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he treasures of the celts. the treasures belonged to the celtic father god, dagda, and are said to be guarded in the otherworld by merlin. there were 13 treasures in total, but four have come into pre-eminence in magick and tarot reading. these four main sacred artefacts- swords, pentacles, wands and cups, or chalices- have parallels in christianity and were associated with the legendary quest of the knights of king arthur, who attempted to find them. the grail cup was the most famous of these. the christian sword of king david, identified in legend with arthur's sword excalibur, appears in celtic tradition as the sword of nuada whose hand was cut off in battle. with a new hand fashioned from silver, he went on to lead his people to victory. according to one account, the christian treasure

christ used at the last supper, in which his blood was collected after the crucifixion. grail guardians: nine maidens, sometimes associated with the guardians of sacred wells or with the nine priestesses of the isle of avalon who included morgan le fay, arthur's half-sister, and vivien, the lady of the lake in arthurian tradition who accompanied arthur on his funeral barge. in some grail legends, the knights templar were the traditional guardians of various holy relics, including the grail cup, that were brought back from the crusades. grail treasures: the main elemental ritual items in magick, associated with the treasures of the celts, and having parallels in christianity. handfastings: a popular marriage rite among wiccans, named after the focal point of the rite in which a couple's rig

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an attack of camelot, he maketh a desperate night sortie, and will traverse the wilds of wales. v. at the end of his resources among the welsh mountains, he is compelled to put to death his only remaining child. by this sacrifice he saves the world of chivalry. vi. he having become an holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to arthur's court, bearing tidings of a questing beast. the knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. lancelot findeth him upon scawfell, clothed in his white beard. he returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, herleth him to the heaven. viii. sir palamede, riding forth on the quest, seeth a druid worship the sun upon stonehenge. he rideth eastward, and findeth the sun setting in the west. furious he taketh a vikin

devoteth again his life to the quest; yet more utterly cast down than ever, for that this supreme vision is not the beast. xl. upon the loftiest summit of a great mountain he perceiveth naught. even this is, however, not the beast. xli. returning to camelot to announce his failure, he maketh entrance into the king's hall, whence he started out upon the quest. the beast cometh nestling to him. all the knights attain the quest. the voice of christ is heard "well done" he sayeth that each failure is a step in the path. the poet prayeth success therein for himself and his readers. viii the high history of good sir palamedes the saracen knight; and of his following of the questing beast i sir palamede the saracen rode by the marge of many a sea: he had slain a thousand evil men and set a thousa

arrow from the sea the lady of palamede is slain; his son, in sally fighting free, is struck through burgonet and brain. 9 but day by day the foes increase, though day by day their thousands fall: laughs the unshaken fortalice; the good knights laugh no more at all. grimmer than heather hordes can scowl, the spectre hunger rages there; he passes like a midnight owl, hooting his heraldry, despair. the knights and squires of palamede stalk pale and lean through court and hall; though sharp and swift the archers speed their yardlong arrows from the wall. their numbers thin; their strength decays; their fate is written plain to read: these are the dread deciduous days of iron-souled sir palamede. he hears the horrid laugh that rings from camp to camp at night; he hears the cruel mouths of murd

odly gift of grace who shall achieve this marvel quest" then arthur sterte up from his place, and sterte up boldly all the rest, and sware to seek this goodly thing. but now the dwarf doth beat his breast, and speak on this wise to the king, that he should worthy knight be found who with his hands the dwarf should bring by might one span from off the ground. whereat they jeer, the dwarf so small, the knights so strong: the walls resound 19 with laughter rattling round the hall. but arthur first essays the deed, and may not budge the dwarf at all. then lancelot sware by goddes reed, and pulled so strong his muscel burst, his nose and mouth brake out a-bleed; nor moved he thus the dwarf. from first to last the envious knights essayed, and all their malice had the worst, till strong sir bors

's way is not as man's (quoth lancelot "yet, may god send him back this day, his quest achieve, to camelot "amen" they cried, and raised the bowl; when- the wind rose, a blast as hot 109 as the simoom, and forth did roll a sudden thunder. still they stood. then came a bugle-blast. the soul of each knight stirred. with vigour rude, the blast tore down the tapestry that hid the door. all ashen-hued the knights laid hand to sword. but he (sir palamedes) in the gap was found- god knoweth- bitterly weeping. cried arthur "strange the hap! my knight, my dearest knight, my friend! what gift had fortune in her lap like thee? em,brace me "rather end your garments, if you love me, sire (quod he "i am come unto the end. all mine intent and my desire, my quest, mine oath- all, all is done. burn them wi

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god is love- epistles of st john. 67 to gr:alpha-gamma-alpha-theta-alpha in memory of the hour of initiation, and to lampada tradam and mohammed ibn rahman in memory of our wanderings in the desert, and to my brothers of the o. of k. d. s. h. in memory of the martyrdom of our g. m. j. b. m. i dedicate this tragedy. the scorpion persons of the tragedy act i sir rinaldo de la chapelle "preceptor of the knights templars" sir raymond, sir james, sir eustache, and others "his knights" jocelyn "a troubadour, in their company<
art is a young gazelle leaping with love toward my husband. he is black-bearded and bold and magnificent. even on the morn of the wedding he rode forth against the infidel. he is so strong and brave: god must look favourably upon him, bidding him return a conqueror to the flower of his garden that awaits his hand to pluck["during the last part of the song" sir rinaldo de la chapelle "preceptor of the knights templars, has entered l. quitely, dismounted, tethered his palfrey to palm, and approached" laylah "as she pulls the pitcher from the water he claps his hands over her eyes. she shudders with fear, but gives no sound" sir rinaldo. you are a brave maiden. laylah. you are- an infidel. i had not my dagger, or your shriek- not mine- would have summoned my kin. rinaldo. i have a score good

is a glint, and a faint shouting. i think the battle is coming here. laylah. oh, we cannot have been beaten! silman is so strong and brave. fatma["re-entering. all is lost! all is lost! let us all flee! laylah. peace, parrot["enter messenger" messenger. pardon, princess! laylah. thy news, or thy head shall pay it. messenger. glorious news! sidi omar hath entered jerusalem, and sacked the house of the knights templars, and the house of the knights hospitallers, and- 86 ledmiya["at window. oh, i can see the spears shining through the dust of the horses! messenger- but- laylah. speak, if thou wouldst ever speak again! messenger. but the knights of malta appeared in great strength, riding from the valley on their noble chargers, armed at all points- laylah. yes? yes? messenger. so that we judg

pt one. he was as strong as i, but not so quick. so i cut him down, and took his crest for a brooch for you, mother dear["he holds out a golden crest" laylah. the scorpion! the child. the scorpion["she retires and watches" laylah. boy, you have killed your father["she stands thunderstuck" sliman. oh, no, mother! father and the boys all died in 94 the melee when we were thrown back on the reserve. the knights of st john charged in line. it was rough-and-tumble for a few minutes, indeed it was. when i got out, their banners were swept far down the fighting line. there was a mess of varlets between us; before i could sweep them away the knights had rolled over sidi omar and my brothers- the whole wing was destroyed. i rallied the right on the centre, and- why, mother, you are not listening! l

roop out, running and jostling" laylah "turns to the name of god above the throne, and waving her sabre, cries] hear me, hear me, thou god of battles["exit" the child. god is love. and he has protected me["alone among the corpses] curtain. 96 persons of the tragedy act iii sir rinaldo del la chapelle "grand master of the temple" a bishop representative of the king of jerusalem the grand master of the knights of st john the grand master of the knights of malta clerks, ushers, advocates "etc" torturers a physician the king of jerusalem many dignitaries and their ladies the crowd isaac "a jew" an urchin laylah "now known as princess koureddin" 97 act iii scene i "twenty years later. jerusalem. the council chamber of the grand tribunal. a bishop, as grand inquisitor. on his right "rinaldo; now

ks, ushers, advocates "etc" torturers a physician the king of jerusalem many dignitaries and their ladies the crowd isaac "a jew" an urchin laylah "now known as princess koureddin" 97 act iii scene i "twenty years later. jerusalem. the council chamber of the grand tribunal. a bishop, as grand inquisitor. on his right "rinaldo; now become grand master of the temple; on his left the grand master of the knights of malta. beyond these, the grand master of the knights of st john and the representative of the king of jerusalem. clerks, ushers, etc. a military guard. clerical functionaries of all sorts. under guard" laylah "unveiled, scarred with sword-cuts, a stern savage virago" bishop. let the indictment be read. the clerk of the court. princess kahar-ud-din or koureddin, you are arraigned of

these years of carnage! the holy sepulchre that hid the body of him whose innocent blood was shed is not worth one drop of innocent blood- like this["he bows, takes the blood on his finger and crosses his forehead with it] the brand of cain! would it have saved her if i had thrust my poniard into that hypocrite's throat? i can do nothing but wait, binding chosen knights with an oath- the oath of the knights of the royal mystery. that god is one; that to love god and man is enough. peace, tolerance, truth. paul may plant, and apollos may water, but god giveth the increase. if i cry out "down with tyranny! down with superstition and imposture" the first knight thinks me mad; the second that i have some politic baseness toward; the third that i mean saracens; the fourth suspects the truth, a

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their scourgings and mortifications of the flesh. but lacking the aid of bonds and their attention being distracted by their scourging themselves and what little power they do produce being dissipated, as they do not usually work within a circle, it is little wonder that they oft fail. monks and hermits do better, as they are apt to work in tiny cells and caves, which in some ways act as circles. the knights of the temple, who used mutually to scourge each other in an octagon, did better stil; but they apparently did not know the virtue of bonds and did evil, man to man. but perhaps some did know. what of the church's charge that they wore girdles or cords? notes l published in janet and stewart farrar's the witches' way, from gbg's text b/c bos. to get the sight sight cometh to different

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ea del arco del cielo!delle stelle e della luna!la regina pi potentedei cacciatori e della notte!a te ricorriamo,e chiendiamo il tuo aiutoche tu possa darcisempre la buona fortuna! page 50 chapter xiii.diana and the children.and there withall diana gan apperewith bowe in hand right as an hunteresse,and sayd, daughter, stint thine heavinesse!and forth she wente and made a vanishing. chaucer (c. t, the knights tale.there was in florence in the oldest time a noble family, but grown so poor that their giorni di festaorfeast-days were few and far between. however, they dwelt in their old palace (which was in thestreet now called la via cittadella, which was a fine old building, and so they kept up a brave showbefore the world, when many a day they hardly had anything to eat.round this palace wa

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

e masonic arena, and he died in the early part of 1743, but his discourse produced a profound impression on french freemasonry. he offered no evidence, but france undertook to produce it after its own manner and conformably to the spirit of the time by the creation of rites and degrees of masonic knighthood, no trace of which is to be found prior of ramsay. their prototypes of course were extant, the knights of malta, knights of the holy sepulchre, knights of st. lazarus, in the gift of the papal see, and the order of christ in portugal, in the gift of the portuguese crown. there is no need to say that these religious and military orders have nothing in common with the operative masonry of the past, and when their titles were borrowed for the institution of masonic chivalries, it is curiou

ar element overshadowed the dreams and pretensions of other masonic chivalries, or, more correctly, outshone them all. i am dealing here with matters of fact and not proposing to account for the facts themselves within the limits of a single study. the chevalier ramsay never spoke of the templars: his affirmation was that the hypothetical building confraternity of palestine united ultimately with the knights of st. john of jerusalem; that it became established in various countries of europe as the crusaders drifted back; and that its chief centre in the thirteenth century was kilwinning in scotland. but the french or otherwise german masonic mind went to work upon this thesis, and in presenting the craft with the credentials of knightly connections it substituted the order of the temple fo

he particular templar chivalry is represented as an order connected with and acknowledging nothing else in freemasonry except the craft degrees. in respect of antiquity it claims descent by succession from certain canons or knights of the holy sepulchre, who first bore the red cross on their hearts, and were founded by james the first, brother of the first bishop of jerusalem. these canons became the knights hospitallers of a much later date. on these followed the templars, from whom the masonic knights of the temple more especially claimed derivation, though in some obscure manner they held descent from all, possibly in virtue of spiritual consanguinity postulated between the various christian chivalries of palestine. the traditional history of the grade is given at unusual length and is

it might have been expected that they would arise, in france and not in germany. i have said that the grade under notice has no reference to scotland or to any specific place of templar refuge after the proscription. but the chivalrous origin of masonry is not less a ramsay myth, and it characterises almost every variant of templar perpetuation which has arisen under a masonic aegis, from that of the knights of god and the chevalier du temple to that of werner and his sons of the valley, belonging to the year 1803. there stand apart only the english religious and military order and the late french order of the temple which depends from the charter of larmenius, but this was not masonic, though its pretence of templar perpetuation and succession is most obviously borrowed from masonry. in c

recites the migrations of templars and only concerns us in so far as it reproduces and varies the ramsay thesis in respect of masonic connections. it is important from this point of view (4) sovereign grand inspector general, because i have failed so far to meet with any early codex, and that of ragon is a templar grade indeed but concerned more especially with wreaking a ridiculous vengeance on the knights of malta, to whom some of the templar possessions were assigned (5) knight commander of the templar, because, according to the plenary ritual in manuscript of albert pike, it is exceedingly late and is concerned in his version with the foundation and history of the teutonic chivalry, which is beside our purpose. in respect of the english military and religious order i have met with not

are admitted. the appeal of the entire sequence is one and the same throughout, an allegory of human life considered as pilgrimage and warfare, with a reward at the end in christ for those who have walked after his commandments under the standard of christian chivalry. we have very little need to make a choice between them, either on the score of antiquity or that of ritual appeal. a descent from the knights templar is of course implied throughout, but it is possible to accept this, not indeed according to the literal and historical sense, but in that of the relation of symbols. the old chivalry was founded and existed to defend the church and its hallows, and masonic knights templar are dedicated to the same ends though official obediences alter and hallows transform. the holy sepulchre f

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, to nova zemblia; and from the caucasus to the eternal ice beyond the arctic circle would land one between 60 and 45 degrees of longitude, or between nova zemblia and spitzbergen. this, of course, if one has the dodecapedian horse of[[footnote(s* mergain, or morgana, the fairy sister of king arthur, is thus shown of oriental descent* where we find her, indeed, in great britain, in the romance of the knights of the round table. whence the identity of name and fairy-hood, if both heroines did not symbolize the same historical event which had passed into a legend[[vol. 2, page] 399 the arctic continent. huschenk or the winged simorgh of tahmurath (or taimuraz, upon which to cross over the arctic ocean* nevertheless, the wandering songsters of persia and the caucasus will maintain, to this da

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d my thanksgiving thus for the sacrament of living, i lit my pipe, and made my way to break fast, and the labour of the day. liber lii manifesto of the o.t.o. o.t.o. issued by order^ xi o. t. o. h i b e r n i i o n e t omnium britanniarum rex summus sanctissimus baphomet xi o.t.o. supreme and holy king of ireland, iona, and all the britains that are in the sanctuary of the gnosis. grand master of the knights of the holy ghost grand master of the knights of the temple custos of the illuminati in the united states of america etc, etc, etc. 197 liber lii manifesto of the o.t.o. peace, tolerance, truth salutation on all points of the triangle respect to the order. to all whom it may concern: greeting and health do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. 1. the o.t.o. is a body of initiat

, etc, etc. 197 liber lii manifesto of the o.t.o. peace, tolerance, truth salutation on all points of the triangle respect to the order. to all whom it may concern: greeting and health do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. 1. the o.t.o. is a body of initiates in whose hands are concentrated the wisdom and knowledge of the following bodies: 1. the gnostic catholic church 2. the order of the knights of the holy ghost. 3. the order of the illuminati. 4. the order of the temple (knights templar. 5. the order of the knights of st. john. 6. the order of the knights of malta. 7. the order of the knights of the holy sepulchre. 8. the hidden church of the holy graal. 9. the hermetic brotherhood of light. 10. the holy order of rose croix of heredom. 11. the order of the holy royal arch of

this office is never disclosed except to his immediate representatives. 6. the authority of the o.h.o. in all english-speaking countries is delegated by charter to the most holy, most illustrious, most illuminated, and most puissant baphomet x rex summus sanctissimus 33, 90, 96, past grand master of the united states of america, grand master of ireland, iona, and all the britains, grand master of the knights of the holy ghost, sovereign grand commander of the order of the temple, most wise sovereign of the order of the rosy cross, grand zerubbabel of the order of the holy royal arch of enoch, etc. etc. etc, national grand master general ad vitam of the o.t.o. 7. the national grand master general ad vitam is assisted by two principal officers, the grand treasurer general and the grand secre

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he treasures of the celts. the treasures belonged to the celtic father god, dagda, and are said to be guarded in the otherworld by merlin. there were 13 treasures in total, but four have come into pre-eminence in magick and tarot reading. these four main sacred artefacts- swords, pentacles, wands and cups, or chalices- have parallels in christianity and were associated with the legendary quest of the knights of king arthur, who attempted to find them. the grail cup was the most famous of these. the christian sword of king david, identified in legend with arthur's sword excalibur, appears in celtic tradition as the sword of nuada whose hand was cut off in battle. with a new hand fashioned from silver, he went on to lead his people to victory. according to one account, the christian treasure

christ used at the last supper, in which his blood was collected after the crucifixion. grail guardians: nine maidens, sometimes associated with the guardians of sacred wells or with the nine priestesses of the isle of avalon who included morgan le fay, arthur's half-sister, and vivien, the lady of the lake in arthurian tradition who accompanied arthur on his funeral barge. in some grail legends, the knights templar were the traditional guardians of various holy relics, including the grail cup, that were brought back from the crusades. grail treasures: the main elemental ritual items in magick, associated with the treasures of the celts, and having parallels in christianity. handfastings: a popular marriage rite among wiccans, named after the focal point of the rite in which a couple's rig

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e "visiones seu revelationes. 1310s and 1320s: the dominican meister eckhart (c. 1260-1327) teaches in latin at paris and preaches vernacular sermons in strassburg and cologne. 1311-2: the council of vienne legislates against beguines and the beguine-associated "heresy of the free spirit" 1313 friars minors' constitution generales antique forbade the friars to practice alchemy 1314 destruction of the knights templar 1316? ramon llull dies; peter de abano dies 1316/17 "sefer yetzirah "i" parma de rossi, 1390, foll. 36b-38b. italian writing. 1316 1329 friar odoric despatched to the east; in western india soon after 1321; spent three years in china between the opening of 1323 and the close of 1328. 1317 pope john xxii's papal bull against alchemical counterfeit spondet quas non exhibent. cist

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had elected all and each of us knights of the golden stone. and that it was therefore further necessary not only once again to oblige ourselves towards his royal majesty, but also to vow to the following articles; and then his royal majesty would likewise know how to behave himself towards his liege people. upon which he caused the page to read over the articles, which were these (i) you my lords the knights shall swear that you shall at no time ascribe your order to any devil or spirit, but only to god your creator, and his handmaid nature (2) that you will abominate all whoredom, incontinency and uncleanness, and not defile your order with such vices (3) that you through your talents will be ready to assist all that are worthy, and have need of them (4) that you desire not to employ this

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royal court back north to thebes, but the brotherhood stayed at el-amarna and broke away from the state. through the centuries, other vehicles for communicating the knowledge emerged. some, like the cathars in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were destroyed by the catholic church in the most horrific manner after spreading their influence over a wide area from their base in southern france. the knights of the temple (knights templar, who came to prominence about the same time as the cathars, were dealt with equally severely by papal 'justice. but the templars went underground and their influence has continued up to the present day, both in their own right, and within other secret societies which are, after all, part of the same overall organisation. this period of the cathars and the

equally severely by papal 'justice. but the templars went underground and their influence has continued up to the present day, both in their own right, and within other secret societies which are, after all, part of the same overall organisation. this period of the cathars and the crusades spawned many brotherhood offshoots, which continue to significantly influence events- secret societies like the knights hospitallers of st. john, known today as the knights of malta. nor was this merely a phenomenon of the christian and jewish world. similar secret societies were created within all cultures, and the arab brotherhood grand lodge in cairo was to become a major manipulator of events. the aim of this negative brotherhood structure is to persuade the mass of the people to believe any old non

the esoteric doctrines of the templars. legends say he visited the so called 'wise men of the near east- just as colombus had done. columbus had his own brotherhood connections. his father was a member of the brotherhood branch, the order of the christ. columbus himself was involved with a group which followed the beliefs of the poet dante, who was a member of the cathar church and an initiate of the knights templar. columbus was often seen wearing the garb of what was believed to be the franciscan order. columbus's son said his father had died in such attire. the priests at the ancient egyptian brotherhood temple at el-amarna wore a similar habit, as did a brotherhood group called the fraternites at the time of columbus. these are only some of his brotherhood connections. columbus's fathe

mbus was often seen wearing the garb of what was believed to be the franciscan order. columbus's son said his father had died in such attire. the priests at the ancient egyptian brotherhood temple at el-amarna wore a similar habit, as did a brotherhood group called the fraternites at the time of columbus. these are only some of his brotherhood connections. columbus's father-in-law was a member of the knights of christ, the undercover name for the knights templar. when the templars were purged across europe, they survived in portugal by changing their name to the knights of christ. they devoted themselves to maritime activity. the explorer, vasco de gama, was a knight of 30..and the truth shall set you free christ, as was prince henry the navigator, a grand master of the order. columbus's f

the red cross on a white background was the templars symbol. it was outlawed by the pope at the time of the purge. columbus's ships sailed with the red cross on a white background!3 his historic journey was funded by king ferdinand of aragon, spain and queen isabella of castile, spain, whose marriage helped to unify spain. these were 'catholic' monarchs funding a trip by a man flying the flag of the knights templar. more than that, other support came from leonardo da vinci and lorenzo de medici, both high initiates of brotherhood secret societies. given this background to columbus and caboto, it is hardly stretching the bounds of credibility to suggest that their 'discovery' of different parts of the americas within four or five years of each other was no coincidence. many of the early ex

olonising the americas and particularly north america seems to have been a long-term aim of the great work of ages or the new world order. sir francis bacon, the grand chancellor of england, was a brotherhood member of high rank at the time of elizabeth i and james i. he was a grand commander of the brotherhood order called the rosicrucians, and very much involved in the underground operations of the knights templar traditions. bacon passed on knowledge secretly in codes contained in works like the shakespearean plays, which he wrote himself. the evidence for this is very substantial and the shakespeare story is a myth. sorry stratford! bacon used the network to encourage the colonising of north america, not the least to stop the spanish getting control of it. more than that, however, he w

anded rapidly was a new grand lodge (launched in london in 1717) which became known as the mother grand lodge of the world. it was a centre of freemasonic manipulation, encouraging other lodges to be set up throughout europe, the british empire, and the americas. many other versions of freemasonry were introduced, including the york rite and the scottish rite of michael ramsey (which was based on the knights templar system. the scottish rite has 33 degrees of initiation and today has enormous influence in the politics, economics, military, and security services of britain, europe, the united states, and many other countries. new york was named after the york rite of freemasonry. the brotherhood plan was for the establishment of an independent united states of america- independent of the br

you something that doesn't exist and said that if you don't pay me for it i will take you to court and take your property away, you might say we lived in a fascist state. yet what i have just described is the banking system of the world and the means through which both people and governments are drowning in debt. and what does debt equal? control. among the first bankers in the western world were the knights templar. they were given enormous riches by christians supporting the crusades and by legacies from people who were often hoping to buy a place in heaven. they were the wealthiest organisation in every country in which they established themselves, and their temples in paris and london became financial centres. eventually, king philip iv of france, in league with pope clement v, destroy

erm tlluminati protocols' to get away from the jewish emphasis. if they were a forgery, something that is quite possible, what were they a forgery of, and by whom? the authors of the best-selling book, holy blood, holy grail, conclude that the original protocols were indeed authentic. they suggest that they were the work of an elite group called the priory of sion, the inner, controlling, core of the knights templars.26 they believe that this original document was changed to make it appear as a jewish plot. i certainly would not dismiss such a conclusion. it is the manipulation they describe that interests me, not who has been blamed for it. i believe their origin lies with the illuminati, as does rabbi antelman. whatever the arguments, one fact cannot be denied, given the hindsight of the

n this. the group continued its influence under the name of the london-based royal society, which is still one of the most influential bodies in the world with regard to science. the royal society was founded by the order of the rosy cross in the reign of charles ii. another famous scientific' influence, sir isaac newton, was a rosicrucian and grand master of the priory of sion, the inner core of the knights templar. he was an inspiration behind the founding of the royal society. researchers into the background of the lunar society have shown that it mirrored (with remarkable accuracy) a group called the invisible college, described in the francis bacon work, the new atlantis. it was known as the lunar society because it met once a month at the time of the full moon. among its members were

evolutionary propaganda.22 the red cross has been used on many occasions by the elite without the knowledge of its genuine staff. this is not only an insult to the work the red cross is seeking to do, it is also extremely dangerous for the 99% who are genuinely working for that organisation out of compassion for the plight of the world's peoples. intriguingly, the red cross symbol is also that of the knights templar, the flag of england, and the symbol which columbus flew on his ships while 'discovering' the 'new world' on behalf of the templars. the red cross was formed during the elite-engineered franco- prussian war in 1870 via correspondence in our old friend, the london times. at the same time that these elite bankers were creating organisations to support the bolsheviks, they were al

by bill clinton, paul keating (the australian prime minister, and heads of the asian governments. either keating is in on the scam or he is easily duped. now the process will begin of evolving the two latest trading blocs into the model used in europe before merging them all into one. the plan for a united states of europe under centralised control goes back centuries. it was one of the goals of the knights templar. when the templars were 146 .and the truth shall set you free destroyed in their stronghold in france by a combination of the french king and the pope, many of those who survived the onslaught regrouped in scotland and the templars reformed under the pseudonym, the scottish rite of freemasonry. this has a large number of its members in the high places of influence and power in

lodges disappeared, along with their ancient records, and little is known about their true history. the lodges (branches) which survived did so by opening their memberships to people who were not stonemasons, or so the story goes. these newcomers- the businessmen, merchants, landowners, and aristocracy- were called 'speculative' masons and soon they far outnumbered the original members. this was the knights templar/ illuminati manifesting on the public stage in the guise of freemasonry. the first recorded initiation of a speculative mason in england was in 1646 when elias ashmole (don't say it too quickly) joined a lodge in warrington. he was an astrologer and indeed esoteric knowledge was to be an important part of the new masonry at the higher levels of initiation. masonry had become fr

nsense, it is possible that its themes originate in ancient egypt when king seqenenre was murdered for refusing to reveal the most secret esoteric knowledge to a rival. if so, this is yet further confirmation that the same stream of knowledge and manipulation stretches from antiquity into modern freemasonry and the world today. my feeling is that the force that emerged as freemasonry was, and is, the knights templar, which until then had been operating underground, following the papal purge. the pyramid structure allows the elite, the few at the top of freemasonry, to control the majority by misleading them and keeping them in the dark. the illuminati protocols, found in the last century, did- whatever people may say about their origin- describe brilliantly how freemasons are used "we shal

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it was before the cataclysm.39 even those built since the upheavals have been placed on older sites that aligned with the old north pole. the same is true of rosslyn chapel near edinburgh in scotland.40 this is an illuminati "holy grail" full of their ancient symbolism and built by the st clair-sinclair family, one of the foremost of the illuminati bloodlines and one of the founding forces behind the knights templar secret society. charles hapgood, incidentally, had a meeting arranged with president kennedy to discuss a project to find atlantis, but kennedy died in dallas a few days before their appointment.41 hapgood also told rand flem-ath that he was going to produce evidence in his next book of an advanced civilisation on earth 100,000 years ago. but hapgood died soon afterwards and th

of satanism, the inverted pentagram, and that is their symbol for sirius (figure 2. the pentagram within a circle is used by satanists in their rituals to draw other dimensional demonic entities into this world or to "draw down the kingdom of satan into manifestation on earth, as one writer put it. the pentagram is symbolised by the goat head known as the "goat of mendes" or "baphomet, the image the knights templar secret society was accused of worshipping when it was purged in france after 1307. the goat head is also associated with the sirius system. the ancients designed massive temples to point directly at the spot on the horizon where sirius appeared at the "rising" and their key rituals were focused on sirius, just as many of the illuminati's are today. one example of these sirius-a

on the island of rhodes, a name that originates from a syrian word for serpent.51 rhodes was the home of the danaan brotherhood of initiates and magicians known as the telchines.52 the greek historian, diodorus, said these initiates had the ability to heal, change the weather, and "shape-shift" into any form. thousands of years later, one of the most important of the illuminati secret societies, the knights hospitaller of st john of jerusalem, now the knights of malta, located on rhodes and for a while were known as the knights of rhodes. ultimately, they came from the same source as the knights templar. the name rhodes, which is connected to the german "rot, meaning red, as with rothschild("red-shield, became a code name for the bloodlines. red= sirius? these guys don't choose their loca

d, became a code name for the bloodlines. red= sirius? these guys don't choose their locations or their names by accident. malta, too, was an important centre by 3500bc and the home of a major mystery school. under malta is a vast network of tunnels and megalithic temples where secret rituals took place- and still do. malta's original name was lato, named after mother lato, the serpent goddess.53 the knights templar secret society was formed in the late 11th century to protect the reptilian bloodline or "le serpent rouge, the red serpent or serpent blood, together with their associated order, the highly secretive priory of sion.54 the goals of the knights templar and the illuminati were, and are, to place these serpent bloodlines in all positions of power worldwide and thus form a reptilia

serpent or serpent blood, together with their associated order, the highly secretive priory of sion.54 the goals of the knights templar and the illuminati were, and are, to place these serpent bloodlines in all positions of power worldwide and thus form a reptilian, centrally controlled, fascist state. we are now getting very close to that. the danaans also settled on cyprus (later controlled by the knights templar) and in ancient times it was known as la-dan or the "isle of dan".55 the name of the isle of man in the irish sea, a place so important to the druids, has the same origin, no doubt. the taurus mountains in turkey, the baleric islands, and syria (sirius) were 42 children of the matrix among other danaan settlements and they travelled from atlantis to britain where they became kn

ons. also, the legendary founder of the maya culture, called votan or wotan, is the name of the atlantean fire god and also the god of the teutonic peoples of germany and scandinavia. he was one of the gods of the nazis and they were created by the teutonic knights network (illuminati) in germany. the teutonic knights were formed in the same period, and operated in the same "holy land" region, as the knights templar and the knights of malta and they work to the same basic agenda right to this day. that part of the sumerian empire known as the phoenicians, with their base in the middle east and what we now call turkey, particularly cappadocia, were very much involved in establishing sumerian control of the british isles. under other names these peoples were known as the hittites and the got

ot real people and that may be the same with aeneas. the names "noah" and "king david" are also used as codes for the bloodline, but they did not exist in the way they are depicted and portrayed. the legends of aeneas fit with the codes and themes of the illuminati bloodlines, including his association with troy. aeneas is said to have been born in troy, the city so sacred to the merovingians and the knights templar. in the hymn to aphrodite, the goddess proclaims that aeneas, the son she has conceived by the mortal anchises, will come to rule the trojans, as will the generations upon generations that succeed him.29 the works of the greek poet, homer, who lived around the 9th or 8th century bc, is the main source of information about ancient troy and the conflicts that led to its demise. t

exus of this last roman empire is charlemagne and his descendants, people like [prince] philip mountbatten (rex julius alexander battenberg) who is one of the ruling heads of the julian gens."31 the keepers of the secrets the priory of sion, an elite secret society created in the 12th century to serve the merovingian bloodline or "le serpent rouge (the serpent blood, was very closely connected to the knights templar who were, incidentally, officially formed at the french city of troyes, named by the sicambrian franks (merovingians) after their former home in troy. the priory of sion and the knights templar have had their feuds and break-ups over the centuries, but, as with similar conflicts from time to time with the knights of malta, these were battles for supremacy within the bloodlines

ll was going on and he was met by tall, blond-haired, people with "pearl" coloured skin and "bluish-purple" eyes that appeared to be electrically charged somehow: like laser eyes (this same description of the eyes can be found in ancient accounts of the gods and the "children of the gods) the beings in the mountain all wore long white gowns with a maltese cross medallion on a chain- the symbol of the knights of malta and widely seen in the symbolism of british royalty. it is also a symbol from lemuria-mu, according to james churchward, and i have heard beings of this description associated with lemuria. the founder of the mormons, joseph smith, a high-degree freemason and merovingian bloodline, said he had a the unholy alliance 89 "vision" on september 21st, 1821 in which he saw "a messeng

rchical structure of genetic "superiority, as with the hindu caste system. the unholy alliance 107 columba(us) the interconnections of the illuminati web can be seen in the story of christopher columbus. he sailed to the americas in 1492 knowing basically where he was going because his father-in-law was a sea captain close to prince henry the navigator, the grand master of a secret society called the knights of christ in portugal. the knights of christ were another name for the knights templar who fled france for portugal and scotland after a purge against them in 1307.33 through this secret society underground, columbus had access to the ancient maps that charted the americas. it is known that he had "strange maps" when he set out for "india. columbus was a secret society initiate and, ac

ury, were supporters of the "elven" or dragon bloodline, according to gardner. a female elf was called an elbe, he says, and this is the inspiration for albi, the main city of the cathars or aligensians, in their stronghold in the languedoc region of southern france "gens, as we saw earlier, relates to tribe and is used to this day as a code for the bloodlines. the cathars appeared to be close to the knights templar, who also had a major presence in that same area around the mysterious mountain-top village of rennes-le-chateau. could this mountain have been an inner-earth entrance to a reptilian base? it certainly seems to be an interdimensional doorway. i have been all around there and the whole area has a very strange vibe. the horrific slaughter of the cathars by armies of pope innocent

of the christian cross with "jesus, as we shall see, symbolising the sun at the centre. the sun-cross, or red cross, was found drawn in red pigment in the alleged "tomb" of the sumerian-egyptian emperor, menes, waddell says. this is the same symbol that became the "cross of st george" and later the flag of england after sumerian- phoenicians settled there. the red sun-cross is also the symbol of the knights templar secret society which has played a major role in the story of the bloodlines over hundreds of years and, of course, it is the logo of the red cross organisation, which, as i outline in the biggest secret, is an illuminati creation to allow them to manipulate within countries during wars and other events behind the cover of humanitarian aid. the vast majority of genuine red cross

ships of christopher columbus, an illuminati frontman, whom historians still insist discovered the americas. the red cross or sun-cross was originally written as a t and this became the "t-square" of freemasonry, or the tau cross. the splayed cross known as the maltese cross, so beloved of british royalty, was also found depicted in caves within this same sumer empire. this is today the symbol of the knights of malta (formerly the knights hospitaller of st john of jerusalem and the knights of rhodes. the knights of malta are another elite and extremely sinister secret society and they have been around for the same period as the knights templar. the ruling bloodlines and their secret society web, the illuminati, are obsessed with symbolism and ritual and, as i have indicated, they use the s

he other members of the serpent trinity in the edda, consort wodan and son balder, were major "gods" of the reptiliancontrolled nazis. the nazis were the creation of the teutonic knights network (illuminati) in germany which has always been associated with the highly significant reptilian bloodline known as the habsburgs. the teutonic knights operated in the same "holy land" in the same period as the knights templar and the knights of malta and they work to the same reptilian agenda. wodan and balder were national deities of the teutons. the legendary founder of the maya culture in mexico was also called votan or wotan. the amazons the edda refers to the serpent cult as the "amazons, the "wolf tribe, and the "valkyrs, and here we have the meaning of the musical work called the ride of the

