also used in circulating and visualizing light around the self encircling the being. you will want to decorate the handle in the runes of summoning and protection, as first described in the key of solomon the king (clavicula salomonis, translated by s.l. macgregor mathers. the blade should be made in the hour of mercury when in the sign of the ram or scorpion. you may alternatively conduct such when the moon is waning in a more probable time frame. when you obtain a white handled knife, roughly six inches long wait until the moon is waning. fill a bucket or basin with distilled a

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amination on [c] and [e. tarot [n [n1 [p [o [q [r [f] 21. tarot description of 78 cards (symbology and meaning [n] 22. major arcana series [n1] 23. tarot: tabular view of dominion of symbols of book t in the celestial heavens, and operation and rules of the tree of life as projected in a solid sphere [p] 7 24. tarot: the astronomical correspondences [o] 25. tarot: method of divination (opening of the key [q] 26. tarot: tabulated rules [r] the adept must now pass an examination on. concourse of forces [t [x [s [h [y] 27. forty-eight enochian calls [t] 28. attributions of the enochian tablets- n.o.m- official attributions [s] 29. document- not given out- history of r.r. et a.c [l] 30. key of governance of combinations of the square of tablets (egyptian god forms, pyramids, and gods as applie

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adeptus minor, what is the meaning of this title, abeignus" third adept "it is abi-agnus, lamb of the father. it is by metathesis abi-genos, born of the father, bia-genos, strength of our race, and the four words make the sentence, mountain of the lamb of the father, and the strength of our race. iao. hwchy. such are the words (all salute with 5=6 signs) chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is the key to this vault" second adept "the rose and cross, which resume the life of nature and the powers hidden in the word i.n.r.i" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which we bear in our left hands" third adept "it is a form of the rose and cross, the ancient crux ansata or egyptian symbol of life" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second adept "it repr

rce of the ten sephiroth in nature, divided into a hexad and a tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth and the tav cross, the lower four, answering to the four elements" 8 chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which i bear upon my breast" third adept "the complete symbol of the rose and cross" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second adept "it is the key of sigils and of rituals, and represents the force of the twenty-two letters in nature, as divided into a three, a seven, and a twelve; many and great are its mysteries" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the wand which thou bearest" third adept "a simple wand having the colors of the twelve signs of the zodiac between the light and the darkness, and surmounted by the lotus flow

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uadrant. example of workings: example 1: to invoke hcoma: step one- key 1 (activates entire tablet of union) step two- key 2 (activates the spirit forces of e.n.h.b) step three- key 4 (activates hcoma on the tablet of union) example 2: to invoke the m angle of the m tablet: step one- key 3 (only) example 3: 5 to invoke the lesser angle of l on the o tablet: step one- key 6 (thou shall always read the key of the tablet first, not the sub-angle (this activates the entire tablet) step two- key 18 (activates the sub-angle of l of o) use of calls (g.h. frater d.d.c.f) now, though these calls are thus to be employed to aid thee in the skrying of the tablets in the spirit vision, and in magical workings therewith, yet, shalt thou know that they be allotted unto as much higher planes than the oper

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uadrant. example of workings: example 1: to invoke hcoma: step one- key 1 (activates entire tablet of union) step two- key 2 (activates the spirit forces of e.n.h.b) step three- key 4 (activates hcoma on the tablet of union) example 2: to invoke the m angle of the m tablet: step one- key 3 (only) 5 example 3: to invoke the lesser angle of l on the o tablet: step one- key 6 (thou shall always read the key of the tablet first, not the sub-angle (this activates the entire tablet) step two- key 18 (activates the sub-angle of l of o) use of calls (g.h. frater d.d.c.f) now, though these calls are thus to be employed to aid thee in the skrying of the tablets in the spirit vision, and in magical workings therewith, yet, shalt thou know that they be allotted unto as much higher planes than the oper

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self.for only he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. magical knowledge is not given unto thee to tickle thy vanity and conceit, but that by its means, thou mayest purify and equilibriate thy spiritual nature and honor the vast and concealed one. this is the explanation of the first diagram of the paths, the sephiroth being in the queen scale and the paths in the masculine or king scale. it is the key of the forces which lie in tcq, the bow. treasure it in thy heart and mark it well, seeing that therein is the key of nature. meditate on it and reveal it not unto the profane, for many and great are its mysteries. the colors differ according to the world or aspect of the great names they represent. there are four scales of color which correspond to the four kabbalistic worlds. they are: s

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the left shoulder (from the side of the black pillar, as they first received it, and the white sash from the right shoulder. egyptian head-dresses, or nemysses are worn by the chiefs and officers with those of the chiefs being of the color of their mantles striped with the complementary color. those of the officers are striped equally in black and white or plain black squares of approved pattern. the key to the formation of the tunic and nemyss is the crux ansata, for the nemyss makes the oval, and the arms and body of the tunic, the cross. the symbolism of the temple the bases of the two pillars are respectively in jxn and dwh; the white pillar being in jxn and the black pillar in dwh. they represent the two pillars of mercy and severity. the bases are cubical and black to represent the l

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ef adept "mighty adeptus exemptus what is the meaning of this title 'abi- agnus" third adept "it is abi-agnus, lamb of the father. it is by metathesis, abigenos, born of the father. bia-genos, strength of our race, and the four words make the sentence "mountain of the lamb of our father and the strength of our race. iao. yehashuah. such are the words" chief adept "mighty adeptus exemptus, what is the key of this vault" 4 second adept "the rose and cross which are hidden in the power of the word i.n.r.i" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which i bear on my breast" third adept "the complete symbol of the rose and cross" chief adept "i also carry the wand of the winged globe around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the balanced force of the spirit in

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the incense. say: in the name and letters of the great southern quadrangle revealed unto enoch by the great angel ave, spirits of o, adore your creator! hold incense on high. say: in the three great secret names of god borne upon the banner of the south, oip teaa pdoce, spirits of o, adore your creator! step 5 still facing south, vibrate the sixth key activating the line of bitom (while vibrating the key, formulate the banner of the east astrally around yourself) with lotus wand held by the kerubic band of e,begin tracing the whorl. say: in the name of edlprnaa, great king of the south, spirits of o, adore your creator! make the 4=7 grade sign. step 6 move back to the east between the pillars, facing west. say: in the name of twabx hwhy and in the name of \yhla, i compel and command ye, ye

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nda hwhy, but is written as if it is bound together as yahdnhy if we take the octagram and reflect it from every fourth point, we have the star of b, and this certainly is akin to the nature of b. it is a further potent symbol representing the binding together of concentrated positive and negative forces of nature and of the elements, under the name of yahdnhy we must always remember that ynda is the key of hwhy. 11 the enneangle is referred to the ninth sephira of dwsy. it is representative of the power of the ennead and the enneagon. it also shows the operating power of nature by the dispersal of the rays of the seven planets, and of the head and tail of the dragon of the moon, otherwise known as cauda and caput draconis. when we reflect on the enneagram from every third point, we find t

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

e many sculptures, inscriptions, reliefs and artefacts that had almost certainly been removed with those twenty feet of the outer shell. nor was this the only or even the most regrettable consequence of bartres s grotesque vandalism. there was startling evidence which suggested that the unknown architects of the pyramid of the sun might have intentionally incorporated scientific data into many of the key dimensions of the great structure. this evidence had been gathered and extrapolated from the intact west face (which, not accidentally, was also the face where the intended equinoctial effects could still be seen, but thanks to bartres, no similar information was likely to be forthcoming from the other three faces because of the arbitrary alterations imposed upon them. indeed, by drastical

at cornell university, it has happened because few archaeologists, egyptologists and ancient historians have the combination of time, effort and skill necessary to take on the very technical arguments of de santillana. 2 what those arguments predominantly concern is the recurrent and persistent transmission of a precessional message in a wide range of ancient myths. and, strangely enough, many of the key images and symbols that crop up in these myths notably those that concern a derangement of the heavens are also to be found embedded in the ancient traditions of worldwide cataclysm reviewed in chapters twentyfour and twenty-five. in norse mythology for example, we saw how the wolf fenrir, whom the gods had so carefully chained up, broke his bonds at last and escaped: he shook himself and

nd so on. what we appear to be confronted by are two remarkable propositions, back-to-back, as though designed to reinforce one another. it is surely remarkable enough that the great pyramid should be able to function as an accurate scale-model of the northern hemisphere of planet earth. but it is even more remarkable that the scale involved should incorporate numbers relating precisely to one of the key planetary mechanisms of the earth. this is the fixed and apparently eternal precession of its axis of rotation around the pole of the ecliptic, a phenomenon which causes the vernal point to migrate around the band of the zodiac at the rate of one degree every 72 years, and 30 degrees (one complete zodiacal constellation) every 2160 years. precession through two zodiacal constellations, or

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

d have been destroyed at the destruction of jerusalem. other objects are removed: a pot of manna a relic of the mysterious food that appeared out of nowhere to feed the israelites fleeing egypt; the rod of aaron, that which had turned to a serpent, which devoured those created from the wands of the egyptian magicians. the high priest then finds four pieces of paper that on inspection, prove to be the key to the cipher of the royal arch mason. with it, those present are able to decode the mysterious writing on the ark, which includes the long-lost word of the master mason, the ancient names of three sky gods drawn together to form a single word. by such ciphers and codes have the initiates of all times communicated with each other and with their ultraterrestrial masters, the secret chiefs o

eciphering the code. eighth, crowley s magical son frater achad did partially decipher the code, but it remained for carol smith in 1974 to solve it, and for software programmer frater lamed to make it readily accessible to investigators in the 1980s. ninth, the ufonauts themselves use the cipher when they five names to themselves, their home planets, etc. they know the case will be reported, and the key words will be communicated to the illuminati. tenth, since i applied the cipher to such key words, the code is now completely accessible to ufologists and others. the cipher can help analyze cases, predict manifestations and trace the ufonauts to their very doorsteps; and yes, they do have doorsteps. eleventh, as soon as the ufonauts and illuminati know the knowledge of the cipher is wides

a distinct feel of incompleteness. later a so-called royal arch degree, which attempted to deal with many questions unanswered in the craft degrees, became popular with masons. the royal arch came to include the communication of a secret cipher, cleverly built upon angles and dots and directly translatable into english. this would seem to suggest a late date for the cipher, but it corresponds to the key to the much older aiq bakir, the hebrew qabala of the nine chambers, and is an obvious english adaptation of a much older cipher. in its present form it decodes easily and has been so often exposed in the last 150 years that its value as a cipher is actually now greatly diminished. the golden dawn cipher documents are considerably more complex. they were probably drawn up in the 1860s or 1

ok, the richness of its poetry, and, for our purposes, in one other way. it refers to an internal cipher or secret code which, it predicts, crowley himself would never transcribe. predicted, however, is its deciphering by another, who turned out to be crowley s magical child and one-time heir-apparent, charles stansfeld jones, sometimes called frater achad. achad, in his book 31, does indeed find the key to the code, but 70 years passed before a full transcription of the code was made. in the original handwritten manuscript of the book of the law, a single page is inexplicably overlaid with a grid, a line, and an enigmatic mark sometimes referred to as a rose cross, although it looks much like one of the four keys to the royal arch masonic cipher. liber al was dictated in 1904, according t

ordo argentium astrum or order of the silver star, discovered and promulgated the very cipher we are discussing, and, indeed, does so to this day. i believe that through his occult sources, layne knew the cipher and knew that the establishment of a magical link with the secret chiefs, or contact with the ufonauts in other words, could be effected by examining the available literature, and seeking the key words for clues to who and where the secret chiefs were to be found. both aleister crowley and frater achad were in contact with the secret chiefs. when crowley engaged in a magical working, these pr terhuman intelligences would consistently arrive on the scene. one of them, calling itself lam, was sketched by crowley and is the prototype of the current alien types seen in present-day abdu

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

age 3. confirme developing your body of light until it is as real as your physical body. slowly, gradually, project it outward from your astral temple into the surrounding environment of the astral plane. stage 4. practice "rising on the planes" going higher and higher each time. try to reach the spiritual planes beyond the mental. note: the development of the body of light is an ongoing process. the key to success is practice. the fruit of your efforts are the experiences and lessons that you will surely encounter as you advance. remember, your subtle body already exists; you are simply becoming conscious of it. warning: do not confuse the planes. always keep your subtle body on the subtle planes and your physical body on the physical plane. mental imbalance can result from confusing the

your upper eyelid is spirit while your lower eyelid is matter. with experience you should be able to see both aspects of reality in this aethyr. 215 asp, your reincarnating ego esoteric philosophy teaches the existence of two 'egos' in man, the mortal or `personal' and the higher, the divine or' impersonal'calling the former "personality" and the latter "individuality" h.p. blavatsky, glossary to the key to theosophy the 21st aethyr is the aethyr of causation, asp. the word asp has the number 22, which is also the number for t-sa which means" the l ikeness within" and the number of paths on the tree of life. this the aethyr of the reincarnating ego. the three governors of asp are: khlirzpa keh-helee-rah-zod-pah toantom toh-ah-en-toh-em vixpalg veetz-pah leh-geh when you first enter asp you

ss through these aethyrs is your consciousness divorced of personality. this divorcing process is the purpose of the initiation in zen. 223 tan,the balance karma neither punishes nor rewards; it is simply 'the one' universal law which guides unerringly and, so to say, blindly, all other laws productive of certain effects along the grooves of their respective causation. h.p. blavatsky, glossary to the key to theosophy the doctrine of karma is plain common sense. aleister crowley, magick without tears after the initiations in pop and zen you will be ready to view the karmic balance that lies in the 17th aethyr, tan. karmic forces can be found in every aethyr below lil but in tan these forces combine to give the impression of a huge scale or balance of these forces struggling endlessly for eq

y known to the questioner at present. 10. the likely outcome of the question under the present circumstances. 11. general past influences and tendencies. 12. general present influences and tendencies. 13. general future influences and tendencies. note. as with any form of divination, the magician's psychic ability to "see" the applicable meanings of the cards in context with the overall layout is the key to a reliable reading. for further information on enochian tarot see the forthcoming enochian tarot from llewellyn. 291 292 t a b l e i x. telesmatic attributions of the letters l e t t e r_ at t r ibut ions a male, spiritual, wings. b male, active. c,k male, big, strong. d female, beautiful, attractive. e female, fierce, fiery. f male, heavy, clumsy. g female, beautiful, changing. h femal

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

e paradigm prevalent in europe during the middle ages degraded the ancient and sacred science of theurgy into the vulgar sorcery of the grimoires and corrupted its sublime aims into the puerile desires of its guilt-instilled and greedy practitioners.6 1 herewith is revealed a profound magical secret, although "neither torches nor glasses shall aid those without eyes to see" 2 clavicula solomonis, the key of solomon the king [1456, trans. and ed. s.l. macgregor mathers, 1st paper ed (york beach: weiser, 1989. 3 goetia, the lesser key of solomon, trans. s. l. macgregor mathers and ed. aleister crowley (chicago: the occult publishing house, 1903. 4 the grimoire of armadel [17th century, trans. s.l. macgregor mathers, new ed (york beach: weiser, 1995. 5 the book of the sacred magic of abra mel

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

alling himself rigr, traverses the world, and founds the families of man. the finnish legend makes wiiinamoinen, ilmarinen and lemminkainen travel (rune 23, quite on a par with o^inn, loki, and hoenir. if now we look from these heathen myths to those in a christian dress and of a later time, the connexion between them can be no enigma: that of perkunos changing into the saviour has already set us the key. either christ and peter journey out together, or one of the two alone; the fable itself turns about in more than one direction. antique above all sounds the visit of these godlike beings, like that of osinn, to the blacksmith, and here the rewarding of hospitality is not left out. in the norw. preface. xli tale no. 21, the saviom, after he lias far surpassed liis host ia feats of skill, y

tains and the harzj and in many more (d. sag. nos. 9. 303. 314. bechst. 1, 146. 3, 16. 4, 210-1. dieffenbach's wetterau pp. 284-5. 190; it must be very old^ the flower is commonly said to be blue, the colour most proper to gods and spirits, yet also i find 'purple flower' and' luhite flower' mentioned. sometimes it is called schlusselbhime (key-flower, because it locks the vault, and as symbol of the key-wearing white woman, whom the bunch of keys befits as old mistress and housekeeper, and who has likewise power to unlock the treasure; also luck-fiower (bechst. 3, 212, but most frequently ivunderblume. when three loonderfioioers are named, it seems to mean three on one stalk (ib. 1, 146. 4, 209. the sudden violent spriuging-to of the door is remarkably like the edda's' hrynja honom >a d h

1 conf. ettner's umviird. doctor 1720-1. 982 translation. this he did secretlyj without the knowledge of chi'iemhilde, who to the last supposes it to be in his hands^ till he answers 2308, 3: den schatz weiz nu nieman wan (but) got unde min. no doubt there were other legends which placed it in mountains: the account given by a woman living in nerike was, that it lay inside the kilsherg there, and the key to the cavern was kept under a rosebush (iduna 10, 269. the ms. 2, 169^ has: der imelunge hort lit in dem burhnherge in bi (by them, i.e. the ehine-folk; but the msh. 2, 24p reads' der nibelunge hort' and' in dem lnrlenberge' imelunge may be corrupt for nibelunge, as imelot for nibelot fp. 385 n, and lurlenberg shall have its due, if such be the reading, though i had taken burlenberc for b

g. p. 37-1; taimi is the fr. tamis, nethl. teems, in teutonista tetiipse, but in diut. 2, 209 tempf. if graff has not misread this, we might make of tamj'ana (pp. 80. 257. 278) a goddess named after the sieve she held in her hand; that would look heathenish. h. stahl's westfal. sagen, elberf. 1831. p. 127 gives a fuher account: the hered. key is put inside a hered. bible, so that the ward part of the key lies on the words' in the beginning was the word' and the ring stands out of the book. they tie it up tight with string, and hang it up by the end of the string to the ceiling. then two people hold their fingers under the ring, touching it gently, and the injured party asks' has there been a witch at my cow' the other must say no, and the complainant answer yes, and this they keep up for s

GRIMOIRE OF TURIEL

lood of jesus christ that, being pure and clothed in the vestments of sanctity, i may the secret grimoire bring this work to perfection, through jesus our lord who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the holy ghost. amen. sprinkle thyself with holy water and say asperges me domine hysope, et mundabor. lavabis me et super nivem dealbabor. hail o mighty god, for in thy power alone abideth the key to all exorcising of principalities, powers, thrones, angels and spirits. amen. then bless your girdle, saying: o god who by the breath of thy nostrils framed heaven and earth and wonderfully disposed all things therein in six days, grant that this now brought to perfection by thine unworthy servant may be by thee blessed and receive divine virtue, power and jnfluence from thee that every

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

s, to explain all the workings of the r. c. triangle in the composition of matter, as now explained to all our members of the first and fourth degrees, would be to reveal that which would never be understood by the uninitiated and always misunderstood by his critics. but dalton did refer to the triangle in some places of his manuscript and in some of his public speeches. in fact, the triangle was the key to his work, the use of it becoming an obsession with him. all in all, dalton made many thousands.not hundreds.of observations of the workings of nature and kept them well tabulated and classified. he made many hundreds of laboratory experiments, and he had students and friends cooperating with him in making other experiments. he climbed mountains [107] almost daily to register certain eff

mile. guesdon, begun in 1945, became more frequent. she kept mr. bernard informed of her efforts to establish the french jurisdiction of a.m.o.r.c. and loaned him rosicrucian works in english. in december, 1948, jeanne guesdon wrote that everything was ready and sent him an application for membership which he immediately filled out. thus he became the first member of the french jurisdiction with the key number 2, the imperator having been honored with number 1. on march 29, 1955, mile. guesdon passed through transition after a short illness. in 1956, the imperator asked raymond bernard to become the head of the french jurisdiction, according to mile. guesdon's wish. in accepting this, frater bernard undertook the task of establishing lodges, chapters, and pronaoi in all french-speaking co

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

ity and depthofinformation received. it seems unlikely that a teenage girl with, presumably, an average victorian female's education, could have invented the religious and philosophical information hockley transcribed. many seekers after arcane knowledge sought initiation into freemasonry, in the erroneous belief that knowledgeofthe rituals of freemasonry would set them on the path to discovering the key to all knowledge. surprisingly, hockley did not take this step until his fifty-fifth year, although some of his contacts, professional, spiritualist and occult, must have been14therosicrucianseerspiritualism, occultism, and their practitioners. they reveal his depthofknowledge of occult literature (although davies states that hockley knew no other language than english) and the resultant a

hall be here about 3 weeks&intend taking a day or two going home to see lincoln and ely cathedrals and cam255bridge-mypartner is going on to bury&will not be back in town till early october&thenithink of coming down to bristol for a day or twoofwhichiwill give you due notice.iam writing this ati io'clock by gas light and must conclude withhockley'slettersto theirwins63i don't remember if you have the key of rabbi solomon'sf-;ifnot when you come to town i can lend you mine. you do not mention whether i am to send the ms by book post or rail, i think the post isbest-letme know. i am rather better than i have beenbutstill very unwell. i am going to a friend's on saturday&i am back on tuesday&on the10august i hope to be in northumberland&with kindest regards remain, most fraternally yours.ithe

arly invoked the spirit of joseph balsamo, count cagliostro, the notorious charlatan and purveyor of pseudo-masonic degrees, who apparently passed commentaries and 'additions' to the published works of departed rosicrucians. 5 unidentified. 6 unidentified. 7 see note 5 of letter 15.white swan, alnwick, northumberland12august 1874dearbro. irwin, on saturday last i sent in a box your twomssand also the key of rabbi solomon1&a little ms copy of some of mymssmade by an old friend ofmine-nowguess on! i am sorry that herbert hurried himself over the king solomon as the seals in that ms are done with the utmost precisionfromtwo differentmss.it would have been quite enough to let me know the ms was in his hands.therath solomon sent may be depended upon for the accuracyofthe talismans etc.theother

letter missing]1hockley's two business partners have proved elusive.2itwould appear he was preparing a history of the grand stewards lodge.itwas never published and the lodge records contain no mention of a ms. 3 see note2of letter12.4 w.j.hughan, who had been appointed past junior grand warden of the grand lodge of mark master masons of england in 18 72 .5claviculasalomonis:variouslyreferredtoas the key of solomon, key of rabbi solomon and the rath solomon. a magical andhockley'slettersto theirtoins59i will not further bother you with my reiterated grievancesbuttrust you will attribute any future shortcomings of mine to its real cause. with kindest regards allow me to remain, most fraternally yours.ieveningswithindwellers.2hockleywasapparentlyassistinga friend with a potterybusinessinpool

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

history they withdrew up into the heavens or down under the earth, though their spirits might be persuaded to reside in shrines built for them by the king. the egyptians believed that some supernatural beings could still be encountered in the wilder regions of the earth, such as the remote desert and the areas of untamed marshland on the edges of the nile valley and in parts of the delta. many of the key events in egyptian myth, such as the burial of the murdered god osiris, were supposed to have happened in specific places in egypt or in its neighboring countries. thus a mythical geography can be superimposed on the physical geography. every major egyptian temple was designed as a miniature cosmos in which the main events in mythical history were repeatedly played out, so there came to be

e eye of atum. these terms could be used to express a contrast between the headstrong and dangerous aspect of this goddess (the eye of ra) and her more amenable, protective aspect (the eye of atum. sometimes, however, the eye of ra was the sun and the eye of atum was the moon. at a later stage in mythical history, ra-atum and his warrior daughter fought a great battle against the forces of chaos. the key event was the slaughter of the chaos monster apophis under the ished tree. this was a sacred tree growing in heliopolis that was linked to the destiny of all beings. during this battle, ra-atum took the form of a cat, a mongoose, or an ichneumon, all predators that kill snakes (see figure 22. in solar mythology atum was often paired with khepri. they were complementary opposites, the setti

t, from memories of an ancient civil war to observations of storms or astronomical phenomena. when the combatants are horus the elder, the celestial falcon, and seth, the chaotic god of storms, the conflict seems to belong to the primeval age when opposing elements had to come together to create the divine order. the necessity of horus and seth being reconciled is stressed in many sources. one of the key images of royal art was horus the uniter and seth tying together the heraldic plants of upper and lower egypt to symbolize the union of the two lands into one perfect kingdom. the figure of seth is sometimes re- 144 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 31. horus and isis triumph over the seth hippopotamus before the gods. ptolemaic relief depicting the festival of victory in the temple of

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

d from mere physical exhaustion.gradually he passed into a death-like and dreamless slumber. at the gloomy winter dawn he awoke, butfinding it too early to rise he fell asleep again. and then he had a vivid dream- so vivid indeed, so life-like,that from its terrible realism he felt sure that it was a vision rather than a dream. he had left his violin on a table by his bedside, locked in its case, the key of which never left him. since hehad strung it with those terrible chords he never let it out of his sight for a moment. in accordance with hisresolution he had not touched it since his first trial, and his bow had never but once touched the humanstrings, for he had since always practised on another instrument. but now in his sleep he saw himself lookingat the locked case. something in it

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

rush towards the door. itwas like the sudden outburst of a dam, a human torrent, roaring amid a shower of discordant notes, idioticsqueakings, prolonged and whining moans, cacophonous cries of frenzy, above which, like the detonations ofpistol shots, was heard the consecutive bursting of the four strings stretched upon the sound-board of thatbewitched violedthe key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt the key to theosophy dedicated by "h.p.b" to all her pupils, that they may learn and teach in their turn. the key to theosophy a clear exposition in the form of question and answer of the ethics, science, and philosophy for the study of which the theosophical society has been founded. h.p. blavatsky preface the purpose of this book is exactly expressed in its title, the key to theosophy, and needs

f truth felt more antagonism to the possessors of the whole truth than those who had no share to boast of. very hearty thanks are due from the author to many theosophists who have sent suggestions and questions, or have otherwise contributed help during the writing of this book. the work will be the more useful for their aid, and that will be their best reward -h.p. blavatsky 1889 contents page 1 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt preface theosophy and the theosophical society 1 the meaning of the name 1 the policy of the theosophical society 4 the wisdom-religion, esoteric in all ages 7 theosophy is not buddhism 12 exoteric and esoteric theosophy 15 what the modern theosophical society is not 15 theosophists and members of the t.s. 18 the difference between theosophy and occultism 23

gs of theosophy 57 on god and prayer 57 is it necessary to pray? 61 prayer kills self-reliance 66 on the source of the human soul 69 the buddhist teachings on the above 71 theosophical teachings as to nature and man 77 the unity of all in all 77 evolution and illusion 78 on the septenary constitution of our planet 81 the septenary nature of man 83 the distinction between soul and spirit 86 page 2 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt the greek teachings 89 on the various postmortem states 95 the physical and the spiritual man 95 on eternal reward and punishment, and on nirvana 102 on the various principles in man 109 on reincarnation or rebirth 115 what is memory according to theosophical teaching? 115 why do we not remember our past lives? 119 on individuality and personality 124 on the

doctrine is taught in st. john's gospel 172 on the mysteries of reincarnation 183 periodical rebirths 183 what is karma? 186 who are those who know? 199 the difference between faith and knowledge, or blind and reasoned faith 201 has god the right to forgive? 205 what is practical theosophy? 209 duty 209 the relations of the t.s. to political reforms 213 on self-sacrifice 217 on charity 222 page 3 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt theosophy for the masses 224 how members can help the society 227 what a theosophist ought not to do 228 on the misconceptions about the t.s. 237 theosophy and asceticism 237 theosophy and marriage 240 theosophy and education 241 why then is there so much prejudice against the t.s? 248 is the theosophical society a money-making concern? 256 the working staff

tainly not "god" in the sense attached in our day to the term. therefore, it is not "wisdom of god" as translated by some, but divine wisdom such as that possessed by the gods. the term is many thousand years old. q. what is the origin of the name? a. it comes to us from the alexandrian philosophers, called lovers of truth, philaletheians, from (phil "loving" and (aletheia "truth" the name page 4 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt theosophy dates from the third century of our era, and began with ammonius saccas and his disciples, also called analogeticists, who started the eclectic theosophical system. as explained by professor wilder, they were called so because of their practice of interpreting all sacred legends and narratives, myths and mysteries, by a rule or principle of analogy

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

ly the electro-magnetic field generated by cars, power lines, etc. all of which leads us slowly back to stone circles; lovecraft.s .frienzied rites on the hilltops, and the role that sound plays in all of this. there is a great deal of magical literature available exploring the dynamics of sound, particularly different vocal techniques used to produce an altered state of consciousness(asc. one of the key factors seems to be rhythm. rhythms carry our consciousness along, from heartbeats, to cycles of breathing, sleeping, night-day and the passage of seasons. rhythms promote associated body movements and adjustments, and act as a signal to begin movement without conscious effort, 36 so that less energy is expended when you begin; for example, it has been shown that soldiers can march further

sothoth and the demon choronzon, evoked by aleister crowley and victor neuburg in the gobi desert. again, the dunwich horror provides us with a key passage: 39 .the old ones were, the old ones are, and the old ones shall be, not in the spaces we know, but between them. they walk serene and primal, undimensioned, and to us unseen. yog sothoth knows the gate. yog-sothoth is the gate. yog-sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. past, present, future, all are one in yog-sothoth. he knows where the old ones broke through of old, and where they shall break through again..they walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the words have been spoken and the rites howled through at their seasons. the wind gibbers with their voices and the earth mutters with their consciousness. this passage brin

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

ost difficult suspensions for fledgling magicians is overcoming the nagging doubt that all this stuff doesn t work. despite hours of talk and reading vast tomes by crowley and his cohorts, that nagging disbelief can still be heard, and can only be really dispelled by experience- one act that shows you that magick works is worth a thousand arguments. so my conclusion is that intensity of belief is the key which allows magical systems to work, whether they be related to historical traditions (which are, let s face it, very often rewritten anyway, esoteric traditions (which have evolved down the centuries as well) or based on fiction or tv. it s your ability to be emotively moved or use them as vehicles for the expression of your will that counts. if it works for you- do it. 41 oven-ready cha

of sub-cortical processing, it will manifest as confusion of one sort or another at the conscious level of awareness. the neurological defecit could be due to genetic anomalies, leading to atypical brain development, or due to stress reactions. activity at the subcortical level, that guides the information that becomes the content of conscious experience, is thought by some neuroscientists to be the key to ascs. some have postulated that such experiences may be programmed at the genetic level, but that individual experiences determine whether or not the program manifests as an evolutionary experience (leading to enhanced survival capacity) or a systems crash. illumination illumination. the inspiration, enlightenment and liberation resulting from success with these [gnosis] methods. pete c

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

' it and astrology are closely interlinked. unless one has undergone the training which cagliostro had, we cannot do the same, tho' we may get some kind of approximation to events. mesmerism is a part only of the great science, tho' a most important part& cagliostro was also proficient in that. i do not think seances with eglinton' will do any real good, and possibly harm. spiritualism is part of the key to occultism, but only a small part, and a new dangerous part taken by itself only. i do not think p[eter] d[avidson] knew that t.h.b. was a convicted felon, but when he did know it, he still embarked with his family and this felon for america. he has not been over scrupulous and has been making use of occultism for mere secular gain. i could tell you much of it if i were to see you person

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

expected to go over his papers with some thoroughness; and for that purpose moved his entire set of files and boxes to my quarters in boston. much of the material which i correlated will be later published by the american archaeological society, but there was one box which i found exceedingly puzzling, and which i felt much averse from showing to other eyes. it had been locked and i did not find the key till it occurred to me to examine the personal ring which the professor carried in his pocket. then, indeed, i succeeded in opening it, but when i did so seemed only to be confronted by a greater and more closely locked barrier. for what could be the meaning of the queer clay bas-relief and the disjointed jottings, ramblings, and cuttings which i found? had my uncle, in his latter years be

and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror. hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters "cthulhu fhtagn" this verbal jumble was the key to the recollection which excited and disturbed professor angell. he questioned the sculptor with scientific minuteness; and studied with frantic intensity the bas-relief on which the youth had found himself working, chilled and clad only in his night clothes, when waking had stolen bewilderingly over him. my uncle blamed his old age, wilcox afterwards said, for his slowness in recognizing

text as armitage mentally translated it) that man is either the oldest or the last of earth's masters, or that the common bulk of life and substance walks alone. the old ones were, the old ones are, and the old ones shall be. not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. yog-sothoth knows the gate. yog-sothoth is the gate. yog-sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. past, present, future, all are one in yog-sothoth. he knows where the old ones broke through of old, and where they shall break through again. he knows where they had trod earth's fields, and where they still tread them, and why no one can behold them as they tread. by their smell can men sometimes know them near, but of their semblance can no man know, saving onl

of ocean hold stones whereon their seal is engraver, but who bath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles? great cthulhu is their cousin, yet can he spy them only dimly. i! shub-niggurath! as a foulness shall ye know them. their hand is at your throats, yet ye see them not; and their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. yog-sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. man rules now where they ruled once; they shall soon rule where man rules now. after summer is winter, after winter summer. they wait patient and potent, for here shall they reign again. dr. annitage, associating what he was reading with what he had heard of dunwich and its brooding presences, and of wilbur whateley and his dim, hideous aura that stre

eed to tell ye i'll take good keer of it. it wan't me that put this dee copy in the shape it is' he stopped as he saw firm denial on the librarian's face, and his own goatish features grew crafty. armitage, half-ready to tell him he might make a copy of what parts he needed, thought suddenly of the possible consequences and checked himself. there was too much responsibility in giving such a being the key to such blasphemous outer spheres. whateley saw how things stood, and tried to answer lightly 'wal, all right, ef ye feel that way abaout it. maybe harvard won't be so fussy as yew be' and without saying more he rose and strode out of the building, stooping at each doorway. armitage heard the savage yelping of the great watchdog, and studied whateley's gorilla-like lope as he crossed the b

HP LOVECRAFT BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

, supplanting it at times in kaleidoscopic rotation, were glimpses of wide plains and graceful valleys, high mountains and inviting grottoes, covered with every lovely attribute of scenery which my delighted eyes could conceive of, yet formed wholly of some glowing, ethereal plastic entity, which in consistency partook as much of spirit as of matter. as i gazed, i perceived that my own brain held the key to these enchanting metamorphoses; for each vista which appeared to me was the one my changing mind most wished to behold. amidst this elysian realm i dwelt not as a stranger, for each sight and sound was familiar to me; just as it had been for uncounted eons of eternity before, and would be for like eternities to come. then the resplendent aura of my brother of light drew near and held co

HP LOVECRAFT COOL AIR

erhaps as a result of excessive curiosity. he could not, of course, have locked the door behind him; yet it was now fastened, presumably from the inside. there was no sound within save a nameless sort of slow, thick dripping. briefly consulting with mrs. herrero and the workmen despite a fear that gnawed my inmost soul, i advised the breaking down of the door; but the landlady found a way to turn the key from the outside with some wire device. we had previously opened the doors of all the other rooms on that hall, and flung all the windows to the very top. now, noses protected by handkerchiefs, we tremblingly invaded the accursed south room which blazed with the warm sun of early afternoon. a kind of dark, slimy trail led from the open bathroom door to the hall door, and thence to the desk

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

expected to go over his papers with some thoroughness; and for that purpose moved his entire set of files and boxes to my quarters in boston. much of the material which i correlated will be later published by the american archaeological society, but there was one box which i found exceedingly puzzling, and which i felt much averse from showing to other eyes. it had been locked, and i did not find the key till it occurred to me to examine the personal ring which the professor carried always in his pocket. then, indeed, i succeeded in opening it, but when i did so seemed only to be confronted by a greater and more closely locked barrier. for what could be the meaning of the queer clay bas-relief and the disjointed jottings, ramblings and cuttings which i found? had my uncle, in his latter ye

and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror. hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters 'cthulhu fhtagn' this verbal jumble was the key to the recollection which excited and disturbed professor angell. he questioned the sculptor with scientific minuteness; and studied with almost frantic intensity the bas-relief on which the youth had found himself working, chilled and clad only in his nightclothes, when waking had stolen bewilderingly over him. my uncle blamed his old age, wilcox afterward said, for his slowness in recogn

HP LOVECRAFT THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

re here to reach to the center of the earth and back" i can still hear, in memory, those coolly spoken words; and i can still remember my remonstrances. i seemed desperately anxious to accompany my friend into those sepulchral depths, yet he proved inflexibly obdurate. at one time he threatened to abandon the expedition if i remained insistent; a threat which proved effective, since he alone held the key to the thing. all this i can still remember, though i no longer know what manner of thing we sought. after he had obtained my reluctant acquiescence in his design, warren picked up the reel of wire and adjusted the instruments. at his nod i took one of the latter and seated myself upon an aged, discolored gravestone close by the newly uncovered aperture. then he shook my hand, shouldered t

HP LOVECRAFT THE TOMB

menon; a phenomenon so fleeting that i could not take oath upon its reality. i barely fancied that as i awoke, a light had been hurriedly extinguished within the sunken sepulcher. i do not think i was either astounded or panic-stricken, but i know that i was greatly and permanently changed that night. upon returning home i went with much directness to a rotting chest in the attic, wherein i found the key which next day unlocked with ease the barrier i had so long stormed in vain. it was in the soft glow of late afternoon that i first entered the vault on the abandoned slope. a spell was upon me, and my heart leaped with an exultation i can but ill describe. as i closed the door behind me and descended the dripping steps by the light of my lone candle, i seemed to know the way; and though t

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

took it with him in december, when he went down into the vault in that old graveyard- but neither he nor the book ever came to the surface again. some time ago i sent our friend here-the swami chandraputra- a memory-sketch of some of those letters, and also a photostatic copy of the carter parchment. he believes he may be able to shed light on them after certain references and consultations "but the key- carter sent me a photograph of that. its curious arabesques were not letters, but seem to have belonged to the same culture-tradition as the parch-ment carter always spoke of being on the point of solving the mystery, though he never gave details. once he grew almost poetic about the whole business. that antique silver key, he said, would unlock the successive doors that bar our free marc

arabia pettraea the prodigious domes and uncounted minarets of thousand-pillared irem. half-starved dervishes- wrote carter- and thirst-crazed nomads have returned to tell of that monumental portal, and of the hand that is sculptured above the keystone of the arch, but no man has passed and retraced his steps to say that his footprints on the garnet-strewn sands within bear witness to his visit. the key, he surmised, was that for which the cyclopean sculptured hand vainly grasps "why carter didn't take the parchment as well as the key, we can not say. perhaps he forgot it- or perhaps he forbore to take it through recollection of one who had taken a book of like characters into a vault and newer returned or perhaps it was really immaterial to what he wished to do" as de marigny paused, old

ew now how it must be rotated, and how it must be held up to the setting sun, and what syllables of ceremony must be intoned into the void at the ninth and last turning. in a spot as close to a dark polarity and induced gate as this, it could not fail in its primary functions certainly, he would rest that night in the lost boyhood for which he had never ceased to mourn. he got out of the car with the key in his pocket, walking up-hill deeper and deeper into the shadowy core of that brooding, haunted countryside of winding road, vine-grown stone wall, black woodland, gnarled, neglected orchard, gapingwindowed, deserted farm-house, and nameless nun. at the sunset hour, when the distant spires of kingsport gleamed in the ruddy blaze, he took out the key and made the needed turnings and intona

ame from envy and a baffled wish to do what was now about to be done. or perhaps the guide reserved his horror and malignity for those who feared. as the radiations continued, carter eventually inter-preted them in the form of words "i am indeed that most ancient one" said the guide "of whom you know. we have awaited you- the ancient ones and i. you are welcome, even though long delayed. you have the key, and have unlocked the first gate. now the ultimate gate is ready for your trial. if you fear, you need not advance. you may still go back unharmed, the way you came, but if you chose to advance" the pause was ominous, but the radiations continued to be friendly. carter hesitated not a moment, for a burning curiosity drove him on "i will advance" he radiated back "and i accept you as my gu

those infinitely distant ages and parts of the universe which he had hitherto known only in dreams, could he but command the magic to change the angle of his consciousness-plane. and did not the silver key supply that magic? had it not first changed him from a man in 1928 to a boy in 1883, and then to something quite outside time? oddly, despite his present apparent absence of body; he knew that the key was still with him. while the silence still lasted, randolph carter radiated forth the thoughts and questions which assailed him. he knew that in this ultimate abyss he was equidistant from every facet of his archetype- human or non-human, terrestrial or ertra-terrestrial, galactic or tran-galactic; and his curiosity regarding the other phases of his being- especially those phases which we

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

s possible, studying it; this diagram, this spell, represents something you want, and you will be imbedding it in your own mind and causing yourself to act in accordance with achieving your desires. now you must learn the meanings of the cards, and this will take time, but the following list is here for ready reference until you have absorbed it all. you'll quickly recognize which cards represent the key people in your life, and which cards influence the main situations in your life, but there are always subtleties to become aware of, new situations popping up, and new people arriving on the scene- even if you have to make them arrive- so the whole deck can be important to everyone. here is what the cards mean. ace of hearts is traditionally a romantic card, but it deals with love versus s

INDUCTION CHARM AND THE INITIATION

and where it comes from, may be things beyond explanation in terms of mere supernormal energy forces. the mysteries of the mind are as vast and unknown as the farthest star in the darkest skies. and it is only recently that man has learned to fhethe induction charm and the initiation (initiation stream i) copyright 2005 by robin artisson from the witching way of the hollow hill this initiation is the key to gaining the bond between the powers and the witch who wishes to access the workings described in this book on a deeper level. this is the pact you must take with the old powers, from the master-spirits, all the way to the powers of the land, and even the spiritual guardians of plants and beasts. it is not hard to perform, but it is lasting and binding, and if any hint of insincerity is

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

ciples, it being a symbol of the deepest initiation and the highest wisdom. many of the readers will know, of course, that the word tarot does not mean a game of cards, serving mantical purposes, but a symbolic book of initiation which contains the greatest secrets in a symbolic form. the first tablet of this book introduces the magician representing him as the master of the elements and offering the key to the first arcanum, the secret of the ineffable name of tetragrammaton, the quabbalistic yod-he-vau-he. here we will, therefore, find the gate to the magician s initiation. the reader will easily realize, how significant and how manifold the application of this tablet is. not one of the books published up to date does describe the true sense of the first tarot card so distinctly as i hav

as the element of the air, the goblet as that of the water and the coins as the element of the earth. this proves without any doubt that already in the mysteries of yore, the magician was destined for the first tarot card, mastery of the elements having been chosen as the first act of initiation. in honor of this tradition i shall give my principal attention to the elements for, as you will see, the key to the elements is the panacea, with the help of which all the occurring problems may be solved. according to the indian succession of the tattwas, it runs as follows: akasa principle of the ether tejas principle of the fire waju principle of the air apas principle of the water prithivi principle of the earth in accordance with the indian doctrine, it has been said that the four somehow gr

eft side electrical, the inside neutral. the male genitals: forepart electrical, back part neutral, right and left side also, the inside magnetical. the female genitals: forepart magnetical, back part, right and left side neutral, the inside electrical. the last vertebra& anus: fore and back part neutral, right and left side as well, the inside magnetical. with the help of this occult anatomy and the key of the tetrapolar magnet, the adept may compile further analogies if wanted. the alchemist will recognize that the human body represents a genuine athanor in which the most perfect alchemistic process, the great work or the preparation of the philosophers stone is visibly performed. herewith the chapter dealing with the body is finished. i do not assert that all has been regarded, but in a

of man has been created in the image of god and consists of body, soul and spirit. the preceding chapters have made it evident that body and soul serve only as a veil or garment for the spirit. the spirit is the immortal part and the image of god. it is not easy to define something divine, immortal, imperishable, and to put it into the correct terms. but here, as well as with any other problems, the key of the four-pole magnet will be a great help for us. from the supreme prototype (akasa, the original source of all beings, has proceeded the spirit, the spiritual ego with the four specific elemental qualities, proper to the immortal spirit, which was created in god s image. the fiery principle, the impulsive part, means the will (volition. the airy principle shows up in the intellect (min

reflected in our subconsciousness in a contrary way. practically speaking, we can regard our subconsciousness as our opponent. the incentive or the impulse to all that is undesirable, such as our passions, our failures, our weaknesses, originates just in this very sphere of consciousness. to the pupil now falls the task of introspection to disclose the work of this subconsciousness, according to the key of the elements or the tetrapolar magnet. this is a satisfactory task in as much as the pupil will acquire self-reliance by his own reflection or meditation. hence, subconsciousness is the incentive of all we do not wish for. let us learn how to transmute this, so to speak, antagonistic aspect of our ego, so that it not only does no harm, but on the contrary will help to realize our desire

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CHUMBLEY

r aspirant and deity. one initiates the other and the relations between both are transformed to a new status, usually through the transmission of new kinds of knowledge to the initiand. in the sabbatic craft, solitary initiation or the lonely road is recognised as a vital aspect of every practitioner s path and the understanding of solitude is subject to many levels of interpretation. autonomy is the key virtue, irrespective of whether one practices in human convocation or alone in the ever-present company of spirits. as regards the rituals of solitary initiation, i am aware of seven major forms of induction, the most well-known of which is probably the toad-bone ritual. whilst i recognise that anyone who follows the procedure of any of these rites is technically able to receive the full p

which prefigure the complex form seen in the present-day mythos. in previous generations traditional craft has shared certain features with the societies of horsemanry; reverence for cain is one such element. in turn, comparable ideas about the role of tubal-cain and naamah can be seen in the allied rites of freemasonry. traditional craft has also made good use of many ritual magic texts such as the key of solomon and agrippa s books of occult philosophy. these works also provide avenues for allied figures, such as lucifer, asmodeus, lilith, and the arch-daemonic guardians of the magical circle led by mahazael. although the emphasis of sacrality is reversed, another strand of genealogy is obviously to biblical texts where various elements of the mythos are present. biblical sources likewi

INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN FACES OF DARKNESS

available to us come from the third to fifth centuries of the common era. most were found in thebes, a collection whose history, whose magical and cultural significance has generally been overlooked. this key collection, which escaped the roman persecution of magical texts, can be tied in with similar spells on curse tablets found around the mediterranean. the practices of the theban library are the key to a widespread magical/philosophical view of the universe which shaped the thought of late antiquity, and which in a hidden manner have shaped and are reshaping magical practices of the twentieth century. what i wish to do in this book is examine the papyri and tablets, the egyptian contribution to the papyri, the greek contribution. then on a more operative level, i wish to show the post

turn, based on no clear reason? you decided to go into a store on an impulse, and met your spouse. you decided to pick up a slip of paper off the floor, and found your college major. you disagreed with a family member over the thanksgiving day menu, and wound up with a fight that scarred you both for life. the left hand path magician comes to realize that such "slips" and seeming "accidents" are the key to power. but this does not mean that he or she believes that every event is fated. it means that learning to control one's life rationally becomes a talisman to effect control of the hidden aspects of life as well. thus magicians will enter a phase where none of their actions are random or accidental, and learn to watch themselves as a great source of mystery, from which even more being c

ISIS UNVEILED

r passed into history or concealed under the impene- trable veil of mystny, are preserved throughout, and impressed upon the ages. they are known as moses, aholiab, and besaleel, the son of uri, the son of hur, as plato, philo, and pythagoras, etc. at the transfigura- tion we see them as jesus, moses, and elias, the three trismegisti; and three kabahsts, peter, james, and john whose revelation is the key lo all wisdom. we found them in the twiught of jewish history as zoro- aster, abraham, and terah, and later as henoch, ezekiel, and daniel. who of those who ever studied the ancient philosophies who understand intuitionally the grandeur of their conceptions, the boundless sublimity of their views of the unknown deity can hesitate for a moment to give the preference to their doctrines over

exemplified than in the fact that by her own act she has deprived herself of the only pos- able key to her own religious mysteries. the assumption of godfrey higgins that there are two doctrines maintained in the boman church, one for the masses and the other the esoteric for the 'perfect' or the initiates, as in the ancient mysteries, appears to us unwarranted and rather fantastic. she has lost the key, we repeat; otherwise no terrestrial power could have prostrated her, and except as having a superficial knowledge of the means of producing' miracles' her clergy can in no way be compared in their wisdom with the hierophants of old. in burning the works of the theurgists; in proscribing those who affect their study; in afisxing the stigma of demonolatry to magic in general, rome has left

o far as max mull^'s ite^tirat is concerned. but we doubt wheuier the french rationalist undostands kapila's and vyasa's philosophy better than the german phikjo^st does the "theokigica] twaddle" as the hitter terms tin atkarva-vedo. pn^esaor muller and jacolliot may have ever so great claims to erudi- tion, and be ever so familiar with sanskrit and other anciait orioital languages, but both lack the key to the thousand and one mystetiea of the old secret doctrine and its philosophy. only, while the gcnu an philologist does not even take the trouble to look into this m^p^l and "theological twaddle" we find the ftendi indianist never losing an opportunify to investigate. moreover he honestly admits his incom- petency ever to fatliom this ocean of mystical learning. in its existence he not o

ained 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 earth. tha world ol dm ccacti, com- ilhhli to ill iutisibb imlotjps b tim attld ot 'hokhmah'"g from keth, or the an- drogyne, adam kadmon, and the second. binah, from 'hokhmah. if we combine with yod the three letten which form the name of eve, we shall have the divine tetragram pronounced lavo-havah, adam and eve, nin\ jehova

