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ried on and completed, in all of them shalt thou be the first, the beginning."therefore did the holy one make the letters of the celestial alphabet capitals, and those of the earthly, small each corresponding to one another. and so was the beginning of the hebrew alphabet. we now move on to the law of manifestation, or rather the process in which manifestation occurred. we understand according to the legend of the birth of the hebrew alphabet that aleph is the beginning of all thought conceived, and all thought beyond conceiving. thought precedes all emotions and actions. action is the ends to the means of the thought. manifestation into the physical universe is comprised of the three letters aleph, mem and shin. these also correspond to the three elements of air, water and fire consecutiv

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

s eisdem erga inferos servituros, et commissa crimina apud eosdem placaturos. quam bene rex noster (heinrich 1. an. 931) fecit, qui eos a tam execrando ritu prohibuit! a grand festive sacrifice, coming once in nine years, and costing a considerable number of animals in this there is nothing incredible. just as the name hecatomb lived on, when there was nothing like that number sacrificed, so here the legend was likely to keep to a highsounding number; the horror of the human victims perhaps it threw in bodily. but the reason alleged for the animal sacrifice is evidently wide of the mark; it mixes up what was done 1 gregory tlie great('ej-iist. 7, 5) admonishes branichild to take precautions with her franks' ut de animalium cajntibus sacrilicia sacrilega non exhibeant" selon for selond, on

to whom no one ever set apart and slaughtered horses or any beasts of the chase with a view to their making use of them. so whether the ambiguous eisdem refers to homines or diis (as eosdem just after stands for the latter, either way there is something inadmissible asserted. at the new year's festival i believe that of all the victims named the horses alone were sacrificed; men, hounds and cocks the legend has added on^ how dietmar's story looks by the side of adam of bremen's on the upsal sacrifice, shall be considered on p. 53. among all animal sacrifices, that of the liorse was preeminent and most solemn. our ancestors have this in common with several slavic and finnish nations, with persians and indians: with all of them the horse passed for a specially sacred animal^ sacrifice of oxe

n (ad similitudinem foresti aquisgranum pertinentis. that osning is met with in several places, speaks for a more general meaning [than that of a mere proper name; like as, ans, and fairguni, it is the sacred mountain and forest. ledebur takes the teutoburgiensis saltus to be osning. oa'?iabrtick, ylsvicl^ruggi (bridge of the ases) seems nearly related. 3 is this ermen-pillar hoard an allusion to the legend of ermenrich's hoard i (saxo gram. 106. keinh. fuchs clii) 118 gods (see suppl. here was a great wooden pillar erected, and worshipped under the open sky, its name signifies universal all-sustaining pillar. this interpretation appears faultless, when we take with it other words in which the meaning is intensified by composition with irmin. in the hildebrands lied, irmingot is the suprem

a haec tempora, sed longe anterius, nee in germania, sed in graecia fuisse perhibetur- the whole fable bears the stamp of high antiquity; it has even been related by others before paul, and with variations, as in the hist. francor. epitomata, which has for its author, though not fredegar, yet some writer of the seventh century. here chuni 1 godfrey of viterbo (in pistorius, ed. struve 2, 305) has the legend out of paul diac. with the names corrupted, godam for wodan, feria for frea. godam or votam sets him thinking of the germ, word got (deus. the unheard-of' toclacus historiographus' has evidently sprung out of' hoc loco' in paid. wodan. 135 (huns) are named instead of vandals: cum a chunis (langobardi) danubium transeuntes fuissent comperti, eis bellum conati sunt inferre. interrogati a

on those for whom he had found a new national name. in this consisted the favour of fortune, for the people, in dressing up their wives as men, had thought of nothing but swelling the apparent numbers of their warriors. i need scarcely remind the reader, that this mythical interpretation of the lombard name is a false one, for au the credit it found in the mid. ages^ there is one more feature in the legend that must not escape our notice. wodan from his heavenly dwelling loolis doum on the earth through a window, which exactly agrees with on. descriptions. osinn has a throne named fflicfshicdf, sitting on which he can survey the whole world, and hear all that goes on among men]?ar er einn stasr er hlisscialf heitir, oc)?aer osiun settiz jjar i hasoeti, oc ?a sd hann of alia heima, oc viss

is. de gest. frid. 2, 13. but osinn himself was named ldiigbarsr. 136 wodan. when loki wanted to hide, it was from this seat that osinn espied his whereabouts, sn. 69. sometimes also frigg, his consort, is imagined sitting by his side, and then she enjoys the same prospect: osinn ok frigg sdto i hlisscialfo, ok sd urn heima alia, ssem, 39. the proem to the grimnismal bears a strong resemblance to the legend in paul; for, just as frea pulls her favourites the winili through, in opposition to wodan's own resolve, so frigg brings to grief geirrosr, whom osinn favoured. sensuous paganism, however, makes the god-like attribute of overseemg all things depend on the position or structure of a particular chair, and as the gift forsakes the god when he does not occupy the seat, others can enjoy the

contraction of mavors, and the indispensable initial being even reduplicated in mamers; so the fancied connexion between eresburg and marsberg will not hold. in the old eomau worship of]\iars a prominent place is given 1 conf. ra. 896; and so late as wigal. g517' swert, uf dinem knopfe ich des swer' sword, on thy poiiuuel i swear it- juro per dianam et martem, plaut. mil. glor. 5, 21. 206 zio. to the legend of pious, a son of saturn, a wood-spirit who helped to nurse the babes eemus and romulus; certain features in our antiquities seem to recall him, as will be shown later. eomulus consecrated the third month of the year to mars, his progenitor; our ancestors also named it after a deity who may perhaps be identified with mars. that is to say, the anglo-saxons called march hreffcmonad, whic

tum siti militem opportuni liquoris beneficio recrearet, novos humi laticcs terram altius rimatus aperuit, quorum erumpentes scatebras sitibundum agmen hianti passim ore captabat. eorundem vestigia sempiterna firmata vocabulo, quamquam pristina admodum scaturigo desierit, nondum prorsus exolevisse creduntur. this spot is the present baldershrdnd near eoeskild (note to jmiiller's saxo, p. 120. but the legend may be the same as old german legends, which at a later time placed to king charles's account (p. 117, and infra, furious host) that which heathendom had told of 1 a salzburg doc. of the tenth cent, in kleinniayrn p. 196: curtilem locum cum duobus pratis, quod piimti dicimus. 2 conf. schopflin's alsat. dipl. no. 748, anno 1285: in villa baldeburne. a westphal. doc. of 1203 (falke trad

(p. 616. as it is principally in thuringia, franconia and hesse that frau holda survives, it is not incredible that by diana in the neighbourhood of wiirzburg, so far back as the 7th century, was meant no other than she. lastly, the retrospective connexion of this herodias or diana with personages in the native paganism, whether of celtic or teutonic nations, receives a welcome confirmation from the legend of a domina ahundia or dame hahonde, supplied by french authorities of the imid. ages. a bishop of paris, guilielmus alvernus (guillaume d' auvergne, who died 1248, speaks thus of n tnphs and lamiae (opera. par. 1 674, fol. 1. 1036' sic et daemon, qui praetextu mulieris, cum aliis de nocte domos et cellaria dicitur frequentare, et vocant eam satiam a satietate, et dominam abundiam pro a

d seem more vernacular, and the derived local name geginen leads up to it. some of the names cpioted are preserved to this day: the eminence in the middle of the city, next the senatehouse, is still called peiiach, on which the monastery and churcli of st. pdcr were founded in 106-1; so the verse 'subdidit hunc (collem) eomae praepes victoria pdro' was composed after that? the name pcrlcih, which the legend derives from periens or perdita legio, suggests the ohg. eikileihi, aigilaihi (phalanx, gl. ker. 124. diut. 1, 223; and in other compounds we find leih in a variety of senses^ zisenberg and havenenberg are names no longer heard, wliile pfersen (veris-se) mb. 33^ 108 an. 1343, and kricgshaher are well known villages. whatever may be the explanation of the older and correcter form crieche

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

roughly equivalent powers, is perhaps best illustrated by the belief, common among the orthodox churches of the east, in a personal devil as well as a personal angel. this concept has been amplified by the roman catholic church to such an extent- perhaps subconsciously- that a missal in the editor's possession contains an engraving for the feast of st. andrew, apostle, for november 30, that bears the legend "ecce qui tollis peccata mundi- behold him who taketh away the sins of the world- and the picture above it is of the atomic bomb! basically, there are two "sets" of gods in the mythos: the elder gods, about whom not much is revealed, save that they are a stellar race that occasionally comes to the rescue of man, and which corresponds to the christian "light; and the ancient ones, about

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

principal expounder of vedantism. tahuti, or thoth, the egyptian god of wisdom. mosheh, moses, the founder of the hebrew system. dionysus, probably an ecstatic from the east. mahmud, mohammed. all these were men; their godhead is the result of mythopoeia. notes (5) masters of the temple, whose grade has the mystic number 6= 1+ 2+ 3 (6) these are not eight, as apparent; for lao-tzu counts as 0 (7) the legend of "christ" is only a corruption and perversion of other legends. especially of dionysus: compare the account of christ before herod/pilate in book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 24 the gospels, and of dionysus before pentheus in "the baccae (8) o, the last letter of perdurabo, is naught [25] 8 kappa-epsilon-alpha-lambda-eta eta steeped horsehair mind is a disease of se

pa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta kappa samson the universe is in equilibrium; therefore he that is without it, though his force be but a feather, can overturn the universe. be not caught within that web, o child of freedom! be not entangled in the universal lie, o child of truth! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 48 [50] commentary( kappa) samson, the hebrew hercules, is said in the legend to have pulled down the walls of a music-hall where he was engaged "to make sport for the philistines, destroying them and himself. milton founds a poem on this fable. the first paragraph is a corollary of newton's first law of motion. the key to infinite power is to reach the bornless beyond. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 49 [51] 21 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda

ittle meringues with cream and chestnut-pulp, very velvety seductions. sail i not toward laylah within seven days? be not sad at heart, o prophet; the babble of the apes will presently begin. nay, rejoice exceedingly; for after all the babble of the apes the silence of the night. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 143 [146] commentary( xi-eta) manna was a heavenly cake which, in the legend, fed the children of israel in the wilderness. the author laments the failure of his mission to mankind, but comforts himself with the following reflections (1) he enjoys the advantages of solitude (2) previous prophets encountered similar difficulties in convincing their hearers (3) their food was not equal to that obtainable at rumpelmayer's (4) in a few days i am going to rejoin layl

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

; certainly it is so to the artist's temperament, for it appeals to his imagination through his aesthetic sense. its disadvantage lies principally in the difficulty of its performance by a single person. but it has the sanction of the highest antiquity, and is probably the most useful for the foundation of a religion. it is the method of catholic christianity, and consists in the dramatization of the legend of the god. the bacchae of euripides is a magnificent example of such a ritual; so also, through in a less degree, is the mass. we may also mention many of the degrees in freemasonry, particularly the third. the 5 degree= 6square ritual published in no. iii of the equinox is another example. in the case of bacchus, one commemorates firstly his birth of a mortal mother who has yielded he

but of osiris. the ancient condition is not restored, but a new and superior condition is created, a condition only rendered possible by the process of death. the alchemists themselves taught this same truth. the first matter of the work was base and primitive, though "natural. after passing through various stages the "black dragon" appeared; but from this arose the pure and perfect gold. even in the legend of prometheus we find an identical formula concealed; and a similar remark applies to those of jesus christ, and of many other mythical godmen worshipped in different countries<golden bough" j.m.robertson "pagan christs" a. crowley "jesus" etc, etc> a magical ceremony constructed on this formula is thus in close essential harmony with the natural mystic process. we

their own phantasmal crime. satan is saturn, set, abrasax, adad, adonis, attis, adam, adonai, etc. the most serious charge against him is that he is the sun in the south. the ancient initiates, 35 dwelling as they did in lands whose blood was the water of the nile or the euphrates, connected the south with life-withering heat, and cursed that quarter where the solar darts were deadliest. even in the legend of hiram, it is at high noon that he is stricken down and slain. capricornus is moreover the sign which the sun enterers when he reaches his extreme southern declination at the winter solstice, the season of the death of vegetation, for the folk of the northern hemisphere. this gave them a second cause for cursing the south. a third; the tyranny of hot, dry, poisonous winds; the menace

rations, the master therion proposed to replace the m of aum by a compound letter mgn, symbolizing thereby the subtle transformation of the apparent silence and death which terminates the manifested life of vau by a continuous vibration of an impersonal energy of the nature of generation and knowledge, the virgin moon and the serpent furthermore operating to include in the idea a commemoration of the legend so grossly deformed in the hebrew legend of the garden of eden, and its even more malignantly debased falsification in that bitterly sectarian broadside, the apocalypse. sound work invariable vindicates itself by furnishing confirmatory corollaries not contemplated by the qabalist. in the present instance, the master therion was delighted to remark that his compound letter mgn, construc

y banish<forces of the most formidable character may be invoked by circumambulation widdershins when it is executed with intent toward them, and the initiated technique. of such forces typhon is the type, and the war of the titans against the olympians the legend (teitan, titan, has in greek the numerical value of 666) weh addenda: crowley is using the spelling tau-epsilon-iota-tau-alpha-nu in place of the more usual tau-iota-tau-alpha-nu or tau-alpha-iota-tau-alpha-nu to obtain 666 in place of 661 or 662. in the spiral the tread is light and tripping, almost approximating to a dance: while performing it the magician will usually turn on his own

isman beyond all else that thou hast. 38 "concerning minor methods adjuvant in the ceremonies- iii "rehearsal- it may assist if the traditional history of the particular deity be rehearsed before him; perhaps this is best done in dramatic form. this method is the main one recommended in the "exercitios espirituales" of st. ignatius, whose work may be taken as a model. let the philosophus work out the legend of his own particular deity, and apportioning days to events, live that life in imagination, exercising the five senses in turn, as occasion arises. 39 "concerning minor matters adjuvant in the ceremonies- iv "duresse- this method consists in cursing a deity recalcitrant; as, threatening ceremonially "to burn the blood of osiris, and to grind down his bones to power" this method is alto

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

white mistress of life. let us leave the sinister figure of schopenhauer for the mysteriously radiant shape of spinoza! this latter philosopher, in respect at least of his pantheism, represents fairly enough the fundamental thesis of the white tradition. almost the first observation that we have to make is that this white tradition is hardly discoverable outside europe. it appears first of all in the legend of dionysus (in this connection read carefully browning's apollo and the fates) the egyptian tradition of osiris is not dissimilar. the central idea of the white school is that, admitted that "everything is sorrow" for the profane, the initiate has the means of transforming it to "everything is joy. there is no question of any ostrich-ignoring of fact, as in christian science. there is

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

th, the son. the other three letters of her name, b, a, and d, are the three paths which join the three supernals. to what cupboard did she go? even to the most secret caverns of the universe. and who is this dog? is it not the name of god spelt qabalistically backwards? and what is this bone? the bone is the wand, the holy lingam! the complete interpretation of the rune is now open. this rime is the legend of the murder of osiris by typhon. the limbs of osiris were scattered in the nile. isis sought them in every corner of the universe, and she found all except his sacred lingam, which was not found until quite recently (vide fuller, the star in the west. let us take another example from this rich storehouse of magick lore. little bo peep she lost her sheep, and couldn't tell where to fin

thank you. whether they are hypocrites or morally insane is a matter which we can leave to their own consideration. all these phantoms, of whatever nature, must be evoked, examined, and mastered; otherwise we may find that just when we want it there is some idea with which we have never dealt; and perhaps that idea, springing on us by surprise, and as it were from behind, may strangle us. this is the legend of the sorcerer strangled by the devil! 120 glossary only words nowhere explained in the preceding pages are given in this list. several others, mentioned in passing in the early part of the book, are sufficiently dealt with later on. in these cases the references in the index should be turned up "a'.a" the great white brotherhood which is giving this method of attainment to the world "

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

apphire (ex. 28:18) ryps ophir; a young mule; dust of the earth rp( the horn; head; to send out rays, shine nrq vacuum mqyr [conscious] intelligence lk# tooth n# and god saw that it was good bw+ yk myhl )ryw 351 man #n) ishim, flames: the angelic choir of malkuth; burnt or incense offering my) lifted)#n moses the initiator (cf. 346) h#wm hiram-abif (a cunning artificer at the temple of solomon in the legend) pyb) mryx 352 the exalted light hl(m rw) long of nose (i.e. merciful: a title of the supreme god (cf. 362) myp) kr) lightnings, flashings myqrb an approach nbrq 353 five h#mx the secret of hwhy is to his fearers (ps. 25:14) wy)ryl hwhy dws delight, joy hxm# 354 grew fat; anointed n#d a temporary remitting h+m# demons myd# 355 thought; idea hb#xm year; sleep hn# pharaoh (derived from th

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

is. nu (hebrew noah) is atlantean for arch, zu (egyptian shu) for many ideas connecting with wind, asi means 'cum quasi serpens, obviously the name of an actual high priestess. ra is pure atlantean for sun, and 'mse (egyptian chomse) for moon. the idea in 'mse is that of a strong woman('m) closing the mouth of a serpent (s) or dragon, and from this we have the xith card of the bohemian tarot, and the legend in the apocalypse. in the mystic greek used by the gnostics we find similar traces, sophia being from s ph, giving the idea of 'serpent breath' i.e. wisdom. iao is phallos, kteis, proktos. the word logos means the boy (g) naturally engendered of the virgin (l) and the serpent (s. theos (root o, first written 0) means the sun in his strength and also the lingam-yoni conjoined. christos i

ussion. even at this distant date it would be dangerous to do so much even as indulge in speculation. p32.i write a little, but not much, in advance of the events. to illustrate the theory here advanced i will ask the reader to compare the results of the attempts to colonize america by (a) the whole military power of spain at her zenith (b) the handful of exiles in the 'mayflower' chapter ix: p34.the legend of the deluge is derived from this eved the old and new commentaries to liber al by aleister crowley most of the text below has been entered by frater h.b, except for the text of liber al (entered by frater ebony and proofread by many others, the old comment and portions of the new comment omitted by l. wilkenson in his abridgement. this text of liber 220 has been restored by compariso

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

us, meek and mild' the pacifist, the conscientious objector, the tolstoyan, the 'passive resister' when the kaiser fled, and the germans surrendered their fleet, they abandoned nietzshe for jesus. rodjestvensky and gervera took their fleets out to certain destruction. the irish revolutionists of easter week, 1916, fought and died like men; and they have established a tradition 'jesus' himself, in the legend 'set his face as a flint to go to jerusalem' with the foreknowledge of his fate. but christians have not emphasized that heroism since the crusades. the sloppy sentimental jesus of the sunday-school is the only survivor; and the war killed him, thank ares! when the nonconformist christian churches, especially in america, found the doctrine of eternal punishment no longer tenable, they k

ove the second best! don't slander your enemy, as the newspapers would have you do; just kill him, and then bury him with honour. don't keep crying 'foul' like a fifth-rate pugilist. don't boast! don't squeal! if you're down, get up and hit him again! fights of that sort make fast friends. there is perhaps a magical second-meaning in this verse, a reference to the ritual of which we find hints in the legend of cain and abel, esau and jacob, set and osiris, et cetera. the "elder brother" within us, the silent self, must slay the younger brother, the conscious self, and he must be raised again incorruptible. al iii,60 "there is no law beyond do what thou wilt" the new comment there are of course lesser laws than this, details, particular cases, of the law. but the whole of the law is do what

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

h is necessarily an evil. i have not come to found a hundred years club, and to include mosquitoes in the membership. in this case to have kept perdu r abu alive was to have played into the hands of his enemies. my first precept is merely a general rule.3 in 1 the buddha had such long ears that he could cover the whole of his face with them. ears are referred to spirit in hindu symbolism, so that the legend means he could conceal the lower elements and dwell in this alone. 2 here is the little rift within the lute which alienated crowley from active work on buddhist lines; the orthodox failing to see his attitude. 3 a more likely idea that the brilliantly logical nonsense of pansil, supra. the three characteristics 109 the bulk of cases one should certainly abstain from destroying life, th

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e same time 4 x 7. and for this is the number 28 reflected down into netzach; and that 28 is kaph cheth (kach, power. for she is sakti, the eternal energy of the concealed one. and it is her eternal energy that hath made this eternal change. and this explaineth the call of the aethyrs, the curse that was pronounced in the beginning being but the creation of sakti. and this mystery is reflected in the legend of the 119 creation, where adam represents the concealed one, for adam is temurah of mad, the enochian word for god, and eve, whom he created 20 the fourth of the mystic numbers of jupiter is 136. for love, is tempted by the snake, nechesh, who is messiah her child. and the snake is the magical power, which hath destroyed the primordial equilibrium. and the garden is the supernal eden

be no more red roses, for she hath crushed all the blood of all things into her cup. it seemed at one time as if the rose was in the breast of a beautiful woman, high-bosomed, tall, stately, yet who danced like a snake. but there was no subsistence in this vision. and now i see the white rose, as if it were in the beak of a swan, in the picture by michael angelo in venice. and that legend too is the legend of babalon. but all this is before the veil of the aethyr. now will i go and make certain preparations, and i will return and repeat the call of the aethyr yet again. biskra "december" 18, 1909. 9.20- 10.5 a.m. 150 it is not a question of being unable to get into the aethyr, and trying to struggle through; but one is not anywhere near it. a voice comes: when thy dust shall strew the ear

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

to return good threefold. h. is unbound and assisted to rise, then leads initiate to wach quarter in turn, saying: h: hear ye, mighty ones of the east [s. w. n: n. has been duly consecrated high priest(ess) and magus (witch queen, h. leads initiate back to center of circle, saying: h: having learned this far, you must know why the wicca are called the hidden children of the goddess. proceed with the legend of the descent of the goddess. generally initiate and hierophant act the appropriate parts. h. appoints narrator and guardian. notes l published in janet and stewart farrar's the witches' way l lots of other published sources too. the legend of the descent of the goddess roles: l narrator (n) l goddess l lord of death (d) l guardian(s) needs: l veils, jewellery l horned crown l sword l

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

within its periphery a centre of reception with a surface radiation. in the planet. in the planet there will be found a similar organ or receiver within its etheric body, the locality of which is not for exoteric publication and cannot therefore be revealed. it is connected with the location of the two poles, north and south, and is the centre around which the globe rotates, and is the source of the legend of a sacred fertile land within the sphere of polar influences. the mythic land of exceeding fertility, of abundant luxuriance, and of phenomenal growth, vegetable, animal and human would naturally lie where prana is received. it is the esoteric garden of eden, the land of physical perfection. surface radiation demonstrates, after distribution, as planetary prana. in man. the organ of r

really a net-work of fine channels, which are the component parts of one interlacing fine cord, one portion of this cord being the magnetic link which unites the physical and the astral bodies and which is snapped or broken after the withdrawal of the etheric body from the dense physical body at the time of death. the silver cord is loosed, as the bible expresses it44(40) and this is the basis of the legend of the fateful sister who cuts the thread of life with the dreaded shears. the etheric web is composed of the intricate weaving of this vitalised cord, and apart from the seven centres within the web (which correspond to the sacred centres, and of which the spleen is frequently counted as one) it has the two above mentioned, which make with the spleen a triangle of activity. the etheric

can he truly influence the individual cells. this work of transmuting cell activity was begun on this planet during the last root-race, and the divine alchemy proceeds. the progress made is as yet but small, but each transmuted conscious cell increases the speed and the accuracy of the work. time alone is needed for the completion of the work. in connection with this matter of transmutation comes the legend of the philosopher's stone, which is literally the application of the rod of initiation, in one sense. division a- manas or mind and its nature i. three manifestations of manas- 179- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust ii. some definitions of manas: 1. manas is the fifth principle. 2. manas is electricity. 3. manas is that which produces cohesion. 4. manas is the key op

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

der, the word that cycles down the ages. some of the names of this ray lord which convey his purpose are as follows: the displayer of glory the lord of eternal love the cosmic magnet the giver of wisdom the radiance in the form the master builder the conferrer of names the great geometrician the one who hides the life the cosmic mystery the light bringer the son of god incarnate the cosmic christ the legend tells us that the six brothers summarise his qualities in the following aphorisms: 1. send forth the word and speak the radiant love of god. make all men hear. quality..love divine. 2. let the glory of the lord shine forth. let there be radiant light as well as radiant love. quality..radiance. 3. draw to thyself the object of thy search. pull forth into the light of day from out the nig

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

e east and west. he knew that in the time of final crisis and tension, humanity itself would force his emergence. the new testament story is true and correct; it is only the man-made interpretations which have misled humanity. in the east there is an ancient legend which has an application today and which holds the clue to the relation of the christ and of the buddha; it concerns a service which, the legend says, the buddha will render christ. in symbolic form, the legend runs that when the buddha reached enlightenment, and experience on earth could teach him no more, he looked ahead to the time when his brother, the christ, would be active in the great service as it is called. in order, therefore, to aid the christ, he left behind him (for his use) what are mysteriously called "his vestur

er, the christ, would be active in the great service as it is called. in order, therefore, to aid the christ, he left behind him (for his use) what are mysteriously called "his vestures" he bequeathed and left in some safe place the sum total of his emotional-intuitive nature, called by some the astral body and the sum total of his knowledge and his thought, called his mind or mental body. these, the legend says, will be assumed by the coming one and prove of service, supplementing christ's own emotional and mental equipment and providing him with what he needs as the teacher of the east as well as of the west. he can then with strength and success contemplate his future work and choose his workers. there is something of this same idea latent in the injunction given in the new testament "l

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

second initiation and demonstrate that the desire nature is subdued and conquered and that the lower nature is (by being lifted up in the air, i.e. into heaven) capable of reaching the goal for this world period, and that from the earthy foundations of scorpio the personality can be so tested that it shows fitness for the world service demanded in aquarius. this is beautifully expressed for us in the legend of hercules, the sun-god who overcomes the nine-headed hydra or serpent of desire by being forced to his knees and from that position of humility lifts up the serpent into the air, and then deliverance comes. 4. in aquarius in this sign, the long effort of the soul is consummated and concludes the- 86- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis tru

ving to them that dynamic and enterprising spirit which will enable them to carry forward to completion the will of god on earth. it was the "angel, born under capricorn" which came to christ in the garden of gethsemane and fused his individual will into the divine will and thus enabled him to carry out his mission to completion. this was not only the revelation of divine love to the world but as the legend in the masters' archives goes on he came "to fabricate the gossamer thread which bound the two together and linked the place of the most high (shamballa) with the holy city (the hierarchy. the bridge between the holy place and the holy of holies was securely anchored. the will of god could now be carried to fruition" under the same symbolic teaching, we could say that the following term

jor synthesising planets. c. is an absorbing or abstracting planet. d. is connected with the perfecting process (c.f. 899) 10 "neptune is the repository of the `solar flames (c.f. 1154) the planet pluto references in the secret doctrine 1 "pluto is a deity with the attributes of the serpent. he is a healer, a giver of health, spiritual and physical and of enlightenment (s.d ii. 30. note) 2 "under the legend, orpheus seeks in the kingdom of pluto, his lost soul. krishna rescues from pluto his six principles (ii. 30) being the seventh himself. he is the perfect initiate, the whole of his six principles merging into the seventh (s.d. iii. 142) the planet saturn references in the secret doctrine and a treatise on cosmic fire 1 "saturn, the father of the gods, has been transformed from eternal

e inter-planetary deities appear. no more can be communicated on this matter. the mystery of the goat lies hidden here. this avatar makes his appearance in the third round of the third chain and disappears in the fifth round of the fourth chain (727) gemini the third sign of the zodiac references in the secret doctrine 1 "castor and pollux, the bright gemini, were born from leda's egg (i. 392) 2 "the legend of castor and pollux is concerned with the mortal half of man, the personality, and the immortal part, the ego or spiritual individual. the personality has nothing in itself to survive and the other half which becomes immortal in its individuality by reason of its fifth principle being called to life by the informing gods, thus connecting the monad with this earth. this is pollux, while

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sits in judgement of the souls of men, an activity assigned otherwise by orthodox traditions to yama, the ruler of the hells. the chamber is said to have only one extremely narrow window, and legends claim that through this fissure the souls of the dead have to squeeze through at night-time, in order to appear before tsi u dmar po. as some of them find it rather difficult to pass, one is able as the legend tells to see around this window numerous scratches which these unfortunate spirits had caused by their nails. some people even allege that a strong smell of blood comes out of this window, as inside the chamber, after the judgement had been pronounced, the souls are cut to pieces by the acolytes of tsi u mar po. a wooden chopping-block is kept to this purpose in this chamber, and some o

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icians, chaldeans, and israelites, it will be easy to discover whence came also the confused account of the noachian deluge. it has become undeniable of late that the jews, who obtained their primitive ideas about creation from moses, who had them from[[footnote(s* as it is now asserted that the chaldean tablets, which give the allegorical description of creation, the fall, and the flood, even to the legend of the tower of babel, were written "before the time of moses (see g. smith's "chaldean account of genesis" p. 86, how can the pentateuch be called a revelation? it is simply another version of the same story[[vol. 2, page] 4 the secret doctrine. the egyptians, compiled their genesis and first cosmogonic traditions- when these were rewritten by ezra and others- from the chaldeo-akkadian

bad she herself created. from the remains of others (from the mineral, vegetable and animal remains) from the first, second, and third (rounds) she formed them. the dhyani came and looked. the dhyani from the bright father-mother, from the white (solar-lunar) regions they came* from the abodes of the immortal-mortals (a (a) the explanations given in our stanzas are far more clear than that which the legend of creation from the cutha tablet would give, even were it complete. what is preserved on it, however, corroborates them. for, in the tablet "the lord of angels" destroys the men in the abyss, when "there were not left the carcases and waste" after they were slaughtered. after which they, the great gods, create men with the bodies of birds of the desert, human beings "seven kings, broth

s identical with athamas, or thomas (tamil tam, which is rendered by the greek didumos, a twin; if, therefore, the first woman was formed subsequently to the first man, she must, as a logical necessity, be 'taken out of man. and the side which the elohim had taken from man 'made he a woman (gen. ii. the hebrew word here used is tzala, which bears the translation we have given. it is easy to trace the legend in berosus, who says that thalatth (the omoroca, or lady of urka) was the beginning of creation. she was also melita, the queen of the moon. the two twin births of genesis, that of cain and abel, and of esau and jacob, shadow the same idea. the name 'hebel' is the same as eve, and its characteristic seems to be feminine" continues the author "unto thee shall be his desire" said the lord

the beautiful allegory and story of sanjna, the daughter of viswakarman- married to the sun, who "unable to endure the fervours of her lord" gave him her chhaya (shadow, image, or astral body, while she herself repaired to the jungle to perform religious devotions, or tapas. the sun, supposing the "chhaya" to be his wife begat by her children, like adam with lilith- an ethereal shadow also, as in the legend, though an actual living female monster millions of years ago. but, perhaps, this instance proves little except the exuberant fancy of the puranic authors. we have another proof ready. if the materialised forms, which are sometimes seen oozing out of the bodies of certain mediums could, instead of vanishing, be fixed and made solid- the creation of the first race would become quite comp

at "the things that men do know can in no way be compared, numerically speaking, to the things that are unknown* and thus they laugh only at their own ignorance[[footnote(s "the human species" p. 52 "manual of geology" p. 301 "recherches sur les mammiferes" plate i* preface to "wonders by land and sea (shan hai king[[vol. 2, page] 220 the secret doctrine. the "sons of god" and the "sacred island" the legend given in isis in relation to a portion of the globe which science now concedes to have been the cradle of humanity- though it is but one of the seven cradles, in truth- ran, condensed, and now explained, as follows "tradition says, and the records of the great book (the book of dzyan) explain, that long before the days of ad-am, and his inquisitive wife, he-va, where now are found but s

a chohan in another tongue, or chief lord of every college, and was passed to his successor only at the moment of death. there were many such colleges, and the old classic authors speak of them "there was no communication with the fair island by sea, but subterranean passages, known only to the chiefs, communicated with it in all directions* tradition asserts, and archaeology accepts the truth of the legend that there is more than one city now flourishing in india, which is built on[[footnote(s* there are archaeologists, who, like mr. james fergusson, deny the great antiquity of even one single monument in india. in his work "illustrations of the rock-cut temples of india" the author ventures to express the very extraordinary opinion that "egypt had ceased to be a nation before the earlies

cosmically and terrestrially- whence breathe the hot passions blown into hurricanes by the cosmic elementals, whose abode it is. the two poles were denominated, by the ancients, dragons and serpents- hence good and bad dragons and serpents, and also the names given to the "sons of god (sons of spirit and matter: the good and bad magicians. this is the origin of this dual and triple nature in man. the legend of the "fallen angels" in its esoteric signification, contains the key to the manifold contradictions of human character; it points to the secret of man's self-consciousness; it is the angle-iron on which hinges his entire life-cycle- the history of his evolution and growth. on a firm grasp of this doctrine depends the correct understanding of esoteric anthropogenesis. it gives a clue t

le creatures which crowd even in the most sacred places (zohar, part i, col. 177) the "sons of god" have existed and do exist. from the hindu brahmaputras and manasaputras (sons of brahma and mind-born sons) down to the b'ne-aleim of the jewish bible, the faith of the centuries and[[footnote(s* this is a direct reference to the esoteric division of man's principles symbolised by the divine wheat. the legend which inscribes the third registrar of the papyrus (chap. cx. of the "book of the dead) states "this is the region of the manes (disembodied men) seven cubits high- to wit: those just translated and supposed to be still sevenfold with all their principles, even the body represented astrally in the kama-loka or hades, before their separation" and, there is wheat three cubits high for mum

mountains to the north, that legend places the devs and peris; the latter the remote ancestors of the parses or farses. oriental tradition is ever referring to an unknown glacial, gloomy sea, and to a dark region, within which, nevertheless, are situated the fortunate islands, wherein bubbles, from the beginning of life on earth, the fountain of life (herbelot, p. 593; armenian tales, p. 35. but the legend asserts, moreover, that a portion of the first dry island (continent, having detached itself from the main body, has remained, since then, beyond the mountains of koh-kaf "the stony girdle that surrounds the world" a journey of seven months' duration will bring him who is possessed of "soliman's ring" to that "fountain" if he keeps on journeying north straight before him as the bird fli

e excess of which, on the contrary, dissolves and annihilates. thus man is called upon to assume a sovereign empire over that (astral) light and conquer thereby his immortality, and is threatened at the same time with being intoxicated, absorbed, and eternally destroyed by it. this light, therefore, inasmuch as it is devouring, revengeful, and fatal, would thus really be hell-fire, the serpent of the legend; the tormented errors of which it is full, the tears and the gnashing of teeth of the abortive beings it devours, the phantom of life that escapes them, and seems to mock and insult their agony, all this would be the devil or satan indeed (histoire de la magie, p. 197. there is no wrong statement in all this; nothing save a superabundance of ill-applied metaphors, as in the application

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cism. 383 the egyptian lotus. 385- ix. deus lunus. 386 a glance at the lunar myth. 387 a key-note to the moon. 389 copies and originals. 393 the moon bi-sexual. 397- x. tree and serpent and crocodile worship. 403 degeneration of the symbol. 405 the seven-headed dragons. 407 dragon and crocodile. 409- xi. demon est deus inversus. 411 death is life. 413 the fall of the angels. 418 transformation of the legend. 421- xii. the theogony of the creative gods. 424 the point within the circle. 426 the logos or verbum. 429 the factors of creation. 432 identity of the hierarchies in all religions. 438 difference between the aryan and semitic systems. 444[[vol. 1, page] xiv contents. page. xiii. the seven creations. 445 the gnostic and the hindu versions. 449 the seven puranic "creations. 450- xiv. th

this connects the "stellar" and "lunar" spirits with the higher planetary angels and the saptarishis (the seven rishis of the stars) of the hindus- as subordinate angels (messengers) to these "rishis" the emanations, on the descending scale, of the former. such, in the opinion of the philosophical gnostics, were the god and the archangels now worshipped by the christians! the "fallen angels" and the legend of the "war in heaven" is thus purely pagan in its origin and comes from india via persia and chaldea. the only reference to it in the christian canon is found in revelations xii, as quoted a few pages back. thus "satan" once he ceases to be viewed in the superstitious, dogmatic, unphilosophical spirit of the churches, grows into the grandiose image of one who made of terrestrial a divi

m which he flashed out as a radiant ray of light. brahma, the fire-god, and his prolific consort; and the hindu agni, the refulgent deity from whose body issue a thousand streams of glory and seven tongues of flame, and in whose honour certain brahmans preserve to this day a perpetual fire; siva, personated by the mundane mountain of the hindus, the meru: these terrific fire-gods, who are said in the legend to have descended from heaven, like the jewish jehovah, in a pillar of fire, and a dozen other archaic double-sexed deities, all loudly proclaim their hidden meaning. and what could these dual myths mean but the psychochemical principle of primordial creation? the first evolution in its triple manifestation of spirit, force and matter; the divine correllation at its starting point, alle

e combatants are confused, and no student is able to distinguish clearly which is which. esoteric explanation may, however, bring some order into this confusion, in which jehovah becomes saturn, and michael and his army, satan and the rebellious angels, owing to the indiscreet endeavours of the too faithful zealots to see in every pagan god a devil. the true meaning is far more philosophical, and the legend of the first "fall (of the angels) assumes a scientific colouring when correctly understood. kronos stands for endless (hence immovable) duration, without beginning, without an end, beyond divided time and beyond space. those "angels" genii, or devas, who were born to act in space and time, i.e, to break through the seven circles of the superspiritual planes into the phenomenal, or circ

o science? cannot men and animals, plants and rocks, be supposed to be endowed with quite a different set of senses from those we possess? cannot their organisms be born, developed, and exist, under other laws of being than those that rule our little world? is it absolutely necessary that every corporeal being should be clothed in "coats of skin" like those that adam and eve were provided with in the legend of genesis? corporeality, we are told, however, by more than one man of science "may exist under very divergent conditions* do not we know through the[[footnote(s* nevertheless, it will be shown on the testimony of the bible itself, and of such good christian theologians as cardinal wiseman, that this plurality is taught in both the old and the new testaments* see "the plurality of the

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lt shall be the whole of the law. firstly, let thine attention be directed to this planet, how the on of horus is made manifest by the universal war. this is the first great and direct result of the equinox of the gods, and is the preparation of the hearts of men for the reception of the law. let us remind you that this is a magical formula of cosmic scope, and that it is given in exact detail in the legend of the golden fleece. jason, who in this story represents the beast, first fits out a ship guided by wisdom or athena, and this is his aspiration to the great work. accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the fleece, but they can do nothing until medea, the scarlet woman, puts into his hands a posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the d

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ho are in the tuat" in the lower part of the middle section of the scene we have another boat, in the centre. of which is a beetle; on one side of the beetle is a god with his knees in the direction of the prow of the boat, but having his head turned behind him and his hands raised in adoration of the beetle, and on the other is a god who also has his hands raised in adoration of the same object. the legend reads "the coming into being of osiris; as the boat has p. 7 no reed mat or carpet hanging from the prow, we may assume that it is intended to represent the atet or matet boat, i.e, the boat in which the sun-god travelled over the sky from sunrise to noon. click to view the boat of the birth of osiris, with serpents and gods [paragraph continues] in front of the boat glide three serpent

nd. the prow of the third boat is surmounted by a crown of the south, and the stern by a crown of the north, and between the two sceptres, which symbolize the gods anpu and ap-uat, i.e, the jackal-headed p. 26 gods of the south and north, is a huge lizard, from the back of which spring the head of osiris and a white crown. on the side of the boat are the signs and. above the crown of the north is the legend u-ur, which, however, probably refers to the sceptre near it; above the lizard we have click to view the boat of the grain-god neper. the foremost sceptre, and immediately in front is and under the front of the boat is. the prow and stern of the fourth boat terminate in heads of uraei, each of which is turned towards the p. 27 deity who is kneeling in the middle of the boat. in the cent

aei, each of which is turned towards the p. 27 deity who is kneeling in the middle of the boat. in the centre kneels a woman without arms, and before and behind her stands a man, who is likewise without arms. at each end of the boat grows a plant or, perhaps, a large ear of wheat, which indicates that the boat is that of the form of osiris as the god of vegetation, who is known by the name neper. the legend by the ear of corn in the front of the boat reads "the boat which conveyeth neper" and that by the ear in the stern "collector of herbs and plants" the deity in the boat, or the boat itself perhaps, is called hept-mena-f-tua-uaa-f. this boat is the boat of the god neper, the god of grain, and a form of osiris as the god of vegetation; it may be noted that its side has no utchat upon it

of its body, a little distance from the tip of its tail; the human head faces the serpent amen. of the male serpent it is said "he p. 79 click to view the kingdom of seker. p. 80 p. 81 who is in this picture is the guardian of the secret passages which lead to the aheth chamber; he journeyeth round to every place each day, and he liveth on the words of the gods who guard this road" the meaning of the legend which refers to the female serpent hekent is not clear. 9. the three-headed serpent (see p. 79) menmenut, which is described as the "hidden image of the aheth chamber [of seker, which is illumined daily at the birth of khepera by that which cometh forth from the faces of [the serpent] menment" over the back of this serpent are six stars and fourteen human heads, each of which is surmoun

the tuat, which is called ament sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next p. 85 chapter v. the fifth division of the tuat, which is called ament. in the scene that illustrates the fifth division of the tuat, which is passed through by the sun-god during the fifth hour of the night, we see the boat of the sun being drawn along by seven gods and seven goddesses (see pp. 91, 95, 99, 103, 107. the legend over the seven gods is partly broken away, but what remains of it proves that it must have been similar in meaning to that which is over the heads of the goddesses, which reads "these are the goddesses which tow ra along in the tuat over this circle, and they make this great god to advance so that he may rest in nu in the tuat" in front of the seven goddesses march four gods, who appear

ker. p. 93 stand up by you for your protection when i pass by you in peace" the "land of sekri" which is mentioned by the seven gods who are towing the boat of ra, lies immediately below the mound of earth, and forms, as it were, an oval island in the river of the tuat; its shape is, as m. maspero has said, an elongated ellipse, and it is formed wholly of sand. the "land of sekri" is described in the legend which is written at each end of the oval as "the horizon) of the hidden country of sekri, which guardeth the hidden body (or, flesh" this mysterious oval is supposed to rest upon the bodies of two man-headed lion sphinxes set tail to tail; of these, however, only the heads and fore quarters p. 94 appear, one at each end of the oval. each sphinx is called af, and he is said "to have his

diately in front of this serpent are four seated gods (see p. 111, of whom the heads of two are turned behind them; they are described as the "gods who hold the secret forms of sekri, who is on his sand" the first holds on his knees the white crown, the second the red crown, the third the head of the ram of heru-shefshefit, and the fourth the plumes of shu, or some other god of light and dryness. the legend above them reads "their forms are in the place among them in their own bodies. they follow after this great god unseeing and unseen" behind the serpent tepan (see pp. 87, 91) are four human bearded heads, each with a mass of fire upon p. 99 click to view the kingdom of seker. p. 101 the top of it, which project from the long, narrow lake called netu, these are called the "blazing heads"

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gher levels of the brotherhood network, via its global elite. it is the intellect without the heart, you could say, and without the balanced feminine. the symbols of the brotherhood in ancient times remain those of the brotherhood today- the pyramid and all-seeing eye, the swastika, the lamb, the apron, the obelisk and many others. the obelisk is symbolic of the penis of osiris, the egyptian god. the legend is that he was torn into pieces by the 'evil' set (lucifer, satan, the devil, et al) and when isis, the wife of osiris, tried to put him back together again, she found all his missing parts, except you know what. such legends are, i feel, symbolic of much more straightforward truths. the obelisk and osiris's penis in that story symbolise male energy, which has dominated the world throug

all. we are aspects of each other. but since many people use the genetics of their bodies to justify their actions, we might as well get the information right. the word semitic comes from the race of peoples in ancient sumer from whom the biblical jews claimed to have emerged. sem or shem, one of the sons of noah in the bible stories, is said to be of this line and the origin appears to have been the legend of 'shemjaza, the 'heavenly son and guardian 76..and the truth shall set you free angel of god. another extraterrestrial almost certainly. but according to several jewish writers, including arthur koestler in his book, the thirteenth tribe,32 very few jews today can trace their genetic ancestry back to the semite line of this period and/or the semitic line in palestine and israel at the

is not clear. hitler had the same problem in equating the two, but he would have found some ridiculous explanation for it, i'm sure. another hitler obsession was the so called spear of destiny, the weapon alleged to have been use to pierce the side of y'shua (jesus) at the crucifixion. he stole what was claimed to be the spear when the nazis annexed austria in 1938, and it was taken to nuremberg. the legend says that whoever has the spear and decodes its secrets will have control of the world for good or evil. the one that hitler stole is now in the hofburg museum in vienna, where there was a major fire in november 1992, seven days before the blaze which destroyed part of windsor castle. another obsessive occultist in the third reich was heinrich himmler. he was into all matters esoteric a