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itical and religiouspower, and created the united states. this apparent superpower is still a puppet of thebabylonian brotherhood in london.three of the most significant of the secret societies emerged publicly in the 12thcentury. they are still in existence today and have among their membership top peoplein global politics, banking, business, military and the media. they were the knightstemplar, the knights hospitaller of st john of jerusalem and the teutonic knights. theknights hospitaller have changed their name a number of times. they have been theknights of rhodes and today they are the knights of malta in their roman catholicform and their protestant version is known as the knights of st john of jerusalem. asthe knights of malta, their official head is the pope and their headquarters

pitaller of st john of jerusalem and the teutonic knights. theknights hospitaller have changed their name a number of times. they have been theknights of rhodes and today they are the knights of malta in their roman catholicform and their protestant version is known as the knights of st john of jerusalem. asthe knights of malta, their official head is the pope and their headquarters is in rome.as the knights of st john they are based in london and their official head is the kingor queen. the catholic and protestant wings are in fact the same organisation at thehighest level. the knights templar were formed about the same time in 1118, thoughthis could have been at least four years earlier, and were first known as the soldiers ofchrist. the templars are surrounded in mystery and contradicti

is the kingor queen. the catholic and protestant wings are in fact the same organisation at thehighest level. the knights templar were formed about the same time in 1118, thoughthis could have been at least four years earlier, and were first known as the soldiers ofchrist. the templars are surrounded in mystery and contradiction, but it is known thatthey dedicated the order to the mother of god. the knights templar promoted achristian image as a cover and so mother of god was taken to be mary, the mother ofjesus, but to the reptile-aryan secret societies the term, mother of god, is symbolic ofisis, the virgin mother of the egyptian son of god, horus, and the wife of the sun god,osiris, in egyptian legend. isis, in turn, is another name for queen semiramis, as innimrod-semiramis-tammuz. is

plars was st bernard, thefounder of the cistercian order, and the french st clair family which became thescottish sinclair family after they settled in scotland following the norman invasionof britain by william the conqueror in 1066. the st clair/sinclairs are of a reptilianbloodline and knowledge of the reptilian agenda was the great secret held by theleading templars. the first grand master of the knights templar was hughes depayens, who joined in 1124. he was a french nobleman (meaning literally: aryan-man) allied to the count of champagne, and was married to a scottish woman ofnorman decent called catherine st clair. the first templar centre or preceptoryoutside the holy land was built on the st clair estate in scotland. other earlytemplars included fulk, the count danjou, who was the

nd at that level the agenda is allimportant. in june 1099, another glorious blow was struck for the lord whenchristian crusaders invaded jerusalem and slaughtered the saracen muslim turks andthe judeans living there. this reopened the holy city to christian pilgrims whobegan to arrive in large numbers through the ports of jaffa, tyre and acre. tyre wasone of the major centres for the phoenicians. the knights hospitaller established theamalfi hostelry in jerusalem to provide food and shelter for the visitors. as theirwealth and prestige grew, they formed a military wing, which was given papalbacking in 1118, the same year that the original nine knights templar arrived injerusalem to guard the pilgrims.135the templars were given quarters adjoining temple mount, the alleged, and i stressalleg

fession and the judges. these templar lands of all those centuriesago are in the heart of that area of london from the city of london square mile financialdistrict down to the houses of parliament and buckingham palace. this is the land fromwhich the world is currently controlled, at least at the operational level, together with parisand the v atican. and paris was the other dual-headquarters for the knights templar. that137city also has a 3,200 year old egyptian obelisk at a key point in its street plan, the placede la concorde. princess diana passed that obelisk in the mercedes literally a minutebefore it crashed in the pont de lalma tunnel in 1997.by the middle of the 12th century the templars were second only to the romanchurch for wealth and influence. they had their own fleet of ship

rt of the dragon sovereignty, the formerroyal court of the dragon in egypt. he is also prior of the celtic church of the sacredkindred of saint columba (semiramis; presidential attache to the european councilof princes; formerly attached to the noble household guard of the royal house ofstewart (stuart, the merovingian line; he is known as le chevalier labhran de saintgermain, and is preceptor of the knights templars of saint anthony. i think its fair tocall him an insider. so why does he keep telling us the holy grail bloodline is aboutjesus when, with that background, he must know that it isnt?eventually the roman church withdrew its support for the merovingians and theylost their power and faded from the public scene until the last few years. anotherbloodline monarch from the reptilian

riest at the church of st mary magdalene atrennes-le-chateau. sauniere was born at nearby montazels. the church was in aterrible state and, the story goes, in 1887 he and two workmen began the immense taskof repairing the worst of the damage to the interior. they lifted a flagstone near the altarand saw an engraving on the underside depicting two men on one horse. this symbolwas the first seal of the knights templar. the flagstone became known as the knightsstone and can be seen in the village museum. when sauniere realised there might besomething of importance to find, he continued the search alone. the breakthrough camewhen he dismantled the altar and inside one of the pillars he found hollow woodentubes, sealed with wax. inside those he discovered parchments which, he laterestablished

hurch at all. maybe its a cover story to obscure the real tale.the priory of sion leaked copies of the two bigou parchments in 1967, or at leastin the 1960s. the priory of sion is believed to have originated in troyes, france, thecity founded by the sicabrian franks (merovingians) where the templars wereofficially formed. the priory of sion arrived on the scene about the same time as thetemplars, the knights of malta and the teutonic knights, and it had a particularly closeassociation with the templars. but some researchers believe the true origins of thepriory of sion go much further back. its grand masters are called nautonnier ornavigators and the ones between 1188 and 1918 were listed (or claimed to be) indocuments known as the dossiers secrets, which were privately published textsdepo

nd abuse pope boniface viii, who died shortly afterwards.he then poisoned a second pope, benedict xi. this allowed him to install his own choice,the archbishop of bordeax, who became pope clement v. he moved the papacy toavignon and produced a split in the roman church for 68 years while rival popes residedin france and in rome. having established his own personal pope, philippe turned hismind to the knights templar. he coveted their wealth, hated their power and was a puppetof the priory of sion. the templars lost much of their influence with the church after1291 when the saracens defeated the christian crusaders and ejected them from the holyland. philippe, in league with his puppet pope, set out to destroy the templars. in 1306he had arrested every jew in france, banished them from the

the scots routed the englishafter a day of battle when a force of unknown horsemen arrived to support the scottishranks. for some reason, never explained, the english panicked and ran at the sight ofthese reinforcements. they had to be a special fighting force and they had to beimmediately recognisable to stimulate such an instant reaction. the templars wereboth, and this unknown group had to be the knights templar, the warriors so feared inthe crusades, who had now regrouped in scotland. the victory at bannockburn wouldensure the independence of scotland for the next 289 years and among those whofought with bruce that day was sir william st clair of rosslyn. when bruce died in1329, the stuart dynasty began. in france in merovingian times, they appointed mayorsof the palace to support the

alternating with 26 gold knots representing the 26knights in two groups of 13.1 similar orders emerged in france with the order of thestar, the order of the golden fleece, and the order of st michael. the freemasons arethe knights templar and the priory of sion under another name and the company ofjesus or jesuits are based on the same structure as the templars with the same goal. thejesuits and the knights of malta are esoteric secret societies which hoard and use thesecret knowledge while outwardly claiming to be roman catholic and christian.they are doing exactly the same as the templars did at the time of the crusades andtogether they control, with the higher levels of freemasonry, the v atican, the pope andthe roman catholic church. in other words, they control both sides, the esoter

both sides, the esotericunderground and the church which condemns this very same underground as evil. thusthey control the game and the ultimate outcome of the game- unless we wake up fast.an obvious example of this came after the papal purge on the templars. in 1312, alllands and property owned by the templars were given by the pope to their rivals theknights hospitaller of st john, later called the knights of rhodes and now the knightsof malta (catholic) and the knights of st john (protestant. both were the same force,as were, and are, the teutonic knights. all were involved in the same things, includingbanking, and used the same vicious, unscrupulous methods to get their way. for morethan 200 years until the middle of the 16th century, the hospitallers and the templarswere merged into a

e knights of st john (protestant. both were the same force,as were, and are, the teutonic knights. all were involved in the same things, includingbanking, and used the same vicious, unscrupulous methods to get their way. for morethan 200 years until the middle of the 16th century, the hospitallers and the templarswere merged into a joint order and much templar land and property was not absorbedby the knights hospitaller, even though most of it was there for the taking.the templars restored their influence in france under the title of the scots guard inthe mid 15th century. when robert the bruce was installed as the unchallenged king ofscotland, he signed a pact with charles iv of france, renewing what was known as theauld alliance. this was no surprise, given that the bloodlines which cont

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ristianity was not entirely successful, however. in many countries, the people worshipped christ alongside the old gods. by the twelfth century there were a number of gnostic heresies which threatened the power of the church in rome. one gnostic sect was known as the luciferans. the luciferans believed that lucifer was the true god and yahweh was the devil. another gnostic sect, better known, was the knights templar. the knights templar fought in the crusades against the muslims but upon seeing how much more advanced the muslims were to themselves, converted to the religion of those they had fought. during the 12th and 13th centuries, the various gnostic heresies were suppressed and many of their followers executed. the trial of the knights templar and the suppression of the various gnosti

epression) the cult of satanism and practice of witchcraft and magic developed. those evil masons& brothers of the rosy cross masonic lodges, which began to appear in france and england in the 18th century and spread to other countries, made a number of false claims: a) the origin of masonry can be traced to ancient jerusalem and the construction of solomon s temple, b) freemasonry is linked with the knights templar, and c) the leader of the lodge is in contact with master beings who live in the himalayas the illuminati. the early lodges had no connection to each other but made similar claims of possessing hidden knowledge passed down from ancient times or from a race of secret masters in the east. in reality, these lodges had very few secrets to reveal other than hand-shakes and grade sig

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ved the perversion and defilement of catholic religious practices. however, the black mass as a celebration or homage to satan or the antichrist is a relatively modern activity. it was performed in the french royal court, and probably in england by members of the hell-fire club. possibly it was also done in the russian royal court. it is unlikely that black masses were ever used in the rituals of the knights templar, even though the knights were accused of trampling and spitting on the cross. black masses formed a part of the religious practices of the late anton szandor 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

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e of infinite multication, and when projected on mercury, it will absolutely transmute it, the resulting gold bearing every test. the base metals made use of must be purified to insure the success of the operation. the process for the manufacture of silver is essentially similar, but the resources of the matter are not carried to so high a degree. according to the commentary on the ancient war of the knights the transmutations performed by the perfect stone are so absolute that no trace remains of the original metal. it cannot, however, destroy gold, nor exalt it into a more perfect metallic substance; it, therefore, transmutes it into a medicine a thousand times superior to any virtues which can be extracted from it in its vulgar state. this medicine becomes a most potent agent in the exa

al invulnerability, and all through his career merlin was deep in the king s counsels. merlin s tragic imprisonment by the lady viviana, who shut him up eternally in a rock through the agency of one of his own spells, removed him from his sphere of activity at the arthurian court, and from that time the shadows were seen to gather swiftly around arthur s head. innumerable are the tales concerning the knights of his court who met with magical adventures, and as the stories grew older in the popular mind, additions to these naturally became the rule. of note is the offshoot of the arthurian epic, known as the holy grail, in which the knights who go in quest of it encounter every description of sorcery for the purpose of retarding their progress. arthur s end is as strange as his origin, for

scott, the distinction of a banshee is only allowed to families of the pure milesian stock, and is never ascribed to any descendant of the proudest norman or the boldest saxon who followed the banner of strongbow, much less to adventurers of later dates who have obtained settlements in the green isle. thus, an amusing story is contained in an irish elegy to the effect that on the death of one of the knights of kerry, when the banshee was heard to lament his decease at dingle.a seaport town, the property of those knights.all the merchants of this place were thrown into a state of alarm lest the mournful and encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. banshee 151 ominous wailing should be a forewarning of the death of one of them, but, as the poet humorously points out, there was no

to thirteenth-century gothic architecture, believed by some occultists to enshrine ancient mysteries of religious inspiration. for example, in his book the mysteries of chartres cathedral (1972, louis charpentier claims that the cathedral is built on the site of powerful and ancient earth currents. he examines the mystery of the amazing architecture of the cathedral, its historic connection with the knights templar, and its symbolic and esoteric meanings. sources: charpentier, louis. the mysteries of chartres cathedral. london: research into lost knowledge organization, 1972. reprint, new york: avon, 1972. chase, warren (1813.1891) one of the first apostles of spiritualism in america. born in pittsfield, new hampshire, chase began to study mesmerism in southport, wisconsin, by 1843. he wa

te one volume on lancelot and king arthur s court that formed the background of several other books. le conte del graal told how perceval was reared to the life of a forester by his mother, but forsaking her became a member of the court of king arthur. perceval went forth as a knight-errant, and his numerous adventures are recited. in the middle of the story, the adventures of gauvain, another of the knights, are fully detailed. however, in the end chretien returns to perceval, who ventures forth again and wanders about for five years in a godless state of mind. one good friday he meets with a band of pilgrims who remonstrate him for riding armed on a holy day, and he turns aside to confess to a hermit who turns out to be his uncle. from him he learns that only the sinless can find the gra

bed in the book of leinster of finn macgorman, bishop of kildare, recorded in 1150. in the twelfth century book of the dun cow, cuchulain is summoned from hell by st. patrick to describe the terrors of hell to the pagan king of ireland laery macneill. as a result, the king was converted to christianity and cuchulain allowed to enter heaven. the deeds of cuchulain as related in the ulster cycle of the knights of the red branch are thought to have influenced the development of traditions of king arthur in wales and england. cuddon, eric (1905) british barrister, hypnotist, and writer who engaged in parapsychological investigations. he was born january 18, 1905, in london, educated at oxford university (b.a, 1927; b.c.l, 1928; m.a, 1931, and became a barrister in 1928. during world war ii he

y the voice of medea. in india at the time of alexander the great, a dragon was worshiped as a god, while in occult history it is the manifestation of hell. the dragon, however, is best known in legendary history as the monster whose duty it is to provide the hero with opportunities of valor. there is a legend of st. george and the dragon and also the dragon that was slain by sir lancelot, one of the knights of king arthur s round table. in the hebrew bible (the christian old testament) the word tannin, commonly rendered dragon in older english translations, generally refers to a variety of animals such as crocodiles, jackals, and serpents, but occasionally to the dragon (ezek. 29:3; 32:3. in chapter 12 of the biblical book of revelation, the dragon, a representation of the evil one, is ov

eplenished with oil or any other combustible substance. when the rabbi was annoyed by intruders at his door he struck a nail fixed in his cabinet, producing a blue spark on the head of the nail and on the door-knocker, to which, if the intruder clung, he received a severe shock. german scholar and scientist albertus magnus lived during the same period. the twelfth century had seen the founding of the knights templars of the temple of solomon, a french-based religious order of military men dedicated to protecting pilgrims on their way to the holy land. the order prospered until its prosecution by philip the fair (1268.1314, who accused the order of various occult crimes, including the worship of the devil in the form of the idol, baphomet. another prosecution for sorcery was that of the sad

rabian proper name. it could be the persian felekedaneh, a combined word which signifies astrology, and in that case it would be the title of an astrological work. some believed the legend originated in the mind of guyot himself, but this conclusion was strongly opposed by the folklorist alfred nutt. there is, however, some reason to believe that the story might have been brought from the east by the knights templar. the grail legend has often been held by various ecclesiastical apologists to support theories that either the church of england or the roman catholic church has existed since the foundation of the world. from early christian times the genealogy of these churches has been traced back through the patriarchs to numerous apocryphal persons, although it is not stated whether the re

hing, n.d. in the light of truth. 3 vols. vomperberg, austria: maria bernhardt publishing, 1954. grail sword associated with the holy grail in arthurian legend. its supposed history begins with king david, who bequeathed the sword to solomon, who was bidden to recast the pommel. in solomon s time it was placed in a ship built and luxuriously furnished by solomon s wife. subsequently discovered by the knights of the quest, it was assumed and worn by sir galahad. gram in medieval legend, a magic sword thrust into a tree by odin and pulled out by sigmund. it bestowed upon its possessor exceptional powers and performed many miracles. the story is told in the lay of the volsungs. the grand grimoire a grimoire, or text of instruction for use in ceremonial magic. it was supposedly edited by one a

became a member of one of the earlier hell-fire clubs, which conducted secret orgies in a cellar. there were rumors that during dashwood s subsequent hellawes encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 718 european travels he was initiated into a diabolic cult in venice and brought back to england various magical grimoires and manuals. about 1745, dashwood founded the brotherhood known as the knights of st. francis of wycombe or the franciscans of medmenham, more popularly known as the hell-fire club. in 1750 dashwood rented the old cistercian abbey of medmenham on the river thames, near marlow, originally founded in 1201. he made costly renovations to the premises, which he furnished with an altar in the chapel, candlesticks, and pornographic pictures. the entrance to the abbey bo

and headed by a man known as sergius rosenkruz. the church taught a method of liberation, the awakening of knowledge of unity with the one. as a means to liberation, rosenkruz advocated a series of practices that included study, two daily baths, charitable works, the avoidance of frivolous activities, and meditation. the order was headquartered in los angeles. it was associated with the order of the knights of the golden circle, which offered a series of ceremonies aimed at preparing members for either a favorable reincarnation or safety in the life beyond death. the church is known primarily through one pamphlet, rosikrucinism, issued in 1915. sources: rosenkruz, sergius. rosikrucinism. los angeles: the author, 1915. holzer, hans w (1920) popular writer on paranormal topics. holzer was b

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monk, and was subsequently appointed canon of bridlington in his native yorkshire, a priory which had been founded in the time of henry i by walter de ghent. ripley s priestly office did not prevent him from traveling, and he studied physical science and alchemy in france, germany, and italy, even voyaging as far as the island of rhodes, where he is said to have made a large quantity of gold for the knights of st. john of jerusalem. afterward he went to rome, where he was dignified by the pope, the result being that when he returned to bridlington, he found his friends there intensely jealous of him. it was reported that he even resigned his position and retired to a priory at boston, in lincolnshire, but this story is probably unfounded, the likelihood being that ripley the alchemist was

of their secrecy and practiced in the open light of day. in england, for example, numerous persons avowed themselves alchemists; in germany the rosicrucians sent out a manifesto; in scotland, alexander seton, a great master of the hermetic art, flourished. but it was nearly a century later when further secret societies were formed, such as the academy of the ancients and of the mysteries in 1767; the knights of the true light, founded in austria about 1780; the knights and brethren of asia, which appeared in germany in the same year; the order of jerusalem, which originated in america in 1791; and the society of the universal aurora, established in paris in 1783. besides being masonic, these societies practiced animal magnetism, astrology, kabala, and even ceremonial magic. others were pol

e systems of what is considered the old aeon, the magicians of the sss come together for mutual sharing, learning, and networking. there are no leaders, no holy books, and no formal initiations; however, the group does have a special respect for the teachings of the late sri gurudeva mahendrabath paramahamsa, known to his followers as dadaji, the cofounder of amookos (the arcane, magikal order of the knights of shambhala) and the late alain danielou. the association is overseen by an administrator-general, a revolving office; the current administrator-general of the sss is known by his magical name, frater eeyore. sss may be contacted at p.o. box 642, weslaco, tx 78599-0642. it publishes a periodical, lila. closely associated is the american gnostic church, founded in 1985, headed by the r

r arches, the intercolumniations of which range from ten to twenty-three feet. the floor of these vaults is about forty-feet below the haram area, and more than a hundred feet above the great foundation corner-stone. they are called solomon s stables by the franks. but the moslems call the place, al masjed al kadim, that is, the old mosque. these vaults were used as stables by the frank kings and the knights templar, and holes in which rings were fastened can still be traced on some of the piers. since the floor of solomon s stables is upwards of a hundred feet above the foundation stone, it seems highly probable that there exists another system of vaults below, for the vast space from the rock upwards is not likely to be filled with solid earth. some allusion seems to be made to these vau

le and that his mutilated body was discovered several days later. charles was introduced into two novels by sir walter scott.quentin durward and anne of geirstein. the latter novel contains an account of the battle of nancy, before the fatal encounter at morat. temperature changes marked changes of temperature sometimes occur in the seance room, usually a sudden lowering (see also winds) templars the knights templars of the temple of solomon were a military order founded by hugues de payns of burgundy and godeffroi de st. omer for the purpose of protecting pilgrims journeying to the holy land. they were soon joined by other knights; a religious chivalry speedily gathered around this nucleus. baldwin i, king of jerusalem, gave them as headquarters a portion of his palace, contiguous to a mo

e reney deu or je reney jhesu, repeated thrice. most of those who confessed having gone through this ceremony declared that they did it with repugnance and spat beside the cross, not on it. the reception took place in a secret room with closed doors; the candidate was compelled to take off part or (in rare instances) all of his garments, and then he was kissed on various parts of the body. one of the knights examined, guischard de marzici, said he remembered the reception of hugh de marhaud, of the diocese of lyons. he saw him being taken into a small room, which was closed up so that no one could see or hear what took place within. after some time, he was let out; he was very pale and looked as though he were troubled and amazed. in conjunction with these strange ceremonies, however, ther

chapter; the brethren, in succession, kissed him on the posteriors and marked there the form of the cross. she was told that one young man, who refused to go through this ceremony, was thrown into a well, and a great stone was cast upon him. another witness, robert de folde, said he had heard that 20 years ago, in the same place, the devil came to the chapter once a year. he flew away with one of the knights, whom he took as a sort of tribute. two others stated that certain templars confessed to them that at a grand annual assembly in the county of york, the templars worshiped a calf. all this is mere hearsay, but it shows the popular opinion of the conduct of the order. a templar examined in paris, named jacques de treces, said he had been informed that at secret chapters held at midnight

to force confessions. fifty-four templars who refused to confess were carried to the windmill of st. antoine, in the suburbs of paris, and there burned. many others, among whom was the grand master himself, were subsequently brought to the stake. after having lasted two or three years, the process ended in the condemnation and suppression of the order; its estates were given in some countries to the knights of st. john. it was in france that the persecution was most cruel. in england, the order was suppressed, but no executions took place. even in italy, the severity of the judges was not everywhere the same. in lombardy and tuscany the templars were condemned, while they were acquitted at ravenna and bologna. they were also pronounced innocent in castile; in arragon they were reduced by

ocent in castile; in arragon they were reduced by force only because they had attempted to resist by force of arms. in spain and portugal they only gave up their own order to be admitted into others. the pope was offended at the leniency shown towards templars in england, spain, and germany. the order of the temple was finally dissolved and abolished, and its memory branded with disgrace. some of the knights were said to have remained together and formed secret societies. the result, however, was much the same everywhere. convicted of heresy, sorcery, and many other abominations, many of the wretched templars were punished with death by fire, imprisonment, and their goods reverted to the various crowned heads of europe. nearly all of these nobles followed the greedy example of philip of fr

ion based on gnostic dualism, and at once raised up a host of critics. but many defenders of the order followed, and it was proved in numerous instances that the confessions wrung from the templars were the result of extreme torture. in a number of cases they were acquitted in castile, aragon, portugal, and in many german and italian centers. it has also been shown that the answers of a number of the knights under torture were practically dictated to them. in england, out of 80 templars examined, only four confessed to the charge of heresy, and of these, two were apostates. the templars were also the victims of their own arrogance and commercial success, which excited the avarice their enemies and the superstitious ignorance and hatred of their contemporaries. there has been a steady strea

ered in switzerland in 1994. apparently they were killed by their leaders, who then killed themselves. a second neo-templar tradition began in germany in the 1890s with the founding of the oto, the ordo templi orientis (or order of the eastern temple, which spread from germany to german-speaking switzerland and through aleister crowley to great britain and the united states. sources: campbell, g. the knights templars, their rise and fall. london: duckworth; new york: mcbride, 1937. charpentier, john. l ordre des templiers. paris: la colombe, 1945. lea, henry charles. a history of the inquisition of the middle ages. 3 vols. london: sampson, low; new york: harper& bros, 1888. reprint, new york: citadel, 1954. lees, b. a. records of the templars in england in the twelfth century: the inquest

1185 with illustrative charters and documents. vol. 9 of british academy records of the social and economic history of england and wales. oxford: oxford university press, 1935. legman, g. the guilt of the templars. new york: basic books, 1966. martin, edward j. the trail of the templars. london: allen& unwin, 1928. michelet, jules. le proces des templiers. 2 vols. n.p, 1841.51. parker, thomas w. the knights templars in england. tucson: university of arizona press, 1963. temple beautiful temple beautiful is a channeling group currently headquartered in south africa. it was founded in the united states by ilona linda day who began to channel st. germain and other of the ascended masters associated with the theosophical society and the i am religious activity. day passed the leadership of th

temple beautiful 1547 the temple beautiful is organized as a mystery school. it is designed to assist people in making a connection to their higher self and places initiates in a position to receive direct guidance. temple beautiful is located in suburban cape town. sources: erasmus, chris. a mystery school in the suburbs. odyssey 23, no.4 (august 1999: 10.14. temple church (london) the church of the knights templars in london, consisting of two parts, the round church and the choir. the round church (transition norman) was built in 1185. the choir (early english style) was finished in 1240. hargrave jennings, in his book the rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries (1870, states that the temple church in london presents many mythic rosicrucian figures. one figure signifies the virgin mary

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starts forward, one and all. i see them file according to their grades through distant galleries and long arcades. now they re assembling in that ample space, the old knight s hall; yet hardly all find place. the spacious walls with tapestries are rich, while armour decorates each nook and niche. here is no need, methinks, of magic incantation, ghosts will come here without an invitation. hall of the knights dim illumination. the emperor and court have entered. herald. mine ancient office of announcing plays is marred by spirits mystic interference; in vain one dares in reasonable ways to fathom their mysterious appearance. the chairs are placed, the seats are ready all; the emperor is seated just before the wall; upon the arras there he may with ease behold the glorious battles that men f

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en elizabeth as astraea, j. w.c.i, x (1947, pp. 80-1. 1 eroici furori, dedication (dial, ital, p. 496. 3 ibid, pt. ii, dial. 5 (dial, ital, pp. n68-9, 1173; williams, ii, pp. 115-16, 119-20. 289 giordano bruno: heroic enthusiast and elizabethan 1 also think that the eroicifurori reflects the cult of the queen in the great revival of chivalry in her reign of which the accession day tilts, in which the knights presented shields with devices on them to elizabeth, were a manifestation. in the eroici furori, a set of emblems or imprese is in the form of shields which the heroic enthusiasts come in bearing.1 as i have suggested elsewhere, if one wishes to study the kind of abstruse meanings which might be drawn out of an impresa shield at an accession day tilt "one cannot do better than read wha

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as names. o.t.o (ordo templi orientis; 128/ practical sigil magic be ass ideas known s the thelemic current. numerous groups calling recent years. nown as the ten sephiroth and form a pattern called the tree of life. it is used by magicians for person wicca.an old english word meaning gwise. h origin he negative connotations at many hundreds of years of defamation have placed on the ociated with the knights templar and combined some fringe masonic traditions along with sex magic. aleister crowley became a member and later head of the order. he revamped it to match his magical a themselves o.t.o. have sprung up in ten sephiroth.in cabbalism (and neo-platonism, the universe is seen as being created through a series of emanations from the godhead. in the cabbalah these are k al development

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mblies placed their right hands across below the chin and the left hand down at the side- as if a recognised ritual performance: i find no authority whatever for this statement. mr a. e. waite, the poet, tells us, inthe secret tradition,that 'the essenes remaind the depositories of the christ255 mystery in the eastern world, and are actually that hidden sodality from which masonry derives through the knights templar, not by the identification of the chivalry with the operative builders,butthrough the descent of a vital principle from onetothe other' this is but a poetic phantasy. christian ginsburg, a thoroughly competent modern hebrew scholar, in his published workthe essenes,1864,summarises almost all previous authorities, which are non-masonic, and makes no assertions of the use of secr

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es money.70 the sorcererand his apprenticewhere themodeof reading the cards .requiresthatperson 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 high

reemasonry which goes by that name; it is absolutely an esoteric school, possessing extraordinary wisdom.162 the sorcererand his apprenticea large amount of wisdom has also been preserved among the freemasons, although they have lost a great deaf of what they ought. to have; they have a large quantity. of exoteric symbology, but, sad to say, they have in great part lostthekey toitin the meantime, the knights templars in the middle ages again, handed down a great deal-of wisdom and knowledge. they are gone;butthere are schools of occultism descended from them still existing, and from timetotime these. schools. allow certain portions of their knowledge to be proclaimed generally. to such allowance we owe the foundation of the theosophical societyinthe west. and the east has taught us much- f

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shall be indeed an occult order of unknown philosophers- a concealed kind'65[65. at a later meeting the c.b.c.s. was specifically excluded although it was restored to the council's control when a constitution was finally drawn up in april 1903 (see appendix d for the whole text of this curious document. greater satisfaction was anticipated by waite from the c.b.c.s. than he had so far gained from the knights templar 'i attended this evening the meeting of the templar preceptory [king edward vii] when two installations took place. it is by far the most interesting of all of the christian chivalries with the rites of which i am acquainted, though such gleanings as i can make concerning the perfect knights' charges seem to hope for greater significance therein'66[66. he was also far from adep

wards he was its recorder. but it was for the order of the temple that he felt the greatest affection and to the sancta maria preceptory that he gave his greatest support. he had been preceptor in 1909 and from 1910 to 1940 acted as its registrar; his early speculations on templar history and symbolism had been first presented as lectures in the preceptory and his last, and most important, paper 'the knights templar and their alleged perpetuation in freemasonry- had been delivered therein 1930. waite's rosicrucian activities, in their masonic context at least, had ceased in 1914 when he resigned from the s.r.i.a. after failing in his bid to be elected as celebrant. he had also quarrelled bitterly with blackden over the workings of the isis-urania temple of the golden dawn and felt that the

p. 160-5 1922 note concerning the comacini, vol. 8, p. 25 review of dudley wright 'masonic legends and traditions, vol. 8, p. 221 the freemason 1915 reply to welcome at author's lodge no. 3456, 6 march, vol. 55 1920 'the recent attacks on freemasonry, vol. 60, pp. 133-5 (reprinted, in abridged form, from the occult review) 1921 'the laureate of masonry, vol. 61, p. 576 freemasons' chronicle 1930 'the knights templar and their alleged perpetuation in freemasonry, vol. 111, pp. 257, 290, 315; vol. 112, pp. 73, 91, 108-9, 124 horlick's magazine and home journal for australia, india and the colonies 1904 'the keeping of the brotherhood, vol. 2, pp. 365-74 'the freedom of the brotherhood, vol. 2, pp. 429-42 'the transformations of the brotherhood, vol. 2, pp. 559-68 1905 'the innermost sanctuar

masonry: an historical consideration of their origin and development' 6 april, sancta maria preceptory (printed, in revised form, in the occult review) 1926 'the secret tradition in french grades analogous to the royal arch, 13 december, helio chapter no. 3900 1927 'the secret tradition in christian times and the directions in which research is baffled, 9 september, kingsgate lodge no. 4882 1930 'the knights -l'emplar and their alleged perpetuation in freemasonry, 10 february, sancta maria preceptory (printed in freemasons' chronicle) back to homepage back to waite appendix a appendix b appendix c appendix d the masonic career of a.e. waite the publications of a.e. waite lectures given by a.e. waite constitution of the secret college of rites the masonic career of a.e. waite appendix d the