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

unt of research has been done into correct physical nutrition, what we wish to move into in this book is utilizing another source of nourishment that the body can access in order to keep healthy and be disease free. the good news is that accessing this type of nourishment also satisfies our emotional, mental and spiritual hungers for this is the nature of dow power and the divine one within holds the key to a limitless source of nourishment. the reasons for our hungers are as varied as we are, some of it goes back to being unfulfilled in our previous experiences, some to just never getting enough. like a person who felt unloved as a child and who may feel emotionally insecure and becomes hungry for love and approval. or mothers of children who choose to remain out of the work force when th

terpret events in life in a way that promotes anger, hatred or fear. to choose to feed the body physical foods that research shares can create cancer and decrease our lifespan can also be seen as a form of suicide. of course the above can be seen as a judgment and we all have the free will to choose how we wish to think, feel or act when we have been educated to the alternatives, for education is the key. this means education in the fact that we are more than just our minds and bodies and emotions and education into the fact that all our bodies need proper nourishment and education regarding how to do provide this in a way that is honoring of all. once this education has been given, with its practical tools, then there really is no excuse any more for. as gods in form. it is up to us to ch

ansmissions from the central sun of the inner realms. successful level 3 nourishment is dependant on the activation of these glands. dr shah writes of these glands: while going through the details of recent scientific literature and also comparing it with ancient indian spiritual texts, as well as western occult and new age, the following things are apparent. the activation of the pineal gland is the key step in our psychic, spiritual and energy transformation processes. here in this gland, energy processing and re-distribution divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 70 occurs. the pineal gland is the commander of all endocrine glands, therefore controlling the humeral system. it also regulates the circadian rhythm, sleep wake cycle and it also slows down t

ank with open doors to those in the grace wave of theta. delta field. this bank can download an abundance of love, health, wealth, passion and purpose to those who can match its beat. any person who sincerely works for harmonious global refinement, or lives their life in a way that is good for all, will have access to the perfect resources they need to do this. purity of heart, and intention, are the key to this cosmic safe. f) someone tuned to the madonna frequency divine love-wisdom channel may receive divine transmissions from our holy help line: c.n.n (the cosmic nirvana network. channeling, receiving divine downloads, automatic writings, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience are common and natural by-products of the madonna frequency. interaction with divine hierarchies and rece

om and are possibly meditating more to increase your sensitivity to, and awareness of, your dow and to experience its grace in your life. step 4: dow power: elaboration on getting to know your dow divine nutrition program. technique no. 22: dow surrender as dow power is my favorite topic of research, i would like to elaborate on this in greater detail for as we have shared so often, our dow holds the key to all our paranormal powers. our dow is the god of our being and as such it is all powerful, all knowing and limitlessly loving. to successfully be fed by the food of the gods, we must learn to control not just our mind/body communication but also our dow downloads, and our field imprinting via the programs and activations we use within the dimensional biofield. we know that in the dimens

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

enest conversed with the signior, and therefore was the freer in his acquaintance, undertook to go to his lodgings and inquire after him, which he did; but he was answered by the owner of the house, who came to the street-door to respond to the questioner, that the signior had gone, having quitted venice that morning early, and that he had locked up his pictures with certain orders, and had taken the key of his rooms with him. this affair made a great noise at the time in venice; and an account of it found its way into most of the newspapers of the year in which it occurred. in these newspapers and elsewhere, an outline of the foregoing particulars may be seen. the account of the signor gualdi will also be met with in les memoires historiques for the year 1687, tome i. p. 365. the chief pa

which presents the engraved figure of a cynocephalus, crowned, with b ton erect, adoring the first appearance of the new moon. the phallic worship prevailed, at one time, all over india. it constitutes, as mr. sellon asserts, to this day one of the chief, if not the leading, dogma of the hindoo religion. incontestable evidence could be adduced to prove this however strange and impossible it seems the key of all worship the world over; and highest in esteem in the most highly civilised nations. though it has degenerated into gross and sensual superstition, it was originally intended as the worship of the creative principle in nature. innumerable curious particulars lie scattered up and down, in all countries of the world, relating to this worship, mad as it seems bad as, in its grossness, i

esences of all these divinities indeed, of all gods were of the semblance of fire; and we recognise, as it were, the mark of the foot of them, or of the impersonated fire, in the countless uprights, left, as memorials, in the great ebb of the ages (as waves) to nations in the latter divisions of that great roll of periods called time; yet so totally unguessing of the preternatural mystery seeming the key of all belief, and the reading of all wonders which they speak. it is to be noted that all the above religions all the creeds of fire were exceedingly similar in their nature; that they were all fortified by rites, and fenced around with ceremonies; and that, associated as they were with, mysteries and initiations, the disciple was led through the knowledge of them in stages, as his powers

name digamma; which was called olic, becaus'e the olians, of all the tribes, retained the greatest traces of the original language. thus, the olians wrote or pronounced #o noj #el a, velia. the latin language was derived from the olic dialect, and naturally adopted the digamma, which it generally expressed by v. these significant, mysterious sounds and characters v, w, b, and f are reputed to be the key of the lunar, or feminine, apotheosis. the symbol (or that meant in the symbol) is the key-note, as it were, of all grecian architecture and art; which is all beauty, refinement, and elegance, with power at the highest. nails of the passion (three in the greek rite) single-cloven templar ensign. chapter the twenty-ninth. connection between the templars and gnosticism. he branch sect of the

or stone. he letters of all languages are significant marks or symbols, which have the twelve, or rather the original ten, signs of the zodiac for their beginning. of these letters there is a certain group which has, in the characters of all languages, a secret hieroglyphical, hagiographical reference, to the originally single, and afterwards double, sign, virgo-scorpio, which is supposed to give the key to the secret or cabalistic story of creation. these letters are s and z, l and m; or rather a group, which is marked by l, p, m, s, s, z l, m, v, w. the significant aspirates, or vowel sounds, follow the same rule. the snake-like glyph, or mystery of the serpent, or disguise, in which the recusant principle is supposed to have invested himself, has coiled (so to say, and projects signific

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

e fate of the five asiatic crew men known to have been aboard. sighted three days ago, two hundred miles south of nicobar islands, the derelict was boarded by crew members of the british freighter, ranee. the british vessel was carrying 7,450 tons of rice from communist china to ceylon the first consignment under a new trade agreement note the pattern again in this modern case. the broken mast is the key. this was a motor ship, and carried no sails (presumably, but in any case was not dependent on sails. the damage aloft is a common feature of these events and somehow indicates activity above the ship, or at least above its deck. another training ship, british, the atlanta, set sail early in 1880 from bermuda, with 250 cadets and sailors aboard, and was not heard of again. two things strik

line between the earth and the sun (seen by gould, but not by tebbutt. this is as we have surmised in the case of watson and swift in 1878. could all of these astronomers, professionals and competent amateurs, have conceived of a body being so close to the earth, yet moving slowly, maybe within our atmosphere, they would have realized that they had a new and awesome problem on their hands perhaps the key to many a celestial enigma. both gould and bone had valuable clues within their own observations, in consideration of the erratic movements and the circularity of the objects described by them, showing that the objects were neither stars nor comets. nor could they have been intra-mercurial planets because they were illuminated neither crescentically nor gibbously. parallax was the ultimate

KETAB E SIYAH

an called the scarlet woman is all power given. they shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. 16. for he is ever a sun, and she a moon. but to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. 17. but ye are not so chosen. 18. burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! 19. o azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! 20. the key of the rituals is in the secret word which i have given unto him. 415 21. with the god& the adorer i am nothing: they do not see me. they are as upon the earth; i am heaven, and there is no other god than me, and my lord hadit. 22. now, therefore, i am known to ye by my name nuit, and to him by a secret name which i will give him when at last he knoweth me. since i am infinite space, and t

s your armour; go on, go on, in my strength& ye shall turn not back for any! 47. this book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no beast shall divine. let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him, whence i say not, who shall discover the key of it all. then this line drawn is a key: then this circle squared in its failure is a key also. and abrahadabra. it shall be his child& that strangely. let him not seek after this; for thereby alone can he fall from it. 48. now this mystery of the letters is done, and i want to go on to the holier place. 49. i am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men. 50. curse

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t of copying and mailing only, no additional charges may be added* liber ii the message of the master therion this epistle first appeared in the equinox iii(1 (detroit: universal, 1919. the quotations are from liber legis--the book of the law--h.b``do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law``there is no law beyond do what thou wilt``the word of the law is velhma' velhma--thelema--means will. the key to this message is this word--will. the first obvious meaning of this law is confirmed by antithesis``the word of sin is restriction' again``thou hast no right but to do thy will. do that and no other shall say nay. for pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect' take this carefully; it seems to imply a theory that if every man and every woman

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ime, and space. it researches the upper forces that move material bodies, and the way one s inner force pushes all things, animate and inanimate, to the preordained goal. can one solve this fundamental puzzle of human life without touching upon the question of its source? every human being encounters this question. the search for the goal and the meaning i n t r o d u c t i o n 17 of existence is the key question around humankind s spiritual life. hence, starting with the second half of the 20th century, we are observing a revival of mankind s spiritual aspirations. the technical progress and global catastrophes that gave rise to a variety of philosophies have not brought spiritual fulfillment to humanity. as kabbalah explains, out of all existing pleasures, our world received only a tiny

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

occurring on nature s other levels, too, in the inanimate, the vegetative, and the animate. what shall become of them? how will their situations improve? it would seem that to tend to the state of the earth, water, air, flora, and animals, we must act directly on them. it is, therefore, surprising to see that kabbalah s method of correction focuses on human relations and considers those relations the key to the state of all of nature. can it be that correcting our human egoistic relationships will affect the state of other degrees, as well? could it, for instance, resolve the ecological perils and the shortage of resources that threaten us? we should know that nature s altruistic force is a single force. there are no divisions in it. but with respect to us, it is divided into inanimate nat

of our desires. if we triumph there, succeed in realizing the correction method, and learn to use the ego altruistically, we will thus build the middle line. in that state, it will not be necessary for wars to materialize. we should remember that the measure of balance or imbalance between nature and us determines the corporeal, external reality, and the intensity of suffering we will experience. the key to the change is in our hand because the only active part in reality, for better or for worse, is the people of israel. i n t e r na l i t y a n d e x t e r na l i t y bear in mind that in everything there is internality and externality. israel, the descendants of abraham, isaac, and jacob, is generally considered the internality of the world, and the seventy nations are considered the ext

i n t e r na l i t y a n d e x t e r na l i t y bear in mind that in everything there is internality and externality. israel, the descendants of abraham, isaac, and jacob, is generally considered the internality of the world, and the seventy nations are considered the externality of the world--baal hasulam, introduction to the book of zohar israel s role 183 the people of israel are analogous to the key organs in the collective body of humanity the brain, heart, liver, lungs, and kidneys which operate the rest of the organs in the body. when these organs function incorrectly, the whole body suffers and grows ill. thus, the process of healing human egoism depends on the success of healing the people of israel. the rest of the body will be healed by consequence, smoothly and easily. because

LAITMAN M KABBALAH REVEALED

he more we ll learn about kabbalah, the more we ll find that it always leads us to the root of things. before it gives you any answers, it tells you why you are in your present state. and once you know the root of your situation, you will rarely need any further guidance. in that spirit, let s see what we have been learning until today, and perhaps we will discover why we still haven t discovered the key to happiness. behind closed doors man. if he be insufficiently or ill-educated, he is the most savage of earthly creatures. xplato, the laws knowledge has always been considered an asset. espionage is not an invention of modern times; it has been there since the dawn of history. but it has existed because knowledge has always been disclosed on a need-to-know basis, and the only dispute was

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

ltimate source of fulfillment to reduce suffering in the world, or continue to wait and see what happens next. since a kabbalist is a person who has attained the spiritual realm, they are completely aware of the processes influencing our world. an interview with the future by the israel based kabbalist michael laitman, is the defining book of the decade. it is a meeting with destiny that provides the key to safeguarding the future of the entire human race- 449- the kabbalah experience the wisdom of kabbalah teaches us how to live in the reality that is spread before us. it is a systematicmethod that has evolved over thousands of years through a handful of unique individuals in every generation. during all that time it was concealed from the public eye that was not yet ready to receive it

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

s able to describe several phenomena that could not be explained by preceding theories. the most famous of these was wave-particle duality, showing that microscopic objects such as electrons behave as waves under some conditions, and as particles under others. a fundamental concept of quantum theory is the uncertainty principle, which maintains that the observer affects the observed event. hence, the key question is, what do the measurements actually measure? this principle implies that the concept of an objective process becomes irrelevant. moreover, beyond the measured results, an objective reality simply cannot exist. the discoveries of quantum physics drastically changed scientists approach. the deterministic concept that maintained that physics revealed objective facts of nature and d

t picture, and experiences the opening of the upper world, this discovery is accompanied by the wondrous sensation of eternal life, and endless, boundless stream of pleasures. this is where our lives are leading us. 26 t h e n at u r e o f m at t e r the wisdom of kabbalah has evolved over thousands of years and been disseminated among kabbalists throughout history. i would like to briefly review the key points in this process. the first kabbalist was abraham the patriarch (approximately 1,800 bce. sefer yetzira (the book of creation) is ascribed to him. 500 years after abraham, moses wrote his book of torah (the pentateuch, around 1,350 bce. in the 2nd century ce rabbi shimon bar-yochai wrote sefer ha zohar (the book of splendor. kabbalah thrived in the 16th century israeli town of safed

best to create a structure similar to the corrected structure of the soul of adam ha rishon. we cannot succeed in this task alone, as such a task contradicts human nature. what we can do is acquire an intense desire and join with others. this is where the wisdom of kabbalah comes in. books on kabbalah describe the corrected state of the souls and the difference between these and corrupted states. the key difference is the intention with which we use our nature. correction means that we change the purpose for which we use our desire from inducing self-gratification to benefiting others. when we correctly study genuine kabbalah, we come to depict our own corrected state. this depiction prompts the light that already fills our corrected state to correct our soul. once that light corrects our

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u want to stay. in this life, we need only one thing- a desire for the creator. if it s there and it s genuine, meaning above all other things, then he will fulfill it. q: can i find an answer to my questions on your site? a: many people ask questions and don t even bother to read the material on the site. if you want to understand something in a specific area, you should learn a little bit about the key concepts. i suggest that you read the material on the site, and i m sure that you ll find there the full answers to your questions. i m glad you have questions, but you can acquire knowledge systematically, which will allow you to answer your questions by yourself. a v i r t ua l g r o u p o f k a b b a l i s t s q: do you also attend virtual groups on the internet? t h e k a b b a l a h e

ill not a revelation, but it is the beginning of our spiritual contact with the creator. that is how we begin to connect with the creator. we understand that the creator is now hidden, and sends his messages through the people around us. thus, we begin to feel the involvement of the creator in everything that happens in our lives. this is a genuine feeling, and this contact becomes permanent, and the key factor in our lives. this is the way to the entrance to the spiritual world, the strengthening of the contact with the creator and the rise to a higher degree. a c o m m o n g oa l q: why do we need to agree with our friends? a: when we see that our friends are right, we don t have to justify them. we simply have to accept their thoughts and agree with them. thus, we acquire new knowledge

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are not great, and the child s mind is developed accordingly. another example is a person in the jungle who needs just enough wisdom to provide the necessities for survival. the more we want, the smarter we become, because the mind must get us what we want. the mind is but a consequence of the evolution of our desires. we seek and find all kinds of ways to get what we want. thus, a strong will is the key to the development of the mind. we needn t concern ourselves with developing the mind, only with developing desire. a person who studies the wisdom of kabbalah needn t be smart. it is enough to want to feel the desire. it is impossible to see the spiritual world with our mind s eye we can only feel it in our souls. we should try to mingle with the suffering of the entire world, feel it, an

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

oking upwards to the light; his attitude is the exact opposite of that of the man of pride, who is content to look downwards, enjoying the comparison of his own greatness with the littleness of inferior persons and things that come within his supercilious vision. humility is the possession of the man of ideals, who is never self-satisfied, because he regards always that which is above. it is thus the key to the gateway of the upward path. the humble man will not think that he achieves his triumph by his own proud prowess alone, but, realizing that all strength is the divine strength, he will recognize that, like the heroes of old, he is but employing the powers with which he has been endowed from on high- just as arjuna in the battle of kurukshetra used the celestial weapons presented to h

in this trinity has its male and female aspect- precisely the same idea which is expressed in the hindu religion by the statement that each person has his shakti, commonly described as his consort. thus the three-in-one becomes six-in-one, and, with the surrounding circle which indicates the unmanifested totality, we have the mystic seven. 778. the triple tau is also called in royal arch masonry the key. it contains eight right angles, and is used as a measure or mnemonic whereby the platonic solids can be calculated. taken alone, it is commensurate with the tetrahedron, the sides of which, being four equilateral triangles, are together equal to eight right angles, because the interior angles of any triangle are together equal to two right angles. it is said that this solid was used by th

pentagon are 10. 4= 6 right angles; therefore the dodecahedron is contained by seventy-two right angles, and consequently is represented by nine keys. so it will be seen that this key is the greatest common measure of all these platonic solids, and that is why on the scroll round it in the jewel of the holy royal arch degree we find the latin phrase: nil nisi clavis deest, gnothing is wanting but the key h, teaching us on the one hand that without the inner knowledge all these symbols are but lifeless, and on the other that, great as is the teaching given, there is yet more to be found as we move along on the path of masonic progress. 782. there is a method by which, by sub-dividing the triangles and the seal of solomon into smaller triangles and adding up the total number of degrees forme

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

ds above all earthly life and becomes one with that aspect of the deity which in christianity we call god the holy ghost(*see the masters and the path) 204. and still there are higher stages, greater steps upon the path, though belonging no longer to human evolution but to the development of the superman. even here our masonic ceremonies reflect in symbol something of those higher glories, giving the key to the whole vast plan. far above the grade of adept, he who is the christ stands as the lord of love, the teacher of angels and men, and along this line of interpretation his high stage of evolution is reflected in the 18, which is essentially a degree of christhood. equal with him, but on the ray of rule, stands the manu, whose rank is mirrored at an almost infinite distance in the 30; a

knight of the east and of the west 18 knight rose-croix 19 grand pontiff or master ad vitam 20 grand patriarch royal arch of enoch grand scottish knight of the sacred vault (of james vi* or sublime mason the same" sovereign prince of rose-croix grand pontiff or sublime scotch mason 21 noachite or prussian chevalier 20 venerable grand master of symbolic lodges the same noachite 21 grand master of the key of masonry 22 prince of libanus, knight royal arch alternatively royal axe* 23 knight of the sun, prince adept, chief of the grand consistory. 24 illustrious chief grand commander of the white and black eagle, grand elect kadosh 25 most illustrious sovereign prince of masonry, grand knight, sublime knight commander of the 28 30 32 royal secret* this is clearly a later title, and in the mas

LEMEGETON

he descriptions of the seals for each sign of the zodiac are evidently abstracted from paracelsus, the second treatise of celestial medicines, cf. archidoxes of magic translated by robert turner, 1656, pp. 136 ff. ars almadel in 1608, trithemius mentioned a long list of books on magic, including the book "almadel attributed to king solomon [7] ars almadel is also found in the hebrew manuscript of the key of solomon, ed. gollancz, sepher maphteah shelomoh, 1914, fol 20b. turner mentions a fifteenth-century manuscript in florence [8] ars notoria the ars notoria is a medieval grimoire of the 'solomonic cycle. many latin manuscripts are extant, the oldest are dated thirteenth century, and possibly earlier. like liber juratus (also thirteenth century, the text centers around an even older colle

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

life black, toronto star, april 27, 1999, pp. c1, c3. introvigne,massimo. the gothic milieu: black metal, satanism, and vampires. http//www.cesnur.org/testi/gothic.htm. grimoire through the centuries, a large number of handbooks have been published that offer instructions on how to perform different kinds of magic. among these books, usually referred to as grimoires, the oldest and best known is the key of solomon, which is believed to have been written by the legendary king solomon. a copy of the book was circulating as early as the first century c.e. countless versions, often with additions, have followed the first century edition, rendering it impossible to identify the original text. besides the key of solomon and its derivations, many other grimoires circulated in the middle ages. so

ictims could have forgotten the abuse that rmt supposedly recovered. while on the one hand ritual abuse advocates relied upon mk-ultra-type notions, on the other hand they drew from popular stereotypes about cult brainwashing/mind control. for example, the los angeles county task force on ritual abuse described satanic cult brainwashing as follows: mind control is the cornerstone of ritual abuse, the key element in the subjugation and silencing of its victims. victims of ritual abuse are subjected to a rigorously applied system of mind control designed to rob them of their sense of free will and to impose upon them the will of the cult and its leaders. this characterization makes satanic programming appear less a form of cia mind control and more a subcategory of the kind of brainwashing t

rst broke, warnke initially admitted on christian television that he was unaware of child sacrifices. however, after this aspect of the satanic conspiracy became dominant in the public s mind, he changed his tune and began to claim that devil cults yearly sacrifice some 2 million children. though warnke s book would eventually inspire many imitators, the threshold book that has been identified as the key publication setting the satanic panic into motion was michelle remembers. this work, purporting to present a true story based on the recovered memories of michelle smith, provided the remaining components of sra ideology, namely the key concept of satanic ritual abuse, plus a paradigm for recovering repressed memories of such abuse through what became known as recovered memory therapy. mic

abuse though the word satanic was often left out of the rubric so that the laws did not sound like hangovers from the middle ages. these laws were composed and passed at the height of the ritual abuse panic in the early 1990s. because such laws appear to officially recognize the real existence of sra, they represent a victory for people and organizations promoting the myth of ritual abuse. one of the key documents leading to the demise of sra as a topic of criminal investigation was an influential 1992 fbi report, kenneth v. lanning s investigator s guide to allegations of ritual child abuse (see appendix 2. this report, which dismisses the reality of sra, has been described as the most influential document on the subject ever written. the early 1990s also saw the publication of a series o

t brace& co, 1993. zimmer, heinrich. philosophies of india. new york: bollingen, 1951. twilight zone the movie 261 trick or treat this 1986 film, which stars ozzy osbourne and gene simmons, explores the christian fantasy of heavy metal music s supposed satanic connections. a lonely, miserable teen metal musician dies in a hotel fire. his spirit expresses itself in a music album, entitled songs in the key of death. hell is not a place, but is, rather, about being cruel, perverse, and abusive. twilight zone the movie this 1983 movie does not capture the suspense of rod serling s television series, but it does have the intensity of the twist of fate so poignantly depicted in all of the tv episodes. vic morrow plays an angry bigot who blames minorities for the personal defeats he has experienc

LIBER 777

s issued a knowledge lecture which consisted of the names and symbols of the elements, planets and signs along with the hebrew alphabet and the names of the sephiroth in hebrew. 4 the lemegeton is a 17th-century compilation, probably english, of magical texts attributed to solomon. the first book, goetia, describes 72 evil spirits and gives instructions for evoking them (it derives variously from the key of solomon, the heptameron, the fourth book of pseudo-agrippa and the pseudomonarchia d monum published by wier. crowley published an edition of it in 1904. in 777 cols. clv clxvi the spirits are referred to the decans by day and night. the second book, theurgia goetia, lists 31 principal spirits, with an astronomical number of subordinates of whom few are named; of the 31, 20 are referred

LIBER ALEPH

as an ally to that true will. if then there be a traitor in the consciousness, how much the more is it necessary for thee to arise and extirpate him before he wholly infect thee with the divided purpose which is the first breach in that fortress of the soul whose fall should bring it to the shapeless ruin whose name is choronzon! k liber aleph vel cxi 14 n de somniis. e: clavicula (of dreams. v: the key) he dream delightful is then a pageant of the fulfilment of the true will, and the nightmare a symbolic battle between it and its assailants in thyself. but there can be only one true will, even as there can be only one proper motion in any body, no matter of how many forces that motion be the resultant. seek therefore this will, and conjoin with it thy conscious self; for this is that whi

te of the gnostic catholic church, or that of the phoenix. neglect not the performance of the mass of the holy ghost, as nature herself prompteth thee. travel also much in the empyrean in the body of light, seeking ever abodes more fiery and lucid. finally, exercise constantly the eight limbs of yoga. and so shalt thou come to the end. n the book of wisdom or folly 17 p de clavicula somniorum (of the key of dreams) nd now concerning meditation let me disclose unto thee more fully the mystery of the key of dreams and phantasies. learn first that as the thought of the mind standeth before the soul and hindereth its manifestation in consciousness, so also the gross physical will is the creator of the dreams of common men, and as in meditation thou doest destroy every thought by mating it with

our god, the beginning of comfort, whose eyes are the brightness of the heavens, which provided you for the government of the earth, and her unspeakable variety! and again: let there be no creature upon her or within her the same. all here members let them differ in their qualities, and let there be no creature equal with another. here also is the voice of true science, crying aloud: variation is the key of evolution. thereunto art cometh the third, perceiving beauty in the harmony of the diverse. know then, o my son, that all laws, all systems, all customs, all ideals and standards which tend to produce uniformity, being in direct opposition to nature s will to change and to develop through variety, are accursed. do thou with all thy might of manhood strive against these forces, for they

the will) my son, in this case is there darkness, yet this comfort as a lamp therein, that there is no error in the will, but only doubt as to the means of success, else were we as children afeared of night. thus we have need of naught but to consider the matter by wit of reason, and of prudence, and on common sense, and of experience, and of science, adjusting ourselves so far as we may. here is the key of success, and its name is the skill to make right use of circumstance. this, then is the virtue of the mind, to be the wazir of the will, a true counsellor, through intelligence of the universe. but o, my son, do thou lay this word beneath thine heart, that the mind hath no will, nor right thereto, so the usurpation bringeth forth a fatal conflict in thyself. for the mind is sensitive, u

lion of light and of courage within him, seemeth to himself encircled by fire, and, driving his sting into himself, he dieth. such are the black brothers, that cry: i am i, they that deny love, restricting it to their own nature. but the serpent is the secret nature of man, that is life and death, and maketh his way through the generations in silence. and the eagle is that might of live which is the key of magick, uplifting the body and its appurtenance unto high ekstacy upon his wings. it is by virtue thereof that the sphinx beholdeth he sun unwinking, and confronteth the pyramid without shame. our dragon, therefore, combining the natures of the eagle and he serpent, is our love, the organ of our will, by whose virtue we perform the work and miracle of the one substance, as saith thine a

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

rroundings, for the equinox 158 although he continued with his usual office work, he lived during the best part of this year under canvas in a small tent by the sea shore, necessitating some miles of walking every day, and throwing him a good deal more in touch with nature than formerly; also the addition of a little stranger to his family had a marked effect on his home affairs, being as it were the key to the solution of certain problems that had been puzzling him in that direction. during the period from march 2nd to september 4th, when we might say he was working on alone, his record shows some 340 meditation practices, mostly in the asana known as the dragon, the periods ranging from a few minutes to something over an hour, but most of them comparatively short, the average perhaps bei

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

ed and said: o my lord, my dove, my excellent one, how shall this word seem unto the children of men? 52. and he answered him: not as thou canst see. liber cordis cincti serpente svb figvra ynda 5 it is certain that every letter of this cipher hath some value; but who shall determine the value? for it varieth ever, according to the subtlety of him that made it. 53. and he answered him: have i not the key thereof? i am clothed with the body of flesh; i am one with the eternal and omnipotent god. 54. then said adonai: thou hast the head of the hawk, and thy phallus is the phallus of asar. thou knowest the white, and thou knowest the black, and thou knowest that these are one. but why seekest thou the knowledge of their equivalence? 55. and he said: that my work may be right. 56. and adonai s

zoar-stone that is found in the belly of the cow, so is my lover among lovers. 8. o honey boy! bring me thy cool limbs hither! let us sit awhile in the orchard, until the sun go down! let us feast on the cool grass! bring wine, ye slaves, that the cheeks of my boy may flush red. 9. in the garden of immortal kisses, o thou brilliant one, shine forth! make thy mouth an opium-poppy, that one kiss is the key to the infinite sleep and lucid, the sleep of shi-loh-am. liber cordis cincti serpente svb figvra ynda 17 10. in my sleep i beheld the universe like a clear crystal without one speck. 11. there are purse-proud penniless ones that stand at the door of the tavern and prate of their feats of wine-bibbing. 12. there are purse-proud penniless ones that stand at the door of the tavern and revile

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

gift of grace? keep thou yet firm this trembling leaf my soul, dear god who died for men; yea! for that sinner-soul the chief, sir palamede the saracen. 69 xxx starred is the blackness of the sky; wide is the sweep of the cold plain where good sir palamede doth lie, keen on the beast-slot once again. all day he rode; all night he lay with eyes wide open to the stars, seeking in many a secret way the key to unlock his prison bars. beneath him, hark! the marvel sounds! the beast that questeth horribly. as if a thirty couple hounds are in his belly questeth he. beneath him? heareth he aright? he leaps to.sfeet.a wonder shews: steep dips a stairway from the light to what obscurity god knows. still never a tremor shakes his soul (god praise thee, knight of adamant; he plungers to that gruesome

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

of shining blackness deeper than the night. i then consecrated myself to the operation; cutting the tonsure upon my head, a circle, as it were to admit the light of infinity: and cutting the cross of blood upon my breast, thus symbolising the equilibration of and the slaying of the body, while loosing the blood, the first projection in matter of the universal fluid. the whole formulating the ankh.the key of life! i gave moreover the signs of the grades from 0 =0 to 7 =4. then did i take upon myself the great obligation1 as follows: i. i, o.m &c, a member of the body of god, hereby bind myself on behalf of the whole universe, even as we are now physically bound unto the cross of suffering: 1 [this is the .oath of the abyss. or the oath of 8 =3. t.s] john st. john 9 ii. that i will lead a pu

he 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 threshold (p.s..this name is a bad one. dweller beside the pylon is a better term; for he is not in the straight path, which is liber dccclx 80 simple and easy and open. he is never .overcome; to meet him is the proof of having strayed. the key fits the door perfectly; but he who is drunken on the bad wine of sense and thought fumbles thereat. and of course there is a great deal of door, and very little key-hole, who dost use my very love of adonai to destroy me! yet how shall i approach him, if not with reverent joy, with a delicious awe? i must wash his feet with my tears; i must die at his gateway; i must. i know not what. ado

LIBER LVII

s at his pleasure. this formula was used to open the vault of the mystic mountain of abiegnus, within which lay (so the ceremony of initiation supposed) the body of our father christian rosen creutz, to be discovered by the brethren with the postulant as said in the book called fama fraternitatis. there are three officers, and they repeat the analysis of the word as follows: chief. let us analyse the key word.i. 2nd. n. 3rd. r. all. i. chief. yod. y 2nd. nun. n 3rd. resh. r all. yod. y chief. virgo (f) isis, mighty mother. 2nd. scorpio (h) apophis, destroyer. 3rd. sol) osiris, slain and rise. all. isis, apophis, osiris, iao. all spread arms as if on a cross, and say. the sign of osiris slain! chief bows his head to the left, raises his right arm, and lowers his left, keeping the elbow and

ght. aub is an illusory thing of witchcraft (cf. obi, obeah; aud is almost= the kundalini force(.odic. force. this illustrates well the difference between the sluggish, viscous 9, and the keen, ecstatic 11.54 210. pertains to part ii. see liber 418. 214. jwr, the air, the mind. 220. pertains to part ii. the number of verses in liber legis. 231. the sum of the first 22 numbers, 0 to 21; the sum of the key-numbers of the tarot cards; hence an extension of the idea of 22, q.v. 270. i.n.r.i. see 5= 6 ritual. 280. the sum of the .five letters of severity. those which have a final form. kaph, mem, nun, pe, tzaddi. also the number of the squares on the sides of the vault 7 40; see 5= 6 ritual. also [r= terror. 300. the letter c, meaning .tooth. and suggesting by its shape a triple flame. refers y

fch, the adversary. t.s] 80 [vide al i. 22. t.s] 52 liber lviii lion (leo my rising sign81) and sol, 6, 666, the lord of leo on which babalon should ride. and there were other more intimate considerations, unnecessary to enter upon in this place. note however that the tarot card of leo, strength, bears the number xi, the great number of the magnum opus, and its interchange with justice, viii; and the key of 8 is 418.82 this all seemed to me so important that no qabalistic truths were so firmly implanted in my mind at the time when i was ordered to abandon the study of magic and the qabalah as these: 8, 11, 418, 666; combined with the profoundest veneration for 1, 3, 5, 7, 13, 37, 78, 91, 111. i must insist on this at the risk of tautology and over-emphasis; for it is the key to my standard

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

he was comforted. now came the sudden twittering of heart lest the firmament beneath him were not stable, and lo! he danceth up and down as a very cork on waters of wailing .woman. he bade sternly .be still. cleave that with thy sword: or that must i well work. but she cleft the cords, bitter-faced, smiling goddess as she was; 1 the sacrifices are the ten sephiroth. 2 see table. 3 ancient form of the key of s. 4 considered as the agent of resurrection. 5 in the true key of m the tree is shaped like the letter d= venus or love. the figure of the man forms a cross above a triangle, with apex upwards, the sign of redemption. adest rosa secreta eros. hermaphroditus. mors janua vitae. adeptus. terrae ultor anima terrae. ambrosii magi hortis rosarum 81 and he went on .leave thine ox-goad,.1 quot

ries .four fool.s bargains hast thou made, and thou art fit to go forth and meet a fool4 for thy mate. but our father counted thrice seven and cried .one for the fool. seeing 1 3, the number of g. 2, the number of the card g. 2 the equality of three and eight is attributed to binah, a high grade of theurgic attainment. 3 scil. juggler, the 1st key. the magical weapons correspond to the kerubim. 4 the key marked 0 and applied to aleph, 1. dona virginis. puella urget sophiam sodalibus. the sophic suggler. ambrosii magi hortis rosarum 83 the serpent should be his at last .none for the fool. they laughed back.nay, even his maiden queen. for she would not any should know thereof. yet all were right, both he and they. but truth ran quickly about; for that was the house of truth; and mercury stoo

le and creative power as not, for science cannot help us. true, if we do not use all the methods at our disposal! but we go beyond. we admit that all mental methods known are singularly liable to illusion and inaccuracy of any sort. so were the early determinations of specific heat. even biologists have erred. but to the true scientist every failure is a steppingstone to success; every mistake is the key to a new truth. and the history of our science is the history of all science. if you choose to ape christendom and put the pioneers of rational investigation into the nature of consciousness on the rack (i.e. into lunatic asylums) i doubt not we shall find our bruno. but it will add an additional pang that persecution should come from the house of our friends. let us, however, turn away fr

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

above, so below; wherefore saith the holy qabalah that alone amongst the shells is nogah, the sphere of venus, exalted unto holiness (venus is the goddess of love) liber mmcmxi 8 our father c.r.c, the tomb of osiris; the god revealer, coming, moreover, by the central path of s through the midst of the triangle of light. and the lock which guards that door is as the four gates of the universe. and the key is the ankh, immortal life.the rose and cross of life; and the symbol of venus. 4. 1. 2. 3. 6. 5. 7. fig. iii.third symbol. by producing the paths whereby the forces of the three (see second symbol) were concentrated into four, we find they read 1+ 4= 5, 2+ 4= 6, 3+ 4= 7. and thus is revealed the second triangle of the hexagram of creation* further, this reflected triangle showeth forth th

nto figures stands thus: 4.3.5.2.5.3.6 (hebrew direction. in the midst is 2, by taro the central will: and this twolettered word is ta. on either side of this is the pair of figures 35. 53, balanced one against the other: as though symbolic of the great dawning of life of the mothers.h and, vitalised by the son (3) as the vice-gerent of his father. these balanced figures together make 16, whereof the key is 7; the total number of letters in the third symbol. then we have left at either end 4 and 6= 10* the perfection of the sephiroth, as if to declare that this verse from, beginning to end thereof reflected the voices from kether even unto malkuth: and 6- 4= 2 again, the central will, b, thoth, in the heart of the universe (as* vide sepher yetzirah for this division of the holy sephiroth i

where we see the whole universe enclosed in the cosmic egg of hindu and egyptian mythology: and the formulation of the sphere of the universe (or magical mirror in man. as it were the egg of the black swan of time, the kala hamsa, the triune a m u, or word of power or of seb, the bird of life, whose will was heard in the night of time. the total numeric value of the verse is fntd= 4459, of which the key is 22, the number of the paths from a to t; and the key of 22 is 4, the tetractys and the threshold of the universe. now to proceed to what i have termed the time process, the first word of the law then is tycarb. now in the hebrew scriptures the first word of a book is also its title. thus genesis a note on genesis 13 is called by the rabbins .b.rasheth. or .in the beginning. wherefore we

f the worlds, when the great night of brahma was over and done. liber mmcmxi 16 the next word in the great name of god the vast one \yhla. let us meditate upon its mystery! herein behold five letters: in its centre is the great letter h, mother supernal. five once more; and its first and last letters are once again \a, 41, the mother, and 5, the maternal essence. and its numeration is 86, whereof the key is 14, whereof the key is 5. wherefore we say that this great name is 5 in its form symbolic, 5 in the heart of its power: the beginning and the end thereof are 5; and 5 is it in its venerable essence! turn now back unto the third symbol; gaze at it steadily for a few moments, and see hidden in the six-fold seal of creation the five-fold star of unconquered will. for this was the divine fo

al word: and its signification is the alpha and omega .from beginning unto end: essence: and its key is 5. five again are the letters of the word \ymch* which next follows; and in this word \ymc, the heavens, we perceive c. the ruach elohim, brooding upon the face of the waters \ym (maim, even as it is afterwards set forth in verse 2. in the next word, taw, we find that the conjunctive w makes of the key number of the essence of the earth 11 instead of 5: symbolising how the world should fall unto the kingdom of the shells, and how it should be redeemed by the son of man. and finally the word rah, ha aretz, the earth, hath four letters showing its elemental constitution, and its key is 17. also hope.hope in the earth as there is hope in heaven. and the last letter of the verse is (the lett

LIBER MMM

rahadabra, yod he vau he, aum mani padme hum, zazas zazas, nasatanada zazas. the chosen sound is repeated over and over in the mind to block all other thoughts. no matter how inappropriate the choice of sound may seem to have been, you must persist with it. eventually the sound may seem to repeat itself automatically and may even occur in sleep. these are encouraging signs. sound concentration is the key to words of power and certain forms of spell casting. image concentration the part of the mind in which pictorial thoughts arise is brought under magical control by image concentration. a simple shape, such as a triangle, circle, square, cross, or crescent, is chosen and held in the mind s eye, without distortion, for as long as possible. only the most determined efforts are likely to make

eat a strain on the universe. the mere act of wanting is rarely effective, as the will becomes involved in a dialogue with the mind. this dilutes magical ability in many ways. the desire becomes part of the ego complex; the mind becomes anxious of failure. soon the original desire is a mass of conflicting ideas. often the wished for result arises only when it has been forgotten. this last fact is the key to sigils and most forms of magical spell. sigils work because they stimulate the will to work subconsciously, bypassing the mind. there are three parts to the operation of a sigil. the sigil is constructed, the sigil is lost to the mind, the sigil is charged. in constructing a sigil, the aim is to produce a glyph of desire, stylized so as not to immediately suggest the desire. it is not n

LIBER NU

e secret ardours of hadit. h this is the first practice of intelligence (ccxx. i. 14. 3. avoid any act of choice or discrimination. this is the first practice of ethics (ccxx. i. 22. 4. consider of six and fifty that 50 6= 0.12. 0 the circumference, nuit. the centre, hadit. 1 the unity proceeding, ra-hoor-khuit. 2 the world of illusion. nuit thus comprehends all in none. also 50+ 6= 56= 5+ 6= 11, the key of all rituals. and 50 6= 300, the spirit of the child within (note n#i= 72, the shemhamphorash and the quinaries of the zodiac, etc) this is the second practice of intelligence (ccxx. i. 25, 26. 2 liber n v 5. the result of this practice is the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of the body of nuit. in other words, the aspirant is conscious only of the infinite

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

len en weet niet wat hy is: hy kan oock licht ontvallen. daniel heinz. dianae sumus in fide puellae et pueri integri dianam pueri integri puellaeque canamus. catullus. tao teh king (hwainan.s v.l) fasterej men fmfi calan selannan y pocruptoisi faennon e.doj nppota plhqoisa malista lampv gan .pi pasan sappho. hathayoga pradipika stele of ankh-f-n-khonsu. the wake world y name is lola, because i am the key of delights, and the other children in my dream call me lola daydream. when i am awake, you see, i know that i am dreaming, so they must be very silly children, don.t you think? there are people in the dream too, who are quite grown up and horrid; but the really important thing is the wake-up person. there is only one, for there never could be any one like him. i call him my fairy prince

, and little children playing among them. so i said .shall we be married in this domus x. v. regnum v. porta 4 loci secundum elementa. qliphoth. via t vel crux. cherubim domus ix v. fundamentum yod v. membrum sancti f.deris the wake world 7 house. and he said .no, this is only the house where the business is carried on. all the palace rests upon this house; but you are called lola because you are the key of delights. many people stay here all their lives though. i made him kiss me, and we went on to another passage which opened out of the servants. hall. this passage was all fire and flames and full of coffins. there was an angel blowing ever so hard on a trumpet, and people getting up out of the coffins. my fairy prince said .most people never wake up for anything less. so we went (at the

he first three houses are very useful; all the dream-world and the half-dream world, and the wake-world are governed from these passages. i began to see now how very unreal even the wake-world is, because there is just a little dream in it, and the right world is the wide-wide-wide-wake-world. my lover calls me little lola wideawake, not lola daydream any more. but it is always lola, because i am the key of delights. i never told you about the first two houses, and really you wouldn.t understand. but the second house is gray, because the light and dark flash by so quick it.s all blended into one; and in it lives my lover, and that.s all i care about. the first house is so brilliant that you can.t think; and there, too, is my lover and i when we are one. you wouldn.t understand that either

LIBER XXXIII AN ACCOUNT OF AA

race, the way, the truth, and the life. the interior order was formed immediately after the first perception of man's wider heritage had dawned upon the first of the adepts; it received from the masters at first-hand the revelation of the means by which humanity could be raised to its rights and delivered from its misery. it received the primitive charge of all revelation and mystery; it received the key of true science, both divine and natural. but as men multiplied, the frailty of man necessitated an exterior society which veiled the interior one, and concealed the spirit and the truth in the letter, because many people were not capable of comprehending great interior truth. therefore, interior truths were wrapped in external and perceptible ceremonies, so that men, by the perception of

which he knew nothing himself. to become fit should be the sole effort of him who seeks wisdom. but there are methods by which fitness is attained, for in this holy communion is the primitive storehouse of the most ancient and original science of the human race, with the primitive mysteries also of all science. it is the unique and really illuminated community which is absolutely in possession of the key to all mystery, which knows the centre and source of all nature. it is a society which unites superior strength to its own, and counts its members from more than one world. it is the society whose members form the republic of genius, the regent mother of the whole world [this work was first published in equinox i (1. the designation liber xxxiii was given in the gsyllabus h in equinox i (1

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

handbook of poetics, even if it is now far more famous as an explication of mythology. as i have mentioned, skaldskaparmal contains a warning to young skalds about the pagan nature of the material. it seems that snorri wished to make this statement more forcefully, and he did so in the prologue to his edda. here, too, he advances his understanding of the historical nature of the gods and gives us the key to understanding gylfaginning. snorri starts the prologue to his edda by stating, galmighty god created heaven and earth and all things that accompany them, and finally two people, from whom genealogies are reckoned, adam and eve, and their progeny multiplied and went all around the world. h ultimately, however, after the flood, people lost sight of god, but they observed that there were s

nt description of him. to his friends he appeared fair of countenance, but to his enemies fierce and grim. he spoke only in verse, and poetry arose from him and his chieftains. in battle he could make his enemies blind or deaf or overcome with fear, but his warriors could go berserk. he was a shape-changer, his body lying apparently inert while he was off and about in some animal form. here i see the key to this ghistorical h odin of snorri, for this is a classic description of a shamanic trance and journey. if snorri fs historical odin was a shaman from tyrkland, he was just a charismatic version of the sami shamans who are described in the medieval scandinavian historical record. to cite but one example among a great many, historia norvegiae (history of norway, a work 24 norse mythology

nd los angeles: university of california press, 1970, 1.17, provides a broader context. the situation of the frame, thor protecting his daughter from a misalliance, is illuminated in margaret clunies ross, g orr fs honour, h in studien zum altgermanischen: festschrift fur heinrich beck, ed. heiko uecker (berlin and new york: w. de gruyter, 1994, 48.76. andhrimnir (sooty-in-front) cook at valholl. the key passage is stanza 18 of grimnismal. andhrimnir in eldhrimnir has sahrimnir boiled. in gylfaginning snorri understands the passage as a cook (andhrimnir) cooking pork (the pig sahrimnir) in a huge pot (eldhrimnir, and indeed the rest of this stanza seems to call sahrimnir the best of pork and refers to the mysterious nourishment of the einherjar. all three of the names are joined by the ele

r eitri, and loki changes himself into a fly and pesters brokk. eitri makes first a boar with gold bristles, then the ring draupnir, finally mjollnir, thor fs hammer. the hammer fs handle is short because brokk fs bellows work was interrupted when the fly bit him between the eyes so that blood flowed. eitri is known from no other source. see also dwarfs eldhrimnir (fire-sooty) cookpot at valholl. the key passage is stanza 18 of grimnismal. andhrimnir in eldhrimnir has sahrimnir boiled. in gylfaginning, snorri understands the passage as a cook (andhrimnir) cooking pork (the pig sahrimnir) in a huge pot (eldhrimnir, and indeed the rest of this stanza seems to call sahrimnir the best of pork and refers to the mysterious nourishment of the einherjar. all three of the names are joined by the el

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

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

er? the usual blood issue, a less known unity, or our hungry deficiency seeking fulfilment? the nexus between cause and effect is that of immediacy. the omniscience of the soul throws persuasively over all things its shadow of knowledge. our whole potentiality lies in our ability habitually to feel things sensationally. our truth is the totality of our observations when confirmed by our atavisms. the key to all metaphysical phenomena (mind, soul, etc) is wrapped up in our needs. what sounds the depths and conjoins will and belief? some inarticulate hieroglyph or sigil wrought from nascent desire and rhythmed by unbounded ego. we pray. like a convulsed naiad transfixed by rape. there is a grimoire of symbology, of vague phonic nuances that conjoin all thought and is the cryptic language of

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

ons, a connection therein may be observed. the circle casting is one of which the individual proclaims his and her mastery over their own being, that by moving widdershins around the circle will enflame the self during invocation; that is to envision each manifestation via minds eye with each call. for instance, when one calls south, they would envision the fire djinn, in the north, seth. this is the key to the success of magical work; the imagination. south the devil-djinn mentioned is shaitan or azazel, the fallen seraph whom is made entirely of flame. it is this original legend which brought forth the separation of the goddivinity or natural order to an adversarial or antinomianian process of anti-order. the mentioning of blackened light is the light of azazel, or shaitan embodied on ea

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT AN INTRODUCTION

t descendent of ancient shamanic cultures and practices, which has flourished with humanity since the beginning of time. the essence of witchcraft is of two basic aspects, being the discovery of the self and the unity with nature, and the mastery of sorcery and a balance of both dayside and darkside practices (2) the sethanic witchcraft current has been cultivated in europe through those who hold the key to the gnosis within their minds; it seems to speak through the blood. this unspoken aspect of the tradition of the old is known directly as witchblood, it is a silent, unspoken yet natural degree of the folk ability to practice magick. this is the inner magickal voice of angels and demons, the very core essence within each initiate that speaks to he/she of their own infinite potential. wh