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years after columbus, he was treated as a god because, with his european features, he was considered to be the return of quetzalcoatl. something similar happened in africa when the white europeans arrived and the native people believed they were the return of the "nordic" extraterrestrial beings of then legends. cortes was obviously aware of the quetzalcoatl story because he landed near the point the legend said the deity would return and he wore a plumed hat in line with quetzalcoatl's title of the "plumed serpent. cortes even arrived in 1519, the time the native people believed that quetzalcoatl would come back. just one example of how easy it is to manipulate people through their beliefs. the travels of the aryan sumerians and their earlier "golden age" ancestors also account for the "m

was a most sacred location throughout the ancient world. it is the star card in tarot, the silver star of [aleister] crowley's a: a: organization [crowley was a satanist, the star to which the queen's shaft in the great pyramid points, and the star from which the dogon of mali say their alien visitors the nommo came from" the necklace of the mysteries includes a very clear "flying saucer" which, the legend says, the extraterrestrials flew from their giant "mothership" to land on the earth. they say the mothership continued to orbit and it was to there that the leaders sheltered during the upheavals. in france, cave paintings dated to between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago include oval and disc-shaped objects standing on tripod legs with ladders coming down from them. a drawing carved in a cl

tean cataclysms. alexander ruled troy at one stage and, before he died in babylon in 323bc at the age of 33, his army had seized control of a vast region once ruled from sumer. this included egypt, mesopotamia, and into india. he founded the city of alexandria in egypt. he was known as the "serpent's son" and alexandria was the "city of the serpent's son".28 once again we see the recurring theme. the legend goes that alexander's real father was the serpent god, ammon, and this mirrors the story of merovee, founder of the merovingian dynasty. throughout history, the reptilians have perpetuated their "purest" bloodlines by marrying as closely as possible to their own genetics. it is vital to remember that these bloodlines do not just breed through their official partners. they have stunning

ina, africa, the near and middle east, europe, asia, people of every colour and creed, have claimed their right to rule by their descent from the serpent gods. as we've seen, alexander the great, one of the most famous monarchs and conquerors of all time, was known as the "serpent son. alexander is extremely important to the nordic-reptilian genealogy of the illuminati bloodlines (see appendix i. the legend goes that alexander's real father was the serpent god, ammon, who had mysteriously slid into his mother's bed and conceived him.15 the same story was told of the conception of merovee, the founder of the merovingians. this symbolism is supported by many ancient and modern accounts of "virgin birth" impregnations by reptilian beings. the stories of women being abducted by reptilians and

their appearance or "shape-shift" between a human and reptilian form, evidence for which i will present shortly. a character called liu ye, who wanted to marry a princess of the "dragon race, was said to have seen the palace of the emperor change before his eyes and the courtiers dissolve and then return to their original form. he saw the coils of dragon bodies, flashing wings, and dragon's eyes. the legend says that liu ye changed his earth form and became one of the dragon race that lived in the sky. with that, he became immortal.23 serpents of the americas the story is the same in the americas with the serpent gods at the heart of the ancient myths and legends of north, south and central america. the books of the mayans called chilam balaam say the first settlers of the yucatan in mexic

enish or brownish colour of the others. witnesses and abductees have reported seeing reptilian beings with albinolike skin and these descriptions can also be found in ancient texts. in africa the reptilians are known as the chitauri or "children of the serpent" and "children of the python. this is so close to the central american term "people of the serpent. africa is another continent awash with the legend of the serpent race. for anunnaki, annetoti, nagas, dravidians, and so on, read chitauri. different names, same people. credo mutwa talks for hours on the video the reptilian agenda, part one, about the background and history of the chitauri, and he confirms the theme of shapeshifting and how the chitauri bloodlines can take either human or reptilian form. he describes how the earth was

t daughter of danaus, an ancient danaan priest.51 danaan is also so close to canaan, of course, and these "two" peoples came from the same part of the world. i think we will find that danaan and canaan are terms for the same people. it was one of their number, called brutus, who led migrating danaans/trojans to the british isles and established the city of caer troia or "new troy- today's london. the legend goes that when the danaans were defeated by the later greek milesians of asia minor, the peace agreement involved the danaans moving from the surface to live in an underground kingdom which could be accessed from "hollow hills" in ireland.52 the danaans were said to be a giant race of warriors, who became smaller through generations of living within the earth. the same was said in irela

the isle of avalon and avalon means "island of the immortals- a name that is common to many of these "serpent" centres. the island of iona off the scottish coast was formerly known as innis nan druidhneah or "island of the druids. the arch druids were indicated by the seven "serpent eggs" displayed on their breasts.54 the goddess artemis (dana, diana) was also depicted with eggs on her chest. was the legend of the mythical st patrick chasing the snakes out of ireland the destruction of the druid or adder network? if this was so, it happened for public consumption only as the knowledge was taken out of general circulation, but remained very much alive within the secret societies. egyptian serpents you find the same story of serpent symbolism in the country to which so many modern illuminati

s, also known as jupiter. some sanskrit scholars regarded indra as the same as jupiter and suggested that he was a heroic human king who had led the early aryans or "nordics" to victory against the "serpent cult. waddell produces a stream of evidence to show that the hindu god, indra, and the european, thor, after whom we get thursday or "thors-day, are the same person or deity. he also says that the legend of thor is the origin of the legends of king arthur. thor is known in the edda as her-thor, which became ar-thur. both her and ar come from the same root meaning..aryan.15 the mist began to clear even further when waddell observed that the name of the first aryan king of the sumerians in ancient mesopotamia had the name of indara, in dur, in-tur, or king tur.16 this, waddell says, later

he 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 valkeries, composed by richard wagner. hitler once said that to understand the nazis, you must understand wagner. the amazons in ancient myth were a tribe of warrior women who expressed the characteristics traditionally associated with men. the legend is rampant in greek mythology, which was inherited from sumerian mythology, and the amazons were known as the valkeries in northern europe, the warrior-maidens from valhalla. the greek historian, herodotus, said the amazons were enemies of the greeks and he claimed that they lived in the steppelands of the ukraine and southern russia, once known as scythia and sauromatia (sauro= lizard

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what bush said and cathy saw was just a mind controlprogramme. i think he was revealing the biggest secret, that a reptilian race fromanother dimension has been controlling the planet for thousands of years. i know otherpeople who have seen bush shape-shift into a reptilian.the president of mexico in the 1980s, miguel de la madrid, also used cathy in hermind controlled state. she said he told her the legend of the iguana and explained thatlizard-like extraterrestrials had descended upon the mayans in mexico. the mayanpyramids, their advanced astronomical technology and the sacrifice of virgins, wasinspired by lizard-like aliens, he told her.30 he added that these reptilians interbred withthe mayans to produce a form of life they could inhabit. de la madrid told cathy thatthese reptile-huma

un myths. also, these phoenicians and aryansworshipped the serpent and the shape-shifting reptilians called the nagas were the serpentgods of the hindus. the v edas, inspired by the aryans, tell how the serpent-humans, thenagas, could cause fantastic damage and instant death. the nagas were also said to haveappeared at the birth of the man who became known as buddha and the serpent plays a partin the legend of khrishna. the roman name for barati was fortune after her legend as thegoddess of fortune. they depicted fortune in the same way as the phoenicians symbolisedfigure 12: the phoenician depiction of barati (right) and the britishsymbol of britannia. they are the same deity and alternative namesfor queen semiramis in babylon and isis in egypt. 69barati and the british do with britannia

alledbrutus, landed in britain around 1,103 bc with a group of trojans, including somefrom colonies in spain. they referred to britain as the great white island after thewhite cliffs which abound on the south coast. in the south west of england is the townof totnes in devon, a short distance inland from torbay, the oldest seaport in the area.here there is a stone called the brutus stone on which, the legend says, the formertrojan prince stood after he first landed. welsh records say that brutus was met by threetribes of britons who proclaimed him king. brutus founded a city he called caer troia- new troy. the romans would later call it londinium. london became the operationalcentre of the empire of the babylonian brotherhood, and it still is, along with paris andthe v atican. in the king a

r when there is more lightthan darkness every day. the world is restored by the power of the sun in the time ofrebirth and the spring equinox was one of the most sacred egyptian events. queen isiswas often portrayed with rams heads to symbolise that the time of aries, the spring, wasa period of natures abundant creation. the festival of easter was as important to earlychristians as december 25th. the legend of mithra said he was crucified and wasresurrected on march 25th. the date of easter is no longer fixed to the first day ofaries, but the symbolism remains. the christian religious day is. sunday. christianchurches are build east-west with the altar to the east. this means that the congregationface east- the direction of the rising sun. even easter eggs, like hot cross buns, are nota ch

gan tocorrespond with people all over europe. most notably, he transformed his church with hisnew-found wealth. it was fully restored and refurbished with strange statues and esotericsymbols. on the entrance to the church he had written in french: this place is terrible.as you walk through the door you are faced with a demonic statue depicting a particularversion of the devil. it is asmodeus who, the legend says, was forced by king solomon tohelp with the building of his temple in jerusalem. a cutting with a picture of asmodeus inchains was found among saunieres possessions. a plate glass window features marymagdalene anointing the feet of jesus and a statue of mary magdalene includes a skull ather feet- that symbol of the templar rituals. the floor is laid out with the black and151white s

dence that her whole story was anotherhistorical smokescreen. we are supposed to believe that this young girl from a poorbackground knocked on the door of the aristocracy and they allowed her to lead a waragainst the english. yes, ok, and i can tie my willy to the lamppost across the street.the man who was really behind that military campaign was rene danjou with thestory of joan of arc (based on the legend of the virgin of lorraine) merely aconvenient way of hiding the real goings on.it was rene danjou who was responsible for the two-bar cross becoming known asthe cross of lorraine. the double cross symbol was later used by some aspects of thechristian church and it is the origin of the term to be double crossed, manipulated.this has become another symbol of the reptilian brotherhood and

une. we have given him themeans of communication with them. do not mourn for me; i shall have influenced historymore than any other german.13another of hitlers obsessions was the so-called spear of destiny, the weapon allegedto have been used to pierce the side of jesus at the crucifixion. he stole what is claimedto be the spear when the nazis annexed austria in 1938 and it was taken to nuremberg.the legend says that whoever has this spear and decodes its secrets will have control of theworld for good or evil. the one that hitler stole is now in the hofburg museum in vienna,where there was a major fire in november 1992, seven days before the blaze whichdestroyed part of windsor castle. heinrich himmler was another dedicated occultist whowas into all matters esoteric. he used this knowledge

n thehouse of commons which effectively ended her reign. whitelaw was named as aleading satanist by self-confessed satanist, derry mainwaring-knight, at maidstonecrown court in 1986. as usual, nothing was done about it.36 mainwaring-knight livednear east grinstead, one of the centres of satanism in england. in scotland, a foremostsatanic centre is loch ness, near inverness, the home, according to the legend, of thefamous reptile, the loch ness monster. so what could these legends really be symbolicof? aleister crowley, the best known satanist of the 20th century, had a house at lochness and it was to this area that he came to perform some of his most powerful blackmagic rituals. a rock formation near the loch called the rock of curses has been usedby black magicians for hundreds of years a

e best known satanist of the 20th century, had a house at lochness and it was to this area that he came to perform some of his most powerful blackmagic rituals. a rock formation near the loch called the rock of curses has been usedby black magicians for hundreds of years and crowley was particularly drawn to theenergy emanating from a nearby mountain known as mealfuorvonie.37 there is muchmore to the legend of the loch ness monster than meets the eye and the same is true ofother unidentified creatures like the so-called bigfoot. some native american shamansbelieve that the entity which manifests as the bigfoot can also appear as an aquaticmonster or a panther because it has the ability to shape-shift.38over and over i have been told by survivors of how they were abused or programmedat the

rotherhood initiates at bohemian grove burn a celtic wicker effigy at the start of theircamp to symbolise their religion. the population of britain has been manipulatedinto doing the same every november 5th when effigies of guy fawkes are burned tomark the day on which he tried to blow up parliament.a local community newspaper, the santa rosa sun, reported in july 1993 about thecult of canaan and the legend of moloch at bohemian grove, but police investigationsinto alleged murders on the site have predictably led nowhere. regular attendees atbohemian grove are known as grovers and among them are people like george bush;gerald ford; henry kissinger; dick cheney; alan greenspan, the head of the federalreserve; jack kemp (bob doles running mate at the 1996 us election; alexanderhaig, the form

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of the mouth of the false prophet. for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of god almighty. revelation 16:13-14 ahriman appeared in the zoroastrian legends in numerous forms. his astral body was considered that of a frog, toad, or crab, often a lizard or serpent as well. the legend of zohak the king proves of significant interest concerning magical transformation, zohak was later known as azi dahaka, the demon of three faces. zohak was said to have descended from a king called mardas and tazak, who dwelled originally in tazikan or arabia. it was according to lore that zohak lived as a king for a period of time of 1,000 years. as written in the denkard- this, too

ed destruction by tyranny and apostasy, so that the habits of men were corrupted, the world distressed, and there was increase of morality among the creatures -the denkard13 it is suggested also by the arabs that this king s name was zohak, while the mogs suggested that he was bivarasp, whom of which existed in the time of noah, was most feared for his murdering of many kings. ahriman appeared in the legend of zohak14 first visited zohak, the son of king mirtas, disguised as a noble visiting. his words were empowering, as one who sought to become something other- if thou wilt listen to me, and enter into a covenant, i will raise thy head above the sun thus the prince listened to ahriman. he later took the throne and became king. ahriman taught him the arts of magic and zohak slowly became

used in the form of words, which held a spring, he would tear apart those who could not answer or survive the staota. none could withstand akht, save for a young religious man called yavisht i friyan. the youth was invited to the residence of akht, but discovering that akht had dead matter (bones, rot hair or nails) under his pillows and carpets, he could not enter until akht had them removed. as the legend moves forward yavisht withstood each staota and then used the staota to attack akht. he took time to through sorcery, rushed into hell and communicated with ahriman who told him to accept his fate as it were. akht was said to have been defeated by yavisht and destroyed in physical form. the manichaean myths of creation were rich in their lore of the underworld. according to mary boyce18

spawned cain, his son in flesh- when the serpent mounted eve, he injected filth into her. israel who stood at mount sinai, their filth ceased; the other nations who did not stand at mount sinai, their filth has not ceased. talmud: b. shab. 146a aleister crowley made reference to cain and his mark of initiation, which some witches disagree with according to their tradition. to paraphrase: there is the legend of eve and the serpent, for cain was the child of eve and the serpent, and not of eve and adam; and therefore when he had slain his brother, who was the first murderer, having sacrificed living things to his demon, had cain the mark upon his brow, which is the mark of the beast spoken of in the apocalypse, and is the sign of initiation. the book of thoth, aleister crowley in luciferian

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it similarities to the myth of the archons of gnosticism, who together with the arch devil and god, yaldabaoth, gave shape to the material world and rule over the human race. there are also echoes of the jewish myth of the fall of the angels, and more specifically of the watchers who descended to earth to sin with the daughters of mankind, and to teach their offspring forbidden arts and sciences. the legend of the fall of atlantis is in harmony with lovecraft's mythos as well, as are the more modern enochian communications of the elizabethan magician dr. john dee. the other day while i was reading the magic arts in celtic britain by lewis spence (first published in london by rider in 1945, i happened across this passage, which has bearing on the general topic of mythic correspondences with

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e around. they are equally discomforted by garlic and the christian cross, or the crucifix (cross with the figure of jesus upon it. in modern versions of the myth, vampires sometimes show contempt for the cross rather than fear. the vampires of popular modern fiction can be destroyed in a variety of ways. sunlight and holy water dissolve their flesh and bones like strong acid. in some versions of the legend, sunlight causes them to burst into flames. a stake through their heart also causes them to decay very rapidly. in a modern variation of this detail, the stake merely renders the vampire immobile and apparently dead, but if withdrawn, the vampire immediately reanimates. less common ways to kill a vampire in films and popular fiction are decapitation and a silver bullet through the heart

a ghoul today. it is easy to see how the stories of a completely corporeal vampire that consumes human flesh, and a completely spiritual vampire that sucks out the vital life force, became combined into the half-physical and half-spiritual film vampire of the 20th century. this is the vampire that most people think of when they hear the term spoken. it is only a fiction, but as is so often true, the legend is based on fact. there are three kinds of real vampire. they are not very well know outside the halls of esoteric lodges that study and practice the arcane arts, but i will reveal them for you here. the first type of true vampire is the deluded living human being who feels the irresistible compulsion to consume human or animal blood. some believe that this compulsion is the result of a

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le, drawn from other contemporary papyri in the british museum. the second edition of the facsimile has been executed by mr. f. c. price. e. a. wallis budge. british museum. january 25, 1895. next: contents preface http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod01.htm [8/10/2001 11:22:25 am] sacred texts egypt index previous next contents. preface v. introduction- the versions of the book of the dead ix the legend of osiris xlviii the doctrine of eternal life lv egyptian ideas of god lxxxii the abode of the blessed ci the gods of the book of the dead cvii geographical and mythological places cxxxiii funeral ceremonies cxxxviii the papyrus of ani cxlii table of chapters cliii the hieroglyphic text of the papyrus of ani, with interlinear transliteration and word for word translation 1-242 translati

ry carelessly executed, and it is evident that they were written and drawn by ignorant workmen in the quickest and most careless way possible. in this period also certain passages of the text were copied in hieratic and demotic upon small pieces of papyri which were buried with portions of the bodies of the dead, and upon narrow bandages of coarse linen in which they were swathed. p. xlviii next: the legend of osiris. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (36 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:57 am] sacred texts egypt index previous next the legend of osiris. the main features of the egyptian religion constant. the chief features of the egyptian religion remained unchanged from the vth and vith dynasties down to the period when the egyptians embraced chr

r to adduce evidence from the lives of the saints, martyrs and ascetics; but it is of interest to note in passing that the translators of the new testament into coptic rendered the greek greek a!'dhs by, amenti, the name which the ancient egyptians gave to the abode of man after death,[3] and that the copts peopled it with beings whose prototypes are found on the ancient monuments. persistence of the legend of osiris and the belief in the resurrection. the chief gods mentioned in the pyramid texts are identical with those whose names are given on tomb, coffin and papyrus in the latest dynasties; and if the names of the great cosmic gods, such as ptah and khnemu, are of rare occurrence, it should be remembered that the gods of the dead must naturally occupy the chief place in this literatur

ble mutilation, inflicted by the powers of evil, was the same in all periods, and that the legends of the most ancient times were accepted without material alteration or addition in the texts of the later dynasties [1. le christianisme chez les anciens coptes, in revue des religions, t, xiv, paris, 1886, pp, 308-45 2. i.e. 3. see st. matthew xi, 23; acts ii, 27, etc] p. xlix plutarch's version of the legend. the story of osiris is nowhere found in a connected form in egyptian literature, but everywhere, and in texts of all periods, the life, sufferings, death and resurrection of osiris are accepted as facts universally admitted. greek writers have preserved in their works traditions concerning this god, and to plutarch in particular we owe an important version of the legend as current in h

but this was excusable in dealing with a series of traditions already some four thousand years old.[1] according to this writer the goddess rhea [nut, the wife of helios [ra, was beloved by kronos [seb. when helios discovered the intrigue, he cursed his wife and declared that she should not be delivered of her child in any month or in any year. then the god hermes, who also loved rhea, played at the legend of osiris. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod04.htm (1 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:23:04 am] tables with selene and won from her the seventieth part of each day of the year, which, added together, made five whole days. these he joined to the three hundred and sixty days of which the year then consisted.[2] upon the first of these five days was osiris brought forth;[3] and at the moment of

immortality. then isis told the queen her story and begged for the pillar which supported the roof. this she cut open, and took out the chest and her husband's body,[3] and her lamentations were so terrible that one of the royal children died of fright. she then brought the [1. in the calendar in the fourth sallier papyrus (no. 10,184) this day is marked triply unlucky, and it is said that great the legend of osiris. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod04.htm (2 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:23:04 am] lamentation by isis and nephthys took place for un-nefer (osiris) thereon. see chabas, le calendrier, p. 50. here we have plutarch's statement supported by documentary evidence. some very interesting details concerning the festivals of osiris in the month choiak are given by loret in recueil de tra

ce on the last day of the month choiak; see loret, les f tes d'osiris au mois de khoiak (recueil de travaux, t. iv, p. 32, 87; plutarch, de iside, xviii. 3. an account of the battle is also given in the ivth sallier papyrus, wherein we are told that it took place on the 26th day of the month thoth. horus and set fought in the form of two men, but they afterwards changed themselves into two bears, the legend of osiris. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod04.htm (3 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:23:04 am] and they passed three days and three nights in this form. victory inclined now to one side, and now to the other, and the heart of isis suffered bitterly. when horus saw that she loosed the fetters which he had laid upon set, he became like a "raging panther of the south with fury" and she fled bef

rse for ever and ever by thy hand "thou hast made this earth by thy hand, and the waters thereof, and the wind thereof, the herb thereof, all the cattle thereof, all the winged fowl thereof, all the fish thereof, all the creeping things thereof, and all the four-footed beasts thereof (12) o thou son of nut, the whole world is gratified when thou ascendest thy father's throne like ra. thou shinest the legend of osiris. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod04.htm (4 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:23:04 am] in the horizon, thou sendest forth thy light into the darkness, thou makest the darkness light with thy double plume, and thou floodest the world with light like the (13) disk at break of day. thy diadem pierceth heaven and becometh a brother unto the stars, o thou form of every god. thou art graci

e soul that liveth again"[6 "the being who becometh a child again "the firstborn son of unformed matter, the lord of multitudes of aspects and forms, the lord of time and bestower of years, the lord of life for all eternity"[7] he is the "giver of life from the beginning"[8 "life springs up to us from his destruction"[9] and the germ which proceeds from him engenders life in both the dead and the the legend of osiris. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod04.htm (5 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:23:04 am] living.[10 [1. the text of this work, transcribed into hieroglyphics, was published, with a latin translation, by brugsch, under the title, sai an sinsin sive aber metempsychosis veterum aegyptiorum, berlin, 1851; and an english translation of the same work, but made from a paris ms, was given by p

book of respirations applies to the whole class "toutefois, on remarque dans cet crit une tendance la doctrine de la r surrection du corps plus marqu e que dans les compositions ant rieures (catalogue, p. 13. 5. festival songs, iv, 33. 6. ibid, viii, 21, ix, 8. 7. litanies of seker, col. xviii. 8. festival songs, vi, 1. 9. ibid, iii, 18. 10. ibid, ix, 26] p. lv next: the doctrine of eternal life. the legend of osiris. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod04.htm (6 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:23:04 am] sacred texts egypt index previous next the doctrine of eternal life. egyptian belief in a future life. the doctrine of eternal life in the vith dynasty. the ideas and beliefs which the egyptians held in reference to a future existence are not readily to be defined, owing to the many difficulties in

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hcraft. other powerful charms for amulets include the names and attributes of gods, the names of the suras in the koran, names of prophets, planets, angels, and magic squares. amulets were also widespread among jewish people, particularly from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. the phylacteries still worn in certain rituals are believed to be a protection against evil. one, derived from the legend of lilith, bearing the name of three angels, is given to babies to protect them from her. in jewish folklore, names of god, biblical verses and names of angels were regarded to be powerful amulets. such amulets have been copied by non-jewish occultists and used in ritual magic. with the magical revival of the nineteenth century and the belief in occult powers being directed to various g

ommodate it? journal of religion and psychical research vol. 9 (1985: 189. swedenborg on the modus operandi of spirit communication. parapsychology review vol. 13 (1982: 6. berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. andrae, johann valentin (1586.1654) johann valentin andrae, the german lutheran pastor who developed the legend of the rosicrucian occult orders, came from a line of ministers that included a grandfather who had been among martin luther s original supporters. andrae was born august 7, 1586, in herrenburg, wurttemberg. he attended tubingen university, and after graduation he became chaplain at stuttgart. in 1607, due to ill health, he returned to tubingen, where he was introduced to mysticism as a

ept through europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. born as israel, son of eliezer, he became known as the baal shem tov, master of the good name, or the besht. many legends circulated around the zaddikim, or holy leaders, of hasidism, who were credited with miracles and spiritual insight. hasidism had, and continues to have, a notable impact on jewish life. sources: buber, martin. the legend of the baal-shem. new york: schocken books, 1955. tales of the hasidim: the early masters. new york: schocken books, 1947. hilsenrad, zalman aryeh, comp. the baal shem tov: his birth and early manhood. brooklyn, n.y: kehot publication society, 1967. kaplan, aryeh. chassidic masters: history, biography, and thought. new york: maznaim publishing, 1984. baalzephon captain of the guard and

ormed a triad at the dawn of history and appear to have developed from an animistic group of world spirits. although ea became specialized as a god of the deep, anu as a god of the sky, and enlil as an earth god, each also had titles that emphasized that they had attributes overlapping those of the others. thus ea was enki, earth lord, and as aa was a lunar deity; he also had solar attributes. in the legend of etana and the eagle, his heaven is stated to be in the sky. anu and enlil as deities of thunder, rain, and fertility are closely linked to ea, as dagan, of the flooding and fertilizing euphrates. each of these deities was accompanied by demonic groups. the spirits of disease were the beloved sons of bel; the fates were the seven daughters of anu; the seven storm demons, including the

heir flesh and sucking their veins. the ashipu priests bore the responsibility to drive out the demon. before doing so, the demon had to be identified. once the priest did so, he had to bring it under his influence. he accomplished this by reciting its history and detailing its characteristics. the secret of the magician s power was his knowledge. to cure a toothache, for instance, he had to know the legend of the worm. the worm was vampire-like and absorbed the blood of victims, but specialized in gums. the legend relates that the worm came into existence as follows: anu created the heavens, the heavens created the earth, the earth created the rivers, and the rivers created the canals, then the canals created marshes, and the marshes created the worm. in due time the worm appeared before

owship in parapsychology at duke university, durham, north carolina. beowulf an anglo-saxon poem of mythological wonders. the folk tales on which the poem is based may date from the fifth century. the epic itself was composed ca. 700 c.e. beowulf was most likely regarded as one of the sons of light or men of the sun whose business it was to fight the powers of darkness until they themselves fell. the legend recounts the tale of beowulf fighting the monster grendel; after losing the fight, the giant escapes only by leaving his arm in beowulf s grip. but grendel s mother, a merwoman (see mermaids, revenges him and slays many people. when beowulf hears of this, he takes up the quarrel. diving to the bottom of the sea, where her palace lay, he kills her after a fierce fight. later on beowulf i

from the troad (territory surrounding the ancient city of troy, a semitic center. in his book the egypt of herodotus (1841, john kenrick brings forward the following conclusions concerning the cabiri: 1. the existence of the worship of the cabiri at memphis under a pygmy form, and its connection with the worship of vulcan. the coins of thessalonica also establish this connection; those which bear the legend kabeiros having a figure with a hammer in his hand, the pileus and apron of vulcan, and sometimes an anvil near the feet. 2. the cabiri belonged also to the phoenician theology. the proofs are drawn from the statements of herodotus. also the coins of cossyra, a phoenician settlement, exhibit a dwarfish figure with the hammer and short apron, and sometimes a radiated head, apparently all

brother made them three, and a fourth may have been their mother cabira. 5. the samothracian divinities continued to be held in high veneration in late times, but are commonly spoken of in connection with navigation, as the twin dioscuri or tyndaridae; on the other hand the dioscuri are spoken of as the curetes or corybantes. the coins of tripolis exhibit the spears and star of the dioscuri, with the legend cabiri. 6. the roman penates have been identified with the dioscuri, and dionysius states that he had seen two figures of ancient workmanship, representing youths armed with spears, which, from an antique inscription on them, he knew to be meant for penates. so, the lares of etruria and rome. 7. the worship of the cabiri furnishes the key to the wanderings of aeneas, the foundation of r

also led people to findhorn, where a community began to grow. in their early years at findhorn, the caddys had grown their own food and in the process learned to communicate with what they believed were nature spirits. this relationship led to some spectacular agricultural success in the poor soil and limited growing season of northern scotland. the abundance of the findhorn garden became part of the legend of findhorn. among the people who joined the community in the early 1970s was david spangler. he would be among the first people to lead the light groups to a vision of the new age, the idea that not only was it the task of the groups to channel spiritual light to the world, but that the end of the twentieth century was a particularly good time to engage in such activity. spangler came

45 sources: karcher, janet. the way to cassadaga: a look at spiritualism, its roots, and beliefs, and cassadaga, florida. daltona, fla: j. hutchinson productions, 1980. camus, philippe (or felipe (ca. fifteenth century) a spanish writer of romances who lived in the fifteenth century. to him is attributed a life of robert the devil, la vida de roberto el diablo, later published at seville in 1629. the legend itself probably dates from the thirteenth century. canadian institute of psychosynthesis, inc. see psychosynthesis institute canadian society of questers the canadian society of questers is an organization dedicated to the study of what is popularly called dowsing, the natural abilities some have demonstrated to locate water, mineral deposits, and other items. the society was founded in

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er years of wandering in the vicinity of the lake of tezcuco, they observed a great eagle with wings outspread perched on the stump of a cactus, and holding in its talons a live serpent. their augurs interpreted this as a good omen, since it had been previously announced by an oracle, and upon the spot where the bird had alighted they drove the first piles upon which they built the city of mexico.the legend of the foundation of which is still commemorated in the heraldic arms of modern mexico. dreams and visions also played a great part in mexican divination, and a special caste of augurs called teopixqui, or teotecuhtli (masters or guardians of divine things) were set apart for the purpose of interpreting dreams and of divining through dreams and visions, which was regarded as the chief r

terrified women with his giant leaps and diabolical appearance. mothman was said to chase motorists and to frighten women. witnesses stated that he was large, gray in color, without feathers, and with eyes that glowed red. it has been suggested that mothman is a ufo phenomenon. sources: clark, jerome. encyclopedia of strange and unexplained phenomena. detroit: gale research, 1993. haining, peter. the legend and bizarre crimes of springheeled jack. london: frederick muller, 1977. keel, john a. the mothman prophecies: an investigation into the mysterious american visits of the infamous feathery garuda. new york: saturday review press/dutton, 1975. reprint, new york: new american library, 1976. reprinted as visitors from space: the astonishing true story of the mothman prophecies. st. albans

ves and edible acorns that the greeks and romans believed to be the first sustenance of mankind. the pelasgi regarded this tree as the tree of life. in this tree the god was supposed to reside and the rustling of its leaves and the voices of birds showed his presence. when the questioners entered, the oak rustled and the peliades said, thus speaks zeus. incense was burned beneath it. according to the legend, sacred doves continually inhabited the tree, like the marsoor oracle at tiora mattiene, where a sacred hawk predicted the future from the top of a wooden pillar. at the foot of the oak, a cold spring gushed and supposedly the inspired priestesses prophesied from this murmur. according to legend, when lighted torches were thrust into this fountain they would be extinguished and would re

, asserted that the brotherhood held frequent seances or circles at which a mystic table, moving on wheels, moved towards signs inscribed on the surface of a stone slab. the author stated that probably pythagoras, in his travels among the eastern nations, observed some such apparatus in use amongst them and adapted his idea from them. another trace of some such communicating mechanism is found in the legend told by the scandinavian blomsturvalla of how the people of jomsvikingia in the twelfth century had a high priest, one volsunga, whose predictions were renowned for their accuracy throughout the land. he had in his possession a little ivory doll that drew with a pointed instrument on parchment or other substance, certain signs to which the priest had the key. the communications were pro

ecounted this legend thought it probable that the priest had procured the doll in china. in the national museum at stockholm there is a doll of this description that is worked by mechanism, and when wound up it walks around in circles and occasionally uses its right arm to make curious signs with a pointed instrument like a pen that is held in the hand. its origin and use have been connected with the legend recounted above. the planchette and ouija board are devices to assist automatic writing. such instruments allow use by more than one individual during a sitting, as distinct from other forms of automatic writing when only the operator handles the pen or pencil. how it works the content of such messages may suggest either communications from spirit entities or unconscious mental processe

faithful to her. the guilty man longed to walk solid ground once more, but whenever he dared to put in to port to try to win the woman who might be able to save him, the devil drove him on board ship again, and his interminable voyage commenced again. century after century passed in this way, the ill-fated vessel gradually becoming familiar to all who sailed the north sea or lived by its shores. the legend did not disappear with a more skeptical age, for richard wagner evolved a drama from the legend, and his powerful music.charged so abundantly with the weirdness, mystery, and glamour of the surging ocean. vividly evokes the dutchman s ship driving before a gale, the criminal sitting terrified and hopeless at his useless helm. sea monsters among persistent legends of the sea is the belie

name or description of the person or demon against whom the magician directed his charm was also essential to success. drugs were originally ascribed the power vouchsafed by the gods for the welfare of mankind and were supposed to aid greatly in exorcism. in assyrian sorcery, ea and marduk were the most powerful gods, marduk being an intermediary between human beings and their father, ea; indeed the legend of marduk going to his father for advice was commonly repeated in incantations. when working magic against an individual it was necessary to have something belonging to him or her.clippings of hair, or fingernails if possible. the possessed person was usually washed, the principle of cleansing probably underlying this ceremony. an incantation called the incantation of eridu was often pr

mountains of kaf, there is a gallery built by the giant arzeak, where there are statues of a race who were ruled by the suleiman or wise king of the east. there is a great chair or throne of solomon hewn out of the solid rock called the takht-i-suleiman or throne of solomon. it is to these older suleimans that we must look for a connection with the tradition of occultism. it is not unlikely that the legend relating to solomon and his temple have been confused with these, and that the protagonists of the antiquity of freemasonry, who trace their organization to the building of solomon s temple, have intermingled some still older rite or mystery relating to the ancient dynasty of suleiman with the circumstances of the masonic activities of the hebrew monarch. hebrew historian josephus notes

eorge 1481 sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. denovan, w. c. d. the evidences of spiritualism. melbourne, 1882. springheeled jack legendary nineteenth-century british creature who supposedly harassed travelers and terrified women with his giant leaps, vicious behavior, and diabolical appearance. as the legend goes, he successfully eluded capture for many years, evading police and the army, and mocking them with his daring leaps and wild eerie laughter. reportedly, he was a large man in a black cloak, and when the cloak was thrown aside, blue and white flames shot from his mouth and his eyes appeared like balls of fire. his hands appeared to be metallic claws, with which he slashed at people

ls of fire. his hands appeared to be metallic claws, with which he slashed at people or tore their clothing. he was able to leap across high walls and hedges with ease. sometimes he even knocked or rang at front doors, using his athletic ability to escape after terrifying the occupant of the house. the first report survives from september 1837. a press account from 1838, quoted in peter haining s the legend and bizarre crimes of springheeled jack (1977, notes a typical incidence: she returned into the house and brought a candle and handed it to the person, who appeared enveloped in a large cloak, and whom she at first really believed to be a policeman. the instant she had done so, however, he threw off his outer garment, and applying the lighted candle to his breast, presented a more hideo

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sion by direct, physical encounter. see also: williamson, george hunt further reading williamson, george hunt, 1953. other tongue other flesh. amherst, wi: amherst press. agharti agharti is a subterranean kingdom, which allegedly exists in tibet or mongolia. it is, depending on whom one believes, a paradisiacal realm or a sinister lair of sorcerers and other evildoers mostly, however, the former. the legend of agharti seems loosely based on the buddhist realm of shambhala, a city of adepts and mystics said to be located in a hidden valley (called shangri-la in james hilton s popular novel lost horizon [1933] and in the movie of the same name. shambhala first appeared in a 1922 polish book, soon afterward translated into english as the best-seller beasts, men and gods. the author, ferdinand

picked up on the theme, depicting agharti as a city of evil that was linked to tunnels all over the world. he incorporated agharti into the shaver mystery, the subject of a series of tales amazing stories was running about an alleged underground realm populated by deros, demonic entities in possession of a fantastic atlantean technology, which they used to torment surface humans. in a variant of the legend, robert ernst dickhoff s agharta: the subterranean world (1951) contended that two and a half million years ago martians landed at antarctica, then 14 agharti the hidden world of shangri-la as depicted in the film lost horizon, directed by frank capra, 1937 (photofest) a tropical region, and created the first humans. then reptoid (that is, biped reptilian) venusians attacked, forcing th

d lost continent, almost certainly never existed in the real world, but it has long captured the imaginations of human beings. a vast literature scholars estimate cons e rva t i vely that more than two thousand books a d d ress the subject has tackled atlantis fro m a wide range of perspectives. some writers h a ve sought to establish, with what most scholars hold to be inconclusive results, that the legend arose from the mythologizing of a real event, though almost eve ry theorist has p roposed a different one. most writing, howe ve r, has taken an alternative- h i s t o ry appro a c h, paying little heed to mainstream arc h a e o l o g y, h i s t o ry, and science, while taking atlantis into the realm of unfettered speculation. the legend of atlantis begins in two works, timaeus and crit

istotle took the latter view. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as european explorers found their way to the americas, several writers, most prominently sir francis bacon (1551 1626, revived the myth of atlantis and theorized that its remains could be found in the newworld. that would be only the beginning of a new round of speculation. at one time or another, a modern chronicler of the legend observes, atlantis has been located in the arctic, nigeria, the caucasus, the crimea, north africa, the sahara, malta, spain, central france, belgium, the netherlands, the north sea, the bahamas, and various other locations in north and south america (ellis, 1998. among the most influential books ever written on the subject, atlantis: the antedilu- vian world (1882) was the creation of

dwide legends of a mighty deluge owe their origins to dim memories of the catastrophe that overwhelmed atlantis. the historical civilization influenced most directly by atlantis was ancient egypt. these re velations sparked international i n t e rest, and do n n e l l y s book went thro u g h many printings. for a time even some re putable scientists we re willing to consider the possibility that the legend was true, after all. indeed, donnelly was elected to the american association for the ad vancement of science. be f o re long, howe ve r, as critics exposed the book s errors, exaggerations, and assort e d scholarly shortcomings, belief in at l a n t i s m oved to the occult fringes, to be championed by the likes of theosophy founder helena pe t rovna bl a vatsky and other philosophers

e, a notion that aurora s residents vehemently rejected. confusing matters further, two elderly residents were now claiming that they had known persons who saw the wreckage. analysis of metal samples allegedly of the airship, however, proved it was an aluminum alloy of fairly recent vintage. there is no reason to believe that a martian died in aurora, texas, late in the nineteenth century. still, the legend inspired the 1985 film aurora encounter, a low-budget et set in the old west, and it remains one of texas s more exotic folktales. see also: allingham s martian; brown s martians; dead extraterrestrials; dentons s martians and venusians; hopkins s martians; khauga; martian bees; mince-pie martians; monka; muller s martians; shaw s martians; smead s martians; wilcox s martians further re

le the three points of the bermuda tr i a n g l e are florida, bermuda, and pu e rto rico. in modern legend, the triangle is more than an arbitrary geometric shape; its three points comprise the boundaries of a passage into a mysterious othe rworld. in the bermuda triangle, the laws of n a t u re are suspended, and ships, planes, and people disappear without a trace. a key event in the genesis of the legend was a real-life tragedy off the coast of florida on december 5, 1945. that afternoon, five avenger torpedo bombers flew out of the naval air station at fort lauderdale. flight 19, consisting of fourteen men (thirteen of them students in the last stage of training, headed on an eastern course toward the bahamas, intending to participate in a practice bombing at hens and chickens shoals

up by the immense waves the storm had summoned. at 7:50 that evening, a ship s crew saw a plane explode. a search for survivors and bodies was unsuccessful, though the vessel passed through a large oil slick from the craft. the navy believed that the mariner, a notoriously dangerous aircraft that was sometimes called a flying gas bomb, had blown up. if the facts seemed relatively straightforward, the legend that would grow in the wake of flight 19 s disappearance would be far more convoluted and fantastic. flight 19 s transformation from aviation tragedy to paranormal mystery would begin in september 1950, when associated press writer e.v.w. jones wrote a story about what he called the limbo of the lost, an area bordered by florida, bermuda, and puerto rico, where strange things happened

ears later, charles berlitz s the bermuda triangle, a compilation of lore that had already quietly circulated for years, became a major bestseller. that same year two paperbacks, the devil s triangle by richard winer and limbo of the lost by john wallace spencer, fueled public fascination and speculation. but the next year, in 1975, larry kusche s in-depth inquiry into the incidents that underlay the legend, the bermuda triangle mystery solved, undercut the myth-making by documenting the prosaic explanations that would have been apparent if the pro-triangle writers had done original research and not simply rewritten each other s books. the silence of the writers whom kusche criticized effectively ended the discussion. see also: oints further reading begg, paul, 1979. into thin air: people

or relevant documents, uncovering little of interest. around the same time, in 1994, the u.s. air force declared that there had indeed been a cover-up; it had been of project mogul, a highly classified project in which balloons were sent aloft to monitor possible soviet atomic tests over the horizon. a mogul balloon had come down near roswell, and the military s effort to keep it a secret sparked the legend of a ufo crash. in the face of press and popular skepticism (much of it focused on the explanation s failure to account for reports of bodies) the u.s. air force renewed its inquiries. on june 24, 1997, it contended that the supposedly alien bodies were in fact anthropomorphic test dummies that were carried aloft by u.s. air force high altitude balloons for scientific research (the rosw

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long time. they built the sphinx, the pyramids, and other classic ancient structureth1808 faust johann wolfgang von goethe translated by george madison priest goethe, johann wolfgang von (1749-1832- german poet, writer, and playwright who was a dominant influence in german literature. his primary focus was on the natural evolution of things rather than abstract theories. faust (1808) a play about the legend of faust who promises his soul to the destructive spirit mephistopheles in order to fulfill his desire of encountering life through experiences rather than through the study of philosophy. dedication ye wavering forms draw near again as ever when ye long since moved past my clouded eyes. to hold you fast, shall i this time endeavour? still does my heart that strange illusion prize? ye c

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ngs filled with flowing structure and others built around ritualistic concepts. psychonaut 75 in its current manifestation as a conceptual satanic industrial band provides an interest in the depth of ideology and theory behind the surface of the songs. founder and vocalist michael ford (keteb) structured fly the light around the vision of man and woman falling into the depths of darkness (as with the legend of satan) to discover the inner fire (black flame) of self-consciousness and divinity, to then mutate and transform into something godlike. this model is loosely attributed to the averse or black tree of life known as black eden or the qlippoth. songs such as chaos unveiled and fleshstretcher with their violent patterns and machine like rhythms are attributed to the qlippothic sphere of

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

ould not have occurred to anyone to doubt that these overwhelmingly authoritative writers must be right, and it is indeed a remarkable testimony to the prominence and importance of the hermetic writings and to the early and complete success of the hermes trismegistus legend as to their authorship and antiquity that lactantius, writing in the third century, and augustine in the fourth, both accept the legend unquestioningly. after quoting cicero on the fifth mercury as he "who gave c.h, ii, p. 328. 6 hermes trismegistus letters and laws to the egyptians, lactantius, in his institutes, goes on to say that this egyptian hermes "although he was a man, yet he was of great antiquity, and most fully imbued with every kind of learning, so that the knowledge of many subjects and arts acquired for h

of the world, which he saw in this expanded form of the infinite universe and the innumerable worlds as an expanded gnosis, a new revelation of the divinity from the "vestiges. copernicanism was a symbol of the new revelation, which was to mean a return to the natural religion of the egyptians, and its magic, within a framework which he so strangely supposed could be a catholic framework.2 thus, the legend that bruno was prosecuted as a philosophical thinker, was burned for his daring views on innumerable worlds or on the movement of the earth, can no longer stand. that legend has already been undermined by the publication of the sommario, which shows how little attention was paid to philosophical or scientific questions in the interrogations, and by the writings of corsano and firpo, lay

eva of protestant parents in 1559, was one of the most brilliant greek scholars of his time, profoundly erudite in all branches of classical learning and also in church history. his friend joseph scaliger thought him the most learned man in europe. in 1610 he was invited to england, and was encouraged by james i to embark on his criticism of baronius' annates ecclesiastici, in which his attack on the legend of the hoary antiquity of the hermetica is embedded. he died in 1614 and is buried in westminster abbey. the twelve huge volumes of the annates ecclesiastici of cesare baronius had appeared between 1588 and 1607; they were a counter reformation reply to the protestant view of church history.3 baronius used all the old romantic legends and the old sources with sincere enthusiasm and quit