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he common perception of the majority of historians of freemasonry is that the origin of the organization goes back to the crusades. in fact, though masonry was only officially established and recognized in england in the early eighteenth century, the roots of the organization do reach back to the crusades in the twelfth century. at the center of this familiar tale is an order of crusaders called the knights templar or the templars. six years before this present work, our book, entitled the new masonic order, examined the history of the templars in great detail. for that reason, we will now offer just a summary. for, as we analyze the roots of masonry, and the influence that it has had on the world, we discover the meaning of "global freemasonry" g no matter how much some may insist that t

ders of the templars, who were called "grand masters" beginning with the most important of them, jacques de molay, were executed in 1314 by order of the church and the king. the majority of them were put into prison, and the order dispersed and officially disappeared. some historians have a tendency to portray the trial of the templars as a conspiracy on the part of the king of france, and depict the knights as innocent of the charges. but, this manner of interpretation fails in several aspects. nesta h. webster, the famous british historian with a great deal of knowledge on occult history, analyzes these aspects in her book, secret societies and subversive movements. according to webster, the tendency to absolve the templars of the heresies they confessed to during the trial period dh fro

on occult history, analyzes these aspects in her book, secret societies and subversive movements. according to webster, the tendency to absolve the templars of the heresies they confessed to during the trial period dh from the templars to ancient egypt is unjustified. first, during the interrogations, despite the standard claim, not all the templars were tortured; moreover, do the confessions of the knights appear to be the outcome of pure imagination such as men under the influence of torture might devise? it is certainly difficult to believe that the accounts of the ceremony of initiation given in detail by men in different countries, all closely resembling each other, yet related in different phraseology, could be pure inventions. had the victims been driven to invent they would surely

to in magazines published by masons for its own members. freemasons are very accepting of the idea. one such magazine is called mimar sinan (a publication of turkish freemasons, which describes the relationship between the order of the templars and freemasonry in these words: in 1312, when the french king, under pressure from the church, closed the order of templars and gave their possessions to the knights of st. john in jerusalem, the activities of the templars did not cease. the great majority of the templars took refuge in freemasonic lodges that were operating in europe at that time. the leader of the templars, mabeignac, with a few other members, found refuge in scotland under the guise of a wall builder under the name of mac benach. the scottish king, robert the bruce, welcomed the

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shall be indeed an occult order of unknown philosophers- a concealed kind'65[65. at a later meeting the c.b.c.s. was specifically excluded although it was restored to the council's control when a constitution was finally drawn up in april 1903 (see appendix d for the whole text of this curious document. greater satisfaction was anticipated by waite from the c.b.c.s. than he had so far gained from the knights templar 'i attended this evening the meeting of the templar preceptory [king edward vii] when two installations took place. it is by far the most interesting of all of the christian chivalries with the rites of which i am acquainted, though such gleanings as i can make concerning the perfect knights' charges seem to hope for greater significance therein'66[66. he was also far from adep

wards he was its recorder. but it was for the order of the temple that he felt the greatest affection and to the sancta maria preceptory that he gave his greatest support. he had been preceptor in 1909 and from 1910 to 1940 acted as its registrar; his early speculations on templar history and symbolism had been first presented as lectures in the preceptory and his last, and most important, paper 'the knights templar and their alleged perpetuation in freemasonry- had been delivered therein 1930. waite's rosicrucian activities, in their masonic context at least, had ceased in 1914 when he resigned from the s.r.i.a. after failing in his bid to be elected as celebrant. he had also quarrelled bitterly with blackden over the workings of the isis-urania temple of the golden dawn and felt that the

p. 160-5 1922 note concerning the comacini, vol. 8, p. 25 review of dudley wright 'masonic legends and traditions, vol. 8, p. 221 the freemason 1915 reply to welcome at author's lodge no. 3456, 6 march, vol. 55 1920 'the recent attacks on freemasonry, vol. 60, pp. 133-5 (reprinted, in abridged form, from the occult review) 1921 'the laureate of masonry, vol. 61, p. 576 freemasons' chronicle 1930 'the knights templar and their alleged perpetuation in freemasonry, vol. 111, pp. 257, 290, 315; vol. 112, pp. 73, 91, 108-9, 124 horlick's magazine and home journal for australia, india and the colonies 1904 'the keeping of the brotherhood, vol. 2, pp. 365-74 'the freedom of the brotherhood, vol. 2, pp. 429-42 'the transformations of the brotherhood, vol. 2, pp. 559-68 1905 'the innermost sanctuar

masonry: an historical consideration of their origin and development' 6 april, sancta maria preceptory (printed, in revised form, in the occult review) 1926 'the secret tradition in french grades analogous to the royal arch, 13 december, helio chapter no. 3900 1927 'the secret tradition in christian times and the directions in which research is baffled, 9 september, kingsgate lodge no. 4882 1930 'the knights -l'emplar and their alleged perpetuation in freemasonry, 10 february, sancta maria preceptory (printed in freemasons' chronicle) back to homepage back to waite appendix a appendix b appendix c appendix d the masonic career of a.e. waite the publications of a.e. waite lectures given by a.e. waite constitution of the secret college of rites the masonic career of a.e. waite appendix d the

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tatue (baphomet. these animals were made to look as disgusting and obscene as possible. the neophyte would then be asked to kiss the backside of the creature. if they refused they would have failed the initiation, if they went ahead and puckered up, they found they were kissing the lips of the priestess. here clearly is the movement from one mode of saturn to another, from the demiurge to sophia. the knights templar did something similar where their large devil like baphomet figure actually represent the sophia, the goddess of wisdom (indeed, the world baphomet when decoded with the atbash gematric code gives the name sophia) if we accept that dualism is perceptional therefore pain, suffering and the trials of life are relathe gnostic handbook page 45 tive. pain and suffering may seem near

fair to say that it began in the time of the great sumerian and egyptian kingdoms and was passed down, at first in oral form (cf.kabbalah" passed by mouth) through esoteric brotherhoods. in the west this knowledge was passed onto the initiate (jesus) in the essene sect, after his death his followers passed on the secret teachings. this new order centred around ormus (46 a.d) and continued through the knights templars, the eleutherians, the church of carmel, the rosicrucians and onwards. in modern times the lineage continued in a variety of forms, the more ritually oriented line was continued in such organisations as the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the early theosophical movements, the astrum argentinum, the ordeo templi orientis and the fraternity of saturn (germany. however, these

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eenth-century american explorer john lloyd stephens described as a species of sculptured mosaic .13 oddly, although the pyramid of the magician had been built long centuries before the conquest, the symbol most frequently featured in these mosaics was a close approximation of the christian cross. indeed there were two distinct kinds of christian crosses: one the wide-pawed croix-patte favoured by the knights templar and other crusading orders in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; the other the x-shaped saint andrew s cross. after climbing a further shorter flight of steps i reached the temple at the very top of the magician s pyramid. it consisted of a single corbelvaulted chamber from the ceiling of which large numbers of bats hung suspended. like the birds and the clouds, they were vi

it by a verse. q. how does this verse run? a. the red bamboo from canton is rare in the world. in the groves are 36 and 72. who in the world knows the meaning of this? when we have set to work we will know the secret. the atmosphere of intrigue that such passages generate is accentuated by the reticent behaviour of the hung league itself, an organization resembling the medieval european order of the knights templar (and the higher degrees of modern freemasonry) in many ways that are beyond the remit of this book to describe.24 it is intriguing, too, that the chinese character hung, composed of water and many, signifies inundation, i.e. the flood. finally, returning to india, let us note the content of the sacred scriptures known as the puranas. these speak of four ages of the earth, calle

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en seduced by the dark side of the force. at certain times and places in history- for example, medieval tibet or, in more modern times, nazi germany the black lodge has operated more or less openly with characteristic occult symbols of human skulls, lightning bolts, etc. out in the open. but like the great white brotherhood that it actively seeks to subvert and overthrow (as it did in the time of the knights templar, the black lodge has generally communicated by cipher and myth, in silence and secrecy, often within religious, fraternal and political institutions dedicated to the status quo. in the west since at least the early 18th century, the black lodge has tended to operate along crypto-masonic lines, and its development has tended to coincide with and mirror that of the great white br

ns dedicated to the status quo. in the west since at least the early 18th century, the black lodge has tended to operate along crypto-masonic lines, and its development has tended to coincide with and mirror that of the great white brotherhood. this development may, in fact, be attributed to a cosmic principle of equal generation of forces. thus, the birth of the modern form, as the fraternity of the knights militant of the new aeon in the cultural and political turbulence of germany in the 1890s, may fairly (along with the coincident peak in the development of the hermetic order of the golden dawn and the universal gnostic church) be characterized as the resurgence of the great white brotherhood and its rejuvenation out of the degeneration of classical speculative freemasonry. this coinci

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ichael maier grand master of rosicrucians in germany in the seventeenth century and sir francis bacon's deputy on the continent [8] lord raymond vi as count of toulouse, refused to prosecute the mystics who laid the foundation for rosicrucian philosophy in southern france in the thirteenth century. as a mystic martyr, his body was refused burial in "holy ground" but was preserved for 600 years in the knights templar building, built by his forefathers [9] h. spencer lewis, ph.d. f.r.c. former imperator, a.m.o.r.c. of north and south america and founder of its second cycle of activity in the western hemisphere.member of the supreme council r.c. of the world. legate of the order in france.minister of the foreign legation. ordained priest of the ashrama in india.honorary councilor of the corda

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ordial. towards the end of her long life she was an enthusiastic admirer of rudolf steiner. see her rambling posthumous meml)rabilia (1927, to which a. e. waite contributed a preface. chacombe vicarage 27 march 1890 22 52 the alchemist of the golden dawn i think i have the "hermetic triumph" somewhere, but cannot lay my hands on it just now. certainly i have read it some time "the ancient wars of the knights" i have in ms. it contains the secret, but put so obscurely that only initiates can understand it. i think it very doubtful about re-printing the "hermetic triumph" as a commercial success. there are many would-be seekers of the l[apis] p[hilosophorum, but the books are so numerous that the chances are too great against anyone book selling well enough. i, from my stand-point, should de

ifficult to enter upon these subjects in the short time we have. i mentioned you to johnson whom you may have seen at 17 [lansdowne road, as being able to give him information about 54 thealchemist ofthe golden dawn one on abbot cremer, but i have not the viatorium. all his are valuable. i have also alexis piedmontese, who gives some important processes, from which much may be learned. my "war of the knights" is not that published in "hermetical triumphs. dives sicut ardens s. is, if [i] recollect rightly, saunier, not mentioned by dufresnoy. the third stage as you have been informed, constitutes the difficulty, and in order to get over this, i have an idea you must first discover the elixir vitae and restore your health, to enable you to pull thro, but this part is necessarily very obscur

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. the delphic e means the number five, or the half of the cabalistic zodiac, or the five ascending signs. this delphic e is also the seleucidan anchor. it was adopted by the gnostics to indicate the saviour, and it is frequent in the talismans and amulets of the early chris- fig. 173. tians. it is one of the principal gems of the gnostics, and is a cameo in flat relief. one of the charges against the knights templars was as follows: that they bound, or touched, the head of an idol with cords, wherewith they bound themselves about their shirts or next their skins( processus contra templarios, dugd. monast. ang. vol. vi. part ii. pp. 844-846, 240 the rosicrucians &c. there is something strange about these cords; cordons, ropes, belts, bands, baldrics (also in the term belted earls. these are

thus: a is the shield of arms, or spade, or spada, or male implement, on man's own side, or dexter side; b is the lozenge, or distaff, or article representative of woman s work, on her proper side, or the left or sinister side. the chalice as a symbol. 245 a chalice is, in general, the sign of the priestly order. the chalice on the tombstone of a knight, or over the door of a castle, is a sign of the knights templars, of whom st. john the evangelist was the patron saint. the cup was forbidden to the laity, and was only received by the priests, in consequence of the decree of pope innocent iii, a.d. 1215. it means the s.s, or holy spirit, to which we have frequently adverted. we have carefully inspected that which has been designated the crux antiquariorum, or the puzzle of antiquaries, nam

ole structure, though oriental or saracenic abounds with gothic or pointed features. such are the frets, the spandrel-work, the hood-moulding &c. no. 3. query, aquarii? the aquarii always indicate the lunar element, or the female. the baptisteries dedicated to st. john, or to the s.s, are eight-sided. the baptisteria in italy follow the same emblematical rule. the sections into which the order of the knights of malta fig. 227. were divided were eight, answering to the eight points of the cross, which was their emblem. the order was composed of eight nations, whereof the english, which was one, disappeared at the reformation. the colours of the monastic knightly orders were the following: the teutonic knights wore white, with the eight-pointed black cross; the knights of malta wore black, w

which was their emblem. the order was composed of eight nations, whereof the english, which was one, disappeared at the reformation. the colours of the monastic knightly orders were the following: the teutonic knights wore white, with the eight-pointed black cross; the knights of malta wore black, with the eight-pointed white cross. the foregoing obtained their black and white from the egyptians. the knights templars, or red-cross knights, wore white, with the eight-pointed bhuddist red cross displayed on their mantles. the guardian of the temple chapel was called custos capell (capella, a kid, star, she-goat, also chapel. robes of the soldier-monks. 263 attila, surnamed the scourge of god, is represented as having worn a teraphim, or head, on his breast a snaky-haired head, which purporte

as a perplexing, uncomfortable intrusion, according to assumed correct christian ideas. we fear that the admission of this heathen knight may possibly imply heraldically the infraction of the original constitutions of the order, which created it as exclusively christian. the garter is specially devoted to the virgin mary and to the honour (in the glorification of woman) of the saviour of mankind. the knights-companions are accepted, supposedly, as the special initiated holy guard of the christian mysteries, and they are viewed as a sworn body of brothers, by day and night, from their first association, bound to maintain and uphold, in life and in death, the faith that had bethlehem for its beginning and calvary for its end. the bond and mark of this brotherhood is the red cross of crucifix

and reconciled by the intervention of the s.s, or of the holy spirit, or of the third person of the trinity, which is her mark and betrayal, but which produced the world in producing man, and which saved the world in the person of the redeemer, born of woman. it is to glorify typically and mystically this fleshly vehicle, that the order of the garter or garder that keeps it sacred was instituted. the knights of the garter stand sentinel, in fact, over woman s shame, at the same time that they proclaim her glory, in the pardoned sense. these strange ideas are strictly those of the old rosicrucians, or brethren of the red cross, and we only reproduce them. the early writers saw no indecency in speaking openly of these things, which are usually hidden away, as improper to be spoken about. the

this table. in imitation of this, the french king, philip de valois, instituted a round table for himself at his court. some say that he had an intention of instituting an order of knighthood upon the same feminine subject, but that he was anticipated by king edward; which shows that it was something more than an accident and a mere garter which inspired the idea of this rose forming the mystery. the knights were denominated equites aurese periscelidis. king edward the third had such veneration for the blessed virgin mary, that he ordained that the habit of his knights of the garter should be worn on the days of her five solemnities. elias ashmole states that the original of the statutes of institution had wholly perished long before his time. there was a transcript existing in the reign o

should be worn on the days of her five solemnities. elias ashmole states that the original of the statutes of institution had wholly perished long before his time. there was a transcript existing in the reign of henry the fifth, in an old book called registrum ordinis chartaceum. though the order was instituted so long ago as in the year 1344, it was not till the reign of charles the second that the knights were empowered to wear the star they use at present embroidered on their coats. the rays are the glory round the red cross. sir john froissart, the only writer of the age that treats of this institution, assigns no such origin as the picking-up of the countess of salisbury's garter; nor does he adduce the words of the motto of the garter as having been spoken by king edward the third w

hussey, with its inflections of opprobium, in the vernacular strangely to say in regard of the champions mentioned above, who are the followers and the children of venus. venus hussey, as in a certain sense she may be considered. 300 the rosicrucians. paths of translation, from its original al-husa. these hussars are the alert, agile, armed children, or soldiers, of cybele. it is well known that the knights of old particularly the crusaders when they returned to the west adopted the oriental fashion of covering their appointments and horse-furniture with bells, the jingle raised by which, and at the same time the spreading or flying-out, in onset, of the lambrequin or slit scarf attached to the helmet, with the shouted war-cry, or cri de guerre, struck terror into the opposed horse and ri

ised by which, and at the same time the spreading or flying-out, in onset, of the lambrequin or slit scarf attached to the helmet, with the shouted war-cry, or cri de guerre, struck terror into the opposed horse and rider. naturalists suppose that even the spangled .tail of the peacock, with its emerald eyes, answers a similar purpose, when spread out, of frightening animals who intend an attack. the knights, therefore, may have borrowed the hint of thus startling their foes, and of confusing them with the sudden display of colours and disturbing points, as if sprung from a spontaneous, instant, alarming centre, from the peacock when startled by an enemy. the bird has also his terrifying outcry, similar to the knight s mot de guerre, or individual motto. the hebrew priests were directed to

the greater the light, and the greater the spirit and vivacity and force in the liberation into light (and into spirit) of the darkness and the matter; when its farthest-winnowed atoms are forced asunder in the darts of the fire, and turned inside-outwards. see pages 337, 338, 339. this is the holy grail, or sangreal, or sang-reale, or fire, or mighty redeeming magic, sought by the champions, or the knights, of king arthur s round table. see supplementary note (no. 2, p. 368. the round table of king arthur from the original, preserved in the court house of the castle of winchester. sangreale or holy grail. lunations. 12 (twin) knights (1 place, each knight; for mystic lunations) 1 each, 24 1 knight, 2 places total, 26 these are the mystic guards of the holy the sangreale or holy graal or

al figure contained in the ark is presumably that of noah. it is also evidently the symbolical figure of the saviour, and typically only that of noah; for the hands are crossed, and the feet and hands bear the marks of the incision the nails of the crucifixion (or passion. twenty-five, the number of the degrees in each space or sign of this noachic ark, arca, or chest (gigantic, are the number of the knights of the garter; with the reserved twentysixth, or kingly or sovereign seat. in this respect the ark may be regarded as the grand mythic idea of the round table; as that was the production of the central mythic idea of the sangreal or sangrail. refer to engraving at p. 351, and the rosicrucian comment upon the same. see pages 340, 341, 345, 350, 351, and the whole of the chapter referrin

al or sangrail. refer to engraving at p. 351, and the rosicrucian comment upon the same. see pages 340, 341, 345, 350, 351, and the whole of the chapter referring to the origin of the order of the garter. the san-gr ale. 369 the third note with its cabalistic illustrations. the sang-r ale, gr al, or holy gr ale. the engraving at p. 340 gives the mystical idea, or suggestion, of the round table of the knights of king arthur, which is again typical of the san gr al. the romance of guyot, or at least the traditional fable of the san gr al, spread over france, germany, and england. in the. twelfth century the dogma of transubstantiation not being yet defined by the church, the chalice, the mark of the knights templars, had not the deep mystic meaning which it received in the following century

ted, with which the centurion longinus pierced the side of the lord, from whence issued blood and water the rosicrucian heraldic colours (royal, mars red; luna argent (or fire and water. there are eight angels, one to each half-heaven, or dark or light sides, guarding the four corners of the world. the sacred cup is identified with the vessel of the holy supper. the templars are the successors of the knights of the round table. their successors again were the knights of malta, with their eight' langues, or nations each represented in a blade of, or ray, of the eight-pointed red templar cross. 370 the rosicrucians. the temple church, london, was dedicated to st. mary. the gr al is a sort of oracle. it is, so to speak, at the orders of the mother of god, to execute all her commands. parsival

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tern homes. never more shall we come in array for battle to the lands of shurupuk. we submit to the authority of the most potent of kings. no more are we lamech's people but the people of utanapishtim" upon the repentant thegns of lamech did utanapishtim smile in mercy. putting down his great mace he spoke not thunderously but with magisterial aspect, wisest and most noble of all kings was he. to the knights he addressed these words "i know you to be noble men for you have submitted all to me and placed yourself within my reach to spare the people of your army. not base and foolish is it to preserve but it is both wise and honourable. 223 the warrior is not the taker of life but he is the one that does defend it. you are true warriors that surrender rather than press the battle that cannot

ohim came, screaming rage above the thunder in one awesome charge against the ships and yet not with some desperation, knowing that could they not gain the solid timbers they would find no respite upon wing. seven times sang bowstrings before they closed and seven times shining shapes precipitated from the ragged ranks into the froth below. then were the elohim upon the ships. 280 upon every ship the knights of shurupuk rushed forth to meet the elohim spears with mace and javelin and battle-cry and soon were the decks slick with gore where but rain had made them slick before. yet and yet sang the archer's bows cutting from the winds those of heaven who found no perch upon the crowded decks. now upon the ships of the king where utanapishtim himself contended, striking down to each side the

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rounds his movements. he seems to have travelled about europe, and he turns up at intervals, but we have little definite knowledge about him. he was the comte de s. germain at the time of the french revolution, and worked much with madame blavatsky, who was at that period in incarnation under the name of pere joseph. he also appears to have disguised himself as baron hompesch, who was the last of the knights of st. john of malta, the man who arranged the transfer of the island of malta to the english. this great saint and teacher still lives, and his present body has no appearance of great age. i myself met him physically in rome in 1901, and had a long conversation with him. 32. in co-masonry we refer to him as the head of all true freemasons throughout the world (abbreviated as the h.o.a

nts of it were gathered together in 1717 to form the grand lodge of england, and so it has come down to us unto the present day. 84. it should be understood, however, that there is no one line of masonic orthodoxy. a parallel tradition, coming originally from chaldean sources, has given rise to masonry as worked upon the continent of europe. and yet another line seems to have been brought back by the knights templars on their return from the crusades. 85. the whole subject of masonic history is one of exceeding interest; but, owing to the fact that masonry is after all a secret society, it is often almost impossible to trace the line of its descent by means of any documents which are now available, and consequently there is great confusion and contradiction among the various accounts. we h

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rst minutes. scottish minutes. english minutes. irish minutes. the grand lodge of england. the recomposition of the rituals. two and three degrees. opposition. the succession of l.m.s. the grand lodges of york, ireland and scotland. the ancients. the holy royal arch. the united grand lodge. craft masonry in other countries chapter x other lines of masonic tradition the stream of secret societies. the knights templars. the suppression of the templars. the preservation of the templars tradition. the royal order of scotland. the brothers of the rosy cross. the literature of rosicrucianism. the traditional history of the rosicrucians. the history of the order. chapter xi the scottish rite origin of the rite. the jacobite movement. the oration of ramsay. the chapter of clermont. the council of

ify them as they are expressed in our red, black and white freemasonry. 166. red masonry in the mysteries 167. for such m.m.s as were thought promising by the priests in charge (who were for the most part members of the three grand lodges, what we now call red masonry existed, as well as the teaching which is now included in our royal arch and kindred degrees, culminating in the splendid quest of the knights of the rose-croix for the lost word, man s true divinity. 168. in the symbolic teaching corresponding to our degree of the holy royal arch the aspirant was taught to clear away from the various levels of his consciousness all the veils which yet obstructed his vision of reality, and then in the power of that vision to recognize for himself the hidden light in every form, however deeply

dge of good, while the second stage, that of k.h. or black masonry, was devoted to the knowledge of evil. next, in the first steps of what we call white masonry, the crown of the whole glorious structure, the candidate learnt to see the underlying justice of that eternal god, amen-ra, who stands behind good and evil alike. in older days, before the kali yuga, in which evil predominates over good, the knights k.h. wore regalia of yellow instead of black. 177. our 30 links the knight k.h. to the ruling rather than the teaching branch of the great hierarchy; he should become a radiant centre of perennial energy, which is intended to give him strength to overcome evil and to make him a real power on the side of good. the prevailing colour of the influence is an electric blue (that of the first

cation of astarte. bro. ward explains that the festivals of the two patron saints of freemasonry, s. john the baptist in summer and s. john the evangelist in winter, are only a perpetuation of the feasts of the old fertility cult at the summer and winter solstices; that similar cultural rites are found in other lands, teutonic, celtic and greek, that they also survived among the essenes, and that the knights templars brought back from syria a story very similar to that of the 3. the tale of jonah, he remarks, has always been understood as a myth of death and resurrection, and he also was sacrificed to appease a deity, and obtain salvation for others, just as was the priest-king of old. he quotes many instances of foundation and consecration sacrifices; and, holding as he does that hiram ab

eir traditional histories, likewise going back to the days of solomon s temple; and in that of the former an elaborate account of the death of maitre jacques is given, which may likewise be an echo of the death of another and greater master- for it is clearly intended to be symbolical. there is also a suggestion that it was taken to refer to the death of jacques de molay, the last grand master of the knights templars. much yet remains to be discovered about the compagnonnage, for no full investigation into its records has yet taken place; and it may well be that future research will show clearly that the speculative masons of england and the operative journeymen of france derive their traditions from a common ancestry in the ancient mysteries. this at least was the opinion of r. f. gould

e greater and better part are due to that brotherhood- always faithful and often secret- of the magistri comacini. 656. in the tenth century we find still the manichaeans and the euchites; also the paulicians and the bogomiles. 657. eleventh century: the cathari and patarini, condemned by the roman church, both derived from the manichaeans; the paulicians with the same tradition, also persecuted; the knights of rhodes and of malta; scholastic mystics. 658. twelfth century: the albigenses appear, probably derived from manichaeans who settled in albi; the knights templars, publicly known; the cathari, widely spread in italy; the hermetists. 659. thirteenth century: the brotherhood of the winkelers; the apostolikers; the beghards and the beguinen; the brothers and sisters of the free spirit;

ppe paracelsus; the fire philosophers; militia crucifera evangelica, under simon studion; the mysteries of the hermetic masters. 663. seventeenth century: the rosicrucians; the templars; the asiatische bruder; academia di secreti, at the home of john baptista porta; the quietists, founded by michael de molinos; and the whole group of spanish mystics. 664. eighteenth century: the fratres lucis, or the knights of light; the rosicrucians; the knights and brothers initiate of st. john the evangelist from asia, or the asiatische bruder; the martinists; the theosophical society, founded in london, 1767, by benedicte chastanier, a mystic mason; the quietists; the knights templars; some masonic bodies. 665. the various sects and bodies here detailed should not be understood as belonging exclusivel

124) 669. i have taken two long extracts from mrs. oakley s book, because it is the only one of which i know which treats in any detail of these little-known sects. among them two stand out as better known or at any rate more fully discussed than the others, and both of them have to a considerable extent influenced our modern masonic rituals, especially those of the higher degrees. these two are the knights templars and the brethren of the rosy cross. 670. the knights templars 671. the order of the knights templars, called also the poor knights of christ and of the temple of solomon, was founded in 1118 by hugues de payens (hugo de paganis, a knight of burgundy, and godefroid de st. omer a knight of northern france, in order to protect the pilgrims who flocked to the holy land after the f

on s temple, whence their name templars was derived. 672. nine years later hugues de payens visited europe with the object of placing the new order upon a more secure foundation and of gaining recognition and a rule from the pope. he secured the enthusiastic support of s. bernard, the great abbot of clairvaux, and in 1128 a rule, which was drawn up for them by s. bernard himself, was approved for the knights templars by the council of troyes. it was not, however, until 1163 that pope alexander iii issued the charter of the order, and its organization was fully established. 673. the order of the temple in the days of its glory consisted of various grades. the knights (fratres milites) formed its most important section, at least from the military point of view; at their reception they were p

sisted of various grades. the knights (fratres milites) formed its most important section, at least from the military point of view; at their reception they were pledged to observe the three evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience(*the reception of a templar. bro. e. j. castle, k. c. in a. q. c, vol. xv, p. 163) like the members of all other religious orders throughout the church. the knights, who were often of high birth, were each entitled to three horses, a squire and two tents. married men were also received, but only on condition of bequeathing one half of their property to the order. no women were admitted. 674. besides these there was also a body of clergy (fratres capellani- bishops, priests and deacons- who were under the same vows as the knights, and by special di

clergy; but in attendance upon these there was a veritable army of squires, servants and vassals. their influence may be estimated from the fact that members of the order were summoned to the great councils of the church, such as the lateran council of 1215 and the council of lyons of 1274(*see also encyclopaedia britannica, art. templars, from which much of the above information is derived) 677. the knights templars brought back to the west a set of symbols and ceremonies belonging to the masonic tradition, and they possessed certain knowledge which is now given only in the degrees of the ancient and accepted scottish rite. the order was thus one of the repositories of the hidden wisdom in europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, although the full secrets were given only to the few

struct them, and certain traditions about them have passed down and become incorporated into various modern degrees. 690. the royal order of scotland 691. the most important of the bodies inheriting part of the templar tradition is the royal order of scotland, though it is in reality the result of the interaction of several lines of masonic descent. as i have said on page 124, the doctrines which the knights templars brought with them from france when their order was suppressed in their native country were intermingled with those of more than one of the existing scottish rites. those who founded it, or at least developed its teaching, appear to have been thoroughly eclectic, for in addition to the two sources above indicated they seem to have assimilated a certain amount of material from t

at the time of the crusades. it has affinities with the ancient mysteries, especially those of ceres at eleusis, isis in egypt and others. the crusaders adopted a set of ancient signs and symbolical words drawn from the well of religion, which were intended to distinguish crusader from saracen, and were concealed under strict pledges of secrecy. the intimate union between the crusading masons and the knights of s. john of jerusalem is the reason why the blue degrees are called s. john s masonry. the returning crusaders brought lodges of masonry to europe, and from thence they were introduced into scotland, where james, lord steward of scotland, was grand master of a lodge established at kilwinning, in the west of scotland in 1286, shortly after the death of alexander iii, king of scotland

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sigils) used to represent the satanic. however, the complete graphic referred to as the sigil of baphomet the now familiar goat s head in an inverted pentagram encircled by hebrew letters spelling out leviathan did not become the foremost symbol of satanism in the public consciousness until after the founding of the church of satan in 1966. the word baphomet dates back to records of the trial of the knights templar, and there are ongoing discussions concerning its derivation and meaning. however, there is no clear evidence that the symbol that has come to be referred to as baphomet is similarly derived. the first artwork for an image of a goat face in a pentagram appeared in a 1931 book on freemasonry by oswald wirth (1931, 60. this was, however, only a pentagram containing a goat s face

urch of satan. finally, this symbol was widely released with the publication of the satanic bible in 1969, where it adorned the cover and appeared on the interior page introducing the section detailing the satanic ritual. it was in the satanic bible that this graphic was first referred to as the symbol of baphomet in any publication available to a mass audience: the symbol of baphomet was used by the knights templar to represent satan. through the ages this symbol has been called by many different names. among these are: the goat of mendes, the goat of a thousand young, the black goat, the judas goat, and perhaps most appropriately, the scapegoat. baphomet represents the powers of darkness combined with the generative fertility of the goat. in its pure form the pentagram is shown encompass

to people who slavishly complement another person purely for the sake of personal gain. it also seems to be the source of the familiar expression brown-nosing. in addition to witches, who regularly confessed to having committed the act under torture, the kiss of shame was attributed to heretics such as the cathars and the waldenses. the accusation of the oscularum infame was also leveled against the knights templar,who were said to require new initiates to kiss the anus as well as certain other parts of the anatomy of their superiors. both the templars and the cathars were accused of kissing satan, in the form of a black cat, underneath the tail. the british novelist dennis wheatley, who wrote a series of black magic novels, includes a description of the kiss of shame in his novel, the de

which practiced thelemic wicca under the leadership of (among others) the lady chandria, who succumbed to cancer in 1988. in 1988 the oto reported a membership of 700 in the usa and 1,400 worldwide. at several points, the oto has developed internal organizations that are to some extent secret and claim to carry on the traditions of the old aa. in july 1981, this internal secret society was called the knights of baphomet, which was described as the caliph s praetorian guard. three or four years after that, that organization had fallen apart, and the new inner court society was called the aa. lon milo duquette was one of grady s battlefield promotion ninth-degrees and the head of heru-ra-ha lodge in costa mesa from 1978 on (he is still the official head of the lodge, but it has been practica