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

nd a. lazcano, 2003, prebiotic soup: revisiting the miller experiment, science 300:745 746, by permission of the american association for the advancement of science. 118 order of 10,000 metric tons per year. these amino acids and other organics then dissolved in the oceans. of course, there were no living cells before life appeared. but as mentioned, gas-sparking experiments have produced many of the key organic compounds that are characteristic of life today. amino acids are required to make proteins, while special sugars (such as ribose) and nitrogenous bases (such as adenine) are required to make rna. rna is a close cousin of dna, the genetic material, the blueprint of life, as we have described in previous chapters. rna is in fact the genetic material of many viruses, indicating that o

experiments that shattered the view held in his time by religious and other authorities. these experiments dealt with the motion of accelerated bodies, the results of which were in agreement with a rotating earth but could not be reconciled with universally accepted ancient greek aristotelian physics and its reinvigoration by religious, scholastic medieval thinking. the dangers of creationism 187 the key term here is thus reproducible experiments. in other words, galileo was not an armchair philosopher-scientist who merely thought up alternatives to old science. contrary to aristotle and his medieval followers, galileo put nature to the test. do neocreationists, who, superficially, emulate some of the bold thinking of galileo and his demise at the hands of the establishment, merit the titl

in s special relativity truly are. once they are exposed to these equations, students understand (and accept) much more easily counterintuitive facts such as time elapsing more slowly at very high velocities and the shrinking of spaceships (as well as that of subatomic particles) traveling near the speed of light. as this example shows, and as always, rigorous education is a great eye-opener, and the key to distinguishing sense from nonsense. to conclude this section, we quote the american physicist and 1965 nobel laureate richard feynman (1918 1988: i think that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. we interpret this quote as also meaning that just as theology is for theologians, so too science is for scientists. or, to quote the bible, render unto

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

the most powerful of all names."53 viewed with these writings in the background, masonic symbolism certainly seems to reflect these ideas. the first degree on the tree of life the first degree tracing board gives an overview of western metaphysics and of the objectives of masonry. the idiom in which masonry's teaching is communicated in the ritual is the building of king solomon's temple; and our the key to interpreting masonic symbolism will be to remember that in one of the volumes of the sacred law we are told that. ye are the temple" masonic labor is interior work, work on one's self. when a candidate is first admitted into the order he is said to be an apprentice, and as a beginner his labors take place on the ground floor of the temple. in kabbalistic terms, we may think that the gro

and the twelve banners down each side of the space. the principal officers of the chapter all sit in the east, the candidate is placed in the west on the kneeling stool at the bottom of the drawing. he is accompanied and guided through the ceremony by three companions called sojourners. on the jewel worn by every royal arch mason are inscribed two latin sentences. translated, the first says "only the key is missing; the second says "if you know this, you know enough."76 the first sentence tells us that here, encoded in symbols, is a complete body of knowledge which requires only a "key" to make it clear. i am going to suggest that the "key" to understanding the royal arch is the kabbalistic tree of life. figure 22 shows the tree of life superimposed on the diagram of the chapter; and it se

MAGIC AND SPELLS

d 100% to the base cost for each extra 300 square feet of area or fraction of 300 square feet. large and huge creatures can pass through a standard portal, but gargantuan and colossal creatures generally need double- or triple-sized portals. special properties: some special properties.add significantly to the cost of creating a portal. keyed portals: keyed portals may be created at no extra cost. the key must be designated during the creation of the device and cannot be changed after that. random portals: random portals may be created at no extra cost. the conditions must be designated during the creation of the portal and cannot be later changed. variable portals: variable portals add 25% to the base price per extra destination after the first included in the device. for example, a contin

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

le of the gods, gave rise to the stories of olympus, meru, and asgard. the city of the golden gates--the capital of atlantis--is the one now preserved among numerous religions as the city of the gods or the holy city. here is the archetype of the new jerusalem, with its streets paved with gold and its twelve gates shining with precious stones "the history of atlantis" writes ignatius donnelly "is the key of the greek mythology. there can be no question that these gods of greece were human beings. the tendency to attach divine attributes to great earthly rulers is one deeply implanted in human nature (see atlantis) the same author sustains his views by noting that the deities of the greek pantheon were nor looked upon as creators of the universe but rather as regents set over it by its more

tion of son and husband of ishtar, the babylonian and assyrian mother-goddess. ishtar--to whom the planer venus was sacred--was the most widely venerated deity of the babylonian and assyrian pantheon. she was probably identical with ashterorh, astarte, and aphrodite. the story of her descent into the underworld in search presumably for the sacred elixir which alone could restore tammuz to life is the key to the ritual of her mysteries. tammuz, whose annual festival took place just before the summer solstice, died in midsummer in the ancient month which bore his name, and was mourned with elaborate ceremonies. the manner of his death is unknown, but some of the accusations made against ishtar by izdubar (nimrod) would indicate that she, indirectly at least, had contributed to his demise. th

members initiated into the cabiric rites. herodotus relates that when cambyses entered the temple of the cabiri he was unable to restrain his mirth at seeing before him the figure of a man standing upright and, facing the man, the figure of a woman standing on her head. had cambyses been acquainted with the principles of divine astronomy, he would have realized that he was then in the presence of the key to universal equilibrium"'i ask' says voltaire 'who were these hierophants, these sacred freemasons, who celebrated their ancient mysteries of samothracia, and whence came they and their gods cabiri (see mackey's encyclop dia of freemasonry) clement speaks of the mysteries of the cabiri as "the sacred mystery of a brother slain by his brethren" and the "cabiric death" was one of the secret

mong the illumined and venerated colleges of the sacred teaching. this mystery has been perpetuated in christianity in the crucifixion and death of the god-man-jesus the christ. the secret import of this world tragedy and the universal martyr must be rediscovered if christianity is to reach the heights attained by the pagans in the days of their philosophic supremacy. the myth of the dying god is the key to both universal and individual redemption and regeneration, and those who do not comprehend the true nature of this supreme allegory are not privileged to consider themselves either wise or truly religious. next: the life and teachings of thoth hermes trismegistus sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 37 the life and teachings of thoth hermes trismegistus thunder rolled, lightning

ubjection. the volumes which escaped the fire were buried in the desert and their location is now known to only a few initiates of the secret schools. the book of thoth while hermes still walked the earth with men, he entrusted to his chosen successors the sacred book of thoth. this work contained the secret processes by which the regeneration of humanity was to be accomplished and also served as the key to his other writings. nothing definite is known concerning the contents of the book of thoth other than that its pages were covered with strange hieroglyphic figures and symbols, which gave to those acquainted with their use unlimited power over the spirits of the air and the subterranean divinities. when certain areas of the brain are stimulated by the secret processes of the mysteries

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

exorcisms. now that we are equipped with our main tools of consecration, we shall deal with one of the most important of all the other witch tools: the athame the athame, or witches' black-hiked knife, is the instrument we use to draw magical circles and other diagrams, in the midst of which many of our spells are cast. some witches, following the cabalistic tradition of the old magical grimoire, the key of solomon, also employ a white-hilted knife, in addition, using the former to cast the circle, and the latter for anything that needs to be ritually dug, engraved, cut, or pierced. most present-day witches, however, refer the white-hilted knife to the ranks of the lesser instruments, and rely entirely upon the athame in their operations. buy a steel knife with a black handle; the blade sh

esigned for the more impetuous practitioners. part ii. sex magic in the contemporary world of instant sex without romantic preamble, the modern witch may not have the patience required for the more dated "loving-cup" approach. in other words, she will be seeking for some magic which, if habondia's charms prove too lightweight, would allow her to be swept off her feet literally and metaphorically. the key to success in this area of magic lies in our old friend, the witches' pyramid. our chief weapon is none other than the potent will itself. of course, we are dealing here with the art of bewitchment proper, sometimes known as the evil eye. but let us call it by its real name as used by practitioners themselves: the art of fascination in order to understand this mysterious process, by which

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

onform to modern conventions. the scanned illustrations have been optimized for printing at 300 dpi; with some combinations of computer monitor and driver software, the onscreen images may appear blocky or crude. for the best reading experience, i recommend printing this document on nonglossy paper tinted a light ecru or tan color. benjamin rowe march 23, 1999 book one page 1 preface to book one. the key of solomon, save for a curtailed and incomplete copy published in france in the seventeenth century, has never yet been printed, but has for centuries remained in manuscript form inaccessible to all but the few fortunate scholars to whom the inmost recesses of the great libraries were open. the fountain-head and storehouse of qabalistical magic, and the origin of much of the ceremonial mag

e for a curtailed and incomplete copy published in france in the seventeenth century, has never yet been printed, but has for centuries remained in manuscript form inaccessible to all but the few fortunate scholars to whom the inmost recesses of the great libraries were open. the fountain-head and storehouse of qabalistical magic, and the origin of much of the ceremonial magic of mediaeval times, the key has been ever valued by occult writers as a work of the highest authority; and notably in our own day eliphaz levi has taken it for the model on which his celebrated dogme et rituel de la haute magie was based. it must be evident to the initiated reader of levi, that the key of solomon was his text book of study, and at the end of this volume, i give a fragment of an ancient hebrew manuscr

has been ever valued by occult writers as a work of the highest authority; and notably in our own day eliphaz levi has taken it for the model on which his celebrated dogme et rituel de la haute magie was based. it must be evident to the initiated reader of levi, that the key of solomon was his text book of study, and at the end of this volume, i give a fragment of an ancient hebrew manuscript of the key of solomon, translated and published in the philosophie occulte, as well as an invocation called the qabalistical invocation of solomon, which bears close analogy to one in the first book, being constructed in the same manner on the scheme of the sephiroth. the history of the hebrew original of the key of solomon is given in the introductions, but there is every reason to suppose that this

o one in the first book, being constructed in the same manner on the scheme of the sephiroth. the history of the hebrew original of the key of solomon is given in the introductions, but there is every reason to suppose that this has been entirely lost, and christian, the pupil of levi, says as much in his histoire de la magie. i see no reason to doubt the tradition which assigns the authorship of the key to king solomon, for among others josephus, the jewish historian, especially mentions the magical works attributed to that monarch; this is confirmed by many eastern traditions, and his magical skill is frequently mentioned by the old adepts. there are, however, two works on black magic, the grimorium verum, and the clavicola di salomone ridolta, which have been attributed to solomon, and

e oldest, its date being about the end of the sixteenth century; 3981 harleian is probably about the middle of the seventeenth century; the others of rather later date. add. mss. 10,862 is written in contracted latin, and is hard to read, but it contains chapters which are omitted in the others and also an important introduction. it is more concise in its wording. its title is short, being simply the key of solomon, translated from the hebrew language into the latin. an exact copy of the signature of the writer of this ms. is given in the figure below. 3981 harleian mss; 288 king s mss; and 3091 sloane mss, are similar, and contain the same matter and nearly the same wording; but the latter ms. has many errors of transcription. they are all in french. the conjurations and wording of these

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d is great and immutable, he hath been for ever, and he shall remain even unto the end of the ages. accursed be he who taketh the name of god in vain! accursed be he who useth this knowledge unto an evil end, be he accursed in this world and in the world to come. amen. be he accursed in the name which he hath blasphemed! the end of the first bosepage 81 the greater key of solomon book two f a f a the key of solomon page 82 prefatory note to book two. this work of solomon is divided into two books. in the first thou mayest see and know how to avoid errors in experiments, operations, and in the spirits theirselves. in the second thou art taught in what manner magical arts may be reduced to the proposed object and end. it is for this reason that thou shouldst take great heed and care that thi

first until the eighth hour of the night. experiments of games, raillery, deceit, illusion, and invisibility, ought to be done at the first hour of venus, and at the eighth hour of the day; but by night at the third and at the seventh. at all times of practicing and putting into execution magical arts, the moon should be increasing in light, and in an equal number of degrees with the sun; and it the key of solomon page 84 is much better from the first quarter to the opposition, and the moon should be in a fiery sign, and notably in that of the ram or of the lion. therefore, to execute these experiments in any manner whatsoever, it should be done when the moon is clear, and when she is increasing in light. in order to put in execution those of invisibility after everything is properly prep

l-arranged and defective, and thou must assuredly have failed in some matter; for if thou doest ill in one single point, these experiments or these arts will not be verified. thus upon this chapter dependeth this whole key of arts, experiments, and operations, and although every solemnity be rightly observed, no experiment will be verified, unless thou canst penetrate the meaning of this chapter. the key of solomon page 86 chapter ii. in what manner the master of the art should keep, rule, and govern himself. he who wisheth to apply himself unto so great and so difficult a science should have his mind free from all business, and from all extraneous ideas of whatever nature they may be. he should then thoroughly examine the art or operation which he should undertake, and write it regularly

ee to wait for the hour in which thou shouldst commence the operation; but when once it shall be commenced at this hour, thou shalt be able to continue it unto the end, seeing that it deriveth its force and virtue from its beginning, which extendeth to and spreadeth over the succeeding hours, so that the master of the art will be enabled to complete his work so as to arrive at the desired result. the key of solomon page 88 chapter iii. how the companions or disciples of the master of the art ought to regulate and govern themselves. when the master of the art wisheth to put in practice any operation or experiment, especially one of importance, he should first consider of what companions he should avail himself. this is the reason why in every operation whose experience should be carried out

arranged, the master should take heed that his disciples are perfectly instructed in those things which they have to perform. these companions or disciples should be three in number, without including the master. they may also be of the number of five, of seven, or of nine; but so that they ever implicitly obey the orders of their master; for thus only shall all things come to a successful issue. the key of solomon page 90 chapter iv. concerning the fasting, care, and things to be observed. when the master of the art shall wish to perform his operations, having previously arranged all things which it is necessary to observe and practise; from the first day of the experiment, it is absolutely necessary to ordain and to prescribe care and observation, to abstain from all things unlawful, and

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON PENTACLES

the pentacles (1) seven pentacles consecrated to saturn black (2) seven pentacles consecrated to jupiter blue (3) seven pentacles consecrated to mars red (4) seven pentacles consecrated to the sun yellow (5) five pentacles consecrated to venus green (6) five pentacles consecrated to mercury mixed colors (7) six pentacles consecrated to the moon silver. kl figure 1. the mystical figure of solomon the key of solomon page 60 saturn. figure 11. the first pentacle of saturn. this pentacle is of great value and utility for striking terror into the spirits. wherefore, upon its being shown to them they submit, and kneeling upon the earth before it, they obey. editor s note. the hebrew letters within the square are the four great names of god which are written with four letters: yhvh, yod, he, vau

night; and chaseth away the spirits which guard treasures. editor s note. the hebrew letters in the angles of the cross are those of the name ihvh. those in the angles of the square form alvh, eloah. round the four sides of the square are the names of the angels: arehanah, rakhaniel, roelhaiphar, and noaphiel. the versicle is "a great god, a mighty, and a terrible" deut x. 17. figures 13 and 14. the key of solomon page 62 figure 16. the sixth pentacle of saturn. around this pentacle is each name symbolized as it should be. the person against whom thou shalt pronounce it shall be obsessed by demons. editor s note. it is formed from mystical characters of saturn. around it is written in hebrew "set thou a wicked one to be ruler over him, and let satan stand at his right hand" figure 17. the

orders are: 1, chaiath ha-qadesch, holy living creatures; 2, auphanim, wheels; 3, aralim, thrones; 4, chaschmalim, brilliant ones; 5, seraphim, fiery ones; 6, melakim, kings; 7, elohim, gods; 8, beni elohim, sons of the elohim; 9, kerubim, kerubim. the versicle is from psalm xviii 7 "then the earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the hills also moved and were shaken, because he was wroth" the key of solomon page 64 jupiter. figure 18. the first pentacle of jupiter. this serveth to invoke the spirits of jupiter, and especially those whose names are written around the pentacle, among whom parasiel is the lord and master of treasures, and teacheth how to become possessor of places wherein they are. editor s note. this pentacle is composed of mystical characters of jupiter. around it a

nion the versicle should only consist of the five last words thereof, when the anachronism of jacob using a pentacle with a sentence from ezekiel will not longer exist. figure 23. the sixth pentacle of jupiter. it serveth for protection against all earthly dangers, by regarding it each day devoutedly and repeating the versicle which surroundeth it "thus shalt thou never perish" figures 20 and 21. the key of solomon page 66 editor s note. the four names in the arms of the cross are- seraph, kerub, ariel, and tharsis; the four rulers of the elements. the versicle is from psalm xxii 16, 17 "they pierced my hands and my feet, i may tell all my bones" figure 24. the seventh and last pentacle of jupiter. it hath great power against poverty, if thou considerest it with devotion, repeating the ver

rein expressly marked. editor s note. the letters of the names eloah and shaddai. in the center is the great letter vau, the signature of the qabalistic microprosopus. around is the versicle from psalm lxxvii 13 "who is so great a god as our elohim" figure 28. the fourth pentacle of mars. it is of great virtue and power in war, wherefore without doubt it will give thee victory. figures 25 and 26. the key of solomon page 68 editor s note. in the center is the great name agla; right and left, the letters of the name ihvh; above and below, el. round it is the versicle from psalm cx. 5 "the lord at thy right hand shall wound even kings in the day of his wrath" figure 29. the fifth pentacle of mars. write thou this pentacle upon virgin parchment, because it is terrible unto the demons, and at i

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l of god called michael; and he also received many brief notes written with the finger of god, which were declared to him by the said angel with claps of thunder; without which notes king solomon had never obtained his great wisdom, for by them in short time he gained knowledge of all arts and sciences both good and bad; from these notes it is called the notary art, etc. the book of evil spirits. the key of solomon, which contains all the names, orders, and offices of all the spirits that ever solomon conversed with, together with the seals and characters belonging to each spirit, and the manner of calling them forth to visible appearance: in 4 parts (1) the first part is a book of evil spirits, called goetia, showing how he bound up those spirits and used them in several things, whereby h

MEANING OF MASONRY

ich the irrational tendencies of a human being were purged away and he was trained to become a living witness of the universal logos and a living mouth-piece of the divine word. geometry and arithmetic were sciences of transcendental space and numeration (seeing that, as in the words of our own scriptures, god has" made everything by measure, number and weight, the comprehension of which provides the key, not only to the problems of one's being, but to those physical ones which are found so baffling by the inductive methods of to-day. astronomy for them required no telescopes; it dealt not with the stars of the sky, but was the science of metaphysics and the understanding of the distribution of the forces latent in, and determining the destiny of, individuals, nations and the race. finally

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

ed what we commonly call magickal paths today. what was lost or well forgotten, by some incantation or spell of remembrance, such surged forth as a bestial atavism that which was dead now emerged as a 12 angels are considered by abu-hamid mohammed al-ghazali to be the higher faculties of man. 13 empyrean= highest heavens, heights, the astral plane which leads to the psyche or genius revealed. see the key of solomon the king by s.l. mathers, the symbolism of angels (higher octave) and demons (lower octave or infernal spirits. this term is inextricably the same as celestial, the sabbat of luciferian light. 14 baphomet is a magickal transformation of being. baphomet, being the head of wisdom, is related to cain in some sabbatic and luciferian circles. 15 the people of the lie, or practitioner

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cabalistic lore, chaos, sethian witchcraft and the zos kia cultus all holds a great line feeding each gnosis. take from it what you will but never sacrifice hard work and hard training for an easy out. once such a mistake is made, your very self is fodder for choronzon. a final note: approach the sorcery outlined in these pages through the art, it is a key to much more that awaits those who turn the key. 7 7 chapter one vampyrism, lycanthropy and the dead vampirism and lycanthropy, a fleshing or manifestation of daemonic energies. the shadowside has long been hidden from the basic study of magick on any serious level. the inherent goal of magick is to awaken and explore the self, progression, evolution and individual power. this is gained from first hand experience and study. the path of

such animal. lycanthropy can be a useful exercise and individual power points which can be used effectively on the astral plane. this book is meant as a grimoire for the balanced sorcerer. the purpose of this being to offer further guidance and present a serious form of shadow magick and sorcery which has long been kept hidden. the black art is not that of devil worship, but of hidden knowledge. the key to this lies in the depths of the subconscious, the will to explore and suggest, to destroy and create. the daemonic elementals which breed in the subconscious mind from the time of birth and on can be banished and often made useful to the fighting individual. there is no devil worship or ill intent involved for the worker of shadow magick, it is up to the individual which path they take

night -elementals of mind and space- vampiric or vampyric sorcery is a technique of evoking and directing energies which are qlipothic in nature and/or origin. the kabbalah defines the qlipoth as unbalanced or negative energies which exist beyond the sphere of da ath, which is dual in it's qualities. da ath is often represented as a power zone of wisdom, the hidden knowledge. one may ask, what is the key? the key is the subconscious, the dark matter of the brain. vampyrism is also the will-directed internal focus of exploring the immortal aspects of the vampyre in shadow and dream form. it is a process of sinister or left-handed alchemy, being the adversarial path of luciferian self-development. elementals are different from spirits in that they will often take the form of desires and what

or her own personal system, so it is with the methods of sigil magick. one must approach sigils as one would approach art. to create a sigil one must align one s natural talent to their own brand of sigil making. sigils can be any thing, a painting, music, drawing, letter symbols, pictures, anything which is associated as a symbol in which the original meaning could be lost and forgotten, this is the key to success in such work. the conscious mind must forget what the significance of the sigil is in order for the subconscious to absorb it and set it s fleshing in motion. never forget that sigils must be aligned with your natural ability, not just a system devised by another. the most significant sigil of vampyric sorcery and the vampire current is that of the varcolaci or devilcosm seal. t

the astral plane of knowledge as well as the qliphoth, being the astral abode of vampires and other spirits. the bat like wings of the varcolaci represent the powers of astral flight and the nightside current which exists through their waves of sight. the pentagram itself is the symbol of reverse entry via the death posture, in which initiation of the witch is accomplished. the 32 32 pentagram is the key to the abyss and the shadow spectrums of the mind. the varcolaci sigil was received via trance by blood moon asuar (10, after a careful description from the author of what he received via the astral plane. this was received and consecrated in 1994 e.v. and has been used in the vampiric current since. the devilcosm (another name for the varcolaci sigil) is as much a symbol for the left hand

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

0 light y ears fromhome, midnight rambler, paint it black, goat's head soup, their satanic majesty's request,etc) the beatles, and the grateful dead. and these are but three examples of thousands. thepublic would be shocked to their core if they were to find out the facts about this particularstudy and about what has been infiltrated into their minds and the minds of their young. here are some of the key passages from the david ovasons masterpiece, which bringout facts that have long been concealed from the public: the extraordinary truth is that the very existence of the washington monument is intimatelylinked with the egyptian star, sirius the sihor, which the ancients represented in their sacredhieroglyphics as an obelisk as well as a star. how is it possible that this most important st

in upheaval rudolf steiner the archangel michael/ atlantis helena petrova blavatsky isis unveiled/ the secret doctrine ignatius donnelly atlantis- the ante-deluvian continent/ ragnarok charles berlitz atlantis the eighth continent barry fell america bc augustus le plongeon queen moo& the egyptian sphinx john milton paradise lost eliphas levi- enochian magic, transcendental magic david allen hulse the key of it all (2 volumes also called the western mysteries) cornelius agrippa- three books of occult philosophy (translated by donald tyson) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation153 epilogue: time to change the road youre on mark pinkham return of the serpents of wisdom charles faulkner the book of the dead nigel pennick sacred geometry, games of the gods dr. e. c. krupp in sear

ome on page 203 the return of the serpents of wisdom on page 205past shock on page 209 flying serpents and dragons on page 210 genesis of the grail kings on page 211gods of eden on page 227 astronomical revelations on page 231 the priesthood of the illes on page 235the secret architecture of our nations capitol on page 243 middle ages revisited on page 246 one foot in atlantis on page 250 britain the key to world history on page 254the abduction and manipulation of humans using advanced technology on page 261 the master chronology: the psychosocial, biological and electromagnetic manipulation of human consciousness on page 263appendix b: book abstracts162atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation mankind child of the stars by max h. flint and otto o. binderthis great book asks th

y (p. 60)mardukthe great babylonian god was the son of goddess damkina, by way of the sumerian annunaki king,enki (see p. 63)enki and enlilsumerian annunaki, the sons of anu, the supreme father, who was the son of anshar and kishar. theywere the brother and sister of mummu, who was the son of the primal pair tiamat and apsu (see p. 62)enki and nin-khursag (wife and half-sister)it is they who hold the key to the story of adam the original story that was adapted for the genesisaccount (p. 63)el (title of enlil) the definition eloh (lofty one) derived from the akkadian term ilu, which was another name foranus son enlil. it was the long-standing eloh tradition of enlil the el elyon that abraham and some ofhis familys forbearers were transported into canaan, having made their respective journey

ning places to the rule of specific zodiacal signs (and thus, in medieval times, tospiritual beings) is very ancient and has been extended into modern times. since the discovery of amer-ica we are able to trace most of the sources for the zodiacal rulerships ascribed to the cities of theunited states (p. 373)there may be no doubt altogether that astrology played an important role in the choice of the key mon-uments for the laying down of the federal city. even so we are reduced to speculation as to whichindividual, or group of individuals, was behind this extraordinary undertaking (p. 382)appendix b: book abstracts246atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation middle ages revisited by alexander del marthis fine book, by a great scholar of history, goes into the nature of the worsh

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se your eyes. each breath should be a focus on your astral body rising. 5. entering sleep, your dreams will be often intense and hungering this is a prime indication 37 of your subconscious being focused on your atavistic and vampyric desires. 6. if you astral project without sleeping, control your movement and move in. imagine the entire process, see it as clearly as if you were there. belief is the key to any successful magical working. drain and leave the victim sleeping. vampyrism and nocturnal feeding the vampyre magickian who is preparing to feed must establish who will be fed from. once this has been determined, the magickian must practice a form of mediation to gain control of the body and further strengthen the subconscious desire to drain. at the point of sleep, your focus should

n god, 47 to drink deep of its knowledge of war, chaos, natural disaster, disease. if you compare the realities of our world with the christian concept, their god is dormant. please take your attention to luciferian witchcraft and specifically the yatuk dinoih. the ten precepts of zohak and the ten adominations of akht jadu display therein the very foundation of this work, the luciferian path and the key to the gates of hell and heaven. heaven and hell are indeed spiritual realities, yet also physical sensations. by achieving and devouring we may reach the heights of both, which equally are powerful. remember the deific force of ahriman, so sought to break open the gates of heaven and devour his brother ahura mazda, the sun. morals morality changes based on culture and time. what is amoral

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s also considered a character and a location. the egyptians call this demon apep. the greeks and christians know the location of hades as sheol, or the land of the dead, but the hebrews knew it as da ath, and the author h.p. lovecraft called it yog-sothoth. hades is an incredibly powerful being, and is always described as formless. he is known as the guardian of the underworld and is said to hold the key to the qliphoth. this guardian of the abyss is considered mentally unstable and evil even by the worst magicians. this spirit is regarded as a devouring demon who seeks to steal the life-force and sanity from all who cross his path. this entity s reputation for inducing insanity is legendary, for he is truly the embodiment of dispersion and chaos. his greed for collecting and retaining sou

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summon now cain who first tasted the blood of abel in initiation (imagine the first born of witch blood, cain who tasted the shadow knowledge of the skull of abel- cain is wrapped in a great shroud in this vampyric aspect) i summon now hecate- who blesses the circle and path of the dead (imagine now hecate in the form of a triple headed goddes,demonic and angelic in essence whom blesses you with the key to the gates of the dead) i announce my death and my awakening from the grave (reach into the vampyric familiar and take hold of the gravesoil which you have slept in) i ensorcel my being, the arcana of i with the shadows i have created. i am born of witch blood, and hold the secrets of the grave i am vampyre, born again in the bloodied caul lilith and ahriman, shadow drinkers who walk the

MORALS AND DOGMA

salvation or reprobation begins here below and the terrestrial world too has its heaven and its hell. always, even here below, virtue is rewarded; always, even here below vice is punished; and that which makes us sometimes believe in the impunity of evil-doers is that riches, those instruments of good and of evil, seem sometimes to be given them at hazard. but woe to unjust men, when they possess the key of gold! it opens, for _them, only the gate of the tomb and of hell. all the true initiates have recognized the usefulness of toil and sorrow "sorrow" says a german poet "is the dog of that unknown shepherd who guides the flock of men" to learn to suffer, to learn to die, is the discipline of eternity, the immortal novitiate. the allegorical picture of cebes, in which the divine comedy of

es any value to the things of this world; and it is only by raising the soul to its just elevation above all other things, that we can look rightly upon the purposes of this earth. no sceptre nor throne, nor structure of ages, nor broad empire, can compare with the wonders and grandeurs of a single thought. that alone, of all things that have been made, comprehends the maker of all. that alone is the key which unlocks all the treasures of the universe; the power that reigns over space, time, and eternity. that, under god, is the sovereign dispenser to man of all the blessings and glories that lie within the compass of possession, or the range of possibility. virtue, heaven, and immortality exist not, nor ever will exist for us except as they exist and will exist, in the perception, feeling

knowledge from pure motives, and that he may be the better enabled to serve and benefit his fellow-men; while the discontented and presumptuous masters who were buried in the ruins of the arches represent those who strive to acquire it for unholy purposes, to gain power over their fellows, to gratify their pride, their vanity, or their ambition. the lion that guarded the ark and held in his mouth the key wherewith to open it, figuratively represents solomon, the lion of the tribe of judah, who preserved and communicated the key to the true knowledge of god, of his laws, and of the profound mysteries of the moral and physical universe. enoch[[hebrew, khanoc, we are told, walked with god three hundred years, after reaching the age of sixty-five-"walked with god, and he was no more, for god h

re concealed in and symbolized by the legend and the myth. there are profounder meanings concealed in the symbols of this degree, connected with the philosophical system of the hebrew kabalists, which you will learn hereafter, if you should be so fortunate as to advance. they are unfolded in the higher degrees. the _lion[[hebrew _arai _araiah, which also means the _altar] still holds in his mouth the key of the enigma of the sphynx. but there is one application of this degree, that you are now entitled to know; and which, remembering that khurum, the master, is the symbol of human freedom, you would probably discover for yourself. it is not enough for a people to _gain_ its liberty. it must _secure_ it. it must not intrust it to the keeping, or hold it at the pleasure, of any one man. the

ual world, and received their inspiration, pierces the gross envelope of the letter, discovers a wholly different order of things, and is initiated into mysteries, of which the elementary or literal instruction offers but an imperfect image. a historical fact, a figure, a word, a letter, a number, a rite, a custom, the parable or vision of a prophet, veils the most profound truths; and he who has the key of science will interpret all according to the light he possesses. again we see the symbolism of masonry, and the search of the candidate for light "let men of narrow minds withdraw" he says "with closed ears. we transmit the divine mysteries to those who have received the sacred initiation, to those who practise true piety, and who are not enslaved by the empty trappings of words or the p

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

the varied departments of the conscious thought. 11. these are fools that men adore; both their gods& their men are fools. this verse establishes uncompromisingly that all gods g capital, that is to say 'true gods' and all men deified by legend or deceit that is to say 'false gods' are fools. how come? it is a key. distinction is clearly made between the two types: one are gods; the other is men. the key is that both types are adored, which, as verses 7-9 established, is wrong. wrong for aspirants, of course. the 'gods 'are fools that is, they reached the plane of consciousness of the fool of the tarot. the 'men' are also fools the common, abundant variety. technically, an initiate can be called a god only after crossing the abyss. however, masters of the temple do not become known, theref

ssed through the annihilation; they crossed the abyss. nor could they perform, unless they crossed. see liber 156; also, verses 11 and 45 of this chapter. 18. burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! in them, kundalini must have reached the ajna. 19. 0 azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! the eternal sakhti (nuit) must activate the sahashara in them, attracted by the awakening of the ajna. 20. the key of the rituals is in the secret word which i have given unto him. this word is communicated directly to any serious aspirant when needed. 21. with the god& the adorer i am nothing: they do not see me. they are as upon the earth; i am heaven, and there is no other god than me, and my lord hadit. samadhi with any god is not the ultimate trance. the ultimate trance is the union of nuit and ha

secret meanings, all of a technical nature, in this passage; it is unnecessary to dwell on them, since they become clear to earnest seekers during training. one thing, however, is better said here, and has to do with the vampire. at some time during his career, the aspirant will meet a woman who will either insinuate to him, or he will by his own vanity be led to believe, is nuit incarnate. now, the key to the ordeal, and its difficulty, is that all women are, in a sense, incarnations of nuit. but no woman is, or can ever be, nuit in a finite sense. the drop of sea water is of the nature of the ocean, but it is not the ocean. nevertheless, one can certainly study some of the characteristics of the ocean in a drop of sea water. further, as the verse itself states in no uncertain manner, th

ecial promise is made in connection with it. by seeking lesser ideals one makes distinctions, thereby affirming implicitly the very duality from which one is seeking to escape. note also that "me" may imply the greek mh,"not. the word 'only' may be taken as onlv, ayin, nun, lamed, vau, with the number of 156, that of the secret name babalon of nuit. there are presumably further hidden meanings in the key-word 'all. the reader is here referred to our previous warning on the matter of the vampire of this ordeal (commentary in italics to verse 27. if you seek her only, you cannot confuse any one of her manifestations with her. on the other hand, as long as a particular priestess shows her to you, concentrate! see liber artemis iota and liber a'ash for further information on this very difficul

pter i, vv. 3, 18, 63; chapter ii, vv. 4-6, 26, 28-29, 43; chapter iii, vv. 17-20, 4 7-48, 61, 65; chapter iv, vv. 47,51, 60; chapter v, vv. 1, 15-18, 22-24, 59-64. see also liber vii, chapter vii, vv. 41-52; liber i, and liber 156. 46. nothing is a secret key of this law. sixty-one the jews call it; i call it eight, eighty, four hundred& eighteen. the jews call it ain, 61, not. they are aware of the key, but their awareness is unbalanced. they arrive to it only through mysticism or qabalistic metaphysics, and their spiritual experience is insufficient. it leads them to consider themselves the "chosen people, with the result that hebrew initiates often behave like spoiled children, interfering with the work of initiates higher than themselves. then, just like children, having cast breezes

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

on friday and saturday night, and when i did your spell next morning i strove to be in the presence of the woman concerned so that she could see me. she even begged me to let her come with me to my place. and we had sex for five months. i took every opportunity to touch and fondle her! signed: d. b, seychelles. a magical threesome the grimorum verum, an eighteenth-century french grimoire based on the key of solomon, tells how to cause the appearance of three spirits (three women for a man, three men for a woman) in your room after supper. after three days of celibacy, you must clean and tidy your room before breakfast. you leave the room undisturbed all day. there must be nothing left hanging, nor must there be anything left crosswise. then, after supper, go there secretly, light a good fi

ceived 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 reaction is. no one can tell you if anything you see is pleasant or unpleasant. only you can decide. what this means to you is simply this: if you notice something out of the ordinary a strange bird, a peculiar looking cloud, a door that suddenly jams, odd actions of a family pet, be prepared. something unusual, either very good or very bad is going to happen t

is pair of hands in this yellow light. i m getting a lot of mumbo jumbo. i m trying to sift through it. i take it a lot of interference. a door opened and there s a hell of a lot of multiple, glittering colors in this doorway. i am at the moment seeing what appears to be a volcano, or a dead volcano, surrounded by clouds. and a sort of cavity in the center of this mountain peak. still looking for the key back here. the volcano has not erupted, but sprang a leak, and something is pouring out of it and running down the side of the mountain. i m following it through the clouds. that s odd, i m seeing a helicopter at the moment. all i m seeing are hands, at the moment. a lot of hands, as if a lot of people are trying to get a piece of this action. barry began to rub his hand back and forth acr

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

perative freemasonry and speculative freemasonry was the language of symbol and the thought beneath it. symbol, which had served to maintain professional and religious unity, changed design and now served to create a scientific, philosophical, and spiritual unity. this universalism was no longer, alas, a widespread transcendent and social fact. henceforth, for only an initiated elite, it would be the key to an ideal. 12 speculative freemasonry the speculative nature of craft freemasonry it is customary to oppose modern speculative freemasonry and ancient operative masonry. in reality, the masonic organizations we have studied the collegia, monastic associations, brotherhoods, craft communities, compagnonnages were never invested with a strictly professional nature. all of these association

n the other hand by comparing them to the customary rituals of other organizations, which, although different from those of freemasonry, shared the same common root. for instance, the french compagnonnage and the german bruderschaft shared masonry's symbolic themes. perhaps one of the best proofs of the age of the masons' ritual has been overlooked until now: the nature of its symbolism, which is the key to its iniatory and esoteric meaning and which can be illuminated as an overall value only through its christian explanation such as that doctrine was professed in medieval times. comparison of the symbols of the ritual to those expressed by christian religious thought during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries allow us to grasp the high scope of the ritual and to establish, albeit app

be drawn from this by all humanity is found in the words of the good jeremiah "behold the days come, oracle of the eternal. i will set my law within them and write it on their hearts. behold the days come that city shall be built" the apostles paul and james in turn stressed the divine truth of the indestructible unity and reciprocal demands of faith and works in order to aspire to transcendence. the key to the holy of holies promised to all is love, the major factor of the comprehensive illumination: love for everything in creation that is an immanent sign of the light from above; love for all beings, who are all brothers by virtue of the sublime grace of this love, which is the presence within them of the absolute and the ability to perceive this presence. this love, which is conciousnes

e common denominator to which all is reduced and which encompasses everything in accordance with the initiatory tradition is the human being in whom all virtual states are immanent. the goal is the flowering and fullness of human destiny. the conduct to be upheld is love the love that permits this flowering through what we receive and, even more, through the complete gift of self to the absolute. the key to happiness is nowhere else. the vast chain of union formed by freemasons remains relevant conclusion 277 and full of promise. in the permanence of their order they continue, within the scale of our world and according to its receptivity and needs, the immense but interrupted undertaking of the cathedral builders for both the unity of civilization and that universal nature imagined by the

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

ye turn thy face to the north wind and read the verse aloud: iah! shub-niggurath! great black goat of the.woods, i call thee forth (kneel) answer the cry of thy servant who knoweth the words of power (make the voorish sign) rise up i say from thy slumbers and come forth with a thousand more (make the sign of kish) i make the signs, i speak the words that openeth the door! come forth i say, i turn the key, now! walk the earth once more! cast the perfumes upon the coals, trace the sigil of blaesu and pronounce the words of power: zariatnatmix, janna, etitnamus, hayras, fabelleron, fubentronty, brazo, tabrasol, nisa, varf-shub-niggurath! gabots membrot! and then the black one shall come forth unto thee and the thousand horned ones who howl shall rise up from the earth. and thou shalt hold bef

ONYX TABLET OF SET

adepts in their quest for becoming to apply them. if you look back at your own development and find these things, you'll have a guide in helping to present them to the next generation. you can never just "explain" it to them. try not to be disappointed if they don't get it, because the presentation of the material, and incorporation of what these people will bring to you, is your real job. it is the key to your xeper while dwelling on the plain of onyx. i will offer some advice. i had same the advice offered to me, and i ignored it. later i realized how wise the folk were who had offered it to me. you will of course ignore this, then later realize how wise i was when i offered this advice. then in time you will offer it to a new priest or priestess, and he or she will ignore. well, anyway

oke the word that brought them into being, saying "i am within and beyond you, the highest of life, in majesty greater than the forces of the universe; whose eyes are the face of the sun and the dark fire of set; who fashioned your intelligence as his own and reached forth to exalt you; who entrusted to you dignity of consciousness; who opened your eyes that you might know beauty; who brought you the key to knowledge of all lesser things; and who enshrined in you the will to come onyx tablet: ot.i.ordn temple of set author: michael a. aquino vi date: october 31, 1972 ce (original ceremony- priesthood of mendes) revision: html revision: august 8, 1999 ce into being. lift your voices, then, and recognize the highest of life who thus proclaims your triumph; whose being is beyond natural life

took form as xepera, the self-created one, who gave unto the care of the first priesthood of set the great keys to the shining trapezoid that is the gate to the abyss, saying "herein lies the geometric inspiration for the existence of set, whose names shall be many in the aeons and ages to come. observe that it doth shape and define that which is the pentagram of set, which is itself our seal and the key to all beauty of proportion "even as the triangle and trihedron shall be as drugs to lure men-beasts to blind labor towards the worship of an apex of self-extinction, so we of the pentagram and the trapezoid author ever-unfolding memorials to the creative genius of man. think not that because the first sights before your opened eyes are these sacred keys, that they shall be reverenced. ind

mes in conjunction with that of our own psyche and not just as an aspect of it- an "indwelling essence- a god of mankind's creation- a god, self created- a neter- a necessary principle of creation affecting the su& ou- a purely platonic form. onyx tablet: ot.i.3.2 temple of set author: carmel severson iii date: 1995 ce revision: html revision: august 8, 1999 ce- not a platonic form, but an ideal. the key is, as i've said above: set is whatever you define set to be. we are not and should not be required to adopt one view over the other. this would be antithetical to the philosophy of the temple of set. blind faith would make us no different to the other major religions of the world who are dictatorial in nature and do require you to adopt a literal believe in "one true god" as an act of fai

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

saved you alive today. the book of the dead re-harakhty thoth after osiris descended to the underworld, he could no longer rule his earthly kingdom, so he bequeathed it to his son horus. but his evil brother seth, the god of chaos and confusion, laid claim to the throne. only after 80 years did re judge horus the winner, award him the kingdom, and banish seth to the desert. horus first performed the key mummification rite of opening the mouth on his father osiris. with other rites, it ensured that all the bodily functions could be restored after death through the spells contained in the book of the dead. horus as a wedjat eye hunefer the gods who sit in judgment of hunefer include utterance, perception, and the southern, northern, and western ways. souls in the balance after death, each p

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

ed man. although terah repented of his sin of idolatry before he died, he evidently had to be reincarnated in order to right his sexual sins. he thus descended as a woman.presumably to experience female consciousness and thereby realize the seriousness of having gused h women. as a woman, s/he suffered being childless and losing her husband. s/he then had to marry the deceased husband fs brother. the key to the rectification of terah fs sexual sins was the sexual purity and idealism of his son, abraham. the fact that abraham (re-)introduced the idea of sexual integrity into the world allowed terah fs soul to be set straight. the result of this union was job. job [thus lived] in the generation of isaac. he was not comforted by the words of any of his [three] friend who came to console him

braham fs descendants] with the statement that abraham will come to his forebears in peace? furthermore [as we said above] what sort of tiding is this, seeing that [terah] was still serving idols, selling them, and through them causing everyone to err? know, then, that chochmah is what clarifies everything, and the elevation [of the sparks of holiness that fell from tohu] depends chiefly upon it. the key to differentiating between good and evil.and knowing how to release the kernel of good within evil in order to liberate it.is chochmah, or insight. the purer one fs insight, the clearer one will be able to recognize what is good and what is evil, and purity of insight is dependent upon the purity and force of one fs intentions. by way of analogy: when a blacksmith strikes his hammer on a p

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

iating with the collective unconscious and is not a religion, philosophy or even a cult. as the candidate is about to take the obligation of the neophyte, the hierophant assures him or her that "there is nothing contrary to your civil, moral, or religious duties in this obligation" furthermore, the hierophant reminds the candidate to respect all religions, for each contains a spark of the divine. the key theme in both the neophyte grade and the ritual of adeptus minor is that of being brought to the light. this light is also referred to as l.v.x. in the introduction to volumes 111 and iv of the golden dawn, regardie's excellent analysis of the keyword (i.n.r.i) and subsequent gematric correspondences and conclusions will bear fruit from continued study and meditation regarding this light

eat work itself- the harmonious reconciliation in one symbol of diverse and apparently contradictory concepts, the reconciliation of divinity and manhood. it is a highly important symbol to be wom over the heart during every important operation it is a glyph, in one sense, of the higher genius to whose knowledge and conversation the student is eternally aspiring. in the rituals it is described as the key of sigils and rituals. the sword is a weapon symbolising the critical dispersive faculty of the mind. it is used where force and strength are required, more particularly for banishing than for invoking- as though conscious intellection were allied to the vower of will. when emplyed in certain magical ceremonies with the point upwarhs, its nature is transformed into an instrument similar to

for only he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. magical knowledge is not given unto thee to tickle thy vanity and conceit, but that by its means, thou mayest purify and equilibriate thy spiritual nature and honour the vast and concealed one. this is the explanation of the first diagram of the paths-the sephiroth being in the feminine scale and the paths in the masculine or king's scale. it is the key of the forces which lie in qesheth the bow. treasure it in thy heart and mark it well, seeing that therein is the key of nature. meditate on it and reveal it not unto the profane, for many and great are its mysteries. note: there are four scales of colour which correspond to the four worlds. they are: the king scale atziluth wands yod fire the queen scale briah cups heh water the prince sc

binding link between the material and formative worlds, assiah and yetsirah, and necessarily passes through the astral plane, the abode of the elementals and the shells of the dead. it is the rending of the veil of the tabernacle, whereon the kerubim and the palm trees are depicted. it is the passing of the gate of eden. hierophant rises and leads zelator to the west ofaltar. hedraws attention to the key of the universe. these ideas are symbolically resumed in the representation of the twenty first key of the tarot, in front of you. within the oval formed of the 72 circles, is a female form, nude save for a scarf that floats round her. she is crowned with the lunar crescent of isis, and holds in her hands, two wands. her legs form a cross. she is the bride of apocalypse, the kabbalistic qu

ating between them. hierophant comes to the east of altar. hegemon directs zelator to face him from the west of the altar, and then returns to his place. hiero the symbols before you represent alike the garden of eden and the holy of holies. before you stands the tree of life formed of the sephiroth and their connecting paths. into its complete symbolism, it is impossible to enter here, for it is the key of all things when rightly understood. upon each sephira are written in hebrew letters, its name, the divine names and those of angels and archangels attributed thereto. the connecting paths are twenty-two in number and are distinguished by the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet, making with the ten sephiroth themselves the thirty-two paths of wisdom of the sepher yetsirah. the cour

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

nerals and animal life. theaffinities of these planets and stars are of great power, although it hath been taught, that each planetis active but one day in the seven fold, and further that the precious stones are produced through thechemic operation of the planets working secretly in the telluric body. we argue that metals andminerals have but one base or foundation: and having this we would have the key that could unlockthe universe. it hath been further taught that by the hermetic or magnetic light, we can augmentand purify indifferent stones and, give them greater value: thus, on sunday, expose yellow gems and.gold, and their weight will increase through the attractive power by affinity of the sun; and thus bythe alchemic action of the moon, pearls and stones of white on monday are impr

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

s paintings which interpret to the faithful of india the inspired pages of the vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at reception by all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed. occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse or god-mother of all intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and of kings. it reigned in persia with the magi, who perished in the end, as perish all masters of the world, because they abused their power; it endowed india with the most wonderful traditions and with an incredible wealth of poesy, grace and terror in

ophecy of ezekiel and the apocalypse, two kabalistic keys reserved assuredly in heaven for the commentaries of magian kings, books sealed as with seven seals for faithful believers, yet perfectly plain to an initiated infidel of the occult sciences. there is also another work, but, although it is popular in a sense and may be found everywhere, this is of all most occult and unknown, because it is the key of the rest. it is in public evidence without being known to the public; no one suspects its existence and no one dreams of seeking it where it actually is. this book, which may be older than that of enoch, actually has never been translated, but is still preserved unmutilated in primeval characters, on detached leaves, like the tablets of the ancients. the fact has eluded notice, though a

he reigns with all heaven and is served by all hell. o daleth. he rules his own health and life and can influence equally those of others. x he. he can neither be surprised by misfortune nor overwhelmed by disasters, nor introduction 7 can he be conquered by his enemies. n vau. he knows the reason of the past, present and future. z zain. he possesses the secret of the resurrection of the dead and the key of immortality. such are the seven chief privileges, and those which rank next are these: k cheth. to find the philosophical stone. t teth. to possess the universal medicine. v iod. to know the laws of perpetual motion and to prove the quadrature of the circle[ caph. to change into gold not only all metals but also the earth itself, and even the refuse of the earth. s lamed. to subdue the

nted it as the fiery body of the holy spirit; it was the object of adoration in the secret rites of the sabbath and the temple, under the hieroglyphic figure of baphomet or the androgyne of mendes. all this will be proved. here then are the secrets of occult philosophy, and such is magic in history. let us glance at it now as it appears in its books and its acts, in its initiations and its rites. the key of all magical allegories is found in the tablets which we have mentioned, and these tablets we regard as the work of hermes. about this book, which may be called the keystone of the whole edifice of occult science, are grouped innumerable legends that are either its partial translation or its commentary reproduced perpetually, under a thousand varied forms. sometimes the ingenious fables

eal it, is to be master of the absolute. a single word comprehends all things, and this word consists of four letters: it is the tetragram of the hebrews, the azot of the alchemists, the thot of the bohemians, or the taro of the kabalists. this word, expressed after so many manners, means god for the profane, man for the philosophers, and imparts to the adepts the final term of human sciences and the key of divine power; but he only can use it who understands the necessity of never revealing it. had oedipus, instead of killing the sphinx, overcome it, harnessed it to his chariot and thus entered thebes, he would have been king without incest, without misfortunes and without exile. had psyche, by meekness and affection, persuaded love to reveal himself, she would never have lost love. now