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rge who are now in bondage either to church or state but waiting, whether they realize it or not, for the day of emancipation, symbolically represented as the millennium, when there will be a wonderful city, a new jerusalem, a city of peace. and the earlier this amalgamation can be brought about, the better for humanity. therefore, an attempt was made at the time and is the place which is said in the legend to be the scene of solomon's and hiram's love episode. there the two initiatory orders met for the consummation of a definite work of amalgamation symbolically called the molten sea, a work which was then attempted for the first time. it could not have been wrought at any earlier period, for man was not sufficiently advanced. at that time, however, it seemed as if the united efforts of

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ne affairs, the virgin of the sphere while she represented nature was also the constellation which appeared above the horizon at the winter solstice, or at the time when the sun had reached its lowest point and had begun to return. at this time, the 25th of december, and just as the days began to lengthen, this virgin gave birth to the sun-god. it is said that he issued forth from her side, hence the legend that gotama buddha was produced from the side of maya, and also the story believed by the gnostics and other christian sects that jesus was taken from the side of mary.[31 [31] the fact will doubtless be remembered that a similar belief was entertained concerning the birth of julius caesar. within the churches and in the streets of many cities of germany are to be observed figures of th

involved the idea not alone of good, but of good and evil combined. together they prefigured not only wisdom and generative power, but evil as well. mythologically they represented the cold of winter and the heat of the sun's rays, both of which were necessary reproduction. from this conception sprang the ormuzd and ahryman of the persians, the story of adam, eve, and the serpent in genesis, and the legend of kihua-kohuatl and tonakatl-koatl in mexico "the serpent remained in the memory and affections of most early people as wisdom, life, goodness, and the source of knowledge and science, under various names such as toth, hermes, themis, the kneph or sophia of egyptians and gnostics, and set, shet, or shem of the jews"[75 [75] forlong, rivers of life, etc, vol. i, p. 143. the serpent godd

a conclusion was, that in the old irish history a similar prophecy appears--a prophecy which was delivered by a "druid of bokhara" the identity of this irish prophecy with the one in the east ascribed to zarathustra or zoroaster, is so singular that faber thinks it can be accounted for only on the hypothesis "of an ancient emigration from persia to ireland by the northwest passage, which carried the legend with it" by those who have investigated the origin of the early gospels, it is stated that the story of the magi and the star appeared in the gospel of the infancy early in the second century, and was subsequently incorporated into the preparatory chapters of luke and matthew. according to waite, there was a sect of christians called prodiceans whose leader, prodicus, about a.d. 120, bo

128] gospel of the infancy, ch. xx. crishna had a terrible encounter with the serpent calinaga; the infant christ had also a dreadful adventure with a serpent. now this calinaga which crishna encountered was a serpent goddess who was worshipped by the sect in india which was opposed to the adoration of the male principle. the early christians, however, being ignorant of the allegorical meaning of the legend, transferred it to christ literally. the mother of crishna looked in his mouth and beheld all the nations of the earth. the same story is reported of christ and his mother. finally christ, like crishna, was crucified, and like him was buried. he descended into hell and on the third day arose and ascended into heaven.[129 [129] it will doubtless be urged that i am quoting from the apocry

med all the monasteries, bishops, and priests already there as a result of the remarkable power and pious zeal of this miracle-working saint. it is claimed that st. patrick founded over three thousand monasteries, consecrated three hundred bishops, and ordained three thousand priests. according to ledwich and other writers, this st. patrick was not heard of earlier than the ninth century a.d, and the legend concerning him "was not accepted until the twelfth century, at which time his miracles are set forth with great gusto" nothing, perhaps, which is recorded of this monk will go farther toward proving him a myth than the miracles ascribed to his saintship. while yet an infant he raised the dead, brought forth fire from ice, expelled a devil from a heifer, caused a new river to appear from

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ority.inancient egypt there is no very definite mention of angels as spiritual messengers, unless we consider the many minor deities as such. they were inferior to the great gods, were spiritual ideals, had definite earthly duties allotted to them and were many of them considered to be representatives and restricted forms of the gods of the upper andnetherwodds.theold arabian author murtadi gives the legend that the pyramids each had a guardian genius of angelic type, and that the great pyramid is held by a beautiful female who, however, drove mad every man who saw her.thespirit of the second126themagical masonpyramid is a nubian carrying a basket on his head and a censer in his hands.inchaldea the angels were called igigi, that is, spirits of heaven, and are related to the ribu, the divin

pelaea)built to resemble the natural caves used in earlier times, and from the period of its introduction to greek and roman countries statuary formed a constant feature; in these caves have been discovered numerous sculptured bas-reliefs illustr255 ating scenes in the life of mithra. while christians demolished these buildings very thoroughly, yet sufficient remains have been found to illustrate the legend of mithra pretty completely.inbritain even some fragments have been found; in london, while digging a sewer near walbrook, several portions of white marble sculpture, now preserved at the london museum; others at caerleon upon usk; chester; york, the old eboracum; housesteads, the old borcovicum near hadrian's wall, and at rochester, the old vindobala, near elsdon, both in northum255 be

find any real information, although josephus is said to mention them in his first book of antiquities, and two pillars erected before the noachian deluge are referred to in ancient masonic charges, for example in the 'cooke ms' of the 15th century, it is narrated that all science was written upon each of two pillars, one of which could not be destroyed by fire, and the other not injured by water; the legend relates that after the flood these two pillars were recovered by hermes and pythagoras and the inscriptions260themagical masonupon them formed the basis of all other knowledge. samuel erected a stone pillar between mizpah and shen and called it ebenezer (the stone of help, i samuel, vii, 12. king saul is said to have set up a pillar or monument at carmel as a memorial of his success ove

the new theory names the earliest stage lemuria (the hindoo name would confer no meaning to us, then acknowledges the atlantic continent, and that the lastpartto disappear was a great atlantic island beyond the pillars of hercules, that is, outside gibraltar;itsank beneath the ocean some 6,000 years before egyptian history begins: this great submergence gave rise to the widespread primary form of the legend of the flood. streams of survivors from this deluge, led by adepts, settled in egypt and passed to central asia, forming the sources of the great ancient nations which have flourished since the deluge. the first to obtain precedence was iran, ancient persia, then india, then chaldeo255 egyptian and semitic dominance, then the greco-roman, and last our own civilization, in which it is be

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ble by anyone who knew the celtic music.myoidfriend dr keith norman macdonald picked up many of these fairy tunes by ear, and scored them for the first time; some of the best known are included in his gesto collection. and most of them have legends connected with them. many of these were told to me over peat fires, when one or two pipers met and played against each other. thus it was that i heard the legend of crodh challein, colin's cattle, asome celtic memories105typical fairy story of the west. colin was betrothed to a beautiful girl,butone day she was carried off by the riders of the sidhe, who arefairy knight-adventurers, and bold gallant lovers, so 'tis said. but colin,whohad fairy blood himself, and was a person of influence, sought the fairy queen and begged for the restoration of

tral world are familiar to different branches of the celtic race. one must go to brittany for the cult of the dead, and certainlyanyonewho wishes to find fairy-lore as a real and vital faith should go to the western islands, and should go with a comprehension of, and love for, the celtic music. niel munro has told the story ofthelost pibroch as few others could tell it, and there were variants of the legend currentinthe islands in my boyhood,butit was generally said then that the tune was forgotten, and the last piper who could play it was dead. i was told, however, that in the recruiting days, some three years ago, the strains of the lost pibroch came booming over the islands, and many of the boys who were hesitating went straight off to the recruiting stations and enlisted,butnone knew w

ts based thereon.thestudent should make up his mind definitely whether it is witchcraft or folklorethathe intends to study. both are profoundly interesting.buressentially different, though they overlap at many points. perhaps wemaysay that folklore is the. archaeology, and witchcraft the biology,ofthis phase of human history. we study folklore.from outside,curious only as to its external aspects, the legend is a legend and no more, its form and its. variants. are. the important points.aut. we study witchcraft from within; the nature and psychology of the witch, what shedidand why she didit,her own view of herself and her powers and doings, what in fact it feels like to be a witch, are the essentials of the study,andthe truth of the stories becomes of paramount importance.ifwecanbut succeed

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

the most striking instance of the symbolic use of architecture is the monument called cleopatra's needle, given to the us as a gift in 1878 by the egyptian governer ismail. this monument is now in central park. its surface is covered with masonic emblems. this monument was originally erected in the 16th century bc at the entrance to a temple of the sun god, an initiation center in heliopolis. 76 the legend of isis the widow an important symbolic idea in masonry is that of the widow. masons call themselves the children of the widow, and pictures of widows often appear in their publications. what is the origin of this idea? who is this widow? when we examine masonic sources, we find that the symbol of the widow derives originally from an egyptian legend. this legend is one of ancient egypt'

ant myths the story of osiris and isis. lj materialism revisited an obelisk covered with masonic symbols in new york's central park. global freemasonry remains from ancient egypt: monuments of pharaohs with an obelisk rising in front of them in the valley of the kings. lk ll materialism revisited an ancient egyptian depiction of isis. osiris was a fertility god and isis was his wife. according to the legend, osiris was the victim of a crime of passion by which isis became a widow. so, the masonic widow is isis. an article in mimar sinan explains the matter in the following way: global freemasonry dcc the osiris-isis legend is the topic of many articles and lectures and is the closest of the ancient egyptian myths to masonry. the test to become a priest of the temple of isis is the masonic

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, the purest and most whole of beings, the macrocosmic whole, the living soul of nature and of the universe eternally united and uniting in the process of time with the divine and uniting all that is. the pillar and foundation of the truth, pavel florensky. the importance of sophia can be best understood when we understand the primal myth behind her nature. throughout many cultures there has been the legend of the goddess who is stolen from the world of life and is taken to the underworld. there she is kept captive pinning for her lover who is still in the other world. she waits and pines until at last some salvation is achieved by her hero coming into the underworld to save her. however, this salvation is at a cost and together they end in a battle against the underworld until the complet

e version of the classic tale. the spirit of god in man is a spark, a seed of light, it is caught in matter and crying out for salvation. the logos embodied in jesus answers the call and through great suffering offers salvation. but it is not that simple, for while sophia still lives in the world system, she can only travel to the upperworld by day and must return to the underworld by night or so the legend goes. so man, on the path of transfiguration, though being reborn through the powers of the pleroma must live in the world, but try not to be of it. sophia hence offers us some fascinating insights into the nature of god. she is the daughter of the divine will and yet is the part of the divine will itself, she is the spouse and lover of the logos and the spirit within man. she is reflec

ng out the change of tides and the flourishing of life. this reminds us that creation and destruction are the normal cycles of the universe and we must grow through them not being too attached to the material experience. since the triune principles do not directly manifest in the lower worlds the solar sphere becomes the intermediary, the manifestation and the gateway. in some sense this is where the legend of the incarnation or avatar originated. the belief that god came into the lower worlds is an adaptation or analogy to the process whereby the pleroma manifests via the solar sphere into the lower planes. for the gnostic, jesus, for example, was michael, a created being who incarnated and became christed, he was not god made flesh. there are many other entities who being old souls achie

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rent systems of runic interpretation, one of the more complete is futhark. in futhark there is a fully developed symbol system which correlates sound, letters, bodily postures, dates and timing as many other correspondences. both the druidic traditions and the runic seem to have much in common with the ariosophic hebraic forms. while the outer form may vary, the essential gnosis remains the same. the legend of odin in norse mythology odin is the god of magic, his name originates from the anglo-saxon and means pure spirit. he may be equated with thoth and mercury, but has many discrete and unique characteristics. odin is believed to be responsible for bringing runecraft to humanity. as part of his initiatory quest he hung on the world tree (ygdrassill) for nine days and nights and finally

n, myself an offering to myself, knotted to that tree, no man knows whither the roots of it run, gnostic theurgy page 113 none gave me bread, none gave me drink, down to the depths i peered, to snatch up the runes with a roaring scream and fell in a dizzied swoon. well-being i won and wisdom too, i grew and joyed in my growth from a word to a word, i was led to a word from a deed to another deed. the legend of odin symbolises the initiatory quest of transfiguration. while using the shamanic imagery of the indo-europeans, it embodies the transformation process albeit expressed in a different, while equally expressive and potent symbol system. as we experience the tree of life (ygdrassill) gaining knowledge from each of its nine centres (except earth, we must grasp (comprehend) the secret al

g both the light sun ruled by the guardian, reflecting zurvan and a hint that the sun also contains the darker force which is symbolised by the demiurge or negative saturn. the treasury of light cannot exist in the lower worlds, due to the fallen nature of the dialectic kingdoms. accordingly, the solar sphere becomes the intermediary, the manifestation and the gateway. in some sense this is where the legend of incarnation or the avatar sprang from. the belief that god came into the lower worlds is an adaptation or analogy to the process whereby the treasury of light is manifested in the currents of light, via the solar sphere. for the gnostic, jesus was michael, a created being who incarnated and became christed, he was not god made flesh. there are many other entities who being old souls

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ere obviously closely related. indeed, the similarities were unmissable, but there were also differences far too significant to be ignored. of course, the similarities could be due to unrecorded pre-colombian contacts between the cultures of the middle east and the new world, but there was one way to explain the similarities and the differences in a single theory. suppose that the two versions of the legend had evolved separately for several thousands of years, but prior to that both had descended from the same remotely ancient ancestor? remnants here s what the book of genesis says about the tower that reached to heaven: throughout the earth men spoke the same language, with the same vocabulary. now as they moved eastwards they found a plain in the land of shinar, where they settled. ther

ll, which was inscribed with the cartouche of seti i. 2 a similar dovetail in position inside the eastern wall of the central hall. 3 astronomical scenes and inscriptions by seti i carved in relief on the ceiling of the northern transverse chamber. 4 the remains of similar scenes in the southern transverse chamber. 5 an ostracon (piece of broken potsherd) found in the entrance passage and bearing the legend seti is serviceable to osiris .22 the reader will recall the lemming behaviour which led to a dramatic change of scholarly opinion about the antiquity of the sphinx and the valley temple (due to the discovery of a few statues and a single cartouche which seemed to imply some sort of connection with khafre. frankfort s finds at abydos caused a similar volte-face over the antiquity of the

(a) the oldest building in egypt, and (b) a relatively late new kingdom structure? proposition (b) that it is the cenotaph of seti i is the only attribution accepted by egyptologists. on close inspection, however, it rests on the circumstantial evidence of the cartouches and inscriptions which prove nothing. indeed part of this evidence appears to contradict frankfort s case. the ostracon bearing the legend seti is serviceable to osiris sounds less like praise for the works of an original builder than praise for a restorer who had renovated, and perhaps added to, an ancient structure identified with the first time god osiris. and another awkward little matter has also been overlooked. the south and north transverse chambers, which contain seti i s detailed decorations and inscriptions, lie

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eat work conception and drawing by elmer e. hartman 3 1 the basic premise first, some people among us are in the know about ufo phenomena, which have manifested throughout history. certain people have known the nature of this phenomena, and used its nature, for almost as long. second, those in the know are interactive with the phenomena and have long been so. indeed, separating out the phenomena, the legend, the myth-makers and the illuminati or initiates of the true nature of the phenomena is difficult. third, the phenomena themselves are inherently intangible, but are able to impinge upon our reality in a phenomenological way. because they are archetypal. through mythos, archetypes are quite capable of setting real events into motion. fourth, the illuminati of the phenomena become intert

the myth-makers and the illuminati or initiates of the true nature of the phenomena is difficult. third, the phenomena themselves are inherently intangible, but are able to impinge upon our reality in a phenomenological way. because they are archetypal. through mythos, archetypes are quite capable of setting real events into motion. fourth, the illuminati of the phenomena become intertwined with the legend or mythos itself, and thus take on the legend s power to impinge. the fully illuminated are in control of reality to the extent that the mythos itself is in control. they also, in a very real sense, acquire its intangibility. fifth, the illuminati of the ufonauts are scattered, informally organized on a worldwide basis. until the modern information revolution, they communicated through

the mythology of the secret masters or chiefs and the myth of the black lodge form an archetypal substratum of modern magical lore which is almost a necessity if magick is not to drift into a kind of bland parapsychological secular humanism or offbeat psychology on the one hand, or a religious fundamentalism grounded in a new faith substituted for christianity. but one should at least allow that the legend of secret chiefs may have some rather literal basis in fact; that there are high masters of the art scattered around the world, that they are in communication with one another, and that how they use their illumination depends upon their character and predisposition. this is all that one must grant to consider the great brotherhood, or secret chiefs, as well as their opposition plausible

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illions of years. when events corresponded to the 'time of coming forth of the heart' she said to her son horus "forces of attraction are from the iiving mirad of god. god has turned his two eyes. the mighty god has gven up his divine name. indeed, the mighty god has given up his divine name: ra. this was spoken by isis, the great one, the divine n stress of the gods, who knew ra by his own name. the legend of ra and .isis figures 1 to 16, appendix b, show the names of the major deities of the 16 subquadrants of the watchtowers. the four squares at the top of these figures contain the names of the kerubic angels. there are no demons or lesser angels in these upper squares (i.e, they are upper in the cense that they are located aboye the horizontal sephirothic cross bars) the names shown in

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end than sweden, it has moreover its popular lays to shew, into which songs of pit e face. xv the edda have been transmuted, witness the lay of thorns hammer (p. 181) and the solar-lay. in our own day, j. w. wolf is labouring on the popular traditions of belgium, and rob. chambers on those of scotland, with zeal and visible success. the fairy-tale (miirchen) is with good reason distinguished from the legend, though by turns they play into one another. looser, less fettered than legend, the fairy-tale lacks that local habitation, which hampers legend, but makes it the more homelike. the fairy-tale flies, the legend walks, knocks at your door; the one can draw freely out of the fulness of poetry, the other has almost the authority of history. as the fairy-tale stands related to legend, so do

e world's destruction she has not lost sight of to this day. but what is most fondly cherished in her, and woven into the gayest tissues, is the delightful narratives of giants, dwarfs, elves, little wights, nixies, night-hags and home-sprites, these last being related to the rest as the tame beasts of the fable are to the wild and unsubjugated: in poetry the wild is always superior to the tamed. the legend of the sun-blind dwarfs (pp. 466n, 1247) and that of the blood-vat (pp. 468 n, 902) remind us of the edda. in the fairy-tale also, dwarfs and giants play their part: swan-witchen (swan-white) and dorn-roschen (thorn-rose= sleeping beauty, pp. 425, 1204 are a swan-wife and a valkyr; the three spinning-wives, p. 415, are norns; the footstool hurled down from the heavenly seat (p. 136, dea

egend: holde, berhte, fricke, harke, gaue, stempe, trempe. at the first glance none of these names seem to go very high up; yet, berhte at all events is introduced in poems of the 14-1 5th century, and the matter begins to wear another look the moment we can set her beside the carolingian berhta, beside the eddie biort (p. 1149, beside the deeply rooted tradition of the' white lady' of dame holda the legend was never written down till the 1 7th century; if holda was in the venus-mountain, which goes as far back as the 14th, she at once gains in importance; then further, in the 12th century we can point to pharaildis (p. 284; and if, to crown all, huldana in the stone inscription is correct (p. 266, we can have but little doubt of a gothic worship of hul 7o (p. 990. now, as bei'hta and hold

alemanns or bavarians, we must remember that this (apparent) preference is mainly due to the longer continuance of heathenism in the north; that in the first few centuries after conversion the south too would have borne abundant witness to the god. upper germany has now scarcely a single name of a place compounded with wuotan (p. 158, wuotan's day has there given place to' midweek' and just there the legend of his' wiitende heer' is found more alive than elsewhere! it would be a great thing to ascertain whereabouts whether among goths the designation fairguneis prevailed above that of thunrs. any conclusion drawn from the proximity of the lithuanian perkunas, the slavic perun, may seem bold, though it is precisely to these two nations that the gothic and high german incline more than the l

take another striking instance: the story of the three cousins (p. 415) who had spun till the nose of one grew long, another's eyes red, and another's fingers thick, is told still more vividly in norway (a.sb. and moe, no. 13, and most vividly in scotland (chambers, p. 54-5. or the changeling's unfailing formula (pp. 469. 927, was that conveyed from denmark to scotland, from ireland to hesse? was the legend of the willow that has never heard a cock crow (p. 1243) handed over by the romans to the poles; and the myth of the thunder-bolt by the greek to the slav, by the slav to the german? did a little bird always pick up the legendary seed, and lug it over hill and dale to other lands? i believe myth to be the common property of many lands, that all its ways are not yet known, but that it is

lav, by the slav to the german? did a little bird always pick up the legendary seed, and lug it over hill and dale to other lands? i believe myth to be the common property of many lands, that all its ways are not yet known, but that it is properest to that nation with whose gods it closely coalesces, as a word common to several languages may best be claimed by that one which can explain its root. the legend of tell relates no real event, yet, without fabrication or lying, as a genuine myth it has shot up anew in the bosom of switzerland, to embellish a transaction that took hold of the nation's inmost being. i do not deny for a moment, that beside this mysterious diffusion of myths there has also been borrowing from without, nay, that they could be purposely invented or imported, though it

on a maidservant, who was toiling in the sweat of her brow, but, on being asked, immediately laid her sickle down, and saw the lord into the right road 'be this maid' said the saviour to peter 'assigned to none other but that man (in agricola, spr. 354, the maid is idle and the man industrious. this recalls not only perkunos with the horse and ox, but the norns or fays passing through the land in the legend quoted on p. 409. old french poems give the part of short-sighted peter to the hermit who escorts an angel through the world (meon, nouv. rec. 2, 116, and pref. to tome 1; from mielcke's lith. sprachl. p. 167 i learn that the same version prevails in samogitia, and the gesta romanor. cap. 80 tell of the angelus et eremita. as the gods lodged with philemon and baucis, so does a dwarf tra

a god was a lie; and the first christian centuries abhorred image-worship, though it gradually found its way into the church again. the statues of greek gods, we know, proceeded originally from a sacred type, which only by degrees became more secular; the paintings of the mid. ages, and even raphaefs great soul-stirring compositions, for want of such a type, were obliged to invent their figures, the legend from which artists chiefly drew their subjects being already song or story; accordingly these pictures stand lower than the works of greek art, and the spirit of protestantism insists on their being bundled out of the churches. but if our heathen gods were imagined sitting on mountains and in sacred groves, then our medieval churches soaring skyward as lofty trees, whose sublime effect

track of game at the seasons just mentioned, for fear of the wild man and the ivood-ivife. no herdsman will drive cattle out, the flocks and herds are watered in the stable, children fetching the water in earthen vessels from the nearest spring. for the wood-wife the women spin a portion of hair (flax) on their distass, and throw it in the fire as a peace-off'ering to her (hormayr's tyrol 1, 141. the legend of the tvild hunt extends to the ardennes, and wolf in his niederl. sagen nos. 516-7 (con, p. 706) justly lays stress on the fact that the object hunted is usually the boar, that a woodcutter who had taken part in the hunt was a whole fortnight salting hoar's flesh; which reminds us of the hoar of the einheriar (pp. 318, 386, the caro aprina, and the roast boar in the legend of walther

the whole night long, afz. 2, 156. but this myth of tanhauser accords with many others, esp. celtic ones. tanhauser passes many a year with holda in the mountain, so does tamlane with the queen of fays, thomas of ercildon with the fairy queen (scott's minstr. 2, 193. 3, 181 3, ogier 200 years with fata morgana in avalon: she had pressed a garland on his head, which made him forget everything, but the legend is teutonic for all that, it is told in sweden of the elf-king's daughter (p. 466 and afz. 2, 141, and in the kinderm. of frau fortuna, altd. bl. 1, 297. and so does odysseus stay with calypso and with circe; but who would think of derivinfi the story of tanhauser from that of ulysses or orpheus, as mone does (anz. 5, 168? 1 joh. hortzschansky's sitten u. gebr. der wenden, part 3 (dessa

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nt is in lith. milzinas, milzinis, lett, milsis, milsenis; but it would be overbold to connect with it german names of places, milize (trad. fuld. 2, 40, milsenburg, melsungen. the slovak obor, boh. obr, 0. pol. obrzym* pol. olbrzym, is unknown to the south slavs, and seems to be simply avarus, abarus -nestor calls the avars obri (ed. schlozer 2, 112-7. the &lt; grsecus avar &gt; again in the legend of zisa (p. 292-5) is a giant. now, i neue mitth. des thiir. sachs. vereins 3, 130-6. 5, 2. 110-132. 6, 37-8. the wow t?tiz t!f? n ^ing 8iant-like but ^ther a goddess standing on a lommo a 1? v hat a 8iant s tomb on mt. blanc is caued la tombe du bon rated m t^^expression associated with the idea of a sacred venep 430 l pra&gt; p 9)&gt; c nf als oodgubbe used of thorr, p. 167, a

ppare men (shalt turn to stone, and never more make skipper moan. the giantess turned into stone, and the king erected a cross at dalky church in elfdals herred.2 the danish rhyme is also quoted as follows: hor du oluf rodeskjag, hvi seiler du igjennem vor stueviig (through our chamber wall? and: stat du der og bliv til steen, og (gjor) ingen dannemand (no dane) mere til ineen! 3 in norway itself the legend runs thus: the hornelen mountains in bremanger were once connected with maroe, but are now divided from it by a sound. sfc. olaf sailed up to them, and commanded the cliffs to part and let him pass through. they did so, but instantly a giantess leapt out of the mountain and cried: sig (see, du mand med det hvide skag (white beard, hvi splitter du saa min klippevag? olaf: stat (stand) tr

e could tell 1 buttmann on the myth of the deluge, p. 21. 2 conf. the annolied 308 seq, which brings the bavarians from armenia. 3 all this in buttmann, pp. 24-27. 578 ceeation. the approach of storm by her flying back, and of fair weather by her keeping away. lucian (de dea syria, cap. 12. 13) calls him tov ztcvoea (the scythian; if that sprang out of, 1 it may have long had this altered form in the legend itself. some branches of the greek race had their own stories of an ancient flood, of which they called the heroes ogyges and ogygos; 2 but all these accounts are wanting in epic details.3 a rich store of these opens for us in the indian mahabharata.4 king hanus stood on a river s bank, doing penance, when he heard the voice of a little fish imploring him to save it. he caught it in his

r-sprite. the danube whirlpool and others still have separate legends of their own. plutarch (in his caesar, cap. 19) and clement of alex (stromat. 1, 305) assure us that the german prophetesses watched the eddies of rivers, and by their whirl and noise explored the future. the norse name for such a vortex is fors, dan. fos, and the isl. sog. 1, 226 expressly say, blotafti forsin (worshipped the. the legend of the river- sprite fossegrim was touched upon, p. 493; and in such a fors dwelt the dwarf andvari (seem. 180. fornald. sog. 1, 152. but animal sacrifices seem to have been specially due to the whirlpool (80/09, as the black lamb (or goat) to the fossegrim; arid the passages quoted from agathias on pp. 47, 100, about the alamanns offering horses to the rivers and ravines, are to the sa

ing here. 2 a striking confirmation appears in v. hugo s notre dame de paris 2, 272: he states, from a book or from oral tradition, that the gipsies call the fox piedbleu, coureur des bois, the wolf piedgris, pieddore, and the bear vieux or grandpere. 668 teees and animals. asbidrn, as. osbeom, ohg. anspero, and on. asurna, ohg. anspirin (in walth. ospirn, ospirinberg, mb. 28. 2, 123; ap parently the legend of the animal s sacredness was still in full swing among the people. biorn was a side-name of thorr, and welsh legend presents king arthur as a bear and a god, which is not to be accounted for by the mere resemblance of his name to apktos: the bear in the sky plays a most dignified part. in the edda a by-name of the bear is vetrli&i, hiemem sustiuens (sn. 179. 222, because he sleeps thr

e: and then swallows (igftor) give him sound advice, srem. 190-1. to kill swallows brings misfortune: ace. to sup. i, 378 it occasions four weeks rain; and their nests on the houses no one dares knock down. from saxo s account (p. 327) of the oaken statue of kugivit, we may conclude that the slavs had let swallows build on it in peace (see suppl. the mythical character of the swan is certified by the legend of swan-wives (p. 426) and by the bird s own death-song (see suppl. the stork too was held inviolable, he is like swallows a herald of spring; his poetic name certainly reaches back to heathen times, but hitherto has baffled all explanation. ohg. glosses give odebero, graff 3, 155, udebero, sumerl. 12, 16, otivaro, odebore, fundgr. 1, 386, odeboro, gl. tross; mhg. adebar only in diut. 3

dragon, fornald. sog. 1, 237-8. the rapid growth of the worm has a startling similarity to that of the fish, p. 578. but, beside the hoarded gold which the heroes carry off as prize, the adventure brings them other advantages: eating the dragon s heart gives one a knowledge of beasts language, and painting oneself with his blood hardens the skin against all injury. both features enter deeply into the legend of siegfried (see suppl. l nearly all of this has its counterpart in the beliefs of other nations. as the romans borrowed gigas from the greeks, so they did draco, for neither serpens nor vermis was adequate (like our slango and wurm) to express the idea. now spdicwv comes from sepxeiv to look, illumine, flash out &lt/&gt;ao? besop/ce expresses illuminating light, and this confi

de civ. dei 4, 24, was goddess of bees; the lith. austheia was the same, jointly with a bee-god bybylus. masculine too was the lett. uhsinsh, i.e, the hosed one, in reference to bees legs being covered with wax( waxen thighs, mids. dream 3, 1. from all these fancies, mostly foreign, we might fairly make guesses about our own lost antiquities; but we should have to get more exact information as to the legend of the bee-wolf (pp. 369, 673) and the mythic relationship of the woodpecker (lith. melleta) to the bee (see suppl. chapter xxii. sky and staks. the visible heavens have in many ways left their mark on the heathen faith. not only do gods, and the spirits who stand next them, have their dwelling in the sky, and get mixfc up with the stars, but earthly beings too, after their dissolution

stella, because the swains drove their herd home when it appeared. again, in o. iv. 9, 24 christ is compared to the sun, and the apostles to the eleven daystars, dagasterron here meaning not so much luciferi as the signs of the zodiac. there are no native names for the polar star (see suppl. twice the edda relates the origin of particular stars, but no one knows now what constellations are meant. the legend of orvandils-td and the as. earendel, ohg. orentil, has been cited, p. 374; this bright luminary may have meant the morningstar. then the ases, having slain the giant thiassi, had to atone for it to his daughter skaisi. 0$inn took thiassi s eyes and threw them against the sky, where they formed two stars, sn. 82-3. these augu thiassa are most likely two stars that stand near 1 in an old

y means a blackish-brindled cow; and bozhyi stolets, god s stool, just as the rainbow is a chair of the welsh goddess geridwen (dav. brit. myth. 204; conf( god s chair/ supra p. 136. lett, warrawihksne, liter, the mighty beech? lith. laumes yosta, lauma s or laima s girdle (sup. p. 416; also dangaus yosta heaven s girdle, jdlpinnis dangaus heaven s bow, urorykszte weather-rod; more significant is the legend from polish lithuania, noticed p. 580, which introduces the rainbow as messenger after the flood, and as counsellor. finn, taiwancaari, arcus coelestis. in some parts of lorraine courroie de 8. lienard, couronne de s. bernard. in superst. esth. no. 65 it is the thunder-god s sickle, an uncom monly striking conception. to the greeks the ipis was, as in the 0. test, a token of the gods, i

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een horus and seth.10 this kind of historicizing approach to myth has been out of fashion for many years but has recently been revived. introduction 5 objects from the late protodynastic period belonging to kings called narmer, aha, and scorpion have been recovered from temple deposits at hierakonpolis and abydos. these kings may have been rulers of most of egypt. they probably all contributed to the legend of menes the uniter. their ritual objects belong to a formative stage in egyptian art. strict rules were being developed to govern the content and style of the art used in palaces, temples, or tombs. this formal court-based art rapidly replaced previous styles and became the standard canon for over 3,000 years.11 myths often focus on episodes of intense conflict or tragedy, but the egyp

inscriptions on the walls have allowed scholars to reconstruct annual ceremonies such as the festival of the beautiful union, which celebrated the coming together of horus and hathor. the festival of victory commemorated the triumph of horus over seth and his followers (see figures 31 and 32. this conflict seems to have been acted out on and around the temple lake.86 a second mythological drama, the legend of the winged disk, has horus defending ra against his enemies, a role usually taken by the eye goddess. the foundation of the temple is traced back to the first time in a series of texts sometimes known as the edfu cosmogony.87 every major ptolemaic temple seems to have had its own creation myth, with the principal deity of the temple playing the role of creator. texts of this introduc

o renew the cosmos. texts and scenes at edfu illustrate the diversity of myths centered on horus. a mythical history of the temple relates how two mysterious beings subdued the primeval swamp by cutting down reeds. when they stuck a reed in the ground, it became a perch for the celestial falcon. the reed hut built to house the falcon was said to be the center of the world and the first temple. in the legend of the winged disk, horus (the distant one) takes the role usually given to the distant goddess and transforms himself into a fiery disk to blind and destroy the sun god s enemies. in the ritual drama known as the triumph of horus, horus, son of isis, harpoons seth in hippopotamus form. after a series of battles by land and water, he drives seth and his followers out of egypt, just as e

horizon between them. these lions had various temporal meanings. they could represent yesterday and tomorrow or two forms of time: nh.h (eternal recurrence) and d- t (eternal sameness. see also aten; atum; eye of ra; feline deities; geb; maat; onuris references and further reading: h. te velde. schu. in lexicon der gyptologie v. wiesbaden: 1984, 735 737 (in english. s. west. the greek version of the legend of tefnut. journal of egyptian archaeology 55 (1969: 161 183. primary sources: pt 600; ct 76, 78, 80; bd 17; bhc; hmp; mt; brp; ismailia naos; eofs deities, themes, and concepts 197 sia and hu (hw) sia and hu were the principles of creative thought and speech personified as gods. sia has also been translated as perception or insightful planning and hu as authority or authoritative utter

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or sekhet-hetepet. in chronological order the next picture of sekhet-hetepet to be considered is that from the papyrus of ani, and it will be seen at a glance that in details it differs from that already described. ani adores the gods in the first division, but he burns no incense; the boat in which he paddles is loaded with offerings, and he is seen dedicating an offering to the bearded figure. the legend reads "living in peace in sekhet--winds for the nostrils" the second division contains scenes p. 45 click to view sekhet-hetepet (papyrus of ani, british museum, no. 10,740, sheet 32. p. 47 of' reaping and treading out of corn, but only three pools of water instead of four. in the third division we see an! ploughing the land by the side of a stream of untold length and breadth, which is

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n abrupt shock, loud clatter, and, as the eyes open, the soul-ego looks out throughthem in amazement. the heavy gaze meets the respectful and solemn face of the physician offering the usualdraught. the train stops. he rises from his couch weaker and wearier than ever, to see around him endlesslines of troops armed with a new and yet more murderous weapon of destruction- ready for the battlefield. the legend of the blue lotusthe title of every magazine or book should have some meaning, and especially should this be the case with atheosophical publication. a title is supposed to express the object in view, symbolising, as it were, thecontent of the paper. since allegory is the soul of eastern philosophy, it may be objected that nothing can beseen in the name "le lotus bleu" save that of a wa

lves in the verandah of the traveller's bungalow in the wet evenings of the rainy season. let us leavethen the orientalists to their fantastic speculations. how does it concern us whether the father of the selfishand cowardly prince, who was the cause of the transformation of the white lotus into the blue lotus, be calledharischandra or ambarisha? names have nothing to do with the naive poetry of the legend, nor with itsmoral- for there is a moral to be found if looked for well. we shall soon see that the chief episode in thestory is curiously reminiscent of another legend- that of the story of abraham and the sacrifice of isaac inthe bible. is not this one more proof that the secret doctrine of the east may have good reason to maintainthat the name of the patriarch was neither a chaldean

nce he is right* the particle a in the sanskrit word shews this clearly. placed before a substantive thisparticle always means the negation or the opposite of the meaning of the expression thatfollows. thus sura (god) written a -sura, becomes non-god, or the devil, vidya isknowledge, and a-vidya, ignorance or the opposite of knowledge, etc, etc. we will speak of it another time. meanwhile here is the legend of the blue lotuscentury after century has passed away since ambarisha, king of ayodhya, reigned in the city founded by theholy manu, vaivasvata, the offspring of the sun. the king was a suryavansi (a descendant of the solarrace, and he avowed himself a most faithful servant of the god, varuna, the greatest and most powerfuldeity in the rig-veda* but the god had denied male heirs to his

nd because of this becomes a rishi himself in this life or in hisnext incarnation* this lake is sometimes called in our day pokker. it is i place famous for a yearlypilgrimage, and is charmingly situated five english miles from ajmeer in rajisthan. nightmare talesthe blue lotus23 pushkara means "the blue lotus, the surface of the lake being covered as with a carpet withthese beautiful plants. but the legend avers that they were at first white. pushkara is also theproper name of a man, and the name of one of the seven sacred islands" in the geography ofthe hindus, the septa dwipa* varuni, goddess of heat (later goddess of wine) was also born of the ocean of milk. ofthe "fourteen precious objects" produced by the churning, she appeared the second andlakshmi the last, preceded by the chalice

stretched thereon was seen a hind (rohit)*which was none else than the prince rohita, devarata, who, pierced to the heart with the knife he haddirected against another, was burning as a sacrifice for his sin* a play upon words. rohit in sanskrit is the dame of the female of the deer, the hind, androhita means "red. it was because of his cowardice and fear of death that he was changed,according to the legend, into a hind by the gods. some little way apart from the altar, also lying stretched out, but on a bed of lotuses, peacefully sleptsunahsepha; and in the place on his breast where the knife had descended was seen to bloom a beautiful bluelotus. the pushkara lake, itself, covered a moment before with white lotuses, whose petals shone in the sunlike silver cups full of amrita's waters [th

ad madehimself proficient in magic arts, it was asserted, and had succeeded thereby in imprisoning the souls of histwo victims in his violin- his famous cremona. it is maintained by the immediate friends of ernst t. w. hoffmann, the celebrated author of die elixire desteufels, meister martin, and other charming and mysterious tales, that councillor crespel, in the violin ofcremona, was taken from the legend about paganini. it is as all who have read it know, the history of acelebrated violin, into which the voice and the soul of a famous diva, a woman whom crespel had loved andkilled, had passed, and to which was added the voice of his beloved daughter, antonia. nor was this superstition utterly ungrounded, nor was hoffmann to be blamed for adopting it, after he hadheard paganini's playing

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

incarnating principle, or the "lord" in us. kumara (sans) a virgin boy or young celibate. the first kumaras are the page 157 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt seven sons of brahm, born out of the limbs of the god in the so-called ninth creation. it is stated that the name was given to them owing to their formal refusal to "procreate" their species, and thus they "remained yogis" according to the legend. labro, st. a roman saint solemnly beatified a few years ago. his great holiness consisted in sitting at one of the gates of rome night and day for forty years, and remaining unwashed through the whole of that time, the result of which was that he was eaten by vermin to his bones. lao-tzu (chin) a great sage, saint, and philosopher, who preceded confucius. law of retribution (see karma

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

of the intergalactic haitian guerillas for world peace and is patron of the season of discord. 3.sri syadasti is the apostle of psychedelia and the patron of the season of confusion. 4.zarathud, a hermit of medieval europe, has been dubbed offender of the faith. he is patron of the season of bureaucracy. 5.malaclypse the elder is alleged to have been an ancient wiseman who carried as sign bearing the legend dumb through the alleys of rome, baghdad, mecca, jerusalem, and some other places. he is patron of the season of aftermath. 28 phil hine spiral pentagrams this bit explains the spiral pentagrams referred to in the discordian opening rite. the traditional pentagram is a very solid, geometrical figure- i find its association with banishing to be very appropriate. so what, i thought one da

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

sked them what connection with france or its language the house could have, they confessed themselves as frankly baffled and ignorant as i. archer knew nothing, and all that miss harris could say was that an old allusion her grandfather, dutee harris, had heard of might have shed a little light. the old seaman, who had survived his son welcome's death in battle by two years, had not himself known the legend; but recalled that his earliest nurse, the ancient maria robbins, seemed darkly aware of something that might have lent a weird significance to the french ravings of rhoby harris, which she had so often heard during the last days of that hapless woman. maria had been at the shunned house from 1769 till the removal of the family in 1783, and had seen mercy dexter die. once she hinted to

a surly fellow whose erratic conduct had probably provoked the riot which wiped out the family, was particularly a source of speculation; and though providence never shared the witchcraft panics of her puritan neighbours, it was freely intimated by old wives that his prayers were neither uttered at the proper time nor directed toward the proper object. all this had undoubtedly formed the basis of the legend known by old maria robbins. what relation it had to the french ravings of rhoby harris and other inhabitants of the shunned house, imagination or future discovery alone could determine. i wondered how many of those who had known the legends realized that additional link with the terrible which my wider reading had given me; that ominous item in the annals of morbid horror which tells of

hulhu first came, and why half the great temporary stars of history had flared forth. i guessed- from hints which made even my informant pause timidly- the secret behind the magellanic clouds and globular nebulae, and the black truth veiled by the immemorial allegory of tao. the nature of the doels was plainly revealed, and i was told the essence (though not the source) of the hounds of tindalos. the legend of yig, father of serpents, remained figurative no longer, and i started with loathing when told of the monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space which the necronomicon had mercifully cloaked under the name of azathoth. it was shocking to have the foulest nightmares of secret myth cleared up in concrete terms whose stark, morbid hatefulness exceeded the boldest hints of ancient and me

HP LOVECRAFT THE TOMB

my tenancy of the body i now possess. the year after i first beheld the tomb, i stumbled upon a worm-eaten translation of plutarch's lives in the book-filled attic of my home. reading the life of theseus, i was much impressed by that passage telling of the great stone beneath which the boyish hero was to find his tokens of destiny whenever he should become old enough to lift its enormous weight. the legend had the effect of dispelling my keenest impatience to enter the vault, for it made me feel that the time was not yet ripe. later, i told myself, i should grow to a strength and ingenuity which might enable me to unfasten the heavily chained door with ease; but until then i would do better by conforming to what seemed the will of fate. accordingly my watches by the dank portal became les

HP LOVECRAFT THE UNNAMABLE

ut his curiosity was undeterred "and what about the window-panes "they were all gone. one window had lost its entire frame, and in all the others there was not a trace of glass in the little diamond apertures. they were that kind- the old lattice windows that went out of use before 1700. i don't believe they've had any glass for a hundred years or more- maybe the boy broke 'em if he got that far; the legend doesn't say" manton. was reflecting again "i'd like to see that house, carter. where is it? glass or no glass, i must explore ft a little. and the tomb where you put those bones, and the other grave without an inscription- the whole thing must be a bit terrible "you did see it- until it got dark" my friend was more wrought upon than i had suspected, for at this touch of harmless theatri

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flying or swimming, corresponding to the kind of object in question. the scholar must be able to transmute his consciousness in any form he likes to without interruption if he wishes to regard this as being mastered. adepts who have been practicing this exercise for years are able to understand any animal and handle it by their will power. in connection with this fact, all we need is to remember the legend of werewolves and other tales i which wizards transmuted themselves into animals. but fairy tales and legends have a far deeper significance to the magician. there is no doubt that these are cases of the so-called black magicians, who adopt all sorts of animal shapes in the invisible world not to be recognized whole doing their wicked work. the good magician will always condemn such act

advance, others again will protect him. or forward messages to him, etc. there is no need to quote all the possibilities, because all of them are individual and depend on the desires that the magician wants to be realized with the help of the elementaries. the speaking pictures, columns and statures in the temples of the ancient may certainly be interpreted as an outgrowth of elementaries magic. the legend concerning the golem, who is said to have been created by the wise rabbi low in prague likewise goes back to the creation of elementaries. but in the case of golem the creation has been produced with the rites of the quabbalah. anybody who knows of quabbalistic mysticism is informed about these facts. the synthesis remains the same as quoted in this method. method 3: before i explain th