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

an attack of camelot, he maketh a desperate night sortie, and will traverse the wilds of wales. v. at the end of his resources among the welsh mountains, he is compelled to put to death his only remaining child. by this sacrifice he saves the world of chivalry. vi. he having become an holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to arthur.s court, bearing tidings of a questing beast. the knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. lancelot findeth him upon scawfell, clothed in his white beard. he returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, herleth him to the heaven. viii. sir palamede, riding forth on the quest, seeth a druid worship the sun upon stonehenge. he rideth eastward, and findeth the sun setting in the west. furious he taketh a vikin

evoteth again his life to the quest; yet more utterly cast down than ever, for that this supreme vision is not the beast. xl. upon the loftiest summit of a great mountain he perceiveth naught. even this is, however, not the beast. xli. returning to camelot to announce his failure, he maketh entrance into the king fs hall, whence he started out upon the quest. the beast cometh nestling to him. all the knights attain the quest. the voice of christ is heard .well done. he sayeth that each failure is a step in the path. the poet prayeth success therein for himself and his readers. the high history of good sir palamedes the saracen knight; and of his following of the questing beast 3 i sir palamede the saracen rode by the marge of many a sea: he had slain a thousand evil men and set a thousand

amede is slain; his son, in sally fighting free, is struck through burgonet and brain. but day by day the foes increase, though day by day their thousands fall: laughs the unshaken fortalice; the good knights laugh no more at all. sir palamedes, the saracen knight 9 grimmer than heathen hordes can scowl, the spectre hunger rages there; he passes like a midnight owl, hooting his heraldry, despair. the knights and squires of palamede stalk pale and lean through court and hall; though sharp and swift the archers speed their yardlong arrows from the wall. their numbers thin; their strength decays; their fate is written plain to read: these are the dread deciduous days of iron-souled sir palamede. he hears the horrid laugh that rings from camp to camp at night; he hears the cruel mouths of murd

odly gift of grace who shall achieve this marvel quest. then arthur sterte up from his place, and sterte up boldly all the rest, and sware to seek this goodly thing. but now the dwarf doth beat his breast, and speak on this wise to the king, that he should worthy knight be found who with his hands the dwarf should bring by might one span from off the ground. whereat they jeer, the dwarf so small, the knights so strong: the walls resound with laughter rattling round the hall. but arthur first essays the deed, and may not budge the dwarf at all. then lancelot sware by goddes reed, and pulled so strong his muscel burst, his nose and mouth brake out a-bleed; nor moved he thus the dwarf. from first to last the envious knights essayed, and all their malice had the worst, liber cxcvii 18 till str

t as man.s (quoth lancelot .yet, may god send him back this day, his quest achieved, to camelot .amen. they cried, and raised the bowl; when.the wind rose, a blast as hot as the simoom, and forth did roll a sudden thunder. still they stood. then came a bugle-blast. the soul liber cxcvii 96 of each knight stirred. with vigour rude, the blast tore down the tapestry that hid the door. all ashen-hued the knights laid hand to sword. but he (sir palamedes) in the gap was found.god knoweth.bitterly weeping. cried arthur .strange the hap! my knight, my dearest knight, my friend! what gift had fortune in her lap like thee? embrace me .rather rend your garments, if you love me, sire (quod he .i am come unto the end. all mine intent and my desire, my quest, mine oath.all, all is done. burn them with

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

t each third response they touched hands in a peculiar manner; at each seventh they kissed. the twenty-first was a complete embrace. the bell tinkled in the architrave; and they parted. the high priest then took from the altar a flask curiously shaped to imitate a phallus. the high priestess knelt and presented a boat-shaped cup of gold. he knelt opposite her, and did not pour from the flask. now the knights and dames began a long litany; first a dame in treble, then a knight in bass, then a response in chorus of all present with the organ. this chorus was: evoe ho, iacche! epelthon, epelthon, evoe, iao! again and again it rose and fell. towards it close, whether by gstage effect h or no i could not swear, the light over the altar grew rosy, then purple. the high priest sharply and suddenl

ized by exquisite yet robust art. he wore also a breastplate corresponding to the canopy; a sculptured gbeast h at each corner in gold, while the twelve signs of the zodiac were symbolized by the stones of the breast-plate. the bell tinkled yet again, and the herald again sounded his trumpet. the celebrants moved hand in hand down the nave while the organ thundered forth its solemn harmonies. all the knights and dames rose and gave the secret sign of the rose croix. it was at this part of the ceremony that things began to happen to me. i became suddenly aware that my body had lost both weight and tactile sensibility. my consciousness seemed to be situated no longer in my body. i gmistook myself, h if i may use the phrase, for one of the stars in the canopy. in this way i missed seeing the

a constant awareness, which has never left me to this hour, that the truth of the matter is not this normal gi h but gthat h which is still dropping into nothing. i am assured by those who know that i may be able to take up the thread if i attend another ceremony. the tinkle died away. the girl attendant ran quickly forward and folded the ermine over the celebrants. the herald blew a fanfare, and the knights and dames left their stalls. advancing to the board, we took hold of the gilded carrying poles, and followed the herald in procession out of the chapel, bearing the litter to a small side-chapel leading out of the middle anteroom, where we left it, the guard closing the doors. in silence we disrobed, and left the house. about a mile through the woods we found my friend's automobile wai

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

and bringing forth the hga or angelick familiar. there is no mystical guideline for this force, it is very much a part of your being, illuminated and empowered by your own desires. fetishes (lesser and greater) a fetish is simply a storehouse of power. it represents the sorcerer in some way, particularly an aspect of his or her personality. for instance, a vampyric famulus would be a human skull (the knights templar were said to worship baphomet in the form of a human skull) which holds a consecrated sigil representing the vampyric aspects of self; along with the grave soil of a graveyard in which the sorcerer has rested in and meditated upon death. fetishes are considered a powerful tool in witchcraft and primal sorcery, as they are gateways of consciousness and a growing extension of the

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

her's gold. 153 the theory and practice of alchemy, part ii the alchemical prayer--the emerald tablet of hermes--a letter from the brothers of r. c--the magical mountain of the moon--an alchemical formula--the dew of the sages. 157 the chemical marriage christian rosencreutz is invited to the chemical wedding--the virgo lucifera--the philosophical inquisition--the tower of olympus--the homunculi--the knights of the golden stone. 161 bacon, shakspeare, and the rosicrucians the rosicrucian mask--life of william shakspere--sir francis bacon--the acrostic signatures--the significant number thirty-three--the philosophic death. 165 the cryptogram as a factor in symbolic philosophy secret alphabets--the biliteral cipher--pictorial ciphers--acroamatic ciphers--numerical and musical ciphers--code c

e inscription on the emerald table. from these associations it is evident that chiram is to be considered as a prototype of humanity; in fact he is plato's idea (archetype) of man. as adam after the fall symbolizes the idea of human degeneration, so chiram through his resurrection symbolizes the idea of human regeneration. on the 19th day of march, 1314, jacques de molay, the last grand master of the knights templars, was burned on a pyre erected upon that point of the islet of the seine, at paris, where afterwards was erected the statue of king henry iv (see the indian religions, by hargrave jennings "it is mentioned as a tradition in some of the accounts of the burning" writes jennings "that molay, ere he expired, summoned clement, the pope who had pronounced the bull of abolition agains

tus; the prostatic plexus, the six-petaled lotus; the epigastric plexus and navel, the ten-petaled lotus; the cardiac plexus, the twelve-petaled lotus; the pharyngeal plexus, the sixteen-petaled locus; the cavernous plexus, the two-petaled lotus; and the pineal gland or adjacent unknown center, the thousand-petaled locus. the color, size, and number of petals upon the click to enlarge the tree of the knights of the round table. this remarkable example of the use of the tree in symbolism is from the chateau de pierrefonds in the little town of pierrefonds, northern france. the eight side branches end in conventional cup-like flowers, from each of which rises the body of a knight carrying in his hand a ribbon bearing his name. the central stem is surmounted by a larger flower, from which eme

in rules supposedly formulated by king solomon himself. the occult properties of the mandrake, while little understood, have been responsible for the adoption of the plant as a talisman capable of increasing the value or quantity of anything with which it was associated. as a phallic charm, the mandrake was considered to be an infallible cure for sterility. it was one of the priapic symbols which the knights templars were accused of worshiping. the root of the plant closely resembles a human body and often bore the outlines of the human head, arms, or legs. this striking similarity between the body of man and the mandragora is one of the puzzles of natural science and is the real basis for the veneration in which this plant was held. in isis unveiled, madam blavatsky notes that the mandrag

preston john, parsifal, the last of the grail kings, carried the holy cup with him into india, and it disappeared forever from the western world. subsequent search for the sangreal was the motif for much of the knight errantry of the arthurian legends and the ceremonials of the round table (see the morte d'arthur) no adequate interpretation has ever been given to the grail mysteries. some believe the knights of the holy grail to have been a powerful organization of christian mystics perpetuating the ancient wisdom under the rituals and sacraments of the oracular cup. the quest for the holy grail is the eternal search for truth, and albert g. mackey sees in it a variation of the masonic legend of the lost word so long sought by the brethren of the craft. there is also evidence to support th

s differ widely concerning the origin of playing cards, the purpose for which they were intended, and the time of their introduction into europe. in his researches into the history of playing cards, samuel weller singer advances the opinion that cards reached southern europe from india by way of arabia. it is probable that the tarot cards were part of the magical and philosophical lore secured by the knights templars from the saracens or one of the mystical sects then flourishing in syria. returning to europe, the templars, to avoid persecution, concealed the arcane meaning of the symbols by introducing the leaves of their magical book ostensibly as a device for amusement and gambling. in support of this contention, mrs. john king van rensselaer states "that cards were brought by the home

e military, coins the tradesmen, and rods the farming class. from the standpoint of what court de g belin calls "political geography" cups represent the northern countries, swords the orient, coins the occident, and rods the southern countries. the ten pip cards of each suit represent the nations composing each of these grand divisions. the kings are their governments, the queens their religions, the knights their histories and national characteristics, and the pages their arts and sciences. elaborate treatises have been written concerning the use of the tarot cards in divination, but as this practice is contrary to the primary purpose of the tarot no profit can result from its discussion. many interesting examples of early playing cards are found in the museums of europe, and there are al

e mysteries. upon this field of existence or thought move a number of strangely carved figures, each according to fixed law. the white king is ormuzd; the black king, ahriman; and upon the plains of cosmos the great war between light and darkness is fought through all the ages. of the philosophical constitution of man, the kings represent the spirit; the queens the mind; the bishops the emotions; the knights the vitality; the castles, or rooks, the physical body. the pieces upon the kings' side are positive; those upon the queens' side, negative. the pawns are the sensory impulses and perceptive faculties--the eight parts of the soul. the white king and his suite symbolize the self and its vehicles; the black king and his retinue, the not-self- the false ego and its legion. the game of che

mselves fratres rosa: crucis. but soon afterwards came false schools into existence and corrupted the good intentions of these wise men. therefore, the order no longer exists as most people would understand existence, and as this fraternity of the seculo fili call themselves brothers of the rosie cross, so also will they in the seculo spiritus sancti call themselves brothers of the lily cross and the knights of the white lion. then will the schools of wisdom begin again to blossom, but why the first one chose their name and why the others shall also choose theirs, only those can solve who have understanding grounded in nature" political aspirations of the rosicrucians were expressed through the activities of sir francis bacon, the comte de st.-germain, and the comte di cagliostro. the last

ls of wisdom begin again to blossom, but why the first one chose their name and why the others shall also choose theirs, only those can solve who have understanding grounded in nature" political aspirations of the rosicrucians were expressed through the activities of sir francis bacon, the comte de st.-germain, and the comte di cagliostro. the last named is suspected of having been an emissary of the knights templars, a society deeply involved in transcendentalism, as eliphas levi has noted. there is a popular supposition to the effect that the rosicrucians were at least partial instigators of the french revolution (note particularly the introduction to lord bulwer-lytton's rosicrucian novel zanoni) the third postulate the third theory takes the form of a sweeping denial of rosicrucianism

is bacon are still in existence. an examination of them might reveal musical cryptograms, for it is quite certain that lord bacon was well acquainted with the manner of their construction. 6. the arbitrary cipher. the system of exchanging letters of the alphabet for hieroglyphic figures is too easily decoded to be popular. albert: pike describes an arbitrary cipher based upon the various parts of the knights templars' cross, each angle representing a letter. the many curious alphabets that have been devised are rendered worthless, however, by the table of recurrence. according to edgar allan poe, a great cryptogrammatist, the most common letter of the english language is e, the other letters in their order of frequency are as follows: a, o, i, d, h, n, r, s, t, v, y, c, f, q l, m, w, b, k

uspected that the dionysians also profoundly influenced early islamic culture, for part of their symbolism found its way into the mysteries of the dervishes. at one time the dionysians referred to themselves as sons of solomon, and one of the most important of their symbols was the seal of solomon--two interlaced triangles. this motif is frequently seen in conspicuous parts of mohammedan mosques. the knights templars--who were suspected of anything and everything--are believed to have contacted these dionysiac artificers and to have introduced many of their symbols and doctrines into medi val europe. but freemasonry most of all owes to the dionysiac cult the great mass of its symbols and rituals which are related to the science of architecture. from these ancient and illustrious artisans i

of the life of jesus of nazareth has never been unfolded to the world, either in the accepted gospels or in the apocrypha, although a few stray hints may be found in some of the commentaries written by the ante-nicene fathers. the facts concerning his identity and mission are among the priceless mysteries preserved to this day in the secret vaults beneath the "houses of the brethren" to a few of the knights templars, who were initiated into the arcana of the druses, nazarenes, essenes, johannites, and other sects still inhabiting the remote and inaccessible fastnesses of the holy land, part of the strange story was told. the knowledge of the templars concerning the early history of christianity was undoubtedly one of the main reasons for their persecution and final annihilation. the discr

ovah, and restored many of the lost rites and ceremonies. in the thirty-sixth year of his age he was stoned to death in jerusalem" click to enlarge the round table of king arthur. from jennings' the rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries. according to tradition, arthur, when a boy of fifteen, was crowned king of britain, in a.d. 516. soon after his ascension to the throne he founded the order of the knights of the round table at windsor. thereafter the knights met annually at carleon, winchester, or at camelot, to celebrate pentecost. from all parts of europe came the brave and the bold, seeking admission into this noble order of british knighthood. nobility, virtue, and valor were its requirements, and those possessing these qualities to a marked degree were welcomed to king arthur's cou

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

head of wisdom. as related in the sufis by idries shah, the arabic root fehm (charcoal) is fhm, meaning black or wise. this is recognizable and easily understood in an initiatory sense from the sufic phrase, dar tariki, tariqat (in the darkness, the path and reflects the ideal of the light or wisdom coming from the darkness. the arabic root fhm is symbolic of baphomet, meaning head of wisdom. in the knights templar, hugues de payns (which translates of 16 the sufis by idries shah and a history of secret societies by akron daraul. 10 the pagan) held a coat of arms which had three saracen heads, which resembled severed heads, indicating wisdom. it is also the sufis who move against the sun17 which brought such practice to the west. in the yatus cult, the darkness must be observed, absorbed

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

saw the mysterious celestial body and calculated that it was possibly eighty billion kilome-ters away from earth, they speculated that it is moving towards earth (p. 95)quetzalcoatlhe whose home is water .oannes (the original fisher king)in africa, known as the king of the dogons. the name means the dove. from oannes we derivejoannes or john, the same as the author of revelation, or worshipped by the knights templar. john wascalled the baptizer and connected to water and to the dove also.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation253 appendix b: book abstracts oannes was said to have a removable fish-skin, probably a wet-suit of some kind, and to live under theocean.oannes is similar to the philistine dagon, who like osiris, brought the secrets of agricultural science,etc. in celt

poser.sir isaac newton (1642-1727) heavily involved in alchemy.paracelsus (1493-1541) founder of homeopathy.giambattista della porta (1535-1615) sorcerer involved in metallurgy, perfected the camera obscura.francois rabelais (1494-1553) satanistic playwrite and rebel.sir walter raleigh (1554-1618) pirate and member of the tudor dynasty.sir george ripley (1490) studied on the island of rhodes with the knights of st. john (tem-plars).emperor rudolph ii (1576-1612) holy roman emperor whose court in prague was frequented by major name alchemists. knew sir john dee.mary sidney (1561-1621) countess of pembroke and sister of pirate sir philip sidney.george starkey (1627-1665) educated at harvard.solomon trismosin (1480-1500) considered to be the instructor of paracelsus. he authored the beautiful

august 6, 1945 (hiroshima) was 33 days.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation279 appendix c: suggested areas of research 18. 1946 on august 19, 1946, bill clinton, the 42nd president, was born in hope, arkansas, at the 33rdparallel. his parentage is disputed. as a young man, bill clinton was a master counselor of themasonic-connected demolay (demolay derives from the grand master of the knights templar,james demolay (1244-1314. clinton's ties with the c.i.a. began when he studied at oxford. clin-ton's reign as president has been noted for numerous scandals, including the unexplained deaths ofmore than 50 of his associates by means of bullets and plane crashes. 19.1947 on july 8, 1947, a ufo and aliens' bodies were allegedly found in the desert outside roswell,new mexico, at t

ious documents.567 gregory of tours reports that just before the bubonic plague invaded the auvergne region offrance, three brilliant lights appeared around the sun and the heavens appeared to be on fire. 590 another historian reports that bright lights in the sky precede the plague in another province infrance. 1099 christian crusades to free palestine from the muslims (to 1270. 1119 founding of the knights templars. appendix f: general chronology of events320atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation 1228 german emperor frederick ii leads a crusade to jerusalem. 1243 centralization of papal power in pope innocent iv until 1254. 1298 between 1298 and 1314 seven large comets seen over europe. 1333 a plague in china, preceded by a terrible mist emitting a fearful stench and infect

ble and issue emancipation order. 1833 andrew jackson orders that u.s. funds be withdrawn from the bank of the united states. 1833 mercury amalgam fillings introduced in nyc. dentists rebelled. 1834 giuseppe mazzini appointed as illuminati director worldwide. thomas malthus dies. 1834 mazzini appoints albert pike to head illuminati operations in the u.s. 1834 pope leo 13th has the headquarters of the knights of malta moved to rome. 1835 first availability of powerful compound microscopes after the perfection of the achromatic objec-tive lens between 1815 and 1830. 1836 charter of the bank of the u.s. expires. 1836 britain imports 30,000 chests of opium to china. 1836 first recorded case of the use of psychiatry to suppress dissent in russia. appendix f: general chronology of events330atlan

MORALS AND DOGMA

sacred; and the judgment of his brothers, upon him who violates his pledge, should be stern as the judgments of the roman censors against him who violated his oath. good faith is revered among masons as it was among the romans, who placed its statue in the capitol, next to that of jupiter maximus optimus; and we, like them, hold that calamity should always be chosen rather than baseness; and with the knights of old, that one should always die rather than be dishonored. be faithful, therefore, to the promises you make, to the pledges you give, and to the vows that you assume, since to break either is base and dishonorable. be faithful to your family, and perform all the duties of a good father, a good son, a good husband, and a good brother. be faithful to your friends; for true friendship

will be the water of celestial grace, water that doth not soil the hands, but purifies all leprous bodies "let us labor to instruct our brother, to the end that by his toils he may succeed in discovering the principle of life contained in the profundity of matter, and known by the name of _alkahest "the most potent of the names of deity is adonai. its power is to put the universe in movement; and the knights who shall be fortunate enough to possess it, with weight and measure, shall have at their disposition all the potences that inhabit it, the elements, and the cognizance of all the virtues and sciences that man is capable of knowing. by its power they would succeed in discovering the primary metal of the sun, which holds within itself the principle of the germ, and wherewith we can put

state of many orphan and outcast children, and ministering to their necessities, god's ravens in the wilderness, bread and flesh in the morning, bread and flesh in the evening. they had been inns to the wayfaring man, who heard from afar the sound of the vesper-bell, inviting him to repose and devotion at once, and who might sing his matins with the morning star, and go on his way rejoicing. and the knights were no less distinguished by bravery in battle, than by tenderness and zeal in their ministrations to the sick and dying. the knights of st. andrew vowed to defend all orphans, maidens, and widows of good family, and wherever they heard of murderers, robbers, or masterful thieves who oppressed the people, to bring them to the laws, to the best of their power "if fortune fail you" so r

and war; and by a twofold way, get victory with honor. the most famed men in the world have had in them both courage and compassion. an enemy reconciled hath a greater value than the long train of captives of a roman triumph. virtue, truth, and honor are the three most essential qualities of a knight of st. andrew "ye shall love god above all things, and be steadfast in the faith" it was said to the knights, in their charge "and ye shall be true unto your sovereign lord, and true to your word and promise. also, ye shall sit in no place where that any judgment should be given wrongfully against any body, to your knowledge" the law hath not power to strike the virtuous, nor can fortune subvert the wise. virtue and wisdom, only, perfect and defend man. virtue's garment is a sanctuary so sacr

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

along with the visualization of the archangels and the elemental forces associated with them. in detail, i ll be explaining how to do it later in this book. the pentagram represents man- the five points being his head, two arms, and two legs. inverted it becomes the symbol of baphomet, the goat of a thousand young. now to understand what baphomet represents, i need to give you a little lesson on the knights templar, a debased christian sect that practiced occult rituals. king phillipe of france had them burnt at the stake in the 14th century for worshipping baphomet- an idol with the head and feet of a goat, the breasts of a woman, and the wings of an angel. inverted the pentagram becomes the symbol of baphomet- the five points being two horns, two ears, and the beard. so now you know! lo

c power of witchcraft as if they were working with a group. using this magical power is simplicity itself. the warlock of the middle ages, desiring to arouse love and passion, was required to make a figure of wax to represent the woman whose company he desired above all else. positive magic is worked from the first quarter until a full moon, and black magic from the last quarter until a new moon< the knights templar was a debased christian sect that practiced occult rituals. it's a good idea to work a protection ritual on a regular basis. the pentagram (five-pointed star) is a tool used by both witches and magicians to keep evil forces at bay. the pentagram represents man- the five points being his head, two arms, and two legs. in reading these words you will learn many ancient secrets of

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

lfth century the abbey of cluny was the center and regulator of civilization. solely from an architectural standpoint, the cluny monks carried their art as far as the east. the churches they erected in jerusalem and elsewhere in the holy land during the time of the first crusade were burgundian. in this land of great relics and byzantine art, france remained naively faithful to its genius. though the knights templar contributed most to the spread of eastern influences on an operational level, the benedictines were subject to the influence of these regions, and the romanesque style does indeed have a byzantine feel. the statutes from the cluny monastery are divided into two books. the second volume contains the rules to be followed in founding and constructing new abbeys. according to the l

as displayed in venues beyond just churches intended to propagate the faith. the first concern of these "warrior monks" was the erection of construction that could be used* the templars recognized themselves as "brothers and companions" of the cistercians, to whom they owed assistance and protection. the crusades and the templars 67 for purposes of attack and defense. rather than being assumed by the knights, who were primarily soldiers, the role of architect must have fallen upon the chaplains, who were religious clerics, as well as upon actual specialists. each templar commandery, though under the orders of a single commander, was managed by a certain number of officers, one of whom was a master carpenter.12 in addition to their servant brothers, the templars also employed christian work

came closer to one shared ideal. the fatimids of cairo imagined the possibility of a peaceful universalism that was the rebirth of the thought of the pharaoh amenhotep iv. the templars echoed* we should recall that the essenes also dressed in white linen and practiced a form of solar worship. the uniform of the assassins consisted of a white robe, red cap, belt, and boots. the templars, at least the knights in the order, wore a white robe with a red cross on the chest. white is the symbol of light and red is the symbol of fire. the crusades and the templars 79 them on this point by trying to establish cooperative relations between easterners and westerners united in the desire for universal peace. despite the considerable influence of the arab world, however, there are no grounds for conc

s to the middle ages own emancipation. thus as far as the templar commanderies were concerned, their privileges and exemptions remained unchanged after the abolition of the order. in fact, a bull issued by clement v on may 2, 1312, decreed that all the properties, rights, and privileges of the templars would pass into the hands of the hospitallers of saint john of jerusalem (who went on to become the knights of rhodes and the stillexisting order of the knights of malta. this bull was applicable in all christian countries and ratified by many kings, including philip the fair. the privileges the hospitallers inherited from the templars were subsequently and over the course of the centuries often confirmed by the popes* and the hospitallers continued to widely apply the right to asylum and th

eges the hospitallers inherited from the templars were subsequently and over the course of the centuries often confirmed by the popes* and the hospitallers continued to widely apply the right to asylum and the right of franchise so thoroughly that the francs metiers were assured of their survival after the dissolution of the templar order. we have iconographic proof of this protection provided by the knights hospitallers to construction workers in a miniature from the end of the fifteenth century depicting the ritual reception of journeymen carpenters by the grand master of the hospitaller order of rhodes on the worksite of fortifications of the city that the turks besieged in 1480+ while workers are busy on the ramparts, the grand master, attended by his officers, is preparing to give the

of kilwinning. ancient chronicles also say that the fugitive templars in scotland enlisted under the flag of robert the bruce, where they contributed mightily to the successful outcome of the battle of bannockburn, in which 30,000 scots defeated 100,000 english. this can be taken as fact, but legend goes on to add that king robert rewarded the templars by creating, at their request, the order of the knights of st. andrew of the thistle, reserving for himself and his successors the title of grand master. initiations into the order were supposedly performed according to the style that had been practiced among the templars. during the time of the reformation, the order was suppressed and all its goods confiscated. in 1685 the stuart monarch james iii restored it. in accordance with the king'

the templar order was abolished by pope clement v on march 22, 1312. in a bull issued on may 2 of that same year, he decreed that all templar properties, with the rights and privileges granted their owners, would be transferred to the possession of the hospitallers of saint john of jerusalem. philip the fair ratified this transfer in france on august 24, 1312* the hospitallers, who were known as the knights of rhodes since 1309 and later the knights of malta (1530, were thus made surrogate holders of the manorial rights of the templars and over the centuries preserved them with all the privileges of their predecessors. there was* this was by no means a gift freely given to the hospitallers. on several occasions, payment of considerable sums was demanded of the order by philip the fair and

es. on certain holidays until the eve of the revolution, the clergy of the parishes of saint nicholas des champs, saint jean en greve, and notre dame de bonne nouvelle, all dependencies of the templar censive, continued to march in procession to the church of the temple, as they had at the height of the templars' influence. the homage that was once rendered to the templars was thus transferred to the knights of malta. the temple church always maintained its independence from the archbishop of paris, which was why, in 1787, free masons went to the temple after encountering difficulties from the paris archbishop monsignor de juigne for their wish to have a high mass sung "with a large choir" in the temple, the mass was sung and on the next day a service was celebrated for brothers who had di

viding another piece of evidence that testifies to the relationship shared by the benedictines and templars* saint leu was formerly the seat of a confederation of saint anne who, we know, was venerated by roofers and also housed chapels dedicated to saint john the baptist and saint john the evangelist. in addition, it served, for several different periods of time, as the sanctuary of the order of the knights of the holy sepulcher of jerusalem, who were instituted in the fifteenth century by pope alexander vi. this church's neighborhood had always been a frequent haunt of the compagnons strangers du devoir de liberte [foreign companions of duty to freedom] the loups [wolves] perhaps because of the patron saint of the parish, saint loup. even into the nineteenth century the compagnons still

the north, at the site of the napoleon barracks (j. hillairet, evocation du vieux paris, 134, an opinion he borrowed from rochegude and dumolin, 71 and 150. for more on this topic, see also c. piton, la cite (1911, 105-76+ probst-biraben (les mysteres des templiers, 165-67) sees in "these noble lords of the temple" a survival of the templars in the form of a third order, whereas they were simply the knights hospitallers. the templars and the parisian builders 131 templars increased rapidly. the 1632 list made by the grand prior of malta showing the definitive status of the censive district of the former templar commandery notably indicates these holdings "rue frognier l'asnier; rue gamier sur l'eau (grenier sur l'eau; rue des barres or barrys; saint gervais church, cememtery, chevet; beau

ms that around 1760, a brotherhood of masons and carpenters met in the chapel of the nation of picardy on the rue de fouarre (rue lagrange) and that their corporation kept an office on rue de la harpe at this time.62 the temple's domain ended south of the rue des mathurins, which formed part of their district. the area beyond this point fell under the jurisdiction of saint jean de latran that is, the knights hospitallers. this street owed its name to the hospital of the mathurins or the trinity, which had been created around 1206. this facility was administered by the mathurin order, the donkey driver brothers founded by saint jean de matha with an eye to ransoming prisoners held captive by the muslims. this indicates that it had a relationship with the templars, although it was a direct d

e enough to assume that tendencies that are not considered heretical in one era can be considered so in another, it is easy to see that the associations or brotherhoods of builder craftsmen that were created and nurtured under the aegis of the templars continued to live, with their rites and symbols, traditions and franchises, under the protection of the templars' successors, the hospitallers and the knights of malta, whose religious orthodoxy has never been in doubt. in order to dispel any misunderstanding, it is helpful to emphasize here how the medieval mind conceived of religious orthodoxy. in the middle ages and up until the reformation, though theology was the chief topic of debate, freedom of expression was quite considerable. while not more expansive, the notion of orthodoxy was mu

to which they belonged. later, because of feudal bonds the communities that had turned secular would continue to enjoy the same privileges and franchises they assumed when they were religious dependents. more important, all craftsmen had the right to asylum and the free exercise of their trade in the domains of the templar commanderies and the popes maintained these privileges for domains held by the knights hospitaller or knights of malta until the time of the french revolution. when we recall that the temple numbered some 900 commanderies, many of which were extensive, and 10,000 castles, we can see how operatives, especially masons who traveled widely, could be assured of finding hospitality, security, and work everywhere they went. the popes also conferred these privileges, valid throu

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son of sir lancelot by elaine, the daughter of king pelles, the fisher king. lancelot had been made drunk, and led to believe that elaine was his true love, queen guinevere (see p. 85. sir perceval sir perceval was the hero of several early grail romances (see above, but in the later french quest of the holy grail, and malory s morte d arthur, he merely accompanies sir galahad, the purest of all the knights, when he succeeds in the quest. sir perceval dies shortly afterward. sir bors sir bors was sir galahad s other companion at the end of the quest, and the only knight to survive and return to camelot. he was sir galahad s uncle, and had been granted a vision of the grail years earlier when he prayed that the boy might become as good a knight as his father, sir lancelot. angels when the

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s occupied. if the allied king can be check-mated, his partner continues to play and to seek to release him. when both kings are checkmated, the game is at an end, and the partners checkmated have lost the game. the game is also lost by the first player, when though neither he or his ally is checkmated, the enemies hold such a position that the prime player cannot possibly attain the ptah square. the knights or fiery forces of the elements meet and clash violently in all parts, and are strong in attack against every thing and everywhere. their moves, like fire, pass unarrested through the other elements in irregular courses like the lambent flame, leaping both diagonally and square-wise at every move. they contain the potential forces of the other pieces. their force is similar to the taro

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tor necessary for love to be accomplished is. 32. one cannot learn to concentrate without becoming sensitive to. 33. freedom to create and to construct requires that the individual be_ and. 34. in al, had is actually. 35 "medu" means both_ and_ and is the_ of western magical tradition. 36. maat is the egyptian neter of_ and_ and her symbol is a. 37. the symbol used by both the church of satan and the knights templar with which crowley identified himself was the. 38. in babylonian mythology_ was the original watery chaos. 39. zoroaster professed that ahura did not create the masculine devil, but stated rather that this was an_ existence. 40. the yezidis worshipped the devil-god_ who took the form of a. 41. consciousness is the measure of, making actual that which otherwise is only. 42. mani

innocence or accident, they dash it from their lips in terror or, upon drinking from it, come hideously to grief for their rashness. only the initiate of the left-hand path may dare to drink from the grail with impunity, and only he shall see it brought forth before him whenever he desires. woe to him who drinks from the grail with deceit and falsehood in his heart; it shall consume him utterly "the knights of the grail live from a stone of purest kind. if you do not know it, it shall here be named to you. it is called lapsit exillis -wolfram von eschenbach, parsival "hic lapis exilis extat precio quoque vilis spernitur a stultis, amatur plus ab edoctis [this insignificant stone is indeed of trifling value. it is despised by fools, the more cherished by the wise -arnold of villanova, rosa

mperor in the thoth deck and that of set in the temple of set stele hold ceptres in their right hands and crosses in their left hands. there are of course differences: the emperor holds a ram-headed sceptre, while set's has the stylized set-head. the emperor's cross-topped orb holds a maltese cross while set carries the anx [i suspect the reason for the maltese cross could stem from the symbol of the knights of malta who formed their crosses from four arrowheads pointed inward. seen as such, it could be symbolic of temporal influence coming about from an aggressive nature. i do not advance this as dogma, but it does fit with the red color of the card and overall power presented in it] the ram, ares, can be seen in four places in three forms: the capitals of the throne [himalayan wild rams