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

racadabra, which gives 18 kabalistically, the number attributed in the tarot to the hieroglyphic sign of night and of the profane. the moon, together with the towers, dog, wolf and crab. a mysterious and obscure number, the kabalistic key of which is 9, the the triangle of pantacles 25 number of initiation. on this subject the sacred kabalist says expressly: ghe that hath understanding h that is, the key of kabalistic numbers. glet him count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred three score and six. h it is, in fact, the decade of pythagoras multiplied by itself and added to the sum of the triangular pantacle of abracadabra: it is thus the sum of all magic in the ancient world, the entire programme of human genius, which the divine genius of

really the true law of the three worlds, this absolute sign, this sign ancient as history and more ancient, should and does exercise an incalculable influence upon spirits set free from their material envelope. the sign of the pentagram is called the sign of the microcosm, and it represents what the kabalists of the book zohar term the microprosopus. the complete comprehension of the pentagram is the key of the two worlds. it is absolute philosophy and natural science. the sign of the pentagram should be composed of the seven metals, or at least traced in pure gold upon white marble. it may be also drawn with vermilion on an unblemished lambskin the symbol of integrity and light. the marble should be virgin, that is, should never have been used for another purpose; the lambskin should be p

bull's or goat's for those 46 the ritual of transcendental magic of saturn. the names of the seven angels must be added in hebrew, in arabic or in magical characters like those of the alphabet of trithemius. the two triangles of solomon may be replaced by the double cross of the wheels of ezekiel, which is found on a great number of ancient pantacles and is, as we have observed in our gdoctrine h the key to the trigrams of fohi. precious stones may be also employed for amulets and talismans; but all objects of this nature, whether metals or gems, must be kept carefully in silken bags of a colour analogous to that of the spirit of the planet, perfumed with the perfumes of the corresponding day, and preserved from all impure glances and contacts. thus, pantacles and talismans of the sun must

difficult, but the whole intelligent world feels that it is necessary to undertake it. must we pass through another deluge before succeeding? we trust earnestly not, and this book, perhaps the greatest but not the last of our the ceremonial of initiates 57 audacities, is an appeal unto all that is yet alive for the reconstitution of life in the very midst of decomposition and death. 58 chapter x the key of occultism let us now examine the question of pantacles, for all magical virtue is there, since the secret of force is in the intelligence which directs. we have given the symbol and interpretation of the pantacles of pythagoras and ezekiel, so that we have no need to recur to these; we shall prove in a later chapter that all the instruments of hebrew worship were pantacles, and the firs

into similar follies, forgetting the anathemas pronounced in the bible against those who sacrifice on high places or in the caverns of the earth. all spilling of blood operated ceremonially is abominable and impious, and since the death of adonhiram the society of true adepts has a horror of blood. ecclesia abhorret a sanguine. the initiatory symbolism of pantacles adopted throughout the east is the key of all ancient and modern mythologies. apart from knowledge of the hieroglyphic alphabet, one would be lost among the obscurities of the vedas, the zend-avesta and the bible. the tree which brings forth good and evil, the source of the four rivers, one of which waters the land of gold. that is, of light. and another flows through ethiopia, or the kingdom of darkness; the magnetic serpent w

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

tter of purity in seership: page 57 a concurrence they [the fairy people] have to what is virtuously done, for upon committing of a foul deed, one will find a demur upon his soul, as if his cheerful colleague had deserted him. although this statement may seem superficially similar to concepts of good and evil qualities in orthodox religion, it is a precise and technical magical statement. here is the key to the connection between the seer and his allies or co-walkers, for the consciousness or spiritual quality of the seer attunes the contact. if we commit a foul deed, the co-walker may desert us. in magical arts there are many strict prohibitions relating to spirit contacts, and much of the basic training consists in attuning the imagination and general behavior to resonate within a specif

ake a fee, or her maidenhead. she summons him intentionally by pulling roses. they become lovers; in some versions in a magical mist. janet returns home, and discovers that she is pregnant. she refuses to be married off to a mortal, and returns to carterhaugh 'to pull the scathing tree. tam lin appears to stop her aborting the child. she asks him his identity, his true origin. janet's question is the key to the whole magical process. prior to the question, tam lin is a guardian of the sacred hill, well or roses. he will impregnate maidens, after the http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (7 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds manner of the ancient 'fertility mysteries, and then disappear. note that the result of pulling forbidden roses is pregnancy; but t

distinction between her pregnancy and the manifestation of tam lin is significant in this context, for if she cannot redeem him in his original form, from the otherworld, she will http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (8 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds eventually bring him to birth after his entity has been broken down and destroyed (paid as a fine to hell. the key concept here is man is redeemed by woman, a concept which is repeated in the heretical grail cycle. as with janet's challenge to gain tam lin's secret, her magical rescue is a willed alteration of the normal or expected pattern of events. in the first example, she turns against the laws of natural cause and effect in the outer world, by rejecting the so-called oeinevitable, the wheel of pr

RUBY TABLET OF SET

orks were undertaken. a flowering of the sciences occurred in astronomy, mathematics, geography, medicine, and physics. the seleucid empire embraced elam, sumeria, persia, babylonia, assyria, syria, phoenicia, and at times asia minor and palestine. the function of the empire was to give to the near east the economic protection provided earlier by persia and later by the roman empire. commerce was the key to its prosperity. old persian trade routes were expanded. money produced in egypt, rhodes, seleucia, and pergamon replaced the barter of the previous four centuries. greek civilization was the cultural ideal, but it was a thin veneer beyond the eastern mediterranean coast. the abstract, metaphorical, and scientific aspects of greek culture were difficult for the common man to grasp. in th

always thought were under your control are in fact autonomous. you do nothing, while they determine whether your efforts in any undertaking will be successful or not. you will soon see that each of these functions is a machine entirely dependent upon largely accidental events happening in the mechanical universe. this is a situation that no one can endure once he is made aware of it. awareness is the key issue. you can agree entirely with what this article has said. but the next instant find yourself entirely in the grips of unconsciousness. if you do not agree, i suggest that you try once again to watch the functions of each center. the works of ouspensky give good directions as to the methods which should be employed at first. as you read the books, it will be obvious that most exercises

od, who has reached a position where the entire universe lies open to his command (as opposed to merely being accessible. one who has achieved that pointed to by xem.(1) the above implies that "knowing oneself" can be taken as the sign of the priest iii. this is not, however, complete. remember that the temple of set started with the ideas of gurdjieff and others, then evolved from there. i think the key to this lies in the concept of neter. in "knowing himself" the priest unlocks an additional gate to an aspect of himself which can be expressed as a neter. this symbolic expression of himself acts as (1) a magnifier with which to see himself more clearly, and (2) a telescope with which he can see (and a telescoping arm with which he can manipulate) that which is far away. this is the aid h

ialectic or aristotle's laws of thought. comparing the academy of pythagoras to modern philosophy instruction is even more baffling: his school, and later plato's academy, were open only to those with qualifications in mathematics. it is said that students of pythagoras were instructed to observe long periods of silence in their preliminary training. the oddity of this situation is explained, and the key to understanding noesis is found, in this: the philosophical heirs of pythagoras are mathematicians. years ago, mathematicians and logicians abandoned natural language for its tendency to introduce spooks into their work. their work had impact in every aspect of modern life. most people who have benefited or suffered from these developments know nothing of wiener, turing, godel, etc, and w

xample, if i know it is going to storm rather severely, i will not take the kids to the beach. likewise if my "astrological weather" indicates "stormy" planetary alignments for mercury, i will either refrain from writing letters and making important decisions, or i will take extra precautions. a setian who is aware then of the astrological climate has another l.b.m. tool to use for refining self] the key processes that characterize the adult stages of life are differentiation and integration, for which the developmental goal is "an increased sense of inner freedom" the author puts it succinctly "the main themes of life center on work and love. when either area presents a problem, the individual faces a challenge to grow. one may avoid, deny, and repress the problem (in effect, fixating at

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

ation. this transformation is based in the motion and manipulation of the firesnake in connection with ayin (o) which hints towards the eye and the capricornian influence illustrated by the devil in the tarot. in ayin that which is seen and the ability of transformation is signified by the eye. the eye is also the tool of the artist of the noble arte and is the capturer of the sigillic wisdom and the key that locks it into the vault of unconditioned belief in the execution of the wills desire. the text refers to this as sigilic aphorisms, but used in the temple of solitude these becomes more than aphorisms, it encapsuels the formulae in flesh and releases the blood of the witches into the vessel and the magus becomes the living reality of the awakened flesh of lord cain. this is possible t

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

were all merely aspects, avatars, one might say, or angels, then what would we have but the oldest thing of all, a supreme entity controlling all creation "you see, what our friend says is, if you have to choose between some type of disembodied force-field and the actual living god, which one would you go for? good point, na? you can't pray to an electric current. no point asking a wave-form for the key to paradise" he closed his eyes, then snapped them open again "all bloody bunk" he said fiercely "makes me sick" after the first days chamcha no longer noticed gibreel's bad breath, because nobody in that world of sweat and apprehension was smelling any better. but his face was impossible to ignore, as the great purple welts of his wakefulness spread outwards like oil--slicks from his eyes

n ages of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm perswasion of any thing "are you listening to me, young woman? i'm serious here. that gentleman you have in your bed: he requires not your nightly attentions- excuse me but i'll speak plainly; seeing i must- but, to be frank, a padded cell "you'd do that, wouldn't you" allie hit back "you'd throw away the key. maybe you'd even plug him in. burn the devils out of his brain: strange how our prejudices never change "hmm" alicja ruminated, adopting her vaguest and most innocent expression in order to infuriate her daughter "what can it harm? yes, maybe a little voltage, a little dose of the juice "what he needs is what he's getting, mother. proper medical supervision, plenty of rest, and something

SAPPHIRE TABLE OF SET MAIN

uthor: michael a. aquino vi temple of set date: march 10, xi html conversion: dec 7, 2000 ce subject: the master of the temple may be called a saint, a sage, a mahatma, a medicine man, a shaman, a witch doctor, or a philosopher. transculturally he is a master. within the initiatory arts of magic, the concept of the master has been most precisely formulated to date by aleister crowley. let me cite the key descriptive passages concerning a master of the temple (8=[3] of the a:.a. from magick in theory and practice "the essential attainment is the perfect annihilation of that personality which limits and oppresses his true self. the magister templi is preeminently the master of mysticism, that is, his understanding is entirely free from internal contradiction or external obscurity; his work i

f the ou is possible only if the magister templi exists as a self-contained entity within the pu. he is necessarily a "detached observer. with this objectivity and this complete freedom from imprisonment within the confines of the ou, the magister templi is able to exert his will upon the ou with absolute impunity. he can direct its affairs as they interest him, simply by impressing his will upon the key determinants in each case. this is not to say that he can make the entire ou "dance to his tune" because his will is still limited in the amount of data it can consider at any one time and in the focus that it can bring to bear as a result. but the magister can direct his attention wherever he wishes in the ou, and the results of his efforts will be uniformly successful in each case. note

SAPPHIRE TABLET OF SET

uthor: michael a. aquino vi temple of set date: march 10, xi html conversion: dec 7, 2000 ce subject: the master of the temple may be called a saint, a sage, a mahatma, a medicine man, a shaman, a witch doctor, or a philosopher. transculturally he is a master. within the initiatory arts of magic, the concept of the master has been most precisely formulated to date by aleister crowley. let me cite the key descriptive passages concerning a master of the temple (8=[3] of the a:.a. from magick in theory and practice "the essential attainment is the perfect annihilation of that personality which limits and oppresses his true self. the magister templi is preeminently the master of mysticism, that is, his understanding is entirely free from internal contradiction or external obscurity; his work i

f the ou is possible only if the magister templi exists as a self-contained entity within the pu. he is necessarily a "detached observer. with this objectivity and this complete freedom from imprisonment within the confines of the ou, the magister templi is able to exert his will upon the ou with absolute impunity. he can direct its affairs as they interest him, simply by impressing his will upon the key determinants in each case. this is not to say that he can make the entire ou "dance to his tune" because his will is still limited in the amount of data it can consider at any one time and in the focus that it can bring to bear as a result. but the magister can direct his attention wherever he wishes in the ou, and the results of his efforts will be uniformly successful in each case. note

SATANGEL

myrrh; which shone like a sunbeam. and i looked at myself, and i was like one of the others; there was no difference and all my fear and trembling left me. dr. john dee was obsessed by the idea of the book of enoch, and yet was unable to obtain a copy. his system of enochian magick was created when he and edward kelly were attempting to divine its contents. clavicula salomonis otherwise known as the key of solomon the king. the first english translation of this theurgic text was made in 1889, although the british museum possess a greek version dated 1100-1200 e.v. it is known to have existed since the first century, and is an important text in the study of kaballa. in 1310 the pope innocent vi ordered all copies destroyed, and a similar commandment was given in 1559. in the 17th century

version being in french and preserved in the arsenal library in paris. the art described within is called the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel, which later became the principal goal of the thelemic current, as inspired by the magician, psychonaut, and publicity freak aliester crowley. true black magick this 18th century grimoire follows the basic formula of the key of solomon. it deals primarily with acts of malice and spite. the fourth book of agrippa this text has for centuries remained a favourite amongst country wizards. however, the claim that its author is none other than cornelius agrippa is generally accepted as spurious. agrippa did write and publish, however, and his works include on the vanity of the sciences, 1530. in this he attacked the

e fraud. their formula has been copied from the goetic 'merely the names have been changed. the symbol system of the cthulhu mythos, spliced with these basic techniques of sorcery, yields results. something very strange has happened here, illustrating a basic principal of the cunning; just because a belief brings results in the objective world, does not necessitate the objectivity of that belief. the key to this mystery may lie in the sorcerer's arte of dreaming. aside from theories as to the source of the necronomicon in a document of esoteric freemasonry owned by his father, lovecraft was himself a very strange man. the ideas he expressed as fiction originated in the nightmares he was plagued with. through dreaming, fiction, speculation, and magick, this infamous grimoire has earthed its

rding to rabbinical lore the entire purpose of the torah is to lead the shekinah back to god and unite her with him. micha-el originally a chaldean deity, the name micha-el translates as who is as god. along with gabriel he is one of the only two angels actually named in the old testament. it was he who vanquished satan from heaven in single combat. it is also he who will descend from heaven with the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand and will bind the beast for 1000 years (revelations: 20:1. according to jewish lore it is micha-el who appeared to moses in the midst of the burning bush. he appears again in the burial scene where he disputes with satan the possession of the old patriarch s corpse. in one account micha-el is said to have single handedly annihilated a hundred and

to receive our offerings, presents, and sacrifices, and ye shall have hereafter yet more agreeable oblations. perfume the viands with sweet incense and sprinkle them with exorcised water; then commence to conjure the spirits until they shall come. this is the manner of making sacrifices in all arts and operations wherein it is necessary, and acting thus, the spirits will be prompt to serve thee (the key of solomon. the method of honorius after the consecration of the emblems, the magician shall recite the following prayers, kneeling. prayer my sovereign saviour jesus christ, son of the living god, thou who for the salvation of man didst suffer the death of the cross; thou who before being abandoned to thine enemies, by an impulse of ineffable love, didst institute the sacrament of thy bod

SATANIC APHORISMS

, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. the only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it's fun, and with awareness. but then, it's not self-deceit! 5. herd conformity that's obvious from a satanic stance. it's all right to conform to a person's wishes, if it ultimately benefits you. but only fools follow along with the herd, letting an impersonal entity dictate to you. the key is to choose a master wisely instead of being enslaved by the whims of the many. 6. lack of perspective again, this one can lead to a lot of pain for a satanist. you must never lose sight of who and what you are, and what a threat you can be, by your very existence. we are making history right now, every day. always keep the wider historical and social picture in mind. that is an important

SATANIC RITUALS

beharrlich ohne barmherzigkeit. das niedrige gesetz verbleibt als schlussel und der schimmernde trapezoid ist die t r! from prisms wrought within the twilit grotto i speak through angles mirrored with thoughts senescent and supreme. o learn the law, my brothers of the night-the great law and the lesser law. the great law brings the balance and doth persist without mercy. the lesser law abideth as the key, and the shining trapezoid is the door! o mein bruder, studiere gut den stein des fluges, unerkkannt f r jene ohne ihn, innen warten die grell schimmernden antlitze der jagdhunde die welt zu entflammen! sind die winkel klein und ruhig oder gigantisch in ihrer br llenden gewaltt tigkeit, es ist in der weise, die wir so gut kennen. an dieser grimmigen, grauen k ste herscht der obelisk und f

t. deswegen h rt den klang, den grossen glockenklang der bellenden hunde. sie sind hattn ckig und ausdauernd und sie kommen durch den grossen, flammenden trapezoid ihre augen gl hen mit den feuern der h lle! know ye, all who dwell in the light of professed righteousness, that others who know the keys and the angles have opened the gate, and for turning back there is not time. thou hast been given the key, but thy minds are small and grasp not the word. therefore, list to the sounds, o ye out there, the great bell sounds of the baying of the hounds. they are gaunt and unquenched, and through the great blazing trapezoid they come, their eyes aglow with the fires of hell! treibewenn du kannst in die aussmasse deine ussersten bewusstseins und sie gefangen f r immer. du weisst nichts ber die gr

the participants] celebrant: ty'h nzal's kra naaghs n'ghlasj zsyn'e ty'h nzal's za'je oth'e kyl-d zhem'n f ungh'n. nal y'gs- othoth krell n'yra-1'yht-otp. i'a y'gs-othoth. i'a n'yra-l'yht- otp. the gaunts are loose upon the wold, and we shall not pass; but the time shall come when the gaunts will bow before us, and man shall speak with the tongues of the hornless ones. the way is yog-sothoth, and the key is nyarlathotep. hail, yog-sothoth. hail, nyarlathotep. participants: i'a y'gs-othoth. i'a n'ya-1'yht- otp. i'a s'ha-t'n. hail, yog-sothoth. hail, nyarlathotep. hail, satan. the call to cthulhu [this ceremony is to be performed in a secluded location near a major body of water-a large river, lake, or ocean. the ideal site for the proceedings would be a natural stone cavern at the water's e

SATANICON

m. here, the powers of suggestion and magick are extremely powerful. an interpretation of this phenomenon: chaos is an aspect of the other dimension; the darkest realm of the human psyche; a dark and uncharted corner of the mind. heightened creative darkness is the likely scenario to realizing this conscious infernal-dream world. i further theorize that understanding the conflict in the psyche is the key to descending into this realm: consciously willing, and subjecting oneself to, chaos over reasoned thought and behavior. a final note on this cautionary statement: practitioners may also experience sleep disturbances associated with this tapped conflict in the psyche waking suddenly from sleep, though still caught up in the chaos, which after several seconds, dissipates. suggestions for in

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

a ritual seeks to deny the truth. yet such reasoning only strengthens the satanists' case. nazi germany has become a scapegoat for the projection of the jungian shadow(10) according to some satanists. in the case of the defence even simon wiesenthal has openly defended the view that not all camp guards were brutal and cruel sadists, rather only 10, a fraction of what many would have one believe. the key then to the use of rites such as the mass of heresy is to free the psyche from prejudice, in relation to this a member of the order of nine angles says 'individuals who participate in genuine satanic masses sometimes experience a kind of 'satori- or sudden enlightenment- and are thus led to an increase in their consciousness as well as an enhanced vitality because they have broken free of

nt meanings which are used by different groups. firstly the abyss is more commonly understood as being a reference to the satanic underworld wherein satan and his demonic army reside. this interpretation largely stems from christian sources, most especially revelations in the new testament 'and the fifth angel sounded, and i saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key to the pit of the abyss. and he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit'(15) according to andrew collins, writing in the black alchemist (abc books. 1988, the friends of hekate and associated individuals have used this form of symbolism in their magical activities where they have util

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

ergy of the earth and water. kapha personalities like to explore one subject very deeply and dislike change. heavy foods can imbalance kapha, but spicy foods and physical activity can keep kapha steady. although everyone and everything has characteristics of all three doshas, one is usually dominant in a person. understanding ayurveda and how one s dominant energy works with the other energies is the key to maintaining the right body and mind balance. it is intended to be a preventative system of medicine, meaning that by practicing it, a person can avoid developing medical problems. current challenges the chief issue that contemporary hinduism faces in india concerns whether india will remain a secular state (that is, a state that does not formally incorporate a particular religion) or be

d from the others of its day in that it called for the worship of only one god, a practice called monotheism. as a result of its being a new religion and challenging the accepted beliefs of the day by promoting only one god, judaism s early history experienced many challenges. this early history is recorded in the first five books of the tanakh; these five books are collectively called the torah. the key event was god s appointment of the prophet abraham (c. 2050 c. 1950 bce) as the leader of the israelites, god s chosen people. another key event was the bondage, or enslavement, of the jews in egypt and their exodus, or escape, under the leadership of the prophet moses, who received from god the ten commandments (religious laws) and gave them to the jewish people. judaism became more struc

l buddhism taught that only men could become enlightened like the buddha. a woman had to be reborn as a man in a future life in order to become enlightened. dipa ma, however, taught meditation to ordinary householders, many of them women, who were trying to balance domestic chores with a desire for spiritual enlightenment. some of her followers referred to her as the patron saint of householders. the key lesson that dipa ma shared with the students who came to her was mindfulness. this word refers to focusing intently on a task, whatever that task might be. for example, she would teach mothers of infants to become mindful as their infants were nursing. by becoming mindful, they would focus on their bodily sensations as the child nursed. similarly, she taught busy shop owners to become mind

nstitutions and their focus on worldly rather than spiritual matters. there was also debate over basic christian doctrines, or policies, and beliefs. one of the chief points of disagreement concerned the manner in which a person can achieve salvation, or deliverance into heaven. the catholic church had traditionally taught that salvation was achieved through a combination of faith and good works. the key biblical text in support of this view is contained in the second chapter of the new testament book of james: man is justified by works, and not by faith alone. martin luther (1483 1546; see entry, a german catholic monk and one of the leaders of the reform movement, disputed this point of view. he instead preached a doctrine called justification by grace through faith, often shortened to j

a continual remembrance of, or focusing on, allah. sufism combined elements of christianity and hinduism with its own distinctive islamic concepts. early sufism had a harsh, gloomy tone. ra bi ah, however, brought joy to the obedience to and love of allah. ra bi ah looked to allah not only as a master but also as a friend and companion. she was the first sufi to preach that love and only love was the key to the mystic path. she also scorned the reward and punishment system of heaven and hell. one of her poems, translated by charles upton and published in doorkeeper of the heart: versions of ra bi ah, states, i love god: i have no time left/ in which to hate the devil. ra bi ah was also famous for a legend in which she was reportedly seen carrying a flaming torch in one hand and a bucket of

SEVEN SCROLLS CHILDREN OF THE BLACK ROSE

logy do not need to carry a return address or even come from the town in which you currently reside. the point is that you are doing something positive to settle a matter in your own mind. did you steal a candy bar? give a candy bar. did you take a life? save a life. do not forget that helping a stranger in need will settle many debts, and they do not even need to be of like substance. balance is the key. as you deal with each and every memory both good and bad, right or wrong, mark its disposition next to it in your journal. when you pay a debt, mark it "paid in full. when you settle a score, mark it "settled. and when you have done all you could to set things right, mark that item "canceled. so it is written, so it shall be! out of mind, in the book, close the book. you have made an hone

rted by that same swift current, and there is no resistance whatsoever. this truth is self evident. as far as the cbr is concerned, laws are kept to an absolute minimum, and no lawmakers are paid to sit around and pound out limitation upon us. now, there are always those individuals with their agendas who would attempt to deny men and women their natural rights in order to gain control over them. the key word here is attempt. adepts will not allow themselves to be controlled and will take whatever action necessary to thwart any such efforts. elected representatives can be threatened by outside forces or be otherwise swayed by arrogance, greed, avarice and corruption. they can even champion and pass laws against the will of the people. however, enforcing them is quite another matter. there

ant to keep, being sure to clean between the m. a piece of thin, strong string, dipped in wax is an excellent tool to clean between the teeth. the choice of food a person eats is in some measure dictated by availability. however, when many choices are available, an adept will eat a variety of foods in order to intake proper amounts of vitamins, minerals, fats, sugars, starches, fiber and protein. the key thought here is the amounts. humans tend to prefer large quantities of animal protein and fat because it tastes great and sticks to the ribs, staving off hunger for a longer time. unfortunately, such practice will result in an early death preceded by protracted illness and disease. the reason is that humans are omnivorous, not carnivorous. meat does not provide all the nutrients needed by

SIFRA DETZNIYUTHA

ir nakedness. and elohim said lights will be in the firmament of heaven.48 the male rules over the female as it is written, the righteous is the foundation forever.49 the yod y illumines both, and it illumines and passes on into the female. the yod y sets itself apart, ascends by its level higher and higher, and the female is darkened. and the mother is illumined and is opened out into her gates. the key, which contains the six, comes and covers up her gates, and it is unified below, with this one and that one, woe unto him that uncovers her gate. 6 chapter two the beard of faith,50 not, is mentioned because it is the most precious of all, it egresses from the ears, round about the face, the white locks ascending and descending, separating into thirteen of that most splendid of splendors

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

t and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. while we hear, every day, the small pretenders to science talk of the absurdities of alchemy and the dream of the philosopher's stone, a more erudite knowledge is aware that by alchemists the greatest discoveries in science have been made, and much which still seems abstruse, had we the key to the mystic phraseology they were compelled to adopt, might open the way to yet more noble acquisitions. the philosopher's stone itself has seemed no visionary chimera to some of the soundest chemists that even the present century has produced (mr. disraeli, in his "curiosities of literature (article "alchem, after quoting the sanguine judgments of modern chemists as to the transmutation

merchant from constantinople, who had sold some of his goods to zanoni, professed his conviction that none but a turk, or at least a native of the east, could have so thoroughly mastered the soft oriental intonations. yet in all these languages, when they came to compare their several recollections, there was a slight, scarce perceptible distinction, not in pronunciation, nor even accent, but in the key and chime, as it were, of the voice, between himself and a native. this faculty was one which glyndon called to mind, that sect, whose tenets and powers have never been more than most partially explored, the rosicrucians, especially arrogated. he remembered to have heard in germany of the work of john bringeret (printed in 1615, asserting that all the languages of the earth were known to t

re their experiments had been chiefly made, and in which glyndon, on the night he had sought the solitude of the mystic, had nearly fallen a victim to his intrusion "enter not this chamber till my return; or, above all, if by any search for materials necessary to thy toils thou shouldst venture hither, forbear to light the naphtha in those vessels, and to open the vases on yonder shelves. i leave the key of the room in thy keeping, in order to try thy abstinence and self-control. young man, this very temptation is a part of thy trial" with that, mejnour placed the key in his hands; and at sunset he left the castle. for several days glyndon continued immersed in employments which strained to the utmost all the faculties of his intellect. even the most partial success depended so entirely on

ion of his absence, all that the mystic had appointed to his toils was completed by the pupil; and then his mind, thus relieved from the drudgery and mechanism of employment, once more sought occupation in dim conjecture and restless fancies. his inquisitive and rash nature grew excited by the prohibition of mejnour, and he found himself gazing too often, with perturbed and daring curiosity, upon the key of the forbidden chamber. he began to feel indignant at a trial of constancy which he deemed frivolous and puerile. what nursery tales of bluebeard and his closet were revived to daunt and terrify him! how could the mere walls of a chamber, in which he had so often securely pursued his labours, start into living danger? if haunted, it could be but by those delusions which mejnour had taugh

distinctions between one kind of love and another. where, too, was the great offence of yielding to a temptation which only existed for the brave? had not the mystic volume which mejnour had purposely left open, bid him but "beware of fear? was not, then, every wilful provocative held out to the strongest influences of the human mind, in the prohibition to enter the chamber, in the possession of the key which excited his curiosity, in the volume which seemed to dictate the mode by which the curiosity was to be gratified? as rapidly these thoughts passed over him, he began to consider the whole conduct of mejnour either as a perfidious design to entrap him to his own misery, or as the trick of an imposter, who knew that he could not realise the great professions he had made. on glancing ag

SORCERIES OF ZOS

e. the manifestation of the unmanifest, and the hand is the symbol of this creative, power-manifesting duality. the supreme symbol of zos kia cultus therefore resumes that of the scarlet woman, and is reminiscent of crowley's cult of love under will. the scarlet woman embodies the fire snake, control of which causes 'change to occur in conformity with will. the energized enthusiasm of the will is the key to crowley's cult, and it is analogous to the technique of magically induced obsession which spare uses to reify the 'inherent dream. one of the foremost magicians of our time- salvador dali- developed a system of magical reification at about the same time that crowley and spare were elaborating their doctrines. dali's system of 'paranoi-accritical activity' evokes echoes of resurgent atav

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

ffect that his thoughts were an impassable road. anyone who was not an initiate would find in them nothing but obscurity and darkness, but they were brighter than the sun to those who approached them in the company of the mystai. it is said that he deposited his book in the temple of artemis indicating that he could be understood only by the initiated.22 heraclitus was called the obscure, because the key of the mysteries alone cast light on his views. in heraclitus we witness a figure of the utmost earnestness in his approach to life. it is evident, when we reconstruct his thought in its essentials, that for him knowledge bore an inner meaning that words could gesture toward rather than directly express. it was out of some such realization that there arose his celebrated utterance everythi

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

d affinities of society, culture and genetics. this is the first step, subsequent understandings will be built upon what you begin to create from this "clean slate" of internal and external experience. the state of man as he is, is not to "do. you cannot change without "doing. to "do" results from becoming aware and realizing something needs to be done on a personal level and then acting. this is the key, this is the path. the left hand path has nothing to offer to those who are satisfied. this is the essential condition necessary for starting the alchemical procedure. an echo of objective conscience within the mind that says to the self: what i have been given does not feel right. this is then followed by a search for the miraculous, for the transforming element, to find individual rightn

. however, this issue of noumenal existence is one that must be acknowledged and discussed at some point within the antinomian experience. it is through a discovery of the seat and source of ones spiritual self (whatever the final determination) that moves the individual towards more advanced states of consciousness. the experiences one confronts as the lhp viewpoint is applied to oneself becomes the key to revealing an individual path of spiritual transformation- rhp or lhp. these experiences follow a pattern generally consisting of the recognition, and reconciliation (management of tension) of the various principles governing both objective existence, and spiritual being. it is through the understanding of these principles- externalized as a personal methodology- that a way is formed lea

aspect to point out is that the higher self does not operate through this first person perspective. as one progresses through their initiation they do not lose, or erase other consciousness landscapes. however, what the adept should be capable of is willfully moving between these conditions according to the requirements of the environment- internal and external- that they find themselves within. the key word is willfully. even the birthed self is mutable to the conditions it is found within, but this shift in perspective is not a result of will and understanding. it is the result of conditioning. as such, the potential effect in creating transformative resistance occurs through happenstance. here is an experiential lesson i want to share with you. the way that you perceive your environmen

ated and the self is conscious. only an answer can make a question possible therefore every question contains its own answer" these are the conditions necessary for this left hand path work to begin. there must be an essential discord with the accepted norms when asking the question. it must be a discord of such a degree that a conscious and willed activity takes place to seek the answer. this is the key that unlocks the soul, it is a seeking to find the answers of which the question itself has made possible to find. p. d. ouspensky stated in his magnificent book tertium organum the following "no secret cipher exists which cannot be solved without the aid of any key. but it is necessary to know that it is a cipher. this is the first and necessary condition. lacking this it is impossible to

from the unity and oneness- thus nothingness (per our hegelian dialectic) of its absoluteness? i personally feel there is, the more we learn of the oscillatory nature of the universe the closer we approach the moment when, for all intents and purposes, time began. i would ask that each truly adept research the origins of the universe through the various pardigms and come to their own conclusions. the key here is the known oscillatory nature of the universe. we know it is expanding outward from a point. what is expanding? matter, energy, the synthesis of matter and energy in various forms expanding out from a single point of departure. a point where it previously had existed as a single collection of potential synthesis into one non-manifesting form (our nothing #2. this expansion constitut

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

ists, satanists, and other elitists practicing magic. even if the skeptics and naysayers were able to explain away a few of these proofs, the remainder would be sufficient aplenty to prove the thesis of this book. that, indeed, a massive conspiratorial network of occult magicians exists today and has existed throughout human history. from the perspective of the occult researcher and investigator, the key to understanding the precarious world we live in is the recognition that a consistent pattern exists. a criminal is often convicted by an overwhelming preponderance of circumstantial evidence, even when no direct evidence like a smoking gun is produced. but in our case, in codex magica, we do produce a convincing array of direct evidence, along with many facts that connect the dots, to con

extreme delight in putting things over the masses whom they consider inferior and sub-human. twelve keys to understanding moreover, after long and careful consideration i propose that in addition to these factors, there are at least twelve other reasons, or factors, why the illuminati persist in their seemingly delusional and infantile behavior. each of the twelve reasons is represented by one of the key words listed below: 28 codex magica secrecy magic build power pride elitism signal wealth please invocation encourage rebellion it is important we examine these twelve keys to understanding why the illuminati do what they do. we have already covered the topic of the elite's obsession with secrecy in chapter one. in the following sections and pages of this present chapter, we will look at t

d from the east" shall be called forth by god to wreak havoc and destruction on rebellious mankind and the fallen world. so when you see the duality principle("as above, so below) represented in the photos and illustrations in this section, remember: you're 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

the problem, then come up with the pre-planned "solution" favored by the elite (photo and article: the european, april 17, 1994 "the czar is dead. long live the czar" seems to be the cry today in russia. czar nicholas and his entire family were massacred by lenin and the communists. but, in recent times, russia, under gorbachev, yeltsin, and putin, has once again officially returned the empire to the key symbol of the double-headed eagle. der spiegel, a popular german news magazine, carried this telling depiction of "czar boris (president boris yeltsin) on its cover, with the revived official seal on his breast. 264 codex magica believe it or not, in front of the department of justice building in washington, d.c. is a statue of a confederate general, albert pike. pike served as sovereign g

ear? as i have proven over and over by a preponderance of documentation, we cannot separate the murderous goals and activities of the illuminati from their religious belief system. their inspiration, their fanatical zealotry, comes from their teacher, satan, who has given them a thorough set of instructions an unholy bible if you will, in the jewish cabala. in this unholy bible, the serpent plays the key role. he is praised as the "serpent of wisdom" the destiny of the illuminati and the whole world is said to be in his hands. we thank god that all who believe in christ jesus have no part of this destiny. jesus said he has chosen us out of the world. we are pilgrims, aliens on earth, spiritually residing in heavenly places. the serpent has no power or control whatsoever over us, and we sol

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we must once again point out that this defense mechanism is a natural process. but it is the "super natural, with all its attendant risks and terrors, that true aspirants seek. a master (frater 215 .8=3 a .a) once wrote the following "man was once defined, by a sage, as a marine animal that went insane and decided to live on land. madness (in the sense of wilful deviation from the norm) is indeed the key word in this matter. it has been of great individual inconvenience to our species, the fact that we developed aspiration- this "infinite dis-ease in the spirit. once upon a time, we went on all fours, as did all other animals (even primates usually keep their spine horizontal; the human being is the sole exception. the need to syntonize our nervous structure with stellar radiation (an esse

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ader of the book of pleasure will have little difficulty in imagining what these creatures were like. imagination is the operative word, for spare's sorcery is a form of veritable imagination or image-making; of 'dreaming true. he exalted the imagination above every other faculty and claimed that "dreams shall flesh" if the requisite ability to reify them has been absolutely mastered. herein lies the key to his sorcery; the ability to 'visualise sensation' and to convey a world of imaginative reality to the observer. augustus john regarded spare as one of the great graphic artists of his time, and many years earlier john singer sargent, g.f. watts, george bernard shaw, and others praised him in similar terms. spare sent a copy of the book of pleasure to sigmund freud who described it as on

interest in us. if you were to dismember its limb, the mutilated part would regrow, etc. so by evoking and becoming obsessed or illuminated by these existences, we gain their magical properties, or the knowledge of their attainment. this is what already happens (everything happens at all times) though exceedingly slowly; in striving for knowledge we repel it, the mind works best on a simple diet. the key to prophecy. the law of evolution is retrogression of function governing progression of attainment, i.e, the more wonderful our attainments, the lower in the scale of life that governs them. our knowledge of flight is determined by that desire causing the activity of our bird etc. karmas. directly our desire reaches the stratum belonginging to those existences that can "fly" without wings

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a single individual. such an emphasis is closer to the hindu interpretation of a continuity of a soul linked to its karma than the strict buddhist teaching that only psychic residues remain of an individual s traits of personality and character. as might be expected, northern buddhism claims to have preserved the true teaching given by the buddha to his initiated disciples. since karma is one of the key teachings of the buddha, they insist that the concept becomes virtually meaningless unless it is applied to the idea of a single reincarnating ego. the teachers of northern buddhism also recall that according to tradition, the buddha s dying words were: all compounds are perishable. spirit is the sole, elementary, and primordial unity, and each of its rays is immortal, infinite, and indest

eakthrough. according to binder, darrell has learned lessons that he was unable to learn in his previous past lives in which he drowned, and he is no longer phobic about the ocean. today, darrell is a man who smiles easily and who is doing what he loves most in life. he has gained a spiritual peace for the first time in several lifetimes. in her view of past-life exploration, binder believes that the key to making reincarnation 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 68 afterlife mysteries acceptable in the western world lies in the culture learning to acknowledge individuals true identities as souls that exist in a multidimensional universe where time is not limited to a linear construction. through the altered states of consciousness avai

or she is brought face-to-face with ultimate reality that is experienced with emotions and intuition. a transcendence of the self is achieved. the mystic returns from the experience with the certainty of having been somewhere else where a revelation of some remarkable truth was given, a truth such as reality is unitary and divine; even ordinary human experiences are phenomenal; the soul, which is the key to reality, may rise to oneness with god; that god s presence may be found everywhere hidden in the midst of daily life. in her ecstasy: a study of some secular and religious experiences (1961, marghanita laski lists five principal manifestations of the ecstatic mystical experience: 1. the feelings of loss: i.e, loss of time, of place, of worldliness, of self, of sin, and so on. 2. the fee

u n e x p l a i n e d 214 religious phenomena in an introduction to zen buddhism (1934, d. t. suzuki (1870 1966) describes satori, the state of illumination attained by reaching a higher level of consciousness, as the state that the masters of zen call the mind of buddha, the knowledge whereby humans experience enlightenment or prajna, the highest wisdom. it is the godly light, the inner heaven, the key of all the treasures of the mind, the focal point of thought and consciousness, the source of power and might, the seat of goodness, of justice, of sympathy, of the measure of all things, suzuki states. when this inmost knowledge is fully awakened, we are able to understand that each of us is identical in spirit, in being, and in nature with universal life. the hindu scripture bhagavad git

online] http//religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/e cka.html. klemp, harold. the art of spiritual dreaming. minneapolis: eckankar, 1999. lane, david. the making of a spiritual movement: the untold story of paul twitchell and eckankar. del mar, calif: del mar publishing, 1978. main site of eckankar, religion of light and sound of god [online] http//www.eckankar.org. twitchell, paul. eckankar: the key to the secret worlds. new york: lancer books, 1969. reprint, minneapolis: eckankar, 1989. falun gong for 13 hours on april 25, 1999, 15,000 members of the falun gong qigong sect, five or six rows deep, stretching for more than a mile along the avenue of everlasting peace in central beijing, china, protested their negative treatment in the state media and demanded official recognition for t

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blic is eager to accept as proof of spirits existing in castles, cottages, and taverns around the world. motion picture producers have found vast audiences eager for such stylish ghost stories as the sixth sense (1999, sleepy hollow (1999, and the others (2001. books about ghosts both fiction and nonfiction remain high on readers lists of popular titles. barnes& noble.com carries 8,102 books with the key words ghost stories. and then there is the internet. there are more than 650,000 websites devoted to the topics of ghosts and hauntings. in spite of such remarkable interest in ghosts by a large segment of the general public, one of the main reasons why neither science nor society at large has seriously considered the question of ghosts and phantoms is the lack of what scientists consider

the sound of the rustling and the pull on the bedclothes, so he decided to shoot three times. the lead slugs struck nothing but the wall, and he dug them out with a knife that next morning. the abbe fared the worst of any member of the household throughout the duration of the phenomena. whenever the cleric left his room, he always made certain that the windows were bolted and his door was locked. the key to his room was secured to a leather thong that he kept belted to his waist. these precautions never accomplished the slightest bit of good. upon returning to his room, the abbe would inevitably find his couch overturned, the cushions scattered about, his windows opened, and his armchair placed on his 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

g, a huge deluge of water rushed down the chimney, extinguishing the fire, blinding the abbe with flying sparks, and covering him with ashes. the tutor woefully concluded 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

sors (bill murray, dan aykroyd, and harold ramis) lose their funding at the university, so they establish a ghost-removal business. big trouble arises when dana barrett (sigourney weaver) discovers an ancient god in her refrigerator and becomes possessed by zuul, the gate keeper. ghosts and evil spirits galore will plague the entire planet if the gate keeper meets with vinz clortho (rick moranis, the key master. it is up to the ghost busters to save the world. the sequel, ghost busters ii (1989, although retaining all the principals of the original, lacked the energy and the excitement to sustain another box office success. ghost (1990) in addition to presenting an interesting depiction of the interaction of a ghost (patrick swayze) and a spirit medium (whoopi goldberg, this film also offe

which the idea came to loewi is perhaps even more astounding. it is conceivable that ideas can be transferred from one mind to another during sleep, but when such ideas are not in the mind of another person, from where could they possibly arise? before his death in 1961, loewi stated that he could not possibly answer this question. perhaps no one can, but it is certain that loewi s dream provided the key to subsequent research that eventually gained him the nobel prize. solving problems via the dream state is as old as humankind itself. thomas edison (1847 1931, the genius of menlo park, it is said, had the habit of curling up in his rolltop desk to catch brief naps that sometimes constituted his entire sleep schedule. after such a nap he would emerge with the answers t h e g a l e e n c y

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books, 1960. spence, lewis. an encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. hermes trismegistus in alchemical/magical tradition, powerful secrets of alchemy were found inscribed on an emerald tablet in the hands of the mummy of hermes trismegistus, the master magician and alchemist, who had been entombed in an obscure chamber of the great pyramid of giza. the preamble to the key to transmuting base materials to precious metals and gems instructed the adept that git is true, without falsehood, and most real: that which is above is like that which is below, to perpetrate the miracles of one thing. h the writings of hermes trismegistus were considered by the alchemists as a legacy from the master of alchemy and were, therefore, precious to them. as much as the though

ation from his wife that alphonse louis constant assumed the identity of eliphas levi and began to devote his time to an intensive study of alchemy and the occult. often his focus was on the kabbalah and the tarot, believing firmly that the ancient cards depicted a concise summary of all the revelations that had come down to humankind through the ages. levi saw in the symbolism of the tarot cards the key to the egyptian hieroglyphs, the mysteries of solomon, and the truths hidden in the apocryphal text of the book of enoch and the scrolls of hermes trismesgistus. to do a spread of the tarot cards, in levi fs opinion, was to establish communication with the spirit world. to seek within the tarot might bring the serious magician a clue to the manipulation of the natural and divine energy tha

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 68 magic and sorcery marie laveau was the recognized voodoo priestess of new orleans. such a force, eliphas levi believed, was to discover the great arcanum of practical magick. his doctrine of transcendental magic was published in 1855, followed by rituals of transcendental magic in 1856. other works of eliphas levi include the key of the grand mysteries (1861) and the science of the spirits (1865. eliphas levi died in 1875, esteemed by many and hailed as the last of the alchemists. others have criticized certain of his writings by suggesting that his imagination may have in some instances surpassed his actual knowledge of the arcane. m delving deeper de givry, emile grillot. illustrated anthology of sorcery, magic a

. after the theological work, my greatest accomplishment is the establishment of the church of wicca as a federally recognized church, not only with regard to its tax-exempt status, but also in federal appeals court. the church fs official letter of determination arrived from the irs in 1972, making ours the first wiccan church (despite the resentful claims of others) to earn federal recognition. the key to such recognition of wicca.the craft. as a religion has been its well-defined theology. h m delving deeper frost, gavin, and yvonne frost. the good witch fs bible. hinton, w.va: church and school of wicca, 1996. 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 84 magic and sorcery gavin frost (archives of brad steiger) thefrosts live under a vow o

h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d magic and sorcery 107 grimoires are books of ceremonies, rituals, and spells that are to be used in ceremonial magic composed in europe from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries. the texts provide rules regarding symbols, chants, and spells, and describe how to utilize them to perform effective magical effects. the most famous of all grimoires is the key of solomon, allegedly prepared by the king himself. in the first century c.e. the historian josephus (c. 37.c. 100) refers to a book of incantations for summoning spirits written by solomon. black magicians circulated the text throughout europe in the twelfth century; the inquisition condemned it as a dangerous text in 1559. sources: cavendish, richard. the black arts. new york: capricorn

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d drink; the flaw in christianity is that the christians do not understand the depth of symbolism behind and within the sacred meal. their lack of awareness, as we shall see, prevents the loop from being complete, as it was intended to be; the mysteries are a matter of deep awareness and realization, not dogma or empty ritual performance. awareness, as it is focused through the housle, is in fact the key to the highest workingthe working of immortality, the immortalization of the individual. modern pagan authors normally do not discuss such topics, but they were secret doctrines of the ancient mysteries. the secret workings of the true life without beginning or end are summed up in the housle, perfectly. before we begin our conversation, i would like to state that the explanation for the i

irst and the last, and it brings regeneration and renewal. a person who became aware of this force would immediately experience its renewing effect. that person s body and mind, which can be seen as the world or cosmos reflected as a human form, would be both metaphorically destroyed and actually regenerated by this force- all because they became aware of it. as i said above, awareness is part of the key- i said: simply put, recognition of this reality, a direct awareness of it, caused the renewal to occur. it was as though the very awareness of this reality, on the part of a conscious being, completed the loop somehow, and allowed its mystical renewing reality force to bridge across the awareness and to suffuse the consciousness of the one who was aware, and by so doing, bring about a tra

rticipant, their mind and body, and through them, their entire world. it is the regeneration of time that was the center of ancient faith and mysteries. another important key is found in the word recognition. many people use this word without being aware of its true meaning. re means again, and cognition means to be cognizant or be aware of something. to re-cognize meant to become aware of again. the key word there is again. the divine truth that people in the mysteries were helped to re-cognize was not a truth that was new to the m; in non- linear time, nothing is new. the truth that you became aware of again was a truth that you always had, and were a part of. the human descent into the illusion of serial time, and the narrowed focus of common egoistic existence, had caused a kind of for

t and transformed and purified before they can apprehend truth and the light directly and permanently. but it is lack of insight and understanding that can lead people, for example christians, to see a dark devil where there is really a bright savior. bringing forth the secret child from the otherworld, into our own experience, seeing the child, that is, becoming aware of his eternal presence, is the key to the regeneration, or the re newal of the mysteries. it is also the key to the mysteries of psychic ascension. seeing the child of the mystery night was the subject of many ancient mystery cults in antiquity. if the child is represents the stage at which mankind will awaken or evolve to a new perfection or understanding, it is very interesting to point out the obvious: that it is not man

d figure can be rightly called the son of man. of course, before you consider man doomed or incapable of achieving anything except a long wait for a redeeming force, remember the timeless nature at the heart of reality; the regenerating child will come at any moment, to anyone who attains true awareness and recognition of the mysteries and their truth. in alchemy, the child was also mentioned- as the key to the entire system. the child was the transformed and perfected divine psychic being of the alchemist, born during the conjunction, that is, when the alchemist underwent the internal marriage of their mortal self to their otherworldly self. but it wasn t done at that point; the child so produced was lost and forced into a dark phase of fermentation, the victim of dark forces- and the alc