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

y known as the "great earl" who was betrayed and killed in 1583, has passed from the region of history to that of mythology, p. 70 as he is credited with being the husband (or son) of a goddess. not many miles from the city of limerick is a lonely, picturesque lake, lough gur, which was included in his extensive possessions, and at the bottom of which he is supposed to lie enchanted. according to the legend 1 he was a very potent magician, and usually resided in a castle which was built on a small island in that lake. to this he brought his bride, a young and beautiful girl, whom he loved with a too fond love, for she succeeded in prevailing upon him to gratify her selfish desires, with fatal results. one day she presented herself in the chamber in which her husband exercised his forbidden

black horse that ever was seene, and told him that that horse was the earl of desmond, and that he had three shoes alreadye, when he hath the fourthe shoe, which should be very shortlie, then should the earl be as he was before, thus guarded with many armed men conveying him out of the gates. the fellow came home, but never was any castle in that place either before or since" the local variant of the legend states that the seller of the horse was a clare man, and that he went home after having been paid in gold the full amount of a satisfactory bargain, but on the following morning found to his great mortification, that instead of the gold coins he had only a pocketful of ivy leaves. readers of victor hugo's notre dame will recall the incident of the cu that (apparently) p. 76 was transfor

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- tion of the hideous bellowings of the demons, their enforced glorification saint, and so on, is too long for this chapter. suffice it to say that as we read the numerous questions offered by dominic and the answers of the demons, we become fully convinced that they corroborate in every detail the unwarranted assertions and support the interests of the church. the narrative is suggestive. the legend graphically describes the battle of the exorcist with the legion from the bottomless pit. the sulphurous flames which burst forth from the nose, mouth, eyes, and ears, of the demoniac; the sudden appearance of over a hun- dred angeb, clad in golden armor; and, finally, the descent of the blessed virgin herself, in person, bearing a golden rod, with which she adminis- 140. cf. jean marti

egyptian t (tau, assuming slightly the figure of the letter y "its lower end b the mark of the masculine triad" says inman "the right hand (of the figure) has the forefinger extended, like the assyrian priests while doing homage to the grove. when a male dons the pallium in worship, he becomes the representative of the trinity in the unity, the arba, or mystic four "immaculate is our lady isis" b the legend around an engraving 190. he prieita^ isii were todstued. 191. ancient pofon and modem ckrielian jsirmbotum, pp. 51. b, digilizocb, google catbouc bells from the buddhist pagodas 9s of serapis and isis, described by kng, in the gnoi^ict and their remmnt, h kypia eicic atnh. the very terms applied afterwards to that personage (the virgin mary) who succeeded to her form, titles, sym- bols

p partially by indirect evidence, still more by blind faith, tjiey have become, with time, articles of faith. even the fictitious massacre of the 'innocents' by king herod has a certain foundation to it, in its alle- gorical sense. apart from the now-discovered fact that the whole story of such a massacre of the innocents is bodily taken from the hinda bhdgavata-purdna, and br^manical traditions, the legend refers more- over, allegorically, to a historical fact. king herod is the copy of kansa, the tyrant of mathura, the maternal uncle of krishna, to whom astrolo- gers predicted that a son of his niece devah would deprive him of his throne. therefore he gives orders to kill the male child that is bom to ber; but krishna escapes his fury through the protection of mahddeca (the great god, wh

considered a potent spell against epilepsy and de- m(huacal possession; and the "signet of the living god" brou^t down in st. john's vision by the angel ascending from the east to "seal the servants of our god in their foreheads" was but the same mystic tau the egyptian cross. in the painted glass of st. dionysus (france) this angel is represented as stamping this sign on the forehead^ the elect; the legend reads, siqmvm tay. in king's onottici the author reminds us that "this mark is commonly borne by st. anthony, an egyi^ian recluse" what the real meaning of the tau was, is explained to us iqr the christian st. john, the egjrptian hermes, and the hinda br&hmanas. it b quite evident that, with john at least, it meant the 'ineffaue name' as he calls this "signet of the living god" a few ch

first cause. as in the kahalistic system, it represents the boundless and infinite void within which is concealed in fjai-lnnwi the unknown rimal motor of all. it envelops hnf like a veil: in short we recog- nise again the' shekhinah' of the ain-soph. alone the name of iad, lao, marks the upper center, or rather the presumed spot where the unknown one may be supposed to dwell. around the lao runs the legend. celfbc euah abpasaa "the eternal sun-abrasax (the central spiritual sun of all the kabalists, represented in some diagrams of the latter by the circle of tiphereth. from this region of unfathomable depth issues forth a circle formed cycle (tmtxik, composed (rf smaller ones. celled within, so as to follow the spirals, lies the

certain period of time a solemn ceremony takes place, during which all the elders and the initiates of the highest two degrees start out for a pilgrimage of several days to a certain place in the mountains. hi^ meet within the safe predncts rjl a monastery said to have been erected during the earliest times of the christian era. outwardly one sees but old ruins of a once grand edifice, used, says the legend, by some gnostic sects as a place of worship during the religious persecutions. the ruins above ground, however, are but a convenient mask, the subterranean chapel, halls, and cells covering an area of ground far greater than the upper building; while the rich- ness of ornamentation, the beauty of the ancient sculptures, and the gold and silver vessels in this sacred resort, appear like

asis for the trinity, but even the legends and mythical stories which had been current among the admirers of the great philo- sopher for in the eyes of his posterity a time-honored custom required such an allegorical homage to every hero worthy of deification were revamped and used by the christians. without going so far as india, did they not have a ready model for the 'miraculous conception' in the legend about perictione, plato's mother* in her case it was also muntained by popular tradition that she had immaculately conceived him, and that the god apollo was his father. even the annunciation by an angel to joseph "in a dream" the christians copied from the message of apollo to ariston, perictione's husband, that the child to be bom from her was the offspring of that god. so too, romulu

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representing the mithraic sacrifice of the bull, with its mystic accompaniments (no. 14, grand central saloon, he will perceive the scarab uis, or crab, playing a peculiar part in the particulars of the grand rite so strangely typified, and also so remotely. the motto placed under the lilies, which are the arms of france, runs as follows: lilia non laborant, neque nent. this is also (as all know) the legend, or motto, accompanying the royal order of knighthood denominated that of the saint-esprit, in france. we are immediately now recalled to those exceedingly obscure, but very significant, words of our saviour, which have always seemed very erroneously interpreted, on account of their obvious contradictions: consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they s

epiphanius. neatly engraved in a beautiful red sard, fashioned to an octagon form; phallic idols. 275 a shape never met in the class of antique gems, though so much affected in mediaeval art, on account of its supposed mystic virtues (the gnostics, p. 201. fig. 252. one of the gnostic gems, reputed the most efficacious of amulets, is of red jasper, and presents the gorgon s head( gorgoneion, with the legend below, arhgo roromandarh i protect rhoromandares. in india, the great abad is bhudda, bauddha, buddha, or baddha. there is a connection suggested here with the abaddon of the greeks. in the same way, a relation may be traced with budha s spiritual teacher; who was the mythic pythagoras, the originator of the system of transmigration, afterwards transplanted to egypt, and thence to greec

s called letters, is supposed by the more profound of the talmudists to be the introduction of man 310 the rosicrucians. into the world, through the very fact and in the force of his fall, or as arising through the temptation, the chief agent or efficient in which is the snake. thus every letter is an anagram of man, woman, and snake, in various phases of the story. each letter has embodied in it the legend of the temptation, and conceals it safely in a sign. ut omnia uno tenore currant, redeamus ad mysticam serpentis significationem. si igitur sub serpentis imagine phallicum signum intelligimus, quam plana sunt et concinna cuncta pictura lineamenta. neque enim pro phallo poneretur serpens nisi res significata cum typo accurate congrueret (jasher, editio secunda, p. 48. the late dr. donald

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pagan rome from about the 4th century. you will find the 4th century latin preceding the english translations in this remarkable work throughout all of its chapters. beware of the curse of lucifer that precedes the chapters of this manuscript. for you will indeed suffer the plagues contained within the book of lucifer if you add even one word to it! luciferius et tu dominus! lucifer is your lord! the legend this is the legend of the book of lucifer, which has been handed down orally through the ages by the devoted disciples of the book: the 387 legend says, the book was originally written in the blood of its author on parchment made from human skin. the legend says, the book was originally written by a jew named ben shakur. the legend says, ben shakur walked the earth during the reigns of

d of the book of lucifer, which has been handed down orally through the ages by the devoted disciples of the book: the 387 legend says, the book was originally written in the blood of its author on parchment made from human skin. the legend says, the book was originally written by a jew named ben shakur. the legend says, ben shakur walked the earth during the reigns of julius and augustus caesar. the legend says, ben shakur was able to raise the dead. the legend says, ben shakur performed many miracles through the power of lucifer during his life time. the legend says, ben shakur shall return to claim the souls of those that worship lucifer and the book. the legend says, the book was translated into the vulgar of ancient rome by an early pope named sylvester, who reigned during the council

to raise the dead. the legend says, ben shakur performed many miracles through the power of lucifer during his life time. the legend says, ben shakur shall return to claim the souls of those that worship lucifer and the book. the legend says, the book was translated into the vulgar of ancient rome by an early pope named sylvester, who reigned during the council of nicaea in the early 4th century. the legend says, the book is still worshipped today in high circles within the papacy of rome. the legend says, the book was first seen by common men after a copy was taken during the sacking of rome by the vandals. the legend says, the book was worshipped throughout the ages by many secret societies, such as the templars and the priory de sion. the legend says, the book gives great power to its d

he legend says, the book was first seen by common men after a copy was taken during the sacking of rome by the vandals. the legend says, the book was worshipped throughout the ages by many secret societies, such as the templars and the priory de sion. the legend says, the book gives great power to its disciples, and men such as copernicus, galileo, nostradamus and isaac newton have worshipped it. the legend says, you must create a copy of the book with your own blood, when you are elected as a leader in one of these secret societies that still worship the book today. the legend says, that if you add even one word to this book, you shall be cursed by all the powers of lucifer mentioned within contestor ego omni audienti verba prophetiae libri huius si quis adposuerit ad haec adponet lucifer

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

t its central figure hiram abiff really lived, nor that he was sent by his namesake, hiram, king of tyre, to work for king solomon in connection with the decoration of the temple. he is described in jewish scripture as a clever worker in metals, and those of us who investigated the making of the pillars fully confirm that statement, though they do not find him suffering the sanguinary death which the legend asserts. as i mentioned in an earlier chapter, king solomon himself appears to be responsible for introducing into jewish masonry the original form of the story, but not for the insertion of the name which we now use for its hero. moses brought from egypt the myth of the death and resurrection of osiris, and that persisted in a modified form until the time of david. solomon for patrioti

ntil the time of david. solomon for patriotic reasons transferred the theatre of the drama to jerusalem, and centred its interest round the temple which he had built, winning popularity at the same time by bringing his ritual into accordance with that of surrounding peoples, who were mostly worshippers of the phoenician deity tammuz, afterwards called by the greeks adonis. 691. although he recast the legend, and made it wholly jewish, it was not he who imported into it the name which we know so well, for we find hiram abiff acting as what we should now call w.j.w. at a great private ceremony of consecration and dedication at which solomon fs new ritual was performed for the first time. on the same occasion hiram, king of tyre, took the part of w.s.w, though for some obscure reason his visi

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er. the gods of egypt. isis and osiris. animal deities. the practice of embalming. other deities. the brothers of horus. consecration. the purpose of the mysteries. the degrees of the mysteries. the mysteries of isis. the preliminary trials. the mystery language. the duality of each degree. the inner mysteries of isis. the mysteries of serapis. the inner degree of serapis the mysteries of osiris. the legend of osiris. the meaning of the story. the inner mysteries of osiris. the office of master. the higher black masonry in the mysteries. white masonry in the mysteries. the stages of the occult path. the first three initiations. the fourth initiation. the fifth initiation and beyond. chapter iii the cretan mysteries the unity of the mysteries. life in ancient crete. the cretan race. recent

ld be conducted seemingly about ordinary every-day affairs, but in reality upon the secrets of the mysteries. much instruction was given in this way; a lecture or address might be delivered publicly by one of the priests, bearing two entirely distinct meanings- the one ethical and intended for the helping of people who were not initiated, and the other esoteric, for the students of the mysteries. the legend that masonry possesses a universal language known only to the brn. may be an echo of tradition about this ancient and secret tongue. 126. this secret tongue of the initiates was also used in inscriptions, and in the hieroglyphic wall-paintings and papyri. many of the inscriptions, telling of the victories of some great pharaoh, could be read in a hidden sense, and they then conveyed spi

e candidate had to pass through a symbolical representation of the suffering, death and rising again of osiris, which included his experiences between death and resurrection, when he entered the world of amenta, and became the judge of the dead, who should decide for each soul what measure of felicity was due to him, and turn back to earthly incarnation those who needed further human development. the legend of the death and resurrection of osiris was well known to all the people of egypt, both initiates and profane, and there were great public ceremonies, corresponding to those of our good friday and easter day in catholic countries, when these mystic events were celebrated with the utmost splendour and with the heartfelt devotion of the people. 140. the story of osiris is nowhere found in

i shall leave this unspoken(*her. bk. ii, 170, 171) 142. diodorus writes to the same effect: 143. in olden days according to received tradition the priests kept the manner of the death of osiris as a secret; but in after times it came about through the indiscretion of some that that which had been hidden in silence among the few, was noised abroad among the many(*diod, sic. hist. bk. i, xxi) 144. the legend of osiris 145. the best exoteric account of the legend is preserved for us by plutarch in his treatise de iside et osiride, written in greek about the middle of the first century of our era, a large portion of which is substantiated by the egyptian hieroglyphic texts which have been deciphered by scholars. it may be briefly summarized as follows: 146. osiris was a wise king in egypt who

like our own traditional history, has suffered from the materializing tendencies of those who did not understand; for there is no clear mention of a resurrection in the account given by plutarch, but merely a vague return from the dead. this represents, however, a very late version of the tradition, one which is materialized and distorted almost beyond recognition; and in the mysteries of osiris the legend was much more in accordance with the real facts of the spiritual world. even in the egyptian inscriptions which have been deciphered there are clear indications of a resurrection. the main outline of the true legend was the death of osiris at the hands of set; the division of his body into twice seven parts, representing the coming forth of the seven rays, or types of manifestation, con

nce is the reality which is reflected at an almost infinite distance in the degree of m.m; through the portal of death he is raised to the everlasting glory of the resurrection. 195. certain portions of the ritual of this fourth initiation according to the egyptian rite were curiously entangled with the christian teachings, and became utterly materialized and distorted in somewhat the same way as the legend of osiris became distorted in egypt itself. the rubric of this part of the initiation was as follows: 196. then shall the candidate be bound upon the wooden cross, he shall die, he shall be buried, and shall descend into the underworld; after the third day he shall be brought back from the dead, and shall be carried up into heaven to be the right hand of him from whom he came, having le

ptian ritual was carefully preserved (although king solomon on more than one occasion referred to his brother of tyre on points of detail) together with the s s, and although the w s were given in hebrew, for the most part their meaning remained the same. king solomon himself seems to have been largely responsible for our ceremony of raising; he it was who, at the instance of hiram abiff, changed the legend of osiris into that of the master builder who attempted to escape by the s, n, and e. g s and was s n because he would not divulge the s s of a m.m. the name of the original master builder was not of course given as now, for he himself assisted in the construction of the legend; neither was there any fatality connected with the actual building of the holy temple. the insertion of the pr

ected with the actual building of the holy temple. the insertion of the present name was the work of rehoboam, when he succeeded to the throne of solomon his father, as i have said in the hidden life in freemasonry; so the story came to be applied to the person of hiram, the widow s son. 288. a very curious tradition still exists in the 3 of the rite of mizraim. in that rite the central figure of the legend is not h.a, who is said to have returned to his family after the completion of the temple; but the story is carried back to the days of lamech, whose son jubal, under the name of harrio-jubal-abi, is reported to have been slain by three traitors, hagava, hakina, and heremda (mackey s encyclopaedia, art. mizraim) the rite of mizraim, as we shall see later, is extremely old, and may well

d down into the new dispensation, and thenceforward masters of lodges deriving their succession from the mysteries of the hebrews have always sat in the chair of king solomon, while the two wardens occupy those of hiram king of tyre and hiram abiff. thus there is a very real truth behind our masonic tradition. 290. the original traditional history as adapted by king solomon contained much more of the legend of osiris, and was altogether more coherent and reasonable than it is to-day; for there was a resurrection of the master-builder as well as a death, and the search of isis for the body of osiris was reflected in the search of certain craftsmen for the body of the master. but this was rather in the nature of a verbal charge than apiece of ritual working, and it was therefore more likely

r the body of the master. but this was rather in the nature of a verbal charge than apiece of ritual working, and it was therefore more likely to become distorted in the course of ages. this is exactly what took place. the ceremonies were handed down from age to age with very few changes, but they were at several epochs clothed in a new set of words, which reflected the spirit of the times; while the legend associated with the ritual of the 3 became sadly marred in its passage throughout the centuries, until in its present form it is a mere shadow of the glorious teaching of the mysteries of egypt from which it was derived. 291. the transmission of the new rites 292. the mysteries were transmitted from generation to generation for the next three hundred and fifty years, during the survival

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50s writers such as m. k. jessup, frank edwards, and donald e. keyhoe speculated that extraterrestrial spacecraft were snatching planes and ships (or their crews. in the february 1964 issue of the men s magazine argosy, vincent h. gaddis invented the term bermuda triangle and popularized it further when he incorporated the article into a chapter of his book invisible horizons (1965. the 1970s saw the legend peak with the best-selling the bermuda triangle (1974, by charles berlitz with j. manson valentine. the most famous devil s triangle story concerned the disappearances of five navy avenger torpedo boats on the afternoon of december 5, 1945, off the coast of florida (in the climactic scene of steven spielberg s 1977 film close encounters of the third kind, the missing crew is returned to

ation by the navy determined, for example, that the avengers had gotten lost and crashed into the ocean east of florida because of pilot error and severe weather; the rescue craft had exploded, apparently because of a gas leak. kusche charged that the triangle researchers had spent more time rewriting each other s books than in doing the original research that would have laid the mystery to rest. the legend of the bermuda triangle, he wrote, is a manufactured mystery. it began because of careless research and was elaborated upon and perpetuated by writers who either purposely or unknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism. it was repeated so many times that it began to take on the aura of truth (kusche, 1986, 277. jerome clark see also demons; ufos for furt

he middle ages via the tale of theophilus, who according to legend had been the treasurer of a church in the sixth century. unfairly dismissed from his job, he sought revenge with the aid of a magician. this sorcerer invoked the devil, theophilus sold his soul, and he was subsequently restored to his position. however, he eventually regretted his actions, prayed to the virgin mary, and was saved. the legend of theophilus provided a model for the later narrative of faust easily the most famous man to sell his soul to satan though faust was motivated by pride rather than by the urge for revenge. also, unlike theophilus, faust did not escape his infernal fate in most versions of this story. the story of faust became the basis for a series of literary productions, including plays by johann von

new generation of young, mostly white blues, folk, and rock musicians, among them bob dylan, the rolling stones, and eric clapton, heard johnson for the first time, and his reputation as one of the greatest performers and innovators took hold. in 1990, amid much attention, acclaim, and surprising commercial success, columbia issued the two-cd robert johnson: the complete recordings. by this time the legend of johnson s deal with the devil was nearly as well known as his music. it figured in a poorly reviewed, ill-conceived 1988 hollywood movie, crossroads, directed by walter hill. it was also the subject of alan greenberg s lyrical novel-as-screenplay love in vain: the life and legend of robert johnson (1983. in 1999 no less than muddy waters s son big bill morganfield wrote and recorded

d by walter hill. it was also the subject of alan greenberg s lyrical novel-as-screenplay love in vain: the life and legend of robert johnson (1983. in 1999 no less than muddy waters s son big bill morganfield wrote and recorded left hand blues, which does not mention johnson by name but is manifestly about his faustian bargain. besides the testimony of johnson s relatives, those who believe that the legend was contemporary with johnson point to the texts of three of his own songs to argue that johnson consciously encouraged the belief, as had other blues performers, for reasons of self-aggrandizement. in the first half of me and the devil blues, the devil knocks on the singer s door: and i said, hello, satan, i believe it s time to go. in the next verse the two are walkin side by side. th

or an identification with the planet jupiter. the devil acquired the name lucifer when the early christian theologians tertullian and st. augustine identified him with the falling star in the passage from isaiah 14:12 quoted above. the basis of this association was that the devil was 154 luciferian children of satan formerly a great archangel who rebelled against god and was tossed out of heaven. the legend of the rebellion and expulsion of lucifer, as formulated by jewish and christian writers, describes lucifer as the chief in the hierarchy of heaven, and as preeminent among all created beings in beauty, power, and wisdom. to this anointed cherub was apparently allotted power and dominion over the earth; and even after his fall and exclusion from his old domain, he still seems to retain

the making of a modern american witch hunt. new york: basic books, 1995. mesoamerica 173 richardson, james, joel best, and david g. bromley. the satanism scare. new york: aldine de gruyter, 1991. victor, jeffrey. satanic panic: the creation of a contemporary legend. chicago: open court, 1993. wakefield, hollida, and ralph underwager. return of the furies. chicago: open court, 1994. mephistopheles the legend of faustus, who signed a pact with the devil by selling his soul to mephistopheles, became popular with goethe s faust. the basic narrative is, however, much older, originating as a mythical story during the medieval period. dr. faust s story drew upon the life of a philosopher who decided to make a living by casting horoscopes and predicting the future. in subsequent decades, faust s l

o signed a pact with the devil by selling his soul to mephistopheles, became popular with goethe s faust. the basic narrative is, however, much older, originating as a mythical story during the medieval period. dr. faust s story drew upon the life of a philosopher who decided to make a living by casting horoscopes and predicting the future. in subsequent decades, faust s life was transformed into the legend of a philosopher who decided to abandon philosophy and devote himself to magic practices and spells. once, while practicing magic invocations,mephistopheles appears to the doctor with a proposal: mephistopheles will teach the doctor the devil s knowledge and powers in exchange for faust s soul after twenty-five years. mephistopheles s name etymologically means he who loves not the light

us legend has animated popular culture since the middle ages.with the creation of doctor faustus by christopher marlowe (1564 1593, however, it became a topic of artistic inspiration in poetry and music throughout the following centuries, culminating with faust: eine trag die by johann wolfgang von goethe (1749 1832. although goethe s work is regarded as the apex of the development of this story, the legend continued to inspire nineteenth-century literature on the devil. following twenty-five years of devilish practice, goethe s faust repents having sold his soul to the devil and is saved. in marlowe s work, by contrast, faustus is lost. the devil, however, was no longer the enemy of the medieval dueling contest with christ or with a saint or a virgin. the contest of the devil in the eight

of congress) salvation 237 william phips established a court of oyer and terminer to try the witches. during the course of the trials, 141 people were arrested as suspects, 19 were hanged, and one was pressed to death. the bodies of the sentenced witches were casually placed in shallow graves on salem s gallows hills because, it was believed, witches did not deserve christian burial. according to the legend, the ghosts of the victims still haunt the area. soon neighboring communities such as the town of andover requested that the girls find the witches responsible for a number of problems, including illness, poor crops, and dead livestock. the causes of the salem witchcraft trial, which have been examined by a number of studies, have variously been attributed to the political and social pr

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lisman beyond all else that thou hast. 38. concerning minor methods adjuvant in the ceremonies. iii. rehearsal. it may assist if the traditional history of the particular deity be rehearsed before him; perhaps this is best done in dramatic form. this method is the main one recommended in the .exercitios espirituales. of st ignatius, whose work may be taken as a model. let the philosophus work out the legend of his own particular deity, and apportioning days to events, live that life in imagination, exercising the five senses in turn, as occasion arises. 39. concerning minor methods adjuvant in the ceremonies. iv. duresse. this method consists in cursing a deity recalcitrant; as, threatening ceremonially .to burn the blood of osiris, and to grind down his bones to powder. this method is alt

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t shall be the whole of the law. firstly, let thine attention be directed to this planet, how the aon of horus is made manifest by the universal war. this is the first great and direct result of the equinox of the gods, and is the preparation of the hearts of men for the reception of the law. let us remind you that this is a magical formula of cosmic scope, and that it is given in exact detail in the legend of the golden fleece. jason, who in this story represents the beast, first fits out a ship guided by wisdom or athena, and this is his aspiration to the great work. accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the fleece, but they can do nothing until medea, the scarlet woman, puts into his hands a posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the d

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is necessarily an evil. i have not come to found a hundred years club, and to include mosquitoes in the membership. in this case to have kept perdu. r abu alive was to have played into the hands of his enemies. my first precept is merely a general rule.3 in 1 the buddha had such long ears that he could cover the whole of his face with them. ears are referred to spirit in hindu symbolism, so that the legend means he could conceal the lower elements and dwell in this alone. 2 here is the little rift within the lute which alienated crowley from active work on buddhist lines; the orthodox failing to see his attitude. 3 a more likely idea that the brilliantly logical nonsense of .pansil. supra. the three characteristics 77 the bulk of cases one should certainly abstain from destroying life, th

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me form of desire, the effect is short circuited by lust of result. egotistical identification, fear of failure, and the reciprocal desire not to achieve desire, arising from our dual nature, destroy the result. therefore, when selecting topics for concentration, choose subjects of no spiritual, egotistical, intellectual, emotional, or useful significance- meaningless things. object concentration the legend of the evil-eye derives from the ability of wizards and sorcerers to give a fixed dead stare. this ability can be practiced against any object- a mark on a wall, something in the distance, a star in the night sky- anything. to hold an object with an absolutely fixed, unwavering gaze for more than a few moments proves extraordinarily difficult, yet it must be persisted in for hours at a

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passage: gsuch, at least is the traditional interpretation. but there is a deeper design which may be expressed through the direction of rotation. certain forces of the most formidable character may be invoked by circumambulation widdershins when it is executed with intent towards them, and the initiated technique. of such forces typhon is the type and the war of the titans against the olympians the legend (teitan, titan, has in greek the numerical value of 666. h (for example, if invoking the powers of the constellation of the bear, associated with typhon-set in graco-egyptian magick, one might used widdershins motions, from the apparent motion of the stars about the pole star. as noted, while in section a. the entity invoked is hailed as gasar-un-nefer h, the opening of section c. is st

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rway. the version of voluspa in this manuscript is written in an icelandic hand from the middle of the fourteenth century and thus may have been added to it after hauk fs death in 1334. besides these deities, themes, and concepts 317 a scene from the whalebone box known as the gfranks casket. h on the right is a christian image of the adoration of the magi, while the left side depicts scenes from the legend of volund (werner forman/art resource) two full versions of the poem, snorri sturluson quotes numerous stanzas in the gylfaginning of his edda, some of them differing slightly in wording from the codex regius or hauksbok versions. some scholars therefore operate with the concept of a third version, perhaps oral, that snorri used, and certainly snorri cannot have had either of the other

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oph) is a spirit or intelligence which can be related to ones evil genius, or hidden self, or the holy guardian angel, which is a perfected manifestation of the self in anthropomorphic form. the devil would not lead us to death and fire, but to life, creation, pleasure, ecstasy and wisdom. lucifer has been described within a witches sabbat context before, specifically as the husband of diana from the legend originating from italian folklore. lucifer (the sun) was the husband of diana (the moon; the two were joined in a great union of opposites. it is the development of the individual towards a partial solitary path which opens each aspect of initiation towards the advancement of the human spirit. this means positive evolution, discipline, understanding and mental strength is the building b

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g to toph) is a spirit or intelligence which can be related to ones evil genius, or hidden self, or the holy guardian angel, which is a perfected manifestation of the self in anthropomorphic form. the devil would not lead us to death and fire, but to life, creation, pleasure, ecstasy and wisdom. lucifer has been described within a sabbatic context before, specifically as the husband of diana from the legend originating from italian folklore. lucifer (the sun) was the husband of diana (the moon; the two were joined in a great union of opposites. it is the development of the individual towards a partial solitary path which opens each aspect of initiation towards the advancement of the human spirit. this means positive evolution, discipline, understanding and mental strength is the building b

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ric light with the aid of their secret keys. the lesser mysteries were dedicated to persephone. in his eleusinian and bacchic mysteries, thomas taylor sums up their purpose as follows "the lesser mysteries were designed by the ancient theologists, their founders, to signify occultly the condition of the unpurified soul invested with an earthy body, and enveloped in a material and physical nature" the legend used in the lesser rites is that of the abduction of the goddess persephone, the daughter of ceres, by pluto, the lord of the underworld, or hades. while persephone is picking flowers in a beautiful meadow, the earth suddenly opens and the gloomy lord of death, riding in a magnificent chariot, emerges from its somber depths and, grasping her in his arms, carries the screaming and strugg

ur the guardian tells her that this is the experience of all who enter the somber domain of death. enraged upon beholding ishtar, the mistress of hades inflicts upon her all manner of disease and imprisons her in the underworld. as ishtar represents the spirit of fertility, her loss prevents the ripening of the crops and the maturing of all life upon the earth. in this respect the story parallels the legend of persephone. the gods, realizing that the loss of ishtar is disorganizing all nature, send a messenger to the underworld and demand her release. the mistress of hades is forced to comply, and the water of life is poured over ishtar. thus cured of the infirmities inflicted on her, she retraces her way upward through the seven gates, at each of which she is reinvested with the article o

legend of the building of solomon's temple does not in every particular parallel the scriptural version, especially in those portions relating to chiram abiff. according to the biblical account, this master workman returned to his own country; in the masonic allegory he is foully murdered. on this point a. e. waite, in his new encyclop dia of freemasonry, makes the following explanatory comment "the legend of the master-builder is the great allegory of masonry. it happens that his figurative story is grounded on the fact of a personality mentioned in holy scripture, but this historical background is of the accidents and not the essence; the significance is in the allegory and not in any point of history which may lie behind it" chiram, as master of the builders, divided his workmen into t

captivity to babylon (see general history of freemasonry, by robert macoy) also king david ruled for thirtythree years in jerusalem; the masonic order is divided into thirty-three symbolic degrees; there are thirty-three segments in the human spinal column; and jesus was crucified in the thirty-third year of his life. the efforts made to discover the origin of the hiramic legend show that, while the legend in its present form is comparatively modem, its underlying principles run back to remotest antiquity. it is generally admitted by modem masonic scholars that the story of the martyred chiram is based upon the egyptian rites of osiris, whose death and resurrection figuratively portrayed the spiritual death of man and his regeneration through initiation into the mysteries. chiram is also

tau cross. not only chiram but the god-men of nearly every pagan mystery ritual are personifications of the spirit fire in the human spinal cord. the astronomical aspect of the hiramic legend must not be overlooked. the tragedy of chiram is enacted annually by the sun during its passage through the signs of the zodiac "from the journey of the sun through the twelve signs" writes albert pike "come the legend of the twelve labors of hercules, and the incarnations of vishnu and buddha. hence came the legend of the murder of khurum, representative of the sun, by the three fellow-crafts, symbols of the winter signs, capricornus, aquarius, and pisces, who assailed him at the three gates of heaven and slew him at the winter solstice. hence the search for him by the nine fellow-crafts, the other n

orces of these species and use them to the attainment of their own ends. some ancient schools of wisdom taught that all poisonous insects and reptiles are germinated out of the evil nature of man, and that when intelligent human beings no longer breed hate in their own souls there will be no more ferocious animals, loathsome diseases, or poisonous plants and insects. among the american indians is the legend of a "spider man" whose web connected the heaven worlds with the earth. the secret schools of india symbolize certain of the gods who labored with the universe during its making as connecting the realms of light with those of darkness by means of webs. therefore the builders of the cosmic system who held the embryonic universe together with threads of invisible force were sometimes refe

acred to the gods or goddesses in whose honor the rituals were celebrated. these sacred plants were later adopted as the symbols of the various degrees in which they were used. thus, in the mysteries of adonis, lettuce was sacred; in the brahmin and egyptian rites, the lotus; among the druids, the mistletoe; and among certain of the greek mysteries, the myrtle (see encyclop dia of freemasonry) as the legend of chiram abiff is based upon the ancient egyptian mystery ritual of the murder and resurrection of osiris, it is natural that the sprig of acacia should be preserved as symbolic of the resurrection of chiram. the chest containing the body of osiris was washed ashore near byblos and lodged in the roots of a tamarisk, or acacia, which, growing into a mighty tree, enclosed within its trun

he green stone fell through all the celestial rings into the dark and immeasurable abyss. out of lucifer's radiant gem was fashioned the sangreal, or holy grail, from which christ is said to have drunk at the last supper. though some controversy exists as to whether the grail was a cup or a platter, it is generally depicted in art as a chalice of considerable size and unusual beauty. according to the legend, joseph of arimathea brought the grail cup to the place of the crucifixion and in it caught the blood pouring from the wounds of the dying nazarene. later joseph, who had become custodian of the sacred relics--the sangreal and the spear of longinus--carried them into a distant country. according to one version, his descendants finally placed these relics in glastonbury abbey in england;

ed the manuscript of the zohar with the assistance of elias, who appeared to them at intervals. simeon was twelve years in the cave, during which time he evolved the complicated symbolism of the "greater face" and the "lesser face" while discoursing with disciples rabbi simeon expired, and the "lamp of israel" was extinguished. his death and burial were accompanied by many supernatural phenomena. the legend goes on to relate that the secret doctrines of qabbalism had been in existence since the beginning of the world, but that rabbi simeon was the first man permitted to reduce them to writing. twelve hundred years later the books which he had compiled were discovered and published for the benefit of humanity by moses de le n. the probability is that moses de le n himself compiled the zohar

ntation, the conversion of organic substances into new compounds in the presence of a ferment. 12. fixation, the act or process of ceasing to be a fluid and becoming firm; state of being fixed. 13. multiplication, the act or process of multiplying or increasing in number, the state of being multiplied. 14. projection, the process of turning the base metals into gold. p. 154 those disagreeing with the legend of hermes and his emerald tablet see in the two hundred angels who descended upon the mountains, as described by the prophet: enoch, the first instructors in the alchemical art. regardless of its originator, it was left to the egyptian priests to preserve alchemy for the modern world. egypt, because of the color of its earth, was called "the black empire" and is referred to in the old t

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ng to old lore, in defiance of their masters, elected to descend upon the earth countless eons ago, for the purpose of educating and civilizing primitive man as he then existed. whether it was part of their original plan or merely a side issue, these angelic beings "sons of god" or "watchers of the heavens" as they were entitled, elected to mate with womankind. the book of genesis briefly records the legend thus: and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took wives of all which they chose. however, the ancient book of noah written several hundred years before the birth of christ is more explicit. and the angels, the children of heaven, saw and luste

hers, the mighty ones of the heavenly places, the parents of giants and humans alike as seen in symbolic and archetypal form as the parents of humanity, whether as masters of wisdom and love or simply as benevolent powers of fertility and hunting, that constitute the witch's true deities. diana and lucifer of the above-mentioned witch legend are but figurative forms of these mighty ones. although the legend is overlaid with later gnostic overtones such as the latinized names "diana" and "lucifer" these are not inappropriate, and indeed they preserve many of the seeds of truth "gnostic" itself in its etymological derivation means much the same as "witch "one who knows "one who concerns himself or herself with the hidden wisdom" it is the tattered remnants of the wisdom of the watchers, or g

either their saxon epithet, elvenfolk, or simply as people of the heath or heathens, were rapidly dwindling into legend. the elven king and queen in their enchanted hill which opened up on the ancient holy festivals of halloween and beltane were fast passing out of public memory, recalled only by the wise, or as they were known in the old english tongue, the wicce and wicca, wizards and witches. the legend of the elvenfolk's ancestry still survived, however, in heavily christianized form. they were the remaining offspring of the fallen angels. neither devils, like satan and his cohorts, nor angels, but somewhere between the two. neither good nor bad, merely indifferent. it is at this point that organized christianity began to take a hand, and bore down heavily on all those suspected of ei

u should wipe your pen of art carefully free of all ink before you embark upon this. this last design is known as the secret seal of solomon and traditionally was the symbol by means of which the seventy-two lords of the demons or djinn were imprisoned in a brazen vessel by the magus-king and sunk beneath the ocean. they were later released, providentially it seems, by certain babylonian wizards. the legend probably stems from that of the drowned nephelim. when you have drawn the symbol and let it dry, retrace over it with your athame, charging it strongly with light and conjuring with these words: bound, bound, bound be all demons and powers of adversity from the north, south, east, and west! bound, bound, bound be all ill-wishers and those that practise violence against the bearer of thi

can is the suitor of venus and pan of diana, so is the horned one the pursuer of habondia. however, many witches who belong to female-oriented covens which focus their attentions more on the goddess than the god argue that the boot is actually on the other foot. their contention is that it was, and is, the goddess who took the initiative in the chase. examples ranging from the gospel of aradia to the legend of actaeon are cited as chapter and verse here. cursing before embarking upon the ceremonial side of cursing, let us reconsider the more general aspects of overlooking, seen solely from the point of view of your pyramid power. as already mentioned, spells will always work better when the ground is well laid beforehand, and this is particularly true in the instance of curses. the person

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f the allegory. the truly initiated mind discerns the allegory's spiritual value. in fact, part of the purpose of all initiation was, and still is, to educate the mind in penetrating the outward shell of all phenomena, and the value of initiation depends upon the way in which the inward truths are allowed to influence our thought and lives and to awaken in us still deeper powers of consciousness. the legend of the third degree, then, in which the essence of masonic doctrine lies, was brought into our system by some advanced minds who derived their knowledge from other and concealed sources. the legend is an adaptation of a very old one and existed in various forms long before its association with modern masonry. in the guise of a story about the building of a temple by king solomon at jeru

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abbat. it is the passing of that rite of initiation that will prepare the witch to travel forth to the infernal sabbat, symbolized as the persian arezura, the place in the north, the gates of hell. let the practitioner be perfectly still in focus and will, that nothing shall break his or her concentration of that task which draws the ka (the astral or body of light) further into darkness. as with the legend of pierre bourgot and michel verdung2 the initiate shall have one who shall be as the lord of the forest. in the legend aforementioned, pierre bourgot had lost his sheep in the forest around the year of 1521, becoming distressed when unable to find them. three black riders approached him, the third saying whither away, you seem to be in trouble, the rider then told the boy not to worry

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tral blood. ceremonials are also called upon for a great purpose or astral blood sacrifice. each god form would sacrifice an amount of collected astral energy into what is known as a psychomantieon. a psychomantieon or necromantieon is a mirror that is 37 37 used as the gateway towards the astral world. it is also an object used in the black temple workings as a gateway to the dead. do you recall the legend of lilith living in the mirror and the various vampiric tales of beings communicating through mirrors? vampiric god forms exhale large amounts of astral blood towards this psychomantieon/necromantieon until near exhaustion. this coincides with a sigil representing the groups desire. upon the sacrifice the magus would destroy the sigil in the flames of the ceremony. each member at some p

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e titan kronus, who ruled over the golden age. this act initiated the olympianage. kronus is said to have been banished from the city of the gods and was interred, chained, inbritain. same as saturn, who was said to have been sent in chains to albion. he was the oldest of thegods. could it be that this was one of the original galactic invaders that was captured by the serpentpeople. is this where the legend of the chaining of satan in the pit derives from? the moonthe moons orbit was nearer to the earth about 13,000 b.c. because the orbit of the earth was moreelliptical than at present. the moon also had two satellites of its own. in myth, diana, the moon god-dess, had two hounds. the proximity of the moon caused major convulsions. hence, the moon becameassociated with driving men mad. aro

nor people can put together again.serpent worshipalways associated with the finding of precious metals like gold and silver. associated with fortune andintellectual knowledge and with physical power. in peru, the god of riches was worshipped under theimage of a rattlesnake (p. 266)the peruvians chose as their arms two serpents with their tails interlaced (p. 267)the city of brassand then we have the legend of the city of brass or bronze. it relates to an ancient age and period inthe olden time.and talib and his party go on still further, and find the city of brass a weird, mysterious, lost city, ina desolate land; silent, and with all its people dead: a city once of high civilization, with mighty, brazenwalls and vast machinery and great mysteries; a city whose inhabitants had perished su

average weight of 2.5 tons each. the total weight would have been 6 milliontons, the height, 482 feet. it is the largest and the oldest of the pyramids of giza. 2.1470 b.c) atlantis destroyed? a continent was reputedly the size of europe. it boasted gorgeouscities, advanced technology and utopian government. it suffered a cataclysm and was reduced torubble that sank beneath the sea, lost forever. the legend of atlantis has been around for thousandsof years, and whatever its factual validity may be, it does claim a noble heritage, for its earliestknown proponent was plato.the greek philosopher wrote of atlantis in two of his dialogues, timaeus and critias, around370 b.c. plato said that this was a true story which derived from then-200-year-old records of thegreek ruler solon, who heard of

story in critias, where he describes the lost continent as the kingdom of poseidon, the godof the sea. this atlantis was a noble, sophisticated society that reigned in peace for centuries, untilits people became complacent and greedy. angered by their fall from grace, zeus chose to punishthem by destroying atlantis. although plato was the first to use the term atlantis, there are ante-cedents to the legend. in an egyptian legend which solon probably heard while traveling in egypt,and which was passed down to plato years later, the island nation of keftiu, home of one of the fourpillars that held up the sky, was said to be a glorious advanced civilization which was destroyed andsank beneath the ocean. another atlantis-like story is closer to plato's world, in terms of time and geography, a

he sunken continent has caught the imagination of suc-ceeding generations. other greek thinkers, such as aristotle and pliny, disputed the existence ofatlantis, while plutarch and herodotus wrote of it as historical fact. atlantis became entrenched infolklore all around the world, charted on ocean maps and sought by explorers. in 1882, ignatius donnelly, a u.s. congressman from minnesota, brought the legend into the amer-ican consciousness with his book, atlantis: the antediluvian world. in more recent years, the psy-chic edgar cayce (1877-1945) became the u.s.'s most prominent advocate of a factual atlantis.widely known as the sleeping prophet, cayce claimed the ability to see the future and to com-municate with long-dead spirits from the past. he identified hundreds of peopleincluding hi

an- probably a meteor. he saw lights in thesky again on october 11- the day before his famous landing. the lights, brief flashes near the hori-zon, were spotted in the area where dry land turned out to be. although there are rational atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation277 appendix c: suggested areas of research explanations for what columbus saw, his experience has contributed to the legend of the bermudatriangle, the huge three-sided segment of the atlantic ocean bordered by bermuda, puerto rico,and fort lauderdale, florida. 11.1500s in spain (33rd parallel, renegade jesuits and franciscans took the name alumbrados(enlightened. they believed in direct contact between the human soul and the holy spirit, whichprompted the inquisition to issue three edicts against the group

of scottish rite masonry in the united states, isonly 15 miles south of the 33rd parallel. 13.1826 masons murdered masonic whistle blower captain william morgan. captain morgan was anamerican freemason who wrote a book revealing masonic secrets, illustrations of freemasonry.one revealed secret was that the last mystery at the top of the masonic pyramid is the worship oflucifer, that is, satan. in the legend of the murder of hiram abiff, abiff represents intelligence, lib-erty and truth, and was struck down by a blow to the neck with a rule, representing the suppressionof speech by the church. then a square struck him in the heart. this represented the state's suppres-sion of belief. last, a maul struck him on the head. this represented the suppression of intellect bythe masses. so, freemas

xico, at the 33rd parallel.20.1947 on july 26, 1947, while aboard the presidential aircraft sacred cow, masonic united statespresident truman signed the national security act of 1947. the act created an independent airforce, the central intelligence agency, and the national security agency. the national securitystate was born. 21.1947 on december 5, 1947, the disappearance of flight 19 spurred on the legend of the bermudatriangle. five navy avenger bombers vanished while on a routine training mission, as did a rescueplane sent to search for themsix aircraft and 27 men, gone without a trace. or so the story goes.when all the facts are laid out, the tale of flight 19 becomes far less puzzling. all of the crewmen ofthe five avengers were inexperienced trainees, with the exception of their pat

e heart. that messenger never returned, but today at the hopi villages at sundown canbe seen the old men of the tribe out on the housetops gazing toward the sun, looking for the messenger.when he returns, their lands and ancient dwelling place will be restored to them. that is the tradition. among the engravings of animals in the cave is seen the image of a heart over the spot where it islocated. the legend was learned by w. e. rollins the artist, during a year spent with the hopi indians.there are two theories of the origin of the egyptians. one is that they came from asia; another that theracial cradle was in the upper nile region. heeren, an egyptologist, believed in the indian origin of theegyptians. the discoveries in the grand canyon may throw further light on human evolution and pre

h hishome. first man soon returned to the green place or sakwap with his family shortly afterwards (manyof the hero stories throughout time and through many different cultures refer to a valiant group ofseven) these two legends remind of the story of kashyapa muni and his two wives, kadru, the mother of ser-pents, and vinata, the mother of garuda, the divine eagle, mentioned later. western africa the legend of da- the world was created by nana-buluku, the one god, who is neither male norfemale. in time, nana-buluku gave birth to twins, mawu and lisa, and it is they who shaped the worldand control it still, with their fourteen children, the v odou, or lesser gods. in the beginning, beforemawu had any children, the rainbow serpent, da, already existed- created to serve nana-buluku. thecreato