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

ritual. for large group rituals a trapezoidal altar about 3 to 4 feet high and 5 to 6 feet long can be specially constructed for the woman to lie upon. if this is impractical, or in private ceremonies, any elevated plane may be used. if a woman is used for the altar, the other devices may be placed upon a table within easy reach of the priest. symbol of baphomet the symbol of baphomet was used by the knights templar to represent satan. through the ages this symbol has been called by many different names. among these are: the goat of mendes, the goat of a thousand young, the black goat, the judas goat, and perhaps the most appropriately, the scapegoat. baphomet represents the powers of darkness combined with the generative fertility of the goat. in its "pure" form the pentagram is shown enc

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till is lost carcosa. songs that the hyades shall sing, where flap the tatters of the king, must die unheard in dim carcosa. song of my soul, my voice is dead, die thou, unsung, as tears unshed shall dry and die in lost carcosa -robert w. chambers "casilda's song" from the king in yellow the ceremony of the stifling air is the the which was performed when entering the sixth degree of the order of the knights templar. it celebrates a reawakening of the flesh and a rejection of past self-denials, and symbolic rebirth is attained through a contrived entombment. the ceremony originated in the thirteenth century. in its original form it was not the historical parody into which it later developed. accounts of the performance of l'air epais ultimately strengthened the charges of king philip iv of

. that may be true, molay. though your courage was not lessened by imprisonment and torture, you did in fact confess your heresies, your evil crimes and those of your order-your unholy acts. priest: vous les avez tortur s! vous avez trait ces chevaliers, qui toute leur vie out combattu pour proteger votre tr ne, comme vous auriez trait des meurtriers ou des voleurs! you tortured them! you treated the knights of the temple, who, in their strength and all that lives, fought to protect your throne as you would have treated murderers or thieves! de molay (to philip: sire, lorsque me distinguant parmi tous vos sujets, vous r pandiez sur moi d'honorables bienfaits; de jour o f obtenais 1'illustre pr fer nce de nommer de mon nom le fils du roi de france, aurais-je pu m'attendre 1'affront solennel

bierce, shaw, twain, or wells. he was one of the few outsiders who, for the first time in the yezidi history, showed sympathy for their devil. by now the yezidis have largely been absorbed into the world of "those without" but their influence has taken effect. that influence has been manifest, throughout satanism's underground period, in the procedures of virtually every secret brotherhood since the knights templar, and in countless literary works. now, after the often tragic epic of the yezidis has become history, it is safe to pronounce the dread name. the statement of shaitan and wordless rite of dedication the rite begins one hour after sunset. the congregants enter the chamber and seat themselves on pillows placed on the floor in a semicircle facing the shrine of melek taus. the wate

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ge address of zanoni, froze up all human passion. viola herself, if not forgotten, shrunk back like a shadow into the recesses of his breast. he shivered as he stepped into the sunlight, and musingly retraced his steps into the more populous parts of that liveliest of italian cities. book iii. theurgia. i cavalier sen vanno dove il pino fatal gli attende in porto. gerus. lib, cant. xv (argomento) the knights came where the fatal bark awaited them in the port. chapter 3.i. but that which especially distinguishes the brotherhood is their marvellous knowledge of all the resources of medical art. they work not by charms, but simples "ms. account of the origin and attributes of the true rosicrucians" by j. von d. at this time it chanced that viola had the opportunity to return the kindness show

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dreds and hundreds of years, there arose esoteric groups which continued to practice the rites, traditions, and enculturation brought in from the original groups "over the centuries, these groups practiced openly in some countries, and covertly in countries where christianity or other religions opposed their practices. some of the groups which came out of these ancient roots included the order of the knights templar, rosicrucian's, baphetomism, and druidic cults. these groups were the forerunners, or roots, of modern day illuminism. the original illuministic leaders chose to take what they felt were the best practices of each root religion, combine them into principles, then organized these principles according to specific guidelines "modern day illuminism is a philosophy funded by the wea

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luciferian doctrine.14 pike's embrace of the "luciferian doctrine" is not surprising. manly p. hall, 33, considered by freemasonry as the lodge's greatest scholar of the 20th century, taught that the energies of lucifer were necessary for the successful masonic warrior. meanwhile, john j. robinson, whose book, born in blood, was celebrated by top masonic lodge officials as an accurate history of the knights templar and of freemasonry, insisted in his later book, a pilgrims progress, that lucifer is not satan or the devil. instead, robinson insisted that lucifer is an angel whose guidance and help can be employed either for good or for evil. of course, robinson's writings make clear that pleasing lucifer is high-up on the lodge's list of priorities. lucifer the divine eliphas levi, the cab

r in republican party politics. interestingly, robertson was ordained for the ministry at a norfolk, virginia, church named, appropriately, the freemason street baptist church. in the author's opinion, this cover of time is clearly a staged event, and both the publisher and robertson full well knew what they were doing. robertson has long been allied with the vatican's sovereign military order of the knights of malta (smom. his father, as a u.s. senator from virginia, was chairman of the senate banking and currency committee. for he's a jolly good fellow 89 annie besant, a co-mason (women's branch) took over the theosophy cult at the passing of colonel olcott. the logo of theosophy is blatantly occultic, combining the crowned oroboros serpent with both the jewish star of david, or six-poin

eason. as crowley's one great commandment put it "do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" now baphomet, the androgynous horned, half man-woman, half goat god of the medieval knights templars, inculcates this "do your own thing" philosophy of illuminism. he is the very image of the freethinker, the mason and illuminist who raises the "torch of liberty" the fire of hell and light of lucifer. the knights templar, predecessor to today's freemasons, revered baphomet as the deity of wisdom. look closely at the reverse side of the u.s. dollar bill and you will find the horns of baphomet meticulously designed and imbedded- in this chapter, you will discover more about baphomet; about the green man; about pan, the horned witch god; and about crowley and his ordo templi orientis (o.t.o. since

itual ceremony for the degree of knight of the east and west, the sacred word is given to the assembled members of the lodge. that sacred word is a shocker: it is abaddon. yes, abaddon is the sacred word for the masonic knights of east and west. and the holy bible reveals exactly who abaddon is in revelation 9:11: page 158 from richardson s monitor of freemasonry, detailing the ritual ceremony of the knights of the east and west. in this ritual, the sacred word abaddon is expressed. abaddon is a synonym for the name of the devil who leads millions of demons out of the pit of hell to torment earth in the last days. and they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the hebrew tongue is abaddon, but in the creek tongue hath his name apollyon. in richardson

or a new religion based on worship of a nameless "supreme being" after relishing so many of his opponents being sent to their death, one day the tumbrel carriage came also for robespierre, the jewish plotter of terror, who himself lost his head. as his head rolled, the mob laughed and cried out "do you feel any pain, your majesty" hand on heart 311 was christopher columbus a clandestine member of the knights templar, or another 15th century secret society? much evidence exists confirming exactly that. so, too, does the cabalistic sign he displays of the left-handed path of the initiate (oil painting by sebastiano del piombo, 1519) 312 codex magica a statue of soviet communist party leader joseph stalin on the cover of the book, stalin's shadow, by rosamond richardson. photographs of stalin

i yantra found inside the cover of a rock album. right: sri yantra from the book, the tantric way, showing the multiple-triangle design, representing the generative (sex) act. in this design the interior, triangular (male) elements are "buried" within the lotus blossom (female. 376 codex magica the sri yantra pictured as a mystical diagram of solomon's temple, as planned in the building scheme of the knights templar. the cross and sun rays on top do not represent jesus christ, but point to the cosmic christ, who came in many names in the past and shall come again with a new name (from the book, the sword and the grail, by andrew sinclair, new york: crown publishers, 1992) a masonic tracing board with an image of a coffin, decorated with the "tools' of the craft. the v or square at the bott

ned so that the horns and face of baphomet are indistinctly seen, as in the inverted pentagram star. grace's research also indicates the priory of sion is either linked or had something to do in the development of other, related occult groups such as the order of knights templar "the spear point symbol" he says "is the building block of the four-spoked, eight-pointed maltese cross of the order of the knights of malta."8 how the sign is given a variation of the sharp, angular spear point sign is that displayed in this chapter of the merovingian dynasty, the priory of sion 407 codex magica in the photos of abc news reporter sam donaldson and u.s.a. vice president dick cheney. however, their modified hand and finger positioning is likely simply a personal eccentricity. as in all cases of secr

d the cabala freemasonry has long praised the cabala, and its top officials have admitted that the lodge's rituals and teachings are but the offspring of the jewish tradition. albert pike, former sovereign grand commander of the scottish rite wrote "one is filled with admiration, on penetrating into the sanctuary of the cabala."6 just how much masonry owes to the cabala is illustrated by study of the knights of kadosh degree (30. ed decker, director of free the masons ministries, reports that the trappings of this degree ritual are "overtly sinister" and incorporate a "high level of kabbalistic symbolism" when one is surrounded by black curtains, skulls, and a coffin with a shrouded knight speaking forth from within, it doesn't take a spiritual giant to discern that this is not a godly org

dical doctor james l. holly, a christian who has done great works in exposing freemasonry, in his outstanding volume, the southern baptist convention and freemasonry, shows how the 30 masonic initiate is led unawares into a direct spiritual relationship with satan. in the ritual, satan is personified as a mysterious cabalistic mystic.8 interestingly, richardson's monitor of freemasonry says that "the knights of kadosh degree is intimately connected with the ancient order of knights templar, as it commemorates their old ceremonies of initiation."9 allegedly, the members of the order of knights templar worshipped baphomet, the hideous male/female luciferian goat god and conducted blasphemous ceremonies, which included urinating on a cross and homosexual sodomy. magical signs of the jewish ca

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n only because of secret formulas, magical words, and supernatural rituals. rumors and legends of secret societies have fueled the imaginations, fears, and envy of those on the outside for thousands of years. many secret societies, such as the assassins, the garduna, the thuggee, and the tongs, were made up of highly trained criminals who were extremely dangerous to all outsiders. others, such as the knights templar, the illuminati, and the rosicrucians, were said to possess enough ancient secrets of power and wealth to control the entire world. conspiracy enthusiasts allege that there are clandestine organizations which for centuries have remained a threat to individual freedoms, quietly operating in the shadows, silently infiltrating political organizations, and secretly manipulating eve

ation, and when the teachings of origen (185 c.e. 254 c.e, who championed preexistence, was anathematized in 553, they, along with other believers in reincarnation, were condemned as heretics. in later centuries, those who held gnostic views were forced to remain silent regarding their beliefs in reincarnation, so they very often formed their own sects and schools of thought, such as the cathars, the knights templar, the rosicrucians, and the albigenses. because many serious-minded christians believe that there is evidence in the gospels that jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. 30 c.e) himself believed in reincarnation, they are comfortable with 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 afterlife mysteries 49 contemporary mystery schools have been built aroun

satan and worshipping demons that appeared as large black cats. in spite of a lengthy trial and 573 witnesses for their defense, the arrested templars were tortured en masse, burned at the stake, and their order was disbanded by pope clement v (c. 1260 1314. in 1313 as he was being burned to death on a scaffold built for the occasion in front of notre dame cathedral, jacques de molay (1243 1314, the knights templar grand master, recanted the confession produced by torture and proclaimed his innocence to the pope and the king and he invited them to meet him at heaven s gate. when both dignitaries died soon after de molay s execution, it seemed to the public at large to be a sign that the grand master had been innocent of the charges of heresy. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h

ace of edessa and the mandylion of constantinople were but other designations for the shroud of turin. he also postulated a knights templar connection for the so-called missing years of the shroud from 1204 to 1357 which indicates that the relic was in athens and bescancon, france, during that period. it may well have been, wilson suggested, that the extensive copying of the face on the shroud by the knights templar could have led to the papal revocation of their charter, which was later followed by the execution of their leaders by the french ecclesiastical court. the templar involvement appeared to be validated by the discovery of a matching shroud face that was found behind the false ceiling of an outbuilding in templecombe, southern england, on grounds that had once served as a templar

the black madonna may also refer to mary magdalene, who, in the traditions of many christian sects, such as the gnostics, was the wife of jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) in this interpretation of the events that occurred after jesus death at the hands of the romans, mary brought the cup used at the last supper the holy grail from palestine to southern france, where it would eventually be guarded by the knights templar. there is also a belief that mary arrived in france carrying within her womb a child fathered by jesus of nazareth, who then became the progenitor for the royal family of france. for those who hold such beliefs, the holy grail is but a metaphor for mary magdalene s womb, which carried the true blood of jesus in the person of his unborn son. therefore, many of the depictions of

field of the burned in montsegur, cathar country, france (f. c. taylor/fortean picture library) thegnostics sought direct experience with the divine by uttering secret words of wisdom. tics as heretics just as soon as they had developed enough power within the roman empire to do so, and the cult continued to be anathema to the church down through its variations in the cathars, the albigensis, and the knights templar. the first gnostic of importance would seem to be simon magus (fl. c. 67 c.e, a samarian sorcerer, a contemporary of the apostles, who was converted to christianity, then strongly rebuked by peter when he sought to purchase the wonder-working power of the holy spirit (acts 8:9 24. those gnostic christians influenced by such charismatic individuals as simon magus believed that t

o! finance/dowjones,january 6, 2001 [online] http//sg.biz.yahoo.com/news/ international/ article.html?s =sgfinance/news/0l0106. falun gong. religious movements homepage [online] http/ religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/falungong. html. falun gong official website [online] www.falundafa.com. order of the solar temple the order of the solar temple claims a spiritual heritage from the order of the knights templar(founded c. 1118 and dissolved in 1307. among its declared goals are helping earth to prepare for the return of christ in solar glory and assisting humankind through a time of transition as spirituality assumes primacy over materiality. although the group claims it is descended from the original templars, the order of the solar temple was founded in 1984 by joseph di mambro (192

f-appointed spiritual master, and by 1978, he had established the golden way foundation in geneva. about then he made a hard assessment of own appeal, deciding that if his cult was to expand, he needed to find a more charismatic individual to share its leadership. in 1981, luc jouret, a physician who had been grand master of the renewed order of the temple, another group that combined concepts of the knights templar and the rosicrucians, left that order over a policy dispute. di mambro appealed to him to jointly form a new order. jouret agreed, and the two founded the order of the solar temple. jouret s credentials as a physician and his dynamic platform personality drew large crowds to his lectures. from 1984 to about 1990, jouret convinced many that the time of the apocalypse was drawing

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n only because of secret formulas, magical words, and supernatural rituals. rumors and legends of secret societies have fueled the imaginations, fears, and envy of those on the outside for thousands of years. many secret societies, such as the assassins, the garduna, the thuggee, and the tongs, were made up of highly trained criminals who were extremely dangerous to all outsiders. others, such as the knights templar, the illuminati, and the rosicrucians, were said to possess enough ancient secrets of power and wealth to control the entire world. conspiracy enthusiasts allege that there are clandestine organizations which for centuries have remained a threat to individual freedoms, quietly operating in the shadows, silently infiltrating political organizations, and secretly manipulating eve

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n only because of secret formulas, magical words, and supernatural rituals. rumors and legends of secret societies have fueled the imaginations, fears, and envy of those on the outside for thousands of years. many secret societies, such as the assassins, the garduna, the thuggee, and the tongs, were made up of highly trained criminals who were extremely dangerous to all outsiders. others, such as the knights templar, the illuminati, and the rosicrucians, were said to possess enough ancient secrets of power and wealth to control the entire world. conspiracy enthusiasts allege that there are clandestine organizations which for centuries have remained a threat to individual freedoms, quietly operating in the shadows, silently infiltrating political organizations, and secretly manipulating eve

keep their methods hidden from the larger society. throughout the centuries, such secret societies have taunted outsiders with their forbidden knowledge and, on occasion, frightened or even assassinated those whose persistence in seeking access to their mysteries were unwelcome. 1 chapter exploration the assassins the decided ones of jupiter the freemasons the garduna the holy vehm the illuminati the knights templar the leopard men the mau-mau the rosicrucians the thuggee the tongs introduction in this chapter a number of secret societies will be examined that have fueled the imaginations, fear, and envy of those on the outside of the mysterious organizations for hundreds of years. one of the favorites of paranoid conspiracy theorists, the freemasons, while once powerful and influential th

successful individuals who believe that the rich and successful have acquired their wealth and power only through their possession of secret formulas, utterance of magical words, and performance of supernatural rituals. those same individuals will seek desperately to become members of groups that they believe have such mystical powers or they will become obsessed in their efforts to destroy them. the knights templar gained status as an order of knighthood because of the selfless actions of a handful of knights who vowed to protect pilgrims on their way to the holy land. in the beginning, these pious and valiant knights were so poor that they had to share the same horse and take turns riding it. centuries later, when the knights templar had become the wealthiest and most powerful order in a

ure and power by worshipping satan and committing the most foul acts of desecration and blasphemy. the order of knights that had once served as the bulwark of christianity during the crusades to protect the holy land was ordered disbanded by papal decree, and its members tortured and burned at the stake. history has not yet determined the degree of their true guilt as heretics, but it is unlikely the knights templar deserved such an ignoble end. while there was never any clear evidence to prove that the knights templar committed the acts of human sacrifice of which they were accused, the members of the leopard cult of africa were responsible for many such ritual murders on their jungle altars and left hundreds of mutilated human corpses to prove their guilt. the thuggee of india, who commi

tted more murders than any other secret society, allegedly dedicated the lives of the thousands of victims which they strangled to death to their goddess kali. of all the secret societies examined in this chapter, only the tongs and the freemasons remain in existence in the twenty-first century. while some contemporary metaphysical groups proclaim that their philosophical heritage may derive from the knights templar or the rosicrucians, there is little to substantiate such claims other than an admiration for their precepts and ideals. on occasion, international law enforcement investigators may see elements suggestive of the thuggee or the assassins involved in certain murders or assassinations, but there is little evidence that these societies still exist as forces to be feared. on the ot

he east and into europe, in 1272, the mamluk sultan baybars brought about their downfall as an organized sect. m delving deeper heckethorn, charles william. secret societies of all ages and countries. kila, mont: kessinger publishing, 1997. howard, michael. the occult conspiracy: secret societies. their influence and power in world history. rochester, vt: inner traditions, 1989. howarth, stephen. the knights templar. new york: barnes& noble, 1993. the decided ones of jupiter in the early nineteenth century, southern italy suffered greatly from the raids of small gangs of bandits who would descend from 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 secret societies 5 between1090 and 1256, there were eight grand masters who ruled the society of assa

alf of its members. by 1845, freemasonry began to revive in the united states, but it never again achieved the social status that it had once enjoyed. in 1872, two masons formed a kind of parody of the masons and named it the ancient arabic order of the nobles of the mystic shrine, aka, the shriners. by 1897, the masons had about 750,000 members, and numerous other fraternal organizations such as the knights of columbus, the benevolent and protective order of elks, the odd fellows, and the loyal order of moose sprang into being. in the 1950s, the masons reached their numerical peak in america with more than four million members. in 2001, there were about two million masons in the united states and their average age was well over 60. younger men, it seems, are no longer attracted to an orga

kepdic.com/ illuminati. html. roberts, j. mythology of the secret societies. new york: macmillan, 1972. vankin, jonathan and john whalen. the seventy greatest conspiracies of all time: history fs biggest mysteries, coverups, and cabals. new york: citadel, 1998. wilgus, neal. the illuminoids. new york: pocket books, 1978. wilson, robert anton. masks of the illuminati. new york: pocket books, 1981. the knights templar the two principal orders of knighthood of the crusades were established prior to the launching of the first crusade in 1096 and shortly before the second crusade began in 1146. the fundamental principle on which the new orders were based was the union of monasticism and chivalry. before this time, a man could choose to devote himself to religion and become a monk, or he could e

ism and chivalry. before this time, a man could choose to devote himself to religion and become a monk, or he could elect to become a warrior and devote himself to defending god and country. the founding of the orders of knighthood permitted the vow of religion and the vow of war to be united in a single effort to free the holy land from the muslims. the oldest of the religio-chivalric orders was the knights of saint john of jerusalem, also known as the knights hospitallers and subsequently as the knights of malta and the knights of rhodes, founded in 1048. by the middle of the twelfth century, the hospitallers had become a powerful military factor in the east, and their membership included the most accomplished knights in christendom. by 1153 they had become the pride of the christians an

th that its warriors had accumulated. in 1187, the hospitallers were almost annihilated in the disastrous battle of tiberias, where the saracen army under the generalship of saladin (1137.1193, the sultan of egypt and syria, thoroughly defeated the christians and reclaimed jerusalem. the second of the great orders of knighthood was founded in 1117 by two french knights and was originally known as the knights of the temple of solomon and later as the knights templar or the knights of the red cross. hugues des paiens and geoffrey of saint-omer, two compassionate nobles, had 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 secret societies 19 observed the hardships endured by christian travelers en route to jerusalem and decided to serve as guides and

rotectors for the defenseless pilgrims. the warrior guides soon gained a reputation for their service to the helpless wayfarers; they were joined by seven other knights who admired their principles. the nine men bound themselves by the traditional vows of obedience, chastity, and poverty, then added the oaths to defend the holy sepulcher and to protect those pilgrims who journeyed there. at first the knights of saint john, the hospitallers, lent aid and encouragement to the new society of brothers. there could be no rivalry with this new order of knights who comprised only nine members and were known by others as the gpoor soldiers of the holy city. h it was said that hugues and geoffrey only had one horse between them when they first began their missions of benevolence. then, at the counc

the interpretations of the church fathers, the unity of god and the trinity of his persons, and the virginity of mary both before and after the birth of jesus. to go beyond the seas when called to do so in defense of the cause. to retreat not from the foe unless outnumbered three to one. in addition to the rules of conduct and discipline, humility was one of the first principles of membership in the knights templar. the helmet of the templar must bear no crest; his beard should never be cut; his personal behavior should be that of a servant of others; and his tunic should be girt with a linen cord as a symbol that he was bound in service. there were four classes of members in the templars.knights, squires, servitors, and priests.each with their individual list of duties and obligations. t

o either crown or holy mother church. the templars now had the prestige of being triumphant crusaders. they had the blessing of the pope. they had the gratitude of those whom they had protected on their pilgrimages. they had vast estates with mansions that could not be 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 secret societies 21 a woodcut depicting the knights templar in 1118 (corbis corporation) thetwo principal orders of knighthood of the crusades were established in 1096. invaded by any civil officer. thousands beseeched the order to allow them to become members of the templars. in the course of time the knights of the temple became a sovereign body, pledging allegiance to no secular ruler. in spiritual matters, the pope was still recogni

stle near cesarea. when the muslims captured acre in 1291 and overthrew the christian kingdom, the templars had bravely fought until they were exterminated almost to the man. the surviving templars retreated to cyprus, which they had purchased from king richard the lion-hearted (1157.1199) for 35,000 marks. although defeated by the soldiers of the prophet muhammad and driven out of the holy land, the knights templar retained their many estates and their enormous wealth in europe. however, especially in france, the templars were becoming diminished in popularity, and the jealousies of the government had been aroused against them. lords, dukes, and princes were not only envious of the order fs burgeoning treasury, but they fumed over the templars f exemption from the burdens of taxation impo

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ta "he knew that thesword threatened his head, and the time was at hand for his sacrifice" this was on the 29th of december, thevery day of the martyrdom, when becket made his last confession to william of maidstone. it is also the god of the witchesthomas 340 becket[2]64noticeable in the quotation given above that it was acknowledged that his time was already fixed "for his hourwas not yet come. the knights' mocking words at the end seem to indicate that becket had some claim toroyal power.the whole account of the murder is given by the eye-witness, william of canterbury, who appears to havebeen a visitor at the monastery at the time. the scenes are vividly described; the violence of the knights, theperturbation of the frightened monks, their disorganised and ineffective attempts to save

power.the whole account of the murder is given by the eye-witness, william of canterbury, who appears to havebeen a visitor at the monastery at the time. the scenes are vividly described; the violence of the knights, theperturbation of the frightened monks, their disorganised and ineffective attempts to save their chief, and thedetermination of becket to be killed. after the first interview with the knights, the monks gathered roundbecket and pushed him through the door though he struggled against them "thence gradually he progressedby slow degrees as if voluntarily courting death" he saw the people assembled as if at a spectacle and askedwhat it was that they feared, and was told "armed men in the cloisters. at once he tried to force his wayout, but was prevented by the monks who urged h

what it was that they feared, and was told "armed men in the cloisters. at once he tried to force his wayout, but was prevented by the monks who urged him to take refuge in the sanctuary of the cathedral. he fairlylost his temper when he saw them trying to bar the door "go away" he said "cowards! let the miserable andthe blind rave. we command you by virtue of your obedience not to shut the door" the knights rushed in,and when they hesitated to begin becket deliberately taunted them as if intending to make them lose control.he then bent his head, stretching out his neck that they might the more conveniently strike with their swords.after the first blow he fell face downwards, as though prostrate in prayer, and in that attitude was despatched.the terrified monks had fled to the altar fearin

to begin becket deliberately taunted them as if intending to make them lose control.he then bent his head, stretching out his neck that they might the more conveniently strike with their swords.after the first blow he fell face downwards, as though prostrate in prayer, and in that attitude was despatched.the terrified monks had fled to the altar fearing that every moment would be their last; but the knights had noenmity to them. they broke the arm of the english monk, edward grim, who defended becket to the last, andanother priest, who ran out evidently with some wild idea of giving help, was half stunned by a blow on thehead with the flat of a sword, otherwise the flustered crowd at the altar received no hurt. the knights criedout mockingly, when the murder was consummated "he wished to

ed byjoan he must have been credited with having done more than anyone else in bringing about the discomfitureof charles' enemies. yet there never seems to have been any jealousy of joan, such as might have beenexpected considering their professional relations. when charles was crowned at rheims, gilles, by right of the god of the witchesgilles de rais [11] and [12]72his high position, was one of the knights sent to bring the sacred ampoule of holy oil for the anointing.during the wars with the english gilles appears to have been a gallant soldier and a faithful partisan ofcharles.his apathy towards joan when she was undergoing her trial at rouen is entirely at variance with hischaracter, and is only explicable if both he and she belonged to the old religion and he regarded her as thesacri

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head of wisdom. as related in the sufis by idries shah, the arabic root fehm (charcoal) is fhm, meaning black or wise. this is recognizable and easily understood in an initiatory sense from the sufic phrase, dar tariki, tariqat (in the darkness, the path and reflects the ideal of the light or wisdom coming from the darkness. the arabic root fhm is symbolic of baphomet, meaning head of wisdom. in the knights templar, hugues de payns (which translates of the pagan) held a coat of arms which had three saracen heads, which resembled severed heads, indicating wisdom. 8 the sufis by idries shah and a history of secret societies by akron daraul. 17 it is also the sufis who move against the sun9 which brought such practice to the west. in the yatus cult, the darkness must be observed, absorbed an

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ents; as the dew of hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of 8 in philosophy: principle beginning, fountain-head, original or initial state, likewise, the initial archetype. accident an attribute which is not part of the essence and hence non-essential accompaniment. substance a being that subsists by itself, a separate or distinct thing. 9 psalm 133 used to be recited aloud by the knights of the temple at each reception inot the order. it still appears in the rituals of arming of the different chivalrous orders, protestant, catholic or masonic. 28 zion; for there the lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. operator now dismisses the celestial spirits which he has invoked during his operation: celestial spirits who assisted us, we thank you. may there be alw

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of the type of magic particularly associated with the o.t.o. and the historian of occultism is regretfully forced to look upon them as being unsubstantiated. the real origins of the o.t.o. seem to lie in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century occult templarism. until towards the middle of the eighteenth century few people seem to have displayed any great interest in the original order of the temple, the knights templar, suppressed in 1314 on the grounds that its members were heretical, blasphemous and sodomitical. with the rise of continental and anglo-saxon freemasonry, however, the building activities of the templars began to attract attention. perhaps, thought some masons, the fact that the symbolism of the craft degrees of masonry was concerned with both the building of a temple and the m

retical, blasphemous and sodomitical. with the rise of continental and anglo-saxon freemasonry, however, the building activities of the templars began to attract attention. perhaps, thought some masons, the fact that the symbolism of the craft degrees of masonry was concerned with both the building of a temple and the murder of its architect, hiram, suggested the existence of a connection between the knights templar and freemasonry? perhaps the masonic fraternity did not, as was assumed by most of its members, go back to the time of king solomon but was simply an underground continuation of the order of the temple? perhaps the murdered hiram was really jacques de molay, the martyred grand master of the templars? the idea of an historical connection between masonry and the crusading orders

gst the heathens and saracens. these signs and words were only communicated to those who promised solemnly, and sometimes at the foot of the altar, never to reveal them. this sacred promise was therefore not an execrable oath, as it has been called,5 but a respectable bond to unite christians of all nationalities into one confraternity. some time afterwards our order formed an intimate union with the knights of st. john of jerusalem. from that time our lodges took the name of lodges of st. john. 6 these and similar speculations inspired the manufacture of several spurious templar masonic side-degrees. the first of these was very probably the still surviving royal order of scotland, organized into two degrees, that of the royal order of h.r.m (heredom) and that of the knights of the r.s.y.c

e instigation of robert bruce ranged themselves under the banner of a new order instituted by this prince and in which the receptions were based on those of the order of the temple. it is there that we must seek the origin of scottish masonry and even that of the other masonic rites. the scottish templars were excommunicated in 1324 by larmenius, who declared them to be temple desertores and with the knights of st. john of jerusalem, dominiorum militae spoliatores, placed for ever outside the pale of the temple. a similar anathema has since been launched by several grand masters against templars who were rebellious to legitimate authority. from the schism that was introduced into scotland a number of sects took birth.7 the legend of pierre d aumont was accepted as historical truth by many

n seriously by several nineteenth-century occultists and eliphas l vi asserted that theoclet the gnostic pontiff who had supposedly passed on the apostolic succession to the templars had initiated hugues de payens into the mysteries and hopes of his pretended church, he lured him by the ideas of sacerdotal sovereignty and supreme royalty, he indicated him finally as his successor; so the order of the knights templar was stained from its origin with schism and conspiracy against kings! 10 by the last decade of the nineteenth century certain german occultists, most of them high-grade freemasons, had been stimulated by their study of l vi s writings on magic to take an interest in templarism. these men were to be the founders of the o.t.o. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%

s templar of the order of kadosch and of dame companions of the order of the holy grail the temple is that of egypt, octagonal with two pylons, six mirrors. the canopy is of blue embroidered with golden stars. above the mirrors are 77 lights with reflectors, each mirror having 11, and the pylon of the west 11 of larger size. here hangs the volume of the sacred law. of the altar it is not written. the knights and dames are clad in the black or white velvet or silk tunics and knee-breeches and silk stockings of the iv but instead of the mantle of green velvet is a mantle of black velvet. the garter is black with gold lettering: the shoes black with gold buckles. the collarette, eagle and sash of 30 are worn. the tassels of the mantle are of gold cord. the cap is that of a templar, but black

dips the lance-point in the cup. c.b. gives cand. the cup and he drinks. she then raises him and greets him with the secret grip, as in the opening, within the triangle of companions, or in any case with the accolade) sir knight, you are now at liberty to retire. on your return you will partake with us of the mystic feast of the sabbath (companions conduct new knight from the temple) third point (the knights assemble to the w. of the tomb of j.b.m. the temple is dark but for sanctuary lamp) g.c: brethren, to order! let us celebrate the mystic feast of the sabbath (he leads procession. g.c, c.b, 3 companions, s.b, k.s. new companion last. they go 7 times round the tomb, widdershins; then all enter but k.s. who bars new knight. k.s. directs him to knock, short, long, short, short) file//c /d

by the favour and indwelling of the holy ghost the priestess (that is unto this rite espoused, and else virgin) do conceive and bring forth, then is the child baptized by its father the priest for the purification by water, and for the consecration by fire is roast and divided among the worshippers for use as a sacrament, as a talisman and as a medicine against all diseases. this also is said of the knights of our own holy order of the temple, that the offspring of any one of them by a virgin was roast and an unguent made of its fat wherewith to anoint the magian and ineffable figure of baphomet. consider this. iv of the black mass file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c2.html (3 of 12 [12/28/2001 2:05:25 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. w

o. to baphomet merlin, by the grace of god triune, and by the favour and appointing of the secret master, called to the service of mankind, and exalted among you as the outer head of the order (o.h.o, unto baphomet, supreme and holy king of ireland, iona, and all the britains within the sanctuary of the gnosis, most puissant and sovereign commander of the holy order of the temple, grand master of the knights of the holy ghost, greeting and peace in the most sacred and mysterious name of the true and living god most high, and in the word, and in the holy ghost. hearken thou, o most illustrious and illuminated brother unto my word and give ear unto my counsel and reproof! shut it up closely in thine heart, and set a seal upon thy lips! whosoever is worthy to receive it, unto him shalt thou r

is attainment. the gnostics and manichees preserved it in their most secret assemblies as they had received it from the greatest of the magi of egypt; nor were the ophites ignorant of this mystery, nor the men that did worship unto mithras, and the secret is hidden in the fable of samson; our lord jesus christ established it through the mouth of the beloved disciple. this was the inmost secret of the knights of the temple, and the brethren of the rose crosse concealed it in their college of the holy ghost. from them and from their successors the hermetic brothers of light have we received it directly, and here declare it openly to you. now then learn that this secret consists in the knowledge of a peculiar rite, an high mass to be celebrated in the temple of the holy ghost. are ye not, kin