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otent of prayers. let the adept ascertain how the prayers relate to the tree of life. the ave maria exposes the greatest qabalistic truth in that through the feminine principle, we are taught about the justified one, and through the justified one, we learn of the infinite. as it is written: whomsoever sees me, sees the father. i and my father are oneit(la clef des grands mysteres) by eliphas levi the key of the mysteries according to enoch, abraham, hermes trismegistes and solomon by eliphas levi translated, with an introduction by aleister crowley "religion says 'believe and you will understand' science comes to say to you 'understand and you will believe "at that moment the whole of science will change front; the spirit, so long dethroned and forgotten, will take its ancient place; it wi

re absolute truth seemed to sleep- always young, and always beautiful, like that princess of the childish legend, who, during a century of slumber, awaits the bridegroom whose mission it is to awaken her. after our book, there will still be mysteries, but higher and farther in the infinite depths. this publication is a light or a folly, a mystification or a monument. read, reflect, and judge. xiv the key of the mysteries (la clef des grands mysteres) by eliphas levi xv part i religious mysteries problems for solution i- to demonstrate in a certain and absolute manner the existence of god, and to give an idea of him which will satisfy all minds. ii- to establish the existence of a true religion in such a way as to render it incontestable. iii- to indicate the bearing and the "raison d'etre"

othesis is repugnant to reason; it is pessimistic and immoral. science and reason ought then to accept the second. yes, proudhon, god is an hypothesis, but an hypothesis so necessary, that without it, all theorems become absurd or doubtful. for initiates of the qabalah, god is the absolute unity which creates and animates numbers. the unity of the human intelligence demonstrates the unity of god. the key of numbers is that of creeds, because signs are 12 analogical figures of the harmony which proceeds from numbers. mathematics could never demonstrate blind fatality, because they are the expression of the exactitude which is the character of the highest reason. unity demonstrates the analogy of contraries; it is the foundation, the equilibrium, and the end of numbers. the act of faith star

of unity. the following pages are simply outlines of qabalistic hypotheses; they stand apart from faith, and we indicate them only as curiosities of research. it is no part of our task to make innovations in dogma, and what we assert in our character as an initiate is entirely subordinate to our submission in our character as a christian<key to the whole of his paradoxes- trans> sketch of the prophetic theology of numbers i unity unity is the principle and the synthesis of numbers; it is the idea of god and of man; it is the alliance of reason and of faith. faith cannot be opposed to reason; it is made necessary by love, it is identical with hope. to love is to believe and hope; and this triple outburst of the soul is called v

gs with the butchers, it is excusable that you should stone them who humiliate you and disturb you, in speaking to you of your rights. o christ! the authorities condemn thee, thy disciples deny thee, the people curses thee, and demands thy murder; only thy mother weeps for thee, even god abandons thee "eli! eli! lama sabachthani" vii the septenary the septenary is the great biblical number. it is the key of the creation in the books of moses and the symbol of all religion. moses left five books, and the law is complete in two testaments. the bible is not a history, it is a collection of poems, a book of allegories and images. adam and eve are only the primitive types of humanity; the tempter serpent is time which tests; the tree of knowledge is 'right; the expiation by toil is duty. cain a

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e. by the wealth of symbolism there is indeed much to develop from be ready to grasp that which was always slightly out of reach by dream, that fleeting moment of truth not so lightly fallen before you. 4 angels are considered by abu-hamid mohammed al-ghazali to be the higher faculties of man. 5 empyrean= highest heavens, heights, the astral plane which leads to the psyche or genius revealed. see the key of solomon the king by s.l. mathers, the symbolism of angels (higher octave) and demons (lower octave or infernal spirits. this term is inextricably the same as celestial, the sabbat of luciferian light. 6 baphomet is a magickal transformation of being. baphomet, being the head of wisdom, is related to cain in some sabbatic and luciferian circles. 7 the people of the lie, or practitioners

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depicts the interaction of different worlds in the jacob's ladder diagram. this basic image can be applied to many phenomena, from the way chemical changes take place by atoms changing their energy states, to the way certain beliefs follow different levels of mystical experience (b) a terminology by means of which it is possible to equate the mental processes of people apparently diverse. one of the key functions of the tree, and one at which it excels, is as a mental filing-system. not only can the tree be viewed as a system, but also a meta-system, that is, a system which includes other systems within it. in this way, ideas may be compared across apparently different models. an example of this is the association of astrological concepts and symbology with the myths of the ancient egypti

generated thing. but he planned as it were a moving likeness of eternity; and, at the same time that he set in order the heaven, he made, of eternity that abides in unity, an ever-flowing likeness moving according to number- that to which we have given the name time" the idea that the universe is in the process of becoming increasingly real is also repeated in "the unfinished universe, and one of the key implications of this metaconcept is referred to by omar khayyam in the "rubaiyat "with earth's first clay they did the last man knead, and then of the last harvest sow'd the seed; yea, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read" which is referred to in kabbalah by the statement that kether contains the whole potential of manifestation within it. that is

ontains 4 letters also. the number of the archangel tzaphkiel, relating to binah in briah, the world of creation, is 311, which by gematria equates to certain relevant words: qvrh; a beam, shelter, house (binah as container) gbvsh; crystallisation (binah as the formative process) shia; loftiness, summit, height (binah as eternal rest) also, shia "height, can be compared with mary "exalted, one of the key biblical aspects of binah. binah interacts with chockmah through the fourteenth path, to which is attributed the tarot card of the empress. the number of the card is 3, which is also the number of binah, and the first of the numbers to enclose a space: 0: no space nought (ain soph aur) 1: point point (kether) 2: vector line (chockmah) 3: space triangle (binah) the empress is a fitting pers

e is blindness, functioning in yesod alone is to be deceived by projections, and functioning in tiphareth alone holds the danger of confusion of context. that is, experiences are taken as a direct dealing of god with the individual rather than as symptoms of progression to be further transcended. geburah brings with it discernment so that one's own position is realised and, later, chesed provides the key to the whole psyche before the whole psyche itself is flung into the abyss. the grade of adeptus exemptus is assigned to this sephirah, signifying that the adept has transcended his notion of self as tiphareth (awareness) and has moved towards the abyss. exempt from guilt, from sin, from all human concerns that are born of our illusionary perception of time and space, he turns to face the

ng for reward, again whether self-reward or peer-reward goes against the dictum of working "without lust of result" which is central to success. as already noted, the "trick" of working the two sephiroth is, as one should expect from the system, pictured on the tarot card connecting the two, which is strength. the woman (mercy) rests her hand upon the head of the lion (severity) without conflict. the key represents an act of tikkun "restoration and reintegration, or restoring elements to their appropriate role in the creative process. sturzaker states that geburah is the "centre of the dark night of the soul, which relates to the progress between tiphareth and binah, and the crossing of the abyss. dion fortune terms the sephiroth as the "sacrificial priest of the mysteries, and resumes a d

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f the recognition of the crowned and the two pillars of the temple 11 horus-he who, while partaking necessarily of the nature of both the father and the mother, is simultaneously an entirely different and unique being. through the result of the union of opposing forces, his nature tends to a new viewpoint in the conquest of life. for the father and mother are "those forces whose reconciliation is the key of life."l6 to illustrate in another way the import of ths concept, let us describe it from a practical and physical point of view. one of the major inconveniences which afflicts a large portion of mankind is constipation. in many instances of this disorder, no organic disturbance exists at .all; the trouble being principally a functional one (though it must be here interpolated that even

e psyche and transformative experiences. thus does hermes, representing the soul guide and the transconscious self, communicate to all levels of the psyche through symbol and myth. the imagination is one of the most important tools of magic. a focused imagination is employed by magicians for everything from the consecration of talismans to healing. concentration on a visualized image or symbol is the key to this type of working. in healing, the source of the infection or injury is often visualized as being dissolved, or the sick individual is "imaged as being free from the disease. the exploration of the unconscious realms usually begins with the "image" of descending into a basement, a cave, or the underworld. superconscious levels are often contacted by visualizing the climbing of a stee

ss, or they will be scandalized. the pentagram, which in the gnostic schools is called the blazing star, is the sign of intellectual omnipotence and autocracy. it is the star ofthe magi; it is the word madejlesh..the sign of the pentagram is also the sign of the microcosm, and it represents what the kabalists of the book zohar term the microprosopus. the complete comprehension of the pentagram is the key of the two worlds. it is absolute philosophy and natural science.l6 as will be seen, all mysteries of magic, all symbols of the gnosis, allfigures of occultism, all kabalistic keys of prophesy are summed up in the sign of the pentagram, which paracelsus proclaims to be the greatest and most potent of all signsn17 gematria of the pentagram one way to study the pentagram is through the use o

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uty halstead, mary hyre, and i went back to five mile creek road the next afternoon to look for my saucer. deputy halstead carried a geiger counter. as johnson followed my car up the hill he was startled when his car radio suddenly sprang to life, emitting police calls from the adjoining county. the amazing thing was that his radio was turned off at the time! it had to be turned on with a key and the key was not even in the lock! we searched for scorched marks, broken tree limbs, radioactivity, anything that could have provided evidence of my sighting. but as halstead and i clambered around the ravine i was chagrined to find that my estimates must have been way off. the object must have been further away from me than i thought, and therefore it had to be bigger than i thought (i estimated

rance to work in the florida white house, according to testimony. she said a woman met her in a parking lot and asked the time, then ordered her to take the items and bring them to her. mrs. cromartie testified she fell into a daze when the young woman released a jasminelike scent from her left hand "i just sort of lost my will. it was a terrifying experience" she testified. mrs. cromartie joined the key biscayne white house housekeeping staff about a year ago, according to fbi agent leo mc clairen. he testified her background was impeccable. dr. albert jaslow, a psychiatrist, said he examined her and found she could be hypnotized "quickly and easily" and believed she was telling the truth "but it wasn't the same when he hypnotized me" mrs. cromartie said "i couldn't remember anything afte

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

er on zonei, we come to the "book of entrance" which is really a system of self-initiation into the planetary spheres and may have something to do with the planetary arrangement of the steps of the ziggurats of mesopotamia, which were seven storeyed mountains. not much is revealed to the potential candidate for initiation as to how these "gates" work, or what he might find there, save to say that the key of one gate lies in mastering the gate before it. the mad arab was either keeping a sacred secret, or found human language inadequate to the task of describing what other initiates in similar systems have expressed in the vague abstractions of the truly illuminated, likening the experience to an lsd trip. the "incantations of the gates" follow, and are probably meant to accompany the prece

gn of our race from beyond the stars, and is called arra in the tongue of the scribe who taught it to me, an emissary of the elder ones. in the tongue of the eldest city of babylon, it was ur. it is the sigil of the covenant of the elder gods, and when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us. they have sworn! spirit of the skies, remember! the second is the elder sign, and is the key whereby the powers of the elder gods may be summoned, when used with the proper words and shapes. it has a name, and is called agga. the third sign is the sigil of the watcher. it is called bandar. the watcher is a race sent by the elder ones. it keeps vigil while one sleeps, provided the appropriate ritual and sacrifice has been performed: else, if called, it will turn upon you. these sea

in. but, verily, it were better to engrave another. these secrets i give to thee at the pain of my life, never to be revealed to the profane, or the banished, or the worshippers of the ancient serpent, but to keep within thine own heart, always silent upon these things. peace be to thee! henceforth, from that fateful night in the mountains of masshu, i wandered about the country-side in search of the key to the secret knowledge that had been given me. and it was a painful and lonely journey, during which time i took no wife, called no house or village my home, and dwelt in various countries, often in caves or in the deserts, learning several tongues as a traveller might learn them, to bargain with the tradespeople and learn of their news and customs. but my bargaining was with the powers t

ood of man is the spirit of vengeance and the power of man is the power of the ancient ones and this is the covenant for, lo! the elder gods possess the sign by which the powers of the ancient ones are turned back but man possesses the sign and the number and the shape to summon the blood of his parents. and this is the covenant. created by the elder gods from the blood of the ancient ones man is the key by which the gate if iak sakkak may be flung wide by which the ancient ones seek their vengeance upon the face of the earth against the offspring of marduk. for what is new came from that which is old and what is old shall replace that which is new and once again the ancient ones shall rule upon the face of the earth! and this is too the covenant! iv of the sleep of ishtar yet ishtar queen

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

a child as an example: his desires are not great, and his mind is developed accordingly. a person in the jungle needs just enough wisdom to provide him what he needs. the more we want, the smarter we become, because the mind must get us what we want to have. the mind is but a consequence of the evolution of our desire. we seek and find all kinds of ways to get what we want. thus, a strong will is the key to the development of the mind. we needn t concern ourselves with developing the mind, only with developing the desire. a person who studies the wisdom of kabbalah doesn t have to be smart. it is enough to want to feel the desired. it is impossible to see the spiritual world with our mind s eye, only feel it in our soul. one should try and mingle with the suffering of the entire world, fee

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

fs tragedy. the soul of osiris. carmen saeculare. tannhauser. berashith. ahab. the god-eater. alice. the sword of song. the star and the garter. the argonauts. goetia. why jesus wept. oracles. orpheus. rosa mundi. gargoyles. collected works, vols. i, ii, and iii. by which, if they have eyes to perceive, they will become sacramental and holy, through the fire-baptism of a new birth, and will hold the key of all mysteries locked in the esoteric sign of the sabbatic goat, the baphomet of mendes, the signatures of solve and coagula. gthe everlasting yea and nay. h a.m.e.n. my faults are more numerous than i care to think of; yet it is without fear or trepidation that i offer this essay to the public. it has been a difficult task. in simple words and complex symbols crowley has written with st

harmony, and, above all, their intense human love. as the editor says, those who fail to find religion in such poems must indeed be idiots, idiots who would bowdlerize shakespeare, shelley, and browning. neither was their love a mere selfish gratification of the senses. anxiously they waited to see gwhether the mother stood behind the bride, h falteringly he would not part with her till she held the key of the hereafter h; and ultimately they resigned all for the sake of others: even while i begged her, i well knew she must. we could not, loving to see children laugh, let cowards twit them with their mother fs lust. even our own purity confirmed the trust. how long, o lord, how long? too long by half till men read, wondering, wedlock fs epitaph *alice, an adultery, vol. ii, p. 82. aleiste

use of words appears only absurd to these who fail to understand their meaning. a word may be charged with meaning just as a battery may be charged with electricity. unconditionally there is little difference, beyond the literation, between ghocus-pocus h and ggee-up. h if i say the latter to my towel-horse, i do not expect it to break into a canter; if, however, i say it to my pony, and it holds the key of this mystery, i do; so with any other word. i say ghocus-pocus, h and the gullible are wrapped in mystery; or better i say ghoc est corpus h over some bread and wine, and the devout suppliant becomes filled with religious fervour. as in physics there is a kinetic force, so in metaphysics there is a kinetic ideation. to the qabalist, the qabalah unlocks as a key the corridor of the soul

that the greatest sages of all times have been able to attract within their focus so many hundreds of millions of rational beings? they themselves being only irrational and pathological mystagogues. if such men as krishna, mahomet, st. augustine, moses, orpheus, pythagoras, buddha, plato, jesus, and a host of equal and lesser names, owed their power to self-hypnosis, then indeed self-hypnosis is the key which in this world will unlock the fast closed corridor of its mysteries. crowley strongly attacks this kitchen-knavery: you weary me with proof enough that all this meditation stuff is self-hypnosis. be it so! do you suppose i did not know? still, to be accurate, i fear the symptoms are entirely strange. if i were hard, i fd make it clear that criticism must arrange an explanation differ

arrived at a similar position on the circumference of eternity, by a diametrically opposite road; applying the whole of her artificial faculties to a perfecting of her material needs. hence the growing triumphs of the west c gand isaiah the prophet cried unto the lord: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of ahaz h (2 kings, 20. all the world round the key which opens the treasure-house is ecstasy. myself being idle for an hour i dare one thing to speculate: namely, that life hath cusps yet higher on this our curve: a prize, a power lies in our grasp: unthinking fate shall build a brain to nestle nigher under the ultimate truth: i burn to live that later lives may learn. wisdom and love, in tenser glow! beauty and strength, increase and burn

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

the luciferian may remain earth bound for some time. it is speculated that eventually something as this may grow boring and it would be time for the spirit to remain and move further into the astral. the tools of chaos magick are specifically anything which one would utilize to achieve her or his goal, the results being designed to correspond with the means. union through opposites essentially is the key, proving the direct descendent of aleister crowley highly commendable thelema system, or 93 current. four flying witches as a sorcerer who is drawn to and receives the initiatory spark via art, i was first drawn to this image years ago. this image was placed above my altar for some time, meditated on before sleeping and held a kind of gateway to my early experiences with the sabbat. here w

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

ested that de pasqually was of jewish origin, but there is no hard evidence of this and it is clear that, nominally at least, he was a catholic, for there is a surviving record of his son s baptism. nevertheless, he had undoubtedly been deeply influenced by a somewhat debased variety of jewish mysticism, for he was a devotee of the degenerate version of qabalistic magic presented in such works as the key of solomon and the sepher ratziel. the order of elect cohens was founded at bordeaux in 1760 six years earlier de pasqually had unsuccessfully attempted to found an organization called the scottish judges which may well have been a first attempt to establish a magical/masonic link-up and quickly acquired a surprisingly large number of initiates. the membership (confined to those who had al

rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c3.html (2 of 3 [12/28/2001 2:01:29 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. mysterious hints regarding a great secret allegedly in the possession of the o.t.o. in 1912, seven years after kellner s death and the succession of reuss to the chieftainship of the o.t.o. the jubilee edition of the oriflamme gave some indication of the nature of this secret: our order possesses the key which opens up all masonic and hermetic secrets, namely, the teaching of sexual magic, and this teaching explains, without exception, all the secrets of freemasonry and all systems of religion. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c3.html (3 of 3 [12/28/2001 2:01:29 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part one the birth and development of the

one of the most closely guarded secrets of the o.t.o. i have had what is alleged to be this word communicated to me, but as i am uncertain of the purity of the source from which i received it i have not reproduced it. readers of this book who are students of qabalistic numerology will be able to reconstruct this word, however, for it has four letters and its numeration is 93, the same as that of the key thelemite words of thelema and agape. third degree opening the oasis is open in the second degree. the c. has been given the pass word, etc. the tent has been moved to the west of the well, facing east. the well is dry. s. crosses his hands, right over left; w. and e. take them and uncross them again. they then hold them above his head, through, save as stated. s: a. w: u. e: m. all (simul

ly ghost, one god, eternal, indivisible, omnipotent, omniscient, file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c3.html (2 of 18 [12/28/2001 2:05:41 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. omnipresent. the favour of god and the grace of our lord jesus christ, and the abiding of the holy spirit be with you now and forever more amen. here now the secret of secrets, the key of all magick, revealed unto me for your instruction and behoof by the loving kindness of the o.h.o. lege judica tace of the nature of the arcanum i am alpha and omega, the first and the last, i will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. he that overcometh shall inherit all things; and i will be his god and he shall be my son (apocalypse) come unto me

d down through centuries hath not been lost. o highly favoured of god! o chosen from among men! o thou on whom the grace of our lord jesus christ hath fallen! it is to thee that we reveal the secret ineffable and not to be divined. to thee do we entrust the arcanum arcanorum, the hidden treasure of the wise. without it all is cold, inertia, death; within it fire, energy, genius, creation. this is the key to every door in the kingdom of heaven; this is the sceptre of the realms that are! the possession and right use of this secret giveth an hundred powers; yea, verily, five score is the numeration of the reward thereof. for this mystery is of jove himself whose letter is pk; and these are the initials of our athanor and our cucurbite, their names in the language of the greeks. yet of all th

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

ill drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. 22:20 and it shall come to pass in that day, that i will call my servant eliakim the son of hilkiah: 22:21 and i will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and i will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of jerusalem, and to the house of judah. 22:22 and the key of the house of david will i lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 22:23 and i will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father s house. 22:24 and they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vess

and [some] of them they shall slay and persecute: 11:50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 11:51 from the blood of abel unto the blood of zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily i say unto you, it shall be required of this generation. 11:52 woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. 11:53 and as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the pharisees began to urge [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: 11:54 laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. 12:1 in the mean time, when there were gathered t

. 3:5 he that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and i will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but i will confess his name before my father, and before his angels. 3:6 he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches. 3:7 and to the angel of the church in philadelphia write; these things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of david, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; 3:8 i know thy works: behold, i have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. 3:9 behold, i will make them of the synagogue of satan, which say they are jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, i will make them to

y shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. 8:13 and i beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! 9:1 and the fifth angel sounded, and i saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 9:2 and he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 9:3 and there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 9:4 and it was commanded them that they should not h

with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. 19:21 and the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which [sword] proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. 20:1 and i saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 20:2 and he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil, and satan, and bound him a thousand years, 20:3 and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little seaso

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

o copy out for himself in the days to come" stewart farrar in what witches do, 1971 "actually i did write a scholarly book about the craft; its title was inventing witchcraft. but i spent most of the last fifteen years failing to persuade carl weschcke of llewellyn or any other publisher that there was a market for it" aidan a. kelly, gnosis, winter, 1992..the gardnerian book of shadows is one of the key factors in what has become a far bigger and more significant movement than gardner can have envisaged; so historical interest alone would be enough reason for defining it while first-hand evidence is still available" janet and stewart farrar in the witches' way, 1984 "it has been alleged that a book of shadows in crowley's handwriting was formerly exhibited in gerald's museum of witchcraft

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

singular fact that in ireland it was the female organ which was shown in this position of protector upon the churches, and the elaborate though rude manner in which these figures were sculptured, show that they were considered as objects of great importance. they represented a female exposing herself to view in the most unequivocal manner, and are carved on a block which appears to have served as the key-stone to the arch of the door-way of the church, where they were presented to the gaze of all who entered. they appear to have been found principally in the very old churches, and have been mostly taken down, so that they are only found among the ruins. people have given them the name of 1 he adds in a note: les dessins de cet artiste, destin s l acad mie des belles lettres, sont pass s, o

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

lowing the order of the let- ters in the name: the second name is symbolic of the house of man, where the spirit, no longer hidden but exalted, has moved from the center to the top in preparation for the sixth emanation. here the pentagram is read clockwise: t he common hexagram is a six-pointed star formed by the intersection of two equilateral triangles, with one pointing up and the other down. the key to its understanding is balance. opposites are expressed but do not dominate. each extreme is held in abeyance by the other, in this sense it is similar to the cross, which also represents balanced force. there is a second form of hexagram used in magic, called the unicursal because it can be traced with a single unbroken line. the magician aleister crow- ley first presented it in his book

he banners, which can be recalled easily without the need for memorization merely by understanding their graphic patterns. this is not the place to enter fully into the use of the twenty-four banners of tetra- grarnrnaton in ritual magic. those who are interested in pursuing this subject will iind it presented in detail in the author's work tetragrammaton: the secret to evoking angelic powers and the key to the apocalypse (llewellyn: st. paul, mn, 1995. when trying to understand a system of symbols, it is always helpful to break it down into its component parts. the zodiac has a twofold division into signs that are animal and signs that are human. the animal signs are aries, taurus, cancer, leo, scorpio, capricorn, and pisces. the human signs are gemini, virgo, libra, sagittarius, and aqua

de, the aftereffects of ritual will be of no great consequence, and the magus should not be overly concerned about them. on the other hand, if the magus is badly shaken after a ritual, it is best to take sev- eral weeks to recover before attempting another. sanity is a fragile balance. magic relies on an altered state of consciousness, and the self-induction of a controlled type of schizophrenia. the key word here is controlled. if this altered mental state begins to slip out of control, it is time to take a temporary vacation from magic. during convalescence after bad experiences within the circle, it is useful for the magus to examine personal motives and the manner of working to determine how the problem arose. those who utterly reject the power of magic will not believe that anyone can

on and excitement. in resonant tones the prepared formula of evocation is chanted while the magus focuses his or her will on the manifesting medium in the triangle. the sword should be held in the right hand. the words of the evocation should be original and composed by the magus. they must be memorized and recited from memory-it is not enough to read them from the page. here is an evocation from the key of solomon, which is generally known as the greater key to distinguish it from the lemegeton or lesser key of solomon. it is intended to serve only as a general guide: 0 ye spirit, ye i conjure by the power, wisdom, and virtue of the spirit of god, by the uncreate divine knowledge, by the vast mercy of god, by the strength of god, by the greatness of god, by the unity of god; and by the ho

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ss places, especially in marshes, bogs, and swamps. the natural occurrence of such things as foxfire and marsh lights probably gave rise to these tales, which have taken on their own mythic vitality. ghosts of various kinds have been observed throughout human history, so it is not difficult to find the inspiration for the semi-transparent aliens that walk through walls. aliens are astral entities the key to making sense of this chaos of different alien types is to understand that none of them are physical in nature. they are all astral entities. spirits in the astral world can take on whatever forms best serve their needs or adopted purposes. however, most frequently they adopt the forms that meet the expectations in the minds of those who perceive them, since doing so is the best way of e

he center of the magic circle, even when it is placed at its edge. the door visualized in the astral chamber does not need to have a corresponding door in the actual room in which the ritual is conducted because it represents not the physical door of the room, but rather the expanded central point of the ritual circle-which is understood to be embodied in the four walls of the astral chamber. key the key does more than simply lock and unlock the door of the astral chamber. it determines by its symbolism what environment the door opens upon. on the physical level, there are many kinds of symbolic keys that can be used to access different astral locations and different astral planes. these will be treated in detail in later chapters. the tattwa symbols used to open astral gateways by members

e are many kinds of symbolic keys that can be used to access different astral locations and different astral planes. these will be treated in detail in later chapters. the tattwa symbols used to open astral gateways by members of the golden dawn are one type of key. the twenty-two picture cards of the tarot are another type. the ancient germanic symbols known as runes are yet a third kind of key. the key, visualized in the form of a modern keycard on the astral level, is used to unlock the door of the astral chamber when you exit the chamber in your projected astral form. the door is conceived to be of a type that will relock itself behind you automatically. the locked door keeps your physical body safe from harm while your awareness is elsewhere. because you are protected by the magic cir

barrier to a spirit as a locked physical door would be to a living human being. the stronger and the more tightly sealed it is imagined to be, the more substantial it becomes. the symbol that serves as the astral key selects the particular type of astral environment to which the door will provide access. all other astral landscapes are excluded, or tuned out, by the specific occult vibrations of the key, which emits a kind of psychic musical chord that is different for each key. the key does not open the door of the chamber directly upon that astral environment, however. in order to reach the desired location in the astral world, it is necessary to travel there in the astral body. this travel is effected laterally or horizontally, so to speak, across the base level of the astral plane tha

travel across the surface of the physical world from place to place, is effected by means of a corridor extending from the doorway of the ritual chamber. where the corridor leads is 180. eliade, 200-2. chapter ten: uses of ritual 167 determined in a general sense by the symbolism on the keycard used to unlock the door. the corridor will lead to an environment that is in harmony with the nature of the key. when traveling across the landscape of the physical world, the key can be made quite narrow and specific-an address in a particular city, for example. the corridor has no windows or doors on its sides. this provides secure travel, since there is no entry to the corridor, which leads only to a single place. at its far end, there is a single locked door that is accessed with the same keycar

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

ho approach magic for the first time often have the childish notion that magic will work independently, without any effort required on their part. this naive expectation stems from the mistaken belief that magic is something external and separate from the self, that its incantations, sigils, and pentacles function by themselves, in much the same way that a car engine runs by itself with a turn of the key. this is false. there is no such thing as a word or a symbol that has power inherent in itself. these things are tools, nothing more, and must be skillful manipulated. learning how to use them properly takes practice, determination, and most of all, plain old hard work. the tools of magic must be employed on all levels simultaneously. it is not enough to wave a wand about in the air, it mu

rdwood floor of the astral temple described in exercise 19. the altar of polished black marble is immediately in front of you in the center of the circle. a white candle burns on its top in a plain brass holder. you stand in the western quarter of the circle facing the eastern wall of the astral temple. see painted on the mist-gray wall in front of you the upright solid yellow triangle that forms the key feature of the eastern part of your astral temple. take a deep breath and hold the air in your lungs for four slow beats as you visualize the warm light from your heart-center radiate outward to expand your aura into a sphere. the sphere of your aura surrounds the altar directly in front of you but does not extend beyond the painted circle of the astral temple. touch your right index finge

and most widely available of the grimoires of suggested reading 323 demonic spirit evocation, it is worth studying for the practical insights into spirit evocation as a whole that it provides the serious practitioner. the k q of solomon the king (clavicula salomonis. york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1989. first published in 1888. it is a tribute to mathers' skill as an editor that his version of the key of solomon has survived for more than a century to become the standard grimoire of western magic. it is invaluable as a practical guide to traditional spirit evocation. regardie, israel. ceremonial magic. northamptonshire, england: the aquarian press, 1980. several rituals derived from the teachings of aleister crowley. this is a good introduction to crowley's rituals. it will be a bit bew

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

heal the sick and banish evil spirits. one such ba'al shem was the great jewish magician rabbi loew of prague, who breathed life into lifeless clay by means of the power of the ihvh and with it created the dreaded golem. during the renaissance, xiv tetragrammaton johannes reuchlin and other christian kabbalists transformed tetragrammaton into the esoteric fivefold name of jesus and proclaimed it the key to all the mysteries. alchemists employed it prominently in their emblems, as did visionary mystics such as robert fludd and jacob boehme. almost all the great figures in occultism over the past two centuries have recorded observations and speculations about the name. the nineteenth- century french magician gerard encausse, better known by his pen name papus, devoted most of his influentia

xists between the vision of st. john, dee's hieroglyphic monad, and the enochian diaries, and unlock many of the secrets in these works. because the throne and clock are so important in understanding tetragrammaton, i have examined the system of enochian magic in considerable detail in chapter xvi. xvi tetragrammaton appendix a contains the corrected english text of all eighteen enochian keys and the key of the thirty aethers, with an accompanying analysis of the symbolism in the keys. this study shows the angels of the keys to possess the same apocalyptic nature as those described by st. john the divine in his biblical book of revelation. i have put forward the theory, which will undoubtedly arouse controversy, that the watchtowers and enochian keys are parts of a great ritual of ceremoni

scarcely be overstressed. a new technique for graphically projecting the twelve banners is presented in chapter v. in traditional magic, the ordering of the twelve forms of the name is incorrect, as i have demonstrated in my book, the new magus* from the underlying numerical pattern of the banners. very likely the true arrangement was known but was concealed from the vulgar to prevent its misuse. the key to the correct arrangement lies in the letters that begin each banner. the letters of ihvh are linked to the four elements: i= fire, h= water, v= air, and the second h= earth. each letter begins three banners. similarly, each element is related to three signs of the zodiac. clearly a parallel relationship may be established between these triplets, and it is logical to begin such a series w

ond edition was brought out by dee at frankfurt in 1591. despite the interest it aroused, no one understood it. dee deliberately concealed the plain meaning of the symbol under a cloak of alchemical and mathematical allusions. diane di prima, who provides a brief biographical note to the weiser edition of the monad, states 'we have the assurance of the several dee scholars of the present day that the key to the interpretation of 'the hieroglyphic monad' is lost" she goes on to say that the understanding of the symbol of the monad seems to require the assistance of an "oral teaching" that has not come down to us, although dee probably communicated it to others in his lifetime. i believe i have the key, or one of the keys, to a true understanding of dee's monad symbol. while i do not pretend

wings of mercy on the right side through the "invoking" sigils of the banners; and to assume the god-form of yeheshuah (ihshvh, the judicative and vengeful aspect of heavenly christ, when we seek to command and direct the twelve wings of severity on the left side through the "banishing" sigils of the banners. the symbolism in the fourth chapter of the revelation of st. john the divine is not only the key to understanding dee's hieroglyphic monad, but also to a true comprehension of his four enochian watchtowers and fortyeight enochian keys. this is a very bold statement, i know, but i believe i have completely justified it in chapter xvi and in appendix a. it may be argued that when dee wrote his hieroglyphic monad he had not yet established communication with the enochian angels. this ove

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ TIMING IN GREATER AND LESSER BLACK MAGIC

ave given myself this pleasant gift through my mastery of time" eventually the missed moment, the awkward scramble to get somewhere, becomes a thing of the past. 8. if you want to make lasting change in the minds of men, learn to observe the times. study the lives of satanic masters like zaharoff, rasputin, cagliostro, rosenburg, von list, the brothers grimm. how was the perfect historical timing the key to the changes that each of these flock have worked upon human consciousness? contrast them with other figures in history that had the right idea, but expressed it at the wrong time. learn to be patient and vigilant- coiled like a snake ready to spring. saying something too early just to prove you're clever may give you an instant gratification, but preparing your ground is the key to a go

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

sexual deviance in the late nineteenth century. yet like others of the post-victorian era, he would struggle heroically to break free of that world, setting out deliberately to destroy that useful, productive victorian social order through the most extreme acts of consumption and excess. iii. sex is a sacrament: crowley and the origins of western sexual magic [t]he science of the sexual magic is the key to the development and the underlying secret of all masonic symbols [i]t is certain that the sexual question has become the most burning question of our time- theodor reuss "mysteria mystica maxima"xliii the sexual act is a sacrament of wiil. to profane it is the great offense. all true expression of it is lawful; all suppression or distortion of it is contrary to the law of liberty- crowl

ther and a slave from madagascar, randolph was raised a poor, self-taught free black in new york city. after running away from home at age sixteen, he traveled the world and later emerged as one of the leading figures in 19th century spiritualism and america's foremost exponent of magical eroticism or affectional alchemy. in sexual love "he saw the greatest hope for the regeneration of the world, the key to personal fulfillment as well as social transformation and the basis of a non-repressive civilization. xlvi -147- paschal beverly randolph in the course of his wanderings in the middle east, randolph claimed to been initiated by a group of fakirs in the area of jerusalem, which may have been a branch of the mystical order of the nusa'iri- a group long persecuted by orthodox islam because

ve been a branch of the mystical order of the nusa'iri- a group long persecuted by orthodox islam because of their alleged gnostic sexual rituals. upon his return to the united states, randolph began to teach a form of sexual magic that would have a profound impact on much of later western esotericism. for randolph, the experience of sexual orgasm is the critical moment in human consciousness and the key to magical power "true sex-power is god-power" as he put it. as the moment when new life is infused from the spiritual realm into the material, it is crucial moment one the soul is suddenly opened up to the spiritual energies of the cosmos "at the instant of intense mutual orgasm the souls of the partners are opened to the powers of the cosmos and anything truly willed is accomplished."xlv

ii once these sexual techniques were transmitted to new movements like the ordo templi orientis, however, they would also undergo some profound transformations. much of the o.t.o.'s ritual centered around this inner kernel of sexual magic though one already quite different from the more conservative system of randolph. as the o.t.o. proclaimed in the journal oriflamme in 1904 "our order possesses the key which unlocks all masonic and hermetic secrets, it is the teaching of sexual magic and this teaching explains all the riddles of nature, all masonic symbolism and all religious systems."liv the o.t.o. developed a system of nine degrees, the first six of which were more conventional masonic initiations. the seventh, eighth and ninth degrees, however, focused respectively upon the theory of

ecrets were sucked out of the vagina and when not consumed..put on a sigil to attract this or that demon to fulfill the pertinent wish..in the xith degree, the mostly homosexual degree, one identifies oneself with an ejaculating penis. the blood (or excrements) from anal intercourse attract the spirits/demons while the sperm keeps them alive.lx in many ways, this secret of sexual magic was really the key to his entire vision of a new aeon based on the full affirmation of the will and the complete liberation from the repressive, oppressive religions of the past. indeed, crowley takes the "repressive hypothesis" and the urge to sexual freedom to its furthest extreme: for he not only proclaims the liberation of sexuality from the prudish bonds of his victorian childhood, but he also makes the

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

just by glancing at a tarot card. this is a book of practical christification. this is a book of transcendental esotericism and absolutely practical. we do not theorize here. this work is one hundred percent practical. many students long for their christification but they do not know where to start, because they do not know the clue, the secret. here we give to the student, the clue, the secret, the key. here you have it, thirsty lovers of the truth. now practice, you are not alone. we love you profoundly, thus when you are treading the path of the razor s edge, you will be internally assisted by us, the brethren of the temple. in this course we deliver the clue of resurrection. we have ripped the veil of the sanctuary. here you have all the secrets; here are all the clues of christificat

sary to transmute the lead of the personality into the pure gold of the spirit: this is alchemy. the moon must be transformed into the sun. the moon is the soul; the sun is the inner christ. we need to be christified. no human being can return to the father without having been devoured by the serpent. no one can be devoured by the serpent without having worked in the flaming forge of vulcan (sex. the key of christification is the arcanum a.z.f. the mantra for the arcanum a.z.f. is i.a.o. i (ignis, fire; a (aqua) water; o (origo, principle, spirit. la madre lleva a su hijo (el verbo) en sus brazos. y est sentada entre las dos columnas que simbolizan al hombre y la mujer. adorad a la virgen del mar, hermanos m os. en el arcano ii del tarot aparece la divina madre asiendo con su mano el signo

ears in the center of the septenary star of alchemy according to the illustration of viridarium chymicum. such a venerable face in the septenary star of alchemy symbolizes the sophic mercury (the ens seminis. listen pigeons of alchemy, listen to how estolsio explains this emblem: that which was enclosed within many forms, now you see it included in one thing; the beginning is our elder and he has the key; sulfur with salt and mercury give wealth. if you do not see anything here, there is no reason for you to keep searching, for you will be blind even in the midst of the light. those students of occultism who think that they can acquire in depth self-realization without the arcanum a.z.f. are absolutely mistaken. the great secret sister master stated that those who want to know the mysterie

ible jaws of the furious lion. the potable gold of alchemy is the sacred fire of the holy spirit. the attachement of the cross-man within the triangle-spirit would be impossible without the potable gold. the number 11 this number is formed by two unities that heinrich khunrath translated in these two words "coagula et solve. we need to accumulate the sacred fire, and then learn how to project it. the key to this is the connection of the membrum virile with the genitalia murielis, quietude of the membrum virile and the genitalia murielis, and the use of a very gentle movement occasionally. transmuting the animal instincts into willpower; the sexual passion into love, the lustful thought into comprehension, and vocalize the secret mantras. 18 horus: pronounced ah-oh-rue-sss in gnosis arcano

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

xamine the correct way for a magical square, seal, and sigil to be constructed. the magical square is called the kamea, which means to bond. it is the power grid of the planetary energy being called upon and is based entirely upon number. to each sephira belongs a number and its corresponding planetary entities: god-name, intelligence, angels, or spirits. these are drawn from the kamea that holds the key to the basic planetary numbers. the numbers in the square are arranged so that the sum of any row, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, are the same when added up (this includes mercury) in mathematics, this is known as the magic constant of the square. if a square does not add up diagonally, it is called a semi-magical square. the kamea reveals the planetary essence through the langua

ich is omega in greek. the curves in the number eight are reciprocal and alternating, expressing better than any other number the repetition of equal and complementary parts. its key words are rhythm, alteration, and vibration, and its movement is marked by regular recurrence (see figure 10-c. we can see this idea of repetition of vibration in music as well, where the eighth note of the octave in the key-scale is produced by doubling the vibratory rate of the first tone of the scale. as a number, eight is composed of balanced parts: two fours, four twos, and eight ones. when drawn, it is the only number that may be repeated over again without lifting a pen from the paper. the lemniscate is also the symbol for infinity. in the ogdoad, there is a special relationship between the triad (three

from the tree by the folds of the dragon, there was added unto the tree daath, the knowledge, as the eleventh sephira, to preserve intact the ten-ness of the sephiroth. showing how by that very eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil should come the saving of mankind, for daath is the priceless gift of knowledge and intellect whereby comes salvation. wherefore also is eleven the key number of the great savior's name (ihshvh=326=l 1 (1972, p. 184. he also noticed that eleven is the number in the tarot of the "wheel of the great law" or kaph, called in qabalah the lord of the forces of life. the normal number of the wheel (rota) is ten, but by this he meant that kaph is the eleventh letter of the hebrew alphabet. as the perceptive student will notice in the chart in fig

the egg shape represents akasha and is most often painted indigo or black. it is the color of saturn and its shape includes mysteries on the tree of life relating to daath and yesod, as well as its original mother, binah (the yesod seal, it will be recalled, mimics binah's magical seal) it symbolizes the most hidden aspects of occultism, and death and the blackness of the unknown night. it holds the key of recapitulation of a new consciousness dawning in our age. we find it in the tattwa of capricorn (ruled by saturn, libra (where saturn is exalted, and especially in aquarius, whose keynote is universality. figures a and b incorporate these colors along with the particular vibration of the zodiacal signs and planetary colors and tones. with the exception of daath, these relate to the lett

sent daath. it corresponds to the shell or aura of the etheric body, and is visualized as surrounding all of the chakras, which are flashing in the shining colors attributed to them. as alice bailey said: think of the etheric body as a shimmering body of light, a reflector of the conditions of all the other subtle bodies, and the network that connects to the physical body. it is here that we find the key. figure 14-d the occult uses of color in this section we will examine some of the reasoning behind this kind of occult use of sound and color, as well as how the planetary energies relate to the interior chakras. examine the following associations: saturn/indigo ray: corresponds to the first or root chakra; associated with the tone a; energy reservoir of the body, often called kundalini; s

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

ry" group- wherein both humanoid and reptiloid and other genetically-engineered species reportedly engage in conflicts and/or collaborations due to involvement with a common non-exclusive collective or group-mind matrix called the "ashtar" or "astarte" network- is centered in sirius-b and in turn in arcturus, aldebaran, and altair. but for some reason planet earth is considered by all sides to be the key to the whole conflict, which is why all sides are taking a direct interest in events here. what does our planet possess that the "aliens" desire? well, a few possibilities may include: ancient underground repositories; the "root" genetic sources from which many of the galactic civilizations were born; rare minerals, chemicals, and water in abundance; a remarkably unique electromagnetic gri

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

cuted, the sorcerers were not, and that they secretly used witches as mediums to attain success in their arts. with the help of these clairvoyants they became successful as prophets, and probably the witches took several of their ideas and certainly some of their tools. i have seen seven witches' swords; of these, four had apparently been made for sorcerers, according to the pattern prescribed in the key of solomon, with hebrew inscriptions on hilt and blade. there are two in the museum in castletown. other implements bear hebrew inscriptions and so seem to be connected with hebrew or kabbalistic magic. but stores do not cater for witches, and a poor witch has to get her tools as and how she can. there is also a great resemblance to what are now unimportant parts of freemasonry; but while

mentioned earlier, and from this black book comes the important post of black rod. one would think that there must have been important reasons to conceal something before such a book could be taken away or lost. the late hargrave jennings seemed convinced that there was some deep mystery here, but he apparently did not know, or if he did he did not mention this witch mark, which is also shown in the key of solomon. all this may be purely coincidence, and coincidence killed the professor. but if no one mentions coincidences, there is little chance of finding further facts; and there is the undoubted fact that the garter is a badge of rank among witches, and further there is a prehistoric rock drawing in france supposed to represent a magical witch ceremony, twelve women dancing round a man

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

odily affliction. orthodox jews were very particular about the cuttings from the nails; a pious man buries them, an orderly man burns them, but he who throws them away is wicked; for if a woman step over them, mischance may follow. moed katon, 18. i. the nails should be trimmed on a friday and never on a thursday. there are three keys, which god keeps to himself and which no man can gain nor use; the key of life, the key of rain, and the key of the resuscitation of the dead. taanith, 2; 1 and 2. the jewish butcher of kosher meat must use three knives; one to slaughter the animal, another to cut it up, and a third to remove the suet which was unlawful food; as pork is. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott three acolytes must attend the high priest when

world, and after complete purification will in the 7th race of the 7th cycle become reunited to the spiritual logos and in the end to the absolute. our earth has been already thrice changed, and each cycle sees seven kings (as of edom. there were seven kings of edom, genesis, xxxvi. v. 31; the kabalists consider these as types of primordial worlds which failed to survive their creation. seven is the key to the mosaic creation, as to the symbols of numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott every religion. there are seven planes of being, the upper three are subjective and unknowable to mankind, the lower four are objective and may be contemplated by man as metaphysical abstractions. so there are the seven principles of man, and the upper triad are parted fr

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

of egyptian theology. had a similar course been adopted by commentators in the past, the chald an system expounded in these oracles would not have been distorted in the way it has been. the foundation upon which the whole structure of the hebrew kabalah rests is an exposition of ten deific powers successively emanated by the illimitable light which in their varying dispositions are considered as the key of all things. this divine procession in the form of three triads of powers, synthesized in a tenth, is said to be extended through four worlds, denominated respectively atziluth, briah, yetzirah and assiah, a fourfold gradation from the subtil to the gross. this proposition in its metaphysical roots is pantheistic, though, if it may be so stated, mediately theistic; while the ultimate nou

in direct rapport with "the father" and "moved by unspeakable counsels" these are clearly identical with the kabalistic conception of the presidential heads of the four letters composing the deity name in so many different languages. a parallel tenet is conveyed in the oracle which runs "there is a venerable name projected through the worlds with a sleepless revolution" the kabalah again supplies the key to this utterance, by regarding the four worlds as under the presidency of the four letters of the venerable name, a certain letter of tile four being allotted to each world, as also was a special mode of writing the four lettered name appropriate thereto; and, indeed in that system it is taught that the order of the elements, both macrocosmic and microcosmic, on every plane, is directly c

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

epresented as spacious and space as temporal; by contrast, time-space presumes the onefold origin (or originary onefold) of space and time that allows for separation in the manner of temporalizing and spatializing determinations. notwithstanding the critical turn in his thinking, vestiges of his older view that privileged time are evident in heidegger s later compositions. consider, for instance, the key term site for the moment, augenblicksst tte, which, as noted above, is associated with the experience of the ab-ground. the conjunctive grammatical state implies that we are seeking the site for the moment, not the moment for the site, and hence temporality is primary and spatiality secondary. furthermore, heidegger s description of the hint or the hesitating selfrefusal, which is upheld a

niscent of the hermeneutical dictum discussed above: ein muqdam u-me uhar ba-torah. just as the reader need not assume an absolute temporal order operative in scripture that would prevent undermining the criterion of before and after, so one need not presume that in the nature of existence anterior and posterior are aligned in an unwavering causal relationship. encircling the linear pattern holds the key to comprehending the kabbalistic notion of timeless time, the time-devoid-of-time, that is, the void of time that engenders the time of void that reverses the sequential pattern of antecedent and corollary. if we were to consider temporality only from the perspective of the corporeal world, then we would have to uphold scholem s point that for kabbalists the realm of emanation is not subje

g him. this is the secret of the dictum of the rabbis, blessed be their memory, progeny, livelihood, and sustenance are not dependent on merit [zekhuta] but on fortune [mazzla],221 for everything depends on the world of mercy, which is the source.222 through the weave of rabbinic and mystical themes that make up the fabric of this text, the reader is afforded an opportunity to contemplate some of the key hermeneutical assumptions that have informed the kabbalistic ontology of 94 chapter two time. the initial thing to note is the nexus between temporality and prayer223 if one plumbs the depth of the mystery of worship, one will comprehend the dynamics of time, a theme to which i return below. reiterating what was by his time the standard kabbalistic understanding of prayer, david ben yehuda

in the middle of the circle. this we learn from the final mem, whose quadrangular shape marks the way to discern the nature of teshuvah, repentance, the promise of return sheltered within the hope of sending forth. to grasp more fully the sway of this symbol, we must be attentive to the image of the mother s womb whence the entrusting of time comes back in the giving before, the for/giving,67 for the key that allows us to comprehend the temporal dimension of mem, as situated in the breach in the middle of the beginning that mends the end, is the image of the mother. admittedly, the link between the final mem, repentance, and the divine mother is not articulated explicitly in the bahiric fragments and thus to continue the journey we need recourse to other books. the bahir, however, undoubte

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

ns, a connection therein may be observed. the circle casting is one of which the individual proclaims his and her mastery over their own being, that by moving widdershins around the circle will enflame the self during invocation; that is to envision each manifestation via minds' eye with each call. for instance, when one calls south, they would envision the fire djinn, in the north, seth. this is the key to the success of magical work; the imagination. south- the devil-djinn mentioned is shaitan or azazel, the fallen seraph whom is made entirely of flame. it is this original legend which brought forth the separation of the god-divinity or natural order to an adversarial or antinomianian process of anti-order. the mentioning of "blackened light" is the light of azazel, or shaitan embodied o

the initiate within illuminates a light brighter than any star. this is the very essence of lucifer, the promethean fire of independence and willed self perception. this sigil, in it s own unity is the fire of the black flame, the fulgurous flash from which brought the unity of daemon and man to create a divine spirit. 12 the sigil of will, the core attribute of luciferian separation. the will is the key and core of magickal success and self-deification. this is one part of mastery, but essentially the foundation of the great work. the foundations of vampyrism may be found in the exploration of the sigil also. the vampyre is viewed as a being an archetype of the isolate self and the essence of life. blood is the symbol of vitality and immortality, thus a spiritual evolution from the shadow