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d the son, the mediator, redeemer, and saviour. from the egyptian word _ra_ came the coptic _ouro, and the hebrew _aur, light _har-oeri, is _hor_ or _har, the chief or _master _hor_ is also heat; and _hora, season or hour; and hence in several african dialects, as names of the sun _airo, ayero, eer, uiro, ghurrah, and the like. the royal name rendered _pharaoh, was phra, that is _pai-ra, the sun. the legend of the contest between _hor-ra_ and _set, or _set-nu-bi, the same as _bar_ or _bal, is older than that of the strife between _osiris_ and _typhon; as old, at least, as the nineteenth dynasty. it is called in the book of the dead "the day of the battle between horus and set" the later myth connects itself with phoenicia and syria. the body of osiris went ashore at _gebal_ or _byblos, six

lv. 8 "god has constituted me_'ab l'paraah, as father to paraah _i.e, vizier or prime minister" so haman was called the second father of artaxerxes; and when king khurum used the phrase "khurum abi" he meant that the artificer he sent schlomoh was the principal or chief workman in his line at tsur. a medal copied by montfaucon exhibits a female nursing a child, with ears of wheat in her hand, and the legend (iao. she is seated on clouds, a star at her head, and three ears of wheat rising from an altar before her. horus was the _mediator, who was buried three days, was regenerated, and triumphed over the evil principle. the word heri, in sanscrit, means _shepherd, as well as _saviour. crishna is called _heri, as jesus called himself the _good shepherd [hebrew _khur, means an aperture of a w

_person, but a _force, created for good, but which _may_ serve for evil _it is the instrument of liberty or free will. they represent this force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythologic and horned form of the god pan; thence came the he-goat of the sabbat, brother of the ancient serpent, and the light-bearer or _phosphor, of which the poets have made the false lucifer of the legend. gold, to the eyes of the initiates, is light condensed. they style the sacred numbers of the kabalah "golden numbers" and the moral teachings of pythagoras his "golden verses" for the same reason, a mysterious book of apuleius, in which an ass figures largely, was called "the golden ass" the pagans accused the christians of worshipping an ass, and they did not invent this reproach, but

understanding: i am power: by me kings do reign, and princes decree justice; by me princes rule, and nobles, even all the magistrates of the earth" for the present, my brother, let this suffice. we welcome you among us, to this peaceful retreat of virtue, to a participation in our privileges, to a share in our joys and our sorrows [illustration [illustration] xiii. royal arch of solomon. whether the legend and history of this degree are historically true, or but an allegory, containing in itself a deeper truth and a profounder meaning, we shall not now debate. if it be but a legendary myth, you must find out for yourself what it means. it is certain that the word which the hebrews are not now permitted to pronounce was in common use by abraham, lot, isaac, jacob, laban, rebecca, and even

of the tribe of judah, who preserved and communicated the key to the true knowledge of god, of his laws, and of the profound mysteries of the moral and physical universe. enoch[[hebrew, khanoc, we are told, walked with god three hundred years, after reaching the age of sixty-five-"walked with god, and he was no more, for god had taken him" his name signified in the hebrew, initiate or initiator. the legend of the columns, of granite and brass or bronze, erected by him, is probably symbolical. that of bronze, which survived the flood, is supposed to symbolize the mysteries, of which masonry is the legitimate successor--from the earliest times the custodian and depository of the great philosophical and religious truths, unknown to the world at large, and handed down from age to age by an un

is probably symbolical. that of bronze, which survived the flood, is supposed to symbolize the mysteries, of which masonry is the legitimate successor--from the earliest times the custodian and depository of the great philosophical and religious truths, unknown to the world at large, and handed down from age to age by an unbroken current of tradition, embodied in symbols, emblems, and allegories. the legend of this degree is thus, partially, interpreted. it is of little importance whether it is in anywise historical. for its value consists in the lessons which it inculcates, and the duties which it prescribes to those who receive it. the parables and allegories of the scriptures are not less valuable than history. nay, they are more so, because ancient history is little instructive, and tr

ally, interpreted. it is of little importance whether it is in anywise historical. for its value consists in the lessons which it inculcates, and the duties which it prescribes to those who receive it. the parables and allegories of the scriptures are not less valuable than history. nay, they are more so, because ancient history is little instructive, and truths are concealed in and symbolized by the legend and the myth. there are profounder meanings concealed in the symbols of this degree, connected with the philosophical system of the hebrew kabalists, which you will learn hereafter, if you should be so fortunate as to advance. they are unfolded in the higher degrees. the _lion[[hebrew _arai _araiah, which also means the _altar] still holds in his mouth the key of the enigma of the sphyn

and strength that like imperishable columns have sustained and will continue to sustain its glorious and magnificent temple [illustration [illustration] xviii. knight rose croix [prince rose croix] each of us makes such applications to his own faith and creed, of the symbols and ceremonies of this degree, as seems to him proper. with these special interpretations we have here nothing to do. like the legend of the master khurum, in which some see figured the condemnation and sufferings of christ; others those of the unfortunate grand master of the templars; others those of the first charles, king of england; and others still the annual descent of the sun at the winter solstice to the regions of darkness, the basis of many an ancient legend; so the ceremonies of this degree receive differen

committing a horrible crime, did not dare, even in greece, to aid in the celebration of the mysteries; nor at a still later day was constantine, the christian emperor, allowed to do so, after his murder of his relatives. everywhere, and in all their forms, the mysteries were funereal; and celebrated the mystical death and restoration to life of some divine or heroic personage: and the details of the legend and the mode of the death varied in the different countries where the mysteries were practised. their explanation belongs both to astronomy and mythology; and the legend of the master's degree is but another form of that of the mysteries, reaching back, in one shape or other, to the remotest antiquity. whether egypt originated the legend, or borrowed it from india or chald a, it is now

eleusis and many other places in greece, were but copies of them. this we learn from plutarch, diodorus siculus, lactantius, and other writers; and in the absence of direct testimony should necessarily infer it from the similarity of the adventures of these deities; for the ancients held that the ceres of the greeks was the same as the isis of the egyptians; and dionusos or bacchus as osiris. in the legend of osiris and isis, as given by plutarch, are many details and circumstances other than those that we have briefly mentioned; and all of which we need not repeat here. osiris married his sister isis; and labored publicly with her to ameliorate the lot of men. he taught them agriculture, while isis invented laws. he built temples to the gods, and established their worship. both were the

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ove the second best! don't slander your enemy, as the newspapers would have you do; just kill him, and then bury him with honour. don't keep crying 'foul' like a fifth rate pugilist. don't boast! don't squeal! if you're down, get up and hit him again! fights of that sort make fast friends. there is perhaps a magical second-meaning in this verse, a reference to the ritual of which we find hints in the legend of cain and abel, esau and jacob, set and osiris, etc. the "elder brother" within us, the silent self, must slay the younger brother, the conscious self, and he must be raised again incorruptible. 60. there is no law beyond do what thou wilt. there are of course lesser laws than this, details, particular cases, of the law. but the whole of the law is do what thou wilt, and there is no l

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ormentor. at length she reached egypt, where she found rest and freedom from the persecutions of her enemy. on the banks of the nile she resumed her original form and gave birth to a son called page 36 epaphus, who afterwards became king of egypt, and built the famous city of memphis. danae..zeus appeared to danae under the form of a shower of gold (further details concerning her will be found in the legend of perseus) the greeks supposed that the divine ruler of the universe occasionally assumed a human form, and descended from his celestial abode, in order to visit mankind and observe their proceedings, his aim being generally either to punish the guilty, or to reward the deserving. on one occasion zeus, accompanied by hermes, made a journey through phrygia, seeking hospitality and shelt

threw herself upon the ground, and refused all sustenance. for nine long days she turned her face towards the glorious god of day, as he moved along the [64]heavens, till at length her limbs became rooted in the ground, and she was transformed into a flower, which ever turns towards the sun. helios married perse, daughter of oceanus, and their children were, aetes, king of colchis (celebrated in the legend of the page 69 argonauts as the possessor of the golden fleece, and circe, the renowned sorceress. helios had another son named phaethon, whose mother was clymene, one of the oceanides. the youth was very beautiful, and a great favourite with aphrodite, who intrusted him with the care of one of her temples, which flattering proof of her regard caused him to become vain and presumptuous

theus, he refused the promised guerdon. heracles brought the matter before a court, and called phyleus as a witness to the justice of his claim, whereupon augeas, without waiting for the delivery of the verdict, angrily banished heracles and his son from his dominions. 6. the stymphalides..the sixth task was to chase away the stymphalides, which were immense birds of prey who, as we have seen (in the legend of the argonauts, shot from their wings feathers sharp as arrows. the home of these birds was on the shore of the lake stymphalis, in arcadia (after which they were called, where they caused great destruction among men and cattle. on approaching the lake, heracles observed great numbers of them; and, while hesitating how to commence the attack, he suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder. l

feated them page 317 was their own [285]brother paris. he was then conducted to the presence of his parents, who joyfully acknowledged him as their child; and amidst the festivities and rejoicings in honour of their new-found son the ominous prediction of the past was forgotten. as a proof of his confidence, the king now intrusted paris with a somewhat delicate mission. as we have already seen in the legend of heracles, that great hero conquered troy, and after killing king laomedon, carried away captive his beautiful daughter hesione, whom he bestowed in marriage on his friend telamon. but although she became princess of salamis, and lived happily with her husband, her brother priam never ceased to regret her loss, and the indignity which had been passed upon his house; and it was now pro

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upon a sofa, while his apprentice in the esoteric arts swoons at the feet of his mentor. in due course, accompanied by the familiar spirits that have been transferred to his service, laden with treasures, and with the ashes of the sage in a costly urn, the french officer returns to his native country. he makes his abode in provence, spending his days in experiments with the black pullet. such is the legend of the black pullet, a handbook of magic written in egypt in 1740, and how one may acquire riches through the application of magical rites and ceremonies. the magic of herbs herbs have always been a staple item in the witch s world of chants, spells and rituals. they have a long wiccan tradition, being used for all kinds of weird and wonderful purposes. the historical record shows that

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

vides us with* hist. litt. de la france par les religteux benedictines, vol. 12 (paris: m. paulin, 1865-1866, 356; mabillon, ann. benedict, vol. 128 (paris: billaine, 1668-1701, n. 67. it should be noted that the english legend places among the ancestors of the order a certain aymon, son of hiram, who was the greatest of master masons. should we view as a coincidence the fact that the elements of the legend of hiram are also present in the earlier chanson de geste "the four sons of aymon? in this text we see renaud de montauban, who, after following a life that has been hardly edifying and wishing to atone for his sins, hires on to the construction of the cathedral of cologne. his uncommon strength and dexterity create a situation about which all the masters argue. but then his fellow work

ns would be safeguarded. documents remain from this time attesting to the favors and privileges granted to weavers, wool carders, masons, and carpenters. these flemish guilds that, emigrated to scotland primarily consisted of natives of bruges. it is significantly noteworthy that in bruges itself, where the templars had an important commandery, the guilds and others had welcomed fugitive templars the legend extends much further than does the historical data to support it. as recorded and handed down by several authors,21 robert the bruce is said to have founded in favor of the freemasons, the royal order of heredom of kilwinning. at this same time he is said to have raised the lodge founded in 1150 (concurrent with the founding of the kilwinning abbey) to the rank of grand royal lodge of h

ed that their modern organization dated from the templars and some identified master jacques as jacques de molay, the last grand master of the templars.46 c. h. simon, in his etude historique et morale sur le compagnonnage,47 considers it likely that "the children of solomon" received a new "duty" from jacques de molay. he sees a great connecthe templars and the parisian builders 133 tion between the legend of master jacques of the companions of duty and the history of the grand master of the templars. the long ironshod cane of the "children of master jacques" so dreadful to the "gavots* would be considered as a souvenir of the templars' terrible lance. others have compared it to the templar cross+ the companions of duty obligatorily professed the catholic faith. a confession of belief in

ifteenth century and in the statutes of the german stonecutters from the sixteenth century. there builders corporations in italy, germany, and switzerland 171 were also guilds of the four crowned martyrs in flanders, notably in brussels and anvers, that consisted of masons, stonecutters, sculptors, and others* given the importance of these patrons to the builders, it is probably helpful to recall the legend of the four crowned martyrs. it varies according to version, but this is how it was recorded in the golden legend: the four crowned martyrs were severus, severianus, carpoforus, and victorinus, who, by the commandment of diocletian, were beaten with plummets of lead unto the death. the names of whom could not be found, but after a long time they were shown by divine revelation, and it w

bor (173 verses; the third consists of fifteen articles concerning the constitutions and underscores the fact that the order is religious and moral (209 verses. we should note that the articulus quartus [fourth article] and the tertius punctus [final point] mention the lodge (logge. the fourth section of the poem provides the procedure of the annual general assembly (25 verses; the fifth presents the legend of the four crowned martyrs, the protectors of the order (37 verses* the* the legend of the four crowned martyrs also entered england at a very early time. it is said that a church of the four martyrs was built in canterbury in 597 (gould, a concise history of freemasonry, 238. the corporative masonry of great britain 191 sixth concerns the construction of the tower of babel (33 verses;

" a memorandum declaring that geometry is the oldest of the sciences and the greatest of the seven liberal arts follows this. these are the essential points it covers:11 after the flood, hermes found one of two pillars+ in which the scriptures containing all the sciences had been hidden. he absorbed all the knowledge that he rediscovered, taught it to humanity, and became the father of all sages. the legend goes on to state that nimrod (or nimroth, king of babylon, provided his masons with a "rule" stating that they should be loyal to each other and love each other. it is said that he also gave them two other rules concerning their science, though it is not known what these were. the next major figure in the narrative was abraham. he left his native region on the euphrates river for egypt

r after the flood. the corporative masonry of great britain 193 them that the masons owed the king their loyalty, that they should render assistance to each other and call one another "brother" that they should deserve their wages, and that they should designate the most skilled among them as director of the work and call him "master" finally, euclid ordered his masons to hold an annual assembly. the legend next speaks of david, who loved and cherished the masons and gave them licenses. his son, solomon, gathered together 80,000 masons, including 1,000 masters, and finished the construction of the temple. hiram, king of tyre, who greatly loved solomon, provided him with the wood he needed for the construction and sent him an artist who was the very spirit of wisdom. this man's mother was o

and his name was also hiram (some versions of the story describe him as the son of king hiram; others give his name as amon or aymon) there had been no one like him in the world before his time. a master mason of great nobility and refined knowledge, hiram was master of the construction, all the builders of the temple, and all the carved and sculpted works in the temple and the surrounding area. the legend then leaps ahead several centuries and recounts how namus graecus* who had taken part in the building of solomon's temple, introduced masonry into france by teaching it to charles martel, who then instructed the men of france in its mysteries+ the tale then arrives at saint alban, the patron saint of masons, who granted them a personal charter+ subsequently, masonry suffered from a seri

lban, the patron saint of masons, who granted them a personal charter+ subsequently, masonry suffered from a series of wars until the era of king athelstan, who greatly esteemed the masons, and his son edwin, who himself became a mason. it was edwin who issued the charges of the masons during an assembly held in york in 926. at this point the story abruptly comes to a halt. this briefly describes the legend that was reproduced, with different* it should be noted that this name simply replaces a greek name that a former copier was unable to decipher. for that reason we do not know which historical figure this might be+ we have already discussed the grounds on which this legendary role attributed to charles martel is resting and how firm it might be+ the cooke manuscript also mentions a sain

d saint alban. 194 from the art of building to the art of thinking variants and details, by the ancient charters and can be found in the masonic poem (regius manuscript, the cooke manuscript, and so forth. there is no need to point out its anachronisms and historical fantasies; these in no way detract from its importance from an esoteric point of view. it is important to note the abrupt ending of the legend with the congress of york in 926 when all the existing versions of the ancient charges are dated to after the end of the fourteenth century. why was there no effort made by the compilers to update the legend, at least to the year 1400? we have to assume that either the original legend was drawn up shortly after the last event it mentions, which is to say around 926, and was then copied

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d elsa was left alone and brokenhearted. lohengrin grew to be a strong and valiant man in whom fear was never seen. when he was of an age to have mastered the arts of chivalry he distinguished himself in the service of the grail. parzival, c. 1200 by wolfram von eschenbach the holy grail this holy object of quest and legend (see pp. 80 81) hovers like a blessing as lohengrin defends elsa s honor. the legend of the swan knight was first incorporated into arthurian legend in the parzival of wolfram von eschenbach (c. 1200. there loherangrin is said to the the son of the lord of the grail, parzival, and his wife condwiramurs. he has a twin brother, kardeiz, who inherits parzival s earthly thrones, while lohengrin inherits his spiritual ones. act ii of the opera siegfried by aubrey beardsley (

is initiated when a vision of the grail appears to king arthur and his knights. although christian, this legend is built on a substructure of celtic mythology, which abounds in horns of plenty and cauldrons (including one that restores 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 fish

can be translated as the castle of the blessed horn or the castle of the sacred host. galahad, perceval, and bors are fed from the grail by christ himself. this 15th-century illumination shows the vision of the grail appearing to arthur and his knights the day that sir galahad arrives in camelot and sits in the siege perilous. the atta inme nt designed by sir edward burne-jones (1833 98) based on the legend as told by thomas malory in morte d arthur, printed in 1483, this tapestry shows sir galahad, bors, and perceval, before the holy grail. son of sir lancelot sir galahad was the son of sir lancelot, who had come very close to ending the quest for the grail. but, although lancelot was the bravest and most skilful of king arthur s knights, he was judged unworthy of success because of his a

s love for isolde, and his madness and death. the kiss tristan has drunk the potion and kisses isolde s hand their fate is sealed. diarmuid and grania t he love of diarmuid and grania is a key tale in the irish cycle of stories about the hero finn maccumhal and his warrior band, the fianna. it shares many features with tristan and isolde, and welsh storytellers evidently adapted it to fit in with the legend of the pict, drust. grania, the high king of ireland s daughter, was betrothed to finn but at the wedding fell in love with his nephew diarmuid who had a love spot on his forehead that made him irresistible to women. grania imposed magic bonds on diarmuid so that he followed her, and the two eloped and became lovers. after a long pursuit, finn found diarmuid dying, gored by a boar. finn

, despite king mark s jealous suspicions. on various occasions, the pair only just escaped being found out. eventually tristan was banished to brittany, where he married isolde of the white hands. but he continued to languish for love of isolde. therefore, disguised once more as the minstrel tantris, he went back to cornwall and, pretending to be mad, managed to see her again; in some versions of the legend he does go mad. jeering mob jeering shepherds mocked tristan in his apparent madness, as he played his harp in the forest, chasing him and shouting look at the fool! such threatening groups appear several times in the tristan legends, most strikingly in the tristan of beroul, in which king mark, having condemned isolde to be burned at the stake, commutes the sentence and hands her over

song-poems. the words were simple and direct. a song collected by frances densmore from wounded face of the black mouth society of the mandan translates in its entirety: earth always endures. grizzly bears two men dressed as grizzly bears sit by the big canoe, threatening to devour anyone who comes near them, and generally disrupting the ceremony. women bring them dishes of meat to appease them. the legend of madoc t he echoes of christianity in mandan mythology and culture, and the similarity of the circular mandan bull boat to the welsh coracle, struck george catlin who lived among the mandan. he suggested that the mandan were descended from a lost expedition of welshmen under the command of madoc, a prince who sailed from north wales to america in 1170 and founded a colony there. howev

hem and brought them home. dragons dragons are synonymous with serpents in chinese mythology and represent wisdom, benevolent heavenly power, and the fertilizing earth currents. there are four dragon kings who live in the clouds and give out rain when needed. local dragon-kings preside over streams, rivers, and wells. the dragons shown here are those that draw the moon and the sun across the sky. the legend of hou yi and the ten suns when the ten suns (see p. 116) refused to go home, their father gave hou yi a new red bow and a quiver of ten white arrows and told him to threaten my sons with this bow. but yi became so angry at the sight of the dead and dying burned people on earth that he shot first one, then another eight suns from the sky. when they landed, the people saw golden, three-l

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

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r the human brain (establishment of the functions relative to the subtle world (b) control over the brain in detail (rank or type of the spirit (c) control of one special portion (name of the spirit" control is the map of empowerment and ascension. once direction is assumed and confirmed, can such begin to take place in association with progression and evolution? this subtle point is based around the legend of lucifer itself. in being cast forth from the heavens, one could only despair or revel in the freedom and self-respect that had been earned through defiance. the black flame that exists in the core of the self has long sought to grow and illuminate the individual who was prepared to travel the fantastic path of selfillumination and godhood. ever woman and man have their own orbit, the

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man faces. the spiritual beings are beautiful diaphanous angels, light brown in colour, with sweet serious faces. they were all much occupied when i saw them. some had silver in their left hands and mercury in their right, which they would put into a golden vessel together, whence immediately a pale gold coloured flame which ever increased in size, spreading out through the worlds. others bearing the legend 'solve et coagula'woven into their belts, mixed water and the principle of cold which the enochian system 667 they bore in a pair of scales, and the union was the ice of the region we were in. i was wondering whether all this had any counterpart in human nature, and its possibilities of development when i saw two types. one an ancient man toiling along most painfully and the other a chi

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jews, the hanged man, who corresponds to their twelfth dogma, that of the promised messiah, is a protestation against the saviour acknowledged by christians, and they seem to say unto him still: how canst thou save others, since thou couldst not save thyself? in the sepher-toldos-jeshu, an anti-christian rabbinical compilation, there occurs a singular parable. jeshu, says the rabbinical author of the legend, was travelling with simon-barjona and judas iscariot. late and weary they came to a lonely house, and, being very hungry, could find nothing to eat except an exceedingly lean gosling. it was insufficient for three persons, and to divide it would be to sharpen without satisfying hunger. they agreed to draw lots, but as they were heavy with sleep: let us first of all slumber, said jeshu

u, that i was god himself. for me, said judas hypocritically, i dreamed that, being in somnambulism, i arose, went softly downstairs, took the gosling from the spit, and ate it. thereupon they also went down, but the gosling had vanished altogether. judas had a waking dream. this anecdote is given, not in the text of the sepher-toldos-jeshu itself, but in the rabbinical commentaries on that work. the legend is a protest of jewish positivism against christian mysticism. as a fact, while the faithful surrendered themselves to magnificent dreams, the proscribed israelite, judas of the christian civilization, worked, sold, intrigued, became rich, possessed himself of this life's realities, till he became in a position to advance the means of existence to those very forms of worship which had s

only answers in the affirmative. as to the second point, religion states that the devil is the fallen angel; occult philosophy accepts and explains this definition. it will be unnecessary to repeat what we have said previously on the subject, but we may add a further revelation: in black magic, the devil is the great magical agent employed for evil purposes by a perverse will. the old serpent of the legend is nothing else than the universal agent, the eternal fire of terrestrial life, the soul of the earth, and the living centre of hell. we have said that the astral light is the receptacle of forms, and these when evoked by reason are produced harmoniously, but when evoked by madness they appear disordered and monstrous: so originated the nightmares of st. anthony and the phantoms of the

h the moon. hence also the name of mary signifies star or salt of the sea. to consecrate this kabalistic doctrine in the belief of the vulgar, it is said in prophetic language: the woman shall crush the serpent's head. jerome cardan, one of the boldest students, and beyond contradiction the most skilful astrologer of his time jerome cardan, who was a martyr to his faith in astrology, if we accept the legend of his death, has left a calculation by means of which anyone can foresee the good or evil fortune attached to all years of his life. his theory was based upon his own experiences, and he assures us that the calculation never deceived him. to ascertain the fortune of a given year, he sums up the 84 the doctrine of transcendental magic events of those which have preceded it by 4, 8, 12

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reacts speedily on his lineaments according to the force of his habits. a man of intelligent and passive mildness assumes the inert physiognomy and ways of a sheep, but in somnambulism it is a sheep that is seen, and not a man with a sheepish countenance, as the ecstatic and learned swedenborg experienced a thousand times. in the kabalistic book of daniel the seer, this mystery is represented by the legend of nebuchadnezzar changed into a beast, which, after the common fate of magical allegories, has been mistaken for an actual history. in this way, we can really transform men into animals and animals into men; we can metamorphose plants and alter their virtue; we can endow minerals with ideal properties: it is all a question of willing. we can equally render ourselves visible or invisibl

nish; his forgiveness even bewitches those who do him wrong, and never do the enemies of initiates carry far the impunity of their injustice. we ourselves have witnessed numerous examples of this fatal law. the murderers of martyrs always perish miserably, and the adepts are martyrs of intelligence; providence seems to scorn those who despise them and to slay those who would deprive them of life. the legend of the wandering jew is the popular poetry of this arcanum. a wise man was driven by a nation to his doom; it bade him ggo on! h when he sought to rest for a moment. what is the consequence? a similar condemnation overtakes the nation itself; it is proscribed bodily. men have cried to it: gget on! get on! h for centuries, and it has found no pity and no repose. a man of learning had a w

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horizons) was a form of horus the elder identified with ra, especially in his aspects of atum and xepera.31 ra-harakhti was a rival "final judgment" god to osiris in addition to being a solar deity, which explains his presence on the funerary stele. he is also noteworthy for having defended set in the osirian-mythos trial between set and horus the younger [at one point in the debate, according to the legend, ra-harakhti was insulted and retired to his house in a huff. the proceedings resumed only after hathor had cheered the grouchy god with a strip-tease.32] the book of the law and the "stele of revealing" consequently, cannot be viewed as documents of the osiris/isis/horus the younger triad or cult. they reflect the more ancient solar/light cults of ra and horus the elder. the "opposite

it is i who call you, because you are the guardians of the aeon of set, zealous in what you do. this is a salutation to the council of nine, the highest officials of the temple of set and guardians of the aon. their emblem is the sacred tcham sceptre. they carry forward the tradition and name of the nine unknown, the basis of the church of satan's council of nine and now of the temple's council. the legend of the nine unknown, as recounted by louis pauwels and jacques bergier in their morning of the magicians, began with asoka, emperor of the maurya kingdom of india from approximately 274 to 236 bce. he became a buddhist ca. 260 bce, and was famous for administering his kingdom according to the most enlightened principles. before his death he selected nine great sages to form a secret, pr

ate the elements through planetary energies, and use herbs to set the ritual atmosphere. the format for the working is the crystal tablet outline] walpurgisnacht working- april 30, xxv april 30 was the eve of the feast of st. walpurga, a roman catholic nun of the 8th century. there are many stories about how this legend arose, but in all of them she remained a faithful nun until her death. it was the legend of a miraculous oil associated with the place of her burial from which strange tales and practices arose. however, traditionally the feast of beltane has been celebrated by various pagan groups at this same time. the association of the two is probably coincidental and convenient where both christianity and paganism exist among the people of an area. this is classification: v2- c33.4w- 1

t be known that he personally did not believe it] the first century of the common era saw satire exploiting the werewolf legends, and in the second century some roman doctors noted that lycanthropy was a mental disease and recommended venous phlebotomy as a prime treatment. the examples can go on and on. but what does a setian magician see in lycanthropy? let's look at a few different reasons for the legend of the werewolf. there is a grain of truth in most tales handed down over the aeons, and there are indications in that of the werewolf, also. for example, gould and pyle's exhaustive anomalies and curiosities of medicine is one of the texts that examines an interesting medical condition known as hypertrichosis. in this condition, a congenital one, the individual is born generally either

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f chameleons, whose wings changed colour as they settled on vermilion flowers, ochre curtains, obsidian goblets or amber finger-rings. in the zamindar's mansion, and also in the nearby village, the miracle of the butterflies had become so familiar as to seem mundane, but in fact they had only returned nineteen years ago, as the servant women would recall. they had been the familiar spirits, or so the legend ran, of a local saint, the holy woman known only as bibiji, who had lived to the age of two hundred and forty-two and whose grave, until its location was forgotten, had the property of curing impotence and warts. since the death of bibiji one hundred and twenty years ago the butterflies had vanished into the same realm of the legendary as bibiji herself, so that when they came back exac

was the same as ever. she had always had something of a reputation as a witch, who could wish illnesses upon you if you failed to bow down before her litter as it passed, an occultist with the power of transforming men into desert snakes when she had had her fill of them, and then catching them by the tail and having them cooked in their skins for her evening meal. now that she had reached sixty the legend of her necromancy was being given new substantiation by her extraordinary and unnatural failure to age. while all around her hardened into stagnation, while the old gangs of sharks grew middle--aged and squatted on street corners playing cards and rolling dice, while the old knot--witches and contortionists starved to death in the gullies, while a generation grew up whose conservatism a

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new names and titles. amongst them is the father of lies, and it is said that the greatest trick he ever played was convincing us that he does not exist. not even his servants seem to actually believe in him anymore- such is as he has commanded. as with all liars his story is inconsistent, and there are many conflicting versions of how he and his fellows came to exist. later christianity adopted the legend of the fall, a theme most popular throughout the middle east. the following canaanite scripture was recorded five centuries before the hebrew scribes produced the old testament, and concerns the legend of shaher, who was born of the pit, helel, which is the womb of the mother goddess. compare with isaiah 14:12-14 as we know it now; how hast thou fallen from heaven, helel s son shaher! t

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es, and remove their shoes before they worship. traditional clothing for women is the sari and for men, the veshti. arvind garg/corbis. world religions: almanac 259 hinduism return of lord rama from exile. again, the day is marked by prayer, feasting, visiting friends and relatives, and fireworks. the second day of the new year is dedicated to the love between sisters and brothers and is based on the legend of a visit lord yama, the god of death, made to his sister. in her kindness, the sister asked yama to spare people from the tortures of hell and to reunite brothers and sisters in their next life if they bathed in the waters of mathura, india. hindus believe that the fifth day of the new year is special. according to hindus this day is auspicious, meaning that any task or project can be

n, and jupiter. once during the twelve-year cycle, the maha kumbh mela, or great urn festival, is held at prayag and is attended by millions of people. the kumbh mela, which features ritual baths on the banks of the cities rivers, spiritual discussions, singing of devotional aartis or hymns, and mass feeding of holy persons and of the poor, is based on a legend that dates back thousands of years. the legend is that demons and gods agreed to cooperate to make and share amrita manthanam, the nectar of immortality (the ganga waters. but the demons stole the kumbh, or urn, in which the amrita was held. the gods chased the demons for twelve days and twelve nights, the equivalent of twelve human years. 260 world religions: almanac hinduism as the two sides fought over the urn, drops of the amrit

ieth century, japanese artist akira yoshizawa launched a worldwide revival of origami. according to japanese legend, a person who forms origami images of one thousand cranes (the bird) will obtain his or her heart s desire. in the 1950s a young girl named sadako sasaki, a survivor of the atomic bomb blast over hiroshima in 1945 who was dying of leukemia because of the bomb s radiation, learned of the legend and tried to fold one thousand origami cranes before her death. she died before she could complete her task, but her schoolmates finished it for her, and she was buried with a wreath of one thousand origami cranes. a statue of sadako sasaki with an origami crane flying from her outstretched hand stands in the hiroshima peace park. the religion that was once used to encourage aggressive

around the world, with many relocating to brooklyn, new york. a large and vital hasidic community still functioned there in the early twenty-first century. for more information books ben-amos, dan, and j. r. mintz, eds. in praise of the baal shem tov (shivhei ha- besht: the earliest collection of legends about the founder of hasidism. northvale, nj: jason aronson publishers, 1996. buber, martin. the legend of the baal-shem. translated by maurice friedman. princeton, nj: princeton university press, 1995. herschel, abraham joshua. a passion for truth. woodstock, vt: jewish lights publishing, 1995. israel ben eliezer world religions: biographies 177 klein, eliahu. meetings with remarkable souls: legends of the baal shem tov. northvale, nj: jason aronson publishers, 1995. rosman, murray jay

mad and the ka aba most of the traditional accounts of muhammad s life emphasize the high regard in which he was held in his community during the years before his revelations (public expressions of divine will or truth. one legend addresses his role in the renovation of the ka aba, a shrine that contained idols worshipped by the people, although the story has likely been exaggerated. according to the legend, the ka aba was in great need of repair, but no one wanted to perform the necessary work out of fear that the idols contained in the shrine would somehow release their supernatural powers against the people of mecca. in addition, materials and skilled workmen were unavailable. this changed, however, when a capsized greek ship washed ashore carrying high-quality wood and a skilled carpen

the human race. plato was one of the most influential philosophers of the western world. a philosopher is someone who studies logic, ethics (moral values, and other subjects for greater wisdom and experience. along with his teacher, socrates (469 399 bce, and his student, aristotle (384 322 bce; see entry, plato pioneered the classical philosophy of ancient greece. he was the first to write about the legend of the mythical lost continent of atlantis. he formulated the well-known concept of platonic love, or love that is spiritual rather than physical. in such works as the republic, he wrote about a wide range of subjects, including ethics, politics, psychology (the study of the mind and behavior, and morality (a system of right conduct. modern readers continue to explore his works for thei

part of the literature and oral tradition of islam. a life of poverty ra bi ah was born about in 713 ce to the al-atik tribe of qays clan and died, by most accounts, in 801. her name means fourth daughter in arabic. other variations of her name include ra bi ah al-qaysiyya and ra bi ah al basri (ra bi ah of basra, after her hometown. little was written about ra bi ah during her lifetime. much of the legend in existence comes from the thirteenth century and the writings of sufi mystic and poet farid al-din attar. in his tadhkirat al-awliya or biographies of the saints, he related the words of ra bi ah, who left no written documents herself. attar says that ra bi ah was on fire with 319 love and longing and that she was considered an unquestioned authority to her contemporaries. most source

y sacred hill of ni. his original family name was kong (k ung, and the name confucius is a latinized (written using the latin alphabet) version of kong fuzi (k ung fu-tzu, a name that means the master kong. confucius was the name used by early catholic missionaries, priests who tried to convert the chinese people to christianity, in china. nothing is known about confucius s education, but part of the legend is that he studied the religion of daoism (taoism) and music. in his early years he took jobs that he considered undignified, such as caring for livestock. by the time he reached middle age he had gathered around himself a number of disciples, or followers, to whom he taught his philosophy. this philosophy grew into the religion of confucianism. the major beliefs of confucianism are con

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is amulet is typical of teeming life and of the resurrection. the frog-headed goddess heqt, the wife of khnemu, was associated with the resurrection, and this amulet, when laid upon the body of the dead, was intended to transfer to it her power. the frog is often represented on the upper part of the greek and roman terra-cotta lamps which are found in egypt, and on one of them written in greek is the legend "i am the resurrection" 1 the amulets described above are those which are most commonly found in the tombs and on mummies, but a few others are also known, e.g, the white crown of the south, the red crown of the north, the horizon, or place where the sun rises, an angle, typifying protection, the horns, disk, and plumes, or the plummet, etc. besides these, any ring, or pendant, or ornam

formed a magical formula against the poison of reptiles of all kinds, she made a bold attempt to wrest the power of ra from him and to make herself mistress of the universe. the way in which she did this is told in a hieratic papyrus preserved at turin, 1 from which the following rendering has been made; the merit of first discovering the correct meaning of the text belongs to m. lefebure. p. 137 the legend of ra and isis "the chapter of the divine god, the self-created being) who made the heavens and the earth, and the winds [which give] life, and the fire, and the gods, and men, and beasts, and cattle, and reptiles, and the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea; he is the king of men and of gods, he hath one period of life) and with him periods of one hundred and twenty years each are

onze in the ptolemaic and roman periods, or hewn in stone, and were buried in tombs and under the foundations of houses to drive away any of the fiends who might come to do harm either to the living or the dead. the arab historian mas'udi has preserved 1 a curious legend of the talismans which were employed by alexander the great to protect the city of alexandria whilst it was being built, and as the legend is of egyptian origin, and dates from a period not greatly removed from that in which the metternich stele was made, it is worthy of mention. when the foundations of the city had been laid, and the walls had begun to rise up, certain savage animals came up each night from the sea, and threw down everything which had been built during the day; watchmen were appointed to drive them away

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own. but if any one will say to the afflicted into their ear these names, three times over, into the right ear 'iudariz, sabun, den' i at once retreat" 89. the eighteenth said "i am called buldum ch. i separate wife from husband and bring about a grudge between them. if any one write down the names of thy sires, solomon, on paper and place it in the antechamber of his house, i retreat thence. and the legend written shall be as follows 'the god of abram, and the god of isaac, and the god of jacob commands thee- retire from this house in peace' and i at once retire" 90. the nineteenth said "i am called na th, and i take my seat on the knees of men. if any one write on paper 'phnunobo ol, depart nathath, and touch thou not the neck' i at once retreat" 91. the twentieth said "i am called marde

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ophy contains the eternal prototype for such a course of life, which only he must and can fulfill. it is like a law of nature, and as the properties of a chemical are exactly determined, a buddha or christ must live a precisely determined life. their lives are not narrated to reveal the accidents of biography, but rather to show the typical features, defined by mysteriosophy for all ages to come. the legend of the buddha is no more a biography in the ordinary sense than the gospels are supposed to be such a biography of christ jesus. neither is concerned with contingent events, but rather with the prototypical life of a world-redeemer. the model for both accounts is not external, physical happenings but the traditional teachings of the mysteries. for those who recognize their divine nature

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brute power of the people) must be regulated by the elite "the blind force of the people is a force that must be economized, and also managed. it must be regulated by intellect" 238 codex magica 80 morals and dogma. hour; and hence, in several african dialects, as names of the sun, airo, ayero, eer, uiro, ghurrah, and the like. the royal name rendered pharaoh, was phra, that is, pai-ra, the sun. the legend of the contest between hor-ra and set, or set-nu-bi, the same as bar or bal, is older than that of the strife between osiris and typhon; as old, at least, as the nineteenth dynasty. it is called in the book of the dead "the day of the battle between horus and set" the later myth connects itself with phoenicia and syria. the body of osiris went ashore at gebal or byblos, sixty miles abov

the real grip of a master mason, which the order claims can "resurrect" the candidate and cause him, in essence, to be "born again (a counterfeit of the christian experience) is formed with fingers separated to form a triangle. in the photos and illustrations in this section, you will find several real-life examples of this grip. in coil's masonic encyclopedia we are told of the triangular chain, the legend taught by freemasonry that jewish freemasons were carried as captives from jerusalem to babylon by nebuchadnezzar, being bound by triangular chains. the babylonian king is said to have been gravely insulting the jews by doing this because, to the jews, the triangle, or delta symbol, was a symbol of their deity.2 king solomon and the triple triangle in the 6 of freemasonry, the degree of

ook satan speaks, notes that the sign of the spear is actually the inverted pentagram.4 in turn, the pentagram (the satanic five-pointed star, according to lavey represents "excalibur, the spear of destiny, wotan's spear point, the lightning bolt that created the protoplasm of life."5 the rosicrucians and the sign of an arrow moreover, the rosicrucian order seems to be somehow connected with both the legend of the spear and the priory of sion. d. c. yermak, writing in the axis of death- vatican, masonry, zionism, enemies of god, explains that "the rosicrucians, by making their secret sign with the first three fingers of the right hand united, make the sign of an arrow."6 the rosicrucian's sign of an arrow is dark and evil because it is used by the individual to remove himself from god's bl

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nowledge that she had distilled from various mystery schools, hindu religious thought, jewish mysticism, and christian sects. many of the concepts and the spiritual eclecticism professed by blavatsky in the 1880s would be revised on a large scale in the 1970s, in what has loosely been called the new age movement. in addition to such contributions as occult masters and guides, blavatsky introduced the legend of the lost continent of lemuria, the return of the maitreya (world savior, and was greatly responsible for popularizing the concepts of reincarnation and past lives in europe and the united states. at the time of her death in 1891, blavatsky s detractors considered her to have been a hoaxster, a fraud, and a deceiver, while her followers revered her as a genius, a veritable saint, and

and practiced the secret mysteries. while they outwardly bowed to the foreign gods, they maintained their old traditions and believed in a time when the dynasties of egypt would be restored in all their magnificence. 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 260 mystery religions and cults it was during this time that the priests began to propagate the legend of isis, goddess of enchantment and magic, and her husband osiris, father of the great war god horus, finally conqueror of northern upper egypt. osiris came into conflict with set, who killed and dismembered him, scattering his body parts in the nile. death didn t eliminate osiris, for isis, incarnation of the divine mother goddess, used her magic to put him back together. osiris and hi

man capable of charming both man and beast with his music, but god or human, he modified the dionysian rites by removing their orgiastic elements. according to some traditions, he was said to be the son of a priestess of apollo, gifted with a melodious voice, golden hair, deep blue eyes, and a powerful magnetism that exerted a kind of magic upon all those with whom he came into contact. then, so the legend goes, he disappeared, and many presumed him dead. in reality, he had traveled to memphis, where he spent the next 20 years studying in the egyptian mystery schools. when he returned to greece, he was known only by the name that he had received in the initiation rites, orpheus of arpha, the one who heals with light. orpheus next changed the cult of bacchus/ dionysus and set about restruc

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oarded up a small container for lord stawell, the original owner of hinton ampner. he had suggested that the small box might have contained treasure and might offer a clue to the haunting. workmen discovered the container when they were stripping the mansion. it was found to conceal the skeleton of a baby. when mary ricketts learned of this startling discovery, it seemed to offer the final key to the legend of hinton ampner. the villagers said lord stawell had engaged in illicit relations with the younger sister of his wife, who had lived with them at the manor. it had been the subject of ancient gossip that his sister- in-law had borne his child a child that had been murdered at its birth. when lady stawell died, her sister, honoria, became the mistress of hinton ampner. the past wrongs b

osts of the prairie [online] http//www.prairieghosts.com/myrtles.html. turnage, sheila. haunted inns of the southeast. winston- salem, mass: john f. blair, 2001. the tedworth drummer the bizarre haunting phenomena that beset the family of john mompesson of tedworth, england, in march of 1661 had overtones of witchcraft and the fixing of a terrible curse. the demon of tedworth is so much a part of the legend and folklore of england that ballads and poems have been written in celebration of the incredible prowess of the pesky ghost. john mompesson, a justice of the peace, had brought before him an ex-drummer in cromwell s army, who had been demanding money of the bailiff by virtue of a suspicious pass. the bailiff had believed the pass to be counterfeit, and mompesson, who was familiar with

gues. the ghoul more common to the waking world is that of the mentally unbalanced individual who engages in eating or otherwise desecrating the flesh of deceased humans. yet a third type of ghoul would be those native of arabic folklore, the ghul (male) and ghulah (female, demonic jinns that haunt burial grounds and sustain themselves on human flesh stolen from graves. it is easy to envision how the legend of the ghoul began in ancient times when graves were shallow and often subject to the disturbances of wild animals seeking carrion. later, as funeral customs became more elaborate and men and women were buried with their jewelry and other personal treasures, the lure of easy wealth superseded any superstitious or ecclesiastical admonitions that might have otherwise kept grave robbers aw

interior workings of the human body, and thus the more cadavers they needed. as a result, societies of grave robbers were formed called the resurrectionists. these men made certain that the corpses finding their way to the dissecting tables were as fresh as possible. and, of course, digging was easier in unsettled dirt. the great irony was that advancement in medical science helped to perpetuate the legend of the ghoul. m delving deeper fodor, nandor. between two worlds. new york: paperback library, 1967. the haunted mind: a psychoanalyst looks at the supernatural. new york: new american library, 1968. hurwood, bernardt j. vampires, werewolves, and ghouls. new york: ace books, 1968. mack, carol k, and dinah mack. a field guide to demons, fairies, fallen angels, and other subversive spirit

city streets appearing as ordinary as anyone on his or her way to work or shopping. they needn t fear the scorching rays of the rising sun. they have no use for a coffin in which to sleep during the daylight hours. they have no dread of mirrors that may not show their reflection. crucifixes don t distress them in the least, and they themselves would probably use garlic for seasoning. contrary to the legend popularized by hollywood horror films, one does not undergo a painful transformation into a wolf after being bitten or scratched by a werewolf. according to the ancient traditions, those who became werewolves were generally of two types: 1) powerhungry sorcerers who deliberately sought the ability to shapeshift into the form of a wolf through an application of black magic so that they m

eir aircraft in world war ii (1939 45) when the pesky entities were routinely blamed for engine troubles, electronic failures, and any other thing that might go wrong with an airplane. although the tales of gremlins received their greatest notoriety annoying the pilots of great britain s royal air force (raf) in the period 1940 45, dave stern, an aerospace, aviation, and history writer, says that the legend began in 1923 when a british navy pilot crashed into the sea. once he was rescued, he blamed the accident on some little people who had jumped out of a beer bottle and had tormented him all night. it was these wee troublemakers who had followed him into the airplane, entered into the engine, messed with the flight controls, and caused him to crash. not long after this reported gremlin a

e d 230 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends this popular urban legend of an ordinary woman getting revenge on a corporate giant has been around in one form or another since the late 1940s. it began shortly after the end of world war ii (1945) with a woman being charged with an exorbitant bill after requesting the recipe for fudge cake from a railroad diner car. in the 1960s, the legend evolved to a woman customer receiving a bill for $350.00 from new york s waldorf-astoria hotel for a dessert known as red velvet cake. in the 1970s, mrs. fields became the villain for having sold the recipe for chocolate chip cookies to a customer for $250.00. the story regarding mrs. fields became so widely circulated that in 1987 the company issued a public denial, insisting that all

ous spider in the hair continued through the twentieth century. this legend started up again with the introduction of the popular beehive hairdo in the early 1960s. because women sprayed their hair to create a rounded beehive appearance, it seemed possible and terrifying to those wanting such a fashionable style that a spider could take residence in the raised hair atop their heads. the story: as the legend goes, a woman, wearing a beehive hair style, walks into a beauty shop and asks for a trim. she tells the beautician that she has not touched her hair for days other than to add spray because she felt she had achieved the perfect shape to her hairdo. as the beautician begins to shampoo the woman s hair, the customer screams in awful pain. she grimaces, gasps, and collapses. the beauticia

olently enforced. official disclaimers by the u.s. air force, the central intelligence agency (cia, and the federal bureau of investigation (fbi) have served only to intensify the mystery of the bizarre incidents that have instilled fear among those who witnessed flying saucer phenomena and have prompted accusations of government cover-ups by members of civilian research groups for over 50 years. the legend of the three men in black, the mib, began in september 1953 when albert k. bender, who had organized the international flying saucer bureau, received certain data that he felt provided the missing pieces concerning the origin of flying saucers. bender wrote down his theory and sent it off to a friend he felt he could trust. when the three men appeared at bender s door, one of them held

cret government agency that patrolled the action of aliens living secretly on earth. the concept that originated in fear and distrust of the government or of some nefarious secret organization of aliens or agents was played for laughs, and the motion picture used state-of-the-art special effects to create astonishing outer space creatures. a sequel to the successful film was released in 2002, and the legend of the frightening men in black knocking at the doors of those who had witnessed ufo activity to threaten and to silence them continued to be seen as a vehicle for comedy. if the ufo silencers are a hoax, no one has yet answered who is perpetrating it and why. whoever comprises this persistent silence group either knows, or gives the impression of knowing, a great deal more about the un