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agan rites of the early christians. 171 gnostics, manich ans, nicolait, followers of florian &c. 173 the bulgarians, and their practices. 176 walter mape s account of the patarini, and their secret rites. 176 the waldenses and cathari. 178 popular oaths and phallic worship. 181 secret society in orleans for celebrating obscene rites. 182 the stedingers of germany, and their secret ceremonies. 184 the knights templar charges brought against them. 185 spitting on the cross, and the denial of christ. 188 the kiss. 189 intercourse with women prohibited. 190 the cat and idol worship. 194 baffomet, or baphomet. 198 von hammer s description of the templars images or idol. 199 the witches sabbath the last form which the priapeia and liberalia assumed in western europe 206 contents. xi page. trial

eeting broke up. such were the secret ceremonies of the stedingers, according to the deliberate statement of pope gregory ix, who also charges them with offering direct worship to lucifer.1 but the most remarkable, and at the same time the most celebrated, affair in which these accusations of secret and obscene ceremonies were brought to bear, was that of the trial and dissolution of the order of the knights templars. the charges against the knights templars were not heard of for the first time at the period of their dissolution, but for many years it had been whispered abroad that they had secret opinions and practices of an objectionable character. at length the wealth of the order, which was very great in france, excited the cupidity of king philippe iv, and it was resolved to proceed a

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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- crowley, the law is for allxliv sex, magic and secrecy had, of course, long been associated in the western religious imagina-tion. from the early gnostics to the knights templar to the cathars of medieval europe, esoteric orders had long been accused of using sexual rituals as part of their secret magical arts. xlv however, perhaps the first sophisticated and well-developed system of sexual magic was that of paschal beverly randolph (1825-75. the son of a wealthy virginian father and a slave from madagascar, randolph was raised a poor, self-taught free

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d mystic writer. his disciples were called wise ones and adopted a goat as their tribal symbol. the goat had a torch between the horns which incidentally later became a symbol for the devil in spain. the torch simply represented illumination and wisdom, that the tribe (goat) was the head of wisdom. long afterabu el-atahiyya died some of his tribe migrated to spain. much of the illustrious past of the knights templar was that they worshipped a head, which was called baphomet. the name according to shah21 is a corruption of the arabic abufihamat which means father of understanding. in sufic terminology, ras el fahmat (head of knowledge) is a point meaning the mentation of man after the process of refinement, a transmuted consciousness. in a left hand path perspective, the witch or sorcerer b

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hips. the french are not a race of giants, so there must have been some reason for this belief. a large number of manxmen did distinguished service in the navy at this time, and it was said that the manx regiments (fencibles) covered more ground on parade than any other british regiment, on account of the remarkable width of their shoulders. 6- how the little people became witches, and concerning the knights templar in england these little people were mostly pre-celtic aborigines, but among them would be many roman-britons who had stayed on after the saxon conquest. most of these would be christians, but all their priests had fled. at that time many of the people of rome thought that all her troubles arose because they had deserted the old gods. presumably the roman-britons might think the

chess of gloucester was condemned to the dreaded bishop's prison in peel castle, isle of man, where she languished sixteen years until her death. her companion margery, the witch of eye, was burned alive and roger witche (note the name) or bolingbroke, a clerk and churchman, was drawn from the tower of london to tyburn and there hanged, beheaded and quartered. there is also the celebrated case of the knights templar. they were attacked suddenly and their destruction by fire and torture brought enormous amounts of loot into the hands of state and church. there have been innumerable books stating the cases for and against this order, so this may be of interest. the witches tell me 'the law always has been that power must be passed from man to woman or from woman to man, the only exception be

other words, people who had slight mediumistic powers. these might not necessarily be attracted to the old faith, and so needed a certain 'frightening' to make them do certain acts, such as spitting on the cross. having done this, the novice might feel he was an outcast, and so be more amenable to obey the orders of the inner circle. this theory would explain that seemingly the greater number of the knights knew nothing of this practice, nor had seen the head or skull, but had heard that others had seen it elsewhere. or it is conceivably possible that during a very long ceremony certain things were done which would not be noticed if the novice's attention were not drawn to it. if the grand master stood for a minute or two with his arms crossed on his breast, who would notice it? but if yo

ened that owing to peculiar circumstances this order was organised in a way that meant that secret doctrines could be taught safely at a time when free thought was strongly suppressed, i should imagine that most of the templar priests knew what the rites meant; why, for instance, the novices were stripped of all or nearly all clothing. the number three played a very important part in the lives of the knights. for example, the ritual kiss and the symbolic denial of the cross were said to occur three times in the ceremonies. there are many other cases of the use of the numbers three, five and eight that occur in templar usages which suggest that these numbers had a special meaning for them. the most curious of the charges against the templars, and one which seems to have some foundation, was

monies. there are many other cases of the use of the numbers three, five and eight that occur in templar usages which suggest that these numbers had a special meaning for them. the most curious of the charges against the templars, and one which seems to have some foundation, was that of trampling or spitting on the gross and the denial of christ. its import seems to have been little understood by the knights, and it would seem that different explanations were given to different people. petrus picardi told the inquisitors that it was a test of fidelity, and had he been brave enough to refuse to do as he was told he would have been sent at once to the holy land; but this also proves that he and others were threatened with death if they did not do it. gouarilla, preceptor of poitou and acquit

from the cart to beg pardon, as the sentence had prescribed, for his crime, but there were no knees to kneel on. when they lowered him to the ground, he fell forward on his face' he was finally burnt alive, care being taken to see that his death was a most painful one. after the lesser people were liquidated, the persecution turned to where there was more loot still to be found, and among others the knights templar, who had done so much for christendom, were charged with heresy, with many of the stock charges and with unnatural vice. how far they, or some of them, were technically guilty is ground for dispute, but very many were doubtless innocent of any conscious heresy. mr. hughes goes on to say that the witch cult conducted a black mass where christian practices were ridiculed and the

y for psychical research records prove. another charge made against witches, the templars, the waldenses, the gnostics and many others was the 'osculum infame. this may have been a stock charge against anyone the clerics disliked, and seems to have been used on the principle that any stick is good enough to beat a dog with. it was first used against all the various sects of heretics, then against the knights templar. witches do not kiss the devil's posterior, first because they never kiss anyone's posterior and, secondly, because the devil is never there for anyone to kiss. i cannot make it any clearer than that, can i? as i have said, there is no pact with the devil or with anyone else. this, i think, arose from the faust type of legend which may have been coined by clerics to frighten pe

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f the sign cancer whose letter hath the v alue 8, did the beast 666 to mega therion a magus of a. a. baphomet 729 t he supreme holy king of ireland, iona and all the britains that are in the sanc tuary of the gnosis xth degree o.t.o, avatar of bacchus diphues in the place o f the xith degree o.t.o, logos of the aeon of ra hoor khuit, grand master of t he knights of the holy ghost, grand master of the knights of the temple, eidolo n of the rosy cross, alastor the destroyer spirit of solitude, wanderer of the waste, of the blood of kerval arch-druids hereditary to the oak, whose holy ang el his guardian is aiwaz 93, the god first dawning upon man in the land of sume r, whose breast beareth the token adventure upon mountains beyond any man of hi s fellows, whose body and blood bear witness of

prostituted in every part of her body to pan and to the beast, mother of bastards, aborter, whore t o herself, to man, woman, child and brute, partaker of the eucharist of the exc rements in the mass of the devil, sorceress of the rite of esau and jacob, and also genesthai, 143, weh note: c.f.russell a neophyte of a'.a, a master ma gician of o.t.o. and a passed postulant to the secret chamber of the knights of the temple, high priest unto the beast before the altar of purple and gold. first then this brother genesthai made of invocation of tahuti lord of wisdom in the great magical circle of the abbey, that he might come upon us in power. thus was tahuti manifest in the mind of the beast, like light therein, clear, icy, wit without heart. and i beheld the working afar off, full utterly of

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the value of 60, the moon being in the 16th degree of the sign cancer whose letter hath the value 8, did the beast 666 to mega therion a magus of a. a. baphomet 729 the supreme holy king of ireland, iona and all the britains that are in the sanctuary of the gnosis xth degree o.t.o, avatar of bacchus diphues in the place of the xith degree o.t.o, logos of the aeon of ra hoor khuit, grand master of the knights of the holy ghost, grand master of the knights of the temple, eidolon of the rosy cross, alastor the destroyer spirit of solitude, wanderer of the waste, of the blood of kerval arch-druids hereditary to the oak, whose holy angel his guardian is aiwaz 93, the god first dawning upon man in the land of sumer, whose breast beareth the token adventure upon mountains beyond any man of his fe

az, prostituted in every part of her body to pan and to the beast, mother of bastards, aborter, whore to herself, to man, woman, child and brute, partaker of the eucharist of the excrements in the mass of the devil, sorceress of the rite of esau and jacob, and also genesthai, 143, weh note: c.f.russell a neophyte of a'.a, a master magician of o.t.o. and a passed postulant to the secret chamber of the knights of the temple, high priest unto the beast before the altar of purple and gold. first then this brother genesthai made of invocation of tahuti lord of wisdom in the great magical circle of the abbey, that he might come upon us in power. thus was tahuti manifest in the mind of the beast, like light therein, clear, icy, wit without heart. and i beheld the working afar off, full utterly of

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

orn. spindles are an essential characteristic of all the wise-women of antiquity among teutons, celts and greeks^ the walkiire is a wunsch-kint, wunsches hint, pp. 139, 142 (see suppl. the name wunsclielweib, which lasted down to a late time, shall be produced hereafter; here i call up from the poem of the staufenberger a being by whom the connexion of valkyrs with fays is placed beyond doubt. to the knight there shews herself a maiden in wliitc apparel (the hvit and biort above, sitting on a stone (line 224; she has ivatched over him in danger and tvar from his yoidh up, she was about him unseen (332 3g4; now she becomes his love, and is with him ivhcnever he ivishcs for her (swenne du einest wunschest nach mir, so bin ich endelichen bi dir 474. by superhuman power she moves swiftly whith

es, so that in french fay-legends we may supply the omissions; e.g, in meon 3, 412: en la fontaine se baignoient trois j)uccles preuz et senses, qui de biaute sembloient fees: lor robes a tout lor chemises orent desoz une arbre mises du bout de la fontaine en haut. puceles senees 3, 419. bien eurees 418. la plus niestre 413-5. the shifts were stolen, and the maidens detained. in the lai du desire the knight espies in the forest a swan-maiden without her wimple (sans guimple. the wimple of the white-robed fay answers to the swan-shift. 6. wood-wives. we have seen that the wish-wives appear on pools and lakes in the depth of the forest: it is because they are likewise wood-wives, and under this character they suggest further reflections. the old sacred forest seems their favourite abode: as

d not take to the bride, just as iu the tale of the swanchildren. we find a more pleasing description in the spanish ballad de la infantina (silva p. 259: a huntsman stands under a lofty oak: en una rama mas alta viera estar una infantina, cabellos de su cabeza todo aquel roble cobrian* siete facias (7 fays) me fadaron en brazos de una ama mia, que andasse los siete anos sola en esta montina. but the knight wants first to take his mother's opinion, and she refuses her consent. when wolfdieterich sits by a fire in the forest at night, rauhe ms comes up, the shaggy woman, and carries off the hero to her own country^ where she is a queen and lives on a high rock: at length, bathing in the jungbrunnen, she lays aside her hairy covering, and is named sigcminne' the fairest above au lands'.2 syn

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

) represents the method of 'forming the tree of life in the tarot. the four aces are placed on the throne of kether. the remaining small cards of each suit desired are then placed on the respective sephiroth, 2 on chokmah, 3 on binah and so on. the 22 trumps are then arranged on the letters of the paths between them. the king and queen of the suit are placed beside chokmah and binah respectively, the knight beside tiphareth and the knave beside malkuth, thus representing the attribution of the sephiroth to the four letters of the holy name in the world wherein they operate. heg: leads practicus to tablet of the pillars in south. heg: this tablet represents the formation of the hexagram of tiphareth from the pillars on each side. in chesed is the water and in geburah is the fire, and in tip

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nochian papers. 14: in addition the upper six are referred to the planets according to the scheme in 777 col. cxxiv, the heavenly hexagram, and to the tarot trumps corresponding. 15: see regardie (ed, the golden dawn, vol. iv. 16: suit by element of lesser angle, rank by element of column; so in the lesser angles of water, the square with the left and right sides referred to fire is attributed to the knight of cups. 17: each square is additionally referred to one of the 16 figures of geomancy, and to one of the signs or elements (saturn replacing earth as per the dual attribution of the path of tau, and thence to the hebrew letter and tarot card corresponding: thus row column attributions fire a puer h iv the emperor water d populus j vii the chariot air g puella l viii justice fire (cardi

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

4 e.v. reprinted in vol ii. of crowley s collected works society for the propagation of religious truth 1906 e.v. this electronic edition (based on the collected works printing) hastily prepared by frater t.s. for sunwheel oasis, o.t.o. 2001 e.v. re-proofed and corrected edition issued by celepha s press august 2003 e.v (c) ordo templi orientis jaf box 7666 new york ny 10116 u.s.a. 1 you are sad! the knight said, in an anxious tone: let me sing you a song to comfort you* is it very long? alice asked. it s long, said the knight, but it s very very beautiful. the name of the song is called the book of the beast. oh! how ugly cried alice. never mind, said the mild creature. some people call it reason in rhyme. but which is the name of the song? alice said, trying not to seem too interested. a

xious tone: let me sing you a song to comfort you* is it very long? alice asked. it s long, said the knight, but it s very very beautiful. the name of the song is called the book of the beast. oh! how ugly cried alice. never mind, said the mild creature. some people call it reason in rhyme. but which is the name of the song? alice said, trying not to seem too interested. ah, you don t understand, the knight said, looking a little vexed. that s what the name is called. the name really is ascension day and pentecost; with some prose essays and an epilogue, just as the title is the sword of song you know, just in the same way, just in the same way, just in the same way. alice put her fingers in her ears and gave a little scream. oh, dear me! that s* this passage is a parody on one in alice th

now, just in the same way, just in the same way, just in the same way. alice put her fingers in her ears and gave a little scream. oh, dear me! that s* this passage is a parody on one in alice through the looking-glass. harder than ever! she said to herself, and then, looking determinedly intelligent: so that s what the song is called. i see. but what is the song? you must be a perfect fool, said the knight, irritably. the song is called stout doubt; or the agnostic anthology, by the author of gas manipulation, solutions, the management of retorts, and other physical works of the first order but that s only what it s called, you know. well, what is the song then? said alice, who was by this time completely bewildered. if i wished to be obscure, child, said the knight, rather contemptuously

ose fools who by their short-sighted stupidity in attempting to boycott this book have witlessly aided the cause of truth i dedicate these my best words [this book is so full of recondite knowledge of various kinds that it seems quite ineffective to annotate every obscure passage. where references and explanations can be concisely given this has been done] the sword of song 2 i suppose! continued the knight, in a superior, but rather offended voice. if you would, please, sir! well, that, pronounced the knight, with the air of having thoroughly studied the question and reached a conclusion absolutely final and irreversible, that, goodness only knows. but i will sing it to you. preliminary invocation nothung* the crowns of gods and mortals wither; moons fade where constellations shone; numbe

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the mahalingam. xi. a scythian sage declareth that it transcendeth reason. therefore sir palamede unreasonably decapitateth him. xii. an ancient hag prateth of it as evangelical. her he hewed in pieces. v xiii. at naples he thinketh of the beast as author of evil, because free of will. the beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow; but at the moment of its death it is reborn from the knight's own belly. xiv. at rome he meeteth a red robber in a hat, who speaketh nobly of it as of a king-dove-lamb. he chaseth and slayeth it; it proves but a child's toy. xv. in a tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a satyr, that the gods sill dwell with men. mistaking orgasm for ecstasty, he is found ridiculous. xvi. baiting for it with gilded corn in a moonlit vale of spain, he find

dest horror drave the light from knightly eyes. how pale thy bloom, thy blood, o brow whereon that night sits like a serpent on a tomb! for palamede those eyes beheld the iron image of his own; on those dead brows a fate he spelled to strike a gorgon into stone. he knew his father. still he sate, nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. the knight approves the justice done, and pays with that his rowels' debt; while yet the forehead of the son stands beaded with an icy sweat. 4 god's angel, standing sinister, unfurls this scroll- a sable stain "who wins the spur shall ply the spur upon his proper heart and brain" he gave the sign of malison on traitor knights and perjured men; and ever by the sea rode on sir palamede the saracen

n's sapphire shade there sport a band with wand and wreath, languorous boy and laughing maid. and in the centre is a sight of hateful love and shameless shame: a recreant abyssianian knight sports grossly with a wanton dame. how black and swinish is the knave! his hellish grunt, his bestial grin; her trilling laugh, her gesture suave, the cool sweat swimming on her skin! she looks and laughs upon the knight, then turns to buss the blubber mouth, draining the dregs of that black blight of wine to ease their double drouth! god! what a glance! sir palamede is stricken by the sword of fate: his mother it is in very deed that gleeful goes the goatish gait. his mother it his, that pure and pale cried in the pangs that gave him birth; the holy image he would veil from aught the tiniest taint of e

ii behold sir lancelot of the lake breasting the stony screes: behold how breath must fail and muscle ache before he reach the icy fold that palamede the saracen within its hermitage may hold. at last he cometh to a den perched high upon the savage scaur, remote from every haunt of men, from every haunt of life afar. there doth he find sit palamede sitting as steadfast as a star. scarcely he knew the knight indeed, for he was compassed in a beard white as the streams of snow that feed the lake of gods and men revered that sitteth upon caucasus. so muttered he a darkling weird, 22 and smote his bosom murderous. his nails like eagles' claws were grown; his eyes were wild and dull; but thus sir lancelot spake "thy deeds atone by knightly devoir" he returned that "while the land was overgrown

de. he wrote himself a wanton ass, and to the sea his traces laid, where many a wavelet on the glass his prowess knows. but deep and deep his futile feet in fury pass, 27 until one billow curls to leap, and flings him breathless on the shore half drowned. o fool! his god's asleep, his armour in illusion's war it self illusion, all his might and courage vain. yet ardours pour through every artery. the knight scales the himalaya's frozen sides, crowned with illimitable light, and there in constant war abides, smiting the spangles of the snow; smiting until the vernal tides of earth leap high; the steady flow of sunlight splits the icy walls: they slide, they hurl the knight below. sir palamede the mighty falls into an hollow where there dwelt a bearded crew of monachals asleep in various vis

n ararat i could not, nor i will not, stay "i know thy quest. seek on in vain a golden hart with silver horns! life springeth out of divers pains. what crown the king of kings adorns? a crown of gems? a crown of thorns! the questing beast is like a king in face, and hath a pigeon's wing and claw; its body is one fleece of bloody white, a lamb's in spring. enough. sir knight, i give thee peace" 38 the knight spurs on, and soon espies a monster coursing on the plain. he hears the horrid questing rise and thunder in his weary brain. this time, to slay it or be slain! too easy task! the charger gains stride after stride with little pains upon the lumbering, flapping thing. he stabs the lamb, and splits the brains of that majestic-seeming king. he clips the wing and pares the claw- what turns t

he land: with snarling lip the beast stands off and cachinnates. that stings the good knight like a whip, 41 as suddenly hell's own disgust eats up the joy he had of lust. the brutal glee his folly took for holy joy breaks down his brain. off bolts the beast: the earth is shook as out a questing roars again, as if a thirty couple hounds are in its belly as it bounds! the peasants gather to deride the knight: creation joins in mirth. ashamed and scorned on every side, there gallops, hateful to the earth, the laughing-stock of beasts and men, sir palamede the saracen. 42 xvi where shafts of moonlight splash the vale, beside a stream there sits and strains sir palamede, with passion pale, and haggard from his broken brains. yet eagerly he watches still a mossy mound where dainty grains of gil

rom crest to crest he hastens: faster fly his feet: his body knows not rest, until with magic speed they ply like oars the snowy waves, surpass in one day's march the galaxy of europe's starry mountain mass "now" quoth he "let me find the quest" the beast sterte up. sir knight, alas! day after day they race, nor rest till seven days were fairly done. then doth the questing marvel crest the ridge: the knight is well outrun. now, adding laughter to its din, like some lewd comet at the sun, around the panting paladin it runs with all its splendid speed. yet, knowing that he may not win, 50 he strains and strives in very deed, so that at last a boulder trips the hero, that he bursts a-bleed, and sanguine from his bearded lips the torrent of his being breaks. the beast is gone: the hero slips d

last a boulder trips the hero, that he bursts a-bleed, and sanguine from his bearded lips the torrent of his being breaks. the beast is gone: the hero slips down to the valley: he forsakes the fond idea (every bone in all his body burns and aches) by speed to attain the dear unknown, by force to achieve the great beyond. yet from that brain may spring full-grown another folly just as fond. 51 xix the knight hath found a naked girl among the dunes of breton sand. she spinneth in a mystic whirl, and hath a bagpipe in her hand, wherefrom she draweth dismal groans the while her maddening saraband she plies, and with discordant tones desires a certain devil-grace. she gathers wreckage-wood, and bones of seamen, jetsam of the place, and builds therewith a fire, wherein she dances, bounding into

shake. thus reasons he "in each and all fyttes of this quest the quarry's track is wondrous geometrical. in spire and whorl twists out and back the hart with fair symmetric line. and lo! the grain of wit i lack- this beast is master of design. so studying each twisted print in this mirific mind of mine, my heart may happen on a hint" thus as the seeker after gold eagerly chases grain or glint, 61 the knight at last wins to behold the full conception. breathless-blue the fair lake's mirror crystal-cold wherein he gazes, keen to view the vast design therein, to chase the beast to his last avenue. then- o thou gosling scant of grace! the dream breaks, and sir palamede wakes to the glass of his fool's face "ah 'sdeath (quod he "by thought and deed this brute for ever mocketh me. the lance is m

of worth; he turned his back upon the place, sought the blue sky and the green earth, ay! and the lustral sea to cleanse that filth that stank about his girth, 82 the sores and scabs, the warts and wens, the nameless vermin he had gathered in those insufferable dens, the foul diseases he had fathered. so now the quest slips from his brain "first (christ) let me be clean again" 83 xxxii "ha" cries the knight "may patient toil of brain dissolve this cruel coil! in afric they that chase the ostrich clothe them with feathers, subtly foil its vigilance, come close, then dart its death upon it. brave my heart! do thus" and so the knight disguises himself, on hands and knees doth start his hunt, goes questing up and down. so in the fields the peasant clown flies, shrieking, from the dreadful figu

hty passion hath caught my spirit in a gin. come! since i may not imitate the beast, at least i work and wait. we shall discover soon or late which is the master- i or fate" 85 xxxiii sir palamede the saracen hath passed unto the tideless sea, that the keen whisper of the wind may bring him that which never men knew- on the quest, the quest, rides he! so long to seek, so far to find! so weary was the knight, his limbs were slack as new-slain dove's; his knees no longer gripped the charger rude. listless, he aches; his purpose swims exhausted in the oily seas of laxity and lassitude. the soul subsides; its serious motion still throbs; by habit, not by will. and all his lust to win the quest is but a passive-mild devotion (ay! soon the blood shall run right chill- and is not death the lord o

s in that hour transcended, all power in his sublime control, all felt, all thought, all comprehended "how is it, then, the quest (he saith "is not- at last- achieved and ended? why taste i not the bounteous breath, receive the goodly gift of grace? now, kind king-eagle (by god's death, restore me to mine ancient place! i am advantaged nothing then" then swooped he from the byss of space, and set the knight amid the fen "god" quoth sir palamede "that i who have won nine should fail at ten! i set my all upon the die: there is no further trick to try. call thrice accurs d above men sir palamede the saracen" 89 xxxv "yea" quoth the knight "i rede the spell. this beast is the unknowable. i seek in heaven, i seek in hell; ever he mocks me. yet, methinks, i have the riddle of the sphinx. for wer

t thou, then, that it is ever or hath been, sir palamede the saracen" sir palamede was well awake "nay! i deliberate deep and long, yet find no answer fit to make to thee. the weak beats down the strong; the fool's cap shames the helm. but thou! i know thee for the shade that haunts my way, sets shame upon my brow, my purpose dims, my courage daunts. then, since the thinker must be dumb, at least the knight may knightly act: the wisest monk in christendom may have his skull broke by a fact" with that, as a snake strikes, his sword leapt burning to the burning blue; and fell, one swift, assured award, stabbing that hunchback through and through. 94 straight he dissolved, a voiceless shade "or scotched or slain" the knight said then "what odds? keep bright and sharp thy blade, sir palamede t

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e seven wise masters there that which is generated will be nourished with its own flesh and blood, and will complete its course of development when the moon has changed for the eighth time if thou repeat this process again and again, thou shalt see children s children, and the offspring of thy body shall fill the world. when phoebus had thus spoken, he winged his flight heavenward. in the morning the knight arose and did the bidding of the celestial messenger, and god gave to him and to his wife many children, who twelve keys of basil valentine 69 of 95 inherited their father s glory, wealth, and knightly honours from generation to generation. if you are wise, my son, you will find the interpretation of my parable. if you do not understand it, ascribe the blame not to me, but to your own i

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

new continent; much force and cunning had to be used to secure the wonderful animal, but no sooner had huschenk mounted him, than he defeated every enemy. no giants could withstand his tremendous power. notwithstanding, this king of kings was killed by an enormous rock thrown at him by the giants from the great mountains of damavend* tahmurath is the third king of persia, the st. george of iran, the knight who always has the best of, and who kills, the dragon. he is the great enemy of the devs who, in his day, dwelled in the mountains of kaf, and occasionally made raids on the peris. the old french chronicles of the persian folklore call him the dev-bend, the conqueror of the giants. he, too, is credited with having founded babylon, nineveh, diarbek, etc, etc. like his grand-sire huschenk

BLUE EQUINOX

self is almost like love! fighting most certainly is love .as brothers fight ye. all the manly races of the world understand this. the love of liber legis is always bold, virile, even orgiastic. there is delicacy, but it is the delicacy of strength. mighty and terrible and glorious as it is, however, it is but the pennon upon the sacred lance of will, the damascened inscription upon the swords of the knight-monks of thelema. love is the law, love under will. 666 44 the tent only the stars endome the lonely camp, only the desert leagues encompass it; waterless wastes, a wilderness of wit, embattled cold, imagination.s cramp. now were the desolation fain to stamp the congealed spirit of man into the pit, save that, unquenchable because unlit, the love of god burns steady, like a lamp. it bur

onism.ed] 48. ere thy soul.s mind can understand, the bud of personality must be crushed out, the worm of sense destroyed past resurrection. this is again filled with deeper meaning than that which appears on the surface. the words .bud. and .worm. form a clue. 49. thou canst not travel on the path before thou hast become that path itself. compare the scene in parsifal, where the scenery comes to the knight instead of the knight going to the scenery. but there is also implied the doctrine of the tao, and only one who is an accomplished taoist can hope to understand this verse (see .the hermit of esopus island. part of the magical record of the beast 666, to be published in the equinox, vol. iii) 50. let thy soul lend its ear to every cry of pain like as the lotus bares its heart to drink t

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sate upon the throne a book, sealed with seven seals "who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof' the titles of the symbols 1. the ace of wands is called the root of the powers of fire. 2. the ace of cups is called the root of the powers of water. 3. the ace of swords is called the root of the powers of air. 4. the ace of pentacles is called the root of the powers of earth. 5. the knight of wands is "the lord of the flame and lighting: the king of the spirits of fire" 6. the queen of wands is "the queen of the thrones of flame" 7. the king of wands is "the prince of the chariot of fire" 8. the knave of wands is "the princess of the shining flame: the rose of the palace of fire" 9. the knight of cups is "the lord of the waves and the waters: the king of the hosts of the

" 9. the knight of cups is "the lord of the waves and the waters: the king of the hosts of the sea" 10. the queen of cups is "the queen of the thrones of the waters" book t page 1 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 11. the king of cups is "the prince of the chariot of the waters" 12. the knave of cups is "the princess of the waters: the lotus of the palace of the floods" 13. the knight of swords is "the lord of the wind and the breezes: the king of the spirits of air" 14. the queen of swords is "the queen of the thrones of air" 15. the king of swords is "the prince of the chariot of the winds" 16. the knave of swords is "the princess of the rushing winds: the lotus of the palace of air" 17. the knight of pentacles is "the lord of the wide and fertile land: the king of

les the heavens over one quadrant of the portion around the north pole. earth of fire princess and empress of the salamanders. throne of the ace of wands. ix. the lord of the waves and the waters; the king of the hosts of the sea knight of cups a beautiful, winged, youthful warrior with flying hair, riding upon a white horse, which latter is not winged. his general equipment is similar to that of the knight of wands, but upon his helmet, cuirass and buskins is a peacock with opened wings. he holds a cup in his hand, bearing the sigil of the scale. beneath his horse's feet is the sea. from the cup issues a crab. book t page 6 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 graceful, poetic, venusian, indolent, but enthusiastic if roused. ill dignified, he is sensual, idle and untru

quadrant of the heavens around kether. earth of water book t page 7 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 princess and empress of the nymphs or undines throne of the ace of cups. xiii. the lord of the winds and the breezes; he king of the spirits of air knight of swords a winged warrior with crowned winged helmet, mounted upon a brown steed. his general equipment is as that of the knight of wands, but he wears as a crest a winged six-pointed star, similar to those represented on the heads of castor and pollux the dioscuri, the twins gemini (a part of which constellation is included in his rule. he holds a drawn sword with the sigil of his scale upon its pommel. beneath his horse's feet are dark-driving stratus clouds. he is active, clever, subtle, fierce, delicate, cour

d dexterity. if ill dignified, she is frivolous and cunning. she rules a quadrant of the heavens around kether. earth of air princess and empress of the sylphs and sylphides. throne of the ace of wands. xvii. the lord of the wide and fertile land; the king of the spirits of earth knight of pentacles a dark winged warrior with winged and crowned helmet: mounted on a light brown horse. equipment as the knight of wands. the winged head of a stag or antelope as a crest. beneath the horse's feet is fertile land with ripened corn. in one hand he bears a sceptre surmounted by a hexagram: in the other a pentacle like that of the zelator adeptus minor. unless very well dignified he is heavy, dull, and material. laborious, clever, and patient in material matters. if ill dignified, he is avaricious

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

uits of fourteen cards each. it is from this minor arcana of the tarot that our everyday playing cards stem. the tarot suits are swords, pentacles (sometimes called coins, wands (or staves) and cups. their modern counterparts are spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts respectively. each suit numbers one (or ace) through ten with a page, knight, queen and king. at some stage in their later development the knight dropped out and the page became known as the jack, or knave. the major arcana, otherwise known as the trumps major, has twenty-two cards; each an allegorical figure of symbolic meaning. these figures are, by many occultists, attributed to the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet: 1 magician 2 high priestess 3 empress 4 emperor 5 hierophant 6 lovers 7 chariot 8 justice 9 hermit 10 w