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

ny hour. because of their unique rank, there is some confusion with the original dee manuscripts. each king and prince govern a whole day, but their main seats of power are still within their respective hours of the day, as designated to them in the following pages. the descriptions and powers of the kings and princes may at first appear somewhat archaic, and are arranged as dee transcribed them. the key to their functions is not planetary, but lies in the application of the biblical verses of genesis to the first seven days of creation. the seal of king camara is shown in figure 73. 109 sunday president: isr vice president: ave the seal of ave is shown in figure 74. king: bobogel figure 74 prince: bornogo the seal of bornogo is shown in figure 75. governors: bonefon over the hour of mars

of this type of work has, sadly, never been discussed in full before. before we actually get into this discussion, the definition of astral projection must be explored. today, there are two major divisions of thought on this important subject. the first considers that when one projects into an enochian square he or she is, in fact, projecting into their own psyche using an artificial archetype as the key. the second school of thought believes one is actually making contact with some completely dissociated force, 158 either external or internal, and that this area is what we call the astral. my own personal belief is that one school of thought necessitates the other. in other words, a person must travel deep within his own psyche before he releases himself in the astral, the internal pressu

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

e taught. on weekends he held classes for the inner order members to hone their knowledge to a fine point. these included ritual, enochian pronunciation, and meditative exercises in the vault. by 1926, the year of fe&in's death, the inner order had grown to over 100 members with an unspecified number in the outer order. the inner order group was an extremely wealthy one and had members in many of the key local bodies throughout the havelock north and hastings area and collectively wielded a tremendous amount of power for the area. some felt this when they tried to divulge information on whare ra to outsiders. one such individual (whose wife was apparently a member) was convinced that felldn practiced black magic in his basement and was determined to close the temple down. he went to a numb

letters i.n.r.i. we recall the varied significance attributed to these letters jesus nazarenus rex judicorum. it is, of course, a form of the 4-fold name (yod he vau he, but its essential significance is not creative but redemptive. the sun in virgo accomplishing the transmutation of scorpio. the virgin mother treading on the head of the serpent that the father may be born anew in the son. it is the key to the whole rosicrucian philosophy, the redemtion of matter, transforming the human into the divine. the blending of the dew and fire in purification and consecration. the exaltation of the cross of light. so, from the four we pass to three the triangle of spirit rising from the cube of matter. isis the eternal virgin (under whatever name we hail her. eternal mother, sophia, mary; osiris

to the higher (second adept "be thy heart the centre of light (third adept "be thy body the temple of the rosy cross" the pass word is then announced, which is formed from the mystic number of the grade: 21. this pass word, however, is the divine name of kether: it is used as the pass word of this grade of tiphareth in order to affirm the connection between the two. then the chief adept says that the key word is i.n.r.i. the three adepts themselves represent chesed, geburah and tiphareth. the creator, the destroyer and the sacrificed one: isis, apophis and osiris equals the name iao. the symbol of osiris slain is the cross; vis, the sign of the mourning of isis: the sign of typhon and apophis: x the sign of osiris risen:=lvx the light of the cross, or that which symbolizes the way into the

humanity in his incarnation. therefore, must we also offer ourselves as a living sacrifice; holy, acceptable unto god, which is our reasonable service. the 22nd path of mem is called the faithful intelligence, and it is so called because by it, spiritual virtues are increased and all dwellers upon earth are nearly under its shadow" 2nd ad. returns to his set and ch.ad. comes forward and points to the key of justice. ch.ad "the path of lamed you have already learned is attributed to the tarot key of justice.,it leads from the beauty of tiphareth to the severity of geburah, and it may thus be said to denote the equilibrium between emotion and will. it represents as you see, a queen seated upon her throne, her foot resting upon a fox, her hand grasping a sword and a pair of scales. thus shall

etzach to that of 7=4 in chesed, as it is also from the 3=8 of hod to the 6=5 of geburah; but these modes of progress are forbidden by the laws of the hierarchy. for this reason the tarot keys attributed to the paths of kaph and mein have no place in the temple. there remain, however, the 24th, 25th and 26th paths. but the philosophus cannot enter the sephira tiphareth by the path of nun, because the key of death intervenes. the celebrant shows the 13th tarot key. celebrant the first meaning lies with utter plainness on the surface of the card, and it does not concern us here. it reminds us, however, of the great truth which is commemorated and symbolised in the mysteries of all ages and countries that we must pass ultimately through death to life in the mystical sense. but the time is not

ZOETIC GRIMOIRE OF ZOS

partake of each other, shall walk past all amorous sickness and deaths, for we are within the magical equinox. amen we who proudly make unto ourselves every graven image, shall have great copulations and are allowed to love our gods, for we know the sacred alignments. amen we who do not crucify nothing shall hurt us that is of the..nature; neither our comings and goings from the womb, for we have the key to all aesthetics. amen in this sacred moment (here occurs the symbolic eating of flesh and blood) we forget our enemies: therefore let our dead children sleep. and let our dead loves arise, so they too may watch and enjoy our ecstasies. let their animation be power to our memories and so resurge all ecstasy, for in this day there shall be no inhibitions. amen thou insatiable peripheral qu

3 8 INITIATION CEREMONY

very honoured hierophant, the temple is properly guarded. hiero: let us adore the lord and king of water (knocks) all face east. hiero: let elohim tzabaoth be praised unto the countless ages of time. amen. hiero: quits his place and goes to tablet of water in west. all face west. hiero: let us rehearse the prayer of the undines or water spirits (knocks) terrible king of the sea, thou who holdest the keys of the cataracts of heaven and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth; king of the deluge and of the rains of spring; thou who openest the sources of the rivers and of the fountains, thou who commandest moisture which is as it were the blood of the earth, to become the sap of the plants, we adore thee and we invoke thee. speak thou unto us thy mobile and c

ABRAMELIN2

ader should not misunderstand this passage. what are meant are those black magic works containing garbled and perverted words and characters; and which teach nothing but hurtful and selfish practices; the great point in which is generally the forming of a pact with an evil spirit. because true characters represent the formulas of the currents of the hidden forces of nature and true ceremonies are the keys of bringing the same into action. 13 it seems again to me here that abraham the jew stretches the matter too far. it is perfectly and utterly true without doubt that angelic magic is higher than that form of talismanic magic which has its basis in the astrological positions of the heavenly bodies; and can therefore do more, and be also independent of astrological considerations, because t

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

to fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace. and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went the sword of flame, and his countenance was as the sun in his strength. 23 diagram 9 24 (pastos lid- top (pastos lid- bottom) chief "i am the first and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold! i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of death and of hell. second "he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the assemblies (second and third adepts open door of tomb, and lead aspirant in. they kneel down west of altar with heads bent. 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

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

e, wordsworth forced to sell his soul, while the enemy, in the persons of southey and moore, triumphantly holds sway. the poetically similar period in france is 1850 to 1870. hugo is in exile, and all his brethren are given to absinthe or to hashish or to opium. there is however another consideration more important. there are some men who possess the understanding of the city of god, and know not the keys; or, if they possess them, have not force to turn them in the wards. such men often seek to win heaven by forged credentials. just so a youth who desires love is too often deceived by simulacra, embraces lydia thinking her to be lalage. but the greatest men of all suffer neither the limitations of the former class nor the illusions of the latter. yet we find them equally given to what is

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

e heralds and the other sanctifies) its purpose and meaning in the whole scheme of things. so i, in this year v of the equinox of the gods (1908) wherein horus took the place of osiris, will by the light of this my magical memory seek to understand fully the formula of horus- ra hoor khuit- my god, that ruleth the world under nuit and hadit. then as ankh-f-na-khonsu left unto me the stel 666 with the keys to that knowledge, so also may i write down in hieroglyph the formula of the lady of the forked wand and of the feather, that shall assume his throne and place when the strength of horus is exhausted. so now the service of the gods was to be secret and their magic concealed from men. they were to fall before the eyes of men from their place, and little sewer-rats were to come and mock at

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

, contains the formulae for evoking incredible things into visible appearance, beings and monsters which dwell in the abyss, and outer space, of the human psyche. such books have existed in fact, and do exist. idries shah tells us of a search he conducted for a copy of the book of power by the arab magician abdul-kadir (see: the secret lore of magic by shah, of which only one copy was ever found. the keys of solomon had a similar reputation, as did the magus by barret, until all of these works were eventually reprinted in the last fifteen years or so. the golden dawn, a famous british and american occult lodge of the turn of the century, was said to have possessed a manuscript called "the veils of negative existence" by another arab. these were the sorcerer's handbooks, and generally not m

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ents of these rules: z is always pronounced extended as zod or zoda; g is pronounced either hard or soft; i may be pronounced as a vowel, i, or a consonantal y. c is generally be pronounced hard, although in some of the calls it is transliterated as in which case it is pronounced soft. an alternate discussion of enochian pronunciation issues may be found in laycock (1978. 3: the following text of the keys or calls is a phonetic rendition, inserting vowels where necessary according to the g.d. pronunciation rules. note that final e s are pronounced separately. the english translations have been slightly modified from those in the dee mss, in addition to the modernisation of spelling. 4: thus in equinox printing; in the dee mss and most other printed editions the word vonpho (vonupeho, wrath

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

e familiar with the names and numbers pertinent to the work in hand. he must be alert, sensitive, and ready to exert his authority; yet courteous, gracious, patient, and sympathetic. 16) there are two opposite methods of exploring the astral plane (a. one may take some actual object in nature, and analyse it by evoking its astral form, thus bringing it into knowledge and under control by applying the keys of the qabalah and of magick (b. one may proceed by invoking the required idea, and giving body to the same by attracting to it the corresponding elements in nature. 17) every magician possesses an astral universe peculiar to himself, just as no man's experience of the world is coterminous with that of another. there will be a general agreement on the main points, of course; and so the ma

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

white school consider the present danger to mankind so great that they are prepared to abandon their traditional policy of silence, in order to enlist in their ranks the profane of every nation. we are in possession of a certain mystical document30 which we may describe briefly, for convenience sake, as an apocalypse of which we magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 82 hold the keys, thanks to the intervention of the master who has appeared at this grave conjuncture of fate. this document consists of a series of visions, in which we hear the various intelligences whose nature it would be hard to define, but who are at the very least endowed with knowledge and power far beyond anything that we are accustomed to regard as proper to the human race. we must quote a passa

how to set up a figure of the heavens. this need not take an average intelligent person more than an hour at the most. you can learn it from a book. lastly, get barley's 1001 notable nativities and more nativites. also any other collections available. practice setting up the horoscopes. use the chaldean square system; it shows at the first glance what is happening in the angular houses, which are the keys of the whole figure. compare and contrast what you know of the natives, from history, with what is said of the aspects (and the rest) in the books you have read. put together similar horoscopes; e.g. a dozen which have sagittarius 17 rising, another lot with jupiter in the hid-heaven, and so on; see if you can find a similarity in their lives with what the books will have magic without te

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tely natural. all religions have devised practices for this purpose. if you keep on praying with your lips long enough, you will one day find yourself praying in your heart. the whole question has been threshed out and organized 53 by wise men of old; they have made a science of life complete and perfect; and they have given to it the name of magick> it is the chief secret of the ancients, and if the keys have never been actually lost, they have certainly been little used<keys have always kept very quiet about it. this has been especially necessary in europe, because of the dominance of persecuting churches> again, the confusion of thought caused by the ignorance of the people who did not understand it has discredited the whole subject. it is now our task to

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

precisely right. the yokel is no more 'petty' than the king, nor the earth than the sun. each simple elemental self is supreme, very god of very god. ay, in this book is truth almost insufferably splendid, for man has veiled himself too long from his own glory: he fears the abyss, the ageless absolute. but truth shall make him free! it must be understood from the beginning that this book contains the keys of all the knowledge necessary for the operation of the magical formulae of the world during the aeon which it initiates. in this very early verse is already given a master key to mathematics and metaphysics. on applying this to current problems of thought, it will be discovered that the long-fast doors fly open at a touch. let use briefly examine the implications of this statement. it sh

hey have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear" the old comment 47. let us, however, add the jewish half, 61. 8+ 80+ 418= 506. cf. verses 24, 25. 506+ 61= 567= 27 x 21? but writing 506 qabalistically backwards we get 605, and 605+ 61= 666. 666= 6 x 111, and 11 ?aleph= 0 in taro. 666= 1+ 2. 36, the sum of the numbers in the magic square of sol. 666= the number of the beast. or, taking the keys, 8, 80, 418, we get vii, xvi, vii, adding to 30. 30+ 61= 91= aleph-mem-nun, amen. this may unite nuit with amoun the negative and concealed. yet to my mind, she is the greater conception, that of which amoun is but a reflection. the new comment see appendix weh note: appendix not yet recovered. al i,48 "my prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the ox, and none by the book

the word abrahadabra. the book of the law is written and concealed. aum. ha" the old comment 75. the ending of the words is the ending of the work- abrahadabra. the books is written, as we see; and concealed- from our weak understanding. aum-ha, aum= 111, ha= 6, 111 x 6= 666, the seal of the beast. note well that aum with a mem final adds to 671, throa, the gate, adonai spelt in full, etc. using the keys of aum ha, we get xii+ xv+ 0, and iv+ 0, their sum, 31= la, not. the new comment aum is of course the sanskrit "word" familiar to most students (see book 4 part iii. ha is a way of spelling the letter whose value is 5 so that it shall add to 6. this uniting the 5 and the 6 is a symbol of the great work. send complaints to memoria@memoria.ex baphomet xir liber xv book 15 o. t. o. ecclesiae

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e kwan-se-on of the mongolian peoples, and means the magical force in man, which is the sexual force applied to the brain, heart, and other organs, and redeemeth him. the gradual disclosure of these magical secrets to the poet may be traced in these volumes,32 which it has been my privilege to be asked to explain. it has been impossible to do more than place in the hands of any intelligent person the keys which will permit him to unlock the many beautiful chambers of holiness in these palaces and gardens of beauty and pleasure. of the results of the method we possess one flawless gem, already printed in the equinox (vol. ii. pp. 163-185, a note on genesis by v.h. fra. i.a. 32 i.e, the three volumes of crowley s collected works t.s. liber lviii 21 from this pleasant, orthodox, and-so-they-a

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s very rude.14 the following is a sample: o devatas! behold this yogi! o chela! accurs d abode of tamas art thou! eater of beef, guzzling as an herd of swine! sleeper of a thousand sleeps, as an harlot heavy with wine! void of will! sensualist! enraged sheep! blasphemer of the names of shiva and of devi! christian in disguise! thou shalt be reborn in the lowest avitch! fast! walk! wake! these are the keys of the kingdom! peace be with thy beard! aum! this sort of talk did me much good: i hope it may do as much for you. 63. with eyes well fixed on my proboscis.15 see bhagavad-gita, atmasamyamyog. 67. brahma-charya.16 right conduct, and in particular, chastity in the highest sense. 72. baccy.17 a poisonous plant used by nicotomanics in their orgies and debauches. the filthy tobacco habit, sa

3 2 he adds 300, shin, the flame of the spirit= 666. 4 666= 6 111. 111= aleph, the ox. 5 his journeys as initiator. ambrosii magi hortus rosarum 117 abiegnus. mysterium i. n. r. i. mysterium lvx. pastos. trinitas. unitas. serpentes. and fifty and eight years,1 set forth upon a journey into the mystic mountain of the caves. he took with him his son,2 a lamb, life, and strength, for these four were the keys of that mountain. so by ten days and fifty days and two hundred days and yet ten days he went forth. after ten days fell a thunderbolt, whirling through black clouds of rain: after sixty the road split in two, but he travelled on both at once: after two hundred and sixty, the sun drove away the rain, and the star shone in the day-time, making it night. after the last day came his mother

fixed even in the vault of the caverns. with one stroke he rent asunder the veil; with one stroke he closed the same. and entering the sarcophagus of that royal tomb he laid him down to sleep. four guarded him, and one in the four; seven enwalled him, and one in the seven, yet were the seven ten, and one in the ten. now therefore his disciples came unto the vault of that mystic mountain, and with the keys they opened the portal and came to him and woke him. but during his long sleep the roses had grown over him, crimson and flaming with interior fire, so that he could not escape. yet they withered at his glance; withat he knew what fearful task was before him. but slaying his disciples with long nails, he interred them there, so that they were right sorrowful in their hearts. may we all di

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n political strategic action. thus, when the earth was night utterly corrupt by reason of the great sorcery, the brethren sent mohammed to bring freedom to mankind by the sword. this being but partially a success, they raised up one luther to teach freedom of thought. yet this freedom soon turned into a heavier bondage than before. then the brethren delivered unto man the knowledge of nature, and the keys thereof; yet this also was prevented by the great sorcery. now then finally in nameless ways, as one of our brethren hath it now in mind to declare, have they raised up one to deliver unto men the keys of spiritual knowledge, and by his work shall he be judged. this interior community of light is the reunion of all those capable of receiving light, and it is known as the communion of sain

ch is his (partial and incorrect) idea of how things look from kether. 126 this man performs great magic; very strong medicine. he does really find gold on the midden and skeletons in pretty girls. in abiegnus the sacred mountain of the rosicrucians the postulant finds but a coffin in the central shrine; yet that coffin contains christian rosencreutz who is dead and is alive for evermore and hath the keys of hell and of death. ay! your tiphereth man, child of mercy and justice, looks deeper than the skin! but he seems a ridiculous object enough both to the malkuth man and to the kether man. still, he's the most interesting man there is; and we all must pass through that stage before we get our heads really clear, the kether-vision above the clouds that encircle the mountain abiegnus. ix ru

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the kwan-se-on of the mongolian peoples, and means the magical force in man, which is the sexual force applied to the brain, heart, and other organs, and redeemeth him. the gradual disclosure of these magical secrets to the poet may be traced in these volumes, which it has been my privilege to be asked to explain. it has been impossible to do more than place in the hands of any intelligent person the keys which will permit him to unlock the many beautiful chambers of holiness in these palaces and gardens of beauty and pleasure. of the results of the method we possess one flawless gem, already printed in the equinox (vol i, no) ii. pp. 163-185 "a note on genesis" by v. h. fra. i. a. from this pleasant, orthodox, and-so-they-all-lived-happy-ever-after view let us turn for a moment to the cri

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ely, to rule the earth. therefore with sweetness ineffable he parted from me; yet leaving a comfort not to be told, a peace the peace. and the light and the perfume do certainly yet remain with me in the little chamber, and i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. for i am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold! i am alive for evermore, and have the keys of hell and of death. i am amoun the sun in his rising; i have passed from darkness into light. i am asar un-nefer the perfected one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods. the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu saith with his voice of truth and calm: oh thou that has a single arm! o thou that glitterest in the moon! i weave thee in the spinn

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the first five books of the holy law: it is written- b'rashith ba ra alohim ath hashamaim vaath haaretz, or in aramaic script bet-resh-aleph-shin-yod-taw bet-resh-aleph aleph-lamed-heh-yod-memfinal aleph-taw heh-shin-mem-yod-memfinal vau-aleph-taw heh-aleph-resh-tzaddifinal such are the seven words which constitute the beginnings or heads of one law; and i propose to show, by applying to the text the keys of the qabalah, that not merely the surface meaning is contained therein. in the beginning, created, god, the essence of the heavens, and the essence, of the earth. in the beginning .god. in wisdom :created:the elohim :the essence<<1>:of the heavens in the head<<2 .the holy gods. and the essence:of the earth<<1: aleph-taw= the first and last- alpha and omega- aleph and tau<<2 "i.e" the wh

rative because of its diffusiveness and dispersion. in the second figure we behold their concentration: focalisation: producing by their joint action the number of manifestation- 4. in the worlds- assiah: in the taro, the princess- the throne of the spirit: in the tetragram, the he final, and in symbolic language- the daughter: in the cycle of life (birth, life, death, resurrection, the forth; in the keys of the book universal, the empress, kappa-omicron-rho-eta kappa-omicron-sigma-mu-omicron-upsilon, the virgin of the world, venus, aphrodite: centrum in trigonis centri- by whatsoever of a myriad names we call her, still the same in spirit, the same in number and in form! and this number is herein formulated by the concentration of the three in one. 3+ 1= 4. now in this figure ii. we behol

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ht, facing it, and exalt thy mind unto its glory, imagine it as encompassing thee and entering into thy inmost being, and say] i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live again: and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die! i am the first and the last, i am he that liveth but was dead, 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

d his eyes as flaming fire. his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went the sword of flame, and his countenance was as the sun in its strength "chief adept" i am the first and i am the last, i am he that liveth but was dead, and behold i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and of death. 218 [the "second" and third adepts lead the aspirant into the 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

hb:dalet as summing the supernals.15 horus hath the wand of osiris his father. osiris hath the wand of isis his mother. note especially mercury in virgo: the thoth-wand for isis. sun in leo: the osiris-wand for horus.16 venus in taurus: the isis-wand for osiris. all are thus linked with the higher. also we add mercury virgo sun leo venus taurus and obtain 231= 0+ 1+ 21= the sum of the numbers of the keys of the tarot. further, amoun_ the winged globe_ is again shown when isis and osiris are united. further, 5+ 9+ 14 (the bands on the wands= 28 power hb:chet hb:koph, for these are the total of the bands thereon. also the globe is light, the phoenix life, the lotus love (symbol of binary, the "prong" see dante. this prong points downwards. arms of typhon in 16th key) they also show the deve

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

his system concretion concerns us, and the blending of form and of energy into one coherent whole. in the ninth, tenth and eleventh hierarchies lie the clue to the nature of agni, the lord of fire, the sumtotal of systemic vitality. he who understands the significance of these figures, and their relation to each other as the triple division of a unity in time and space will have discovered one of the keys which will unlock a door hitherto fast closed. they are the numbers of achievement, of potentiality brought into full activity and of innate capacity demonstrating in perfect fruition. all potentiality lies in the vitalising, energising power of agni, and in his ability to stimulate. he is life itself, and the driving force of evolution, of psychic development and of consciousness. this f

erstood as occult "depth" why is this? because in these notes those groups of devas who are the force and energy of the centres (which are centres in substance) are contacted and controlled. through their activity, directed through the centres, the material sheaths physical, astral and mental are built. these ideas of force and the sheaths are the basis of the astrological teaching that is one of the keys to the secret doctrine.3(177) we should therefore bear in mind that the deva lords, agni, varuna, kshiti,4(178) represent in the exoteric teaching the substance aspect of the dense body of the logos whilst the force aspect as flowing through the etheric body of the logos is considered under various names, such as shiva, surya, brahma. yet the two aspects are but one. the third statement

which is a direct emanation from the cosmic astral plane and which reveals when triply- 400- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust blended the desire nature of our heavenly man, and of any particular planetary logos. in the two opposites, which are called by the theologians "heaven and hell" we have two of these types of force hinted at, and in this thought we have indicated one of the keys to the astral plane. 2. summary. before passing to the consideration of those devas who are concerned with the construction of man's causal body, and who are the linking group between the triad and the quaternary, both in man and the logos, we will briefly enumerate the principal groups of agnisuryans on the systemic astral plane, as they, in their totality, form the body of manifestation

white magicians, through knowledge of the forces and power of silence and of speech, can produce effects upon the physical plane. as we well know, there is a branch of magical work which consists in the utilisation of this knowledge in the form of words of power and of those mantrams and formulae which set in motion the hidden energies of nature and call the devas to their work. speech is one of the keys which opens the doors of communication between men and subtler beings. it gives the clue to the discovery of those entities who are contacted on the other side of the veil. but only he who has learned to keep silent, and has arrived at the knowledge of the times to speak can pass this veil and make certain esoteric contacts. magic consists, we are told in the secret doctrine, in addressin

: the planetary spirit is another term for the logos of our planet, one of the "seven spirits before the throne" and therefore one of the seven heavenly men. he is on the evolutionary arc of the universe, and has passed many stages beyond the human. the planetary entity is on the involutionary arc and is a very low grade entity. he is the sum total of all the elemental lives of the planet. 43 47: the keys to the secret doctrine, by h. p. blavatsky. see s. d, i, 343; note; ii, 551. 1. every symbol and allegory has seven keys. s. d, ii, 567; iii, 3. 2. only three keys available in the nineteenth century. s. d, ii, 543. compare ii, 617, 842. 3. there are seven keys to the entrance door to the mysteries. s. d, iii, 178. compare i, 346; ii, 330; ii, 668, ii, 731. 4. the keys, as hinted by h. p

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h all other souls. he has to find god in his own heart and in every form of life. then, as an initiate, he arrives at omniscience or all-knowledge, and the halls of learning and of wisdom render up to him their secrets. he becomes a christ, a knower of all things, knowing what is in the heart of the father and in the hearts of men. finally, he can eventually achieve omnipotence or all-power, when the keys of heaven will be handed to the son of man and all power will be his. 50. by a passionless attitude towards this attainment and towards all soul-powers, the one who is free from the seeds of bondage, attains the condition of isolated unity. the isolated unity referred to here is that of complete separation from all form aspects and the achievement of spiritual oneness. it is aloofness fro

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all human creatures, conceive of the state of consciousness of those who have freed themselves from the illusions of the astral plane or realise the state of awareness of those forms- 351- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust of life which have not yet developed astral consciousness? it is the dual nature of the mind which causes this illusion, for the mind of man presents to him the keys of the kingdom of heaven or locks upon him the door of entrance into the world of spiritual realities. it is the concretising unprincipled mind which brings about all the troubles of humanity. it is the sense of i-ness and the spirit of separative individuality which has brought humanity to its present condition, and yet even that is a part of the great developing process. it is the consc

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

treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust counsel of his thought. nought is revealed. his power is felt. the sons of men, reacting to his power, send to the utmost bounds of light a question: why this blind power? why death? why this decay of forms? why the negation of the power to hold? why death, oh mighty son of god? faintly the answer comes: i hold the keys of life and death. i bind and loose again. i, the destroyer, am. this ray lord is not yet in full expression, except as he causes destruction and brings cycles to an end. the monads of power are much fewer in number than any others. egos upon the power ray are relatively not so few. they are characterised by a dynamic will, and their power within the human family works out as the force of

e kingdom and upon the human aura. yellow-orange shines forth in both. i mention this as an illustration of an externalisation of ray force, and as an indication of the value of the esoteric science when applied to the exoteric. the blue ray of devotion passes now into the violet of what we term the ceremonial ray. what do these words mean? simply that the great musician of the universe is moving the keys, is sounding another note and thus bringing in another turn of the wheel, and swinging into the arc of manifestation the ray of violet, the great note g. these rays bring with them in every kingdom in nature all that is attuned to them: human beings, devas of order high or low, elementals of a desirable or undesirable nature, flowers, fruits, and vegetable life of a certain kind, and anim

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8 lucis trust june 1933 i would say to you, my brother, that the instructions which i last gave to you still carry for you the needed teaching a teaching which, if followed, will lead to realisation. i have today but little to add. will you again and with a lighted heart read what i there have said? your progress on the way and your power to take the kingdom of heaven by violence is very real and the keys of the entrance lie within your grasp. but this power itself carries with it its own problem and its own solution. only one vital thing stands in the way of a life of utter usefulness and that is the sixth ray quality of your personality. it is, as you know, the ray of devotion, of a fanatical idealism, of undue emphasis and this ray, when conditioning the personality, is apt to cause muc

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out to make impression upon the minds of aspirants and disciples of all degrees and of all ray types. when he can distinguish between these various communications, then and only then does the third type of communication become possible direct messages which are due to contact with the master of his ashram in person. he, by that time, possesses what has been called "the freedom of the ashram" and "the keys to the kingdom of god; he can then be trusted with some of the directive potency of the ashram itself. his thinking will then affect and reach others. this developing effectiveness grows with rapidity when the fourth type of impression is familiar to the disciple: that coming from the spiritual triad, and therefore from the monad and shamballa. there are consequently (to this final stage

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response from the hierarchy. it is also my hope that students will do something of major importance to aid in bringing forth the light upon the processes of death which humanity is today demanding. on death excerpts from other writings "why this blind power? why death? why this decay of forms? why the negation of the power to hold? why death, o mighty son of god" faintly the answer comes "i hold the keys of life. i bind and loose again. i the destroyer am. a treatise on the seven rays, vol. i, page 63. the intent of the lord of the first ray is to stand behind the other divine aspects, and when they have achieved their purpose, to shatter the forms they have built. he is the controller of the death drama in all kingdoms a destruction of forms which brings about release of power and permit

ure of the response is such that the man, standing in his astral body, or rather in his kama-manasic vehicle, sees the experience of the past incarnation spread before him like a map. he records a sense of timelessness. 3. as a result of the recognition of these experiences, the man isolates those three which were the three major conditioning factors in the life which has gone and which also hold the keys to his future incarnation which he will next initiate. all else is forgotten, and all the lesser experiences fade out of his memory, leaving nothing in his consciousness but what are esoterically called "the three seeds or germs of the future. these three seeds are in a peculiar manner related to the permanent physical and astral atoms, and thus produce the fivefold force which will creat

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walk, and there i work. 3rd month. in spiritual being i stand upon the way. it is the way of men. i am. i neither think nor dream, but work. 4th month. with my brothers i dwell within the ashram. i issue forth and carry out the plan as best i can. 5th month. let love stream out today from out my eyes, my hands, my feet, because my heart beats with the love of god. 6th month. within my hand i hold the keys of life. i unlock the door for others and they pass through yet see me not. 7th month. as i am strength and power and love and understanding, i bring these gifts into the haven of my work. thus strength goes forth to others and love to all i meet, and to these gifts i add an understanding heart. 8th month. the cry goes out for workers. i answer, master of my life, and stand within the ran

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

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

ate into form life, and the other into spiritual life; one opening the door into the mass form of the human family, and the other into the universal state of consciousness, which is the kingdom of spirit. one marks the beginning of human experience on the physical plane, the other marks its climax. one signifies potentiality, and the other consummation. we are told that christ gave to saint peter the keys of heaven and earth; he gave to him, therefore, the keys of these two gates. we read "jesus gives to peter. the keys to the two principal gates of the zodiac, which are the two solsticial points, the zodiacal signs cancer and capricorn, called the gates of the sun. through cancer, or the 'gate of man, the soul descends upon earth (to unite with the body, which is its spiritual death. thro

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

old testament may indeed be, to some extent, the link which binds together thousands of christians, for jesus the christ founded his doctrine upon a jewish people, but the interminable list of christian sects of to-day have almost all taken their rise from the assertion of a right of personal interpretation of the bible, which might have remained debarred to the generality by the confession that the keys of interpretation were lost, or at least missing, and that without their assistance error of a vital character was inevitable. the vast accumulation of varying interpretations of the bible, although a folly, yet sinks into insignificance as an incident of importance, before the collateral truth that the followers of each of the hundreds of sects have arrogated to themselves, not only the

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

its" the heroes of various conflicting and contradictory legends about them, gathered from pagan sources. the coluber tortuosus "the tortuous snake" a qualification said to have originated with the jews, had quite another meaning before the roman church distorted it- among others, a purely astronomical meaning. the "serpent" fallen from on high "deorsum fluens" was credited with the possession of the keys of the empire of the dead[[tou thanatus arche] to that day, when jesus saw it "falling like lightning from heaven (luke x. 17, 18, the roman catholic interpretation of cadebat ut fulgur to the contrary, notwithstanding; and it means indeed that even "the devils are subject" to the logos- who is wisdom, but who, as the opponent of ignorance, is satan or lucifer at the same time. this remar

mite kabalist. the reason for the difference in the views of the two races is easy to account for. the aryan hindu belongs to the oldest races now on earth; the semite hebrew to the latest. one is nearly one[[vol. 2, page 471] the craft of the rabbins. million years old; the other is a small sub-race some 8,000 years old and no more* but phallic worship has developed only with the gradual loss of the keys to the inner meaning of religious symbols; and there was a day when the israelites had beliefs as pure as the aryans have. but now judaism, built solely on phallic worship, has become one of the latest creeds in asia, and theologically a religion of hate and malice toward everyone and everything outside themselves. philo judaeus shows what was the genuine hebrew faith. the sacred writings

and rises again (book i, xv) there was a time, when the eastern symbol of the cross and circle, the swastica, was universally adopted. with the esoteric (and, for the matter of that, exoteric) buddhist, the chinaman and the mongolian, it means "the 10,000 truths" these truths, they say, belong to the[[footnote(s* yet this sense, if once mastered, will turn out to be the secure casket which holds the keys to the secret wisdom. true, a casket so profusely ornamented that its fancy work hides and conceals entirely any spring for opening it, and thus makes the unintuitional believe it has not, and cannot have, any opening in it. still the keys are there, deeply buried, yet ever present to him who searches for them[[vol. 2, page] 586 the secret doctrine. mysteries of the unseen universe and pr

n is the latter* simplified in the english bible to "is the lord) among us, or not (see exodus xvii. 7* see kabala denudata, by s. liddell macgregor mathers, f.t.s, p. 121* translators often render the word "companion (angel, also adept) by "rabbi" as the rishis are called gurus. the "zohar" is, if possible, more occult than the books of moses; to read the "book of concealed mystery" one requires the keys furnished by the genuine "chaldean book of numbers" which is not extant[[vol. 2, page] 627 the number seven in chemistry. especially to the epistle of peter (i p. ii. 2-5) ought to be conclusive. in the old symbolism, man, chiefly the inner spiritual man is called "a stone" christ is the corner-stone, and peter refers to all men as "lively (living) stones. therefore a "stone with seven ey

ost insuperable difficulty" that they have confused the dates, and especially the order of events "intentionally" is undeniable, and for a very good reason: their writings and records were all esoteric. the babylonian priests did no more than the priests of other ancient nations. their records were meant only for the initiates and their disciples, and it is only the latter who were furnished with the keys to the true meaning. but professor[[vol. 2, page] 692 the secret doctrine. sayce's remarks are promising. for he explains the difficulty by saying that as "the nineveh library contained mostly copies of older babylonian texts, and the copyists pitched upon such tablets only as were of special interest to the assyrian conquerors, belonging to a comparatively late epoch, this added much to

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hich seem to defy the ravages of time, we have even fragments of what may be called the sacred books of the egyptians; yet, though much has been deciphered in the ancient records of that mysterious race, the mainspring of the religion of egypt and the original intention of its ceremonial worship are far from being fully disclosed to us* here again the mysterious hieroglyphic documents remain, but the keys by which alone they become intelligible have disappeared. nevertheless, having found that "there is a natural connection between language and religion; and, secondly, that there was a common aryan religion before the separation of the aryan race; a common semitic religion before the separation of the semitic race; and a common turanian religion before the separation of the chinese and the

line of the veda. of the zend avesta, or. of the buddhist tripitaka, and now the vedas are proved to be the work of the highest antiquity whose 'preservation amounts almost to a marvel (lecture on the vedas. the same will be said of the secret archaic doctrine, when proofs are given of its undeniable existence and records. but it will take centuries before much more is given from it. speaking of the keys to the zodiacal mysteries as being almost lost to the world, it was remarked by the writer in "isis unveiled" some ten years ago that "the said key must be turned seven times before the whole system is divulged. we will give it but one turn, and thereby allow the profane one glimpse into the mystery. happy he, who understands the whole" the same may be said of the whole esoteric system. o

ince the numerical values of the three letters which compose his name- jod, vau and twice he- are respectively 10[[hebrew, 6[[hebrew) and 5[[hebrew; or again thrice seven, 21 "ten is the mother of the soul, for life and light are therein united" says hermes "for number one is born of the spirit and the number ten from matter (chaos, feminine; the unity has made the ten, the ten the unity (book of the keys. by the means of the temura, the anagrammatical method of the kabala, and the knowledge of 1065 (21, a universal science may be obtained regarding kosmos and its mysteries (rabbi yogel. the rabbis regard the numbers 10, 6, and 5 as the most sacred of all* the reader may be told that an american kabalist has now discovered the same number for the elohim. it came to the jews from chaldaea

in the spirit of interpretation and the original meaning of the same symbols between the ancient eastern occultists and the jewish kabalists we refer the reader to book ii "the holy of holies- stanza vii- continued. 6. from the first-born (primitive, or the first man) the thread between the silent watcher and his shadow becomes more[[footnote(s* phallic worship has developed only with the loss of the keys to the true meaning of the symbols. it was the last and most fatal turning point from the highway of truth and divine knowledge into the side path of fiction, raised into dogma through human falsification and hierarchic ambition[[vol. 1, page] 265 man, the shadow of his prototype. strong and radiant with every change (re-incarnation (a. the morning sun-light has changed into noon-day glor

treats of anthropogenesis, would be most difficult to understand without a preparatory acquaintance with the metaphysical symbols at least. nor would it be just to enter upon an esoteric reading of symbolism without giving due honour to one who has rendered it the greatest service in this century, by discovering the chief key to ancient hebrew symbology, interwoven strongly with metrology, one of the keys to the once universal mystery language. mr. ralston skinner, of cincinnati, the author of "the hebrew-egyptian mystery and the source of measures" has our thanks. a mystic and a kabalist by nature, he has laboured for many years in this direction, and his efforts were certainly crowned with great success. in his own words "the writer is quite certain that there was an ancient language whi

BLUE EQUINOX

which i got from my guru in madura to the effect that there was a certain point in the body suitable for meditation, which, if once discovered, drew the thought naturally towards itself, the difficulty of concentration consequently disappearing, and that the knowledge of this particular point could be communicated by the guru to his approved disciples (subsection vii) we now find a muddle between the keys and the gates. the first five are obviously keys. the last two seem to be gates, in spite of the statements in the text. we also find the term bodhisattva in a quite unintelligible sense. we shall discuss this question more fully a little later on. the seven portals 83 the dhyanis are gods of sorts, either perfect men or what one may cali natural gods, who occupy eternity in a ceaseless c

BOOK OF DOOM

e book of lucifer caput primum: about the book of doom 1.1. eons ago, long before mankind roamed this planet, there is a brotherhood of sorcerers. 1.2. they are masters of wisdom, science, and knowledge unheard of yet in the history of mankind of our days. 1.3. they decide to have their knowledge accessible to all who are ready, willing, and worthy. 1.4. therefore they create a book that contains the keys to all their power, science, knowledge, and wisdom. 1.5. the name of this book is the book of doom. 1.6. this is so because this book means doom to servitude, mediocrity, and weakness. 1.7. the book of doom has been available for mankind as long as they roamed this planet, first as an oral tradition, then in written copies or in ideogrammic forms that were well guarded. 1.8. it exists in

1.5. the name of this book is the book of doom. 1.6. this is so because this book means doom to servitude, mediocrity, and weakness. 1.7. the book of doom has been available for mankind as long as they roamed this planet, first as an oral tradition, then in written copies or in ideogrammic forms that were well guarded. 1.8. it exists in many forms and translations. 1.9. each of its forms contains the keys that unlock the knowledge, power and wisdom of the ancient empire. 1.10. with the power of the book of doom you will receive the keys so that you can work toward being accepted into the great interstellar order of algol. 1.11. the decision lies always with you. 1.12. this is so because you are the one who decides about his or her own fate. 1.13. if you think that you are ready for the boo

and wisdom of the ancient empire. 1.10. with the power of the book of doom you will receive the keys so that you can work toward being accepted into the great interstellar order of algol. 1.11. the decision lies always with you. 1.12. this is so because you are the one who decides about his or her own fate. 1.13. if you think that you are ready for the book of doom, you may go ahead to reach for the keys that help you unlock your powers. 1.14. if you still think that you have to lean on some deity, this book is not for you. 1.15. in this case it is better for you not to proceed. 1.16. read the book of doom with insight, book for book, and chapter for chapter. 1.17. look for the meaning in between the lines, then the keys will be given to you and you will find your teacher. 1.18. open your

d creative forces in human history. caput tertium: imperium infernalis 3.1. true power expresses itself in its effects. 3.2. it is not in need to express itself in exterior form. 3.3. the choice is yours: you may wield power openly or in secret; in either case you can benefit from the fruits of it. 3.4. hierarchies of spirits reflect processes of power. 3.5. with any hierarchy of spirits you have the keys to specific expressions of power. 3.6. in the beginning is chaos. 3.7. algol is the gate of chaos which creates the worlds. 3.8. the world creates from the below of the chaos to the above. 3.9. created deities will always claim to have created the worlds. 3.10. this is so because created deities can neither understand themselves nor can they understand time. 3.11. the great infernal empir

ng that the sounds of these letters correlate to the system of eighteen runes of the armanen system. this is irrefutable proof that this system is based on the only authentic school of runes there ever has been. however, the sequence of the sounds is different from the sequence of the armanic runes. why this is so is to remain a mystery for the uninitiated person. no doubt we have to do here with the keys to powerful mantras that add greatly to the power of the system of the only authentic runes on the planet. you have to learn the symbols and the correct pronunciation of the letters for maximum effect of the mantras and spells that you use them for. the symbols of the letters of the infernal alphabet are only accessible to initiates of the o.a.i. note also that the first eighteen letters

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

y find it, there are aspects of yourself that can. all you need do is listen to them. first of all, calm down. close down the conscious mind. rid yourself of emotion. once you are completely calm and at peace, simply follow your inner urges. don't think! move; walk; be guided from within. i once found two keys thrown into the center of an overgrown field using this technique. i had not seen where the keys were thrown, yet, following my inner guidance, i walked to a certain spot, leaned over and placed my hand within three inches of the missing keys! there are times when the lost remains lost. invariably at these times there is a lesson to be learned. our higher selves sometimes choose this method to cause us to consider our placement of values, or to set in motion a needed series of experi

ady. there is no set age; it depends entirely on the individual child. 3. physical and mental. 4. controlling the mind; removing emotion; self-examination; possessiveness; love; meditation. 5 (a) calm yourself and rid yourself of all emotion. then simply follow your inner urges; be guided from within (b) use the pendulum, either working on a "yes/no" basis or with sketch maps of the various rooms the keys might have been left in. 6. beware the power of suggestion. do not tell him what you see. enquire about his health. if he claims to be feeling fine, then drop the subject. it might be a good idea to get him to have a full medical check-up, but this should be suggested in a most subtle way with no hint of worry. lesson nine 1. don't rush your working of the tarot. the more you use it, the

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

n the trinity. hokhmah, binah, and da'at as christological trinity. 1271 mongols conquered the area around harran. they deported the populace of the city, walled up the city gates, and left it. r. baruch torgami in barcelona, teacher of abraham abulafia. his circle had access to al-gazali's description of sufism contributing to the crystalization of prophetic kabbalah. wrote maftehot ha-kabbalah("the keys to kabbalah, containing a short commentary on the sefer yezirah. 1272 provincal chapter at narbonne forbade the franciscans to practice alchemy. 1273 dominican order at pest warned friars not to study or teach alchemy. d.1273 jalal al-din al-rumi. 1274 ramon llull's vision on mount randa. d. 1275 peire cardenal troubadour. 1275-1325 menahem ben benjamin recanati italian kabbalist and tora

. 1277 guido bonatti: decem continens tractatus astronomiae(astrological compilation. 1279-1340 jedidah ben abraham bedersi ha penini.behinat olam. 1279-1348 abner de burgos(alfonso de valladolid) spanish christian cabalist; divine names. 1280 abulafia's preaching to christians in italy. joachimist-influenced kabbalah absorbed to some degree by beguin/franciscan church of philadelphia that holds "the keys of david: a joachimist/qblhist exegesis of scripture. 1280 ramon martin: pugio fidei discusses the tetragrammaton christologically, discusses how name science and sefirotic science support the notion of the trinity, and calls the messiah by the hebrew letter yod. uses the word cabala by name and mentions his predecessor petras alphonsi. 1280? sefer ha-zohar written by moses de le n but at

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

should never have found the way, had she not given me some light with her torch. i was moreover constrained to enter right next to her, and the gate was suddenly clapped to, so that a part of my coat was locked out, which i was verily forced to leave behind me. for neither i, nor they who stood ready without and called at the gate, could prevail with the porter to open it again, but he delivered the keys to the virgin, who took them with her into the court. meanwhile i again surveyed the gate, which now appeared so rich that the whole world could not equal it. just by the door were two columns, on one of which stood a pleasant figure with this inscription, congratulor. the other, which had its countenance veiled, was sad, and beneath was written, condoleo. in brief, the inscriptions and f

, together with their draughts and inscriptions. it grieves me for my other companions, that they neglected such precious treasures. and yet i cannot but think it was the special will of god that it should be so. i indeed reaped the most benefit from my page, for according as each one s genius lay, so he led whoever was entrusted to him into the quarters and places which were pleasing to him. now the keys belonging hereunto were committed to my page, and therefore this good fortune happened to me before the rest; for although he invited others to come in, yet they imagining such tombs to be only in the churchyard, thought they should get there well enough, whenever anything was to be seen there. neither shall these monuments (as both of us copied and transcribed them) be withheld from my t

ontain myself, and first learn to know the world better. in every book stands its author painted; of which (as i understood) many were to be burnt, so that even their memory might be blotted out from amongst the righteous. page 36 now having taken a full view of this, and having scarcely gone forth, another page came running to us, and having whispered something in our page s ear, he delivered up the keys to him, who immediately carried them up the winding stairs. but our page was very much out of countenance, and we having set hard upon him with entreaties, he declared to us that the king s majesty would by no means permit that either of the two, namely the library and sepulchres, should be seen by any man, and therefore he besought us as we cared for his life, to reveal this to no man, h

DARK GODS

m their last manifestation on earth. associated with the 10th. and 8th. paths. the dark gods according to tradition, the dark gods are actual entities which exist in the acausal universe. according to our spatial, causal perception, these beings may be regarded as `timeless and chaotic. since our consciousness is by its nature partly acausal these entities can become manifest for us if we possess the keys to reach the appropriate levels of consciousness. what is termed the `abyss' separates our everyday consciousness from the consciousness (and thus apprehension) of the dark gods. the ordeal of the abyss involves confronting these entities and accepting them for what they are, that is, unbound by our illusion of opposites and the conflict of `good' and `evil. while it is convenient to rega

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

row of the cock also announces the arrival of the sun. remember, too, that basilisk, the mythical king of the serpents, became interchangeable with the term "cockatrice. it was said that the basilisk was born of the cocks egg and in decorative heraldry the basilisk had the head and legs of a cock, a snake-like tail, and the body of a bird covered with serpent scales. the roman god janus, who held the keys, was fused into "peter" when christianity was founded in rome in the form we know it today- janus was eannus, a name for nimrod in babylon. even in the early years of the roman church, which was supposed to have been founded on the "rock" of peter, there is no mention of this guy. he was added to the story as the priesthood continued to put the whole fantasy together. the name andrew, ano

on our endless journey of experience, that spark, that pure love, has to surround itself with an outer shell that resonates with the frequency range it wishes to experience. without that, it could not interact with that "world" because it would be too far away on the dial. if my consciousness did not surround itself with a physical body on the same frequency range as this "world" i could not tap the keys of this computer. my consciousness would pass straight through them. for this reason, our inner spark of pure love has taken on a vast number of outer "bodies" to interact with and experience all densities down the scale. we are, therefore, like a series of russian dolls, one inside the other, all vibrating at different speeds. and all, except that spark of love that interpenetrates all e

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

f the anunnaki brothers, enki the serpent god, was alsofigure 6: the fleur-de-lis, symbolof the babylonian trinity of nimrod,queen semiramis and tammuz,among other things. 53known as ea. the freemasonic eagle with two heads looking left and right, east andwest, is symbolic of nimrod in the role of eannus, and i would suggest that the eagle issymbolic of the winged draco. eannus, it was said, held the keys to the doors of heavenand he was the sole intermediary between god and humanity, therefore any belief notsupported by him was false and should be condemned. this was a wonderful tool forthe babylonian priesthood to impose their will on the populous and exactly the samescam has been played by their successors, the christian priests, the rabbis and thepriesthoods of islam, hinduism and all

ays of the sun, can be found on thestatue of liberty in new york harbour. all these rituals went back thousands of yearsto babylon and the stories of nimrod, queen semiramis, and tammuz, their version ofjesus. mithra was said to be the son (sun) of god who died to save humanity and givethem eternal life. one classic symbol of mithra was as a lion with a snake curled aroundhis body, while he holds the keys to heaven. this is more nimrod symbolism and theorigin of the story of st peter, one of jesus 12 disciples, holding the keys to heaven.peter was the name of the high priest in the babylon mystery school. after an initiateof the mithran cult had completed the ritual, the members had a meal of bread and winein which they believed they were eating the flesh of mithra and drinking his blood.m