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ican public until 1935 when president franklin delano roosevelt (1882.1945, a 32nd-degree mason, put it on the back of the one-dollar bill. most scholars agree that the pyramid represented on the bill is the great pyramid of cheops at giza, which, to a mason, is emblematic of the continuity of the craft of freemasonry from the dawn of civilization in egypt. for freemasons it is also a reminder of the legend that egyptian civilization was founded by survivors from atlantis and that the united states is the new atlantis foretold by the great master mason sir francis bacon (1561.1626. the pyramid with the all-seeing eye represents the great architect of the universe that guided the founding fathers of the united states to establish a nation that might one day reveal itself as the heir of the

bullet h that killed jfk? were so badly burned that they soon died, and the surviving five escaped from the imperial troops by miraculous means. after many ordeals the five monks came to a city in fukien province where they founded a tong whose aim was to overthrow the emperor who had betrayed their loyalty. that tong exists today as the triad tong, and the five monks who founded it, according to the legend, are known as the five ancestors. although the revolt against the emperor failed, the survivors scattered throughout china and established five provincial grand lodges, each led by one of the five monks. initiation into the triad society is based on a blood ceremony. first, the ancient five heroes are invoked by an gincense master h who offers libations of tea and wine. the candidate fo

erent animal or human forms. 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 50 magic and sorcery merlin, the magus who served as a tutor to young arthur pendragon before he became king, has become almost universally known as the mentor to all those youth seeking wisdom, spiritual values, and material prosperity. although scholars tell those fascinated by the legend of camelot that merlin, arthur, guinevere, and lancelot, are fictional creations, there are still those who seek out their graves. some scholars point to a sixth-century writer and seer named myrrdin, who went mad and took refuge in the forest of celydon when his king gwenddolau was defeated at the battle of arderydd in 573. merlin first appears in the history of the kings of britain (1

rliest biographical data. both hindley and head, in later years, said the whole thing was a hoax and they made up and invented most of the details of her life. there is controversy as to whether or not shipton ever really existed outside of legend. some say thirteen of her prophecies were accurate and fulfilled; while others say she may have been a real person, but her prophecies were all part of the legend and were written after the events had already come true. m delving deeper shipton, mother. mother shipton fs fortune teller; or, future fate foretold by the planets. new york: padell book co: 1944. harrison, w. h. holmes. mother shipton investigated. the result of a critical examination of the extant literature relating to the yorkshire sybil. london: holmes publishing group llc: 2001

sometimes, distinctions between what is real or imagined become blurred. the holy grail is never mentioned in the bible, for example, but by medieval times it was popularized as gthe holiest relic in christendom h through le morte d farthur by sir thomas malory (fl. 1470. tales of knights questing for the holy grail actually preceded a full account of the history of the grail. yet, so powerful is the legend that the term gholy grail h is commonly used nowadays to describe an elusive, ultimate achievement. it is questionable as to whether the holy grail ever existed as a physical object, but it continues to inspire the imagination. when it comes to things of mystery and power, then, the human imagination usually plays a key role in broadening the mystery and making it more powerful. even wh

f the ark of the covenant has been a mystery. interest in the ark of the covenant has inspired generations of those who would recover the sacred relic. in medieval times the knights templar supposedly came into possession of the ark. a whole mythology has been built around the legendary holy grail, said to be the drinking vessel of jesus at the last supper before his crucifixion and resurrection. the legend of the grail has been perpetuated through literature since the twelfth century, particularly in tales involving knights of camelot who served the legendary king arthur of britain. through the inspirational recounting of the various quests, christian teachings and virtues are presented. in modern times, the holy grail persists as a symbol of an ultimate achievement, a higher order of bei

led to britain and took the grail with him. when he died, the grail passed on to his descendants. the grail had magical qualities for the righteous, providing food and assurances of the grace of god. a few generations later, because of some transgression and a general lack of humility and virtue by keepers of the grail, the powers of the vessel were lost and its existence was virtually forgotten. the legend of the grail has been perpetuated through literature since the twelfth century, particularly in tales involving knights of camelot who served the legendary king arthur of britain. stories of their quests to find the holy grail blend supernatural adventures, love stories, christian myth, and the lore of celts, a people who occupied much of europe until the spreading of the roman empire

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even years, but the rest of the story so closely resembles other accounts of the sacrifice by. combat that itcannot be disregarded; theseus did not put an end to the custom, he merely relieved athens from sending theyearly victims, who, like the children stolen by the fairies, had to "pay the teind to hell" with their lives.the sanctity of the ram in the aegean in the early bronze age is shown in the legend of helle and phrixos.they were the children of the family who were set apart as victims when human sacrifice was required. thesacrifice of helle was consummated by drowning, but phrixos escaped by means of the divine animal, whichhe afterwards sacrificed, possibly as a substitute for himself. the story of jason's expedition suggests that thefleece had a divine connotation, and that its

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genevieve shone gloriously with light. they were chanting the litanies, and the procession was coming out of the choir. after the cross, accompanied by its acolytes, and followed by the choirboys, came the banner of st. genevieve; then, walking in double file, came the lady devotees of st. genevieve, clothed in black, with a white veil on the head, a blue ribbon around the neck, with the medal of the legend, a taper in the hand, surmounted by the little gothic lantern that tradition gives to the images of the saint. for, in the old books, 167 st genevieve is always represented with a medal on her neck, that which st. germain d'auxerre gave her, and holding a taper, which the devil tries to extinguish, but which is protected from the breath of the unclean spirit by a miraculous little taber

, who took the devil for god, and god for the devil! why have 204 they not been undeceived by making them recognize the true god by the charity, the knowledge, the justice, and above all, by the mercy of his ministers? the necromancers who cause the devil to appear after a fatiguing and almost impossible series of the most revolting evocations, are only children by the side of that st. anthony of the legend who drew them from hell by thousands, and dragged them everywhere after him, like orpheus, who attracted to him oaks, rocks and the most savage animals. callot alone, initiated by the wandering bohemians during his infancy into the mysteries of black sorcery, was able to understand and reproduce the evocations of the first hermit. and do you think that in retracing those frightful dream

THE LUCIFERIAN PATH THE WITCHES SABBAT MICHAEL W FORD

azal ucel, set (the egyptian god, lilith (the goddess of the luciferian path, cain (the isolate one, lord of magicians and witches) and ahriman (the dragon of darkness who takes many forms. such god forms span various cultures and ages, but their essence lives in the idea of the sabbat and luciferian witchcraft and sorcery. the initiate begins the path of shadow, from which he or she models from the legend of lucifer falling from light. it was essential for azazel (lucifer) to grow he had to understand and perceive darkness, to taste the shadows and become as god (the knowledge of good and evil. the initiate of the luciferian path explores the darkness as a point of development, a testing of spirit and the possibility of self isolation. as the initiate confronts in various forms what is c

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were given expulsion regardie, who had neglected to get a valid also told to leave the country. after spending regardie went to england where he his wife. by this time crowley had discovered mandrake press, but by now crowley's "the wickedest man in the world"1 was booksellers to avoid him, and mandrake as a result, crowley could no longer afford after attempting to repair crowley's a book called the legend regardie and crowley drifted apart though for a time regardie, who had settled in for thomas burke, the novelist. in 1932, regardie published h s first of pomegranates and the tree of life. regardie's own qabalistic studies, while the latter is usually considered regardie's magnum opus and one of the most comprehensive texts on practical magic ever written. the book was primarily a rest

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roughly equivalent powers, is perhaps best illustrated by the belief, common among the orthodox churches of the east, in a personal devil as well as a personal angel. this concept has been amplified by the roman catholic church to such an extent- perhaps subconsciously- that a missal in the editor's possession contains an engraving for the feast of st. andrew, apostle, for november 30, that bears the legend "ecce qui tollis peccata mundi- behold him who taketh away the sins of the world- and the picture above it is of the atomic bomb! basically, there are two "sets" of gods in the mythos: the elder gods, about whom not much is revealed, save that they are a stellar race that occasionally comes to the rescue of man, and which corresponds to the christian "light; and the ancient ones, about

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

ity grips us by the throat. is there an eternal death? ah! saviour, deliver us from the misery of our lot; lead us to the realms of eternal rest, where rich and poor, good and bad, are made one, lost in the depths of the lethean sea. and what can all this lead us to, this progress through misery? to the great archetype the arahat-ship of buddha. it was by gazing on the sunken eyes of a corpse, so the legend runs, that gautama forsook pleasure for a life of pity. life is feodal to death, and our ultimate sleep is greater than our first awakening. the womb was dark; from out it sprang the thoughtless; the tomb is darker still; into it creeps the thoughtful. the dead are our gods, soon we shall strike our tent for the last time and join the great caravanserai of the departed: wend now thy way

ty by assumed knowledge a priori [rendering hume fs position now impregnable, thanks to ethnology, etc, etc; and then kant asks, ghow is pure mathematics possible h [again falling into the fallacy of supposing his own brain to be without a history, it is curious to note that kant fs a priori is but a recasting of the old myth of pallas, wisdom, springing fullarmed from the brain of zeus, and like the legend is a strangely false assertion] thus, into the trap kant sets out to rescue hume from, he himself falls, by asserting that: git is only by means of the form of sensuous intuition that we can intuite things a priori, but in this way we intuite the objects only as they appear to our senses, not as they may be in themselves (p. 29 [thus kant himself proves the noumenon, the sole refuge fro

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he text which refers to anubis mr. goodwin transcribed-"hail, o ye who make to be maat the word of your little one, may thoth weigh the words, may he make to eat his father" immediately over the boat is the short inscription which goodwin renders by"[when] this god entereth, he (i.e, the ape) riseth and putteth under restraint am-a (i.e, the eater of the arm" 1 p. 164 behind the pair of scales is the legend 1 which mr. goodwin renders "the balance-bearer does homage; the blessed spirits in amenti follow after him; the morning, star disperses the thick darkness; there is good will above, justice below. the god reposes himself, he gives bread to the blessed, who throng, towards him" the translation by m. lef bure reads "the bearer of the hatchet and the bearer of the scales protect the inhab

ong body of which is made to serve as biers for twelve gods in mummied form; the serpent's body is provided with twenty-four legs of lions, and a mummied god rests over each pair of them. these gods are described as "those who are in the body of osiris asleep" and "those who are in inactivity" 3. four gods, each with his arms stretched straight together before him at an acute angle with his body. the legend reads, khast-ta-rut. p. 211 click to view click to view click to view the gods who are asleep in the body of osiris. p. 212 click to view click to view click to view the gods who are asleep in the body of osiris. p. 213 click to view four khast-ta-rut gods. click to view (left) a god in mummied form (center) the serpent in the round pool of fire (right) four khast-ta-rut gods. p. 214 4

ound; the fetters are further strengthened by small chains, which are linked to the larger ones, and are fastened to the ground by means of pegs with a hook at the top. in an earlier picture we have click to view the slaughterers of apep. seen apep fettered by seb, mest, hapi, tuamutef, and qebhsennuf, who were represented by five gods, but here the figures of the gods are wanting, and it is only the legend "children of horus" that tells us the chains represent the gods. 3. four apes, each holding up a huge hand and wrist. p. 284 4. the goddess of upper egypt, wearing the white crown, and styled amenti. 5. the goddess of lower egypt, wearing the red crown, and called herit. 6. the bearded god sebekhti, who holds the emblem of "life" in his right hand, and a sceptre in his left. p. 285 of t

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rusalem. 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.s (rosy cross. according to the legend of this order its origins lay in the arrival of pierre d aumont and seven other templars, refugees from persecution, in the island of mull, situated off the coast of scotland. the supposed incident was described, from a hostile point of view, by a member of a rival templar order: after the death of jacques de molay, some scottish templars having become apostates at the instigation of ro

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 continental masonic groups, among them the french chapter of clermont, and it was from the ranks of the last mentioned organization that at some time between 1751 and 1754 baron von hund (1722-76) recruited the first members of the stricte observance, a quasi-templar masonic order which claimed to possess secret templar documen

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

two a true history of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 20 the real origin of wicca we must dismiss with some respect the assertion, put forth by margot adler and others, that "wicca no longer adheres to the orthodox mythos of the book of shadows" many, if not most of those who have been drawn to wicca in the last three decades came to it under the spell (if i may so term it) of the legend of ancient wicca. if that legend is false, then while reformists and revisionist apologists (particularly the peculiar hybrid spawned in the late sixties under the name "feminist wicca) may seek other valid grounds for their practices, we at least owe it to those who have operated under a misapprehension to explain the truth, and let the chips fall where they may. i believe there is a c

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e forever lost to the guiding, benevolent influence of the light. they become themselves liv- ing qlippoth, empty soulless husks lacking all traces of those higher impulses that distinguish a human being. once the demons of darkness are sure of their human prizes, they desert them and leave them to die in madness or squalor, usually from drugs, violent attack, or more directly by their own hands. the legend of faust has much to say on this matter. as faust discovered, in the early stages the demons in the dark depths of the subconscious wear the masks of beguiling angels. they reveal, or promise to reveal, knowledge of real value, and set the magician of black magic lusting for more. as he or she progresses in a spiral descent from the light, these demons become more gross in their present

cience has come to attacking the soul of a disease is its battle against smallpox, where the goal was to destroy every smallpox organism in the world, thereby making future infections impossible. however, this is doing it the hard way, attempting to destroy the soul by taking away all the houses of flesh in which it could possibly find refuge. by the way, there is an analogy to be drawn here with the legend of the vam- pire, which says that the vampire must always maintain a number of coffins filled with its native grave earth, for in this alone can it find rest during the light of day. one way to fight the vampire is to destroy all its resting places. but this is an uncer- tain method; it is impossible to be sure all the boxes of earth have been found. the boxes of earth are analogous to

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

of the local fairy hill (dun-ski) in aberfoyle, called the fairy knowe. aberfoyle was the place of kirk's birth, where he had returned to preach following the death of his father, the minister of the 47. kirk and lang, secret commonwealth, 5. chapter three: the land of fairy 39 parish, so it may be presumed that he had enjoyed some familiarity in his boyhood with the local spirits under the hill. the legend surrounding his death asserts that he did not really die, but that he was spirited away and a lifeless duplicate of his body put in his place. his successor, the rev. dr. graham, wrote in his book of local history, sketches of picturesque scenery, that kirk's ghost appeared to one of his relatives shortly after his abduction and declared that he would come again at the baptism ceremony

the event had no eyewitnesses. this is generally true of fairy abductions and ufo abductions-a person mysteriously vanishes, sometimes to reappear at a later date, but the actual disappearance is seldom witnessed. descent into hell it is the dogma of the church that jesus came back to life after his crucifixion and ascended in the living body to heaven. the apocryphal gospel of nicodemus relates the legend that after his ascent to heaven, he subsequently descended into hell to free all the souls who had been imprisoned there since the fall from grace of adam. after shattering the gate of brass and bars of iron that closed the entrance to hell, jesus caused the chains to fall off those languishing in hell and led them up to heaven, where they encountered two others who had ascended in the

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

t that represent celestial or divine spirits and gods, and among these godly names the strongest are the names of supreme deity. but the greatest and most potent name of all is tetragrammaton, which is not merely a title, but the actual pattern and essence of god. it follows that in magic tetragrammaton can be used to command all lesser names. this is why it was held in such esteem by kabbalists. the legend of the golem, an artificial man created out of clay by rabbi loew of prague in the year 1580, gives useful insight as to how tetragrammaton may have been used by the ba'alei shem of the middle ages. very troubled in his mind about how to protect the jews of prague against the malicious libels of a priest named thaddeus, who preached their destruction, rabbi loew used his knowledge of ka

he head of the golem, and upon the tips of its fingers appeared fingernails. rabbi loew himself circled the body seven times sunwise, reciting yet another combination of letters. the three kabbalists stood together at the foot of the golem and recited the words from genesis 2:7-"and he breathed into his nostrils the breath 40 tetragrammaton of life, and the man became a living soul" the writer of the legend explains that, in the air of the breath, there must be found fire and water. the golem opened his eyes and rabbi loew ordered him to stand up. it is significant that, although the golem could see, hear, and understand, he "did not have the power of speech in his mouth" ten years following its creation, when the golem had accomplished its task and the jews of prague were safe once again

eir circumambulations by walking up past the right side. each recited the same "combinations of letters" but in reverse order. at the conclusion of this circling, the golem lay inert upon his cot "like a lump of hardened clay" this legend is from the book of the miracles of r. loew, published in piotrkov in 1909 (see raphael patai, gates to the old city [avon, 19801, pp. 636-42. the numerology in the legend is highly instructive. loew is given ten words of power by god that enable the creation of the artificial man. these were probably the divine names of the ten sephiroth. although the sephiroth have their own descriptive titles such as wisdom, understanding, beauty, and so on, fundamentally they consist of the "ten names of god that must not be erased" these are the ten essential names w

a single, large shamir (diamond, upon which were engraved the four letters of the ineffable name or perhaps the symbol known as the "shield of solomon" which was probably the pentagram (amulets and talismans, p. 281. elsewhere (p. 424) budge says that the shamir was regarded as a "living power" that preserved solomon from harm and kept him upon his throne. the shamir, which seems to have entered the legend of solomon through jewish folk tales, served as a magic mirror wherein the king was able to see the reflected image of any distant place or person he wished (george f. kuntz, rings for the finger (new york: dover, 19731, pp. 288-9. there is some doubt over exactly what the fabulous shamir may have been. in talmudic legend, it seems to be described as a small worm that could eat through

incense, each virgin went in to the king's bedchamber and spent the night with him. in reward, he gave the girl anything her heart desiredbeautiful robes, jewelry, servants. then she was sent to live in a second house with the other concubines, and "she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name (esther 2: 14. the imagery of this key reflects the legend of ahasuerus. the virgins of the east become "28 living dwellings in whom the strength of men rejoiceth" when the lord "hath opened his mouth" or called them. afterwards "they are appareled with ornaments of brightness such as work wonders on all creatures" the virgins have become courtesans who allure and bewitch with their adornments. also, they are individualized by names, which defi

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

s applied more specially to the working implements of masonry belongs to our entire building symbolism, whether it is concerned with the erection by the candidate in his own personality of an edifice or "superstructure perfect in its parts and honorable to the builder" or, in the mark degree, with a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, or again with solomon's temple spiritualized in the legend of the master degree. a system of morality it comes about in this manner that masonry is described elsewhere as "a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols" i want to tell you, among other things which call for consideration, something about the nature of the building, as this is presented to my mind, and about the way in which allegory, symbols and dra

tray the mysteries which had been placed in his keeping. manifestly, the lesson which is drawn in the degree is a veil of something much deeper, and about which there is no real intimation. it is assuredly an instruction for the candidates that they must keep the secrets of the masonic order secretly, but such a covenant has reference only to the official and external side. the bare recitation of the legend would have been sufficient to enforce this; but observe that the candidate assumes the part of the master-builder and suffers within or in him- as a testimony of personal faith and honor in respect to his engagements. but thereafter he rises, and it is this which gives a peculiar characteristic to the descriptive title of the degree. it is one of raising and of reunion with companions

or in respect to his engagements. but thereafter he rises, and it is this which gives a peculiar characteristic to the descriptive title of the degree. it is one of raising and of reunion with companions- almost as if he had been released from earthly life and had entered into the true land of the living. the keynote is therefore not one of dying but one of resurrection; and yet it is not said in the legend that the master rose. the point seems to me one of considerable importance, and yet i know not of a single place in our literature wherein it has received consideration. i will leave it, however, for the moment, but with the intention of returning to it. part ii there are two ways in which the master degree may be thought to lapse from perfection in respect of its symbolism, and i have

actically intimated already. perhaps it is by the necessity of things that it has recourse always to the lesser meaning, for it is this which is more readily understood. on the other hand, much must be credited to its subtlety, here and there, in the best sense of the term. there is something to be said for an allegory which he who runs may read, at least up to a certain point. but those who made the legend and the ritual could not have been unaware of that which the deeper side shows forth; they have left us also the opening and closing as of the great of all greatness- so it seems to me, my brethren- in things of ceremony and ritual. both are devoid of explanation, and it is for us to understand them as we can. for myself it is obvious that something distinct from the express motives of

the whole body of its adepti as in search of something that has been lost, and it tells us how and with whom that loss came about. these are separate and independent lines of symbolism, though, as indicated already, they are interlinked by the fact of their incorporation in craft masonry, considered as a unified system. but the truth is that between the spiritual building of the first degree and the legend of solomon's temple there is so little essential correspondence that the one was never intended to lead up to the other. the symbolism of the entered apprentice degree is of the simplest and most obvious kind; it is also personal and individualistic. that of the master degree is complex and remote in its significance; it is, moreover, an universal mythos. i have met with some searchers

ied in my own mind that the third degree has been grafted on the others and does not belong to them. there has been no real attempt to weld them, but they have been drawn into some kind of working sequence by the exhortation which the worshipful master recites prior to the dramatic scene in the last master degree. to these must be added some remarks to the candidate immediately after the raising. the legend is reduced therein to the uttermost extent possible in respect of its meaning, though it is possible that this has been done of set purpose. living stones it will be seen that the three aspects enumerated above fall under two heads in their final analysis, the first representing a series of practical counsels, thinly allegorised upon in terms of symbolical architecture. the candidate is

osophical stones" from my point of view, it is the more important side of the symbolism; it is as if the great masonic edifice were to be raised on each candidate; and if every neophyte shaped his future course both in and out of masonry, as though this were the case actually, i feel that the royal art would be other than it now is and that our individual lives would differ. part iii recurring to the legend of the third degree, the pivot upon which it revolves is the existence of a building secret, represented as a master-word, which the builder died to preserve. owing to his untimely death, the word was lost, and it has always been recognized in masonry that the temple, unfinished at the moment of the untoward event, remained with its operations suspended and was completed later on by tho

w what does all this mean? we have no concern at the present day, except in archaeology and history, with king solomon's temple. what is meant by this temple and what is the lost word? these things have a meaning, or our system is stultified. well, here are burning questions, and the only direction in which we can look for an answer is that which is their source. as to this, we must remember that the legend of the master degree is a legend of israel, under the aegis of the old covenant, and though it has no warrants in the holy writ which constitutes the old testament, it is not antecedently improbable that something to our purpose may be found elsewhere in the literature of jewry. the kabalah i do not of course mean that we shall meet with the legend itself; it would be interesting if we

t antecedently improbable that something to our purpose may be found elsewhere in the literature of jewry. the kabalah i do not of course mean that we shall meet with the legend itself; it would be interesting if we did but not per se helpful, apart from explanation. i believe in my heart that i have found what is much more important, and this is the root-matter of that which is shadowed forth in the legend, as regards the meaning of the temple and the search for the lost word. there are certain great texts which are known to scholars under the generic name of kabalah, a hebrew word meaning reception, or doctrinal teaching passed on from one to another by verbal communication. according to its own hypothesis, it entered into written records during the christian era, but hostile criticism h

e zeal for kabalistic literature among the latin-writing scholars had not merely a scholastic basis. they believed that the texts of the secret tradition showed plainly, out of the mouth of israel itself, that the messiah had come. this is the first fact. the second i have mentioned already, namely, that although, the central event of the third degree is the candidate's raising, it is not said in the legend that the master-builder rose, thus suggesting that something remains to come after, which might at once complete the legend and conclude the quest. the third fact is that in a rather early and important high degree of the philosophical kind, now almost unknown, the master-builder of the third degree rises as christ, and so completes the dismembered divine name, by insertion of the hebre

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

nce, or weariness, or all three, they made blunders which the modern student is unable to correct. in the introduction will be found brief descriptions of the contents of the egyptian texts, in which their general bearing and importance are indicated, and references given to authoritative editions of texts and translations. e. a. wallis budge. british museum, november 17,1911. contents chapter i. the legend of the creation ii. the legend of the destruction of mankind iii. the legend of ra and the snake-bite iv. the legend of horus of edfu and the winged disk v. the legend of the origin of horus vi. a legend of khensu nefer-hetep and the princess of bekhten vii. the legend of khnemu and a seven years' famine viii. the legend of the death and resurrection of horus ix. the legend of isis and

a-harmakhis in a shrine ix. ashthertet in her chariot x. horus holding captive foes and spearing typhonic animals xi. horus spearing human foes xii. horus spearing the crocodile xiii. horus in the form of a lion xiv. the procreation of horus, son of isis. xv. the resurrection of osiris. xvi. the bekhten stele xvii. the metternich stele--obverse xviii. the metternich stele--reverse introduction i. the legend of the god neb-er-tcher, and the history of creation. the text of the remarkable legend of the creation which forms the first section of this volume is preserved in a well-written papyrus in the british museum, where it bears the number 10,188. this papyrus was acquired by the late mr. a. h. rhind in 1861 or 1862, when he was excavating some tombs on the west bank of the nile at thebes

some passages from the festival songs of isis and nephthys, which is the first text in it, and these he published in recueil de travaux, paris, tom. iii, pp. 57-64. in 1886 by dr. birch's kindness i was allowed to work at the papyrus, and i published transcripts of some important passages and the account of the creation in the proceedings of the society of biblical archaeology, 1886-7, pp. 11-26. the legend of the creation was considered by dr. h. brugsch to be of considerable value for the study of the egyptian religion, and encouraged by him[fn#1] i made a full transcript of the papyrus, which was published in archaeologia (vol. lii, london, 1891, with transliterations and translations. in 1910 i edited for the trustees of the british museum the complete hieratic text with a revised tran

catch-words, rubrics, names of apep and his fiends, and a few other words, are written in red ink. there are two colophons; in the one we have a date, namely, the "first day of the fourth month of the twelfth year of pharaoh alexander, the son of alexander" i.e, b.c. 311, and in the other the name of the priest who either had the papyrus written, or appropriated it, namely, nes-menu, or nes-amsu. the legend of the creation is found in the third work which is given in the papyrus, and which is called the "book of overthrowing apep, the enemy of ra, the enemy of un-nefer (i.e, osiris. this work contained a series of spells which were recited during the performance of certain prescribed ceremonies, with the object of preventing storms, and dispersing rain-clouds, and removing any obstacle, an

the rising of the sun in the morning, or obscure his light during the day. the leader-in chief of the hosts of darkness was a fiend called apep who appeared in the sky in the form of a monster serpent, and, marshalling all the fiends of the tuat, attempted to keep the sun-god imprisoned in the kingdom of darkness. right in the midst of the spells which were directed against apep we find inserted the legend of the creation, which occurs in no other known egyptian document (col. xxvi, l. 21, to col. xxvii, l. 6. curiously enough a longer version of the legend is given a little farther on (col. xxviii, l. 20, to col. xxix, l. 6. whether the scribe had two copies to work from, and simply inserted both, or whether he copied the short version and added to it as he went along, cannot be said. th

e living things which afterwards took form in heaven and on earth, but they existed in a state of inertness and helplessness. out of this ocean khepera raised himself, and so passed from a state of passiveness and inertness into one of activity. when khepera raised himself out of the ocean nu, he found himself in vast empty space, wherein was nothing on which he could stand. the second version of the legend says that khepera gave being to himself by uttering his own name, and the first version states that he made use of words in providing himself with a place on which to stand. in other words, when khepera was still a portion of the being of neb-er-tcher, he spake the word "khepera" and khepera came into being. similarly, when he needed a place whereon to stand, he uttered the name of the

d the heavens i was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: when he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: when he gave to the sea his decree. when he appointed the foundations of the earth: then i was by him, as one brought up with him" proverbs, viii. 22 ff. having described the coming into being of khepera and the place on which he stood, the legend goes on to tell of the means by which the first egyptian triad, or trinity, came into existence. khepera had, in some form, union with his own shadow, and so begot offspring, who proceeded from his body under the forms of the gods shu and tefnut. according to a tradition preserved in the pyramid texts[fn#4] this event took place at on (heliopolis, and the old form of the legend ascribes

rested on the body of the earth-god, keb [fn#4] pepi i, l. 466. the embraces of keb caused nut to bring forth five gods at a birth, namely, osiris, horus, set, isis, and nephthys. osiris and isis married before their birth, and isis brought forth a son called horus; set and nephthys also married before their birth, and nephthys brought forth a son named anpu (anubis, though he is not mentioned in the legend. of these gods osiris is singled out for special mention in the legend, in which khepera, speaking as neb-er-tcher, says that his name is ausares, who is the essence of the primeval matter of which he himself is formed. thus osiris was of the same substance as the great god who created the world according to the egyptians, and was a reincarnation of his great-grandfather. this portion o

e legend. of these gods osiris is singled out for special mention in the legend, in which khepera, speaking as neb-er-tcher, says that his name is ausares, who is the essence of the primeval matter of which he himself is formed. thus osiris was of the same substance as the great god who created the world according to the egyptians, and was a reincarnation of his great-grandfather. this portion of the legend helps to explain the views held about osiris as the great ancestral spirit, who when on earth was a benefactor of mankind, and who when in heaven was the saviour of souls. the legend speaks of the sun as the eye of khepera, or neb-er-tcher, and refers to some calamity which befell it and extinguished its light. this calamity may have been simply the coming of night, or eclipses, or stor

dour of the other eye, i.e, the sun, and he gave it a place in his face, and henceforth it ruled throughout the earth, and had special powers in respect of the production of trees, plants, vegetables, herbs, etc. thus from the earliest times the moon was associated with the fertility of the earth, especially in connection with the production of abundant crops and successful harvests. according to the legend, men and women sprang not from the earth, but directly from the body of the god khepera, or neb-er-tcher, who placed his members together and then wept tears upon them, and men and women, came into being from the tears which had fallen from his eyes. no special mention is made of the creation of beasts in the legend, but the god says that he created creeping things of all kinds, and amo

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

e arcanum of the fulminated tower. this is the tower of babel. two personages are precipitated to the bottom of the abyss. one of these personages when falling with his head downwards and his legs and arms outstretched represent the inverted pentagram. many are the initiates that allow themselves to fall; many are the fulminated towers. any initiate that spills the cup of hermes inevitably falls. the legend of the fallen angels has been repeated and will be repeated eternally. presently many fallen gods live in the world. they are now costumed with the bodies of human beings. the human specter present humans are soulless creatures. when death arrives [for them, only the human specters continue! from this specter escapes the embryo of the soul. the post mortem states mentioned by occultists

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

ng of seven worlds or cavern levels, may be seen today in benares, india, and..it has forty steps leading down into a circular depression to a stone door covered with cobras. this is said to lead to patala, the reptile netherworld" case file #11 from "on the shores of endless worlds" by andrew tomas (souvenir press, p. 160..even in this jet-age every hindu is familiar with and usually believes in the legend of the nagas, the "serpents" which live in extensive underground palaces in the rocky himalayas. it is believed that these who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (21 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:58] creatures are able to fly in space and that they possess amazing magical powers and intelligence. they are not too fond of man if he is a c

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

. it may seem impossible to some that any cult could have preserved its identity and teachings for so long; yet you must remember that it is not merely the religious legend which is preserved but also the rite, the conditioning and the effect that it produces. the religion may change, the race may change, the language may change, but the cause and effect remain, and it is this which tends to keep the legend unchanged. as christianity came in witchcraft had to be concealed. under the saxons it continued in out-of-theway communities, or was driven to wales, cornwall and brittany. many of the cult members, together with remnants of the earlier inhabitants, would live in places to which the conquering race did not go. after a few generations of scanty food a naturally small race, probably inte

r the beliefs. the church had never taken much notice of sorcery as it was not a rival in the way that witchcraft was, and many popes and prominent churchmen were said to practise it. with the renaissance the spirit of enquiry led to free-thinking, and this in turn led to a revival of mathematical magic, astrology, and the kabbala, to classical studies and thence to knowledge of the classic gods. the legend of faust was seized upon and the story circulated that to practise magic one had to sell one's soul to the devil. the best-known treatment of the theme in english literature is, of course, the 'atheist' marlowe's doctor faustus, whilst a long series of histories and plays on the theme in europe culminated in goethe's magnificent faust. it was a credulous age and the story was readily be

not have joined them, but william the conqueror or william rufus might easily have done so. in connection with these rides to bensozia i may mention a story which the witches tell me, that in the olden days they used sometimes to go to big meetings at a distance on horseback, dressed in queer clothes, looking like spirits, shouting and singing to frighten people. can some such rides have started the legend of the wild hunt? possibly the legend gave them the idea. it should be noted that the historical raymond de lusignon married a fairy named melusina from whom the lusignon kings of jerusalem and cyprus were descended, and melusina is one of the names of the witches' goddess. at this time, though the people of the heaths would attend the religious ceremonies, only the priests and priestes

ZOETIC GRIMOIRE OF ZOS

ter ejaculation seal the vase with your sigil and with the secret formula of your desire. bury same at midnight, the moon being quartered. when the moon wanes, disinter and pour contents as libation into earth with suitable incantation, and re-bury same. this is the most formidable formula known, never fails and is dangerous hence what is not written must be guessed. from this formula was derived the legend of the genii of the brazen vessel as related by solomon. third formula: the communion of auto-ego of zos this formula is based on that of apollonius the pythagorean philosopher and theurgist, and is the only magical means of inseparation and psychic help that has no disastrous aftereffects whether it fails or succeeds. there is nothing simpler than speaking to your inmost self, and noth

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gical powers; inferior to him in other ways; superior to him in their power in a particular current of an element; inferior to him in only partaking of the nature of that one element; are of necessity to be found constantly recurring in all the mythologies of antiquity. the dwarfs and elves of the scandinavians; the nymphs, hamadryads, and nature spirits of the greeks; the fairies good and bad of the legends dear to our childish days the host of mermaids, satyrs, fauns, sylphs, and fays; the forces intended to be attracted and propitiated by the fetishes of the negro-race; are for the most part no other thing than the ill-understood manifestations of this great class, the elementals. among these, some, as i have before observed, are good; such are the salamanders, undines, sylphs, and gnom

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ce (parzival, claiming his arms (achilles, or making his club (hercules<three remain for a time as neuters among woman, prevented from living the male life, and wander in the waterless wilderness like krishna, jesus, oedipus, chi. tau. lambda- until the hour when, as the "king's son" or knight-errant, he must win the princess, and set himself upon a strange throne. almost all the legends of heroes imply this formula in strikingly similar symbols. digamma. vau the sun- son. he is supposed to be mortal; but how is this shewn? it seems an absolute perversion of truth: the sacred symbols have no hint of it. this lie is the essence of the great sorcery. osirian religion is a freudian phantasy fashioned of man's dread of death and ignorance of nature. the parthenogenesis-ide

us to consider carefully the problems connected with the bloody sacrifice, for this question is indeed traditionally important in magick. nigh all ancient magick revolves around this matter. in particular all the osirian religions- the rites of the dying god- refer to this. the slaying of osiris and adonis; the mutilation of attis; the cults of mexico and peru; the story of hercules or melcarth; the legends of dionysus and of mithra, are all connected with this one idea. in the hebrew religion we find the same thing inculcated. the first ethical lesson in the bible is that the only sacrifice pleasing to the lord is the sacrifice of blood; abel, who made this, finding favour with the lord, while cain, who offered cabbages, was rather naturally considered a cheap sport. the idea recurs agai

salt; or sattvas, rajas, tamas, with their corresponding natures on 237 other planes. thirdly, he must exert his whole power and authority to govern the members of lower grades with balanced vigour and initiative in such a way as to allow no dispute or complaint; he must employ to this end the formula called "the beast conjoined with the woman" which establishes a new incarnation of deity; as in the legends of leda, semele, miriam, pasiphae, and others. he must set up this ideal for the orders which he rules, so that they may possess a not too abstract rallying point suited to their undeveloped states. 10. the grade of adeptus minor is the main theme of the instructions of the a. a. it is characterised by the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel (see the

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

idian, and we hear nothing of what he did there, yet immediately on his return he turns the whole place upside down. later on, too, he absents himself on mount sinai for a few days, and comes back with the tables of the law in his hand. st. paul (again, after his adventure on the road to damascus, goes into the desert of arabia for many years, and on his return overturns the roman empire. even in the legends of savages we find the same thing universal; somebody who is nobody in particular goes away for a longer or shorter period, and comes back as the "great medicine man; but nobody ever knows exactly what happened to him. making every possible deduction for fable and myth, we get this one coincidence. a nobody goes away, and comes back a somebody. this is not to be explained in any of the

devote a few words to it. there is no limit to what theologians call "wickedness" only by experience can the student discover the ingenuity of the mind in trying to escape from control. he is perfectly safe so long as he sticks to meditation, doing no more and no less than that which we have prescribed; but the mind will probably not let him remain in that simplicity. this fact is the root of all the legends about the "saint" being tempted by the'"devil" consider the parable of christ in the wilderness, where he is tempted to use his magical power, to do anything but the thing that should be done. these attacks on the will are as bad as the thoughts which intrude upon dharana. it would almost seem as if one could not succesfully practice meditation until the will had become so strong that

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

occasion. we may therefore deduce that the description applies to this "equinox of the gods" itself. how have the conditions been fulfilled? the introduction to book 4, part iv tells us. we may briefly remind the reader of the principal events, arranging them in the form of a rubric, and placing against each the corresponding magical acts of the equinox previous to ours, as they are symbolized in the legends of osiris, dionysus, jesus, attis, adonis, and others. the ritual. aeon of horus aeon of osiris another prophet the beast 666 dionysus and shall arise (aleister crowley) others others are names for (perhaps) apollonius of tyana. in the conditions then obtaining, several magi were required and bring fresh "force& fire" of horus fever from the "skies" of nuit skies. another woman see com

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and the prayer, let me behold thy face (i cannot explain this, there is confusion of personalities) i who speak to you, see what i tell you; but i, who see him, cannot communicate it to me, who speak to you. if one could gaze upon the sun at noon, that might be like 44 the substance of him. but the light is without heat. it is the vision of ut in the upanishads. and from this vision have come all the legends of bacchus and krishna and adonis. for the impression is of a youth dancing and making music. but you must understand that he is not doing that, for he is still. even the hand that turns the wheel is not his hand, but only a hand energized by him. and now it is the dance of shiva. i lie beneath his feet, his saint, his victim. my form is the form of the god phtah, in my essence, but th

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

the three disciples. 3. the teutons, the scandinavians, and the anglo-saxons, who are the descendants of the third of the three disciples. the above is a broad generalisation. the period covered is so vast, and the ramifications down the ages are so numerous, that it is not possible for me to do more than give a general idea. gradually the descendants of two of these three disciples have accepted the legends which were promulgated in atlantean times, and have ranged themselves on the side of those who are antagonistic to the jew, as he is today; they have lost all sense of their common origin. there is no pure race in the world today, for intermarriage, illicit relations and promiscuity during the past few million years have been so numerous that there exists no pure strain. climate and en

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

ired with beauty and romance, than arethe well-rhymed and measured, but very imperfect versions given by our poets. and in fact, suchwant of intelligence or perception may be found in all the classic poems, not only of keats, but ofalmost every poet of the age who has dealt in greek subjects. page 47 n r r r r r chapter xii.t ana, the moon goddess.the following story, which appeared originally in the legends of florence, collected from the peopleby me, does not properly belong to the witchs gospel, as it is not strictly in accordance with it; andyet it could not well be omitted, since it is on the same subject. in it dianaappears simply as thelunar goddess of chastity, therefore not as a witch. it was given to me as fana, but my informantsaid that it might be tana; she was not sure. as tan

for the coming year. if it was filled, all was right; if not, he filled thehorn, drank from it, and replaced the horn in the hand, and predicted that all would eventually gowell. 17 it cannot fail to strike the reader that this ceremony is strangely like that of the italian invo-cation, the only difference being that in one the sun, and in the other the moon is invoked to securea good harvest.in the legends of florencethere is one of the via del corno, in which the hero, falling into a vasttun or tinaof wine, is saved from drowning by sounding a horn with tremendous power. at thesound, which penetrates to an incredible distance, even to unknown lands, all come rushing as ifenchanted to save him. in this conjuration, diana, in the depths of heaven, is represented as rushingat the sound of

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

sland" is a symbolical name. asuramaya is said to have lived (see the tradition of jhana-bhaskara) in romaka-pura in the west: because the name is an allusion to the land and cradle of the "sweat-born" of the third race. that land or continent had disappeared ages before asuramaya lived, since he was an atlantean; but he was a direct descendant of the wise race, the race that never dies. many are the legends concerning this hero, the pupil of surya (the sun-god) himself, as the indian accounts allege. it matters little whether he lived on one or another island, but the question is to prove that he was no myth, as dr. weber and others would make him. the[[vol. 2, page] 68 the secret doctrine. fact of "romaka-pura in the west" being named as the birth-place of this hero of the archaic ages

these are arupa, formless, while four are corporeal; the former being intellectual and spiritual, the latter material and devoid of intellect. esoterically, it is the asuras who form the first three classes of pitris "born in the body of night- whereas the other four were produced from the body of twilight. their fathers, the gods, were doomed to be born fools on earth, according to vayu purana. the legends are purposely mixed up and made very hazy: the pitris being in one the sons of the gods, and, in another those of brahma; while a third makes them instructors of their own fathers. it is the hosts of the four material classes who create men simultaneously on the seven zones. now, with regard to the seven classes of pitris, each of which is again divided into seven, a word to students a