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ous names for the prison warder consciousness. lieutenant-colonel michael aquino, a senior officer within us military intelligence, formed the temple of set, but when this was made public, the authorities said they saw no problem. during the second world war, the elite's esoteric tradition was at work on both sides. president roosevelt, who was a 33rd degree freemason, also had the esoteric name, the knight of pythias, and wore the red fez of the ancient arabic order of nobles of the mystic shrine. this organisation claimed to be connected with the illuminati.1 winston churchill, the british prime minister, was a freemason and had several meetings with the satanist aleister crowley, another esoteric guru and a high initiate of many orders, including the order of the golden dawn and the ord

enrico mattei was killed when his private plane crashed on a flight from sicily, the home of the mafia, to milan. charges of deliberate sabotage continue to this day. the head of the cia station in rome, thomas karamessines, who would later help to organise the coup against the chilean leader, salvador allende, left italy immediately after the crash without explanation. the cia chief at the time, the knight of malta, john mccone, owned more than $1 million worth of shares in standard oil of california, better known as chevron. at the time of his death, mattei was arranging to meet president kennedy, who, according to some researchers, was pressuring the oil cartel to reach agreement with the italians. a year later kennedy himself was assassinated. the oil companies, governments, intelligen

don sunday express revealed that the former british prime minister, edward heath (bil, had been paid handsomely to make the keynote speech at the moonies' summit council for world peace in korea. in march 1994, he also spoke at sun myung moon's world peace conference, where the main speaker was the former soviet union leader, mikhail gorbachev, the friend of henry kissinger and david rockefeller. the knight of malta and former us secretary of state and supreme allied commander of nato alexander haig, has spoken at moonie events. so has the former us defense secretary, frank carlucci (cfr, tc. the unification church has a worldwide business empire which includes the washington times, the new york city tribune, and the middle east times. their list of front groups and businesses in the nameb

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and headmitted to drinking the blood of some of his victims. the hand of death, he said, wasinvolved in drug running and the kidnapping of children for slavery and sacrifice. whenthey were killed, the group would drink their blood and eat part of their body, lucassaid. mutilated bodies were found in mexico and arizona which appeared to supporthis story. richard ramirez, the serial killer known as the knight stalker, said he killedhis thirteen victims in the name of satan. inverted pentagrams, the classic satanicsymbol, were found spray painted in the homes of several of his victims and he carved apentagram on the thigh of an elderly woman.the number of murders world-wide involving satanic ritual is simply fantastic. whilei was writing this book i heard from another researcher of the ritual

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of love makes us silly and sentimental, or a lack of love makes us cruel and destructive. it is in such things as these that evil lies, not in a personal devil who acts as adversary. 5. geburah the destroyer, the lord of fear and severity, is therefore as necessary to the equilibrium of the tree as chesed, the lord of love, and netzach, the lady of beauty. gebura his the celestial surgeon; he is the knight in shining arinour, the dragon-slayer; beautiful as a bridegroom in his strength to the maiden in distress, though, no doubt, the dragon might have preferred a little more love. 6. the initiations of the infortunes, saturn, mars, and the deceptive lunar yesod, are just as necessary to the evolution and balanced development of the soul as are the mysteries of the crucifixion assigned to

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grady mcmurtry in california, each of whom would head a separate branch of the oto. sources: king, francis. sexuality, magic, and perversion. secacus, n.j: citadel press, 1972. gervais, bishop (d. 1067) archbishop of rheims. his death was said to have been revealed to a norman knight, returning from a pilgrimage to rome, by a hermit he met on the way. according to popular belief, the hermit told the knight that on the previous night he had been disturbed by a vision of demons making a great noise. he said the demons told him they had been carrying the body of gervais from rheims, but because of his good deeds in life the body had been taken from them. on his return to rheims the knight learned that gervais was dead, and that the time of his death corresponded exactly with the time of the

n, who is appointed guardian of the grail. alain, having caught a great fish with which he feeds the entire household, is called the rich fisher, which becomes the perpetual title of the grail keepers. alain places the grail in the castle of corbenic and in time, various knights of king arthur s court come in quest of the holy vessel. only the purest of the pure could approach it, and in due time the knight percival manages to see the marvel. it is probable that the idea of the grail originated with early medieval legends of the quest for talismans that conferred great boons upon the finder, for example, the shoes of swiftness, the cloak of invisibility, and the ring of gyges, and that these stories were interpreted in the light and spirit of medieval christianity and mysticism. the legend

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se returned into his chamber pensively, and bethought himself of orton, and said, i think that i have seen my familiar; i repent me that i set my dogs upon him, for i doubt if i shall ever behold him again, since he has several times told me that as soon as i should provoke him i should lose him, and he would return no more. he spoke truly; never again did orton return to the lord of corasse, and the knight died in the following year. ortt, felix (1866.1959) dutch engineer who developed a philosophy of pneumatic- energetic monism, proposing that a spirit revealed itself under energy and entelechy. ortt wrote on parapsychological subjects, including a theory of temperature drop in relation to psychical phenomena and philosophy of occultism and spiritualism, on concepts of substantiality and

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shone, they charmed me so, i climbed thereon. the beauty. the little apples man entice since first they were in paradise. i feel myself with pleasure glow that such within my garden grow. mephistopheles [with the old witch. once came a wanton dream to me. i saw therein a riven tree; it had a monstrous hole; twas huge, yet i was pleased with it. the old witch. i proffer now my best salute to you, the knight with horse s foot! let me a proper cork prepare, if him a big hole does not scare. proctophantasmist. accursed folk! how dare you then? have you not long had proof complete, a spirit never stands on ordinary feet? and now you re dancing like us other men! the beauty [dancing. why is he at our ball? that fellow there? faust [dancing. ha! he is simply everywhere. he must appraise what oth

can impose no punishment, at last with culprits will combine. i ve painted black, and yet a denser screen i d rather draw before the scene. pause. decisions cannot be evaded; when all do harm and none are aided, majesty too becomes a prey. commander-in-chief. in these wild days what riots quicken! each strikes and he in turn is stricken, and no command will men obey. the citizen behind his wall, the knight upon his rocky nest, have sworn to last us out, and all maintain their power with stubborn zest. the mercenaries, restless growing, blusteringly demand their pay, and if to them no more were owing, they would be quick to run away. let one forbid what all men fain expect, he s put his hand into a hornet s nest; the empire which they should protect lies plundered, desolate, and waste. thi

ulus i know you re free of squeamish twitches! and if i touch upon thessalian witches, i think i have not talked for naught. mephistopheles [lustfully] thessalian witches! they are personswell, for them i long have asked and sought. night after night with them to dwell is not, i d say, a pleasant thought; let s spy them, try them, thoughhomunculus the mantle there! come, wrap it straightway round the knight! as heretofore the rag will bear you both upon your novel flight. i ll light the way. wagner [anxiously] and i? homunculus well, you will stay at home, most weighty work to do. open the parchment-sheets, collect life-elements as the recipes direct, with caution fitting each to other. ponder the what- to solve the how still harder try, while through a little piece of world i wander to fi

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ing in each case 7. the use of dice was abolished by the brahmans. chaturanga is referred to in valmiki's ramayana book 2, cap. 51. it is also mentioned in one of the sanskrit puranas where it is said that it was invented in the 'second age' by the wife of ravan, king of lanka (i.e. ceylon. the chaturanga elephant has become our castle, the ship=the bishop, thechess shatranjiandchaturanga 77horse=the knight, the 1st king=the king, and the 2nd king=the queen.theelephant and ship (castle and bishop) have exchanged places.theelephant probably became the castle from the howdah on its back.theship was also in some places a chariot. in the oldest chaturanga dice-throwing, if a 2 was thrown the player had to move the ship, if a 3 then the horse was moved,if4 then the elephant, andif5were thrown t

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t pack is as follows. the four aces are placed on thethe azoth lecture35throne of kether, the remaining small cardsofeach number on the successivesephiroth down to the four tens on malkuth, the twos on chokmah, threes on binah, etc. the 22 trumps are then arranged upon the 22 paths according to the letters with which they correspond. the king and queen are placed beside chokmah and binah and then the knight and knave beside tiphereth and malkuth respectively. 33. thus the tarot trumps receive the. meaning of the equilibrium of the sephiroth which they connect. 34. there is a hieroglyphic form of writing hebrew words. by using the symbols to which the letters correspond in the yetziratic attribution. 35. this is the symbol of sulphur on the tree of life.kbg 225h 225t225y.mch225 chs225 n36

h a new tetraktys will come. that is just one translation of this great name, the yod, he, vau, he. the same thing is found in the cards of the tarot: the four suits mean the four letters of the great name.thefour honours of the tarot pack are the king, queen, knave, and knight; and these four correspond, the king to the active or energising force, the queen to the passive or receptive force, and the knight to the juncture, the union, completing the triangle. the knave or squire(ger255man, knabe)is the term of transition. these again refer not only to the letters of the great name,butto the four worlds orthescience of numbers169planes of atziluth, briah, yetzirah, and assiah. assiah, the lowest of all, is the key corresponding to the 4 knaves of the court cards; and these knaves are the te

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ton smith. the path of the serpent involved secret training, occult techniques and death and rebirth rites, it was both a way of life and a ritualised process (as it is today. there were two paths of survival for the doctrine of theosis. as the gnostic cults came and the gnostic handbook page 89 went the doctrine was passed from one to another and flowered in the cathars and knight templars. from the knight templars the doctrine passed to various esoteric orders and was transmitted via freemasonry and occult traditions. this form of the doctrine of deification sustained the technology and science, but lost most of the ethical and religious teachings associated with it. on the other hand, the doctrine was also passed from the gnostic cults to various monastic orders within the orthodox chur

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entifying its god with the demiurge, they saw jesus as the emissary of the light world and the only chance of experiencing the divine. their response to the world was unique in the gnostic world, they were militaristic in emphasis and battled, both intellectually and physically, against the prevailing ecclesiastical authorities. it is rumoured that some of the descendants of the paulicians joined the knight templars. the major period of paulician teaching was between 600 and 1100 ce. gnostic theurgy page 205 the bogomils the bogomils started in bulgaria around 950 ce. they take their name from their founder, the priest we know only as bogomil. his name meant friend or beloved of god. the bogomils were extreme dualists, railing against the world and reproduction. they encouraged homosexuali

ion of man into god, the techniques for which were transmitted under the guise of chemical transformation. the texts of the alchemists were coded to avoid the inquisition and hence sustained the secret tradition through the veil of symbolism. some of the major alchemical figures include trithemius (1642-1516, paracelsus (1493-1541) and agrippa (1486-1535. the rosicrucians and knight templars both the knight templars and the rosicrucians are orders steeped in mystery. the knight templars were, at first, considered to be simply an order for the protection of the roads along which pilgrims travelled to the holy land. however, as they become better known, rumours began to circulate about their esoteric knowledge and occult practises and this resulted in their persecution. their teachings were

es and this resulted in their persecution. their teachings were dualistic with an emphasis on the union of the opposing male and female facets of consciousness, this process was reflected in their use of the image of baphomet, an androgynous pan like figure within their secret shrines. their origins can probably be traced to 1188 ce when the order of sion split into two opposed factions, of which the knight templar was the major. as time progressed and their influence spread, the knight templars absorbed esoteric teachings from arabic alchemy and sufi mysticism- they form an important link in the transmission of the gnosis. the rosicrucians are thought to also have originated about the same time as the the knight templars. while their teachings are similar, the rosicrucians had a much stro

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a mansfeld legend. it is worth noticing, that ace^ loccenii antiq. sveog. cap. 3. geijer sv. hiifd. 1, 268^ nilsson's skandinavisk fauna 2, 106^ omeiss 36 seq; his description deserves a place here' and they that so run, run mostly at the fron-fasts, and chiefly at the /rou-/a.sf before christiiuis, that is the holiest tide. and every one runneth as he is in his raiment, the peasant as a peasant, the knight as a knight, so run they in a string, and one beareth the kros before him, another his head in his hand, and one runneth before, that crieth, flee out of the way, that god give thee thy life! thus speak the meaner sort thereon. 1 know nought thereof' 920 spectees. to keisersperg all who die a violent death' ere that god hath set it for them/ and ace. to superst. i, 660 all children dyin

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rous being, who cries to him( i am thy ungelucke he invites his ill-luck 9 to share his meal, but no sooner is it down, than he seizes it firmly and shuts it up in an eicher (hollow oak. from that moment all goes well with him, and he makes no secret of what has happened. one who envies him, wishing to plunge him into misery again, goes to the wood and releases ill-luck; but, instead of burdening the knight any longer, it jumps on the traitor s back, just as a kobold would (ls. 2, 575. this fable was known to h. sachs iii. 2, 72c: misfortune shall be made fast with chains and ropes to an oaken stake, so it may visit no houses more, unless some man be so fond to let it loose again. the other story may as well be given in reinmar s own words, ms. 2, 134b: ez was ein gar unsaelic man (a most

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some events that had passed by my knowledge while i slept. making assay now of the wound that i had wrought upon my flesh to fulfil my fate, i found but the barest crimson scar. now testing the strength of limb and heart, i stood, eager to renew once more the struggle against the hosts of heaven. as i made to take up spear and sword, as i made to dress myself in shining mail, all lying ready for the knight who would gird himself for battle's work, aset came to my shoulder and restrained my hasty rage and reproached my brashness and precipitous action, going headlong into what i was ignorant of. now she told me of all that had come to pass whilst, still robbed of all wit, i lay and she had tended with her healing arts the self-inflicted wound that had brought forth the now-contested nephil

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o the tree of life in the following manner. the four aces are placed on the throne of kether. the remaining small cards of each suit are placed on the respective sephiroth, two on chokmah, three on binah, etc. the twenty two trumps are then arranged on the paths between them according to the letters to which they are attributed. the king and queen of the suit are placed besides chokmah and binah, the knight and knave by tiphareth and malkuth. the tarot trumps thus receive the equilibrium of the sephiroth they connect. admission badges used in the grade of philosophus first is the calvary cross of twelve squares. it admits to the path of qoph, the 29th path, and refers to the zodiac and to the eternal river of eden, divided into four heads as follows: naher- the river 1. hiddikel 2. pison 3

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o word of sentimentality. hate itself is almost like love``as brothers fight ye' all the manly races of the world understand this. the love of liber legis is always bold, virile, even orgiastic. there is delicacy, but it is the delicacy of strength. mighty and terrible and glorious as it is, however, it is but the pennon upon the sacred lance of will, the damascened inscription upon the swords of the knight-monks of thelema. love is the law, love under wi tcopyright (c) ordo templi orientis o.t.o. p.o.box 430 fairfax, ca 94930 usa (415) 454-5176- messages only. limited license except for notations added to the history of modification, the text on this diskette down to the next row of asterisks must accompany all copies made of this file. in particular, this paragraph and the copyright noti

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ics were much less selfish in consequence. 67. there were in egypt in those days three grand lodges of amen, each of which was strictly limited to forty members, every one of whom was a necessary part of the machine. including the officers, whose business was the recitation of the office and the magnetization of the lodge, each member was the representative of a particular quality. one was called the knight of love, another the knight of truth, another the knight of perseverance, and so on; and each was supposed to become a specialist in thinking and expressing the quality assigned to him. the idea was that the forty qualities, thus expressed through the lodge as a whole, would make the character of a perfect man, a kind of heavenly man, through whom the power behind could be poured out up

higher degrees carry on further the same process of development which was begun in the lower, they may be said in a certain sense to repeat it at a higher level. the e.a. controls and uplifts emotion in the astral body; the rose-croix of heredom develops far higher love in the buddhi which corresponds to it. the f.c. tries to strengthen his intellect to comprehend the hidden mysteries of masonry; the knight k.h. unfolds within him that grander intellectual quality which gives him always perfect balance and a sense of absolute justice, so that he understands the working of karma. the m.m. combines within himself and carries farther qualities of the degrees below him; the due-guard of his degree shows that he is intended to be shedding blessing and help around him wherever he goes; and of co

balance of divine justice; the aspirant learnt that all the horror sometimes associated with the working out of karma was indeed based on absolute justice, although it appeared as evil to the lesser vision of the profane. 798. thus the first stage of the higher instruction, that of the rose-croix or red masonry, is devoted to the knowledge and assurance of good, while to the second stage, that of the knight k.h, is assigned the knowledge of apparent evil and its explanation. next, in the first steps of white masonry, the crown of the whole glorious structure, the aspirant learns to see the underlying justice of the great and eternal god, called in egypt amen-ra, who stands behind all alike, whether it seems to us evil or good. we are told that in older days, before the kaliyuga, in which t

apparent evil and its explanation. next, in the first steps of white masonry, the crown of the whole glorious structure, the aspirant learns to see the underlying justice of the great and eternal god, called in egypt amen-ra, who stands behind all alike, whether it seems to us evil or good. we are told that in older days, before the kaliyuga, in which the apparent evil predominates over the good, the knight k.h. wore regalia of yellow instead of black. 799. the 30 links the knight k.h. to the ruling rather than to the teaching branch of the great hierarchy. he should become a radiant centre of perennial energy, which is intended to give him strength to overcome evil and to make him a real power on the side of good. though the sash is black, the prevailing colour of the influence is an elec

an harder work than he has ever yet undertaken. and the fiery love which is the very essence of the life of his seraph will awaken ever more and more of the latent quality in himself, until what now seems impossible has been realized, has become a part of his daily existence. 821. the 30 brings its angel also, of appropriate character- a great blue deva of the first ray, who lends his strength to the knight k.h, somewhat as the crimson angel assists the ex. and perf. bro. of the rose-croix. the 33 gives two such splendid fellow-workers- spirits of gigantic size as compared to humanity, and radiantly white in colour. among the angels there is no sex as we understand the word; yet these two great ones differ in a sense which is best expressed by saying that one of them is predominantly mascu

rely impossible to reproduce in words the majesty and splendour of the original. 832. as already stated, the grand lodges were limited to forty members, but these brn, were especially and essentially picked men, and each one had it as a duty to take up some particular quality or activity and fit himself to be a representative of that. one man, for example, represented perseverance, and was called the knight or lord of perseverance; another was the knight or lord of courage; another took up the virtue of tact, and so on. a list of these qualities is appended; but i am not satisfied with it, for it is often exceedingly difficult to find english equivalents for the egyptian ideas, and in many cases a whole sentence would be needed folly to explain the latter. love and wisdom strength the powe

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ve him strength to overcome evil and to make him a real power on the side of good. the prevailing colour of the influence is an electric blue (that of the first ray, quite different from the blue of the symbolic or blue lodges) edged with gold, including and yet not drowning the rose of the 18. associated with the degree there are also great blue angels of the first ray who lend their strength to the knight, somewhat as the crimson angels assist the excellent and perfect brn. of the rose-croix. a higher level of the same energy is transmitted in what to-day we should call the chair of the sovereign commander, who has the ability to pass on the sacramental grace of the degree to others. 178. white masonry in the mysteries 179. the highest and last of the great sacramental powers of the myst

th freemasonry in france are those of well-known adherents of the stuarts, although he himself rejects the hypothesis for lack of sufficient evidence(*gould. hist. freem, iii, 78) we have the direct and personal testimony of baron von hund, the founder of the rite of the strict observance, given in 1764, that he himself was received into the order of the temple in paris in 1743 by an unknown bro, the knight of the red feather, in the presence of lord kilmarnock(*at that time grand master of the grand lodge of scotland, and master of lodge kilwinning on his election to that high office in 1742. ibid, p. 53) and that he was subsequently introduced as a distinguished brother of the order to charles edward stuart, the young pretender(*ibid, p. 101) from papers found after his death it is clear

ather, in the presence of lord kilmarnock(*at that time grand master of the grand lodge of scotland, and master of lodge kilwinning on his election to that high office in 1742. ibid, p. 53) and that he was subsequently introduced as a distinguished brother of the order to charles edward stuart, the young pretender(*ibid, p. 101) from papers found after his death it is clear that von hund regarded the knight of the red feather as prince charles himself. the life of von hund shows him to have been a man of stainless honour who had made great sacrifices for the cause which he had at heart; and although it has been said that in 1777 prince charles denied to an emissary of the strict observance(*ibid, p. 110) that he had ever been a freemason, such an official d menti is not unknown even to-day

vault by scottish crusaders. scots masters claimed extraordinary privileges in blue lodges. 1741 masons of lyons are said to have introduced the kadosh degree, but there is no direct evidence of this. 1743 stirling rock royal arch chapter of scotland has minutes dating from this year. first decisive reference to royal arch in ireland in baron von hund was received into the order of the temple by "the knight of the red feather" and presented to prince charles edward stuart in paris. contemporary report of proceedings of a lodge at youghal. 1744 dr. dassigny's serious and impartial enquiry referred to an assembly of royal arch masons at york, whence the degree was introduced into ireland. known and practised also in london "some small space before" and described as "an organized body of men

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nochian papers. 14: in addition the upper six are referred to the planets according to the scheme in 777 col. cxxiv .the heavenly hexagram. and to the tarot trumps corresponding. 15: see regardie (ed, the golden dawn, vol. iv. 16: suit by element of lesser angle, rank by element of column; so in the lesser angles of water, the square with the left and right sides referred to fire is attributed to the knight of cups. 17: each square is additionally referred to one of the 16 figures of geomancy, and to one of the signs or elements (saturn replacing earth as per the dual attribution of the path of tau, and thence to the hebrew letter and tarot card corresponding: thus row column attributions fire a puer h iv. the emperor water d populus j vii. the chariot air g puella l viii. justice fire (ca

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ge declareth that it transcendeth reason. therefore sir palamede unreasonably decapitateth him. xii. an ancient hag prateth of it as evangelical. her he hewed in pieces. sir palamdes, the saracen knight vi xiii. at naples he thinketh of the beast as author of evil, because free of will. the beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow; but at the moment of its death it is reborn from the knight.s own belly. xiv. at rome he meeteth a red robber in a hat, who speaketh nobly of it as of a king-dove-lamb. he chaseth and slayeth it; it proves but a child fs toy. xv. in a tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a satyr, that the gods sill dwell with men. mistaking orgasm for ecstasty, he is found ridiculous. xvi. baiting for it with gilded corn in a moonlit vale of spain, he fin

dest horror drave the light from knightly eyes. how pale thy bloom, thy blood, o brow whereon that night sits like a serpent on a tomb! for palamede those eyes beheld the iron image of his own; on those dead brows a fate he spelled to strike a gorgon into stone. he knew his father. still he sate, nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; while round them flapped insatiate the fell, abominable bird. the knight approves the justice done, and pays with that his rowels. debt; while yet the forehead of the son stands beaded with an icy sweat. god.s angel, standing sinister, unfurls this scroll.a sable stain .who wins the spur shall ply the spur upon his proper heart and brain. he gave the sign of malison on traitor knights and perjured men; and ever by the sea rode on sir palamede the saracen. 5

ade there sport a band with wand and wreath, languorous boy and laughing maid. liber cxcvii 6 and in the centre is a sight of hateful love and shameless shame: a recreant abyssianian knight sports grossly with a wanton dame. how black and swinish is the knave! his hellish grunt, his bestial grin; her trilling laugh, her gesture suave, the cool sweat swimming on her skin! she looks and laughs upon the knight, then turns to buss the blubber mouth, draining the dregs of that black blight of wine to ease their double drouth! god! what a glance! sir palamede is stricken by the sword of fate: his mother it is in very deed that gleeful goes the goatish gait. his mother it his, that pure and pale cried in the pangs that gave him birth; the holy image he would veil from aught the tiniest taint of e

ii behold sir lancelot of the lake breasting the stony screes: behold how breath must fail and muscle ache before he reach the icy fold that palamede the saracen within its hermitage may hold. at last he cometh to a den perched high upon the savage scaur, remote from every haunt of men, from every haunt of life afar. there doth he find sit palamede sitting as steadfast as a star. scarcely he knew the knight indeed, for he was compassed in a beard white as the streams of snow that feed the lake of gods and men revered that sitteth upon caucasus. so muttered he a darkling weird, and smote his bosom murderous. his nails like eagles. claws were grown; his eyes were wild and dull; but thus sir lancelot spake .thy deeds atone by knightly devoir. he returned that .while the land was overgrown lib

, and to the sea his traces laid, where many a wavelet on the glass his prowess knows. but deep and deep his futile feet in fury pass, until one billow curls to leap, and flings him breathless on the shore half drowned. o fool! his god.s asleep, sir palamedes, the saracen knight 23 his armour in illusion.s war itself illusion, all his might and courage vain. yet ardours pour through every artery. the knight scales the himalaya.s frozen sides, crowned with illimitable light, and there in constant war abides, smiting the spangles of the snow; smiting until the vernal tides of earth leap high; the steady flow of sunlight splits the icy walls: they slide, they hurl the knight below. sir palamede the mighty falls into an hollow where there dwelt a bearded crew of monachals asleep in various vis

e on ararat i could not, nor i will not, stay .i know thy quest. seek on in vain a golden hart with silver horns! life springeth out of divers pains. what crown the king of kings adorns? a crown of gems? a crown of thorns! the questing beast is like a king in face, and hath a pigeon.s wing and claw; its body is one fleece of bloody white, a lamb.s in spring. enough. sir knight, i give thee peace. the knight spurs on, and soon espies a monster coursing on the plain. he hears the horrid questing rise and thunder in his weary brain. this time, to slay it or be slain! liber cxcvii 32 too easy task! the charger gains stride after stride with little pains upon the lumbering, flapping thing. he stabs the lamb, and splits the brains of that majestic-seeming king. he clips the wing and pares the cl

st stands off and cachinnates. that stings the good knight like a whip, as suddenly hell.s own disgust eats up the joy he had of lust. the brutal glee his folly took for holy joy breaks down his brain. off bolts the beast: the earth is shook as out a questing roars again, as if a thirty couple hounds are in its belly as it bounds! sir palamedes, the saracen knight 35 the peasants gather to deride the knight: creation joins in mirth. ashamed and scorned on every side, there gallops, hateful to the earth, the laughing-stock of beasts and men, sir palamede the saracen. 36 xvi where shafts of moonlight splash the vale, beside a stream there sits and strains sir palamede, with passion pale, and haggard from his broken brains. yet eagerly he watches still a mossy mound where dainty grains of gil

om crest to crest he hastens: faster fly his feet: his body knows not rest, until with magic speed they ply like oars the snowy waves, surpass in one day.s march the galaxy of europe fs starry mountain mass .now. quoth he .let me find the quest. the beast sterte up. sir knight, alas! day after day they race, nor rest till seven days were fairly done. then doth the questing marvel crest the ridge: the knight is well outrun. now, adding laughter to its din, like some lewd comet at the sun, around the panting paladin it runs with all its splendid speed. yet, knowing that he may not win, he strains and strives in very deed, so that at last a boulder trips the hero, that he bursts a-bleed, and sanguine from his bearded lips the torrent of his being breaks. the beast is gone: the hero slips down

e bursts a-bleed, and sanguine from his bearded lips the torrent of his being breaks. the beast is gone: the hero slips down to the valley: he forsakes the fond idea (every bone in all his body burns and aches) sir palamedes, the saracen knight 43 by speed to attain the dear unknown, by force to achieve the great beyond. yet from that brain may spring full-grown another folly just as fond. 44 xix the knight hath found a naked girl among the dunes of breton sand. she spinneth in a mystic whirl, and hath a bagpipe in her hand, wherefrom she draweth dismal groans the while her maddening saraband she plies, and with discordant tones desires a certain devil-grace. she gathers wreckage-wood, and bones of seamen, jetsam of the place, and builds therewith a fire, wherein she dances, bounding into

er shake. thus reasons he .in each and all fyttes of this quest the quarry.s track is wondrous geometrical. in spire and whorl twists out and back the hart with fair symmetric line. and lo! the grain of wit i lack. this beast is master of design. so studying each twisted print in this mirific mind of mine, my heart may happen on a hint. thus as the seeker after gold eagerly chases grain or glint, the knight at last wins to behold the full conception. breathless-blue the fair lake.s mirror crystal-cold liber cxcvii 54 wherein he gazes, keen to view the vast design therein, to chase the beast to his last avenue. then.o thou gosling scant of grace! the dream breaks, and sir palamede wakes to the glass of his fool fs face .ah .sdeath (quod he .by thought and deed this brute for ever mocketh me

ng of worth; he turned his back upon the place, sought the blue sky and the green earth, ay! and the lustral sea to cleanse that filth that stank about his girth, the sores and scabs, the warts and wens, the nameless vermin he had gathered in those insufferable dens, the foul diseases he had fathered. so now the quest slips from his brain .first (christ) let me be clean again. 74 xxxii .ha. cries the knight .may patient toil of brain dissolve this cruel coil! in afric they that chase the ostrich clothe them with feathers, subtly foil its vigilance, come close, then dart its death upon it. brave my heart! do thus. and so the knight disguises himself, on hands and knees doth start his hunt, goes questing up and down. so in the fields the peasant clown flies, shrieking, from the dreadful figu

ighty passion hath caught my spirit in a gin. come! since i may not imitate the beast, at least i work and wait. we shall discover soon or late which is the master.i or fate. 76 xxxiii sir palamede the saracen hath passed unto the tideless sea, that the keen whisper of the wind may bring him that which never men knew.on the quest, the quest, rides he! so long to seek, so far to find! so weary was the knight, his limbs were slack as new-slain dove.s; his knees no longer gripped the charger rude. listless, he aches; his purpose swims exhausted in the oily seas of laxity and lassitude. the soul subsides; its serious motion still throbs; by habit, not by will. and all his lust to win the quest is but a passive-mild devotion (ay! soon the blood shall run right chill .and is not death the lord o

in his sublime control, sir palamedes, the saracen knight 79 all felt, all thought, all comprehended .how is it, then, the quest (he saith .is not.at last!.achieved and ended? why taste i not the bounteous breath, receive the goodly gift of grace? now, kind king-eagle (by god fs death, restore me to mine ancient place! i am advantaged nothing then. then swooped he from the byss of space, and set the knight amid the fen .god. quoth sir palamede .that i who have won nine should fail at ten! i set my all upon the die: there is no further trick to try. call thrice accursed above men sir palamede the saracen. 80 xxxv .yea. quoth the knight .i rede the spell. this beast is the unknowable. i seek in heaven, i seek in hell; ever he mocks me. yet, methinks, i have the riddle of the sphinx. for wer

t thou, then, that it is ever or hath been, sir palamede the saracen. sir palamede was well awake .nay! i deliberate deep and long, yet find no answer fit to make to thee. the weak beats down the strong; the fool.s cap shames the helm. but thou! i know thee for the shade that haunts my way, sets shame upon my brow, my purpose dims, my courage daunts. then, since the thinker must be dumb, at least the knight may knightly act: the wisest monk in christendom may have his skull broke by a fact. with that, as a snake strikes, his sword leapt burning to the burning blue; and fell, one swift, assured award, stabbing that hunchback through and through. straight he dissolved, a voiceless shade .or scotched or slain. the knight said then .what odds? keep bright and sharp thy blade, sir palamede the

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ted works society for the propagation of religious truth 1906 e.v. this electronic edition (layout &c. based on the collected works printing) first hastily prepared by frater t.s. for sunwheel oasis, o.t.o. 2001 e.v. re-proofed and corrected edition issued by celepha s press august 2003 e.v. last revised june-july 2004 (c) ordo templi orientis jaf box 7666 new york ny 10116 u.s.a. i .you are sad! the knight said, in an anxious tone .let me sing you a song to comfort you .is it very long. alice asked .it.s long. said the knight, but it.s very very beautiful. the name of the song is called .the book of the beast .oh! how ugly. cried alice .never mind. said the mild creature .some people call it .reason in rhyme .but which is the name of the song. alice said, trying not to seem too interested

us tone .let me sing you a song to comfort you .is it very long. alice asked .it.s long. said the knight, but it.s very very beautiful. the name of the song is called .the book of the beast .oh! how ugly. cried alice .never mind. said the mild creature .some people call it .reason in rhyme .but which is the name of the song. alice said, trying not to seem too interested .ah, you don.t understand. the knight said, looking a little vexed .that.s what the name is called. the name really is .ascension day and pentecost; with some prose essays and an epilogue. just as the title is .the sword of song. you know, just in the same way, just in the same way, just in the same way. alice put her fingers in her ears and gave a little scream .oh, dear me! that.s* this passage is a parody on one in .alic

ow, just in the same way, just in the same way, just in the same way. alice put her fingers in her ears and gave a little scream .oh, dear me! that.s* this passage is a parody on one in .alice through the looking-glass. harder than ever. she said to herself, and then, looking determinedly intelligent .so that s what the song is called. i see. but what is the song .you must be a perfect fool. said the knight, irritably .the song is called .stout doubt; or the agnostic anthology. by the author of .gas manipulation .solutions .the management of retorts. and other physical works of the first order.but that.s only what it.s called, you know .well, what is the song then. said alice, who was by this time completely bewildered .if i wished to be obscure, child. said the knight, rather contemptuous

se fools who by their short-sighted stupidity in attempting to boycott this book have witlessly aided the cause of truth i dedicate these my best words [this book is so full of recondite knowledge of various kinds that it seems quite ineffective to annotate every obscure passage. where references and explanations can be concisely given this has been done] ii the sword of song i suppose. continued the knight, in a superior, but rather offended voice .if you would, please, sir .well, that. pronounced the knight, with the air of having thoroughly studied the question and reached a conclusion absolutely final and irreversible .that, goodness only knows. but i will sing it to you. preliminary invocation nothung* the crowns of gods and mortals wither; moons fade where constellations shone; numbe