DAVID ICKE RELATED THE HIDDEN GEARS OF FREEMASONRY

the rays of the sun, can be found on the statue of liberty in ny harbor. all these rituals went back thousands of years to babylon and the stories of nimrod, queen semiramis, and tammuz, their version of jesus mathra was said to be the son (sun) of god who died to save humanity and give them eternal life. one classic symbol of mithra was a lion with a snake curled around his body, while he holds the keys to heaven. better business bureau, notice the torch? the individuals who are in control of this world are not who they might seem. they are evil spirits set out to enslave other spiritual beings. us! christ was trying to teach us the truth about spirituality but they had him killed for trying. i do respect all those who died defending our 'freedom, but it is time to wake up and realize wh

DEMONIC BIBLE

es, or enoch. the enochian system of magic adopted by the golden dawn was based on the enochian evocation of dr. john dee. dee, an elizabethan astrologer and magician, working with another man, edward kelly, produced a series of 18 keys in what they claimed was the original angelic language and apparently revealed to enoch, the first man after the fall to walk with god. the english translation of the keys bear a striking similarity to invocations in the clavicula solomonis, another medieval grimoire, but dee& kelly claimed that the keys were revealed to them by the angels, the letters of the words shown to them in a crystal show stone. the enochian evocation of dr. john dee also gives the invocation for various spirits with which dee& kelly communicated. a beast of revelation on april 4, 1

in thy name, amaimon. sanctify me in thy name, amaimon. bless me in thy name, amaimon. come forth, amaimon, and manifest thyself. come forth, amaimon, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice) opening the nine locks of the abyss initial statement i have crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. within my hand i hold the keys to the locks of the abyss. i shall open the nine locks of the abyss by calling upon the nine lords of the abyss. i shall now open the *first of the nine locks of the abyss *or second, or third, as appropriate invocation of paimon/the 1st lock paimon, i invoke thee. paimon, i summon thee. paimon, i conjure thee. come forth, paimon, and manifest thyself. within this body, this temple which

rits. the eighteen keys are calls to the superior and inferior spirits in the nine angelic orders. the first and second keys call the superior and inferior spirits in the order of angels; the third and fourth keys call the superior and inferior spirits in the order of archangels; the fifth and sixth keys call the superior and inferior spirits in the order of principalities; and so on. by reciting the keys you will be, in effect, waging war on the heavens and making these spirits subject to your control. this is followed by the call of the 30 ayres. the ayres are spirits which preside over the divisions of the earth and heavens. the ayres exist beyond all that we comprehend as time and space and have, therefore, the power to change what we believe to be reality. by calling upon the ayres, t

DIABOLUS

ch never could be joyful do threaten us. o prince satan, father of all the wicked and ungodly and renegades wherefore wouldest thou do this? they that from the beginning until now have despaired of life and salvation-now is none of their wonted roarings heard, neither doth any groan from them sound in our ears, nor is there any sign of tears upon the face of any of them. o prince satan, holder of the keys of hell, those thy riches which thou hadst gained by the tree of transgression and the losing of paradise, thou hast lost by the tree of the cross, and all thy gladness hath perished- gospel of nicodemus vii (xxiii) here beelzebub is the tester and accuser of christ, he by having him in myth crucified acted as his initiator and teacher, he tested christ by word and prose and christ proved

DION FORTUNE CEREMONIAL MAGIC UNVEILED

third person of this unholy trinity of revealers of the mysteries is my humble self, who has been doing much the same thing as mr. regardie in a series of articles on the cabbala which has been running in my own magazine, the inner light. i know that i undertook this work under a strong inner compulsion that this teaching must now be given out to the world; that it was the will of those who held the keys that the door should be set open in these matters, and that we were about to enter on an entirely new phase of occult activity. so far as i can see, ceremonial magic is coming out into the open, as witness even the futile operations of mr. harry price on the brocken, concerning which i had something to say in a previous issue of the occult review. one does not see sporadic manifestations

eternal temple, and the masters who rule therein, that i personally look for my inspiration and my authority to initiate. whatever system i use is a means to an end and nothing more. i value tradition, however, because i find it to possess a psychic efficacy which is lacking in original systems, however theoretically correct or aesthetically beautiful they may be. it is my belief that mathers got the keys to his system from the mysterious manuscripts, and that these connect up with the genuine european tradition whose symbol is the rose on the cross, and concerning which so little is known. i cannot prove this statement on the physical plane, because i have never been allowed a sight of those manuscripts or any opportunity to test the statements that are current in the order concerning its

to my cost. it is not advisable however, for persons with no experience of practical occultism to make their first experiments with no other guidance than that of a book. preliminary training is necessary; also a guide with a rope in case of difficulties. but those who have already passed through the outer court and stand waiting at the door between the pylons will find, in mr. regardie's books, the keys they need. i, for one, wish them godspeed on their journey; and may they find the stone of the wise; the summum bonum; true wisdom; perfect happinefemystical qabala page 1 the mystical qabalah mystical qabala page 2 foreword the tree of life forms the ground-plan of the western esoteric tradition and is the system upon which pupils are trained in the fraternity of the inner light. the tra

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

commentaries thereon; and the qabalah, or mystical interpretation thereof. of these three the ancient rabbis say that the first is the body of the tradition, the second its rational soul, and the third its immortal spirit. ignorant men may with profit read the first; learned men study the second; but the wise meditate upon the third. it is a strange thing that christian exegesis has never sought the keys to the old testament in the qabalah. 12. in our lord's day there were three schools of religious thought in palestine: the pharisees and the sadducees, of whom we read so frequently in the gospels; and the essenes, who are never referred to. esoteric tradition avers that the boy jesus ben joseph, when his calibre was recognised by the learned doctors of the law who heard him speak in the

d, however, i can only endorse what all the gurus of the eastern tradition have always averred-that any system of psycho-spiritual development can only be safely and adequately carried on under the personal supervision of an experienced teacher. for this reason, although i shall give in these pages the principles of the mystical qabalah, i do not consider it would be in anybody's interest to give the keys to its practice even if by the terms of the obligation of my own initiation i were not forbidden to do so. but, on the other hand, i do not consider it fair to the reader to introduce intentional blinds and misinformation, and to the best of my knowledge and belief the information i give is accurate, even if incomplete. 21. the thirty-two mystical paths of the concealed glory are ways of

lution is simple. upon the physical plane [page 24] we are ourselves in the element of earth, therefore that symbol does not appear upon the paths which lead into the unseen. remove this, and we are left with twenty-two symbols, which fit accurately and, correctly placed, are found to correspond perfectly with the tarot trumps, each elucidating the other in the most remarkabl& fashion, and giving the keys to esoteric astrology and tarot divination. 14. the essence of each path is to be found in the fact that it connects two of the sephiroth, and we can only understand its significance by taking into account the nature of the linked spheres upon the tree. but a sephirab cannot be understood upon a single planc; it has a fourfold nature. the qabalists express this by saying that there are fo

ah, however, in order to render some of the concepts intelligible, but those who are rightfully in possession of its keys need have no fear that these keys will be revealed to the uninitiated in these pages, for i am quite alive to the consequences of so doing. 13. if, from the information here given, and as a result of pursuing the methods described herein, anyone is able to work out for himself the keys of the practical qabalah, as he well may, can any dispute that he is entitled to them? 14. the tree is enormously valuable as a meditation glyph, quite apart from its use in magic. by meditation such as i have described in my account of my own experiences on the thirty-second path, it is possible to equilibrate the warring elements in one's own nature and bring them into harmonious balanc

2 tropical growth sprang up that, having no roots in racial tradition, withered away or developed strange forms. 4. the buried temple of our native tradition has in actuality been excavated in part at any rate, but the rescued fragments have not been made available for students according to the honourable traditions of european scholarship, but have been gathered together into private collections the keys whereof have rested in the pockets of individuals who have opened and closed the doors in an entirely arbitrary fashion. i have no doubt these pages will cause heart-burnings in certain quarters whose private collections they depreciate in value. but i have no doubt also that the innumerable students who essayed the western path in vain may find in these pages the keys to what was incompr

ELIPHAS LEVI THE CONJURATION OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS

quis, quae superius sitcut quaee superius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius. sol ejus pater est, luna mater et ventus hanc gestavit in utero suo, ascendit a terra ad coelum et rursus a coelo in terram descendit. exorciso te, creatura aquae, ut sis mihi speculum dei vivi in operibus ejus, et fons vitae, et ablutio pecatorum. amen. 7 prayer of the undines terrible king of the sea! thou who boldest the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the hollow places of the earth! king of the deluge and of rains, of springtime! thou who openest the sources of streams and fountains! thou who commandest the moisture (which is like the blood of the earth) to become the sap of plants! we adore and invoke thee! speak to us, ye moving and changeable creatures! speak t

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ree and a quarter yards of the place. the room is over nine feet high and was brilliantly lighted by a 100 candle-power lamp, and the door and window were shut, the latter fastened, and incapable of being opened from the outside. tweedale recorded several other similar observations. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. apports 77 we were talking about the mysterious disappearance of the keys. suddenly i saw something bright coming swiftly through the air from the direction of the corner opposite the door and high up towards the ceiling, and so from that part of the room where there is neither door, nor window, nor any opening in the wall. the bright thing rushed through the air and struck my wife on the coil of hair at the back of her head. it came with such a force that it b

claimed to be the earthy representative of the secret order of the christian brotherhood and school of christian initiation. similar to what has been elsewhere termed the great white brotherhood, the secret order of the christian brotherhood was seen as consisting of those evolved beings who in ages past had so spiritualized their bodies and perfected their understanding that they had been given the keys to the kingdom universal. their present task is to guide the earth. as an initiate, hodges was given the order s teachings and told to propagate them. he founded the christian fellowship organization as an instrument for the order and in 1938 published their teachings in a book, the teachings of the secret order of the christian brotherhood. the order taught a means of achieving liberatio

g the secrets of the tarot. levi stated that his writings, however, were obscure, wearisome, and in style barbarous. etteilla claimed to have revised the book of thoth (i.e, the tarot) but in reality obscured its meaning by regarding as blunders certain cards whose meaning he had failed to grasp. it is commonly admitted that he failed in his attempt to elucidate the tarot and ended by transposing the keys, thus destroying the correspondence between the numbers and the signs. it is also said that he degraded the science of the tarot into mere fortune-telling by cards for credulous people. the publications of etteilla include maniere de se recreer le jeu de cartes nommes tarots (4 pts, 1783.85, philosophie des hautes sciences (1785, and science, lecons theoriques et pratiques du livre de tho

ucolack by the greeks, and appears to have come into greek thought from the slavic world in early medieval times. french researcher augustine calmet, author of dissertations upon the apparitions of angels, daemons and ghosts, and concerning. vampires (1759) stated, it is asserted by the modern greeks, in defence of their schism, and as a proof that the gift of miracles, and the episcopal power of the keys, subsists in their church more visibly and evidently than in the church of rome, that, with them, the bodies of excommunicated persons never rot, but swell up to an uncommon size, and are stretched like drums, nor ever corrupt or fall to dust, till they have received absolution from some bishop or priest. and they produce many instances of carcasses which have been in their graves uncorru

ust awaken. to assist the process of awakening, the order provides the wisdom of the qabala (also spelled kabbalah or qabalah, ceremonial magic, and esoteric psychology. it also draws on eastern teachings, especially tantra. to follow the path and become an awakened self requires an act of will on the part of the individual. once the individual begins the path, members of the order begin to share the keys of wisdom which were given to the three founders of the order in the early 1960s. individual members work alone in developing their magical skills and report back to the other members. the order confers no grades and extracts no dues. in the 1970s, two order members, frater damon and soror ishtaria, were among the first to receive the information developed in england by jim lees, jake str

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des off into a luminous cloud. to the touch the hand was sometimes icy cold and dead, at other times warm and lifelike. crookes said he saw a luminous cloud hover over a heliotrope, break a sprig off and carry it to a lady; he also claimed to have seen a finger and thumb pick petals from a flower in home s buttonhole and lay them in front of several persons sitting near him. phantom hands playing the keys of an accordion floating in the air were frequently seen. once in the full light of day in hall s drawing room, with d. d. home s feet and hands in full view the entire time, william howitt, s. carter hall, and emma hardinge britten claimed they saw 20 pairs of hands form and remain visible and active for about an hour. one evening, wrote john ashburner of his experiences with the medium

a blavatsky (1896) is claimed to have been produced by this technical means. the machine, according to j. m. wade s introduction, typed nine paper sheets per hour. of a sitting with franek kluski on november 23, 1919, the polish society for psychical research recorded: the typewriter on the table, fully illuminated by the red light, began to write. the sitters remarked that it wrote very quickly, the keys being depressed as if by a skilful typist. there was no one near the machine. the persons holding mr. kluski s hands noticed that they twitched during the writing. in tullio castellani s record of a sitting on july 6, 1927, in millesimo castle, there is a description of an artistic exhibition: after a little while we heard in perfect rhythm with the music, a dance of two drumsticks upon t

of the third vision would end the many speculations concerning its content. sources: alonso, joaquin maria. the secret of fatima: fact and legend. cambridge, mass: ravengate press, 1979. culligan, emmet. the 1960 fatima secret. rockford, ill: tan books and publishers, 1967. francois de marie de anges, frere. tragedy and triumph. buffalo, n.y: immaculate heart publications, 1994. martin, malachi. the keys of this blood. new york: simon and schuster, 1990. the message of fatima. http//www.cesnur.org. june 28, 2000. simpson, victor l. vatican reveals third secret told at fatima. detroit news (may 14, 2000: 11a. stanford, ray. fatima prophecy: days of darkness/promise of light. austin, tex: association for the understanding of man, 1974. secret tradition since the medieval period, students of

this divinatory use of letters is still known in eastern countries. the muslims had a divining table that they said was invented by the prophet edris or enoch. it was divided into a hundred little squares, each of which contained a letter of the arabic alphabet. the person who consulted it repeated three times the opening chapter of the qur an, and the 57th verse of the 6th chapter: with him are the keys of the secret things; none knoweth them but him; he knoweth whatever is on the dry ground, or in the sea: there falleth no leaf but he knoweth it; neither is there a single grain in the dark parts of the earth, nor a green thing, nor a dry thing, but it is written in a perspicuous book. having concluded this recitation, he averted his head from the table and placed his finger upon it; he

he development of new social skills. in modern wicca, the emphasis is placed upon positive spells, but there is a place for curses and negative spells. admonitions surround the use of such spells. some pagan priestesses speak of a threefold law of return. if one seeks out a spell, and if that spell does not take, it will rebound upon the one who sent it with a triple force. sources: abbott, john. the keys of power: a study of indian ritual and belief. london: methuen, 1932. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1974. aima. ritual book of herbal spell. los angeles: hermetic science center, 1970. budge, e. a. wallis. egyptian magic. london: kegan paul, 1899. spells encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1454 campbell, j. g. witchcraft and second sight in scottish highlan

ESOTERISM AND THE LEFT HAND PATH

exploring esoteric knowledge. what then is esoterism and how is it connected to the left hand path? antoine faivre, one of the leading scholars on occult research and esoterism, writes in his book esoterism that esoterism is not an area like art, philosophy or chemistry, but rather a way of thinking. faivre explains: the diffuse etymological derivation of the word indicates that one can only find the keys to the symbols, myths and reality by individual progression where one reaches illumination step by step, in a hermeneutic way. there is no outmost secret if one believes that all is basically secret. esoterism denotes something inner and mysterious, unlike the exoteric which is the outer form. christianity with its outer dogmas and ceremonies could be called exoteric, while gnosticism cou

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

aircraft were to proceed to the east for another sixty-seven miles, turn north for seventy-three miles, then head westsouthwest for the remaining one hundred twenty miles back to their home base. heading the mission the only nonstudent was the relatively inexperienced lt. charles taylor, who did not know the area well. by late afternoon, the planes were lost. taylor thought they were flying over the keys off florida s south coast, and he made a fatal misjudgment: he flew north. if he and his men had been over the keys, of course, they would bermuda triangle 41 a reward poster at a marina for the yacht saba bank, which went missing in the bermuda triangle march 10, 1974 (bettmann/corbis) have arrived over land and to safety. because they were over the bahamas, however, flying northward onl

sical creation the hardened shell around the cosmic egg of light (arvey, 1994. metatronic energy is transmitted once a week to the earth, and seekers can gain access to it if they are attuned to the proper frequency. much of the information metatron sends is of a densely technical nature. a good part of the channeled material comes through james j. hurtak, who records it in the book of knowledge: the keys of enoch (1982. hurtak, however, is far from the only metatron channeler. the most famous communicant with metatron is the rock guitarist carlos santana. santana claims that metatron was responsible for the restoration of his career in 1999 and 2000. during a meditation session metatron told him, we want to hook you back to the radio-airwave frequency and to reconnect the molecules to the

hael, 1994. metatron. http//www.spiritweb. org/spirit/metatron-arvey.html. davidson, gustav, 1967. a dictionary of angels.new york: free press. gates, david, and devin gordon, 2000. smooth as santana. newsweek (february 14: 66 67. gilmore, robert and laurie, eds, n.d. the ascension is life lived from joy. http//www.nitehawk. com/daydove/25metatr.html. hurtak, james j, 1982. the book of knowledge: the keys of enoch. los gatos, ca: academy for future science. stone, joshua david, 1994. the complete ascension manual. sedona, az: light technology publishing. michael in two books, chelsea quinn yarbro chronicled the channeling experiences of a young san francisco area woman given the name jessica lansing. yarbro wrote that in 1970, as jessica and her husband, walter (also a pseudonym, played wi

FAUST

es upon the town. over the spot where a man was slain, avenging spirits hover and lie in wait for the returning murderer. faust that too from you? the murder and death of a world be upon you, monster! lead me to her, i say, and set her free! mephistopheles i will lead you, and what i can do, hear! have i all power in heaven and on earth? the warder s senses i will becloud; make yourself master of the keys and lead her forth with human hand. i ll watch! the magic horses are ready, i will carry you away. that i can do. faust up and away! night. an open field. faust and mephistopheles storming along on black horses. faust what weaving are they round the ravenstone? mephistopheles i know not what they are brewing and doing. faust hovering up, hovering down, bending low, bowing down. mephistoph

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

real reform. vast and vague hopes of some religious settlement following on navarre's victory and conversion were aroused throughout europe, and particularly in venice, as agrippa d'aubigne ironically reports: divines. were finding by the figures of geomancy, by oracles, by the fatal name of bourbon, that this prince was destined to convert the hierarchies to the empire, the pulpit into a throne, the keys into swords, and that he would die emperor of the christians. the venetians were adoring this rising sun with such devotion that when a french gendeman passed through their town they would run to greet him. at the court of the emperor and in poland one heard public prayers that the empire might be confided into his fortunate hands, together with disputes concerning the reunion of religion

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

he same source? in his realisation of the cthulhu mythos, lovecraft also drew upon a wide range of sources from the historical occult tradition, and from the literary material pertaining to it. in his essay, supernatural horror in literature, he mentions academic works such as frazer s the golden bough, and margaret murray s the witch cult in western europe, as well as authentic grimoires such as the keys of solomon and dr. john dee s book of enoch, or liber logaeth. he had also read waite s collection of medieval texts, the book of black magic and pacts, macgregor mathers translation of the sacred magic of abra-melin the sage, and cotton mathers, wonders of the invisible world, which documents the witchcraft phenomena centred around salem in 1692. the titles of these volumes are echoed in

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

dge or the trustees of the charity fund: to render annually lo the finance committee, your accounts, with the vouchers: to lay before the grand lodge, on the first day of each annual communication, a detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures of the preceding year: and finally, to obey all orders of the grand lodge and of the trustees in relation to their respective funds and properties. the keys forming the jewel of your office have a twofold significance: they are instruments to bind as well as to loose; to make fast as well as to open. they will never, l am confident, be used by you in any other manner than the constitutions, laws, rules, and regulations of the grand lodge shall direct. recording grand secretary. r.w. brother:usage, as well as positive enactments from time to t

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

er" or "to increase" the kalends of january at rome were sacred to janus and juno to whom sacrifices were offered. the etruscans also worshipped janus who was the god (or goddess) of the year. although this deity does not appear among the twelve gods it is said to be the parent of them all. it was represented as having two faces. upon one were the letters representing 365, and upon the other were the keys of life and death. according to bryant this deity was called junonius, from the goddess juno, whose name resolves itself into juneh, a dove. in the hebrew this name is identical with yoni or yuni--the female principle. on the coins of this god (which was subsequently regarded as male) is usually figured a boat, although a dove with an olive branch is sometimes observed.[133 [133] see fabe

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

he old testament may indeed be, to some extent, the link which binds together thousands of christians, for christ founded his doctrine upon a jewish basis, but the interminable list of christian sects of today have almost all taken their rise from the assertion of an assumed right of personal interpretation of the bible, which should have remained debarred to the generality by the confession that the keys were lost, or, at least, missing, and that, without their assistance, error of a vital character was inevitable. the vast accumulation of varying interpretations of the bible, although a stupendous folly, yet sinks into insignificance as an incident of importance, before the collateral truth that the followers of each of the hundreds of sects have arrogated to themselves, not only the rig

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

on consulting should be represented, he should takeofthe kings to represent himself, according tohiscomple-i;j xion.ifa lady consults the cards, let her take one ofqueens;ifshe be rather fair,thequeen of cups; ifshefair, the queen of wands or sceptres,ifthe inquirer bea youth or a boy, let him take one of the knights; if ayoung girl, let her take the knave,etc. etteilla's. plan wasto'%take two of the keys for significators,thatanswering topope for a man, that answering to the high priestess fora"jwoman. butido notthinkthis iswell. the worstof:!etteilla's system is that he so completely destroysmeanings of the keys in his attempted rearrangement oftheni,"aas to make them practically useless for higher occultishall now .give267several.modes of laying out the cardsdivination.thereader can ado

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

th the spread of the templar tradition throughout europe, the kabbalah began to attract a number of philosophers. so, in the fifteenth century, a current of humanism began that left an indelible mark on the european world of ideas. this connection between humanism and the kabbalah has been emphasized in several sources. one of these sources is the book of the famous author malachi martin entitled the keys of this blood. martin is professor of history at the vatican's pontifical bible institute. he says that the influence of the kabbalah can be clearly observed among the humanists: in this unaccustomed climate of uncertainty and challenge that came to mark early-renaissance italy, there arose a network of humanist associations with aspirations to escape the overall control of that establish

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

the spiritual path. but remember, the world is a trap, a dialectic prison and hence indulgence(+1) or attachment and mortification(-1) or detachment are both actions and reactions and hence part of the prison we are caught in. faith and education one of the most important steps on the path is that of education or more correctly, re-education. when the gnostic begins to really study the bible with the keys of the mysteries a whole new understanding arises and this new understanding (gnosis) will change forever the way he looks at the world. study is hence a major part of the path of transfiguration and it leads to a whole new way of examining the world. this viewpoint is sometimes called faith but is better described as conviction. it is a worldview that grows out of the experience of the g

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

of the original nature of man. the process of transfiguration is to break beyond the endura (the world of the archons) and retrieve the gnosis coded within us, bursting forth with the power of divine will and formulating an identity of light substance. in the tradition of the barbelo gnostics, sophia herself, feeling guilty after giving birth to the false creator, hid within his very own creation the keys to man s liberation and the demiurge s downfall. gnostic theurgy page 59 some conclusions when we examine the cycle of eternal re-occurrence and the nature of transfiguration, we can see how wrong traditional views of reincarnation are. reincarnation is not some carefully graded developmental process, but an opportunity to escape the lower worlds, to return to the dimension where real evo

off the spiritual path. remember, the world is a trap, a dialectic prison, and accordingly, indulgence(+1) or asceticism and mortification(-1, are both actions and reactions and accordingly are aspects of the prison we are caught in. faith and education one of the most important steps on the path is that of education or more correctly, re-education. when the gnostic begins to study the bible with the keys of the mysteries, a whole new understanding will arise and will change the way he looks at the world forever. study is one of the major facets of the path of transfiguration, and it leads to a radically different way of examining the world. this viewpoint is sometimes called faith, but is better described as conviction. it is a worldview that grows out of the experience of the gnosis. an

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF WATER

of the earth in robes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee-el (say "for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column shines the six-rayed star" give the adoration to the lord of the universe go to the west facing west give the practicus sign facing west recite the prayer of the undines: terrible king of the sea, thou who hast the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth. king of the deluge and of the rains of spring; thou who openest the sources of rivers and of fountains; thou who commandest moisture which is, as it were, the blood of the earth, to become the sap of plants. we adore thee and we invoke thee! speak thou unto us, thy mobile and changeful

GOLDEN DAWN PRAYERS OF THE ELEMENTALS

se of the evening breeze to fly before thee! o spirit of spirits! o eternal soul of souls! o imperishable breath of life! o creative sigh! o mouth which breathest forth and withdrawest the life of all beings, in the flux and reflux of thine eternal word, which is the divine ocean of movement and of truth! amen. the prayer of the undines or water spirits. terrible king of the sea, thou who holdest the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterraean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth. king of the deluge and of the rains of spring. thou who openest the sources of the rivers and of the fountains; thou who commandest moisture which is, as it were, the blood of the earth, to become the sap of the plants. we adore thee and we invoke thee. speak thou unto us, thy mobile an

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS K

wands over the head of chief, then they separate wands from head and give the sign of 5=6 grade) chief adept (slowly and loudly "i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first and i am the last. i am he that liveth but was dead and behold i am alive forevermore, and hold the keys to hell and of death" 13 (chief adept quits the circle, the second adept follows, then the other members, with the third adept last. all enter the vault and proceed around the altar with the sun. chief adept reads the following sentences, and all halt in the former positions, chief adept is in center, others are around) chief adept "for i know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall sta

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z1

of truth" the three inferior officers do not wear mantles but only lamens suspended from black collars. the designs are in white on a black field to show that they are administrators of the forces of light acting through the darkness, under the presidency of the superior officers. the lamen of the kerux is thus explained in the grade of theoricus "the tree of life and the three mother letters are the keys wherewith to unlock the caduceus of hermes. the upper point of the wand rests on rtk and the wings stretch out to hmkj and hnyb, thus, comprehending the three supernal sephiroth. the lower seven are embraced by the serpents whose heads fall on dsj and hrwbg. they are the twin serpents of egypt and the currents of astral light. furthermore, the wings and the top of the wand form the letter

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM11

now rise in the planes to the highest point of pure white brilliance. atune yourself with your higher genius. feel any inspiration "i am the resurrection and the life. whosoever believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold i am alive forever more and i hold the keys of hell and of death. for i know that my reedmer liveth and that he shall stand in the latter of 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 into the light. i have fought upon the earth for good and have chosen in thy holy name to continue the work of thy will" step 12 now b

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. quit the darkness and seek the light" step 21 return to the pillars, and visualize the descent of the brilliance above. step 22 "i am the resurrection and the life. whosoever believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first, and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, 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 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 hwch

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM18

ect before the forty-two assessors and the judgment of thoth in the hall of maat, stand again in the sign of osiris risen and say "i am the resurrection and the life. whosoever believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first, and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, 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 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 circum

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM20

f the 11 human will to exalt yourself into the genius. then, circumambulate three times. return to the pillars, and face east. say "i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whomsoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. i am the first and the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, 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 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

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM5

uld be totally focused on the divine white brilliance, the letter c, and your higher spiritual self (the divine genius therein. now say the following "i am the resurrection and the life, he that believeth in me though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever believeth in me shall never die. i am the first and the last. i am he that liveth 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 pass

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

workable variations of the original cipher, a mere fraction of the number of potential ciphers, the mechanics of deciphering, what to look for to decipher, and what deciphering the secret code of the ufonauts reveals of their origin and character. masonic cipher. 26 allen h. greenfield from the equinox volume vii, no. 1. 27 4 secret cipher of the ufonauts developed it is impossible to understand the keys to the modern magical revival and its connection to ufology and the secret cipher of the ufonauts without understanding the context of the times in which modern ritual magical societies arose. europe ruled the world in the late 19th century, and conspiracies proliferated. literature abounded with stories of spies and revolutionists, real and imagined. a. conan doyle devoted the sherlock h

d vril influence and directed by the infamous ahnenerbe group imported a number of black brothers and adepts from tibet during and prior to the second world war. the tibetan colony in berlin in fact predates the nazi rise to power, having been established in 1926. one tibetan monk, termed the man with the green gloves and a reputed psychic, was frequently visited by hitler and was rumored to hold the keys to the kingdom of agarthi. such keys are best understood in terms of ciphers. western mystics including karl kellner, p.b. randolph and g.i. gurdjieff received instruction from surviving institutions of the great white brotherhood and carried their influence back with them to europe, just as the templars had done centuries before, and incorporated their teachings into the western esoteric

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

appeared over a period of seven years. 2 little came of dee's psychic investigations until late in the nineteenth century when a group of occultists and magicians took up the magick. the hermetic order of the golden dawn used words and phrases from dee's enochian magick in their magical rituals and writings. however, t was not until a magician rose to the grade of adeptus minor that he was given the keys to this magical system. here enochian invocations for skrying in the spirit-vision (a magical process sometimes called astral traveling) formed a part of their magical work. the golden dawn taught that dee had merely rediscovered an ancient system known to the ill-fated atlanteans thousands of years ago. the enochian alphabet was said to have been a direct derivative of that which was use

ind, but my spirit remains; a light in the darkness. abai-malpirg abai-malpirg abaimalpirg (ah-bah-ee-mahleh-pee-rah-geh) 365 i am the stooping life-spark in a well of darkness. i am the light of wisdom and the light of mercy. behold, there is healing in my wings. life from my spirit springs. i am he that has life and am dead. he who from life to life is led. i hold the ivory keys of hell. i hold the keys of death as well. bliorb-olprt (beh lee-oh-ra-beh-oh-leh-par-teh) the comfort of light is upon me. i rest in the great place of comfort; the palace of our lady, babalon (bah-bah-loh-en) i am the lord of life, the opener of the day. triumphant over death, i prepare a pathway through the darkness. i am the bennu. i am the bornless one. life and death abide in me. i am the bennu, the soul of

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

ore his bloody skin as a warning to evildoers. by this era, anubis was said to command an army of demon messengers who inflicted suffering and death. anubis remained an important funerary god in the roman period, but his cult was singled out for abuse by roman writers. this may have been partly because of his popularity with necromancers. demotic spells explain how to summon anubis, the keeper of the keys to the underworld, by methods such as drawing his image in the blood of a black dog. when he appeared, anubis was used as a go-between to fetch gods and spirits from the underworld to answer the magician s questions. anubis also acted as an enforcer of curses; a role he plays to this day in horror films. see also nephthys; osiris; seth; thoth; wepwawet references and further reading: d. m

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ith the substance from which she emanated-spirit. all souls are dual, and, while the latter is a feminine principle, the spirit is masculine. while imprisoned in body, man is a trinity, unless his pollution is such as to have caused his divorce from the spirit "woe to the soul which prefers to her divine husband (spirit) the earthly wedlock with her terrestrial body" records a text of the book of the keys, a hermetic work. woe indeed, for nothing will remain of that personality to be recorded on the imperishable tablets of the ego's memory. q. how can that which, if not breathed by god into man, yet is on your own confession of an identical substance with the divine, fail to be immortal? a. every atom and speck of matter, not of substance only, is imperishable in its essence, but not in it

great theosophist been born 300 years later he might have expressed it otherwise. he would have known that the "god" who spoke through his poor uncultured and untrained brain was his own divine ego, the omniscient deity within himself, and that what that deity gave out was not "what measure he pleased" but in the measure of the capacities of the mortal and temporary dwelling it informed. book of the keys an ancient cabalistic work. the original is no longer extant, though there may be spurious and disfigured copies and forgeries of it. brahma (sans) the student must distinguish between the neuter brahma, and the male creator of the indian pantheon, brahm. the former brahma or brahman is the impersonal, supreme, and uncognizable soul of the universe, from the essence of which all emanates

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elevision, religions, cults, parapsychology, etc. this approach means that if you approach two chaos magicians and ask em what they re doing at any one moment, you re rarely likely to find much of a consensus of approach. this makes chaos difficult to pin down as one thing or another, which again tends to worry those who need approaches to magick to be neatly labelled and clear. 6. gnosis. one of the keys to magical ability is the ability to enter altered states of consciousness at will. we tend to draw a distinct line between ordinary consciousness and altered states, where in fact we move between different states of consciousness- such as daydreams, autopilot (where we carry out actions without cognition) and varying degrees of attention, all the time. however, as far as magick is concer

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rainy day' we will not even stop to consider the alleged millions of spiritualists; for the majority lack the courage to break away from their respective religious denominations. these are the back-door nicodemuses. and now with hlate let us inquire. what is truth? where is it to be searched for amid thb multitude of warring sects? each claims to be based upon divine revelation, and each to have the keys of the celestial gates. is any one of them in possession of this rare truth? or, must we exclaim with the buddhist philosopher "there is but one truth on earth, and it is unchangeable: and this is that there is no truth on it" though we have no disposition whatever to trench upon the ground that has been so exhaustively gleaned by those learned scholars who have shown that every christian

and the gates [or rulers] of hades shall not prevail against it; meaning by petra the rock-temple, and metaphorically, the christian mysteries; the adversaries to which were the old myatery-goda of the underworld, who were worshiped in the rites of lus, adonis, atys, sabazius, dionysus, and the eleusinia. no apoaue peter was ever at rome; but the pope, seizing the scepter of the ponufex maximum, the keys fa janus and cybele, and adorning his christian head with the cap of the magna mater, copied from that of the tiara of brahvmnut, the supreme pontiff of the initiates of old india, became the successor of the pagan high priest, the real peter-roma, or peiroma "nte roman catholic church has two far mightier enemies than the 'heretics' and the 'infidels; and these are comparative mythology

a ormk appoidiz, p. 397. 45. hie tiais of the pope ii aiao a perfect copy of that of the dalai-lama of totet 46. see hu ituia ntr qtttkidiu dtr maumuit. bk. x, eh. ot in autnouuu werht, p. 828: 1844. digitizecoy google origin of the papal tuba and ke^ 31 of being allowed by the brthmanaa of the pagodas to see. in one of his translations we fouad passages which reveal to us the undotjtud origin of the keys of st. peter, and account for the subsequent adoption of the afmbol by their hounesaes, the popes of rome. he shows us on the testimony of the agruahada pariiukai, which he freely translates as "the book of spirits (pitris, that centuries before our era the inhiaiei of the temple chose a superior councc, pie- sided over by the brakmdtma or supreme chief of all these inuiaiea; that this po

his key, and transmitted it in a sealed casket to his successor "this unknown word, of which no hunuw power could, even today, when the brahmanical authority has been crushed under the mongolian and european invasions, today, when eacb pagoda has its brahmatma* force the digdosure, was engraved in a golden triangle and preserved in a sanctuary of the temple of aagartha, whose brahmdtma alone held the keys. he also bore upon his tiara two crotted keyt supported by two koeeting brfihmanas, symbol of the precious depo t of which he had the keeping. this word and this triangle were engraved upon the tablet of the ring that this religious chief wore as one of the signs of his dig- nity; it was also framed in a golden sun on the altar, where every morn- ing the supreme pontiff ofifered the sacri

ich were the true gospels. in his synodicon to that council pappus says that, having "promiscuously put all the books that were referred to the council for determination under a communion-table in a church, they [the bishops] besought the lord that the inspired writings might get upon the table, while the spurious ones remained underneath, and ii happened accordingly* but we are not told who kept the keys of the council-chamber over night! on the authority of ecclesiastical eye-witnesses, therefore, we are at liberty to say that the christian world owes its 'word of god' to a 649. ejiilu qf banuaat, viii, 11-13 (hone edit: londod, 1820. 650. mobheiin: ecd. hitf, cent. iv. part ii, ch. t. 12. 651. socrates: eat. hit, i, ix. 652. ibid, i, viii. 652a. fkbric: bibl. graeea, lib. vi, iii, vii '

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tarted soul-fire? the truth is, say the fire-philosophers, in the rousing of fire we suddenly come upon nature, and start her violently out of her ambush of things, evoking her secretest and immortal face to us. therefore is this knowledge not to be known generally of man; and it is to be assumed at the safest in the disbelief of it: that disbelief being as the magic casket in which it is locked. the keys are only for the gods, or for godlike spirits. this is the true view of the religion of the leaders of the ancient fire-believers, and of the modern illuminati. we shall proceed to demonstrate, in the chapters following, other strange things, hitherto wholly unsuspected in the philosophical short-sight of the modern metaphysicians. we imagine that it will be said that it is impossible tha

ed cross of crucifixion. the red cross which is the cross of the rosicrucians thence their name. even the badge and star and symbol of this most christian order, if ever there were a christian order, which presents this red or sanguine cross of the redeemer, imaged in the cognisance of his champion, or captain, or chief soldier, st. george or st. michael, the trampler of the dragon, and custos of the keys of the bottomless pit, where the devils are confined, protests against the mingling of this mussulman banner with the red cross, which opposed it in the hands of the crusaders, and in those of all christian knights. now, all the christian garter badges only seem to appeal and to protest quietly and under allowance, with bated breath, as it were (as if afraid, deficient in firmness and lif

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from the earth thus defeating satan and evil crew. though you are wearied by those toils that your hand has already made complete spurn not yet greater industry now when it is most necessary and its reward is both near and great. make preparations for the voyage and then i shall teach to you those incantations that you must know to summon from the sky and depths the waters to raise up the flood. the keys to the great cataracts shall be taught to you once the ship is ready so make haste that god's will be not thwarted for a longer time than must be for it to be accomplished. act now, noah, and find vengeance that you so earnestly desire" did that mad criminal need such words as these? no! his heart was so black with hate, 270 flowing in his blood like a burning venom, that no words of eloh

d de mundo non sunt sicut et ego non sum de mundo they are not of the world, even as i am not of the world. xl ego sum a& et w i am alpha& omega ego sum a& et w& principium et finis dicit dominus deus qui est et qui erat et qui venturus est omnipotens i am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the almighty. xli claves inferni the keys to the lower world et vivus et fui mortuus et ecce sum vivens in saecula saeculorum et habeo claves mortis et inferni i am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, i am alive for evermore, amen; and have the keys to the lower world and of death. xlii stella matutinam the morning star sicut et ego accepi a patre meo et dabo illi stellam matutinam and i will give him the morning star. xli

rimum the book of lucifer caput primum: about the book of doom 1.01. eons ago, long before mankind roamed this planet, there is a brotherhood of sorceres. 1.02. they are masters of wisdom, science, and knowledge unheard of yet in the history of mankind. 1.03. they decide to have theire knowledge accessible to all who are ready, willing, and worthy. 1.04. therefore they create a book that contains the keys to all their power, science, knowledge, and wisdom. 1.05. the name of this book is the book of doom. 1.06. this is so because this book means doom to servitude, mediocrity, and weakness. 1.07. the book of doom has been availible for mankind as long as they roamed this planet. 1.08. it exists in many forms and translations. 1.09. each of its forms contains the keys that unlock the knowledg

of doom. 1.06. this is so because this book means doom to servitude, mediocrity, and weakness. 1.07. the book of doom has been availible for mankind as long as they roamed this planet. 1.08. it exists in many forms and translations. 1.09. each of its forms contains the keys that unlock the knowledge, power and wisdom of the ancient empire. 1.10. with the power of the book of doom you will recive the keys so that you can work toward being accepted into 465 the great interstellar order of algol. 1.11. the decision lies always with you. 1.12. this is so because you are the one who decides about his or her own fate. 1.13. if you think that you are ready for the book of doom, you may go ahead to reach for the keys that help you unlock your powers. 1.14. if you still think that you have to lean

ou think that you are ready for the book of doom, you may go ahead to reach for the keys that help you unlock your powers. 1.14. if you still think that you have to lean on some deity, this book is not for you. 1.15. in this case it is better for you not to proceed. 1.16. read the book of doom with insight, book for book, and chapter for chapter. 1.17. look for the meaning between the lines, then the keys will be given to you and you will find your teacher. 1.18. open your being to the book of doom! caput secundum: the order of algol and sorcery 2.01. sorcery is a spiritual science that encompasses the whole human being. 2.02. it involves knowing your own nature and the nature of the universe at large to bring about the change you want in your life. 2.03. this change is always under your c

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bbalah xan intention is called kavana. therefore, the tikkun we need is to place the right kavana over our desires. the reward for making a tikkun and having a kavana is the fulfillment of the last, the greatest of all wishes xthe desire for spirituality, for the creator. when this desire is fulfilled, one knows the system that controls reality, participates in its making, and eventually receives the keys and sits in the driver s seat. such a person will no longer experience 52 kabbalah revealed life and death the way we do, but will effortlessly and joyfully flow through eternity in a never-ending stream of bliss and wholeness, united with the creator. i n a n u t s h e l l there are five levels to our desires, divided into three groups. the first group is animal desires (food, reproducti

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e seen in the fact that they had a certain framework which was always the same, although they showed divergences in minor matters. in those days, just as at the present time, a bro. from a foreign jurisdiction who wished to visit had to prove himself at the door of the lodge; for whatever differences there may have been in the outer forms of the ritual, the s s were always the same, for these are the keys to the sacramental powers lying behind all the systems of the mysteries alike. 209. life in ancient crete 210. one of the most striking instances of this unity is to be found in crete, where the comparatively recent discoveries of sir arthur evans have disclosed many masonic symbols and forms, resembling very closely those of egypt. like gaul in the days of caesar, ancient crete was divid

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ublished in the vision and the voice (1911. crowley claimed to be able to invoke all the aethyrs in the nineteenth key, and recorded his communications with spirits and astral beings.modern enochian magic is characterized by two main operations: invoking spirits, and traveling to the aethyrs. enochian magic is best known to modern satanists indirectly because of anton lavey s inclusion of some of the keys (edited to emphasize infernal connotations) in the latter part of the satanic bible. see also aleister crowley; john dee; anton lavey; magic and magical groups for further reading: lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible. new york: avon, 1969. schueler, gerald j. enochian magick: a practical manual. st. paul, mn: llewellyn, 1987. suster, gerald, ed. john dee: essential readings. wellingbo

feature spiritual warfare between christian demons and angels. the action in these novels moves back and forth between two interacting levels:while angels and devils cross swords in the spiritual realm, peretti s human heroes and heroines do battle with new agers, witches, psychologists, secular education, and other groups viewed as being under demonic influence by conservative christians. one of the keys necessary for understanding peretti is the belief that the concentrated prayers of christians provide power and protection for warrior angels. this prayer energy empowers god s angels to win their battles against supernatural demons. a decisive defeat of satan s legions in the spiritual realm disempowers satan s earthly minions, which in turn leads to their defeat. frank peretti, 1995 (da

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t altogether in the word of any poem, but in the quintessential flavour of the poet, that thou mayst seek this prophecy. and this is an art most necessary to every statesman. who but shelley foretold the fall of christianity, and the organisation of labour, and the freedom of woman; who but nietzsche declared the principle at the root of the world-war? see thou clearly then that in these men were the keys of the dark gates of the future; should not the kings and their ministers have taken heed thereto, fulfilling their word without conflict? f liber aleph vel cxi 68 bo de magis ordinis a. a. quibus caro fit verbum (of the magi of the order a.a, by whom the word is made flesh) ow, o my son, the incarnation of a poet is particular and not universal; he sayeth indeed true things but not the t

o atman, or soul, as men ill translate it, meaning a substance incapable of change. thus, he, like lao-tze, based all upon a movement, instead of a fixed point. and his way of truth was analysis, made possible by great intention of the mind toward itself, and that well fortified by certain tempered rigour of life. and he most thoroughly explored and mapped out the fastnesses of the mind, and gave the keys of its fortresses into the hand of man. but of all this the quintessence is in this one word anatta, because this is not only the foundation and the result of his whole doctrine, but the way of its work. w the book of wisdom or folly 71 br de sri krishna et de dionyso (of sri krishna, and of dionysus) rishna has names and forms innumerable, and i know not his true human birth, for his for

and also as that secret word which thou hast seen and heard in thunders and lightnings in thine initiation to the degree thou wottest of. but this word is itself a plan of the fabrick of the universe, and upon it hath been elaborated the holy qabalah, whereby we have knowledge of the nature of all things soever upon every plane of by-coming, and of their forces and tendencies and operations, with the keys to their portals. nor did he leave any part of his work unfinished, unless it be that accomplished three hundred years ago by sir edward kelly, of whom i also come, as thou knowest. t liber aleph vel cxi 74 bu de mago arabico mohammed (of the magus of the arabs, mohammed) ehold! in these chapters have i, thy father, restricted myself, not speaking of any immediate echo of a word in the wo

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ounced soft. an alternative discussion of enochian pronunciation issues may be found in laycock (1978. 3: this ritual fragment is abbreviated from the opening of the portal grade (attributed to spirit) in the hermetic order of the golden dawn. similarly the rituals preceding the third through sixth keys are abbreviated versions of the appropriate elemental grade openings. 4: the following text of the keys or calls is a phonetic rendition, inserting vowels where necessary according to the g.d. pronunciation rules. note that final .e.s are pronounced separately. the english translations have been slightly modified from those in the dee mss, in addition to the modernisation of spelling. 5: thus in equinox printing; in the dee mss and most other printed editions the word vonpho (vonupeho .wrat

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which is his (partial and incorrect) idea of how things look from kether. this man performs great magic; very strong medicine. he really does find gold on the midden and skeletons in pretty girls. in abiegnus the sacred mountain of the rosicrucians the postulant finds but a coffin in the central shrine; yet that coffin contains christian rosencreutz who is dead and is alive for evermore and hath the keys of hell and of death. ay! your tiphereth man, child of mercy and justice, looks deeper than the skin! but he seems a ridiculous object enough both to the malkuth man and to the kether man. still, he fs the most interesting man there is; and we all must pass through that stage before we get our heads really clear, the kether-vision above the clouds that encircle the mountain abiegnus. ix r

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ely, to rule the earth. therefore with sweetness ineffable he parted from me; yet leaving a comfort not to be told, a peace. the peace. and the light and the perfume do certainly yet remain with me in the little chamber, and i know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. for i am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold! i am alive for evermore, and have the keys of hell and of death. i am amoun the sun in his rising; i have passed from darkness into light. i am asar un-nefer the perfected one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. there is no part of me that is not of the gods .1 1 [from .i know that my redeemer liveth. to here quoted or paraphrased from the adeptus minor ritual of the r.r. et a.c] john st. john 113 the dead man ankh-af-n

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e kwan-se-on of the mongolian peoples, and means the magical force in man, which is the sexual force applied to the brain, heart, and other organs, and redeemeth him. the gradual disclosure of these magical secrets to the poet may be traced in these volumes,32 which it has been my privilege to be asked to explain. it has been impossible to do more than place in the hands of any intelligent person the keys which will permit him to unlock the many beautiful chambers of holiness in these palaces and gardens of beauty and pleasure. of the results of the method we possess one flawless gem, already printed in the equinox (vol. ii. pp. 163-185 .a note on genesis. by v.h. fra. i.a. from this pleasant, orthodox, and-so-they-all-lived-happyever- after view let us turn for a moment to the critical as

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

s very rude.14.the following is a sample .o devatas! behold this yogi! o chela! accurs d abode of tamas art thou! eater of beef, guzzling as an herd of swine! sleeper of a thousand sleeps, as an harlot heavy with wine! void of will! sensualist! enraged sheep! blasphemer of the names of shiva and of devi! christian in disguise! thou shalt be reborn in the lowest avitch! fast! walk! wake! these are the keys of the kingdom! peace be with thy beard! aum. this sort of talk did me much good: i hope it may do as much for you. 63. with eyes well fixed on my proboscis.15. see bhagavad-gita, atmasamyamyog. 67. brahma-charya.16.right conduct, and in particular, chastity in the highest sense. 72. baccy.17.a poisonous plant used by nicotomanics in their orgies and debauches .the filthy tobacco habit. s

to (1+ 10+ 50) 3 2 he adds 300, shin, the flame of the spirit= 666. 4 666= 6 111. 111= aleph, the ox. 5 his journeys as initiator. griphus viii. griphus ix. griphus x. culpa urbium nota terr. nechesh. ambrosii magi hortis rosarum 85 and fifty and eight years,1 set forth upon a journey into the mystic mountain of the caves. he took with him his son,2 a lamb, life, and strength, for these four were the keys of that mountain. so by ten days and fifty days and two hundred days and yet ten days he went forth. after ten days fell a thunderbolt, whirling through black clouds of rain: after sixty the road split in two, but he travelled on both at once: after two hundred and sixty, the sun drove away the rain, and the star shone in the day-time, making it night. after the last day came his mother

fixed even in the vault of the caverns. with one stroke he rent asunder the veil; with one stroke he closed the same. and entering the sarcophagus of that royal tomb he laid him down to sleep. four guarded him, and one in the four; seven enwalled him, and one in the seven, yet were the seven ten, and one in the ten. now therefore his disciples came unto the vault of that mystic mountain, and with the keys they opened the portal and came to him and woke him. but during his long sleep the roses had grown over him, crimson and flaming with interior fire, so that he could not escape. yet they withered at his glance; withat he knew what fearful task was before him. but slaying his disciples with long nails, he interred them there, so that they were right sorrowful in their hearts. may we all di