00,000, years ago* but which was our deluge? assuredly the former, the one which to this date remains recorded in the traditions of all the peoples, from the remotest antiquity; the one that finally swept away the last peninsulas of atlantis, beginning with ruta and daitya and ending with the (comparatively) small island mentioned by plato. this is shown by the agreement of certain details in all the legends. it was the last of its gigantic character. the little deluge, the traces of which baron bunsen found in central asia, and which he places at about 10,000 years b.c, had nothing to do with either the semi-universal deluge, or noah's flood- the latter being a purely mythical rendering of old traditions- nor even with the submersion of the last atlantean island; at least, only a moral co

he naga, and the dragon have each a septenary meaning; that the sun, for instance, was the astronomical and cosmic emblem of the two contrasted lights, and the two serpents of the gnostics, the good and the evil one; they also know that, when generalised, the conclusions of both science and theology present two most ridiculous extremes. for, when the former tells us that it is sufficient to trace the legends of the serpents to their primal source, the astrological legend, and to meditate seriously on the sun, conqueror of python, and the celestial virgin in the zodiac forcing back the devouring dragon, if we would have the key of all the subsequent religious dogmas; it is easy to perceive that, instead of[[vol. 2, page] 209 cobras as symbols. generalising, the author simply has his eye on

w we may return to the deluges and their many "noahs" the student has to bear in mind that there were many such deluges as that mentioned in genesis, and three far more important ones, which will be mentioned and described in the section devoted to the subject of pre-historic continents. to avoid erroneous conjectures, however, with regard to the claim that the esoteric doctrine has much in it of the legends contained in the hindu scriptures; that, again, the chronology of the latter is almost that of the former- only explained and made clear; and that finally the belief that "vaivasvata manu- a generic name indeed- was the noah of the aryans and his prototype, all this, which is also the belief of the occultists, necessitates at this juncture a new explanation (vide part iii "submerged co

ished 850,000 years ago* after which there was no great submersion until the day of plato's atlantis, or poseidonis, known to the egyptians only because it happened in such relatively recent times. it is the submersion of the great atlantis which is the most interesting. it is of this cataclysm that the old records (see the "book of enoch) say that "the ends of the earth got loose" and upon which the legends and allegories of vaivasvata, xisuthrus, noah, deukalion and all the tutti quanti of the elect saved, have been built. tradition, taking into no account the difference between sidereal and geological phenomena, calls both indifferently "deluges" yet there is a great difference. the cataclysm which destroyed the huge continent of which australia is the largest relic, was due to a series

. but the "serpents of wisdom" have preserved their records well, and the history of the human evolution is traced in heaven as it is traced on underground walls. humanity and the stars are bound together indissolubly, because of the intelligences that rule the latter. modern symbologists may scoff at this and call it "fancy" but "it is unquestionable that the deluge has (ever) been associated in the legends of some eastern peoples not only with the pyramids, but also with the constellations" writes mr. staniland wake("the great pyramid. the "old dragon" is identical with the "great flood" says mr. proctor (in "knowledge" vol. i, p. 243 "we know that in the past the constellation of the dragon was at the pole, or boss, of the celestial sphere. in stellar temples. the dragon would be the[[v

ords alone will never yield the esoteric meaning fully, though they may help to useful guesses* as the same author shows "the very name vulcain appears in the reading; for in the first words (of chap. iv. genesis, 5) is to be found v'elcain, or v'ulcain, agreeably to the deepened u sound of the letter vau. out of its immediate context, it may be[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 393 the legends of iran. balance, or line of adjustment, and therefore was the just one. the ancients held to there being seven planets, or great gods, growing out of eight, and pater sadik, the just or right one, was lord of the eighth, which was mater terra("source of measures" p. 186-70) this makes their functions plain enough after they had been degraded, and establishes the identity. the noachian

ted their most valuable science of the hidden virtues of precious and other stones, of chemistry, or rather alchemy, of mineralogy, geology, physics and astronomy. several times the writer has put to herself the question "is the story of exodus- in its details at least- as narrated in the old testament, original? or is it, like the story of moses himself and many others, simply another version of the legends told of the atlanteans" for who, upon hearing the story told of the latter, will fail to perceive the great similarity of the fundamental features? the anger of "god" at the obduracy of pharaoh, his command to the "chosen" ones, to spoil the egyptians, before departing, of their "jewels of silver and jewels of gold (exod. xi; and finally the egyptians and their pharaoh drowned in the r

the fable as arising from the fondness of atlas, son of iapetus and clymene, for astronomy, and from his dwelling for that reason on the highest mountain peaks. the truth is that atlas "the mountain of the gods" and also the hero of that name, are the esoteric symbols of the fourth race, and his seven daughters, the atlantides, are the symbols of its seven sub-races. mount atlas, according to all the legends, was three times as high as it is now; having sunk at two different times. it is of a volcanic origin, and therefore the voice[[vol. 2, page] 494 the secret doctrine. within ezekiel says "i will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee" etc (v. 18. surely it does not mean, as seems to be the case from the translated texts, that this fire was to be brought from th

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south and of the north, the sacred buddhist canon comprised originally 80,000 or 84,000 tracts, but most of them were lost, so that there remained but 6,000" the professor tells his audiences "lost" as usual for europeans. but who can be quite sure that they are likewise lost for buddhists and brahmins? considering the sacredness for the buddhists of every line written[[footnote(s* spence hardy "the legends and theories of the buddhists" p. 66 "buddhism in tibet" p. 78[[vol. 1, page] xxviii introductory. upon buddha or his "good law" the loss of nearly 76,000 tracts does seem miraculous. had it been vice versa, every one acquainted with the natural course of events would subscribe to the statement that, of these 76,000, five or six thousand treatises might have been destroyed during the p

to see whence the primal idea of this dual, janus-like character of the serpent: the good and the bad. this symbol is one of the most ancient, because the reptile preceded the bird, and the bird the mammal. thence the belief, or rather the superstition, of the savage tribes who think that the souls of their ancestors live under this form, and the general association of the serpent with the tree. the legends about the various things it represents are numberless; but, as most of them are allegorical, they have now passed into the class of fables based on ignorance and dark superstition. for instance, when philostratus narrates that the natives of india and arabia fed on the heart and liver of serpents in order to learn the language of all the animals, the serpent being credited with that fa

iods of the seven rectors of the world, in whom is all wisdom. in "proclus in timaeus" b. 1, jamblichus is credited with another version, which does not however, alter, the meaning. he says that "the assyrians have not only preserved the records of seven and twenty myriads of years, as hipparchus says they have, but likewise of the whole apocatastases and periods of the seven rulers of the world" the legends of every nation and tribe, whether civilized or savage, point to the once universal belief in the great wisdom and cunning of the serpents. they are "charmers" they hypnotise the bird with their eye, and man himself, very often, does not feel above their fascinating influence; therefore the symbol is a most fitting one. the crocodile is the egyptian dragon. it was the dual symbol of he

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wimmers" 4. four lakes of water, in each of which is a male form floating on his back; these are called the floaters" the text reads. p. 225 [paragraph continues] the above text is full of lacunae, and whole passages, consisting of several lines, are wanting; the following version from lanzone's edition (le domicile des esprits, pl. ii) will be found useful in obtaining an idea of the contents of the legends which accompanied the lakes of water: p. 226 click to view p. 227 click to view p. 228 "horus saith unto those who have plunged themselves beneath the waters, and unto those who swim, and unto those who float in nu of the tuat 'o ye who have plunged yourselves beneath the waters, who shine in nu, o ye whose hands cover your faces, who swim with your faces turned towards the water in th

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nna wookoff, to prevent them revealing the truth about the war and how it started. part of kent's defence against the charges was that roosevelt was helping to remove chamberlain and install churchill, and that this was part of a chain of events designed to bring america into the war. in the usa and the uk, the wartime leaders, roosevelt and churchill, are still revered as wartime heroes, and yet the legends and reality are light years apart. even the conventional 'history' which says that churchill broadcast live to the nation on the bbc to lift morale (with lines like "we will fight them on the beaches, is a fantasy. churchill's speeches were never broadcast live or in their entirety by the bbc. he made them in the house of commons and short recorded clips were later used in the news bul

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e ripped apart when the sky made war with the earth. brazilian myth describes how the heavens burst and fragments fell down killing everything and everyone as heaven and earth changed places. and the hopi indians of north america record that "the earth was rent in great chasms, and water covered everything except one narrow ridge of mud."14 atlantis and lemuria all of this closely correlates with the legends of atlantis and lemuria, or mu. these were two vast continents, one in the atlantic and the other in the pacific, which many people believe were ruled by highly advanced races that originated from other worlds. the continents are said to have disappeared under the sea in the designer history 17 circumstances described above, leaving only islands, like the azores and polynesia, as remna

l beings created mystery schools and a secret society network in atlantis and lemuria to pass on levels of their knowledge to chosen initiates. legends claim that a race came to the earth from sirius, the "dog star" and brightest in the sky, which is some 8.7 light years from here. the term "dog star" comes from its position in the constellation of canis major and it is also known as orion's dog" the legends and accounts say that the beings from sirius brought an infusion of highly advanced knowledge to atlantis and lemuria-mu and founded the atlantean mystery school. according to robert temple in the sirius mystery (destiny books, vermont, usa, 1998, the dogon tribe in mali, africa, claim that beings from sirius visited their ancestors and gave them knowledge of the universe. he says that

rpent symbolism with this universal energy and its most powerful centres is clear to see. but, at the same time, the evidence that there is a controlling force taking a reptilian form is so overwhelming that there is no way that the constant references to serpent or dragon bloodlines can be dismissed as simply code for this energy or knowledge of the grid. and what a co-incidence that we have all the legends and accounts of a serpent race bringing and teaching knowledge about this grid, and the energy of that very grid becomes associated with the serpent. no connection? as i said earlier, these ley lines connect to form a web or grid of magnetic energy, the universal life force, which flows along these lines that surround and interpenetrate the planet. the human body has a similar system a

ilim" bloodline is blood brothers 83 connected to a figure called aeneas, the alleged head of the roman empire through his descendants, romulus and remus. the latter are code names for the bloodline and not 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 gene

rids, the aryans or "master race. other accounts say that dardanus is the offspring of the union of zeus and electra and his origins are in samothrace, the sacred aegean island dedicated to goddess worship, from where he migrates to troad (troy) in the period of the great flood. one of the outstanding characteristics with which aeneas is endowed in the iliad is a close relationship with the gods. the legends of aeneas are peppered with references and codes about his genealogical relationship to the "gods" and so it is no surprise that he plays such an important part in the codes and symbolism of the illuminati bloodlines today. phillip eugene de rothschild told me that this "aeneas" bloodline became what he called the "rothsburg dynasty- the union of the bauer-rothschilds (same family, dif

ibed in the ancient hebrew work, the haggadah("the telling, a compendium of hebrew oral traditions going way back. it says "before their bodies had been overlaid with a horny skin and enveloped with a cloud of glory. no sooner had they violated the command given them that the cloud of glory and the horny skin dropped from them and they stood there in their nakedness and ashamed."23 this fits with the legends which say that before the "fall, people, or "man, had skin "as bright as daylight and covered his body like a luminous garment".24 this later disappeared, but there were remnants of it among the hybrids at the time of "noah" and the deluge. still today, some people involved in government genetic experimentation tell me they have developed patches of reptilian skin. it was with the infu

lluminati strategy. the dragon kings the kings of the succession in the reptilian bloodlines were known as "dragons. when many kingdoms joined together in battle, or as a group of kingdoms, they appointed a king of kings. these were known as the great dragon or..draco. the celtic title of pendragon, as in uther pendragon, the father of "king arthur" in the grail stories, was a version of this. in the legends, the symbolic arthur was a descendant of the dragons and his helmet (or el-met, named after a reptilian goddess called el) carried a dragon motif. the red dragon symbol of wales comes from the claim by merlin, arthur's "magician, that the red dragon symbolised the people of britain. merlin was described as only half human because he was the child of an underground being and a human wom

llyn cynwch, london, longwitton, ludham, lyminster, middlewich, mordiford, norton fitzwarren, norwich, nunnington, oxford, penmynydd, penshaw, renwick, saffron walden, saint leonards forest, shervage wood, slingsby, sockburn, tanfield, trull, uffington, wells, westbury, wharncliffe, wherwell, wiveliscombe, wormbridge, wormingford, wormhill, and wormshill (worm or wirm means "wingless dragon) all the legends of the dragons and serpents of the british isles follow similar themes.48 the british isles was an atlantean/lemurian colony before the deluge and the bloodlines returned there as the phoenicians, egyptians, and other names, when the sumer empire began to expand to the centres of its former motherlands. the carriers of the atlantean/lemurian knowledge in britain and other parts of euro

s. it was around 2000bc that the royal dragon court, now the imperial royal dragon court and order, was formed in egypt by the priests of mendes to protect, advance, and serve the "dragon bloodlines" and 4,000 years later it is still in operation and promoted by sir laurence gardner in england. this is the organisation, remember, that awarded the dracula family its most prestigious title. clearly the legends and accounts of the serpent gods, their royal hybrids, and their often grotesque activities, abound throughout the ancient world. so does the most bizarre theme of all- their ability to change their form before your eyes. they can shape-shift. 130 children of the matrix sources 1 translations of zecharia sitchin 2 the reptilian agenda, part one, with credo mutwa and david icke 3 flying

t fear is an obstacle great; be master of all in the brightness, the shadow will soon disappear. hear ye, and heed my wisdom, the voice of light is clear, seek the valley of shadow and light only will appear" those who dabble in what has become known as the "occult" open themselves to manipulation by the lower fourth dimension, that home for many misguided, malevolent, entities, and the origin of the legends and tales of demons and "evil" 142 children of the matrix spirits. in fact, the word "occult" has been given an unfairly bad name. it merely means "hidden" and the same knowledge can be used for good or ill. again vibrations are the key. if you use the "occult" knowledge with love in your heart and with positive intent, you maintain a high vibration and so connect with that level of co

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expertise in medicine. she was later referred to as mammi, from which comes mamaand mother. ninkharsag is symbolised in mesopotamian depictions by a tool used to cutthe umbilical cord. it is shaped like a horseshoe and was used in ancient times. she alsobecame the mother goddess of a stream of religions under names like queen semiramis,isis, barati, diana, mary and many others, which emerged from the legends of this allover the world. she is often depicted as a pregnant woman. the texts say of theanunnaki leadership:they summoned and asked the goddess,the midwife of the gods, the wise birthgiver (saying),t o a creature give life, create workers!create a primitive worker, that he may bear the yoke!let him bear the yoke assigned by enlil,let the worker carry the toil of the gods! 4enlil was

egend says that the andes were split apartwhen the sky made war with the earth. brazilian myth describes how the heavens burstand fragments fell down killing everything and everyone as heaven and earth changedplaces. and the hopi indians of north america record that: the earth was rent in greatchasms, and water covered everything except one narrow ridge of mud.9all of this closely correlates with the legends of atlantis and mu or lemuria: twovast continents, one in the atlantic and the other in the pacific, which many peoplebelieve were ruled by highly advanced races. the continents are said to havedisappeared under the sea in the circumstances described above, leaving only islandslike the azores as remnants of their former scale and glory. atlantis was described byplato (427-347 bc, the a

erwise. the very term sons of the gods is translated in the septuagint, the greekversion of the old testament, as angelos- angels. it appears from my research that thereare different reptilian factions: those who are more positive in their attitude to humanityand those who wish to dominate and control. they both became known as watchers orangels, the latter as fallen angels. it could well be that the legends of st michael castingthe dragon onto the earth for the final battle and st george defeating the dragon, relate tothe long-standing conflict between the genuine white martians and the reptilian anunnaki.st michael and st george are ancient phoenician heroes from the very region of the worldwhere the anunnaki instigated their crossbreeding programme and, for a long time,operated openly a

when he asked for the edition to be reprinted he was told the printing plateshad been so badly damaged this was not possible. palmer believed that ufos came notfrom space, but from the inner earth and that was part of his article in that ill-fatededition. i think he could have been right and the ancient indian epic, ramayana,describes rama as an emissary from agharta arriving in a flying vehicle.the legends of inner earth peoples and blond-haired, blue-eyed master races, can befound in countless ancient cultures including china, tibet, egypt, india, europe, theamericas, and scandinavia. william e warren in his work, paradise found, or thecradle of the human race, suggests that humans originated on a tropical continent inthe arctic, a land of sunshine where a race of gods lived for more th

lato wrote ofmysterious passageways in and around the atlantean continent, tunnels both broad andnarrow, in the interior of the earth.17 he also described the great ruler who sits at thecentre, on the navel of the earth. the interpreter of religion to all mankind18 theroman writer, gaius plinius secundus, better known as pliny, refers to undergroundpeoples who had fled from atlantis and there are the legends of the inner earth dwellerscalled the troglodytes who, pliny said, have hidden in their tunnels a great, ancienttreasure.19 such stories abound in every culture.254the nazi flying saucersstories also abound of flying saucer craft built by the nazis before and during the warunder programmes controlled by the thule and vril society. german researcher, janvan helsing, and many others, hav

, the island looks like a dot withina circle, a symbol of the sun. the flame in a circle is on kennedys grave. also on theisland, spencer has placed the brotherhood symbol of a burning flame and at one stage,mohamed al fayed said he was going to put an eternal flame to diana and dodi on theroof of harrods to mark the first anniversary of their deaths in august 1998.59islands are very much part of the legends of the goddess diana and she was supposedto have been born on the island of delos in the aegean sea. it is also known as the islandof the dead after hecate, the patroness of the infernal arts, the negative aspect of thediana goddess energy. diana is another name for brito-martis, the goddess of cretewhich was colonised and developed by the phoenicians who created the minoancivilisation

king ofphoenicia, and was armed, like diana, with weapons for the chase. legend says thatbrito-martis (diana) sailed from phoenicia to argos in southern greece and onto cretewhere she was pursued by her unwelcome admirer, minos. she escaped by retreating tothe sea and sailed to aegina, an island in the aegean where stands the temple of artemisor diana. islands and diana are very much connected in the legends. earl spencer putdianas grave among trees on the island and this is classic symbolism because theancients used to worship the goddess diana in the tree groves and this was said to be hermost sacred place. sir james frazer describes in his book, the golden bough, the dianarite known as the king of the wood at lake nemi (again a lake is a big part of dianalegend. the lady of the lake is

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ccording to the system of justinus39 leviathan is a bad angel. the hebrew term refers to leviathan as that which gathers itself together in folds, thus the coiling dragon. it should be known that the circle itself is timeless and represents the eternal spirit. leviathan in this instance is the guardian of the abyss and timeless in essence. isaiah 27:1 calls leviathan that crooked serpent. 39 from the legends of the jews, ginzberg. 36 the fallen angel rahab itself means violence and refers to his name or title as sar shel yam, in hebrew prince of the primordial sea. the source of the twin fallen angels leviathan and behemoth, presents both as beasts and dragons which hold much power when they fell. and that day will two monsters be parted, one monster, a female named leviathan in order to d

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sided soul of man be ruled by its god-the spirit of man. the higher self must dominate its universe or there will be unbalanced force; each factor will rule its own aspect, and they will war among mystical qabala page 15 themselves. then do we have the rule of the kings of edom, whose kingdoms are unbalanced force. 18. thus do we see in the tree a glyph of the soul of man and the universe, and in the legends associated with it the history of the evolution of the soul and the way of initiation. chapter iv the unwritten qabalah 1. the point of view from which i approach the holy qabalah in these pages differs, so far as i know, from that of all other writers on the subject, for to me it is a living system of spiritual development, not a historical curiosity. few people, even among those inte

acial imagination, working thus, has come to associate certain animals with certain gods; a brief examination of the examples cited serves to show the basis of the association. the doves of venus show her gentler aspect, and the cat-beasts her sinister beauty. 27. the association of plants with the different paths rests upon a twofold basis. firstly, there are plants traditionally associated with the legends of the gods, as is corn with ceres and the vine with dionysos; these we find associated with the sephiroth, with which the functions of these gods are correlated orn with malkuth and the vine with tiphareth, the mystical qabala page 67 chnst-centre, wherewith are associated all the sacrificed gods and the givers of illumination. 28. plants are also associated with the sephiroth in anot

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knocks or cracks elsewhere in the house, or the sound of thunder, or sounds like furniture crashing to the floor. at a very high level of magic, the evoked spirit has a visible body, and can talk to the magician, but this is not the norm. those who evoke a lower spirit and expect to see it standing within the triangle and to talk to it as they would converse with another human being are mistaking the legends and fables of evocation for the reality of evocation. myths are always true, but their truth is symbolic. higher spirits are sometimes called angels, especially by magicians with a christian heritage. lower spirits are sometimes called demons. in actuality, there is no clear dividing line between good and bad spirits. the personalities of spiritual beings have the same broad range as t

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interesting subjects, which he published at cologne in 1531, secured him the favor of duke maurice of saxony, who appointed him superintendent of his silver mines at chemnitz. in this post he obtained a practical acquaintance with the properties of metals, which dissipated his wild notions of their possible transmutation into gold; but if he abandoned one superstition he adopted another, and from the legends of the miners he imbibed a belief in the existence of good and evil spirits in the bowels of the earth, and in the creation of explosive gases and firedamp by the malicious agency of the latter. bauer s major work, de re metallica, completed in 1550 and published in 1556, has an illustration showing dowsers at work searching for minerals with a divining rod. he died in chemnitz on nove

and magic. it was believed to stop bleeding, preserve houses from thunder, and protect children from goblins, evil spirits, and sorcery. it was supposed to strengthen digestion and, if taken in powder form, to protect young children from epilepsy. coral was worn by children from roman times. it has also been used for rosaries as well as for bead necklaces and bracelets. corbenic a magic castle in the legends of king arthur, in which it is said the holy grail was kept. it was guarded by two lions. lancelot tried to enter it by his own strength, but instead of leaning on god for guidance, he was struck dumb by a fiery wind. in this state he remained for fourteen days without food or drink. cordonnier, gerard anatole f (1907) an engineer with the french naval construction service who had an i

ivs the div of ancient persia, pronounced deo, deu, or dive, is thought to be equivalent to the european devil of the middle ages. in the romances of persia divs are represented as male and female, but the male divs are considered the more dangerous. it is from their character, personified in a supposed chief, that the devil is portrayed with his well-known attributes. the male divs, according to the legends of persia, were entrusted with the government of the world for 7,000 years anterior to the creation of adam, and they were succeeded by the female divs or peris, who under their chief, gian ben gian, ruled another 2,000 years. the dominion of the peris was terminated by eblis (the devil of the koran) who had been created from the elements of fire, and whose abode was previously with th

s and the occult. edited by george devereaux. new york: international universities press, 1953. ginnungagap in norse mythology, the unfathomable gap between niflheim (the region of eternal cold, mist, and darkness) and muspellsheim (the realm of fire).the void before the creation. cold winds from the abyss changed the streams into blocks of ice, which fell into the void with the sound of thunder, the legends say. sparks from muspellsheim turned the ice into streams, forming layers of frost that filled the gap. the inchoate mass became animate, taking the form of the primeval giant ymir. ymir was slain by odin, villi, and ve, who threw his body into the chasm, where his blood became the sea, his flesh the earth, his bones the mountains and rocks, his skull the sky, and his brains the clouds

nteenth century, such stories were recorded in a manuscript titled nifloet mhrl (miracles of rabbi loew, which formed the basis of the enchanting der prager golem of chayim bloch, translated into english by harry schneiderman as the golem: legends of the ghetto of prague, published in vienna in 1925. the book contains photographs of the altneuschul and the monument to rabbi loew in prague. one of the legends related by bloch is the golem as water carrier, and there is a tradition that this story inspired goethe s ballad the sorcerer s apprentice during his visit to prague. the prague legends also stimulated production of the german silent film der golem, directed by henrik galeen and paul wegener, released in 1915 and remade in 1920, as well as later czech and french films on the same them

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 legends may be divided into two classes: those that are connected with the quest for certain talismans, of which the grail is only one, and that deal with the personality of the hero who achieves the quest; and second, those that deal with the nature and history of the talismans. a great deal of controversy has raged around the possible eastern origin of the grail legend. much erudition has be

hcraft deity. he has even been depicted in carved decorations on old churches and cathedrals, suggesting that at some period, pagan deities were supplanted by christianity. during the christian eras, the green man survived in folk plays and folklore customs, such as the may day revels, when he was called jack in the green or some similar name. traditions of the green man may also have merged with the legends of robin hood. greenwood, joseph albert (1906.1988) mathematician who worked in the field of parapsychology. he was born september 18, 1906, at breckenridge, missouri, and studied at the university of missouri (b.a, 1927; m.a, 1929; ph.d, 1931. he was an instructor and later an assistant professor of mathematics at duke university (1930.42. while there he worked with j. b. rhine, who r

nded early in the twentieth century by dion fortune (1890.1946. the fraternity, born amid the demise of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, established a guest house near the tor at glastonbury that provided a retreat for fortune, who was often in tension with the male-dominated magical community in london. the isle of avalon foundation also draws heavily on the tradition that ties the area to the legends of the ancient isle of avalon. these legends include references to joseph of arimathea, who is believed by many to have brought the holy grail, the cup used at the last supper by jesus, to glastonbury. from this belief, the idea of the search for the grail has entered popular occult thinking. in addition, during the 1970s, glastonbury became one of england s most prosperous new age cen

the miracle-working mystical rabbis and their followers.existed side by side with legends of the angel of death, or the golem created by rabbi loew of prague. as in the united states, mystical groups in israel have kept alive the study of kabbalah. the 1990s showed a resurgence of the study of jewish mysticism, when celebrities such as madonna and roseanne announced their studies publicly. beyond the legends of miracles and occult phenomena that have a basically mystical purpose, speculation on the afterlife is alien to the general trend of judaism and there has been little basis for studies of spiritualism and psychical research. since the 1960s, however, there has been a growing interest in parapsychology in israel, given added topical interest by the furious controversies over the pheno

th which, during the walk, the in and out breathing must be in rhythm, the steps keeping time with the breath and the syllables of the formula. the walker must neither speak, nor look from side to side. he must keep his eyes fixed on a single distant object and never allow his attention to be attracted by anything else. the use of a mystical formula, or mantra, as an adjunct to levitation recalls the legends of sacred words in the judeo-christian tradition. the elevation of famous dancers the observation that the lung-gom-pas are able to sit on an ear of barley without bending its stalk finds a suggestive parallel in the history of famous dancers. it was said of maria taglioni that she seemed to be able to walk on a cornfield without bending the ears. while such unusual lightness may be pu

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link.ch/ koenig/bishops.htm. april 23, 2000. mexico and central america sorcerers and astrologers occult science among the ancient mexicans could be represented as a middle ground derived between the tribal medicine men and the magical practices of the medieval sorcerer. the sources of information are limited, chiefly gleaned either from the works of the early missionaries to the country, or from the legends and myths of the people themselves. writing about the sorcerers of mexico, bernardino de sahagun, an early spanish priest, stated that the naualli or magician was one who enchanted men and sucked the blood of infants during the night, a reference to the vampire-like characteristics of central american magical practitioners. he observed that the magician was ignorant of nothing that app

hort story markheim, where a debauched murderer is confronted by an angelic alter ego. mysterious creatures reported from isolated places, having an existence somewhere between myth and natural history, continue to fascinate and attract while playing on subconscious anxieties. the discovery by western scientists of the gorilla and the colocynth have given substantive hope to the idea that some of the legends of monsters may refer to actual survivors of ancient species. this has generated a new field of research, cryptozoology. loch ness monster a large, aquatic, dinosaur-like creature is said to inhabit the large area of loch ness in scotland, a lake about 24 miles long and a mile wide with a depth of from 433 to 754 feet. since a monster was reported in ancient gaelic legends and in a bio

han 200 feet. both fled in fear of the other. interest in bigfoot continues and over the last generation several research centers such as the bigfoot information center and the now defunct sasquatch investigations of mid- america were established. while forteans have kept interest in bigfoot alive, the dearth of definitive encounters with the creature have caused many to doubt the authenticity of the legends. sources: baumann, elwood david. bigfoot: america s abominable snowman. new york: franklin watts, 1976. reprint, new york: dell, 1976. bord, janet, and colin bord. alien animals. harrisburg, pa: stackpole books, 1981. the bigfoot casebook. harrisburg, pa: stackpole books, 1982. byrne, peter. the search for big foot: monster, myth or man. washington, dc: acropolis books, 1975. reprint

evels of religious ecstasy partake of the same character, the difference being that they involve possession by and contact with so-called angelic or good (i.e, socially approved) spirits. the sacred books of all nations teem with instances of this and history can also furnish examples. the many familiar cases of ecstatic visions and revelations in the torah may be cited, as well as those found in the legends of saints and martyrs, where they either appear as revelations from heaven or temptations of the devil. in the latter case, the sexologist richard von krafft-ebing pointed out the close connection of religious ecstasy with sexual disturbances, especially in situations where the sexual drive was suppressed and diverted into religious activity. the religious ecstatic condition was freque

nhabitants were human, whose dwelling was a magnificent hall glittering with fine gold and where love, joy, and friendship presided. but this happiness was soon overthrown by certain women from the country of the giants, to whose seductions the first mortals yielded, losing their innocence and integrity forever. the transgression of eve was the obvious prototype of the fatal curiosity of pandora. the legends of hindustan also supply accounts of the happiness of paradise in the golden age of classic mythology. thomas maurice, author of indian antiquities (1793.1800, observed at the end of the eighteenth century, there can arise little doubt that by the satya age, or age of perfection, the brahmins obviously allude to the state of perfection and happiness enjoyed by man in paradise. it is im

stage he was appointed one of moses s guardians and was left in charge of him during the absence of the controls imperator and doctor. pryse, james morgan, jr (1859.1942) james morgan pryse, jr, founder of the gnostic society, was born on november 14, 1859, in new london, ohio, the son of a welsh presbyterian minister. his father, who belonged to the welsh order of druid bards, filled pryse with the legends of the druids along with the presbyterian faith. as a young man pryse pursued a law career but gave it up for journalism. he moved around frequently during his early adulthood, joined in the effort to create a colony at topolobampo, mexico, and from his new jersey residence edited the topolobampo periodical. after moving to los angeles, pryse joined the theosophical society in 1886. wi

ucian and i am publications on mount shasta, numerous authors have described mystical experiences associated with the mountain and offered their speculations about its significance. the resort community of mount shasta, california, became a unique gathering place for metaphysical people, a trend further spurred by the beginning of the flying saucer era. sources: andrews, richard. the truth behind the legends of mount shasta. new york: carlton press, 1976. cerve, w. s [h. spencer lewis. lemuria, the lost continent of the pacific. san jose, calif: supreme lodge of the amorc, 1931. chaney, earlyne. secrets from mount shasta. anaheim, calif: stockton trade press, 1953. king, godfre ray [guy w. ballard. unveiled mysteries. chicago: saint germain press, 1934. walton, bruce. mount shasta, home of

the human double: the case for astral projection (1938; reprinted university books, 1965. shirley had a special interest in astrology and had edited the horoscope (under the pseudonym rollo ireton. from 1943 to 1944 he was chairman of the spiritualist journal light, but suffered from failing health and was obliged to retire. he also published a pamphlet the angel warriors at mons (1915) reviewing the legends that accumulated around arthur machen s famous short story the bowmen. he died december 29, 1946. sources: shirley, ralph. the mystery of the human double: the case for astral projection. 1938. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1965. the new god, and other essays. n.p, 1911. occultists and mystics of all ages. london: w. rider& son, 1920. the problem of rebirth. n.p, 1936

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g information bearing upon the early history of the human race, and, together, furnish indisputable evidence of the origin, development, and unity of religious faiths. by comparing the languages used by the earlier races to express their religious conceptions; by observing the similarity in the mythoses and sacred appellations among all tribe and nations, an through the discovery of the fact that the legends extant in the various countries of the globe are identical, or have the same foundation, it is probable that a clue has already been obtained whereby an outline of the religious history of the human family from a period even as remote as the "first dispersion" or from a time when one race comprehended the entire population of the globe, maybe traced. humboldt in his researches observes

hat sceptical days, still do, beneath the pulpits of their pope, priest, or other oracle"[8 [8] rivers of life, vol. i, p, 36. the sacred ficus is worshipped in india and in many of the polynesian islands. regarding the palm, inman assures us that it is emblematical of the active male energy, or the continuation of existence.[9 [9] ancient faiths embodied in ancient names, vol. ii, p. 448. within the legends underlying the jewish religion, it will be remembered that the tree appears mysteriously connected with the beginning of life and is interwoven with the first ideas of human action and experience. the literal sense, however, of the allegory in genesis concerning the woman, the tree, and the serpent, and its meaning as generally accepted by laymen and the uneducated among the priesthood

legends relative to the destruction of the world by a flood, and a storm-tossed mariner saved in an ark or boat, it is plain that they all have the same significance, all are but different versions of the same myth, which in an early age was used to conceal the philosophical doctrines of an ancient people. that the early historic nations understood little concerning the origin and true meaning of the legends which they had inherited from an older race is quite evident. the ignorance of the greeks regarding the significance of these legends is shown by the following: when solon, wishing to acquaint himself with the history of the oldest times, inquired of an egyptian priest concerning the time of the flood, and the age of deucalion or phroneous or noah, this functionary replied "o solon, so

nt as a missionary to parthia; that after he had visited the various countries of the parthian empire, tarrying for a time at balkh, the capital of bactria, and the ancient residence of the magi, he went to india. soon after the visit of thomas to persia and india, there appeared in palestine and the adjacent countries a gospel of thomas, in which were set forth various stories closely resembling the legends found in the hindoo sacred writings. after comparing various passages of the bhagavat purana with those of the infancy, and after furnishing conclusive evidence that the latter must have been copied from the former, waite says "the conclusion must be, that while for some of the salient points of the gospels of the infancy, the authors were indebted to zoroaster, and the legends of pers

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h alleged instances of dreams which had a serious meaning or a valuable purpose. are there such dreams today? or not? are such dreams, like angels visits, a thing of the past?thepoet hassung-why come not angels from the realms of glory, to visit earth as in the days of old? is heaven more distant, or has earth grown cold?even so may we ask regarding dreams. there must have been some basis for all the legends of inspired dreams, however erroneous may have been the common interpretation of them. the bible refers to three sorts of dreams. first, ordinary dreams without meaning. second, those of a discoverable meaning,butoften not understood, and explained only by some special person or means; and third, the dreams which the dreamers considered to be intimations of the will of jehovah, and whi

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ence with blitz, waite had come to see the rigime ecossais et rectifie as maintaining more than any other rite the essence in ritual form of that secret tradition that 'tells us not alone that the soul "cometh from afar" and that the soul returns whence it came, but it delineates the path of ascent'62[62. the theory that all esoteric practices and traditions, whether alchemy, the hebrew kabbalah, the legends of the holy grail, rosicrucianism, christian mysticism or freemasonry, were secret paths to a direct experience of god had been developed by waite over many years. he was convinced that the symbolism in each of these traditions had a common root and a 61[61] springett wrote a number of books on secret societies and on masonic symbolism. he was an active supporter of the f.r.c. and of t

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ence with blitz, waite had come to see the rigime ecossais et rectifie as maintaining more than any other rite the essence in ritual form of that secret tradition that 'tells us not alone that the soul "cometh from afar" and that the soul returns whence it came, but it delineates the path of ascent'62[62. the theory that all esoteric practices and traditions, whether alchemy, the hebrew kabbalah, the legends of the holy grail, rosicrucianism, christian mysticism or freemasonry, were secret paths to a direct experience of god had been developed by waite over many years. he was convinced that the symbolism in each of these traditions had a common root and a 61[61] springett wrote a number of books on secret societies and on masonic symbolism. he was an active supporter of the f.r.c. and of t

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fallen spirits are described in many gnostic texts and can certainly gang together and influence man in a destructive way. these spirits are not intrinsically or ontologically evil, but have become evil through ignorance, desire and so on. this is important as it proves there is no evil god in competition with the source of all life, no hierarchy of destruction, but ignorant spirits and entities. the legends of the book of enoch which permeate so much biblical literature suggest that since these spirits desired to have physical bodies they entered the earth stream and interbreed with man producing giants and depraved offspring. this is why the great flood occured, not to destroy man but to purify the earth of these mutated forms. this desire however continued and brought about not only the

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independent, isolate and separate from the ain soph, or limitless light. one should remember, it is the limitless light from which azazel lucifer sought to be independent from. the goetia is indeed a tough, powerful and to some a dreadful real grimoire. those who have hissed and vibrated the sacred names and candle lit summons of the demons of this book have empowered it to heights which revival the legends of faust and even horror fiction author h.p. lovecraft and his tales of the macabre. with aleister crowley, whom, in his youth brought forth the shades of the goetia into boleskine and other homes, he did so in an experiment of will. while on the surface, he had appeared to consciously evoke the goetic spirits to appease his carnal desires, and other material quests; subconsciously he

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eard and pale complexion made him sound like a caucasian. back in the sixteenth century the incas had thought so too. indeed their legends and religious beliefs made them so certain of his physical type that they initially mistook the white and bearded spaniards who arrived on their shores for the returning viracocha and his demigods,13 an event long prophesied and which viracocha was said in all the legends to have promised. this happy coincidence gave pizarro s conquistadores the decisive strategic and psychological edge that they needed to overcome the numerically superior inca forces in the battles that followed. who had provided the model for the viracochas? 10 the facts on file encyclopaedia, p. 658. 11 see, for example, h. osborne, south american mythology, paul hamlyn, london, 1968

re was extinguished at his command, though stones were consumed by fire in such wise that large blocks could be lifted by hand as if they were cork. they narrate further that, leaving the place where this occurred, he came to the coast and there, holding his mantle, he went forth amidst the waves and was seen no more. and as he went they gave him the name viracocha, which means foam of the sea. 6 the legends were unanimous in their physical description of viracocha. in his suma y narracion de los incas, for example, juan de betanzos, a sixteenth-century spanish chronicler, stated that according to the indians, he had been a bearded man of tall stature clothed in a white robe which came down to his feet and which he wore belted at the waist .7 other descriptions, collected from many differe

and long hair wearing a long tunic .10 markhem, hakluyt society, london, 1873, vol. xlviii, p. 124. 5 south american mythology, p. 74. 6 ibid, p. 74-6. 7 ibid, p. 78. 8 ibid, p. 81. 9 john hemming, the conquest of the incas, macmillan, london, 1993, p. 97. 10 south american mythology, p. 87. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 56 civilizing mission above all else, viracocha was remembered in the legends as a teacher. before his coming, it was said, men lived in a condition of disorder, many went naked like savages; they had no houses or other dwellings than caves, and from these they went forth to gather whatever they could find to eat in the countryside. 11 viracocha was credited with changing all this and with initiating the long-lost golden age which later generations looked back o

er. before his coming, it was said, men lived in a condition of disorder, many went naked like savages; they had no houses or other dwellings than caves, and from these they went forth to gather whatever they could find to eat in the countryside. 11 viracocha was credited with changing all this and with initiating the long-lost golden age which later generations looked back on with nostalgia. all the legends agreed, furthermore, that he had carried out his civilizing mission with great kindness and as far as possible had abjured the use of force: careful instruction and personal example had been the main methods used to equip the people with the techniques and knowledge necessary for a cultured and productive life. in particular, he was remembered for bringing to peru such varied skills as

h american mythology, p. 61. 6 royal commentaries of the incas. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 63 with new finds which extend the horizons further and further back in time. so why shouldn t they one day discover evidence of the penetration into the andes, in remote antiquity, of a race of civilizers who had come from overseas and gone away again after completing their work? that was what the legends seemed to me to be suggesting, legends that most of all, and most clearly, had immortalized the memory of the man/god viracocha striding the high windswept byways of the andes working miracles wherever he went: viracocha himself, with his two assistants, journeyed north. he travelled up the cordillera, one assistant went along the coast, and the other up the edge of the eastern forests

means that the grid was planned (according to her) 5125 years before her measurements were done in 1953; in other words in 3172 bc. the last realms, pp. 204-5. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 67 that looked as though it might fit with other pieces of a jigsaw puzzle in this case the jigsaw puzzle of a past that didn t quite make sense any more. viracocha was part of that same puzzle. all the legends said his capital had been at tiahuanaco. the ruins of this great and ancient city lay across the border in bolivia, in an area known as the collao, twelve miles south of lake titicaca. we could get there, i calculated, in a couple of days, via lima and la paz. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 68 chapter 8 the lake at the roof of the world la paz, the capital city of bolivia, nes

raham hancock fingerprints of the gods 75 reed boats of suriqui the air was alpine cold and i was sitting on the front of a motor launch doing about twenty knots across the icy waters of lake titicaca. the sky above was clear blue, reflecting aquamarine and turquoise tints inshore, and the vast body of the lake, glinting in copper and silver tones, seemed to stretch away for ever. the passages in the legends that spoke of vessels made of reeds needed to be followed up because i knew that boats of totora rush were a traditional form of transport on this lake. however, the ancient skills required to build craft of this type had atrophied in recent years and we were now headed towards suriqui, the one place where they were still properly made. on suriqui island, in a small village close to th

ter returning from suriqui to the mainland we drove our hired jeep across those plains, raising a cloud of dust. our route took us through the towns of puccarani and laha, populated by stolid aymara indians who walked slowly in the narrow cobbled streets and sat placidly in the little sunlit plazas. were these people the descendants of the builders of tiahuanaco, as the scholars insisted? or were the legends right? had the ancient city been the work of foreigners with godlike powers who had settled here, long ages ago? 6 thor heyerdahl, the ra expeditions, book club associates, london, 1972, pp. 43, 295. 7 ibid, p. 43. 8 ibid, p. 295. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 77 chapter 10 the city at the gate of the sun the early spanish travellers who visited the ruined bolivian city of ti

uters understand. indeed, such is its purity that some historians think it did not just evolve, like other languages, but was actually constructed from scratch. sunday times, london, 4 november 1984. 23 m. belts, ancient language may prove key to translation system, computerworld, vol. ix, no. 8, 25 february 1985, p. 30. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 98 miraculously by sea as so many of the legends told. where had these seafarers been going? what had their objective been? and why, come to think of it, had they made such dogged efforts to stay in tiahuanaco for so long before admitting defeat and moving on? what had they been trying to achieve there that had been so important to them? after several weeks work on the altiplano, travelling back and forth between la paz and tiahuanac

s regarded as having been the great organizer, the founder of cities, the former of laws and the teacher of the calendar. indeed his attributes and life history are so human that it is not improbable that he may have been an actual historical character, some great lawgiver and organizer, the memory of whose benefactions lingered long after death, and whose personality was eventually deified.7 all the legends stated unambiguously that quetzalcoatl/kukulkan/gucumatz/votan/itzamana had arrived in central america from somewhere very far away (across the eastern sea) and that amid great sadness he had eventually sailed off again in the direction whence he had come.8 the legends added that he had promised solemnly that he would return one day9 a clear echo of viracocha it would be almost pervers

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r they are presented in so scattered and inconvenient a form, that they ought to be re-digested in a new edition: the two different versions of the story of dold (quoted on p. 983, are a good illustration of what i meant just now by 'meagre^ and 'luxuriant' bechstein's thuringian legends seem to me only in the last two volumes to attain the true point of view, and to offer something worth having. the legends of samogitia and the mark, collected by reusch and kuhn, satisfy all requirements; they furnish most copious material, and put to shame the notion that any district of germany is poor in popular traditions, which only elude those who know not the right way to approach them. soon pei^haps we shall get collections laid out on the same thoughtful plan from holstein, westphalia, bavaria an

g-out of death to the fight of summer and winter, the vila to our wise-women! if the elf and dwarf legends appear less polished than they are among celts and germans, our giant legend on the other hand has much more in common with the slavic and finnic. no doubt slav mythology altogether is several degrees wilder and grosser than german, yet many things in it will make a diserent figure when once the legends and fairy tales are more fully and faithfully gathered in, and the gain to german research also will be great. preface. xxxi from similar collections of lithuanian, samogitian and lettish myths revelations no less important are impending, as we may anticipate from the remarkable connexion between the languages. more results have already been attained in finland, whose people, comparabl

h forward and, as it were, take refuge in all the places they found unoccupied by the new religion. here we find christian material in a heathen form, there heathen matter in a christian disguise. as the goddess ostara was converted into a notion of time, so was hellia into one of place. the beliefs of our forefathers about elves and giants got intensified and expanded into angels and devils, but the legends remained the same. wuotan, douar, zio, phol put on the nature of malignant diabolic beings, and the story of their solemn yearly visitation shaped itself into that of a wild rabble rout, which the people now shunned with horror, as formerly they had thronged to those processions. veiled under the biblical names of cain, ehas, enoch, antichrist, herodias, there come into view the same o

ry' again, in the chirurg. schriften (strasb. 1618) p. 332i' some that be very great thereat, do secretly practise nigromaucia, as campisirer (strollers) that come straight out of the venusberg, who have dipped their art in the veltliner, and have said matins with brotlier eckart, and eaten a black-pudding with danhauser^ afzelius 2, 141 tells of a bridegroom who was 40 years among the elves. all the legends place venus and holda in elf-mountains- deut. sag. no. 170. as the pope by the dried up stick cuts off tanhiiuser 936 spectees. of the mid. age: in it the hankering after old heathenism^ and the harshness of the christian clergy, are movingly portrayed. ecjiharf, perhaps a heathen priest, is courtier and conductor of the goddess when she rides out at a stated season of the year. i migh

he cavern he has filled his pockets, and bewildered at the sight of the valuables, has laid aside his hat, a warning 972 teanslation. voice^ rings in liis ear as he departs 'forget not the best' but it is then too late^ the iron door shuts with a bang, hard upon his heel, in a twinkling all has disappeared, and the road is never to be found again. the same formula comes up regularly every time in the legends of the odenberg, of the weser mountains and the harzj and in many more (d. sag. nos. 9. 303. 314. bechst. 1, 146. 3, 16. 4, 210-1. dieffenbach's wetterau pp. 284-5. 190; it must be very old^ the flower is commonly said to be blue, the colour most proper to gods and spirits, yet also i find 'purple flower' and' luhite flower' mentioned. sometimes it is called schlusselbhime (key-flower

inly something mythical is meant (see suppl. a statement in the renner 5100 deserves attention, that all buried, i.e. unlifted unredeemed treasures will one day be anti' pluqnefs coutes populaircs de bayeux. koucn 1834 p. 21. enchanted castle. sunken hoard. 981 christ's, whose coming we have already seen mixing itself up in many ways with the fable of the furious host and mountainprisoned heroes. the legends largely run over into each other: wlat is told of the doings of elves and dwarfs in mountain-clefts is also related of noisy spi-ites haunting deserted houses (p. 514. in one enchanted castle a maiden with her treasures waits deliverance (kinderm. no. 4, another is possessed with devils (ib. no. 81. and here again comes up the feature, that the spirit unblest carries his head under his