LIBER LXXVIII

. she rules the heavens over one quadrant of the portion around the north pole. e of b princess and empress of the salamanders. throne of the ace of wands. ix the lord of the waves and the waters; the king of the hosts of the sea knight of cups a beautiful, winged, youthful warrior with flying hair, riding upon a white horse, which latter is not winged. his general equipment is similar to that of the knight of wands, but upon his helmet, cuirass and buskins is a peacock with opened wings. he holds a cup in his hand, bearing the sigil of the scale. beneath his horse's feet is the sea. from the cup issues a crab. graceful, poetic, venusian, indolent, but enthusiastic if roused. ill dignified, he is sensual, idle and untruthful. he rules the heavens from above 20 of k to 20 of l, thus includi

rageous if roused. when ill dignified she is selfish and luxurious. she rules a quadrant of the heavens around kether. e of c princess and empress of the nymphs or undines throne of the ace of cups. xiii the lord of the winds and the breezes: the king of the spirits of air knight of swords a winged warrior with crowned winged helmet, mounted upon a brown steed. his general equipment is as that of the knight of wands, but he wears as a crest a winged six-pointed 18 liber lxxviii star, similar to those represented on the heads of castor and pollux the dioscuri, the twins gemini (a part of which constellation is included in his rule. he holds a drawn sword with the sigil of his scale upon its pommel. beneath his horse's feet are dark-driving stratus clouds. he is active, clever, subtle, fierc

race and dexterity. if ill dignified, she is frivolous and cunning. she rules a quadrant of the heavens around kether. e of d princess and empress of the sylphs and sylphides. throne of the ace of wands. xvii the lord of the wide and fertile land; the king of the spirits of earth knight of pentacles a dark winged warrior with winged and crowned helmet: mounted on a light brown horse. equipment as the knight of wands. the winged head of a stag or antelope as a crest. beneath the horse fs feet is fertile land with ripened corn. in one hand he bears a sceptre surmounted by a hexagram: in the other a pentacle like that of the zelator adeptus minor. unless very well dignified he is heavy, dull, and material. laborious, clever, and patient in material matters. if ill dignified, he is avaricious

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

d coloured cloth, stained with menstrual blood or otherwise) is the mark of lilith and cain, born unto the night within the mysteries of vampyrism. dress in vestments of the moon of the color of the red serpent, a blood red robe and a mask of the dead (in the form of a skull, the bare mysteries which time does not hide nor tell. the human skull is considered as a symbol of baphomet, worshipped by the knight's templar. the skull is also a powerful fetish which may hold the familiar shades of the dead, a projected tomb of bone which holds the gravesoil and sigilic alphabet of the self in shadow. the magister of the rite recites "behold, the vampyre queen awakens before me, she whose skull holds the mystery of the grave. from your soul comes many serpents, those who breed the forms of dragons

MORALS AND DOGMA

der commodus, it is so under heliogabalus, while from the roman senate, under c sar, there comes only the rank odor peculiar to the eagle's eyrie" it is the force of the people that sustains all these despotisms, the basest as well as the best. that force acts through armies; and these oftener enslave than liberate. despotism there applies the rule. force is the mace of steel at the saddle-bow of the knight or of the bishop in armor. passive obedience by force supports thrones and oligarchies, spanish kings, and venetian senates. might, in an army wielded by tyranny, is the enormous sum total of utter weakness; and so humanity wages war against humanity, in despite of humanity. so a people willingly submits to despotism, and its workmen submit to be despised, and its soldiers to be whipped

h those who receive them should fully understand. as master of a lodge it is your duty to instruct your brethren that they are all so many constant lessons, teaching the lofty qualifications which are required of those who claim them, and not merely idle gewgaws worn in ridiculous imitation of the times when the nobles and priests were masters and the people slaves: and that, in all true masonry, the knight, the pontiff, the prince, and the sovereign are but the first among their equals: and the cordon, the clothing, and the jewel but symbols and emblems of the virtues required of all good masons. the mason kneels, no longer to present his petition for admittance or to receive the answer, no longer to a man as his superior, who is but his brother, but to his god; to whom he appeals for the

nist, to misrepresent all that he says, and, if that be impossible, to invent for him what he does _not_ say; to put in circulation whatever baseless calumnies against him are necessary to defeat him--these are habits so common as to have ceased to excite notice or comment, much less surprise or disgust. there was a time when a knight would die rather than utter a lie, or break his knightly word. the knight commander of the temple revives the old knightly spirit; and devotes himself to the old knightly worship of truth. no profession of an opinion not his own, for expediency's sake or profit, or through fear of the world's disfavor; no slander of even an enemy; no coloring or perversion of the sayings or acts of other men; no insincere speech and argument for any purpose, or under any pret

through fear of the world's disfavor; no slander of even an enemy; no coloring or perversion of the sayings or acts of other men; no insincere speech and argument for any purpose, or under any pretext, must soil his fair escutcheon. out of the chapter, as well as in it, he must speak the truth, and _all_ the truth, no more and no less; or else speak not at all. to purity and innocence everywhere, the knight commander owes protection, as of old; against bold violence, or those, more guilty than murderers, who by art and treachery seek to slay the soul; and against that want and destitution that drive too many to sell their honor and innocence for food. in no age of the world has man had better opportunity than now to display those lofty virtues and that noble heroism that so distinguished t

in brass and other metals, became the chief builder of the _haikal kadosh, the holy house, of the temple, the ?e; and the words _bonai_ and _banaim_ yet appear in the masonic degrees, meaning builder and builders "the trowel of the templars is quadruple, and the triangular plates of it are arranged in the form of a cross, making the kabalistic pantacle known by the name of the cross of the east. the knight of the east, and the knight of the east and west, have in their titles secret allusions to the templars of whom they were at first the successors "the secret thought of hugues de payens, in founding his order, was not exactly to serve the ambition of the patriarchs of constantinople. there existed at that period in the east a sect of johannite christians, who claimed to be the only true

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

iminated in 1559 by henry ii. mandatory for all individuals to participate in until the age of sixty, the bourgeois watch had become the function of guards known as the assis [seated ones, who were assigned specific posts. comprising almost sixty men, they met every three weeks. the royal watch, another company maintained by the king, made daily rounds. both watches were under the sole command of the knight of the watch. only those living in the domain under the control of the temple were not compelled to fulfill this watch service. as for those who pursued various crafts and trades, in the rural areas they were either serfs or villains, while in the towns they held the status of bourgeoisie. free craftsmen, however, meaning either villains or bourgeois, did not perform their trade under s

it in the fifteenth century) had introduced the customs of their own country into their adopted land. the ties between the scots and french were strengthened further during the sixteenth century when mary stuart i, queen of the scots from 1542 to 1567, became queen of france through her marriage to francois ii (1558-1560. the ancestral role played by scottish freemasonry in france is confirmed by the knight ramsay in his famous discourse of 1737 "by degrees our lodges and our rites were neglected in most places. this is why of so many historians only those of great britain speak of our order. nevertheless it preserved its splendour among those scotsmen to whom the kings of france confided during many centuries the safeguard of their royal persons" the presence of scottish lodges in france

rt of building to the art of thinking refers to the scottish master, the first of the high "scottish" grades in the way the term is currently understood. but this could well have been its seed. it seems its growth took place in france and germany. properly speaking, these high grades did not make their first appearance until 1734 under the names of scots and architects. the first knighhood grade, the knight of the orient, did not appear until 1749. in some of my other books, i have dealt at length with the formation and development of the high grades that are called "scottish" and have found nothing to suggest that the dynastic concerns of the stuarts brought them, or any other aspect of modern freemasonry, into being.15 nonetheless, it has often been said that the stuarts, despite the dec

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

stores life) and in quests in which the hero must venture into the otherworld to win some precious prize. it is, therefore, no surprise that there are several versions of the legend. but they all agree that arthur never went on the quest and that only one knight (in later versions, sir galahad) finally proved worthy of finding this most precious object. sir galahad the pure and saintly galahad is the knight who finds the grail, asks the relevant questions and frees the land from misery. he was the son of sir lancelot by elaine, the daughter of king pelles, the fisher king. lancelot had been made drunk, and led to believe that elaine was his true love, queen guinevere (see p. 85. sir perceval sir perceval was the hero of several early grail romances (see above, but in the later french quest

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

ly and without distortion. let him identity himself with the powers of water, considering the water triplicity in all its aspects, with its attributions and correspondences <141> notes on the tarot by frater s.r.m.d. in the tree of life in the tarot, each path forms the connecting link between two of the sephiroth. the king and the queen are the correlations of the abba and the aima in that suit; the knight or prince answers to microprosopus, and the knave or princess which was anciently a female figure, is referred to the bride, kallah or malkah. combining, then, the material attributions of the sephiroth and the path, it results that: 0. fool=the crown of wisdom, the primum mobile acting through the air on the zodiac. 1. the juggle-the crown of understanding, the beginning of material pr

o the tree of life: the four aces are placed on the throne of kether- the <156> remaining small cards of the suit desired on the respective sephiroth, 2 on chokmah, 3 on binah, etc. the 22 trumps are then fifrh knowledge lecture 79 arranged on the paths between them, according to the letters to which they correspond. the king and queen of the suit are placed beside chokmah and binah respectively; the knight and knave by tiphareth and malkuth. the tarot trumps thus receive the equilibrium of the sephiroth they connect. the admission badges used in the grade of philosophus are as follows: the calvary cross of twelve squares, admitting to the path of qoph, the 29th path, refers to the zodiac and to the eternal river of eden divided into four heads: nahar- the river 1ns 1. hiddikel 2. pison 3

y to open the books and to loose the seals thereof <138> h. r u. the great angel is set over the operation of the secret wisdom the titles of the tarot symbols 1. ace of wands is called the root of the powers of fire. 2. ace of swords is called the root of the powers of air. 3. ace of pentacles is called the root of the powers of earth. 4. ace of cups is called the root of the powers of water. 5. the knight of wands is called the lord of flame and lightning. the king of the spirits of fire. 6. the queen of wands is the queen of the thrones of flames. 7. the king of wands is the prince of the chariot of fire <139> 8. the knave of wands is the princess of the shining flame, and the rose of the palace of fire. 9. the knight of cups is the lord of the waves and the waters, and the king of the

> 8. the knave of wands is the princess of the shining flame, and the rose of the palace of fire. 9. the knight of cups is the lord of the waves and the waters, and the king of the hosts of the sea. 10. the queen of cups is the queen of the thrones of the waters. 11. the king of cups is the prince of the chariot of the waters. 12. the knave of cups is the princess of the waters and the lotus. 13. the knight of swords is the lord of the wind and the breezes, the lord of the spirits of the air. 14. the queen of swords is the queen of the thrones of the air. 15. the king of swords is the prince of the chariots of the wind. 16. the knave of swords is the princess of the rushing winds, the lotus of the palace of air. 17. the knight of pentacles is the lord of the wide and fertile land, king of

e rules the heavens over one quadrant of the portion round the north pole. earth of fire. princess and empress of the salamanders. throne of the ace of wands. cups ix lord of the waves and the waters. king of the hosts of the sea. knight of cups a beautiful youthful winged warrior, with flying hair, riding upon a white horse, which latter is not winged. his general equipment is similar to that of the knight of wands, but upon his helmet cuirass and buskins is a peacock with opened wings. he holds a cup in his hand, bearing the sigil of the scale. beneath his horses' feet is the sea. from the cup issues a crab. graceful, poetic, venusian, indolent, but enthusiastic if roused. 111- dignified, he is sensual, idle, and untruthful. he rules the heavens from above 20" of aquarius to 20' pisces i

selfish and luxurious. she rules a quadrant of the heavens around kether. earth of water. princess and empress of nymphs and undines. throne of the ace of cups. the golden dawn: volume iv book eight swords xi1. lord of the winds and breezes. king of the spirit of air. knight of swords a winged warrior with crowned and winged helmet, mounted upon a brown steed, his general equipment is as that of the knight of wands, but he wears as a crest awinged six-pointed star, similar to those represented on the heads of castor and pollux, the dioscuri, the twins-gemini (a part of which constellation is included in his rule. he holds a drawn sword with the sigil of his scale upon its pommel. beneath his horse's feet are dark, driving, stratus clouds. he is active, clever, subtle, fierce, delicate, co

ity. if ill-dignified, she is frivolous and cunning. she rules a quadrant of the heavens around kether. earth of air. princess and empress of the sylphs and sylphides. throne of the ace of swords. pentacles xvii. lord of the wild and fertile land. king of the spirits of earth. knight of pentacles a dark winged warrior with winged and crowned helmet; mounted on a light brown horse. equipment as of the knight of wands. the winged head of a stag or antelope as a crest. beneath the horse's feet is fertile land, with ripened corn. in one hand he bears a sceptre surmounted with a hexagram, in the other a pentacle like a z. a. m.'s. unless very well dignified, he is heavy, dull, and material. laborious, clever and patient in material matters. if ill-dignified he is avaricious, grasping, dull, jea

t the diviner then pairs them thus: king of cups "he plunges therefore into speculation by which he loses heavily (7 7 of pentacles pents. is near hanged man) knave of cups "and hi love affair comes to nothing. hanged man star judgment "all his expectations are disappointed knight of "and his life for a time is arduous, petty, and uninteresting" 8 of swords (the coming of trouble is here shown by the knight of pentacles looking against the direction of the reading. if it were turned the other way it would show that his troubles were quitting him and that matters would improve) this completes the operation, and shows the general development and result of the question <200> tabulated rules 1. shuffling, cutting, dealing and examining. in shuffling, the mind of the enquirer should be earnestl

ent aspects of those types. these are: ositis, bearing crook, scourge, phoenix wand. he is represented as sitting on a throne, silent unmoving. he is the king and represents spirit, the operation of the great cross in the tablets. he corresponds to the ace in tarot, the root-force of any element. horus, a god with hawk's head, double mitre, and standing upright, as though to stride forward. he is the knight of enochian chess and represents the operation of the ten-squared sephirotic cross in the fire angle of any tablet or board, and corresponds to the king in the tarot, the figure astride a horse. isis, an enthroned goddess with a throne symbol mounted on the vulture head-dress. in rosicrucian chess, isis is the queen, and represents the operation of the sephirotic cross in the water angl

for this purpose. moreover the back of the piece- for it is customary to use flat pieces, not round as in ordinary chess- should be painted in the appropriate colour of the element it represents soas to avoid confusion in the recognition of its power. thus the back of the king, as osiris form, should be painted white to represent spirit, and this rule applies to all four kings in the four angles. the knight, horus, should be coloured red. the queen, isis, should be blue; the bishop, aroueris, yellow, and the castle, nephthys, should be black and set in a large frame. each piece should be cut about three inches high. for practical use, these pieces should be mounted on square wooden bases, and those bases painted in different colours. it will be by the bases that their place on the board ma

orizontally, vertically, or diagonally- but only three squares at any time. she can leap over intervening squares, and take pieces on the third square from wherever she stands. the other exception is that no castling is permitted. the pawns in this enochian chess represent the god-forms of the four sons of horus, the canopic gods. their attributions are: fire. kabexnuv, mummy-shaped, hawk-headed. the knight's pawn. water. tmoumathph, mummy-shaped, dog's head, queen's pawn. air. ahephi, mummy-shaped, ape-headed, th.2 bishop's pawn. earth. ameshet, mummy-shaped, human-headed, the castle's pawn. the same rule for colouring the other pieces applies to the pawns. their 688 the golden dawn: volume n book nine backs should be painted in the colour of the piece they serve. thus the back of the kni

my-shaped, dog's head, queen's pawn. air. ahephi, mummy-shaped, ape-headed, th.2 bishop's pawn. earth. ameshet, mummy-shaped, human-headed, the castle's pawn. the same rule for colouring the other pieces applies to the pawns. their 688 the golden dawn: volume n book nine backs should be painted in the colour of the piece they serve. thus the back of the knight's pawn will be painted the colour of the knight, red. the base will be coloured according to the lesser angle in which it is placed. so that in each of the four angles you will have four pawns on bases in the <354> colour of its sub-element. the airy angle, for example, will have four pawns mounted on yellow bases. those pawns will have four different coloured backs to indicate the piece, and therefore the element, which they represe

board following the prime player's setting, whose chessmen are arranged accocding to the order of kerubs, note that the remaining three sets of pieces are arranged, on any board, exactly in that order regardless of the order of kerubs in their angle. that is to say, if the prime player chooses an earth of water setting, his pieces will be set out: king and castle on the corner square, then follow the knight, queen, and bishop. the other three sets of air, water and fire pieces on that board, are set out precisely in that order, either horizontally or vertically as the case may be. it thus follows that there may result sixteen possible arrangements of pieces. that is, since there are four kerubic ranks on each board, and there being four separate boards, the chess-pieces may be arranged on

s piece representeth the action of fire as the revealer of the strength of the spirit, even as hoor is the avenger of aeshoori. it is a force potent and terrible, the king in the elemental operations. thus it openeth the locked doors of matter and sheweth forth the treasure hidden therein. therefore hath all life its beginnings in a fire celestial. and the number of squares covered by the move of the knight in the midst of the board (reckoning from the square on which he standeth, but not including it) is 16 squares, of which 8 are checked, and 8 are passed over. of the chess queen, the tarot queen. the move of this piece is unto every third square from her (reckoning the square whereon she standeth as the first) as well cornerwise, as well perpendicular, as horizontal. thus again covering

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

agic to make his actions clear to the reader. the hawthorn tree, growing upon a grassy bank, is the tree of initiation or of commencement. it is the only one that may have both a physical and metaphysical nature to regular outward-seeking human perception. this is the tree which early legends described as being composed of living green leaves and of flames, divided vertically, as in the vision of the knight peredur. a thorn tree acts as the magical agent of birth in the ballad the cruel mother, which is linked to the redemptive symbolism of the wife of usher's well and the maid and the palmer. the other two trees lie appendix 4: thomas rhymer 144 deeper in the underworld, and are only perceived by altered vision and a change of the direction http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_138.htm (6

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on of myself the seed of potentiality became reactive to my self induced stimuli, and i took the necessary steps to manipulate my environment in the direction most suitable for my own initiation. it has been a difficult process of blundering about, wondering how all of my own work could fit in with the other sorcerers that i had come to know. another card that i worked with during this period was the knight of wands. looking at the card one sees the knight on horseback; in his hand he holds the outburst of the yod flame seen previously in the ace. in this card there is now direction and control. all the energies are going forward with a fiery intensity. the horse upon which the knight rides leaps forward not to be held back! upon the suit of armour that the knight is wearing there is a sma

analyzed by magister menschel: the first card, 9-w, is a good representation of your current state of being. strong, filled with the strength of thelema (will, symbolized by the wands and their fire; you must use this strength, apply it to your xeper, or fall into the trap of the 10-w. assuming you pass this initiation and successfully turn the fire of thelema inward, your future is symbolized by the knight of wands, the active and accomplished will. i have full confidence that you will follow your xeper at least this far- it is the unnatural conclusion of the path you now follow. but from that accomplishment, where do you go? to rest on those laurels will be stagnation, a stagnation which is hell to the setian will (we are, after all, talking about the place of destruction- and what destr

a stagnation which is hell to the setian will (we are, after all, talking about the place of destruction- and what destruction could be more painful than the accomplishment of our goals, and the inability to do anything meaningful afterwards) if there can be opposites in the four suits, then wands and disks are those opposites, the most active and the most passive. likewise, among the court cards the knight and princess are opposites, again the most active and the most passive, the most accomplished to the least accomplished. you yourself pointed out the masculine/ feminine opposites involved here. i read this to mean that your xeper will demand a complete change in direction, study, personality, or some aspect of your being which is central to it. your study of la-qin-al should enable you

serve in the proper perspective to get better clarity. the "original energy" shown by the scarlet wheels will not arouse as much argument as the pillars, although it might be observed that the wheels, which should be in motion, are still, as the four sphinx-figures there to draw the chariot along. activity is present in the trump, but it seems to be centered at the grail and less evidently toward the knight. it is tempting to reverse the previous paragraph's remark that the card seems to be in a state of movement, but i will let it stand with the qualifier that the action leans toward the subtle. there are other figures in this trump; the composite sphinx-figures, the stars on the knight's armor, the concentric rings moving outward from the grail, the crab, the shape on the floor of binah

elder and younger, or royal and not royal. look again to see two active and two passive court cards (often shown as masculine and feminine, respectively. these court cards are ordered greater-active, greater-passive, lesser-active, and lesser-passive.(28) we will discuss why later. unlike the king, queen, and jack in most playing card games, there is no value difference between these court cards- the knight is not "better" than the prince, just different. likewise, the numbered cards (ace through ten) within the tarot have no order of value. the numeric order is used to apply symbolic meaning to the cards. the trumps are also numbered, and the numbers again reflect or instill symbolism in the cards. no trump is "better" than any other. one misconception held by most novice readers is that

epresent earth, physical concerns, so the ten of disks represents the ultimate physical manifestation, representation, and use of this element. the card wealth, with its title and picture, represents purely monetary, physical wealth, with no higher attributes or saving graces. in addition to the four suits, the alchemical elements are also represented by the four court cards, as shown by table 1. the knight tends to represent a fiery, willful, and/or energetic force, the queen a liquid, shifting, emotional, and/or understanding force, the prince an airy, intellectual, thoughtful, and/or intelligent force, and the princess an earthy, supportive, nurturing, and/or crushing force. we pointed out the order of the court cards in lesson three. this order rises from the alchemical relationships d

ve element (represented by the mature male. water is seen as the stronger, more passive element (mature female. air is seen as the weaker, active element (less mature male, and earth is seen as the weaker, passive element (less mature female. by remembering these correspondences you will strengthen your ability to read the tarot. each of these four court cards are found in each of the four suits. the knight is therefore the fiery aspect of whichever suit he wears, the queen the watery aspect, etc. as crowley does in his text, we list the sixteen court cards and their elemental correspondences in table 2.(31) court card elemental combinations knight of wands fiery aspect of fire queen of wands watery aspect of fire prince of wands airy aspect of fire princess of wands earthy aspect of fire

spect of air prince of swords airy aspect of air princess of swords earthy aspect of air knight of disks fiery aspect of earth queen of disks watery aspect of earth prince of disks airy aspect of earth princess of disks earthy aspect of earth table 2: alchemical sub-elemental correspondences of the court cards the prince of swords, the airy aspect of air, represents purified hot and wet essences. the knight of swords, the fiery aspect of air, places an emphasis on hot (combining hot/dry with hot/wet. the prince of disks balances all four forces (combining hot/wet with cold/dry. the knight of swords might be tied to the princess of disks in a layout, linking a hot/dry and hot/wet combination to a cold/dry and cold/wet combination. this conjunction will balance all four elements and all four

d? or when is that person represented by the archetypical (personality) characteristics of the court card? court cards represent people more often than other cards do. when they do so, knights are mature and/or older men, while princes are immature and/or younger men. queens are mature/older females, while princesses are immature/younger women or girls. following these patterns of correspondence, the knight of cups might be an older, mature male, who demonstrates, shows, or feels emotion (most likely for the querant. the princess of swords might be a flighty, younger woman, perhaps involved in some mental pursuit with the querant. the knight of cups could also represent a strong and willful, mature female, a woman who holds her own in a man's world. the princess of swords can symbolize a y

st in sports, perhaps very passive and/or easily dominated by the more forceful members of either sex. the prince of cups and knight of cups could both appear in the same reading, in different areas of the layout. the two might then both reflect the same man, but two different aspects of him. the prince would reflect the less mature aspects, those likely to cause problems in a relationship, while the knight would reflect the more mature aspects, more supportive, which point to and support a long-term relationship. a court card could also be archetypical, pointing towards personal characteristics rather than the actual sex of any person. the queen of wands (the watery aspect of fire) might represent the emotional powers and forces which give strength to the fire of one's thelema during psyc

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

itor of freemasonry, p. 147) in the degree of companion select, the sign is given with the right hand (richardson's monitor of freemasonry, p. 86) in the degree of select master, the initiate is told "the most popular signs in masonry are made in this manner: place the palm of the right hand on the heart, and pronounce the word secresy (richardson's monitor of freemasonry, p. 80) in the degree of the knight of the pelican and eagle sovereign prince rose croix of heredom, the lecturer directs the assembled members to "pass to the black room, 18 collars being reversed" following this instruction, the sign of "right hand on left breast is given (18th degree secret initiation ceremony) in the degree of mark master, the members form and march around the lodge, singing a song. the words of the s

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

f refinement, wise in the ways of the marketplace. if the king of coins turns up in an inverted position, he will bring the negative qualities of doubt, fear, and danger. the queen of money represents the hope of acquiring the ability to overcome obstacles. if inverted, she becomes a sign of evil. the cavalier of coins symbolizes omens of disunion, discord, or quarrels. if this card turns up with the knight fs head downward, its significance is reversed. the knave, or servant of the house of coins, brings good news. if the knave is dealt upside down, he becomes a bearer of ill tidings. the gspot h or numbered cards of the suit of coins are interpreted as follows: ten brings the qualities of confidence, security, and honor. nine signifies order, discipline, and an ability to plan. eight is

ain and riches. card four predicts a successful enterprise. the three also points to a prosperous enterprise. two is a happy omen of good fortune. the one signifies a beginning. cups. of more vital concern than money in the lives of most people are love and happiness. the king of cups represents a just man of fair play. likewise, the queen of cups evokes the image of a well-loved, motherly woman. the knight of cups symbolizes a fair young man who possesses the same qualities as the king and queen. the page symbolizes similar qualities of love and happiness. if any of these cards are dealt inverted, their meaning signifies aspects of distrust and unhappiness. the ten of cups represents satisfaction in personal accomplishments. the nine means triumph. eight insures the forthcoming fulfillmen

to one. the one-spot alludes celebrations and good cheer. swords. the tarot cards bearing swords bring associations of power, authority, hatred, and misfortune. the king of swords represents a man of authority, one used to issuing orders and seeing to their execution even if they bring about grief and fear. the queen of swords allegorizes a woman who is malicious, spiteful, selfishly domineering. the knight of swords brings to mind the same dark thoughts as the king and queen. the valet of this ominous suit can be seen as a spiteful, malicious, and prying young man or woman. inverted, these cards suggest more positive applications of wealth and power. the ten of swords foreshadows tears, afflictions, and sorrow. the nine is a card of hope. the eight relates to general calamities, such as s

ess and periods of solitude. the three of swords is the card of severance and removal. the two stands for friendship. the ace is a herald of triumph. batons. the batons, also called rods or clubs, are symbols of the peasants or serfs of medieval society. the king of batons epitomizes the self-made man, a symbol of success through hard work. the queen of clubs is a loving woman, but very reserved. the knight of clubs indicates the presence of a helpful person. the valet who attends the royal family of finance is a man or woman of extremely sensitive nature. if any of these cards are inverted, they indicate individuals who may cause severe problems. the ten of batons depicts gambling for high stakes. nine indicates a loss of money. eight brings good luck. the seven is a happy card of profit

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

h note: these theories of the history of tarot and chess are worthless 18th century fables. the "bohemians, by which levi means the gypsies, did not arrive in europe until centuries after the appearance of tarot. tarot may have imitated chess, but the antiquity of the latter precludes any influence by the former> and one finds there the same combinations and the same symbols: the king, the queen, the knight, the soldier, the fool, the tower, and houses representing numbers. in old times, chess-players sought upon their chess-board the solution of philosophical and religious problems, and argued silently with each other in manoeuvring the hieroglyphic characters across the numbers<order of the golden dawn may have designed enochian chess on this suggestion> our vulgar game of

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

deous: and the brood misshapen, misbegotten out of spite; lust after death; love in decrepitude. thus, till the monster-birth of serpent-man linked in corruption with the serpent-woman, slavering in lust and pain. creation fs ban. the horrible beginning of the human *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 198 (also tale of archais) in tannhauser, which is an intensely psychologic drama, we find the knight speaking thus to venus: ah, if pure love could grow material! there are pure women! and this is her answer: there you make me laugh! remember. i have known such. but besides you ask hot snow and leaden feather-flights *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 237. which contains a great truth, namely, that platonic love is no love at all. an affection it may be, but love it cannot be if it dare not see i

rusted plains, saline with the tears and sobs of failure; the ring emblematic of surrender, without beginning or end, was emblematic also of the eternality of love, that circling girdle of the world. in gtannhauser h we have a similar idea, though reversed; for tannhauser enmeshed in the web of the venusberg, strives against the sensual to gain a spiritual victory; whilst in gthe nameless quest h the knight, fearful of falling in the sensual slough, seeks, and loses his straight way in the spiritual desert. thus, as in the latter case, the striving against the desire of a pure love leads to an almost certain failure, so in the former, when sunk deep in the mud of an impure affection, even if released from its circling arms, worldly mercy is as cold to him who has plunged through the cyther

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

most like love! fighting most certainly is love! as brothers fight ye! all the manly races of the world understand this. the love of liber legis is always bold, virile, ecstatic, even orgiastic. there is delicacy, but it is the delicacy of strength. mighty and terrible and glorious as it is, however, it is but the pennon upon the sacred lance of will, the damascened inscription upon the swords of the knight-monks of thelima (sic. it is the apotheosis of freedom; but it is also the strictest possible bond. it is that harmony of legis jugum and libertas evangelii1 which we once saw upon the little table above the pastos of our father christian rosencreutz. it must be frankly recognized that almost the whole of this manifesto was intended to deceive. the majority of its readers would have ass

t are black and gold. the ante-room contains the tomb of j(acobus) b(urgundus) m(olensis) and is hung with black. the chamber of reflections contains a small altar or table on which is a skull and the ever-burning lamp. in the mouth of the skull is a green leaf. when more than 3 companions are present, they draw lots for the offices, the loosers remaining without, on guard, under the direction of the knight sentinel. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c8.html (1 of 13 [12/28/2001 2:05:02 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o* the word. g.c.60 babalon c.b.61 baphomet do what thou wilt* opening g.c: vvv vvv vvv62 file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c8.html (2 of 13 [12/28/2001 2:05:02 pm] the secre

d of tomb. s.b. takes empty cup c.b. and advances to foot of tomb. c(andidate) introduced. the roll of the bath in on the tomb) s.b.:63 whom have you there? k.s.:64 a s(acred) p(rince) of r(ose) c(ross, who offers to share the burden of the i(llustrious) k(nights) t(emplar) of the o(rder) of k(adosch) and the d(ame) c(ompanions) of the h(oly) g(raal. s.b: who vouches that he is properly prepared (the knight or dame who can do so, replies) admit him in due form (k.s. directs him to t(rample) and s(pit) on the c(ross) s.b: behold the tomb of your g(rand) m(aster, j(acobus) b(urgundus) m(olensis. swear to break the bondage of vulgar error. cand: i swear, etc. c.b: swear unconditional and unswerving obedience to the g(rand) m(aster) b(aphomet. cand: i swear, etc. s.b: swear to serve the order

it resemble this order and file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c1.html (5 of 7 [12/28/2001 2:05:17 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. disposition of our supreme grand council, having an ever-burning lamp as an image of the sun to give light to a phallus carved or moulded in gold, silver, platinum or bronze by the fine art of the sculptor. and let the knight keep oft times vigil before it, devotedly with his whole heart uttering hymns and invocations, as may be fitting, and exalting himself in due commemoration of this lord of life, in such wise that the image becomes consecrated by his will. thus shall it be a storehouse of strength, and a focus or magnet, drawing to itself all subtle forces, and radiating benediction. let then the knight

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

drews (1917, produces a fiery pattern that conveys"the mars energy more powerfully than aggripa's. unlike the traditional kamea, the alternative is generated by following the moves of a knight (the chess piece) as it progresses from cell to cell within the square. mars is the god of war, and a knight is a warrior. thus, even the rule generating the alternative square is related to mars. in chess, the knight's move resembles the shape of a capital l: in a single move, a knight moves two squares in one direction, and one square at right angles to the first direction. for example, in a single move a knight can jump two squares forward and one square to the right of its original position. 10 11 17 23 4 18 24 5 6 12 1 7 13 19 25 14 20 21 2 8 22 3 9 15 16 4 8 12 16 3 7 11 15 2 6 10 14 1 5 9 13 f

the top of the square, we imagine the bottom edge of the square wrapped around to touch the top edge; if the numbers run off the right side of the square, we imagine the left edge of the square wrapped around to touch the right edge. following this scheme, the number two is placed in the second row up from the lower edge of the square, and one cell to the right of the number one. the next move of the knight places the number three two cells above and one cell to the right of the number two. the knight continues to advance two cells up and one cell to the right with every move. with a little experimentation and study of figure c, the reader will be able to construct the entire mars kamea generated by the knight's move. 4 9 5 16 14 7 11 2 15 6 10 3 1 12 8 13 figure g figure h figure i figure

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