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

ng the consciousness from ruach to neschamah. aleister crowley. 3 part i in the first verse of the first chapter of the first five books of the holy law: it is written:.b.rashith bara alohim ath hashamaim vaath haaretz, or in aramaic script rah taw \ymch ta \yhla arb tycarb such are the seven words which constitute the beginnings or heads of one law; and i propose to show, by applying to the text the keys of the qabalah, that not merely the surface meaning is contained therein. in the beginning, created, god, the essence of the heavens, and the essence, of the earth. in the beginning in wisdom in the head* created god the elohim the holy gods the essence. of the heavens and the essence of the earth contained therein also are the divine, magical and terrestrial formula of the passage of the

operative because of its diffusiveness and dispersion. in the second figure we behold their concentration: focalisation: producing by their joint action the number of manifestation.4. in the worlds.assiah: in the taro, the princess.the throne of the spirit: in the tetragram, the he final, and in symbolic language.the daughter: in the cycle of life (birth, life, death, resurrection, the fourth; in the keys of the book universal, the empress, korh kosmou, the virgin of the world, venus, aphrodite: centrum in trigonis centri.by whatsoever of a myriad names we call her, still the same in spirit, the same in number and in form! and this number is herein formulated by the concentration of the three in one. 3+ 1= 4. now in this figure ii. we behold six certain paths; and in six days did god creat

LIBER XXXIII AN ACCOUNT OF AA

n political strategic action. thus, when the earth was night utterly corrupt by reason of the great sorcery, the brethren sent mohammed to bring freedom to mankind by the sword. this being but partially a success, they raised up one luther to teach freedom of thought. yet this freedom soon turned into a heavier bondage than before. then the brethren delivered unto man the knowledge of nature, and the keys thereof; yet this also was prevented by the great sorcery. now then finally in nameless ways, as one of our brethren hath it now in mind to declare, have they raised up one to deliver unto men the keys of spiritual knowledge, and by his work shall he be judged. this interior community of light is the reunion of all those capable of receiving light, and it is known as the communion of 4 li

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y its state religion, but another into which the philosophic elect alone have gained entrance. many of these ancient cults vanished from the earth without revealing their secrets, but a few have survived the test of ages and their mysterious symbols are still preserved. much of the ritualism of freemasonry is based on the trials to which candidates were subjected by the ancient hierophants before the keys of wisdom were entrusted to them. few realize the extent to which the ancient secret schools influenced contemporary intellects and, through those minds, posterity. robert macoy, 33, in his general history of freemasonry, pays a magnificent tribute to the part played by the ancient mysteries in the rearing of the edifice of human culture. he says, in part "it appears that all the perfecti

dy of truth. they cannot accomplish this, however, until their discordant cries drown out the harmony drawn by orpheus from his magic lyre. the head of orpheus signifies the esoteric doctrines of his cult. these doctrines continue to live and speak even after his body (the cult) has been destroyed. the lyre is the secret teaching of orpheus; the seven strings are the seven divine truths which are the keys to universal knowledge. the differing accounts of his death represent the various means used to destroy the secret teachings: wisdom can die in many ways at the same time. the allegory of orpheus incarnating in the white swan merely signifies that the spiritual truths he promulgated will continue and will be taught by the illumined initiates of all future ages. the swan is the symbol of t

the "feathered" snake (see the popol vuh) the title of "winged" or "plumed" snake was applied to quetzalcoatl, or kukulcan, the central american initiate. the center of the atlantean wisdom-religion was presumably a great pyramidal temple standing on the brow of a plateau rising in the midst of the city of the golden gates. from here the initiate-priests of the sacred feather went forth, carrying the keys of universal wisdom to the uttermost parts of the earth. the mythologies of many nations contain accounts of gods who "came out of the sea" certain shamans among the american indians tell of holy men dressed in birds' feathers and wampum who rose out of the blue waters and instructed them in the arts and crafts. among the legends of the chaldeans is that of oannes, a partly amphibious cre

hplace of the lord, was shaded by a grove of that still older syrian lord, adonis, and that where the infant jesus had wept, the lover of venus was bewailed (see the golden bough) the effigy of a wild boar is said to have been set over one of the gates of jerusalem in honor of adonis, and his rites celebrated in the grotto of the nativity at bethlehem. adonis as the "gored (or "god) man is one of the keys to sir francis bacon's use of the "wild boar" in his cryptic symbolism. adonis was originally an androgynous deity who represented the solar power which in the winter was destroyed by the evil principle of cold--the boar. after three days (months) in the tomb, adonis rose triumphant on the 25th day of march, amidst the acclamation of his priests and followers "he is risen" adonis was born

latter, unable to understand the abstract philosophical tenets, worshiped the concrete sculptured idols which were emblematic of these secret truths. the wisdom and secrecy of egypt are epitomized in the sphinx, which has preserved its secret from the seekers of a hundred generations. the mysteries of hermeticism, the great spiritual truths hidden from the world by the ignorance of the world, and the keys of the secret doctrines of the ancient philosophers, are all symbolized by the virgin isis. veiled from head to foot, she reveals her wisdom only to the tried and initiated few who have earned the right to enter her sacred presence, tear from the veiled figure of nature its shroud of obscurity, and stand face to face with the divine reality. the explanations in these pages of the symbols

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tones of magical practice, and they should speak for themselves. they reward contemplation. all successful witchery stems from their accurate employment. you can burn your cabalistic books and drown your yoga sutras they will avail you nothing in your quest for power unless you have already understood and mastered the ideas embodied in the witches' pyramid, the four great rules of magic which are the keys to all practical operations in the world of the unseen. casting your spells whenever you wish to work a piece of witchcraft, it is always best if you tie all your supercharged will, faith, and imagination into a single, sizzling bolt with the help of a pattern of spoken words: the charm, or incantation. witches, like poets, painters, and chefs, have always taken a bit from here and a bit

e, but quite legitimate, though to my mind again less effective than the considerably more evocative names of legend. just choose one that satisfies you. it may take a bit of time; but it is worth considering well since once you inscribe it on your magical instruments, you are stuck with it. having settled on your witch name, you must keep it very, very secret, as it will eventually become one of the keys to your deep mind. you will be using it whenever you wish to "switch on" to perform a spell; this will be partly accomplished by pronouncing the name silently to yourself whenever you begin your use of the pyramid powers. you should only divulge it to others who are close witch friends, preferably when you are closely bound together with them in the form of a group, or coven. and as alrea

e are many such methods of magical diagnosis extant, ranging from elaborate ceremonial tarot divinations to numerological analysis or simple teacup reading. but the true methods of divination as practised by the traditional witch still remain relatively unknown, and it is with these that i shall be concerning myself in these pages. to the aware witch, time is not a continuous ribbon passing under the keys of some celestial typewriter, but rather a complex field extending into many different directions and dimensions. given that view of time, that a man should possess a definite future as concrete as his past and present, albeit unseen for the most part, will not strike a witch in any way as odd or unrealistic. the whole process of divination of the future rests on this approach to an under

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desires and lusts that emerge from the subconscious. if undiscovered they will often grow with the desires of the individual until they rise to the surface. if individuals are unbalanced they create further dangers. i always recommend that the sorcerer be strong and sound of mind before even attempting to invoke or evoke such elementals, for they exist on dark levels of the sleeping mind and hold the keys to the gates of da ath. if one is not prepared they will be brought forth to the gates and come face to face with choronzon, madness will grow until their reality is not his/her own. to evoke elementals who are already in existence, yet based in negative power zones is perhaps just as dangerous because one is attempting to control beings which exist outside 19 19 their own time and space

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ng is to be explored and perceived as an extension of self. the aspect of ahriman is as half-beast, werewolf type vampyre from. ahriman is a spirit of darkness, whom resides in the depths of the subconscious- the gates of arezura. one should focus on encircling the self in these shadows, which are revealed by the work itself. the essence of yatus/yatuk is the mysteries of sorcery within the self, the keys to the spirit of man. one works this type of considered dangerous black magick as the self-transformation through the image of the adversary. akhtya is the sorcerer on earth who drinks of the graal of ahriman and az, serpent and wolf. this inversion leads to the strengthening of self under the activity of encircling belief into tangible form. one should prepare for the ritual of arezura b

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te of envy, by _jupiter. the kabalistic book of the apocalypse is represented as closed with seven seals. in it we find the seven genii of the ancient mythologies; and the doctrine concealed under its emblems is the pure kabala, already lost by the pharisees at the advent of the saviour. the pictures that follow in this wondrous epic are so many pantacles, of which the numbers 3, 4, 7, and 12 are the keys. the cherub, or symbolic bull, which moses places at the gate of the edenic world, holding a blazing sword, is a sphinx, with the body of a bull and a human head; the old assyrian sphinx whereof the combat and victory of mithras were the hieroglyphic analysis. this armed sphinx represents the law of the mystery, which keeps watch at the door of initiation, to repulse the profane. it also

martin, and others, is borrowed from the kabalah; all the masonic associations owe to it their secrets and their symbols. the kabalah alone consecrates the alliance of the universal reason and the divine word; it establishes, by the counterpoises of two forces apparently opposite, the eternal balance of being; it alone reconciles reason with faith, power with liberty, science with mystery; it has the keys of the present, the past, and the future. the bible, with all the allegories it contains, expresses, in an incomplete and veiled manner only, the religious science of the hebrews. the doctrine of moses and the prophets, identical at bottom with that of the ancient egyptians, also had its outward meaning and its veils. the hebrew books were written only to recall to memory the traditions;

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

se though he knew many powers independent of muscle, he knew of no consciousness independent of nerve. one asks oneself, could he really be so naive as to believe this reasoning? and that this was sufficient proof of the existence of discarnate intelligence to a truly sceptical mind? the answer is yes in both cases. it would never have occurred to him that a careful preparation on his part of all the keys in the mmss, and a steady 'play-acting' for the rest of his life, would be just as possible. the point of the matter is, the book has been fulfilling itself in the life of mankind steadily, ever since the days of its dictation. this is a much more convincing proof than any that could have been presented by the scribe. also, personal research brings evidence of the intelligence behind the

le. the point of the matter is, the book has been fulfilling itself in the life of mankind steadily, ever since the days of its dictation. this is a much more convincing proof than any that could have been presented by the scribe. also, personal research brings evidence of the intelligence behind the writing, and of other intelligences who evidently "are of us" more: even had crowley prepared all the keys himself, and 'play acted' the rest of his life, the extraordinary reach of the hidden meanings of the book of the law, its psychological depth, the almost unbelievable wealth of its insight, would be sufficient evidence of the exceptional quality of the mind who wrote it. were we to believe that it was the "scribe and prophet" himself the author, this would just be added justification for

eed only be a magister templi 8 =3 whose word is understanding. see mmss for allusion to the "line drawn" and the "circle squared in its failure. the attribution (in the old comment) of the letters to those of the book of enoch is unsupported. the injunction that al be always translated along with a facsimile of the original is important, since no translation, no matter how good, can maintain all the keys, subtle double-meanings, and qabalistic puns of the original. if a student hopes to accomplish much, he will be forced to learn the english language very thoroughly. this suggests that english may in future centuries achieve the distinction of a hieratic language. there are only two mmss of al extant in the writing of the beast. the original mmss was published in facsimile by frater satur

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nd inexorable expression of the face contrasts forcibly with that peculiar benignity which so characterizes the countenance of the mighty ruler of heaven. he is seated on a throne of ebony, with his queen, the grave and sad persephone [136]beside him, and wears a full beard, and long flowing black hair, which hangs straight down over his forehead; in his hand he either bears a two-pronged fork or the keys of the lower world, and at his feet sits cerberus. he is sometimes seen in a chariot of gold, drawn by four black horses, and wearing on his head a helmet made for him by the cyclops, which rendered the wearer invisible. this helmet he frequently lent to mortals and immortals. aides, who was universally worshipped throughout greece, had temples erected to his honour in elis, olympia, and

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, preached the christian gospel to the picts and the scots. later, in the company of twelve monks, he arrived in france, where he founded the luxeil abbey. in 613 he also established the monastery of bobbio in italy, where he died. columban wrote a monastic rule urging asceticism. he declared the preeminence of the roman pontiff, but not his authority "the pope" he wrote "is not someone who holds the keys to absolute truth and whose words carry the seal of the holy ghost. he is a bishop, a weak man whom one can advise and rebuke. above the authority of rome there is the authority of the truth" the culdees were connected with king athelstan, who played a large role in the legendary history of freemasonry. in 936 this king, in his march against the scots, made a stop in york, where he found

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

now hebrew, they would not be able to manipulate g-d fs names. but gthis they have begun to do, h meaning that the sole reason they were able to begin this was because they spoke hebrew. therefore, gthey will not be withheld, h for by using the divine names and their power to adjure [angels, they would be able to do whatever they wanted. the parable for this is that once there was a king who gave the keys to his storerooms to a number of people, who then could enter his storehouses whenever they wanted. in order to prevent this, the king changed the locks, and these people could no longer open them. g-d did the same here. he changed his names, as it is written, gcome, let us descend and confound their speech. h furthermore, he confounded their language, so they could no longer speak the ho

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

wo place him thus before the portal of the 32nd path of tau by which he has symbolically entered (done. zelator faced to west, kerux returns to place) hiereus by what symbol dost thou enter herein? heg by the peculiar emblem of the kerux, which is the caduceus of hermes. zelator hands it to hiereus, who turns it towards zelator, and reads: hiereus the tree of life and the three mother letters are the keys wherewith to unlock the caduceus of hermes. the upper point of the wand rests on kether, and the wings stretch out to chokmah and <84> binah, the three supernal sephiroth. the lower seven are embraced by the serpents, whose heads fall upon chesed and geburah. they are the twin serpents of egypt- the currents of the astral light. furthermore, the wings and top of the wand form the letter s

of time, amen! hegemon removes the seat of practicus to the north, and leads practicus to the east of altar, where he stands facing west. hierophant goes to the west before the tablet of water. all face west- members arranging themselves in balanced disposition, facing west <119> hiero (knocks) let us rehearse the prayer of the undines or water spirits! terrible king of the sea, thou who holdest the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth. king of the deluge and of the rains of spring. thou who openest the sources of the rivers and of the fountains; thou who commandest moisture which is, as it were, the blood of the earth, to become the sap of the plants. we adore thee and we invoke thee. speak thou unto us, thy mobile a

d his eyes as flaming fire; his feet <231> like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace. and his voice as the sound of many waters. and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went the sword of flame, and his countenance was as the sun in his strength. chief i am the first and i am the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold! i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of death and of hell. second he that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the assemblies. second and third adepts open door of tomb, and lead aspirant in. they kneel down west of altar with 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

orm a circle round, join wands over head of chief, then separate wands from head and give signs of 8= grade (slowly and loudly) i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. i am the first and i am the last. i am he that liveth but was dead, and behold i am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and of death. chief quits circle, second follows, then the other members, with third last. all enter the vault and proceed round the altar with the sun. chief reads the sentences 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

m begins the violet, and these have a great chemical or yetsiratic force. these forces, ever present and unseen, are represented by the chief adept standing erect at the eastern angle, the most powerful person in the group, and delegate of the chiefs of the second order, and through them of the mystic third order. he it is who has, symbolically, at any rate, passed from death unto life, and holds the keys of all the creeds. and he it is who may place in our hands the keys of the locked palace of the king if we are able to make our knocking heard. rep resenting the east, coming from the east, he faces the western world, bringing intuition with him; before him lies the symbolic body of our master c.r.c, our grand exemplar and founder- or at other times, the empty the golden dawn: volume 11 b

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

iginal alliance between christianity and the science of the magi, once demonstrated fully, will be a discovery of no second-rate importance, and we do not doubt that the serious study of magic and the kabalah will lead earnest minds to a reconciliation of science and dogma, of reason and faith, heretofore regarded as impossible. we have said that the church, whose special office is the custody of the keys, does not pretend to possess those of the apocalypse or of ezekiel. in the opinion of christians the scientific and magical clavicles of solomon are lost, which notwithstanding, it is certain that, in the domain of intelligence, ruled by the word nothing that has been written can perish. whatsoever men cease to understand exists for them no longer, at least in the order of the word, and i

saint-martin and the rest, is borrowed from the kabalah; all masonic associations owe to it their secrets and their symbols. the kabalah alone consecrates the alliance of universal reason and the divine word; it establishes by the counterpoise of two forces in apparent opposition, the eternal balance of being; it alone reconciles reason with faith, power with liberty, science with mystery: it has the keys of the present, past and future! to become initiated into the kabalah it is insufficient to read and to meditate upon the writings of reuchlin, galatinus, kircher, or picus de mirandola; it is necessary to study and understand the hebrew writers in the collection of pistorius, the sepher yetzirah above all; it is essential in particular to master the great book zohar, to investigate the c

e results truly extraordinary, but positive and unmixed with hallucination. we invite sceptics to make a conscientious and intelligent trial on their own part before shrugging their shoulders and smiling. the figure of the pentagram, completed in accordance with science and used by the author in his experiment, is that which is found at the head of this chapter, and it is more perfect than any in the keys of solomon or in the magical calendars of tycho brahe and duchentau. we must remark, however, that the use of the pentagram is most dangerous for operators who are not in possession of its complete and perfect understanding. the direction of the points of the star is in no sense arbitrary, and may change the entire character of an operation, as we shall explain in the ritual. paracelsus

s success; we lean upon that which resists. 35 vii z g the fiery sword netsah gladius the septenary is the sacred number in all theogonies and in all symbols, because it is composed of the triad and the tetrad. the number seven represents magical power in all its fullness; it is the mind reinforced by all elementary potencies; it is the soul served by nature; it is the sanctum regnum mentioned in the keys of solomon and represented in the tarot by a crowned warrior, who bears a triangle on his cuirass and is posed upon a cube, to which two sphinxes are harnessed, straining in opposite directions, while their heads are turned the same way. this warrior is armed with a fiery sword and holds in his left hand a sceptre surmounted by a triangle and a sphere. the cube is the philosophical stone;

quence in the kabalistic book of the apocalypse, which he represents sealed with seven seals. we meet also the seven genii of ancient mythologies, and the cups and swords of the tarot. the doctrine concealed under these emblems is pure kabalah, already lost by the pharisees at the time of christ's advent. the scenes which succeed one another in this wonderful prophetic epic are so many pantacles, the keys of which are the ternary, the quaternary, the septenary and the duodenary. its hieroglyphic figures are analogous to those of the book of hermes or the genesis of enoch, to make use of a tentative title which expresses merely the personal opinion of the erudite william postel. the cherub, or symbolic bull, which moses placed at the gate of the edenic world, bearing a fiery sword, is a sph

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miscarriage of his word. human beings who die without having understood or formulated the word of reason, die devoid of eternal hope. to withstand successfully the phantom of death, we must be identified with the realities of life. does it signify to god if an abortion wither, seeing that life is eternal? does it signify to nature if unreason perish, since reason which never perishes still holds the keys of life? the just and terrible force which destroys abortions eternally was called by the hebrews samael; by other easterns, satan; and by the latins, lucifer. the lucifer of the kabalah is not an accursed and ruined angel; he is the angel who enlightens, who regenerates by fire; he is to the angels of peace what the comet is to the mild stars of the spring-time constellations. the fixed

anished entirely, and nothing except mysterious initials remained. but when science and philosophy, reconciled with faith, shall unite all the various symbols, then shall the magnificences of the antique worships be restored to the memory of men, proclaiming the progress of the human mind in the intuition of the light of god. but of all forms of progress the greatest will be that which, restoring the keys of nature to the hands of science, shall enchain for ever the hideous spectre of satan, and, explaining all abnormal phenomena, shall destroy the empire of superstition and imbecile credulity. to the accomplishment of this work we have consecrated our life, and do still devote it in the most toilsome and difficult researches. we would emancipate altars by overthrowing idols; we desire the

ria and themura. such calculations, which now seem to us arbitrary or devoid of interest, belonged then to the philosophical symbolism of the east, and were of the highest importance in the teaching of holy things emanating from the occult sciences. the absolute kabalistic alphabet, which connected primitive ideas with allegories, allegories with letters, and letters with numbers, was then called the keys of solomon. we have stated already that these keys, preserved to our own day, but wholly misconstrued, are nothing else than the game of tarot, the antique allegories of which were remarked and appreciated for the first time in the modern world by the learned archaeologist, court de gebelin. the double triangle of solomon is explained by st. john in a remarkable manner. he says, gthere ar

the wonders of one thing; the sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind hath carried it in the belly thereof. it ascendeth from earth to heaven, and again it descendeth from heaven to earth. i exorcise thee, creature of water, that thou mayest become unto men a mirror of the living god in his works, a fount of life and ablution of sins. prayer of the undines dread king of the sea, who hast the keys of the floodgates of heaven and dost confine the waters of the underworld in the caverns of earth; king of the deluge and the floods of the springtime; thou who dost unseal the sources of rivers and fountains; thou who dost ordain moisture, which is like the blood of earth, to become the sap of plants: thee we adore and thee the invoke! speak unto us, thine inconstant and unstable creatur

hether by the betrayal of the mysteries or by their neglect and oblivion. the gnostic disclosures, for example, alienated the christian church from the high truths of the kabalah, which contains all secrets of transcendental theology. hence the blind, having become leaders of the blind, great obscurities, great lapses and deplorable scandals have followed. subsequently, the sacred books, of which the keys are all kabalistic from genesis to the apocalypse, have become so little intelligible to christians, that prudent pastors have judged it necessary to forbid them being read by the uninstructed among believers. taken literally and understood materially, such books could be only an inconceivable tissue of absurdities and scandals, as the school of voltaire has demonstrated but too well. it

RUBY TABLET OF SET

u, master of the night. you sit in conference with ptah, the builder of your worlds. you toast the aeon with set, and embrace him as friend. timeless are the words you hear, and the glories see. h celebrant: garise beloved brother. the rites have been accomplished. h shadow: gi am ready to depart. let anubis appear. h invocation to anubis celebrant: hbehold anubis, the opener of the way. you hold the keys to the netherworld. your keen eye lets no one unworthy pass. know that this one of our brethren, adept rick furgeson carries the blue feather of maat. he enters upon the righteous man's path to be numbered among the xu. open wide the doors of the netherworld. escort this god to his barge, that he may begin his journey. h the papyrus is taken to the altar. before it is lit, the four neters

nd magician to the court of queen elizabeth i, undertook a series of workings in cracow, poland. with the assistance of edward kelley, he wrote into his diaries a series of nineteen magical incantations in what he called the "enochian or angelic language" with each incantation or key dee provided an english translation, also communicated by the angels to kelley. in 1659 the dee diaries containing the keys were published by meric. casaubon as a true and faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between dr. john dee and some spirits.3 the attribution of the keys or language to enoch is interesting insofar as he is a remarkable individual in legend. described in the old testament as the seventh master of the world after adam, enoch is the hebrew equivalent of the phoenician cadmus, the

rth and heaven is foretold, followed by the institution of a "new heaven" the relevance of this book of enoch material to the deciphered "enochian keys" will become apparent. in the late nineteenth century the casaubon text of the enochian keys was adopted into the magical inventory of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a london-based rosicrucian society. the golden dawn altered and augmented the keys in order to align them with its own emphasis on the hebrew cabala, and its publications assert a mastery of the enochian language by the leaders of the order.4 aleister crowley later incorporated the golden dawn edition of the keys into his aa, again claiming fluency in enochian and constructing rituals from enochian words and phrases.5 the keys next appeared in 1969 ce, when anton lavey

ing forth by night, it declared the enochian keys to be a remote corruption of something called the word of set. there followed two "pure" keys in english. called "parts" of the word of set. before proceeding further i was forced to break my concentration because of the sudden crisis in the church of satan, and so the word of set remained unfinished for the next six years. as to the "breaking" of the keys "by the doctrines of anton lavey, therein lies still another tale. anton's principal contribution to the crowley keys was to render them in what might be called a "black mass" form, with heavenly references arbitrarily changed to infernal ones. one might presume that this would invalidate the statements of the text. oddly enough, however, the use of these "black keys" by the church of sat

ily changed to infernal ones. one might presume that this would invalidate the statements of the text. oddly enough, however, the use of these "black keys" by the church of satan produced magical results that were, if anything, far more powerful than those of the "pure" system. in my working on the word of set, i used an approach similar to anton's, seeking words to express what i seemed to sense the keys were actually intended to say. in short i was endeavoring to present the keys in a still "blacker" version than that which appears in the satanic bible. moreover the north solstice x working which resulted in the book of coming forth by night was begun with this new first part of the word of set rather than with the first enochian key. such would seem to be the basis for the book of comin

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, every day. always keep the wider historical and social picture in mind. that is an important key to both lesser and greater magic. see the patterns and fit things together as you want the pieces to fall into place. do not be swayed by herd constraints know that you are working on another level entirely from the rest of the world. 7. forgetfulness of past orthodoxies be aware that this is one of the keys to brainwashing people into accepting something new and different, when in reality it's something that was once widely accepted but is now presented in a new package. we are expected to rave about the genius of the creator and forget the original. this makes for a disposable society. 8. counterproductive pride that first word is important. pride is great up to the point you begin to throw

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pend all the law and the prophets. jesus also preached that those who followed the word of god would have everlasting life. in matthew 6:14 15, jesus spoke of the power of forgiveness: if you forgive men their trespasses, our heavenly father also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses. for jesus, love and forgiveness were the keys to salvation. he soon attracted many followers. according to the bible, jesus also had the power to heal; he restored movement to the lame, sight to the blind, and hearing to the deaf. his followers began to suspect that he was the messiah for whom all jews had been waiting. the jewish bible speaks of a messiah, a person appointed by god to free the jews from their enemies and then become

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ld come after them. knowing that man must eventually seek the force whom we know as lucifer, they have left us the answers to the basis of the combined forces, known but as yet unexplained by the great academic minds. this book is about that force, the all, man, and those who have been sent to help him find his way by achieving the knowing. their directive is to bridge the veil of mists and carry the keys of spiritual freedom to mankind. their purpose is to aid and assist all men and women who freely ask to travel the left hand path to spiritual fulfillment. however, one who wishes to learn must ask, for one brother or sister shall never be the master of another. as the pages turn, the voices of many past adepts will speak their parts, revealing the right way to look at personal interactio

piritual fulfillment. however, one who wishes to learn must ask, for one brother or sister shall never be the master of another. as the pages turn, the voices of many past adepts will speak their parts, revealing the right way to look at personal interaction with the forces that be and to form a suitable defense against the opposition who would limit and ensnare the unwary. they will also present the keys of wisdom and knowledge that will unlock the mysteries of the ages and open the doors to the future aeons. but, this is only half the story, and as man is incomplete, so is this little book. you see, the true scope of this book is only to light the way to the bridge; the seeker must then cross it. your personal gnosis will bring all into focus when the time is right for you to know or hav

dom and knowledge that will unlock the mysteries of the ages and open the doors to the future aeons. but, this is only half the story, and as man is incomplete, so is this little book. you see, the true scope of this book is only to light the way to the bridge; the seeker must then cross it. your personal gnosis will bring all into focus when the time is right for you to know or have the knowing. the keys to the gnosis have never been lost, and for as long as mankind has existed, the keys have existed. they have been handed down from genera tion to generation to all who desired them and would ask. the keys have been translated by the hands of many scribes into all of the world's major languages so the wisdom could be freely given to all who would ask. however, few could ask because the kno

a tion to generation to all who desired them and would ask. the keys have been translated by the hands of many scribes into all of the world's major languages so the wisdom could be freely given to all who would ask. however, few could ask because the knowing has been suppressed by those who seek power, wealth, and personal gain at the expense of their fellows. this then is a condensed version of the keys to the gnosis written in simple language as a book of concepts. it is meant for the children of the black rose as the time of upheaval nears, because the heart of the knowing must be in the hands of many before the quickening. victor of the sword of light we who carry the keys forward are considered as victors of the sword of light. we seek the power of the force and ally ourselves with i

troubled by spurious, extraneous or intrusive thought may be used for spiritual and communicative purposes. generally, the subconscious mind will block us to some extent, so we practice "little deceits" to achieve our goals. in other words, we run a freight train by as a decoy so we can slip in a mouse. often daily events happen so fast they make our heads swim, or we end up talking to ourselves. the keys of wisdom allude to the practice of stilling one's mind. believe it or not, this is just as important as fast thinking. an experienced adept can step out of the race, sit down, and still his or her mind in a few seconds. this has the effect of taking a nap, resting both mind and body at once. what is the advantage? your adversaries will be tuckered out while you are rested. think strategy

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tue of the fact that it is not. this indicates that the origin of manifestation is non-manifestation, and it is plain to intuitive apprehension that the orgone of reich, the atmosheric 'i' of austin spare, and the dalinian delineations of the 'accommodations of desire' refer in each case to an identical energy manifesting through the mechanics of desire. desire, energized will, and obsession, are the keys to unlimited manifestation, for all form and all power is latent in the void, and its god-form is the death posture. these theories have their roots in very ancient practices, some of which- in distorted form- provided the basis of the mediaeval witch cult, covens of which flourished in new england at the time of the salem witch trials at the end of the 17th century. the subsequent persec

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t hand on me and said, do not be afraid. 132 the experiences that must be undergone by the initiand are ones otherwise undergone only when someone dies. the one who guides john through them has to take him into realms where birth and death no longer have any meaning. the initiated one therefore enters on a new life: and i was dead, but see! i am alive throughout all the cycles of time. and i hold the keys of death and the underworld. 133 thus john is brought to the stage of beholding the mysteries of existence. the apocalypse of john 129 and after this i looked, and saw the door of heaven open. and the first voice that was heard was like a trumpet sounding and it said to me, ascend to this place and i will reveal what must take place hereafter. 134 the messages that were proclaimed to the

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

ilosophies, arguments, politics, socialization, culture and art of spiritual man and his ideas. the significance of the lhp in the postmodern era lies within its emergence into philosophical methodologies that recognize it for what it is- spiritual transformation that celebrates the uniqueness of self consciousness. the lhp is neither the sole idea or property of any individual or religious sect. the keys of the lhp consist of a variety of tools for exploiting the potential of human consciousness. this statement points out a major aspect of the lhp school- the principles that guide it have been recognized in various guises throughout the history of humankind. they are not a recent innovation in religious or philosophical thought. rather, they are a remanifestation and convergence into sync

g of these elements- separate- into proportional relationships which then act as facillitators of altered consciousness states. synchronicity is a gateway from which that on one end of a spectrum can extend to the other. as a mechanism, it is an exploration of polarities. the first step into resonance does not require vision, it begins with a question and a mystery. in the unpublished masterpiece the keys of xem, author magus ronald k. barrett states "before the learning process begins, there must be a starting point. there can be no answer to anything unless first there is a question. the question, to give a valuable answer, must come from the heart and not from the intellect. it should also be known that the knowledge gained and the benefit thereof will be limited to the intensity with w

he aspirant will lose all that has been gained and worse yet, that which was gained will become as a malignancy against which there is no cure" from- the book of opening the way the stage of initiation spoken above by magus ronald k. barrett requires a very deep reflection by every individual who considers seriously undertaking the rigors of the lhp. what is being referred to in this extract from the keys of xem is the fact that there exists a point of no return in the lhp initiatory process. now, this "point of no return" isn't a physical one where you can never leave the school, contacts, or environments. the above quote reflects an understanding that on the left hand path there is an eventual change within the psyche. once one "sees" through the lhp psychological construction, the memor

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

nks of the elite. they are also convinced that their use of covert signs, grips, handshakes and symbols helps in their acquisition of greater satanic powers, leading to greater control by them over the unknowing peasantry. foolish, but also dangerous tragically, these men, though often foolish and dull, are dangerous to us all. the silly man who is given control and management over the keepers to the keys to the nuclear-tipped icbms that sit deep inside the earth is, indeed, a dangerous man. so, too, are men whose banking, financial, and corporate decisions can plunge entire nations into desperate straits of bankruptcy and ruin. it is, moreover, no consolation to realize that the stupid and self-indulgent who populate the highest reaches of the illuminati ranks are often cunning, sly, devi

ange creation 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, w

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

led to eradicate. spare did not get on with his mother and he looked upon mrs paterson as a 'second mother. what little he said about her explains much of his work and his life-long devotion to the occult. she was able to transform herself on certain occasions into a woman of alluring loveliness: this she had done in his presence as a proof of her magical powers.(note 3) furthermore, she gave him the keys whereby he gained access to the witches' sabbath, the genuine extra-terrestrial event of which the popular version is but a debased and grotesque parody. it was during his exultation to the dimension where this event occurs that he was taught how to explore the subconscious with the use of sentient symbols and the alphabet of desire described in [the book of pleasure. these methods, once

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

as contradictory to their concept of the divine program of spiritual evolution for the spirits of the deceased on the other side, sylvia browne accepts past lives as a central theme in her philosophy. she states that she has conducted thousands of hypnotic regressions and hundreds of trance sessions, which have convinced her that to understand the laws of karma/reincarnation is to possess one of the keys to understanding the true meaning of life. browne is not dogmatic regarding any of her personal views, however, and she makes a point not to force her beliefs on anyone else. there are hazards in establishing a high profile as a medium or a psychic-sensitive. orthodox religionists condemn them as satanic; skeptics accuse them of exaggerating their claims of success; and nearly everyone ch

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

of fire by the master in the first mornings of the world, an added level of awareness abstraction potential became a part of mankind s mindstream. this potential, as we shall see, is a gateway to the transcendent, a slumbering seed of divinity, waiting for awareness and understanding to make it blossom through fate's unstoppable processes. the myth pattern is the door; awareness and understanding the keys awareness, as i have said, has a deep relationship to the objects of awareness. if you have a lot of room to abstract and manipulate your own awareness, you have a lot of room to experienc e the unchangeable forces of fate and life in many different ways, and, it seems, an ability to throw the weight of your own will around a bit and make your stay in fate and in the world a lot more comf

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

lind are they who do not see that physical light is nothing but the instrument of thought! 67 thought alone, then, reveals light, and creates it in using it for its own purposes. the affirmation of atheism is the dogma of eternal night: the affirmation of god is the dogma of light! we stop here at the number nineteen, although the sacred alphabet has twenty-two letters; but the first nineteen are the keys of occult theology. the others are the keys of nature; we shall return to them in the third part of this work- let us resume what we have said concerning god, by quoting a fine invocation borrowed from the jewish liturgy. it is a page from the qabalistic poem kether-malkuth, by rabbi solomon, son of gabirol "thou art one, the beginning of all numbers, and the foundation of all buildings;

ision of beings, form the principle analogous to the great dogmas of trinity, of incarnation, and of redemption. such is also the mystery of the cross. it will be easy for us to prove this by an appeal to religious monuments, by the signs of the primitive word, by 182 those books which contain the secrets of the qabalah, and finally by the reasoned explanation of all the mysteries by the means of the keys of qabalistic magic. in all symbolisms, in fact, we find ideas of antagonism and of harmony producing a trinitarian notion in the conception of divinity, following which the mythological personification of the four cardinal points of heaven completes the sacred septenary, the base of all dogmas and of all rites. in order to convince oneself of it, it is sufficient to read again and medita

s? whoever frees himself from the common errors of mankind is obliged to pay a ransom proportional to the sum of these errors: socrates pays for aneitus, and jesus was obliged to suffer a torment whose terror was equal to the whole treason of judas. thus, by paying the debts of fatality, hard-won liberty purchases the empire of the world; it is hers to bind and to unbind. god has put in her hands the keys of heaven and of hell. you men who abandon brutes to themselves wish them to devour you. the rabble, slaves of fatality, can only enjoy liberty by absolute obedience to the will of free men; they ought to work for those who are responsible for them. but when the brute governs brutes, when the blind leads the blind, when the leader is as subject to fatality as the masses, what must one exp

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

agla (ah-ga-lah. 5. continue to concentrate on the whte brilliance, and when you feel it is aroused say: i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. and whatsoever liveth and believeth on me, the same shall have everlasting life. i am the first and i am the last. i am he that liveth and was dead, and behold i am alive for evermore, 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 invisib

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

, contains the formulae for evoking incredible things into visible appearance, beings and monsters which dwell in the abyss, and outer space, of the human psyche. such books have existed in fact, and do exist. idries shah tells us of a search he conducted for a copy of the book of power by the arab magician abdul-kadir (see: the secret lore of magic by shah, of which only one copy was ever found. the keys of solomon had a similar reputation, as did the magus by barret, until all of these works were eventually reprinted in the last fifteen years or so. the golden dawn, a famous british and american occult lodge of the turn of the century, was said to have possessed a manuscript called "the veils of negative existence" by another arab. these were the sorcerer's handbooks, and generally not m

THE SHADOWED ONES

our grimoires by listening to your own spirit, that we are all isolate and do not perish yet by disbelief in our self. by affirming our daemon being our guide, we shall watch you make your own path as our sons and daughters. in that twilight garden where shades walk do we call you in the musick of gods, follow the very song of your soul bath in darkness and light, raise yourself above god to know the keys to both heaven and hell. this grimoire shall be written in blood and dried in the noon tide sun. i am both fire and darkness, yet within is a light once adored by that unperceived chaos called god. my sister and lover is that fiery goddess called lilith by some and demoness by others, yet she too drinks of both ecstasies. we are undying and eternal, we may sleep in the flesh of the dragon

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

re through the blackness sounds the sickening noise of cannibals that gloat on monstrous joys *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 126. feeding perhaps first on man fs body, the priest soon found, after investing his victim with an immortal soul, that the soul would form an excellent basis for blackmail, enabling man to buy off the terrors of hell through the medium of the priest who held the keys of heaven: cstill death reigns, and god and priests are fed, man fs blood for wine, man fs flesh for meat and bread *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 106. and these priests are not dead yet. as the human race throve so did their gods, the old savage of man fs early thoughts grew, and growing became more evil, as their gods so were men, and as men so were their gods, the one con

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

the first letter is of silence (pause) the second is of breath. our brother breathes. the third letter is of going. our brother moves. the fourth letter is of generation. our brother stands rejoicing (word) all: he lives in the son (o.t.o. applause. all return) s: let the candidate be taken from the secret place, and restored to his former attire as a magician; after which i will confer upon him the keys to the treasure of our sacred knowledge. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c4.html (15 of 19 [12/28/2001 2:03:21 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o (done) fourth point s: i now entrust you with the secrets of this degree. advance to me as a magician (done) you will now take a third step as before, with the left foot; for three represents t

hem forth from their homes. and the spirits of the elemental tablets given by dr. dee and sir edward kelly are the best, being very perfect in their nature and faithful, affectioning (sic) the human race. and if not so powerful as, they are less dangerous than, the planetary spirits; for these are more boisterous, and by distraction stars are easily perturbed and afflicted. call them therefore by the keys of enoch as is written in the book ye know of; and let there be after the calls an evocation by the wand; and let the marrow of the wand be preserved within the pyramids of the letters that make up the name of the spirit. now unless ye be well skilled in art magick, ye will not dare call forth the three great gods of the whole tablet, or the king serpent thereof, or the six seigneurs maje

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

said, thou art the christ, the son of the living god. 16:17 and jesus answered and said unto him, blessed art thou, simon barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed [it] unto thee, but my father which is in heaven. 16:18 and i say also unto thee, that thou art peter, and upon this rock i will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 16:19 and i will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 16:20 then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was jesus the christ. 16:21 from that time forth began jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto jerusalem, and suffer many things of the eld

. 1:16 and he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance [was] as the sun shineth in his strength. 1:17 and when i saw him, i fell at his feet as dead. and he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, fear not; i am the first and the last: 1:18 i [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, i am alive for evermore, amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. 1:19 write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; 1:20 the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. 2:1 unto the angel of the ch

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

hey are tried. each opened door leads into a different tableau, in which the inhabitants of the chamber enact a drama for the traveler as he enters. if they are questioned, they will respond and explain what they are doing. the scene out of each window in different-some show cityscapes, others mountains, others the seashore, others forests or country scenes. the god of this place is the keeper of the keys, the owner of the house who selects what rooms the traveler may enter. he is never met directly, but may sometimes be glimpsed moving away from a door or around a corner, and the rattle of his key in a lock as he unlocks a door can be heard even when he is out of sight. 256- soul flight 21. laguz literal meaning: water general sense: the unconscious, the womb, dreams, fantasies, hopes, va

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

gray of chokmah, the second sephirah on the tree. all of the colors are drawn from the queen scale of colors in the golden dawn system of magic. if some of these remarks are obscure, you will be glad to learn that you do not need to understand the origins of the various parts of the exercise to derive benefit by practicing it. strong visualization coupled with intense, sustained concentration are the keys to success. do not hurry through the exercise. spend several minutes contemplating each of its stages. in the beginning the performance of the exercise should take from between fifteen minutes to half an hour. once you have conditioned yourself, you will be able to perform it more quickly with the same benefits. projecting the lesser circle a ssume the standing posture in your practice ar

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

chian angels that this destruction of the world be initiated by humanity itself through the instrument of the forty-eight keys, which open the protective guardian gates of the four watchtowers and allow the entry into our time-space of the forces of coronzon, the great dragon. the gates of the watchtowers cannot be forced open from the outside. they open inward. we must ourselves unlock them with the keys and initiate our own annihilation. this is the terrible legacy of human free will-we are free to choose our own destruction. it was to set the stage for this potential apocalypse (which will not happen unless we make it happen) that the angels gave the patterns of the watchtowers and the keys to dee, who never grasped their true purpose during his lifetime. many of the occult corresponden

ial was received in 1584, and includes the great table of the four watchtowers and the enochian keys, or calls. this crucial year is recorded in meric. casaubon's published edition of dee's magical diaries covering the period from may 28, 1583, to may 23, 1587, which is titled a bue& faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between di: john dee .and some spirits (london, 1659. the first of the keys was delivered on april 13 and 14 at cracow, poland, by the spirit nalvage ca due& faithful relation, p. 82. the great table of the four watchtowers, along with the system for deriving the names of angels from its lettered squares, was given by the spirit ave during a session that began at seven o'clock on the morning of monday, june 25, also in cracow (ibid, p. 166. together, the keys and

y the spirit nalvage ca due& faithful relation, p. 82. the great table of the four watchtowers, along with the system for deriving the names of angels from its lettered squares, was given by the spirit ave during a session that began at seven o'clock on the morning of monday, june 25, also in cracow (ibid, p. 166. together, the keys and the watchtowers form the heart of enochian magic. it is from the keys that the enochian language is largely derived. the enochian system practiced by the hermetic order of the golden dawn entirely depends on the keys and the elemental associations of angelic names extracted from various sections of the great table of the watchtowers. each watchtower is a magic square of enochian letters consisting of thirteen rows and twelve columns. the watchtowers are bou

of the watchtowers. each watchtower is a magic square of enochian letters consisting of thirteen rows and twelve columns. the watchtowers are bound together into one great table by the letters of the so-called tablet of union arranged in a cross. the golden dawn associated the watchtowers with the four elements and with the letters of tetragrammaton. the enochian magic of the the watclztowers and the keys 165 golden dawn is too complex to present here. those interested should study regardie's golden dawn, 6th edition, pp. 624-96 (llewellyn, 1990. for decades, it was widely assumed that the founders of the golden dawn had created this system based upon a few hints from dee and kelley. regardie writes: but this stands out very clearly, that in these diaries [of dee and kelleyl is a rudimenta

differs significantly from the original placement of the watchtowers. only the watchtower on the upper left quarter of the great table (in the golden dawn, the watchtower of air) remains in its original quarter in the revised table. both original and revised versions of the table are given by geoffrey james in his enochian magick of john dee (llewellyn, 1994, pp. 117 and 118. the watchtowers and the keys 167 the reformed great table of raphael note: letters with asterisks are inverted u n n c x dee himself expressed considerable uncertainty over which watchtower should go in which quarter of the great table. in an explanatory note about the version of raphael, he writes: when e.k. had shewed me this note, i by and by brought forth my book of enoch his tables, and found the four letters r

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ TIMING IN GREATER AND LESSER BLACK MAGIC

e meeting to be over, and if i talk smoothly, distinctly, and in three quarters time they absorb my suggestions as though i've hypnotized them. which in fact i have. if you need to judge three quarters time, practice doing dracula's lines from lugosi movie- but lose the accent. 4. if you want to gain more self knowledge, occasionally radically alter you biological rhythms. sleep, food and sex are the keys here. take a nap in the afternoon (if you already don't) and be sure and record the strange dreams that come in your dream diary. fast until you feel deliciously faint, and see how your consciousness both is and is not a product of your body. have sex much more in a single session than you do normally and study the powerful lucidity that exhaustion brings. abstain from sex until you becom

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

sociating to what these letter archetypes mean in this particular relationship to one another; or use the foregoing method of working with the tarot keys. it is useful to set the tarot keys that spell the particular numerical vibration or word in front of you and meditate on them visually, making note of your impressions. dr. case said that many revelations will inspire the student who works with the keys in this way. finally, we can finish our meditation on the mystical number of the sun, 111, and record the whole operation in our journal, including any sigil designs or any other artwork that may emerge from our contemplations. the magical number 671, which is the sum of any line, has many interesting correspondences. it is both the intelligence, geburathekem (gburthkm) and the spirits (v

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

with the lilitu, within and without. one mystery of the two is that they are called the eternal couple and are symbolized in the zohar as the evil couple (evil is therefore described as the left hand path approach, isolating the self which was contrary to many of the founders of religious christianity. samael is then revealed as asmodeus and lilith the mother of fornication. samael and lilith are the keys of infernal, or daemonic union. it is by the combination of these forces which are the sun and moon respectively that we may emerge from which 23 the familiar and exterior daemon may seek further sexual congress via dreams. the sigil of infernal union is the gateway towards qlippothic awakening, which we may unite the shadow with the light, therefore reaching towards the depths and height

, lords of the eastern tower, bearer of the black flame, lord of light and promethean flame, i do summon thee forth to witness my rites of awakening and union. i command the forces of air and the astral plane, send thy luciferian elementals to guard this circle. west: leviathan-ourabouris, lord of the western tower, who beholds the black flame hidden in the depths! great encircling one, who holds the keys to immortality! i summon the forces of water and the sea to witness my rites of awakening and union. be watchful and protect this circle! north: belial lord of the northern tower, who fell from heaven to be as god itself, who accepts no master- i do summon thee forth to witness my rites of awakening and union. i command the forces of the earth to protect this circle! imagine each force in

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

xtremes through the knowledge of the means. forget not that aleph is the spiritual and etherial, and tau is the universe, and mem is the sacrificial man, placed between them so as to affirm the reconciliation of the natural to the spiritual through self-sacrifice. and lastly that when shin is added, there is an affirmation of the judgement set and the book of life opened which is in yhvh and that the keys answering unto these 4 letters are: aleph is the spirit of aether. mem is the spirit of the mighty waters. tau is the great one of the night of time. shin is the spirit of the primal fire. as it would affirm firstly, the aetherial and divine spirit brooding over the mighty waters in the silence of the abyss of the night of the great one, before creation, and before time. and lastly, the j

nzvbn 20. lbsfamb 31. pcrrbnr 42. bergdba 10. inzvbnl 21. bsfamll 32. crrbnrp 11. nzvbnli 22. oogosrs 33. rrbnrpc special power of the igng "to whom the earth with her bowels and secret whatsoever are delivered: and hast said to me: heretofore what thou art, there i may know. thou art great but (as truly did confess) he in whom thou art is greater than thou" special power of the prince "unto whom the keys of the mysteries of the earth are delivered. whose 42 ministers are angels, that govern under thee. all which thy mighty king bnaspol bade use of me and affirmed that they are and shall be at thy command" genesis vs. 14-19 "and god said 'let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day and the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let

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