, christian, heathen, a false god, an elf, a giant, a spectre, all in one. by the addition of him, christianity could not but receive, just as heathen polytheism was expiring, a visible bent towards dualism, which afterwards philosophy tried to resolve into a general principle of good and another of evil. when we compare the cheerful tone of greek myths with the harshness and grimness imparted to the legends of our mid. ages by the intrusion of an ail-too positive devil, we see that the contrast comes out not so much in the original texture of the popular beliefs, which is everywhere the same or similar, as in the colour laid upon it; and therefore our inquiry is entitled to resolve a whole mass of devil-phenomena back into the milder forms of ancient spirits and gods. before i attempt to

tempora. sicut ipsi oculis nostris inspeximus' the beautiful myth is also copied by agobardus (0pp. ed. baluze, par. 1666. 2, 248-9. it was essential for the plant to have grown up to the hem of the garment, it was only by touching it that it acquired healing efficacy. 2 les reliques sunt forz, deus i fait grant vertuz, iloc juit uu contrait, set auz out ke ne se mut, relics. limbs hung up. 1179 the legends are full of the marvellous deliverances vouchsafed to pilgrim patients at the tombs of saints. an incredible number of sick had recourse to this method; but it is cleverly parodied in our beast-apologue (reinh. pp. cv. cxxvi: the hare with his fever, the wolf with his earache, are cured the moment they lie down on the grave of the martyred hen. from such delusion the heathens were free

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hman to norse kings; in bother s army fight the giants asperian (asbiorn, osbern) and witolt. among the &ses the great foe of giants is thorr, who like jupiter inflicts on them his thunder-wounds; l his hammer has crushed the heads of many: were it not for thorr, says a scandinavian proverb, the giants would get the upper hand; 2 he vanquished hrungnir, etymir, thrymr, geirro^r, and it is not all the legends by any means that are set down in the bdda (see suppl. st. oiaf too keeps up a hot pursuit of the giant race; in this business heathen and christian heroes are at one. in our heroic legend sigenot, ecke, fasolt succumb to dietrich s human strength, yet other giants are companions of dietrich, notably wittich and heime, as asperian was rother s. the kings niblunc and schilbunc had twelv

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h- a savory odour very agreeable to the great gods--varuna accepted the promise of the king, and the happy ambarisha had a son, followed by several others.the eldest son, the heir to the throne for the time being, was called rohita (the red) and was surnameddevarata- which, literally translated, means god-given. devarata grew up and soon became a veritableprince charming, but if we are to believe the legends he was as selfish and deceitful as he was beautiful. when the prince had attained the appointed age, the god speaking through the mouth of the same courtpriest, charged the king to keep his promise; but when each time ambarisha invented some excuse topostpone the hour of sacrifice, the god at last grew annoyed. being a jealous and angry god, he threatenedthe king with all his divine wr

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y arranged with reference to the cot and chairs, and to the spot before the fireplace where the mould had taken strange shapes. that suggestive patch, by the way, was only faintly visible when we placed our furniture and instruments, and when we returned that evening for the actual vigil. for a moment i half-doubted that i had ever seen it in the more definitely limned form- but then i thought of the legends. our cellar vigil began at 10 p.m, daylight saving time, and as it continued we found no promise of pertinent developments. a weak, filtered glow from the rain-harassed street lamps outside, and a feeble phosphorescence from the detestable fungi within, showed the drip ping stone of the walls, from which all traces of whitewash had vanished; the dank, foetid and mildew-tainted hard ear

i found, upon inquiry, to be a mining engineer of considerable prominence. enclosed were some very curious snapshots. i will reproduce the text in its entirety, and no reader can fail to understand how tremendous an effect it and the photographs had upon me. i was, for a time, almost stunned and incredulous; for although i had often thought that some basis of fact must underlie certain phases of the legends which had coloured my dreams, i was none the less unprepared for anything like a tangible survival from a lost world remote beyond all imagination. most devastating of all were the photographs- for here, in cold, incontrovertible realism, there stood out against a background of sand certain worn-down, water-ridged, storm-weathered blocks of stone whose slightly convex tops and slightly

one is almost certainly made of a queer sort of cement or concrete. they bear evidence of water action, as if this part of the world had been submerged and come up again after long ages- all since those blocks were made and used. it is a matter of hundreds of thousands of years- or heaven knows how much more. i don't like to think about it. in view of your previous diligent work in tracking down the legends and everything connected with them, i cannot doubt but that you will want to lead an expedition to the desert and make some archaeological excavations. both dr. boyle and i are prepared to cooperate in such work if you- or organizations known to you- can furnish the funds. i can get together a dozen miners for the heavy digging- the blackfellows would be of no use, for i've found that

ed him into many long discussions with my son and me. discomfort and expectancy were oddly mingled in most of us when at length our party of eighteen rattled forth over the arid leagues of sand and rock. on friday, may 31st, we forded a branch of the de grey and entered the realm of utter desolation. a certain positive terror grew on me as we advanced to this actual site of the elder world behind the legends- a terror, of course, abetted by the fact that my disturbing dreams and pseudo-memories still beset me with unabated force. it was on monday, june 3rd, that we saw the first of the half-buried blocks. i cannot describe the emotions with which i actually touched- in objective reality- a fragment of cyclopean masonry in every respect like the blocks in the walls of my dream-buildings. th

arsay, and suggested nothing in common with the prosaic objective world we know. the dense, unvisited woods on those inaccessible slopes seemed to harbour alien and incredible things, and i felt that the very outline of the hills themselves held some strange and aeon-forgotten meaning, as if they were vast hieroglyphs left by a rumoured titan race whose glories live only in rare, deep dreams. all the legends of the past, and all the stupefying imputations of henry akeley s letters and exhibits, welled up in my memory to heighten the atmosphere of tension and growing menace. the purpose of my visit, and the frightful abnormalities it postulated struck at me all at once with a chill sensation that nearly over-balanced my ardour for strange delvings. my guide must have noticed my disturbed at

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d in the crypt behind his own house in sight of the blank slate slab. they never unlocked that attic door, but left the whole house as it was, dreaded and deserted. when noises came from it, they whispered and shivered; and hoped that the lock on that attic door was strong. then they stopped hoping when the horror occurred at the parsonage, leaving not a soul alive or in one piece. with the years the legends take on a spectral character- i suppose the thing, if it was a living thing, must have died. the memory had lingered hideously -all the more hideous because it was so secret. during this narration my friend manton had become very silent, and i saw that my words had impressed him. he did not laugh as i paused, but asked quite seriously about the boy who went mad in 1793, and who had pre

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ragon trampled by st. george; the crowned serpent of the royal house of milan; the cairns, as we have already affirmed, and the runic monuments: the round towers of ireland (regarding which there hath been so much, and so diverse and vain speculation; the memorial piles, and the slender (on seashore and upland) towers left by the vikinghs, or sea-kings, in their adventurous and predatory voyages; the legends of the norsemen or the normans; the vestiges so recently, in the discovery of the forward-of the-old-time ages, exposed to the light of criticism, in the time-out-ofmind antique and quaint cities of the extinct peoples and of the forgotten religions in central america: the sun or fire-worship of the peruvians, and their vestal or virginguardians of the fire; the priestly fire-rites of

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evidence in the form of events of mysterious nature which have never been explained. these things would be easy to explain were we to admit the limitations of our own knowledge, and the possibility of "intelligence" elsewhere in the universe operating space ships- quite possibly more than one kind of "intelligence" and more than one kind of space ship. this world is full of unexplained oddities. the legends of atlantis and mu have been favorite targets of the scoffers "they" say there are no ghosts, no spirits, nothing falls from the sky but iron and stone meteorites. but for centuries the earth was believed to be flat, there was no america, no heliocentric system of earth and planets, no fossil dinosaurs; yet we know these beliefs to have been wrong. reliable people have been seeing the

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long since, and with them passing much that was good. i sing of the noble men of old ages that walked upon the earth as giants and who were most bright, outshining the thousand stars that adorn the field of night. their tread was like thunder and their voices like the clarion, their hearts were noble and their minds were wise. these were the nephilim, the heroes of antiquity whose deeds inspired the legends, recalled even to this day. they were more like gods than like men. 205 of such men and such deeds i sing that such men and deeds might be again. these were my children who did contest against the hosts of heaven and, whether opposed by trickery or the ranks of battle, were subdued not by all the powers of the elohim. yet there was war also amongst the nephilim, divided into many tribe

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

sees the reality, as all those who come to the city of london in england see what is in the city and what is said in the city. baal hasulam, shamati, article 98 spirituality is that which will never be lost. pa r t i i: t h e e s s e n c e o f t h e w i s d o m o f k a b b a l a h 88 in addition to the ability to move in time, kabbalists discover other forces in reality. it is no coincidence that the legends speak of ghosts, demons, and angels. even though they actually have a very different meaning from what we presently ascribe them, such forces do exist. a kabbalist who researches the depths of nature begins to see its operating forces, connects to them, and uses them to benefit both self and all of humanity. admission to the study of reality does require certain efforts, but it also ca

o f k a b b a l a h 100 ism to altruism. these languages are the language of the bible, the language of laws, the language of legends, and the language of kabbalah. in his essay, the wisdom of kabbalah and its essence, baal hasulam wrote that there are four languages in the wisdom of truth, and the essence of the wisdom of kabbalah is no different than the essence of the bible. however, the laws, the legends, and the language of kabbalah are the most convenient and appropriate to use. the difference among the languages is in their accuracy. the language of kabbalah is more precise in depicting the connection between the root in the upper world and the branch in the lower world. the more accurately one connects oneself to one s upper root, the greater correcting force one receives. the lang

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ecration in the higher worlds is the same. this is due to a blending with the egyptian line of tradition. 424. the analogies between mithraism and christianity are very close; they are well summarized thus in the encyclopedia britannica: 425. the fraternal and democratic spirit of the first communities, and their humble origin; the identification of the object of adoration with light and the sun; the legends of the shepherds with their gifts and adoration, the flood, and the ark; the representation in art of the fiery chariot, the drawing of water from the rock; the use of bell and candle, holy water and the communion; the sanctification of sunday and of the 25th of december; the insistence on moral conduct, the emphasis placed upon abstinence and self-control; the doctrine of heaven and h

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

.asmodeus shows up in other writings, such as the devil on two sticks, by alain r. le sage, in which he is the central character. in jewish legend asmodeus is said to be the fatherin- law of the bar shalmon, who is a demon. and in the devil s own dear son, by james branch asmodeus (bridgeman art gallery) aurum solis 17 cabell,asmodeus is the son of sammael and lilith (who is adam s first wife. in the legends of solomon, asmodeus (also known as saturn, marcolf, or morolf) is held responsible for creating carousels, music, dancing, and drama. see also demons; judaism for further reading: godwin,malcolm. angels: an endangered species. new york: simon and schuster, 1990. ronner, john. know your angels. murfreesboro, tn: mamre, 1993. astaroth astaroth is mentioned in a variety of sources, often

inning of his kingdom was babel, erech, and accad (gen. 10:9 10. according to jewish legend, nimrod was one of the nephilim the children of the angels who, as it says in genesis 6, saw that the daughters of men were fair and. took to wife such of them as they chose (6:2. such a geneology would make him a son of a fallen angel. see also fallen angels; nephilim for further reading: ginzbery, louis. the legends of the jews. philadelphia: jewish publication society of america, 1954. the nine satanic statements the nine satanic statements refers to a set of nine assertions that anton lavey, the founder of modern satanism, made in the introductory chapters of his best-selling satanic bible. although he may or may not have intended them as such, they have become a touchstone of contemporary organ

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fell from the heavens joined with man s daughters and produced the nephilim. the watchers then taught man and woman the art of sorcery, and what is now called witchcraft. asmodeus, also called samael joined in union with lilith to bear the son tubal-cain. cain was a carrier and the first in the circle of witchblood, initiated by birth and whose memory of the watchers and the nephilim was strong. the legends of the watchers and nephilim move on to describe the great flood, which killed many of them. while their bodies died, their spirits did not, and certain spirits of the watchers still walk the earth inspiring the lore of the wise, from the shadows of the dead. the shadow world of the magickian is shrouded in arcane wisdom and infernal teachings, all the while embracing the light of the

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT THE MYSTERY REVEALED

fell from the heavens joined with man s daughters and produced the nephilim. the watchers then taught man and woman the art of sorcery, and what is now called witchcraft. asmodeus, also called samael joined in union with lilith to bear the son tubal-cain. cain was a carrier and the first in the circle of witchblood, initiated by birth and whose memory of the watchers and the nephilim was strong. the legends of the watchers and nephilim move on to describe the great flood, which killed many of them. while their bodies died, their spirits did not, and certain spirits of the watchers still walk the earth inspiring the lore of the wise, from the shadows of the dead. this lore exists within our minds and holds strength within our minds eye. the initiate into the shadows of the sabbatic path un

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hat the persian mystics invaded italy during the first century after christ and the early history of both cults was closely interwoven. the encyclop dia britannica makes the following statement concerning the mithraic and christian mysteries "the fraternal and democratic spirit of the first communities, and their humble origin; the identification of the object of adoration with light and the sun; the legends of the shepherds with their gifts and adoration, the flood, and the ark; the representation in art of the fiery chariot, the drawing of water from the rock; the use of bell and candle, holy water and the communion; the sanctification of sunday and of the 25th of december; the insistence on moral conduct, the emphasis placed on abstinence and selfcontrol; the doctrine of heaven and hell

m here the initiate-priests of the sacred feather went forth, carrying the keys of universal wisdom to the uttermost parts of the earth. the mythologies of many nations contain accounts of gods who "came out of the sea" certain shamans among the american indians tell of holy men dressed in birds' feathers and wampum who rose out of the blue waters and instructed them in the arts and crafts. among the legends of the chaldeans is that of oannes, a partly amphibious creature who came out of the sea and taught the savage peoples along the shore to read and write, till the soil, cultivate herbs for healing, study the stars, establish rational forms of government, and become conversant with the sacred mysteries. among the mayas, quetzalcoatl, the savior-god (whom some christian scholars believe

ine" rulers. nearly all the great cosmologic myths forming the foundation of the various sacred books of the world are based upon the atlantean mystery rituals. the myth of the dying god the myth of tammuz and ishtar is one of the earliest examples of the dying-god allegory, probably antedating 4000 b. c (see babylonia and assyria by lewis spence) the imperfect condition of the tablets upon which the legends are inscribed makes it impossible to secure more than a fragmentary account of the tammuz rites. being the esoteric god of the sun, tammuz did not occupy a position among the first deities venerated by the babylonians, who for lack of deeper knowledge looked upon him as a god of agriculture or a vegetation spirit. originally he was described as being one of the guardians of the gates o

ute a votary of isis; but he alone is a true servant or follower of this goddess, who after he has heard, and been made acquainted in a proper manner with the history of the actions of these gods, searches into the hidden truths which he concealed under them, and examines the whole by the dictates of reason and philosophy" during the middle ages the troubadours of central europe preserved in song the legends of this egyptian goddess. they composed sonnets to the most beautiful woman in all the world. though few ever discovered her identity, she was sophia, the virgin of wisdom, whom all the philosophers of the world have wooed. isis represents the mystery of motherhood, which the ancients recognized as the most apparent proof of nature's omniscient wisdom and god's overshadowing power. to

the ever-flowing grail signifies the bounty of the harvest by which the life of man is sustained; like mercury's bottomless pitcher, it is the inexhaustible fountain of natural re source. from the evidence at hand it would indeed be erroneous to ascribe a purely christian origin to the grail symbolism. in the arthurian cycle appears a strange and mysterious figure--merlin, the magician. in one of the legends concerning him it is declared that when jesus was sent to liberate the world from the bondage of evil, the adversary determined to send an antichrist to undo his labors. the devil therefore in the form of a horrible dragon overshadowed a young woman who had taken refuge in sanctuary to escape the evil which had dcstroyed her family. when merlin, her child, was born he partook of the ch

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ng for the unseen world, gives you a thrill, and frankly makes you feel considerably powerful and no less sinister! should you not wish to use a name from legend, you may try toying with those of the gods and demigods of mythology. greek, roman, norse, celtic whichever you wish. a very good lead in these matters can be provided by finding out your astrological birth sign and planet and looking up the legends that surround them. for instance, if you are an artist or craftsman born under the sign of taurus, you may well decide on the name of daedalus, being that of the wizard-craftsman of king minos, leader of the cretan bull cult, thus linking with taurus the bull. or, alternatively, if you are a female witch born under taurus, ruled by venus, you may decide that the name "ariadne" daughter

you should make are the cup and thurible. in fact, as soon as you have made these you will be using them to contain the water and fire respectively, rather than relying on the services of any handy bowl and ashtray. the witches' cup the witches' cup is a variant of the cauldron of ceridwen. this, in turn, was a celtic development of early prytanic myth which later became the central theme of all the legends concerning the holy grail, that mysterious relic which is woven inextricably into the arthurian romances. the cauldron, bowl, or cup symbolizes the receptive passivity of the great womb of nature, out of which all things are born and to which all return. it is seen as female in nature and is analogous with night, darkness, space, and, of course, the all-encompassing sea. water is the t

of the projector or, on occasions, being that of the coven totem. this process of "sending forth the fetch" is identical to that of present-day practices of astral, or etheric, projection. the fetch itself may be perceived with the inner vision of the victim or, on very rare occasions, with his physical eyes should he or the antagonist be in any way a "materializing medium" this is the basis for the legends of the werewolf and the vampire. both of these creatures represent the materialized witch power of the practitioner through which he acts using the shape as a vehicle for his own consciousness. in cases of the legendary werewolf, the ensouling desires of the projector would be those of destructive rage, while in those of the equally famous vampire, incubus, and succubus, they would be

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ation was perpetrated by medieval witch hunters who in base were impotent bigots, who could not understand nor accept the equality of women within a cultural context. the kiss was assumed into a feminine submission because that to take up with the devil, one should intimately know this spirit. the males, or heterosexual males would in turn have congress with female succubi, or children of lilith. the legends of nocturnal emissions carried on with these initiations or dream-induced congress. 49 49 osculum infame the initiate s dedication to undertake the initiate s oath of witches, by the symbolic kiss of shame. the pact should take place out in the open air, a wooded area with your altar being a stump or rock near a large tree. decorate the altar with the wood carving of the witches sabbat

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ousing aggressiveinstincts, which cause so much systemic and social despair? from their presence, came the reality of ritual murder and human sacrifice to furtherinstill fear and provide sustenance to the gods of the underworld (sic, night sky).this accounts partly for why once great and benign civilizations, peaceful and respect-ful of nature, suddenly descend into debauchery and civil strife.in the legends of the tahoe (california) indians, for instance, we read of the strife: there was a time when their tribe possessed the whole earth and were strong and numerous,and rich; but a day came when a people rose up stronger than they and defeated andold world disorder20atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation enslaved them. afterward the great spirit sent an immense wave across th

h. they advocated uniformitarianism stating what they knew to beuntrue, that geological and evolutionary changes take place over extremely long peri-ods of time and at very slow rates. the concept of the ice age does not come any-what goes on in the bible?66atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation where near to accounting for the paroxysms that occurred on the earth and arerecorded in the legends of the native peoples. it was concocted to lead people astrayfrom the realization of occurrences that not only shaped the earth but that impactedhumans physiologically and psychologically. moreover, the elitist world of sciencehas brought its fury to bear on the lives, careers, and advancement of their detractors,genius mavericks, and revisionists, such as immanuel v elikovsky, ignatiu

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are alone and have the potential for self-deification (godhood. tiamat is the first power of draconian darkness, the vampire which is the primal union of lilith and samael, guided by leviathan. she is before all others. tiamat was in the form of a giant dragon, a sea dragon who had the head of a griffin or tiger, wings, claws and a scaly tale. she appears also as a giant serpent. tiamat resembles the legends of ahriman as the dragon. here is the adversary, she is the night and the abyss. tiamat can give life and create what she wishes, much like ahriman created the archdaevas to counter creation. tiamat was a sorceress, a powerful first witch who was both vampire and goddess to all. the demonic feminine is equally important to the adversarial formula in luciferian witchcraft as it is the b

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e create darkness and shadow equally. the ahrimanic vampyre seeks the in-between, or neither-neither world of twilight, from which the shades of the dead commune with the living. the shadow may be grown, cultivated and manipulated through the will of the ahrimanic sorcerer, through darkness we expand and strengthen our consciousness. it is this hidden aspect of sorcery and witchcraft which breeds the legends of evil concepts, while it is only a hint at the purpose of the left hand path. this way is devoid of moralistic concepts, thus in the absolute and in the isolation from it, we are uniquely separate from all exterior forces, the very essence of gods and goddesses. the ahrimanic vampyre is one who separates the psyche from the natural order and masters the nightside or astral plane with

n of lilith, thus by identifying and self-acknowledging this point will bless the self upon a determined journey of success. the caves of lilitu -a bestial rite of empowerment- the foundation for this working is in the zoharic myths of hebrew origin. the k'lifah (called husks of evil) is from which lilith emerges from. consider also the realm of husks or shells, the qlippoth, the place of demons. the legends of lilith portray her as having the body of a beautiful woman from head to navel, and below she is flaming fire. this is also comparable to lilith as having the continence of beautiful maiden, and below the navel being as a beast with owl claws for feet. babalon, the enochian goddess and reappearing as the whore who rides the beast in the bible, is revealed as lilith the goddess of fir

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divine neck her long thick hair hung in graceful ringlets" and in the procession female attendants, with ivory combs, seemed to dress and ornament the royal hair of the goddess. the palm-tree, and the lamp in the shape of a boat, appeared in the procession. if the symbol we are speaking of is not a mere modern invention, it is to these things it alludes [illustration: hieroglyph] the identity of the legends is also confirmed by this hieroglyphic picture, copied from an ancient egyptian monument, which may also enlighten you as to the lion's grip and the master's gavel [hebrew, in the ancient phoenician character [symbols, and in the samaritan [symbols, a b (the two letters representing the numbers 1, 2, or unity and duality, means _father, and is a primitive noun, common to all the semiti

ns, which resulted from the wars of alexander in three-quarters of the globe, the doctrines of greece, of egypt, of persia, and of india, met and intermingled everywhere. all the barriers that had formerly kept the nations apart, were thrown down; and while the people of the west readily connected their faith with those of the east, those of the orient hastened to learn the traditions of rome and the legends of athens. while the philosophers of greece, all (except the disciples of epicurus) more or less platonists, seized eagerly upon the beliefs and doctrines of the east--the jews and egyptians, before then the most exclusive of all peoples, yielded to that eclecticism which prevailed among their masters, the greeks and romans. under the same influences of toleration, even those who embra

made of them a connected system of moral, religious, and philosophical instruction. sectarian of no creed, it has yet thought it not improper to use the old allegories, based on occurrences detailed in the hebrew and christian books, and drawn from the ancient mysteries of egypt, persia, greece, india, the druids and the essenes, as vehicles to communicate the great masonic truths; as it has used the legends of the crusades, and the ceremonies of the orders of knighthood. it no longer inculcates a criminal and wicked vengeance. it has not allowed masonry to play the assassin: to avenge the death either of hiram, of charles the 1st, or of jacques de molay and the templars. the ancient and accepted scottish rite of masonry has now become, what masonry at first was meant to be, a teacher of g

evolence; and to be indulged in only by wealthy bodies that will thereby do no wrong to those entitled to their assistance. the essentials of all the degrees may be procured at slight expense; and it is at the option of every brother to procure or not to procure, as he pleases, the dress, decorations, and jewels of any degree other than the 14th, 18th, 30th, and 32d. we teach the truth of none of the legends we recite. they are to us but parables and allegories, involving and enveloping masonic instruction; and vehicles of useful and interesting information. they represent the different phases of the human mind, its efforts and struggles to comprehend nature, god, the government of the universe, the permitted existence of sorrow and evil. to teach us wisdom, and the folly of endeavoring to

rical, some of which, according to the emperor julian, could be explained, but more remained covered with the veil of mystery. thus it is that symbols, outlast their explanations, as many have done in masonry, and ignorance and rashness substitute new ones. in another legend, given by pausanias, atys dies, wounded like adonis by a wild boar in the organs of generation; a mutilation with which all the legends ended. the pine-tree under which he was said to have died, was sacred to him; and was found upon many monuments, with a bull and a ram near it; one the sign of exaltation of the sun, and the other of that of the moon. the worship of the sun under the name of mithras belonged to persia, whence that name came, as did the erudite symbols of that worship. the persians, adorers of fire, reg

was handed round to remind the guests of their brief tenure of existence. the beautiful memnon, also, perished in his prime; and enoch, whose early death was lamented at iconium, lived 365 years, the number of days of the solar year; a brief space when compared with the longevity of his patriarchal kindred. the story of osiris is reflected in those of orpheus and dionusos zagreus, and perhaps in the legends of absyrtus and pelias, of son, thyestes, melicertes, itys, and pelops. io is the disconsolate isis or niobe: and rhea mourns her dismembered lord hyperion, and the death of her son helios, drowned in the eridanus; and if apollo and dionusos are immortal, they had died under other names, as orpheus, linus, or hyacinthus. the sepulchre of zeus was shown in crete. hippolytus was associat

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occasion. we may therefore deduce that the description applies to this "equinox of the gods" itself. how have the conditions been fulfilled? the introduction to book 4, part iv tells us. we may briefly remind the reader of the principal events, arranging them in the form of a rubric, and placing against each the corresponding magical acts of the equinox previous to ours, as they are symbolized in the legends of osiris, dionysus, jesus, attis, adonis, and others. the ritual aeon of horus aeon of osiris another prophet shall arise the beast 666. dionysus and others are names for (perhaps) apollonius of tyana. in the conditions then obtaining, several magi were required. and bring fresh fever from the skies "force and fire" of horus "skies" of nuit another woman shall awake see comment on al

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ut an end to her existence. after her death she was placed by zeus among the stars as a constellation, under the name of arctos, or the bear. alcmene, the daughter of electryon, king of mycenae, was betrothed to her cousin amphytrion; but, during his absence on a perilous undertaking, zeus assumed his form, and obtained her affections. heracles (whose world-renowned exploits will be related among the legends) was the son of alcmene and zeus. semele, a beautiful princess, the daughter of cadmus, king of phoenicia, was greatly beloved by zeus. like the unfortunate callisto, she was hated by hera with jealous malignity, and the page 35 haughty queen of heaven determined to effect her destruction. disguising herself, therefore, as beroe, semele's faithful old nurse, she artfully persuaded her

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by gaius in his de collegiis et corporibus (digest, allowed the various colleges or hetarias of athens to make rules for themselves freely, provided none of these rules went against the laws of the state. although the sacred nature of the builders appears to have become somewhat blurred among the greeks, it survived all the same, notably the ancient corporations: colleges of builders in rome 7 in the legends concerning architect kings such as dadaelus, trophonius, and agamedes. a typical example is that of the priests of dionysius or bacchus. they were the first to erect theaters in greece and to institute dramatic representations principally linked to worship of the god. the architects responsible for the construction of these buildings maintained a priesthood through initiation; they wer

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ated of, and it shall here be sufficient to say that they are not an ascent, from the beast unto the man, but a mistaken magical fall from a man unto a beast. anciently they were a terrible power upon this planet, as then having more of the man than of the animal, whereas now they have more of the animal than of man. the ancient traditions of their primal conditions are preserved unto this day in the legends of ogres and, in certain records, cannibalism and its rites. regarding the beasts, they are, for the most part, easily obsessed, and they have not the spiritual responsibility of the man. their nature is not evil, but, following a natural law--seeing that man is head of the assiatic creation--so the animal is higher than the vegetables or mineral. also bear thou well in mind that the r

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ssure subsiding, releasing a flood of simultaneous emotions which nearly overwhelmed me. there was vibrant joy; then understanding, tears, and sadness most profound; then joy again; then a feeling that i was not alone, even inside my self. finally there were impressions relevant to my working question "children of the night" came to me again, followed by the vision of a coffin. therein i saw that the legends of vampires were derived from a forgotten reality. beings there were who functioned strictly at night through choice, not necessity. these beings were magicians (not bloodsuckers, and they came forth at night for protection and privacy from the dark-fearing humans; by day they slept, hidden away. they had the power to exercise a strong magical control over the humans who slept by night

is of course one of the very few deities portrayed as red in color, and it would be interesting, although probably impossible, to dig far enough back into history to see where the idea of set and the color red became linked. but i digress] the disease porphyria is not a new one, and it is conceivable that a number of those suffering from it in the past have more or less unwillingly contributed to the legends found in volume upon volume to this day. porphyria is a metabolic disease which has several classifications with somewhat differing symptoms. found among them are those of abdominal pain, central nervous system disturbances, difficulty in eating, and weakness of the muscles of the abdomen, diaphragm, and chest. these can lead to a reduction of respiration and eventually to death in som

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inue today, a decade later, supplemented sometimes these days by a nifty witch or some of our own music, him on organ and me on drums, in a bizarre cabaret populated by superrealistic humanoids of lavey's creation. all of lavey's background seemed to prepare him for his role. he is the descendant of georgian, roumanian, and alsatian grandparents, including a gypsy grandmother who passed on to him the legends of vampires and witches in her native transylvania. as early as the age of five, lavey was reading weird-tales magazines and books such as mary shelly's frankenstein and bram stoker's dracula. though he was different from other children, they appointed him as leader in marches and maneuvers in mock military orders. in 1942, when lavey was twelve, his fascination with toy soldiers led t

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ns between the gods and goddesses. homer, in the iliad and the odyssey, tells the story of the trojan war (c. 1200 bce, the tale of a war between the people of greece and troy, a powerful rival city on asia minor. in these works, homer organizes the greek pantheon of gods, carefully noting all the relationships between each of the gods and their individual spheres of power. he also gives order to the legends or myths of these gods, blending sometimes contradictory tales into a system of myths that have survived into modern times. the homeric hymns, thirty-four ancient greek poems to the gods, have also been attributed to homer, though it seems these were written over a large span of time by a number of different authors. they were meant to be sung during religious rites. hesiod furthered t

not found jainism. they would instead say he rediscovered or reinvigorated jain principles and beliefs that had always existed. there are few biographical records of mahavira in existence, and much of what is known about his life is more mythical than factual. the term hagiography, from the greek word hagios, meaning saint, is sometimes used to refer to a biography that idealizes saintly figures. the legends that surround the life of mahavira fall into the category of hagiography. birth and early life one major uncertainty concerns exactly when mahavira lived. some evidence suggests that his life overlapped with that of the buddha siddhartha gautama (563 483 bce; see entry, the founder of buddhism. if this is correct, he may have been born in about 490 bce and died in about 410 bce. many s

are hereditary indian social classes. his mother, trishala, was related to the ruler of the nearby city of vaisali, and his father, siddhartha, was a local king. according to legend vardhamana was originally conceived by a brahmin mother, devananda (brahmins are the highest indian caste and are usually priests, religious teachers, and intellectuals) the embryo was then moved into trishala s womb. the legends also hold that vardhamana s conception was foretold to his mother in a series of dreams. these dreams, called auspicious dreams (favorable or lucky dreams) included images of a lion, the full moon, the rising sun, an ocean of milk, a white bull, and a white elephant. these dreams are described in jain literature and are often depicted in temples. as a child vardhamana received an educa

g moses s lifetime; the histories of other religious systems that emerged before, during, and after moses s lifetime; and the findings of archaeologists (people who study the remains of past cultures, who have located ruins, artifacts, and other objects that can be connected to the biblical account. despite all this, factual evidence is scarce, and separating the true stories of moses s life from the legends is a highly difficult task. moses 278 world religions: biographies moses s birth and early life moses was born around 1392 bce to amram and his wife, jochebed. according to legend, moses lived to be 120 years old, dying in the year 2488 of the hebrew calendar, or 1272 bce. the story of his birth and infancy is one of the most widely known tales from the hebrew scriptures. during this p

by the certain knowledge of death, but by an uncertainty about what awaited a person after death. he also preached religious self-examination, which he said led to an avoidance of doing evil and an emphasis on doing good. most importantly, hasan believed that humans were responsible for their own actions and could not, therefore, blame such actions on the will of allah. hasan appeared in many of the legends dealing with ra bi ah. her belief in the importance of love was the opposite of hasan s emphasis on fear and hope as twin motivators for the faithful muslim. according to one legend, hasan asks ra bi ah to marry him. when he is unable to answer a series of questions she puts to him, she declines the offer. another legend tells of how hasan, seeing ra bi ah near a lake, decides to displ

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

the language of unearthly beings, breathed around her from her birth. thus you might have said that her whole mind was full of music; associations, memories, sensations of pleasure or pain, all were mixed up inexplicably with those sounds that now delighted and now terrified; that greeted her when her eyes opened to the sun, and woke her trembling on her lonely couch in the darkness of the night. the legends and tales of gionetta only served to make the child better understand the signification of those mysterious tones; they furnished her with words to the music. it was natural that the daughter of such a parent should soon evince some taste in his art. but this developed itself chiefly in the ear and the voice. she was yet a child when she sang divinely. a great cardinal great alike in t

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

between the classical mysteries and the initiation-rites of the most archaic societies. 3. see aristotle, nicomachean ethics iii, i. 4. plutarch, a fragment preserved in stobaeus, anthology iv.52.49; it is translated in m. w. meyer s book, the ancient mysteries: a sourcebook (harpersanfrancisco, san francisco, 1987, p. 8. 5. descent into the underworld figures in many of the mysteries, whether in the legends of their heroes (such as herakles or theseus, or in the symbolic enactments, for example, in the creation festival at new year in ancient babylon. there the initiate-king died and entered the dark interior of the worldmountain, but later returned and ascended the ziggurat, or pyramid with its seven levels, and received cosmic symbols of power. he was identified in the rites with the cr

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

autiful female, over whose divine neck her long thick hair hung in graceful ringlets" and in the procession female attendants, with ivory combs, seemed to dress and ornament the royal hair of the goddess. the palm-tree, and the lamp in the shape of a boat, appeared in the procession. if the symbol we are speaking of is not a mere modern invention, it is to these things it alludes. the identity of the legends is also confirmed by this hieroglyphic picture, copied from an ancient egyptian monument, which may also enlighten you as to the lion's grip and the master's gavel. in his classic masonic textbook, morals and dogma, scottish rite legend albert pike suggests that "this hieroglyphic picture, copied from an ancient egyptian monument, may enlighten you as to the lion's grip and the master'

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dual sacred meaning. pythagoras is said to have traveled the known world of his time, accumulating and absorbing wisdom and knowledge. according 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 35 dionysus, the god of vegetation, whose cycle of birth, death, and rebirth reflects the cycle of growth, decay, and rebirth seen in nature. to the legends surrounding his life, he was taught by zoroaster (c. 628 c. 551 b.c.e, the persian prophet, and by the brahmans of india. although his teachings on past lives formed the essence of so many of the mystery religions, he was initiated into the orphic, egyptian, judaic, chaldean, and many other mystery schools. at last pythagoras formed his own school at crotona in southern italy. an unyie

ly leading a mob against the school and burning down the house where the teacher and 40 students were gathered. some accounts state that pythagoras died in the fire; others have it that he died of grief, sorrowing over how difficult a task it was to elevate humanity. m delving deeper schure, edouard. the great initiates. trans. by gloria raspberry. new york: harper and row, 1961. tribal religions the legends of the dead told by ancient or tribal people are perhaps the most accurate indicators of their religious thought. and from what can be assumed from the burial rites of early humans, they pondered the same kinds of questions concerning the afterlife as humans do today. where had their friends gone? what do they do and see when they disappear into the unknown? will they live again? can t

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t unexplained scratch or undetermined rapping. charles bell has written the official record of the mysterious disturbances endured by his ancestors in the bell witch: a mysterious spirit, or our family troubles (reprint of pamphlet, 1985. today, the abandoned homestead of the bell family is owned by a private trust, and no visitors are allowed to explore the property. the only site connected with the legends of the bell witch and open to the public is the bell witch cave, which continues to produce accounts of unusual lights and eerie images on photographs. m delving deeper bell, charles, and harriet p. miller. mysterious spirit: the bell witch of tennessee. forest knolls, calif: elders publishing, 1985. carrington, hereward, and nandor fodor. haunted people. new york: new american library

edia reports about bigfoot sightings beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s, floridians began coming forward to make their encounters with their skunk ape known. as with bigfoot in the northwestern united states and sasquatch in canada, legends of an apelike monster that haunts the more remote areas of florida have been in circulation since the early days of that state s history. and as with the legends of the hairy giants of the north, members of native american tribes insisted the centuries-old tales were true. on december 5, 1966, orlando sentinel staff writer elvis lane wrote about two hunters who claimed to have wounded the monster. although it left a trail of blood, the creature at that time dubbed the florida sandman, in contrast to the abominable snowman seemed relatively unsc

sue of the evangelical magazine and gospel advocate [the piasa] was artful as he was powerful, and would dart suddenly and unexpectedly upon an indian, bear him off into one of the caves of the bluff and devour him. hundreds of warriors attempted for years to destroy him, but without success. whole villages were nearly depopulated, and consternation spread through all the tribes of the illini. in the legends of the miami tribe, the miamis were fighting their traditional enemies, the mestchegamies, at the upper end of the lower canyon near the cave of the piasa. as the fighting was reaching its climax, the war whoops apparently disturbed the piasa, and two fierce, winged creatures emerged from their caves, uttering bellowings and shrieks, while the flapping of their wings upon the air roare

ricas, the wolf was the great teacher, and the social structure of early humans was largely patterned after the examples set by their canine instructors. although among the vast majority of mammals the care of the young is left solely to the mother, human tribes soon adopted the cooperative rearing strategy employed by the wolf, with both parents participating in the rearing process. according to the legends of several native american tribes, the first humans were created in the shape of wolves. at first these wolf people walked on all fours; then, slowly, began to develop more human characteristics until they became men and women. among the superstitions associated with the dog is the ancient belief that the howling of dogs portends death and calamities. this appears to be a relic of the

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eligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: meridian books, 1960. spence, lewis. an encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. pythagoras (c. 580.c. 500 b.c.e) pythagoras, one of the greatest philosophers and mathematicians of the sixth century b.c.e, is said to have traveled the known world of his time, accumulating and absorbing wisdom and knowledge. according to the legends surrounding his life, he was taught by zoroaster (c. 628.c. 551 b.c.e, the persian 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 70 magic and sorcery prophet, and the brahmans of india; and he initiated into the orphic, egyptian, judaic, chaldean, and many other mystery schools. pythagoras is among those individuals given the status of becomi

have used this gem as a deterrent to sorcery and demonic possession. jade is therefore considered to be one of the most potent protective device known to humankind. modern occultists claim that a jade pendant may be worn to achieve these effects, and that a ring combats tragedy and depression. jet. perhaps one of the most powerful amulets known, this lustrous black gem holds an important place in the legends of various cultures. in ancient greece, occultists believed that it was a sacred substance, and in assyria it was considered to be the gods f favorite jewel. medieval legend credits the jet amulet with supernatural powers. the person wearing this stone supposedly attains complete control of the natural elements.fire, air, earth, and water. lapis lazuli. this stone has long been valued

ars say that some of the symbols used in the mystical runic markings may have originated as far back as paleolithic times and been combined in historic times with certain characters from an old etruscan alphabet. certain traditions attribute the runes to the volsungr, an ancestral tribe of heroic and semidivine beings that settled in northern europe just prior to the ice age. according to some of the legends of the volsungr, the godlike beings gave the magical symbols as a gift that might assist lesser humans in their struggles to survive in the harsh environment of ice age europe. in the old norse religion, it was odin, the father of the gods, who, seeking higher wisdom, hung upside down from the world tree for nine days before he received the rune symbols as the answer to his quest. when

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o be the ghost of a departed relative. in catholicism the role has been partially filled by the patron saints. for the ancient greeks, the guardian was called the personal genius or tute- lary daemon. in shamanism the guardian assumes the form of the animal guide. in voudoun, the guardian is the loa with whom the worshipper is "riddenn during his or her first possession. two constants emerge from the legends about the guardian. the first is that it represents the personal intervention of spiritual forces in the life of the individual. the second constant that emerges about the guardian is that it serves as a media- tor between ordinary human consciousness and the unknowable mind of the all. the magus who is liberated from the burden of superstition, which is belief without reasonable cause

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

r has the princess [second hi made her appearance than the prince m wins her in marriage, and she is set upon the throne of her mother [first hi. she thus awakens the eld of the original old king; who thereupon becomes a young knight [i, and so renews the cycle. the princess is not only the perfect maiden, but, owing to the death of the prince, the forsaken and lamenting widow. all this occurs in the legends characteristic of the aeon of osiris. it is hardly possible definitely to disentangle these complications, but for the student it is sufficient if he will be content to work with one legend at a time (the book of thoth [new york: weiser, 19741, pp. 150-1) the square brackets in the above quotation are mine. crowley viewed the dynamic of the name as a series of family trines in which th

pon it at the right side of the throne, and all of his equally numerous army of spirits could stand on the left side. above his head flew a third army of birds whose innumerable wings formed a canopy over this carpet and shielded it from the hot rays of the sun. solomon was able to communicate with the birds, as well as with all the beasts of the field, because he understood their languages. from the legends of the jewish midrash, we learn something about the throne itself, which solomon is said to have fashioned in the shape of the "throne of glory which is above" with the help of the holy spirit. in the throne were the shapes of the four living creatures-the man, the lion, the ox, and the eagle. the lion was placed opposite the ox, probably on the arms of the throne, and presumably the m

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ed by john keel in his book the mothman prophecies, released in the 1970's. the draco are about 8 feet tall and have winged appendages coming out of their shoulders, dark scaly skin, and have glowing red eyes. they have the ability to fly and usually operate at night. these entities, as well as the elite of the other reptilian species [that also have winged appendages] were the source for some of the legends of the past relating to gargoyles and valkyries. it is also apparent that some of the qualities ascribed to vampires have also been taken from these creatures. interjection: these 'elite' reptilians have gone by many names: gargoyles, mothmen, birdmen, winged draco, winged serpents, ciakars, etc. one such creature that had literally tortured one female abductee- who was taken to a mult

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me way connected with the triple thread that the indian brahmins wear; but this is most unlikely at that date. now a witch has eight working tools. of these, five are used only for special purposes; but there are three that she must have in every operation, and cords are among these three. she could at times have worn the cord as a girdle, to disguise it. j.s.m. ward in who was hirim abif? quotes the legends of the jews, which give the twenty-two questions with which balkis, queen of sheba, tested king solomon's knowledge. these questions are thought to refer to the secret initiation ceremonies of astarte-tammuz. question 9 is peculiar, and clearly refers to things used for ritual or magic. sheba 'which are the three that neither die, nor do they have bread put into them, yet they save liv

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